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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
How though, either he got cold feet in the middle of selling out to the tech-fash or he was honestly that incredibly oblivious (see also: agreeing to do tim poolās show), neither strikes me as especially mitigating.
edit: Tried to watch the video, I made it to the part where he all but claims he sold out ironically, apparently at the time he thought spreading the good news about Altmanās hilariously dystopic crypto pet project was so off-brand that it would be perceived like performance art or something, baffling.
He also kept going on about how the money wasnāt even that good as I guess further evidence that the whole thing was him going briefly insane, and not I donāt know just him allowing sponsors to test the waters before committing more heavily.
As if the only options available to get him to shill for something would be either heap Faustian amounts of cash on him or cast a confusion spell and hope he likes getting underpaid.
Mainly checked the YouTube comments and the like/dislike ratio - at the time of writing, heās got 7.3k likes to 147 dislikes, and the top comments are universally praising the guy. One particular comment quipped about how āeveryone shilled for Honey except Markiplierā.
Conoverās video avoiding the hallmarks of a standard YouTuber Apologytm is likely helping him out here - the public expects a lot of things from these kinds of videos, but ādoing the bare minimum for an actual apologyā is not one of them.