gayhobbes [he/him]

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  • I think it’s less that he was irony-poisoned and more that internet comedy writers tend to be awkward dorks in-person

    I think these are the same thing. Hedren is clearly an awkward dork, so it’s how he copes. He looked like a racist nephew at a family reunion while everyone’s laughing and eating eggs and smiling and clapping. The key to this, to me, is the Vice article. I’d be willing to see him as simply a goober, but look how he paints himself a hero here:

    I’m not bragging. On the contrary, this is a confession. I, along with several thousand Internet people, forced his hand and made the otherwise nice-enough lead singer from Smash Mouth eat eggs until he either cried or was sweating so hard it looked like crying. I’d almost go as far as to call it extreme cyberbullying. Yeah, now that I think about it, I guess we cyberbullied the “All Star” guy.

    This whole humblebrag shit doesn’t fly with me. He’s trying to make it sound like all of this was an accident. I’m sure he didn’t intend for it to blow up like this, but you can still see from the video that everyone is having fun. His spin on events is very dark and depressing. I am guessing he doesn’t go to many parties since he just hangs out and takes video the whole time. I remember that the Something Awful forums actually made fun of him and gave the W to Harwell at the time.


















  • This is a bad take, chief, and here’s a few thoughts on why.

    TheDonald was a cesspit of hatred, bile, and classism that went unchecked for years. It wasn’t only tolerated, it flourished on reddit and turned the rest of it sour. If not for Chapo providing a counterweight to their incessant raids and subtle gaslighting of local community subreddits, it would have been even worse. You want echo chambers? TheDonald already was one. They could exist unchallenged in their space despite sorely needing it.

    The left has rarely been afforded the same luxury to gather together, to speculate, to debate, to exist, without being broken up violently by the right and their cronies. This is nothing like what TheDonald is doing because they’re creating an escapist echo chamber to jerk each other off and clap each other on the back for being well-off white dipshits.

    We are creating a space to safely interact with each other, a rarity that has not been afforded, especially in such volume, for the left.

    Just read any thread about China, about electoralism, about anything. You’re having higher level discussions because you don’t have to drag down the discourse to 101 level horseshit just to make your point. This is hardly an echo chamber. Your thoughts here do not go unchallenged. Our ideology is not that of fear.

    So stop worrying and post already, Jesus.