The whole phenomenon of Internet dipshits rubbernecking at Chris-Chan's life is one of the most depressing things in the history of online culture. There are probably kids into this pointless spectacle today who were born after the "saga" (fuck off) started.

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    3 years ago

    I am very blessed to have no idea what this means, and I thought I was terminally online.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Bored teenagers discover weird person with autism who posts cringe things online. Said teenagers quickly notice said person is very easy to troll and egg on to do embarrassing things online and offline.

      Said trolling and egging on continues for 15 years and every bit of it is documented by people (read: assholes) who consider themselves scholars of the subject

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Chris chan has been around for almost 20 years and likely has a cornucopia of mental conditions which the people who ruin her life as a personal hobby enjoy preying on. She's "really" into Sonic and has written extensive fan fictions about her own characters, and through various bad actors feeding into her grand delusions convinced her these characters existed in another dimension.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        The whole thing also spawned an entire subculture of sociopaths looking for new "cringe" people to harrass

        • Steve2 [any]
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          3 years ago

          That's where kiwifarms comes out of of anyone's curious.

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Was the last BtB episode I listened to, seems like half of the airtime on any of Evan's podcasts is spent complaining about tankies anymore.

          • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            His spinoff "It Could Happen Here" that's largely hosted by a couple other people now regularly complain about tankies to the point I felt like I was just listening to posts from r/VaushV or r/tankiejerk.

            • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              It's kind of annoying to actually live in a world where tankies don't exist, politically speaking, but 99% of the ranty-complainyness targets them. I guess I should pass on that series then.

              • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                The first set of episodes where Evan's is narrating what societal collapse would like is fine. They changed the format to broader discussions after that and it was fine for a while until it became apparent Garrison spends a shit load of time on reddit.

                • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  I only listened to the first "season" where Evan's using real world experiences to talk about a collapse in the US. It was haunting, but good.

                  Saw later it was getting more episodes and I wondered what it'd even been be about, disaster porn? Seemed like just trying to get more money off what was apparently a successful project. Like forcing a sequel.

                  How the hell are tankies even part of the focus? Disagree with them, ok, but they're not a big force now ( 😞 ) so why bother and in a collapse scenario, you're just preemptively creating enemies on the left who will almost certainly be doing their damnedest to help the worst affected and organize resistance to the actual horrors outlined in the first episodes? Fuuuuuck off, at least wait to shit on them till we're in the shit and people have to contend with some tankie formation existing and building power.

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                1 year ago

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                • Shoegazer [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  There are no communists in China. They’re all brainwashed to say they’re communist. Only capitalists can voluntarily say they like capitalism

                • spectre [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Xi has control of the party but there are millions of liberals nonetheless

                  • solaranus
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                    1 year ago

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                • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  He literally is an employee of bellingcat, which gets its funding from NED (CIA cut-out for funding color revolutions and US-aligned NGOs)

                  He’s US state sponsored media. There should be a disclaimer on all his work that it is funded in whole or in part by the CIA.

                  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    Yeah, but these people would tell scary stories about tankies while holding flashlights under their chins for free, unprompted

                • geikei [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  They are confirmed feds https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1534536713812512770