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Thr only thing funnier than H3s continuous own goals is Hasans 100% effective strategy of
The reveal that Hasan had no idea that Ethan was posting daily about him on IG, while Ethan was posting as if they were having some heated back and forth, was very funny and had to hurt Ethan's ego just a little.
Is that what caused the clip earlier of Ethan repeatedly saying "He's a fricking LIAR!!!!" while his voice cracked and he literally pounded the table.
lol h8h8 dweeb disabled comments. At least man the fuck up to your videos.
What time does he say it? Don't wanna watch those goobers yap about nada
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Hasan literally responded to one thing for ten minutes and the ethan meltdown went into 10X overdrive as he triples down on "sieging civilian populations and calling them animals is good actually"
Ethan was never a good gateway to the left. People are just obsessed with racist white men being redeemed.
And yes, plenty of people considered him part of the left-wing pipeline because he made fun of people like Ben Shapiro.
He wasn't really ever a political guy to me, he seemed like one of those reaction/drama YouTubers who inevitably started talking about his dog shit politics because people pay more for that shit
Agreed. I liked his early comedy / Youtub drama videos, and that was it.
Though he never had good politics, even by liberal standards, at least he used to just not talk about it. He then just waded into it and wobbles thoughtlessly in every political direction without a single bit of cohesive thought behind anything he says. I still have genuinely zero idea why anyone likes it.
I stopped watching when he started the podcast (especially given one of the earliest episodes had Jordan Peterson on and was just them fawning at his super massive intellect).
Counterpoint: i found out about Hasan through Ethan/Leftovers
counterpoint: you're a single person whos experience may be an outlier and thus meaningless
I'm included in that list. Or rather, I had a vague notion of Hasan existing as a loud streamer guy and now watch him because of leftovers.
I tend to think of it less like "H3 converted me to leftism" and more like I have been radicalizing because of a diversity of life experiences, and finding Hasan was just a small part of that but nonetheless part, and I don't feel I am alone based on how other Hasan chatters or h3 snark posters discuss it.
Otherwise, you would also have to consider being hyperfixated on the fediverse to be the pipeline to the left - that is how I found hexbear which has also been part of my radicalization. As have dozens of other people in real life, situations in real life, and other content creators.
Counter-counterpoint: I found out about Jordan Peterson through their podcast and it gave me a little detour in the wrong direction, at the time in my life where his pseudo intellectual slop was very appealing to my young idiot cis het dude brain. The fact that they seemed relatively progressive really massaged his image for me. I don’t see this mentioned often, but I can’t be the only one.
They seemed in awe of having him in the studio, he took a big vape hit insisting that “rituals are important”, probably called himself a Classic British Liberal™. Amazing PR move. Coming from a very conservative culture I don’t think I realized how much of a reactionary he was, but to be fair to me, I totally think he was holding it back on purpose during that time. I think I moved away from him well before he went fully mask off, but I distinctly remember a conversation where I was arguing with a relative that he wasn’t that right wing. The same relative who no longer talks to me after a different argument where I didn’t insist transgendery stuff was the death of society. Fun. I love how the US exports bullshit culture war talking points to fuck up the little things too, love dealing with that.
And yes, one thing I liked was the biblical stuff, it was very appealing how he ostensibly discussed these old stories from a cultural perspective. I still think I’d like that from someone who isn’t fucking evil. “These old myths have shaped a lot of archetypal narratives within our culture" still seems cool to me, I don't know. I don't want the worst people to have a monopoly on that.
Funnily enough in the context of this post, I always found it interesting that these two moved from Israel to the US. I’m from (and in) Lebanon and I quite liked how much they said things along the lines of “Yeah we get lied to about how good living there is, it was a rough few years, more people should move out”. A sort of validation from the other side that the whole apartheid experiment is undercooked and not even worth it for the people it’s supposed to be “helping”. And they were just putting it out there as good advice. You may not be surprised that most people around me who can fathom an end to Zionism don’t picture it this way, I’m not sure how to explain to a mainly Western forum how refreshing it was to hear them say that. It was a big part of the appeal.
I stopped watching them long ago but this whole arc has been unfortunate, but not all surprising. Didn’t really expect them to move leftward like I did, but seeing how popular the show became, I do wish they did.
I wasnt listening in those days and didnt see that episode but yeah..its not a black and white thing at all. Unfortunately he is now probably going to introduce people to more right wingers with his new MAGA friends, in addition to the pervasive anti-left, zionist, and islamophobic/anti-arab shit he is spewing on a daily basis now.
Im disappointed because his humor really gotten to me and the show was overall in a good place with the rest of the crew participating a ton, before he decided to just implode it
I only or learned of him because of hasan and Sam seder. I don't understand his appeal without either of them
Another of badempanada’s enemies in ruins. Say what you want about his methods but he gets results.
was one of his videos an inciting incident for this? I don't know the full saga
I mean I'm sure his videos are causing them some distress and maybe making them say more dumb shit but no this was hila just being stupid and not knowing that calling one of the idf's main guys "a good guy" wasn't going to be well received by non-israelis
hila just being stupid
I'd honestly say there's more than just stupidity to Hilda's defense of war criminals
I think that may be giving him too much credit. On YouTube at least it seems like his reach is limited.
Its ok, i watched up until a month or two ago. I stopped watching 2017-2022 though for the mkst part. I cringed and skipped for the zionist segments that were pretty infrequent up until recently. I sort of regret it now but the crew at least were great.
Also, its how i found hasan
Pre-politics, they had a few genuinely funny early comedy videos, I'd argue.
Those low budget videos where it is Hila recording Ethan reacting to weird YouTube videos were funny. That's what actually got me into them.
yeah they were just a cute coupple goofing off back then
or seemed like it anyway
Perhaps they should also take the path of their idol and retire from entertainment
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