Joe Biden singlehandedly massacring MeToo is probably the best example of a reverse milkshake duck we will ever see.
It's got to be hard to beat Bill Cosby. I've only seen the edges of what he represented to black Americans, and it still hurts to see.
Bill Cosby's paternalist scolding of black respectability is a reflection of his fascist rape culture not a contradiction.
I can see this, but I can also see how he was a highly-educated, highly-successful, highly-respected black man in an era when all of that was much harder to achieve than it is today. I can see plenty of legitimate reasons why the black community looked up to him.
The “black community” isn’t some monolith. I’m black and Cosby was the butt of jokes, not a respected elder, in my circle as a kid.
The “black community” isn’t some monolith.
Absolutely. I didn't mean to imply that all black people universally loved the guy, but he certainly was popular among many black people.
I think it’s more a generational/class thing. Older, more respectable and richer black people liked him.
His “pull up your pants and act more white” shtick was never endearing, always patronizing and it wasn’t really a surprise to figure out he’s a sick controlling rapist
Cant say I was surprised by it but even now that one gets an oof from me (Biden not Cosby)
Minecraft Notch has got to be worth at least an honourable mention.
The guy he got mad at makes fantastic videos too, so I'm gonna shill for Game Maker's Tool Kit real quick
I dont know who that is. Did you mean Miku Hatsune, vocaloid and original programmer of Minecraft?
That one was disappointing. I was never really a fan or anything, but one of his game jam timelapses was what got me interested in jams so there was a little bit of fondness.
Jontron is a big one. He could have just kept his mouth shut but getting mildly proded by Destiny causes him to rant about crime statistics and ethnic replacement.
I guess Destiny himself counts too. He was never great, but I'm sure a lot of people were surprised to learn how much he sucks.
It's gone private on YouTube but here's a mirror: https://streamable.com/tqdj3j
His videos before leaving Grumps were some of (honestly might still be) my favorite YouTube videos ever, and he still had some bangers in the post-Grumps era. However, I tried watching some stuff he's made post-Destiny and it's been... meh at the absolute best. The real problem is now he's tainted some of my favorite videos that my brother and I bonded over as teens.
Good thing I've learned to not get to attached emotionally to g*mers ever again, otherwise ProJared and Adam Kovic would have been rough for me.
Yeah Jontron still hurts. His old videos are nothing short of iconic and for some reason they have such great rewatchability, unlike most other youtubers.
But holy shit does he have garbage views.
Smash Mouth killing more people than 9/11 is up there
:michael-laugh:
They did a show at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, and there were 260,000 COVID cases traced to the rally.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
On the Venn diagram of “bikers” and “smash mouth fans” what’s the overlap?
Sturgis gets a lot of "plumbers who ride bikes on the weekends" types, who are pretty normie, and they remember Smashmouth.
That still isn’t a demo I think would be into Smashmouth. Smashmouth always seemed like stoner hackeysack dude music, so I can imagine some now normie dude who used to wear a drug rug and Rasta hat in college being into them but not some guy trying to larp as an outlaw biker being into it.
Smashmouth's demo was really broad when they came out. Pop stations, alternative stations, and modern rock stations all carried them. For younger people, they were big in Shrek movies. Older folks would have heard them pretty much anywhere, and those folks are now in their 50s, losing their hair, guts are expanding, etc. So a perfect age for a nostalgia hit.
People that actively listen to Lenny kraviz and John legend listen to smash mouth. Now I’ve never actually meet anyone who actively listens to any of those artist but I’m sure they exist
Shut your mouth. John Legend might be an absolute lib but Get Lifted, Wake up! and Evolver are amazing albums.
As the only smash mouth defender on this site I should add that there were multiple bands that performed at this rally and they were just the lightning rod for the backlash. That being said the lead singer has a phd in microbiology so out of all them they're ones who definitely should have known better.
Can you imagine working in the same department as the Smash Mouth guy?
That's at least explainable by her newfound class interests. Her TERFing is just pure personal brainworms. I have lots of critiques of most YA books since then going full "special unique character follows their special uniqueness", but I don't think most of those authors would punch down at trans people.
Yeah, Harry Potter books are the reason millions and millions of kids took an interest in reading in the first place.
Literally everyone I know read those books and most of them aren't nonces
The most radically left black guy I know loved them.
Yes I know, weird.
I never actually knew anything about her, or cared, but I never liked the books, never thought they were particularly special, and never got on the bandwagon of them being good. They were okay but as the fad just kept lingering on, I got madder and madder that so many libs only ever read, and related to, those books, and no others.
Like, they're oozing with the culture of liberalism. There's wizards and then there's muggles. Wizards are born wizards. It's not a skill. It's a lineage. You can have half wizards, and you can have wizards who don't know they're wizards, but you can't, AFAIK, train a muggle to be a wizard. That's the liberal view of the bourgeois and the proles right there. She could create an entirely new world without limitations yet she has people just being one of four personality types that they can't change, they just get deduced and sorted by a magic hat, that affects their entire lives. And let's not dive too deep into the goblin bankers or the elves that want/need to be subjugated.
Anyways, my extreme distaste for the series and for why it both blew up then just wouldn't blow over, spilled over into me shitting on Rowling herself, despite thinking she was basically okay at the time. More or less, Rowling fans, upon learning how much I disliked the series, would swivel from the books to the person for some reason, no idea why but it just kept happening, and say how amazing of a humanitarian or whatever she is. After trying to swivel back a few times , I gave up and started saying that she probably kicks puppies or has bodies buried and it'll simply take time for that to surface. I just saw it was becoming a cult and her fans' image of her somehow affected how they perceived her writing, so I was crapping all over that, really.
And now that it turns out she's a mega TERF, a couple people who remember my invectives see it as me noticing something they couldn't, when really it was just overflow from being so goddamn mad that after literal decades, people still wouldn't shut up about a shitty overrated series of novels.
Wizards being born wizards I think was part of the appeal. It was escapism for the reader - the idea that your seemingly ordinary life could be upended without notice and you'd be free to escape from horrible reality without having to actually do anything to achieve it.
Definitely. But it also plays into cultural hegemony. It's the whole lost king trope, or whatever it's called. Like the temporarily embarrassed billionaire. Sure, you're among the rabble, but you're not like them. You're better. Of course everyone else believes that, too...
I think mandela effect is just people having weird fucking dreams then remembering them as unimportant fact. I often have dreams and then for a short time in the morning struggle to distinguish the dream from reality, perhaps some dreams occasionally slip past our morning rationalizing. Lots of dreams borrow content from reality and when reality is so strange and dumb the dreams can sometimes match that low level reality is at.
What was that one comment Bone made on that pregnant Porn sub? “Beautiful pink submarines” or something? Idk if I was hallucinating that but that shit has stuck with me for years lol
That guy who made the front page of Reddit by building a space-themed playhouse for his kid and then like a week later it was discovered that he was a pedophile and he killed himself
That's all I remember and I don't really want to go searching for it because it was a really sad story
I remember someone holding up a sign asking for people to Venmo him money for drinks at a football game, and for the next day he was famous until people found out that he was a racist
I also remember checking the people Internet Historian followed just to see a bunch of tories and republicans mixed in with the big internet celebrities
Weird to think that if the accusations came out in say, 2016 he probably would have claimed to be a victim of cancel culture and became a right-wing hero
Wasn't this person cancelled for something like two years ago?
I'd say Graham linehan just for the extent of the screeching bigotry when he came out as a transphobe. But Philip Pullman was a kind of big one personally because I loved his books when I was a kid.
Linehan being a huge transphobic ass is such a letdown. The IT Crowd episode with "the internet" was one of my favorites, and I didn't interpret the joke as being anti trans, since it relied on Douglas being both a dunce and a jerk for humor. Despite the edginess, I guess, of the interviewer lady acting like a stereotypical man, I thought the entire point of it was to laugh at Douglas for both not listening when she tried to be upfront and for getting so hung up on it when he finally realized. I mean, at the end, he's crying about losing her, despite getting in a fight that's entirely his fault, even if there's some tropes being used.
Guess I was wrong, though.
Came out in support of J.K. Rowling during the whole terf meltdown thing.
Edit to clarify: during the shitshow around J K. Rowling going full terf he complained about divisiveness on both sides of the debate and went on to Twitter asking people to help him pick a side, then put out a tweet that was along the lines of, "I don't hate trans people but the terf's concerns are all completely valid." I'll see if I can find the tweets if I can.
Not the absolute worst, but still illustrative of the Boomer Brain Worms they seem to infest the entire generation.
That really sucks, I liked the His Dark Materials trilogy as a teenager, and not just because of the deicide.
Damnit. I just bought the His Dark Materials series for my kid. Figured "author of a notably atheist series" was safe enough. TERF island overcomes everyone, apparently.
Mock school shooting survivors and walk around open carrying a gun just to annoy people
Yeah. I'm curious if he did something horrendous or if it's just the relatively well-known fact that he's a bit of an asshole.
He's an ass and mocked the parents of school shooting victims, open carries in public for the pure purpose of upsetting people, plus he's just an enormous asshole who treats his fans and supporters with disdain. Asshole extrordinare.
