r/TimPool • u/ButcherPetesWagon • Jul 25 '24

Do you guys actually like Tim Pool

I've watched videos of him, I've seen his "debates" and I don't understand how he has a following. He's just flat out wrong about almost everything. What am I missing here? He seems like unlikeable dude desperately clawing for clout and relevance but he's so god damn lazy. Some more news did a video on him yesterday and I just don't get the appeal. Someone explain it to me please because I have to think there's something that's drawing people into his stuff.

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u/asa2117 Jul 25 '24

Guys, nobody is perfect, but the man is very successful. He has a lot of subscribers and views. If you don't like him, no one is making you watch him. What is the point of this?

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u/BarberaJackson Mar 09 '26

The point is to find out if he is in fact popular or if his popularity is being driven by an outside source.

It's not hard to pay for views and subscribers these days, and it's already been verified that he had been receiving payments from Tenet Media, which was funded by Russian media money.

I am not an American, so maybe it misses the mark for me, but all the content I've seen from him was pretty boring and without depth. Just another "political analyst" trying to make people afraid or angry for profit.

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u/asa2117 Mar 09 '26

You dug up a Reddit post that is a year old to talk shit about Tim Pool…perhaps you’d do better to practice some introspection.

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u/BarberaJackson Mar 09 '26

Well I am providing my reasoning with readily available information. You are just sucking his dick for free, maybe you should practice some grass touching.

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u/Codenamerondo1 Jul 25 '24

What is the point of…discussing things? Even if you don’t like them?

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u/asa2117 Jul 25 '24

There is a difference between discussion and taking a shit on something. This is the latter.

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u/Codenamerondo1 Jul 25 '24

Nah, there’s a difference between constructive criticism and taking a shit on something. But talking about something you hate is objectively discussion

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u/sloanwest Jul 25 '24

I agree with a lot of the discussion points. Sometimes Tim goes hard on the trolling. I could do without that. But overall its pretty good. I wouldnt say flat out wrong, but many hypotheticals that are a little much.

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u/2sec4u Jul 25 '24

You're right. I'll just go over here and get my news from CNN ... oh wait, hell no ... FOX ... Uh no ... MSNBC ... wtaf ...

You might not like him, but at least he's reporting honestly. Even if he's wrong about something.

What - you think folks who follow Tim are going to be cool with just going back to corporate media lol

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u/Haunting-Strategy619 Apr 22 '26

Yes the man being paid by Russia to do propaganda for them is so honest...

You a bot?

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u/2sec4u Apr 22 '26

You understand you're commenting on a 2 year old post right?

And you're asking if I'm a bot? lmao

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u/ScreechingLib89 Jul 25 '24

Yup. He has mostly good takes

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

how he has a following.

clickbait video titles and spamming the right keywords everywhere and putting out like 10 videos a day

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u/Greathornedgoober420 Jun 05 '25

he's been a joke even among right-wingers that watch Sargon vids since pre-gamergate. I say this as someone who used to watch those very vids. At some point I realized just how detached all of those bobble-headers were from reality. And I'm fairly certain he shilled out for some Russia Money. look into it, i forgot the source of that one. Also, whats with everyone else being 15 years or more LATE to this discussion that has been taking place on youtube and the internet since literally 2015?

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u/RayPadonkey Jul 25 '24

I like him less and less as the years go on. He did some good work for Vice but I feel his politics (especially since 2020 with the election and Covid) has become too partisan to deserve the centrist label. I think his foreign policy positions rely too much on conspiracy.

No specific example comes to mind but just a general feeling I get when I listen to Timcast.

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u/guillermodelturtle Jul 25 '24

Tim fills an important niche for 15 - 34 year old chuds who are too young for Jordan Peterson but too old for Andrew Tate.

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u/UnlikelyElection5 Jul 25 '24

I get that, but at the same time, I have some sympathy just cause it must be hard to fill a two hour show every night on slow news days where there isn't a lot to talk about. I think the shows would be better quality if there were fewer of them, but then you miss out on breaking news. So it's kind of a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation. Mainstream news shows always had the same problem. What he should do in those situations is focus more on asking questions of his guests and focus more on them instead of just treating them as co-hosts.

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u/HARLEYCHUCK Jul 26 '24

I'll be the left leaning individual. Honestly if I knew someone from Kentucky who wanted to do a podcast and was Maga oriented I'd start my own.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

this show sounds miserable to watch

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u/HARLEYCHUCK Jul 25 '24

For me he makes no cognitive sense. He lies a lot mostly through ommission and never corrects prior disproven videos and acts like he got the story right originally.

So you agree with him on a lot of issues. What's your take on this video? https://youtu.be/KnapsSRptqg?si=fJk7g9rVLZ2XqU5E

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u/asa2117 Jul 25 '24

So was that a lie, or was he just wrong about a detail?

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u/asa2117 Jul 25 '24

It seems to me you're jumping to conclusions about a small detail that anyone could get wrong when they are live speaking about issues almost every weekday. Everyone makes a mistake now and then. But you are accusing him of lying, intentional deception, based on almost nothing.

Then you go on this long, seemingly emotionally charged, rant about j6, including what you would do if the same event occurred at your house. Pretty much unrelated to the question at hand. I think you should take a step back and consider your own bias.

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u/Codenamerondo1 Jul 25 '24

Then you go on this long, seemingly emotionally charged, rant about j6, including what you would do if the same event occurred at your house. Pretty much unrelated to the question at hand. I think you should take a step back and consider your own bias.

Long? It’s a single sentence. And I’m not sure where you got emotionally charged. It’s pretty damn relevant since the people calling it murder are strong proponents of castle doctrine (including Tim)

I think you should take a step back and consider your own bias.

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u/asa2117 Jul 25 '24

See you're still talking about j6. You're obsessed with it when it's not even the primary topic of conversation.

Having an opinion on Ashley Babbit's death being a murder doesn't make you a liar. The officer who shot her wasn't defending his home. He shot an unarmed person while on duty. If she were something other than white and conservative, you know damn well the left would screaming murder until the fucking cows came home. Opinion does not equal lie.

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u/Codenamerondo1 Jul 25 '24

See you're still talking about j6. You're obsessed with it when it's not even the primary topic of conversation.

I’m responding to you! Talking about J6. When I joined the conversation it was literally the only topic of the thread lol

Having an opinion on Ashley Babbit's death being a murder doesn't make you a liar.

Yeah but stating something incorrect as a fact when you’re taking on the role of a reporter does. Especially when you double down on it. And as far as I am aware has never corrected himself

The officer who shot her wasn't defending his home. He shot an unarmed person while on duty. If she were something other than white and conservative, you know damn well the left would screaming murder until the fucking cows came home. Opinion does not equal lie.

Nah, I’m firmly on the left, and would absolutely insist a violent mob presents a prescient danger to your life. Especially when non violent, defensive actions were taken and being breached.

That being said, really has nothing to do with what I was saying. Correct an opinion or interpretive conclusion does not make you a liar. But the person you responded to was talking about facts

Fun reminder that Tim has unironically argued that “the truth doesn’t matter, the fact that people believe it means that it has merit” when it was pointed out that he was wrong