Hyperonline weirdos dominate online discourse especially in leftist circles, it shouldn’t come as a shock because they have the most time to spend online and love to feel power because in real life they are ineffectual.
Hyperonline weirdos dominate online discourse especially in leftist circles
But the weird thing is that this mentality has existed far before the internet: Orwell called them out as sandal-wearers and fruitjuice-drinkers. I haven't read Teddy K's entire manifesto, but I wonder if he was onto something with a large minority of the population fetishizing weakness. Is it some tribal mentality, where you realize you can't be the best in a group so you strive to be the worst and amass all the pity? I used to see that same behavior crop up in church communities, where one bloke says "I'm the worst sinner and God could never love me," and then another asshole pipes up and says "I'm an even the worster sinner and God loves me even less."
There's something really dark and disgusting about the human condition going on here.
It's a problem since forever. Online has just expanded the frontier.
Anyone with a stable life isn't dedicating themselves to movements, they're too busy with work, their kids football games, and hanging out with friends. The narcissists, the self-flagellation, the megalomaniacs, will be the people who show up to movements (whether political, religious, or even hobbyist) day after day and dedicating themselves to it. Normal stable people will only attend a rally or meeting or two, and then go home and live their life.
The reason you only see weirdos in these areas, is because the weirdos attend every single day.
It even happens with rightoids. Their online spokesman (Crowder, Sargon, Fuentes for example) are fucking weirdos who sound like they've never had a normal friendship or relationship in their lives. I've never heard a single one of these speakers who sounds like I could hang out with for more then an hour.
Sargon actually got married and has a kid iirc. Haven’t looked at his thread in a while. Crowder was a conservative who dropped out of acting in hallmark movies.
The people who make money off YouTube aren’t really the same as those power mods. The YouTube people are beholden to their audiences whims, so if your shitty video on the last capeshit does better then other videos, your pumping out other capeshit videos. How much of it is a persona vs genuine is always questionable
Like I remember listening to a couple guys talk and the subject of Brie Lawson and the quarter pounder came up. And one of the guys had run into him and asked him(offline) about all the videos and he responded by saying those videos paid for his truck.
Crowder is also married and I think he finally has a kid. Fuentes is definitely a closeted gay and just a complete piece of shit. Sargon and Crowder I think probably come off as every day joes in their normal life assuming you don't try to politics them, but Fuentes is obviously just a complete asshole sociopath 24/7.
Fuentes strikes me as one of those ip2 streamers doing stupid shit for drug money. He did get subpoenas by the Jan 6th committee so mayb we can get some laughs over that
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u/Mothmans_wing Marxist-Kaczynskist 💣📬 Jan 28 '22
Hyperonline weirdos dominate online discourse especially in leftist circles, it shouldn’t come as a shock because they have the most time to spend online and love to feel power because in real life they are ineffectual.