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About that loser…

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My opinion on this matter is going to be pretty predictable. I’ve waited this long because I’ve been waiting for the dust to settle, so that what’s likely misinformation becomes apparent for what it is.

There’s something that I like to do when it comes to mass murderers, and that’s to give them derisive nicknames, in an effort to reduce the legacy that they may have intended. This time around, the killer’s name was Robert Westman. Because he was pretending to be something that he was not, he changed his name to Robin Westman.

Yeah, he was trans. And he preferred female pronouns, but as you could probably tell, I’m not playing along with him.

Because his huge, massive jaw gives his entire routine away, his new name is Jawvious (portmonteau of jaw and obvious). That jaw looks like it could do some damage if it were dropped on someone.

That’s so Jawvious.

Because Jawvious was trans, hated Trump, hated Christians, and hated Jews, the left is panicking to try to get this hot potato out of their hands. But the deed is done, we have yet another mass shooting where the perpetrator believed their bullshit.

And, as was the case with the Nashville shooter, the target was children in a religious school which Jawvious had previously attended. And, as before, the killer had extensively documented their intents in a personal journal.

The choice of children as a target was evidently intended to maximize the societal damage of the attack. Nothing expresses hatred quite like destroying the future of a family and a society by attacking those who would carry families and society into the future.

If I were to speculate on what led Jawvious to attack those more innocent and better than himself, it’s my guess that he had a psychological disorder. But rather than getting the attention that he needed, Jawvious was instead fast-tracked down the trans path, possibly by mental health professionals who were given an incentive to do so. Thus, he continued thinking he was trans, because he was carefully and systematically gaslit into doing so, while anyone who could’ve talked some sense into him was discouraged from doing so by the potential to be charged with a hate crime. And as this was going on, Jawvious’ mental health disorder continued to fester, untreated.

Eventually, Jawvious arrived at the realization that he couldn’t ever actually become a woman, no matter how much magical thinking or surgical butchery he might undergo. But it’s likely that he was in a community which convinced him that this was what it took to become happy.

Combining this with his mental health disorder, whatever that may have been, and you find someone who is so bitter that he decides that other people shouldn’t get to grow up. While his decision was ghoulish to anyone with decent sense, and even to people who lack the same sense, such as Jawvious himself, he went through with it anyway, though he had at least a few days to think it over, and possibly change his mind. He did not.

In the past, as I’ve noticed that the trans movement was in decline, I pointed out that there would be people who I referred to as dead-enders. These would be people who invested so much social capital into the trans movement that after the movement falls into disfavor, as it has already begun to, that they wouldn’t be able to take the hit to their reputation which would come with advocating irreparable physical harm to children.

They took up the wrong cause. And now, they feel like they’re being backed up into a corner. They know that their position will be reduced to a scandal which will damage their political and influencer careers in the years to come. Some of them will never recover from it.

And that’s when they become dangerous. Some of them, feeling threatened, will turn violent, as was the case with the Nashville shooter.

It’s likely that we’ll see this again, and it will be far more likely to happen if professionals continue to ignore and normalize mental illness, which would be wrong and irresponsible of them, regardless of what has been incentivized for them.

Angry Lunatic Muslim Woman Freaks Out

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You might remember the old YouTube classic about the angry German kid who flips out while waiting for a computer game to load. We finally got a sequel, and it made its way to us before GTA VI did.

The following video shows us body cam footage of a woman who was just pulled over. She immediately starts ranting, proclaiming herself the victim because another driver wanted to kill her. And with her X-Men supercognition, she knew that the other driver had to be motivated by Islamophobia.

By the way, people can stop calling every criticism a “phobia”. That’s been going on for about two decades now, and it hasn’t gotten anywhere. Whether you think someone is motivated by fear doesn’t make you any less wrong. Move on.

The woman took out her iPhone and proceeded to record her conversation with the officer, being so full of herself that she thought the internet would side with her, which is ironic considering how things would end up playing out.

What’s really fascinating is that the moment the woman learns that she is going to be arrested, things turn religious. But not in a good way. She’s not bringing a message of love, or of patience. Nor is she bringing a message of salvation for all people.

No, she was being religious in a bad way. Her message is one of vengeance and vindictiveness. As she saw it, the arresting officers who were just doing their jobs were deliberately siding with a fallen angel, and will eventually pay a price.

Oftentimes, when someone is delusional, they’ll insist that they’re something special, like one of “the two witnesses”, or that they’ve discovered some great secret, or otherwise have some grandiose fantasy. As they see it, it’s because of this that some entity is out to get them, usually a powerful entity, such as the government, or demons, or a government that serves demons.

If demons were actually involved, it seems more reasonable to expect that they’d be messing with a person by feeding into a grandiose delusion, and convince them that the government is out to get them.

One thing that the woman reiterates is how special she is. That the officers aren’t supposed to “do this” to an Arab. How a male officer isn’t supposed to cuff her, or search her, or even touch her (the officers would bring a female officer to assist). It’s all an obvious and desperate attempt at evasion, knowing what’s coming and making it as difficult as possible, and proclaiming that there will be consequences if she doesn’t get her way.

One thing that’s particularly amusing about this is the implication that because she’s an Arab woman, she’s indemnified of all crimes. I wonder how long she might have believed this. If your belief is that you can’t be arrested, that’s a belief that’s going to go splat the moment it collides with reality.

And speaking of reality, it left the chat. As the woman is being driven to the station, she proclaims herself to be Muhammad. The Muhammad. And the officer lost his chance to bow down to her when he refused to take her orders.

You know about that seventh-century chomo warlord who claimed to be a prophet? That was Muhammad: A New Hope. That was old news. Now we’re talking about Muhammad: The Empire Strikes Back. This is the one without those stoopid ewoks.

I feel bad for anyone who dated her. That had to have been a nightmare. Of course, it’s possible that her genes benefited heavily from arranged marriages for generations.

Let’s be a little more serious for a moment. Based on what little I’ve seen of this incident, I suspect that drugs were involved. I suspect that the woman wasn’t always like the way she behaved in the bodycam footage, but some substance abuse, or possibly a side effect of medication, caused the woman to become disinhibited. When a person becomes disinhibited, their personality and beliefs usually don’t change. Instead, the person will become more candid with their beliefs, including those which they may have been too reserved to share. The woman’s erratic driving supports the hypothesis that controlled substances were involved.

If this is the case, then it follows that she had to have gotten the idea that she was special from somewhere. I suspect that such an idea may have been culturally impressed upon her, likely from her family, and likely from a young age. Under most circumstances, she would have known that sharing such ideas, some of which are racist, is usually not a great idea. However, if drugs were involved, she would have lost her inhibitions, and her ideas may have had grandiose elements added to them.

I would imagine that, if the woman were later sober, she would not have been happy to hear her own words played back to her. Especially if they were played back in a court of law.

If the woman were sincere in the delusions that she expressed, one could ask how she was able to function in society up until the point of her arrest. That’s not to say that it can’t happen. Back in my days of working retail, I’ve seen people of various degrees of interesting, but as far as I know, none of those people started trending on social media.

While it’s fun to imagine the crazy woman who goes from day to day thinking herself the modern day Muhammad, what we saw was probably just her worst moment. I say that as someone who didn’t much look into her case.

Whatever her background may have been, it likely fed significantly into what came to the surface, and when it did, it was quite a scene. Perhaps we’ll see more out of her, soon.

Fake MAGA and the Weaponization of Bullplop

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If Fake MAGA lived eight decades ago.

It’s no secret that much of the internet is about influencing other people to do things. Because of this, it shouldn’t be a surprise that foreign actors can use social media to influence Joe and Jane Q. Public.

Now, the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) has determined that foreign actors are attempting to infiltrate the MAGA movement with the intent of dividing it against itself. The infiltraters have been aptly termed, “Fake MAGA”, and because these bots and fake accounts are sophisticated, they might not give the same kind of “hello fellow children” vibe as you might sense from your usual imposter.

It’s evident that leftists are also being infiltrated, but I’ll come back to that.

Because the report gets really specific and even names the names of some prominent figures in the fringe of the MAGA movement, the NCRI had better have been really careful in crossing its “i”s and dotting its “t”s (or however it’s supposed to go). Because if they muffed some things up, the NCRI might face some totes cereal defamation lawsuits.

The report alleges that foreign actors have created bot accounts on the social media platform we now know as X (formerly Twitter), creating accounts well in advance of events that they might comment on to give them the appearance of authenticity, and farming engagement for fringe MAGA personalities most likely to propagate messages sympathetic to Russia and Iran, increasing the likelihood that the greater MAGA movement will change their perspective given the peer pressure.

I strongly recommend reading the report for yourself. While some aspects can be questioned, it’s still an eye-opening report, and does a great job of explaining why we saw a recent spike in pro-Iranian MAGA chuds in recent days.

Among the names that were named in the report as carrying water for Fake MAGA are Nick Fuentes, Jake Shields, and Jackson Hinkle, as well as Draven Noctis, Megatron_Ron, and Adam eMedia. About half these names are ones I’ve heard of, and I’ve probably muted at least a couple because I got sick of their bullshit.

Among the allegations made by NCRI are that some of these personalities are in league with foreign actors, and benefitted from engagement farming.

From my perspective, Jake Shields and his ilk look like the kind of guys who would say anything if it were to net them engagement, and it’s hard to imagine them with any kind of sincere principle. As for me, if I were to wake up one morning next to five million dollars then discover that I got it by acting like Jake Shields, I’d probably set fire to the money, then jump into it.

As for the alleged bot accounts, the report alleges that a high volume of them were started around two specific dates: April 26 and October 28, both in the year 2022. These dates are approximate to, but not precisely on, the initiation and completion of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter (April 14 and October 27th, respectively). To be fair, this would be about the time that many with sincerely-held right wing opinions may have started accounts, determining that the platform may become less hostile. However, the sudden influx in accounts would have made excellent cover for the influx of bots.

How does an ordinary user identify the bots? Before we get carried away and point to accounts created on those dates, remember that many sincere MAGA people were joining at around the dates mentioned above. The stronger giveaway is a sudden influx of so-called MAGA accounts posting sympathetically towards foreign adversaries.

Many of the accounts in question were so-called “groypers”, with heavily on-the-nose nationalistic sentiments, and they suspiciously drop “false flag” conspiracy theories in tandem with one another, particularly immediately after a significant event. Interestingly, many of these bots have had blue checkmarks purchased for them, adding to the illusion of authenticity.

When enough of these bots are acting in tandem, they can manipulate the algorithm to create the effect of a flood of their posts in the feeds of those on the right. The goal is to influence the opinions of right wingers through the illusion of peer pressure.

If you were on X immediately following the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by US forces, then you’ve probably seen a flood of Fake MAGA bot posts. And they seem to have continued until about mid-day yesterday, as though someone noticed that something was amiss, and pulled the plug on them.

Interestingly, other social media platforms didn’t have the same bot problem. YouTube didn’t have to put up with any Fake MAGA crap. Even Minds seemed unaffected. It was basically just X which was targeted.

Until the time that the party was over, the community did find a few Fake MAGA accounts on their own. At least one of them, which was subsequently deleted, was found by CatTurd. Another was outed by Community Notes:

A Fake MAGA proclaiming that he won’t die for a foreign country conjures the mental image of an overweight groyper sitting on his couch being handed conscription papers.

No one expects him to die for a foreign country. No one expects him to die for his own country. It’s more realistic to expect him to die from complications related to his own diet.

If you’re wondering whether bots and other Fake MAGA accounts can participate in surveys, yes, they can. It’s not a new thing, but here’s a recent example:

The Twitter survey, and all its famous scientific accuracy.

If you’ve never heard of Felix Rex, he’s a somewhat obscure YouTuber who sounded insightful back in 2016, but has since taken to schizo-posting. It’s gotten to the point that he believes that red-haired people are the descendents of an ancient race of genetically engineered humans.

June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, by the way.

While matters are relatively back to normal for the time being, there have been casualties in the recent bot insurgency. On the bright side, we now have a better idea of who the grifters are. In that sense, the Fake MAGA bots did us a favor.

But let’s not kid ourselves into thinking that it’s over. The fact is, America’s adversaries have found a new way to demoralize America, and it’s on us to remain true to ourselves, regardless of what an apparent majority may think. We saw what happens when a fake majority attempts to bandwagon Americans into thinking that Iran should be left to develop nukes.

I like to say, stand up for what’s right, even if you’re standing alone.

I said earlier that I’d come back to how leftists are probably handling it. Yes, leftists are being influenced by foreigners. And they don’t seem to have a defense. Stands to reason considering that they have an unhealthy amount of outgroup empathy, which the foreign adversaries can easily exploit.

I think the following cartoon illustrates how easily they can be influenced:

One way or another, the left is going to set cars on fire, throw molotov cocktails, and loot Apple stores. For what cause? Our foreign adversaries will decide.

The big N is going to make a killing.

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Did you hear the one about the guy who doesn’t know Jack about the games industry who is suddenly an expert on economics and geopolitics? You probably did, because there are so many such larpers shooting their mouths off. And you’re probably laughing just as hard as I am.

Days ago, Nintendo revealed the price point on their upcoming Switch 2 system, but have subsequently delayed pre-orders, as they reevaluate what they may charge for the system. This occurs as tariffs go into effect, and it seems reasonable to guess that there’s a causal connection.

While it’s easy to get ansey about how much the Switch 2 will cost, if you had the intention of buying one, you’re probably about two months away from having one, and three away from not caring what you paid for it.

How can I say that so confidently? Because I’ve been through this many times. On launch day for GameCube, I could have cared whether I had the $200 to buy one. But after that, I had one. I waited a bit to buy Wii, but after I got that, I didn’t even remember how much it cost. Same with Switch. Once the hurtle of initial expence is cleared, people are just going to move on to the next thing.

And if Nintendo is going to offer something of greater value than what they already have, wouldn’t it follow that they’d charge more for it? And if someone thinks the price is too high, they can decide not to buy it. No one is forcing anyone to make a purchase. It’s a free market.

And speaking of price points, it seems like fainting spells are on the uptick, because Nintendo is setting the MSRP for Mario Kart World at $80. People are used to paying $60 for a game, and here I’m remembering how much a new copy of Chrono Trigger cost in the nineties. Depending on where you looked, it would have been as much as $90.

Nintendo’s reasoning for the price point for Mario Kart World is that they put a lot of effort into the game. And this is reasonable. If I’m going to be getting a lot of game with lots of play and replay value, then it’s worth the money.

If you bought a new game with the complete DLC package, such as Pokémon Violet, then you probably spent $94.98 for it, before taking sales theft tax into account. Whether you would have gotten your money’s worth is up to you, but if that’s what you spent, then you were somehow able to justify making that purchase. Compared to that, to spend only $80 on Mario Kart World sounds a bit more reasonable.

But if that doesn’t seem reasonable to you, you don’t have to buy it. When it comes down to it, it’s the consumer who decides the value of a product, not the company that made it, regardless of inputs. And if you don’t want to pay the MSRP, you can just not buy the product. You might even find it at a more agreeable price later on.

But the temper tantrums are pointless. Nintendo knew that they’d hear screeching over any choice they’d make, and they’ve already figured out that they could just ignore it.

The PS5 Pro’s price didn’t come down, the Minecraft movie was still made, and Sonic from Sonic Boom still has blue arms. Nobody cares that someone from YouTube pretended to understand economics.

To get right to the heart of the matter, which I’m not hearing much about: Nintendo has investors, and Nintendo doesn’t want to upset them. To that end, they’d much rather turn a profit on the Switch 2’s first year. Pricing Switch 2 above cost would seem expedient to this.

Sure, Nintendo’s stock has fallen in the last few days, and this correlates with fans learning of the pricing of Switch 2 games. It’s also rebounded since yesterday, indicating that it wasn’t a lasting trend. But I suspect that sales numbers will play a larger role in stock valuation.

Care to guess whether millions of Nintendo fans, and way too many loathsome scalpers, would contribute to huge Switch 2 sales at launch even if it were to be priced like the PS5 Pro?

It’s over for ReviewTechUSA.

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Rich from ReviewTechUSA, as seen on his now-defunct YouTube channel.

Consider what it takes to be a dad. You might have thought of virtues such as strength, attractiveness, thriftiness, skill, discipline, conviction, and the intelligence to make a plan and see it through to fruition.

But what it really takes is finding a woman who will let you blow your load inside of her.

This becomes easy to see as one ponders the falling-off of Rich, also known as ReviewTechUSA, who has proceeded to throw his toys on the floor and stomp out of the room because he was designated a “lolcow”.

You can try searching for his YouTube channel, but you won’t find it, because he deleted it as part of his temper tantrum. Instead, if you were to look for ReviewTechUSA on YouTube, all that would be left would be videos from creators who criticized him, in many cases rightly so.

His image took a tumble, so rather than just shut up and course-correct, Rich instead ceded ground to all his critics, destroying a money-making channel with a following that took years to build.

What’s especially disappointing about Rich’s recent behavior for me is that he was one of my favorite gaming and tech world commentators when I was in college, back when he would rant about this, that, and the third as gameplay video of GTA would play. I didn’t always agree with him, but I did appreciate his viewpoints.

We could bring up the irony of the fact that his channel was called “ReviewTechUSA”, even though he hasn’t really reviewed tech as a focus since the early days of his channel. I suspect that this has a lot to do with the fact that he turned heavily tribalistic when it came to brands. He was a heavy critic of Apple, and if your tech review channel is just going to dump on Apple, don’t count on Apple to send you new iterations of their products for review.

It seemed that his early videos were enthusiastic about PC parts, which makes me suspicious that ReviewTechUSA was a means to write off a man’s PC gaming money trap, while raking in that sweet, sweet e-clout.

It didn’t help that he would sometimes spout off about some controversial takes. If what you have to say is controversial enough, tech brands might not want their products associated with you.

From what I’ve heard, Rich also went TDS. To risk alienating as much as half of your audience is highly inadvisable. That’s the risk that comes with approaching political content. It might be tempting to go TDS, considering that Trump supporters are more likely to be able to take a joke, but it’s a black hole. When your audience is composed of leftists, they’re likely to be hyper-sensitive, and willing to cancel you for saying the wrong thing at any given moment, and they’re not known for their forgiveness, even with profuse groveling.

With that framing, you might be wondering how Rich fucked up. Did he point out that men and women are different? Or did he go full Hitler and point out that different people from different parts of the world have different cultures?

Nope. He was a shitty dad. His little girl wanted him to put her to bed, but he declined so that he could continue his stream. Which, considering his typical routine, probably consisted of taking off his shirt and playing with a rubber chicken, while self-deprecating by calling himself a fat fuck (his words, not mine).

Naturally, this pissed people the hell off, because when you’re a dad, your first duty is to your family, and a shitty ass livestream doesn’t even come close to it. And because the current system is fucking over young men who have been trying way harder than their fathers and grandfathers before them to accomplish the same thing in a financially responsible manner, this is only upsetting young men all the more that Rich is not properly appreciating the family that he has, and which is his responsibility.

So, latest development, Rich has been branded a lolcow. But, as the tendency of lolcows is, he takes himself way too seriously, so he’s not leaning into it. Just the reverse, he was willing to torch his own paycheck to avoid confronting his critics, destroying a YouTube channel that could have continued to generate passive income for him if he were to just let it sit, doing nothing else with it.

But Rich took a blow to his pride, and he’s not handling it well.

Where he goes from here, I don’t know. Where exactly does someone go if they were once e-famous, but then deleted their own channel? Does he have a backup plan? Can his lengthy experience playing with his nipples in front of a camera somehow transfer to another career choice?

Considering that Rich has a little person who is counting on him, he needs to figure things out pretty quick. Unlike most young single men, he can’t just fall back on sleeping in a car when times are rough.

But we’ll see whether Trump working as a fry cook would discourage him at all from doing the same thing.

EDIT: Okay, so he has a plan. Rich says that instead of gaming commentary, he’s going to do “grown-up” things like comment on the news and politics.

First, it can be pointed out how this new direction would be catastrophic for a man in his mental state. Few people could get into that kind of content without it frying their brains. People who get into politics tend to become tribalistic, which tends towards people becoming so closed-minded that they refuse to see any virtue in a person in the rival tribe. What’s more, news commentary requires a person to have their finger on the pulse of current events on a near constant basis.

Then there’s his implication that games commentary is beneath his level of maturity. Rich was once one of the guys who argued that it shouldn’t be seen as unusual for a middle-aged man to play video games. And now that video games are no longer stigmatized, he goes and acts like playing them is for less mature people.

But if news and politics are how Rich is deciding to rebrand himself, let’s see how seriously anyone will take a man who played with his man-boobs on livestream when he fires off his mouth about current events, or what can be brought into the conversation about politics by a man who engaged in sensuous play with a cucumber, also on livestream (you could probably guess that there was a point when I lost interest in his channel).

But, if he insists, then he’s free to fire off about how he believes the rest of us should live, and the narratives that we should view the world through, in consideration of the exemplar of virtue that he obviously is.

Least Attractive Bar Graph on Social Media

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Okay, is anybody actually falling for this? Let me know.

What I’m talking about is a graph that started trending on X, which shows a bar graph of what is supposedly the most unattractive hobbies for men, “according to women”. The chart is as follows:

I ignored it at first glance, but seeing as people kept giving it attention, I’ve decided to take it behind the shed. Spoiler alert, it’s coming back with some teeth missing.

First of all, Online Trolling is listed among the hobbies. That should be a powerful indicator of what’s going on, here. Hopefully, I don’t have to spell this out. Okay, I’ll do it anyway, because no reader left behind.

It’s bullshit. Someone came up with this graph just to mess with people. And it worked.

But it’s not the first indicator that someone is messing with you. That would be the fact that there’s no citations. And if there’s no citations, this means that there’s no study, no survey, no polling, or anything of the sort. If someone wanted their study to be at all respectable, there would be a citation, so that a person could look into the methodology to ascertain that the data has any value. There’s no citation, so there’s nothing of value.

Instead, every indication is that someone just pulled all this information straight out of their ass, and posted it on social media knowing that it would push some buttons.

Notice something else about the data? Conveniently, every data point on the bar graph decrements by five. Sure, it’s possible that if you survey thousands of people, it’s possible for the data points, when arranged in the form of a bar graph, would form a neat decrementation by fives. But it would be strongly unlikely.

Having said all that, the point that really pushes people’s buttons is the one about playing video games. I call BS, because women I’ve met play video games. In fact, the last woman I was with played video games. She had a big stack of them. But she hid them from me, even though she didn’t have to, and I ended up finding them accidentally.

Look, I remember a time when video games were the pastime of hobbyists who frequented Radio Shack. Back then, I would’ve understood if someone regarded them as some nerd hobby. But a lot has changed since then, and now it’s something that pretty much everybody does. It’s been decades since it’s been regarded as a nerd hobby, and if anyone today said that they didn’t play them, I wouldn’t believe them.

People need to stop falling for this stuff.

The Chris Chan Body Cam Arrest Footage Is So Insane It’s Crazy

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It’s finally happened, the body cam footage of the arrest of Chris Chan has been uploaded:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f1agQE9Hr08

URL: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f1agQE9Hr08

If anybody has any doubt that Chris Chan believes what he goes on about on social media, there he is, stating it as matter of fact to a squad of arresting officers. I bring this up because there are more than a few people out there who read about Chris, and have their doubts, like he has to be playing a character online, like all those TikTok celebs who are willing to do just about anything for only a little bit of e-clout.

But there he is, rattling off to a bunch of officers about Sonichus and Rosechus in what could be the most serious situation that he could find himself in. Because in his mind, all this stuff about dimensional merges is as real as can be. When he goes on and on about the things the officer’s children consume to stave off boredom, there he is, speaking of them as though they aren’t just made-up bullshit.

Consider the implications of this for Chris’ other delusions. He probably actually believes that he’s the most important person alive, with millions of people counting on him to bring about a world where cartoon characters coexist among us. He probably actually believes that he can will himself into a woman by listening to sound waves on YouTube. He probably actually believes that he’s a goddess and the living incarnation of an old game console. His pony persona is milk to that breakfast cereal of delusion that he keeps spooning into his face because he can’t get enough of it.

But it just keeps getting crazier. As Chris Chan is led away to a place where people like him belong, the officers take note of unusual cars gathered around. For a moment, they entertain the thought that they’re arresting someone who’s on a watch list (a strong possibility), and they may have to speak to a few feds. But no, these were a bunch of weens chasing Chris Chan for clout. From the perspective of the officers, hearing the exchange between Chris Chan and online influencers had to have been surreal.

But the climax was when Chris was conversing with the officer driving him to the station. That was when Chris was explaining the dimensional merge, and the opportunity to meet characters like Spider Man. I could easily imagine the officer accidentally rear-ending another vehicle while attempting to comprehend the madness he was hearing.

And then, with no prompt whatsoever, Chris spills it about his polyamorous marriage with fictional characters, including his own creation Magi Chan and the Pokémon Mewtwo.

Let’s hear it for the officers, who maintained their composure throughout the whole ordeal. It couldn’t have been easy. And, without question, they played their part in making society a safer place for the rest of us.

But they had homework to do. It’s easy to imagine that at least one of them went home and looked up just how famous Chris Chan is online, and ended up bingeing Geno Samuel’s long-running documentary. And then probably entertained the idea of running off to somewhere like French Polynesia to escape all the attention they might end up getting.

Without a doubt, the Chris Chan arrest body cam footage is the single funniest piece of Chris Chan media ever produced, and it’s going to be hyper-analyzed by autists the world over for years to come.

The candy crusaders need to take it easy.

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It seems like some people were upset that a popular candy had its name changed from “Easter Eggs” to “Gesture Eggs”. This is the impression that one would get from this headline from Not The Bee:

Stores pull Cadbury “Gesture Eggs” promo after some genius removed the word “Easter” and caused public outcry

I think we can appreciate how ridiculous “Gesture Eggs” sounds, since that conjures up the image of a person innocently cracking open one of those Kinder Eggs or whatever, and finding a plastic hand giving the middle finger.

Let’s see what Not The Bee has to say about it in their opening paragraph:

Back in 2022, chocolate giant Cadbury was embroiled in a scandal involving reports of shocking child labor abuses in their supply chain.

The last time a well has been so thoroughly poisoned, a village died.

If one were to go just on the tone of Not The Bee’s article, one would think that a candy company is making a deliberate attempt to distance itself from Christianity by removing references to a pagan holiday that’s been thinly coated with Biblical-sounding names and concepts. And people are peeved, because they like that holiday that was the reason they got candy as kids.

The reality of the matter is far more mundane.

The signage was limited to just a few locations in a chain, which was independent of the will of corporate headquarters, which quickly reversed the decision. It’s true that Not The Bee stated as much in their article, but by placing such important modifying information late in their article, they’re more likely to farm rage-clicks from angry Christians who are more upset about signage used to refer to some candy than a bunch of African Christians who are being killed by a bunch of Muslims who hate that any religion besides their own exists.

Here’s the marketing, as shared by The Daily Mail, tell me whether you notice anything about it:

No, not that the candy has become ridiculously expensive. To help you out, here’s a pic of another product from the same line:

Still don’t see it? Neither do I. That’s because the product isn’t called an “Easter Egg”, that’s a Cadbury Creme Egg. The word “Easter” doesn’t even appear on the packaging. The closest that the candy comes to having anything to do with Easter is that Easter is used to market it. Which pretty much any candy can be.

Saying that Cadbury Creme Eggs have anything to do with Easter because Easter is used to market it is like saying that PlayStation has something to do with Christmas because Christmas is used to market PlayStation.

People threw a hissy fit because “Easter” didn’t appear in marketing for a product that doesn’t even acknowledge the observance by name, like the hypothetical box of Matzah that doesn’t mention Passover.

Did you know that in the religious world, there are problems that actually matter? For example, that Muslims are clashing with Christians. Or that sexual abuse is still a scandal in religious denominations. Or that Muslims are clashing with Jews. Or that Scientology is a predatory cult. Or that Muslims are clashing with Hindus. Or that the current Pope is compromising Catholicism with his left-wing stances. Or that Muslims… let’s just say that they don’t play well with others.

But throwing a hissy-fit over signage displayed with candy? Is this how one inspires confidence in their religion?

We’re now up to that chapter.

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I’ve been following along with Geno Samuel’s Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History. If you’ve never heard of it, then you’ve probably also never heard of Chris Chan.

If you were to get into it, it’s a doozy of a rabbit hole. In summary, Chris Chan is one of those people who is infamous on the internet, and is easily the most well-known among internet infamous people. To the point that there are documentary series’ and there have been entire wikis that cover his antics and various facts about him.

About two-and-a-half years ago, it came to light that Chris Chan has been committing incest with his own mother. This set off a firestorm that resulted in Chris Chan trending on Twitter, culminating in Chris Chan’s arrest, and subsequently legacy media outlets have reported on it, exposing aging boomers to the Chris Chan phenomenon.

For those who have been following along, we knew that the time would come that Geno would come to these events in the timeline of his docu-series.

Well, here we are:

Chris Chan’s crime was disgusting. But as bad as he looks, this chapter made Bella look worse.

When I heard about Bella’s mythically horrible exploits, at first I thought that they were embellished. If even half of what I’ve heard about her was true, she was a magnificently bad person.

As bad as she looked in the documentary, it didn’t touch on everything. After all, the documentary was about Chris Chan. But people like Bella are the reason why prisons exist.

Of course, she got off because her parents worked for a three-letter agency.

As much as I’d like to quip with some insightful takeaways, what can be said that wouldn’t be obvious to just about all of us?

  • Don’t commit incest with your own mother,
  • Don’t associate with shitty people like Isabella Loretta Janke,
  • If you’ve committed a crime, don’t be so smug that you drop hints to people who might turn you in,
  • And, for that matter, don’t make a long, unprompted, and highly-descriptive confession to the same crime (oldie but goodie),
  • If you have an EPO against you, don’t violate it,
  • If you’re down and out, don’t prioritize buying a bunch of shitty toys,
  • And again, to emphasize: Don’t commit incest with your own mother. Ugh.

See what I mean? Who really needs to be told these things?

But whether or not there are lessons to be learned from the debacle that is Chris Chan’s life, it is still nonetheless fascinating, in much the same sense as watching a train crash in slow motion, with every last failure being meticulously documented, and every person who was impacted being carefully studied.

But with Chris Chan now being free, apparently having avoided the consequences of his actions, it now falls on the connected network of those monitoring Chris Chan to keep a careful eye on him, to mitigate the likelihood that he would reoffend, as Chris Chan is once again a danger to the public.

Vaush opened the wrong folder.

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When I first heard about the breadtuber Vaush, I assumed that he didn’t really believe what he was saying, and would have guessed from his vocabulary that he was talking way over the heads of the pro-socialism typicals who love the big words they don’t know the definitions of, and that Vaush was yet another grifter who was gaming the algorithm because he knew how. Thus, I didn’t much discuss him because I didn’t want him to have any more publicity.

But then, on a Feb 7 stream, he demonstrated a flagrant lack of basic datasec. He opened his own private stash on livestream.

Which, by the way, was on a folder on his desktop. And there among his stash was a folder labeled “Taxes”.

The use of the term “private stash” may have given you an idea of just the kind of stuff that his live viewers were treated to. But to be more specific, much of it was “horse stuff” and loli art, some of it seemed to have been AI-generated.

Since then, Vaush has gone on damage control, describing the characters with the loli aesthetic as being more “goblin” in body shape, as though he was into fantasy art, and explaining that he thought that the loli was just drawings of women with “short stack” builds. Basically the “she’s actually 3000 years old” defense.

While some of his viewers and critics may be wondering whether Vaush is going to jail, right now, it seems like the answer is “no”. While loli may be illegal in many places in the world, it is not illegal in the United States, where Vaush resides (the U.S. has the 1st Amendment, which protects free expression, and the apparent contents of his folder falls under protected speech). Of course, just because something is legal doesn’t mean that you’d tell your mom about it, or that it’s allowed in every setting.

Nonetheless, that Vaush has accidentally outed himself as possessing horse and loli “stuff” has some interesting optics when you consider that in the past, he’s insisted that Nazis are pedophilia adjacent because they favor relationships with power imbalances, and similar takes.

When someone virtue-signals often, pay attention to what they say, as such a person tends to project.

While Vaush has had some questionable takes, there was some plausible deniability for a while, though I know not everyone has been giving him the benefit of the doubt. One could have easily assumed that he was making obvious efforts to stoke controversy in an effort to game the algorithm, and watch all the ad revenue roll in from all the room-temp-IQ muh-free-stuff socialists that will come to his defense by virtue of being in the same tribe. But now, much of what he’s had to say about bestiality and other topics has taken on some interesting new optics.

While this whole drama has made just about everyone an expert on datasec, I think there’s something that can be said about being more careful about who your influencer heroes are, particularly the ones who behave like Vaush does on social media. After all, even ordinary heroes are disappointing every now and then. But if someone has a habit of deliberately posting horribly offensive shit publicly, then maybe it’s a better idea to keep your distance. And when SHTF, you can look on as some of his ilk continue to defend him, and know that those who do are the true believers in his cult, willing to come to his defense no matter what, which is probably just the kind of following he really wanted.

I don’t know what’s in the future for Vaush, but at this point, it’s easy to imagine that few outside of his small clique of cultists will take him seriously, and that even his fellow breadtubers will want to keep their distance. Basically similar to what happened with Jack Murphy as his cuckolding controversy played out.

I’ll say that the legal stuff that Vaush has on his computer is his business. But what’s really creepy about him is that there’s some less legal stuff that he’s been low-key attempting to make acceptable. That doesn’t put him in great light.