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[–] jimmyjohnsandwichfive@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I legit hate this man so much, I fucking hate all of these dipshit gaming twitch streamers so much

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just hate streamers in general. If they’re going to close the borders and deport immigrants, they should at least forcefully transfer all twitch streamers with more than 100,000 subscribers to the countryside for 10 years.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I read somewhere once that any streamer with a regular audience of at least 12 viewers is within the top 1% of all steamers, so you may have to lower your subsriber threshold a bit

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

streamers, youtube video essay "scientists"/"philosophers", and redditors are rotting the brains of the future generation so hard

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Getting my science education from bitter transphobe kraut, my news from youtube algorithm bearded pogface man, my entertainment from cracker screaming slurs, and my media analysis from off-the-clock cliff-notes contributor dragging a plot summary into a four-hour-long video

[–] axont@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not to discount how much cognitive disease these internet weirdos are spreading, but when I was a kid I'd listen to Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell every night on a portable radio. It was probably even more severe brain rot, with stories about Area 51 aliens or how to deal with hauntings in your garage. I used to believe it was all real and I'd end up a psychic or something someday.

Brainrot media has always existed, there's just more of it now and it's more easily accessed. Back when I was a kid you had to go to a convention or learn how to operate a ham radio, but it was all the same thing. Go look around Usenet forums from the 80s too

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I forgot how old I was lol, it seems like everybody 20-30 years old around me gets their main source of information about the world from reddit or youtube nowadays...

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I used to have a hip radio when i worked nights that played coast to coast, but it was with George Noory. A lot of fun nights stocking shelves to the weirdest stories told around a campfire.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm happy I've never watched a second of his content even though youtube loves to shove him into all my recommended video lists.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Every time I'm forced to see his stupid ass face on a random youtube thumbnail, I want to punch the screen.

[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

we need to take their gaming PCs away until we figure out what the hell is going on

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i'm calling it the solar guillotine folks, we're gonna fill up a train with reactionaries and billionaires and then launch it into the sun

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

yes, i realize that reactionaries and billionaires is sort of a redundant pairing.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

not that asmongold was ever a particularly bright or literate gamer-gulag but jesus christ i think he's moving backwards. this isn't even a case of media literacy, this is a case of literacy literacy. the actual literal text of metal gear solid has always been political.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MGS fans play 100 hours of Hideo Game and their only takeaways are “wow media bad, politicians bad, technology scary”

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Yeah the politics were really in the background when Hideo Kojima made BB look like Che in Peace Walker and the literal Sandinistas call him "El Che" in passing.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Til taking down evil organisations and weapons of war isn't political.

What are gamers so stupid

[–] axont@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What do these nerds think politics are? When a black person exists and has gender? When a woman isn't wearing a bikini?

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Yes thats literally what they think politics is. Or at least what they mean when they use the word.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I propose a motion to ban all Gamers from existing in society

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Put G*mers in gulags with the Tim and Eric internette skit but instead of it being the internet on a disc it's just one game that loops for infinity that's a busty anime girl saying white people are still in charge into the camera. It's the humane thing to do to them.

[–] Philosophosphorous@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

without hideo in charge i'm legitimately worried about changes to the writing, but for the complete opposite reasons as this streamer idiot. like i'm p sure hideo is either a trotskyist or an anarchist but mgs3 was never about how evil the soviets were, the main badguy is explicitly rogue and acting without the USSR's backing or detailed knowledge. America is essentially forced into cleaning up the mess because their agent, The Boss, stole american nukes (davy crockett recoilless rifles) to give to the badguy after she defected. (of course, spoilers ensue and nothing is as simple as it seems) but in today's political climate i could easily see a less principled team trying to shoehorn in some messages about how evil russians are and especially how evil the soviet communists were.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This post on chapo.chat is a screencap of a tweet sharing a youtube video of a clip of a twitch channel

E) oh,almost forgot: a twitch channel watching a videogame trailer.

we are rapidly approaching r/chapotraphouse levels of posting

(not aiming at you autismdragon ,just reminiscing)

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

we are rapidly approaching r/chapotraphouse levels of posting

sicko-wistful

[–] Yeat@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

rip debord you would’ve loved r/chapotraphouse

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They won't because the cold war isn't politics, women with small booba and black people are so assmogond can rest easy.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But MGS 3 has woman beating Snake (alpha male soyified by Pronouno Soyjima) so it’s politiCal, unfortunately.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

It also has a black guy in it and Eva's only a D cup and not a DD cup. Nippon has fallen negative

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

ass mole gonad

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Yankees bad

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Asmongold watching Bowling for Columbine

"I hope they don't make it political bro"

[–] axont@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How are so many greasy weird misanthrope streamer guys so popular? Do their audiences see themselves reflected? Is it like a Dark Side Phil thing where it's entertaining how pathetic they are?

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

How are so many greasy weird misanthrope streamer guys so popular? Do their audiences see themselves reflected?

yes

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Roonerino@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Literally all I know about this guy is that Youtube kept recommending me videos of him reacting to the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial or hearing or whatever the fuck it was. Based entirely on that I have to say this lines up perfectly with the idea I had in my head of the dude

[–] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's some kind of utterly disgusting man who eats nothing but Whataburger and roast beef. He lives in actual squalor in a mold infested house despite being a millionaire. I also don't know how true this is because I don't know medicine, but apparently he has multiple signs of having scurvy or severe vitamin deficiency.

Absolute trainwreck of a human and an indictment against "streamer" as a profession

[–] Roonerino@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Sounds like it's just a character tbh, all a part of his "brand" at this point even if it's no longer true, or ever was.

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[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Oh damn lucky you.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

some gamer who lives in legitimate squalor due to sheer kkkracker laziness

[–] Lerios@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

he plays world of warcraft and, as a wow player, i can tell you that the only cure for that is wall-talk how-compelling-flipped

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Beyond parody

[–] milk_thief@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

the black mold spores + rat carcass vapours are having great results black-mold-futures

[–] abc@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

not another asmon post...not another....i can't DEAL WITH SEEING THE COCKROACH STREAMER oooaaaaaaauhhh

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

The kind of guy you can smell through the computer monitor

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep getting recommended this dickheads reaction videos on yt, he has the charisma of a day old wet sandwich, i'm getting secondhand embarrassment just thinking about it

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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never played one of these before, where should I start?

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