My pop psychology take on it is that his fanbase does not want to see aspirational media. They don’t want to see anything from Drive to Dragon Ball Z and say “that, I want to be like that.”
They’re all largely blackpilled. Rejected by society and they reject society back. And want to see themselves on the stream. Someone just as given up on life, bitter and resentful and yet even with all that, somehow still living the “dream” of streaming for a living. They take comfort that he grosses out normies and is inexplicable to people outside his fanbase; the negative polarization problem at its peak. He makes the people they hate uncomfortable and confused, so he must be doing something right.
they want the aesthetics of failure but not the reality of it
Interesting.
There’s a hentai genre called “ugly bastard” that I would also describe almost exactly like this except for sex acts obviously rather than success. Most of it is for imagining themselves doing SA. It’s the same brainrot. They want to see themselves in power scenarios and they take a certain amount of pride in the self image of being the “ugly bastard”, usually an overweight extremely poor hygiene neet with a neckbeard.
I’m yellow carding you for bringing ugly bastard mentions into my niche leftist feed.
It seemed pretty relevant, it’s definitely the same thing.
No see, I’m cursing you cuz you speak the truth. It is simply a truth that my brain has tried to acknowledge exists then promptly forget.
Also, I’m willing to bet ugly bastards have a broader appeal than the rat.
Learning about that genre was one of those moments where I was reminded that most porn is, in fact, geared toward cishet men.
I could have spent my life not knowing this existed you piece of
This is a great way to put it. There’s a deep sort of rot in his fanbase and you break it down pretty well.
Yeah, this is it. People want to think it’s all NEETs watching him, but it’s not. I know mosty-normie dipshits who reference him.
People are fucking stupid and value apparent sincerity over truth and confidence over facts. They think he’s “being real with them” and “not part of the mainstream” because of how he presents his putrid ideas. You see this a lot on YouTube, these sloptuber dipshits (MoistCritikal,etc.) that just say what’s on their mind and are regarded as truth tellers because they’re not “biased” or burdened by any actual knowledge in anything. It’s pathetic.
He was the only person in the world that was able to make mmo content interesting as a stream so he got to monopolise most of the mmo twitch audience. Yeah there were people making interesting youtube content for mmos, but live streams almost all failed because mmo’s have enormous amounts of downtime and aren’t generally about doing dungeon run after dungeon run after dungeon run. The downtime and social element makes them less interesting to twitch audiences.
Then he built it into a reactionary crowd through being a smelly edgelord that lives with rats and cockroaches.
Then he transitioned into politics.
I just assume a large percentage of his viewers see him as a freakshow and are watching him purely for the novelty of seeing a human cockroach, but many of them will turn because their main form of social interaction is him and his chat.
I don’t think it’s a freakshow. I think he looks like them and he tells them all the features of themselves that the rest of society shames them for are actually things they should wear openly and be proud of. It’s the same behaviour as incels finding one another and grouping up in their hate spaces.
Many call themselves d*generates and openly take pride in every aspect of that.
He is a special kind of a nazi propagandist, who switches positions on things depending where the wind is blowing. He is literally scanning the chat constantly to see if he can say “Yeah, based.” about the most recent horror unleashed.
He has no principles, or ideology, or a cause, he is audience captured in the worst way and truly fuck him even more because of that. This motherfucker isnt even doing nazi propaganda for money.
Anyway, I wish I was blissfully ignorant of his roachlike existence.
Your giving the American public too much credit by not assuming all his viewers are at least as physically and morally repulsive as he is.
It all goes back to gamergate and gross white guys who society shunned suddenly getting platforms and money and power. There’s a huge argument to make that Trump’s ascendency into the white house can be tracked back to 4chan and zoe quinn. GG opened the door for creeps to amass fanbases for saying and doing the worst stuff.
Light years and cosmic dimensions away, beings like Q from Star Trek are paying close attention to the dumbest thing to have ever be a nexus point leading to the dumbest things they hace ever observed. They are scribbling on space clipboards and having space conferences about it.
Depression Quest was the start to WWIII.
Losers attract losers
do you think asmongold doesn’t wipe?
Wiping is a lie sold to us by BigHomo
Half those guys think washing their ass in the shower is an invitation to gay sex (“He who cleans his house expects visitors”) so I reckon he mostly doesn’t wipe, or only wipes once.
I don’t know how like 99 percent of YouTubers have an audience to be quite honest.
YouTube algorithm tricked me into watching some before I found out more about him. Silicone valley loves to shove these types down your throat
Same reason Tyler1 has an audience, people never heeded the ancient internet doctrine of not feeding the troll.
I hate to admit it but I watched him for a while until Trump came back around. I watched him for his take on games but now it’s mostly politics and vitriol. I like honest reviews and he gave typically gave them. I’ve unsubscribed and now rely on ACG. https://www.youtube.com/@ACGreviews
It’s a bummer when the focus shifts to politics and negativity. ACG’s a great pivot
he’s the best form of reproductive protection
