its gotta be weird to try and aesthetically rebrand from 19 year old neocon political prodigy to 30 year old wisened neocon pundit.
it seems like the only move is to add tightly groomed stubble to polyurethane sealed 1950s disney haircut. i wonder if this was focus grouped to the evangelical, chik-fil-a franchise owner demographic to find the optimal boundaries and length of the faux beard to achieve maximum masculinity coding.
something that says, “i was a smart boy but i am a smart man now” to the 70+ year olds subscribed to this type of shit.
I mean it’s gotta be hard for someone like Shapiro, whose target audience was extremely elderly confused people who think college is gonna make their grandkids come home with a xenogender. And that was his target audience 15 years ago. Those types are either dead or they’ve moved on to actually explicit fascism, not the goofy respectable good-boy neocon fascism that Shapiro peddles.
The way he does his facial hair is weird, like he seems to make the effort to keep a consistent appearance but he does it in a way that looks more unkempt than people who are actually unkempt. He always looks like his doctor wife left him and he started drinking heavily about a week ago.
yeah, if i were him, i would have kept it clean shaven and rode the “frish’s small boy wonder” identity as long as possible. his audience is fucking ancient and would eat up the consistency alongside the perceived connection to youth. the time for a turn to wise sage is when he might have frown lines and wrinkles and some salt + pepper.
whatever it is he’s doing has this uncommitted vibe, like he’s figuring himself out while sleeping on a couch for a few weeks. that’s not a vibe that resonates with the core audience of relics. they like certainty, simplicity, and the impeccable grooming of someone selling door-to-door reverse mortgages.
its gotta be weird to try and aesthetically rebrand from 19 year old neocon political prodigy to 30 year old wisened neocon pundit.
it seems like the only move is to add tightly groomed stubble to polyurethane sealed 1950s disney haircut. i wonder if this was focus grouped to the evangelical, chik-fil-a franchise owner demographic to find the optimal boundaries and length of the faux beard to achieve maximum masculinity coding.
something that says, “i was a smart boy but i am a smart man now” to the 70+ year olds subscribed to this type of shit.
I mean it’s gotta be hard for someone like Shapiro, whose target audience was extremely elderly confused people who think college is gonna make their grandkids come home with a xenogender. And that was his target audience 15 years ago. Those types are either dead or they’ve moved on to actually explicit fascism, not the goofy respectable good-boy neocon fascism that Shapiro peddles.
The way he does his facial hair is weird, like he seems to make the effort to keep a consistent appearance but he does it in a way that looks more unkempt than people who are actually unkempt. He always looks like his doctor wife left him and he started drinking heavily about a week ago.
yeah, if i were him, i would have kept it clean shaven and rode the “frish’s small boy wonder” identity as long as possible. his audience is fucking ancient and would eat up the consistency alongside the perceived connection to youth. the time for a turn to wise sage is when he might have frown lines and wrinkles and some salt + pepper.
whatever it is he’s doing has this uncommitted vibe, like he’s figuring himself out while sleeping on a couch for a few weeks. that’s not a vibe that resonates with the core audience of relics. they like certainty, simplicity, and the impeccable grooming of someone selling door-to-door reverse mortgages.