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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.
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.
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.
this is where they went
“We are living in a South Park episode” is every right-wingers favorite thing to say when content making fun of radlibs or leftists appears
Funny how “Everyone but me is dumb” is a political philosophy that seems to attract the worst sorts of people.
Makes no sense, this guy flip flops his bad opinions just as much.
I believe that bens videos are too long for these mud brains to focus on. Assmongo has noticed that his people want short brainrot, not much longer than shorts. These videos are already pushing it and I foresee them getting shorter.
in terms of the medium, ben and co are trapped in a more old media mindset. i think they’re basically embarrassed to be youtube guys and not a cable channel. so they just can’t find and execute the kind of slop that people are into right now. every daily wire “guy” is a failed artist of some kind: failed actors, writers, directors. asmongold is a guy that failed to beat dark souls. there is a gulf between the kinds of brains on these guys.
well i think if anything they prefer asmongold because he still flip flops his bad opinions just as much to keep up with the current trump position but he doesn’t do some nerd shit trying to make some tortured argument about why it’s not a flip flop actually. the mold man just goes “yeah, based” and moves on. they have all the power, so there’s no need to waste energy trying to make arguments or whatever. ben comes across to them as a liberal does to most of us.
This piece of shit isn’t worth the air he breathes, what a waste of life
like rasputin for gusanos the world over.
It’s not that all his subscribers are fake or they stopped watching him cause his shit sucks. He’s being silenced by big tech which is famously antisemitic and antagonistic toward right wingers. YouTube is communist. It’s owned by “alphabet” aka literally LGBTQ. I don’t use Google. I don’t look anything up. If Ben Shapiro didn’t tell me it, I don’t need to know it.
I actually got scared when I got to the end and realized this could also all be written unironically…
It’s Lemmy, I should know better, but you got me in the first half.
Yeah his numbers were always fluff but I think now either some revenue source dried up or maybe platforms figured out how to purge bots more efficiently. I also never believed he was actually one of the top podcasts for years somehow.
Furthermore the “wet ass p-word” thing made him into a joke among people who aren’t politically interested. That’s gonna be his actual legacy, saying wet ass p-word
Greatest self-own in history
also he said his doctor wife doesn’t get wet for him
These numbers are still too high. I don’t know how anyone stomachs watching this insufferable twerp.
Do you think he’s secretly kind of mad that someone went after Kirk and not him? I feel like he has a lot of feelings of inadequacy from that.
Kirk was a much bigger deal. The debatebro shit went out years ago, open nazism like Kirk advocated for is in.
I feel like Ben Shapiro’s Entire Thing was stolen by Charlie Kirk
Damn, I wonder how Charlie Kirk is doing now?
Charlie Kirk’s doing great
he hasn’t been racist for such a long streak now
Hasn’t said anything racist*
Not really. The days of “facts & logic” and debate bros on the right are over, nowadays you just do the Hitler salute and scream slurs.
Aside from them competing for the young fascist userbase, their “things” are completely different.
Kirked-up-white-boy and TPUSA are doing fascist civil society stuff and political organizing, whereas Shabibo and Daily Wire are doing fascist propaganda production. (production in the “film producer” sense)
E) So I guess to sound less critical of you, it’s not that Kirk stole Shabibos thing, it’s that the young fascists graduated from watching Daily Wire slop to join fascist civil society and the body politic.
Yeah, the whole point was to create a generation and a half of fascist scumbags who think they’re not fascists because the "left are the real fascists "
seriously though did he always have those eyebrows as in the profile pic?
I was trying to scientifically determine if I could make his eyebrows larger here but went too big and made him a badass anime villain.
Ben Shapiroth
He done did something to his brows
Maybe he stopped doing something to his eyebrows. What if this is how they always wanted to be
I have seen this before and it still creeps me out. The top image in particular looks like someone took a clown face and copied it with skin tone and hair colored paints.
Did he put minoxidil on his eyebrows?
There’s medications that can cause body hair growth
Forgot this bozo even existed lmao
Ngl I get him and Charlie Kirk mixed up a lot. Like I’ll see Shapiro and be like “dang its crazy he’s dead now. Oh wait”
He looks absolutely washed just from the face too good lord LMAO
second video is proof that he never managed to innovate and grow out of “libs owned” compilation type videos
Bro peaked in 2017 and stayed that way. Like his chudness is still a decade behind.
i keep forgetting that Shapiro and Kirk are two different guys and the former is still alive
How long has been growing stubble? I wonder if there’s a correlation.
I don’t pay attention to him but I think it started around the time he went to Home Depot to buy two feet of pine board which he carried out in a plastic shopping bag, I guess he figured stubble would help him not look so much like an angry boy playing dress-up
Excuse you, it was a fine piece of poplar!
Of course there’s an emoji for it lol
He’s a twerp
Yet he’s also past the age for twerp death
