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Post the names of youtubers and other internet microcelebs you hate with a burning passion based on vibes alone. I am aware that youtubers are an inherently reactionary group of organisms ^[it-is-known ], but some suck at statistically significant levels.

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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 49 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

A few off the top of my head:

  • Mark Laita (Soft White Underbelly): poverty porn sexpest
  • Andrew Callaghan (All Gas No Brakes): A phrase I've heard a lot with regards to the flaws of horizontal organizations is that if you don't pick a leader, the media will pick one for you. Andrew is the kind of person who will pick a lunatic for you. Also a sex pest.
  • MatPat: I think he's a sex pest. I have no evidence or credibility.
  • MrBeast: No reasons needed
  • Kurtzgezuart: I don't respect them enough to spell their name right. Bourgeoisie dogs.
[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Kurtgefart telling people don't worry catastrophic events that will wipe out most of humanity like a nuclear Holocaust or climate change aren't that bad because stragglers will be left on a broken planet. Happy fucking music playing too. Fuck these people

They used to be literally funded by the German government (their German language channel at least), until... they were not allowed to sell merch, because of public funding.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

MatPat: I think he's a sex pest. I have no evidence or credibility.

I could totally see him having a ProJared style fallout

[–] Sulvy@hexbear.net 23 points 8 hours ago
[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 61 points 10 hours ago

Kurzgesagt is literally a “lets sterilize all africans” gates foundation guy

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 33 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

As soon as I saw Callaghan on that doomscroll podcast I blocked that garbage instantly. No way am I trusting the judgement of a podcast host who invites a known sex pest on. He had already had several guests with really detestable views (Dasha) but someone who admitted to SA shouldn't have a platform.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 16 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

What is Doomscroll's MO? I keep getting it recommended to me but I never watch it because my podcast backlog is too long as it stands.

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago

it's meta slop

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 19 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

It seems like he's a stupidpol guy who wants to reach the kind of people who like Jreg to get them to like social democracy by going against the stereotypical image of a leftist. I gotta say that it was nice at the beginning, the episode with Yung Chomsky was really good. But as it went on it started to acquire more and more of a "we're not like the woke left" vibe (pretty obvious when he invited Dasha, but I never watched that episode).

[–] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

What is Jreg's deal? I've seen some of their videos and they're kinda funny, but he does give me sus vibes even though it's all satire.

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 13 points 9 hours ago

IIRC he had will-fancy on who kind of pushed back on him being so self-serious

[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He's not stupidpol, he's basically Adam Curtis redux. A radlib gawker from the sidelines.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

GeneralSwitch2Boycott is Based_Ball is Jreg

Jreg went on Doomscroll

anyone else see the implications of this?

[–] GeneralSwitch2Boycott@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Did Based_Ball call people radlib gawkers or something? I'm not understanding what you're saying/implying.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

i don't even know who Jreg is, but I know that Based_Ball is Jreg

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago

IDK but I do still think adding "the" to the slur filter would be a great bit.

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)