• HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net
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  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Why do this? She knows exactly what she posted that got people mad at her, and there were hundreds of people in the replies at the time explaining exactly what about the post got them mad.

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      Rage/engagement bait. Only way for her to have any relevance anymore is to post ridiculous shit like this to stir up engagement.

      • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        or to put out video content more than once per year (you know, the way she got famous originally), but she refuses to do that because that would be work and she’s on her coasting girlboss passive-income phase

        Like look at this, 5 videos in 4 years. Entire 200 million dollar full length studio movies are made quicker than her talking into a camera with bi lighting. Why does someone this lazy feel so entitled to the limelight? She’s also getting 1/3 to 1/4 of the views that she used to, probably because her original fans and subscribers have died of old age.

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          probably because her original fans and subscribers have died of old age.

          Nah, her original fans are all way more radical than her. She moved right into Liberal Brunch territory, while the cohort of people who supported her at her peak, have since radicalized further left.

          But yeah, girl is definitely coasting on her former (and quickly evaporating) good will

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        You wouldn’t believe how much relevance she still has among some of the “illuminated” leftist people here in Arg

    • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      I honestly think she’s just addicted to drama and attention. Unless she’s got a nasty coke habit or something she should have enough dough to retire by now, she clearly doesn’t have anything meaningful to say, she’s just a fucking diva.

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        I honestly think she’s just addicted to drama and attention.

        Imma be real, that ain’t the only thing she’s obviously addicted to.

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          Her admitted opium addiction is not something we should mock. Addiction is a serious issue. The fact that she started doing it because she likes the aesthetics of an opium den is a bit funny, but being an addict is a disease and not funny.

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        Unless she’s got a nasty coke habit or something

        She had an Opium addiction at one point. Which like, I don’t want to minimize anyone’s struggles with substance abuse, but opium feels like a very bougie addiction to have in the 2020s.

    • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Egotistical people have a way of completely failing to absorb information about the thought processes and motives of others even when explicitly explained. I knew just such a person once and we would regularly have conversations that went along the following lines:

      Him: “Why do you think/do A?”
      Me: “For reasons X, Y, and Z.”
      Him: “Okay, but why do you think/do A?”

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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      Ok girl, but consider for a moment that the genocide is real, and the shit the gamer gate chuds were mad about…was fake

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    It’s my sincere opinion that this is just meaningless attention-seeking by a person who everyone here already hates and nearly no one even talks to a sincere fan of, so there’s no actual point in posting this except to recreational get mad at someone who is basically irrelevant because they can only preach to the choir. What other use is there? It’s not even interesting because it’s just the same disingenuous bullshit she always does.

    She believes that the Dems will protect her, but she wants to look progressive to get money, so she will say literally anything to serve those two purposes. Every single thing that she has said for years falls into this category outside of even-more-meaningless ragebait about how opium addiction is so much more romantic than alcoholism or whatever the fuck.

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    Look, I don’t think she’s a “Genocide loving Zionist”, I think she genuinely thinks what’s happening is bad.

    But her response, which essentially amounted to nihilistic resignation and a perceived inability to do anything about it, means she’s giving tacit support by trying to remain neutral on a moving train.

    She bemoaned the supposed impossibility of making a video essay on the topic, but such a thing feels incredibly straightforward to me. She could easily have leaned into that feeling of nihilistic resignation, and explored it. What do we do, when met with horrors that are genuinely difficult to comprehend? Idk talk about Camus or some shit! Explore those feelings! Have some curiosity about them!

    But she won’t do that, because she’s penned in by her liberal politics, petty bourgeois patreon class position, and persecution complex surrounding the fact that she just can’t log the fuck off of twitter

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I genuinely do not understand this behaviour or why it is so commonplace. Like, just ignoring people calling you out doesn’t mean they have “no argument” it’s like failure to understand object permanence but for discussion, if they plug their ears and go “lalalalala” then there are no arguments against their position because they personally refuse to listen.

    I could understand someone doing this to protect their own ego maybe, but to then try and act like they’re the “clever intellectual” who no one can possibly defeat in a battle of wits inconceivable by just ignoring any arguments against their position, presumably thinking it makes them look smart or something, but it’s genuinely the dumbest behaviour I can think of. Wilful ignorance makes you look stupider than anything else, but so many people do it, and brag about it even, thinking refusing to listen or learn makes them smart or something.