Idk if this belongs here but I saw this thumbnail and thought it was slop-worthy
I didn’t click the video because I don’t want that poisoning my feed, but I checked his channel and he’s just another chud but with a focus on whinging about open source. I guess there’s a niche for everything.
Here’s the link if you want brainrot I guess.
He’s one of the OG linux content creators, famous for “the linux action show” and his yearly “why linux sucks” talks, and was always a little “edgy” but he started courting a right wing audience around 2016 and has been spiraling ever since.
Had no idea. Really cringe. I guess it must make good money being an outrage farm.
Always does
Yeah back in the day I used to quite like him, but a few years back he fell off reality. [edit: best part of a decade back! Time really does fly hu?] Gotta wonder what makes people do that.
Yeah, I listened to him starting around like Linux Action Show episode 2. It’s crazy that that’s almost 20 years ago now.
Engagement = money, I’d bet
Yeah and I think parasocial content creator stuff is (or can be) a bidirectional relationship. At the very least I’m sure it feels good to have thousands of people affirm your ideas, especially if your ideas are stupid and alienate the people in your real life.
Linux sucks was a good talk, then he simply remade the thing that got views over and over instead of doing something new. He was doing the outrage channel formula even then.
I was so disappointed to discover he was infected by the social disease.