• Liquidthex
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    1218 hours ago

    Member Thunderf00t? Had to un-sub after he went full misogyny during gamergate, and I’ve popped in since it’s not gotten any better it’s still him doing the same shtick hasn’t evolved even a little… Usually about Elon Musk, which sounds like it would be good content, but not when you exposed your biases and don’t change anything.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 hours ago

      I was introduced to him somewhere around solar freaking roadways. And I thought okay this is cool He’s just going to go and debunk stuff.

      And the next five videos I watched had no substance whatsoever to them. He was just repeating the same debunking over and over. I don’t think I even got down to the point where he was spouting misogynist bullshit.

    • @Iceman
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      210 hours ago

      I was a teenager when he made the turn and started “owning” feminism. I sat there thinking that all his criticisms where not only adressed by femenist writers 40 years ago, but often even integral parts of some strains of femisms, and i had just begun reading entry level stuff on the subject. That’s when i learned what a unintellectual dunkhead he really was.

    • @[email protected]
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      317 hours ago

      Yeah, I liked Thunderf00t for a short time… and then when gamergate hit I felt ashamed that I’d mentioned watching his videos and hoped that no one remembered. I haven’t checked back in recent years though.

    • @[email protected]
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      218 hours ago

      Yeah, that was an interesting time for online discourse lol, basically peak Anti-SJW.

      A whole conversation could be had around how all of that went down

      • zqps
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        417 hours ago

        I still go back occasionally to Shaun’s classic vids dismantling the sheer stupidity on display.