Thread by @GrimGriz

An Egoic Delusion :thread:

https://twitter.com/PaulVanderKlay/status/1459343358548070402

I've been trolling the Amateur Light Web (they shun the term) for over a year now.

They're essentially the pro-meaning channels that were the methadone for JBP YouTube Junkies.

My first exposure to JBP came as a share from an old G+ conspiracy fren, but it wasn't the suspender video, it was this one:

I was living in cheeto land and was pretty stoked to be able to tell the responsible around me I was at least watching college.

You could still Patreon enough $ and talk to him back then, and I knew the value of early access from beta-testing videogames.

I even saw the Q&A where he said Dawkins probably got fiddled with (anyone got that clip?) - but the Patreon access ended before I got that benefit, and the bitterness began to set in.

I did take away enough to make another stab at life and jumped at an opportunity to move back to Portlandia.

I was onboard doing the carnivore diet and watching Rogan, NPCing medical transcription enough to surf along.

Then one day a D-list actor crashes Comic Con saying Seth Green was a pedo, a YouTuber with a cat somehow scooped Alex Jones and had him on.

The algo fed it to me (long gone now bro) and I watched it, and the journey began.

It would have been okay, but they tried to launch a hashtag "survivorstories" and asked victims of ritual abuse to come forward.

There was something so wrong about the idea on its face and on so many other levels, I got sucked in.

I was already on Twitch because those Voice Actors were making D&D cool again.

The guy who scooped AJ was doing 4 hour backstage livestreams of his YT video production, AND he had a cat on a cat tree!

He eventually got tired of me being in his chat...
clips.twitch.tv/EnjoyableBumbl…

The chat-community there was supportive and we were all following the actor's 'cry pedo' story arc.

Then I saw what everyone else seemed to be willfully blind to:

Not long after, my grandma got her last illness after a 'bad batch of chili' at Bingo.

I left Portlandia to be with her.

I ended up going to Colorado to meet with a background player in the "Truther Community" the week before she passed, attributable to cannabis withdrawal. The video this was made from was recorded there.

While he didn't poison me or anything, he did make it clear I got the message "don't fuck with another man's rice bowl."

With the willful blindness, I had begun to feel that the "community" was essentially watching the latest incarnation of a Special Victims Unit marathon.

I made community exit clip collage.

I had followed this guy's channel during JBP's first wave, and was enjoying watching him get better at video production and such.

He had given the channel to a couple of other guys by then, and they seemed to be trying something neat with it.

I leaned in to their budding community, and eventually talked them into starting a Discord

Eventually the redhead left, and the Discord community tried to step up to help the bald guy with the channel

I was working with the channel when Pageau somehow recorded on a full moon without wolfing out, and had a good deal of creative liberty

Since JBP hadn't come back yet, the ALW was networking and starting to build things

I eventually pushed the creative liberty a little too far and had to part ways with the channel

I contented myself with minor trolling and streaming on a cryptocurrency platform DLive

PVK's Q&A's were a very helpful outlet for me, until a question I asked got deleted and I ragequit the Discord

Then again, I pushed my creative liberties too far

Then PVK got the word to boost my channel over 1000, so that the monetization review would get me removed from YouTube FOREVA...


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