Spyke
lemmy.world

It's almost like a dumbass mentally slow adult who plays video games for a living and lives in filth might not have educated opinions

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CaptDustreply
sh.itjust.works

Idk when society started depending on twitch game streamers for political insight but it's really been fucking with my head. Sorry bro, WoW raid experience doesn't exactly translate to expert on international relations.

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Wait, you're telling me I don't get educated about International geo-political affairs by standing in the fire of a raid boss?

Then where did I get all my actual geo-political knowledge from? Reading? Education? Fuck off with that.

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sh.itjust.works

There are actually a few twitch streamers that have political experience who stream about politics. They've run for office, or worked in D.C., so they have some interesting insights.

But that's not Asmongold by a longshot.

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And they'll never reach the heights of asmond without the botfarms that amplify the signal to the algorithms.

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No doubt, I wrote game streamer quite specifically - no background or education in politics, but have an audience carried from unrelated activities and influence it.

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Gladaedreply
feddit.org

Always has been listening to celebrities. So before you were born

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Hm, I mean I've known celebs to drop a comment on an issue close to them, or do an interview, start a charity - but how many pivoted to doing 16 hours of live political commentary, across all headlines and verticals, every day? These streamers have no credentials to be a pundit, yet still flood the feeds with their opinions. Seems like a distinct difference.

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Not to mention his wow raiding consisted of a lot of screaming at people for fucking up and IMO any success was despite him not because of him.

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It's a lot easier to amplify shitty opinions through stealthily promoting shut-ins that "organically" spread the right poison than to try and turn a journalist or a legitimate artist into a mouth piece. Peter Theil probably loves boosting characters like this with bots.

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WoW raid experience doesn't exactly translate to expert on international relations.

They learned that cooperation is perfect....to coordinate and conquer those who are deemed weaker.

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FatVeganreply
leminal.space

I wonder what the guy with the blood and cum wall thinks of the matter. -people apparently

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I... Uh don't want to know, but at this point, pretty much have too, I'd also hope that googling "blood and cum wall" whatever you're talking about would be the first result, but anyone want to save me a Google? *For anyone wondering I guess he had some kind of dental work and would wipe blood on the wall due to depression or whatever his base eats up. I'm depressed AF I don't let my body fluids linger much longer than a day, definitely don't steam them

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

You know he doesn't live in filth since a long time alredy? He's just meming that for shits and giggles...

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ZkhqrD5oreply
lemmy.world

If that forehead topples over in traffic, it will kill a family of four.

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lemmy.world

When playing video games is too hard so you have to stream react content.

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lemmy.world

when you're mentally unfit to play videogames what else are you supposed to do?

he's just trying to build a community of other mentally unwell people so they can jerk each other off and suck the shit out of Trumps ass.

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PhoenixDogreply
lemmy.world

he’s just trying to build a community of other mentally unwell people so they can jerk each other off and suck the shit out of Trumps ass.

I'm remarkably jealous of my blind girlfriend right now.

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Now he can do a 500 minute reaction to that, and then a 2500 minute reaction to the reaction...

Perpetual content machine

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lemmy.world

I'm so fucking sick of youtube recommending his garbage, I spend most of my time on breadtube so i don't know how or why youtube decided I want to be reminded this waste of oxygen exists.

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lemmy.world

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I have an idea why a major US corporation would absolutely love to shove a pro-Zionism and pro-fascism streamer down everyone's throats.

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I've noticed he does a shit ton of videos on everything. I've looked up recent events like the NDP race card thing that happened recently in Canada and he was one of the only sources.

I think he has no life, and all he does is youtube videos, then he must get suggested by the algorithm that indexes his videos.

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No particular conspiracy theory needed - because it generates clicks and views, even if you dislike the content. This thread itself being an example.

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reevreply
sh.itjust.works

You can "don't like this video" and then tell them you "don't like this channel" on any video that gets recommended.

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lemmy.world

Yeah that means nothing to youtube, I've done that every time that ass hat appears and without fail in a few weeks/months there will be another one.

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That also works only for some time. In my case, blocked channels were recommended to me after about a year or two. Had to block them again.

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It's worse than nothing, it's an engagement metric. It's better to block it entirely with plugins or ignore it.

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From your youtube wall, click the tree dots aligned vertically next to the title of the video under the thumbnail and select "Don't recommend this channel" from the drop down menu.

You will have to do this for his alt channels and the twich clip channels as you see them on your youtube wall. Very soon he should vanish and you won't hear about him except maybe from other channels who shits on him.

Very useful to get rid of shitty AI chanels as well.

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ayyyreply
sh.itjust.works

If Google understood consent the problem wouldn’t be there in the first place.

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reevreply
sh.itjust.works

I dunno, it's been working for me, just figured I'd throw it out there, that's all. I wasn't expecting a sort of Spanish Inquisition.

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lemmy.world

I meant no hostility, sorry if it came off that way. I'm glad it worked for you, maybe some day I will be successful as well.

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All good I'm just kidding haha, I'm sorry it doesn't work for you though! YouTube needs to get their shit together in many ways.

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lemmy.world

That's a real person? I don't know.... wait is that the one guy who never showers and has roaches crawling on him?

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Beeroreply
lemmy.world

Can he not spare any YouTube money to hire a housekeeper to come once a week like wtf?

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Use YouTube Unhook if through a browser. Blocks all recommendations. Also good to stop doomscrolling shorts. Definitely recommended if most of your intentional youtube use is one channel (breadtube is a channel, right?)

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lemmy.world

Asmongold, the literal personification of a trash can. Don't look him up, life's better spent without knowing of his existence.

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sh.itjust.works

People need to stop sharing his crap then, downvote these posts, all i hear about is how the guy is awful and stupid and for some reason people are like "let me share this awful stupid person others will like it" I dont get it, if he sucks then dont repost crap dont make memes of him, let the rest of us who never heard of him enjoy actual good posts instead of posts about some dogshit streamer

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lemmy.world

Him and his fans deserve to be mocked. The next time you interact with a fan of his, ask them why he wont take an IQ test on stream if thinks Africans naturally have a lower IQ.

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rabberreply
lemmy.ca

I looked this up and every single study reports lower iq in Africa. Asians have the highest. Is this bullshit?

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lemmy.world

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AmfsX7jgIyE

Yes. Firstly, iq tests have a bias to the culture that created them. It's based on the sorts of problems that that culture values. You can't use it to compare to different populations with different cultures.

Secondly, depending on what source you found, the study might have been run by racists with an agenda.

Thirdly, Africa is a huge continent with wildly varying cultures. You can just average those results together and get anything useful out of it, unless you have a racist agenda.

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rabberreply
lemmy.ca

Well yeah everyone knows the iq test is not a good metric for actual intelligence.

So those cultures technically do have lower iq scores.

I don't personally believe in iq tests though.

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I linked a video that want into more detail, but Asmon was repeating a bad report that Afericans have a 70IQ. Even when the test wasn't made for them and it's dishonest to think that a different in IQ is meaningful in this instance, that's still a dishonest number.

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entwinereply
programming.dev

He's huge on all the streaming platforms, so you can't really ignore him. Clueless people will have his content force fed to them by the algorithm, and some will end up becoming fans.

Pre-empting that by pointing out how much of a disgusting pathetic loser and worthless piece of shit he is might help someone make an informed choice before watching his content.

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entwinereply
programming.dev

No, people cannot make an informed choice without information.

...That's what the "informed" part of that phrase means.

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

Part of making informed choice is to listen to arguments. You just postulate to avoid this guy because you don't like what he says.

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I can tell from your diminished reasoning abilities that you're probably an Asmongold fan. There's not much I can type here to help you, but I'll try to keep it short and use simple words and bullet points:

  • I have heard him talk
  • by hearing him talk, I have become informed about him
  • using this information, I have made the informed decision to not listen to him further

I can try simplifying it further if you still don't get it.

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BlackLaZoRreply
lemmy.world

But his streams are genuinely fun. He has huge audience for a reason...

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lemmy.world

Or maybe people should learn to be a bit more critical of what they spend their time watching.

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lemmy.ml

A guy who incels like to watch because he is one. Hikikomori/LDR type who stays in his room filled with trash and roaches and streams. Incels and other rightwingers listen to his political opinions because... yeah idk.

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He just seemed like such a down to earth human being, and as a gamer and nerd myself, a lot of fellow n3rds could associate with the poor guy.

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lemmy.world

A dude who once tried plain water and almost puked because it didn’t cover the vile taste of his rotting teeth.

Oh and he’s an actual millionaire who lives in a trash heap

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Oscar the grouch but not humble or caring and instead of living in a classy dumpster, lives in a place so dirty a pig wouldnt step foot in.

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The really funny bit is that Trump sent $200M in aid to Ukraine back in 2018 and that was just the tip of the iceberg.

As of December 31, 2025, the U.S. had disbursed 58 percent of the $188 billion in spending related to the conflict (U.S. spending is first appropriated, then obligated, then disbursed).

Anyone saying Trump wasn't enthusiastically sending NATO arms and armor to the Ukrainian battlefront is either deeply misinformed our outright lying. The big difference between Biden and Trump, wrt Ukraine, was that Trump loved to get big beautiful photo-ops with Putin where they were both smiling and shaking hands. Meanwhile, Biden preferred photo-ops where he was frowning and shaking his head.

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But look at the numbers in your second link. Biden gave Ukraine considerably more per year. With 60 Billion aid in 2024. In December 2024 a loan of 20 Billion was given. Since then no major aid bills have been passed.

Your link says the opposite of what you're arguing.

And those 200 Million in 2018 are peanuts.

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Asmondgold saw the average anti-conservative straw man post and went "goals."

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lemmy.zip

Stream of consciousness streamer + politics == hot shit... Asmongler was always fucked, but edgy attic dwelling yet mostly harmless and amusing to what he is now is quite a departure. It's like he took up the place on twitch to counter our favourite prada clad champagne socialist Hasan. The modern need for sychophancy is psychotic.

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Reminder that during the entirety of Biden's 4 year term we saw job growth. Now we've seen 5 straight months of job loss under child rapist Donald Trump.

Thanks Biden.

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My Asmongoon impression:

"Yeah, I mean yeah, no. I total agree with that, yeah, no. Yeah, I mean that just what it is, is it?. Yeah. No, Yeah. I mean... Yeah. What is this? I mean yeah, no."

Repeat for 6 hours.

Dude has literally the vocabulary of a fucking Etch A Sketch.

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From the great mind that didn't vote but somehow has a lot to say about politics. Though tbf he is pro Ukraine.

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Athene is and always will be a better WoW player than Asmongold.

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Nuh uh,

MODS

MODS BAN THIS PERSON THEY OPPOSE MY

VERY CORRECT HEADSET.

AFTER THERE BANNED I CAN ROLL IN MY OWN FILTH! (satire)

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Roach-man is a mouthpiece for the wealthy in disguise. He has the same reasoning skills as an evangelical.

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