One of my favorite things to do to trigger Music People is to just say The Beatles are a '60s version of BTS, and when they get mad I just point out all the worst songs in their catalogue that are indefensibly bad, like “Octopus Garden”.

Oh please, women haven’t been able to get an abortion in most states in the US to begin with.

Ah yeah, I totally forgot about that! And the Walmart was up in the fuckin Arctic circle so Pitbull was the biggest celebrity who’d ever come to visit by a clear mile. It was a bullying move that ended up being an unintended good thing.

I will destroy you.

I think it’s less that he was irony-poisoned and more that internet comedy writers tend to be awkward dorks in-person

I think these are the same thing. Hedren is clearly an awkward dork, so it’s how he copes. He looked like a racist nephew at a family reunion while everyone’s laughing and eating eggs and smiling and clapping. The key to this, to me, is the Vice article. I’d be willing to see him as simply a goober, but look how he paints himself a hero here:

I’m not bragging. On the contrary, this is a confession. I, along with several thousand Internet people, forced his hand and made the otherwise nice-enough lead singer from Smash Mouth eat eggs until he either cried or was sweating so hard it looked like crying. I’d almost go as far as to call it extreme cyberbullying. Yeah, now that I think about it, I guess we cyberbullied the “All Star” guy.

This whole humblebrag shit doesn’t fly with me. He’s trying to make it sound like all of this was an accident. I’m sure he didn’t intend for it to blow up like this, but you can still see from the video that everyone is having fun. His spin on events is very dark and depressing. I am guessing he doesn’t go to many parties since he just hangs out and takes video the whole time. I remember that the Something Awful forums actually made fun of him and gave the W to Harwell at the time.

The last time I talked to a venomous hive of TERFs they thought I was a trans man because they couldn’t imagine a cis man defending trans people, so they tried to hurt my feelings by saying I’d never be a real man and I couldn’t stop crying with laughter while I asked them if any of them knew what their genotype was

Oh agreed, I just hated that they made fun of all that shit. Like I didn’t care and still don’t care what someone has as an identity. I’ll respect whatever. It doesn’t impact my life at all.

They made fun of otherkin just to butter you up to mock trans people

Well yes, but that wasn’t the point you were making, at least I thought. You said that what made the book good was that it captured the imagination of millions of kids and it doesn’t contain your ideology. I was saying it does contain her ideology, which is why there was no real revolution or anything in it, and Voldemort lost on a technicality.

if you write a book that captures the imagination of millions of kids and doesn’t contain your ideology in it, you’ve written a good book.

Her book is neoliberal as fuck though