Final Boss of the Liberal Disease
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Wasn't Anthony Burch one of the originators of the "my wife's boyfriend" meme for being unironically candid about how it feels to be repeatedly cucked? Plus there's iDubbz I think? I never really to follow that one very closely.
Not that there aren't a bunch of false flags out there too, but it's a mixed bag, apparently it really is possible for some people to sincerely be that pathetic.
Not sure. But yeah "My wife's boyfriend" has been a meme for ages. People who are in poly relationships don't talk like that.
I'm sure it's possible for someone to be that pathetic. Anything's possible. I saw a video of a man in love with a car.
Is it sincere though? In this case, not at all. I've yet to see an example where it is sincere, online or in person. Best I've got is a reddit text post but that's basically believing that the stripper likes you. Baits like this get passed around all the time and there's always idiots who remember it as real and it never sinks in that they're watching satire.
No I mean Anthony Burch was a real games writer and pseudo personality who unironically talked exactly like that about his open marriage many years ago. It was so laughable and weirdly common place at the time that it birthed the meme.
Times have changed since then, and so has the verbiage, but ultimately that type of desperate trend following coupled with a blithe lack of awareness is still there for a lot of people.
Not that familiar with the origin story, so I can't really help you.
Basic research didn't turn much up besides more memes so I don't really have a response to that being where it came from.
I think, though, the reason it got attention was because of how out of place it was, not how commonplace. If it really was common, then why would Anthony Burch become a meme but everyone else flew under the radar?
Like I said, I'm sure there are some people who act like that, just like there are people like Shoenice who eat sticks of deodorant.
This video though, is scripted, and people in the thread are falling for bait. That's all I'm saying.
I think it's silly how people will get so defensive when satire is pointed out to them, and there's always a flood of responses from people saying "Uh uh uh uh people act like that though! This video posted iNsPiReS DiScUsSiOn."
It's just bait. Nothing more. Why save space in your mind for stupid shit like what Anthony Burch's love life is like?
You're the one who asked someone to "Find one genuine example of someone acting like this" 🤷♂️
And yeah it's hard to find the original post of his now because I think he eventually wiped it out of shame, and archives that old are way harder to search through. But I remember reading it directly back in the day so I feel confident enough going off of memory.
As for why I remember Anthony Burch specifically? That's just the nature of memes, a certain growing part of the cultural zeitgeist just coalesces around some particularly memorable sound byte and gets immortalized. He wasn't unique at the time, there was a glut of pretentious, male-feminist, closeted sex-pest, culture writers talking down on their audiences at the time. Many of whom had opened up their relationships because "I don't own her, and of course I'm not insecure" and later ended up cagily trying to express their discontent with being turned into nothing more than an ATM whilst she fucked around and he found out nobody gave a fuck about him, whilst also not breaking any of the tenets of feminism and getting witch hunted by their own. Anthony Burch was just unlucky enough to publish something as memorable as "my wife's boyfriend" and became a figurehead. I also remembered liking some of the stuff he did when he was younger.
As for saving space for him. It's not really saved space, it's just there, like all the character names in stories I've liked, the memory making has already happened. It takes no energy to recall and it's not stopping me learning anything new, and really he's more like a preview image in a whole folder of historical info on how delusional and cultish the most prevalent voices in journalism where at the time.
Again, not disputing this particular clip where clown-shirt has a cut practically every other word (from presumably cracking up at his own bit) looks scripted and behind the times. Just the idea that no-one was ever actually like this.