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.
And yeah it's hard to find the original post of his now because I think he eventually wiped it out of shame
Or, it's possible it wasn't shame. Clearly he didn't seem to care. Why attribute shame if you don't even know what the story is? One can be more "likely" than the other if you want but since neither of us really know the situation we can't tell for sure.
It's all a characterization, and it becomes blurred as time passes.
I guess I just didn't really care about that stuff that deeply. It's gossip rag stuff, like Cosmo. I saw silly articles getting passed around about cuckoldry and the tumblr posts circling around about guys getting cucked. I'm aware that it happens, but I never really cared about the drama. I don't give a shit what people do in their relationships. I got bored halfway through your paragraph of the lore (no offense to you at all, I like your comments I just don't find the topic of what who did when that interesting)
I just said I think it was shame because he conspicuously shame spiralled pretty hard about his failed life and explicitly hating all his old work some time after that, and finally withdrew from seeking platforms to tell people how to live their lives and wiped much of his backlog.
And yeah it is dumb gossip stuff. But it's gossip stuff about a clique of people who forcibly took control of lots of things I enjoyed and tried to use it to induct masses of people into their self-righteous cult, destroying the fun of those things in the process, I hated both of those aspects, so it became personal enough to learn about even the petty drama side. I'm all aboard with the idea of not getting bogged down in petty drama, but most things that happen happened because somewhere out there a person wanted them to happen (looming AI dystopia notwithstanding) and realistically, a lot of people are more motivated by petty wants and interpersonal hangups than any rational or moral framework. As much as anyone might want to stay aloof from it all, ignoring it entirely is just asking to be blindsided some day.
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.
Or, it's possible it wasn't shame. Clearly he didn't seem to care. Why attribute shame if you don't even know what the story is? One can be more "likely" than the other if you want but since neither of us really know the situation we can't tell for sure.
It's all a characterization, and it becomes blurred as time passes.
I guess I just didn't really care about that stuff that deeply. It's gossip rag stuff, like Cosmo. I saw silly articles getting passed around about cuckoldry and the tumblr posts circling around about guys getting cucked. I'm aware that it happens, but I never really cared about the drama. I don't give a shit what people do in their relationships. I got bored halfway through your paragraph of the lore (no offense to you at all, I like your comments I just don't find the topic of what who did when that interesting)
I just said I think it was shame because he conspicuously shame spiralled pretty hard about his failed life and explicitly hating all his old work some time after that, and finally withdrew from seeking platforms to tell people how to live their lives and wiped much of his backlog.
And yeah it is dumb gossip stuff. But it's gossip stuff about a clique of people who forcibly took control of lots of things I enjoyed and tried to use it to induct masses of people into their self-righteous cult, destroying the fun of those things in the process, I hated both of those aspects, so it became personal enough to learn about even the petty drama side. I'm all aboard with the idea of not getting bogged down in petty drama, but most things that happen happened because somewhere out there a person wanted them to happen (looming AI dystopia notwithstanding) and realistically, a lot of people are more motivated by petty wants and interpersonal hangups than any rational or moral framework. As much as anyone might want to stay aloof from it all, ignoring it entirely is just asking to be blindsided some day.
Did they come into your house or what?