I said the stream is the service that they provide
If you want to be pedantic and completely ignore everything else about the situation to be strict to definition. That was the point of bringing up drag queen story hour, because they are simply providing a volunteer service if you provide no further thought to it, however if you do you see the larger ploy at play. Ethots are whoring, without actually sleeping with you, and the stream is the cover for all the machinations at play to prey on pathetic, lonely men.
But sure, if you want to win the argument on this technicality without meaning you can have it. They provide a "service." The same way the guy scamming you is providing a service if he gives you a meaningless trinket along the way.
drag queen story hour is itself a lewd service
And "cosplay streams" are not? I think that in itself is far more overtly lewd than drag queen story hours are, though less evil because one is specifically targeting children.
many people, such as yourself it seems, think they are offering sex
Said nothing of the sort. If they were actually fucking these dudes there might be a different story. What they are offering is sexuality. Their streams are offering either lewd content (titty streamers, cosplayers, work outs, etc) or Girlfriend Experience. Both of these things build up a parasocial bond in these guys heads, because they wouldn't give much money if they didn't, and one that is much more intense than male streamers because of that added sexuality.
The sex is implied, its why all those guys show up. And for every few thousand that don't do anything about it, there will be one who is completely wacko and goes too far. The same way that it happens with all "sex work" and has for all of history. This version just has extra layers of protection due to being digital most of the time to make it 1 out of 4000 instead of 1 in 10 like a regular whore.
And yes, strippers are the pre-internet version of this problem and all of us have probably known or heard about a guy literally destroying his life thinking one of them "loved" him, and similarly guys who did horrific shit because of said obsession. Heck it was so well understood they did a classic South Park episode mocking it.
Though considering you called strippers "dancers" I feel like you and I will never agree on this point, because that's laughable.
No matter how you feel about these people, some of the shit their fans do to them are awful to hear about.
Its the classic hooker problem. Where they get treated like literal disposable trash by so many people out in this world, but sympathy for them is so low (often justifiably so) that cops just straight say "no humans involved" when one of them is killed.
Almost nobody who is watching a female streamer is doing it for the stream itself, and to say otherwise is playing into their obfuscation game. Perhaps the ones without cams at all can make that claim, but those are fractional amounts.
Whores are whores, and ethots are whores without getting to fuck. Which makes them lower than whores, and strippers even. Their "stream" is just a pretense to get men horny and invested in them, so they will be very loose with their money.
Do you think drag queen story hour is just grown men with a unique hobby trying to volunteer to children?
Whores provide a service, no matter how degenerate or gross you are getting a product return out of it. Sure its still preying on those same bottom tier men, but they are still getting their service rendered and usually for a pretty low cost relative.
Ethots are literally doing the same thing, but without providing the actual service. They will do everything possible to get out of providing it, in fact getting mad if you even hint at it whatsoever instead of just paying them multiple times the cost out of kindness. So now he doesn't get his nut (and the lowered aggression that brings) and is out ridiculous sums of time and money with nothing to show for it. Its a literal predatory scam like any other scam business, but using pussy as the draw instead of money. And its operating at such a large scale that it will absolutely find many completely unhinged men by default, straight up provoking them into response eventually.
He still should have been detained and possibly arrested, because the law protects anyone (or should), and his lack of impulse control is a danger to anyone. But she deserves nothing beyond that base level protection, because she is a victim of the consequences of her own actions and should be reminded of that fact. You don't get to play into that system and then be mad when the system kicks back. Women have rights, and that means they don't get to shirk responsibility for their protection onto their daddy or pimps when they get involved in nonsense.
It says a lot that their hugely fluffed up number isn't even half a percent of the population. Because they know anything higher and people will start asking "nobody in my entire town went, how could 30 million have attended?"
But like always the story was meant to be a quick hit of morale for their quickly diminishing side, and within a month the only people who will remember it are those of us mocking it.
This is absolutely one of those stories where literally everyone involved is at fault and deserves to be scorned/shamed/beaten for it.
The guy is a creep, no further expounding needed. Its been said to death on every other forum all the problems there.
But an ethot literally only succeeds on being a predator, creating these parasocial relationships with broken, lonely men to give them the crumb of attention that keeps them from killing themselves. They can cover it up all they want (apparently this one isn't pure titty streamer but "cosplay" as they keep defending her), but its predatory in all ways and you literally could not succeed if you did not play into that evil. So these creeps are less a "problem" and more FAFO in action.
And Twitch has always been this way, its shocking how shocked people are to find out. Granted, this is the most overtly obvious version I've seen, but its been known forever that most of their higher ups offer protection and benefits to female streamers that sleep with them (and males who parrot their politics). But, much the reverse of the prior point, to succeed you must make yourself their prey because there is literally no real alternative to success. You either play the game or you don't get to make this your "career" and they know it, so they don't have to give a fuck about protecting you.
Literally can be though. Prompt it correctly and it'll search you out things far more effectively than Google's "optimization and algorithm" will. Specific industries have more specified search engines than raw Googling, but we aren't robots and you'll sometimes not be thinking outside your own brain's algorithm to fully take in the breadth of information that might be available to you if you just knew about it. Or things completely out of the ballpark that could be relevant.
Its a great sidekick to jump off of and get your own ball rolling, but its still a sidekick and shouldn't be trusted beyond that first foot forward.
"Cringe compilations" literally killed any culture we could have anymore.
Literally, you can see it in every corner how much people fear being sincere about anything because they might come across as cringe. Everything needs to be dipped in 3 layers of irony and sarcasm and subversion to just say what you actually want to be said.
This means nobody is willing to stand behind things once they get criticized, everyone is playing this game of Pig Latin to talk about things they enjoy, and we instead have a massive culture of people looking for reasons to destroy things (cancelling for the Woke, just calling it Woke for the not-Woke) until there is nothing left that passes the Purity Spiral.
Ironically, the places who aren't concerned about being cringe are ones like Facebook comment sections and that's because its the oldest or most retarded people possible who simply do not know or care about being seen as raving lunatics. They are sincere in their delusions, even if its easily disproven nonsense.
Very true, and it will always be the case. The same issue with AI right now in places like academia were seen in a smaller way with the advent of advancing technology in calculators. Where many math programs (and especially math courses in non-math degrees) became more about "here's how to make it do the work for you" instead of actually learning.
Minor nitpick: can you even call that “jingoistic”?
I'm specifically thinking of the "I'm from Buenos Aires" quote when I call it such, as that is a great example of the particular patriotic fever that would define it. I know the Left and Boomers have turned it into a dirty, negative word but I think that's a perfect example of it becoming a completely justified and likely the best course of action.
Also the very specific problem with the movie where their propaganda and superiority complex consistently leads them to underestimating their opponents and getting untold number of their own people killed. While the director was trying to make a "Nazis/Americans dumb" political message, I think we can see the greater philosophical issue of believing your own hype too much that it blinds you, which is where extreme patriotism can be an issue.
Its also one of the best uses of AI, if properly checked after. Nobody is gonna know every obscure law, loophole and defense out there and having a computer run through the combined body of human knowledge to find one could bring back greater results than a person ever could.
But again, that requires taking what the AI gives you and then checking it instead of just blindly trusting it.
they didn't bother proof-reading it before sending it.
This is literally the most shocking thing to me. Like, even a once over after its done just to make sure would still be 80% faster and do a significant CYA. But everywhere you see AI you see people literally copy/paste it without even a check.
Shit I read over my shitposts on this nonsense website like twice to make sure I don't accidentally a word, and I typed them myself.
This was pre-Presidential, 2012 Trump. So you missed it a long time ago. Basic gist was:
You never see a thin person drinking Diet Coke
Coke is really mad at me for my last tweet, that's okay I'll keep drinking their garbage
Made extra funny by the fact that Trump was/is basically never seen without a Diet Coke nearby, so it was completely self deprecating on top of it. He literally had a "summon diet coke" button installed on his desk in his first presidency and reportedly drinks like 12 of them per day.
And because it actually humanizes him in a really funny way, the media never jumps on it despite it being way more of a story than "two scoops!" about both his physical health and flaws.
I think the jingoistic/militaristic, "I say kill em all!" message most of us enjoy from the movie is not exactly consistent with the novel's philosophical views on society. Certainly in the same ballpark, but not likely the intent.
The entire purpose of the movie is meant to be a take down of the very thing that makes it so popular in the first place, and it makes that quite clear a few times what it is trying to do. Its just Starship Troopers with less camp.
And like both of those movies, taking the "wrong message" from it like that makes the creators seethe, so I will keep doing so for that reason alone and taking my inspirations/memes from it as a side benefit.
And their protests are impotent and barely a blip in history. Nobody would have even remembered the original No Kings ones if this one didn't remind you. Heck I think us as the opposition remember their marches more simply out of desire to mock them, like the Pussy Hat ones.
The ones that aren't so limpwristed still get forgotten instantly, because the bad optics mean they need to bury it as fast as possible. So while the damage is significant (see all the BLM ones), its still either completely useless or works the opposite of what they want (see BLM again, which was great for planting anti-nigger thoughts in normies).
make people demoralized so they stop fighting.
Its ironic, because blackpillers are so energetic about trying to bring everyone down, but all they ever have to offer is "our enemies are literally omnipotently powerful and control everything, nothing we do matters" and leaving the only two possible options as give up and go start shooting. But they will never do that, because they are too smart to lose! So they demand you do it so they can point to your corpse as further reason why its all pointless.
Its like one of those emo songs that is super upbeat about killing yourself. Except its people's actual political beliefs.
a lot of people in my life who consume a lot of """diet""" products also have neurological issues
Donald Trump has entered the chat.
Still the funniest two tweets in his existence, and the fact that they had to be archived in the Library of Congress is proof god loves us.
But to be serious, fake sugars spend most of their time just trying to "taste close enough" to sugar that they stop caring about anything else, including the rest of the effects they have on the body. This is especially bad because anyone who thinks "I should switch to Diet X" is someone consuming way too much of X to begin with and no alternative will be healthy for them poison or not.
He's right, in a decent society decent people wouldn't.
We don't live in a decent society, and a lot of the reason for that is because of Uniparty and Establishment monsters like The Turtle selling this country to the devil for decades. As such, decency no longer the default because so few are deserving of it and instead it has been weaponized against us all. So if these guys don't like the state of treatment they get, maybe they should actually do something to be worth being treated decent and the country itself healed from its abuse.
But they won't, it would cut into their wicked ways and globalist plans. So instead they try to shame you like an old grandma into not saying it out loud.
Whether or not they started as deviants is up for debate
Women by default are pretty deviant and have a lot of natural instincts and issues.
But in a lot of cases, this is turned from the natural-ish order of things into a society wide problem by the propaganda and pressures they push on them when puberty hits. That's a very painfully awful time for all kids, but the "scariness" of periods and other rapid hormonal changes make it very easy to sell girls on shit. From "birth control to deal with cramps" to "men are looking at you different, they want to hurt you always" its a deluge of anxiety that breaks them into needing something to run away from it.
Which is how you end up with girls barely reaching 18 before they are doped up on SSRIs or destroyed via hedonistic self pleasures and not being able to come back. And its common enough that its by far the norm in most of the world and there isn't any point in teaching men otherwise.
But those natural instincts are still down there, telling them to find men, get babies, do the correct choices. So you end up with these god awful broken moms everywhere, raising all our children to be just like them and worse, and brings about all the evils we rail against every day.
I don't like Tool much, but when I have listened to them their drumming has been something that stood out to me even as a rhythmically challenged doofus.
So this is extra impressive simply because I know that what he is going at is probably considered high tier musical ability to begin with.
Damn, all those half empty businesses and homes in my area must just be my lying eyes playing tricks on me again.