#throwback
https://mobile.twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/669187312027217921
― Treeship, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link
haha i very nearly posted something angry about him the other day then i felt embarrassed for even paying this much attention to him
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link
98% spleen, 4% insight, -2% humor
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 30 November 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
how did this guy become famous and every other jeopardy champion save ken jennings just vanished back into the ether
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 1 December 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
he wrote thinkpieces during the great privilege bubble of 2014
― Treeship, Thursday, 1 December 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link
I guess he was right about internet trolls being a sign of deep cultural rot seeing as now one is president elect.
― Treeship, Thursday, 1 December 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
i still like him but i think that's largely because i'm not on twitter
― Nhex, Thursday, 1 December 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link
He sucks
― Fiddle Catstro (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 December 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
definitely a problematic fav
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 1 December 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link
I only really know Arthur Chu from this, are any of his other tweets as good?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqzW-WLXEAQMCCQ.jpg
― soref, Thursday, 1 December 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
yes?
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 December 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
there's.....a lot going on in that tweet
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 1 December 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
yeah that's incredibly homophobic and idiotic. i don't think it did much to diminish the rampant misogyny and sexual harassment online. sad.
― Treeship, Thursday, 1 December 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
What are these gay porn sites that Chu is being unwittingly inflicted with?
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 1 December 2016 03:54 (seven years ago) link
i think he goes there willingly in order to experience what it's really like to be a woman online. brave.
― Treeship, Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link
at least he did more research than he seems to have done on thatcher
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:14 (seven years ago) link
i kind of miss this corny, misguided, performatively self-flagellating form of male feminism. feels like it belongs to a more innocent era.
― Treeship, Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
this guy blocked me like a year and a half ago lol
― Clay, Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:32 (seven years ago) link
idk i see him as pretty authentic (if def performative) and i think he fits pretty well within the current wokebro paradigm. he's not marc loi or peter daou or something (to his credit)
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link
he would be ok as some random dude you knew who tweets but his reach is a little too far
which is that actor dude who was on orange is the new black? he's got some loi powers
― mh ๐, Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:57 (seven years ago) link
Matt McGorry, the wokest / creepiest male feminist alive.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Thursday, 1 December 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqQgrzBWEAAEEvm.jpg
― slam dunk, Thursday, 1 December 2016 07:10 (seven years ago) link
โ soref, Wednesday, November 30, 2016 8:29 PM (yesterday) Bookmark
this is a mount rushmore bad tweet for me. perhaps the best bad tweet of all time.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 December 2016 07:12 (seven years ago) link
what's the rest of your rushmore
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 December 2016 07:38 (seven years ago) link
what a disgusting shitbag
― salthigh, Thursday, 1 December 2016 08:44 (seven years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/536300603962851330
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 1 December 2016 12:22 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/thatkevinsmith/status/2554608773?lang=en
and
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/239459992086925312
are on mine
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
fuck that kevin smith tweet has ruined my day :(
― trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
quick, someone post kevinsmithjorts.jpg as an antidote
― trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 December 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
ahahahahahhaha https://twitter.com/BUSSCRO/status/805958233877839872
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
Topical
― Treeship, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
love too tweet storm
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
lol
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
โ J0rdan S., Thursday, December 1, 2016 2:12 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think about this tweet all the time
― flopson, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
the kevin smith one is legendary i cant think of anything else that tops it
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
brb drilling a hole in my skull and pouring grain alcohol directly on my brain in an attempt to forget it
― mh ๐, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
arthur chu's hometown paper reviewed his documentary and it is Extremely Savage pic.twitter.com/QIRf3UmfwV— KRANG T. NELSON (@KrangTNelson) April 8, 2017
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
(3 pics)
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/04/ciff_2017_who_is_arthur_chu_fo.html
(The review)
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
he is the only dude on twitter who I have discovered has me blocked
I have absolutely no idea what I did to be blocked as I've never interacted with him but I am proud
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
If you followed any dirtbag left-types, he autoblocked anyone who follows them apparently
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
weak
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
He tries to explain - but not excuse - the mindset of the nerdy guys who hate women mostly because they feel rejected by women. And he wades into the blistering Gamergate battle, taking the side of female gamers and game developers when they complained about their treatment by male gamers -- who responded, naturally, by treating them even worse, attacking and vilifying them.
Meanwhile, though, the self-involved Arthur neglects and pretty much marginalizes his own wife, Eliza, who suffers from a debilitating chronic condition but puts what energy she has into supporting Arthur's hopes and dreams. In one telling scene, she tries to talk with him about her own struggles, and her own dream (writing a sci-fi novel), while Arthur scrolls through his phone, never looking up at her.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
I feel like gamergate somehow opened the gates of hell. Everything is worse since then.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
"arthur -- who has less depth than a full-length documentary requires"
the quiet harshness of this line is awesome
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
It's fucking crazy because the GG weirdos think anyone who has an opinion on sexism or racism is only saying it to get attention, but then there's dudes like this who really did jump on because they needed a platform
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
He's the worst. His whole take on gamergate was ridiculous, lumping in all men who are romantically frustrated with a highly vocal minority of radical misogynists. Gamergaters are hateful because they're hateful, not because they are nerds.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
It was self serving too: he was the "reformed nerd" who wanted to be congratulated for not being part of a literal hate movement.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/760/206/66a.gif
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
yeah I don't need a nuanced summary of his takes. he has bad takes.
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
Bc i think he is lame and ppl around here always follow my lead
― Treeship, Thursday, 22 June 2017 04:49 (six years ago) link
i agree he's lame, but there are plenty of regular posters who basically seem to share his worldview
― k3vin k., Thursday, 22 June 2017 04:51 (six years ago) link
I like him, but that anecdote about him ignoring his wife is bothering me. I guess I'd have to see the clip in context, but I don't think I want to watch a doc about the guy.
― โนโก. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 22 June 2017 04:52 (six years ago) link
Bizarro is my hero with that gif
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Thursday, 22 June 2017 05:16 (six years ago) link
it's because the chapo guys clown on him and all their followers/fanboys lap it up
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 22 June 2017 05:37 (six years ago) link
Now I get it. Fuck the chapo guys and their fanboys.
― โนโก. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
โ k3vin k.
i wouldn't watch any self-made documentaries by any of those regular posters either
― Frank Ocean is the Ultimate Solution (rushomancy), Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
perhaps we do ask too much of our champions
― mh, Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
โ kurt schwitterz, Thursday, June 22, 2017 1:37 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is libelous. I don't even like Chapo Trap House.
― Treeship, Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link
every single Jeopardy champion seems like a strange dude to me, with the exception of the guy who won it the most
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
ken jennings probably has some deep, dark secrets
― mh, Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
so the windows in that plane shot were definitely fucked with. someone found the stock footage it was pulled from and they aren't like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81YppIvdXMQ
― circa1916, Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
lol wrong thread
i don't particularly like twitter war/culture personalities, but i still like Chu. he's generally on the right side of things even if he's clearly obnoxious and attention-seeking. but i'm definitely biased in favor of brash Asian American personalities of which there are so many ofc (kinda feel similarly conflicted about Eddie Huang)
― Nhex, Friday, 23 June 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
yeah i liked him and was rooting for him for the same reason, but then it turned out he was bad. no shame in being wrong sometimes!
― k3vin k., Friday, 23 June 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
favourite chu related content:
when he tweeted that watching gay porn gave him a taste of being objectified like women get all the time
the tweets from his ex-wife about the drudgery of cleaning up for him and cooking for him
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 23 June 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
i just like how the latter exist and he has the temerity to smear 'brocialists' with the same
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 June 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
there are no brocialists.
there are no sjws.
these are caricatures.
arthur chu is one of the people who believes in the reality of caricatures/twitter phantoms.
― Treeship, Friday, 23 June 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
life is not a meme war.
― Treeship, Friday, 23 June 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
did he quit his job after winning jeopardy? he posts to twitter about a thousand times a day, i can't imagine how he has time to do anything else.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 23 June 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
he actually makes money off being an internet celebrity/pundit which tbh i can see makes even more hatable
― Nhex, Friday, 23 June 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
why u jelly
― ฮแฝฯฮนฯ, Friday, 23 June 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
twitter phantoms give him reason to continue existing in his current form so
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 June 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
btw clown me endlessly for my old comments here:LONG DUK DONG
I think he went from using his newfound fame to write about things he knew, from his own perspective, to a point where he's commenting on things for the sake of keeping the ball rolling
it's easy to have a conversation with a few people, decide you've come up with some interesting take on things, and then put it in front of a different person who immediately points out you had a group consensus but it was overall a bad idea. if you're glued to twitter 24/7 you're going to think something a few hundred people were rabidly chasing down the rabbit hole for a day has great importance. but it's just an extension of the "people in a room come to a conclusion" problem
afaict most of his new material is in service to that kind of thing, or weird observations like the gay porn comment jim mentioned
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
his first columns definitely weren't bad, let alone what he seems to shit out on social media every day now
― Nhex, Friday, 23 June 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
he has multiple-tweet personal takes on news issues, usually controversial ones, nearly every hour. I'm assuming it's in the hopes one of them catches and he gets a boost of twitter fame, or as part of workshopping what to write a column about
― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
all i know about this guy is that he doesn't know how to put on sneakers
― flappy bird, Saturday, 24 June 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
โ mh
i've heard rumors that he's a mormon
― Rodney Stooksbury for President (rushomancy), Saturday, 24 June 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link