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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
― 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
― 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
― Οὖτις, 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
― 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