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FORBES USED THAT IMAGE I'M FUCKING DYING LMAO

This stupid shit has really reached levels of dumb that I can't handle. Wtf is anything? Why does Forbes care?

vegeta1 [he/him] - 2mon

That this blew up this much is the biggest proof that trumps jobs market is doing abysmally

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gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him] - 2mon

Hearing about streamers is a recession indicator

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booty [he/him] - 2mon

Thousands of carnists suddenly care about animal rights when a small group of basement-dwelling nazis tell them a socialist used a shock collar on a dog once and apparently that's news

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MarxusMaximus [comrade/them] - 2mon

"I'm really passionate about animal welfare!" I proudly declare between bites of my meat lover's pizza.

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Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided] - 2mon

to the extent that some normies are getting swept up in the smear campaign because they've never heard of LSF or destiny, they're caring about a pet and the violation of the owner's social obligation to his pet, rather than animal rights nebulously. No idea why that shit rated a forbes article.

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Ram_The_Manparts [he/him] - 2mon

I'm pretty sure that most of these people don't really care about anything beyond stirring the shit

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Riffraffintheroom [none/use name] - 2mon

The suffering of something that people aren’t very familiar with seems distant. The suffering of something that people are very familiar with seems immediate. You know we’re kind of fucked in the hearts and minds department if we can’t wrap our heads around the very basic contradiction of “I eat meat but don’t like seeing a dog get hurt” that the vast, vast, vast majority of people live with.

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Evilsandwichman [none/use name] - 2mon

Thousands of carnists suddenly care about animal rights

#notallcarnists

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LangleyDominos [none/use name] - 2mon

Fuck them dogs 10000 volts on the canid world

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Packet @lemmy.ml - 2mon

MAKE WIRES OUT OF DOGS!!!! THIRTY MILLION WATT POWERLINE OUT OF CANINES!!!!

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balsoft @lemmy.ml - 2mon

FYI "published on forbes" has about the same level of vetting as "published on substack" or "posted on lemmy". Almost anyone can do it with a little bit of determination.

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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 2mon

Damn what a cool and serious economic paper they have going on there.

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mayo_cider [he/him] - 2mon

But they can also estimate the value of human beings

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SchillMenaker [he/him] - 2mon

But only so long as that person tells them what the estimate should be along with an envelope full of cash addressed to "Trust me bro"

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sempersigh [he/him] - 2mon

Pretty sure a lot of Forbes articles aren’t even written by “journalists” actually employed by Forbes i think they contract that shit out pay per article/amount of views

Edit: seems to be confirmed by others in the comments

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brognak @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 2mon

Ah yes the article who only directly quotes two people:

Ethan "My wife is a (literal) terrorist" Klein

Steven "Destiny" "I literally groomed andremovedd underage girls, filmed it, and used the videos to groom more underage girls toremoved and film" Bonnell

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miz [any, any] - 2mon

is Bonnell going to go to prison for that shit or what

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brognak @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 2mon

Oh I think he's ultra double secret mega fucked. My favorite part was when the messages got out from him talking to a community member/obiter (can't remember) and they asked him why he has gigs and gigs of self shot revenge/kiddy porn:

"I can't delete it that would be interfering with an investigation."

The fuck 😅

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Lussy [he/him, des/pair] - 2mon

they asked him why he has gigs and gigs of self shot revenge/kiddy porn:

"I can't delete it that would be interfering with an investigation."

Some bizarre ouroboros of pederasty that could only come out of this dude’s mouth

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Moidialectica [he/him, comrade/them] - 2mon

Huh what the fuck

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Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] - 2mon

Steven "Destiny" "I literally groomed andremovedd underage girls, filmed it, and used the videos to groom more underage girls toremoved and film" Bonnell

*Bonnacelli

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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 2mon

You know what’s crazy? I go outside and hear nothing about this. Vast majority of the world has no idea who Hasan even is but if you go online, particualry Reddit, you’d think this was a global catastrophe.

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PolandIsAStateOfMind @lemmygrad.ml - 2mon

One thing i noticed about every online anglo place is that online stream/video drama is always incredibly overblown. If not for me sitting here i wouldn't ever heard about any of those guys, even the bigger ones like Destiny.

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EnsignRedshirt [he/him] - 2mon

Everything I learn about streamers is against my will.

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FunkyStuff [he/him] - 2mon

Most online spaces will have the majority of their content made by a tiny number of users. Those users are online a lot and post a lot. Because they (we) live online, they'll pollinate opinions on online drama to places where it's of limited relevance. Then because of the memetic nature of the drama, some critical mass of other online people in the pollinated spaces will become aware of the drama and form opinions on it, spreading them elsewhere and continuing the cycle. Notably, this can only really penetrate into spaces where a critical mass of very online people can possibly be accrued.

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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 2mon

Bonus:

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mistermodal @lemmy.ml - 2mon

It's like Christmas for people who stopped going outside mid 2021

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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 2mon

It's so terminally online, how can anyone care outside of making fun if it? It's dumb streamer drama how does it get on Forbes?

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mistermodal @lemmy.ml - 2mon

Tʀᴀᴠɪs Sᴄᴏᴛᴛ Fᴀɴs Mᴀʏ Nᴏᴡ Sᴀᴍᴘʟᴇ Hɪs Jᴜɪᴄᴇs

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Evilsandwichman [none/use name] - 2mon

You know with the amount of hate Hasan gets, it would definitely qualify to be called 'Hasan derangement syndrome'

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pongo1231 [none/use any] - 2mon

This whole thing is a pysop precision engineered to inflict as much mental damage onto us as possible

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Deadend [he/him] - 2mon

Some of the image edits are funny due to the level of internet derangement and effort involved.

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RION [she/her] - 2mon

Probably by a Forbes Contributor, who are freelancers who write about most anything. Destiny (the game, not the guy) fans are probably familiar with Paul Tassi whose articles on the game are published that way

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tombruzzo [none/use name] - 2mon

Excuse me, this is a screenshot from the actual stream. They're just reporting the news

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RION [she/her] - 2mon

Bro's on that "I must consult the elder gods" type shit

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