When you take a few months off you need to come back with something worth the wait, right? This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for almost two years now since I first started to look into how the fringe right happened. Like, how the fuck did QAnon happen? I started to notice specific patterns on social media which piqued my interest. So, I did a bit of digging. Upon digging I came to a few shocking conclusions. Before I go over what I found out I want to address something that is related. Have you seen those people who claim someone is a nazi/SJW by taking shit out of context? Someone who thinks they’re an intellectual and will try to claim someone as part of the alt-right/whatever the term for the fringe left is these days. Remember kiddos, just because you can read doesn’t mean you know how to. Basic reading comprehension is extremely important. If you lack that then you lack the ability to read, at least in my eyes. I’m stressing this at the start because I already know a bunch of slow pokes will use this post to frame me in whatever way they want by taking shit out of context because I am exposing the grift/flaws of their thinking. Alright, that’s enough making fun of the people who would fail my 3rd grade English class. Let’s dig into what I found. I don’t need to write anything catchy here. The title explains it already.
Did you know Vice news is shutting down? Yeah, I’m happy about it too, and I swear this has a point. Oh, why am I happy about it? Well, Louis Rossman best explains that. One time they did an interview with him over right to repair. However, Louis accidentally got some facts wrong because he was given bad information, it happens to all of us. Louis had contacted Vice and told them to update the article with this information because it’s wrong to present knowingly false information. It also has the side effect of making right to repair, and Louis, look bad. Vice refused to update the article. Louis didn’t even ask for a retraction, just an update at the top of the article. They refused. A major news outlet refused to fix false information after their source told them it was false. If they refused to fix this bit of false information then what else did they refuse to fix? This is especially damaging since Vice has been cited as a source for lots of other news sites. This was during the beginning of the right to repair movement and when many of the original legislations were getting shot down. This was, and still is, a very important political discussion. Vice refused to fix political information. Keep this in mind as you read about some of the craziness ahead.
Any news outlet/blogger that posted the correct information will be seen as more reliable than Vice. Many mainstream news outlets refuse to cover certain stories, or will lie by omission, because it makes them uncomfortable. Some have refused to publish certain bits of information because it goes against their narrative. See Vice’s article about right to repair. So, when Joe starts looking for the story online and finds a random website, like say mine, covering the story with more bits of information than the mainstream media because they left out key bits of information. It erodes his trust in them. It places his trust in non-traditional media, which is dangerous. This is how The Daily Stormer, Sankaku Complex, One Angry Gamer, and many other fringe sites grew to such popularity. Kotaku would leave out bits of information because of politics? One Angry Gamer would cover it. Billy earned tons of trust by doing this. This made it easier for his audience to swallow his insane ramblings on race relations, LGBT, and tons more. This allowed him to indoctrinate his audience all because Kotaku/Polygon/Giant Bomb/etc refused to cover certain stories or left out vital bits of information from a story that completely changed it. Sankaku Complex did the same with Anime News Network. Daily Stormer did it with police stories by covering bits of information the mainstream media would leave out. Daily Stormer then moved onto other bits of news where he could push his anti-race relations agenda. These lies, omissions, and censorship did nothing but enable these insane lunatics.
Eventually One Angry Gamer and Sankaku Complex were both exposed for doing the same shit. Billy, from One Angry Gamer, was caught blowing up a trans flag and a rainbow pride flag in a screenshot making it look like they took up a majority of the screen. In reality each flag took up less than 8×8 pixels. He had a hilariously awful “expose” on how Netflix turned Alacard into a “raging butt pirate” in the Castlevania show by taking a scene out of context. There was also the infamous “traitors against America” list which included companies, people, and kids shows that told people to accept others for who they are. I mean that, everything on that list was like, “Bank of America – They hire homosexuals and the head of their PR is a white woman married to a black man.” You couldn’t go two days without everyone mocking Billy on Twitter for a while. Which actually grew his userbase. What finally killed off One Angry Gamer wasn’t Google banning the website from their search results but instead Billy fading into obscurity. So he sold the site to some SEO company. It still exists to this day but none of the old content is there. It’s just SEO posts meant to drive up Google results for other products.
Sankaku Complex is still in its whimper phase. The site is still posting stuff from 2ch like its news and reposting cosplay pictures from Japanese conventions, even if the pictures are sometimes years old. Every now and then they write an anti-SJW post about the anime industry, but not one cares. Better sites with the same schtick have popped up and stolen their views. Sites with editors. The Daily Stormer is a different beast. It was removed from their DDoS protection services and a number of their hosters. The site was temporarily removed from the internet. This turned Andrew, the owner of the site, into some weird fringe right martyr. There was a donation drive to get him a lawyer to bring back his site and he wound up becoming an icon for free speech, which I think was a terrible idea. This caused people to actively seek him out and support him because, “THE LEFT DOESN’T WANT YOU TO HEAR HIS MESSAGE!” Long story short he moved to South East Asia, and I can’t find out what he’s doing there. The last appearance of his I could find was on The Killstream where he talked about how men who want to marry 16 year olds are cucked because by then they’re already used up. That girls should be forced into marriage at the age of 14, or whenever they first get their period. No, that’s not a joke. He’s pro forced child marriages to older men (Twitter URL, sorry for those that can’t use Twitter). He is clearly a disturbed individual who should not be allowed near kids.
An interesting thing that happens when you censor too much is the Streisand Effect. You know, when you try to hide information, it just encourages others to look for it. This is what happened with the Intellivision Amico. Tommy used AtariAge as a hug box which forced out anyone with critical thoughts. If you were critical of the Amico, or Tommy, you were banned from AtariAge. This caused people to go to Reddit. However, Tommy and his crew wound up getting control of the Intellivision Reddit, and I am not sure how this happened. This led to the creation of the Intellivision_Amico Reddit, a place Tommy couldn’t control. People who used to be just slightly critical were now highly critical. They were kicked out of places they loved to visit for years. They did tons of digging into both Tommy and modern Intellivision which slowly caused others to turn on the system. It’s possible this Reddit could’ve hurt Intellivision financially by scaring away investors because they were digging up hidden truths Tommy didn’t want out there. EVERYTHING was exposed there. The reason these detractors were made is because Tommy needed to control the narrative. He enforced mass censorship and created the people who had a giant helping hand in destroying him, and his company. In fact, a lot of the stuff in the famous Oof video by HBomberguy was available in that Reddit. No idea if he used it, but it was there.
The refusal to cover certain bits of information also led to the rise of Alex Jones. The gay frog rant everyone loves? Yeah, it turns out there’s a bit of truth to it. The truth is that hormones in the water are causing frogs to change their genders. This is all it takes for people to believe him. He’s telling you something the mainstream media doesn’t want you to hear. These small little things he exposes and turns into massive mountains gives him credence to his followers. If you look at the Twitter Account Alex Jones is always right you’ll see tons of these small little things he gets right. However, for every miniscule thing he gets right he gets major shit wrong. People gloss over it because he gets so many little things right that he must get those major things right too! After all he is telling you stuff the mainstream media doesn’t want you to hear. Yeah, y’all refusing to admit that increased hormones in the water were causing frogs to swap their genders lead to a massive rise in Alex Jones’ power. They were lying about the freaking frogs turning gay. What else are they lying about? HILARY MUST BE A GOBLIN!
Speaking of Alex Jones, let’s talk about the cat boy cum hunter extrodinare’s political movement: America First. Yeah, the ultra conservative Catholic white nationalist movement run by a Mexican that tells his followers having sex with women is gay and criminals are based. The same ultra conservative who has a registered sex offender on his website and said in a stream that it’s okay for a teenage boy to be groomed by an older man. Yeah, if none of this makes sense to you don’t worry, I ain’t explaining it. I am just pointing out the hypocrisy of America First before explaining how they were able to gain such a strong influence over the disenfranchised. 15 years ago America First would’ve been laughed at and mocked relentlessly. No one would’ve listened to them. We would’ve let them publicly say their message and then just called them various insults/slurs until they just gave up. However, Nick started his movement at the right time: When the Republican party was split on distancing themselves from MAGA people and non-MAGA people he was there to exploit that. Nick caused quite the ruckus and was banned from a few conservative conventions. By crashing these conventions he was able to gain a small, but loyal following. Forced into the underground this allowed Nick to form an outrageously loyal army that hangs onto his every word. Since Nick was so deep underground no one knew what he was doing.
No Republican or Democrat knew a thing of his movement. This allowed Nick, and his followers, to prey on the disenfranchised. No one was exposing Nick’s lies/hypocrisies at this time. They would find these young men who felt isolated from the world and gave them a place to call their own. You aren’t allowed to say you’re proud to be white? Here you can! You’re not allowed to point out crime statistics? Guess where you can! Can’t talk about the fact Hitler’s skeleton in Russia is really a woman’s skeleton? Don’t worry, they’ll let you! Any taboo subject that gets you banned from social media, fired from work, or kicked out of any social group is a-okay with them! Just praise Nick while you’re doing it. The censorship of these topics gave them a place to meet without a watchful eye on them. They were able to build up great defenses and ways to pick apart trust in the mainstream media, while perfecting their lies by omission. Nick knows this is how he gained power too because anytime anything happens to embarrass him, or America First, they go into hiding. Into their censorship proof of the internet where no one looks. They can regroup and find new ways to tackle their current problems to gain more followers. I’ve actually asked a few followers why they joined. Their reason was pretty much what I laid out above but more specifically, “I just wanted a place where I was allowed to be proud of my race and I wanted to openly discuss holocaust numbers.” The censorship of these two topics led them right to Nick. Everyone I’ve ever talked to in the fringe right will usually point to a piece of censorship that pushed them over the edge. Yes, this is anecdotal but how many of y’all actually interact with the fair right? How many of y’all have taken the time to understand what pushed them over the edge instead of bringing them closer to the line?
At this point I feel obligated to address Scott Adams. However, upon researching it I found that I must be missing something for this to be the tipping point for some people. Scott Adams is an example of rightoids pulling the same tactics as leftists, while trying to pretend they’re different. I am not saying leftists always lie, or misrepresent facts. What I am saying is despite the right claiming that the left always misrepresents facts they are just as guilty, and Scott proves this. Scott has a great quote about 50% of blacks saying it’s not okay to be white and therefore they are a hate group. The issue is Scott is manipulating the data, very openly, and no one cared to point it out. This is because once you point it out both sides can immediately call each other out for this same shit. What Scott did was he combined those who said it’s not okay to be white and those who are unsure/didn’t answer. That’s not how stats, or people, work. We do not know what they were asked. This is a very important piece of information.
I once partook in a political poll, over this same topic. However, I was asked how it felt to be white. The choices were good, bad, and unsure/ I don’t know. They would not accept any other answer. My answer was, “But I’m not white.” which confused them and they tried to gaslight me into admitting I am white, but I am Mexican. They refused to rephrase the question. Finally I just said, “Unsure” because I wanted my $10. I could tell they weren’t happy with me when I said I wasn’t white. I hung around after to ask people how they felt about the questions and they found it weird as well. It was clear they were looking for someone to go on a white is right rant. How do I know? They later changed the question when it was published that made everyone who said good to sound like a racist and unsure to be unsure of racism.
The questions listed are not always the ones asked, which is an important thing to know about these types of polls. Even if it was people being unsure if it’s okay to be white doesn’t mean they are not okay with white people being white. They just have no frame of reference or thought on it. Scott took inaction as action, which one should never do. Scott did the exact same shit as someone who takes a poll where a majority of answers said they don’t know about LGBT people and then combined it with the negative results to say that 75% of Americans don’t approve of LGBT people existing. No, a majority aren’t sure because they have no real frame of reference to answer, or understand, the question. There’s also the possibility that the poll was just a binary choice and none of the binary choices matched how they felt.
Let’s round this off with Rogers Waters. Recently he got in trouble in Germany for performing The Wall in costume, which he has done countless times before in Germany. People have been attacking him online over it by calling him a Nazi sympathizer. Rogers Waters lost his father in WW2 fighting the Nazis. He is far from a Nazi sympathizer. This event is why I am breaking everything down as much as possible here. The way people have been talking about Rogers Waters and how racist The Wall is proves comprehension is dead. Not just media comprehension. Comprehension as a whole is dead. The Wall is literally an anti-facism concept album about how forcing people to build walls and isolate themselves through abusive interactions and misunderstandings encourages those ideas. Yes, the core concept of the wall is that nurture is what turns us into a monster. We are all naturally good people but other people/life kind of fuck it up. This is why at the end they tear down the wall he built up around himself. So Pink can get the help he needs and learn to let people in. It ends on a high note showing that you don’t have to be stuck with these horrible ideas by growing as a person. Something tons of people need to learn in this day and age, regardless of your political views. I do not think him being arrested is going to all of a sudden turn him from left to right, but I have seen people use this as an attack on leftist ideals. Which, yeah that’s fair because of how far gone fringe leftists ideals are. People are trying to spread tons of misinformation about him because they lack basic comprehension skills and want to earn updoots by taking down the evil old Nazi. All this is doing is exposing people how dumb y’all are and turning people away from you and your ideas.
If you’re wondering what should be done about these people it’s simple: ignore them. Look at One Angry Gamer. Once people stopped talking about Billy and the site it died. You can also look at Ethan Ralph of the Killstream. He was pretty well known in the internet bloodsports scene but now he’s faded into obscurity. Why? People decided to do a no Ethan November where you weren’t supposed to talk about him at all. This was extended to as long as possible until his wife left him because he refused to buy her Hogwarts Legacy. There’s more to the story than that but it was the hilarious straw that broke the camel’s back. (Ed note 7/12/23: He has recently gained some new notoriety by harassing the mother of his first born child, and her father. He’s only maintaining any sort of relevance because of his lolcow status. The second people stop milking him for donos he will fade again into obscurity only to be forgotten by time.) Sankaku Complex is also fading away because no one even cares to make fun of the admin anymore. Hell, I no longer know his name to make fun of him. You may point out the obvious that my post does the opposite of this, and you’re correct. However, the point of this wasn’t to let these people fade into obscurity, or stop their messages from spreading. It was instead to show how censorship can spread what you want to hide, while making it stronger.
I tend to avoid political stuff from right wingers but will dabble here and there. Since I am left leaning it is very common for me to see this shit, since I am in that network. It is one of the most annoying things to constantly see and whenever I point this out people just call me a nazi/far right/alt right and block me. No, I am just tired of seeing this shit from my side and people refusing to admit when they’re wrong. Sure rightoids have retarded shit like the Freedom Phone, My Pillow guy, New Project Brew, and stuff like that. It’s an obvious scam and I make fun of the people who fall for it. However, there ain’t much to debate stat wise because rightoids like to use real stats that are uncomfortable for society to admit. This brings them more people because they are posting the truth. It’s not until they get into feels territory like One Angry Gamer can you really dispute much of what they say, and this seems to be calculated by design. When too much of the system is keeping shit hidden and they’re seen as one of the few “truths” it’s outrageously easy for them to spread their feelings as truths. At that point there’s not even a reason to debate/argue. You can’t easily change someone’s feelings, especially if they got it from a figure they see as all knowing. I could have done more research into rightoids but honestly that Scott Adams shit caused me to throw up my hands at the amount of bullshit I was researching so I gave up. We need to stop relying on others to give us all the information and take the time to form our own opinions. It’s very easy for others to manipulate us if we don’t think for ourselves. We also need to stop pushing people into building up walls through censorship. I’d also like to suggest listening to The Wall. The message is something most people still need to hear.