The write up that
@fax machine did really fascinates me. This thread might be less eventful than others but I tend to read and respond in this the most because I will never be able to get over my awe at how bottomless Olly's ego really is.
Every single thing he does invariably bends back around to patting him on the back and massaging his sense of self importance. Everything. It all occurs for the benefit of Oliver Abigail Lennard Thorn Esq, the most important conscious entity in the universe, interacting with fans just leads to him self promoting and trying to sell his own corny jokes (about himself) rather than seriously helping with their queries, LGBT activism is best understood as a platform that makes Oliver more well known, same with his youtube career, and of course transphobia is a bad thing primarily because it makes Oliver himself feel a bit bad about his delusional self image and demands he makes on the rest of society.
Its so fucking transparent, he talks in the most robotic and uninterested way about Leftism and things like radical Marxist revolutionary politics, but his heart is not in it at all. He only took on the trappings of revolutionary Marxism because that's what everybody else in the Breadtube sphere that he's been exploiting to gain profile expects. He never really talks about leftist theory at all now, and when he did it was wikipedia level shit. Say what you will about some wacky weirdo like Caleb Maupin I think he probably actually does care about Leftism and Marxism on a deep seated level and has read enough of it that he can build his worldview and analysis around it.
So what is it that Olly really wants? What is it that motivates him? Its definitely not delivering control of the means of production to the working masses, oh no, its his ability to say that he knows somebody quite famous, his ability to say that he had Nigella Lawson on his youtube show (famous working class leftist radical Nigella Lawson), his ability to say that he's the most in-demand actress in the country as seen on smash hit TV Show Django (yeah, you might have heard of it...).
This Ten Thousand Posts podcast appearance is the perfect example, endlessly dropping the fact that he knows somebody else "quite famous", tons of "quite famous" people actually, just so you are aware that Agibail the queen has been hobnobbing with the movers and shakers of elite society, like a good working class activist you know. And I love the way that he never specifies who these people actually are, either because it may burst his bubble if the person he's talking to doesn't know who they are, and thus aren't actually that famous, or because if they do know who they are it might take attention away from him, Empress of Youtube Abigail Thorn. Now he's gotten to the point that he openly admits he thinks he's too good for youtube, oh no, Olly won't be seen dead on the platform where he made his name and got most of his fanbase, he's big time now, he's going to be on the Telly or even the Cinema screen since his starlight can't be contained by something as lowly as fucking youtube. And don't forget, Olly still definitely cares a lot about leftism and the working class and isn't just a cynical social climber. By the way did I mention that he now fully embraces his title as an influencer because of course, he is so influential and important to the peons that he may as well own it?
Its just so repulsive, there's lots of reasons to talk shit about her but I'd take somebody like Contrapoints every time over this, at least she gives some sense of genuine introspection and vulnerability, at the very least she doesn't outright state that she thinks she's too important for the internet now.
