I don’t know if Mike would actually hate the fact that the thread exists, seems like most people in here actually really like the show, or they’re like Kramer, who seems to be a long time fan who legitimately enjoys aspects of it and also has good faith criticisms of the various incarnations of the show and . And then there’s a few people who shit on him, seems like for the most part because he’s Jewish and they hate Jews, and then others who seem to know way too much about the show which leads me to believe they were maybe fans at one point and got shit on by Mike, or took it personally when he made fun of people they like and became obsessed with hating him and try to post like gotchas or situations where Mike is supposedly being hypocritical, like a while ago someone dramatically posted pics of some of the merch designs, accusing him of blatantly ripping off other brands or designs, when that was literally the point and isn’t even like ethically or ‘artistically’ questionable.. I didn’t think anyone would ever have a problem with a comedy podcast selling merch that basically parodies other famous clothing designs.
People have mentioned this before in this thread, but can you even consider Mike to really be a lol cow, like, at the very least, compared to every other podcaster, Mike is extremely principled and sticks by the things he’s said for years, like refusing to advertise on the podcast, even the free ones, having his own site where he hosts the streams, not going through Patreon or whatever for Scar club, etc. I’ve seen someone post some screenshot of him sort of shilling ‘Me Undies’ or whatever years ago, but it was just like a Facebook post saying ‘hey I know this is annoying, but I wear these and if you happen to buy them already, here’s a discount code’ which i personally don’t give a shit about, it’s not like he would ever bring it up on the show, or at least I can’t imagine him doing it, but I’ve only really seen stuff from like 2016 to now.
Also, it goes without saying, but he clearly doesn’t give a fuck about trying to suck up to people for clout or whatever, he couldn’t even resist not talking shit about everyone else at Compound Media *during* the like 10 weeks he was at Compound which basically got him fired.
I guess there’s certain things you could argue that he’s done that you personally find lame or inconsistent, or I’m sure the people who have been listening to him for a long time will know of stuff that I don’t know of, but just looking at the rest of the people who have threads under this sub forum, he doesnt come anywhere CLOSE to their level of cow-ness. I personally wouldn’t consider him a lolcow at all and not just because I’m a fan of his, I just can’t see how anyone could think that Mike is comparable to literally anyone else with their own threads here, or at least any of the people I know of. Besides like, *maybe* Sam Hyde, but even then, I feel like he’s so much more of a lolcow than Mike, for more ‘objective’ reasons and more subjective things that I think Sam does that I find cringe, which is almost all of the shit he’s done post World Peace.
But I don’t know, maybe that’s just me. Just looking at the first two pages, it seems like a hell of a stretch to put Mike in the same category as like, Ethan Ralph, Wings, Boogie, DSP, The Quartering, Sargon, H3H3, Corpse Husband, Vaush, fresh and fit (literally the dumbest, least funny, and most cringe people I can think of, or at least Myron is, and I would still think that he’s the most deserving of being labeled a lolcow, not even taking into account how retarded their views on women and gender roles or whatever are).