Careercow Ben Collins / Benjamin Thomas Collins / @oneunderscore__ - Journo Scum

[The Line]

Trying to turn every fag who hates Kiwifarms into a lolcow is some real autist behavior. The farms is powerless against anyone with a real job.

Ben's freakout after being accused of paypigging an obese castrate is what made people consider him threadworthy. The existence of that situation alone is funny as hell.

See below for an official janny-approved opinion on the topic:

Ben Collins deserves one, but in general journalists have a high bar to qualify for threads. The short simple rule is that they have to be a cow first, journalist as an aside in order for the forum to not be politically charged site-wide. I posed the question to Null last week and that was his opinion on the matter.

 

[Trianon]

Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss reported that Twitter's head of legal and former FBI agent Jim Baker was vetting the Twitter documents set to be released to journalists without telling Elon and trying to stonewall their release. Jim Baker has now been fired.

Taibbi has more information in this thread, describing how Baker's influence is what delayed the original Twitter Files thread.

Here is Ben's reaction:
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You could get high off this. Pure, uncut bizarro world.

But he's not mad!


Falsifying government documents while coping about his height.

 

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Is this basketball game planned for before he goes bowling and eats leftovers and hangs with the dog? Or after?


Is there a term for this reflexive "I DO THINGS IRL!!! SEE!?!?"-style of response? It's like a pre-emptive thing to point to in case someone in the future accuses him of being a terminally online Twitter nerd. Do I sense some insecurity about that?

 

[Trianon]

Is this basketball game planned for before he goes bowling and eats leftovers and hangs with the dog? Or after?
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Is there a term for this reflexive "I DO THINGS IRL!!! SEE!?!?"-style of response? It's like a pre-emptive thing to point to in case someone in the future accuses him of being a terminally online Twitter nerd. Do I sense some insecurity about that?

100%

- doesn't listen to podcasts (but it has been proven he does)
- is old as hell (is 34)
- hates Twitch (donates to Twitch streamers)
- goes to concerts (stays on Twitter the whole time) (never specifies the artist)
- plays basketball (with real friends! they live in Canada!)
- has a family and a dog and leftovers and time to go bowling on a weekday

he's this guy


Very different vibe from Taylor Lorenz, who always wants to remind everyone she never willingly interacts with germ-carrying people.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

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This son of a bitch never remembers his opponents are human.

 

[Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet)]

There is a theme amongst people of a certain age of acting like jerks to everyone they encounter, then being surprised that those same people don’t cut them slack.

 

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Is this basketball game planned for before he goes bowling and eats leftovers and hangs with the dog? Or after?
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Is there a term for this reflexive "I DO THINGS IRL!!! SEE!?!?"-style of response? It's like a pre-emptive thing to point to in case someone in the future accuses him of being a terminally online Twitter nerd. Do I sense some insecurity about that?

I'd coin it as "soybragging": responding to online criticism by bragging about how great your IRL is, falsely declaring you're leaving the computer to do banal life tasks, framing the critic as someone who must obviously have no life beyond their keyboard.

Collins does it a LOT. He's tweeted / retweeted 20 more times since that basketball tweet, last retweet was 3 minutes ago.



Update: This nigger's still tweeting, while supposedly hanging with the dog and family, bowling, eating and playing basketball. His phone never leaves his hand, he's had it surgically attached.



Update 2: And still going. Must be why he's losing at that basketball, it's a hard game to play when you're furiously trying to own Elon Musk on your phone at the same time.

 

[F13 Key]

More sperging from Ben, who seems to be getting his feathers ruffled more than Elon today.

[A]

Here he links this article he co-authored.

You can see where he's now wanting to spin the Club Q story, back to the same "internet hate site" narrative he's been obsessing over. The FBI found some random server Aldrich might have been running, which had a "forum" on it. What sort of "forum" is unclear, the FBI didn't say, so it could have been a discord server or wakaba board. But the important thing is the word "forum", which can encompass 4chan, 8kun, and... dun dun dun, Kiwi Farms.



So this is the article text, which describes "an archive of the page that was viewed by NBC News" as having hosted the Buffalo mass shooting vid. Then the next sentence mentions how links to that site where the vid was hosted, were shared and discussed on 4chan and 8kun.

That's the only mention of 4chan in the whole article. What were the shooter's motives? What has the actual evidence revealed, if anything? Whatever Ben wants them to to be! So he spins it as "constant praise of 4chan white supremacist mass killers, and trolling in real life." Invent a motive for the killer for your audience because you want to spin the evidence to suit your ongoing personal obsession, that's not a violation of any journalistic ethics standards or anything.

Notably, despite both the Buffalo and Christchurch shooting videos still being available here, he refrains from mentioning this site. Could that be because he now has a thread?



[A]

Having returned to the internet after hanging out with the dog and family, eaten leftovers, and lost at basketball or bowling, or both, he does what any normal person would do: namesearches himself and goes back to sparring with his critics. I have no idea what this "invented in a CIA lab conspiracy" is, unless someone was suggesting Ben is the latest strain of COVID-19.

 

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I have no idea what this "invented in a CIA lab conspiracy" is

Of course you don't - it's hard to know much about something that Ben just made up

 

[TheBigZee]

The Club Q shooter said in documents that can't be officially verified that they wanted to be a mass shooter. That was his motive. To get all the infamy and attention that's been showered on past shooters. Like Ben is showering down right now.

It's almost as if Ben (and the press in general) want more of these shooters. It's almost as if they make money and are able to push agendas off the backs of them.

You aren't supposed to give the pieces of shit national attention and they keep doing it.

 

[Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet)]

The only outlet I know that won't name shooters is Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, You'd think that not naming them or identifying them would be pretty standard given that we know that publicizing mass shooters inspires others.

 

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The only outlet I know that won't name shooters is Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, You'd think that not naming them or identifying them would be pretty standard given that we know that publicizing mass shooters inspires others.

I still like the Kiwi Farms formula of "dox the shooter so hard your work gets cited in an academic paper about shooters", but maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

 

[Trianon]

Love to play basketball while denying I was hatched. I have two hands after all.

 

[Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet)]

I still like the Kiwi Farms formula of "dox the shooter so hard your work gets cited in an academic paper about shooters", but maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

Well sure, but we're at best a force for chaos. They're pretending to have standards.

 

[TheBigZee]

I still like the Kiwi Farms formula of "dox the shooter so hard your work gets cited in an academic paper about shooters", but maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

If there's going to be a place people can find details, the best place is a forum dedicated to a man who raped his own mother.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

The Club Q shooter said in documents that can't be officially verified that they wanted to be a mass shooter. That was his motive. To get all the infamy and attention that's been showered on past shooters. Like Ben is showering down right now.

It's almost as if Ben (and the press in general) want more of these shooters. It's almost as if they make money and are able to push agendas off the backs of them.

You aren't supposed to give the pieces of shit national attention and they keep doing it.

The shooter had an Encyclopedia Dramatica page that was dormant for seven years until the shooting happened.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Here is Ben's reaction:
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So Ben believes that the release of information to the public is a nefarious plot to direct violence against the people who produced that information? What does Ben think his chosen job is exactly?

I really didn't believe we'd reach the point when journalists were the people most angry about the Pentagon Papers but here we are. If you try to object, look at the examples Ben used, "Wikileaks" in general. Ben is accusing "the right" of "accuse of treason by implying they did some sort of high crime" while the actual literal federal government is continuing a Trump Administration started espionage prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for doing journalism exposing government actions/crimes and Ben, disinformation fighter, slyly slides Wikileaks into his enemies list of people he wants you to automatically distrust and wants to imply have been doing crimes by sharing information with the public. ("Hillary's Emails" were a FBI investigation into a legit potential federal crime. "Benghazi" was a Congressional investigation where everyone involved wanted to pretend a secret CIA annex that was specifically targeted for attack was somehow explicitly NOT the reason the attack happened. "Podesta's Emails" were a DNC security expert telling John Podesta to click a phishing link.)

Falsifying government documents while coping about his height.
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lmao at Michael Hobbes revealing he's one of those fatties who refuses to let the doctor tell them they're fat.

Also, funny that Ben Collins replies to someone who constantly spreads disinformation on the internet while blocking anyone who points out his lies and distortions.

More sperging from Ben, who seems to be getting his feathers ruffled more than Elon today.

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So Ben Collins' "big update" is a "pair of websites" that Ben wants to reveal information to the public about implying some kind of crime? Pretty sure Ben Collins said this kind of thing is not allowed, Ben Collins.

 

[The Noise]

Ben's freakout after being accused of paypigging an obese castrate is what made people consider him threadworthy. The existence of that situation alone is funny as hell.

That's obviously pretty good by itself, but I don't know if that's threadworthy in its entirety. Modern journalism is full of people like Ben who will deflect, deny, and distort in order to push a certain viewpoint.

At the same time, you could argue that being a yellow journalist and a Keffals stan is what makes him threadworthy, but the OP should be frontloaded with that instead of having to scroll through a whole bunch of twitter-obsessed postings from Collins. It's not unique enough to make the selling point of the thread.

 

[Ethics Gradient]

Well done OP on this thread.

Been thinking about some edits to the draft OP, feel free to ignore.

• It's important to drive home that Collins bills himself as a journalist, but acts like a commentator. While you can be both, it is important not to blur the lines when presenting information - something BC does all the time.
• Reputable news outlets have stringent reporting standards that they expect their staff to uphold. For example, if you work at Bloomberg you are basically indoctrinated to follow 'The Bloomberg Way', a style guide / reporting rules / manual for all staff. Reuters has similar. Looking at BC's work, he is miles away from these practices as he routinely reports his opinions as fact - which unsurprisingly is not how serious journalism works.
• Maybe cut back on the hyperbole to avoid sounding like the man himself, just let the facts speak for themselves. Yeah, his head isn't symmetrical but that's not really relevant to the fact that his falling short of journalistic integrity.

In short, Ben would probably be best placed at somewhere like Vice, pumping out clickbait 'content' rather than factual news.

 

[Next Task]

I have no idea what this "invented in a CIA lab conspiracy" is,

Most likely, if he's not just lying? Someone online said, 'It's like he was bred in a CIA lab to spread misinformation,' and True and Honest Journalist Ben Collins ignored or missed the simile and treated it as a real thing.

Which is a nice reminder that, to all these assholes, their enemies are both highly dangerous terrorists whose threats should be taken seriously, and a few idiotic, conspiracy-addled incels raging impotently from a basement. It just depends on what lie they want to tell.