That's kind of the joke or question or comedy here that I have come to realize - who is actually the most lifeless participant in all of this?
There was an early internet public access TV lolcow called Gorgeous George who was kind of infamous on the Something Awful forums. He had a grating personality and was probably narcissistic and shared many traits of DSP. It was really funny when I was young and watched YT compilations of people prank calling his show and he would always react (basically exactly the same as how DSP reacts to troll tips and chat comments).
People would prank call his show back in 2004.
In 2024, his "detractors" (they're called "goons" in this context)
still keep it up and are more provocative and aloggy over some fat, failed public access TV presented from 20 years ago. They
still have Discords and livestreams and
even organized "gooncon", which had a fucking gofundme to organize a trip to Gorgeous George's father's grave:
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/gorgeous-george-george-alexander-yarid.857/post-18761012
They have also defecated on his father's grave, broken into his house and had physical altercations with him. George isn't perfect either and has reacted the entire time and tried to counter-harass people and has made lawsuits, threats etc and by some standards isn't a "good person"
Seeing that whole Gorgeous George thing, and I think in particular it was this one post that was made in 2020 gave me a lot of pause and self reflection for DSP and this whole "unintentional Truman show" that we all intentionally or unintentionally participate in (either by reading/writing posts here, watching streams, reading tweets etc):
There are still goons making videos and high fiving each other in streams over how awesome they are to spend tens of thousands of dollars and hundred of thousands of hours fucking with an incredibly boring cow.
Like he doesn't have a call in show anymore. I really don't get how these people stay motivated.
Some of these goons have been at it for over a decade.
Unlike DSP, Georgeous George stopped making actual content ages ago but it does make me wonder in all of this what role everyone plays and especially makes me wonder what will come of DSP and this whole "unintentional truman show". What will happen to it all in 20 years? Come to think of it, there are probably people in this forum thread or who still casually follow DSP as semi-hate watchers since his earliest days on YouTube which is like almost 15 years ago.
Anyway, if anyone here or following DSP in general tries to organize a fucking Gooncon to visit his father's grave at some point in the future:
you're a faggot.