Maddox / George Ouzounian / George Schnoz - OG Internet blogger, Author of the NYT bestseller Alphabet of Manliness, Cohost of the Biggest Problem in the Universe, Filer of the Lolsuit. MADDOX BLAST!

bloatballs said:
I can't shake the feeling that he saw the way the internet was going so he gambled on the wrong side of the culture war and lost;
But he's just too stubborn and disingenuous to admit it, never mind recant.
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If you look at the current state of things, you can't say he choose the wrong side of the culture wars: the SJWs pretty much still have the support of the mainstream (or at least the mainstream media, with all those articles about bullying and online harassment and legitimizing special snowflakes, and laws being pushed to help that). Of course, Maddox's misstep was that he was never going to be fully accepted as part of the SJW cliques when he went out of his "internet though pirate" persona. He wasn't that popular anymore (so SJWs wouldn't latch on his success despite his obvious "flaws", like being male), nor did he had SJW cred on the streets (being known for writing things like "giving the bitch carpet burning" and "The Alphabet on Manliness", even as a joke, don't you know it's so problematic to joke about domestic violence you shitlord cis scum?). So, he alienated his old fanbase, didn't get a new fanbase, and basically fucked himself into a corner by acting like an asshole on his podcasts.
 
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Le Redditeur Part Deux said:
If you look at the current state of things, you can't say he choose the wrong side of the culture wars: the SJWs pretty much still have the support of the mainstream (or at least the mainstream media, with all those articles about bullying and online harassment and legitimizing special snowflakes, and laws being pushed to help that). Of course, Maddox's misstep was that he was never going to be fully accepted as part of the SJW cliques when he went out of his "internet though pirate" persona. He wasn't that popular anymore (so SJWs wouldn't latch on his success despite his obvious "flaws", like being male), nor did he had SJW cred on the streets (being known for writing things like "giving the bitch carpet burning" and "The Alphabet on Manliness", even as a joke, don't you know it's so problematic to joke about domestic violence you shitlord cis scum?). So, he alienated his old fanbase, didn't get a new fanbase, and basically fucked himself into a corner by acting like an asshole on his podcasts.
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Yeah, I get what you're saying and I agree for the most part, especially with that last sentence.
But I do think the tide of the culture war is turning pretty dramatically, SJWs have played out all of their silencing tactics and the old dismissals don't hold the same weight that they used to.
As they're increasingly unable to dismiss arguments and since they've never been able to challenge them on their merit; more people see through them.
If they haven't rallied after the beating they got last year by the end of 2017 then chances are good that they are done.

As for Maddox, the charmless man: you're right, there's no way he can distance himself enough from the persona he has been building for the past twenty years to ever be accepted by the regressive left. And there's no way the fans he did have could ever look him in the eye ever again, after losing face so completely.
 
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There's a really simple explanation for all of this, folks: Dick beat Maddox at his own game in the cutthroat entertainment world, and he's super fucking bitter for it. Maddox believes he's a real artist and Dick is just some troll trying to beat him at his own game and siphon off his decades of Internet glory.

For years Maddox sold himself on a "tough guy Internet troll" persona that had millions of fans at his fingertrips, well at least that's what he thinks. If there's something Maddox sold himself on over the years, it's on being opinionated and stubborn, and above-all edgy. Why else would be leave his website unchanged for 20-something years? It wasn't like today, where you have to actually compete for other Internet attention. Back then any strongly worded opinion put up for free on a website was edgy enough to attract views when the best thing you had instead was mediocre TV.

But hey, let me throw an idea as top why Maddox is so salty.

Story Time (long):

Around 2008-09, these two fellas meet each other at a UCB event, or maybe at some meh LA party. let's call them Gax and Deorge. Both are also mutually acquainted through their agent, who somehow convinced some boring old publisher called Simon Schuster to publish their books. The books did surprisingly well since they catered to an audience (18-35 males) that practically no other book on the shelf was trying to attract. Keep in mind the typical best seller these days is either a panty moistening romance novel for middle-aged women or bawl-your-eyes-out coming-of-age pulp novel for teenagers.

Anyways, Gax and Deorge kick it off at some party where Gax throws oranges (line 1081) at some bros. The two bond and become friends because they basically see themselves as undervalued funny people in a big angry city called LA (original, I know). Both are relatively successful and self-made, published books, are close in age -- so it's a natural sort of way to end up becoming friends. They're always bitching at each other, but (for now) it's always in a friendly way, in the kind of way where at the end of the day you'd totally grab a beer even if one's a dick and the other's an ape.

But this is LA, and in LA everyone is vain, everyone's looking to make it big, and let me assure you Gax and Deorge are no different. What is different is how the two see the path they must tread in the rat race to entertainment industry success. Gax decides to invest in UCB's Tournament of Nerds gig since he has a paying day job. Deorge decides to spend time writing another book and promoting it through what he once hated most: Mainstream Media. He also makes a YouTube channel to promote his shitty book because that's what all the cool kids are doing these days.

Somewhere along the way, Gax and Deorge try to take a spin at being the face of "cool manly shit" on Spike TV, but that quickly gets snuffed and never makes it out of production. I'm sure Maddox took the credit for the gig even though almost certainly the two of them got it from their mutual contacts at Simon & Schuster. Still, getting a pilot is something. Plenty of the greats start off with tons of shitty pilots. It's proof something is working -- never mind your book is selling like shit compared to the last one, you can just do more TV promotions and get attention in that "they love to hate you" kind of way. I mean if Gax can get on Dr. Phil, Deorge is probably thinking, "Someone with an IQ like mine can EASILY top that!"

So of course Deorge does the next logical thing he can think of: He books gigs at silly local news morning shows and dresses up as a buffoon.

Deorge is probably thinking this wasn't as easy as he thought. His coffee table book is still selling like shit. He's thinking that he should maybe invest more time in his YouTube channel and get his name out there like Gax is over at UCB. He should put his "Biggest/Best X in the Universe" brand out there, but how?

Wait, doesn't Gax have some sexy audio engineer friend named Siobhan or something? And since he's a friend, we can pay him shit and make him host a postcast for us about my awesome brand of the "Biggest/Best X in the Universe!" They'll record in it in the fucking storage room where they keep all the leftover merchandise Deorge can't sell. Plus, Gax can code so Deorge can just mooch off him for free coding work on some fancy voting system they'll use to show off their intelligence.

And this is where everything goes wrong. Things start out smooth because there's plenty to talk about and learn about one another. Deorge has complete control over the show, he can buzz out Gax anytime he wants, and he's truly the genius getting this thing going strong. Gax, meanwhile, probably sees the whole thing as a hobby. If it goes well, then great! If not, oh well, there's still UCB and the rest of my life going.

But this is all Deorge has left going for him. And that probably frustrates him. How does some stupid, womanizing asshole like Gax do so well at everything? Well it doesn't matter. This new show is going great and everyone loves Gax and Deorge, especially Deorge. Deorge is of course so intelligent he's oblivious to how stupid people think he is.

But then Gax starts bringing in these stories, like how Deorge goes full-blown autist and wouldn't wear a jacket to a meeting with a Vice President at fucking Simon and Schuster (Line 825) because "Socratic Method DUH." That kind of bugs Deorge.

And man, he must be rigging that voting script he wrote, because Gax keeps winning this stupid fake contest every week! And he brings in these stupid gags about Titanic and that riff with me losing, man that's so stupid of him! And how is this motherfucker winning every week when he doesn't bring any evidence for his problems! He thinks shit up on the drive over, stopping by for some fucking chicken nuggets in between brainstorm sessions for his problems (which he keeps eating yet looks great, while Deorge can't eat anything unhealthy unless he wants to look like a pig again.)

And the fans keep voting for him! It's like they want to see Deorge fail.

But worst of all, Deorge absolutely HATES Gax's opinions. He's a libertarian. (Line 1255) He doesn't like government. He just doesn't understand, the idiot, the buffoon. God damn, he better stop going on these rants, he's going to ruin the show! If he ruins the show, then there goes my only source of income left! He doesn't care! He's got nothing to lose, and all I have is this show! Man, Gax just doesn't understand.
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And this is how Maddox's mind works. He hates Dick's success, so he tries to get UCB to hate him. He thinks TBPITU is due to his work, when in reality they both contributed to its success. He genuinely thinks he's a smarter, more artistic, and more successful creator, and he continues to compare himself to Dick, when he should focus on bettering his own work instead. He surrounds himself with Yes-Men and will continue to do this until he's destroyed every last bit of his fan base. He let his paranoia get to him and sold out to doing the very mainstream things he used to criticize. So it goes.

millais said:
The money Dick makes from his book sales, merchandise, and Patreon is chump change compared to the annual salary he draws as VP of the tech company he co-founded, but it's not really fair to factor that in when comparing him to Maddox, whose only source of income is from his various online creative endeavors and merchandise.
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Yeah, except not. Any joe shmoe named Dick with a CalTech degree can make a website and call themselves a VP of memeology. He used to work out of marketing firms tho -- but hopped from biz to biz with a couple colleagues. I'm sure he gets paid ok, enough to cover rent, but nothing insane. Dickheads give him wayy more these days.
 
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Foltest said:
I listen to his latest podcast and heard no crying or anything like that. No mention of it being his final podcast whatsoever.
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I think what's being referred to is what's getting discussed over on reddit. (archive just in case, but that sub doesn't frequently delete posts and Dick himself posted in it)

the tl;dr is that one of Dick's frequent guests/old guest comedian on the Biggest Problem podcast, Asterios Kokkinos, did a livestream recently where he discussed that during the taping of the final episode of the Biggest Problem In the Universe (where Dick was absent) Maddox was crying because he found out Dick had been fucking his ex for a year. He also allegedly told Asterios and audio engineer Sean that Dick was dead to him, and told them not to mention him at all during the taping of the podcast.

I know Sean has now cut ties from Maddox (has he revealed yet what the exact reason was? Dying to know the straw that broke the camel's back) but with shit like this I wonder what took him so long since he and Dick have been friends for years. I'd tell Maddox to go fuck himself. I guess Sean needed the money at the time.
 
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littlebird said:
I know Sean has now cut ties from Maddox (has he revealed yet what the exact reason was? Dying to know the straw that broke the camel's back) but with shit like this I wonder what took him so long since he and Dick have been friends for years. I'd tell Maddox to go fuck himself. I guess Sean needed the money at the time.
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on the latest dick show, sean and dick mentioned in passing how sean told maddox he was going on hiatus, but that it was just a lie
 
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Sounds to me that Shezaughn just doesn't want to deal with Maddox any more. He only did the audio for Biggest Problem for free(?) because his good friend Dax was one of the hosts, and probably doesn't see the need to stick around for Best Debate now that George is going off the deep end, eliminating friends and burning every bridge in sight. Sizahgne also gets plenty of money just for doing The Dick Show every week so it's not like he's can't pay the bills any more or something.
 
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I think Syoin was the only redeeming factor in George's shitpile of a podcast, although I kind of liked Rucka at first, but he got annoying and I stopped listening to it altogether. I am so glad Shazam went over to The Dick Show and is actually making some money doing it.
 
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Maddox should never have moved from his site to YouTube. Putting a face on that persona is what triggered his downfall.

It's hard to maintain your badass pirate image when you look like a used car salesman and speak in a nasally voice. For people like me who grew up with his site the illusion might have kept him going a little bit longer. The decision to create a podcast was a death sentence, Dick completely annihilated Maddox and absorbed his fanbase. Maddox fans both old new would never had sided with SJWs, he picked the wrong side and lost all cred he had left.

If you told my younger self in 1997 that 20 years later Maddox would become a big sensitive pussy I'd have told you to fuck right off.

Biggest Problems should have been called The Dick & Pussy Show.
 
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asterios said:
Hey!
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Have you brought us the Gift of Goss this fine day?

I am also interested to hear what you thought of Dear Leader's interview on the Dick Show. I assure you, everything he said was true.

@asterios I was also telling @Null a bit about that $10,000 figure you dropped on a recent show for Maddox's website. He was befuddled, because he looked at the website's code and discovered it was designed using a commonly used free template. Where exactly did the money go? Was he just gyped, or could it be he was lying to you with an impressive figure?
 
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@asterios I was also telling @Null a bit about that $10,000 figure you dropped on a recent show for Maddox's website. He was befuddled, because he looked at the website's code and discovered it was designed using a commonly used free template. Where exactly did the money go? Was he just gyped, or could it be he was lying to you with an impressive figure?
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The number I was told was 30k. I believe originally the idea was the website would be developed in conjunction with an app that would allow people to download any podcast on the network, listen, vote, and leave voice mails.
 
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asterios said:
The number I was told was 30k. I believe originally the idea was the website would be developed in conjunction with an app that would allow people to download any podcast on the network, listen, vote, and leave voice mails.
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I could've have sworn it was $10,000, I'll have to go back and listen. Regardless, I'm looking at what he has now and I don't understand why any of what he paid for seems to actually be getting used.
 
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