Okay, some key takeaways I'm sure all of you have asked for.
I guess I'm in the same boat as a lot of other people: PPP, Godwinson, LeoPirate, and whoever else is part of their crew do the shit they do just to fuck with Ralph and Dick. Whether or not they have a smoking gun on their side remains to be seen; all that matters for them is that they're fucking with their heads. And while I'd hesitate to call myself a PPP fan anytime soon, I'll give that morbidly obese, pasty, lithping leaf credit where it's due: it seems to be working out quite well for him—the reactions of those two to him...haven't been the best. Why is Ashton doing this? Well, I'd say half of it is fucking boredom with everyone all cooped up in their homes these days and no truly major Internet drama happening outside of maybe the iDubbbz thing, and the other half of it is to keep up his spergy rivalry with Ralph.
Which brings me to this: who is PPP and crew's main target, Ralph or Dick? To which I say, well:
I think Ralph was their original endgame because, well, he and PPP have quite the history with each other, and it likely explains why PPP and Leo didn't delve too deep into Dick's alleged connection with Zoom during their talk with Jim, which appears to be the one thing that's really soured people's opinions on Dick. There's also the idea of a wrassling match between PPP and Ralph meant to settle their rivalry floating in the air that, even if both of them are intent on showing up, has a precisely 0% chance of happening because Valor and Tim Loy won't touch these people with a ten-foot pole after the Warski/Tonka non-fight cost them money and especially not now with corona fucking things up for
everyone. But then after Ralph ended that Killstream early to throw some cookies into the toilet, PPP and co.'s craving for blood intensified, and they decided to switch their sights to Dick. Makes sense—after all, what kicked things off were those texts of his. And it seems like this whole debacle cemented people's perceptions of him as a cow—his performance on Nick's stream was pretty bad, and I don't think even the staunchest of his supporters can defend his bringing Zoom into this mess, making things a lot...messier. His thread is in Internet Famous now for a reason.
So, yeah, Dick and Ralph are being targeted pretty equally right now. Now, will this hurt them in the long run? Well, Ralph has been on, what, his eleventh meltdown since Knoxville, so I don't think things are going to change too much for him. As for Dick, I see him going the Sargon route in that he'll continue to have a decently sized audience but regardless of that his reputation has definitely taken a huge hit. But maybe the opposite will happen because I'm shit at predictions and they're both fucked into the dirt. I guess it all depends on how Leo's video will turn out...if he even drops it at all. Even if he does, I doubt there'll be a huge blowout on the scale of something like MundaneMatt or Tonka. We probably won't learn anything from it that we don't already know outside of
maybe who flagged PPP, which I honestly do hope they'll get to the bottom of. But even if they don't, I seriously doubt they give a fuck. Again, they just want to fuck with Ralph and Dick. That's the
TL;DR of it.
Oh, and every single last person involved in this shit is a faggot.