Zoom is perhaps the worst “person” to have inserted into the PPP vs Ralph & Dick story arc. Of all the people I’ve been exposed to on this website, Zoom is pretty much the best candidate for antisocial personality disorder (baring the extreme case of those Zoo-Sadists). That is why I put person in scare quotes, because Zoom really isn’t much of a person as he is this unreflective entity who tries to act as if there is a person embodied in that sack of shit.
That dude has almost no affect in his voice and he tries to match a raised or lowered tone based on learned social cues, but it is so fucking hollow. This isn’t just some kind of ‘tism either, his timing and vocal register are spot on, but the act is so cognitively meaningless to him that it is almost like a robot reading lines. The best way I can describe it is seeing a drawing that at first glance looks well done, but a few seconds later it becomes obvious that it was traced. There is no awkwardness in his interactions because Zoom doesn’t understand what it means to feel awkward, that is why he can socially engineer so well.
His capacity for mischief dwarfs his actual credibility. Zoom compulsively lies, even when he doesn’t need to lie, he still finds a way to do so. His motive for doing this is as shallow as it is obvious; because he can and moreover he wants to see what people will do. That is it. That is all you ever need to know about Zoom. Everybody knows this guy is a liar and yet he can still insert himself into some honest drama and make himself an actor in it through sheer effort.
There is a lot of mean shit you can say about guys like Ethan Ralph, Dick Masterson, and PPP. At the end of the day 99.7% of the traffic of this website could sit down with either of those three and still find ways to relate to them, their flaws, and their vices. You’d have an impossible time trying to do that with Zoom, there would be a simulacrum of a conversation, he’d say appropriate things, and he’d do overt behaviors that seem like he is engaged, but he wouldn’t be. He’d be going through motions he’s been practicing since childhood. He’d merely be on autopilot until you displayed some kind of potential for entertainment.
I think Null is ultimately correct in his decision to basically blacklist Zoom, but for the wrong reasons. I don’t think of Zoom as a pedophile because that carries such a strong attachment of emotional desire and need for intimacy with a certain “type”. I don’t think Zoom has a type or craves any sort of intimacy with any kind of human being, child or otherwise.
