One thing I've not noticed anyone pick up on is the weirdness of Dick calling PPP "cleft cock" when shouting at him. The cleft cock guy is Kraut, who admittedly seems to be pals with PPP now (and is doing a brilliant Millennial Woes impression). Still, it all really speaks to the strange conclusion that Dick seems to have allowed Ethan Ralph of all fucking people to have some influence over him. It looks like Dick's version of IBS history comes entirely from Ralph's version of it, which may not be entirely truthful, possibly a little self-serving and perhaps also a little confusing and difficult to remember due to not really making sense in places. Calling PPP cleft cock just looks like a mistake that someone genuinely familiar with the IBS lore and the characters involved just wouldn't make, even if they were drunk. It makes it all the stranger that Dick has ended up as a Kingpin of a bunch of IBS survivors and their retinues, even though he wasn't involved in the original run of that.
And then you have the fact that Dick probably got briefed on PPP by Ralph. That would have been "obese sperg moron who somehow has a couple hundred fans, produces unironic sermons where the comments are 'this isnt funny pls sperg moar', literally showed his arsehole on stream, got kicked out of his Church for this and now A-logs me saying it's my fault that happened even though it's not truuuueee". If you go in to a conversation with a fired up PPP based on only that wholly exoteric intel thinking you're going to just give him the Jesse treatment, then it's not going to work out as planned.
Dick is also exhibiting Ralph-esque tendencies in being drunk all the fucking time and acknowledging that he is interested in what is being said on Kiwifarms. But even Ralph knows to pretend he doesn't care about Kiwifarms and only comes on when he is so blackout drunk and salty that he can't resist the urge to shit talk King of Pol or PPP.
And it's obvious Maddax is not seething because he said lol
Ralph does this all the time, too. He also uses lmao.
Has there ever been a single internet personality that has managed to not turn into a lolcow?
Angry Video Game Nerd maybe?
He seems to stay above the drama and avoid politics so nobody gets alienated and detractors don't have much to work with. He also seems to understand what his audience wants and gives it to them without getting lazy or entitled about it. Basic professionalism, in other words.
In conclusion, when I first noticed the Dick-Gunt alliance solidifying, I had assumed that the plan was for Ralph to become less of a fuck up and more like Dick, not the other way round.