Careercow Ben Collins / Benjamin Thomas Collins / @oneunderscore__ - Journo Scum

[Nykysnottrans]

@Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet) that was phenomenal work:

Let's take it line by line, shall we?

 

[Baguette Child]

Tommy Tooter is just some dirty old pervert, and he gets his own subforum.

To be honest he really doesn't need a whole subforum anymore. Basically a dead cow with so little milk as to barely feed a single thread's worth of content relative to other livestock.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

Since I did all this in DMs I'll dump it here: behold his old "music blog" on Boston.com, Today's Soundtrack.

Yes. That is Ben Collins. That's a picture he chose. Unfortunately the actual blog is far less funny, mostly ironic at best in retrospect, so I'll spoiler it so as not to clog things up and post the most relevant take-aways.

Spoiler: NOTES

Here's the only expandable entries from the music blog (the rest are preserved in the top level entry in their entirety, https://archive.ph/3hkN5, ):
https://archive.ph/KUR0u
https://archive.ph/BebPT
https://archive.ph/0Rwff
https://archive.ph/zSNKQ
https://archive.ph/1BsbA
https://archive.ph/tj6Ck
https://archive.ph/23yBa
https://archive.ph/36dBR
https://archive.ph/6bxDf
https://archive.ph/j2RQC

Notes proper:
Some general impressions, also a mea culpa:
-This nigga never gave a shit about music really, he can't stop writing about sports in the music blog he's being paid to write. I'd call it more passion for sports and passing interest in music as a revised estimate, that was a mis-fire on my part suggesting career inertia pushed him out of music...no it pushed him out of sports. Whoops. Moving on.
-He writes here in an over-verbose pretentious way that bears non trivial similarities to how I write. This revelation has made me slightly uneasy; nobody comes out of this with any compliments.
-Not much real meat here, so to speak, with a few exceptions. Most of these notes are just irony nuggets.
-Emphasis mine unless otherwise specified, note that I'm not covering all entries, only those with the barest of relevance.

Soundtrack: OMG, Mr. President
-This one is supposed to be comedy. I don't think there's anything cancel-worthy in it but it did make me cringe and you simply never know what causes a cat 5 twittercane these days.
-He's definitely implying something uncomplimentary about Whoopi Goldberg, possibly that she's a retarded parrot, but he's not explicit about it. I don't think it's a coincidence he brings up a "cockatoo" shortly after Whoopi in this bit says the same phrase twice in a row apropos of absolutely nothing, justifying the cockatoo because of the appearance of a "pet expert". The pet expert didn't need the cockatoo, but cockatoos can be taught to speak and most people familiar with them know this. I think this is what we call a writing trick.
-Reference to unvaccinated animals.
-This bit salvageable if he was making a better thought out reference to that Lovecraft story with the alien crabs that spoke in a buzzing simulacrum of human speech, but he went with "droning" instead which seems a bit hack. Now I'm just being petty, moving on...

Soundtrack: ESPN's Coverage Fit for a King
-Ben Collins not sucking off Lebron. More importantly, for some reason this sports coverage is in the music blog. This will be a recurring theme though I'm not pointing out every instance of it.
-Missing article is about Lebron acting less than respectably, which was detailed in an ESPN article that got pulled. Ben Collins is not happy about this and very concerned about the ETHICS OF DOING THIS.
-this excerpt is ironic in retrospect, apparently none of the ethics stuff rubbed off on him:

Boston.com has the world’s best resource for anything involving journalistic ethics: Mark Leccese, the founder of the Globe’s Gatekeeper blog. He’s an ombudsman for those with a sense of humor or those in love with Adrian Beltre’s glovework. His last article, for example, is titled, "How to figure out who's really a journalist."

So, yes, he’s the perfect person to ask.

-also this one is especially ironic. considering Ben is trying to break into that field at the time, and he literally ended up becoming The Establishment:

MARK: I wouldn't go so far as to call it a "bought access" network. It does report on sports organization with which it has no contract. I'd call it an entertainment network that doesn't want to do anything to anger the sports organizations -- and the stars -- that provide ESPN with its profitable entertainment.

But I'm not surprised. My friend, the late Jack Falla, a brilliant writer who spent years as the hockey correspondent for Sports Illustrated, once wrote a letter naming the 30 things Jack learned between the ages of 30 and 60. Number 19: "Sports broadcasters aren't journalists. They're Establishment."

-*kissy noises*

BEN: This is a really big deal, isn't it? This one dumb, little thing on the Internet could really harm a major news organization. Isn't that fascinating?

Soundtrack: In Defense of a Former Pushover
-Something about his ideas of privacy and anonymity now in the context of bringing this up then, I dunno it just stuck out to me.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt (or, as you may know him, the Wizard of Oz of the Internet) scared the ironed, woolen pants off of some First Amendment lawyer-y types this week when he said this:

The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.

Then this:

Privacy is incredibly important. Privacy is not the same thing as anonymity. It's very important that Google and everyone else respects people's privacy. People have a right to privacy; it's natural; it's normal.

Ooph. Looks like my days of photoshopping Alex Rodriguez’s face into pictures that were considered illegal until the late-1960s are over.

-Making fun of other people rules moralizing

Oh no! Not the lavatory smoke detectors!
So we get it. These people clearly manage rules and/or other people. For a living. Those two were freebies, Eric Schmidt.

Today's Soundtrack: Seven More Things College Students Don't Need
-Given that Ben is the internet's hall monitor, this is pretty funny:

And they didn’t have Facebook. How lovely must that have been for them? They didn’t have Facebook for the confirmation of gossip. They didn’t have helicopter parents. They didn’t have a sensationalistic, reactionary media that called out parents for being horrible at overseeing children who would, in turn, allow parties where children drank and invited over weird, 40-year-old men named “Edward” from down the street that are probably heroin dealers.

Soundtrack: Missing Accomplished
-Brother's birthday including year working backwards:

I remember watching the first bombings from my room in the black-and-white sort of way teenagers view war. It was March 19th, 2003, and Peter Jennings had cut into programming to update us on the war, thinking this was going to happen every night. We were going to hear about the capture and cathartic justice of this set, finite enemy until that enemy did not exist anymore.

My brother had blown out the candles to his 18th birthday cake at home a few hours beforehand. I wouldn’t remember it, otherwise. It wasn’t an event like 9/11 was an era-defining cultural event. Or like Michael Jackson’s death was, oddly enough. You probably don’t remember the date that the Iraq War started, and I wouldn’t either unless it was my brother’s 18th birthday and we weren’t so tremendously inept.

Soundtrack: We're Leveling, Not Lunatics
-I can't tell if he's calling the next generation unfunny conformists, or if he's predicting they will be polite (lmao)

"What’s the difference between Americans and yogurt? One's tasty fermented milk; the other tends to be pretty polite."
It doesn't push many boundaries and it's not as funny. It's also probably the truth about this coming generation.

Noisy Stories About Home, Pt. I
-This stuck out in a bad way, dunno why, just made me make a face

“I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be doing, exactly. I feel like there are some things in the world that need to be fixed.”
“But fixing things might be boring,” I say.
“Right.”

-He had a acquaintance called Matt who was a chocolatier that lived in MA who died falling off a ladder and snapping his neck sometime prior to 2011, might be an obit out there. Prolly not relevant but is specific enough to find.

Tom Brady: Have We Done Him Wrong?
-another reference to unvaccinated animals

If Tom Brady’s best friend was an unvaccinated feral cat on Sunday, Rabies Moss would’ve gone for at least 75 yards receiving and two scores before collecting an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for collapsing into a ball in the endzone and batting feverishly at a pylon.

-multiple references to surreptitiously acquiring items from Tom Brady's property or person for reasons...
no quotes needed yet, there's a lot littered about the piece but it's a big theme here so just leaving this as a reminder

Conan's Debut? Our Maroon Landing
-claims to be "that guy" at parties, and I believe him, whether or not he's completely right about "Grown Ups" in this case:

This is too bad, of course, because I found last night’s show to be really, really funny.

I should qualify this. I’m one of those horrible people at parties who simply does not allow you to like the movie Grown Ups. I’m not proud of this, but you will wonder why you’re alive after you’ve pledged your support of that movie to me.

They make a peeing-in-the-pool joke, people. Come on.

So in this situation, I’m that guy, yes.

Nevermore Loko: We'd Miss You If We Didn't Forget About You Already
-mmmm this is telling at least to me, this one is subtle:

I’m a young man. I sometimes do young man things. I open jars that are welded shut for the perilously weak. I’m in the NFL. I help the woefully old understand new computer lingo (“BRB,” “ROTFL,” “MAYONNAISEMAYONNAISEMAYONNAISE”) to make sure they can communicate with their grandchildren the only way teenagers in captivity know how—solely in acronyms.

Strange how he'd make up most of the acronyms and phrases since that don't exist or were never used, and mixed them in with 1 true acronym BRB...even if this is technically supposed to be a joke. He doesn't joke anymore though.
-I'm not quite sure what he's referring to but I get the implication regardless, interesting he's referring to big M Media to make this point...did the media cheer banning 4loko? I didn't follow that saga back then.

I have no opinion about this law. I know that’s not allowed nowadays, here in The Media, but I’m completely ambivalent to the ban of this drink.

-the follow up, IRONIC

But I don’t care because it’s never going to affect me.

Top 100 Songs of 2010: 100-91
-listicles...a point of investigation potentially, so leaving it here

1) I used the web journalism term du jour Listicle—a combo word for list/article—when talking to an uncle at Christmas dinner about what I do for a living.
“Trust me, I’ve done a lot of listicles.”

This conversation turned very quickly. And,

-References to gays and gay rights out of nowhere.

This would be an ideal place to bring up the fact that gay rights took an almost incalculable leap this year. I could bring up how America’s funniest sitcom couple—even to consensus straight people—might be a gay couple on ABC’s Modern Family. I could talk about how Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has been repealed to the protestations of only the ornery. I could mention how the Westboro Baptist Church went to protest the Laramie Project in this state twice this year and, each time, their hatebus drove away in embarrassment without ever getting a chance to stop.

Top 100 Songs of 2010: 90-81
-Sucking off Australia for reasons unrelated to Australia and Ben Collins current aspirations (totalitarian hellhole and party commissar, respectively) is amusing in retrospect.

Australia is gaining on us considerably. Passenger is writing twangy alt-country songs better than anyone in Nashville. And Newstopia is doing fake news better than anyone in this country ever has. They’re also better at explaining the electoral college than any news outlet here.

-This is another one that's very very ironic considering Ben's current career:

Wait, that’s right: Nobody died in that. They completely dominated that task. Thirty-three for thirty-three. If Chilean Miner Rescue was an X-Box game, they weren’t playing it on easy. They were playing it on broken.
This was, in fact, the best news story in years and it will be impossible to explain to anyone who was born after 2004 when it’s brought up in passing in 15 years.

Future 20-year-old: “Hold on. Thirty-three miners were trapped in a mine, there was elaborate news coverage anyone could follow even though this wasn’t in the United States, there were awesome infographics, all of the petty, gossipy intrigue was limited to one miner and an affair, we got just about one inspirational story per day, then all of them were rescued by way of groundbreaking technology, and all of them were in good health, so much so that one of the miners went on David Letterman to sing an Elvis song, like, two weeks later?”

You: “Yes.”

Future 20-year-old: “You’re telling me it wasn’t a celebrity drowning a puppy and it was on the news?”

You: “Yes.”

Future 20-year-old: “Don’t believe it.”

Top 100 Songs of 2010: 80-71
-Another weird aside about gays
79 - Fresh & Onlys - Waterfall (yes, the entire damn thing)
-possible reference to girlfriend, probably not specific enough but you never know.

Someone willed me to see them with some Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You-level Kennedian rhetoric on Halloween night this year. She should receive an award.
“They sound like Maroon 5 if they had any edge or character whatsoever,” she said.

Holy fuck the biggest part of this my retarded ass missed until the very end:

About the author
Ben Collins can't help but search beyond Feist for the zeitgeist of Today's Soundtrack, his pick of a song or songs capturing the mood or events of the moment. His musical tastes vary from Strawberry Fields to The Magnetic Fields, from Low to Skee-Lo. A North Shore native, Ben has worked at The Boston Globe and Spin and is an Emerson grad. Make your own nominations to him at ben.t.collins@comcast.net or on Twitter @globesoundtrack. More »

tl;dr

• His comcast .net address is ben.t.collins@comcast.net
• His brother, according to him (and assuming I can do math) was born March 19th 1985.
• He makes out of place references to gays and gay rights.
• He can't stop writing about sports even when it has no place in his writing (you'd be forgiven for forgetting this is supposed to be a music blog).
• He had a chocolatier acquaintance called Matt who died falling off a ladder somewhere in MA sometime prior to 2011, and likely after 2006 (see within Noisy Stories from Home Part 1). This should be checkable, but unless he's actually making it up for content, it's not super relevant.
• He thinks unvaccinated animals are a hilarious joke enhancer.
• Easily 50% of what he's written here comes off as extremely fake and definitely ironic as fuck in light of his writing now. Or he's being fake now. Or he's an actual sociopath who is entirely fake and skinwalks because that's what they do. I tend to believe the latter since he lies as much as he does.
• He admits to writing listicles, which I point out more for investigative purposes than humor purposes.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

Continuing the DM dump with slight edits to wording: dox verification methodology since Ben Collins '10 likes to pretend he hasn't been doxed. Yes, I did this before (as in verified the existing dox found much earlier by someone else), but I took words out of it and go over the possible rebuttals and ways to disprove it to cover all possible exits.

Verification as outlined in that post was as follows:
-Checking around to verify what the hell his name actually was. This led me to alumni articles, and of specific interest this one: https://archive.ph/1CZcH as this confirms he graduated from Emerson College in 2010.
-Checking Emerson College yearbooks, specifically 2010 page 119, which leads to the only 2010 Benjamin Collins on record being Benjamin Thomas Collins. To be extra sure I checked yearbooks 10 years in each direction, and did not find any indications of another Ben Collins this could possibly be from the same college. I've attached the yearbook in question.
-At this point, if I had found the tweet where he says what day he was born (Feb 17) strictly speaking it was a matter of checking every probable birth year in every voting district in NY (so 5 possible choices multiplied by around 50 districts iirc) and reverse engineering zip code using process of elimination (not as hard as it sounds, but is tedious, I forget the math that would have been involved for this part), however instead I found the original dox which likely did exactly those things to find his exact birthday, Feb 17 1988, and his zip code, 10128 (specifically 10128-1012),
-Plugging in his correct name, birthdate, zip, and county into https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov yields the following (2nd image already posted by Mrs Bucket ):


The only wiggle room I can find is there being a entirely unrelated Benjamin Thomas Collins which also lives in New York county who is almost the exact same age as NBC's Benjamin Thomas Collins and is ALSO registered to vote (something that is far from universal).

The odds of this are very very low though, but completely verifying the dox would involve dancing a very fine line with breaking site rules, so don't do it, but it also seems like entirely too much work when the only ways to falsify the dox are so unlikely.

To disprove the dox he needs to find his doppelganger and take a selfie with his doppelganger holding up his doppelganger's voter card and state ID side by side, or secretly move somewhere else (which is what Taylor Lorenz seems to do). I don't think either is happening since I'm pretty sure there's no doppelganger for one, and for two his family is all still in MA according to him, and it sounds like he just plain enjoys NYC. I just don't think he's paranoid enough to set up an elaborate fake person to throw people off, but he's definitely paranoid enough to try to wipe himself off the net.

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On faildoxes (rephrased significantly from DMs):
Since Ben Collins of MSNBC likes to pretend that he hasn't been doxed by bringing up supposed faildoxes while ignoring the actual dox (which I think is true motivation for the butthurt towards KF and Null specifically), he will mention a couple of things every single time: How he's been called a Vanderbilt beneficiary, something I found very little on outside of Ben himself claiming it, and how he's confused with The Stig.

The Ben Collins who was The Stig for a time is easy to figure out, and this Ben obviously proud of this one, but the Vanderbilt one seems to firmly exist in the Sociopath Truth Zone. To investigate this one, start with this twitter thread:

Fear The Floof or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Roast the Bluec…

archived 22 Nov 2022 05:15:26 UTC

archive.ph

Scroll down past the part on Taylor Lorenz and you will find the section on Ben Collins. The section on Benjamin Thomas Collins has inaccuracies (that nigga ain't 47, y'all got Stigged) but brings up aspects which are true, such as coming from wealth, but most importantly, it is part of a big ass tweet thread and the section Ben Collins is immediately followed by identifying Anderson Cooper's picture as a Vanderbilt. So we go from "Ben Collins is rich" to "Anderson Cooper is a Vanderbilt" but Anderson Cooper is only pictured, not named in text.

In the Sociopath Truth Zone, there is enough there to say "I was incorrectly identified as a Vanderbilt beneficiary" which if he's ever pressed on, Ben Collins '10 can claim:
1) Some random nutter on twitter, facebook, or some now deleted Qanon forum claimed it so it's true (un-falsifiable in all likelihood, and even if it isn't, come on, N = 1).
2) "I didn't notice that tweet about Vanderbilts wasn't about me, oops" (prove it wasn't a mistake, un-falsifiable).

We all know these are lies, and he knows these are lies, but the energy required to prove that is simply not something anyone but the craziest most petty of motherfuckers has, so Ben skates by because he also knows this.

If anyone can provide a rebuttal to this speculation, please do, because while it'd be really funny if he was actually lying about a faildox this blatantly, the truth is preferable to humorous fiction when dealing with a professional liar.

e: spelling errors

 

[KiwiFuzz]

I watch a shitton of MSNBC and I have had a hate boner for this one for a while.

Every time he is on, he says something factually wrong.

My favorite is when he said TheDonald.win was created to plan for January 6th.

My second favorite is when he was talking about new social media sites and he said Twitter's been around since the beginning of the internet.

I will share any further TV stupidity I come across.

 

[Sprate Header]

@HarblMcDavid can't reply but I like "Sociopath Truth Zone" - it's such a perfect description of how these bug people operate (while simultaneously claiming to be Holy Arbiters of Truth). I'm stealing that lol

 

[KiwiFuzz]

Did the OP have his thesis? It's about Anonymous.

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/94142947/2017_Collins_Ben_1037094_ethesis.pdf

Also, this interview with Maddow made me stupider:

Right-Wing Resists Facts About Extremist Violence To Preserve Identity Of Victimhood

Ben Collins, senior reporter for NBC News, talks with Rachel Maddow about how right-wing conspiracy theorists actively avoid the facts that debunk their theo...

www.youtube.com

 

[CervixHammer]

(article, archive)
Nice to know you thought about us today, Ben!

"hello new platform can I interest you in losing your appetite?"

 

[Bitcoin Henchman]

What the fuck even is that weird bug paste looking shitwich

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[Kookin]

What the fuck even is that weird bug paste looking shitwich

Like once mentioned back in the thread, it's a chop suey sandwich. As the boston eater describes:

chop suey sandwich is almost entirely made of bean sprouts, plus bits of chicken, in a mild, glossy sauce thickened with cornstarch.

Whether it tastes good or not, they make little to no mention the obviously distressing sluggish visual one could imagine would feel in their mouthes at a glance. Apparently it has its roots in Salem, Massachusetts at some Chinese American "restaurant" that opened in 1912. One can wonder why they've recently closed business.

I can forgive the disgusting visual of the inners of the sandwich if it were meant to be eaten cold, like many asian foods are supposed to. But this bun on top implies you're supposed to eat that stuff in bites. Let alone the fact it absolutely would feel like eating a wet sandwich. Ben Collins is a faggot, apparently so much so that he's willing to bring up this obscure local disaster on every platfrom like it's some sort of cultural enrichment. Sure Ben, we now know of this horrid product of american culture, but you've gotta ask yourself how much people can stomach that sort of info as culturally enriching or just utter local deviancy.
So congrats, Ben, I now know of a "delicacy" so disgusting it's only second to Balut (duck fetus eaten out of the egg).

 

[Ethics Gradient]

Every time he is on, he says something factually wrong.

Ben is not stupid,. He must know - in some deep squishy part of his subconscious - that he is fabricating.

Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair were just like him.

Although, ironically Glass and Blair fucked their careers up covering high-stakes news of global interest (eg D.C. sniper attacks) for major news papers, not retarded internet drama for NBC.

There was a quote from Glass' old editor at the New Republic which i dug from the wikipedia article. Although it's about Glass, it could just as easily be Ben Collins:

"We extended normal human trust to someone who basically lacked a conscience... We busy, friendly folks, were no match for such a willful deceiver... We thought Glass was interested in our personal lives, or our struggles with work, and we thought it was because he cared. Actually, it was all about sizing us up and searching for vulnerabilities. What we saw as concern was actually contempt."

 

[Meat Target]

Ben is not stupid,. He must know - in some deep squishy part of his subconscious - that he is fabricating.

Hanlon's Razor is a cop-out for the corrupt and amoral.

 

[F13 Key]

I recall it said elsewhere that the standard for journoscum thread approval is a bit higher than normal, and they have to be cow first, journo second. Taylor Lorenz made the cut easily. Collins feels to me like he needs just a bit more seasoning before he can be elevated from merely being a pathetic soybeard faggot with a silver spoon up his ass. Fortunately he's almost inevitably going to slip in a pool of stale chop suey, his own semen, and lies, have another meltdown on twitter, and get there fast.

 

[AnOminous]

Also where would this thread go? InternetFamous? Stinkditch?

Internet Famous. It's already full of people who either aren't lolcows at all or only have threads because they might hypothetically become lolcows in the future.

Also the whole turn the other cheek thing hasn't really worked out too well and has just emboldened these creepy fucks. This pussy waited by his own admission to do a "news" story on us until he had a "kill shot," nice objectivity there Ben you faggot. That's because he was afraid of exactly something like this thread about himself.

After all, only the privileged class gets to take potshots at the rest of us, dox us, and get it called "journalism" instead of just defamation. Well what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

This would also hardly be the first "enemy of the site" thread. That would probably be Greta and Nina.

You could count Samuel Collingwood Smith as well, but he is actually a massive lolcow in addition to being an enemy of the site, even if he's leaning horrorcow somewhat.

Ben is not stupid,. He must know - in some deep squishy part of his subconscious - that he is fabricating.

Ben is stupid. Very stupid. The Meghan McCain article shows that and so does his idiotic "kill shot" strategy, which involved him relying on a deranged child grooming troon as some kind of Doomsday Weapon, as if when he got the site down, everyone on it would just suddenly disappear and wouldn't have him on a shit list for the rest of his life.

He is deeply, dangerously dumb and also knows he's lying.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

One of the things that I genuinely dislike about this man is that he doesn't seem interested in the people he's allegedly an expert in.

Powerlevel but I am super into cults, I find them fascinating. Having read a lot of the literature on certain cults, you can tell which authors get it and which authors don't.

The ones who don't get it have certain hallmarks. Throwing together a few different groups while leaving out others, taking quotes out of context, not spending any effort to determine how different beliefs and practices originated, and, most tellingly of all, "othering" the cult members. They make these mistakes because they don't really care enough to take what the group says about itself seriously.

For example, a lot of the dialogue about Kanye this week makes it sound like he got a lot of the really crazy shit about the Jews from idk, Nick Fuentes? But there's actually a long history of certain African-American groups developing very weird beliefs about the Jews.

I know this kind of stuff because I am interested in cults so I can make connections between what Kanye said and four other groups that are 100% black, are 100% weird about the Jews, and which have some degree of penetration into larger culture. I'm not an expert, but I think I could throw out some insights.

Ben Collins is not this kind of person. He's not interested in extremism, he doesn't care about the different strains of extremest ideology, and he thinks all extremists are stupid/crazy/evil.

You can tell in his reporting.

He is worse than an infidel, he is, may Allah forgive me for saying this, a normie.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Ben Collins' opinion on Matt Taibi's Hunter Biden thread today.




It's hilarious how he's quite possibly the worst person to be saying this, considering he's literally paypigging for a child grooming tranny pedophile.

 

[Trianon]

The DM retention questions seal it for me though, because there is no reason to ask this question the way he asked it if he isn't worried about a misdeed of his coming to light.

He definitely wouldn't want to end up in a situation where one of the following happens, and at this point either is a possibility Ben Collins would have to worry about:
1) One of his bosses reaches down, finds a pair of testicles, and tells Ben they're going to need to investigate. Slim chance, we see what Ben is allowed to publish, but it's possible, and this exact situation is more than enough to launch an investigation if they wanted it to happen. Which would mean he needs to show his phone...and his twitter DMs. The only thing more embarrassing that getting outed for paying sources for access is getting outed for that by your boss because one of your sources tarded their way into accidentally implicating you over an unrelated donation which led to an investigation.
2) Destiny sues Keffals, and discovery happens. This is unlikely as well, but Destiny went to the trouble of actually retaining Canadian counsel so to someone trying to hide their crimes, this is more of a threat than it might seem. Note how he mentioned DMs on other devices being his primary worry. Come on now.

You forgot a very pressing change in the media landscape that has Ben panicking about DMs. It's Elon himself. A big factor in the freakout over Matt Taibbi's reporting on Twitter internal communications is that Elon technically owns all DMs and emails that have crossed Twitter's threshold. If any of that information were to prove newsworthy, these journo-activists fear that he could leak their own words and reveal their illegal or unethical activity. Their collusion, you might say.

Whether there's any real danger of Elon leaking users' DMs doesn't matter; they fully believe he is capable of it, and they are trying to figure out how they can possibly stop it. The people Elon fired were their friends and their safety net. Now they have to rethink everything they've sent over the past six years, 25 tweets a day, and they are freaked about it.

To them, Elon is a bad, powerful billionaire, but the former Twitter execs were "just regular people" doing "regular" things. But Ben never thinks other private citizens are off-limits. His constant appeal to speaking truth to power is just a way to keep his own.

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Ben Collins' opinion on Matt Taibi's Hunter Biden thread today.

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It's hilarious how he's quite possibly the worst person to be saying this, considering he's literally paypigging for a child grooming tranny pedophile.

But let's give Ben credit: his beef with Elon goes back a ways (link / archive). He got into a slap fight with him when Elon tweeted an article written by NXIVM cult members, with Ben immediately taking Elon's media criticism as a direct threat on his life and livelihood.

The deleted tweets in this thread are from troon journo Parker Molloy, who was so annoying he got banned from the journo.list on the fediverse after being there for a couple of hours.



To those doubting Ben's lolcow potential, his Twitter usage shows that he is an insanely thin-skinned, dramatic narcissist whose ability to make everything about himself sets him apart from even the slimiest of his co-journalists. His earnest "theater kid" shtick means he frequently plays up his reactions without knowing how they will be received, and this leads to him frequently becoming Twitter's main character of the day, receiving backlash from both the right and the left. Yes, lots of journalists or media pundits exist in this state (think Brian Stelter), but Ben's need to constantly insert himself into the story means he will act just as aggrieved over a "mistaken" Twitch donation as a literal mass shooting. He has no sense of scale and will always go too far.

A pretty good summation from today (his critics also conflate 4chan with "war" because that is how Ben reports EVERYTHING):

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Finally, in addition to the "toothache" story, he spent his time blaming Tucker Carlson and the right wing over the Colorado Springs gay club shooting for a few days (as seen in the OP), and then when he found out the shooter was nonbinary, he immediately switched gears and blamed the whole woeful saga on Encyclopedia Dramatica:
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This makes him an able propagandist, of course, but it takes true sociopathy to go on TV, cry about shooting victims while reading your own headlines, and then turn around and ask us to feel so, so sorry for the shooter when he no longer serves the narrative. It's beyond regular political brain poisoning, it takes a true inability to feel.

 

[AnOminous]

The dude is a pathetic joke and makes gutter whores look honorable in comparison.

 

[make_it_so]

That 's not a sandwich. Someone put a burger bun in a box of worms.

I remember MovieBob's brother, Chris Chipman, doing some similar celebration of that utterly disgusting slop.

 

[Baraadmirer]

Your going in the manifesto as inspiration Benny

You're, please, not your. I normally don't care when people make grammatical errors in posts, but let's polish that OP, @Corn_PoP_dat_Puss .

Collins looks like he's well on his way to being a lowcow.

For a moment I thought I was on the Jack Scalfani thread.