Careercow Brandon "Bam" Margera - From Jackass to Lolcow

[ulsterscotsman]

As an aside, whatever happened to Chris Raab? From what I have gathered, he was one of the few that stayed loyal to Bam during his degeneration.

Raab drifted away from Bam and the rest no long after Viva La Bam ended and had a Drug and alcohol problem. He's has sobered up now and was working is Hollywood for a while and now has his own podcast.
He interviewed Bam on it a few years ago.

 

[TheGooGooMuck]

He mirrors letters, turns letters sideways or adds an extra stroke or two and that's it. D being "db", K is just backwards, P being mirrored Ps as well, H being diagonal with one more line through it

Legitimately, I wonder if the dude is dyslexic. When I saw his "cypher", I ignored it as schizo shit but you're absolutely right.

It's like he wrote the letters backwards and thought, "oh wait that doesn't work" - so he just tilted them and threw in some 90s emo flare. F is backwards/tilted/extra line, J is a cursive J (thats it), K backwards, L backwards, N is backwards with an N turned sideways below it, R backwards. You can see the previous cypher, the G was backwards as well.

Dude was never an artist, but this is what happens when you surround yourself with sycophants and yes men. You begin to think you are some fucking genius.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

Honestly, it doesn't even need a lot of learning. He gave up by the letter "D". From "D" on, the symbols he made up are just mostly stylized versions of the letter it's meant to represent. He mirrors letters, turns letters sideways or adds an extra stroke or two and that's it. D being "db", K is just backwards, P being mirrored Ps as well, H being diagonal with one more line through it, W just has a dumb spiral, XYZ are just long and drawn twice. Seriously, take another look at it, it's impressive how dumb it is.

He couldn't even be creative with creating a fucking cipher.
He's probably retarded enough that despite the vast majority of the letters being extremely visually similar to what they represent that he actually can't memorize it either.
He ripped off the heartagram for his brand/image so I guess it isn't surprising he'd rip off the entire fucking latin alphabet too.

It reminds me a lot of the codes in the Artemis Fowl books from the early/mid 2000's, which were designed so that literal children could crack them. IIRC they didn't even give you a complete key, there was a few lines that were translated and you had to figure it out and fill in the gaps.

 

[Arocyt]

Legitimately, I wonder if the dude is dyslexic. When I saw his "cypher", I ignored it as schizo shit but you're absolutely right.

It's like he wrote the letters backwards and thought, "oh wait that doesn't work" - so he just tilted them and threw in some 90s emo flare. F is backwards/tilted/extra line, J is a cursive J (thats it), K backwards, L backwards, N is backwards with an N turned sideways below it, R backwards. You can see the previous cypher, the G was backwards as well.

Dude was never an artist, but this is what happens when you surround yourself with sycophants and yes men. You begin to think you are some fucking genius.

Hah, I didn't even notice the G on the other sheet. I guess it being backwards was too hard for him.. Saying emo flair describes it best I think. He really did just make an edgy font that you'd see on a 14 year olds MySpace back in the day.
Not even a cipher or code really. So any issues with it isn't anything more than poor handwriting, essentially.
Oh, Bam.

 

[Odnovo]

Raab drifted away from Bam and the rest no long after Viva La Bam ended and had a Drug and alcohol problem. He's has sobered up now and was working is Hollywood for a while and now has his own podcast.
He interviewed Bam on it a few years ago.

That is surreal to see; Bam's voice is nothing like how it once was (not to mention how he looks) and Raab seems mature, articulate and intelligent, which wasn't how he seemed to be in the CKY videos.

 

[chuggachugga]

Jesus Christ.

he used to be so hot omg wow

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

Spoiler: ARCHIVE Bathroom Break Podcast #15 - Bam Margera: Pro skateboarder / TV star

 

[ulsterscotsman]

Novak let Bam get raped by a crazy fan girl one time. Bam did something to Novak that made him so pissed that he let some crazy bitch into Bams Hotel room one night with Bam waking up to her riding him.

 

[Blop]

Spoiler: ARCHIVE Bathroom Break Podcast #15 - Bam Margera: Pro skateboarder / TV star

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@Ellesse_warrior you are doing the Lord’s work with your clean-up archiving. Thank you!

 

[Creep3r]

You know, rewatching this scene is a lot more relevant today.

Showcases Bam's ability to alienate those around him and shows that even since his youth other parents didn't think he'd amount to much.

 

[Odnovo]

You know, rewatching this scene is a lot more relevant today.

Showcases Bam's ability to alienate those around him and shows that even since his youth other parents didn't think he'd amount to much.

Was it ever explained why Rake Yohn hated mustard so much? I'm still not 100% convinced that they weren't just making that up, to be honest.

 

[Denmark Mafia]

IP2 is trying to convince Bam to invest more time into streaming:
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If they succeed this could mean a ton of milk. If Bam is stupid enough to engage with IP2 it would certainly send him into an even bigger downward spiral.

Some of them are contacting him directly:

Spoiler

 

[Ita Mori]

he used to be so hot omg wow

It oughta be illegal to do this to yourself.

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Bam ate William Shatner.

 

[Eloise419]

Bam is one of many celebrities who had too much too soon. I realize that he already had issues, but when MTV put him on a pedestal and kept throwing money his way--neither of which he really deserved--nothing was going to stop him. I can't imagine nor do I want to imagine what it was like to lose your best friend/brother so suddenly and brutally, but real talk, he's using that as a crutch to justify his actions which isn't fair to either of them.

It sucks how much burned bridges with his former crew and that he hates his parents. They really want him to get help and Phil and Ape seem like decent people, even if they did spoil him too much. It's like he feels the "tough love" approach that they've been doing is more of "oh, they abandoned me. They don't love me anymore so fuck them all!"

Lastly, (and I'm SO sorry to bring up an old meme), but remember when Phil was on Celebrity Fit Club, had lost a then record amount of weight, and then Bam sent a video to the show "congratulating" him on his efforts while adding at the end "and you're still fat"?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Raab drifted away from Bam and the rest no long after Viva La Bam ended and had a Drug and alcohol problem. He's has sobered up now and was working is Hollywood for a while and now has his own podcast.
He interviewed Bam on it a few years ago.

Why is that these guys, if they manage to sober up and buy a house, always have homes that look like they were decorated by a New Jersey housewife plus a few items drunken flea-market shopping spree? Do they just walk into a Ashley Home furniture store, point to a pricey floor model set up and say “I’ll take it” and then just add some edgy Knick-knacks and art they have to complete the look?

It’s always half 90’s rich housewife furniture plus a few strange edgy items mixed together for a really tacky, ugly house of fail.

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

Spoiler: ARCHIVE Jackass the Movie - Mustard Attack!

 

[Arocyt]

Why is that these guys, if they manage to sober up and buy a house, always have homes that look like they were decorated by a New Jersey housewife plus a few items drunken flea-market shopping spree? Do they just walk into a Ashley Home furniture store, point to a pricey floor model set up and say “I’ll take it” and then just add some edgy Knick-knacks and art they have to complete the look?

It’s always half 90’s rich housewife furniture plus a few strange edgy items mixed together for a really tacky, ugly house of fail.

I always wondered about that too. I thought it was maybe wives, girlfriends or mothers just doing their thing but even guys who don't have anyone like that end up that way more often than not.
It reminds me of how Anthony Cumia told the woman doing the interior design and furniture stuff at his house, unashamedly I might add, "I want a big boy house."
Rehab and the general sober up, leave your old problems behind you mindsets usually have a way of reinforcing that whole "become as normal as possible" ideal, I think. Maybe it helps avoid relapsing since it looks more proper?
You go for the opposite of all the run-down, dirty furniture, video games and band merch since the boring people you used to laugh at are now what you need to be to say that you're a completely different person. You're mature now. You're grandma.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

I always wondered about that too. I thought it was maybe wives, girlfriends or mothers just doing their thing but even guys who don't have anyone like that end up that way more often than not.
It reminds me of how Anthony Cumia told the woman doing the interior design and furniture stuff at his house, unashamedly I might add, "I want a big boy house."
Rehab and the general sober up, leave your old problems behind you mindsets usually have a way of reinforcing that whole "become as normal as possible" ideal, I think. Maybe it helps avoid relapsing since it looks more proper?
You go for the opposite of all the run-down, dirty furniture, video games and band merch since the boring people you used to laugh at are now what you need to be to say that you're a completely different person. You're mature now. You're grandma.

I think you’re probably right about the mindset but I still find it weird for these guys. I mean they seemed to have some half way decent sense of graphic design and how they wanted decks, cover art, shirts, etc..to look. It just shocks me that doesn’t extend to where they live.

It’s like they don’t get there’s a whole lot options in between college dorm rooms/squatter trap house look and rich 1990’s grandma home. I would have assumed a stripped down minimalist/ industrial style would have been the perfect fit for them.

Cumia I 100% get that, he didn’t give a fuck, made a bunch of money and wanted a house that looked like a big rich successful guy owned it so the tranny strippers would be impressed. Sort of like half the rich assholes for the last 300 years lived in some imitation of Versailles because that was the fanciest king living house ever, so decorate my house like that!

 

[Arocyt]

Was it ever explained why Rake Yohn hated mustard so much? I'm still not 100% convinced that they weren't just making that up, to be honest.

Strong dislike or even a full-on phobia of mustard is apparently a legitimate thing, you can find stories online from people who shut down or have panic attacks over it. Like anything, I guess. But no, I can't really find anything about Rake talking about it any deeper than "I hate it" though.
I thought the freakout actually looked legit back then, the slow boil and the "you knew about this and really fucking did it you asshole" energy to it. Rewatching it now it still feels pretty real but calmer than I remember.

As a side note with the recent shift to the people around Bam getting their shit together - I always thought Dico's comment about Rake working with chemicals and how he'd pour them on them for pranking him with mustard just meant Rake worked at a factory or something.
But no, Rake apparently got a bachelor's degree in chemistry back in '97. The movie and mustard attack was 2002. He'd been a chemist for 5 damn years. Always just took him for some crazy homeless wastrel or something.

Rake upstaged Bam by being a more valuable member of society even all the way back then.
Imagine that.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

You know, rewatching this scene is a lot more relevant today.

Showcases Bam's ability to alienate those around him and shows that even since his youth other parents didn't think he'd amount to much.

Lol, both a Blockbuster Video AND a RadioShack in the background.

Was it ever explained why Rake Yohn hated mustard so much? I'm still not 100% convinced that they weren't just making that up, to be honest.

Here's the very sad backstory: