Can we get a section for the Opie and Anthony community refugees? - A community so dedicated to aspergery, we got Reddit to change its ToS

[r00]

Joe Cumia and Patrick Tomlinson aren't interesting and the O&A reddit fags never understood that. And they had their subreddit shitcanned for their trouble

I disagree about joe and patrick.
Patrick chimps like crazy with very little provocation, and joes buffoonery is constant and fucking fascinating. They are cows of the highest order.

Then why aren't they doing it in his thread? It's 10 pages long. They want a safe space to jerk each other off in and launch gayops from.

Thats a fair point. Its mostly because a lot of the pests a gigantic faggots themselves.
As far as the gayops goes, im torn. Obviously i dont want to participate, but theres something hilariously poetic about the fact that opie and anthony created that monster themselves over many years, and they sure did love the pests when they were fucking with random smalltown radio hosts for no reason.

 

[Damn Near]

I disagree about joe and patrick.
Patrick chimps like crazy with very little provocation, and joes buffoonery is constant and fucking fascinating. They are cows of the highest order.

One is a twitter liberal with TDS and the other is a confused online boomer. These aren't exactly rare things. Who the fuck cares?

 

[Banditotron]

We're not a refugee camp. Opie is a faggot and all of you radio nerds or whatever need to leave.

 

[TV's Adam West]

I am currently talking with one of the former subreddit admins (with an active O&A Youtube streaming channel) about gathering some people and making sure they understand the rules/culture of the Farms. Before we're ready to present our case to you, I want to clarify a couple things:

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1) The sub NEVER advocated IRL-trolling in an official capacity. The worst accusation that you levied that was more or less encouraged was fucking with Anthony on Twitter, particularly because Anthony doxxed people who made fun of him for being fucked by a tranny and called their schools/businesses to try to get them kicked out. After the trouble we have gotten into with Reddit, admins and prominent users were AGAINST calling Joey Cum's venues for cancellation, review-bombing Fat Tomlinson's books, and the like.

- Moreover, no one from the sub showed up at Anthony's Barnes and Nobel book signing. Those who did were a couple of fat ANTIFA-type leftists who heard Anthony Cumia was some sort of Nazi because he got fired for being a racist. Of course we laughed our asses off at this, but these people found out about the signing through Twitter and Facebook and acted independent of us. Other than that, I don't know any instances of anyone ever fucking with them IRL.

2) It's a hatedom and a fandom. Yes we would love to keep posting vids and photoshops of the associated cows, but we'd also like to discuss the episodes of the old show that we liked. There's currently no official place for that at the moment, as the current Reddit is locked for admin OPs only.

3) Yes, it was a subreddit, but none of us were typical "yikes, oof, gonald blumf, thanks for the gold!"-type Redditors who would be against the culture here. The Kiwi Farms specifically popped into my head because I thought it would be a great fit. Lots of mostly right-leaning people who just enjoy shitposting. I say boomers as a joke, but the majority of O&A fans left online are in their 20s/30s.

4) There are more than just Ant and Joe that are ripe cows that non-fans would find largely entertaining. Opie, Jim Norton, Sam Roberts, Scorch, Bobo, Sherrod Small, Carl Ruiz (RIP), Stuttering John, Beetlejuice, Lady Di, Twitchels, and those are just the primarily-related characters.
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It looks like the consensus is somewhere between mixed and against, so if either Null or the community doesn't want us, that's cool, but I'd like you to at least hear what the old admins have to say first and understand that these people are a lot like Farms posters.

I admire your dedication to the cause, but also, fuck off.

 

[Fuzhou]

Daily Reminder that the best current on air radio comedy show is, and always will be The Bob and Tom Show, Opie and Anthony only had a few times I cared enough to listen.

Also, isn't that reddit clone Voat still a fucking thing? And Can't you make forums for yourself?

 

[Love Machine]

Video killed the radio star, its time we move on from 1978 fellas.

 

[Jaimas]

They also did the April fools prank where they announced Boston's mayor died in a car crash. His family thought it was real for a bit and they got booted off the Boston stations for it.

Their rise and fall is a great example of how not to run a business, and why chasing ratings can ultimately kill your brand.

WNEW's ratings were all over the place (mostly low, it was trying to break into a market with a lot of longstanding shows), and Opie and Anthony was its biggest show (disproportionately so). The problem was how they got to be the biggest show: by being willing to cross every single line they could. As a long-time fan of edgy comedy, I can respect that. As a radio show, however, this was basically suicide, and everyone knew it except O&A's fanbase.

Now... About that fanbase. O&A's at best were indifferent to other shows and at worst flat-out hated every other show that wasn't O&A. O&A themselves were just as bad in this regard, basically shit-talking most of the other shows on the network. This made cross-promotion basically impossible for WNEW, and would inevitably lead to the death of the network. In early 2002, Opie and Anthony aggressively started shit with the Don and Mike show.

For the uninitiated, Don and Mike were a pair of industry veterans, and while they were doing abysmal in NY (fucking all of WNEW's lineup was), they were a juggernaut elsewhere (especially in DC, where they had managed to compete with Rush and win). The two were competitors for the same demographic; whereas O&A was more about the shock humor, Don and Mike were more conventional humor. For reasons I still haven't been able to fully understand, O&A took issue with Don and Mike and spent nearly 3 days of time bitching about them on air. In response, Don finally lost his shit and delivered a lengthy, insult-laden rant, and this led to both shows being suspended. However, while WNEW suspended both shows initally, O&A was allowed back on the air after only a few days - despite causing the entire incident - because WNEW was dead in the water without it. Don and Mike, meanwhile, never returned. They were still contracted, just not on the air in NY, and old episodes ran in their slot. This did not endear O&A to Don and Mike's fans and naturally, they tuned out. WNEW's already bad overall ratings got worse because as bad as Don and Mike's ratings were in NY, it was still WNEW's second-biggest show.

Less than who months later, the Saint Patrick's Cathedral Incident I mentioned in my previous post happened. This was, in turn, less than two weeks after Opie and Anthony had just been fined tens of thousands of dollars for another incident. By now, the FCC was out for blood. Opie and Anthony had been fined dozens of times over a three year period, and the FCC hit WNEW with what was, at the time, one of the biggest fines they'd ever leveraged. Ever. On top of this, there was serious consideration being given by the FCC for pulling WNEW's license entirely, due to this one show.

Inevitably, the pair were inevitably taken off the air and WNEW tried hard to keep things going by basically giving Ron and Fez basically every single time slot freed up by the departure of the other shows. This was great if you were a fan of them (general consensus is that Ron and Fez were the best show on the network), but while they were the third-best show on WNEW at the time, the loss of Opie and Anthony's fanbase made the ratings crater. WNEW basically died at this point.

 

[Cow Poly]

The lack of posting in this thread should be proof enough that a subforum would be a waste of time/space/energy. If Opie was still relevant, Jim Norton was still edgy and funny, Anthony could still get away with low-key racism, Patrice was still alive, Jocktober was still a thing, everyone didn’t hate each other and radio still existed ... then I’d say go for it. Alas...

 

[Fatal Cardiac Infarction]

Morning zoo talk shows are incredibly annoying and are only followed by the worst elements of humanity. Instant death would be preferable to having to put up with these truly truly exceptional specimens of humanity. I vote no.

 

[Hideous K]

If they learn to code and get a server running themselves then they can make their own forum with blackjacks and hookers
also I think it be a bad idea as it will go into the same problem something awful had before so thats a no for me, sorry O and P community sad to see reddit screwed you over.

 

[TheFloor]

Yes, let’s create a special section where a handful of people can continue beating a dead horse. Do it fast, because their subreddit was deleted almost a year ago and the clock is ticking. They need new recruits to continue harassing people nobody cares about. Do it for free speech!

 

[Ex Cummunicated Sasser HD]

Baba Booey Baba Booey.

Wait, that was the other one wasn't it?

 

[stinknigger 69:420]

Come on fellas. If our subreddit were still around and you guys got deleted, by golly, we'd give you refuge. Find it in your hearts to accept a friendly gang of young radio boomers. We're decent folk, we can tell the difference between those who are faggots and not a faggots. We're Mel Gibson fanatics, just like you.

Also, I heard that Patrick S. Tomlinson is gay and throws dead babies at black people.

 

[Love Machine]

Come on fellas. If our subreddit were still around and you guys got deleted, by golly, we'd give you refuge. Find it in your hearts to accept a friendly gang of young radio boomers. We're decent folk, we can tell the difference between those who are faggots and not a faggots. We're Mel Gibson fanatics, just like you.

Also, I heard that Patrick S. Tomlinson is gay and throws dead babies at black people.

Death before reddit.

 

[Joan Nyan]

I fully support making a subforum where the reddit refugees are the cows.

 

[Caesare]

. Obviously i dont want to participate, but theres something hilariously poetic about the fact that opie and anthony created that monster themselves over many years, and they sure did love the pests when they were fucking with random smalltown radio hosts for no reason.

I don't think the old pests and the guys from the reddit are the same group really. Maybe a couple are the same, idk. Anyway, the pests annoyed radio shows by posting gross and silly things on the shows Facebook pages for like a day or two during jocktober and then it was over with. Unless your show was named Scott and Todd or had two guys named John and Jeff, you shut down your Facebook for a few days are were done with it.

These reddit jerks have been doing the same shit for 6 years since the show essentially ended with Anthony's firing, and would like to continue indefinitely by coming here. That's something else entirely from what the old pests used to do. And the pests were actual fans, these people act like they hate everyone who was ever involved with the show.

 

[ForTheHoard]

I’m a fan but I’m not entirely sure how that would translate into an active board. I suppose give it a shot. If it deserves its spot, it will probably stay.

 

[r00]

I don't think the old pests and the guys from the reddit are the same group really. Maybe a couple are the same, idk. Anyway, the pests annoyed radio shows by posting gross and silly things on the shows Facebook pages for like a day or two during jocktober and then it was over with. Unless your show was named Scott and Todd or had two guys named John and Jeff, you shut down your Facebook for a few days are were done with it.

These reddit jerks have been doing the same shit for 6 years since the show essentially ended with Anthony's firing, and would like to continue indefinitely by coming here. That's something else entirely from what the old pests used to do. And the pests were actual fans, these people act like they hate everyone who was ever involved with the show.

Its a different group of retards and shut ins, but the irony is still too wonderful for me to not enjoy. Anthony and Jimmy being bullied into the states they are in now by losers on the internet spamming tranny jokes will never not be hilarious.

I'm walking back my statement of support for the pests. Inviting in the refugees probably isnt a good idea because there are a lot of mongoloids in amongst them and they do tend to shit up everywhere they go, but I'm still sad that there isnt a good place to document all the years of evidence of the major failings and hypocrisies of the people in that universe.
Here does seem like a reasonable venue if there were good archives of all the past stuff that happened, and it makes sense that it would need its own home because there is too much niche information on a too many people (including the pests) to be just dumping it in with the general cows, and because it probably wouldnt generate too much new content.

 

[TheFloor]

I don't think the old pests and the guys from the reddit are the same group really. Maybe a couple are the same, idk. Anyway, the pests annoyed radio shows by posting gross and silly things on the shows Facebook pages for like a day or two during jocktober and then it was over with. Unless your show was named Scott and Todd or had two guys named John and Jeff, you shut down your Facebook for a few days are were done with it.

These reddit jerks have been doing the same shit for 6 years since the show essentially ended with Anthony's firing, and would like to continue indefinitely by coming here. That's something else entirely from what the old pests used to do. And the pests were actual fans, these people act like they hate everyone who was ever involved with the show.

I could be wrong, but I suspect the original O&A community has long since moved on or abandoned ship because they didn’t like what the community had become. But, I guess that’s the reason for this thread - to see if there any pieces of corn left in the poop.

My opinion? I suspect it’s largely some of the Cumia wannabes (who hate Cumia, actually) who have hijacked that community and think they can pull traffic by getting “exposure” here. Several have Youtube channels with a few hundred subs, and they operate under the guise of humor while goading “the community” (which is likely more sock accounts than actual people) into attacking other shows they perceive as competition to try to shut them down. Usually these targeted shows haven’t done anything wrong, but they’ve built a small following and are pulling okay donations, so these guys manufacture reasons to go after them, generally in the form of quotes taken out of context, goofy screenshots, and wild speculation/fantasy stated as fact. And of course they mass report their channels, as well as try to get them kicked off Patreon/Streamlabs/whatever.

 

[Consider Lizärds]

Come on fellas. If our subreddit were still around and you guys got deleted, by golly, we'd give you refuge. Find it in your hearts to accept a friendly gang of young radio boomers. We're decent folk, we can tell the difference between those who are faggots and not a faggots. We're Mel Gibson fanatics, just like you.

Also, I heard that Patrick S. Tomlinson is gay and throws dead babies at black people.

If you're all like this then fuck off.