Oh, Joshintosh, never change you crazy fucking diamond.
I probably should have read this whole thread, but this nutcase was on people's radars for years, even before he started in with Scamkesian. Back before 9-11 he was an anti-corporate "media hacker" who did stupid shit and marched in anti-capitalist marches.
Which is pretty funny when you look at his dad and his family.
Dad a CEO? Check
Mother a Nutcase? Check
Homeschooled? Check
Extremely sheltered and privileged? Check a mundo, Fonzi.
Then 9-11 happened, and this shit broke his brain. Some rumors say he witnessed that shit himself, others just point at the fact that it destroyed his upper-class brain.
He's a goddamn crazy person. Not in a "ha-ha, he's so crazy" internet fashion, but in an actual fucking crazy person way.
You can tell he's been self-medicating with booze for awhile. I mean, the unshaven, yellowish eyes, puffy face, shambling car wreck looks like hard core alcoholism. The way he flinches when people reach toward him, the way he hangs his head like a naughty little boy, and the way he completely rejects masculinity just screams "My brain is broken". From the way Scamkesian treated him, to the way he tries unsuccessfully to tell everyone that everything they like is naughty, to the way you can tell this soft manchild has never actually worked a fucking job in his life.
Some part of me feels bad for the guy. He's rich as shit, with a family that owns a private fucking island, and he's stumbling around with untreated mental illness. I'm kinda a softy in some ways.
Then the rest of me looks at the bullshit he spouts and the effect he had on pop culture, and wants to just point and laugh, because I'm old, and old people are dicks.