Ben Thorp ("aka Abel," more on that strange addition to his handle). He runs a YouTube channel with his 20 year-old 6/10 daughter co-hosting, desperate to get YouTube famous. Their primary method is to latch onto bigger channels in the debate and Catholic sphere and cause drama and then invite the target onto their stream to hash it out. His primary targets are debate channels and Catholic channels in the Reason and Theology channel's circle.
Speckzo suggested this Saturday, 11/19. Happy to do it anytime, just let me know!
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But what makes them lolcows is Ben Thorp's livestreaming his personal family drama. Most notably Ben Thorp setting up and livestreaming himself arguing with his wife (or ex-wife....or mom? I don't know, I could never watch the cringe horror). This oddity causes his viewers to openly object, and even call them lolcows for it, but they persist. Ben Thorp believes Catholics livestreaming family drama is the 21st Century way of doing things and calls it the "New Evangelism."
Ben & Cortney go HEAD TO HEAD on the issues of their marriage, children, and what the ROOT PROBLEM is!!
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On the "Catholic" thing: Ben Thorp says he has a masters in theology and taught it, but displays no knowledge of Catholicism any higher than what you would hear off YouTube. And even performs less in debates (he used "Judge not lest ye be judged" when Jeremiah Bannister came on stream after being targeted by Thorp to call Thorp out on his tactics and on verbally abusing his wife for YouTube views). One of the most legendary unCatholic moments was when his daughter brought on Whoremaxxer on stream to off her mom to review porn videos with Whoremaxxer with equal time spent reading the Bible on livestream. In the same livestream, Grace (the daughter) "gets schooled" by Whoremaxxer's Jewish 1990s Atheist arguments against the Bible with her saying "We're Catholic! We don't read the Bible!"
Whoremaxxer confronts Christians on the Bible and schools them HARD!btw editor Grace here: I realize I misspelled eunuchs. I was too lazy/forgot to fix it ha...
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Ben Thorp likens himself to Abel of Cain and Abel fame. He has said this a few times and believe he has received divine signs this is so. What does it mean to be like Abel? You are doing something God loves and people are jealous of you for it and so attack you. Yes, Ben, we are all jealous of you livestreaming yourself arguing with your wife.
Along with the constant instigation of drama and internet arguments they always lose, and livestreaming every member of his seven-person household, Ben Thorp is just a weird guy. He believes that his YouTube channel is a mission from God. That he and Grace receive divine signs that they are Joan of Arc and Abel.
The whole show and drama is trash, with all his internet circle telling him them to knock it off, but they're jealous of him making his wife cry on livestream for God, I guess.