Billy is more obsessed with children's television than SU autists, which for someone who runs a website supposedly based around fighting censorship in videogames raises quite a lot of red flags. I'm not calling Billy a pedophile but I am saying the fact that no one over the age of 12 would ever willingly touch him probably severely limits his options.
Billy went off the deep end a long time ago so it's mainly just more and more people being exposed to his craziness overwhelming his loyal army of braindead followers who will defend anything their idol does regardless of how batshit insane it is. He's like the DSP of internet bloggers. Any microscopic semblance of credibility he still had vanished completely after the "but I have to" fiasco.
His articles are just the same document copypasted with the only difference being him using replace to change the names of whatever he was mad about last time with whatever he's mad about currently. You could make a bingo card for him with spaces like "incoherent rambling about centrists" and you'd win every single time.
Oh, I absolutely agree. The thing about Billyboy is that you have to know how he got where he had an audience to begin with. His rise was absolutely due to what can be called the "any port in a storm" paradigm. See, when you make a topic
verboten (which is what exactly what happened with numerous topics in gaming over the two month lead-in to the Autism Holy War), you create a situation where anyone who has a platform and the ability to actually talk about things that are otherwise not allowed to be discussed can potentially stumble right in and carve a niche. All the attempt to render it unable to be discussed does is ensure that you make the common folk unable to discuss it on your platform of choice in the short term, harden attitudes, and guarantee that a shithead like Usher rises to the surface to take advantage. This is the same pattern Rebel Media's exploited, as have countless others.
However, Billyboy fell into the same category as many others who did this, in that while he was able to draw in a crowd, his actual
viewpoints are a complete joke and would chase off most sensible people if they became known. This would be the same thing that ultimately cut the legs out from under the likes of Matt Jarbo, Richard Spencer, and so on. He's a gigantic prick, who is just as much of an Authoritarian dickwaffle as the people he bitches loudest about, and the only reason he was able to maintain an audience the way he did was by keeping his spaghetti in his pockets to a certain degree. But familiarity breeds contempt, and eventually once he was confident that his audience saw the way he did, he let the mask slip. Problem? They
didn't see how he did, and when he let his true nature be known people bolted for the door, as they should have. His blow-up over Arthur wasn't some single moment, it was his real nature becoming known and his audience reacting the same way Jarbo and Spencer's did.
I happen to be of the belief that Billy was always this level of sped, and the only reason this worked is because he kept the act going. I know a couple of people who really liked his content back when he first started, when he'd cover a lot that other outlets wouldn't, but I remember
very clearly the sperg-fights he used to get into at a drop of a hat, and how he completely flew off the handle, launching into Homer-class ranting and raving with minimal provocation. This is to say nothing of how hilarious he got when people told him to calm the fuck down. The signs were already there, in other words.
For me, the high point of his career would be his pissing off a WF chat moderator to the point where they called him the N-word like 11 times, and he didn't really do anything to cause that.
