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Jimmy the Giant

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Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

That was the best intro ever. Amazing. Thank you very much for having me. The political Andy Dufresne. Yes. Yeah, God, I saw that poll the other day. What is that age bracket? 13 to 27. That's more worrying. I thought it was like zero to like 15 or something.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

That was the best intro ever. Amazing. Thank you very much for having me. The political Andy Dufresne. Yes. Yeah, God, I saw that poll the other day. What is that age bracket? 13 to 27. That's more worrying. I thought it was like zero to like 15 or something.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

You're building these people. They're going to say that's part of the conspiracy.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

You're building these people. They're going to say that's part of the conspiracy.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Yeah, that's worried me more because when I first read that, I was like, ah, it's just really young people. Up to 27. That's kind of fucking crazy. Well, I swear, sorry.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Yeah, that's worried me more because when I first read that, I was like, ah, it's just really young people. Up to 27. That's kind of fucking crazy. Well, I swear, sorry.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Yeah, I've been deep in it. But I like grew up... you know, video gaming and watching YouTube. So I was like, I've always, I followed YouTube from its kind of 2008. Yeah. I think it was started in 2005, 2006. So I've seen the whole industry change. Yeah. And like how it went from just guys in their bedroom making stupid videos to now it's like what it is now, which is, it's wild.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Yeah, I've been deep in it. But I like grew up... you know, video gaming and watching YouTube. So I was like, I've always, I followed YouTube from its kind of 2008. Yeah. I think it was started in 2005, 2006. So I've seen the whole industry change. Yeah. And like how it went from just guys in their bedroom making stupid videos to now it's like what it is now, which is, it's wild.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

But yeah, it's sort of around 2016, the kind of political side started popping. Before then, it was always like the Young Turks. Maybe you'd see an odd Alex Jones video. But it was so interesting. I said this in that Alt-Right video. It was like, Back then, I wouldn't have even really been able to tell you what right and left was. Yeah.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

But yeah, it's sort of around 2016, the kind of political side started popping. Before then, it was always like the Young Turks. Maybe you'd see an odd Alex Jones video. But it was so interesting. I said this in that Alt-Right video. It was like, Back then, I wouldn't have even really been able to tell you what right and left was. Yeah.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

You were just being fed like stories and like, you know, who did 9-11 and all this sort of stuff. And it was like very different to now. Now it's very much categories and there's two camps. I mean, it's just totally my... How old are you?

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

You were just being fed like stories and like, you know, who did 9-11 and all this sort of stuff. And it was like very different to now. Now it's very much categories and there's two camps. I mean, it's just totally my... How old are you?

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

yeah I would say so I've sort of become a lefty as the left have like really fucked up and failed and I'm really optimistic you know how like trends happen where you have like the hipsters will find something or like the nerdy kids will find something then the hipsters will get on it then the popular kids get on it and then by that point the sort of

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

yeah I would say so I've sort of become a lefty as the left have like really fucked up and failed and I'm really optimistic you know how like trends happen where you have like the hipsters will find something or like the nerdy kids will find something then the hipsters will get on it then the popular kids get on it and then by that point the sort of

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

the nerds and the hipsters stop engaging with it. And I sort of feel similar-ish about right-wing politics. In the beginning, it was like interesting and different because it was counter what you were being told in school and stuff. And then now it's so mainstream.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

the nerds and the hipsters stop engaging with it. And I sort of feel similar-ish about right-wing politics. In the beginning, it was like interesting and different because it was counter what you were being told in school and stuff. And then now it's so mainstream.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

I think those people originally, the natural desire to be a little bit contrarian or just sort of explore different viewpoints, they've now sort of been self-reflective. So I think there is a percentage of people that were trapped in that kind of pipeline who have come out of it or are starting to come out of it. So I'm a bit more optimistic than a lot of people are.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

I think those people originally, the natural desire to be a little bit contrarian or just sort of explore different viewpoints, they've now sort of been self-reflective. So I think there is a percentage of people that were trapped in that kind of pipeline who have come out of it or are starting to come out of it. So I'm a bit more optimistic than a lot of people are.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

I would say I was very much like curious to find out about these topics and stuff. And it was never coming from like a place of hate or anything like that. It was just, I'm being told that, oh, the reason the gender pay gap doesn't exist is because of these facts and figures. It's not because women suck or something like that. And the mood and the vibe has definitely changed now.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

I would say I was very much like curious to find out about these topics and stuff. And it was never coming from like a place of hate or anything like that. It was just, I'm being told that, oh, the reason the gender pay gap doesn't exist is because of these facts and figures. It's not because women suck or something like that. And the mood and the vibe has definitely changed now.

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