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Mia Wong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

And eventually he's forced to reveal that he paid someone to level his Path of Exile 2 account, and then he claims that he never claimed that it was his Path of Exile 2 account. And this, Jenny Wiley, has been a real problem for him because it pissed off the entire gaming scene.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

And eventually he's forced to reveal that he paid someone to level his Path of Exile 2 account, and then he claims that he never claimed that it was his Path of Exile 2 account. And this, Jenny Wiley, has been a real problem for him because it pissed off the entire gaming scene.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

So you have videos with millions of views from guys like Asmogold, who is a very famous right-wing streamer who sucks ass, is a turbo right-winger, spends his time screaming about how black people in video games is DEI and woke and how it's destroying the video game industry. And fucking Asmogold is watching this video and being like, this guy is a lying piece of shit, what the fuck?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

So you have videos with millions of views from guys like Asmogold, who is a very famous right-wing streamer who sucks ass, is a turbo right-winger, spends his time screaming about how black people in video games is DEI and woke and how it's destroying the video game industry. And fucking Asmogold is watching this video and being like, this guy is a lying piece of shit, what the fuck?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

So you have videos with millions of views from guys like Asmogold, who is a very famous right-wing streamer who sucks ass, is a turbo right-winger, spends his time screaming about how black people in video games is DEI and woke and how it's destroying the video game industry. And fucking Asmogold is watching this video and being like, this guy is a lying piece of shit, what the fuck?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

And, like, everyone fucking reacts like this. It's genuinely wild. I've never actually seen people, like, react to this, to, like, to Elon like this. And, like, again, this is his allies on the right taking one look at this and being like, wait, this guy's just, like, lying.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

And, like, everyone fucking reacts like this. It's genuinely wild. I've never actually seen people, like, react to this, to, like, to Elon like this. And, like, again, this is his allies on the right taking one look at this and being like, wait, this guy's just, like, lying.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

And, like, everyone fucking reacts like this. It's genuinely wild. I've never actually seen people, like, react to this, to, like, to Elon like this. And, like, again, this is his allies on the right taking one look at this and being like, wait, this guy's just, like, lying.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Now, what's interesting about this to some extent is that, like, again, his whole thing here is he's trying to, like, pretend that he's, like, a pro gamer or whatever, but his affect is still largely targeted towards non-gamers in the sense that, like, there's no way... I mean, okay, I guess it is possible that he genuinely is so ignorant that he believed that he could just pretend to be a Topolopex Path of Exile player on a stream using someone else's account.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Now, what's interesting about this to some extent is that, like, again, his whole thing here is he's trying to, like, pretend that he's, like, a pro gamer or whatever, but his affect is still largely targeted towards non-gamers in the sense that, like, there's no way... I mean, okay, I guess it is possible that he genuinely is so ignorant that he believed that he could just pretend to be a Topolopex Path of Exile player on a stream using someone else's account.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Now, what's interesting about this to some extent is that, like, again, his whole thing here is he's trying to, like, pretend that he's, like, a pro gamer or whatever, but his affect is still largely targeted towards non-gamers in the sense that, like, there's no way... I mean, okay, I guess it is possible that he genuinely is so ignorant that he believed that he could just pretend to be a Topolopex Path of Exile player on a stream using someone else's account.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

But, like, there's no way anyone who plays video games could fall for that. And a lot of people he talks to about this stuff are people like Joe Rogan, who aren't, like, gamer TM people, right? It's a lot of people who aren't gamers that he's sort of hyping up his reputation with. And so he's really, on the one hand, yeah, he is signaling to his sort of fascist base.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

But, like, there's no way anyone who plays video games could fall for that. And a lot of people he talks to about this stuff are people like Joe Rogan, who aren't, like, gamer TM people, right? It's a lot of people who aren't gamers that he's sort of hyping up his reputation with. And so he's really, on the one hand, yeah, he is signaling to his sort of fascist base.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

But, like, there's no way anyone who plays video games could fall for that. And a lot of people he talks to about this stuff are people like Joe Rogan, who aren't, like, gamer TM people, right? It's a lot of people who aren't gamers that he's sort of hyping up his reputation with. And so he's really, on the one hand, yeah, he is signaling to his sort of fascist base.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

But on the other hand, he's trying to use this sort of cultural cachet of gaming as this sort of renegade right-wing phenomenon to launder his reputation. Except he fucked up. Because he spent all of this time trying to...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

But on the other hand, he's trying to use this sort of cultural cachet of gaming as this sort of renegade right-wing phenomenon to launder his reputation. Except he fucked up. Because he spent all of this time trying to...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

But on the other hand, he's trying to use this sort of cultural cachet of gaming as this sort of renegade right-wing phenomenon to launder his reputation. Except he fucked up. Because he spent all of this time trying to...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

pretend to be a gamer but the thing about gamers is that like there is literally an entire genre of video like on YouTube that is very very popular that is just like people exposing people who cheated video games and cheated records of video games and Elon has walked just like directly into this bear trap right and

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

pretend to be a gamer but the thing about gamers is that like there is literally an entire genre of video like on YouTube that is very very popular that is just like people exposing people who cheated video games and cheated records of video games and Elon has walked just like directly into this bear trap right and

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

pretend to be a gamer but the thing about gamers is that like there is literally an entire genre of video like on YouTube that is very very popular that is just like people exposing people who cheated video games and cheated records of video games and Elon has walked just like directly into this bear trap right and