Ryan Broderick

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And then we get a really dark turn.

Do you remember what happens next in this story, Taylor?

No.

So the Daily Beast writes a headline titled, he went viral over claims of shrimp in his cereal.

Then things got dark fast.

And basically former girlfriends accused Karp of manipulation and abusive behavior.

And then there's other allegations that are circulating that he ripped off black writers ideas and screamed at his coworkers and was just an all around bad dude.

um and so yeah basically everyone kind of waited for this viral moment to be like this guy this guy's a really bad guy yeah okay i'm sorry there's a lot of bad people in the world but this also feel what year did this happen ryan was this 2021 this incident is actually when i time stamp the beginning of this accepted wisdom that if you have a viral post you are now a celebrity

And you are now beholden to all of the responsibilities of a celebrity because at this point, and I think, I think COVID had like lockdown had to happen because you had to get enough people online to go like, Oh, okay.

So the internet's like the thing now.

Yes.

And then you have like this viral post in the spring of 2021 and everyone's like, yeah, let's meet to this guy.

Uh, like, and I'm not saying that he's a good guy or this shouldn't happen, but like, we're talking about a man who had like a viral post about cereal, uh, complaining about cereal.

I kind of feel like it's,

he put those shrimp tails in that cereal.

Oh yeah, probably.

I mean, I was, I'm looking at it right now.

Like I could see that being cinnamon though.

There's one that looks like a shrimp tail, but the other one looks like cinnamon.