Ryan Broderick

I mean, he's doing that like performative lib thing of like, I'm going to make this like really boring story into a multi post thread that like sucks.

And I suck.

And he, he later claimed that he had, he received a visit from child protective services and,

and he talks about all this in a 2023 podcast episode hosted by Amanda Knox, uh, of course.

And so, yeah, he had a history of like edgy, dumb, awful posts where, you know, he's writing things like to his friend, I'm going to rape you next time I see you.

Or he's got a racist one where it's like maybe half, maybe the white half of you saying this to a mixed race person, maybe the white half of you that went to law school can get the black half out of jail on some boohoo technicality.

Like he was clearly just like an idiot, uh,

And who's always been awful.

I don't know.

I remember being like, the reason I always come back to the story is I remember feeling like something, something had shifted and something like something felt very disturbing to me about this, where I was like,

the sort of nature of I accidentally went viral shifts a lot.

And it felt like, you know, we all go into lockdown.

We, and then the world starts to come way more online.

And a lot of the old kind of rules around how we would treat this sort of thing went out the window.

Eternal September would be the term for this sort of thing.

And I remember looking at this and just being like, I shouldn't know about this guy.

Like, I shouldn't be aware of this man.

Like, I don't really care.

But it was so intense.

Like, it was a really... And then, you know, obviously, it's ethered from the culture immediately after by something more important.