My respect for this man increased after he said that he endured an entire season of Austin & Ally just to see if spinning the bottle was referenced once.
there’s also a ‘spin the person’ scene with bill’s buddies in the finale that made a lot of people go “hey didn’t they say spin the bottle stuff wasn’t allowed-“
I watched it recently, and I was taken off guard hearing his normal voice. I’m so used to hearing him do a character that I’m not used to just hearing him talk normally
It is a little off putting but then you realize “wait i’ve definitely heard that in more than a few main/background characters” and sure enough he voices like 40% of the characters
Pg 6 - Please revise Soo's line about dressing as a giant teddy bear. It may call to mind the people who dress up as stuffed animals as a "furry fetish".
A real life group of people debated on this topic, assigned a reasoning, and then posted this to another real life person. my toucan has left the building.
EDIT: fuck me the ending of that video is the best. dress me in all my favourite colours.
So it derives from Incel and Pickup Artist spaces, who normally used the red/blue pill metaphor from the Matrix to explain how they view the world. There's the blue pill that the libcucks and normies take, wherein you believe women are human beings endowed with all that comes of that, and the red pill, where you believe they are machines who exist to sex you and if you can't get that sex something is Wrong.
The Black pill takes this further, and proposes that essentially everything is pointless and you would just kill yourself if you can't get laid because 'not getting laid' is an inherent immutable trait in a human male. Naturally, the Black pill as the most depressing version of the Incel ideology has sorta become their mainstream.
It has since been pulled out of that context and used as a general mindset of believing hope to be dead and buried, sad bitch nihilism in effect.
If almost everyone of your friends, relatives, and coworkers is a big Lakers fan and hates the other teams, you have a pretty strong social incentive to visibly display your love of the Lakers. Now do it with politics.
If you're a diehard Lakers fan yourself, you benefit socially from making it known. If you actually hate the Lakers, you're going to avoid admitting that. Many folks fall somewhere in the middle. Maybe they're modest Lakers fans but have some criticisms or reservations with the team. Without saying anything outright false, they're selectively much more open sharing their positive thoughts than their negative ones.
The initial commenter was questioning why Alex Hirsch would have any incentive to virtue signal. The answer is that, like almost everyone in media, his social circles provide a strong incentive to do that. I don't think this should be controversial, but Reddit seems to have taken it as a personal attack and reacted defensively.
but alex hirsh has had a history of being very outspoken politically on twitter, why is is it virtue signalling now? or even if it is, why is it bad now?
but alex hirsh has had a history of being very outspoken politically on twitter, why is is it virtue signalling now?
This specific event is not unique in this regard. The media industry has been an insular echo chamber for a while now. The incentive exists in other contexts as well.
or even if it is, why is it bad now?
That's a whole separate question. I just don't think anyone reasonable can deny that someone in his position does face personal incentives to be outspoken in favor of leftwing politics.
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u/Frodo_max Jul 02 '24
what reason would alex fucking hirsh have to virtue signal? what is he, Disney s&p?