He's Making A List, He's Checking It Once [Part 2] ft. Annie Kelly
Added 2022-04-15 09:48:06 +0000 UTCIn part two of our chat with Annie Kelly, a co-host of the podcast QAnon Anonymous, we talk about what's next for QAnon, and why we might see more Q theories make their way into environmental movements and Eco-Fascist tendencies. Because this episode was recorded a while ago, we also talk about Will Smith's Oscar's Slap, and why so many people online kept trying to link it to the Ukraine War, or the *real* global war against Stand Up Comedians????
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i'm the awful fandom police i'm sorry (also i'm currently going back to older pods because i gave up podcasts for lent lol)
Alanna
2022-04-23 09:57:06 +0000 UTCokay, i take your point hussein, but there is a qualitative difference between qanoners and say army or blinks
Alanna
2022-04-23 09:51:12 +0000 UTCDear god, I don’t miss the celebrity aspect of Los Angeles.
Elsie Hupp
2022-04-16 03:01:41 +0000 UTCSimilarly I would say my reaction to Hasan Piker’s car a couple months back was that some internet dude throwing a big enough ($200,000) tantrum that I actually heard about it was maybe a little bit annoying but more than anything legitimately hilarious. Like… the only reason I cared in the slightest was that it was a pathetic publicity stunt designed specifically to elicit reactions from people like me who would otherwise never think about Hasan Piker. I mean, at least he bought a four-seater car that he could plausibly use to drop off and pick up any future kids from the world’s most obnoxious car queue outside the Harvard-Westlake School, so good for him, I guess?
Elsie Hupp
2022-04-16 03:01:03 +0000 UTCRegarding the recent Kanye-Kim thing: my immediate response was that it reminded me of Eron Gjoni’s “Five Guys” post about Zoë Quinn, with the strange difference being that Kanye was ostensibly trying to win Kim back or something? Like on the one hand, sure, he’s any danger to her, but if GamerGate showed us anything it was that celebrities endorsing misogyny, violence, etc., can galvanize their fans to do things that the celebrities themselves would never do. To be clear, I don’t particularly like either of them, though for different reasons, and the best case scenario would be that they move to Marin or Sonoma and we never hear from them again. It’s kind of like with Harry and Meghan: while they did seem to be miserable, and I was happy for them getting out, I also hoped that they would disappear off the face of the earth and live their lives in witness protection or whatever. But no: they reappeared within a year on the Obama celebrity circuit, with a streaming deal and all. Oh, well! At least they stayed in Northern California rather than moving in next door to the Kardashians in Hidden Hills or Calabasas and conspicuously brunching at Urth Caffé every other week. (My psychiatrist in LA was near an Urth Caffé, and it was a really weird scene. The food was quite good, though.)
Elsie Hupp
2022-04-16 02:55:11 +0000 UTCThough obviously the only correct response to the slap would be, “Who are ‘the Oscars’? Is that, like, a Sesame Street thing, or something?”
Elsie Hupp
2022-04-15 19:39:29 +0000 UTCThe stupid thing with the slap is that the “joke” implicitly compared Jada Pinkett-Smith to Demi Moore at a point in Demi Moore’s career when she was still one of the biggest sex symbols in Hollywood, which… isn’t even an insult? Like, I honestly don’t care about the slap in and of itself, and if anything I just agree with Will Smith’s framing from his apology that it was primarily inconsiderate to the night’s award nominees for him to have pulled a stunt like this.
Elsie Hupp
2022-04-15 19:31:26 +0000 UTC
