H3H3 vs Vaush (YouTuber drama) (CW: multiple horse penises)

[touchingcloth]

Vaush to rhyme with ... Porsche? Mouse? Gosh? Harsh?

[Kankurette]

Based on the title, you might more accurately assume he's squeezing knees.

If I didn't know the context, I'd assume he's a furry.

[drummersaredeaf]

The feet stuff doesn't start til 2:12.

What actions does he mime then?

[Retinend]

Vaush to rhyme with ... Porsche? Mouse? Gosh? Harsh?

It's a bit of a meme that no one knows how to pronounce it. The most popular pronunciation rhymes with "mouse", then it would be "gosh", then "porsche"

[Retinend]

is this the lowest possible tier in the "most relevant human" contest

These days, relevance is what we measure in views and subs. These guys have lots.

[Zero Gravitas]

gosh

Goofy or non-cow version?

[Video Game Fan 2000]

These days, relevance is what we measure in views and subs. These guys have lots.

i bet they fucking do the dirty devils

[thugler]

" but I do somewhat buy that it could be a minefield for depictions of characters who may be canonically underage but have been drawn with massive boobs or whatever. "

Yeah a minefield that should be fucking set off and scrubbed clean.

Yep, I don't disagree!

[mippy]

I don't know who these people are, but I was in The America this week and Mr Beast and his uncanny valley face were all over the chocolate aisles as he has his own range of some energy snack or other.

[Schlippy]

Vaush fucken suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks, he's basically Andrew Tate for always-online autists. Saw a truly nauseating stream with him and volunteer IDF spokesman Lonerbox where Vaush managed to display a staggering level of ignorance about the Middle East in general and Israel / Palestine specifically, despite spouting off about the ongoing genocide for like eight hours a day.

The Kleins are weapons grade dickheads, I can only assume online audiences grow in inverse relation to the performers' talent & ability (eg Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson etc).

This whole phenomenon of arrogant, over-confidant twats spouting ill-informed bad faith shite to an audience of adoring, entirely partisan fans can't come to an end soon enough.

[mippy]

You can just watch Dankpods instead, or a nice compilation of 1994 ad breaks from The Big Breakfast.

[Retinend]

A lot of the stuff they went over is very old and is often stuff out of context where he is arguing the exact opposite of what it appears.

It wasn't out of context though. What context was missing from the H3 analysis? They looked at the context and Vaush was doing the typical Peter Sotos pedo thing of drawing a BS moral equivalence between what nonces do (consume CSAM) and what the general public does (e.g. consume cobalt-containing electronics). And for other stuff like his "it's possible for children and adults to have healthy sexual relationships", what possible context could suffice for him not to be a straight up nonce?

[touchingcloth]

It's a bit of a meme that no one knows how to pronounce it. The most popular pronunciation rhymes with "mouse", then it would be "gosh", then "porsche"

I started writing "like row-sh (boats), row-sh (arguments), row-sh (Scottish boats. Rhymes with oar)" before I gave it up and tried harder.

[Memorex MP3]

These days, relevance is what we measure in views and subs. These guys have lots.

I dunno how heavily it can be measured, the fact we have no metric on how passively stuff is consumed in particular. Illuminaughtii had like a million followers but practically no kind of real world influence at all.


Vaush seems to be in an extremely insular bubble, I never hear about the guy at all  beyond people talking about vaush fans; Hasan has way more of a presence from what I see

h3h3 is the best of an absolutely atrocious bunch (the YouTube drama aggregators like keemstar) but his impact beyond that outside of maybe Israeli stuff is probably close to nothing

[touchingcloth]

What actions does he mime then?

He's not miming by that point.

[JesusAndYourBush]

I'm suppose to believe that people are watching 4 hour long YouTubes?

Yeah I don't get it. Who's got time to waste watching multiple hours long videos of kooks. And I've never heard of either of them.

And I'm unclear if the horse cocks are cartoon as well, or real, if that makes a difference?

[Retinend]

This is wild. He's still maintaining this unflappable, "you're all too dumb for my nuanced age of consent takes" stance. He's either totally divorced from reality or he realises that it's better to act deluded than to admit he has a problem. If he admitted he has such a rare and appalling ethical issue to address, would he ever be credible as a professional tutter and finger wagger again? Hopefully not, but with a extremely loyal audience like his, I wouldn't rule it out.

[Schlippy]

This by Shaun is very good:

You can stop watching after a minute or so

[Retinend]

I dunno how heavily it can be measured, the fact we have no metric on how passively stuff is consumed in particular. Illuminaughtii had like a million followers but practically no kind of real world influence at all.

It's an interesting semantic discussion to be had to be sure. What is relevance? It's surely not just about sheer number of eyeballs, but about what endures and has resonance beyond the current moment. Our most popular metrics of likes and follows don't reflect this enduring sort of "relevance" at all.

[Toki]

always-online autists.

Shit thing to say.

[Zero Gravitas]

would he ever be credible as a professional tutter and finger wagger

I thought these channels operated more as virtual friends than they did sources of debate and opinion? People are logging on to listen and see the face of their friend, part of that is you and the chat joshing about the memetic history you've shared of cp, horse fucking and feuds with other friends.

Doesn't seem at all a negative move.

[madhair60]

i find this stuff sort of anti-fascinating in the sense that i can't even begin to conceive why it would matter or why anyone would watch it. I don't mean that to be judgy, really, i know there are obviously interests i have that are incomprehensible, it's a matter of opinion, etc. but it just seems so far beyond the realm of what is worth paying attention to that i really don't get it.

[idunnosomename]

theres no horse penises in this thread at all

[Toki]

I have theories as to why people care, but it would be an itsy bitsy bit patronising for me to share them.

[Captain Z]

Could you maybe summarise them in a series of 6 hour videos?

[idunnosomename]

I expected at least some Uma Musume Pretty Derby hentai

[Cold Meat Platter]

Dogshit on dogshit violence

[imitationleather]

My partner watches that h3h3 thing, so I look forward to her going on about this for fucking hours later despite my visible disinterest

Fucking hell. Is this me posting from an alt account describing my last relationship?

[bgmnts]

I did see a video about this a few days ago and, to my shame, I do usually - despite my internal protestations - find myself consuming that pointless shit like a content zombie.

I then realised I have a shitload of classic novels at hand and so spent the past few days devouring Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment which, despite the lack of horse cock, felt like a much better use of my admittedly valueless time.

I wonder if Vaush also sees himself as a Raskolnikov-type superman, beyond societal values, and diabolically wanking to bestiality porn in a fit of feverish megalomania?

[convulsivespace]

The only good YouTube drama was when boogie2988 fired a gun at that guy.