UPDATE:

WE DID IT RDRAMA!!!

carp this is very important

Hecko!

Hello Rdrama, it's time for your Minecraft YouTuber Autism fest again!

It's always insightful to engage in a bit of market research.

I gotta know what my contemporaries are up to, my competition!

Ladies and gentlemen the Minecraft YouTuber TommyInnit.

Now I do not want to do a deep dive on who this guy is because I do not feel like writing 1000s of words today.

But the run down is this guy was some 16 year old kid (hes 21 now) who made his way to fame through the Dream SMP Live Minecraft server, which streamed to hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers.

Since then he has fallen out with the YouTuber 'Dream' and the coalition of streamers has split off into two camps. Both r-slurred but arguably the "Tommyinnit" side is worse.

I personally find this guy to be utterly obnoxious, cringe and is the very epitome of the current oversensitivity of Minecraft fans which plague my hobby and source of income.

Here is a timestamped youtube video of the kind of guy he is!

NOT THE R-SLUR!!!!!

>My mum worked with adults with disabilities

Yeah, she is your mother after all

Tommyinnit fancies himself a bit of a comedian, he does live shows where he charges $60 dollars per ticket to see him do the worse comedy routine ever.

I am utterly convinced that with no practice I could do better than him right now.

(timestamped video, watch like 30s if you can lmao)

THIS IS THE SHITNERNET

In pursuit of his comedic genius, he has started an internet show called "This is the Internet" and the target of my autism today.

I actually really like the idea and concept for the show, where he does like an episode once a month re-capping and making fun of internet trends and stories, like Norm Macdonald but for the zoomies like me!!!!

The one problem is... Is painfully fricking unfunny and bad.

The show starts ok, and I don't have much to say about the intro, other than I would of been funnier to film real homeless instead of an actor.

Then we get to the main shot of his newscaster desk and the amateurish problems become apparent immediately

See that microphone? That is not a prop, that is the actual microphone the audio is coming from, as a result you can hear every microscopic movement he makes on the desk, even movement of his hands, and as the mic has no stabilizer he bumps is constantly!!!

Like its fricking crazy, its a static shot you can just attach a boom mic, and have the desk mic for a backup. And r-slurred production plagues this 20 min video.

Watch Joke

Ok first joke of the episode he looks at his wrist even though he doesn't have a watch, something I like in premise, but I think he holds it too long and it's too obvious that it kind of breaks it.

A better example of this joke is from this timestamp from the Amazing Digital Circus

And how would you follow up this silly 1s gag of a nonexistent watch?

Oh yeah, r-slurred train noises for an excruciating 12s, where he spits everywhere.

And this is a common trend in this video is that TommyInnit does not know when to end a fricking joke.

Like this should of been cut out anyway, but if you had to include it... LIKE 1 SECOND AT MOST

Peepee Joke

Tommy mentions how Magnus Carlson was disqualified from a chess tourney for wearing jeans, which leads to a joke about how he's against wearing trousers and shows that his actually naked below the suit.

Once again, a joke which can work but it should be a more subtle visual gag.

If he had a larger newsroom set or was on location he could have two men carrying a mirror in the background somewhere, which shows his bare butt to the camera while he says something else, not drawing direct attention to it.

Maybe not even have the context of Magnus Carlson at all and just have it has an absurd background visual with no explanation.

example of this type of joke done right from Naked Gun 2 1/2

But at the moment its obnoxious, in your face and goes on way too long.

GOES ON TO LONG

Goes without saying, CUT THE JOKE SOONER HOLY SHIT!

HOLY SHIT CRINGE, I know hes a kids entertainer but god darn, this is shit you do to make your very very young toddlers laugh

Genuinely this thread is just to make you guys suffer because I had to watch this, so did you

SKIT 1

This is obviously meant to be a parody of MrBeast and Hype style Youtubers.

He's doing something lame but biggining it up as something super duper epic, except I dont think he fully commit to the bit.

• The music should be more obnoxious, like dubstep or something

• He should have like 10 camera angles of the same lame stunt

• Tons of ridiculous digital zoom ins and post production motion blur

• I would of just said random money figures randomly to take the piss out of their money obsession. (500 dollar bottle of coke wow!)

The biggest problem with the skit is pacing, I believe in a comedy rule which I came up with after watching a horrible Jim Sterling Video.,

"A joke should never take longer than 60s to setup and payoff"

And establishing the parody, the coke and Mentos and the reaction is a tall order for 60s, so in cases like this you need to make the joke evolve somehow.

Have something to break it up into pieces, by sprinkling in smaller jokes in while your building the setup.

You could make a quick jab at overuse of merchandising.

Or ridiculous product placement in the background.

Just something to tithe the viewer over until you can get to that longer punchline. And help further establish the satire element

Now too be fair Tommy mostly avoids this problem, managing to get to the Mentos part within 15s pretty efficiently.

but keep this part in mid for the proceeding....

3 MINS OF FOOTAGE

Where hes taking the piss out of the amount of replays which works, but he just keeps the joke going way way way way too fricking long without any evolution.

I seriously encourage you to watch the whole skit and just be in shock with how long it goes on for

He should of done this replay joke for 20s at most, then hard cut to him choking and almost vomiting up the coke looking and sounding ill because he deepthroated it. as the joke "evolving" by undercutting the extreme editing.

Bonus points if you then pan to a random passer-by looking confused and disgusted.

SKIT 2

I am going to skip over a lot of the other shit jokes because its very much the same of what I've already covered

This is just the peak of the amateurish filming. First off how do you mic a scene that badly wtf. Everyone's mic quality is different, did they have 1 mic between them. Legit wtf?? It sounds fricking awful.

And the video is completely fricked up. Look at this shot/reverse shot

The colours and depth of them are completely fricked up, with the tommy shot being incredibly faded out and desatured, which creates a giant disconnect when these two are supposed to be facing each other.

This is further again compounded by the bad audio difference.

Anyway what's this skit about?

5 MINS ON A POOP JOKE WTF

Again I encourage you a ton to watch and suffer through this skit, because it's so fricking bad the whole thing should just be cut.

THIS GUY CHARGES 60 DOLLARS PER TICKET TO SEE HIM LIVE!

>Side note my friends said this guy looks like me, im an austictic with face blindness, is this true?

POOP JOKES

So the premise of the skit if Jack Manifold (also a YTuber) is proposing that Tommy starts making poop content for youtube as an idea, to which they act confused, thus inadvertidly revealing he is into it.

• First off this should be filmed handhold style with lots of manual zoom in's on faces and try to emulate the style of the Office.

• Poop is such a lame unfunny thing to centre this skit around

• This is not an idea that can last 5 mins

A friend and I came up with a concept for the scene to try and make a funny skit out of it.

That instead of poop, Jack is proposing a new mascot for some merch called the "Grapist" where its the mascot of their new grape flavoured juices (you can make fun of prime)

And Tommy and the rest of the boardroom is trying to politely tell him that it sounds like r*pe, but he is oblivious.

You could do a visual joke where he shows a drawing of children sucking the grapists juice sacks, and it looks really really bad, but he just acts innocent and unaware about it.

Edgy but better that POOP FUNNY HEHE!

Serious this is negative comedy

the worse joke in the episode

I have no idea what the fricking joke is here legit.

Shrimpena

BEST JOKE IN THE EPISODE

THIS WAS WRITTEN BY 3 PEOPLE WHAT THE FRICK

This was made by a production of a small team, which I unironically could make better by myself.

This fricker has gotten 1m views and I have no idea how anyone finds this guy funny

is this mass psychosis.

I don't think I'm an expert or a pro but holy shit.

I hate modern Minecraft YouTubers. I need to help fix the culture....

!nonchuds !burgers imagine if we lose our superpower and soft power status due to fElon's r-sluration lmao

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1iic6hd/usaid_was_investigating_starlink_over_its/

https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1iijq3w/usaid_was_investigating_starlink/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1iibzbn/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating_starlink/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AntiTrumpAlliance/comments/1iif10l/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating_starlink/

https://old.reddit.com/r/the_everything_bubble/comments/1iigacg/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/comments/1iig8vw/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating/

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1iipls5/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating/

https://old.reddit.com/r/uspolitics/comments/1iiiakk/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating/

https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/496605242

https://lemmy.world/post/25160779?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.world/post/25175633

https://lemmy.world/post/25161476

The more you know.

Elon Musk’s Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink’s Contracts in Ukraine https://t.co/GMRCbRSstO

— James Tate (@JamesTate121) February 5, 2025

Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine https://t.co/pNW8E7OFG4

— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) February 5, 2025

BlueSky:

Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365

— Gizmodo (@gizmodo.com) 2025-02-05T14:01:04.834Z

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2FGossiTheDog.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy%2Fpost%2F3lhgslvg5wta2

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950041

Netflix made a new documentary about Alexander The Great. Within the first 8 minutes, they turned him gay. pic.twitter.com/y56b4eDkjb

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 5, 2024

It’s still unproven speculation and should definitely not be shoved into the first 8 minutes

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 6, 2024

Noo it's not proven that Alexander was bussy blasting hot twinks nooo

Hmm..... next thing they will say, he conquered nothing 🙄

— Jeff G. (@jlgusa) February 5, 2024

You can only conquer shit when you're a super straight alpha male like me

they're playing the long game pic.twitter.com/riSWBZEbSb

— Bruce Wayne (Batman) (@IBetmang) February 5, 2024

It was a very long game, the gayreeks have won, gen Z is gay

First step pic.twitter.com/FCN8sqz8Cf

— HENRY 🇳🇬🇷🇺 (@hadean_holocene) February 16, 2024

Chuds (black) are suddenly upset when a euro country embraces it's traditions

2,347 years after his death and they want him to be a "Gay Hero" lol

— AF America (@MagaTalkDaily) February 5, 2024

No one can escape the liberal gayinization

https://x.com/Twitermytweet/status/1754623627377447164

I don't think a guy who conquered whole countries cared too much to keep his enemies' kids alive

Who had Alexander the great is gay on Their bingo card?

— Michelle LA🇨🇦 (@MichelleLA1981) February 6, 2024

Everyone with half a brain cell you r-slur

Thank you!!! Couldnt watch after that.

Nobody argues that there was no sodomy but why do they have to film romantic sunlit moments of hair stroking and talking about feelings?

— Crypto Peepee (@tal_farlow) February 6, 2024

Because gayreeks were sappy kid of strags

Yeah, I'm glad they didn't race swap this one. 🤣🤣🤣

— BrandNewDay (@MakeThoseAngry) February 7, 2024

I know, they could have made him monkeydonian

Turned it off at that moment. It's basically unfounded speculation by leftist academics that he was homosexual or even bisexual. They might as well have cast a black or Asian actor in the role as that would've had as much historical basis.

— Vin Tanner (@VinTanner417682) February 10, 2024

Alexander was the only greek in Greece who didn't frick other men, that's why he was the Great

Make it gay and lame!

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 5, 2024

Who else will Netflix turn gay next? Achilles? Is no one safe?

!jannies chud post

News Articles:

The Times

Text:

People who identify as animals have been warned not to discriminate against others "on account of their species" at an event this weekend. The Scotiacon convention is expected to attract 1,200 "furries" to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow. Its code of conduct warns that "harassment of any kind is not tolerated", which includes race, gender, sexuality or "the species of someone's fursona" — jargon for the animal that a person identifies as. Guests are also warned against exhibiting artworks depicting paedophilia, described as "cub porn", or humans having s*x with animals.

The organisers said: "We are aware that this is a difficult rule since the actual age of drawn characters is open to interpretation, especially where they are in a cartoon style. "Appearances count. Characters with a very childlike appearance and/or baby face may be considered children in the context of this rule." The event began in 2011 and has grown from a few dozen attending to 1,170 "furs" last year. Tickets cost £45 a day, or up to £480 with hotel accommodation. The code of conduct for artworks also states: "No zoophilia and/or bestiality involving humans or largely human-like characters (eg anime catgirls, elves or centaurs) with animals or largely non-morphic characters (four-legged) is allowed. "Other species-transcending sexual activity (eg anthros and humans) is generally allowed. "Potty-related activities are highly discouraged. This includes scat, watersports, adult diapers in use, and vomit. We do not entirely exclude this content but only seek to accept items with very mild depictions which would be suitable for a general viewing public." Delegates must not come dressed in "fetish gear" such as "anatomically correct" costumes, jockstraps or exposed buttocks. However, dog collars, leather wristbands and "accessories used in an innocent context, such as a dog harness that is part of a sled dog costume", are permitted.

Academic studies have disclosed the tensions within the furry community which includes subdivisions such as herbivore or carnivore, predator or prey, traditional animals or more fantastical creatures. In 2023 the Anthropomorphic Research Project, an international group of academics, highlighted problems including "bigotry, discrimination, intolerance and bullying in the fandom". Last year it emerged that a Scottish pupil had been allowed to identify as an animal in Aberdeen. The city council said at least one child had been recognised as having species dysphoria but it declined to specify which animal. In species dysphoria, a person feels that their body is the wrong species. People with the condition are sometimes known as therians. Numerous children are said to have tried to identify as animals, including foxes, dragons, birds, snakes and sharks, although it is unclear whether they were serious. Last year the Scottish Daily Mail said a secondary school pupil had been allowed to identify as a wolf. A council, which the newspaper did not name, said the pupil was part of a group known as furries.

Scottish Daily Express (Article Linked in Tweet)

Rightoids of X React:

in case you wanted to know how Scotland was doing:

a bunch of furry degenerates are congregating in Glasgow this weekend and the police have literally issued them a stern warning to not r*pe kids or animals pic.twitter.com/RsjsH66ZqV

— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) February 4, 2025

Reddit Threads:

r/NotTheOnion

r/offbeat

r/unitedkingdom

r/scotland

r/glasgow

Even the usually lib-leaning bongs of Reddit are pretty cognizant of what the furry subculture really en-tails, and opt to get in on the cyberbullying.

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mat3nk3/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mavamce?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mat678q/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/matl5us/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mawpas2/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/matctaa/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/1ihjgru/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/maz5eq4/?context=8

Of course, some onlooking Amerilard furtwinks take issue with this rampant fursecution.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1ihsjvq/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mazp5jl/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1ihsjvq/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/maztizu/?context=8

Bros, I thought being trans-species was just an alt-right hoax...

https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1ihsjvq/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mb007z5/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/1igue1h/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/matkvbu/?context=8

To conclude: Say what you will about bongs, but at least it's like the one western country where shit like furry conventions get appropriate pushback and backlash in the media every time they're held. Lest we forget, the same convention was met with protests and journos digging up the vile NSFW accounts of attendees just a couple years ago.

History Thread 1

History Thread 2

History Thread 3

!britbongs

The jeet in charge is trying to tell everyone it's a great thing, but any time an equity firm buys you out, you are gone soon. lol Only people winning here are the jeet and the execs.

#BREAKING: The UK just ordered Apple to give them access to all encrypted backups worldwide, including Americans, allowing British authorities to spy on any user.

— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) February 7, 2025

!friendsofredactor0 !redscarepod

These r-slurs truly think CHYNA is some free society built on socialist values. Are these neighborz even realz?

Lmao. China is so authoritarian they allowed these brave story fabricators to operate as long as their no. 1 adversary was willing to find them.

"Give me 300k per year to say China bad"

You were fired multiple times? What were the 'bizarre' reasons given?

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb6cbo8/?context=8

To begin with, how did your sister manage to "plant" symptoms from a direct examination by a psychiatrist? She didn't. You were diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Also there is not a single logical tie-in for any of your allegations.

This post looks a lot like paranoia. A common symptom. You should take your medication.

This is exactly how psychiatric abuse works. It doesn't require someone to 'plant' symptoms—it just requires someone with influence to frame a narrative. If a family member pushes hard enough, calls the right doctors, and ensures that all reports are written from a certain perspective, the diagnosis follows.

Psychiatrists don't diagnose in a vacuum. They rely on patient history, collateral information, and family reports. If that information is manipulated before I even walk into the room, the outcome is already decided.

And conveniently, once the diagnosis is assigned, any attempt to fight back is reframed as 'paranoia' or 'lack of insight.' That's the entire point of how this works. [OP] [-120]

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb6f0e3/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb6g72n/?context=8

Well to be honest, you sound kind of paranoid here.

Why would your sister need you to receive a psychiatric diagnosis to get engaged?

Having a mentally ill primary relative isn't usually the kind of thing that brings rich boys crawling in.

Edit: I regret interacting with OP and I suggest no one else make my mistake. This is a dumpster fire now.

It wasn't really about making me mentally ill, it was about making sure no one would believe me. If I ever spoke out about what happened, the schizophrenia label would discredit everything I said. Wealthy and powerful families don't just want a perfect image. they want control over the entire narrative. My sister had to prove she could eliminate problems without making a scene. I was scapegoated as the problem. [OP] [-373]

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb69auv/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb6a12u/?context=8

Waking up one day and thinking everyone is treating you differently is almost certainly an early indicator of a problem

If this were just a feeling, I might question it too. But I have text messages, emails, and documentation showing the pattern of job terminations, sudden shifts in how people treated me, and even direct statements from those involved. This wasn't a vague feeling. it was a deliberate, trackable campaign. It's easy to dismiss something when you don't have the full picture. [OP] [-217]

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb6b4zt/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb6bzaa/?context=8

Um, this is not the coherent, persuasive, story that you believe it to be.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb6as5p/?context=8

Why did she need to do this to you to be engaged?

in their world, image is everything. i didn't fit the narrative they wanted. my sister always tried to compete with me and make herself seem like the better child my entire life. it wasn't just about getting engaged, it was about proving she was worthy of that level of wealth and power. I was in the way. [OP] [-84]

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb68jqv/?context=8

…sure. Because this makes you look totally stable and not paranoid

yes, because nothing says normal like a family pushing a false psychiatric diagnosis to erase someone from their life. if questioning that makes me look paranoid, then maybe we should look into why paranoia is used so often to silence people who see through the system [-52]

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1iikdzp/my_sister_had_me_diagnosed_with_schizophrenia_to/mb6advf/?context=8

Enter BetAt least one of the following people will be murdered or critically injured in a murder attempt on or before March 4th, 2025: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran - 7 bets

Enter Betno, but we'll have some other murder/terrorist attack related to DOGE within the next month - 35 bets

Enter Betnothing ever happens - 174 bets

500 marseybux bounty for sending me the link when it happens.

If nobody sends the link, I'll spend a few minutes looking !remindme march 5th ":marseybeandoge:"

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !project2025

closed

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3130060/Move_Out_Manor/

The game that the post is about.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3336610/Ghostly_Acres/

The new game.

Going on visuals alone this is actually a significant upgrade that they should be happy about. I can't say much about the rest though. It's a little sad that the talent they have is being funneled into the trash. There's talk of "market research." Surely asking anyone in their life if they'd be willing to spend any amount of time or money on a puzzle game where you push boxes around would get them the results that it took nine months to find.

"We did all the things you're supposed to do: Steam page launch, Next Fest, festivals, but still have minimal sales." When they say minimal they're talking less than 100 sales. Likely less than a dozen genuine. It has one real review. The other isn't even a friend, it's a small youtuber who received the game for free. Not a single associate of this team was willing to play and review this game.

When I started making these posts it was to point and laugh. Now the thought of multiple people spending their free time producing content that likely didn't even cover the $100 steam submission fee makes me

I wonder if a Caleb Hammer-type show where "legitimate" devs pitch their idea to a flamboyant host would go well. Ideally the content would have a biggest-loser "where are they now" segment but almost every time it would be - "faded away into obscurity, released nothing."

pic.twitter.com/JivikzDa3v

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2025

Jared Kushner is reportedly behind Trump’s proposal to occupy and develop Gaza.

Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/C7KR3IBJsT

— AF Post (@AFpost) February 6, 2025

pic.twitter.com/sl8xfeNjGk

— Stonetoss Comics (@stone_toss) February 6, 2025

Yesterday, Netanyahu gave Trump a gold plated pager and a regular pager as a “gift.”

Is that supposed to be a death threat? pic.twitter.com/Ddht34EMdZ

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) February 5, 2025

Explain it to me like a Redditor plz:

_ pic.twitter.com/ZPfAigfNyR

— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) February 6, 2025

Edit lol Trump flanked Lady G:

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham floats more reasonable Gaza proposal than Trump.

“I would suggest we go back to what we’ve been trying to do: Destroy Hamas and find a way for the Arab world to take over Gaza and the West Bank in a fashion that would lead to a Palestinian state… pic.twitter.com/Fh4mFN793B

— AF Post (@AFpost) February 6, 2025

nobody who loves these kids has made them sound cooler than wired has made them sound while trying to destroy them pic.twitter.com/6IAFBog6lu

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) February 6, 2025

https://web.archive.org/web/20250206083241/https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/

https://archive.ph/eF9xx

There was this !dutch violinist/ orchestra director who became famous worldwide, by having these "informal" classical music concerts/shows, where peeps in the audience would dance in the aisles, or even the musicians or André himself would walk down the aisles themselves, while celebrating famous classical music.

This was considered radical for Boomers, who found the dour and sour and uptight classical music conformity of Europe to be to too stifling. People like my parents were pretty excited to watch his shows and performances on DSTV, which had become more common in Safrica, and appreciated his musical acumen, whilst having much more lighthearted tones in his shows.

Here's a bull attacking a woman!!

He also looks like an eccentric mad-scientist nutjob with his hair!

In 2010 he had a tour in

https://www.andrerieu.com/en/about-andre/my-biography/2010

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2086692/The-room-didnt-stop-spinning-months-Hit-crippling-ear-virus-violinist-Andre-Rieu-needed-quick-cure.html

Unfortunately his weak !dutch genes were no match for the filth and garbage of Safrica, and he got a debilitating ear infection mid tour.

DRAMA!

Drama had however occurred over time in the 2010s when André Rieu obtained the notable quirk, in that he REFUSED to speak the Colonizer language of Afrikaans!!!!

This caused a lot of seeth for Boers, who ironically made the lionshare of his fandom in the country, even beyond the large Bonglish CD-buyers in Cape Town. This social media drama has been largely purged by time and linkrot (omg this like 15 years ago ) But it was pretty big drama.

In his tours of 2010 & 2012, he had repeated numerous times that he had been disappointed in the demographics makeup of his shows, which as can be predicted, were always overwhelmingly

He was especially disappointed to find Safrican black peeps didn't really give a shit, despite his massive catering towards them in all his Safrican tours, whether in Cape Town or Suncity. Especially in his "My African Dream" shows, which he tailored to include lots of black opera singers, local black dancers, and it was still 99% mayo

https://www.news24.com/life/andre-rieu-refuses-to-speak-afrikaans-20110318

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André Rieu, King of the waltz and musical hero to many South Africans, still refuses to speak a word of Afrikaans or even Dutch onstage.

Last year already many of his fans asked why Rieu did not speak a word of Afrikaans or Dutch on stage.

He has toured across the globe, always making an effort to speak at least a word of the language of the country in which he is touring.

Rieu is aware that many of his fans in South Africa are Afrikaans speaking and that they are able to understand the Dutch heard on the DVDs.

Country's demographic

When Volksblad asked Rieu in an official enquiry why he does not speak Afrikaans or Dutch onstage in South Africa, he said: "No comment."

"He wanted to make it easier for his fans to travel to the show, because not everyone will be able to travel all the way to Sun City. He also hopes to then see an audience that is a better representation of the country's demographic."

Rieu has said that he would like to see an audience that is 50% black and 50% white. Last year, he asked the Bloemfontein Children's choir to perform with him in his hometown of Maastricht in the Netherlands. His condition that the choir should consist of 50% black members, was heavily criticised.

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Watch Andre Rieu talk about his South African tour in 2012, with a lead black singer to a white-only audience, and why everyone was in tears. https://t.co/ZNosC0yEvK

— Seema Chishti (@seemay) December 26, 2020

I tried really hard to find old twitter about drama when André Rieu stated in front of his 99% mayo audience how sad and disappointed he was that so few black peeps had come to his Cape Town and Suncity shows, and with many people stating how full of shit he was, because if he wanted a primary black audience, he should have hosted a show in Soweto stadiums (he didn't cuz it was unsafe )

Like holy hells there was scores of drama - you guys don't appreciate how linkrot has culled so much drama of our forebears

Like I remember newspaper articles about the drama and events but that shit is now banished to the shadowrealm i literally cannot find anything on the face of the internet to prove what I'm recounting to you guys, it's information just gone into the ether

RANDOM BONUS DRAMA: Reddit thread about André Rieu's detractors

https://old.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/jxoo3m/anyone_else_cringes_at_andr%C3%A9_rieu_performances/

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Why shouldn't we run it?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_projected_GDP_(nominal)

I was browsing this page because I was searching for UK's GDP and came across this:

IMF projections for 2020 through 2029

A 196 countries have their projected GDPs, but some countries' data mysteriously disappear halfway through:

Pakistan disappears after 2024

Venezuela disappears too

Only a select few others also drop off: Syria, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan

I'm sensing a pattern here:

Guys is this about annexing Gaza, setting up a base in Palestine and obliterating all these countries ?

!chuds !burgers

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It was dumb when plastic straws were outlawed, it's dumb when they're brought back in Plastic Q-tips on the other hand...