Way back in the 1980’s I ended up in a pub with a member of the BNP.
It’s a long story that boils down to this chap pestering a female friend, who agreed to go for a drink with him. She arranged it in a pub where she knew I went drinking, and without my knowing — when he pestered her some more — she told him I was her boyfriend. So when I arrived, he was all pally and apologetic, saying ‘he didn’t know’, and ‘what was I drinking’ etc.
She of course did not turn up. Which was no big deal, since I was going for a drink anyway.
Being as he was bone-fide Nazi, and had the tattoos to prove it, and not being particularly interested in hearing him go on about how much ‘he liked her’, but ‘would never do anything because he had too much respect for me’, the topic moved on to him being fascist — since we had nothing much to talk about, and he insisted on buying the drinks.
And since there isn’t much to talk about with regard to Fascism —he being of the Hitlerite variety — he started on about how the Holocaust was a hoax, and no Jews died, and the rest of the Hitler-din’-du-nuffin schpiel. And as the conversation got louder — mainly from him — more and more people got dragged into the conversation.
It came to a head when he went full on Basil Fawlty, and started goosestepping around the pub… at which point he got thrown out.
It was all rather amusing.
Which brings me to Internet Bloodsports which was ‘a thing’, about 6 months ago.
For those that don’t know Andy Warski hosted a Livestream show on Youtube, in which various people would come on and debate the burning issues of the day like were the Eygptians black.
Now fair play, there were a number of ‘alt-right’ types on the show, and the subject matter was rather ‘alt-right’. But more often than not, it was the equivalent of that skinhead Heil-Hitlering around the pub — amusing to watch, fairly ludicrous, but entertaining.
The show attracted much criticism, and led it being listed on the SPLCwebsite: but that was all part of what made the show what it was. An ‘edgy’, ‘punk’, experience of madness, to while away the hours as aural wallpaper while you played a video game or drowned out the nuisance neighbours.
And for all the ‘pearl-clutching’ and angst generated it should be noted the ‘left’ more often than not won. And even when they didn’t win on a specific point, it didn’t particularly matter because some snippet of news about pedophilia or financial fraud or whatever, would come out about whoever was arguing that shoe size or ear lobes were strong indicator of subscribing to the History Channel.
It was all rather ‘Rock and Roll’.
Which is clearly problematic.
Particularly when the appearance of Richard Spencer on the show, led to it being the most watched show on Youttube.
And that something appeared yesterday, in the form of Data & Societyproducing a report entitled Alternative Influence.
“In the spirit of Internet Bloodsports, I do have to ask why on the About Us page Data & Society have a picture of a woman pointing at a man’s crotch?”
Now clearly, if you believe the MSM, who are facing falling sales, and lost advertising revenue, this sort of thing on the interwebz is precisely the sort of thing that is corrupting the youth. Because obviously you should be tuning into them to find out the latest update on the shape of Donald Trump’s penis.
If you read the report, they clearly identify Internet Bloodsports to be at the centre of the problem, because Andy Warksi is identified at the centre of a web of shady connections. Or as they would phrase it, the chief ‘influencer’.
“Social networking between influencers makes it easy for audience members to be incrementally exposed to, and come to trust, ever more extremist political positions,” writes Lewis, who outlines how YouTube incentivizes their behavior.”
But hang on there Ms Lewis, leaving aside your own proclivity to be drawn into ‘extremist political positions’ by the algo (as shown in this report), what about the people who tuned in to find out the latest news on JF’s autistic girlfriend, and the court case?
I’m not sure what this has to do with extremist political positions.
But anyway….
The silliness of this report is amplified by including in this web — dark web if you will — Mundanematt: who criticized the show, is a fan of Rachel Maddow, refused to go on the show, and ultimately was the butt of many of the jokes. To suggest that he is an ‘alternative influencer’ is ludicrous, especially when following bouldergate his own video addressing this subject attracts comments like…
“ They can’t break a thousand dislikes anymore. Hell, they are even struggling to break 500.”
Which would suggest he is not influential, unless you are defining influence in the Riley Dennis sense.
But for some reason he is alt-right.
Even weirder is that Kraut and Tea gets tangled into this protocol.
Yes that would be the same Kraut and Tea, who reported Rage After Storm for being a ‘Nazi bitch Queen’ which led to her being expelled by UKIP, tried to doxx the ‘alt-right’, and whose internet career was ended when he tried expose the lies of race realism. Who then disappeared from the internet. Before coming back in an attempt to get even with those who had wronged him, and got his channel taken down.
He appears to be back again, with some weird stuff about the media.
Look I’m not saying Kraut doesn’t have some forthright views on Islam but it’s almost like in preparing this report they got hold of a Twitter block-list from GamerGate, mixed in a program from the Jordan Peterson tour that someone dropped when they fell asleep in the circle, grabbed a few names from Internet Bloodsports, threw them into a spreadsheet, said the magic words,and bingo bongo, they were good to go.
That Joe Rogan appears on the list is further proof this is a law suit waiting to happen.
And that is before you get into the fact that Internet Bloodsports is no longer a thing, and half the named people are busy arguing with each other.
Of course the report is not a vehicle to further cut revenue to creators, in order to promote the paid content of media firms that people aren’t watching on television or the internet.
Oh no.
Before it is too late, and the innocent find yourself brainwashed into goosestepping around a pub because they accidentally stumbled across Davie whats’-his-face….
About the only thing Ms Lewis omitted was that Sandy Hook was done by aliens.
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