For lovers of internet drama yesterday provided a treat.
In one corner was Sargon of Akkad — of ‘white n*$^!r’, ‘I wouldn’t even rape you’ fame, and in the other was Jim — Mr Metokur.
Quite why Sargon of Akkad would want to go after Jim is not obvious: nor would it seem particularly sane, given that he has gone into politics by joining UKIP. But then you might argue that this is the latest in a series of rather odd moves by the aspiring politician.
He was a speaker at the Free Speech event in London organised by Tommy Robinson. Which is fine I suppose, he advocates for free speech.
He read the text of Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech on the streets of London. Which again is fine, he advocates for free speech, and opposes open border immigration.
He appeared last week at the EU parliament to oppose Article 11 and 13, the so called ‘meme tax’, in his role as advisor to UKIP. Again fine.
This would all seem to fit with his Liberalist principles, based on the writings of such luminaries as Locke and John Stewart Mill.
And in some ways you can understand why UKIP might want popular YouTube celebs to boost their profile, and perhaps connect with new audiences, or to find a way around the media: who have tended in the past rightly or wrongly to portray them as a party of amateurs. David Cameron famously described the party as consisting of ‘fruitcakes and closet racists.’
Yet one wonders what political advantage there could be to going full on ‘retard’ — in the parlance of online shit-posters — in response to some mild ribbing about his suit.
But perhaps I am just a ‘boomer’ unused the movement of the Overton Window, and the new paradigm in politics that has gone beyond the horse-shoe theory… or some such.
However, the accusation that the suit made Carl of Swindon — as Jess Philips called him — look like a manager in Applebees, was too much for Sargon. And so a live-stream was scheduled, complete with prepared reading material. This reading was not, as one might expect, some deeply learned treatise on good governance but a bunch of links to gossip culled from the interwebz that was going to bring Mr Metokur to heel.
The feud between them has been going on for quite sometime.
Originally they were ‘allies’ in GamerGate, when Jim was using the moniker The Internet Aristocrat, and the two would appear on appear on chatstogether to debate the latest dastardly doings of the SJWs, and in particular Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkessian.
But while Jim moved on to laughing at Furries and exposing Kurt Eichwald, Sargon became the leader of the so-called Skeptics.
The problem is that Jim’s schtick is laughing at people when they ‘fuck up’, and over time rather a large number of people connected to the Skeptics have rather ‘fucked up’.
For instance Amos Yee, who came to fame for being imprisoned in Malaysia for insulting Muslims, for a time became the darling of the Skeptics, due to their history in Atheist Youtube, until he came out as a pedophile. Sargon defended him.
Or David Sherratt, the MRA MGTOW who appeared on Sargon’s show to discuss this and that, before going on to set up the twitter account “Hardon for Assad” to troll Sargon. Oh and there was the business of his Qatari girlfriend…
Oh and then there was the Kraut and Tea saga, in which Sargon’s ‘internet friend’ Kraut and Tea — having made a name for himself by being a Skeptic and opponent of Muslim immigration — got into a fight with the alt-right over race-realism. He set up a Discord server, in which he gathered so-called Youtube Scientists, to research and formulate response videos to alt-right claims on race.
However the academic qualifications to join were somewhat lax. Seemingly anyone could join — which may explain Kraut’s assertions on the gestation period of trout — and ‘internet communities’ being what they are, the server attracted in the Skeptic community.
It wasn’t only serious scientific research going on in this Skeptic University. There were high level spy operations, with the intention of infiltrating the alt-right to plant false information, spy on their research, and such.
Obviously when you are working on top secret research, and espionage, it is important to invite journalist Amy Harmon from the New York Times to come and see what you are up to.
When the story came out it was all to much for Sargon.
Not forgetting Killroy, the Free Speech conference born out of Vidcon, that was a somewhat less than spectacular event.
True Sargon was not involved in Killroy, but his ‘community’ was.
And through all of this, and more, there was Jim in the background laughing.
And so we come to the Ballad of Mundanematt.
Matt Jarbo, like many of the Skeptic community, made his name during GamerGate when Zoe Quinn (boo! hiss!) filed a false DMC claim on a video he made about allegations of her cheating on her boyfriend. He went from a channel making ‘edgy’ content, and talking about his life, to a voice for GamerGate, who also read the news.
But success has a price, tall poppies and all that, and when Bloodsports got underway and all the ‘shitlords’ came out to play, why it was enough to make a grown man cry.
So the ‘free speech advocate’ began flagging — falsely or otherwise — channels and streams that criticised him. And he would have got away with too, if he hadn’t been for Ethan Ralph and the meddling kids on the Ralph Retort (yes I know it is 2 hours long but it is worth a listen in full).
And a month later, and despite Matt offering an apology…on Tumblr… his videos are still being voted down and his comments are less than flattering, despite many being deleted and all mention of boulders being verboten (in the name of a free speech).
And in the way of these things, people have started digging through Matt’s twitter and going through his video catalogue to find whatever dirt they can. And being trained ‘teenage trolls’ (explanation coming later in the article) they have been bringing them to Jim for his Sunday Live Stream.
Thus on the Sunday before the suit furore, Jim did this stream of Matt related news, and also included was analysis of Bunty King’s video ‘I’m a Cuck, Let’s Talk’. Plus a declaration of intent to dig up more dirt on the Skeptic ‘community’.
It should be pointed out here that during the discussion on who the woman ‘cucking’ Bunty King might be, gossip was aired about the goings on at Vidcon, in which Sargon’s name came up, along with certain rumours of infidelity. Now I wasn’t there, so I can’t say who did what to whom — and frankly I don’t care — but I would suggest that this might have annoyed Sargon.
And so we get to the Sunday clash of the Livestreams.
Sargon landed the first punch.
I say punch, because for the first 20 minutes there was no audio. When he switched the audio on, his thesis was that Mr Metokur was grooming an army of ‘teenage trolls’ for ‘shits and giggles’, further that he was actually grooming kids (since no internet spat would be complete without calling someone a pedo), and that Jim is an ‘attention whore’ desperate to get Sargon’s attention — when Sargon had much better things to do, like his aspiring political career.
He laughed at the notion that when he ‘is’ a politician anyone would ask him about the allegations that his ‘internet friend’ Mandanematt might, or might, not have been involved in shenanigans with the daughter of the church pastor.
Which makes me wonder why he bothered to do this stream in the first place… but maybe that’s just me.
And so we waited for Jim’s reply, which came in the form of a stream entitled Goodbye, Carl — which if anything signals an end to a bromance, that does.
Jim pointed out that the source material for Sargon’s thesis was written by a confessed internet troll. So when they claim to have blackmailed police, or impersonated government officials, they might just be ‘fucking’ with you.
And it should be pointed out that by the time Jim streamed, comments to Sargon’s video had begun to come in — Sargon having disabled the chat in his Livestream, which he explained was because he didn’t want the Superchat money going to Billy Joel.
One of these comments was from Youtube celeb, DL:DR.
Now this comment either had 1800 likes and was sent to spam by Sargon, or went straight to spam — presumably without 1800 likes. But either way, it provoked Sargon to make a response.
I bring this up, rather than continue with what Jim said, because it rather makes the point of why picking this fight was such a bad idea. Not least because the response ends with a rather agitated Sargon saying, “you are going to ignore this because you are a shallow, cowardly pussy. Who is driven by his own ego, and is projecting it onto me. Because you are jealous, because no one watches your channel because you are boring as fuck.”
Now I’m all for a bit of rough and tumble, verbal jousting in politics.
But honestly UKIP what are you doing?
Not least because supposedly the BBC are currently making a documentary about Sargon — which may or may not have something to do with this affair.
Perhaps the idea is to edit the show to portray Sargon valiantly fighting the dragon of the alt-right. Which would explain why this stream was put up, so that Sargon can show the abuse he gets online, and the tough way he deals with it.
But if that is the plan then this is some pretty deep 4D Chess.
Or more likely TL:DR made a video some months ago pointing out that joining UKIP was a hollow gesture, and Sargon reacted badly…. and took this opportunity to vent his spleen.
Either way, UKIP might do well to pause and consider, particularly when they have spent the past decade trying to shake off the mantle of being ‘fruitcakes and closet racists’.
Still it should leave the SJW’s chuckling.
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