Coldfeet Crowder

[viscousmemories]

I've only been watching Majority Report for a year and Crowder didn't even register for me (although I was of course aware of the "change my mind" meme) but this whole fiasco was nonetheless so delightful to watch unfold.

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[lisarea]

I'm a little embarrassed at how closely I've been following this drama. I do like Sam Seder, but mostly, I just really hate Steven Crowder and have enjoyed watching his public humiliation as he (or his dad) dodges the debate. His excuse I guess is that Seder doesn't have a big enough YouTube audience to make it worth his while? But one of his major schticks is buttonholing random college students in between their classes.

(Have you guys seen the one where the one kid just annihilates him? Has that been posted here?)

[Ari]

I don’t know who most of these people are, but I have an irrational hate for this guy because of that dumb meme so I skipped through and, do they do anything but chicken peck, nope no, he hangs up instead, ok. I did enjoy him putting the, I’ve been assured by fans not white supremacist, Joe Rogan, in with other white supremacists. Thanks for that Crowder!

I get right away why this clearly insecure and super loud about it dude has 3 million or whatever followers. He was stumbling all over himself to get in jabs and beat his chest.

[ChuckF]

Wait the guy from the meme is a guy people know? I thought it was just a random dude.

[lisarea]

Yeah, he's some kind of failed actor/comedian that YouTube's algorithms put in radical alt-right pipeline. So like depressed teenaged boys, mostly, start out watching self-help videos and such, get filtered through people like Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan, and then into increasingly more sexist/racist/etc. stuff like Steven Crowder.

He's pretty hardcore bigoted on pretty much all counts. He's also incredibly stupid, though, which is why he's very careful not to debate adults. The "Change my Mind" meme comes from this stunt he does where he goes onto college campuses and tries to get unprepared teenagers to argue with him about whatever hate speech he's got on his sign that day.

[mickthinks]

Seder and Klein missed a trick I thought, when Crowder accused Klein of "hiding behind Seder" [16:30].

This is an implicit concession that Seder is big enough to provide cover for Klein; that Seder is a more formidable opponent than Klein; that Crowder would find it hard or even impossible to get Seder out of the way.

Crowder tries to dismiss Seder as a nobody ("you're an idiot" [14:25]) but he revealed that he knows Seder is the worthier opponent.

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by lisarea

The "Change my Mind" meme comes from this stunt he does where he goes onto college campuses and tries to get unprepared teenagers to argue with him about whatever hate speech he's got on his sign that day.

Jesus that is so much sadder than what I assumed.