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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 181 points 6 days ago (13 children)

Not sure why this is someone "famous". He clearly needs help with serious mental health issues. I'm always surprised to hear that he has such a big followers base.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 70 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Twitch is a demented world I'm glad I was never a part of.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 61 points 6 days ago

Honestly it's fine if you're watching smaller streamers. The huge ones is where it gets weird.

[–] Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Twitch tryna compete with kick.com by pushing degenerates

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago

Maybe make that kick.com a link to how bad shit really was.

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[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 29 points 5 days ago

Representation matters. All the gross 4chan incels see themselves in him and feel validated.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

That guy who posited that "everyone in America is 12 years old" was probably right.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Right wing people like him.

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[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago

I watched some of his early stuff and he had some decent takes. Then he went off the walls and I just stopped watching, was not hard form we since I watched him so in frequently

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

We’re living in an age where entertainers mirror their audience. They aren’t about escape from reality or ideals to dream of. They are about wallowing in reality. They excuse the sorry condition their audience is in. Frankly, I think they occupy a brain space that used to be occupied by having friends. We have all had stupid friends we sit around and do stupid shit with, right? Well, not anymore. Now you just watch this idiot on your phone. It’s depressing as hell.

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

because, we are so overwhelmed with obvious fake bullshit 24/7, that anything "real" is a breath of fresh air.

Asmongold is some random hoarder whose claim to fame is playing fucking WoW, he also used his newfound status to take care of his ailing mother and now father.

this is why more people tune in to watch any given asmongold stream than they do fucking...jimmy kimmel, who only has a show because he knew someone and they couldnt find anyone else with less edge.

it's like...the truman show in way

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not that I'm a huge Kimmel fan but the man worked his way up in broadcasting from college radio station and being a radio host through the 80s and 90s before getting a TV show. I wouldn't call ~25 years of work before landing a TV host gig "just knowing someone"

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[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He was a huge WOW player and on his decline he hopped to FFXIV. Now I was a FFXIV player for years and loved the recognition. So his followers just ballooned because he hired a hit squad and went after the harder stuff in end game. He left that game but kept the followers. He was funny at times. But I can see why his popularity grew within video games. He's a solid streamer on that front.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I watched him for a bit when he hopped on FFXIV, but then he had some misogynistic takes that made me see how awful he really was.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 71 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand this person's appeal.

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 49 points 5 days ago

It's exclusively other people that don't shower for 3 months.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 67 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure things were evolving on him.

At least now you can say he has culture.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

A whole ecosystem of bacteria, fungi and insects previously thought to be extinct, intentionally eradicated or entirely new to science; all on the body of a man who makes more than enough money contract several HAZMAT teams

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that tracks.

All you need to know about Asmongold is there's a video of him on-stream trying water for the first time ever.

He gagged when he drank it.

Then he "watered it down" with soda.

Actually, that's not all you need to know.

[–] Syltti@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the water he drank Fiji? If so, that'd explain his reaction. To me, that water tastes soapy.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Should taste like corpo fascism, the reznicks are deeply deeply terrible people.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 49 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Sure enough, he ended up finding a dead rat. Unsurprising, considering he previously used a dead rat as an “alarm clock” because the sun would begin cooking the corpse, causing it to smell, and the stench would wake him up.

This guy is a disgusting piece of shit...

That being said, skin does have a "horny layer" that we scrub off:

The stratum corneum (Latin for 'horned/horny layer') is the outermost layer of the epidermis of the skin. Consisting of dead tissue, it protects underlying tissue from infection, dehydration, chemicals, and mechanical stress. It is composed of 15 to 20 layers of flattened cells with no nuclei or cell organelles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratum_corneum

Scrub that off with abrasive scrubs full of chemicals and you exposure a "fresh" layer that looks good and healthy, but doesn't offer the same protection. Which can lead to issues like acne or even skin cancer.

You still need to shower though, and not use a fucking dead rat as a smell alarm clock...

But there's almost always a small seed of truth they build the crazy off of. Like how every pearl starts as a tiny piece of sand.

[–] meejle@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

I don't think his layers will be making anyone horny

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[–] Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 5 days ago

Pretty obvious he's saying things like this to get more attention. He knows how to get people to clip and spread his content, and people keep feeding the troll.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Of course you are buddy, you're twelve.

[–] WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Why the fuck do i even know who this person is? Stop give him attention like this or people like them will never go away.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago (3 children)

He's an entitled man-child YouTuber who gained some popularity as an mouthy asshat playing World of Warcraft back in the day. And since then he's convinced himself that because he has a following he must be a gifted genius. And apparently that has translated into him not showering for reasons.

In short, as you already knew and implied, he's less than nothing special.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bizarre that world of warcraft players think they're famous lol

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (14 children)

I think he moved on to other games eventually. He has a fairly high subscriber count on places like Twitch and YouTube. So in some sense he is relatively famous. But he seems to think that that makes him important or that his shitry opinions matter. When he isn't, and they don't.

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[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think his hygiene issues came about after his fame. Seems he's always lived in filth. He's a millionaire that lives exactly the same way as he did without any money.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

He’s a millionaire that lives exactly the same way as he did without any money.

I mean... that might be the only redeeming thing about him. Money didn't change him. Unfortunately, that mean's he's still gross lol

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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 27 points 5 days ago (4 children)

the guy lost his mother due to their hoarding, hygiene, and health issues. the guy recently also lost his father to health issues/cancer. You'd think it would be a wake up call for him to start getting his shit together but it won't.

I guarantee you he's going to get health issues because of his teeth. His gums have rotted away and routinely bleed (he wipes the blood from his gums on his bedroom wall btw). His home is infested with rats, cockroaches and god knows what else that I'm honestly surprised he hasn't been bitten by a rat yet while he's sleeping. The guy is so repulsed by water that I'm surprised he doesn't have rabies. He can't even drink it because he finds it gross. He won't eat any fruit and vegetables for the same reason, they're gross.

All he eats is junk food and fast food and he's as thin as a rake. his gums are rotted. I'd be curious to know what his index and middle fingers look like at this point...

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[–] justsquigglez@leminal.space 24 points 5 days ago (3 children)

He misspoke, obviously he meant devolve.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Do people really enjoy watching people like this? Jesus Christ, do something healthier with your time, like playing videogames, or masturbating.

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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Reminds me of someone here on Lemmy recently who had switched to eating nothing but steak and insisted it was giving them superhuman powers.

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

A few years ago, I stumbled upon a subreddit for the carnivore diet. There were people there listing all the conditions and diseases they were supposedly cured from by only eating meat.

One particular individual listed like thirty separate conditions.

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[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

The bacteria in his butt crack probably evolved many times

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Asmon has such a surface-level shit take on literally everything.

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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

If this were any other time in history this dork would have died from scurvy already.

[–] hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

No, he doesn't. He's a very untalented and unintelligent young man who needs attention to have an income; this rag is giving him that attention. I'm part of the problem by commenting on it, and I'm not even spreading any awareness that this man makes money through clicks so will act out for those clicks because it's something we all know.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 15 points 5 days ago
  1. Who?

  2. That's not how evolving body flora works

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Maybe something on his skin was starting to evolve...

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

who tf is this person and why do I keep seeing his grungy ass pop up in my feed.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Remember when their little coffee-klatch found out about empathy and they all thought they were secret telepaths?

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I swear, he is just photogenic for the most punchable, beady eyed twatty expressions.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Punchable face.

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