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I believe Andrew WK's end goal is to make it ambiguous if he ever existed. He wants to make his own identity a conspiracy theory, because he thinks it's funny, or artistic or something. From the whole Steev Mike thing, to the times he's come out on stage identifying as the second Andrew WK, or how he'll occasionally drop off the face of the Earth. He's deliberately trying to concoct a conspiracy theory about how he's not a real person, even though he is. He wants to be remembered as this mysterious ethereal construct.
I have a hunch that the cultural association with owning a big dog as better than a small dog is an effort from dog food companies to sell more dog food.
Ken Lay faked his own death and is possibly still alive.
My pet conspiracy theory is very specific but I'm very convinced of it. I'm convinced Death Stranding and Metal Gear Survive were at one point the same game. For some background info: Hideo Kojima was the director of the Metal Gear Solid games. For unknown reasons, he was fired from his parent company of Konami in 2015, shortly after the release of Metal Gear Solid V. Metal Gear Survive released in 2018, the next game in the series. It was made without Kojima's input and is largely dismissed by fans of the series. Death Stranding was Kojima's next game, which released in 2019
I truly believe Survive was made from very early test builds of Death Stranding, including things like the basic structure of the narrative and gameplay. Both games involve building structures in large, empty areas. Both games are about managing stamina while taking long treks on foot. Both games involve collecting a crystal resource to purchase upgrades or build structures. Both games center around themes of death, parallel worlds, and connecting people. Konami 100% seized control of whatever Kojima had been working on, slapped some Metal Gear stuff and zombies onto it, then called it a day.
I don't know too much about Andrew WK's music or whatever he does these days, nor whether he's even a real person or a performance art piece, but that time he went to the gathering of the juggalos is probably one of the funniest non-scripted/non-staged sequence of events I've ever seen. If I didn't know gathering of the juggalos was a real thing, I'd have assumed this was an experimental piece of skit comedy.
Throughout his entire performance the crowd is throwing trash and beer bottles at him and screaming at him to suck shit, but he just ignores it and continues with his very ironically up beat intro to his song that sounds like some kind of supportive self help message. At one point, like a dozen people in the crowd work together to carry this gigantic garbage bin to throw at him, but at the last moment before it reaches the stage they eat shit and spill its contents all over themselves and everyone else in the front row. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOvnbCtnVQ
He seems like a cool positive guy regardless of whatever he's doing to his image, but maybe that's just the character he's playing
I've also never figured out why the juggalos hated him so much
Who’s that?
Edit: googled it, it’s a musician. So you’re saying he’s trying to like purposely get people to invent a conspiracy about him like the “Paul is dead” conspiracy about Paul McCartney?
the conspiracy theory itself has existed since the early aughts if not before. the question is just how much is he feeding into it/whether he originated it.
Yeah, you got it. The conspiracy about him is that Andrew WK is more like a character he's playing rather than a real person. Around 2008 or so people started claiming there have been multiple people who've played the character. But from all evidence I can find, it really is just one real person. I think he's feeding into it or that he's the one who first proposed it. I think he's done stuff like pretended to be his own manager or purposefully be strange in interviews, and he's done this for over a decade.
So he's just american Gackt?
How do you mean? I only know about Gackt from Gundam music.
is that some kind of creepy pasta?
1960s stuff that one of the Beatles died and was replaced by someone who looked the same. People got way too into it saying the Beatles put clues everywhere, like the cover of their albums. The one I've always heard is that Paul McCartney is barefoot and out of step on the cover of Abbey Road because he represents a corpse. And there's a license plate of a car with the letters LMW which is supposed to be "Linda McCartney weeps." It is kinda like creepy pasta before they existed, just people going nuts with pattern recognition.
I do not understand anyone who thinks that owning a large dog is desirable.
they are very huggable
Like any other kind of dog, they have their various jobs and purposes. Well, except the wolf-hounds. They successfully killed all the wolves so now they mostly just lie around being smug shits about it.
IMO it's just market segmentation. A small dog is just an inferior kind of cat, so if you actually don't want a cat at all, you want a large dog. On the other hand, a small dog can be a way of sneaking an almost-cat past a cat-hating family member.
Small dogs are generally bred for specific purposes. Terriers are rodent genocide specialists. Cats hunt for food. Terriers exterminate rodents with extreme prejudice, even the women and the children
, because it's been bred in to their genes at a fundamental level. If you want to keep rodent populations low over a long period of time get some cats. If you have a rodent problem and don't want to have a rodent problem there are people who can be paid to come in with a terrier death squad and solve the problem.
Dachshunds are nasty little shitheads because they were never bred as pets. They're rabbit-eradicating fur missiles. They're bred to go down in to rabbit warrens and kill everything they find. It's important to keep track of them underground because you may have to dig the little psychos out if they lose themselves in a berserk frenzy.
Afaik Chihuahuas have always been companion dogs. They're not as hard to socialize as people think, folks just don't bother to train their dogs, probably due to moral turpentine. But in my experience they're also happy to exterminate rodents.
Spaniels and a variety of other small mop-type dogs were bread as lap dogs. ie their greatest and often only desire in life is to find a lap and plop down on it. This applies to many small and toy breeds, they were heavily selected for calm temperaments and affection
Small sighthounds like whippets and italian greyhounds were purpose built to go fast and kill rabbits. They're very, very good at it and very, very bad at almost everything else. They really only have two speeds - sleep, and murder.
Shibes were bred smart and fairly tough so they could work semi-independently flushing game when hunting
Basenjis are one of the most dog-shaped dogs around, and afaik weren't really bred, they just kind of hang out and do dog jobs while the humans do human jobs.
Pugs were originally bred as pets, but now they serve as mascots for why the American Kennel Club needs to be hunted down and punished for it's crimes against humanity's oldest and closest allies.
Beagles are scent hounds, designed to track stuff down and then yell a lot when they find it. Mostly intended for hunting, though they've also had a darker role working under slave catchers.
Corgis are cattle herding dogs, which is why they're a pain in everyone's ass when they don't have cattle to herd. For a fun time bring one to a small child's birthday party and watch them herd all the children together. They can be nippy though, so don't actually do this. nipping a cow to keep it moving generally doesn't cause the same kind of harm as nipping a 3 year old.
Shelties, likewise, small herding dogs.
It's important to get a dog for the job you need done. Getting a working dog and not having a job for it is disrespectful and harmful for the animal. If you don't have cattle you don't need a corgi. If you don't want to exterminate every rabbit within a kilometer radius you don't need a dachshund. You do not need a Husky. For the dog's sake stop buying huskys if you can't take them out to run for a few miles every day, preferably with a cart or sled or something for them to pull. Terriers are great for killing everything smaller than they are in a rural house, farmstead, a warehouse, whatever. If you don't need rodents murdered you don't need a terrier. Generally speaking if you don't have a specific job that you need a dog to fill, either get some kind of lap dog or companion dog that was bred to sit around the house all day and hang out with people, or get the most dog-shaped dog you can find (pariah dogs, basenji, spitz dogs). Dog shaped dogs are usually general purpose dogs that don't need specialized work to thrive and will find their own jobs, or just cause problems as dogs are want to do. Also - Shibes are at least as smart as your hairless monkey ass is, so you're not getting a pet, you're getting an ally who will probably tolerate your silly monkey antics.
As always, the crimes of the American Kennel Club will only be redeemed by the shedding of blood.