Memes

Mr.Beast , Elon Musk , Mamdani , Jordan Peterson ,every podcast idiot out there , the aristocrat family who owns the Daily Mail

MrBeast before 2024. Everyone seemed to be pretty enthusiastic about the guy's content and I don't recall him attracting too much drama before the Dawson situation.

Which is something I just couldn't compell. A guy who's content is so extremely materialistic became a symbol of le reddit wholesomeness. Basically all his content is just him being a feudal lord sitting on a high horse, throwing money at peasants performing humiliating acts to his amusement.

Fucking disgusting.

This was a while ago, but it was a Tuesday night at my bar and Cillian Murphy was there by himself, and he hung out and chatted with me for like an hour, hour and a half. I was a 20-somethiing bartender at the time- there was no one else there really, he had no reason to be nice other than he was just a nice guy. He was a 20-something superstar as well, this was after the Dark night

My friend group was in our late teens, we partied hard, we had each others backs... but we were so very inexperienced with the world. Then this one girl brought her new boyfriend... early thirties, soldier, fit, cool, experienced.

I had this instant dislike, his words were... too smooth, his jokes were funny, yes, but also cruel. He radiated a kind of coolness like uranium radiates poison. Everybody was all over him, the lads wanted to be like him, the lasses wanted him. I could not bring myself to like him and got accused of being jealous.

He broke up some lifelong friendships and budding relationships. He ended up getting two of the girls pregnant and went to prison because one of them was underage at the time. I feel vindicated, but I can't say I'm happy about it. The only good thing to come out of that is that I left that group and went a different way in life.

Gavin Newsom.

The very first time I ever saw a picture of the guy, he gave me "80s movie bad guy who wants to buy the local community center to tear it down and build a shitty hotel" vibes.

Me for Bill Gates and Mark Cuban, back when everyone loved them. Bill Gates was basically idolized on reddit, partaking on reddit santa and all that.

It happened to me with many disgraced celebrities, but so far the worst one has been Leonardo DiCaprio. After The Beach, he gives me a horribly bad vibe. Strangely enough, it doesn't happen with anything he did before The Beach.

Whatever horrible thing he did that stained his soul to such a degree, it must have happened between Celebrity and the end of filming The Beach. It's as if he became 25, went to Thailand, and did something that turned him evil or something.

Yeah all the time, people are just dumb and willing to look past obvious red flags just because someone acts confident. I mean we literally have a name for those people "con man" short for "confidence man" a man who exhudes confidence while scamming people.

And yet, everyone just likes confidence even when it's an obvious narcissist pos and then two years later they're all crying to me "can you believe Geoff would do that?" And im like yeah it was pretty obvious and you guys kicked me out of your friend group so fuck you too.

Me for Jack Black

I have definitely been the only one in the room to realize that the person everybody likes, is a snake.

Were I the first and only person in ghe world to realize this? No, definitely not. But in that particular constellation of people in one specific room at one specific time, I was and it fucking sucked everytime it happened.

There have also been plenty of times where I was the one to figure out late that someone was shitty because I kept believing in the best of them, and that also sucks.

Can't judge people who don't catch on early to someone being a shit person.

Used to work with a dude who took great delight in belittling others. He was quite Sr.

I thought I was taking crazy pills. "Oh, he's actually a sweetheart once you get to know him", "He doesn't mean to be that way". "He actually really likes me"

People were bending over backwards to defend a guy who was literally getting off on abusing his position of authority. Everyone seemed to think they were the special one who he liked and respected... they just wanted everyone else to "earn it" like they had.

It was scary! This guy had essentially formed a cult!

Anyways, our company got acquired and he was let go during HR vetting. The company doing the acquisition obviously had better due diligence then there was when this guy had been hired: sex crimes against a minor.

Everyone was shocked (STILL DEFENDING HIM). I was like "oh wow it's actually crazy how perfectly that tracks".

There is this one guy I know in the org I'm with who gives me these vibes. I have been extremely open about this. I will not engage with him or talk with him. Everyone seems to like him for some reason, but every red flag for me was triggered for some reason. He comes off as extremely manipulative. As petty and vindictive. As emotionally immature. As 'not safe to be around' period. I have not a shred of doubt that he would be a domestic abuser.

I'm having this when it comes to the movie Casablanca. Everyone is like "oh, what a timeless romance", and all I see is a bromance of two guys who won't let women go to safety with their families unless they sleep with them.

Talked to my therapist about this just this Friday. I have a friend, let’s call him Saul. He’s got an air about him, the way he carries himself. Good looking but not great looking, wears a certain kind of goatee that looks a little devilish. He presents as he is a gentleman, has manners, good listener, has a light touch - masculine but also effeminate in a way.

Women adore him! Like every woman I’ve ever met says she likes Saul. Not necessarily romantically, but just generally likes him and enjoys his company.

I’ve lived with this man on multiple occasions. He has caused my friends and I emotional harm. He will act overly aggressive about the smallest transgressions. I put a day bed in the common room one time, for a few weeks, and rather than approaching me about him not liking it, he demonstrated overt sex acts on it. The last time I lived with him a decade ago, he and my ex would berate me and the other roommate, in very toxic emotional ways, like in some kind of sadistic hedonist thing that they shared doing together - I think it came from them both tortured souls from their respective upbringings. Likewise, when he didn’t get his way or the rise he wanted, he would just yell or throw things. Rather than approaching in a discussion, he’d go nuclear.

But that’s not the worst part, because it wasn’t all about what happened to me. A good friend of mine and him started dating about a decade ago. Started out great, romantic, etc. but then he started doing the same things to her, so she broke it off and moved back home. The dude, on multiple occasions, drove the two hours down the road and would just stalk her. Like follow her all damn day. Would make sure she knew he was around.

We’re older now, I see him around town. We have coffee on occasion. He seems to be doing better, got an education, and has a little business that’s woman centric that seems to be doing well.

But I won’t ever forget what I know about this man. The closet is full of skeletons, and damned if this meme wasn’t on point.

I don't adore anyone, but I try not to think ill of people, either. The self is the lens we see the world through, so if we're always giving credence to the negative within us, that is what grows and what we see more of.

I hated Kevin Spacey from the start. He always looked like a creep to me, and American Beauty seemed like a blatant boast of that.

Of course, it didn't quite go the way I was thinking. But still, every time I saw people getting hyped, particularly around House of Cards, I was getting a repulsive sensation.