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Answer: PT's looks like it might be based off the colours they are wearing? Harris is in blue, and Olly is in purple, so I just assumed that's why he chose those The green heart on the second tweet, well, it looks like that group may be focused on environmentalism or animal conservation or something, and green tends to be a symbolic colour for those sorts of movements. Those would be my guesses, but I wouldn't say blue/purple (without pink also being there) or green meant much on their own as far as pride goes

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etaxmph

2019-07-09 00:23:27

What is up with the different color heart emojis on Twitter?

I've seen people using one or two heart emoji of different colors (green only, blue and purple, etc) in their tweets about pride. Do the colors mean anything specific or is it just random hearts? Examples: https://twitter.com/PhilosophyTube/status/1147194038174605312?s=19 https://twitter.com/gredmond76/status/1147542947812040704?s=19

2019-07-07 00:45:05

Answer: they owe me a repetition check for what they did to Star Wars

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et55qw6

2019-07-07 01:59:13

What is up with everyone hating Disney?

www.google.com

2019-07-07 01:52:00

Answer: Disney is not allowing someone to engrave spiderman onto his late son's gravestone

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et568fh

2019-07-07 02:05:01

What is up with everyone hating Disney?

www.google.com

2019-07-07 01:52:00

Answer: that is a loaded question. You need to be more specific. Between killing the public domain they built their empire off of, manipulating local and state governments to do their bidding, having the largest stake in the lootbox controversy among western property holders, being pretty close to a monopoly with their recent acquisitions, getting away with H1-B worker replacements through collusion, and many others things, there is a lot to hate Disney over.

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et58g2i

2019-07-07 02:32:40

What is up with everyone hating Disney?

www.google.com

2019-07-07 01:52:00

Answer: Walt Disney was a nazi. Also they have his body cryogenically frozen in a bunker somewhere.

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et5n7qh

2019-07-07 06:18:42

What is up with everyone hating Disney?

www.google.com

2019-07-07 01:52:00

Answer: They are a movie rental service that has select content for free with ads. Generally they do have some insane weekend deals where you can get some good content for $4.99 USD.

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et57oqx

2019-07-07 02:23:17

What's the deal with Vudu? (I think it's streaming service)

https://www.vudu.com/ So what's the deal with Vudu? Anyone here use it & want to share their experiences? Sometimes I see small ads for them online. "Watch TV and movies free, thousands of titles, no subscription needed." So I'm wondering, what's the catch? Is it like "the Roku Channel" that comes preloaded on your TV, where it is free but it just has heaps & heaps of ads? Thanks in advance, folks!

2019-07-07 02:06:42

Answer: I highly recommend vudu. It might've come out of nowhere for you but they're a huge player in the vod game. For one thing they're owned by wal-mart and they're the 3rd largest digital video outlet behind only Amazon and iTunes. They semi-recently started a free section that's pretty decent. I think the vast majority is pretty average to below average but they always seem to have cult classics like the faculty, silver bullet etc and genuinely good movies like Shakespeare in love, district 9, oldboy, the master etc. I don't use it that much but there weren't that many ads. One at the beginning and end, and like 3 or 4 ads in the middle. Def didn't feel like I was getting slammed. Hell, they even have promos where they give you credit for watching a certain free movie (they haven't done it in a while though). If you buy movies on there you can sync your library to iTunes, YouTube, Amazon etc with moviesanywhere.

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et6q6wa

2019-07-07 16:36:38

What's the deal with Vudu? (I think it's streaming service)

https://www.vudu.com/ So what's the deal with Vudu? Anyone here use it & want to share their experiences? Sometimes I see small ads for them online. "Watch TV and movies free, thousands of titles, no subscription needed." So I'm wondering, what's the catch? Is it like "the Roku Channel" that comes preloaded on your TV, where it is free but it just has heaps & heaps of ads? Thanks in advance, folks!

2019-07-07 02:06:42

Answer: Kawhi Leonard was the NBA Finals MVP after leading the Toronto Raptors to their first NBA championship last month. He was also in the last year of his contract so he was going to be a major pickup for a team in free agency. He had supposedly narrowed down his choice to the Raptors and both teams from Los Angeles, the Lakers and the Clippers. He was speculated to want to go to Los Angeles and since the Lakers already had LeBron James and Anthony Davis, many Lakers fans were hoping he would sign there too to form a new superteam. Now here is where the NBA free agency rules come into play. Today was the first day teams could officially sign new players in free agency, but the moratorium on announcements ended a week earlier so many players had already announced their new teams, but Kawhi hadn’t yet. Because Kawhi still had not made a decision, the Lakers decided not to make any big signings since they want to keep enough cap space (each team has a limit of how much money they can sign for new contracts every year and it varies by team) to hopefully sign him. In the end, Kawhi ended up striking a deal with Paul George (who was third in MVP voting this past season) to request a trade from the Oklahoma City Thunder to join the Clippers. Because Kawhi waited so long to make his decision public, the Lakers were unable to compete with other teams for potential big name free agents since they could not go over the cap needed to sign Kawhi who would’ve commanded a 4-year, $142 million contract. As far as the tweet specifically is concerned, Kawhi is known around the league as being a fairly quiet and reserved guy so the person is implying that it’s always the quiet ones who are good at negotiating and screwing over other teams, which many people believe he did to the Lakers by waiting a week to decide where to go. Hopefully I got everything, but maybe other people can fill in any holes.

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et58khq

2019-07-07 02:34:12

What’s going on with Kawhi Leonard?

I keep seeing tweets like this- https://twitter.com/minakimes/status/1147636842876956673?s=21

2019-07-07 01:04:04

Answer: Kawhi Leonard, arguably the best NBA player at the moment also became a free agent as he just won a championship with the Raptors. Thus he was **THE** biggest free agent on the market with the Raptors being the biggest targets along with the Lakers and Clippers. The huge shocker is Kawhi suddenly signing with the Clippers right as their management managed to make a blockbuster trade to get him a superstar teammate in Paul George to make them a very competitive team & a heavy favorite in the west. In regards to messages like that, many feel Kawhi in a sense possibly stalled for time to give the Clippers time to make the deal happen as if they were his first preference & the Lakers was essentially stood up as Kawhi also talked to Paul George apparently to talk him into demanding to the OKC Thunder's management to work with the Clippers to trade him. With Kawhi being such a quiet guy it's just surprising he helped orchestrate one of the biggest chain of transactions within the past 24 hours that essentially changes the landscape of competition for the upcoming NBA season.

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et58zr9

2019-07-07 02:39:34

What’s going on with Kawhi Leonard?

I keep seeing tweets like this- https://twitter.com/minakimes/status/1147636842876956673?s=21

2019-07-07 01:04:04

Answer: Ross is friends with and worked with the Game Grumps, appearing in many things they did, and had a separate series on the channel, Steam Train. When they first started doing Mario Maker, Ross created levels for them to try which were notoriously difficult and were made to make the Grumps mad at how hard they are. I guess people just like beating them cause they're pretty hard.

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et59sbj

2019-07-07 02:49:43

What's going on with Mario Maker 1 & 2 and "Ross" levels?

I've seen lots of videos where people attempt Ross levels of Mario maker. Who is he and why are his levels important? Also what tie does he have to the Game Grumps? [https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/profile/RubberNinja?type=posted](https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/profile/RubberNinja?type=posted) This is the profile of the person in question i believe.

2019-07-07 02:06:34

Answer: Ross has a long association with the Grumps going way back to Arin's Newgrounds days. When Mario Maker came out Ross was one of the top creators of levels globally, so for the sequel they had a whole thing about it He had a segment on the show, but has since moved on to creating an animated series for some network and focuses his energies on that. Haven't heard anything about that for a while. He was married to Holly Conrad AKA Commander Holly, but has divorced in a story that's it's own rabbit hole involving ProJared and his wife, accusation of infidelity, and possibly child porn.

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et5d5qy

2019-07-07 03:32:53

What's going on with Mario Maker 1 & 2 and "Ross" levels?

I've seen lots of videos where people attempt Ross levels of Mario maker. Who is he and why are his levels important? Also what tie does he have to the Game Grumps? [https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/profile/RubberNinja?type=posted](https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/profile/RubberNinja?type=posted) This is the profile of the person in question i believe.

2019-07-07 02:06:34

Answer: Ross "RubberNinja" O'Donovan is an animator and net personality from the days of Newgrounds (translation: internet dinosaurs). He was brought in by Arin and Dan of the Game Grumps to co-host their spinoff Steam Train with Dan (the show has since expanded to include every single Grump throughout history as long as it's not only Arin and Dan; I think the show is currently on hiatus/cancelled, but I might be wrong). They have remained fast friends over the years and frequently collaborate on other projects with each other, such as Dan's band Ninja Sex Party. For further context, each Grump has a very distinctive personality, and Ross is often characterized as the evil/impish one. He has a very distinctive cackle and a slightly sadistic sense of humor, and is easily one of the most beloved members. ​ Ross is... ~~reviled~~ notorious among the Mario Maker community because his levels have incredibly small completion percentages; in this case, completion percentage means how many people have played your levels vs how many of them have actually reached the goal, so %=winners/total players. If I recall correctly, most of Ross's levels hover around a 0.5%, meaning that for every 1000 players who play his levels, only around 5 of them are able to clear the level. His toughest level so far on MM2 has a 0.03% completion rate. That's 3 wins for every 10000 attempts. ​ For further context, head over to the Game Grumps channel on Youtube, look for the Mario Maker episodes, and watch specifically those with Ross's face on the thumbnail.

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et8tp9t

2019-07-08 07:08:18

What's going on with Mario Maker 1 & 2 and "Ross" levels?

I've seen lots of videos where people attempt Ross levels of Mario maker. Who is he and why are his levels important? Also what tie does he have to the Game Grumps? [https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/profile/RubberNinja?type=posted](https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/profile/RubberNinja?type=posted) This is the profile of the person in question i believe.

2019-07-07 02:06:34

Answer: It's just showing the gameplay while having the "gonna cry? piss your pants maybe? maybe shit and cum" meme in it. Nothing cryptic in the ad.

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et5h59v

2019-07-07 04:32:11

What's up with this cryptic polysphere ad?

Specifically [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7mzDGS9tgk) bizarre ad for what seems to be an otherwise fairly simple puzzle game. Is it just cryptic advertising? Is it part of some kind of ARG? I've never played polysphere and I have no intention of doing so, so this isn't me shilling for them, I'm just very confused.

2019-07-03 13:24:35

Answer: That's Robert Downey Jr., the actor for Iron Man/Tony Stark in all of the Avengers movies. He also played Sherlock Holmes at some point. For some odd reason, people on Facebook started putting him below their "memes" saying "he's not wrong". Reddit has picked up on this, and started using him ironically.

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et5imm6

2019-07-07 04:55:17

What's up with that black and white picture of some guy, used mainly in ironic memes?

I think it's some Avengers character but I'm not sure. Where did the picture come from and who's the person in it? ​ warning: the following memes are very strange, fermenting under countless thick layers of irony, and might push you out of your comfort zone [example](https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/comments/c89pyf/i_am_stuff/) [example 2: electric boogaloo](https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/comments/c7l7ts/this_funy/)

2019-07-07 03:58:24

Answer: it might have something to do with the gay character they showed in Avengers ~~Infinity war~~ Endgame but not 100% sure Edit: corrected the movie title

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et6h5ui

2019-07-07 15:16:32

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: it’s probably just internet sarcasm, SLJ has always played characters that held a lot of authority and he is well known for over top outbursts in those roles. To the point where the characters and the actor become one in the same. So a director telling SLJ what do on set, exactly what a director’s job is, seems outlandish and “disrespectful” to SLJ.

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et6j4uz

2019-07-07 15:36:05

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: The Russo brothers have become a central part of the Marvel cinematic universe, directing a number of films. While the films have been financially successful, the movies they have directed have had some criticisms leveled at them, particularly by the more hardcore comic fans and film enthusiasts. The short version of the criticism is that the Russo brothers' movies tend to eschew nuanced plot, inventive cinematography, and bold risk taking for the sake of making movies that are broadly appealing. Check from about [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzIJ4HzLiIE&t=10:00) for a more in depth explanation of the flaws of some of the Russo brothers' Marvel movies. Personally, I think there is some merit to the idea that other directors could have potentially taken more risks in those movies, which may have led to superior films (or also more nonsensical films). That said, I also appreciate that there's something to the idea that the MCU has had 20+ movies come out with very few stinkers among them. And the Russo brothers have managed to clear a reasonably high bar each time they've directed (though they've never really soared over expectations). For some passionate fans, 'good enough' isn't good enough.

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et6tdcs

2019-07-07 17:03:06

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: Many fans of the MCU and comics are upset with how the Russo's handled several characters in Endgame and Infinity War. Hulk in the Comics is literally one of the strongest characters in the Marvel Universe, yet Thanos laid him out in 10 seconds flat. Captain America went back to live with Peggy despite him accepting that he couldn't live a life with her in Civil War. Thor becoming a fat alcoholic. Black Widow dying instead of Hawkeye (fans liked her more than him, so even though it made sense, some fans didn't care).

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et7904o

2019-07-07 19:18:50

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: They are becoming like the Game of Thrones writers

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et7ei3o

2019-07-07 20:04:34

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: The internet amplifies minority opinions. It may look like a trend to you, but that doesn't mean it's a significant trend.

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et7r32z

2019-07-07 21:51:47

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: I think it’s likely a case of a vocal minority. I’ve personally never heard anything but praise for the Russo Brothers, and they absolutely deserve it.

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et7wmmo

2019-07-07 22:55:10

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: The majority of people who 'dislike' the Russos are pretty die hard MCU fans. Mainly the teenage girl fanbase. Now, before Endgame, it was fine. But a large portion of that audience didn't take the decisions that Endgame made well (Tony and Nat dying, Cap going back in time). They all had headcannons of their own with Cap and Bucky getting married, or Tony living a life with his kid, or Nat helping raise Hawkeyes kids. And because Endgame had some long lasting consequences that didn't match what they had in their mind, they've taken up arms against the Russos. It's not too different to The Last Jedi drama. Most people had theories that Rey was a skywalker, kenobi, etc. And when she just ended up being no one important, their years of theorizing went down the drain. So that fanbase decided that the directors choice was wrong and now hate on any upcoming Star Wars property. But overall, the only people you'll see genuinely hating the Russos are the younger, tween marvel fans who had their own ideas for these characters that didn't match up with the Russos vision.

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et7y7ii

2019-07-07 23:15:25

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: in Civil War they almost made Tony Stark a villain although for the fans of Iron Man he was the one who was trying to keep the Avengers together, bring them back to the law, and in the end avenge his mother, while Cap seemed like the one who betrayed Tony's friendship. In Endgame they killed Tony Stark. So if you are an Iron Man fan, there's a chance that you won't like them too much.

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et81n2y

2019-07-08 00:00:15

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: The fact that none of the top comments seem to agree on why exactly the Russos are disliked, offering vague speculation instead of concrete answers, should tell you that they're not. I guess the real answer is that you can't be universally liked no matter who you are, there will always be some asshole on Twitter who hates your guts.

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et8agfp

2019-07-08 01:57:26

What's the deal with people not liking the Russo Brothers? (Marvel directors)

Saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/ironstarc/status/1146524754263887877?s=19) on my timeline, showcasing how a lot of people, mostly the Marvel fandom does not like the Russo Brothers. Heard about this before but can't specifically remember which tweets. Just genuinely cuiour as to why? EDIT: Since some have answered this question as an isolated incident involving SLJ, I want to provide more examples: https://twitter.com/ruffalsson/status/1147647212027076608?s=19 https://twitter.com/vhsbvcky/status/1146636860753682433?s=19 https://twitter.com/nsfwmarvelbot/status/1144475641225420801?s=19 https://twitter.com/notearskarla/status/1143852470935777288?s=19 EDIT: Thank you all for the variety of answers. I now have a better idea of the Marvel fandom.

2019-07-07 13:30:44

Answer: people are mad that the video didn’t talk about any negative things she’s apparently done and only portrayed her in a positive light. From what I’ve read, the negative things she’s done are say the n-word, copyright-strike compilations of her, and been mean to people on stream before. Some people are saying that the video ignoring these “controversies” while other similar videos for guy streamers did cover their controversies is white knighting, while others are saying that the controveries of the guy streamers covered were integral to their streamer carreers but they are insignificant or irrelevant for Pokimane’s. Also based on comments, the streamer xQc sent a lot of people to the video so maybe some brigading

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et6meto

2019-07-07 16:04:40

What's up with the hate on "The Story of Pokimane" by theScore esports?

Here is the video in question https://youtu.be/oBih8DbAYgQ.

2019-07-07 08:31:08

Answer: professional athletics is a market just like any other. Women's soccer does not generate as much revenue as men's soccer. Therefore the players are paid less.

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et7fv34

2019-07-07 20:15:53

What’s going on with the US women’s national soccer team being paid less than the men?

This tends to get used as an example of sexism, given how the women’s team is more successful and [according to the Wall Street Journal, generates more revenue.](http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/uswnt-us-soccer-revenues-lawsuit) I usually don’t believe that the answer is as simple as malice/prejudice, but with the aforementioned in mind, what am I missing?

2019-07-07 19:51:11

Answer: Pepe is a controversial thing. There’s no denying that. r/frenworld was created for Pepes so it naturally drew in undesirables. There were unironic racists and fascists, but there were also normal people who just liked memeing around. r/TopmindsofReddit became the laughing stock of the entire website for several weeks given how badly they handled the entire thing. Topminds brigaded frenworld And frenworld brigaded them back. The frenworld mods weren’t able to remove all the offensive content so it was banned. r/clownworldwar which was undeniably worse than frenworld actually lasted longer than frenworld itself, so try figuring that one out.

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et7j47j

2019-07-07 20:43:01

What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned?

# What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned? I heard something about alt-right propaganda, but I still have seen or heard nothing of it.

2019-06-20 18:29:06

Answer: r/frenworld along with several other similarly themed subreddits, was, on its face, largely dedicated to posting "frenly" (friendly) content about frogs in clown wigs and speaking in a sort of pseudo-baby-talk. Underneath this face was a subtext of racism and violence. They would refer to Jewish people as "nose-frens", for example. Anyone who disagreed or disliked the sub was a "non-fren". They would advocate violence by saying that people needed to get "bopped" which was really just another way to say "killed". There was a lot of Nazi imagery, and the comments referenced other racist memes, such as "13%", "6 million", and things like that. https://imgur.com/a/lSzaXfM The subreddit was banned for advocating violence, as comments about "bopping" went largely unchecked, and this violates the sitewide content policy. Here are more threads for further reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/c2yxi7/rfrenworld_has_been_banned_discuss/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit/comments/c2yrky/rfrenworld_has_been_banned/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit/comments/bjwbln/rfrenworld_is_a_look_into_just_how_acceptable_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/c0kisd/behold_how_far_right_ethnonationalists_are_now/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit/search?q=frenworld&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/search?q=frenworld&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on **edit** I was criticized for only including left-leaning sources, so feel free to check these out as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/search?q=frenworld&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditcancer/search?q=frenworld&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on

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ernndgb

2019-06-20 18:50:20

What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned?

# What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned? I heard something about alt-right propaganda, but I still have seen or heard nothing of it.

2019-06-20 18:29:06

Answer: Alright so there are the two big subreddits here. Frenworld and tmor. /r/frenworld is the new up and coming sub, exploding with the quaratining of cringeanarchy, a lot of users are now floating and looking for a new home. Frenworld is based off posting pepes and the subreddit has its own "language" referring to each others as "frens". On the surface it does seem extremely innocent as a meme aggregator specializing specifically in pepes. On the flipside, on 4chan,a new pepe, the clown pepe has taken off, this pepe is used ironically with *honk* to usually poke fun at something. In this case its been coopted and used mostly to poke fun at progressive issues. Examples of clown pepe [Example 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/ba2byv/the_next_joker_movie/) [Example 2](https://imgur.com/ls3y3FI) However. Dont get me wrong, there is nothing intrinsically wrong about pepe memes [Even though it has a "controversial" history in being coopted and shit by nazis, the creator has swore off on them and there are many memes that are entirely wholesome](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog) [Example of a pepe frog just being used as the primer for a greentext story that is wholesome](https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/bioog1/anon_loves_formula/) [Another example](https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/ba9c4m/4chan_is_a_very_dangerous_place/) Pepehands for example is an incredibly popular Twitch emote. In short, pepe memes are akin to a knife. You can use the knife to open a jar, to cut your bread, to spread butter and jam. You can also use a knife to perform a vivisection, use it to rob a store, stab someone in the face. Its just a medium of expression and as such its not inherently evil and flawed nor is it necessarily inherently good and virtuous. It just is. frenworld deals exclusively in using the meme and innocent language. However, a meta subreddit, that is, a subreddit that focuses on discussion of threads on reddit itself (see /r/bestoflegaladvice /r/subredditoftheday /r/bestof /r/subredditdrama /r/ShitRedditSays was the OG and has sparked off like 20 knock offs I wont bother listing, its mostly a dead subreddit now though etc.) called /r/topmindsofreddit caught wind of the sub and certain pervasive elements that run through it. As you can see, metasubreddits are quite diverse in what they cover, some are strictly maintained like BOLA to help ease all the bullshit that reddit would usually post into /r/legaladvice others are specifically made to poke fun at reddit drama and squabbles /r/SubredditDramaDrama and /r/Drama TMOR is a meta subreddit specializing in making fun of "top minds" mostly conspiracy theorists (at least originally) its now tends to poke fun at alt righters as well. Nazis, white nationalists, this subreddit finds them on reddit and makes a thread to effectively "laugh at them" or discuss them or whatever. Basically meta subreddit stuff. Most meta subreddits is all about laughing at redditors or the drama. Full disclosure, I have posted a thread there. However Ive been to a lot of places on reddit. I dont routinely participate on TMOR. If you can be bothered, go through my post history, its long and boring and stupid. You linked the thread already so there is no real need to link it again but you can judge the subreddit yourself. The subreddit does have certain undercurrents to it, for example right now, on its front page is [this](https://preview.redd.it/k71awmq8gew21.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=1641a5627c3338e61515fe838c448193b1ee326b) clearly referring to jewish conspiracies revolving around George Soros. [Keep in mind the drama has also sparked interest from other meta subs](https://np.reddit.com/r/antifastonetoss/comments/bjwajx/rfrenworld_is_a_look_into_just_how_acceptable_and/) and there is plenty of current posts right now in frenworld biting back at TMOR As such its a bit hard to judge and definitively place the label of "hate sub" on the subreddit. Instead its important to weigh what the moderators reactions to hateful posts are (acceptance of deletion + banning) and watch as the new community changes. It is after all just green frogs, however that could be the whole point of it, the thin layer of misdirection. The nasty elements hidden under the thin veneer of avoiding culpability for your opinions as revealed by TMOR is pretty disturbing all the same. The dog whistles are completely and utterly blatant in some areas while other posts are completely side step hateful messages but can be considered as "cover". In providing an answer to you, I cant personally weigh in on the issue, but you can easily browse through the meta subreddit links for evidence or just go look at /r/frenworld yourself. I did and pretty easily spotted the obviously crafted meme with no subtlety in pushing anti jewish conspiracies and putting Soros out there its on the front page literally as of the moment of posting this comment #17." #Here's another good answer from a different thread, posted about a month ago. from u/mrducky78 https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/bkzpvx/z/eml40iz

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erod8dx

2019-06-21 00:10:51

What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned?

# What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned? I heard something about alt-right propaganda, but I still have seen or heard nothing of it.

2019-06-20 18:29:06

Answer: It was an alt-right/neo-nazi sub that tried to masqaurade as simply being "wholesome" or a joke by talking like toddlers, when in fact it was just coded language for discussing fascist/Nazi ideology in order to get around reddit's censorship policies, including the promotion of genocide against minorities and anti-Semitic stereotypes. It finally got banned, thank god, but there are still other subs of the same vein that are still active.

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erqbi3d

2019-06-21 17:51:48

What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned?

# What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned? I heard something about alt-right propaganda, but I still have seen or heard nothing of it.

2019-06-20 18:29:06

Answer: (Also response to the higher up comments) God dang it, just because occasionally someone makes an offensive joke on frenworld, and is them cherry picked by incels with no lices doesnt mean literally everyone is a nazi I just post chicken and honey mustard and i get attacked by being called a nazi. If this is how all subs worked, then its confirmed that every sub that has ever made an offensive joke by some random Joe Shmoe is a hate sub. I just wish the admins thought before they acted. King longnose= ANTEATER The hitler joke made it nowhere near the top and a lot of the comments turned out to be alts. Dang it im tired of this I just want my favorite sub back ;(

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eru2eqg

2019-06-23 03:33:13

What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned?

# What is r/frenworld and why did it get banned? I heard something about alt-right propaganda, but I still have seen or heard nothing of it.

2019-06-20 18:29:06

Answer: Oh boy here we go. * Incels, if you haven't heard of them already (*somehow*), stands for "INvoluntary CELibates", as in people who are virgins for reasons beyond their control. They believe that they cannot get significant others because of genetic factors (body proportions, height, chin shape, etc.). If that's true or not, that's entirely up to you, I'm not getting into that discussion. In general, this is usually neckbeard "women don't like nice guys" stuff. The thing about incels is that, sometimes they come up with some really nasty stuff, like proclaiming that rape should be legal, that age doesn't matter (hence the "pedophile" tag), among other things. This, of course, it's the extreme of the extremes. * IncelTears is a sub that basically documents the worst of the incels. Which, in theory, should be fine, as there are many other subs that document crazy people (neckbeards, mall ninjas, just no mothers in law, entitled people). So what's the connection between these two? * I'm not an incel, I do not indentify as one and I do not agree nor I condone Incel thinking and actions, they can be very nasty people with nasty thinking and such. But these are people who genuinely need help; I can guarantee most, if not all, have serious self-esteem and social issues and struggle heavily with interacting with others. By hanging out in incel forums and such, they lock themselves in echo chambers, reminding eachother day after day that they're literal trash, uncapable of ever being loved or liked. * IncelTears just straight up mock and make fun of incels. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Like I said above, *in theory*, it's just another weird people subreddit, but if you take a look at the posts there, you'll notice people there get a kick out of belittling incels. * So just imagine you're an incel, full of self-doubts, insecurities and issues, and you stumble upon a place that straight up confirms your worst fears: that people think you're a horrible, disgusting human being. IncelTears pretends to "help" incels, but I've yet to see a post offering genuine help and advice, because most of the people there instantly assume Incels will ignore it. While I do know some incels may do exactly that, I don't know why IncelTears thinks kicking someone who's already down is okay; * Look at [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/9uatd7/hard_to_swallow_pills/) post for an example; like, really man? I get that grooming and a good fashion sense can help greatly, but you guys straight up photoshopped the guy. You're doing nothing but telling incels that the only way they can become presentable is through editing software. * Incels usually lash back at IncelTears, accusing them of being incels as well, but not admitting it out of insecurity or fear. In conclusion: * The term "Incel", just like "cuck", "liberal", "nazi" and "sjw" has been so misued and oversused that it has lost it's meaning, becoming a vague term to describe people you don't particularly like and that you blame for something. Incels are, trutly, flawed individuals with a horrendous philosofy. They are in dire need of psychological help (which I doubt random people on the internet can provide). IncelTears does the exact opposite.

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et7m1w6

2019-07-07 21:07:20

What is the deal with r/IncelTears and r/Braincels calling each other pedophiles?

[https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/c5ztwr/the\_pedocels\_are\_at\_it\_again/](https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/c5ztwr/the_pedocels_are_at_it_again/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/bv3xbv/sociopathic\_pedophiles\_say\_the\_darndest\_things/](https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/bv3xbv/sociopathic_pedophiles_say_the_darndest_things/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/b4f1ay/i\_think\_i\_found\_a\_pedocel/](https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/b4f1ay/i_think_i_found_a_pedocel/) ​ [https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/c9s98q/when\_youre\_a\_morally\_righteous\_pedo/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/c9s98q/when_youre_a_morally_righteous_pedo/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/bz13dd/was\_the\_post\_about\_the\_it\_pedophile\_removed/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/bz13dd/was_the_post_about_the_it_pedophile_removed/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/aw2bjo/it\_is\_literally\_posting\_child\_pornography\_just\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/aw2bjo/it_is_literally_posting_child_pornography_just_to/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/8czzsx/just\_a\_reminder\_an\_inceltears\_mod\_was\_exposed\_as/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/8czzsx/just_a_reminder_an_inceltears_mod_was_exposed_as/) ​ I've found many, many other posts about pedophiles, how X people are pedophiles, etc... why are these people so obcessed with pedophiles? I follow both subs out of morbid curiosity and I see threads where they call each other pedophiles or just talk about pedophiles almost daily (examples [x](https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/c9o6il/not_pedophiles_no_sir_not_at_all/) [x](https://preview.redd.it/o54vnbgmsr531.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b71d6ca8cb96f65016e72517c0406c7283b14373)). ​ (Reposting because I forgot the sources and context)

2019-07-07 12:58:06

Answer: Pedophiles are one of those groups that everyone agrees are evil. Regardless of race, creed, political affiliation, or any other ideology, everyone seems to be able to broadly agree that pedo = evil. So that makes pedophile a very easy slur to label someone you hate with, which is why it gets used so much

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et7mrp2

2019-07-07 21:13:12

What is the deal with r/IncelTears and r/Braincels calling each other pedophiles?

[https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/c5ztwr/the\_pedocels\_are\_at\_it\_again/](https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/c5ztwr/the_pedocels_are_at_it_again/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/bv3xbv/sociopathic\_pedophiles\_say\_the\_darndest\_things/](https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/bv3xbv/sociopathic_pedophiles_say_the_darndest_things/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/b4f1ay/i\_think\_i\_found\_a\_pedocel/](https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/b4f1ay/i_think_i_found_a_pedocel/) ​ [https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/c9s98q/when\_youre\_a\_morally\_righteous\_pedo/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/c9s98q/when_youre_a_morally_righteous_pedo/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/bz13dd/was\_the\_post\_about\_the\_it\_pedophile\_removed/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/bz13dd/was_the_post_about_the_it_pedophile_removed/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/aw2bjo/it\_is\_literally\_posting\_child\_pornography\_just\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/aw2bjo/it_is_literally_posting_child_pornography_just_to/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/8czzsx/just\_a\_reminder\_an\_inceltears\_mod\_was\_exposed\_as/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Braincels/comments/8czzsx/just_a_reminder_an_inceltears_mod_was_exposed_as/) ​ I've found many, many other posts about pedophiles, how X people are pedophiles, etc... why are these people so obcessed with pedophiles? I follow both subs out of morbid curiosity and I see threads where they call each other pedophiles or just talk about pedophiles almost daily (examples [x](https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/c9o6il/not_pedophiles_no_sir_not_at_all/) [x](https://preview.redd.it/o54vnbgmsr531.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b71d6ca8cb96f65016e72517c0406c7283b14373)). ​ (Reposting because I forgot the sources and context)

2019-07-07 12:58:06

Answer: Because "Oh, it'll be fine". It's a joke about the name of the sub. Maybe there's a hope the shitposts will go out of control and thereby increase the subs popularity, but that part is purely speculation.

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et7mpn0

2019-07-07 21:12:44

What’s up with r/OhItllBeFine?

Their rules section: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ohitllbefine/about](https://www.reddit.com/r/ohitllbefine/about) The subreddit seems to have removed all of its rules, and people are shitposting everything. I tried searching but didn’t get any good answers. Did something happen or was there just so much low effort that the mods gave up?

2019-07-07 12:43:01

Answer: If you look in the comments he bases this entirely on upvotes or downvotes and gives no proof as to moderator action against the right-wing. The argument was doomed from the start because it comes from the perspective that the news section is biased when his parameters are solely based on the audience who digests the content, not the subreddit itself.

cacli9

et7t6sd

2019-07-07 22:12:50

What's up with people saying reddit is a liberal cesspool?

I was on reddit when my friend asked me why I used such a biased platform. (The link is just a random link i found on google) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/9uwtz7/can_we_talk_about_how_leftleaning_rnews_is/&ved=2ahUKEwiyzoWS5qPjAhULZc0KHR5LBCgQFjAFegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw17P9gqS8A6uXP4YlLZsk-N&ampcf=1

2019-07-07 22:01:29

Answer: have you seen the comments on the “news” tab?

cacli9

et7yz3e

2019-07-07 23:25:23

What's up with people saying reddit is a liberal cesspool?

I was on reddit when my friend asked me why I used such a biased platform. (The link is just a random link i found on google) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/9uwtz7/can_we_talk_about_how_leftleaning_rnews_is/&ved=2ahUKEwiyzoWS5qPjAhULZc0KHR5LBCgQFjAFegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw17P9gqS8A6uXP4YlLZsk-N&ampcf=1

2019-07-07 22:01:29

Answer: 60% of Reddit is between 18 and 29 and have a college education or higher. Educated young people tend to be more liberal.

cacli9

et812z8

2019-07-07 23:52:54

What's up with people saying reddit is a liberal cesspool?

I was on reddit when my friend asked me why I used such a biased platform. (The link is just a random link i found on google) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/9uwtz7/can_we_talk_about_how_leftleaning_rnews_is/&ved=2ahUKEwiyzoWS5qPjAhULZc0KHR5LBCgQFjAFegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw17P9gqS8A6uXP4YlLZsk-N&ampcf=1

2019-07-07 22:01:29

Answer:Go to any political subreddit that is supposed to be neutral overwhelmingly it will side with liberal viewpoints. Reddit has also been caught changing upvote algorithms for r/The_Donald and other conservative related posts so they dont get seen on the front page or impersonating people and altering their past comments which got into legal issues due to comments needing to be archived in case its needed for legal matters. https://www.techly.com.au/2016/11/28/free-speech-reddit-ceo-caught-trolling-trump-supporters/ I've used reddit for over half a decade, I'm somewhere in the middle half my family is conservative the other half is liberal. I genuinely believe it's a liberal cesspool from the unproportionate amount of users demographics and backend on a website level from admins catering to their market Edit: to take it a step further search engines also do behind the scene political biases. With all the controversy behind Hiliary Clinton's email you should easily be able to find information from Google right? Try searching it, wont even come up on auto predict. Then compare that to Bing or DuckDuckGo

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etadxf2

2019-07-08 20:34:17

What's up with people saying reddit is a liberal cesspool?

I was on reddit when my friend asked me why I used such a biased platform. (The link is just a random link i found on google) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/9uwtz7/can_we_talk_about_how_leftleaning_rnews_is/&ved=2ahUKEwiyzoWS5qPjAhULZc0KHR5LBCgQFjAFegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw17P9gqS8A6uXP4YlLZsk-N&ampcf=1

2019-07-07 22:01:29

Answer: Megan Rapinoe, a player on the US Women's soccer team had a feud with Trump on twitter, saying that she wouldn't go to the White House if invited after winning the World Cup. Before the game, Trump tweeted [here](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1143892326286266368) saying that she's being disrespectful. Rapinoe ended up scoring a goal to put the US at a 1-0 lead, and the US won the game at 2-0.

cad72o

et7zt25

2019-07-07 23:36:15

What is going on with the US soccer team and Trump?

I’ve seen a ton of posts about Trump and the US soccer team winning. What are there about? Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/ca9f2p/ohh_this_is_gonna_make_his_head_explode/?st=JXTK1MN7&sh=54b5a353

2019-07-07 22:56:35

Answer: Several players on the US women’s national team have objected to trump’s political agenda in the past. most recently one of the senior players, Megan Rapinoe, said that if the US won the World Cup, she would not celebrate by going to the White House, which is an American tradition for when a sports team wins it big. Trump retorted on Twitter, implying that she should focus on winning before saying things like that (and depending on whose point of view you look at it from, he may have been subtly saying that the team couldn’t win). Rapinoe went on to score many goals, including one in the final, which they won today, defeating the Netherlands 2-0. She also scored the most goals in the tournament and was voted the tournament’s MVP, essentially showing up the president in style.

cad72o

et87w72

2019-07-08 01:23:12

What is going on with the US soccer team and Trump?

I’ve seen a ton of posts about Trump and the US soccer team winning. What are there about? Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/ca9f2p/ohh_this_is_gonna_make_his_head_explode/?st=JXTK1MN7&sh=54b5a353

2019-07-07 22:56:35

Answer: Hentai Haven got into some legal problems over the past year, based on undisclosed issues, but it is speculated to be about lolicon material or copyright issues. Fakku, a larger pay-walled hentai site, offered to help HH get out of the legal issues, in exchange for the reins to the company. According to PapaHH (the original creator of the site), they promised him royalties and share in the new combined company, but they reneged on their agreement. As a result, Papa posted one last article on HH, which was since deleted, giving his side of the story.

cadjh2

et80af7

2019-07-07 23:42:32

What's going on with Hentaihaven and Fakku?

Seen a bunch of posts with screenshots of a message from the creator of HH saying he got screwed over by Fakku somehow. Source tweet here: https://twitter.com/realpapahh/status/1147860575730294784?s=19

2019-07-07 23:29:23

Answer: The screenshot looks like it says it all. Dude and HH was in trouble, Fakku offered to help out. Dude eventually agreed, Fakku took over and pushed him out.

cadjh2

et80pn2

2019-07-07 23:48:03

What's going on with Hentaihaven and Fakku?

Seen a bunch of posts with screenshots of a message from the creator of HH saying he got screwed over by Fakku somehow. Source tweet here: https://twitter.com/realpapahh/status/1147860575730294784?s=19

2019-07-07 23:29:23

Answer: The original creator and owner of the site, PapaHH, was in legal hot water many years ago, and Fakku, a large hentai manga site, with an extensive catalog of stuff behind a paywall, made him an offer that they would bail him out, and after promises of royalties and co-ownership, booted him out of the partnership and ownership of his site.

cadjh2

et822d1

2019-07-08 00:05:52

What's going on with Hentaihaven and Fakku?

Seen a bunch of posts with screenshots of a message from the creator of HH saying he got screwed over by Fakku somehow. Source tweet here: https://twitter.com/realpapahh/status/1147860575730294784?s=19

2019-07-07 23:29:23

Answer: * PapaHH (the creator of the site) had legal problems (because piracy, duh...) * PapaHH made a deal with ~~the devil~~ FAKKU to solve his issues, handing them all the keys to the site in the process. * FAKKU threw him out since they no longer needed him. * PapaHH: *shocked pikachu face.jpg*

cadjh2

et8qja8

2019-07-08 06:01:55

What's going on with Hentaihaven and Fakku?

Seen a bunch of posts with screenshots of a message from the creator of HH saying he got screwed over by Fakku somehow. Source tweet here: https://twitter.com/realpapahh/status/1147860575730294784?s=19

2019-07-07 23:29:23

Answer: G2A sells "grey market" keys to games, acting as an unofficial storefront that can sell games at a lower price than official ones. G2A acquires some of these keys from people offloading bundled or otherwise never activated games to them or by purchasing at cheaper regional rates, but many of these keys are acquired from fake review accounts or even from purchases made fraudulently with stolen credentials. The last method of key acquisition is what is considered the worst for developers, because a market for fradulently purchased grey market keys means the developers have to accept chargebacks from the people whose cards were used to purchase the keys, but can't really deactivate the game somebody innocent bought. Additionally, grey market keys are generally unreliable and create a huge additional workload for game devs customer relations people without actually benefitting the developer any. In that sense, pirating is better; at least pirates just get the game for free, while grey market key purchases actively cost developers money and time. G2A also responded to this uproar with something along the lines of "wouldn't you rather we do this than somebody really shady", which comes across as kind of a stereotypical organized crime line. "Better us than the next gang" or whatever.

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et80oqp

2019-07-07 23:47:45

What's the deal with G2A?

Who are they and why are people upset with them? All I know is they sell games, or something. Also, some developers are saying it's better to pirate games than to buy something from them. I have no idea why, but even big YouTubers are refusing to advertise them. Here's context: https://www.g2a.com/

2019-07-07 23:19:29

Answer: Context: I worked game support for Blizzard for almost a decade. G2A does not care where the keys they sell come from. You would get dozens of cases daily where a key was purchased off fraudulent credit card information, sold on G2A before the security check voids the key and then people come to support and ask why their expansion / game time / ingame pet/mount etc stopped working. G2A is knowingly fencing stolen digital goods and have done little to nothing to combat this practice.

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et92137

2019-07-08 10:37:29

What's the deal with G2A?

Who are they and why are people upset with them? All I know is they sell games, or something. Also, some developers are saying it's better to pirate games than to buy something from them. I have no idea why, but even big YouTubers are refusing to advertise them. Here's context: https://www.g2a.com/

2019-07-07 23:19:29

Answer: If I had to guess it has to do with a story about Jerry Epstein. It's a big case that both CNN and Fox have been talking about. Trump has some ties to the guy and tweeted about him a long time ago. Someone else asked a question about the case earlier in this subreddit and it's been blowing up but it has been answered. Look for "What’s going on with Alan Dershowitz and Jerry Epstein?...." I'm sorry I don't know how to really get a link to a post on reddit.

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et82k9j

2019-07-08 00:12:28

What's up with Trump suddenly firing angry tweets at Fox News?

Suddenly Trump is firing off tweets significantly critical at Fox News. I assume there is some kind of trigger that has caused this? Here is the recent tweet storm: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148016422783803392

2019-07-08 00:05:46

Answer: The short version is that Fox isn't 100% in lockstep with Trump all the time. There have been multiple cases in the past where Trump has angrily vented about what he considers 'unfair treatment' by Fox -- which, historically, has meant pretty much any time they've presented his opponents as anything other than *the worst thing ever* (see that time Chris Wallace hosted a town hall with [Pete Buttigieg](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1130220542538264576) and Bret Baier hosted [Bernie Sanders](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1118317574301863936)), criticised his policies or [noted his poor poll results](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1140768516288782336), even though the coverage on Fox is [much more pro-Trump and pro-GOP than it is on other outlets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies#Studies_of_reporting_bias). Those hosts who support Trump almost unfailingly -- [Hannity](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1133897476497448960), [Carlson](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1138664390054600705), [Ingraham](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1075621115739832320), and the Fox & Friends -- tend to get criticised by the President rarely, if at all. The quote in full (spread over [three tweets](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148016424864104448)): >Watching @FoxNews weekend anchors is worse than watching low ratings Fake News @CNN, or Lyin’ Brian Williams (remember when he totally fabricated a War Story trying to make himself into a hero, & got fired. A very dishonest journalist!) and the crew of degenerate Comcast (NBC/MSNBC) Trump haters, who do whatever Brian & Steve tell them to do. Like CNN, NBC is also way down in the ratings. But @FoxNews, who failed in getting the very BORING Dem debates, is now loading up with Democrats & even using Fake unsourced @nytimes as a “source” of information (ask the Times what they paid for the Boston Globe, & what they sold it for (lost 1.5 Billion Dollars), or their old headquarters building disaster, or their unfunded liability? @FoxNews is changing fast, but they forgot the people who got them there! There's a good chance this has something to do with the Jeffrey Epstein case -- more [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/ca1odw/whats_going_on_with_alan_dershowitz_and_jerry/et58inn/) -- but there was also a moment earlier in the day when Fox News cut to a celebration of the USA's victory in the World Cup live in Lyon, and a bunch of French supporters took the opportunity to [loudly shout 'Fuck Trump!' over the broadcast](https://deadline.com/2019/07/fox-news-donald-trump-womens-world-cup-soccer-win-fox-news-fk-trump-1202642780/). (EDIT: I have been informed by a number of people in the comments that the people chanting were interviewed later and it turned out they were Americans; whether that makes it more or less likely to be the thing that pissed Trump off, I couldn't say. Either way, they were football fans at a bar in France.) It got picked up by a lot of news and commentary organisations, and it's become a bit of a viral footnote to Trump congratulating the team. Based on the comments below that tweet, a lot of the weekend anchors appear not to have quite the same unfailingly pro-Trump attitude as a lot of the Fox 'opinion' pundits, which doesn't please his Twitter base. As for what caused this specific outburst? Well, even the news outlets were stumped, with Politico noting that ['It’s not clear what triggered Sunday’s attack'](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/07/donald-trump-fox-news-1399463). Later on, he went on *another* Twitter-rant, with the focus of his ire apparently being [Fox's hiring of Donna Brazile](https://deadline.com/2019/07/donald-trump-slams-fox-news-twitter-cnn-nbc-comcast-new-york-times-1202642826/), as well as regular target [Shep Smith](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148068598289719296). > Impossible to believe that @FoxNews has hired @donnabrazile, the person fired by @CNN (after they tried to hide the bad facts, & failed) for giving Crooked Hillary Clinton the questions to a debate, something unimaginable. Now she is all over Fox, including Shep Smith, by far their lowest rated show. Watch the @FoxNews weekend daytime anchors, who are terrible, go after her big time. That’s what they want - but it sure is not what the audience wants! A quick fact check: [*Shepard Smith Reporting*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Smith_Reporting) is the number-one show in its timeslot across the cable news networks and is far from Fox's lowest-rated show (although it's an afternoon news show; it's never going to pull in primetime opinion numbers), plus Smith was hired on a three-year extension of his contract in March 2018, so he's obviously not doing *too* badly. He is, however, frequently cited as the [most 'journalistic' of the Fox News team](https://www.salon.com/2019/03/24/how-fox-news-uses-news-side-anchors-like-shepard-smith-to-save-its-brand_partner/) -- and the journalist at Fox most likely to go against the President's preferred talking points, such as [the Caravan](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/10/31/shep_smith_there_is_no_invasion_no_one_is_coming_to_get_you_theres_nothing_at_all_to_worry_about.html), the [Trump Tower meeting](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jul/15/shepard-smith-host-fox-news-trump-lies) and [the alleged Uranium One deal](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/15/fox-news-anchor-debunks-networks-clinton-uranium-scandal-sparking-fury), so read into that what you will. Shep's doing fine, no matter [how many times](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1107345541724291072) [Trump claims otherwise](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1122334000519868416). Whether this is the subject that got Trump so riled up in the first place is unknown; *Shep Smith Reporting* doesn't air on the weekends, and Donna Brazile was hired by Fox way back in March, so it's possible... but honestly, it could be any of about fifty things at this point.

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et83w9v

2019-07-08 00:30:07

What's up with Trump suddenly firing angry tweets at Fox News?

Suddenly Trump is firing off tweets significantly critical at Fox News. I assume there is some kind of trigger that has caused this? Here is the recent tweet storm: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148016422783803392

2019-07-08 00:05:46

Answer: FoxNewswent live from a bar in France after the USWNT win and people started shouting "Fuck Trump" on air. https://twitter.com/skenigsberg/status/1147922695188881409?s=19 He's pissed I guess? PS (There should be a flair for "answer but not an answer")

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et8rki6

2019-07-08 06:22:49

What's up with Trump suddenly firing angry tweets at Fox News?

Suddenly Trump is firing off tweets significantly critical at Fox News. I assume there is some kind of trigger that has caused this? Here is the recent tweet storm: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148016422783803392

2019-07-08 00:05:46

Answer: fox news aired live, a bar crowd for the soccer game, chanting "fuck trump".

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et8tshs

2019-07-08 07:10:22

What's up with Trump suddenly firing angry tweets at Fox News?

Suddenly Trump is firing off tweets significantly critical at Fox News. I assume there is some kind of trigger that has caused this? Here is the recent tweet storm: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148016422783803392

2019-07-08 00:05:46

Answer: The Donna Brazile [former DNC chair] working for fox thing seems to be a big part. Although there have been a few democrats like Juan Williams (primarily on The Five) and a few others, so maybe its the high profile nature of her and her controversies [This gives just a few in the first paragraph](https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/donna-brazile-explains-why-she-is-working-for-fox-news) Sorry for some speculation but she definitely has to be one of the primary points of contention

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et8yqkv

2019-07-08 09:13:35

What's up with Trump suddenly firing angry tweets at Fox News?

Suddenly Trump is firing off tweets significantly critical at Fox News. I assume there is some kind of trigger that has caused this? Here is the recent tweet storm: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148016422783803392

2019-07-08 00:05:46

Answer: (Reposting because I forgot to say the magic word.) Matthew Gertz of Media Matters makes a habit of following Trump's tweets and then matching the subject matter to Fox programming to figure out what segment the President is watching (on delay) and reacting to. He might be the closest thing to an expert on this very dumb subfield of political science. Here's what Gertz said on Twitter: >I'm pretty sure that President Trump's freak-out about Fox's weekend anchors was spurred by the network running Sunday segments in the noon and 1 pm hours that mentioned The New York Times' story on the Clint, TX migrant detention center. In the afternoon he did a tweetstorm about that "phony and exaggerated" story specifically, then in the evening he melts down about how the network's weekend anchors are "using Fake unsourced [~~@~~**nytimes**](https://twitter.com/nytimes) as a 'source' of information," a clear reference to that story. Fox aired segments at \~ 12:20 p.m. and 1:20 p.m. that used the Times report as a hook to discuss migrant detention conditions. Also Donna Brazile was last on Fox last Monday [Link to the first tweet here](https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1148202092391206913).

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et9f4np

2019-07-08 14:15:28

What's up with Trump suddenly firing angry tweets at Fox News?

Suddenly Trump is firing off tweets significantly critical at Fox News. I assume there is some kind of trigger that has caused this? Here is the recent tweet storm: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148016422783803392

2019-07-08 00:05:46

Answer: I thought it was because there was a Fox News reporter on site at a pub in France reporting about the Women's World Cup final and when he started his report the fans in the pub all started to chant "Fuck Trump" Here is the link https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/f-k-trump-chants-interrupt-fox-news-broadcast-womens-world-cup-french-bar-1222782

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et9og2v

2019-07-08 16:02:51

What's up with Trump suddenly firing angry tweets at Fox News?

Suddenly Trump is firing off tweets significantly critical at Fox News. I assume there is some kind of trigger that has caused this? Here is the recent tweet storm: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1148016422783803392

2019-07-08 00:05:46

Answer: there’s a running joke on awsten’s twitter that he’s in love with victoria justice, i think he called it a “joke crush”. eventually that hashtag was started, and some fans started becoming upset since they believed that it was making victoria uncomfortable. the fans making these accusations said it was harassment due to the fact that victoria doesn’t know who awsten is and a random guy having a joke crush on her could seem threatening to her.

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et8404k

2019-07-08 00:31:32

What's going on with Awsten Knight and Victoria Justice?

I've seen the hashtag "[~~#~~**VictoriaAndAwsten4Ever**](https://twitter.com/hashtag/VictoriaAndAwsten4Ever?src=hash) " trending on Twitter, people hating on their "relationship" and telling Awsten that he's harassing her? I can't seem to find any context/motive for these claims. Can somebody explain what's going on?

2019-07-07 23:04:22

Answer: In 2016 YouTuber Keemstar, known mainly for his Drama Alert series, posted a video incorrectly claiming Tony Ray, a Runscape player and streamer, was arrested and sent to jail in 2011 for meeting up and having sex with an underage player on Runescape. Fans of Keemstar began harassing Tony Ray until it was discovered that Tony and the man arrested in 2011 were not the same person. Keemstar did remove and apologize for the video, but many feel as what Keemstar did was irresponsible and continue to be angry over his decision to post the video without researching the topic more. Keemstar has faced many controversies over his YouTube career, but this particular incident is brought up more often than others.

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et8h7ft

2019-07-08 03:26:18

What's up with keemstar?

He tweeted stuff like https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1147700055241084928?s=19 https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1147700585640144897?s=19

2019-07-08 02:10:36

Answer: A popular steamer Desmond Amofah, also known by his online handle Etika, was found dead on June 25th, 2019. Amofah suffered from depression and committed suicide days earlier before his body was discovered by the NYPD. Fans of Etika are partially blaming Keemstar for Amofah’s mental state by pointing out he has made Drama Alert videos about Amofah in the past that upset him greatly including an interview that Amofah walked out on. Keemstar denies his videos had any negative impact on Amofah, but fans of Etika are bringing up Tony Ray as an example of Keemstar’s videos negatively affecting someone.

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et8jplz

2019-07-08 04:02:42

What's up with keemstar?

He tweeted stuff like https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1147700055241084928?s=19 https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1147700585640144897?s=19

2019-07-08 02:10:36

Answer: Basically, they're taking the piss out of Deliphine, although by this point she might as well sell that too...

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et8zr7o

2019-07-08 09:39:57

What's going on with Bella Delphines bath water giving people herpes?

I've seen multiple posts that say that around 30 people have gotten herpes from her bath water... is this true? One of those posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/PaymoneyWubby/comments/cae57a/wubby_clearly_said_he_would_drink_it/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

2019-07-08 07:35:29

Answer: looks like the article linked in the tweet explains the gist of it pretty well - Germany had a very ambitious plan to move from coal to renewable energy sources and reduce emissions, but it ended up being *too ambitious* and eventually stagnated. Now they have to move back to using coal because the alternatives aren't there.

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et9ryca

2019-07-08 16:40:58

What's going on with Germany and its energy crisis?

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1146045263238369284?s=20

2019-07-08 15:16:34

Answer: Sometimes people do other things that aren't in the public eye. For example, Geek and Sundry got bought out and Wil decided against continuing his show. Also, checking on his reddit profile, Wil's been active in the past few days. Seemed ok to me.

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eta58hd

2019-07-08 19:01:20

What’s going on with Wil Wheaton?

I’m sorta worried about him. He was popping up all over the place for a good few years. He was a side character in a lot of Geek & Sundry shows, he made the odd appearance on the Big Bang Theory (bad decision but whatever) and was always on some form of internet media whether it be YouTube, Twitter or Podcasts... Now all traces of him are gone. I mean his past work is still there but all of his social media’s have gone dead and the shows he appears on often have all finished. I know he has a dark past in terms of mental health, so I’m worried he’s not having a good time right now, or worse. Does anyone know if he’s ok? https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT956cWFGxqSyRdn6GWhBxiAwE

2019-07-08 18:55:42

Answer: He rage quit Twitter. https://screenrant.com/wil-wheaton-twitter-leave-protest-deactiday/

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etam2ri

2019-07-08 22:03:40

What’s going on with Wil Wheaton?

I’m sorta worried about him. He was popping up all over the place for a good few years. He was a side character in a lot of Geek & Sundry shows, he made the odd appearance on the Big Bang Theory (bad decision but whatever) and was always on some form of internet media whether it be YouTube, Twitter or Podcasts... Now all traces of him are gone. I mean his past work is still there but all of his social media’s have gone dead and the shows he appears on often have all finished. I know he has a dark past in terms of mental health, so I’m worried he’s not having a good time right now, or worse. Does anyone know if he’s ok? https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT956cWFGxqSyRdn6GWhBxiAwE

2019-07-08 18:55:42

Answer: It's happening and it's not fake news. Unfortunately it's impossible to answer your 2ed question with out making assumptions and conspiracy theories. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harvesting-organs-from-detainees-uk-tribunal-concludes Edit: To the guy saying it's overblown. The link I posted is from last month talking about the conclusions of the international tribunal and their investigation from the last couple years.

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eta6faw

2019-07-08 19:14:04

What's the deal with those documentaries claiming China is harvesting organs from its prisoners and detractors? Is it fake news? Why aren't media giants talking about this?

The documentary in question : https://youtu.be/1PrBwDoQVzA (Medical Genocide: Hidden mass murder in China's organ transplant industry (2017). China now performs the most organ transplants in the world yet has few voluntary donors.)

2019-07-08 18:40:33

Answer: The format indicates that someone/something does a thing without being prompted to. In your example it is showing how without any cause OP's ankle will just roll itself without hitting anything on the ground or anyone else doing something.

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eta7ujg

2019-07-08 19:29:26

What is up with memes with “Nobody:” in them?

What is up with memes having “Nobody:” in them? Usually followed by a response? I’ve seen them around a lot lately and the context usually doesn’t make any sense. Maybe I’m just out of the loop? Please help me understand. [Example](https://imgur.com/gallery/7R2PUWf)

2019-07-08 19:25:03

Answer: It’s a joke sub where people make memes about eating bees. None of them actually eat bees. They are also at “war” with /r/weeatwasps . It’s all in good fun.

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etaf9vp

2019-07-08 20:48:20

What’s up with the growing popularity of r/WeEatBees?

It’s been popping up on my popular feed lately and I can’t tell how or why it started? link: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeEatBees/

2019-07-08 17:08:20

Answer: a very controversial decision was made by the refs (judges?) which won Jon Jones the fight, and people are saying that the victory should've gone to his Santiago and that it was stolen from him.

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etaff61

2019-07-08 20:49:53

What's going on with the Thiago Santos Fight?

MMA stuff pops up on my news feed sometimes and people are talking about the Thiago Santos fight being "stolen" or something. What is going on? Had to repost to add URL. Sorry in advance, still a bit of a dummy when posting. [Here's what popped up for me](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.express.co.uk/sport/ufc/1150202/UFC-239-news-Jon-Jones-vs-Thiago-Santos-points-victory-reaction/amp&ved=2ahUKEwj-zKXF-KXjAhWLmlkKHfY4DMAQiJQBMAF6BAgHEAg&usg=AOvVaw3AYyAONV3NoAMDhGnRChOo&ampcf=1)

2019-07-08 18:32:50

Answer: ​ I hadn't heard of this until I read your article, but my understanding is this: ​ To be able to implement some of the newer (planned) technologies, it will be necessary to reduce the size of the transistors used in microchips further than they already are. Intel thought they would have had something ready in 2015, but couldn't get it to work for whichever reasons. Meanwhile, AMD quietly got it working on their end and are already distributing to market, while Intel is still a couple years away at best. ​ TLDR; AMD beat Intel to the punch on an important new technology. What this means remains to be seen, but AMD is now ahead in the race.

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etajtdm

2019-07-08 21:38:26

What's going on with Intel losing to AMD in 7nm?

I keep seeing articles about how AMD is going to take away market share from Intel and how Intel won't be able to respond till 20XX Like why is 7nm so important compared to 10nm? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/08/amd_shipping_7nm_desktop_cpus/

2019-07-08 20:44:26

Answer: Smaller transistors allow for a denser packing of transistors into a fixed volume. Smaller transistors are also more thermally efficient. This translates to higher performance for a processor fixed size, or the ability to shrink down a processor while at least retaining performance. In the broader sense, things like die shrinking are important for maintaining the exponential growth of computational power (Moore's law) in the short term.

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etb6ich

2019-07-09 02:11:12

What's going on with Intel losing to AMD in 7nm?

I keep seeing articles about how AMD is going to take away market share from Intel and how Intel won't be able to respond till 20XX Like why is 7nm so important compared to 10nm? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/08/amd_shipping_7nm_desktop_cpus/

2019-07-08 20:44:26

Answer: (We already have the nm part so I'm talking about how Intel "wont be coming back" part) Basically Intel has been on 14nm for so long that AMD would be getting the upper hand now because Intel just decided not to worry about the competition Because of this Intel was forced to push put 10nm CPUs but the first ones wont be out on Desktop until 2021 and by then AMD will release 5nm CPUs and those might be able to match the performance that 10nm ones have tl;dr AMD will kick Intel out of there spot by releasing more affordable processors that can match the same performance as the competition and delivering important technologies to consumers

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etcmkuz

2019-07-09 16:02:16

What's going on with Intel losing to AMD in 7nm?

I keep seeing articles about how AMD is going to take away market share from Intel and how Intel won't be able to respond till 20XX Like why is 7nm so important compared to 10nm? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/08/amd_shipping_7nm_desktop_cpus/

2019-07-08 20:44:26

Answer: Computer chips have a huge number of transistors, so at some point it became popular to describe the 'process generation' in terms of the some part of the transistor. The exact part has changed over time, and how it is measured. Really this number is more for marketing. It is known as the 'process node' In terms of transistor density (which I'd call the more useful metric) Intel is n'th node competes well with the competition's* n+1 node. So Intel's 14nm would be around the same density as their 10nm, etc. Typically, the cadence has been: Competition releases node n Intel releases node n briefly thereafter Competition releases node n+1 Intel releases node n+1 Because Intel's n node competes with the competition's n+1 fairly well, it really was just a matter of how much of a lead Intel had. However, Intel seem to have really flubbed the 10nm node. They've taken so long getting to it that now that they are just starting to ramp up production, the competition has started to ramp up 7nm. This marks the first instance in recent memory where they actually appear to be truly behind, in a non-marketing engineering sense. Simultaneously, AMD was a joke for roughly the last 10 years. In particular, they were way behind on single-core performance which is: * easier for the programmers (managing many-core programs is a pain) * the cool-guy measurement for chip designers (any idiot can copy-paste cores, single thread performance requires talent (this is a massive over-simplification)) They aren't doing badly anymore. They are roughly competitive. Actually, AMD is a little behind in single threaded performance, but Intel had some security issues in their speculative execution code, and fixing those in software puts them extremely close. Coupled with AMD's willingness to throw a bunch of cores onto a chip for cheap, and you get a pretty embarrassing story for Intel. AMD used TSMC (iirc) to make their previous generation of chip, so they are in the better node. It isn't really clear how much the node generation issue is helping them out. Given process differences, architectural differences, and binning and market segmentation, there isn't a really clean way to map between these things. But all things considered, it makes a compelling story and having smaller transistors can't really hurt. *(TSMC, Samsung, etc)

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etddxn5

2019-07-09 20:38:02

What's going on with Intel losing to AMD in 7nm?

I keep seeing articles about how AMD is going to take away market share from Intel and how Intel won't be able to respond till 20XX Like why is 7nm so important compared to 10nm? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/08/amd_shipping_7nm_desktop_cpus/

2019-07-08 20:44:26

Answer: #Why does Congress want Trump's tax returns in the first place? When Trump ran for President, he became the [first candidate in four decades](https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/sep/28/tammy-baldwin/donald-trump-only-major-party-nominee-40-years-not/) not to release his tax returns for public scrutiny. This is, in and of itself, not illegal -- Trump complied with the requirement to submit a document detailing his personal financial holdings -- but it does stand at odd with the approach of the vast majority of candidates, and has left a lot of people speculating as to why that might be. One of Congress's many jobs is to serve as a check on the power of Executive branch -- basically, the three branches of government (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) all have certain powers and certain restrictions placed on them, in the hope that they'll all be able to work together with no one branch becoming too powerful. One of the jobs of the Legislative branch -- the House, in particular -- is to determine whether or not impeachment procedings should be brought against the President. As part of investigating that, Congress has requested access to Trump's tax returns. Trump has fought them tooth and nail on this, claiming -- repeatedly -- that the files can't be released while they're under audit (they can), that people wouldn't understand them (they would; any news organisation is going to hire the best accountant they can find for a week to go through those returns with a fine-toothed comb), and that he doesn't have to (which is true, at least until such point as subpoenas come into play, in which case it's starting to look increasingly likely that Congress will be able to compel their release despite attempts to block it). Now it's not as though the Trump administration's financials -- and those of Trump himself -- have not been the issue of scrutiny before in a legal sense. The *New York Times* recently [won a Pulitzer for reporting on the Trump family's (illegal) tax-avoidance schemes](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html), and there's also the case of Trump ordering Michael Cohen to pay off pornstar Stormy Daniels after Trump had an affair with her, all of which would justify Congress making sure that Trump's financial house was in order. If they are considering impeaching him for the ten counts of possible obstruction raised in the Mueller Report -- which is [now a bipartisan affair](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/07/politics/justin-amash-republican-party-donald-trump-cnntv/index.html), thanks to Justin Amash -- then it's quite literally their job to gather as much information as they can. The bigger issue is that the President is instructing his aides to wilfully disobey subpoenas from Congress, which is... not a good thing, if you value a co-equal government. The fact that the courts are having to take such roundabout measures to get something that they are, by law, entitled to, is worrisome. From the view of the GOP and its supporters, on the other hand, this constitutes just another act of 'Presidential harassment' -- the Democratic-controlled House is just trying to make Trump look bad. (Quite why looking into Trump's tax returns would make him look bad is not often stated, but it's not a great leap.) It is speculated that the two big concerns for Trump are that: # Possibility: There might be something suspicious in there that he doesn't want to get out. Trump has [repeatedly stated that he has no financial investment in Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_projects_of_Donald_Trump_in_Russia), including during the primary season, but this has been shown to be a lie; while all of that was going on, Trump was actively seeking the development of [Trump Tower Moscow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_projects_of_Donald_Trump_in_Russia). (This kind of thing is *much* more /u/poppinKREAM's jam than mine, so I'm just going to link to [one of their many fine posts on the topic](https://reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8l3v53/michael_cohen_met_with_qatari_official_and/dzcreo2/) for people who are seeking more specific details about the financials.) # Possibility: Trump might be worth substantially less than he claims. Trump's brand is built on wealth and opulence -- I mean, it's *really* built on the idea of wealth. [This](https://www.idesignarch.com/inside-donald-and-melania-trumps-manhattan-apartment-mansion/) is where he lived prior to being elected President. His books and companies are all built around the idea of Trump as the hypersuccessful entrepreneur, and when he launched his bid for the White House in 2015, [he claimed a total net worth of $8 billion, and assets of $9.24 billion](https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-im-rich-and-im-running-for-president/). As for how true that is... well, no one knows. Things we *do* know, however, are: * Trump's wealth has been cast into doubt on a number of occasions, most notably in the book *TrumpNation*, by Tim O'Brien. O'Brien claimed Trump was not actually a billionaire, and put his worth at somewhere between $150 million and $250 million. Trump sued him, claiming he was worth at least $2.7 billion at the time -- in other words, out by a factor of ten -- and sought $2.5 billion in compensatory damages and an additional $2.5 billion in punitive damages. Trump did not win the suit, nor did he win the appeal; he also refused to turn over his unredacted tax returns [despite claiming that they supported his case](http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431915/donald-trump-worth-tax-returns-mitt-romney). * During a deposition for the above lawsuit, Trump claimed, 'My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with markets and with attitudes and **with feelings, even my own feelings**.' * A *New York Times* report from earlier this year found that [Trump lost more than $1 billion over the course of the decade in the 1980s and 1990s](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/8/18536708/trump-lost-1-billion-taxes-nyt). For his part, Trump claimed on Twitter that this was actually a good thing -- ['Real estate developers in the 1980’s & 1990’s, more than 30 years ago, were entitled to massive write offs and depreciation which would, if one was actively building, show losses and tax losses in almost all cases. Much was non monetary. Sometimes considered “tax shelter,” you would get it by building, or even buying. You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes....almost all real estate developers did - and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport. Additionally, the very old information put out is a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job!](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126078422797602816). * Trump claimed that in the early 1990s he was billions of dollars in debt: ['In the early 1990s, I owed billions of dollars and many people thought I was finished.'](https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/brainstorm/200905/donald-trump-failure) * Michael Cohen testified that Trump routinely overstated his wealth [while applying for loans](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/business/donald-trump-buffalo-bills-deutsche-bank.html). This wouldn't be as big of a legal question as the first one, but it's fair to say that it would be relatively damaging to the Trump brand if it turns out that the billionaire President actually... you know, wasn't. (Studies have found that when Trump's wealth was [presented as stemming from his father rather than being self-earned](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11109-019-09527-y) -- 'small loan of a million dollars' (actually [at least $60.7 million, most of which was never repaid](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/trumps-small-loan-from-his-father-was-more-like-60point7-million-nyt.html)) aside -- he went down in the estimation of the voting public.) That's not going to be something he wants floating around the news cycle with a reelection campaign in progress. #So what now? Honestly, this isn't that big a development. While Trump's business are registered in New York, Congress hasn't really demonstrated much interest in accessing his state returns, choosing instead to focus on the bigger picture of his federal tax returns. Trump's lawyers have made it clear they're going to continue to fight, as have members of Congress. Expect this to drag on for a lot longer, is what I'm saying.

carouh

etanpwb

2019-07-08 22:22:36

What is the deal with POTUS Trump’s financial documents?

I feel like this scenario has been swirling for years and I don’t really understand why it’s important. Today, the New York governor signs a law that would allow Congress to get Trump's state tax returns. [CNN article with new law in NY detailing new attempt at obtaining Trump’s records](https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/politics/new-york-trump-state-tax-returns-congress/index.html) Why is the president trying to block the release of these documents? What do congresspeople think these documents contain that’s such a big deal? I know it’s gonna be hard to stick to rule 4 here but give me some hypotheticals.

2019-07-08 22:04:47

Answer: No one can answer this definitively except Kawhi, but most people believe he wanted to live in southern California where he grew up and still has a house. He had already shown that money was not a big factor for him when he demanded a trade from San Antonio, because that cost him a "super-max" contract.

carw34

etaock9

2019-07-08 22:29:56

What is up with Kawhi Leonard leaving the Toronto Raptors?

I know players usually leave teams if they have big problems with coaching, other players, pay, or the overall lack of winning. But I always assumed that unless there was a big problem, people tend to stay with the team they win with. For example, talk around the NBA is usually something along the lines of "LeBron left the Cleveland Cavaliers to find a team he feels has a better chance of beating the Warriors in and winning the championship." As an MVP who was just awarded a championship ring playing alongside the Toronto Raptors, why was Kawhi Leonard so keen on leaving after no apparently big problems and after just one year? From what I know, Kawhi got along with Kyle Lowry and the rest of the team, as well as the coaching staff. If he stayed on the Raptors, they would have for sure been again a championship level team. He instead choose to go to the LA Clippers for less money than the Raptors could have offered him. Was there another reason for this decision? Link to trade details: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfPujuhtJWI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfPujuhtJWI)

2019-07-08 22:20:58

Answer: The cat is meant to represent like visible confusion or just lack of knowledge of what is occurring at the moment. Basically, the Real Housewives are complaining towards the cat for something it has no knowledge towards.

c5ypr2

etb081p

2019-07-09 00:54:58

What is the deal with the meme of a confused cat sitting at a table?

This meme has been blowing up lately. https://i.redd.it/ss7s6lii0q631.jpg Recently they’ve also been pairing it (as above) w/ the yelling lady from Real Housewives. What is that cat supposed to mean?

2019-06-27 00:43:06

Answer: To me, the expression on the cat indicates dismissive disgust. I have actually thought about this meme a lot. The angry, outraged expression of the woman on the left was already used in many memes i've seen on reddit, and the expression of the cat is in my opinion hilarious. There are some extremely mediocre memes made with this pair of images getting a lot of upvotes this week, and it made me think about how memes now are often excuses to post a funny picture, but need to be given some "when X does Y" context to get shared on reddit or ig.

c5ypr2

es5erm2

2019-06-27 04:24:27

What is the deal with the meme of a confused cat sitting at a table?

This meme has been blowing up lately. https://i.redd.it/ss7s6lii0q631.jpg Recently they’ve also been pairing it (as above) w/ the yelling lady from Real Housewives. What is that cat supposed to mean?

2019-06-27 00:43:06

Answer: The cat is a bit of a Rorschach blot, because some see it as being confused, others see it as disgusted or dismissive, and yet others see it as smug or "not giving a fuck". I would need a higher resolution picture of the cat to give a better informed opinion.

c5ypr2

ew0zsvy

2019-08-05 13:23:10

What is the deal with the meme of a confused cat sitting at a table?

This meme has been blowing up lately. https://i.redd.it/ss7s6lii0q631.jpg Recently they’ve also been pairing it (as above) w/ the yelling lady from Real Housewives. What is that cat supposed to mean?

2019-06-27 00:43:06

Answer: The cat is patently symbolizing naive surprising confusion and complete situational unawareness. Explanation: There are many levels to this image so pardon in advance for my lengthy reasoning. The image on the left suggest a belligerent, heavily critical attitude where the persons jumps straight to conclusions without giving much chance to the other side for explanations. The woman on the left is denouncing the cat, borderline attacking it, assuming they both share the same context on the matter. Meanwhile the cat is merely confused. Not only the cat does not know what's going on, the cat looks entirely out of place. The entire image puts the audience in a position far more relatable to the cat, because they too don't know what's going on. How? you ask? Because the cat is at the dinner table!!!!!!! This gives the cat an image of incompetent confusion. This is why this meme is so beautiful because it represents all type of conflicts, ranging from boss-employee, mom-son, teacher-student situations where the person, seemingly the most rational one, has lost complete sense of the bigger picture and criticizes the other for something small. This leaves the subject not only confused but also slightly surprised that their superior should know that they are clueless and they should not be hold accountable on that situation. Exactly, how we cannot expect a cat to be eating dinner at a dinner table. Simply superb.

c5ypr2

ewos0ue

2019-08-12 15:55:50

What is the deal with the meme of a confused cat sitting at a table?

This meme has been blowing up lately. https://i.redd.it/ss7s6lii0q631.jpg Recently they’ve also been pairing it (as above) w/ the yelling lady from Real Housewives. What is that cat supposed to mean?

2019-06-27 00:43:06

Answer: they want attention.

cau0qr

etb9pg1

2019-07-09 02:50:15

What is going on with memes about r/prequelmemes dying? I’ve seen plenty of posts in that sub and it has more than 900k members

https://www.reddit.com/r/trebuchetmemes/comments/capjie/we_need_your_aid/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/cam7ds/my_first_ever_post_on_reddit_just_doing_my_part_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/camcho/this_sub_is_breathtaking/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

2019-07-09 01:27:06

Answer: Yes the subreddit still has 900k members, but the sub's traffic is slowing down. Is it a threat to the sub yet? No. Did it produce a good amount of high effort content and good crossover memes? Yes.

cau0qr

etbei93

2019-07-09 03:53:31

What is going on with memes about r/prequelmemes dying? I’ve seen plenty of posts in that sub and it has more than 900k members

https://www.reddit.com/r/trebuchetmemes/comments/capjie/we_need_your_aid/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/cam7ds/my_first_ever_post_on_reddit_just_doing_my_part_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/camcho/this_sub_is_breathtaking/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

2019-07-09 01:27:06

Answer: JoJo Part 5 Golden Wind animated adaptation is closing to an end, with all over-the-top catharsis JoJo series are known for, so excitement is contagious. Waiting for the ending also provokes speculation about adapting Part 6, Stone Ocean, so fans are stoked. PS, As to the linked meme - Part 7 Steel Ball Run is largely considered a good sort-of-reboot for the series, with Araki refining his style and taking his time drawing the pages, as well as somewhat toning down the Stand insanity (although there's still plenty of that), so many fans are feeling that SOON the time will come for it to be adapted too. PPS. > How come no other anime reached this level of (online) pop culture presence? Well I wouldn't be saying that, anime fads come and go - just remember how at one point Internet worshiped the ground Haruhi Suzumiya walked. JoJo's Bizzare Adventure is the current juggernaut because for years now it steadily and most importantly faithfully adapted the manga, which gives it a lot of cred with the fans.

cawevd

etbkr8a

2019-07-09 05:30:59

What's up with JoJos Bizarre Adventure memes showing up everywhere?

How has it gotten so ridiculously popular on reddit recently? There is a JoJo reference once in every 5 threads now. How come no other anime reached this level of (online) pop culture presence? E.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/WhatsWrongWithYourDog/comments/cakfup/the_golden_boi/

2019-07-09 05:16:05

Answer: Trump uses that language. People are parodying Trump. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/30/donald-trump-iq-intelligence-1347149

caxrrl

etbzdvm

2019-07-09 10:49:52

What’s the deal with everyone calling things “low iq” and “high iq” lately?

[a Reddit search for “high iq”](https://www.reddit.com/search?q=high+iq) [a Reddit search for “low iq”](https://www.reddit.com/search?q=low+iq) All across Reddit, I’ve noticed people saying things are “high iq” when they mean smart or good, and “low iq” when they mean dumb or bad. Okay, this might be zoomer slang or whatever, but I’ve never heard someone say it out loud and I don’t see people say it much off Reddit. Is this a politically motivated thing?

2019-07-09 07:50:03

Answer: I’m pretty sure some of it has come from Twitch Lots of the streamers make a smart play in Overwatch/CS:GO and go on about how 9000IQ it was ext. There’s also a bit of an ironic side with how individuals featured on r/iamverysmart often go on about how they have above average IQ’s

caxrrl

etcx1hh

2019-07-09 17:46:57

What’s the deal with everyone calling things “low iq” and “high iq” lately?

[a Reddit search for “high iq”](https://www.reddit.com/search?q=high+iq) [a Reddit search for “low iq”](https://www.reddit.com/search?q=low+iq) All across Reddit, I’ve noticed people saying things are “high iq” when they mean smart or good, and “low iq” when they mean dumb or bad. Okay, this might be zoomer slang or whatever, but I’ve never heard someone say it out loud and I don’t see people say it much off Reddit. Is this a politically motivated thing?

2019-07-09 07:50:03

Answer:It's just the new meme format, it'll be gone by the end of the month

caz5yp

etc1p10

2019-07-09 11:36:20

What’s up with all of these time traveller memes?

For example https://i.redd.it/6qe24h9d27931.jpg I have seen a lot of these recently, is there any context?

2019-07-09 10:36:20

Answer: There was a video circulating around the internet a few weeks back, I believe it was originally from TikTok, where a young woman took a tub of ice cream out of a supermarket freezer, opened it and then licked the ice cream, before putting it back. This spawned copycats to do other things like this on the internet, including spitting into beverages, etc. People are complaining because its disgusting and can spread disease. N.B. the woman from the original video is currently facing up to 20 years in prison.

caztyg

etc5gkr

2019-07-09 12:38:33

What is going on with this ''trend'' where people do stuff with food in shops i have not seen anyting about it but i do see people complaining about the trend?

[https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/cavj5x/now\_with\_idiots\_licking\_containers\_of\_ice\_cream/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/cavj5x/now_with_idiots_licking_containers_of_ice_cream/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/cayb3t/keep\_posting\_until\_they\_get\_caught/](https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/cayb3t/keep_posting_until_they_get_caught/)

2019-07-09 11:49:59

Answer: r/FbiOpenUp was banned by Reddit because it violated the policies against minor sexualization Edit: Okay it looks like a 14 year old kid posted nudes of himself on r/gonewild and somebody crossposted it to r/FbiOpenUp, which is what triggered the ban. The mods are working on getting the subreddit back, but for the meantime they have created r/irsopenup as a refugee sub for now

cb11k5

etcbw71

2019-07-09 14:03:49

What's going on with r/fbiopenup ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/FBIOpenUp/ I was about to check the latest memes on that sub and it's gone. The sub wasn't breaking any rules, and it just disappeared out of nowhere.

2019-07-09 13:42:40

Answer: Looks like it might be something to do with [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/cb1ig4/stef%C3%A1n_karl_stef%C3%A1nsson_day_is_on_july_10th_we/).

cb1nid

etcfafr

2019-07-09 14:43:32

What is the deal with r/dankmemes going private?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/

2019-07-09 14:33:52

Answer: They took it down temporarily to change the subreddit theme. It's back up now.

cb1nid

etcvw16

2019-07-09 17:35:38

What is the deal with r/dankmemes going private?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/

2019-07-09 14:33:52

Answer: It is most likely a joke or random behavior. Ads are considered annoying by some people, so it could also be a way of playfully lashing out at ads.

cb1s2f

etcfn07

2019-07-09 14:47:26

What is the deal with the comments on ads?

The constant "AAAAAA..." comments on ads. Am I missing something ? https://www.reddit.com/comments/c7qxr3/stay_safe_on_the_road_the_car_clip_phone_holder/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

2019-07-09 14:43:49

Answer: Most ads have comments locked by default, so the few that forget to do that get bombarded with shitposts “making up the difference”.

cb1s2f

etcr7eo

2019-07-09 16:49:01

What is the deal with the comments on ads?

The constant "AAAAAA..." comments on ads. Am I missing something ? https://www.reddit.com/comments/c7qxr3/stay_safe_on_the_road_the_car_clip_phone_holder/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

2019-07-09 14:43:49

Answer: It’s probably a big ol’ “F the system” thing. I believe most ad posts have the comments locked, so the ones that don’t devolve into shitposting, spam, or insulting the ad.

cb1s2f

etejby2

2019-07-10 04:57:34

What is the deal with the comments on ads?

The constant "AAAAAA..." comments on ads. Am I missing something ? https://www.reddit.com/comments/c7qxr3/stay_safe_on_the_road_the_car_clip_phone_holder/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

2019-07-09 14:43:49

Answer: From what I get from reading swedish news, apparently he got into a brawl with someone and it was recorded. Someone informed the police and they detained him for assault charges it seems. [https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/rapparen-asap-rocky-anhallen-i-sverige-misstankt-for-grov-misshandel](https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/rapparen-asap-rocky-anhallen-i-sverige-misstankt-for-grov-misshandel) After determining that there was a flight risk it was decided that he was to be kept for a while, initially two weeks for an investigation whilst the police figure out what is going on. This was appealed and rejected. [https://www.svt.se/kultur/asap-rocky-fortsatt-haktad](https://www.svt.se/kultur/asap-rocky-fortsatt-haktad) This then led to a few musicians "boycotting" sweden by agressively tweeting about it. [https://www.svt.se/kultur/fler-rappare-sluter-upp-bakom-asap-rocky-tyler-the-creator-nobbar-sverige-for-alltid](https://www.svt.se/kultur/fler-rappare-sluter-upp-bakom-asap-rocky-tyler-the-creator-nobbar-sverige-for-alltid) And most recently "rumors" surfaced about him being mistreated in jail. Which do not seem credible considering how these facilities work in sweden. [https://www.svt.se/kultur/det-svenska-haktet-kritiseras-i-amerikansk-press-fangar-kastar-avforing-och-han-serveras-oatbar-mat](https://www.svt.se/kultur/det-svenska-haktet-kritiseras-i-amerikansk-press-fangar-kastar-avforing-och-han-serveras-oatbar-mat) These rumors seem to originate from american media and it unclear wether Rocky himself has anything to do with them.

caqkwa

etcgd0v

2019-07-09 14:55:27

What's going on with A$AP Rocky?

I keep seeing "Free A$AP Rocky" all over the place. https://uproxx.com/music/travis-scott-asap-rocky-jail/

2019-07-08 20:37:45

Answer: Twitter handle @BakerRises changed the display name to Daily Mail U$ and tweeted out that the bath water that the girl sells infected 50 people with herpes. That's it. That's the entire source. The twitter handle has since changed their name, presumably to the original. [Know Your Meme link](https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1510932-belle-delphines-gamergirl-bath-water) to a capture of the fake name tweet [The original tweet](https://twitter.com/BakeRises/status/1147959909503381508)

catv38

etcgq40

2019-07-09 14:59:27

What is going on with this supposed herpes outbreak via bathwater?

I am so confused.. Did this girl sell bathwater that people think she has contaminated with herpes? Herpes can't be spread via bathwater. I can't find anything that tells me what is going on here. I don't get it at all, other than this girl has a sore on her lip, and everyone seems annoyed that she tries to look so young. ​ [https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/carn1m/when\_the\_comment\_gets\_more\_upvotes\_then\_the\_post/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/carn1m/when_the_comment_gets_more_upvotes_then_the_post/)

2019-07-09 01:12:14

Answer: Fake news. As in someone created a fake Daily Mail account with the headline “50 People Contract Herpes from GamerGirl’s Bathwater” and it got retweeted 17,000 times. The user then changed their account name and picture, and even openly said that it was a way to instantly get followers. Also, some random dude made a video on YouTube claiming that he got herpes from the bathwater, but according to her Instagram, she hasn’t fulfilled any orders yet.

catv38

etf8f5r

2019-07-10 12:54:52

What is going on with this supposed herpes outbreak via bathwater?

I am so confused.. Did this girl sell bathwater that people think she has contaminated with herpes? Herpes can't be spread via bathwater. I can't find anything that tells me what is going on here. I don't get it at all, other than this girl has a sore on her lip, and everyone seems annoyed that she tries to look so young. ​ [https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/carn1m/when\_the\_comment\_gets\_more\_upvotes\_then\_the\_post/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/carn1m/when_the_comment_gets_more_upvotes_then_the_post/)

2019-07-09 01:12:14

Answer: You seem to be operating under assumption that everyone agress on what a meme means and curate its usage. Most of the time it evolves in usage, often changing its meaning. ​ For the most parts, I see it consistently used to mean "I am thinking this is a good idea because I am dumb"

cb176w

etcotcq

2019-07-09 16:25:11

What is going on with the inconsistent use of the "stonks" meme?

https://i.redd.it/me22u9qtn3931.jpg I get that [it originated from Facebook and that it has gained recent popularity on Reddit by using the mascot from the FB page](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/c1lkqp/whats_up_with_the_stonks_meme_where_did_they_came/ere8sfh). I also get that [it was originally a reference to Yahoo's poor business decisions and that "stonks" is an intentional misspelling of "stocks"](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/c10g33/whats_going_on_with_stonks_meme). But, I don't feel like anyone (including myself) knows when this meme should be used. Seems to mean different things across different subreddits. What am I missing?

2019-07-09 13:56:19

Answer: Hideki Kamiya is something of a legend in the video games industry having worked on the Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Okami and Bayonetta games and is the co-founder of the highly regarded Platinum Games. He is known for being a bit of a ‘character’ and not very tolerant of people he thinks aren’t intelligent. He doesn’t like being asked the same questions over and over again on social media and, according to him, the easiest way to weed out people is to openly state he will block you if you write to him in English. People who do write to him in English therefore clearly hadn’t read and understood his instructions and therefore don’t meet his standards for a response.

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etcv0zy

2019-07-09 17:27:01

What's going on with this person named Hideki Kamiya? He blocks people speaking english, and i dont know why.

[https://twitter.com/PG\_kamiya/status/1146292981420437510](https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/1146292981420437510)

2019-07-09 17:14:38

Answer: To expand a bit on what u/crapusername47 said (which is all correct), it's probably accurate to say that Hideki Kamiya just doesn't want his twitter feed to be infested with people/posts he's not interested in seeing. That is, more broadly speaking, Hideki Kamiya does not want to be like most other famous people who just accept that twitter (and social media in general) is a place where you're expected to just take a barrage of tweets all day every day from everyone around the world saying whatever they please and be fine with it. He wants to be in control of his Twitter, no the other way around. So what was his solution for that? Just block people. Block every single person he does not want to see in his feed, block every single person that ignores his personal rules, block every single person that has asked something that's been asked of him before, block every single person that annoys him, etc., and then his feed will be just the way he wants it to be, and I have to say it has worked out well for him so far. To him, people who don't heed his warnings or listen to his rules are just stupid people/insects, and he cares not for them. [This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLGGeSLCu9o) is an awesome breakdown of Hideki Kamiya's Twitter shennanigans and I'd highly recommend watching it if you're interested in learning more about his online presence, as well as the size of his Twitter block list.

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etdq8cs

2019-07-09 22:49:01

What's going on with this person named Hideki Kamiya? He blocks people speaking english, and i dont know why.

[https://twitter.com/PG\_kamiya/status/1146292981420437510](https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/1146292981420437510)

2019-07-09 17:14:38

Answer: Mitch McConnell is the highest ranking Republican Senator, the Senate Majority Leader. r/Politics skews liberal, so as a prominent conservative he is a favorite target. Just as Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi are prominent Democratic leaders and are favorite targets of conservative/right leaning subreddits like T_D.

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etcw47f

2019-07-09 17:37:56

What's going on with ostensibly everyone disliking Mitch McConnell?

I don't actively participate in politics in any form, and haven't used the last 20 years of my privilege to vote for any elected official. I don't read/watch/follow any kind of news, and generally abstain from all forms of political conversation. ​ All that being said, I recently saw this post on the top of my reddit (which I dunno how/why since I thought I had [/r/politics](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/) filtered?) [https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cb07m5/mitch\_mcconnell\_gets\_challenger\_in\_retired/](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cb07m5/mitch_mcconnell_gets_challenger_in_retired/) It dawned on me that I often see this man's name (and Manafort and Mueller?) often followed by less than glowing reviews. I was hesitant to Google the man and go down a blackhole of back-and-forth politically biased discourse, and I love the responses on this subreddit so was hoping someone might be able to help succinctly explain to me why the world (or maybe the internet?) has it out for Mitch? Again, apologies for my willful ignorance, and thanks for any explanation!

2019-07-09 17:23:02

Answer: Mitch McConnell is a member of the Republican Party who is the senior United States Senator from Kentucky. The Republicans currently hold a majority of seats in the Senate, and McConnell serves as the Senate Majority leader. This position gives him some power over what the Republicans in the Senate make it their priority to debate and vote on. He is probably the second or third most powerful elected official in the Federal Government after the President and maybe the Speaker of the House. Now, Mitch McConnell *in particular* has been very effective and efficient in a) Enacting the Republican Party's agenda b) Preventing the Democratic Party from enacting their agenda To accomplish these goals the Republican Senators under McConnell's leadership have actually voted several times to *change the rules* of the Senate in order to make it harder for Democrats to pass bills or confirm judges, and/or make it easier for the Republicans to do the same. He also notably refused to even hold confirmation hearings for Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court (which it could be argued was unconstitutional). All of the above has made McConnell deeply unpopular among Democrats and other left-wing voters in America. On the other hand, it's worth noting that McConnell also isn't necessarily an *ideological* conservative. Rather than being outspoken about classic conservative values such as small government or religion, McConnell has been perceived to quietly, efficiently serve the wealthy donors and interest groups who fund the Republican party. On many occasions this has meant speaking/acting against the more populist Trump administration or the "Tea Party" caucus. As a result, he's also unpopular among many more ideologically motivated Republican voters.

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etcy2ad

2019-07-09 17:57:17

What's going on with ostensibly everyone disliking Mitch McConnell?

I don't actively participate in politics in any form, and haven't used the last 20 years of my privilege to vote for any elected official. I don't read/watch/follow any kind of news, and generally abstain from all forms of political conversation. ​ All that being said, I recently saw this post on the top of my reddit (which I dunno how/why since I thought I had [/r/politics](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/) filtered?) [https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cb07m5/mitch\_mcconnell\_gets\_challenger\_in\_retired/](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cb07m5/mitch_mcconnell_gets_challenger_in_retired/) It dawned on me that I often see this man's name (and Manafort and Mueller?) often followed by less than glowing reviews. I was hesitant to Google the man and go down a blackhole of back-and-forth politically biased discourse, and I love the responses on this subreddit so was hoping someone might be able to help succinctly explain to me why the world (or maybe the internet?) has it out for Mitch? Again, apologies for my willful ignorance, and thanks for any explanation!

2019-07-09 17:23:02

Answer: The big recent scandal with Mich McConnell as far as I know was that he had been not having a 9-11 responders bill put in front of senate to vote on (as the Senate Majority Leader he controls what goes up for a vote). He was pressured to put the bill up to vote after [this speech](https://mashable.com/video/jon-stewart-september-11-first-responders-speech/) was given by Jon Stewart (former "comedy news" host) and basically everyone in America was like "wtf Mitch". If it's not from that the most recent news is around the fact that for months he has been saying \~"look we don't need this bill to pay reparations for slavery. It wasn't our choice, it happened in the past, we need to just move on." He's been really against reparations for slavery, but now it turns out his great-great-grandfather was a slave owner. People use this as an example of him having direct familial burdens to bear regarding slavery. My guess is those memes are about this.

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etcz0ye

2019-07-09 18:07:12

What's going on with ostensibly everyone disliking Mitch McConnell?

I don't actively participate in politics in any form, and haven't used the last 20 years of my privilege to vote for any elected official. I don't read/watch/follow any kind of news, and generally abstain from all forms of political conversation. ​ All that being said, I recently saw this post on the top of my reddit (which I dunno how/why since I thought I had [/r/politics](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/) filtered?) [https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cb07m5/mitch\_mcconnell\_gets\_challenger\_in\_retired/](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cb07m5/mitch_mcconnell_gets_challenger_in_retired/) It dawned on me that I often see this man's name (and Manafort and Mueller?) often followed by less than glowing reviews. I was hesitant to Google the man and go down a blackhole of back-and-forth politically biased discourse, and I love the responses on this subreddit so was hoping someone might be able to help succinctly explain to me why the world (or maybe the internet?) has it out for Mitch? Again, apologies for my willful ignorance, and thanks for any explanation!

2019-07-09 17:23:02

Answer: Mitch McConnell is the Majority Leader of the senate. This gives him the ability to decide things like which bills get voted on. He's decided to play by the 'letter of the law' instead of the spirit. So for example he'll do things like not call a vote on issues he doesn't like (even if there's a chance some of his members will vote against him). The rules of the senate weren't really set up for 100% team loyalty and rules-layweing, they rely on the senators treating each other like professional colleagues. So, there are lots of specific little reasons to hate Mitch for people on the center-to-left, as well as those conservatives who value procedure. But if you want to avoid details and stay neutral, you could say he follows uses rules to his maximum advantage and is in a position with significant power that was previously limited by conventions/unwritten rules. On the bright side, he's showing us all the ambiguity in the system! Manafort is some criminal who was Trump's campaign chairman for a while. He's in jail and will be until at least after the next election, so I've dropped him from my brain. Muller investigated Trump's campaign issues. r/politics skews a bit liberal, and also is a bit... action-oriented. So it tends to rapidly fluctuate between hating and loving Muller. He's a very good prosecutor and made lots of interesting moves while investigating, but he concluded his investigation about a month and a half ago and it didn't have as much of an impact as r/politics expected (the expectations were built up to the point where I'm pretty sure some people were expecting him to personally frog-march Trump out of the Whitehouse). He's cooperating with the House's investigation of Trump, though, so it's all a bit complicated. The r/politics jury is still out on him.

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etd07ii

2019-07-09 18:19:19

What's going on with ostensibly everyone disliking Mitch McConnell?

I don't actively participate in politics in any form, and haven't used the last 20 years of my privilege to vote for any elected official. I don't read/watch/follow any kind of news, and generally abstain from all forms of political conversation. ​ All that being said, I recently saw this post on the top of my reddit (which I dunno how/why since I thought I had [/r/politics](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/) filtered?) [https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cb07m5/mitch\_mcconnell\_gets\_challenger\_in\_retired/](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cb07m5/mitch_mcconnell_gets_challenger_in_retired/) It dawned on me that I often see this man's name (and Manafort and Mueller?) often followed by less than glowing reviews. I was hesitant to Google the man and go down a blackhole of back-and-forth politically biased discourse, and I love the responses on this subreddit so was hoping someone might be able to help succinctly explain to me why the world (or maybe the internet?) has it out for Mitch? Again, apologies for my willful ignorance, and thanks for any explanation!

2019-07-09 17:23:02

Answer: Essentially, Raniemi changed their profile pictures to distorted versions of themselves and change their bios on both Twitter and Osu (saying "goodbye" and "thank you for all the wishes. Goodbye" respectively) so people assumed that they had committed suicide, [but later someone caught them playing League of Legends.](https://twitter.com/StarlightAPM/status/1127592749014843394?s=19) ETA: The post you linked to is confusing because of all the unverified information. Some of the people there assumed that Ranie was absolutely dead, others assumed it was faked for attention, and some of the comments are a bit newer and have likely seen the screenshots of the LoL activity. It's just a little bit of chaos since the situation was still unraveling when the post was made.

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etd1b9e

2019-07-09 18:30:24

What is up with Raniemi?

Three months ago in the osu community I heard someone talking shit about someone named Raniemi for faking her death, and i searched for an hour straight and couldn't find anything about it. [https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/bkusqj/what\_happened\_to\_ranieraniemi/](https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/bkusqj/what_happened_to_ranieraniemi/) They say a lot of stuff here, but everything they say is a mess to my eyes, and even the places they try to explain what has happened they have nothing to back it up. Anyone here can help me understand?

2019-07-09 11:44:01

Answer: he was arrested in Sweden after a fight, and ordered to be held for two weeks while he is under investigation for assault. More details and timeline here: https://pitchfork.com/news/why-asap-rocky-was-arrested-in-sweden-for-assault-and-what-happens-next/

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etd8axc

2019-07-09 19:41:36

What's the deal with #JusticeForRocky?

I've just came across a post from Post Malone with a picture of ASAP Rocky with text reading "I stand with Rocky and his release from Swedish Officials. Sign the petition at Change.org" What did ASAP Rocky do? https://www.instagram.com/p/BztIWIzFsWX/?igshid=fbzssxgk3hnv

2019-07-09 19:25:37

Answer: From a very wide perspective: Destiny, the twitch streamer well known for politics, and Hasan, a newer twitch streamer known for politics, recently had a discussion where they disagreed about the content of one of Hasan's recent videos. This led to them both airing 'dirty laundry' about their feelings towards one another, among other things, that have been building up a bit. The two are usually seen as similar politically, and have been on the same side for many topics, so them arguing with each other has got their mutual fans in an uproar and non-mutual fans picking sides. The post you linked was made by Hasan and replied to by Destiny where neither pulled many punches so-to-speak, about the issue/discussion. Since it first started the fans have been picking apart both sides flooding the sub with posts about it. Basically the kids (fans) are mad that mom and dad are fighting.

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etdffpy

2019-07-09 20:51:40

What's going on with /r/destiny?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/cayg1e/if_destiny_wants_to_remain_morally_consistent_he/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Is it sub drama?

2019-07-09 20:21:18