AhRelevant

> "'This is a little "say the same thing a hundred different times a hundred different ways" video it's a problem with Longman YouTube videos' Yeah, it reminds me of fuckin... *books*"
> - AhRelevant, entering the EFAP Quote Hall of Fame, EFAP 179
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**AhRelevant**, or **Rele** for short, is a ~~Twitch streamer~~ political journalist who talks about politics.

He does not have a time machine.

## History

### Expanded Universe

MauLer appeared on The Sitch & Adam Show 158 with DoomerMedia to take a look at a debate between AhRelevant and Vaush, in which Vaush was defending Hasan Piker not living his principles on the grounds that as long as he promotes socialism he is having a positive impact on the world. Vaush argued that accusing Hasan of hypocrisy is the same sort of thing that people like Ben Shapiro would do, and at one point Vaush expressed doubt that AhRelevant was really invested in leftist causes succeeding. When Rele argued that as a SocDem he is the closest one can be to a socialist without being a socialist, and therefore would prefer socialists winning over any other political ideology outside of his own, Vaush countered that that is not the case because historically SocDems have sides with fascists. When Rele did not take kindly to the implication that he would side with fascism, Vaush used him being upset as proof that he was arguing in bad faith, and the roster were baffled that Vaush had essentially gaslit the man.

### Foreshadowing

On the first Multimedia Medley stream, MauLer, Rags, and Fringy watched a YouTube short AhRelevant had uploaded of himself reacting to a hotdiggedydemon cartoon of a rich socialist trying to justify his own vast wealth with the quote "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?" then of Hasan saying the exact same Andrew Ryan quote but arguing that while it was meant to portray libertarianism it is actually socialist. Rele and EFAP alike both could not contain their laughter at Hasan attempting to twist an Ayn Rand analog's words as being "inherently socialist." This would be the last based take AhRelevant ever had.

### In Defense of one Hasan Piker

> "Those of you in chat, get ready for a lot of [chews spit, grunts]"
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MauLer, Rags, Fringy, Sitch, and Dev first encountered AhRelevant in EFAP 179, where they took a look at his video defending Hasan playing Jay's video onstream to his audience while he left the room. His previous coverage by Sitch and Adam and his appearance on the Multimedia Medley were brought up in reference to how so far everything they had seen of him had been good, though that was about to change. MauLer had compiled the arguments made throughout his stream into Fleem Cringe, having gone to great lengths to cut all the useless crap, of which there was much. It immediately became apparent that AhRelevant's content wasn't of the highest effort, with him mumbling and breathing directly into his microphone against his dimly lit barren background and only half-thinking through his comments. Rele himself had some judgments to make about Jay's content, criticizing his purple and pink lighting as an attempt to be Shakespearean, and recoiling at Jay eating a cardboard pizza box, which mistook for a pizza made of leather. He spent several minutes just gawking at Jay's video, ironically providing no transformative commentary on a video about not providing transformative commentary, until he eventually chimed in to argue that Hasan leaving a video running for 20 minutes is nothing compared to the 8 hours of streaming he does in a day, not taking into account that it's everything to the person having their work reuploaded. He did concede that him rushing to pause the video before Jay had a chance to promote himself was, as he described it, "Sigma."

Rele asked about the clip channels Hasan allows to exist, having entirely ignored that Jay (whom he also accused of repeating himself too often) had addressed that very idea earlier by saying it's fine to do so if you have permission. He asked if streamers should just end their stream to eat, once again failing to have noticed that Jay had already listed numerous other things they could do. He could not wrap his head around the idea of talking to chat while eating, finding the idea of talking in between bites of food or filming food without a 4K camera impossible.

He found it unreasonable for Jay to complain about Hasan's coverage since all publicity is good publicity and Jay ultimately got clout from this, ignoring that the only reason Jay got any clout was because he had complained, not because of the coverage itself. Members of his chat bolstered that claim by bringing up the 300,000-view EFAP stream "clout farming" the situation that Jay was not on. Rele also compared it to Hasan promoting his own video, not seeing the difference between Hasan naming him and encouraging his audience to watch the video on their own and the situation with Jay. He figured that Jay's motivation was simply to farm drama from the situation based on the fact that he had remade his video on the topic months after the fact, raising the question of if waiting months to refine a topic from an impromptu stream is really "juicing" the topic, and concluded that Jay was a liar for saying he made no money off of the situation, when Jay had actually said he had no way of measuring whether he made money off of it or not and that it wouldn't matter. Rele did concede that since the Hasan EFAP was 9 hours long it was likely about multiple other topics, making for a rare AhRelevant W, When it was brought up that Jay only profited from Hasan's coverage because it became drama, Rele argued that was irrelevant because that's how you make your money half the time, providing a telling insight into his worldview.

Rele defended Hasan doing the bare minimum in correcting his mistake on the grounds that there were no other options in material reality for Hasan to do anything other than either nothing or the bare minimum, comparing it to being handed a stick and being given the binary choice of using it to beat an old lady or not doing so. EFAP argued that since the wrong was already done it was more comparable to having already hit the old lady and having many options to rectify that wrongdoing, and that Hasan similarly had many options outside of simply stopping, as he could have credited Jay or decided to change his behavior going forward. Rags compared it to their coverage of Mundane Matt's lukewarm apology for false DMCAing people that could have been strengthened by going the extra mile to repay people. Rele erroneously described Jay as retracting consent (when consent was never given in the first place), and argued that nothing could be done since it was in the past and time machines aren't real, leaving the roster baffled that someone, especially an alleged political analyst, could not conceive of any way to make up for a wrongdoing after the fact. Pushback from his chat led to AhRelevant to shout obsenities at them at length, leading the emojis onscreen to become sadder and more frightened.

Around this time Dev posed the question to the panel of how much reacting they think needs to be done for it to be transformative, with them answering that the specific lines is very blurry. MauLer offered up a tentative answer of a comment every 30 seconds, but added he would likely also be fine with someone playing the video uninterrupted for 2 minutes if they then talked about it for 2 additional minutes, then cited Jay's general sentiment of "just don't take the piss." Fringy, bewildered at Rele's lack of understanding of the nature of copyright, just started reading the US copyright law on Fair Use, which is only a page long. Dev offered up the explanation for Hasan and Rele's mindset that since streaming is done in one's house without an office setting or a physical crowd of people watching, it can cause people to feel like they're just doing their own thing, and not consider the ripple effect that it has, to which MauLer responded that YouTubers learn otherwise very quickly, since the strict copyright bots basically force them to.

The gears in AhRelevant's head turned a little and he asked how copyright would work for pictures, citing his desktop background as an example. As per usual the answer was that it was context dependent, with a piece of art made specifically for the streamer's setup likely requiring more credit than an incidental desktop background. MauLer found it odd that Rele was so caught up on having to credit the artist for a piece of art they're using since a lot of people would see that sort of thing as cool and would gladly take a moment to shout out an artist who helped them. Rele took notice of stock footage of a woman in a bathtub in Jay's video and asked if Jay needed to credit that. When he was told by someone in chat that the bathing woman was Jay's wife, he said that his question still stands, not realizing that if it was indeed Jay's wife then Jay would have likely had permission from her directly. When he was corrected that it was a stock clip, he was astonished that people actually pay money for stock clips, the concept of paying money for art seemingly alien to him. Rele spent another long stretch of time just sitting there while Jay's video played, justifying it as political journalism because he had to see for himself what Hasan's commentary amounted to, despite Hasan literally not being in the chair during the clip he was watching. He ended up agreeing that Hasan's coverage did not qualify as fair use, but called Jay cringe anyway, for being mad. He argued that this is just how streamers are, and the five streamers watching him disagreed vehemently.

Rele wondered why Jay included other YouTubers' personal opinions on nontransformative reactions if he was just going to argue that individual opinions don't matter, forgetting that Hasan was the one who cited YouTubers' opinions in the first place and Jay was responding to that. He accused Jay's sampling of YouTubers he knows as being biased, seemingly under the impression that being friends with Jay would automatically influence your opinion on streamers watching your content. He himself then used people's personal opinions as evidence by saying lots of streamers are cool with their content being reuploaded, then immediately deflated his own point by conceding that many streamers also crack down on reuploaders. He concluded that Jay was lying for including this segment, getting the whole timeline backwards by accusing Jay of being the one who was using YouTubers' personal feelings as an argument when Jay was simply arguing against Hasan having done it first. He characterized Jay, but not Hasan, as being motivated by anger and justified any assumptions Hasan made about Jay by arguing that Jay's video told Hasan to "fuck off," when Hasan had not even seen that video until he watched it onstream.

Rele brought up that his favorite game to watch onstream is *Welcome to the Game*, whose creator is on record saying that more people watch others play the game than actually buy it, asking if that means the game shouldn't be streamed. MauLer and co answered that video games are complicated, since playing a game is a different experience than simply watching it, but there are more narrative-focused games that could be experienced through simply watching it, and that the level of transformative commentary given will vary from constant speaking to a walkthrough with no commentary. Rags put forth that there is an element of respecting the *spirit* of the law, that even if the boundary is not clear cut as long as generally speaking people are not trying to game the system then it will be fine, but if they do then the laws on it will be made stricter to put a stop to it. He brought up how alcohol commercials never show people drinking alcohol not because there is a law against it, but because the companies have agreed on limits for their ads so that they won't get in trouble and be subjected to harsher regulations - while the companies are technically competitors, they are also invested in the well-being of the industry. Rele concluded that he doesn't believe for a second that Jay's video was about anything else than starting drama with Hasan, and the idea of not taking advantage of other creators' work for his own gain remained lost on him, with him saying outright that he saw YouTubers as simply a source of content for him and other streamers to use when they can't be assed to do anything themselves.

## Powers and Abilities

* **No Time Machine -** AhRelevant does not own a time machine, and therefore cannot rewatch old YouTube videos

## Trivia

* He hates books, having ceded them to the Longmen, since they just repeat the same idea 100 times in different ways.
* If someone tries to sue you for defamation, simply tell them to clout farm.
* He thinks YouTube and the content creators of YouTube as nothing more than stuff he can watch when he has nothing to talk about in his streams.
* The concept of giving a shout out to the original creator of an image if it appears in your stream or video has not crossed his mind, as he has been stealing content for far too long.

## Quotes

* "[deep sniff] [breathy exhale]"
* "He would be terrible at hide and seek" - Rags
* "Letseeroxalook"
* "I don geddit"
* ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thank you for the prime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "
* "I don't think Hasan has low-effort reactions"
* "Huhh-uHuhh Hah hah hah hah aHach aHach aHuhh, that was kinda Sigma dude" - on stealing
* "It's fucking annoying, to see everybody do like pink and fucking purple lighting. It's like bro, you're not fucking recreating Shakespeare"
* "'Pause the video'? And do what? Just sit there and eat? Cook stream? Think everybody's got the fuckin 4K Super Soaker lens inside of your fuckin... uh, their kitchen? 'Eat and chat'? Usually you're not doing much chatting when you're eating"
"You know when you go into a restaurant and it's deafeningly silent?"
- AhRelevant and Sitch
* "What's the fuckin saying, no- all press is good press"
"Oh he said the thing Fringy! He said the thing Fringy!"
"He said the thiiiiing!"
- AhRelevant, Rags, and MauLer
* "'His argument is that he didn't make money off of him watching the video or his content. That he can make money off of Hasan drama is not a surprise to anyone.' But that's how half the time you make money!"
* "Their motivations are cringe"
* "I guess this is a YouTuber fuckin shit"
* "So, when you're having a conversation with someone, a lot of people tend to- tone, seems to be like the big giveaway or something that people latch onto to infer like wrongness or I guess... meanness or anything like that. Calling someone a liar is worse than saying 'fuck' in terms of what you're saying about a person, rather than just being loud or saying a harsh word" - Fringy
* "you're such a fucking dingus, dude. 'HURR JUST SHOW THEIR CHANNEL NAME, DUMBASS! HOW IS THAT SO FUCKIN' HARD?' Like what is this attitude that you have, you stupid fuck?"
"... I, was that that bad? Was that that bad?"
- a clip of Hasan, and AhRelevant's response
* "At 5,000 subs I'd call him a CrumbTuber" - Dev
* "**B**ased on what this individual said it is unbelievably *reasonable* to get that interpretation that he told him to fuck off. It is so unbelievably reasonable, that I feel like your mind is fucking **t**ainted, if you believe, that-that Hasan was ob**t**use, for coming to that fucking conclusion. With the fucking this stream that he did, fucking shitting on Hasan, with the fucking tweets that he made, about Hasa- it is unbelievably reasonable, if you actually watch this fucking video, that he was just telling him to *fuck off*. It was *unbelievably* reasonable. But whatever, we can just act like it's not reasonable to do, because we wanna just act like it's not reasonable. That's fine, perfectly fine."
* "There is no other options in material reality that he can- he can do."
* "He couldn- it's uh- after the fact, how- is he- didhe have a time machine? Maybe I forgot, maybe we have time machines?"
* "One of these things is not like the other. It's Jay, who did some work" - Rags
* "I AM HERE for investigative purposes! Okay, I am a journalist, I am a political journalist, alright? I'm here for investigative purposes, alright? I need to make sure that the content stays untainted. So don't tell me to react harder, you fuckin... quacks"
* "'Recognize there was no consen-' He DID! He DID recognize there was no consent given! He went on to say, that it is usually ASSUMED, that consent is given for all YouTube videos! You fucking idiots! I'm sor- you're making me so fucking frustrated!"
* "THE ASSUMPTION IS NOT BASELESS YOU FUCKING MORON! I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DM AUDIT THE AUDIT, TO WATCH ONE OF HIS FUCKING YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON MY STREAM, YOU FUCKING MORON!"
* "and from my perspective it's just not a good look, it just seems like the person's really mad"
* "WHAT... IS WRONG WITH YOU? I'VE TO SEND OUT FUCKIN 500 DMS BEFORE MY STREAM, SO I HAVE TO WATCH A- fucking BLOW YOURSELF, dude! Go just fucking jerk yourself off, right now! Ju- I- I dunno what it is. You need, you need a blowjob dude. You can do it yourself, trust me dude, I promise, do some yoga or some stretching dude."
* "Streamers are just built different"
* "Most YouTubers like to receive reactions, but far far fewer are comfortable with being used as filler as the streamer has some downtime."
"I'm sorry, that's the way that every streamer uses it, let's be fair"
- Jay and AhRelevant
* "We aaaaall like retreat to you guys when we're out of content, that's what you're there for, okay? Your YouTube content is there, when I ain't got nothin else left to talk about"
* "'Show the channel name Rele you leach' I... if I get anybody who does that in earnest- I know you're meming- If I get anybody that does that in earnest bro, I'm gonna have to log off, alright? Imma have to log off, alright? I can't do this"