the Ken-Year Chronicle

Nutting in November 😲

Uh Oh Omegle: Omeagle was a video chat website which was just as anonymous as 4chan. Created by 18 year old Leif K-Brooks in 2009, the site would allow users to match with someone based on their interests and then they could talk. So you’d type Megaman in the thing and come across someone else who liked megaman, thusly you could talk about that stuff. Now you didn’t have to login to any account so if you did meet someone cool (not likely) you’d have to exchange other contact information. I imagine some people could’ve met a one time lover here while many more met trolls. Whether it was just someone doing a strange bit, a roleplayer, a racist, horny people, or pedophiles; there was a lot of nonsense on this site. You had no hope in finding good conversation. By the time I joined the internet in 2014, the site already had a reputation for the worst. Now originally, anyone 13 and up could video themselves on there. This was an unforeseen issue as the site had no way to stop minors from sighting penis. For some reason, certain trolls would just expose themselves either out if pedophila or for laughs. To guys and girls. It was the norm. Now with this reputation and the common content on the site, Omegle shock videos became a big genre of internet clips on sites like Youtube or later tiktok. Streamers would sometimes visit the site just to see how bad it is while compilations would be made of teens unknowingly about to be flashed. On tiktok too, a new form of trolling was created (which I noticed). Tiktokers would record themselves on Omegle either doing a strange bit like (in the old meta) or just trying out new rizz (the new meta). There were especially many iconic clips from certain accounts like ‘sevcalls’ on tiktok including an entire breed of Omegle based rizzlers. Most of these guys were college aged as they tried to avoid any minors (and by now, Omegle had changed its policy only allowing majors to access the site). Their methods varied from the text rizzlers I spoke about earlier this year but the interactions were potentially more desperate as there might not be any guarantee they would see their target again. But this would be the last year Omegle could continue. See covid and tiktok brought Omegle back to the front page again which was bad because the news was that there were still pedophiles and nazis on the site. One black tiktoker called out nazi trolls on the site from his account while a girl came out with assault allegations against a pedophile she met on the site. There was an infamous Omegle troll known as the GypsyCrusader who dressed up as the Joker or the Riddler for racist mocking. Leif found this untenable but very disappointing. They always tried their best to keep the site clean and hated these trolls. The site would then be shut down this month much to the applause of many victims across the internet. The fact that any adult or child could visit a site just to get jumpscared by penis was an unwanted experience no one agreed with. It will be unfortunate for those who relied on the site to make rizz or troll content, but um get a job. 

Mullin v O’Brien: “Yesterday there was a fight that almost happened that had more hype than Mayweather vs Pacquiao”- Charlie White, Florida man. Our first contender for this almost battle is Leo born Cherokee-Yankee Markwayne Mullin (of the Republican Party) has been the Oklahoma senator for the last couple months after getting voted in earlier this year. Beforehand, he was a member of the US House of Representatives. Politically, the man is a common republican (anti abortion, transphobia, Biden stole election) but he is unique in wanting to expand the regulations around martial arts contests. So he is a belligerent man as he has also won three MMA fights. As for Sean O’Brien of Massachusetts, he represents the International Brotherhood of Teamsters which is a blue/white collar labor union that operates in the United States and Canada. Earlier this year there was a senate hearing for the HELP committee (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) which is headed by Vermont senator Bernie “Cranky” Sanders. Now O’Brien would be here to represent his unions against the already aggressive Mullin. Mullin seemed to take issue with the idea that O’Brien was forcing companies/workers to unionize among other Republican misunderstandings of labor unions. It got very heated between them from that day and so they would continue the antagonism online where O’Brien was perhaps more aggressive. On twitter, he would tease the man for acting tough and basically troll him into getting angrier and angrier. Finally again another hearing was had with Bernie at the head. Mullin would again instigate the argument by showing off print outs of O’Brien basically challenging him to a fight. “What a fraud…quit the tough guy act you know where ot find me” was one of the tweets. To this, Mullin personally responded, “So this is the time, this is the place, you wanna run your mouth; we can be two consenting adults and we can finish it here.”

“That’s fine, perfect” O’Brien agrees. And as they keep agreeing and egging each other on to fight, smiles spread across the rest of the room. Mullin rises out of his seat but Bernie comes in-between them demanding they stop fighting. “Hold it! Hold it! This is a hearing, and God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress let’s not make it worse,” he argues and oh Bernie, do a second read on the crowd. The clip of this event hit twitter like a 9/11 attack, all anyone was talking about was fervor to see a senator fight a civilian. Well not everyone knew what was going on exactly but they would’ve liked to see a return to 19th-20th century American politics which could get violent even for senators. Mullin echoes this later on but for now in the moment, the two kept bickering for at least another minute.

“I don’t like thugs and bullies,” O’Brien says and Mullin fires “well I don’t like you because that’s how you just described yourself.” Aw jeez rick. They fired more insults and Bernie echoed “we are not here for physical abuse…” but neither were done hating each other. Mullin took a moment to point at O’Brien who childisly replied, “Do not point at me, that’s disrespectful”. Mirroring the sentiment, Mullin said, “I don’t care about respecting you at all” and it almost completely devolved again until Biden fully stopped them. Definitely a very silly moment. Afterwards, Mullin spoke to others about the days of old when Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson could just duel/beat up people he disagreed with. It is true that in America, historically, politicians might just start punching each other if they find the other person too stupid. The two do seem to be planning a charity fight between each other but that really doesn’t have the same feel. 

Zack and Cody Have Italian: this is simply a reference to an episode of Suite Life on Deck, a Disney Channel show that aired during its golden age. In the show, Zack and Cody are twins on a cruise traveling the world as they attend school there. So every other episode they would land in a new country. In Season 1, episode 14, the gang arrives in Italy. Cody takes Zack to a prestigious restaurant to eat although it apparently has 15 year long wait times. The icecream must be so good. Now, they are teenagers and are only in italy for a weekend so they kind of need that food now. In the episode, they actually get hired by the restaurant in hopes of eating the food while at work. While on the job, Cody nearly drowns in the sauce, but at least he got to taste why the restaurant was so good. Now that episode aired 15 years ago, so if the two actually had made the reservation, they would finally be able to legally enjoy the food on November 16. But they didn’t? Anyways, the grown up fans of the show celebrated the date online as if they did. 👍

Lobot-Osama Kaisen: “Bin” in Arabic refers to “son of”. So we have Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, commonly called Osama son of Laden in the west, as our main character here. He is still dead, yes. But when he was alive, he committed to an assault on the American people known as 9/11. The Twin Towers fell along with the Pentagon being under threat. Now this happened in 2001 so the oldest zoomer was like 4-5 years old. They do not all remember this event and even then, that is a small percentage of zoomers. Next year, Osama would write a “Letter to the American People” in order to kind of combat President Bush’s rhetoric about a Middle Eastern invasion. He said the only reason America was attacked was because American continuously attacked Arabs so it was simply in retaliation. He also claims that Palestine was not for America nor the State of Israel as Arabian presence there was rightfully returned to Arabs after conquering it from the Romans apparently. He states that Palestine previously belonged to Arabs before this and so they have a historical claim to the Promised Land. He continues, talking about his philosophy on what modern jihadist Isalmism means. He denounces mostly Jews along with Americans, homosexuality, democracy, and usury. In fact, his longest yappathon in the letter was just a series of critiques about his conception of America. He does seem to believe Americans directly have sway over our government (thanks for the wishes big boss) along with attacking Americans for voting in things like usury, gambling, our treatment of women, and our vassalship to Jewish bankers. He also wanted to sow discontent between Americans and Bush under the belief we might just choose a different president who will end conflicts in Arabia. The letter was well rejected by Americans at the time and everyone then was educated about it, it seems. But just like a new Pokemon generation brings new Pokemon fans, a batch of zoomers in this year would bring new Osama fans. 

Now as a zoomer, growing up, 9/11 became a yearly remembrance since 5th grade. I remember the first time teachers showed us videos of the towers falling down. That was really all. They did not say exactly why the terrorist’s attacked but I believe this is due to such reasons being common knowledge. I mean, if I or any student really cared, we’d just ask the teacher or our parents. One thing I did notice while growing up is that any history in the common memory of leaving people is broadly taught in school, kind of because you can just ask people who remember JFK, Reagan, or Bush. I call this the Window of Memory in which a school’s curriculum of history decides to stop teaching anything past WW2, for now. Of course, in higher education, you’ll always get more depth within the contemporary period. But, none of us cared. At the same time I learned of the attack, it was a meme on the internet. Shit was just funny. Honestly, we were probably more confused. You guys cried about it every year as a majority of us went unaffected. 

So now, college aged zoomers come across the forgotten letter. And they are shocked and appalled. They run to tiktok (idk who was first) to share the gospel of Osama although I am unsure if they read anymore than a single paragraph. Whoever was the Prometheus of this event, reading just the paragraph where Osama broadly denounces the #1 country USA, decided to scare the other users of the site into reading it. Wanting to be enlightened or otherwise feeling FOMO, people move in. Finding the truth about the 9/11 attack scary, they run back to tiktok cautiously recommending more people to read it as if it was Chapter Black. In some clips, these kids look like they just met Cthulhu. They were having anxiety attacks and existential crises. Part of their rhetoric was that America had hidden this letter as an act of propaganda to brainwash us into thinking Osama and Al-Qaeda were just evil terrorists. They seemed to agree that America was really bad/evil and Osama was basically just the messenger that the US shot. Also, because of the current Gazan conflict and Osama’s promotion of Palestinian liberty, people would latch on to the perceptions of this dead man. Now if they had truly finished reading the letter, they would have to disagree with the extremist Islamism that Osama was asking the entire planet to adopt but eh. 

So the next sequence of events….well #LettertoAmerica got far too popular on tiktok and even the news was reporting on it. Tiktok expanded its domain trying to rid every video mentioning Osama after banning the aforementioned hashtag. Some videos would survive in a compilation made by a tweeter who wanted to make fun of the newbie Osama fans. Largely other tweeters jumped in attacking the kids for being that damn retarded and also arrogant of who Osama really was. I will point out, Osama himself believes to be a terrorist, he’s proud of that. But these new Osama fans acted like that was far too harsh of propaganda from the rest of the US. He was a liberator! He just wanted Palestine to be free and also the Jews really do control the banks. How did we get back to 1929? But I didn’t get to see any argumentation. People kept reacting to the letter on tiktok and it would be made fun of on other sites. Some on tiktok did critique his new fans for their raw utter ignorance but that could’ve fallen on deaf ears. Now some videos had full grown adults (so, millennial) reacting disheartened by the letter. I didn’t see anyone who could be younger than 18 so I am actually happy there. There were many American muslims, yankee-Arabs, and the like also reacting in agreement with the new fans or (few) strongly opposing the new fans. Otherwise, the new fans seem to include young white or black women and some white men. I didn’t see any Jews or specifically queer people who, I remind you, would’ve actually been insulted by the letter. 

Lastly, while tiktok continued to ban videos, I heard rumors that Osama’s fanbase was gaining in population. A man’s dream never dies. Then, one person would find the one thing to dispel support of Osama. He was a “nepo baby”. This refers to any person that has inherited a high place due to nepotism of an authority rather than merit. I will speak at length about nepotism here but first. After that reveal, the fanbase disbanded. Nobody posted about him anymore. That was it. Of course, Osama is related to the Saudi family, he was from their country and his father Muhammed was a big bucks billionaire. Do they think terrorists come from the ghetto or something? Anyways, there’s been a growing idea among Americans in recent years that nepotism is inherently bad. This is especially due to conservative ideas about “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” and liberal ideas about the same meritocracy. Billionaires like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg serve as recent examples of merit gaining the system rather than the nepotism like with every other example in any industry. But those two are famous and well known. And everyone would like to live in a meritocratic America since that would be the fairest way to achieve the American Dream of success. But how the fuck is nepotism wrong? Tell me. Why the hell should you feel disappointed that your favorite artist, punk or not, has a parent with a blue checkmark in wikipedia? Are you not gonna let your own children inherit anything? Will you not do any favors to your friends if you become powerful? Like what are these bluds waffling about? Nepos and merit have actually held hands throughout all human history. One great founder works hard, gains connections, and reaches his peak. Then he allows whoever he wishes inherit this work because everyone fucking dies. Otherwise, the greedy state just seizes stuff. So it’s a generational cycle but its not something you can’t compete with. You ought to make connections/friendship wherever you can. If you have a skill for gobbling glizzies, that friend may need you one day and that’s when you can make it big. Crybabies.

McQueen’s Fraudulence: Pixar’s Cars is a trilogy of animated motor vehicles featuring the career of racecar “Lightning” McQueen. In the first movie (2006), McQueen seems to have two other rivals (Chick Hicks and Strip “the King” Weathers) while he is a rising star in the most prestigious sport of the vehicular world. After trapping himself in Radiator Springs, McQueen receives training from the old champion racer Doc Hudson who humbles the hothead. McQueen returns to the championship race and is able to win. In the second film (2011), McQueen races in a world cup against the background of a spy thriller from his best friend Mater. He actually wins the world cup 2 of 3 times so it was good there. Right? But in the third film (2017), McQueen would suffer a horrible traumatic accident in a race due to his old manufacturing being unable to challenge the new technology of Jackson Storm. Still though, before this retirement inducing accident, McQueen had won 7 Piston Cups making him a historical racer for sure and then he went on to train a car that beat Jackson Storm anyways. But that doesn’t matter, what matters is agenda. After the summer of agenda posting for certain animes, the zoomers who grew up with the Cars films decide to question the McQueen Agenda. Is he truly the goat or is he a fraud? This is known as Fraud Watching, for example, due to current events in One Piece, admiral fans might put the yonko characters under Fraud Watch. With Fraud Watching (similar to suicide watching) one will take any behavior of the subject and put it under extreme scrutiny in order to argue for fraudulence. So it seems @mldiffley started the conversation ranking the greatest racers in the universe; Hudson, McQueen, Weathers, Dale Earnhardt Jr (minor character in the first film), and Darrell Cartrip (retired racer turned commentator) as his top five. This is atrocious, where the fuck is Chick Hicks? Hudson was a champion of his time period but that was an era of “plumbers and mailmen”. Some people also went as far as to promote Storm since he was an outstanding newcomer. Buuuut, Storm was argued against for his advanced technology that basically give cover to his lack of skill. Sports Commentator Steven A Smith also argued for Weathers as he had won as many Piston cups as McQueen. Meanwhile, McQueen is much more versatile with wall driving and the tongue clause. The tongue clause was a method where McQueen would stick out his tongue in case he was neck and neck when finishing the race. Because his tongue is apart of him (do not ask me why a sportscar has a tongue) then that means he finished the race before Weathers or anyone else. It caught on that this was coming from the Storm Agenda as they recognize the new age Storm was a goated racer. That could not be further from the truth for McQueen fans who rewatched the film and saw his unblemished career. McQueen did not know how to lose! Except in allegations, he did have sexual allegations against him. Quite unfortunate. No, I am being serious. LISTEN, there was a video going around of a conversation between McQueen and his manager which alludes to him having sexual conversations with middle schoolers. While McQueen dealt with this leaked information, his fans would continue to argue that he was at least the greatest racer of all time.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: Big new thing to Netflix this year was an animated adaption of the comic Scott Pilgrim, created by Bryan Lee O’Malley. The original comic is based off a song by Canadian indie punk band Plumtree of the same name. The song is a lyrical masterclass describing a boy that a girl has liked for 1000 years. That boy is a gaming, naive, selfish, and martially and musically talented Scott Pilgrim as the main character of the comic. O’Malley falls in love with this boy as he challenges the Canadian to deal with real emotions and actual consequences as he moves from 22 to 23 years old. Because of his unique naivete, it can be see a coming of age but also an approach at young adulthood immediately after college. Made up of six volumes, it would become the most famous Canadian comic especially with a move starring Michael Cera as the titular character coming out in 2010 (Scott Pilgrim vs the World). Afterwards, a video game was released feeding the growing fanbase. Though, the fanbase would have to contend with critiques from illiterate movie watchers who hated Scott’s abuse of his friends/girlfriends along with creating the “Ramona Flowers” archetype of women. Ramona Flowers was the main love interest among others for Scott in the comic and film. She was an American with freshly dyed hair every two weeks who acted mysterious due to her insecurities and past trauma. In the comic, she shows way more of her personality although the mysteriousness is still a focal point. But most people only watched the film where Ramona was among several mystical girls coming from movies at the time. They came up with a term, these millennials, that is Manic Pixie Dream Girl. The first girl representing this actually comes from an earlier film; Drew Baylor of Elizabethtown. These are girls who are eccentric and hyper thus seeming mystical, and Ramona was basically an emo variant of this. This is of course just the fan reception of what O’Malley thought would be a good love interest to test Scott with. A song would be released  in 2019 known as “Ramona Flowers ruined a generation of Women” featuring a hard hitting critique against the recent trend of alt/pop-punk young women they potentially met since the movie came out. I guess I was lucky enough to never meet one. I will clarify that this group of women have nothing to do with Ramona Flowers, even in the comic she’s barely into punk music. She has a scene aesthetic but it was 2006 when O’Malley came up with her. That’s just what millennials looked like back then. The new culture of pop-punk spawned after that time period. I’ll tell you the oxymoronic pop punk seems to blend punk, gothic, and scene aesthetics to come up with something that can be colorful or pretty but also still edgy involving tattoos, vape/weed, and septum piercings. The song, coming from a nameless (School Shooter) was a lyrical masterpiece describing a broad range of women from childish adults to drug addicts to sluts to the usual pop-punker although admits that he would still fuck this woman. The song became widely popular with millions of views and seemed to concrete that Ramona Flowers was at the head of the pretty goths parade. I don’t know, I am sometimes unable to be in a large group of people who even remember the film much less be inspired by Ramona. 

So this year, Netflix announced a new animation for Scott which kind of came out of nowhere. The film nor comic is not having any anniversary but it was something of a grand desire from Jared LeBoff. He would contact Edgar Wright (director of the film) and O’Malley various times until finding a pitch that worked. This would be a surprise to me upon watching the show but it would change the plotline rather than just adapting it like the movie did. It would include the movie actors as voices for their old roles. And its main character…Ramona Flowers! 

Now for whatever reason, between the core fanbase and the greater audience, I am unable to find too much love for Ramona or Scott. Everyone loves the other characters such as the unhatable Wallace Wells, Steven Stills, Young Niel, Knives Chou, and Kim Pine. They cite the main couple are just plainly bad people. So when the show was near to premiere, there was the expected revival of people posting funny/iconic clips from the film as a part of the hypetrain for the anime. Then the anime came out and the only clips shared were those involving those other characters. I am amazed because this anime showed a new side of Ramona as she shows devotion for the happiness of a Scott she barely knows. She has to also interact with her series of evil exes in a more direct and rehabilitative way that previous iterations didn’t. These new scenes lead to fans having new stuff to gush over with no further appreciation of Ramona. One thing was relieved though. With the film and the song, the og diehard fans had been defending a siege of illiteracy from people who completely hated Ramona and Scott but the siege had ended. People were well distracted by Wallace Wells having gay sex with half the cast (im lying). So people stopped misreading the heart of the story and just enjoyed this alternate timeline. I will further discuss the whole Scott Pilgrim series in a review in a different post. 

Josh Giddey vs the Allegations: Our final boss of sexual allegations this year and maybe the goofier of stories. Joshua James Giddy, an 21 year old Aussie Libra, was a NBA supernova in the making. “Supernova” is a term from One Piece meaning a newbie that is far more impressive than other rookies. Josh was born to a balling family in Australia and so he would soon be talented enough to join the Adelaide 36ers. There, he would hit his first triple double (being the youngest person to do so in Australia) with 12 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists. A double double or triple double is a feat in basketball in which you reach double digits for two or three of the stats during a game, such as points, rebounds, and assists. Then in the 2021-2022 season, he would join the Oklahoma City Thunders for his first year in the NBA. Here again, he decided to do a triple double (youngest in America) with 17 points, 14 assists, and 13 rebounds showing his raw presence on the court. I would only consider him a supernova though in a game against the Miami Heat at the top of this year. Through that game he would’ve made a total minimum of 1000 points, 700 rebounds, and 300 assists within his first 100 games. This has only been preceded by Croat Luka Doncic, Afro-Aussie Ben Simmons, and Virginian Grant Hill. Now in late November, Josh would receive a shoutout from a potentially really young blonde girl who called him her boyfriend in a clip. The clip shook tiktok and busted his career. The NBA and later law enforcement would put Josh under investigation of claims that he was dating/dated a minor. The girl went unidentified but the worse was already happening. For the next three or four weeks on tiktok, Josh ‘Kiddey’ clips filled tiktok with commenters repeating “Giddey averages 16 on and off the court”. Misinformation would be found in various clips (convincing me at the time that shit was confirmed) such as ‘him’ partying with the ‘same girl’ or clips of the girl (different girl every time) to show how young she currently is. Edits would also be made comparing him to the Joe Goldberg of You and Gleen Quagmire of Family Guy or any other pedohile. One post that was unfortunately funny was captioned “Age didn’t stop him” referring to the careers of Lebron James (who was a supernova and is now a supersenior), Tom Brady (a supersenior of the NFL), and Josh (because supposedly age didn’t stop him from having sex). To all this and people begging him to cover the story, prominent NBA commentator Stephen A Smith responded in rage at the audience for acting so irresponsibly. He reminds them that nothing is known about the case (so what would even say?) and that if he did  say stuff willy-nilly, then he could get sued for defamation. Smith goes on to attack the trolls on twitter as they have the anonymity to just make fun of Giddey even though it is a very serious charge whether it was true or not. Spoiler from next year, it was not true. I do wholeheartedly agree with Smith (its hard not to most times), what are y’all goofballs doing making fun of something that might not even have happened? And every other time this year too, shut the fuck up. 

Kissinger of Death: While Austria and Prussia had Metternich and Bismarck respectively, Henry Alfred Kissinger would serve as America’s big name diplomat for history (and he’s from Bavaria!). He was a Jewish born Gemini who was able to escape Nazi Germany before landing in the United States. As he grew, he became a consultant for anyone who asked about diplomatic concerns, including Richard Nixon. President Nixon would make him the US National Security Advisor and then later Gerald Ford made him the Secretary of State (putting him 4th in line to the succession of the president). This was during the 1970s where his career as a diplomat would take off. As a quick note, Kissinger’s diplomatic philosophy relied on realpolitik, or the idea that other nations should be approached with an idea of realism and circumstances rather than one’s own ethics or morality. Meaning that a Catholic country like France should ally with the Musim Ottomans because they both hate Spain despite their religious differences. Or another example,  during that time, the big three were the USA, the Soviet Union, and Maoist China. The latter two were nominally communist but also nuclear powers so in order to defeat them, Kissinger sought to just deter them. For now this meant pushing for Maine China’s placement in the United Nations (rather than also inviting the Isle of China) so that a Sino-Yankee pact could go against the Soviets. It did not matter that the Chinese and Russians along with Taiwanese and Americans were more politically aligned. After that, there was the ongoing Vietnamese war which was actually extended due to apparent spy work of Kissinger and Nixon. To end the war, Kissinger (paraphrased) said to “Bomb them, bomb them again, and keep bombing them”. Next level biju bombs would first be applied to Cambodia (neutral spectator of the war) and then to communist Vietnam (which didn’t necessarily convince them of peace). Americans would come to largely hate Kissinger for the Cambodia bombings with Anthony Bourdain being quoted for “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands”. But he wasn’t done yet! Kissinger would go on to commit realpolitik to the South Americans, replacing fair governments with dictators because an American president could control them and breaking oil deals with Saudi Arabia to solve the gas crisis at the time. There’s many other diplomacies but I’m not his biographer. Some regard him as shifty and untrustworthy, others as a disgustingly evil war criminal, and still others as a brilliant philosopher in diplomacy. With a glance at his career though, I don’t really know what his desire was? Like bro seemed to have no dreams. After leaving his government offices, he was just head of a think tank handing out consultation to anyone. But like, for what kind of world, you know? Ultimate strength and the solitude it brings, the one who will teach you about love is…Born in 1923 as apart of the Greatest Generation (or Gen U), he would turn 100 this year, much to the dismay of twitter lefties. Like a handful of 20th century artifacts, he does have a twitter account reminding people everyday that he was still alive. Until…November 29th. On that day, Hasanabi was just streaming, as usual. Then a chatter came in with the big news. “Oh my God” x1000, “am I being jebatted?” before he finally started to celebrate. News agencies would immediately come out with positive or negative obituaries for the century old relic and reporters came out with their coverage over the global mass murderer. On twitter, celebrations of his death occupied my feed for two days with everyone wishing him the worst wishes in hell. Obviously many of the usual mortem memes were made with Kissinger represented. To anyone who didn’t know, they would be well informed by the people celebrating his war crimes and even crimes against democracy (which he largely committed in tandem with Nixon). Some would critique those happy with death that they were being antisemetic or not knowing that Kissinger did what anyone would have at the time. I will clarify, Kissinger considered him being born a jew as an accident and admitted he would be antisemtic otherwise. Still, many despise the idea that Kissinger died kind of peacefully (vaccine complications) rather than even getting confronted on his genocidal blunders during our current Age of Humanitarianism. I mean, born 150 years ago, people of his time would not hate him at all. 

“Yes, I’ll tell you. What do I care? The main point arises from the fact that I’ve always acted alone. Americans like that immensely. Americans like the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse, the cowboy who rides all alone into the town, the village, with his horse and nothing else. Maybe even without a pistol, since he doesn’t shoot. He acts, that’s all, by being in the right place at the right time….All he needs is to be alone, to show others that he rides into the town and does everything by himself. This amazing, romantic character suits me precisely because to be alone has always been part of my style or, if you like, my technique. Together with independence. Oh, that’s very important in me and for me. And finally, conviction…Instead the consequences of what I do, I mean the public’s judgment, have never bothered me. I don’t ask for popularity, I’m not looking for popularity. On the contrary, if you really want to know, I care nothing about popularity. I’m not at all afraid of losing my public; I can allow myself to say what I think. I’m referring to what’s genuine in me…” – Kissinger’s response to St Peter as he descended down the stairway…

Truly Humble Under God: Jeffery Lamar “Young Thug” Williams (aka Slime) of Atlanta was one of the first mumble rappers to challenge the old meta of the rapping industry. He would start his career in 2011 when he was about 20 years old with a series of mixtapes. As his career grew, he would gain relations with Gucci Mane, Gunna, and others old and new before starting his own record label known as YSL Records in 2016. From there, he would sign other rappers, dodge concerts, and release a total of three albums. In 2017, Georgia police would raid his home due to gun and drug charges and so they found….guns and drugs (coke and weed) in his home. But his lawyers would be able to save him as there was no warrant. He would be arrested again later for the same charges but released on bond three days later. Good. Cool. fine. A year later the man would be charged with meth related crimes. Can we not let a man have hobbies? (Can he also stop getting caught?). Then in mid-2022, Fulton’s District Attorney Fani Willis found RICO charges against Slime and 28 of his YSL rappers for gang-related activity. This was a whopping 56 charges. So finally, in November, this man had his court case. Before the court case, there was already legal rumors and such which theorized Slime was allied with the Bloods gang or that his record company was basically a front for gang activity. In order to feign some form of innocence, Slime’s allies in Gunna and others had tried to get the Black Art Petition signed. This Petition would ask American governments to give leniency to rap lyrics that might talk about crime but is not an admission of crime. This has gone nowhere like Slime getting out from bonds has gone nowhere. From the first or second day of the trial, two clips became infamous on the Internet. The first was from a legal consul that used an unprecedented example of Bleach’s Bount Arc (a filler arc in the anime) to downplay the relevance of the case. Chat would miss her point due to her so blatantly using the Bount Arc as an example because every Bleach fan knows its the worst arc in objective terms. But then another clip came out from Slime’s lawyer Brian Steel. Steel would argue on the image of Slime starting that he basically grew up poor and wanted to brighten things, even the rap industry. It is why he started mumble rap and did not echo the gangster rap of ole. Then to his name “Young THUG”, “THUG” is supposed to stand for “Truly Humbled Under God” as Slime truly feels he is committing to God’s plan with his career. Apart of that is his hit song “Pushing P” where P is meant for positivity. The kids in chat laughed, hooted, and hollered at this argumentation. It was the funniest and most improv looking lie in the world. They assumed if the opening looked like this, then Slime would never feel the sunlight ever again. These arguments would be catchphrases in tiktok comments along with people trying it out with other rappers or just making up stupid acronyms. While incredibly funny, Slime’s trial would AGAIN be postponed due to a stabbing of one of the defendants. Remember to push positivity, y’all.