Don’t Be a Sucker

The Pissant and the Frog

A twenty-seven-year-old virgin is dragging Nazism back into the mainstream.

Do Crackpots Dream of Tinfoil Sheep?

In 2020, conspiracy became a political ideology. Our critical thinking never recovered.

The New Gods Read Their Comment Sections

How the internet revolutionized celebrity culture and transformed fandom into a political force.

The Shape of My Jaw > That Which Emerges from It

For millennia, young men have grappled with the difficult question of how best to attract the attention of women — and for millennia, they have found new and more interesting ways to fail in doing so. They just can’t help it — their pride gets in the way and, like the lemmings in White Wilderness, they run off the cliff en mass, falling into the rocky waters below.

Dice, but With Balls

Only time will tell whether peer-to-peer markets will act as the next evolution in legalized sports gambling, but if not, trust that something else will claim that title — perhaps something even more adept at parting a sports fan from his money.

Does This Dress Make My Performativism Look Fat?

Like RFK Jr., the tradwife movement’s juxtaposition of traditional beliefs about gender relations — most often associated with American conservatives — and the witchy, pseudo-scientific health practices and crunchy diet culture of online white liberalism might strike you as contradictory. However, instead of repelling both sides of the political spectrum like you might expect, this little-of-everything ethos has acted as a unifying principle. Political affiliations aside — if you’re willing to ignore experts and history, you’re welcomed with open arms.

You Are What You Beat, From Your Wife to Your Meat

The men of the alt-right have always existed on the fringes; the all-too-frequent object of polite society’s derision, they’ve only recently crawled out of our sewer drains and into our bathtubs. Perhaps that’s why they share such a strong mutual identity — one that often fills the gaps left in a life otherwise bereft of meaningful human connection. And perhaps that’s why they exhibited such righteous anger — such wrath — in their onslaught of women and progressives during GamerGate.

The Butterflies in Your Stomach Are Planning a Coup

And we, the captive audience of this nonconsensual revolution, are unable to do anything but watch from below as the wings of Yarvin’s Butterfly unfold, spewing meconium and afterbirth directly into our frightened eyes.

Chat, Is It Gay to Wash My Own Ass?

Although streamers like Asmongold, Sneako, and Adin Ross may not be fully aware of the impact of their actions on American culture, they damn well ought to be. With such behemoth audiences and the near-undivided attention of the youth, they have a responsibility to care about more than just their bottom lines.

It's Hard Out Here for a (Digital) Pimp

Sex work is real work — and online sex work is, too. But as empowering as such online sex work can be when the worker herself profits from it, it is equally as disenfranchising when those profits are stripped away.

Attention Tastes Good Like a Politik Should

U.S. politics are deeply rooted in capitalism and market demand. Trump, the absolute populist that he is, recognized this and gave the people what they wanted: a living meme in the White House. Every day he livestreams his stupidity to the world, and every day he is rewarded for his braindead, attention-seeking, childish antics.