• stevedice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    45·
    11 hours ago

    Fun story: I used to be a Tristan Tate fan. Now, now, put down the pitchfork, I can explain. Back before these two blew up, I kinda knew who Andrew Tate was and the kind of content he made but had never actually watched anything he put out. One day, scrolling YouTube shorts, I was served a video of a guy saying shit so ridiculous that I couldn’t help but laugh. I then noticed his name was “Tristan Tate” and thought to myself “Oh, he must be a satire of that Andrew Tate guy I’ve heard about”. For the next several days, I watched almost every Tristan Tate short I was served — I couldn’t believe how fucking good he was at satire. Then I got served one where he talked about his brother and everything clicked in my head. I guess I’m grateful I never shared anything.

    • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      22·
      8 hours ago

      Reminds me of how the YouTuber Angela Collier detailed once reading Atlas Shrugged and really enjoying it. Wanting to read it blind, she did as little research as possible on the book beforehand, only knowing that the author was made fun of for relying on food stamps leading up to her death. As she worked through the book, it was shaping up to be a masterpiece satire on much the same level of A Modest Proposal.

      It was only upon finishing the book and looking through the other reviews on Goodreads that she realized it was not satirical.

      • stevedice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        47 minutes ago

        lol Ayn Rand. Some ideas are so unhinged they can’t be taken seriously. In the Tristan Tate video I was talking about, he was saying something like “Well, if our home gets invaded, I’d have to protect it and might die doing so. That means my wife has to do everything I say to pay me back for this hypothetical situation where I gave my life for her”. How was I supposed to know he was serous?

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        6 hours ago

        I knew more about Rand than that when I read both Atlas and Fountainhead but it was still the same experience. I found them so ridiculous as to be laugh-out-loud funny.

        Like, on a dime someone will respond to an innocuous question with a four page uninterrupted monologue. Or there’ll be an entire chapter from the point of view of some beans. Or a man puts out a furnace fire solo with his bare hands. Just incredible stuff.