The Drama Slop to School Shooter Pipeline

Allow me to talk for far too long about a specific part of internet radicalization as I show many examples from the most cringe chungus dudes on the internet.

I've talked about pieces of this in the past but I felt when I saw the Great Wielder of the N-Word, Turkey Tom, be referenced in a school shooters manifesto I knew that at some point I had to talk about the bottom floor of radicalization and how it starts. Everyone finds the range of content that exists here to be generally repulsive for a variety of reasons, but I think this deep dive shows that not only is their disgust warranted but important. A lot of this "slop" isn't just hollow internet drama but legitimately dangerous entryways for an irony poisoned alt right existence that you will have a deeply challenging time recovering from.

I am going to make a companion video to this on my second channel this week to mention small bits and bobs i couldn't neatly fit in here since it's such a gigantic topic and i wanted to keep this as "focused" as possible.

Thank you all for your continued support and I hope you all are surviving in these trying times.

Thumbnail by the incredible Evangeline Gallagher: https://bsky.app/profile/egallagher.bsky.social

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QvcQsg8GcKllNZXFu1GUFjNIOFl8CjpzHDV6iLfRO6I/edit?usp=sharing