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"You have nasty disgusting 2 faced weasels like Northernlion who's sitting there in chat, but he's audience captured and afraid of his own viewers that the moment they dislike it, he has to do a cam off crying stream complaining about his friend who he's known for apparently 14 years..absolutely pathetic..I don't respect the person that does this at all"
"This is the most important thing..he acknowledges (in chat)..he's responding to thinking of enlisting, that means he obviously knows what's going on..flipped the script on his friend for over 10 years, bc he's afraid of hate on the internet..pathetic f'in weasel..this guy is a f'in loser..I didn't know somebody could be this big of a B"
"They're totally fake and the only thing they're doing is siding with these people so they can farm anti American freaks in their audience, I hate them..if you engage in something like this, you will get farmed..I hope other people make videos..I can't even express how much I hate these people without breaking the ToS..never seen somebody c-c-k out like this..I think he's crying, omg"
"He'll probably respond..I will be there to make it worse, just like he was there to make it worse for Dan, bc Dan has the audacity to support his own country's military. It's what you deserve, sorry"
tweto https://x.com/Angelica_Reed99/status/2102545455821295654
...what? Should I be glad that I don't understand anything beyond Asmongold screeching about something? I have heard of Nothernlion, but know nothing concrete about him.
NL is a Canadian streamer. His long-time friend and associate Dan Gheesling recently did a sponsored stream with the US Army geared towards recruitment. Given the current stink on the US armed forces due to their complicity with the Gaza genocide, NL felt that actively advertising for them wasn't something he could support in a friend. Since then other co-streamers of Dan have come out about his poor behaviour and right-wing politics.
NL isn't even le epic based leftist, he's a standard Canadian apolitical lib homeowning Family Guy. The thing that most threatens these people is realizing that outside of America, it is normal to dislike America.
Not nearly normal enough, but sometimes it feels as if the hegemony is developing very notable cracks by now.
I deadass know an Australian woman who moved to the US, got permanent resident status.... then joined the national guard. She was studying education (early childhood), finished her degree, went to study more in the US, got a job teaching kindergarten and when she got her green card, she joined the US National Guard. Absolutely bonkers career trajectory.
He's an NDP voter from what I've gathered, so the usual universal healthcare, lower cost of home ownership, opposition to the military stuff
cw: dumb twitch stuff
Nothernlion is a legacy streamer, and a youtuber. he's just a well adjusted grown adult who has a wife, child and good opinions.
Dan Gheesling is another legacy streamer, and a friend of Northenlion for 14 years, who took an US army sponsorship were he was in the boot camp for a week to advertise the army to his audience of kids about how cool the army is. Northenlion called him out on it and thus the roach is now mad at him.
Whats a legacy streamer
old school. A unc. someone who has been around forever. (I think)
Got in when the path to becoming a twitch partner was meeting Jon Carnage at Pax and him asking if you wanted to be a twitch partner
i feel 65 years old reading this
someone who started when twitch was called justin.tv
Oh dear, I'll gladly limit my knowledge on the issue to that. But thanks for the succinct write up!
Same here, but it’s a safe bet to go with “asmongold is in the wrong.”
The other comments have the right context, an added part is that no one dropped Dan (who was also the winner of the second season of big brother and then went into streaming games, wild world right?) outright until he did some kind of "apology stream" where he went "I didn't know the US army was so political :/. oh well, someone will hate me for anything anyways right? lol".
I'm surprised that this is a lightning rod for the cockroach though given that the piece NL said was so like- measured and calm? Just explained why they weren't streaming with him and left it there. I didn't think much about it.
I guess it makes the stink wizard nervous that people online don't tolerate the empire doing genocide and that streamers who are normally seen as non-political can launch valid criticisms at the US and be taken seriously.
I apologize for making you recapitulate more drama slop but I still don't have a clear idea of what is happening here. I am familiar with NL and Dan and the rest of them but, being that I dislike all involved, I haven't really followed recent events. So Dan does a military recruitment stream, NL and the others object, then Dan does a fake apology stream (what did he actually say?) and now the others have severed ties over this matter? Am I understanding right?
Iirc BaerTaffy was openly some shitty libertarian-ish conservative and everyone tolerated him just fine. I don't really see what the internal logic is unless the perception is that Dan is specifically now in effect a serious Trump apologist and that's bad for the brand.
They didn't really mention Trump at all from what I saw it was pretty much "We've done a Gaza fundraiser before, what's happening there is a genocide, the US army is complicit, it's fucked up to try and convince your audience of impressionable teens and young adults to help carry that out".
For the other stuff... if you don't like any of them I just wouldn't even bother wasting time on it. We're just both going to get into the streamer drama weeds and get ticks or something (this isn't an anology I just love using time to hate ticks).
The US military tried to do some recruiting and ended up shitting the bed while also accidentally continuing to normalize opposition to the ongoing genocide against Palestinians. That's good enough for me to be a little happy IG.
Fair enough. Thank you for the additional comments.
The roach guy is just a bottom feeder, I don't think he actually believes much of anything, other than deep selfishness and misanthropy. He's politically ignorant, can't actually explain his case on any topic, he just gets performatively mad at the same things his audience is mad at. It's ironic he accuses everyone else of audience capture. But none of that makes him less of a piece of shit.
Nah, he's a deeply racist far-right asshole. I mean you're right that he doesn't know shit about politics, but that's standard for Americans, especially racist white American right-wingers. He's pretty much just a standard Republican
Clearly I'm not online enough, and that's good.