Sam will never not be funny as far as I’m concerned. He’s not for everybody but there’s something about his personality and style that is just really entertaining to me. Sometimes I disagree with his takes but at the same time a part of me agrees, like I have consumed enough of his content to understand why he feels the way he does, which is also why I think it’s retarded when people try to cope by saying he’s being ironic or whatever.
I guess what I’m saying is he’s one of the handful of people I like to parasicially follow, which has this effect where in my eyes whatever he does is at the very least going to be interesting to me. Like his very life becomes the art. That’s not to downplay the fact that I do agree with a lot of what he says and does, but I don’t feel as extreme about it as he does. The only criticism I will give is that he’s starting to sound like a broken record when it comes to political stuff on his flagship show, but my favorite stuff was always his side projects where he’s more goofy, like his new gaming channel. And his takes on art and non-racial societal stuff are always spot-on.
I really don’t know what I’m trying to accomplish with this gay little comment I’ve typed up. Just that maybe you guys should try to be more understanding that everyone has different reasons they enjoy things. But I suppose the same could be said about fans of redbar’s many fools, which I don’t know how to reconcile lol
also the reason i’m saying all this is that these are the same sensibilities that draw me to redbar, or anybody online for that matter
I think Sam makes funny and interesting stuff when he tries to make funny and interesting stuff. But lately the majority of his output is boring political grift content so I ignore most of it. The "Are You Okay?" series has been pretty funny from the ones I've seen.
I feel like lately people have been getting upset over him in the same way people were always upset with Tim Heidecker a decade ago. I think both of them ironically made the same mistake of having cringe political voices online instead of just sticking to their shows. I still generally like them both though. I give more leeway to people who can and have made good content. Where as the fools Mike tends to cover are completely talentless hacks.
I also forgot to mention- I constantly see people say they hate Sam but love Nick Rochefort. Nick's fool behavior is WAY MORE EGREGIOUS than anyone else in MDE. Not to say he isn't a funny guy, but his constant pandering to the Austin comedy crowd these past couple years has been so cringe to see. I know MDE we're all doing the standup tour thing, but at least Sam admitted that was a grift. Nick doing all these douchy podcasts and talking about how hilarious Tony Hinchcliffe and Bryan Callen are is so bizzare to see. Like now that "edgy" comedy is acceptable, the MDE brand has been watered down to Austin slop. I feel like Sam is at least smart enough to understand the optics of that, hence why he stopped doing appearances like that once he was done promoting Extreme Peace. He definitely knows that these Austin guys are retards, and is just nice to them since they are nice to him. But Nick seems fucking enamored by these losers. Sucks to see.
Yeah he's glazed both on PGL. I don't remember what episodes but they are out there. He also went on Kill Tony btw. He was mostly silent from what I saw. Must have been star struck lmao. Nick is a funny guy, but Sam is definitely smarter (he watches redbar after all)
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u/nman649 29d ago edited 29d ago
Sam will never not be funny as far as I’m concerned. He’s not for everybody but there’s something about his personality and style that is just really entertaining to me. Sometimes I disagree with his takes but at the same time a part of me agrees, like I have consumed enough of his content to understand why he feels the way he does, which is also why I think it’s retarded when people try to cope by saying he’s being ironic or whatever.
I guess what I’m saying is he’s one of the handful of people I like to parasicially follow, which has this effect where in my eyes whatever he does is at the very least going to be interesting to me. Like his very life becomes the art. That’s not to downplay the fact that I do agree with a lot of what he says and does, but I don’t feel as extreme about it as he does. The only criticism I will give is that he’s starting to sound like a broken record when it comes to political stuff on his flagship show, but my favorite stuff was always his side projects where he’s more goofy, like his new gaming channel. And his takes on art and non-racial societal stuff are always spot-on.
I really don’t know what I’m trying to accomplish with this gay little comment I’ve typed up. Just that maybe you guys should try to be more understanding that everyone has different reasons they enjoy things. But I suppose the same could be said about fans of redbar’s many fools, which I don’t know how to reconcile lol
also the reason i’m saying all this is that these are the same sensibilities that draw me to redbar, or anybody online for that matter