This post is the second time today I’ve seen an Animorphs reference. Before those, I hadn’t thought about the franchise in years and wouldn’t have remembered that controllers were a thing. Strange, since the book series was a huge part of my childhood.
In case you’re curious, the other one was a JonTron video. I think he was caught in some kind of scandal, so I’m not sure whether to still like him, but I did enjoy the video. I was also somewhat astounded to realize Shawn Ashmore was Jake.
I remember the JonTron scandal from 2020, it was social rather than criminal. I like a lot of what he creates and has created, so I really don’t care if it reflects who he is as a person.
Stress, the rapid and sudden shift to everyone being part of an always-online culture, and the ongoing social disruptions. In all honesty, I believe that most of the online social / wrongthink scandals that happened in 2020 & 2021 would still have happened, but they’d be delayed and hit smaller niches.
The lockdowns were accelerators, not always direct causes. But we did all go insane.
This post is the second time today I’ve seen an Animorphs reference. Before those, I hadn’t thought about the franchise in years and wouldn’t have remembered that controllers were a thing. Strange, since the book series was a huge part of my childhood.
In case you’re curious, the other one was a JonTron video. I think he was caught in some kind of scandal, so I’m not sure whether to still like him, but I did enjoy the video. I was also somewhat astounded to realize Shawn Ashmore was Jake.
https://youtu.be/BmA2QVEEpQ8
I remember the JonTron scandal from 2020, it was social rather than criminal. I like a lot of what he creates and has created, so I really don’t care if it reflects who he is as a person.
Thank you for the information! Boy, seems like a lot happened in 2020 for some reason.
Stress, the rapid and sudden shift to everyone being part of an always-online culture, and the ongoing social disruptions. In all honesty, I believe that most of the online social / wrongthink scandals that happened in 2020 & 2021 would still have happened, but they’d be delayed and hit smaller niches.
The lockdowns were accelerators, not always direct causes. But we did all go insane.
… Short trip.
Fair enough yeah.
go?