Triforce! - Triforce! #264: Ice Cream, So Good

Episode Date: August 16, 2023

Triforce! Episode 264! Sips shares the strangest opinion on Bill Gates, Pyrion is going to become an NPC Streamer (Gang gang!) and Lewis finds some spicy fan fiction about him and an alien! Support your favourite podcast on Patreon: https://bit.ly/2SMnzk6 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickaxe Yeah, I am. All right, fine, we'll prove it. That's not true. Well, I got to start it again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome back. It's here we are again. You're probably so bored of hearing me opening the podcast every week because it's almost like there's only one person here and not three. Two other people who never want to start off the podcast. It's always me.

Anyway, what's up? How's it going, guys? I'm good. I've between a breakfast banana and a regular banana it's got an egg on it it's got it's got an egg fried onto it yeah it's just wrapped up in eggs this sounds actually tempting it sounds disgusting yeah it does sound disgusting no no no these combo meals you know you have to you have to combine stuff people with their stupid food they just unnecessarily put cheese or i've watched there's this trend i don't know whether it's a joke or not but it's people cooking things in ludicrous amounts of butter yeah i saw i saw that

you have you been uh reading slash r slash stupid food as well i have yeah me too it is really dumb isn't it there's another even more recent trend called girl dinner girl which is yeah it's basically like um i assume i don't know why it's called girl dinner but it is it well the the the woman who came up with the meme called it that and she basically just has like a really shitty charcuterie board so she has like some grapes some carrot sticks a bit of ham and like a pickle right it's just she's just kind of making fun of you know when you see those really nice boards laid out with all the olives and the tapenade and everything just right yeah so she's just got like a really shitty version of that right um and i don't know why it's called girl

dinner so yeah go ahead and that that's the meme i don't know why it's called girl dinner so yeah go ahead and that that's the meme i don't know why is it is it is it just a plate of chips and stuff is that no it's it's like little things it like lots of little things where it looks sparse and just kind of shit yeah i think it's like a meme about how you know you're not looking after yourself or something i don't know right right but it's certainly it's not like a full meal you just grabbed some odds and sods lying around and that's your dinner. Put them on a board and try to yeah. I mean, everybody does

that sometimes, right? Yeah. I mean, at the moment, it's just me and young, Babby Flax, the younger, Mrs. F and the eldest have gone away for a bit, so we are just, it's just us. Yeah. So, it's very chill. We've not done anything not sounds like there's a dog

in the background there's next door's dog sorry about that yeah oh no it's like interesting i didn't know i couldn't identify it it's quite quiet i couldn't identify what it was that's not aggie i i recognize aggie's bark her her bark is different most dogs are like a like that aggie's bark is like that. She sort of runs out of park pathway. She's a good wrestler. She's got like a really unique a really unique like chant.

She has. It's like a slightly frightened. Her feet come up off the ground a little bit because she has to put so much oomph into it. But she's not a natural barker. It's quite funny. It's like a frightened grandma yeah flax um i know this this is a subject dear to your heart and uh i don't know uh an awful lot about it but i did hear that there was like a congressional hearing about uh like that ufo whistleblower or whatever. Were you absolutely spraying shit into your pants?

Like nonstop or what? I feel like you've misconstrued my point about aliens. If you think that I was excited about this, my point is there are no aliens. I would be very excited if there were, but they definitely don't have. One of the things he claimed is that they have a ship the size of a football pitch. It's rubbish. I mean, it's just rubbish rubbish and also bear in mind that his whole testimony is a good friend of mine uh told me like that's it it's all hearsay all right um there's no i thought he was

like an official you know he worked for the government in uh in a lab and the government is huge isn't it the government is absolutely fucking huge and this is the thing it's like the qualifications the u.s government we're talking about yes of course it's enormous but it's like anytime someone is connected in any vague way with an institution suddenly they're a reliable source and this is a lot of the same people who think that the government is hiding things suddenly this guy who works for the government oh he could be trusted because he worked for the government it's like all right which side do you want like now you trust him he didn't like when he was working for the government and keeping his mouth shut presumably couldn't be trusted now he's come out and said oh yeah

oh mate i saw all this stuff suddenly he's a reliable source i mean it's like it just because you have that job he just has a job that doesn't make him a fucking reliable source it's like just because you have that job, he just has a job. That doesn't make him a fucking reliable source. It's silly. People put so much faith in these guys. And they're always like, oh, he worked for NASA. It's like, in what capacity? NASA's huge. Yeah.

I want the director of NASA to come out and say, yeah, there's been aliens. I want the guy who's the head of the NSA to come out and say, yes, we've been keeping these things. Not some guy to just say a mate of his told him that they have an alien. Gibberish. Absolute gibberish. When do you think the right time to tell everybody is, though? Because I mean... Immediately.

I don't think there's any excuse. If you actually have information... But why did they withhold it for so long? Because there isn't anything. Right. That's it. You saw... I'm sure you've seen this week.

This is obviously we record this podcast a little bit in advance. Oppenheimer and Barbie came out, right? Yeah. And everyone's being owned and seeing them. And I saw Oppenheimer at the weekend. I saw Barbie. Did you see Barbie? I've seen Barbie.

Right. It's a fantastic movie about the Manhattan Project. Okay. Well, I'm just going to hop in and say I've seen neither. Neither. We've got the full gamut of opinions. But I did go see the Super Mario Brothers movie. Any good? For the second time. I'm just going to hop in and say I've seen neither. Neither. We've got the full gamut of opinions. But I did go see the Super Mario Brothers movie.

Any good? For the second time. Well, it was on... I don't know if you got this, Flax, but they do this thing called Movies for Juniors. So they'll bring back older movies. And it's really discounted for kids. So it's a scheme to it to you know entice entice children to the cinema to get them you know acclimatized to cinema life and then i mean

so they can watch something on a big screen instead of a small screen right yeah and they get the cinema experience and it is much much cheaper as well because the idea is that you're taking small kids who have no attention span right and if they get pissed off 10 minutes in it's only cost you two pounds to go you know so you can just be like all right whatever let's go i mean i've definitely been to those uh those screenings where it's like like i i can't remember what film it was it was an it was an adult film like i whoa a rude film it was a film we're talking like tom hanks philadelphia here you're in like one of these cd no this is like we we i can't it was i i think me and mrs f went and we had both the kids were very little right um and everyone in there just had babies it was like a special

screening right um for where the idea is you're gonna go in it's gonna be loud with babies people gonna have to be leaving to change babies just deal with it and because you're going to go in, it's going to be loud with babies. People are going to have to be leaving to change babies. Just deal with it. And because you're all in the same boat, you're all able to tune out baby noises. Yeah, well, I find it's pretty chill because, like you said, everybody's in the same boat. Right. It's cheap to go. So people are not like, oh, I can't have my experience ruined or whatever.

And the kids are just, they range from about three years old up to like, say, 11 or 12. Right. So, some of them are just sitting there watching the movie. And then some of them are just running up and down the hallways or, you know, laughing or screaming or whatever. And it's just kind of like, it's a different atmosphere, but it's not a terrible atmosphere either. It's actually pretty fun. It's fine. It's like when you go to Giraffe at the weekend and it's just full of people with little kids and it's just

bedlam you know you buy into it you're like i know it's gonna be like this i'm gonna be contributing to this racket no problem but the movie the movie theater was packed and i've been to a couple of movies over the years like maybe say the last four or five years and we're like the only people sitting in there you know like if you're going on a not cheap night or whatever nobody's there but with this it was just rampant like there was not a spare seat i haven't seen a movie theater like that since probably i was a teenager i mean to be fair to see terminator 2 on opening night and it was like people were standing in the aisle yeah there's no seats left sort of thing i mean but first of all let's bear in mind you are in jersey which

is yeah yeah it is different it is a small place yeah because i mean when we go to this cinema here it's generally it's generally busy when we went to see barbie a couple of nights ago uh we went for the 4 30 showing because we were gonna have dinner afterwards yeah we had a nice evening yeah just me and the youngest it was packed. It wasn't the main theater. It was like they were showing on multiple screens. Right. And because I'm smart and I know the screen, we booked the front row. Oh.

And you know the way on the website it shows you the screen and the front row and they're like adjacent. There's like 20 feet between the front row and the screen. So it was a good time. We were fully stretched out. I long for the days where you did not have to book a seat number at the at the movie theater you could just have ever been a thing you could just buy tickets and you go in and find a seat has that ever been a thing what not booking a seat a few times it's i prefer the seat number it does cause less friction it does

not every my in my experience every time we book seat numbers, there's always somebody sitting in our spot. And we're like, oh, well, whatever. We'll just sit next to you because we're assuming that you just got a couple of seats off or whatever. So, then we sit there and then we're in somebody else's seat. And then it's a chain reaction of people who are so fucking anal about the seat numbers that they've chosen and having to have them. Except the first people. So by the time they- And everyone else after them is too polite to ask this question.

So you'll have a big group of like six people will come in just as the movie's starting. Everybody's sitting down and they're like, oh, you're in our seats. And then fucking 30 people all have to shuffle around and find the right seat while the movie's already started. This happens so often. It's insane. I mean, so when we go, we book a row of four seats. Yeah. I wouldn't want to have to turn up and just be like, well,

it's just sit where you can. Like, I want to have seats. So for you guys, it's always been a sign seating. I can't remember not booking a seat. Or at least when you buy the tickets, they give you a seat number. For me, this is all relatively new. It's always been a free-for-all. Interesting.

In North America or in Canada. I don't know. Maybe it was just a part of Canada I was from or whatever. But it was never assigned seating. You bought tickets and you went in and you hoped that there were seats together or whatever. Maybe when I was a kid. Maybe it was like that. I don't remember. So this was a huge weekend for Hollywood, right? tickets and you went in and you you hope that there were seats together or whatever maybe maybe when i was a kid maybe it was like that i don't remember so this was a huge weekend for hollywood right because of both both big films coming out it's this whole weird thing about christopher

nolan being snubbed by warner brothers barbie trying to like sabotage his big release kind of this but actually it's ended up being this meme a little bit like what happened with mamma mia and the dark knight 15 years ago what happened with those well they released on the same day as well and were both big hits and that was the original oppen barbie or whatever the fuck it's called what was it called back then uh dark dark dark it was called mamma mia it's a dark night i can't see it's so dark and so it feels like like the movie theaters have had this i don't know some people are calling it like the last gasp of hollywood you know before or at least traditional movie theaters but it was something it was something quite nice about sitting in there

with everyone watching it i quite enjoyed it like i quite enjoyed the experience i know some people hate the experience of going to the movies they hate the people running the kids running rampant in the in the in the aisles and the chatty people and there's popcorn people and the kids in there but in my experience it's always been quite nice um and and oppenheimer was was a big big epic strange movie to watch is it so loud so weird yeah i wouldn't have expected there to be kids running around the aisle for Oppenheimer, but probably for Barbie, since it is a kid's toy and a movie based on a kid's toy. Well, it's not really, though, is it? Because there's already been 30 Barbie movies based on the kid's toy.

This is a very modern one by a modern director, and it's very accomplished. It's moving away from being about a kid's story it's a pro it's not a straight to vhs barbie movie right i mean um fourth six-year-old girls it's it's it's not really at all uh but anyway both very good films with very good directors and it's kind of like interesting i was supposed to see both in the same day right after oppenheimer i had such a terrible headache from like the epicness of it right and also it's a little too epic for me i need to go have a lie down it had like i don't know it had like it it was a bit i had to concentrate

i don't know why quite a lot partly because like there were so many characters and i was like is that supposed to be feynman is that supposed to be like this guy do you know what i mean like i was i was i know quite a lot about this time period, cause it's quite an interesting part of history. And I think that actually almost hurt me going in a little bit because I was like, I wonder if they're going to do this bit. Um, and do you know what I mean? Like Colston made you think it made you second guess yourself.

I was approaching it with a more documentary style and I wasn't, it was interesting what they chose to show and not show as well in the movie you know it doesn't necessarily like show real history it's kind of just only picks the bits of that you they're going on with the scientists behind the scenes yeah and the sort of anyway a good movie but the point i brought it up really actually was because they obviously had spies in it right they had multiple spies there was a point in the cinema what were they what were they trying to find out they're trying to get into the fabric of our society they're trying to take us down from the inside that's what they're trying to do in the manhattan project so

when they were building the a-bombs during the war they were trying to keep it secret as possible they were like but of course despite all of their security proportions multiple soviet spies were just right in the room when everything was happening you know and so the soviets knew everything that was going on and i guess what i'm trying to say is that that was there was a lot of effort to make that secret it was very important but even with all of that effort and energy and care everyone knew about it right at least from other countries and so whatever the u.s government have done to cover up aliens the other the other countries know about it you know china knows about it the soviets you know people will have found out about it it's just it's just inevitable right right that's that's

and how do you cover this stuff up a ship the size of a football field like good at good work like we can see like all of your the abandoned fighter jets we can track like you know super yachts going around the world with satellites it's like very hard to hide this stuff from not from necessarily from people of the country you live in but from other other countries spy networks who are trying to find out everything you're doing and who have embedded spies at the highest level because everyone does you kind of it's almost like expected right like um you know it's like so i guess like i'm just i just don't believe that some random guy from the u.s air force maybe retired coming out and there's a lot of memes already especially at the moment where it's like oh we tell you about aliens or you don't listen and it's like it's like well you're not really

telling us anything about aliens here. You're just saying speculative nonsense as usual. But it's also this whole I don't know. Do you guys still think that the truth is out there though? No. Right, okay. Yeah, the truth is out there. It's just way more boring than you expected. Right, right. It always is.

Yeah. It always is. I think that the annoying thing to me is that if anything does come out about aliens they'll be like like elon musk for example i hate to draw attention to this cunt but on x.com he's really this week we've been a big week for weird shit it has yeah twitter be renamed to x which got it got it um banned in indonesia because that's like a pornographic thing right it's also you know a load of other websites. Are Twitter going to rename Twitter videos X videos?

I mean, what the fuck is this plan? He's obsessed with the letter X. He's obsessed. Well, he wants tweets to be renamed to Xs. Zs, I think is what he was going to call them. Zs or something like that was another thing. It's actually insane. Like he's taken this logo, which some guy just recommended,

but it's not even an original logo it's just the letter x from some font right um he took the x uh x account away from someone um they want to rename it x.com you already had a brand everybody knew it it was part of like you could say tweet me you know tweet at me what it was a thing and now he's like you're right now x me what the fuck does that mean it doesn't mean anything it's it's ridiculous but this is the weird thing is he is obsessed with psyops and it's like oh it's a psyop it's a false flag they they honestly there's a huge subsection of people that any news that comes out that essentially they don't like the

sound of it's a psyop it's to distract you from what's really happening right so his twitter account now is him basically posting this kind of q anon conspiracy nonsense and because of course um lebron james's son who's called bronnie or something man imagine he named him james james james oh james james james james james follow me james james so Man, imagine he named him James. James, James. Oh, James, James. James, James. James, James. Follow me, James, James.

So he very sadly collapsed and had a cardiac incident on the field. Oh, fuck. Sorry, I was making fun of him and didn't realise. He's actually okay because it was in a very public place and they got him immediately on his heart going again. So he hasn't apparently had any mental damage or anything which is good um but he um he was like suggesting it was because he would be vaccinated do you know i mean and i'm like what the fuck is this now do you mean he's not a very bright man he's gone he's like it's it's happened where

he used to be the one everyone admired right and everyone was like shitting on zuckerberg and it's and everyone thought zuckerberg was like oh he's just he's just commander data out of starter right this has done so much for zuckerberg's like fucking well in that in that uh context yeah the musk versus zuckerberg yes somehow zuckerberg has come up looking he looks less weird and insane and also bill gates is now less weird everyone else is less weird like the weird thing is i mean he's always been bill gates looks like he stinks to me uh like physically no he does though i bet you he has questionable uh hygiene hygiene routines and stuff. You know what I mean?

He just looks like he stinks a bit. Like your grandpa. Yeah. He just looks like a bit greasy somehow or something. I don't know. He just looks like a nerd. Well, that too. Yeah.

But he looks like he smells like jizz. Like he probably just fucking jacking off all the damn time, you know? Oh, fuck me. He looks like he smells like cum. Bill Gates smells like cum. You heard it here first. There you go. That's what the spies have uncovered.

Report back, Agent Sips. Bill Gates smells of cum. How could we use this by log 53929 there's actually a strange smell around bill gates today i think i could identify it but it's a bit weird commander smells like cum oh poor bill but he does look like he stinks of cum. So here's the other thing about Twitter is that now if you have a verified account, which of course is not verified, you just subscribe, you're a subscriber. It filters your replies to the top of a thread.

So if you reply to someone and you've got a verified account, they always seem to be the guys at the top. People with like eight followers, but all they do is respond to elon musk's tweets saying oh my god yes mr musk uh uh step on me like they just fucking love him so much so it looks like step on i i think he's put that in just so that when he tweets all his fanboys respond and that's all he sees he doesn't see people calling him out and all the people saying no this is false oh he just sees people agreeing with him i tweet and the next 100 tweets are all people going yes mr musk please take my money oh he's

such a genius he is all very clever he's our guy this is all a plan to bring down twitter who fucking cares about you're exactly right about this he we've we saw this though when his uh whatsapp messages or whatever were leaked because he didn't want to buy Twitter originally. No. And they took him to court, and then he had to buy it. And all of his texts were shown. And he has this crew of sycophants who are constantly like, oh, Mr. Musk, you're so brilliant. You should do this when you take over Twitter, and you should make this better. Oh, you've got such good ideas.

It sounds like my stream chat. That's what it's like. Sounds like the exact opposite of my stream. Every's what it's like. Every time I look at the chat, this is the kind of shit that's going on. Which. Interesting. This actually does segue into something I wanted to talk about this week. Because, and again, the problem with this podcast going on a couple of weeks later is that it might be old news by then.

But I doubt it because this is crazy. Have you seen that like weird TikTok living doll creepy NPC thing? No. What is the deal? What do I have to look up to see this? She's basically just sort of she acts like a robot that's stuck in a cycle. I sort of say it's a person acting like this. Yeah. And they sort of respond with these fixed phrases. It's very, very ice cream. So good. Pinky Doll is the original one who did it and basically npc streamers yeah pinky doll cherry crush i mean it's just a sex

thing isn't it like quite clearly that's all it is so basically they live stream on tiktok for like an hour and they repeat like five or six phrases when people donate so they stand there like an npc and then someone donates and says like five bucks to say hot dog and they go mmm a hot dog so good and they that's one of the five phrases the other ones are like gang gang and um there's some other ones donuts yum um so they each have their own like little sayings i want to do this i really want to do this and my five phrases are fuck off shut up you should be ashamed of yourself eat shit fuck you shit fuck right off so fuck off you should just just try it keep on keep going fucks i'm almost there eat shit fuck off

you should be ashamed of yourself. I'm about to smell like Bill Gates! I smell like Bill Gates! I'm gonna zuck! So no, it is, it's a weird, okay, now there is this, like, I've seen this before to some extent because, and I don't want to say this, okay, I'm just gonna say it. He's gonna say it! He's gonna say it! Here we go.

So Japanese porn- Oh yeah, he's getting say it he's gonna say it here we go so japanese oh yeah he's getting racist okay is is still um censored right right well in what sense wouldn't they blur out cocks the cocks and the pussies the pussies wow they they blow so none of us maybe that's part of the appeal because you just can't really see what's got some mess down there. It's all There's loopholes though, they don't bring assholes They do blur out they do they don't they do So they don't blur out. They don't blur out an asshole, but they will blur out a cock if it's going into the air All right. Oh, yeah, the walkers the cock is to the yeah all right oh yeah the cock is blurred out so um anyway listen don't speculate the point is that they have some very creative

i'm telling you just ask they have they have very creative ways of making uh porn stuff right right and one of them is like um freezing time stuff or like i don't know like they just they just do a lot of this slightly weird stuff and so this living doll thing is again it's similar to that in a way it's like this kind of it's like almost like um it's a bit it's a bit creepy and a bit rapey i've got to say i'm not a fan because it feels a bit like and a little bit like um kind of without consent almost like you're freezing time like that kind do you know what i mean or like or like being invisible in a locker room it's all slightly creepy fantasy stuff right that is when you think about it not very cool but look who am i to say

what gets people off you know there's worse things right um furries so uh i just wanted to put that out there but so i i think like this this is a thing like it it is it for some people this really does like get them off i think because it's so and it is weird um we've we've we've we've we've lost variety sometimes is what you need right sometimes we've lost humanity is lost humanity we've lost our way we don't know what we're doing we we are we are so how did we how did we get to this point? We've lost. This is it.

I mean, people are watching this. Donuts, yum. Donuts, yum. Donuts, yum. This is it. It's over. We give up. In a thousand years, if we're still here, we're going to look back in class.

What were people doing in 2023 well we found a very old clip on the wayback machine and here look donuts yum and you're showing that to a class of kids and they'll be going hopefully what the fuck were we doing right or they'll be going donuts yum because that's what english is now is you just say donuts yum everybody's talking five phrases at once this might be alien infiltration no mind controlled by aliens no we're just saying this is what the aliens want from us they want to turn us into these well mission fucking accomplished we suck what is going on i this is the wit this has really thrown me through this week i give you watch the gang gang one i watched it i give up the whole thing i do not understand that this at all i don't care anymore quite it is oddly entrancing it is not

it is it is fully infuriating to watch i don't know how anybody can watch that it's fascinating it's not in the slightest. It is infuriating. I actually can't believe this is my limit, like that I finally found it. But I can't think of anything stupider, and it's only going to get thicker from here. That's it.

I want the conflagration to come. Consume the earth. Get rid of us. We're shut. It's over. All because of this. All because of NPC TikToksoks i just give up all the we got all the fucking thickest people in the world have all the money and all the power and the rest of us i thought

they were stupid i got elon musk is a genius i'm saying it right now because he's not doing this right yeah this is this is the level now of idiocy we keep setting that ball lower and lower every time you think you've seen some dumb shit and i thought elon musk on twitter was some dumb shit that looks like a genius play compared to this and there are thousands of people paying money to watch this shit and enjoying it we're the idiots now we all are i give up meanwhile lewis is watching Lewis is entranced by it He can't stop He's like

He's like Costanza In the bathroom Looking at the fucking Painting that you have I'm hypnotized Yeah he's gonna walk out When he's not got his shirt on Cause he's been watching

NPC thing Gang gang Ice cream's so good Pop the balloons Yum yum Pop pop Ice cream's Pop the balloons

Is that one? Are you watching it? Turn it off, Sid. No, I watched it just before, just because I skimmed through the article, but I didn't watch any of the videos. But now I'm filled with regret after watching two of them. This is a psyop to bring down the modern, our young people. They're going to go to war and they'll be like, oh.

No one's clever enough to have come up with this. So good. No, exactly. Sorry. No, it's not. There's no deep state. There's no plot. We are just sinking

into the mire of idiocy. I got to say, though, for this, this has really surprised me because I would never in a million years have thought that that would be a trend.

And it just makes you think what could possibly be next. And it's probably going to be a thousand times more stupid than this so because it's a race i can't even fathom how it's going to be so insane chris you're not going to understand it we're going to see it we're going to be like what i don't even know what i'm looking at well that's how i feel about this one i feel like tiktok is like breakneck speed virality insanity like it evolves and changes so fucking fast right like i could just use this as an example because um tom bates in the office

really great really successful uh animators got this series night on the marmalade and you must have seen it because it's gone viral everywhere but it's really good and he obviously put it on tiktok first but he also put it on instagram shorts and youtube at the same time right and it went viral on tiktok almost immediately and you know it's getting like millions of views and it's it's it's great um you should check it out but he's um he was like saying to me the other day i was thinking of just shutting down the instagram and the youtube because no one was watching it but it took like two or three weeks and then suddenly it started going viral on Instagram, like completely organically. And then another two or three weeks and it started going viral on YouTube.

Like something he's doing is working because they do have different audiences, these platforms. Right. So there is some overlap. But I doubt if you're watching it on TikTok, you're going to watch it on, you know, YouTube or whatever. Right. So so I think what it shows is that shows is that these platforms are meant to encourage this. In a sense, it's reassuring that it's working, that stuff that is really good does go viral. Because I was always of the opinion that you could put out some brilliant stuff and it not be seen by anyone. But I think these platforms are designed to try and really elevate brilliant stuff.

And a lot of crap gets caught up in it. Don't get me wrong. Like, Oh my God. A lot of like the weight bait stuff where it's like, Oh, just wait one second and I'll show my boobs to you. And then the video.

And they never do. That's what I get caught by. but do you know what I mean? Like it's actually like TikTok is this super like mega processor. So we're going to just go through cultural trends until we're like transcendent, right? Hopefully we'll just get this all out of humanity's system or we just descend into the abyss.

You know why? The other way, because here's the way I think, I think the, the way TikTok filters things, uh, and I'm pretty sure this is true of all of these algorithms, is it knows how long you've watched for. And the ship that immediately doesn't grab you and you swipe, it goes, all right, we'll bump that down the order. But animation and stuff, especially Tom's animations for the Nigel Marmalade stuff,

does very well because you watch it because it's animated and it's fast and people love animations and the drawings are good and the voices are funny and all the rest of it so people watch longer so it goes ah human eyeballs enjoy this the people aren't making these decisions this is some algorithm some server is out there at tick tock hq sorting out what people like and really the computer knows what we want better than we do so people are just making nonsense content they're making good content and the stuff that your eyeballs are attracted to gets bumped up that's it so sometimes you're watching in morbid fascination as someone goes donuts yum donuts yum and you're like what the fuck is happening and it says wow human eyeballs like this and bumps it

up so as we expand the control that ai has over our lives even deciding what we like to watch is this is this is it the computer knows what makes us stop and watch something better than we do like you said i think i could never have come up with this no it's a terrible thing no i think that might be good for it's good for for quality creators and okay so is the donut yum stuff quality content creation well i don't know but maybe maybe i'm too old for it maybe it's good for the next generation you know but if if that is where we're going that is anti-content creation are people watching it because they're into it though or are they watching it because they're so shocked by how stupid it is i don't i don't know if we if we live in a post irony era where people watch these things

genuinely, if they watch it ironically, or if it's so post irony, it's ironic to actually like it. And then they actually do. I don't know. Like I've, I was talking about comedians,

a lot of very popular young comedians. I don't get, because I'm like, where's the, like, I don't understand the line between your character, a joke and whether you're making fun of me, the audience, whether I don't understand where I'm meant to fit in the equation. And when I look at a lot of this content, it's just so far over my

head. I'm either so stupid and old that it doesn't make sense or the dynamic has changed for all this shit so much. It's just not for me. And if you're making content, it's just not for me and if you're making content it's just not for you fair enough but i just don't fucking get it well maybe you'll see give me an example i i guess it's okay i feel like the way this actually works is that yes stuff will fascinate you for a few seconds but if they show it to you again does it stick you know do you sit watching this for hours and hours if so you'll be shown more of it right yeah but but if they show it to you again, does it stick? You know, do you sit watching this for hours and hours? If so, you'll be shown more of it, right? Yeah, but what's wrong with them watching content they like? Do you know what?

Do you know, like, if you were to look at my history of what I've been watching on YouTube, even just in the past month, and I'm sure it's the same for most months, I'd say that probably 90% of what I on youtube if i'm just if i have time to kill and i'm just browsing around is old concert footage captured on vhs in like the 80s and 90s that's it of bands that i like like i just watch old vhs recordings of bands before they were big like they're playing to like 100 people or whatever and they're playing the same songs and stuff and it's interesting enough but that's all i watch i don't watch anything else i don't know does that am i fucking stupid and old or what like i don't know as much as we're talking about like all the bad stuff there are some really good like like i saw like um i watch

a lot of science stuff and like even like on tiktok and on instagram shorts i get a lot of science stuff. Even on TikTok and on Instagram Shorts, I get a lot of science stuff coming up, like someone talking about a pulsar or someone talking about something weird. And that quality content is still being seen by a lot of people. And it's good. And if it's done in the right way, it can be super compelling. I love the rise of all these maths YouTube channels and interesting creative YouTube channels actually educating. way it could be super compelling like i love the rise of like all these maths youtube channels and

like interesting you know creative youtube channels like actually educating i don't necessarily learn anything i'm more like just i'm you know i don't tend to go away from these maths channels thinking oh my maths have improved do you know what i mean but it's interesting just to see i guess the passion of the the creators and the the the patterns of of how our world is built or the all these weird things in the universe like i i'm a i'm a big fan and clearly i'm not the only one because these channels i watch a lot of those too i watch a lot of science videos and like things about space and things about math all of that stuff i watch a lot of that but i'm wondering is that just my age group watching that stuff? And maybe some younger people that are like, you know,

studying that shit at university or really like maths. But like, I didn't expect chess to suddenly become hugely popular. Yeah. Chess blew up. Yeah. So it's like, it's impossible to predict what people are going to like. And I like, like you said, the good content, fantastic. predict what people are going to like. And I like, like you said, the good content, fantastic.

But the algorithm is going to promote that exactly the same as this NPC shit. Like it does not differentiate. It doesn't. There's no hand at the wheel saying, I think it would be better. I mean, in the past, when you watch television, especially kids television. Yeah. The idea was we should make this appealing to kids, but in a way that parents aren't going to be like, what the fuck are you showing our kids? TikTokok is like we don't give a shit there's no adult in charge we'll get whatever some fucking maniac is watching your kids are going to see the same shit and they're going to see this stuff and what is this what does it mean to a young brain to see people adults doing this stuff and being successful it means oh that's a way to be that is perfectly normal and reasonable it's not it's fucking bonkers but it's not in a vacuum though right because tiktok

you see it for 10 seconds and you move on to something else right there's there's a million things bombarding people now that they don't have to pick one role model you know they can you could be a scientist say black holes so good, so good. I don't want to watch that either. You can do whatever you want. Maybe that'll be the next thing. Maybe you'll get Professor Brian Cox. He's going to go all NPC on TikTok. Black holes, that's a long way.

Gobi Desert. BBC license pay off. Space is really... Space is dead big. Space is dead big space is dead big i'd watch it that sounds uh entrancing yeah oh that is i would fucking watch the shit out of that do you know what with ai it won't be long before that can be just, you can type that in. You can be like, Brian Cox, living doll, you know, get your lube out, get yourself covered and come, go over to Bill Gates' house. Get all musk.

Yeah, fit right in with the smell. Get all musk. Yeah. Get all zucked. Get your zuck out. Get zucked off big time. Yeah. You're going to have Bezos all over the teeth. get your get your get your suck getting sucked off big time yeah there's nothing sexy about these billionaires is there no nothing at all they're just it's pretty remarkable they are just fucking huge nerds like they won but they are fucking nerds as well

what can you do? Such as life. I'm worried when the top content creators are no longer human beings, which is definitely within a decade, that's where we're going to be. The top content creators will all be AI, just generating content day and night, just pumping shit out. Just pumping it out. And they will be able to hone their content creation to a T, to exactly what keeps human eyeballs on a thing. That's it.

And human beings will not be able to compete unless we go absolutely insane and come up with stuff that even the AI is like, whoa, I did not see that coming. It just knows. Where do you think the sort of counter to the mainstream of all this lies? You know, music has had tons of examples of this, right? Where you have a very established popular mainstream, but then you'll have undercurrents that go against it, right? Right, right. I mean, like when rap yeah for example like gangster rap when it when it first started when it first came out it was like anti-society anti-norms yeah so it's weird because some of the some of the content like that we just talked about

seems so um contrary to to anything that i would i would almost place that in it but it's almost giving it like uh i don't know i think some sort of it doesn't feel like rebellious it doesn't no it just feels like it feels more like i'm going to be sucked in by the machine yeah like you're literally giving money to mega corporations by donating, they get a cut of that. Your eyeballs and all the adverts and everything like there's nothing rebellious about TikTok. No. No content creation you're making on there. The rules are very specific. Yeah. You know, you follow these certain paths and you become a creator and you have to please the

algorithm and the AI and all this shit. There's nothing rebellious about it i think the the idea of rebellion even people protesting is being outlawed and like oh you know shut up still protesting like we're moving towards an era where we are protesting less and less and less in the west i think you're seen as a complainer or what you're complaining about isn't true like it's a it's it's all very very controlled and i do wonder when is the next youth rebellion going to happen, even just culturally, where there's something that corporations and advertisers won't touch and young people are all over it. What is that that's coming? I don't know. Yeah.

I wonder if it's just been sucked out of kids. This sense of rebellion has just been sucked out of them. Well, this is what the aliens might be doing, though. They might be softening us up for the invasion. Yeah. Give them the football pitch-sized ship for now, and then let's see what we can do, and then maybe give them something else later or whatever.

Maybe this is all part of the plan. They're trying to knock our mental states off. They're working from the inside. They're trying to be like a rod in the gears, you know? No, I don't believe it. I mean, I'm literally tapped out. I think society is crashing and burning. I think every generation goes through this, though.

Because of this. Right, but what was the big... You're literally right. I think there's always... Every generation goes through this, though. Because of this. Right, but what was the big- You're literally right. I think there's always- Every generation that ages- Right, so let's talk about our generation. Loses all faith in society and humanity. Well, everything, like, you're going to confront these things that blow your mind, right?

Every- I think at the forefront of every society since Rome, people were assuming that, oh, all those people with their eating grapes. Fuck, I'd imagine that there was a lot of similar sentiment for the generation that fought the great wars as well. You're in the middle of World War II, for example. I bet you a lot of people just thought, fuck, we are doomed. Like, there's no coming back from any of this. That's proper existential doom, right?

Like, you know, the threat of nuclear war and all the rest of it. I think my issue is I always got the impression that there was a generation coming that I may not have been into the same stuff that they were into. No problem. But I still had faith. I still felt like they were going to be countercultural, that they were going to come up with stuff that was outside the norms in a positive way. And I just think because the means of communication now is the internet and AI, that that has sucked kids in to such a degree that I think they've almost been brainwashed

into just trying to use these huge, powerful platforms for some kind of counterculture. It is not possible. It's just not possible. There has to be some existence of it somewhere though and and it doesn't need to even be i think that i think even like on twitch for example like we we all use twitch we're on twitch or whatever there's got to be some streamers there's probably a ton of streamers if you think about it who don't chase trends aren't aren't in it for necessarily for views or maximizing viewers

or you know doing all the things that you're you're kind of meant to be doing on twitch or even youtube for that matter there's got to be people out there that do that but the people who are out there doing it do they realize that they're doing it like what like who who can you think of as an example that does this kind of stuff that you could clump them together into, like, almost like some sort of scene or something? You know what I mean? It's interesting to think about. Even if they did succeed in that, they're still doing it using a big platform. Yeah.

So, that's my point is that the next sort of young person's rebellion in terms of culture, terms of coming up with stuff that yeah is way outside the norms and people of my age and old will be like oh this is this is going to shake things up i'm a little bit worried yeah they're not they're all doing it on these platforms i think i'm trying to equate it too much to the music industry which is different because like you said we're using a huge platform that right tons of people are using whereas like in an industry like that there was a chance at at various points and still is i'm assuming for uh artists to to go independent right or even startup independent labels indie labels or whatever but yeah i don't know if i don't know if what we do can do that you know what i mean like

you're you're still you're still having to feed through this huge platform exactly i mean if you think about the the way dance music like started for example it's all very underground yes and it's not relying on the record labels or a big platform like spotify no youtube or tiktok these like the we deal now in just trends, but those aren't movements. It's not the same as a movement that is going to actually empower a group or, you know, culturally, they're going to step up because now what they're doing has been picked up by young people. Now, these trends are very, very small.

Yeah. And they exist on TikTok for like a week and then they're gone. So it's almost like you're just allowing yourself to become a flash consumer of gibberish. And that that's not rebellious. I don't think that's going to change anything. That is just allowing you to sit there and just suckle on whatever the corporation's AI feeds you all day long. Yeah. And I know I'm sounding like a fucking deranged old lunatic and I'm sure people will be disagreeing with me, but I just don't see where the next big thing is coming from outside of these platforms because they've sucked up the entire means yeah yeah they've become the distribution point for right like everything um

okay so how about this right so this week i got sent this thing which i sort of knew about but didn't really. Right. There's a bunch of places on the internet that are not run by these corporations, but have lots of a big nest, quite a large community of people doing weird stuff. Right. Right. And one of them is fan fiction.

Right. Oh, God. That's been around a very long time, though, fan fiction. Fan fiction is as old as time. And I looked up my name. Oh, no. Not the name of my Minecraft character, not Zephyr. You're full.

Which, of course, I can just quickly give a name. Just to see how many there are on that. But, I mean, there are, let's just see. If I search for my Minecraft character on on this website it brings up 637 stories pornographic stories all pornographic not all pornographic in different well at least adult stories they don't have to be pornographic but they're they're weird so for example if i google my name though lewis brindley original um male character uh there's well there's 803 works under the tag lewis brindley um and and these stories are about me sometimes right actually actually me as a person not like

a fictionalized version of me but me even so so i found one here lewis that says hooves and mouths mlp yogscast crossover so this is a lewis brindley and the yogscast crossing over with my little pony fan fiction yeah and not great uh my little my little brindley i store him in my basement on a leash oh god i'm gonna write some fan fiction this is gonna be fantastic so for example like the one got sent was uh this one which is caught which is i'm not gonna do the link to it but basically it's a story about how me lewis brindley wants to fulfill my lifelong dream of getting fucked by an alien until i forget my own name right like the experience is so intense that you you will develop a mild form of amnesia

throughout so so basically this is very specific for a start i i don't know entirely how i feel about this okay first of all the person if the person who the first i think the person who wrote this would be horrified that i've read it or seen it anyway because it's not i guess it's not really intended for me to see i appreciate it's a complex mix of like some sort of outlet for them something silly a celebration in some ways something that's like just getting something out of their system it's it's a combination of many things right and and i don't have to fully understand it and i don't mind it but i think i do mind it more when i would mind it more if it was a situation where i was doing something with some like it was like because there's bound to be there's bound to be

stories out there about three of us having sex um well i would hope so we've been doing this podcast for long enough now i think we're i think we're doing some good news, don't you? In a sense, it might be quite insightful. So, do you want me to read any of it, or would you like me to link it to you? I don't want you to link it to me. So, if you feel like you have to read it, then go ahead. Okay. Lewis stared up at the sign above the door, squinting a bit at the garish colours and neon lighting.

There were six lines of symbols, only one of them English, with three of the others being letters he could recognise as a human language and two being completely alien language. In English, it said, wanna fuck an alien? Come on in. Oh my God. What an opening. I wonder how they translated that pun, Lewis asked himself, since no one else was here. Pun? Not that it's much of a pun, really, he continued, as he tried to pretend he wasn't the most excited he'd ever been in his life.

Pretty basic bitch wordplay, honestly, he said. What is going on? What is happening? What is the payoff for this, writing this stuff like is it is it is it like a jacking off thing it's just like erotica yeah it's just erotica yeah um i mean i've never written erotica before that's why i'm asking i don't know what like is it what like what's uh what what is what what is involved like you're you're writing because you you like writing but you're also pretty horny while you're writing i think sometimes it's a fantasy you just don't know

where to put this though this horniness yeah you can't make a movie right you you don't know how to do animation so you write your erotic story as text as prose i'm not saying i do it or it was something i would ever do but well i wasn't i think it's quite old-fashioned and quite sweet in in a way um i mean this has been around yeah and no i mean i'm not saying the content of this particular story but that's what fan fiction is in general is it's fantasy it's fan fan fiction but it's basically it's erotic fantasy exactly and yeah i think a lot of people do get off to it actually and maybe you should check it out it might be your thing again you never know right maybe it's variety as well like i think actually a big part of this

is it's something different you know i could just try getting off to this anyway uh do you want me to carry on yeah i talked to a secretary for a while and they like point me in the right direction and they're like what are you looking for and i I say, I'm a bloke, Lewis said. And there's only a few things I want. The rest can be totally random. What? But I want to get fucked. I want to get filled.

And I know aliens don't have a human gender system, but I'd like as close to a man as possible or at least someone who's fine with treating me as such. Also, I want them to be vaguely humanoid i don't mind if they've got extra bits like forearms or weird legs or something but i really prefer being able to understand what i'm looking at no incomprehensible blobs or living like weird looms do you know what the crazy thing is is they've actually got your voice perfectly. Yes. Like, this really sounds like you're in a dialogue. It's written for you to read it, you know? It really is. It's perfect.

This is honestly exactly so perfect. Oh, my God. So they give me a compatibility ejection to make me more malleable and adaptable. That sounds dodgy. Yeah, you'd be able to fit a table inside you if you wanted to well it would take a while and we don't recommend it a table i know very interesting uh so yeah so blah blah blah blah blah so we i go through there's a

long bit about me picking stuff and going through the basic packages and the silver tier benefits and all this. Do you know what I mean? And I finally meet an alien. Hello, I am Globnub. I will be your partner. But it is a humanoid alien. Very, very specifically. With a table for a penis.

With four arms. It's Goro. Deep, dark blue with four arms the alien skin it's Goro was a deep dark blue with four arms connected to a torso how did you fucking know there were four arms why because I've read this one before

that snake skin and four pecs aside could be mistaken for human he didn't have nipples although there were large thicker scales there

that had a passing resemblance no belly button his hips were a bit weird to accommodate extra legs but only slightly so she's got four legs as well um four legs okay so what what about his penis he's got it right yeah let me get to that let me get to that so there's quite a lot of um scrolling hello lewis my name is huslid and i'm a ribble vac we call our home planet ashada which is located in the perseus arm we're pretty far from your neighbors but i'd say we're neighborly enough um and so yeah i talk about his voice for a bit uh it's we then stuff starts going on um

sexy stuff well we start like we start like touching each other. Okay. Right. And it gets pretty explicit. But basically, he has two cocks. Okay. Right. Well, I mean, he's got four arms and four legs. You'd think double everything, right? Yes.

Yeah. Exactly. Which is very exciting to me. And then it just, it's, okay. So this is 18,000 words. Jesus Christ. I know. Jeez.

Have you read the whole thing a couple of times over? I've skimmed it. Doing your research? You could get a good vague idea of, this is longer than my master's thesis. Do you know what I mean? And that took me ages to write. Right. This is a real labor of luck.

I think a lot of this stuff just writes itself though yeah i'm gonna say also it's probably a better read than your master's thesis yeah oh my god yeah like i wouldn't want to yeah subject anyone to my master's thesis but this um yeah i mean i've not read to the end it just it just goes on and on though like it's really we get on we get there's a lot of imaginative shit here yeah it gives you gives me a lot of ideas honestly um you know do you okay do you ever like what we could talk about loads of things around this but do you does this concern you like you do you think this is like a worry no because it's only a step between this and like having your having like air of your

i mean whatever but the the point at which that would concern me is if in the document uh that you're reading uh it had like my address and my phone number and like pictures of my house and my the road i suppose to think about it this way um undoubtedly there is someone out there specifically the person who's written this but maybe others as well who have these kind of fantasies and they might even concern you yeah so i suppose the question you've got to ask is if you're happy for people to have those thoughts because you can't control people's thoughts what difference does it make if they write them down why does that affect you more that they've written it down if they never told you that they had these thoughts but they still existed just because they've written it down. If they never told you that they had these thoughts, but they still existed, just because they've written them down, essentially, materially, nothing has changed

for you as a person. Knowing that someone out there has these thoughts doesn't trouble you. But the moment they type them out or write them down, suddenly, it's a problem. Why do you feel differently about it written down than you would if you just knew that it existed in someone's mind? Right. Yeah. That's actually a really really good point yeah i it for me personally like the the fiction side of it does not bother me like it's if somebody's being weird towards me which i gotta say has never happened you know if somebody's like stalking me or something off the back of it then yeah that is fucking right

mega because that is affecting your life yes but but just somebody somebody who's just you know writing writing something like a fan or just having a laugh or whatever like whatever like you know what i mean there's there's a good chance i'll never come across it and then if i did i would just you know i would just have a have a laugh or whatever it's just it's just a bit of fun i don't i don't mind at all but um i mean it's just there's there's a lot like with everything there's a line right there there's a there's a line where it it borders into you know creepiness or you know inappropriate or whatever but i think if it just just the

fiction is on on its own in isolation is i have no problem with that at all does this does this like and let me know if this is too personal do you like engage in fantasy like situations or or role play type situations in real life do you mean or would you be inspired to be or if someone asked if you like your partner asked you to would you how i wouldn't be able to keep a straight face i would not either terrible actor yeah i would just be part of me would be wanting to make fun of it while it was happening because it's so ridiculous yeah just it's never something you don't have you don't have to do it you're not you're not you're not being you're not in fucking oppenheim no no yeah i personally don't, but I'm happy if people enjoy doing that

and have fun doing it and are safe and all that kind of stuff. I mean, I think, honestly, fair play. Yeah, if that's what you want to do. I can't imagine Mrs. F is in bed and I turn up and I'm like, oh, I've got a big package for you today. And she's like, oh, drop it right here, Mr. Postman.

How could you not laugh? It's laugh it's so ridiculous yeah yeah yeah i feel like you guys are doing that all the time anyway like making little jokes and quips like that but it is it is it is jokes like and they become like inside jokes but they're not like what you described to me is people seriously dressing up and playing a role and and you know it's like no no no it's more serious i think it can be as things as simple as like you meet your wife somewhere and you just you're like oh hey i you know you're most like um oh you mean when you pretend you don't know each other and yeah you frame it like it's a pickup or something all right so you'd be like hey so then you have this like want to go on a date with me yeah yeah like i don't know and it doesn't have to be much but i think it can be a fun i've heard of people and you guys you guys are doing this shit all the time with any ever all of us anyway because we're all quite improv-y kind of

silly right yeah who just make stupid situations it doesn't have to be like too too deep no i think there's an episode of modern family actually where they they do this thing on their anniversary where they go to a hotel and he uh phil picks his wife up at the bar like she's just some some girl at the bar and he has to come and chat her up but the danger of it is that now that you're playing a character of someone who doesn't know you and you have to impress them and win them over, the problem is you might just not be very likeable. You're not impressive. And you're not charming. And you just come across as a dick.

And in character, they're like, geez, this guy's awful. I chat up lines and hey, baby. You know, it's like awful. So it kind of kills the vibe. I think if they love you and you love them then that's a part of it you you can be silly with people like that and they don't care like i think it's all in the background like you're not you're not getting that sucked into the fantasy that you are care about it it's almost like it's in the in the back of your mind it's just it's just like it's like a wonder

i wonder what it would be like to to do this or just it's playful right yeah i don't think you need to worry about doing it wrong um i think everyone knows i just think it would be too funny i do you think it would be too you think you fuck it up yeah i i don't find like she'd like reject you and you'd be like fair enough and then she's like some other guy some guy comes up it's like hey she said no buddy leave the lady alone man you gotta do the power play when you're role-playing not knowing each other and then just start uh chatting up and uh potentially having sex with a stranger like with somebody your wife is just sitting there like what the fuck first yeah you just go crack onto some other bird that would be fucking hilarious oh my god that would be it see that's taking it too far yeah i would be taking it but i

but no i mean like i've heard of people doing this kind of stuff before and it sounds it sounds like it would be fun or whatever but but personally i'm just not i'm not like that i wouldn't i wouldn't do stuff like that if If I ever did anything like that, I would be joking around about it and poking fun at it. You know, like it wouldn't be, I wouldn't personally be taking it seriously. Yeah. Well,

in a sense, that's your own thing that you've got though. That dynamic that you have is to poke fun at other people's thing. And that's in the same way that that is its own thing. Yeah. Right. So anyway, that's enough of this podcast.

What an episode. We went out all over the the place i apologize for giving up on humanity i really i i just you know this kind of stuff really uh it's just oh don't let it don't let it get to you problems all the same and the world is a confusing and strange place the more you learn about it the more you realize how much craziness goes on and it can it can it can culture shock you i know i think honestly it's give you're getting a bit of uh paris syndrome right you know you're getting a bit of expecting something to be a certain way and you're being no i'm just upset when it's not like that disappointed yeah well i think i'm just gonna stop reading and it's a it's a weird and wild and wacky world, and it's what you make of it.

And Bill Gates smells like cum. So good. All right. See you next time. See you later. Bye. Love you.