café snake - votez maintenant, payez plus tard

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

Mounir dresse un ultime bilan électoral et Daphné revient sur le tournant sonore du web à travers une compétition de spermatozoïdes, le brainrot italien, une pianiste québécoise et plus encore. On aborde aussi le vol spatial médiatisé de Blue Origin, les plans "achetez maintenant, payez plus tard" et le retour de la sacoche saga.Digi MixHubert Lenoir - MTL STYLE LIBRE https://open.spotify.com/track/364slXVMCjyfMXsZvobcdO?si=7a70eb96ca634103Vulgaires Machins - Un vote de moins https://open.spotify.com/track/3Q84tXiQc5iPaYX5cMrQUQ?si=165f8ef5a7e648ba Blue OriginVivek Chibber: How the Left Got Lost | Doomscrollhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8K9w3-b9U&t=2327sCitation Needed, Episode 217: A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic, https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-217-ai-mysticism-as-responsibility-evasion-pr-tacticIntroducing the Stars of Blue Origin’s All-Female Flight, Sylvia Obell, Elle, https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a64341516/blue-origin-female-flight-crew-space-interview-2025/Achetez maintenant, payez plus tardLa Presse: Étaler ses paiements, mais à quel prix ?https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/finances-personnelles/2024-07-28/achetez-maintenant-payez-plus-tard/etaler-ses-paiements-mais-a-quel-prix.phpCBC : Buy now, pay later programs are gaining popularity on smaller and smaller itemshttps://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-90-columnists-from-cbc-radio/clip/16140938-buy-now-pay-later-programs-gaining-popularity-smallerSacoche SagaCucks vs. breeders, Read Maxhttps://maxread.substack.com/p/cucks-vs-breedersTiktok de Coeur de piratehttps://www.tiktok.com/@beatricepirate/video/7493535558526913797?lang=frCarneyValThe Rover This Time in English : The Rover Debate Coveragehttps://therover.ca/this-time-in-english-the-rover-debate-coverage/Ma semaine sonoreLe web prend un tournant sonore, Daphné B, La pressehttps://www.lapresse.ca/societe/chroniques/2025-04-06/culture-web/le-web-prend-un-tournant-sonore.phpSperm Racinghttps://www.spermracing.com/Oligarchy Tourhttps://www.tiktok.com/@unitedliberationfront/video/7493535713057705247Italian Brainrot: mix de tiktokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@brainrot.dealer0/video/7489011590843354386https://www.tiktok.com/@trash.pickins/video/7493576633304010030https://www.tiktok.com/@chickenchicks_/video/7489901453331467538Marianne Roy-ChevarierTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vega691Relaxing piano for studyinghttps://www.marianneroychevarier.com/Attachments area

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We reached the 500 subscribers mark on Patreon. Thank you to everyone who subscribed to Patreon. So what are you going to talk about today, Mounir? Well today is the last Coffee Snake before the end of the elections. I'm going to do the Carnival segment, but in a longer format, to summarize the election campaign. Not in detail, but from my impressions and through my readings that are taken in the context of Coffee Snake. What are you going to talk about today, Daphne? Nice! I propose a more experimental segment that I called

Ma Semaine Sonore. I wanted to go back to the sounds that have crossed a bit, rhythmized my week. And it's in the spirit of an article that I've already talked about, that I wrote in the press and called The Web takes a sound turn. Without further ado. The Diddy News.

Tururu! A sound track. Without further ado... The Diddy News. Tururu. Yes sir! Hey, that's really nice! Wow! I decided to eat what I prefer I'm eating my own food, my own respect Shut the fuck up

For real, people are coming to attack me You don't know what I've been through So your ass will even rise in the air from the ground Shut up my ass, shut up my drill baby The government made this recent offer They said that if I got the secret security clearance briefings, that I would be gagged. The parents almost got into a fight with kids in a cinema in Quebec because of the Chicken Jockey in Minecraft. I'm taking Jocky to the minecraft. So, first DigiNews I named the Blue Origin space penis. The original. Open the hatch! Obviously, we talked a lot about it, it was widely mediaized, advertised in advance and even in advance, because it's an advertisement for Blue Origin,

Jeff Bezos' American company, which is embarking on space tourism. On board this crew, there was Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, Kierian Flynn, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bao, and Katy Perry. It was heavily criticized, I think, because of the ecological footprint and the inaccessibility of the show that was offered to us. It's an advertisement that really addresses a very small minority of rich people, let's say. But for me, I also saw it as the breaking point of what we call identity politics, the struggle against oppression, which has been recovered up to the vomit in the

last few years to allow, in a way, oppressions to last and statu quo also to last. Obviously, we did not put that in front of us as an ad, but as a feminist advance, a feminist happening, even historical. And that makes me think of an interview that is available on YouTube that I will put in the notes that I and Munir will watch this week. The internet researcher Joshua Sitarrela who meets sociologist Vivek Shiber. It's called How the Left Got Lost, so the kind of skips that the left would have taken. And obviously, it's not all the words that are in this video that speak to me, or that I adore, because it really seems like there's an anti-woke rhetoric.

And it's that he's proposing that the left should take an anti-woke rhetoric too. Yeah, but I don't think I would frame it like that, because in the sense that I am woke, I claim the wokeness, because I'm a woke, I'm claiming the woke-ism, but I think... That's crazy. I think it depends on how you define that word, for everything, like one of the Snaker cafes said in the comments on our Patreon, it's like if it meant saying everything and saying nothing at the same time now.

But what I find interesting is the left's criticism, finally, where at one point we're told that the left's radicalism was really being confronted with capitalism. And then, little by little, it changed to be understood as simply being confronted with the multitude or the plethora of oppression that an individual, an identity, can face. So I think, for example, of sexism, racism, homophobia, all the isms that we encounter in the discourse. And what happens is that this struggle against identity oppression, well, institutions have made their mark in it. They have been recovered. That's why we see, for example, when we go to the Fair Teguide show in Montreal, banks everywhere, like it's a fertile ground for banks. Is this criticism of oppression really radical?

Vivek Schiber, the sociologist, seems to say that we should go back to the central element of Marxism, that is to say that the means of production, so factories, companies and all that, are controlled by dominant minorities, for example bourgeoisie, for example Jeff Bezos. If you just attack oppressions, it leads to forms of sterile struggle in the arts, for example, Girlbuzz. A bit like the show that Blue Origin or Katy Perry gave us this week. But I think it's full intimate with her kind of Women's World thing, her song is full... It's almost like performance art.

Maybe she's going to make a song out of it. No, but that's it. It's planned. But what I mean is, when I talk about Girlbust, it's like saying, let's say, Jeff Bezos is dominating us, he's one of the richest men in the world. It's not just me, I'm a woman, and I don't have access to that.

I would also like to be at the head of Blue Origin. But even if you put a black woman at the head of Blue Origin, would that solve the main problem? It's not access to domination that's the problem, a black woman with a Blue Origin head? Would that have solved the main problem? It's not access to domination that's the problem, it's domination as such. I found this criticism interesting because we can bring criticism to criticism, which we address, in particular, to the great language model at the GPT chat.

So I don't know if you noticed, but in the newspapers, in the media, often the way we approach in a critical way these generative AI technologies, well, it's that we're going to attack their tickets. So we're going to say, for example, hey, the LLM, like Tchad Jpt, they have in their training data all kinds of tickets, racist, sexist, classist, etc. And even I have already said it often, as if by finally attacking these bias, if we managed to eliminate them, we would fundamentally change technology by making it more ethical. And especially that this criticism also comes from people on the right who find

Chad GPT or Google Gemini too woke. Exactly, there are two sides and others. It's not just the right, it's the left, the progressives, the conservatives, and so on. But that's not the real and fundamental problem of this technology. Ciao GPT, we could consider it a media, which is in the sense that it will produce, it will circulate information, discourses. When we say the media is the message, that's a big quote that comes up often, even Mouner and I have said it, he's a Canadian communication theorist, Marshall McLuhan, it comes from him. What do we mean by that? It's not like, well, let's look at the media, and the media is more important than the message or vice versa, but what are the structural changes that this media brings?

The LLM, the GPD chat. When we think of the IA as a media, what does it introduce, especially on a large scale, in the world? The IA, by definition, we even hear it in the term because we anthropomorphize a machine, artificial intelligence. We put the IA as a technology, a media that does things for us. That's AI. What it introduces as structural change, what it does to artificial intelligence,

is to allow us to transfer the responsibility of our actions, our decisions, to a machine. And that's what happens when we use IA programs, for example, to identify human targets in Gaza. When there's a carnage, when there's a genocide, we'll say, well, it's not us who did that, it's the technology we used. In short, it's a kind of a big parenthesis, but I think that the presence of women has really been presented

as a kind of historical exploit in this field. I would like to point out that it was not the first female crew to go into space, because the cosmonaut Valentina Terechkova did it all alone in 1963. It's not a mission, nothing has been accomplished, but all these women... I feel like Katy Perry is accomplice in space. All these women called themselves astronauts. I'm gonna tell you something right now, you are officially an astronaut. Actually, it reminds me of Guy La Liberté, the one who had...

Well, Guy La Liberté is a bit more than the one who did the house, and it was with NASA. I think he went to the International Space Station. Yeah, but he had found a way to brand it as something to raise awareness of make people feel water. That's it, I found that cringe from A to Z, especially all the interviews that were given after the rocket flight. It's to wonder how the cringe wasn't anticipated by this women's team. There was something fascinating for me in the show that they offered us. And it's not the rocket flight for me, the show was the most interesting, but the out of touchness,

I don't know if we can say that, but the kind of disconnection with the world, which was proof of the I think it was fake, right, the prequel? Obviously, there were conspiracy theories about that, but no, I don't think it was fake. In an interview given before her space trip, Katy Perry really put a point of view on the idea that she was going to be glamorous in space. She even said that she was going to put the ace in astronaut. Sleep! It's completely out of touch.

When you saw the pictures, were you... Well yes, you saw the suits there. And they all left, all the women left in space with their... All the makeup. Yeah, but look, I understand them, I would have done the same thing. Also to note, to finish, it often happened to me to talk about anthropomorphization of online brands and their presence, especially in the comment space. We talked about Duolingo, which is often there. And there's a story, the story of Wendy.

Wendy's. Wendy's, yes, a chain of restaurant chain from the United States, who commented on a tweet from Pop Crave, who said, oh, Katy Perry is finally back on Earth. Wendy's commented, can we send her back? It created a whole mess. And there are people from the insider's stores who said that Katy Perry was really sad, that she found it a sexist gesture, and everything. You arrive in this completely cringe show,

but the real debate, the discourse, is from companies that hold it. They use Clarida and look at this! Your payment of $10.19 for Uber Eats was successful. Who uses afterpayment for Uber Eats? You can't even afford Uber Eats? Why do you even do that? So I wanted to cover a subject that has like

invaded my Twitter page a little bit, and on TikTok a little bit, but random. I don't think it's a trend or whatever, but it's all discussions around point of sale loans. So the pre-sales points. Everything that happens in the United States around buying things and the report of payment of these said things. Like buy now, pay later. That's it. So buy now, pay later. Or buy now, pay later. Buy now, pay later.

Yeah, like my kiss you bought. What are you talking about? Not true. And you know, it also comes with a report I heard from the CBC, which said that 60% of the tickets sold at Coachella this year were sold with a BNPL, so a Buy Now, Pay Later plan. Oh yeah. And there I saw on my Twitter the thing that lit my curiosity.

It's a screenshot of someone who showed all these payments that were due for an application called Klarna, which is like a very popular Swedish application, a partnership with major sales points in the United States, who said she had a $11 payment for Uber Eats, a $1111 for Walmart. She had a lot of payments for purchases that we could qualify as daily, but for... It accumulates, it becomes a problem.

Yeah, it accumulates. There are a lot of ways to see how it can be dangerous. Especially the fact that you don't see... You're not in the context of your other payments when you take one. So you buy a payment plan, $ 30 per two weeks for this order, Aritia after $ 40 for this order, it's good. Then you realize that you already have $ 300 to pay every two weeks just for sales. And it's something that really affects the younger generations, mainly millennials but also the Gen Z more. Because it's loans, it's loans that don't require a big, intensive credit verification to have, that you can have and they actually

there are a lot of promotions around the fact that there is zero interest in fact, it's interest-free loans. We would have tended to believe that they make their money with people who pay late but in fact... Those who have payment defects. That's it, but in fact that it's more more affecting their profitability than anything else. Their money is in the agreements with, for example, DoorDash or Walmart, where the merchant will give them a percentage of the sale to offer this service, which for the detailer will favor sales. It has been demonstrated that they make more sales, Apple makes more sales,

Walmart makes more. When there is this payment option, it is a service that the company, like Kleine, for example, offers, which started as a FinTech, a financial technology in Sweden, which offers e-commerce services. If you want to build your website, we will be the payment platform for your website, which has slowly but quietly developed into this kind of bank, with investments in the biggest venture capital in the world, including Sequoia Capital, which is investing. How long has it been? It's been around since 2005. Okay, anyway.

But it was an e-commerce company, it took the banking shift in the mid-2010s, and it arrived in the United States at the end of the 2010s. And it's really the covid that popularized it. People during covid with online shopping started seeing this option appear. And I don't know if there are people here, if they are available in Canada, there is even a website on the website of the government of Canada. They, how they frame it, is that it's not a credit card, it's registered as a payment of bills, like your cell phone bill. So they don't want to be regulated by the same rules as a credit line, for example. But there was... But what happens in case of a default payment?

Well, in case of a default payment, the interest rates will go between 30 and 35%. Okay, so there are interests. If you miss your payment date. Say comparatively, let's say a credit card. On average, a credit card is like 24-25%. So it's more. It's more, it's 10% more on average. And then these are all the stats that I take from the stock exchange, I'm going to read the article.

Even if the trend doesn't seem to reflect in Quebec, the payment plans for Canada have seen an annual growth of 51.6% in 2023, according to Research and Markets. There is a company, that's what's starting, there a company that's starting to get involved with this model. So there's a new player in the world of event sales called Tixur, who offers not only the sales of tickets,

but that Inhouse will offer the tickets to sell you. Tixur notices this company in the art of press that the option is particularly appreciated by students and young adults between 18 and 25 years old. So it's really something that is branded towards Generation Z. There are a lot of videos, I listened to some of them to prepare myself for this,

and there are a lot of speeches on YouTube about the generation Z report with the debt, and this kind of infinite money, this kind of loan that you can't really materialize. Especially if you don't have a credit card, if you don't have a mortgage, you don't have anything. You don't have debt management or cash flow management. You just see that it's going to cost you $7.20 for three months to have this new pair of bonds. That's how you see it. You get the shopping that you talk about in your book or whatever. It's like, if you don't have money, but you can live this rush of like buying something, buying your holy grail, but like it only costs $ 7. Besides, on Seifera, it makes a loop that has this option of buying now, pay later. And I find it interesting how it goes outside the regulatory framework of like

a credit line, where it doesn't do the rigorous credit inquiries, like, let's say, buy a divan. It's a business for everyone. That's it. And you can get banned from Klarna or whatever, but it will eventually have an impact on your credit rate. And it's not even a good tool to try to restore your credit, because a lot of these companies don't communicate with credit offices. So they just communicate with them when you make a payment defect, and they will give you a note that you owe money. So that was a segment on something

I saw go through and I was like, hmm what is this? Why does someone owe $7 per week for Uber E? And it's a little bit of a meme, it's like seeing that we gave this tool to lazy people who just want Uber E. Hey, bravo capitalist! The Sackosh saga continues. So for those who know it, we had made an episode at the beginning of the year, 2025, in which we had made predictions. In another 2025. In that episode, I had predicted that the Sackoshes would be part of the Zeitgeist this year. It was already the case at the beginning of the year, I must say,

but there was a little dead time and I was like, why did I make this prediction? I was so happy to see that the bags are actually back. I'm going to put a little star powder and the extract of what I said. The bags may be at the center of several social debates. I'm talking about the luxury bag, which is still an important object in the attention economy with influencers, content creators. It's a symbol, a sign, an example. In the crisis of authenticity that we are going through, in a reality a bit like La Baudrillard, where it's difficult to distinguish,

to make the difference, or even impossible, between what is true and what is false. Is it still possible to distinguish the true from the false? Is it even desirable or important? think is fake. by content creators to send to a social status or a particular economic status. At the same time, you have an entire industry of double the counterfeiting that is flourishing right now, especially through TikTok, through sites like AliExpress, The Age Gate. You've probably already come across a stream bag on TikTok, but it's video sales, so live sales, where there are people who sell you Louis Vuitton or Hermès bags, but in reverse.

For about a week or two, I've been on my For You page for about a week or two, and this is something that has been covered even in the traditional media. We see a number of Chinese manufacturers, including Sakosh or other luxury objects, publish videos in which they will supposedly expose the big luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Hermès and all the rest, saying that these big brands sell products that are actually made in China and that instead of spending money on them and paying the price, we should directly order from China, from these Chinese manufacturers. It is also written, supposedly, in a kind of spirit of revenge after Trump imposed substantial tariffs on China.

And I'm going to put a TikTok of pirate hearts. Tariffs are really a big deal, it's very serious, but my favorite thing that came out of it is the TikTok of Chinese factories that decide to sell us their products directly by tiktok. There's a man who explains that he makes bags of the same quality as designer bags, and he's like, ah, it only costs us like $500, buy directly from me. Also, my favorite man is the one who sells pods to wash clothes. He's so funny. He's really excellent. He's like my best friend in this business. Buy directly from me. It's working on me. I'm dreaming.

All of this is happening in a Tiktok area that we call the hashtag TradeWarTuck or the hashtag ChineseFactoryTikTok. But you know, the counterfeits, the Chinese doops, it's been going on for a long time. And as I told you, I had ordered a small bag, Louis Vuitton, on a site that maybe several people know, called TheHGate, so the paradise of the doops by excellence. For a while, like some people, I was thinking, is this an operation conserved by the Chinese Communist Party to make a kind of propaganda, because it was like a mass movement where there were really several Chinese manufacturers

who were talking, making videos and everything. But in fact, according to several sources, according to several media, it would be more about people who took advantage of the opportunity to make a spin and just put themselves ahead. So companies that were already selling counterfeit bags, who took advantage of this opportunity to make a kind of advertising push. And in one of my favorite newsletters, Readmax, which I often quote at Café Snake, we said, well, luxury brands are false, America is a trash, and China is the future, is actually an excellent selling argument for American consumers on TikTok.

So it's this last week of campaign that's happening, but I hope you really appreciated the campaign, that it really made place for a fight for the future of our nation that we should take. After the first quarter of the 21st century is over, what direction should Canada take? What ambitions should we have for the next generations? What do we want for Canada? Is that what you feel happened during this election? Are you talking to me, sir? No, I'm talking to all Canadians. I'm talking to all Canadians, that's for sure.

Well, for real, the coffee sneakers weren't good elections for me. I think if that's the case, I'll make a complaint. It's really attributable in large part, and it really gets stuck in the Snake Vibes coffee, but in the middle. There's the place that was given to me at the high price between Donald Trump and Canada and to all the instability of Donald Trump in this election. Even today, I was listening to the editorial table of the work, we ask there, Frçois Blanchet.

We know that the question of the urn is the rates, but if it wasn't that, what would it be? It was a crazy question. I think that this question asked by the journalists of the Dove would illustrate the campaign very well. And there is something that I observe more these days, I find in the media in Quebec and in the calendar in general, that maybe I didn't observe before, but we often make calls for this kind of consensus or speech that is like latent or that surrounds us all. Yes, a lot of people think that, a lot of people mention that, a lot think that. And I thought that before, I didn't see that or I didn't notice it in the media when we played

this kind of tour. Yeah, no, but for a lot of Canadians, it's like, I'm like, where? Where are they? And then I know, I think it's good that we have this hope of coffee and cigarettes, because we can criticize the media by offering a reading that is not like, directly cramped, like, the media are all controlled by George Soros, but like I think it's not a complete criticism of the media, it's a critical's a critical analysis that I'm doing right now. I really think there was a single speech throughout the campaign that made it so that it gave us single speeches from the side of politicians. And maybe I'm ungrateful as a public, that's the truth for a lot of people, even those who

make coffee, no matter what would happen, we wouldn't have been satisfied. But what's your main take? We just spent the week of the chiefs debates, so I started by criticizing that. It's kind of like the Super Bowl of a political campaign. There was the debate in French, which I watched live on Twitch. Thanks to everyone who passed on the stream. Many who said they were coming from Kafe Snick, I appreciate it. For the chief debate, I find it interesting how Jagmeeting arrived in attack mode on not only Karni,

which I would have thought was predictable, but also Poiliev. According to some strategists of the NPD, this strategy of attacking Poiliev directly came from a calculation that said that people who are part of the NPD, the Liberal Party, they would have a more positive reaction to a confrontation of Poiliev than to a confrontation of Karni. I find it all so funny that we have this kind of reflection and that it will be more of a rally of people to criticize the person on the right, instead of criticizing the person who directly takes votes from you. And I think what it illustrates in this debate is that if there is not the Bloc, the NPD and the NPD, in reality, what happens in the results, in the polls?

It's that we are really in bipartisanship. And that's how I see this election. So I think it's a bit of a shame that we didn't have an exercise of debate between the two, one against the other, sitting, not standing. And to take up the formula of the second round debate in France, which lasts three hours without editing, where the two candidates in the second round fight each other. I think that would be the formula we should have. It's not three hours if we want to...

It's a bit intense, three hours? I think it's perfect, personally. You want the person who manages the army, who manages the finances, who manages everything, to be able to defend his vision of the world for 3 hours. I don't think it's really much required for the power we're going to offer him. After, if there is a criticism in the French debate that is more media-oriented, I think that Patrice Roy, who is usually an ironic or memetic fan of Patrice Roy, I like his character of

Antenne the Boss. I find that he took a lot of space in the debate. It's not that it's ridiculous, we laughed about it on Twitch. Whereas if you contrast with the debate in English, the animator took much less space, he had a much less present personality, he served as a conductor, pointed people, didn't take any place, didn't feel the need to intervene. We also see the choices that have been made in the different themes in French and English,

and also in the staging or in the storytelling of the debate, because if we look in French, there was, between each subject, there was a kind of montage with a Vox Pop, where we went to meet people in the street. In Montreal. In Montreal.

And we were talking about the rates and there's a person in the 60s who comes out of the grocery and he's like, me and Trump, you scare me! And there's someone who looks like in the 30s and 40s and he's like, me and my hypothesis has increased. You know, it's just really stereotypes. But I like that as such. It's just that I found it a little mis-executed and I prefer, I like that as such. It's just that I thought it was a little poorly executed and I prefer... I like that, leaving room for the public in the chefs' debates.

But what I like, it's the formula of the question. Which we saw in 2019, I think even in 2021. Or are we going to put someone live with a microphone that somewhere in Quebec, Canada will do. Hello to the chefs! I would like to know what you are going to do. I'm... Hey, I remember Dean Nadar. chef. Moi j'aimerais savoir qu'est ce que vous allez faire. Moi c'est... Hey, je me rappelle d'une petite nada. Exact. Oh my god, je l'aime. C'est ça. Donc moi c'est cette formule là que comme je préfère parce qu'elle me permet de comme voir des gens. Et je pense que

l'exercice aussi de la question ça te pousse à penser aussi parce que c'est dur de formuler une bonne question. Donc on a have less to do with the primary discourse of vox pop and micro-trailers. Yes. It's simple. And in English, there was not at all that. There was almost no musical theme between the changes. It was more of an austere. We changed the theme in French, in English.

We had the theme of immigration, and they had the theme of criminality. So it's like these two approaches to the world that are like different. In a few years, in ten years of Justin Trudeau, I find that English Canada has become more intolerant to immigration than Quebec. And if we had said that, like not so long ago,

it would have been absurd, like it was us. Especially in the rest of Canada, they will always say that Quebeckers are the most racist. How do they live the waves of immigration coming from South Asia? They directly linked that to a rise in the rate of crime. Well, that's what happened in the... Is that what I called Trump's books?

Well, that's it, but that's because we didn't talk about immigration too much. But we talked about it at many times, about the debate in English, whether with housing, whether with crime. Just stay to finish the parenthesis of the debates. Come back to the whole fiasco of press conferences, press scrums after debates, which was organized by the Debate Organization Commission, a commission that receives 3 million dollars per electoral year to organize these debates of the bosses. To put in context,

if you haven't followed, after the French debate, journalists were able to ask questions to the bosses, including media journalists, propagandists or whatever. The rebel news of True North. Many people have been criticized because they asked very culture war questions. But very orientated, I don't know if they were real questions. Yes, there were preambles that were really... These are questions that are actually traps. The rhetorical traps, questions that already contain...

Contains statements. I'm not saying that the questions were good or whatever, it wasn't really the questions, it was just really, as I see it, clip farming. Everyone has a boss, there are different types. You know that this one is going to be taken into account. And I think that all the bosses who had to make an election, the prime ministers had this kind of moment.

I remember when it happened to the elections that happened in the United Kingdom last summer, there was the same kind of thing that happened that someone someone would take me to the punk and ask him. But what I find interesting is that they paid a lot of attention because we didn't discuss these topics in the debates. We didn't discuss the cultural war that was going on. Among other things, it came to a story that Vanessa drew that they even called it. We didn't talk about the cultural war, she called it misogyny, transphobia, everything we find on the internet. Yes, but there is a huge rise in transphobia.

There is just a rise in the real world of debates that we have seen online for 10 years. So people who have these debates online, bring them to institutions, confront them at the court, confront them at the academy, whatever. And then there is this real manifestation of debates that we've been seeing online for 10 years. A lot of people wondered why Rebel News had access to this press room. It's because in 2021, they were denied access, they were in class, they then had the right to the accreditation of five journalists, which was more than all other press agencies.

In the day between the French and English debate, Radio Canada came out with the story that Rebel News was actually affiliated by the launch of the founder of Rebel News, Ezra Levent, to an organization that was a third party of the conservative campaign. This means that an organization that can disseminate political messages during a campaign called For Canada, which also belonged to Ezra Levent, the founder of Rebel News. Rebel News and Ezra Levent rallied behind Poliev. There is a big break in the Canadian right, between Maxime Bernier and Pierre Poliev. This week, I listened to Maxime Bernier in Tokyo Closun, and the two together, I put an excerpt, who treats Pierre Poliev as a fraud, who treats him as weak, as weak, he

literally insults him in Tokyo Closun. There is a kind of disgust in his voice when he talks about Pierre Poliev. Pierre Poliev is the leader of the conservative party. He seems like a true fraud to me, like a pretty sinister fraud. Which is interesting because I would have thought it was the kind of rallying, of co-sign, of endorsement that would have sought Tocque-Crolson. Jogan and Elon Musk have already given their support to Pierre Poliev at different times in the last months. Tocque, who, in his opinion, is still interesting, especially in front of Maxime Bernier,

who played the game of doing the American podcasts, which Pierre Poliev doesn't seem to want to do. There are rumors that Jorgen is going to the show this week, I don't think that's true. You know, the polls say he's not going far, so maybe he'll go for it and do it. There was all this controversy in the French debate, in the English debate, which made the tension very high in the press room today in the debate in English. And it made sure that a lot of the debriefs that the media gave in the first debate consisted of criticizing the media that were either approved or unapproved by the commission.

And it made it so that Sébastien Bevet, a political murderer, had to apologize to a press agency that he called comparable to Rebel News, by putting in relation to the extreme right and extreme left that were present when it's not at all in the same kind of register. And as soon as we call someone a militant, what do you do in traditional media, which claim to be neutral and objective? You discredit their knowledge, because supposedly, they're not nerds. So it's really a tool.

I don't mind if neutrality is possible, why not coconut? But neutrality is not only something that is possible, but the thing that annoys me about it is that it is instrumentalized to silence leftist discourses. If all of a sudden I start to defend the rights of the person, and I find that the genocide that is happening in Gaza right now, it doesn't have an effect on them,

but all of a sudden we're going to tax the militant and we're going to immediately decredibilize my voice. It's in the sense that the discussion around the debates, it really turned around at that time, and I find that it shows how, a journalistic way, in fact, or just in the world of the media in this industry, they themselves are caught in a meta-disco. In fact, journalists love to talk about journalists and the state of the world, things they don't like in their environment. So it was like a kind of inside baseball that we had, journalists talking about who should have been accredited and who should not have been accredited.

I think we've gone a little bit off the subject of debriefing. What was said in the debate, precisely, of Mark Carney, who doesn't want to politicize genocide in Gaza, precisely. That's why he didn't use the word genocide. And it's not even an admission that doesn't have it. It's an admission that refuses to use the word. Which I found still interesting compared to what Justin Trudeau said on the issue. We have Jack Mitzi who treats... How is that interesting? Well, because he doesn't say he doesn't have it. He says he doesn't was saying about the issue. We have Jack Meeteek who treats... How interesting is that?

Because he doesn't say there isn't any. He says he doesn't want to say the word. Well, seriously, I find that completely, how to say, cowardly, risible. You're talking about a leader who isn't even able to call a cat a cat. So that's it, the second day, the tension went up in the press room. There was a kind of awkward debate between a Deheel journalist and an Israel event from Rebel News

which ended in a kind of screaming match between the press room. The tension went up, people were fighting, so the commission decided that there wasn't a suitable environment to give a press conference, so we didn't have one. Still, at an interesting time, I liked this kind of press point, precisely, where the leaders are in front of journalists who don't often meet, who don't often have the chance to ask questions. There were very good questions that were asked to the different leaders, including one to Pierre Pauliev, who was asked by Christopher Curtis, whom I will introduce here. Christopher Curtis, that I'm going to introduce here. Christopher Curtis, the Rover.

Mr. Poliev, rather this evening, Jagmeet Singh has qualified what is happening in Gaza as a genocide. I understand that it's probably not your opinion, but given that the Israeli government is talking about emptying Gaza from Palestinians,

about voluntary migration, would we call that at least ethnic cleansing? Do you even give permission to criticize Israel? We certainly have the permission to criticize anyone, but let's not forget that Hamas attacked Israel without provocation. That's it. So if it's the week of debates, I don't think it really changed much in the result of the votes. And I really want to get to what we're going to take from this election and what I see in the speech.

It's really the generational clash that we put on stage. We put on stage boomers who want stability and who trust the rational figure of banker Mark Carney compared to Pierre Poliev, who they saw as being angry in the last two years. It even goes back to the pandemic when he was not even the head of the Conservative Party. So we see this girl who was abrasive, who was mean, who was treated like a useless plant, who had epithets for everyone, and then nicknames. We see Mark Carney, the guy we don't know who is, who apparently is a great financier. And that's what we say on Twitter or on the internet,

that it's the boomers who are being seduced. And in fact, it's really this generational clash in the sense that the boomers are the ones who control this election, who are better in relation to the millennials, the young GenX, the GenZ, who would be more conservative. So it's really... We have a flip in how we imagined it should be generational, because we imagined a more progressive youth compared to boomers and conservatives.

Now it's like the opposite, we would have liberal boomers against conservative millennials. I think it really has to do with the media consumption of each generation. Exactly, that's it. I just gave you some statistics. These statistics are based on the latest census that is in Canada. So I'm going to give you a combination of people from Generation Z and millennials,

18 to 40 years old. It's not the whole Generation Z, but it's really those who are there in 2021 and who are Canadian citizens. That gives 37.3% of the citizens over 18 years old. And the older people, so 41%, is 47.4%. And the minors, it's 15.3%. So there is still a 10% margin between the Gen Z plus millennials

and the rest of the older people. So often, yes, we have a more important part to play in the outcome of the vote, but it's not yet... even if the vote... It depends, everything depends on the districts too. And that's what I'm going to end with because I haven't talked about it in the different elections, but everyone, even on Twitch, everyone asks me who I vote for, who I vote for. Like, I'll explain to you how I read our democratic system and our mode of scrutiny

in fact, which gives us the smallest possible power. We have a minimal impact on the results of the elections. The popular vote is worth nothing. Even if you vote for the party you want, it doesn't change anything. We call it that. People will make calls for strategic votes. I make a call for realistic votes. I don't like strategic votes.

It's understanding the impact of your vote in our voting system. Personally, I think that each vote must be taken by our certain circumscription. Analyze what you want to happen the least in your circumscription. What is most likely? How can you see what you can do to have the scenario that you find the best in your circumscription? It's the only way, in my opinion, that has an impact on the way we vote. That, in fact, is this kind of feeling of helplessness every time you want to vote. Well, I think it's an extra argument for Quebec's sovereignty. Well, again! To completely review our way of voting, because I find that completely alienating, unacceptable.

And I think it's one of the main arguments for Quebec's independence. It's the little democratic power a citizen has. unacceptable and I think it's one of the main arguments for the independence of Quebec. It's the little democratic power a citizen has. I could summarize each of the platforms, the stands, the communication strategies. There we see Mark Carney who is starting to edit Brat really more present. We see a little bit of him who did it, but the farm accounts are hanging with 10-50. Yeah, but that's it. But it looks like it's like a copycat from theala's campaign and we all know the outcome of it.

That's right, I posted on my Instagram story Pierre Poiléif who edits with the Sweet Tag by Pierre Bourne, one of the first producers, and the Playboy Carly. You can see that it's a doubt of my age who made this edit, it's just funny. Will it help people? People find it stupid. It's all the kind of discourse that was around Be Better during Kamala Harris' campaign. That the viral engagement generation

of Project Coconut wasn't going to help her win. In the end, he was right or he wasn't right. Be Better, who is a Canadian creator on TikTok, who was made like Ken Sault because he criticized Kamala Harris' communication strategy. But I don't think you can

make the outcome of a vote of an election simply based on memes or something? No, that's it. But I don't think it's mutually exclusive. I think there must be both. There is the will, the quest for virality through the editing, but there must also be an unfiltered presentation of a character, of a political protagonist who holds his phone when he takes selfies, who talks to the camera while filming. A transparency, an authenticity, but I'm talking about it in my last article published in the press, which is released today, the day we record it this Sunday, so... Beach Club Politique. Beach Club Politique.

And I'm coming back to... You had talked about this, especially Olivier Primo, who received in an interview... The Quebec lobbyist. Pierre Poilier. Oh no, that's him. And even after that, he published a behind the scene where he put himself on stage, this kind of desire to be hyper-transparent, it's part of the web. I find it interesting, in this behind the scene video we see that there is a political advisor.

Exactly, a counselor. I find it so beautiful. I find it so funny that a counselor wants to view his little cards with. There are four people for crowd-surfing these questions that were bad. Ok, my nose. Not worth questioning. And then after, like, yeah, yeah, I even got a red one. I'll read it for you.

Conclusion, live Quebec free. I think it was a correct choice. Without further ado, I like this kind of relationship between generation that we compose. I think the polls are surely real, and it's surely Mark Honey who will be

the first for the next four years. So... Okay. We'll start with my sound week. As I said, I wanted to go back to the sounds that made up my week, a little in the spirit of an article I published in the press two weeks ago called The Web Takes a Sound Tour. And there it was a hypothesis, or something that I'm moving forward, in the hope that other people join my thought, criticism, enriching, whatever.

I was saying in particular that in 1992, there was a professor of art and literature at Chicago University called Mitchell, who theorized what we call the pictorial turn, which is how, in the end, the influence of images in our lives really took a major place. This is what has contributed, in particular, to the emergence of what we call visual studies, the science of images. And then I was saying that more than 30 years later, indeed, that images have not disappeared and are still very, very important.

But I have the impression that at least on the web, sound is becoming more and more important, whether through ballads, like this one right now. And for Frisneik, it's something we've decided to do with sound, but not with images. Otherwise, all the sounds that are central to the TikTok application, the vocal memos that I constantly send to Mounir, I had the impression that the sound was perhaps becoming a kind of cultural force.

So that's it, I'll put the article in the notes if you want to read it, if you're interested. And we start our immersion. So we start with a trailer. Right away, with the atmosphere, we say to ourselves, it sounds like something little bit of testosterone, possibly a match of wrestling. Then we realized that it was a spermatozoic race.

When we introduce the two fighters on the screen, and I describe the image, the two are feeding. The first is licking milk, and the other is shaking in his hands a kind of vitamin skin called golly. I even tried to buy tickets on Ticketmaster to attend, and it seems to work. Whose swimmers will win the race? of crypto and risk capital. I imagine that they are still swimming in all the speeches that are being discussed here at Carf & Snake. It's really a race where two university students face the spermatozoids in a race track intended to imitate Luterus.

And obviously the event is really tiny, so we can't see it with our naked eye, but the competition is followed by high resolution cameras and broadcast live to the spectators. I'm talking about it because I think it cuts the natalist discourse a bit, which we've already talked about in Coffee Snake, especially because there are slightly eugenic trends. We don't have as many babies as before, here in the West. And we're afraid of not having enough human beings to regenerate the human race. But we often know that this fear of not having enough human beings is translated into a fear of not having enough human beings belonging to a very specific group.

So the promoters of this race are aware that male fertility is declining. They are linked to the loss of sperm mobility. Because that's what we're going to test in a race. And this mobility is connected to the health of individuals, to their diet, to the fact that they smoke or not, all that. Besides, that's why I think we see them in the ad eating milk and eating vitamins. And then they tell us, if we train by doing sports,

if we spend hours training, pushing the limits of our body, why can't we train not only our body, but our health? Why can't we measure this health? Improve it and, finally, compete with others in relation to this health. And now they tell us that with these sperm race,

they are transforming health into a sport. Not just a sport, a competitive sport. The idea behind it would be to make sure that male fertility is something that people watch and improve. I have the impression that there is a slippery slope, especially in the fact of connecting health and mobility of the sperm. You could be super healthy and have less mobile sperm for a reason xyz. And precisely, as I said, to make men responsible for the speed of their

sperm. It is also a way to transform this not only into a sports competition, but also as an opportunity to speculate. And we talked a lot about speculation in Café Snake. We also present it as an opportunity to gamble, as a gambling event. There will be all kinds of statistics that will be generated during this race. And we say that the sperm race startup has already been able to raise capital, so $1.5 million. I think that by focusing on biology like that, we're starting to see that the low rate of mortality is not necessarily due to biological factors, but structural factors.

And we've already talked about that before, so I'm not going to go into too much detail. And we'll switch to the next song. The next song is called The Piano We're hearing the pianist Marianne Roy-Chevarié, a girl I fell for this week. Probably before I went to bed, while I was scrolling on TikTok. Imagine you're a classical pianist. You've been doing this all your life.

The past 30 years have been dedicated to mastering your instrument. Imagine you meet a guy in a bar. The guy asks you the same question as everyone else. Are you able to play the violin? You say yes. He asks you another piece, you say yes. You end up saying, so that he stops asking you questions about whether you're able to play a tunette, you tell him, look, whatever a score is,

I'll be able to play it. That's my job. Imagine, he answers, hey wow, that's really pretentious. Imagine that this guy has become your man. I really liked the TikTok that just passed because it reminds me of my own personal experiences with men when I told them I was a writer.

In the evening, I run into people's their history. tribunal. Voici mon outfit de femme sérieuse qui va défendre ses droits. Ok donc voici la suite, le résumé de ma journée au tribunal. Pour ceux qui le savent pas, mon proprio ça fait deux ans de suite qu'il essaye de redonner son logement dans lequel je vis à sa fille. Ça fonctionne pas parce que c'est juste pas vrai. Allô tout le monde, merci tellement pour tous les commentaires que j'ai eu le support, le support of the local administrative court of the housing. And the judge told me, you will receive my final judgment by mail. But it's been more than a week, I haven't received it yet.

Yesterday I received a letter, it only had my name. I was trembling when I opened it. It was Hello Fresh. And sometimes I tell myself, crime, if only our politicians spent a little more time on TikTok, like the ministers of the CAC and particularly the Minister of Housing, France Hélène Durand-Sault. Sometimes I even continue my research a little further, that's what I did with Marianne, then I found her on her website and I found a musical playlist she had made for YouTube. Relaxing Piano Music for Studying, 20 minutes, and there we say It's Sunday and it's raining outside, except for Piano Relaxing Music.

I found it funny because in my article for the press, I was coming back to a concept that we have already talked about in Café Snake, a sort of play-listing of music, especially because of streaming platforms like Spotify. Because our musical consumption is often organized around reading lists that will center artists for precise aesthetics, or even, I would say, in this case, precise ambiance. So we really have a propitious ambiance to do our homework or study. We even have a description of the atmosphere. It's Sunday, so it's Sunday, and it's raining outside.

We hear a lot of noise around the monster rallies that are organized in the United States, in which we can see Bernie Sanders and also Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez making all kinds of speeches, I think it's called Fighting Oligarchy, their kind of tour. What we hear less, for example, is the sound of the people, of the people who gathered to listen to them and who are going to kill them. It's not a sound that we're going to relay in the traditional media, but these are sounds that are currently very present on my TikTok feed.

We hear that these are anti-genocide activists who were present at the rally in Nair D'Arrou. At that time, Bernie Sanders again remarked that Israel had the right to defend itself. Then there was a flag of Palestine that covered an American flag. There were security agents who forced the people who were holding the Palestinian flag to remove it. And that's why we hear these sounds. in America today. I wonder how you really want to fight the Ligarchy without attacking the role of Israel? At least in that sound, we hear partisans who still want to show that they do not agree in all with what these two political figures have to say or do. Tra lallero, tra lallà, porco dio e porco allà!

I was with my fucking son Merdardo playing Fortnite when my grandmother arrives at one point. Ornella, lecca, cappella. What we just heard is a sound clip that comes from a digital trend, at least according to Know Your Meme. It's what we call the Italian Brain Rutt, in other words, the Italian Brain Rutt. It's a retort sung by a shark that is endowed with three legs and blue Nike shoes. Well, it's the first character that appeared in the Italian Brain Rutt,

and then there's a plethora of other characters that saw the day. It started in 2025, so this year in January. janvier. Je sais pas si tu remarques, il y a comme quelque chose qui ressort du Brain Red récemment. C'est souvent des créatures comme des poissons avec des jambes, parce que là c'est encore un requin avec des jambes, comme le poisson Steve dont on a parlé la semaine précédente. Créatures qui ont suivi différentes mutations qui se retrouvent anthropomorphisées. Je trouve que ça fait un peu écho à la manière dont on anthropomorphise l'IA. Donc si on est après anthropomorphized. I think it's a bit similar to the way we anthropomorphize the IAEA. So if we're after anthropomorphizing machines, why not do it with animals?

When we talk about Italian Brainroot, we think of a series of half-animals, half-objects characters generated by the IAEA. They often appear in videos that are narrated by a text-to-speech voice in a kind of parody Italian. Nicotina the killer's cousin Cappuccino and a terrible enemy of the Cappuccino dancer. Bombardillo, crocodile or Tum Tum Tum Tum Sajur. Bombardillo, crocodile. Bombardillo, crocodile or Traelo Tralala. Tralala.

Catini, strawberry, kitty kitty baby. And why is the train from Tralala to tralalala going way too far from this video? The more characters there are, the more the internet creators create stories, intrigues around them, and it generates a lot of lore around this family of characters. So personally, my favorites are Salamino Penguino, which is like a penguin with six sounds. And I also really like Ballerina Nicotina. It's a cigarette ballerina.

I don't know if it's not it's not really my kind of brain rot especially because it's vulgar and subtly hateful. For example, the words TRALALERO TRALALA that's really the returnelle like OG, original.

And if you translate them it's like TRALALERO TRALALA god damnit and god damn it, I was with my damn shitty kid playing Fortnite when my grandmother comes in. That's the basic retort. One of the most famous characters is called Bombardiro Crocodilo.

It's a kind of bomb crocodile. Bombardiro Crocodilo. A fucking flying alligator that flies andards children in Gaza and Palestine. He doesn't believe in Allah and loves bombs. And he's also accompanied by a sound clip. And he literally says that it's a flying alligator that bombards children in Gaza and Palestine. He doesn't believe in Allah and he loves bombs. I don't know if it's weird, I don't know if it's like a vehicle of ideas, the brainwatt, but it's clear. It looks like these

ideas are a bit dark. It's like if we created a genocidal discourse in a falsely childish imagination to make it perhaps more digestible. It's like if I was writing a book, actually. I don't know. But it's interesting too because in the previous episode I was talking about French brainwatt, so the Steve the Fish, which is a brainwave that really transcended the geographical and linguistic borders of France to get here in Quebec, but also in the United States, in particular. It's a French-speaking sound. And I find it interesting that the brainwaves are an element of culture that is often sound and language, which seems to circulate quite easily despite the fact that it is by definition a bit opaque. No matter if it is in English or not. So no matter if it is in the French

language of the Web, it happens in French, it happens in Italian, it seems that it transcends the language barrier much more easily than, for example, a Tune. Like a Quebec Tune, I don't know. It makes sure that we're witnessing the spread of different national Bryn Rott, and the Mines also become like the doors and doors of different cultures internationally when they manage to surpass the geographical borders of their country of origin. It happened especially for Quebec. Jeanne Lejeune? Yeah, that's right, Jeanne Lejeune. I saw the wolf, the fox and the lion. A video that had traveled, yes, to Quebec, loup, le renard et le lièvre. Un vidéo qui avait voyagé oui au Québec pas mal, mais c'était parvenu jusqu'aux Américains et même aux Japonais. Normand

Marino aussi qui était arrivé aux États-Unis, pis j'avais lu une écrivaine, une journaliste web qui parlait même du meme Normand Marino, qui est installé à Los Angeles, et là elle avait dit qu'il était tombé par hasard là-dessus pis que ça l'avait conquis son coeur, et considérait que le meme était une fenêtre qui lui permettait d'observer et d'essayer and she said she had fallen by chance on it and that it had conquered her heart. She considered that the meme was a window that allowed her to observe and try to understand our culture. I'm going to finish this sound segment by saying that the Brain Rot, which is often language and sound, sometimes becomes an ambassador of culture specific to each country. This next segment is going to be on the soft power of the Brain Rot. Exactly, it's all, all of that.

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