Reply All - #114 Apocalypse Soon

Episode Date: January 18, 2018

This week: Yes Yes No returns and takes us to the brink of apocalypse. Further Reading replyall.fyi The yes yes nos tumblr The tweet in question Tide Pod Pizza Tweet Uganda Knuckles in VR Chat Who Killed Captain Alex trailer Logan Paul "Why 2017 was the best year of my life" video "Somebody touch my spaghett!" tweet Smashmouth spaghett Kirby spaghett Full Metal Jacket Spaghett PewDiePie's "Youtube Touched My Spaget[sic]" video     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everybody, we are back. It's 2018, new year, new reply all. A little bit of programming information up top. Yeah, some housekeeping. So a question that we get a lot from listeners. The answer's always different is when is the next episode of the show coming out. My colleague Alex Goldman has built a tool to tell people, Alex, what is it? It is a website. And I know that I often build websites and then abandon them. I promise that I will continue to update this one. It's called reply all.f You go to this website. It answers one question for you. The question is, is there a new reply all this week? And this tool will probably come in handy, basically this spring, short version of a long story. There's a bunch of very good changes happening in the lives of people who work on the show. Babies are being born, which means we'll be a little bit short staff, which means we will be publishing slightly less, like probably a couple times a month for a bit. All right. Enjoy the show.

From Gimlet, this is Reply All. I'm PJ Vote. And I'm Alex Gould. Welcome once again to yes, yes, no, the segment on our show, where our boss, Alex Bloomberg, comes to us with inscrutable nuggets from the internet and we try to explain them to him. Yes. What have you got? Okay, here's what I got. So I knew we were doing this, and so I sent out a call out to, like, sort of collect inscrutable tweets. Yeah. And a lot more confusing stuff came back than...

than normal. Like, it seems to be a very particularly confusing time on the internet right now. Okay. If my little sort of occasional explorations or any indication. And there was a bunch of different tweets that were sort of like clustered around this confusing meme. And then there was a bunch of tweets that all seemed to focus on this confusing meme. So I started to notice like these sort of patterns. And then I got to this, this tweet, which seemed to touch on every single meme that was that was out there that's confusing on the internet right now. So I think if we can decipher this, we understand the Internet in its entirety.

Yeah. I think this might take us there. Okay. Okay. So what's the tweet? It's from a Twitter user named Mr. Ramgon 9. But the name on his Twitter account is Jesus Uganda Knuckles. Okay.

The Uganda Knuckles sounds bad. Yeah. And then there's a picture. And the picture has a captioned, the four horsemen of apocalypse. and then there's a four square grid below. And in the top left square is a tide pod with the word underneath it that says famine. And then the picture to the right of it

is a picture of some sort of cartoon bird with a headband. The bird is red that says war. And then in the lower left quadrant, this is a photograph of a white guy with a funny hat on his head and some sort of shawl holding his hands to his mouth in a sort of a pensive look

and the caption, Death. And then in the lower right quadrant, there's a picture of like sort of a cartoon wolf looking at an empty bowl and a sort of a Mickey Mousey kind of character also with an empty bowl. And then the caption there

is pestilence. So four quadrants, famine war, death, pestilence. I have never been happier than listening to you described this tweet. It's so funny. Nothing. Nothing makes sense. And also up at the top, there's this text. I guess it's sort of like a Creole patois sort of dialect. Brutas, we will fight wars for de Queen and find E way. And way is spelled W-A-E, and Queen is spelled Q-W-E-E-N. Okay. I think this is the most complicated tweet that you've brought into a yes-yes now. And I think you're right.

Like, I think if you can understand this tweet, it is like a codex for everything that's happened on the internet in 2018 so far, like all two weeks. I also think that probably the reason that's called the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse is that I think the person who made this tweet feels like once you understand and combine these four memes, you will sort of feel like we're, we're really. approaching the end of the world. So that's where we want to get you. But this is like dense. There's a lot here. Yes, I'm prepared to settle in. Let's do the ritual. Okay. PJ Vote. Do you understand this tweet? I understand a lot of this tweet. I don't understand all

this tweet. I know about the white man with the green hat and I know about the red bird. I know about the tide pods and the bears and the white guy in the green hat. Okay. So I think we might be at about 100 percent. Between as we have one yes. Alex Bloomberg, do you understand this? No. No. I understand no quadrant. Okay. So how do you want to start? So like, so the first harbinger of the end of the world, like the sign that culture is over and like the apocalypse is nigh is this first image, famine. All right. So. Tide pods. So you're familiar with tide pods, right? Like the very concept of them, the very nature of them. Like the very nature of them. Like the, like, the very nature of them. Like, like, the, The laundry detergent?

Yeah. Yes. Tidepods came out five years or so ago. They were very popular. And one of the side effects of the existence of tidepods is that kids think they look like candy. Right. They do look like candy. You can't not look at a tidepot and think the first thing that goes to your head is like gooey candy.

It was like a new kind of Starburst. Yeah, exactly. The onion wrote an op-ed in like 2015 that was from the perspective of a three-year-old. year old wanting to eat Tide pods. And they wrote one earlier this year that was Tide debut's new sour apple detergent parts. But, wait, what is the

can you do the three-old wanted to eat the Tide Pot? Just that just went out. Let me see if I can find it. It's called So Help Me God, I'm going to eat one of those multicolored detergent pods. The first graph is anybody who knows me will tell you the same thing.

I get what I want. You're out of food, being held, my binky, you name it. If I decide I'd like it, you damn well better believe I don't rest until I get it. And from the very second I saw those blue-red detergent pods come out of the shopping bag last week, I immediately knew that come hell or high water. I would eat one of those things. Exactly. Okay. So you guys and the very fact that you have looked at those tied pods and thought to yourself, I want to eat those, you've touched on like a bizarre.

cultural happening that is happening right now. Suddenly, the nascent desire by adults to eat tide pods. Not three-year-olds. Yeah, has like come to the fore and everybody is essentially declaring their desire to eat them. In what form? Like, what do you mean? Well, okay, so here's a tweet by a person named Megan at littlest Wayne. It says, me eating Tide Laundry detergent pods. And then it's a gif of Oprah looking like she's eating something that she's deletion. about eating. Okay. It has 8,000 retweets, 25,000 likes.

So it went from this thing that was, like, purely conceptual and everybody joking about it to, like, a weird, disgusting semi-reality. What do you mean? People started posting photographs of them preparing tidepods on food. Okay. Here's a picture of someone who has made a baked a pizza in the oven with a bunch of tidepods on it. The finished pizza is covered in, like, the laundry deterrenties. and slime. It's so disgusting, too, because when they cook, they turn to, like, green and white, they feel like escargo. And the picture, and the caption to this tweet is, Tide Pods are the

best thing ever to go on pizza. And there's a smiley face that's drooling. It's so revolting. So I think one thing that I'm now understanding is Tidepod seem like the joke that everybody agrees on. Like, it's not a joke that's being used as a weapon by one group. No, no, it's actually pretty innocuous. It's like the entire internet realized, like, oh, you want to do that too? thought that was just me. Right. But then it, as is always the case, it gets kind of like, the tail end of it gets weird and unpleasant. Okay, so what's that?

So, YouTubers who specialize in the most sort of cynical kind of entertainment, were like, oh, we'll get a lot of hits if we actually eat these. Wait, can you play that video? Yes. Hold on just a second. Let me bring it up. Okay, here we go. So it is a guy with blue hair sitting in front of a rainbow background. This is a man I'm going around where people are eating tidepods and I've actually never had a tide pod before but they are so satisfying. They're squishy. They just feel good.

He seems really delighted. He is super into this. How to eat a tide pod and nothing really came up. All right here we go. Okay. No! No! It's awful. It's awful. It's awful to watch. Okay.

So eating Tidepods has become a huge thing on YouTube. And it was always a joke. They really just would let them burst in their mouths and then they'd be disgusted and spit them out. But, you know, teenagers also started doing it just as a goof because they saw people doing it on YouTube. And that led to some sort of hysterical media reporting around the country of teenagers are giving it. each other the Tidepod challenge. So it went from a joke about a bad idea you could do to people joking about actually doing it, to YouTubers actually like really kind of taking a bite out of a Tidepod, to teenagers also

win on the joke, but like fully eating Tidepods because I think that's a funny thing to do. Exactly. And also some of them are ending up in the hospital because, believe it or not, laundry detergent is poison. So that is Tidepods. Moving on to the next quadrant. I think I'm fair. Okay, we're both.

We did it. We're one-fourth of the way through, people. Okay, so in the next square, the red bird with the caption, War. What does this one mean? Okay. So you know that I've been, like, dabbling in virtual reality? No. What a funny way to start this.

Also, you make it sound like you're dabbling in drugs or something. It feels like a drug. Like, basically I got a haircut from this guy who was really into virtual reality. Okay. And he talked to me in getting, like, a VR rig. Oh, so you have like the full on headset and everything. I go home. I leave this world that we live in together.

I put on a headset. I put on, like I enter full like sensory deprivation. There are like cameras that are monitoring. Like, and I go to a virtual world. Is it fun? It basically feels like early internet. Like you go to these virtual spaces and you dress up as a character and you talk to people. Oh, so it's like second life.

It's like second life, but it feels like you're there. Right. And so there's this new program called VR chat where people have been hanging out. And there's been a lot of people who have been dressing up as this character. You know the video game Sonic the Hedgehog? Yeah. So one of the characters in that video game, his name is Knuckles. He's the one you thought was a red bird.

He's actually something called an echidna. Okay. Knuckles is supposed to look like this. He's like a cool, tough echidna with big sneakers. But then what happened was at some point, somebody just drew like a 3D knuckles that was really fat because they thought it was funny. Okay. So so far I'm not hearing any war. There's no worry yet.

Somebody else took this, like, fat knuckles character, and then they mapped it in VR. So you could go into VR chat as this fat knuckles. Okay. For some reason, this took a jump where what is happening is that people log on to VR chat, and then, like, 30 cartoon fat knuckles will mob somebody and just start, like, yelling at them. And it's called Ugandan Knuckles because they're saying things that are, like, a racist white American teenager's version. of what like a Ugandan person would say. So like I can show you a video of this happening.

See all these people are like, there's a guy dressed in an alien and there's like a guy, actually now it's been so overrun. It's just these knuckles attacking the guy. Oh boy. How do they make that sound? They're making like a clicking sound. They're making like a clicking sound. that's super racist.

It's every, it's every, like, stupid, like, suburban white teenagers version of, like, what they think in African language sounds like, basically. Uh-huh. But, like, a couple weeks ago, I actually kind of got in a rabbit hole with this stuff because basically just, like, got curious about, like, why are these kids saying the things they're saying? Like, Ugandan actually felt weirdly specific. And, like, a lot of the quotes that they use, like, take me to your queen.

Like, it's always the same thing. And I was just wondering, like, was there an origin or reason for this? Yes. And the reason is so, so weird. Okay, so, like, the origin of this meme actually starts in Uganda. Okay. There's this director named Isaac Nabwana. And a few years ago, he was like, I want to make action movies.

Like, I want to make American-style action movies. But he's, like, very poor. He's in the slum in Uganda. He has no money. And he starts making these, like, $200 budget action movies where just, like, everything is hacked together. So $200. $200. So all the actors, yes.

Like non-professional actors, I think they're shooting on videotape. All the special effects are like cobbled together on like two computers that he has hooked together. Got it. So his first movie is called Who Killed Captain Alex? Tagline Expect the Unexpectable. It is delightful. Let me show you the trailer actually. Okay.

Who Killed Captain Alex trailer. Okay. So this is how you make like a violent movie with no money. Roman film productions presents the best of the best movie. Come on, daddy. Very overacted acting. Very fake blood. A very fake 3D helicopter.

Going to a very fake 3D building. My mouth can't move. You know, if you've ever seen, like, King Kong, the original King Kong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks like someone was like, I've learned everything I know about special effects from that, but I'm just going to do it with a computer. From the 1930s. Yeah, it's like super crude, super stop motion.

And the dude who's making these movies, like, he knows he is enjoying it. Like, he knows that it's kind of funny and really fun. And on like no money, they'll, like, make guns out of, like, scrap metal. And the way they do their blood is they fill condoms with, it was cowblood. And then they would pop the condom. But then people are getting sick from cowbloods now that he's, like, food die. Like, he's building his own props department almost. Yeah.

So people call him, like, the Tarantino of Uganda. He's making these movies. And then what happened a few years ago is there's this American dude. named Alan, who did like film festivals or whatever, but was like on the fringes of stuff. He bought an engagement ring to propose to his girlfriend. He went to go meet up with her. And instead, she dumped him. And then to cheer him up, a friend of his who worked in an NGO, I think in Uganda,

was like, hey, let me show you this thing. And he showed him on his phone, the trailer you guys just saw. And he was like, okay, I'm hardbroken. I don't know what I'm doing with my life. I just got dumped. I'd save him a bunch of money for my honeymoon for the wedding I thought I was going to have. he takes that money, he flies to Uganda. Get out of here.

And finds the director and has like moved into the slums and they just like make these movies now. They're working on like a child kung fu movie. Child kung fu movie. It's like it's a kung fu movie but it's all kids. They're like five years old. I love that. And it's all super violent and like everybody dies and every scene. They're like very enjoyable watch.

That is amazing. So what's and so they have this company together now? Yeah. They call it like Wakaliwood, which is like named after. after the summit they're by, like Hollywood, well, Hollywood. Basically, like, Nibwana makes the movies. And, like, Alan, he's been, like, helping Nibwana make the films,

but also, like, promote them in the U.S. They, like, had a Kickstarter. And it's, like, in certain corners of the Internet, they are, like, a known and cherished thing. Wow. And so now, because Captain Alex is sort of viral, it, like, meshed with this weird fat knuckles thing. And so there's people on the Internet who just like quoting the movie,

like, the guys in the VR chat. So when we heard the phrases, in that video that you showed us. Those are from the movie. Those are from the movie. And the WhatCollywood guys, they know about the meme. Because if you go to their Twitter, they're constantly retweeting the Knuckles guys tweeting at them.

So just like the whole thing is really weird. Wow. Yeah. Anyway, all of that, like you got in action movies, virtual reality shenanigans, minor Sonic, the hedgehog characters. In the context of this tweet, all that represents war. That's the war box. Yeah.

Oh, and that all. also explains the caption of this tweet, which is sort of, which is the line brought as we will fight divorce Freddie Queen and find a way. That must be from the... That, from who killed Captain Alex. At least I know the find away part is. I actually don't know about the Queen. They might have just made it up because it sounds like it's from one of those movies, but yeah. Okay. That is half of this. So what do we do? We throw to break now. We're halfway through. I feel like we throw a break. Coming up after the break.

Half of one tweet. Coming up after the break, the second two boxes of the squadron of mystery. All right. So we're halfway through. We're halfway through. We have just... We're halfway through one tweet. This is the most complicated tweet that we have ever deciphered.

Yes. This is the most... Because this tweet is itself sort of like a table of contents. It's like a table of contents to an undecipherable book that no one has read. Okay. We've got famine. We've got war. Okay.

I think death is actually the next place to go. Death. So death is like a white teenager holding his hands over his mouth looking pensive with what's the hat? He's got a green. He's got a Pokemon hat on. It's not Pokemon. It looks like a Pokemon hat. It's the aliens from Toy Story.

Oh, cool. That's the hat. Oh, he's wearing an aliens from Toy Story hat. Okay. Get it together, bud. Okay. So this is like this was actually. Oh, you're sorry.

so lucky that you didn't know this story up until now. Are you familiar with the Paul brothers? Oh, Logan Paul. Yes. I am familiar with Logan Paul. What do you know about Logan Paul? Okay. Enter me, 51 year old white dude married with children who, as, you know, would I want to let down my hair? I watch a DVR top chef with my wife. Logan Paul was on top chef? Logan Paul was on top chef. So what did Logan? Okay, so for people that don't know, and I don't know how much you know, but like Jake and Logan Paul are two American teenagers who got famous, very young on Vine, I didn't know Logan Paul was on Top Chef. Logan Paul was a guest on Top Chef because he's got a huge Instagram following. He got all his followers to show up to one of the Top Chef events.

So they had a food truck event and Logan Paul like led his hordes of followers to the food truck event. And what was your impression of him as like this person's showing? up in my world from it was really an ill fit because he's like he's such a dude he's got like swoopy blonde hair who's like completely moosed but in this crazy swoopy way and like tucks like yeah dude all the time but like in a really like sincere completely an ironic clueless way yeah he's like he's like a human golden retriever but him and his brother jake paul um who's the same as him they are actually also sort of geniuses. Like, I mean, like, they're not famous to you, but for anyone under 20, they're, like,

basically, like, Beatles-level famous. Beatles-level famous. Beetles-level famous. Like, the crowds of teenagers that follow them, it only looks. Like, you know the, like, Beatles at Chase Stadium thing? Yeah. Okay, this is Logan Paul at just a mall in Dubai last year. Okay?

So they wanted to do the biggest meet and greet ever. So he runs up on stage and it's just, like, teaming. Oh, my God. And he's not doing anything. He's not performing. He just stands up on stage and kind of waves. It's so funny. He's like, he's so much more into it than the Beatles will, too.

Yeah, no, he loves it. He loves it. God, that look. That look when he first walks up and he, like, turns and smirks at the camera. I just want to, like, what do you want to do? Punch is popular facing. Yeah, so grown-ups hate him and his brother. Teens love them.

And the thing that they're actually, like, officially famous for it is they do these YouTube videos where they do stunts. Right. It started out being like, we're going to set a couch on fire. We're going to jump out of a moving car. Like, jackass stuff. Yeah. They make, like, millions of dollars a year on these videos, like, just through YouTube ads and through, like, merchandise they sell. Like, it's this empire of spectacle.

And, like, the world of cute guys on YouTube who do dumb things for attention, it's kind of like boy bands. There's a new flavor every week. Right. Imagine if one of those boy bands showed up, and they were like, no, we want to stick around. We're going to figure out how to make. it's like a sustainable business. Every new boy band that comes on, they're going to be on our label. And like, we're going to sell it on merch and we're going to have like an investment fund. Like they've, they have longevity and a place that is not built for longevity. Got it. But the

downside of it is because they've been going for so many years. They have to keep topping themselves. So like, let me show you Logan Paul's 2017. Here's what I did this year video. Okay. This is going to show me like all the things that they did in a year. It's just like, yes. Okay. At 22 years old, I bought my first house for 6.5 minutes. and move my two boys in with me. What's up? E!

Bought a school bus and then turned it into a cool bus. I met a boy band named Why Don't We? I adopted them as my little brothers, then directed a music video of theirs that got 30 million views, then made a song with them that got 169 million views that you may have heard. Help me help you. Girl, what you're trying to do? Cause I don't got a clue. No, I ain't know Scroby New.

Help me help you. I want to point out that he's dressed up as a Minion. Yeah, and then, and then that's him doing the hook. I know Scooby-Doo. Girl, what you're trying to do? Guys, I also made a song with Designer, and then I went to the tallest building in the world,

the Birch Kalifa. Hey. So that's Logan Paul. Okay, well, so here, the reason that Logan Paul, the reason he's in this painting is because, like, it's not a painting. The reason he's in this apocalyptic quadrant. Every tweet is a painting to me.

He's like, normally what happens is he'll do something kind of shocking, and adults will freak out, but kids will love him and, like, it's fine, and he never really gets in trouble. That sort of ended a few weeks ago when he decided to fly Japan and shoot, like, a fun, creepy video in what people, like, refer to as the suicide forest in Japan. Yeah, I heard about this. It's, like, this forest in Japan where, like, it's, like, sort of known that people go there, and that's a place where people go to commit suicide, essentially. Yeah, there's, like, for some reason, there's no cell phone service there, or there's very little cell phone. and people have written about it. He chose to go there because it's a known thing. Was he hoping to see...

I don't think he was hoping to see a body. I think it was more like... This will be creepy. Yeah, the atmosphere of a place where people have killed themselves will be great for my video. I'm going to show you like a very short clip from the video that he ended up shooting.

So like they go in, they immediately... And this was a surprise to them. They immediately encounter an actual corpse, which they show. They blur the face, but like they zoom in on the body. And then this is them reacting sort of... Got it. It's not like we could see it.

It's right there, but you can't see it. It's how our lives unfold. There's no going back. I've seen things I can't unseen. He's wearing a Toy Story alien hat the whole time. He found a dead body. Oh my God. Yup!

What the fuck? I gotta say this is top five craziest things I've ever experienced my life. Top five? Top one. This is the craziest thing I've ever experienced. I ain't gonna be sober for this shit. And I was just like drinking sake.

Yeah. Literally the fucking craziest moment in my life. I'm sorry for swearing so much. I'm already getting flag for demonetization, bro. So, yeah. It's just a mess. Ugh. It's really, really, really inappropriate.

Yeah. It's like a person who's like does not have... He doesn't have the capacity in him to like grapple with this thing. Right. And nor the good sense to not edit it and then post it. on his YouTube channel. And also, like, all his viewers, how many viewers is he have? Millions.

Yeah, so millions of teenagers who sort of subscribed to his channel, sort of like thinking they're going to get another funny Logan Paul stunt all of a sudden saw, like, a dead body hanging in a forest. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then it became this huge thing. And he had, like, a defensive apology.

And he had a less defensive apology. And he's actually kind of disappeared from public view for a few weeks. Right. So, but that's what, so that's the Logan Paul. So death is Logan Paul. Logan Paul is the, like, one more harbinger of the coming apocalypse is Logan Paul, who is death. Got it. All right.

We have marched our way through three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. I don't know what pestilence is. Pestilence is like I'm a complete and full no-on. It actually kind of, it plugs into to Logan Paul a little bit. Okay, so what is pestilence? Pestilence, you don't know what the word means? I know what the word means, I think, actually. Yeah, now that I've mentioned, like, wait, do I know what the pestilence is just illness, right?

But they always say, like, disease and pestilence. Yeah. A fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague. Oh, so it's like, it's like, it's like, yeah. Okay. All right. All right. So the pestilence frame, just to remind you, is two like sort of old, timey Disney looking possible bears.

It is an old cartoon from the 30s, and it's the three little bears. But for some reason, the three little bears. in this cartoon are like sort of fresh off the boat Italian stereotypes. Okay. And all it is is a five second clip of them coming in and seeing that their food has been eaten. And this is what happens. Somebody touch you my spaghetti. That's it.

Okay. But people thought that was very funny. It is very funny. And started using it as a way to, like, there's something funny about spigette. Yes. They started taking this very short animation clip with this funny phrase in it and started remixing it in all of these different ways. Like, there are a million different somebody touch on my spigets on the internet now.

How many retweets that original thing get? It has 112,000 retweets. That's amazing. That's like the only good thing about the internet. And I would posit that if it was. Somebody, somebody touching my spaghetti? No, like, you're not going anywhere. Yeah, two retreats.

Literally, they cut off the eye and it's 100,000 retweets. So I'm sure you're familiar with the fact that people really like making jokes about the smash mouth song, All-Star. Do you know about this? No. People just like making jokes about it. Like, they like, wait, what? Somebody once told me the world was going to rule me. Did you know when you just fun to make him sing it?

Sharpest tool in the shed. Wait, I think, wait. Hey now, you're an all-star. Get your game on. Get paid. That song, right. Right. So people do things like they'll have a tweet where they'll just say in lowercase some and then in capital body because they just know that that is enough to like put that song in your head for three days.

So anyway, so this is an example of what people have done with it. That's the entire thing. That's so weird. So another really good one is there's a... I'm just going to let him soak it in for a little while. Because they won't say somebody. This one has even less context. It's a song from one of the Kirby video games.

Kirby's just a video game character who is like a big purple ball. And someone just made this using the music from the game. I thought he was a big pink cloud. Pink cloud. That's what he is. Big pink ball is what he is. Here is a scene from full metal jacket. What is your major malfunction numnots? Somebody touch a much baguette.

Anyway, that's it. It doesn't go anywhere. No neo-Nazi picks it up. Nobody turns into a weapon that they hurt somebody else with. No, someone turns into a weapon they hurt somebody else with. Really? Okay. So you may be familiar with another YouTuber goes by the name PewDiePie.

Yeah. Do you know PewDiePie? I do. I know a lot about PewDiePie. He's the most popular YouTuber in the world. Right. He got popular by playing video games that people would watch him play on YouTube. Right.

He also just as like an addendum to the Logan Paul thing, PewDie Pi got in trouble recently for saying the N-word. And then he'll just sort of like apologize in a like, I'm sorry that you took me using the worst racial slur in a bad way kind of way. Right. And then he'll show back up. And when Logan Paul got in trouble, PewDiePie was sure to chime in and say like, well, people are.

People, why are people not more mad at him when they were so mad at me or like I would never do what he did? Like he made sure to make this about him in a way that was like watching an adult person do that was very strange. Weirdly I feel like what's sort of going on is that I think PewDiePie is using Logan Paul and Jake Paul to try and rehabilitate his reputation by being like, look how bad these people are. What that looks like is PewDiePie puts up a video criticizing Logan Paul for putting the video up in the first place, criticizing what he thinks is a terrible apology video. And then YouTube comes in and actually takes PewDie Pies video down. And he says that it's because they think he was bullying Logan Paul. They said that it was bullying to criticize somebody for mockingly taking a video with a dead person.

Look, moderation is an imperfect art. That's wild. YouTube's just doing their best. Wow. Okay. So, in response. PewDiePie put up a video called YouTube

Touched my Spaghetti What's the video? It's him talking about how YouTube took down his video and how Maddie was about that and what an incredible double standard it is and what kind of favoritism they play with the Pauls and him just laughing hysterically

about how funny somebody touched my spigette. At the same time? Kind of. Let me see it. Let me see it. All right. So here he is. Take all these horrible things that happen.

Sexual harassment. Murder. But when someone touch a... He couldn't think of anymore. That's when you know you have to stand up and use your voice. Somebody touch you my spaghetti. Anyway. Right.

So him doing this actually took this meme that was, I think, kind of niche and made it massive. Because this video has 7 million views. So part of the reason that... somebody touched my spigate, it's a big deal, is because a YouTuber who was angry, because he got in trouble for criticizing another YouTuber who was ashamed because he'd filmed a corpse and gotten yelled at for it.

Because that clip from like a 1920s Disney movie happened to float into that person's brain on that day, that's why we know this? Yes. That's wild. And I would say the last beat of this story is, since no one can ever be happy about anything, the guy who originally posted

to somebody touch of my spigette tweet responded to his own tweet afterward saying to PewDiePie who hijacked my meme that isn't even funny. It's true. You are a little bitch

and I have no respect for you and I wish I couldn't have could have forgotten about you years ago like everyone else did. He got the tiniest little platform and he stood on it and he took a shot. All right, yes, yes, yes. All right, Alex, I know that this is, this one is on a pretty epic scale, but can you explain to us this tweet?

Yes, I believe I can. All right, here we go. This single tweet is sort of like an encyclopedia of a bunch of different memes that are going around the internet and has like put them all together into this four box quadrant. Yeah, it's sort of like if we disappear tomorrow, the civilization that finds us is going to find this tweet like etched onto some. stone wall, and they're going to spend. By a bloody hand. And every panel in this tweet tells its own long, long story. There's the story of the Tidepods, which is famine, because people love to pretend to eat them.

And people loving to pretend to do something on the internet leads to hijinks and consequences. There's the story of the next panel, the echidna, which is war, which is it involves a Ugandan filmmaker. and the way his work has been employed in online gaming platforms. Then there's a story of Logan Paul, YouTube star extraordinaire, who took it too far when he filmed a dead body in a forest in Japan, and that's death.

And then final quadrant pestilence is... I'm not exactly sure what that has to do with pestilence, actually. but it's basically I think the user doesn't know what pestilence is I think that yes so anyway but I think they think it means poverty anyway

it's like the three bears from this like 1930s clip that has gone viral because of a disgraced YouTuber trying to sort of like get back at the other disgraced YouTuber from the previous quadrant

yeah spaghetti Spaghetti. Somebody toucha my spaghetti. Okay, I think we're at yes, yes, yes. I feel like we'll always be brothers after this one. Anything you need. You come to me.

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Thanks for listening. We'll see you next week. Want to throw the box down from up high and smash it, but the trees here are too thin and prickly. have something a little more deciduous, perhaps. Ah yeah, there we go. Behold, a vibrant new land, where we can make a new internet, a good internet, for you, and for me,

and this pine cone, and this bug, and this rock, I guess. Bug just posted some cute pictures of her nieces and nephews. Good ones, Bug, I like those. Oh, pine cones got a great deal for 90% off RayBet. No thank you, Pinecone. Not now. Rock just reblogged an interesting article about privilege. Thank you, Rock. I'll try to do better. Um, no, Pine Cone wants to sell you a brick of 300 counterfeit boner pills. No, thank you, Pinecone. Go away, please. Oh, now Bug is expressing support for a local sports team. I hope they win. Rock just posted a funny cat video. Oh, I love that.

Oh no, bug just reposted Richard Spencer and said the races shouldn't mix. No, no, no, no, bug, no, no, no. Muted. Hello, there's a website that lets you chat with thousands of women for free. Just click the link below to get... Not now, pine cone. Jesus Christ! Where are you going? Are we sure this is a rock?

It has teeth. Oh, hell no.