The Second Dotcom Crash and the End of Web 2.0

Roughly a year ago, I took my first book Confessions of an Online Hustler off-sale because I believed that in an age of omnipresent Internet censorship, much of the advice it in was no longer worth charging for. (You can now get it for free by signing up for my mailing list.) Back then, I believed that the struggles myself and other dissident right figures were going through would be temporary. That the clouds would part and we could go back to changing the world.

It’s time to face facts: we are in the middle of a second dotcom crash.

What do I mean by this? I mean that Web 2.0, the dominant paradigm of the Internet for the past decade, is dying. Much like how the first dotcom crash wiped out countless startups—and allowed others such as Amazon and eBay to achieve dominance—the second dotcom crash is destroying the livelihoods of everyone who creates online content for a living. Left, right, center, apolitical: independent writers, YouTube hosts, and other creators are being squeezed out to make the Internet safe for corporations and controlled opposition.

I’m one of those creators who’ve been wiped out. Most of you know that I was banned from Twitter in November 2016, losing access to over 10,000 followers who read, promoted, and supported my work. Earlier that year, I was also banned from Amazon Associates, a hit to my income. Two months later, after President Trump was inaugurated, I noticed a sudden and inexplicable drop in my site’s search traffic. Because much of my blog income (book sales and affiliate marketing) came via random Internet searches, my cash flow plummeted to the point where I was forced to find a job in order to support myself.

I believe that after the inauguration, Google targeted my site with some kind of anti-fake news algorithm, choking me off from potential new readers…and also choking off my ability to make a living. Since then, my search traffic has continued to dwindle, to the point where my audience is roughly the same size it was when I first started this blog back in 2012-2013. I’m making sufficiently little money that I’d be broke and homeless even in Eastern Europe if I didn’t have a day job.

I know that I’m not the only person who has dealt with this. YouTube’s constant gaslighting of its users is a major case in point. If you create videos or host live streams, it’s a crapshoot as to whether your subscribers will even see your content. The arbitrary “community guidelines” system has lead to hosts as diverse as my friend the Bechtloff and German communist Three Arrows having their videos removed due to false flagging. The “adpocalypse” last year led to countless channels being demonetized despite their popularity, and Google has increasingly tightened monetization requirements to shut out neophyte creators. And let’s not forget how videos are being “sandboxed” to keep other people from seeing them.

Every other Big Tech company is doing the same thing. For example, a close friend of mine who runs a website that reaches millions of people told me that Facebook has targeted him with their algorithms in such a manner that it’s impossible for articles on his site to go viral. Twitter’s penchant for banning and shadowbanning non-leftists is well-known at this point, and registrars like GoDaddy have seized the domains of websites like the Daily Stormer and AltRight.comI’ve also seen evidence that Amazon is trying to shadowban certain authors who sell their books via the site.

Libertarian retard logic claims that corporations will always try to maximize profit, yet Silicon Valley is deliberately leaving money on the table in order to shut down the most popular people on their platforms, even though most of these sites are already losing money. Moreover, President Trump has shown absolutely no interest in defending freedom of speech online, even though it’s his supporters that are being disproportionately targeted. Ted Cruz—the guy we all mocked as a feckless cuck during the Republican presidential primaries—has done more for us on this front than the “God-Emperor” has.

While we like to imagine ourselves as freedom fighters who will NOT! STAND! for our voices being silenced, the reality is that humans prefer to take the easy way out, and we’ve already quietly adapted to the new reality. For example, Beardson Beardly deletes episodes of his show The Weekly Sweat after they air so he doesn’t get a strike on his account (which would keep him from live streaming). Dissident right-wingers have developed increasingly elaborate ways to sneak back onto Twitter after being banned. Alt-tech platforms intended to replace these sites have all crashed and burned. Gab has become a repository for neo-Nazis and feds and will likely be shut down by the FBI in the near future, while YouTube competitor Vidme shut down last year due to mounting losses.

Not only that, there’s little reason to believe that we’d be able to return to the pre-Trump glory days even if all the censorship and gaslighting were ended today. Audience tastes have changed to such a rapid degree in the past few years that solid methods for making money and getting your message out will become obsolete within months. Attention spans have become increasingly short due to constant sensory overload, resulting in a shift from blogging and writing towards video and audio production, as well as Tweeting.

For example, live streams have supplanted videos as the primary means of creating content on YouTube due to a combination of incentives and disincentives. Audiences prefer live content to prerecorded videos due to the dynamism and interactivity factors, and YouTube’s Super Chat system (which allows viewers to donate to stream hosts in exchange for having one of their comments pinned to the stream chat for a period of time) makes live streams more lucrative as well. It’s because of this that I’ve shifted from doing podcasts and videos to hosting live streams.

Finally, a lot of online success comes down to luck. In nearly a decade of writing online, I’ve increasingly noticed that the biggest winners are those who latch onto a trend first. For example, video hosts like James Rolfe, Spoony, and Doug Walker became popular in the late 2000’s because they were among the first people creating content for YouTube, then a new site. “Digital nomads” who got their start when WordPress and blogging took off in the late 2000’s also made bank. When the Kindle first debuted, its users were so desperate for something to read that anyone could make decent coin publishing for the platform, even if their books were utter shit.

Johnny-come-latelys in any field will always be struggling against market saturation, even if they have talent. Untalented ones will fall flat on their faces. For example, look at the case of Christian McQueen, a fraud who lives off credit cards and scams people as part of his “playboy” lifestyle, or Dylan Madden, a fat, broke loser who lives with his grandma but pretends to be a baller online. I wager the majority of “location independent entrepreneurs” writing today are living off credit cards, trust funds, or savings from their old jobs.

The simple reality is that the Internet is rapidly closing its doors to the common man. Censorship, changing audience tastes, and market saturation are creating a situation in which the only people who can survive are those with connections. Think YouTube trying to muscle out independent hosts so they can cater to CNN and other mainstream media outlets, or alt-lite personalities like Stefan Molyneux sipping from the poisoned chalice of corporate sponsorships.

There is some hope. Some writers and YouTube hosts have managed to become successful under the new rules. But the catch is that they’re doing things that are new and novel. Dissident right subcultures like the ironybros and Frog Twitter are more successful accidentally than the vast majority of “digital nomads” are on purpose. Bronze Age Pervert’s book Bronze Age Mindset is currently one of the best-selling titles on Amazon, while Beardson Beardly was able to raise $150 in less than an hour so he could buy a capture card to stream video games. In contrast, dorks like Dylan Madden constantly beg people to click their Uber affiliate links and make pennies at best.

This is in part why I’ve shifted my focus to my new project, Terror House MagazineWhile I’m never going to quit writing or take down this site, opining on politics or the topics I typically focus on are not only less interesting to me, they have diminishing returns. With Terror House, I’m building something I’ve wanted to do for years, something that serves an important need (if our rapidly growing traffic is any indication) and is unique. I’m going to be 30 years old at the end of this month and it’s time for me to put aside childish things.

I plan on surviving the second dotcom crash by building my wealth outside of the Internet through a day job and creating an online business that will survive the ups and downs of censorship and audience mood shifts. Many people won’t be able to do this and will end up being forced out like Pets.com was. The golden days are over: it’s time to adapt.

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Why You Should Subscribe to My YouTube Channel

It’s not a secret that in the past few months, I’ve been devoting more time to my YouTube channel. This is for several reasons. The first is that I’ve been trying to complete several writing projects, leaving me less time to write on my blog or for other sites, meaning I need to provide regular content in other ways. Doing live streams and podcasts allows me to get my thoughts out and entertain you all without compromising the quality of my writing.

The second is that I’ve neglected my YouTube channel for years and I’ve been trying to build up a larger presence there with more consistent content. I’m nearing 3,000 YouTube subscribers and am hoping to get to 5,000 before the end of the year.

The third is that producing YouTube videos has become much easier due to the rising popularity of live streaming. Due to a combination of censorship and changing audience preferences, live streams have supplanted prerecorded videos as the most popular type of content on YouTube. This benefits me because I no longer have to own a camera or use editing software in order to post YouTube videos, two things that have kept me from making videos as often as I would like. The Super Chat system, which allows users to pay money to have their chat comments featured on a live stream, has also made streaming a lucrative enterprise for talented hosts.

Live streams are essentially live podcasts, featuring a dynamism and level of interactivity that podcasts lack. With my live streams Matt Forney Live and Matt Forney Live: Arcade, I can not only talk about the news and entertain you all, you can interact while the show is going on through chat comments, Super Chat, Streamlabs tips, and calling in via my Discord server. This is in large part why I’ve switched to doing live streams primarily instead of prerecorded podcasts like the Matt Forney Show (though I won’t rule out going back to that show in the future).

At the moment, Matt Forney Live airs Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5PM Eastern (4PM Central/2PM Pacific). In addition to that show, I host other streams throughout the week, including Matt Forney Live: Arcade, a series where I stream various video games. I’ve completed stream series on several games so far, from new ones such as Super Seducer to classics such as Deus Ex, Max Payneand Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

don’t post most of my streams on this blog (or I only post them after they’re over), so in order to watch them live, you’ll have to subscribe to my YouTube channel by clicking here. Be sure to click the bell icon after subscribing to ensure you get push notifications for all my YouTube streams and uploads (YouTube has been censoring right-wing users by keeping their subscribers from being notified of new videos and streams). You can see my live channel (where my latest live stream is always posted/streamed) by clicking here.

In addition to YouTube, I’ve also been simulcasting my streams on Twitch, and you can subscribe to my Twitch channel here. However, Twitch has more stringent censorship than YouTube and it also has a limited capacity for saving recordings (past streams are only kept for two weeks before being deleted), while YouTube allows me to keep past recordings of streams up in perpetuity.

I appreciate your support and readership over the years and I hope you’ll join me over on YouTube and Twitch. MattForney.com will remain online and I will continue to update it, though new articles will come at a slower rate as I focus on other projects.

A Requiem for Milo Yiannopoulos

I want to like Milo Yiannopoulos. I really do.

Milo’s work as a journalist and provocateur is a big reason why nationalism and the dissident right have made the strides that they have. He was the first major journalist to give a fair shake to GamerGate, and his outspoken support for Donald Trump when he began his presidential run three years ago was a boost to the movement. His open faggotry was annoying, but the guy was legitimately funny and good at driving the left insane.

I can’t even get upset over his supposed “defense” of pedophilia, because all sodomites are pedophiles. Contrary to the claim that homosexuality purely comes from nature, many gay men are gay because they were molested at a young age, and the trauma of that experience leads them to become molesters themselves. When the gay rights movement began in earnest several decades ago, one of their top demands was lowering the age of consent, and a big part of why homonationalists like Grindr Greg Johnson are so enamored with Europe is because ages of consent are much lower here, as low as thirteen in some countries. Crucifying Milo for being honest enough to admit what every homo believes is the height of priggishness.

Unfortunately for the Dangerous Faggot, that incident defanged him permanently. He had a chance to redeem himself in the wake of the pedo controversy by turning the tables and revealing how the “gay community” is built on the systemic sexual abuse of young boys, particularly boys from broken homes. He could have broken the conditioning. Instead, he did the equivalent of hiding behind his mom’s skirt when the other boys arrived to beat him up, like every gay man does.

Milo is finished. He’s not coming back. He was forced out of Breitbart following the pedo incident, the Mercers cut him off last fall, and he was forced to pay back the advance Simon and Schuster gave him for his book. His operations are losing money due to his coke-fueled, high-octane lifestyle, and the left has stopped caring what he says or does. The weight of countless broken promises, such as his Privilege Fund and the book he was writing about GamerGate that never materialized, hangs from his neck. And now he’s reduced to giving speeches in places like Hungary, desperately trying to buy more time for his fifteen minutes of fame.

Last Friday, Milo Yiannopoulos gave a speech in Budapest with the decidedly un-Milo title “Risks and Opportunities in the 21st Century,” paid for by a foundation connected to the Hungarian government. It was part of the “Future of Europe” conference, a multi-day extravaganza where various right-wing figures both foreign and domestic came to the city to warn about the dangers of globalism while the rest of us ate duck breast fusilli and drank wine on the taxpayer’s dime. After two days of presentations by Steve Bannon, Douglas Murray, David Goldman, and other major nationalist figures, Milo’s speech was billed as the biggest event of them all. Would the Dangerous Faggot reclaim his crown?

Sadly, the answer was no. I was at the speech, and it was a genuinely depressing affair. While Milo is still witty and quick on his feet, his bag of tricks is empty. He’s a stand-up comedian who repeats the same jokes over and over, oblivious to the fact that they’re no longer funny, though the aggressively mulched minds who attend his dwindling events might suggest otherwise. The arc of the Milo universe is long and headed down, down, down.

In defense of Milo, the entirety of the alt-lite suffers from this problem. Figures like Paul Joseph Watson, Jack Posobiec, and Candace Owens have desperately tried to carve out a niche of being edgy, but not too edgy. The alt-lite is where you go when you’re not starchy enough to work for Conservatism, Inc. but you think the “neo-Nazis” of the alt-right are icky. As a result, it lacks an ideological center and is constantly being pulled apart by both sides, which is evident in how some alt-lite figures are starting to drift back towards the left.

A big part of why Milo and his ilk were funny was not just because of what they said, but the left’s hysterical reaction to them. The frisson of trolling is about offending the easily offended, and the more anodyne the trolling, the funnier it is. For example, the social media manager of my new site Terror House Magazine recently trolled a bunch of leftists by making a blatantly fake Tweet about killing pitbulls. Milo is, by any reasonable standard, a political moderate: he’s pro-gay rights, pro-abortion, and is not terribly religious. His objections to feminism and leftism are similar to Jordan Peterson’s and the other emissaries of the Intellectual Dork Web: he’s not against these ideologies, he just thinks they’ve gone too far. In a sane society, Milo would occupy the same space on the political spectrum that the Revolutionary Communist Party is currently at.

But the left isn’t taking the bait anymore. From 2013 to 2016, left-wingers had become so hypersensitive that merely remarking about how women with excessive confidence or tattoos were unattractive was enough to get you gang-stalked and flooded with hate mail. But we’ve overused the penicillin of trolling to the point where the leftist bacteria in our societies have become immune to it. The snowflakes are melting, the safe spaces are being torn down, and the energy on the left is shifting to “dirtbag” groups like Chapo Trap House, who are unafraid to trade barbs with dank memesters in between repping the Democratic Socialists of America.

In this world, Milo and the alt-lite no longer serve a purpose. This was evident in the near-total obscurity in which his Budapest speech took place. To be fair, Hungarians by and large don’t know who he is and the Hungarian left is too terrified to leave their houses after dark, so the likelihood of a Chicago- or Berkeley-style attack on Milo’s speech was remote (and the Hungarian police would have shut it down anyway). But the international fake news media barely noticed that the Dangerous Faggot was repairing to a country that they regularly smear as “authoritarian” and “fascistic.” The spotlights have moved on.

The speech itself hovered between serviceable and cringeworthy. Milo was introduced by some local Hungarian figure who I didn’t recognize, who had a bizarre shtick of pulling off his T-shirt every other minute to reveal a new shirt with a dumb slogan. He started out with “Make Liberals Liberal Again,” went to “It’s Okay to Be White,” and finished up with “Free Speech,” all while making dumb puns about “asses” and toothless appeals to the West’s “Judeo-Christian” values. The crowd—mostly foreigners—ate it up, proving my point that the average IQ of the right-wing has slid about seven points in the last four years.

Milo’s speech was his typical boilerplate: egregious references to his love of black cock, attacks on the ugliness of feminists, kvetching about Islam. He doesn’t understand that speeches are like comedy routines, not songs: people don’t want to hear the exact same ones over and over again. If you’re the kind of person who listens to the exact same Katy Perry single from 2008 over and over again, you’ll love Milo, and to his credit, he’s at least consistent from a presentational standpoint. But there’s no there there. He’s as hollow and illusory as Patrick Bateman opining on Huey Lewis and the News.

The only genuinely shocking thing Milo said during his speech was when he revealed that his husband was in the audience, but he wouldn’t point him out because he didn’t want the guy to be “assassinated.” Seriously, man? This is Hungary. The number of black men in Budapest at any given time isn’t big enough to fill a Lil Herb show, and the number of gay black men is even smaller. There were also only about 500 people at the event. Are you trying to get the love of your life killed? (Well, he technically is by engaging in sodomy with the guy, but I’m talking purely about this dumbass statement here.)

After Milo’s speech, there was a brief Q&A session where he answered questions sent to him via an email address that was supposedly provided to everyone, even though half the seats in the room didn’t have the slips of paper that it was supposedly printed on. Beyond the weird, creepy fanboy questions—one idiot asked Milo whether he thought Viktor Orbán or Donald Trump was sexier—the only one of note was a commenter asking why Milo did an about-face on gay marriage. Milo hemmed and hawed, finally answering that he used to oppose gay marriage because he didn’t think he’d be able to love another man in the way he loves his husband, which nearly made me leave the auditorium in disgust. After the Q&A session was over, Milo promptly departed the room, instead of hanging around for selfies with his fans like he ordinarily would.

I don’t want to dislike Milo. I’ve hung out with him before and he’s always been gracious to me. But his career as a public figure is at an end. He can’t innovate in a changing world, a world in which enraging people requires more effort than merely calling feminism “cancer,” and where the most trollable characters are protected by censorious algorithms and “hate speech” bans. Like most sodomites, Milo is all style, no substance, and in an increasingly lean world, he has little to offer anyone anymore.

Read Next: How Violent Leftists Shut Down Milo Yiannopoulos’ Speech at DePaul University in Chicago

Introducing My New Website: Terror House Magazine

For the past month, I’ve been hard at work building a new website, Terror House Magazine. It’s a literary magazine focused on publishing outsider fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, artwork, and analysis. It’s now live, and you can visit it by clicking here.

I’ve written an article for Terror House explaining why I created the site and my plans for it over the next few months. You can read it by clicking here.

If you’ve been following the Letters from a Heartbroken Pervert articles I’ve been posting since January, that series was my impetus for launching the site. Future installments will be published at Terror House, and they will eventually be compiled into a book. You can read all published installments of the book by clicking the links below:

  1. I Can’t Draw
  2. Avant-Garde
  3. First
  4. Stupid
  5. Faces
  6. Wasted
  7. Your Idea
  8. Two-Thirds
  9. Trick
  10. A Poem
  11. Blurred Reality and Legal
  12. An Exchange
  13. About July Fourth
  14. Matter
  15. Taste and Dream
  16. Where Have You Cum?
  17. While You Were Speaking
  18. Why I Lie
  19. Another Poem

I project that Terror House Magazine will outpace MattForney.com in terms of traffic by the end of the summer, if not sooner. While I will still be writing and publishing articles here, my more literary work will be posted at the new site.

If you’re an author, Terror House Magazine wants to publish your work. Unlike most lit mags, we don’t expect our writers to work for free, which is why we award a $10 prize to the author who has contributed the best submission each month. Submit your work to us by clicking here and learn how you can get paid by clicking here.

My ultimate ambition is to launch a book publisher focused on fiction and literary nonfiction.

If you’re on Twitter, you can follow Terror House Magazine’s Twitter account by clicking here. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking here.

Thanks for following my work all these years and I hope you’ll check out Terror House Magazine.

How We Can Make Western Women Feminine Again

This is a guest post by Jack from Road to Solidity.

It’s no secret that Western women have become more masculine and less feminine over the course of the last few decades.

They have forgotten who they really are and what they’re supposed to be.

Some would say that Western girls have become the worst in the world.

Feminism is one of the many things that has wreaked havoc on Western civilization in both Western Europe and the U.S.

I’m not going to talk about the people behind feminism or the disastrous effects it has on our civilization; instead, I’m going to focus on how we can escape this situation.

I’m going to lay down a plan we can use to take back control of our women and make them feminine and attractive again.

But before that, we must take a closer look at female psychology and the natural behavior of women.

Women Are Followers by Nature

Women are herd conformists.

They follow the group.

That’s what they’ve always done.

They are biologically hardwired to follow whoever is in charge. They are biologically programmed to fit into the society they live in.

A woman will do everything in her power to avoid being rejected from her social group and, by extension, the society she lives in. A woman who has no social group has no chance of survival.

That’s why women follow popular trends and opinions without even thinking about it.

Now, if the moral standards of the group women belong to are good, that’s great. Most women will behave in a good way and be proper wives and mothers.

However, if the moral standards of the group are bad, that’s another story. I do not need to draw a picture of this because you already know what I’m talking about.

So women just follow trends and they don’t bother to think whether they’re bad or not.

In fact, women have less of an ability to distinguish between good and evil compared to men.

It’s not even the fault of women that they follow the sick trends of today. They are like a gaggle of sheep following their shepherd.

Who the shepherd is and where he’s heading is what really matters.

Why Do Women Follow These Sick Trends?

Again, women will do anything to fit into their society.

They are becoming less feminine and more masculine because that’s what society dictates to them.

Since they don’t want to be rejected from society, they do what they’re told: adapting their behavior to the moral standards of their society.

Now, what if there was another society they could belong to?

What if there was another group they could join?

What if they belonged to a group that had good moral standards?

If women do what this sick society dictates to them, it’s because they have no other group to follow.

Western men have become individualists who don’t see themselves as a group. They only see themselves as individuals.

This individualism is a good thing because it’s what makes the Western man so smart and creative.

But individualism isn’t enough when it comes to building a society that can resist subversion. It’s insufficient when it comes to resisting other groups of people who are more organized and cohesive.

Since Western men don’t form a group, they are just isolated individuals, and these isolated individuals have no choice but to follow what is dictated by society and the government.

Let me be clear about this: I’m not against a strong government with strict laws and considerable power. That kind of government is very good so long as it truly serves the interests of the people.

On the other hand, if the government clearly works towards the destruction of the nation it rules, it is necessary for people to go their own way. It is necessary for men to distance themselves from society and create their own.

Communitisation is Key to Saving Western Civilization

Once Western men join together and start building a society with their own rules, things will start to change.

Women will have another society they can belong to. They will have another group to follow. They will naturally follow the powerful, masculine men who are close to them and who belong to this new society.

Women will do everything they can to fit into this group. They will follow the trends of this society. Our trends. Our moral standards.

This parallel society Western men should create can be seen as a cartel or a mafia, albeit a mafia who serves our interests and works towards the restoration of our civilization.

Once this happens, the Western man will be unstoppable. He will understand how to gain and keep power.

It might sound a lot of work, because it is. We won’t make this happen overnight. But this is the way to go.

Each Western man must gather with other men who want the same things as him and create a powerful network with these men. A network that will allow them to build an attractive lifestyle women will want to be part of. A network that will offer women an alternative.

Jack blogs at Road to Solidity.

Read Next: Men Aren’t Fighting for Women Anymore, and Why Should They?

Why You Should Abandon Gab

For nearly two years, I’ve been an evangelist for Gab, a free-speech social media network that sprung up in the wake of Big Tech’s censorship wave during the 2016 election. Originally intended as a Twitter replacement, Gab boasted several major improvements over that site—such as the ability to edit your posts—and has since evolved to include messaging, video uploading, and streaming capabilities. Most importantly, the site did not censor or throttle right-wingers for their political views.

However, it’s clear that Gab can no longer function as a platform where sane people can promote their work and share their views.

In the past couple of months, Gab has been a major battleground in the collapsing alt-right and its conflict over optics and tactics. Individuals such as Ricky Vaughn, Andrew Anglin, and Weev have urging the dissident right to abandon Nazi imagery (even if they’re only using it ironically), avoid pointless real-life marches, and to adopt American nationalism in order to win over normal people. They’ve been resisted by individuals such as Christopher Cantwell, Paul Nehlen (yes, the Paul Nehlen who is supposed to be running against Paul Ryan), and Matthew Heimbach, who think that the white race will be saved through nonstop goon marches, LARPing, and screaming about Jews constantly.

Two days ago, Nehlen decided to dox Ricky Vaughn on Gab because Ricky had the temerity to make fun of Nehlen on a podcast. It’s worth pointing out that the dox has not been confirmed: Ricky is still posting on Gab as well as on Twitter and doesn’t appear to be affected by Nehlen’s lame attempt to silence him. I won’t link to the dox to protect Ricky’s privacy.

Nonetheless, the precedent set by Nehlen’s actions is chilling. While doxing is an ever-present threat for anonymous commentators—and I’ve advocated that people who use pseudonyms should always be prepared in the event they are doxed—Ricky was doxed not by a leftist, but by someone who was ostensibly on his side.

Why would anyone who has anything to lose get involved in the dissident right now? If you make the mistake of trusting a psycho like Nehlen who ends up doxing you over his hurt feeeeeelings, you could end up ruined, fired from your job, and a target for physical violence from the left.

To make matters worse, Andrew Torba, the head of Gab, has specifically refused to ban Nehlen. His logic is hilariously Pharisaical: because the dox hasn’t been confirmed to be real, it doesn’t violate Gab’s Terms of Service. In other words, Ricky needs to wait until antifa thugs show up at his door or he gets canned from his job before Torba will take any action:

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Either Torba is playing favorites—he’s a longtime fan of Nehlen’s and fully supported the guy detonating his political career to rant about Jews—or he has a ludicrously autistic definition of what constitutes “free speech.” Doxing anonymous individuals such as Ricky Vaughn is depriving them of free speech, because without anonymity, they cannot speak without fear of becoming unemployable and a target for leftist violence. The fact that Torba doesn’t understand this means he cannot be trusted to protect Gab’s users.

It’s worth noting that Weev, one of a handful of users who have been banned from Gab, pointed this out months ago. We should have listened. Torba alleges he banned Weev for “direct calls to violent action,” yet has never produced any proof that Weev was in fact inciting violence.

Despite defending his ban of Weev to this day, Torba won’t lift a finger to ban Paul Nehlen, Christopher Cantwell, or the countless other waffendorks on Gab who engage in objectively worse behavior. For example, here’s a screenshot of Cantwell threatening me with violence because I dared to criticize him on Davis Aurini’s most recent live stream. Cantwell’s comment to me is several orders of magnitude worse than anything Weev ever said on Gab:

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The hilarity of Cantwell acting like a tough guy on Gab is that he’s still on trial for his actions at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville last year and his comments will no doubt be used to justify a guilty verdict. Not only that, I live in Europe, and due to Cantwell’s criminal record and his reputation as a violent “white supremacist,” if he were to ever come over here to carry out his threat, I could make one phone call and ensure he gets arrested and deported the second he sets foot on E.U. soil.

Then again, what do you expect from a guy who shoves meth up his asshole?

This is the problem with Gab: its “free speech” mission and Torba’s selective moderating has allowed it to devolve into a cesspool of the worst doxers, retards, and neo-Nazi scum. Torba’s persistent refusal to introduce a block button allows morons to free-ride off of more popular people’s content by spamming them with constant replies, dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator.

By refusing to ban Nehlen, Torba has also now set a precedent that doxing people is acceptable on Gab, ensuring that more people will flee the site. White nationalists and neo-Nazis will take advantage of this to aggressively dox and stalk their “enemies.” Keep in mind that these people are so deranged that they regard anyone who doesn’t march around in a swastika armband bragging about killing Jews as an “enemy”:

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White nationalists and neo-Nazis think doxing is acceptable because they are miserable losers with no future, no families, and no career prospects, and they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are. If you have anything to lose, you should stay as far away from them as possible.

Because of this, I will no longer be using Gab to promote my work.

On Tuesday, I cancelled my Gab Pro subscription (which was due to renew that day), and yesterday, I announced that I will no longer be posting on the site or even logging into my account anymore. While I’m not going to delete my account (mainly to ensure that some retard doesn’t try to impersonate me), I won’t be using or promoting Gab in any capacity until/unless Andrew Torba does these three things:

  1. Bans Paul Nehlen.
  2. Changes the Gab TOS to ban doxing.
  3. Introduces a block button.

As one of the more popular users on Gab—I have just shy of 6,000 followers there out of roughly 400,000 users total, equaling nearly two percent of Gab’s user base—my departure will be a minor blow to the site. Torba is under no obligation to accede to my demands, of course, but I’m also under no obligation to give his site money or publicity.

Gab has been absolutely worthless in regards to attracting traffic to my blog and YouTube channel anyway: the only time I’ve gotten a significant number of hits from the site is when I was writing about the FISA memo. I get more hits from Twitter and Facebook—two platforms I was banned from eons ago—than from Gab.

If you’re a Gab user who wants to keep up with my work, I recommend you cut out the middleman and subscribe to my mailing list, which you can do via the sign-up form in the sidebar (and you get two free e-books along with it). You can also subscribe to my RSS feed if you still use an RSS reader by clicking here. Finally, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel here, my SoundCloud page here, and my Instagram account here (though I haven’t used the latter in a long time).

Good night, Gab, and good luck.

UPDATE (4/5/2018): Andrew Torba responded to this article within an hour of me posting it, snidely referring to me as an “obese blogger” and ignoring my arguments:

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It’s interesting that Torba cannot fix basic problems with Gab (such as sluggish performance, the inability to resize avatar pictures, or the fact that the site regularly goes offline) but was able to find my article and whine about it almost immediately after it was published. He’s a typical millennial: unprofessional, petty, and thin-skinned, and Gab is his personal hugbox.

Additionally, leftist journalists are now attempting to harass and attack Ricky Vaughn thanks to Nehlen doxing him, which could have been prevented had Torba banned Nehlen in the first place.

UPDATE (4/5/2016): Andrew Torba has finally banned Paul Nehlen from Gab now that it is clear that his dox of Ricky Vaughn was real. He should have banned Nehlen several days ago, but he did the right thing regardless. I still will not be returning to Gab unless he implements points two and three.

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Watch My Live YouTube Stream on the Pennsylvania House Special Election

Yesterday, I did an impromptu live YouTube stream on the Pennsylvania House special election between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone, possible Democratic voter fraud, the protests in Slovakia, and much more. The show aired at 8:10 PM EST (7:10 PM CST/5:10 PM PST).

You can watch the stream by using the window below, or you can click here to watch it on YouTube.

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Make Americans Great Again: The Owner’s Manual

NOTE: This article was originally published at Right On on November 2, 2016. I’m re-posting it here as the site is now defunct.

Mike Cernovich’s MAGA Mindset is not just a great explanation of the formula behind Donald Trump’s success, it’s a smartly-written primer on the political situation in the West. However, dedicated alt-Righters might find it a bit thin.

With Donald Trump having blown every bit of conventional political wisdom to smithereens on his way to the White House, perpetually humiliated pundits have resorted to increasingly hilarious rationalizations of their failure to predict his success. “He got lucky.” “He entered the race as a publicity stunt and he didn’t really want to win.” “The GOP didn’t do enough to take him down.” Only a handful of commentators had the foresight—and the honesty—to admit that Trump not only could win, he had a plan to win from the start.

One of those commentators was Mike Cernovich, free-speech attorney and journalist. When I first became aware of Cernovich six years ago, he ran a small law blog; now, he’s a superstar who’s been featured on (and subsequently banned from) national television and occupies a top spot on Hillary Clinton’s enemies’ list due to his exposes on her corruption and health problems. The secrets to Cernovich’s boundless enthusiasm and relentless striving for success are in his bestseller Gorilla Mindset, a handbook explaining how you can achieve your goals by overhauling the way you view the world.

Cernovich was able to predict Trump’s rise because the two of them have similar mindsets, as can be seen with the former’s latest book, MAGA Mindset: Making America and You Great Again. A publication of Vox Day’s Castalia House (known for CuckservativeSJWs Always Lie and other great books), MAGA Mindset serves as both a roadmap to Trump’s mind and a good introduction to the current state of the West. Even in the (increasingly unlikely) event that Trump loses, Cernovich’s book will remain a valuable look at mindset and modern politics.

MAGA Mindset’s genius is that it fuses nationalist political commentary with Cernovich’s self-help-oriented perspective and approach. The book opens with an overview of recent events in Europe and America, laying the framework for exploring Trump’s success in business and politics. Cernovich intelligently explains that a good portion of Trump’s triumphs are due to his explicitly nationalist views:

Trump rejected globalism with a powerful statement: “Build the Wall.” Aside from the literal meaning of erecting a border between the United States and Mexico to prevent tens of millions of illegal immigrants, including drug dealers and Islamic terrorists, from entering America, the phrase is a symbol. “Building the Wall” is a powerful symbol of nationalism. It sends a powerful message that America has a right to exist in its own right. What is a nation without borders, after all? It is nothing.

Cernovich’s writing style in MAGA Mindset is the same as Gorilla Mindset and his articles: direct and forceful, without unnecessary erudition or showiness. Additionally, his prose and ideas are relatively devoid of slang terms and ideological nitpicking (he doesn’t identify as alt-Right, though he describes himself as “alt-Right friendly”), meaning that the book has a good chance of actually changing peoples’ thinking.

While MAGA Mindset states that Trump’s success is in part due to him taking advantage of preexisting trends (e.g. White anger at demographic replacement, irritation with political correctness, distrust of the mainstream media etc.), no other man could have so effectively seized the day as the Donald. For example, Ted Cruz was a counter-cultural figure, yet everyone outside of his “true conservative” cult treats him like a walking goiter. During the Republican primary, Marco Rubio’s attempt to imitate Trump’s insult style sank his presidential bid.

MAGA Mindset reveals that Donald Trump’s triumphs throughout his life are the result of his mindset. Trump doesn’t whine, make excuses, or settle for anything less than winning. While he’s had screw-ups during the course of his life (as have we all), his positive, results-oriented mindset has enabled him to continue growing his business and his brand despite the occasional setback:

So, start thinking about how to think big in your own life. You don’t need to think about how to become a billionaire real estate developer, because your situation is different than Donald Trump’s. You’re not starting with a real estate company in Brooklyn. Thinking big is relative to your situation and how you define reality. For example, I’m a writer without any employees. Now, I could hire people to write for me like James Patterson does and publish ten times more books than I do, or go on the professional speaking circuit, but for me, thinking big means having huge amounts of personal freedom. If I want to go on a hiking trip to Alaska or South Africa, I have no need to delegate any tasks or check up on my employees and their managers. I simply hop on a plane and leave.

In particular, Cernovich cites Trump’s close relationship with Norman Vincent Peale, the author of The Power of Positive Thinking. It’s easy for cynics to scoff at self-help books like Peale’s, but the results speak for themselves: Trump took charge of a middling New York City real estate business during the 1970’s—one of the worst periods in NYC’s history—and turned it into a global powerhouse. Winners try to emulate Trump’s methods; losers try to explain away Trump’s success as being a fluke or because of his “inheritance.” It’s the same reason why Trump’s female haters are middling or ugly women that neither he nor his sons would look at twice.

I can attest to Gorilla Mindset’s efficacy, having been already acquainted with Cernovich’s concept of positive affirmations. Affirmations were first explored in Dr. Shad Helmstetter’s What to Say When You Talk to Your Selfa scientifically-backed tome showing how the mere act of vocalizing your goals every morning makes you more likely to achieve them. Much of what we perceive as “reality” is in fact a construction of our minds, and with the proper mindset, you can clear away many of the obstacles you face. Having the proper mindset can also save your life; for example, when I was facing down a false rape accusation, Cernovich’s techniques helped me retain my sanity and rise above.

MAGA Mindset also shows how Trump tries to stay in touch with the common man despite being a famous billionaire. Near the end of the book, Cernovich points out how Trump suggests talking to cab drivers when visiting a new city in order to get their unique perspective on things. Anyone who’s attended one of the Donald’s rallies can confirm that he has a genuine affection for the American people, despite his wealth and prestige. Contrast this with Hillary Clinton’s condescending attempts to relate to normal peopletrying to hide her obvious contempt for them.

My main criticism of MAGA Mindset is its relative brevity; to a certain extent, Cernovich assumes that you’ve already read Gorilla Mindset and avoids retreading material from that book. As a result, those who haven’t read Gorilla Mindset won’t derive as much benefit from MAGA Mindset. While the political portions of Cernovich’s book stand on their own, you’re best off reading Gorilla Mindset first to derive maximum benefit from the mindset portions. I’m also not a fan of the awkward name, though Cernovich likely chose the title for legal reasons: a book named “Trump Mindset” might have gotten him in trouble.

Overall, despite these flaws, MAGA Mindset is a worthwhile examination of what makes Trump tick. If you’re looking to emulate the man’s success, it’s a must-read; if you have normie friends that you want to educate, hand them a copy as well.

Click here to buy MAGA Mindset: Making YOU and America Great Again.

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Why I Don’t Complain About Modern Art

NOTE: This is the text of my monologue from the most recent episode of Heyoka Pod, “Redman Trip Creek.”

George Carlin once said that he never talked about politics because the only reason America had selfish, ignorant leaders was due to Americans themselves being selfish and ignorant. For that same reason, I don’t complain about art. The reason modern art is bad is because modern artists, musicians, and writers are self-obsessed, gormless twits. As Carlin put it, this is the best we can do, folks.

There’s one girl my mind inevitably wanders to when I think about the emptiness of modern artists. She was an aspiring writer who glommed onto me like a remora, hoping to absorb my talent and success through osmosis. Her Black No. 1 hair dye and the Hot Topic wardrobe her mom paid for perfectly matched the pitch-black mole just off the coast of her lips. She had one of those weird asexual names like Madison, Aidan, or Bailey, the kind where you can’t tell whether you’re dealing with a boy or a girl.

I first met her when she slid into my DMs, telling me she wanted to interview me for her college paper. She had a tattoo on her bicep, proudly flaunting it on Twitter with the hashtag “#NeverGettingMarried.” She always got mad because I could never remember whether it was a dragon or a unicorn, because my eyes always wandered to that mole. Her tattoo was just a black outline because she couldn’t afford to get it filled in. I asked her why she didn’t just wait until she’d saved up the money to get the whole thing, and she replied, “But I really wanted this tattoo!” Or more accurately, one-eighth of that tattoo.

One day, she sent me a link to her Tumblr blog, asking me what I thought of her posts. They were all about her favorite subject: herself. Her blog was nothing but navel-gazing on how badly she wanted to be a writer and how nervous she was about graduating college, even though the most adventurous thing she’d ever done was bus tables at a Waffle House. This was my reply: “Stop talking about yourself. You’re a 24-year old from Indiana. You’re not that interesting.”

She told me to go fuck myself. I didn’t speak to her for two months.

She messaged me asking how I’d been, and I told her that things had gone south between me and another female writer, who she’d been intensely jealous of after I told her to read that writer’s novel. Sensing her chance to become the millennial Amber O’Neil, she came to visit me in Chicago for a weekend.

I ended up suppressing the memory of that weekend out of pure rage, like a porn star blacking out her childhood visits with Uncle Bad Touch. But three things about her visit always bubble up out of the cauldron of my mind.

The first happened the morning after she arrived. She made bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast in an attempt to impress me. She then promptly ruined it by pouring the bacon grease down the kitchen sink. I had to use two bottles of Drano to unclog the drain.

The second was when she confessed to me that she had been engaged to a guy the previous year, before meeting me. I asked her why she broke off the engagement. She said that she had felt guilted into it by her Christian parents and that she wanted to “see the world” and “follow her dreams.” I responded by ordering two more IPAs from the bar.

The third was when I told her to get on all fours because I was sick of having to stare at her mole. After assuming the position for two seconds, she suddenly turned around and smacked me in the face, screaming, “Don’t look at my asshole!” I contemplated kicking her out, but stopped after realizing that a pretty white girl wandering around that part of Chicago at night would probably end up in several different trash bags in a dumpster.

I took her to the Greyhound station the next morning. When I got home, I blocked her on my phone and social media accounts.

A few months ago, Instagram recommended I follow her. She’s married now, and pregnant. Her husband is some older guy who looks like he has money. She’s not using the Black No. 1 anymore, none of her recent selfies show the tattoo on her bicep, and there’s no mention of her writing career.

And that’s why I don’t complain about modern art, folks.

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Super Seducer: The Game That Teaches You How to Meet Girls

NOTE: This is a sponsored post by Super Seducer. If you’re interested in advertising on my site, click here.

When I first heard of the game Super Seducer, created by well-known dating coach Richard La Ruina, I thought it was ridiculous. On the surface, the idea of playing a video game about picking up women is so cringeworthy it deserves its own Mister Metokur video. From a more practical perspective, Super Seducer also seems like it would fail in its stated purpose: teaching men how to become better with girls. How could this project be anything but dumb?

Then I actually looked into the game and played it (full disclosure: La Ruina gave me a free Steam copy of the game).

Super Seducer isn’t the flashiest game out there, but as a simple FMV title, it’s actually quite fun to play. La Ruina’s game actually does teach good ideas about how to meet and attract women, so it could actually serve as an interesting aid for guys who are getting into the game. Even discounting that, Super Seducer is fun to play thanks to its simple gameplay and amusing stories and plotlines.

Play the Game to Learn the Game?

I’m familiar with Richard La Ruina’s work; I distinctly remember being on the mailing list of his company, PUA Training, a decade ago, when I first became acquainted with the concept of game. La Ruina distinguishes himself from other pickup gurus of that time period by advocating a naturalistic approach to meeting women. Instead of relying on canned openers and pick-up lines, he recommends that guys work on becoming interesting, attractive men if they want to become better with girls. If you’re out of shape, go to the gym; if you’re boring, get some cool hobbies; if you can’t dress, get a new wardrobe. Fix your own problems before you go out and meet women.

It’s an approach I like because it actually works, and it stands the test of time. Individual lines or routines might get old, but being a confident, approachable man will always be fashionable. Moreover, La Ruina’s advice will actually lead to positive benefits in your life beyond merely being better with women; there are plenty of uses for a good body or personal charisma.

La Ruina’s methodology informs Super Seducer’s gameplay and plot (if you can call it that). The meat of the game is a series of common scenarios in which men might meet girls, such as approaching them on the street to dancing with them in clubs to trying to get out of the friendzone with female acquaintances. You select options from a dialogue menu akin to an RPG, then watch your character act out your choice (and the girl’s reaction to it). Afterwards, La Ruina himself shows up to give an explanation of why your choice worked (or didn’t) and the logic behind it.

These debriefings are key to why Super Seducer can work as a game aid. La Ruina doesn’t merely hand you lines and moves; he explains why they work and how you can come up with ideas and moves of your own. The game includes a lot of obviously bad choices, such as grabbing a girl’s ass in a club or unfurling your dick (there’s no nudity in the game, it’s all implied), but the game also mixes it up with not just good choices, but choices that are merely okay. At the end of each scenario, you get graded based on how well you’ve done and how many choices in the interaction you explored.

The fact that Super Seducer actually gives the player good advice on attracting women in realistic scenarios puts it heads and shoulders above other so-called “dating sims,” which typically revolve around giving women expensive gifts in order to win their hearts. Additionally, Super Seducer can also act as a nice visual aid for newbies, allowing them to see how certain scenarios might play out instead of merely reading about them in a book, since a picture is worth a thousand words. For more visually-oriented men, Super Seducer might actually be better than traditional dating and PUA material due to the greater interactivity it provides.

Becoming a Super Seducer

Super Seducer is presented through full-motion videos featuring real actors, a significant departure from most games of its type. This is where the game falters a bit; because Super Seducer is dependent on the quality of its actors and actresses, having bad ones causes certain scenarios to have less impact. La Ruina portrays the player character and does a good job of acting out the various choices and game concepts, but the quality of the other actors tends to vary. For example, the early scenario “Two Girls in a Bar” drags a bit due to its main actresses (a pair of Russians) not being as good as some of the other actresses.

Additionally, Super Seducer is constrained by the fact that it’s an FMV game, and it has little outside of its main gameplay mechanic of selecting dialogue choices. At times, playing it was like stepping in a time warp to the early 1990’s, when FMV schlockfests like Johnny Mnemonic and Phantasmagoria were the cutting edge of game technology. Super Seducer is way more fun (and has way better acting) than those games, but its lack of interactivity and its single-minded gameplay might be a turn-off to some players who are craving a more dynamic experience.

However, these are relatively minor problems. Super Seducer is enjoyable for what it is: a simple, tongue-in-cheek game that helps men improve their skills with women.

If you’re a younger guy looking for resources that can help improve your game, Super Seducer is worth buying because it can help you visualize the attitudes and ideas you need to embody in order to be successful at dating. Even if you’re not interested in the game for this reason, Super Seducer is worth checking out because it’s easy-to-play, funny, and sharp. And of course, the fact that feminists continue to be infuriated by the game is yet another reason to buy it:

Super Seducer will be released on March 6 on Steam and the PlayStation Network. I’ve had a good time playing and streaming the game so far, and so will you.

Click here to learn more about Super Seducer, and click here to buy the game on Steam.

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