It’s been a long time since I regularly watched TYT, which I was a lot more into back in the days of Mushroom Cock’s first go round, and I always thought they were basically good but inclined to shrillness. That was what put me off them rather than bad hot takes or anything like that. But the hot takes do seem to have been getting worse in the last few years, especially from Ana Kasparian who’s been on the same “leaving the left” trip she used to blast Dave Rubin for… and now it looks like brother Cenk is following a similar more TERFy course himself. Oof. Joe, my housemate, is particularly furious cos he was actually a paying member of their network for a while, so he feels quite betrayed, moreso than me cos he invested in them. I don’t blame him. Cenk fucking embarrassed himself on that appearance on his nephew’s channel, which is excerpted at some length in this video; Joe is especially incensed at him for accusing Sam Seder of being a grifter, and I’m sure that Sam’s not rigorously perfect but goddamn, “grifter” is the last word I’d use of him… but it is a word I think we’ll see aimed at TYT more often after this. I expect John Iadarola will quit TYT after this bullshit to focus on his own thing and I don’t think he’ll be the last one…
