Yanking chains
I seem to have fallen into a pit of irrelevance on YouTube.
I don't have a YouTube account—because I wear a tinfoil hat—which means that I cannot choose what suggestions are thrown my way by the algorithm. That's been fine up until now, but recently it seems to have got me onto a weird track, that of YouTube commentators. I'm not exactly sure how I got here, or what these people do for a living, but they seem to eke out some existence by reading stuff they've found elsewhere on social media.
Which brings me to TheQuartering—I added that link as a reference, not a recommendation!
I have no idea whether Jeremy Hambly's a prude, or whether he's trying to stay within YouTube's or his sponsors' guidelines. Whatever the reason, he has an annoying habit of reading onscreen text aloud, but not really reading it out as written, if you see what I mean. And he doesn't seem to prepare before shooting his video, it all seems to be off-the-cuff. All the better for grinding out quantity over quality, I guess.
It's all rather trite and pointless, but I cannot decide whether or not he's being serious when discussing a supposed falling out between Joe Rogan and John McAfee.
McAfee alleged in an online interview that he brought twin female dwarves to a sex party with Rogan in Bangkok, and that Rogan then stole
them. Jeremy makes a big deal of this, which I suppose would be fair enough if true, but then goes on to read out some of McAfee's later tweets, dated 10 November 2019, seeking to explain
why he no longer appeared on Rogan's show:
He buried the offense in his unconconscious [sic]. Involved a party in Bangkok. Attended by trisexuals, trannies, albino twins from Romania, 3 goats, a boa constricter, a dominatrix from Russia, 2 anal fisting instructors and a 26 year old virgin. I was offended by the treatment of the boa
John McAfee, via Twitter
Didn't offend him on the show. It happened in Bangkok. Joe wanted to visit a high-end brothel. I was fine with it, even the goats, the jellyfish and the albino girls of questionable gender. But I was put off by the treatment of the boa constrictor by the Russian tranny.
John McAfee, via Twitter
So now the twin Thai sex dwarves have been supplanted by a menagerie, and Jeremy reports all of this without a sense of irony. Or, if he did, it was lost on me. He should've used air quotes
.
Of course, nothing's impossible, although some things are more likely than others. It's not impossible that all of this happened, particularly given McAfee's reputation for hard partying
. It's also not impossible that he's trying to obfuscate a real sleight with ridiculous hyperbole. But, it's also not impossible that the whole thing is just a giant wind-up, and he's simply having fun at the expense of the credulous.
My money's on the third option.