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// Still thinking about this trump supporting lady on twitter who was like "my husband eats 12 eggs a day. liberals how does that make you feel" and the answers were like "we don't really care besides wanting to see his cholesterol levels." The goal was to trigger the libs. I'm not triggered by it but I am asking why

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> "I don't think so! Don't worry, we'll get you screaming in no time 😘" (Is he fake flirting? Is he fake threatening? He is Real Shitposting, that's for sure.)

> "It's alright, there's always the Killcast if you're feeling left out! No mediocre visuals necessary!"

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> "First of all, you're not that cute, you look like a ninja turtle, you need to calm down, you're stocky as hell--"

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> "If you've been single your entire life, you should stay single! You're clearly good at it! And I don't like quitters!"

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> "I really am the most Christlike person around here!"

> "I cannot keep finding out that I'm dead like this;;"

> "wow, I miss the radio demon so much! Sometimes I still hear his voice."

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> "It's alright, there's always the Killcast if you're feeling left out! No mediocre visuals necessary!"

> "Send him straight to video, probably!"

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> "I cannot keep finding out that I'm dead like this;;"

> "wow, I miss the radio demon so much! Sometimes I still hear his voice."

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> "Send him straight to video, probably!"

"So, if video killed tha' radio star--"

"What'd he do to tha' pornstar?"

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the vees and alastor serve as nearly perfect parallels to each other re: reputation vs reality. alastor is TERRIFYING. people literally set themselves on fire to avoid him and zestial walking together on the street. charlie is openly wary of him in the pilot, he overthrew the most powerful players sinners had ever known in an unprecedented rise to notoriety that literally made him a bogeyman in hell. and YET. he's only really scary to people who only know of him or by his reputation alone. the people who actually know him personally treat him with 0 fear or reverence: husk backtalks him constantly, niffty crawls all over him, rosie swings him around like a doll, charlie curses at him and vaggie feels comfortable ordering him around the hotel (which he always acquiesces to!!) once he loses that mystique of his reputation, he seems to lose a lot of the gravity of the fear he inspires.

on the other hand, the vees are publicly very friendly and approachable figures, nearly celebrities. people rush to vox, sinners clamor to buy voxtek products and they run all sorts of ridiculous advertisements that make them seem down-to-earth and accessible to average sinners. but in the vees' personal lives, the people who work underneath them and know what they're like behind their reputations are terrified of them. angel cowers from val, vox's assistant quails away from him, velvette's models flinch from her scorn—they're deeply unpleasant behind the curtain, but everybody who doesn't know them trusts and adores them. alastor is a batesian mimic. the vees are a shiny veneer over a pit of rot. they're excellent mirrors

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// actually I'm gonna toss it on the dash: can someone explain the Valentino/Alastor ship please. The only way I can see it is Alastor flirting w Valentino to piss Vox off and make him + Valentino fight. Homewrecker shit. Beyond that I cannot imagine Alastor standing to listen to Valentino for more than thirty seconds. But y'all are welcome to change my mind.

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> it's always "don't stick your dick on crazy" like crazy isn't the goal and the dick-sticking isn't just the cost of admission;;

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> "If I ever lose my job at this hotel, I'll become a male v*xtacart shopper. Come join the hotel to keep me off the streets!"

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// The concept of Alastor is still so funny to me. Like, you're trying to start a charity, you don't have much going for it yet and no one takes you seriously, and then Unabomber Joe Rogan comes out of retirement to show up and be like "hey girl, your project is straight up dogshit and I want in!!!!" and then he actually helps, like, a lot, and then he beefs with your dad. and then nearly dies.

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New Orleans

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No matter the fearmongering, no one's going to convince me that undocumented migrants as a class are an actual ✨threat✨ to the U.S.A. The data is on my side here.

I encourage everyone to stfu @ I.C.E. If they ask you if you know anything, no tf you don't!!

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Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion.

Bonus points if you include a topic. ( IE. shipping, roleplaying, ect. )

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"Listener count" is a heuristic for things like "is radio still a medium that people want to engage with?" and "am I curating music well?" and "am I reporting/commentating on the news in an effective + entertaining manner?" and "are people connecting to the content I put out?"

but it's also a heuristic for "am I slopmaxxing? am I efficiently broadcasting slop meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator?" and "am I accurately focusing on sharing music/news/commentary/whatever that aims to be mainstream?"

He likes the first, he doesn't like the second. So, listener count itself is less relevant than why it's high or low.

// You cannot hurt Local Alastor's feelings by being like "I have one gorillion audience members and I make six gorillion dollars, unlike your broke ass" because he is not a capitalist and does not measure the success of art/entertainment by those metrics !! Listener count matters to some degree but he'd rather have a mid-sized audience base of loyal listeners who Get his work and appreciate it, than make content that he thinks is gonna appeal to a mainstream audience even if it's not, like, Authentic