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I personally like to believe that Ian has become so verbose because he graduated from watching Yo Gabba Gabba! to Wordgirl. It would make sense because Wordgirl was a big meme forever ago.
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I appreciate that the two words actually mean different things, and my post included a quotation specifying the difference, but what I wrote was that there's no difference in terms of common usage. The way that empathy is commonly used, particularly in recent years by virtue signallers like Ian and Anisa, is basically just like a stronger form of 'sympathy' or 'compassion', as you say. This quotation also summarises it nicely IMO:You're totally wrong on this. The words have been in use since 1946 and a clear distinction between the two from the very beginning. You can find videos and articles going back 10-15 years explaining the concepts. It's been a pretty foundational concept in psychology for decades, and even the common layman understands they're supposed to be different instinctively, if only just because they're different words. Watch some old crime shows from the 80s and 90s and you might hear a cop say "he has no empathy for his victims."
Sympathy = "I feel bad for you."
Empathy = "I understand what you're feeling."
Now, pretentious idiots often use the word "empathy" as a "smarter version" of sympathy, like Ian, or don't really get what makes them different. Ian is one of those people who throws it around as a fancy buzzword to make himself sound educated and a good person, when really he's a pseudo-intellectual dickhead.
But it's not that the word changed meaning, it's that now that people have better access to information they can pick up "smart" words and use them easier, even if they're using them totally wrong.
Empathy has become a fad word for sympathy, though it was adopted expressly to mean something different from sympathy: 'intellectual insight into another's emotional state without sharing in it.'
—John H. Dirckx, The Language of Medicine (2nd Ed.), 1993
That quote is from 1993? Man, I guess midwits misusing fancy sounding words is a problem that transcends generations. Nothing new under the sun.I appreciate that the two words actually mean different things, and my post included a quotation specifying the difference, but what I wrote was that there's no difference in terms of common usage. The way that empathy is commonly used, particularly in recent years by virtue signallers like Ian and Anisa, is basically just like a stronger form of 'sympathy' or 'compassion', as you say. This quotation also summarises it nicely IMO:
Empathy has become a fad word for sympathy, though it was adopted expressly to mean something different from sympathy: 'intellectual insight into another's emotional state without sharing in it.'
—John H. Dirckx, The Language of Medicine (2nd Ed.), 1993
Furthermore, I would like to point out that if any serious psychologist was to diagnose you with "empathy", it doesn't mean you are a pathological Good Guy. Quite the opposite. It might mean you're a clinical psychopath.I appreciate that the two words actually mean different things, and my post included a quotation specifying the difference, but what I wrote was that there's no difference in terms of common usage. The way that empathy is commonly used, particularly in recent years by virtue signallers like Ian and Anisa, is basically just like a stronger form of 'sympathy' or 'compassion', as you say. This quotation also summarises it nicely IMO:
Like a gelded version of Tony Soprano lmaoNo no. AnisaAndI is an example of what happens when a shitty person goes to therapy and learns to weaponize all the buzzwords to make themselves feel superior to everyone around them and rationalize their own bad behavior. Therapy didn't make him worse, it just gave him a more pretentious way to express the nonsensical and shitty things that were already in his head and make them sound smart to extremely dumb people.
I think that is the one thing about hating on Ian I disagree with. I don't agree with the opinion he has always been an untalented hack. He had a personality. He had comedic chops. He was able to make good content. He was not perfect obviously. But he was very good at what he did. If he had a backbone, I think he genuinely could have evolved into having his own Cold Ones.I keep forgetting he used to have charisma and stage presence. I haven't had the stomach to watch his old content because his new stuff is so fucking bad, so it's easy to forget he was actually somewhat entertaining before.
Definitely drug abuse.
I've discussed this in this thread before, but I watched the Cancer Crew when they existed in 2016, and I believe it's easier to write Ian off now because we have retrospective, but Ian was a genuinely funny guy when he did Kickstarter Crap and shitted on grifting black people or literal retards. Even at a time, I second-guessed if Ian is a bad person. However, I've been active in Anisa's thread for years now, and Ian is just a rotten person overall.I think that is the one thing about hating on Ian I disagree with. I don't agree with the opinion he has always been an untalented hack. He had a personality. He had comedic chops. He was able to make good content. He was not perfect obviously. But he was very good at what he did. If he had a backbone, I think he genuinely could have evolved into having his own Cold Ones.
He was doing pre-recorded videos though, it let him prepare a script and do multiple takes.I've discussed this in this thread before, but I watched the Cancer Crew when they existed in 2016, and I believe it's easier to write Ian off now because we have retrospective, but Ian was a genuinely funny guy when he did Kickstarter Crap and shitted on grifting black people or literal retards. Even at a time, I second-guessed if Ian is a bad person. However, I've been active in Anisa's thread for years now, and Ian is just a rotten person overall.
This could've been completely avoided if he hadn't shit on his former audience.
He has done multiple pre-recorded videos recently and they are just as awkward and gay as his streams. If it were just that it would feel like those old videos instead of the stilted gay shit he does now.He was doing pre-recorded videos though, it let him prepare a script and do multiple takes.
I don't think people change this much without drugs or some kind of trauma.
He's let a few things slip while streaming that make him sound sociopathic, or at least apathetic to people around him.
I can't remember the exact quote, but he was talking about how on the "streets" people might think he's an asshole because he won't respond with much emotion. I'm heavily paraphrasing, he was sperging about driving and trying to use traffic lights to make some kind of anecdote.
He's always been gay and retarded, but therapy somehow made him worse and enabled him to be even more of a cunt.
I'm guessing the promise of "Epic Troll video research" attracted some of the snark crowd.https://www.twitch.tv/idubbbz - Docket: Intro, more EPIC-TROLL video research, Erdles, Gaming, <white hasan gaming>
Ian's been streaming for almost 4 hours now and I didn't see it mentioned. He's currently eating and listening to music with 530 viewers. I'm not sure why the viewership is so high.
I'm thinking it's the drugs.I think that is the one thing about hating on Ian I disagree with. I don't agree with the opinion he has always been an untalented hack. He had a personality. He had comedic chops. He was able to make good content. He was not perfect obviously. But he was very good at what he did. If he had a backbone, I think he genuinely could have evolved into having his own Cold Ones.
This is important, because it is part of why him being a lolcow now is so interesting. He basically sold it all down the river for a potato headed leech who has gaslit him into thinking all of his original fame was built off of "edgy basement dwellers." He sold his entire world for a woman who would drop him at a moment's notice if a better opportunity came. He became a King Midas who turns everything he loves into shit and everything he hates into profitable careers. His breath is probably so bad because it is the smell of his own brain rotting from his gaping mouth.
He deserves no sympathy mind you. But his existence is a continuous cautionary tale of what bad pussy does to a motherfucker.
Maybe he did some 'drama' earlier. Now he's looking at pictures and trying to figure out when and where they were and is down to 475 viewers.I'm guessing the promise of "Epic Troll video research" attracted some of the snark crowd.
Is it normal for a dog to go from full blown cancer to remission in 2 weeks time?Ian just announced that the oncologist told them Fiona is in remission.
There is a minimum IQ threshold for empathy which I think iDubbbz does not meet.Guys, is empathy a jewish psyop?
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Edit: turns out empathy was only coined in 1908
All his best lines are stolen actuallylol ian doesn’t even own the jokes he said. he’s cucked even by his jokes
I think it was the double whammy of Anisa convincing Ian to doctor shop until she found one that would put him on the drugs, and then got him into boxing, and he got his brains beaten in because he was so fucked up by the drugs. She really set him up for life.I'm thinking it's the drugs.
Before, you could see he had a lot of energy and was always eager to do stuff. Now, he's so painfully slow that you can play him on 2x speed and he'll still sound like he's 0.5. If I had to guess, I'd say he's on benzos or opiods, something he started abusing during his boxing career to numb the pain. Drugs meant to be used short term that he's probably using daily.
It would also explain why his reasoning skills are dismal. His logical processing functions are numbed, so he can't do simple critical thinking.