I skimmed through that stream too I think I had a couple notes you didn't clip so I might go back for those.
I've cut back on the amount of clips I take from any given episode. After doing a few, I noticed I'd have anywhere from 50-70 clips, and that was just too many to deal with. My process is to actually watch the episode, listening to something I think might be worth saving, finding the timestamps and saving the clips, and then trying my best to construct my actual post with clips organized by theme as best I can. I actually listen to the entire episode, which has a benefit that I don't miss anything, but the consequence is that I might make a judgment call in the moment and not take the clip, because I don't see it fitting into one of those themes. I do it this way because for some of the episodes I clip, there's not much work to do because they're super boring, and I can assemble the next Warhammer guys I'm going to paint, which helps keep me sane. Episodes like this, where there's lots and lots of snippets I want to take, it makes it very time-consuming and miserable. If you have any suggestions for improving that process, I'd like to hear them.
The 'stuck in high school' section is one example where that approach kind of failed. I do actually think that statement is true of Hambly, but I could have made a much better case just with some of the clips from this episode, some I didn't post, and some that found their way to other sections. The two that I used weren't great, but by the time my post was nearing completion, it was getting very late, and I was just so tired of listening to him, I just wanted to be done. I considered just removing that section, but instead I just fucked off.
I was in school the same era as Jeremy and I am willing to go on the stand under threat of perjury and testify that anyone who sat at the lunch table where kids played Magic The Gaythering in high school between the years 1998-2002 was 100% not one of the popular kids and was in fact a fucking loser.
100%. I am also around this same age bracket, and I remember how the world was very well. I started playing Magic in 3rd grade, but had quit by the time I was in high school. Ignoring that it was actually a mechanically very fun game, the social circumstances you described are 100% applicable to my environment as well (which is probably geographically as far as possible from both you and him, which means that the general sentiment wasn't constricted to any particular geographical area). Jeremy is exactly the kind of guy that has intertwined himself into a number of things I used to find enjoyable, but those things have been degraded because of people like him being massive pieces of shit and ruining it for everyone else. I find his claims that he was a pussy magnet cool-kid social butterfly to be very, very unbelievable. There was a clip I don't think I ended up posting, where he talked about chugging Mountain Dew all day, that backs up this skepticism. I bet he was already starting to get noticeably fat by the end of high school, which didn't bode well for one's chances at attracting girls back in that era (again, times seem to have changed on that, based on what I see in the area I live in now).
I feel the most ridiculous part of the grift of the hambeast is the simple lie that he's poor. I could believe he was cash poor. He is asset rich by a country mile.
Most things he says are just simply retarded, but this is the part that's the most transparently dishonest. He claims to be both rich and poor, simultaneously. It's undeniable he had a large and sustained revenue stream from his YouTube (undeserved, but that doesn't change the reality of it), and I strongly doubt he's going to be actually
broke ever again in his life. I suspect that many of his material possessions are on credit, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was savvy enough to have been investing for a while. I wouldn't be surprised if he has to liquidate some of his investments if he wants to keep EVERYTHING he has, but I also doubt that all of it is in danger of getting repo-ed.
Despite all of that, the real pain he will suffer is when his health deteriorates to its inevitable steep decline leading to his end. Not only will that be physically and mentally torturous for him to go through, but his wife is obviously going to outlive him, and she will be spending the rest of her days vacationing and fucking younger, more virile men to fill the void in her soul that Jeremy has created with his un-Godly way of living. And no amount of Rolexes, luxury cars, orange groves, arcade cabinets or Funko Pops can make up for how hard he's going to be cucked in his afterlife, which is going to be 1000x more than how hard he gets cucked in his actual life.
