Choice Quotes:
- "butthurt former fanboy lul"
- "ace's "obsessed" with making videos on me, his Twitter feed is all me", naomi: "How does it feel to be loved?"
- naomi: so one out of a million? (in reference to ace being an "anti-dev" channel)
- "obviously i'm not perfect, obviously i make mistakes, he can critique me, it's his right"
- "ace used to commentate on what I was doing, and that's how we became mutuals"
- "as biden's presidency continued, lots of RWers radicalized, including ace, he became ruder and his arguments became more bad faith"
- "we would chat once in a while, and it would just get harder to talk to him, and I was just like, why am I putting myself through this, and so I cut him off"
- "at one of these debates, it was clear that Ace was moving into the "Dev, you are EVIL" camp, and I was like, I'm out"
- "it's been a year, and he is still fucking mad about it"
Now, time for the felting.
The first three quotes amount to "rent free" arguments. This is exactly how Twitter users argue, which makes complete sense, considering who we are talking about. Since Dev does not have redeeming qualities that show him to be the superior content creator, I can easily discard these arguments.
An interesting point I'd like to make in regards to quote 3 though, is two-fold. Firstly, "one in a million" is a hilarious expose of the ego these people have. No, Naomi, your
boyfriend cuckold is not famous enough to garner that much hatred. Secondly, if there WERE a million haters making anti-Dev videos... you would be screwed out the algorithm, and out of the income Dev frankly doesn't deserve. Either way you sound very stupid saying this, Naomi.
Quote four is really ironic. He talks big about how ACE always had a right to criticize Dev. I suppose he also had the right to suffer your consequences for criticizing him? It's always the same with fake free speech advocates. There is always that "but..." that must be adhered to, being actual hard-hitting criticism of the advocates themselves.
Next come quotes five, six, and seven. With every quote there is corresponding evidence of the events described that are left out of context to fit Dev's narrative of ACE.
Take quote five, for instance. Did it occur to anyone watching the clip why ACE would commentate on Dev's channel at the time? Could it be perhaps, that at this time around four years ago, Dev had yet to contradict his liberal principles flagrantly and actually analyzed the right and the left in a fair manner? And could it be that during this time, being a much smaller channel, Dev actually committed to a consistent and high-quality upload schedule, resulting in many people looking up to Dev as a good content creator? Could it also be, in the midst of becoming a more popular channel, that Dev's channel was demonetized and his chance of success on YouTube was briefly squandered?
These are, of course, not hypothetical questions but what really happened at that time. It was this set of circumstances that would lead people like ACE, who was also in the pursuit of free speech and finding success in YouTube, to want to support and encourage him. That's why you had people supporting you Dev. Regardless of the sperging on /cow/, KiwiFarms or Twitter, they saw a jewel in the rough in your content. They likely didn't see your sperging, which would help a lot too. In other words, you brought (mostly) good content to the niche you were in at the time. Now, not so much.
In regards to quotes six and seven, these statements are outright contradicted by ACE's videos where he reads out your Tweets in response to him VERBATIM. There is substantiated proof, PUBLIC proof, where you acted the exact way you accuse ACE of acting. ACE was not nearly as "rude" as you claim. Every time he called you out it was like, "Hey, remember when you said this? Why are you saying that instead now?" along with a LINK to the tweet where you indeed said "this" and not "that".
When I examine ACE's positions against Dev's positions, I notice that ACE's position that The Hunter Biden Laptop fiasco was election manipulation done by the Democrats has not changed in years and has been backed by ACE using numerous past elections along with detailed explanations of how these historical attempts to steal the election were, in fact, election fraud. This is laid out in a few videos. Meanwhile, Dev originally acknowledged the Hunter Biden Laptop fiasco but claimed it was not election fraud because it "failed", meanwhile swearing up and down that The Eastman Memo was a coup attempt, despite it also failing to "steal" the election. Which is it Dev? Later on Dev even actively changes his definition of election fraud to exclude the Hunter Biden laptop story. He even briefly said that The Eastman Memo was not election fraud! Only to go back on that statement hours later. Who between the two is more trustworthy? ACE or Dev? You decide.
Quote eight is the most bad faith of them all. "Dev is evil", need I say more? Besides, ACE already revealed the truth of The Final Conversation between them in his "Dev is Ontologically Evil" video, which was that ACE never treated his opposition to Dev's beliefs as something irreconcilable, whereas Dev was the one to end things off on a sour note BECAUSE he was being beaten in the debate.
Quote nine. Projection. Dev, you have literally degenerated as a content creator for the past year. You have lost thousands of subscribers, your detractors are outpacing you in channel performance and growth, your own friend group is slowly turning their backs on you. These things are happening to you for a reason. Wake up, or don't, because fueling this thread is the best thing you can do right now.
Effortpost end.