Doggface208
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Can't believe we haven't talked about this yet. I must have missed the thread, right?
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Mik said in Doggface208:
The death of American culture. What else would you like to know?
Well, there's what he was doing and there's why he's now famous. I have no problem with the former. The latter is bizarre.
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google is your friend.
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Just no.
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@jon-nyc said in Doggface208:
Just no.
Peterson's brilliant remark about lit theory applies here, too: any time you have a shitload of people, in unison, responding enthusiastically and consistently to an irrational thing, you best pay attention. Yours and Mik's responses mimic my own about Harry Potter, back in the long ago, and I was completely wrong about it.
But I'll get to that in a second. I personally don't care about the rags to riches story. I just really appreciate the extent to which he is and was fuck-bankrupt. That wasn't his first video, not by half, and they're pretty much all like that: him doing what-the-fuck-ever on his phone because he damn well felt like it. He was poor as shit, lived in an RV park, and had a day job at a potato factory. So fucking what, he can still enjoy getting to work on his longboard ass-early in the morning.
As for why this blew up so freaking much, there's obviously something to it, because his view count is absolute nonsense. Rogan tried to untangle it a bit on his podcast but I don't think he got anywhere. His guest mentioned a correlation with the collective hangover we all have about 2020 and I think that's probably right.
Right now, people seem to get something really good out of seeing others enjoy themselves despite shitty circumstances. Maybe it's something like that.
Still weird as shit, though.
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This is Google Trends data for the damn song. The number of people who looked it up because of the video completely dwarfs the search traffic for a song that's already a rock classic. What in the actual fuck.
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Poor guy has to carry a bottle of ocean spray his whole life now
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@Loki said in Doggface208:
Poor guy has to carry a bottle of ocean spray his whole life now
Small price to pay.
Sign me up.
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@89th said in Doggface208:
I’ve seen his other content. Trashy, vulgar, and a horrible role model.
I think the fact that most folks don't even know those exist is proof enough we're not so far gone as a society. It's insane he's as internet famous as he is, but at least it wasn't off of that stuff.
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Looked up Doggface208 because of this thread, only skimmed a few YouTube videos of him moving about with music in the background.
As for "... his other content. Trashy, vulgar, and a horrible role model," I haven't seen it, and at this point has no intention to find it. Maybe it stops at "trashy, vulgar, and a horrible role model," maybe there is some redeeming brilliance behind the vulgarity like South Park or Beavis and Butthead. I don't know since I haven't seen it. But let me know if you have an option on that one way or another. Thanks.
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Don't know who he is. Don't care.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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You thought that of Harry Potter? The series that got kids reading again? Wow. I was a parent when it came out and I thought it was fantastic.
Doggface208 is not JK Rowling, not by a long shot.
Now if, like Rowling, he continues to be more skilled at his craft I will certainly be willing to revisit. Until that time I wish him well and begrudge him not one red cent of it. I just don't think his work is anything to aspire to.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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Don't know, don't care. Just Googled him. Videos of a guy on a skateboard.
OK, Andy Warhol is proved right once again.
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@Mik said in Doggface208:
Doggface208 is not JK Rowling, not by a long shot.
Of course he isn't. I'm not saying he's in any way like her. He isn't. 89th says he's vulgar and disgusting and I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise. But I'm not talking about him.
Harry Potter is about a boy with a scar on his face who twirls a stick around, says vaguely latinate nonsense out loud and has colored lightning come out of the stick. He can speak with snakes. He plays a sport that involves levitating on a household cleaning product. It's absolute nonsense.
But obviously there's more to it than that because Rowling is probably the most celebrated writer in this century.
Same with this guy's video. People obviously see more into it than longboarding and pounding down Ocean Spray, he went from living in an RV park to buying a house outright in a month. From a freaking TikTok video. (No I don't think that was his intention, either. I think he's a shit videomaker and I think that's obvious. Part of the point, actually.)
Hate the guy and/or not care all you want, but his popularity says something about us is all I'm saying. And no it doesn't mean the death of culture.
I think maybe it means we're just desperate for a collective break from 2020, and we like seeing people be okay with themselves. Something like that.
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@Jolly said in Doggface208:
Don't know who he is. Don't care.
I don't think you need to. I find its popularity fascinating is all. This isn't me saying "you gotta go see this!!" as if it's actually important.
