The Cartoonist Who Ruined His Life for No Reason

[@TheGamerFromMars]

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[@TommyDavidVerbal]

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[@KamalaIsNotBlack]

Cringe woke GamerFromMars. So sad 😂😂😂 You should realize Robin DiAngelo is saying the same thing. Keeping whites away from blacks.

[@Jmack1lla]

Ive been watching your channel for 8 years i think and i always enjoy your stuff

[@KamalaIsNotBlack]

@@TheGamerFromMars why u deleting comments?

[@pedrohdalla]

One bizarre thing about dilbert is that, because it was such a big thing, your boss probably read dilbert, his boss too. And they still acts exactly like that.

[@aaronbasham6554]

It could be the thing of it being place at such an extreme it's easy to distance yourself from. Like, having a pollution villain being 200% evil that it makes it so easy to distance yourself from just about anything less extreme.

[@eatfrenchtoast]

What else are professional managers gonna do, work?

[@Zontar82]

because they think it's "right" to be an asshole, I highly doubt a boss of nowadays would have ever read dilbert tho

[@pedrohdalla]

@@Zontar82 I doubt a boss from nowdays would even read at all

[@DaGleese]

Usually they are just following company policy, and do whatever keeps them on payroll.

[@Bob_Chimpman]

I remember Dilbert not being particularly funny but very accurate on office politics. Cubicle life was HELL

[@aikou2886]

I found it really funny (although I originally watched the animated series before even knowing there was a comic on it) but I guess that's because a good portion of the jokes were too literal or office based.

[@angelbear_og]

Around 99/00, Dilbert comics were banned in the office where I worked. Yeah, it was a pretty toxic place!

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

I found the animated series to be a lot funnier and more entertaining.

[@incremental_failure]

Incredibly funny for me. Not always obvious.

[@SleepyMook]

The humor really depends if you work an office job or not. The animated series was definitely a lot funnier though.

[@TaranAlvein]

You know, I'll say one thing about the Dilbert show. Every single character sounded exactly as I thought they would back when I read the strips. So at the very least, as far as I'm concerned, they managed to do a perfect job casting it.

[@Fushichou1978]

The Dilbert TV series was actually pretty good, and I still think of the voices from that show as the voices of the characters. It's a pity it only went two seasons, because it had potential.

[@EricOehler01]

The voice cast was perfect, but the writing was not great. A 3 panel comic joke doesn’t stretch well to a full sketch.

[@TomPVideo]

The only show-exclusive character they introduced was also well suited to the format: Loud Howard.

[@AustynSN]

@@TomPVideo I'm pretty sure Loud Howard was in the comics before the show. It was just a one-note joke that didn't really work if you had to explain it every time since the medium has no sound.

[@Baalzamon84]

@@Fushichou1978 The only reason I never watched the Dilbert TV show was the fact that it wasn't available in my area. Which I think was purely Adams fault for picking such a small network in the first place.

[@TristanBingham-b9c]

"Nobody knows what the live action Dilbert would have looked like." I do. The Drew Carrey Show. It would have looked like the Drew Carrey show. I actually thought the two were related when I was a kid.

[@BlackBoxOnlineRadio]

Let's go with it. Dilbert - Drew Alice - Mimi Boss - Mr. Wick Wally & Asok - Lewis and Oswald That woman he wanted to date - Kate Dogbert - The Guitarist from the Horn Dogs .

[@eddiedust1079]

That's weirdly brilliant!

[@joshfacio9379]

So dod i

[@joshfacio9379]

Did

[@EvilGenius815]

That college story is instructive for everything Adams has ever said. It can't just be that he fell behind in school, got sick, but then rallied to finish. No, it has to be "I was so far behind they wanted me to quit!" and "It was the worst case of mono anyone had ever seen!" and "Then I didn't just catch up, I got ahead of everybody else!"

[@Reddotzebra]

Not to mention that he oozes "I'm the smartest person in the room" energy. Especially when he goes on that rant about how he's "crafted pranks that lasted years" and that "sometimes only he was in on them", dude, if you're the only one who's in on the joke then you're not a comedian, you're just an asshole. I guess that tracks with his comic, he was able to write it because he was intimately acquainted with how assholes operate in an office environment.

[@meikala2114]

narcissist always think this way.... its their "good genes"

[@mollusckscramp4124]

@@Reddotzebra Exactly. I imagine it's a lot of compensation for his parents likely regarding his job as a professional newspaper strip scribbler as a joke. He has to assert his superiority to everyone and try to delude them into believing his intellect is on the level of Neil Degrasse Tyson. Bro is in dire need of some self-reflection

[@badm0t0rf1ng3r]

I read each of these in Robert Evans voice.

[@bauefrenchmen3126]

Large administrator, tough guy, tears rolling down his face. Only cried 3 times in his life, first when born, when I got sick, and when I proved him wrong. Great guy wonderful guy, total scum bag and that's why we love him.

[@PenneySounds]

I didn't know 90s newspaper comics dropped diss tracks about each other

[@GizzyDillespee]

80s, too. Bloom County dissed Doonesbury... and even Wizard of Id made fun of Hagar The Horrible.

[@PoochieCollins]

Scott Adams got real quiet after the Zippy author's retort strip clowning him.

[@josephswaney6420]

​@@PoochieCollinsIt was actually the other way around. 😊

[@Whatlander]

Wiley Miller (Non Sequitur) had a personal vendetta against webcomics in general, and specifically beef with Scott Kurtz (PVP, Blamimations). Miller made jokes about online publication being pointless, and published a strip mocking Kurtz directly. He'd set off massive arguments in online spaces and claim the web cartoonists were responsible for "overreacting." Don't recall if Kurtz ever made a comic rebuttal, but he did write a blog post about Non Sequitur being derivative.

[@ExoditeDragon]

If I remember right, Watterson went after Breathed with a quip about his power boating hobby.

[@LiveByTheNumbers]

It is kinda karma that the Dilbert guy turned out to be the ultimate example of the Dilbert principle. He got promoted to managing his own brand, far past his level of competence, then doubled down on assuming that since he’s the one with the money and power he has to be correct. He was the true pointy hair boss.

[@Manchupacabra]

Agreed, but that's the peter principle. That concept predates Dilbert by like 25 years. Let's not give a jerk like Scott Adams any credit for it.

[@andreasottohansen7338]

@@Manchupacabra Oh yeah, don't worry, we aren't giving him credit. We are just giving him shit for being a perfect example of the principle.

[@VestedUTuber]

@@Manchupacabra He's not even describing the "Dilbert Principle" correctly anyway. The Dilbert Principle states that "managers are incompetent because incompetent employees get promoted to management positions to minimize the harm their incompetence causes".

[@earx23]

Well, he understood the principle at least ;-)

[@3vi1J]

Credit where credit is due: Working in IT, I found Dilbert hilarious in the early 2000's, and thought the UPN show was great. Then, I was gifted The Dilbert Principle one X-Mas and read it... I pretty much paid no attention to anything he said after that, because I was pretty sure he didn't know anything more than the management he ridiculed. If he had kept his mouth shut, tried to move Dilbert on to FOX, and didn't have this insane persecution complex of his, I'll bet most of us would still be talking about how funny the last season of Dilbert was.

[@topdog3064]

I’ve loved filbert from age 10

[@brianquigley-je8kx]

worked for a bank for 6 years. was able to giggle wryly at 'dilbert' because it joked about the actual hellish reality of working for a corporation and living under the worst of humanity who loved 'conference calls, meetings about meetings, constant ever changing targets way above the most basic of employee rights, morale and providing a liveable wage.

[@aikou2886]

I always hated those pointless meetings!

[@ZombieSazza]

@@aikou2886sounds like we need to have a meeting to discuss why you hate meetings about meetings, good Sir!

[@HGRAP1]

Last week I had a meeting about how there was nothing to talk about on the weekly meeting 💀

[@Trashcom1917]

did you leave after not being promoted due to woke

[@DDRhappiness17]

This sounds like what it would be like to work for Shinra.

[@michel0dy]

"As the restaurant was failing, Adams turned to-" "Hiring a new manager and focusing himself on finances?" "- taking advices from fans of the comic on the internet" OH

[@wmpx34]

Zigged when he should’ve zagged

[@mahrimen]

Im surprised he didnt blame the restaurant failing on him being white

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

@@mahrimen HA! 😆

[@Mythraen]

@@mahrimen Wait, he's white?

[@nielsjensen4185]

@@Mythraen Well, there's no skin colour for 'stupid..'

[@daregularperson]

Correction at the 8 minute mark: Calvin and Hobbes stopped in 1995, not 1985.

[@franslair2199]

Not a minor correction either: this undercuts a huge claim in the video

[@germdove]

@@franslair2199 He simply misspoke, He was talking about 1989, said "a few years later", then said the wrong number.

[@crabby7668]

C+H wasn't a great cartoon strip anyway. Dilbert was far more amusing if you worked in a corporate environment

[@franslair2199]

@@crabby7668 C&H was fantastic and still holds up easily

[@alenahubbard1391]

​@@crabby7668You're clueless. Calvin and Hobbes was a landmark comic strip.

[@davidsenra2495]

Scott Adams became the ultimate symbol for stupidity, incompetence and naivety. Ironically, the very same things that he became famous for mocking. Well, alas, such is life. Now he has to live in indignity.

[@SpellboundWolf]

If a product makes people sick, it's not your competitor's fault. They didn't craft the food. You did that all on your own. This is toddler logic.

[@torstenscholz6243]

This is just another attempt by him of blaming everything bad happening to him on others.

[@SpellboundWolf]

@@torstenscholz6243 I know.

[@kibble113]

I used to have cancer. Incurable, my doctor said. Nothing I could do. So I started punching myself right in the cancer cells. The cancer got so scared that it just went away, and my cells came back stronger than they were before I got cancer.

[@gustavgnoettgen]

I wrote a similar comment, it was very popular. But I deleted it so others could thrive. Now I'm a huge youtuber/billionaire/philanthropist (on my other channel).

[@thelunchlady8276]

@@gustavgnoettgen I read this comment and told myself to go buy a pony farm. Now people work on my pony farm for free just to be close to me.

[@Grunchy005]

My dad got the lung cancer (avid smoking enthusiast) about 25 years ago. But, he got it in an unusual part of his lungs: right in between the lungs. The doctor took 1 look at the x-ray and said, "you're going to the top of the surgery list, you're at risk of a double-lung transplant." He went in for surgery, and the surgeon cut out the tumour. 25 years later, still kickin': and this when something like 80% of lung cancer diagnoses are dead within 2 years. (He also quit the smoking habit too, which was ultimately nothing but a waste of money, if you think about it.) In a crazy twist, this story is actually true!

[@blackosprey2219]

Cancer doctors HATE him! KZbin commenter ends cancer with one weird trick!

[@JohnCleana]

I'm proud of you

[@tid418]

Calvin and Hobbs did not conclude in 1985. That was when it started. It finished ten years later.

[@germdove]

@@gurkenhamster He simply misspoke, He was talking about 1989, said "a few years later", then said the wrong number.

[@allwoundup3574]

​@@gurkenhamsterI hope you never make a mistake while speaking then

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

​@@allwoundup3574it's a video, you can review it before you post it and make changes if necessary, it's called editing... I'm surprised you didn't include "where's your perfect video?" in your reply...

[@craigjoe8691]

Wrong. Mandela effect.

[@gwerig3692]

When he mentioned this, I was a little surprised about the idea of the vacancy. I thought Calvin and Hobbes ended in 95, the same year Far Side did. Bloom County exited in 89, and it did leave a hole in comics. If I was to point at something else as a contributing factor, it'd be the enormous success of the Simpsons, as it really developed a hunger for counter-culture media, as Dilbert was. By the time Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side were gone, Dilbert was already an established phenomenon.

[@jukeboxfandango]

I think it's more than a tad hyperbolic to say he "ruined his life". The guy is still worth millions, they just don't publish Dilbert anymore.

[@zemxxi2765]

When it is said one is worth millions, it doesn't neccesarily mean he has millions in cash. He had an IP (intellectual property) that was worth millions in the sense that the publishers were making millions while he got a percentage. At least until these publishers cut ties with him to avoid boycotts which would lose them millions Not sure how much of those millions he's made he has left. But it's likely not gonna be a fortune that he takes into his twilight years.

[@takeyb0y2]

@@zemxxi2765 He's got a networth of about $20mil, even after losing ties with publishers. What's waaay more money than what most people have when they retire.

[@atatterson6992]

A tad?

[@atatterson6992]

@@zemxxi2765 still is

[@timwise6607]

@@zemxxi2765 Your seething is palpable.

[@The.Lake.Effect]

Humor is a difficult thing to perfect, and when you examine the appeal of Dilbert as a comic, it becomes apparent that Scott Adams didn't achieve success because he was a comedic genius. He was just observant enough to understand how much people hated office work and the corporate world, and all he had to do was write comics with moderately exaggerated or unrealistically honest and blunt depictions of what it's like to work in a cubicle, using a personal computer, taking phone calls, and filling out paperwork all day. It was funny almost entirely because it was "relatable." Everyone in those situations knew what it felt like and how stupid or exasperating it was. Adams stumbled upon gold by satirizing something that was both extremely common and universally reviled. And that success made him think he was far funnier, far smarter, and far more capable than he really ever was.

[@The_Nixie]

This. I also suspect that it might have been his attitude/personality rather than his race and gender that held him back at work...

[@LenaFerrari]

I've never worked on a corporate setting, but I loved dilbert. It wasn't hilarious, but it was pretty funny

[@Account.for.Comment]

He also had those stories sent to him. His fans gave him those stories. The original Dilbert did not have office shenanigan as its main theme. Adams pivoted when he set up a online poll (early in the internet history) on what the audience prefer, in his website. The audience response to office politics and keep giving him those stories. Adams do not have an understanding observance on how silly corporate culture is, others gave him those observations.

[@brianmurphy6480]

Looks like the OP is crying about someone who actually IS a success. But don't worry! The man who actually ISN'T one is going to deconstruct our boy Adams and tell us all what's really what. Those who can, do. Those who can't, criticise and whinge. 🤷‍♂️

[@Account.for.Comment]

@@brianmurphy6480 are you Adams in disguise? Are you saying that anyone who never flipped a burger, can't complained about McDonald? The guy got one gig that is successful and he milked it. He failed at everything else.

[@crafty_badger]

He is one of those people who will write you 3 paragraphs about how much your opinion don't matter to them.

[@samcooper1761]

*write

[@bananawitchcraft]

Accurate

[@StevenTemple-y2b]

Because people can't get it through their thick heads that their opinion really doesn't matter so it has to be explained in detail.

[@jorgerosado2087]

The funniest thing about all of this is that he thought the Dilbert show failed because he was white and UPN “focused more on black programming.” Scott, your show didn’t fail because of black people, it failed because it was on goddamn UPN. At least Home Movies managed to escape and thrive on Adult Swim, so it’s not like UPN was totally worthless.

[@Windchanter420]

i thought i hallucinated home movies being on upn

[@klonoafan2012]

He forgot that there were black shows on upn that got canned in the same time as dillbert so it wasn't a race thing

[@nunyabusiness9056]

There's also the fact the show really did have a slow start. It actually DID get pretty good but the first half of the first season was almost cringe inducingly mediocre.

[@jbmp1390]

​@@klonoafan2012 Exactly. Everything on UPN got cancelled.

[@hellaradusername]

I first learned there was a Dilbert show when it reaired on Adult Swim. It was fine, ok even, but Futurama does an animated office comedy better because it has robots

[@AxelQC]

Adams was a genius at skewering 1990s corporate culture. Unfortunately, he tried to keep doing that for 30 years.

[@Hullj]

He did it for 30 years without updating the culture. He could still) be going strong but for his arrogance.

[@IzzyPR2010]

He went from making fun of the idiot pointy haired boss, to being a fan of a person who was like that idiot pointy haired boss.

[@galvanizedgnome]

All he did was tell the truth. Don't make the black kids angry or they will become violent.

[@PxThucydides]

​@@galvanizedgnomeI happen to live in a place that is pretty diverse. And in my experience, kids are kids and are pretty much all the same, regardless of ethnic origin. Some good, some a handful. No one group has a monopoly on either setting. Often not even in the same family.

[@secretbassrigs]

then China happened

[@RebelTaxi]

Shasta McNasty was his downfall

[@ItsOver9000Productions]

How's the pilot going Pizzaman? Hope you're doing well

[@explodingpikachu7475]

Wow, wasn't expecting you of all KZbinrs to show up here.

[@GraciousGoldy]

Lol

[@lizardjr.7826]

YOU THE MAN PAN PIZZA!

[@BaranoffIsaac]

SHASTA! McNasty's COMIN' at cha! SHASTA! McNasty's COMIN' at cha! SHASTA! McNasty's COMIN' at cha!

[@raccoon.pies.]

“I have written opinions I don’t actually hold just to see what reaction I would get” bro that’s not a prank that’s being a troll

[@mr.x2567]

He should just admit it.

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

Surely, everyone has done that at one time or another.

[@bubandlisa]

EVERYONE TROLLS.... EVERYONE ... even YOU

[@DavideDavini]

He said that so he won’t be hold accountable if he says anything dumb. I’m sure he feels pretty smart about it too.

[@kcrtxbw.4349]

@@DavideDavini Yeah, its the grandmother of all cop-outs. "Nuh-uh, i didn't really mean it. I was just JoKiNg..."

[@glenndeH]

Fun update: he has recently said that he taught AI hypnotism and that the prompt (which is "too dangerous to share") could destroy humanity

[@PeteC62]

He's basically the white Terrence Howard.

[@FullMoonOctober]

Of course he did.

[@MerlinTheCommenter]

😂😂😂😂😂​@@PeteC62

[@XanthinZarda]

He should get into a talk with another AI nutcake: Eliezer Yudkowsky. I'd love to see the hoopla those two cranks could wind up in. Both smartest people in the room types, both AI doomers, both magical thinkers.

[@andysan3764]

@@PeteC62 Ironically, he'll never meet Terrence Howard because he's afraid to be near black people.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

You laugh about the "worst are promoted to management" part, but there's been actual studies that show much of the time people are promoted to management who have no idea how to actually manage anything.

[@Jonathanizer]

source?

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

@@Jonathanizer It's so well known there's a fucking term for it. Look up the Peter Principle because youtube doesn't let commenters put links in their comments.

[@Jonathanizer]

@@Gustav_Kuriga 1. The Peter Principle is not a study, it's a theory. I think it was from a book in the 50s or so. 2. You don't need to put a link here. You can name the study you are referring to (they always have a title), or the authors, or both. You could also say where it was published. I don't know how such a study would be designed, and frankly after your second comment, i am not sure you even know exactly what a study is, and how it differentiates from just people saying stuff. For a study to be published, you need to adhere to scientific guidelines, design an experiment or at least have an questionnaire that provides a specific insight. Just some dude saying "the worst are promoted" is not a study.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

@@Jonathanizer Peter Principle wiki article has studies linked to it, but if you're too lazy to look for sources that's your problem, not mine. I know studies need to follow scientific guidelines, but dumbasses like you argue confidently as if they don't exist when a basic glimpse of the sources on a wiki article would tell you otherwise. This is a youtube comments section. I'm not going to do your research for you, it's your job to inform yourself before you go gungho on patronizingly dismissing someone's post.

[@karlsokalski4234]

@@Gustav_Kuriga I've been putting links in my comments for ages with no issues at all. Like this: See this link for info on "The Peter Principle:" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle Besides wiki links, I've put links to other content creator's YT videos in responses as well as government sources (FBI, FCC, etc.), among others. Never had a problem.

[@beyondu77]

Scott Adams is the type of guy who believes he's the smartest man in the room no matter where he's at. In actuality, Adams is much more like the "Pointy-Haired Boss" in Dilbert and the irony is that he doesn't see it.

[@moustik31]

Zing. 😬

[@andreaslind6338]

That may be why pointy haired boss (and Adams )are like that...constantly believing they are the smartest in the room,therefore full of pompous ego and unable to accept feedback. Bad managers and people as an inevitable result

[@SPAnComCat]

Pride goeth the Fall...

[@kraken5003]

wrong

[@adamgreenspan4988]

You either die the Dilbert, or live to become the Pointy Haired Boss

[@Beenutbutter99]

When i was a kid, i thought Dilbert was just Hello Kitty for old people lol who knew there was this much lore to it all

[@changvasejarik62]

Interesting thought, though all I can think of now is… “Will Dilbert face Optimus prime for his 45th anniversary as well?”

[@Vidar93]

the shows actually pretty good. Not something that's super captivating that you need to binge but great second monitor content.

[@avosmash2121]

@@Vidar93 Yeah its nothing great but, a quaint enough show for a 2000s primetime thing. ...now, that INTRO SONG??? Now THAT, THAT RIGHT THERE, IS A CHEF'S KISS! Scott Adams is a gigantic wackadoo, but I still will stand by that....Oingo Boingo/Danny Elfman is musically just too good in my book, sorry :P....And that hybrid 2d/3d animation for the late 90s/2000s, is for even now and ESPECIALLY back during its time still very cool and seamless to look at.

[@mollusckscramp4124]

What a great comment lol

[@mercster]

Yes, Dilbert is for adults who work... as a child, you'd have no context or experience to understand where it was coming from or what the punchlines were.

[@DogKacique]

3:35 Note that Adams was born in 1957, which would put his story about not being hired in the early 80s The idea that multiple companies would not promote him over diversity in the 80s is certainly a story

[@DogKacique]

@@beeble2003 Yeah, that was my bad. Corrected

[@CluelessDad]

and being told that to his face is even more unbelievable.

[@bobbun9630]

Do you think he might be a big ol' racist? I enjoyed his comics back in the day, but hadn't really paid them much attention for quite a while before... more recent events. The personal foibles of a cartoonist were of no interest to me, and I didn't know that much about him. Until he decided to air his dirty laundry to the world with all the political and worldview noise.

[@anonemoose7777]

@@bobbun9630I genuinely don’t think he believes in anything other than himself and merely courts those he thinks will affirm his inflated sense of self worth for him. He’s oscillated a few times in his career across the political spectrum. I think we’re too quick to take people at political face value, especially in this grifter golden age. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@melissad4056]

100%. Depending on the company it might not even happen now

[@rylanasher4756]

39:35 Let me get this straight. The same man who thinks the human mind can be programmed like a computer, the same man who claims to have cured two incurable conditions with sheer willpower, also says that troubled young men are unable to be helped, and their only option, the one solution, is to be imprisoned together to hurt one another (implying they kill each other)? The man isn't the intellectual titan he claims to be. 😂

[@SarahAyJay]

It’s a good thing those legal threats put a stop to people editing images to make a joke online. Can you imagine if we lived in a world where the internet was full of images that alter existing media as a joke?

[@gennybaratta2460]

Could you imagine if young adults got political news from one those images that alter existing media

[@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945]

​@@gennybaratta2460I love you Dean

[@adrianjohnson7920]

This is why many media types are terrified of AI. Anybody could do it, and making myriads of them stop would be impossible.😁

[@jordanb.4514]

"a world where the internet was full of images that alter existing media as a joke" oh, so memes gotcha. ya dude, terrifying

[@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945]

@@jordanb.4514 that was the joke, yes

[@JosephPiatt]

Scott Adams always struck me as little more than a troll and a compulsive liar. Maybe, at one point, he genuinely had a bit of a counter-culture, progressive side, but I think the ultimate lesson is clear: You either die Dilbert, or live long enough to see yourself become the pointy haired boss.

[@Lazarus_G]

I'm middle aged and about to max out my career tree. So, I either stagnate, find a new career, or become management. I've read and agreed with way too many Dilbert comics over the years to honestly think that management isn't the worst option.

[@moalboris239]

@@Lazarus_G Honestly management can be okay as long as you know what you are doing. The big trip up is that most people who reach management did so from something other than their managing skills. Which in most other jobs you don't really have that too often. An engineer doesn't stay an engineer for long if they can't do their job. While a manager can fly under the radar for years due to their underlings adapting to their screw ups.

[@10base-teaparty97]

@@moalboris239 This is really it. Management can easily become the least meritocratic position in any organization. The odds that an engineer, or even someone in sales, can get by just because they can get the right people to like them, are very low. Working in corporate America, I grew to hate the term "leadership skills" as it's 99% of the time just a euphemism for "the types of people we like around here" and such they can't say out loud.

[@demoskunk]

The "progressives" have been the establishment for many years now, and they are the pointy haired boss. I call them regressives. Going against the woke, pc narrative is today's counter culture.

[@kcrtxbw.4349]

Also, what a man-child, holy smokes. Comic strip beefs, what are you, 12 ?

[@stardmg]

God's Debris sounds like a prog metal concept album, the explosion of a god kick starts the expansion of the universe

[@HugoStiglitz88]

Based prog metal enjoyer

[@Frommerman]

Too bad it was written by...this.

[@pickles3128]

Reminds me of the Cosmic Turtle in It/the Dark Tower, that apologizes for accidentally creating the universe to the young protagonist, saying something like, 'I really had to sneeze, and your universe shot out, I promise it was an accident.'

[@LoveMyUnusual]

At times like this, I'm more supportive that Bill Watterson opted out of mass producing Calvin & Hobbes, and relatively staying offline. Good on 'im. ✌🏾

[@Bustermachine]

He was the wisest of us all.

[@mudlark4099]

One of my favorites was Catbert deciding to bury complaining customers/employees in sand. When the Boss doesn't understand, Catbert explains the detailed explanation is at the bottom of the sand pit.

[@patrickflanagan862]

There were some funny strips back in the '90s and early '00s, despite his many, many problems he had a knack for comedic timing and funny dialogue. The strip started losing its humor around 2005 and by 2014-5 (around when he changed the employees dress code and Dilbert lost his iconic tie) all the originality and humor was gone. The strip was past its prime for a while when he finally got himself cancelled.

[@mudlark4099]

@@patrickflanagan862 yes absolutely

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

​@@patrickflanagan862doesn't help that the strip became absurdly political at the same time the in-universe company dress code changed.

[@mudlark4099]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 I forgot!!

[@PeterDivine]

"I cannot allow this withdrawal unless you defeat me in hand-to-hand combat."

[@piccalillipit9211]

*IN 1999 I HAD A CONVERSATION* with Scott Adams - he was a very VERY weird and almost psychotic guy. I bought one of his books and in the book, he bragged about them using insufficient glue so it would fall apart and I would have to buy another - it fell apart. I contacted him and said I wanted a new book, he agreed to send me one [he never did]. I asked him why be SO terrible to your followers, he said "they don't matter, my success is ordained by the universe, I can treat them as badly as I want and they will still buy my books". EDIT - just let me be clear here - he didnt believe other people exist, or if they do, they dont have free will. The universe has decided they will buy his books, there is nothing they can do about that - so no need to be nice to them.

[@bobbsurname3140]

If it weren't for the fact that I know I AM the main character and one true human of this universe, I'd almost feel empathy with him. But I know you and Scott Adam aren't real people, so I won't waste my precious thoughts. :)

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@bobbsurname3140 😀 He was a very strange person

[@mastercharlesdiltardino8058]

How do you know if someone is real? There was definitely a time when people weren't conscious sapient beings, maybe not all needed to make the leap to real consciousness and just get by with a simulation of free will.

[@publiusventidiusbassus1232]

That's actually called solipsism - the belief that you cannot account or verify the existence of anything beyond your individual consciousness and what it perceives. Its interesting but a bit of a non-falsifiable position to have, so kind of futile and circular in thinking. In this guy's case I think he's just a massive narcissist.

[@bobbsurname3140]

@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 Yeah, from some of the stuff Ive seen Scott say, I think he might genuinely believe he's in a simulation. I have seen alot of other stuff he says that I agree with though.

[@nb5437]

My father taught me a very important lesson in life: "when you're winning, shut up". Scott Adams didn't know when to shut up.

[@marting1984]

I like this quote.

[@LatitudeSky]

It falls in with Sun Tsu's advice "If your enemy is making mistakes, don't stop them"

[@earthtoinfiniti]

Also, racist

[@WTFisTingispingis]

Real

[@t_buddski4672]

​@@earthtoinfinitiexplain if not phack off very low hanging innacuate & lazy

[@padawanmage71]

I remember working as a summer intern at an aerospace company in 1990-91, and having access to company email. I sent Adams a message, asking him to possibly make a strip making fun of summer interns. A couple of days later, he wrote back to me, letting me know to keep an eye out for the strip. Sure enough, some weeks later, i saw the strip on a Sunday and kept it as a memento. Although i kept reading the comic after that, it was only years later i started reading about Adams' views and wonder what happened to him.

[@idnintel]

he has a podcast on youtube - check it out!

[@cookieanddabutt2843]

Awww. That was nice. He got cynical.

[@fudgen.a1249]

Scott… Just doesn’t seem too pleasant, specifically ignoring his politics. After watching the video in full, he rubs me a bit like that contrarian who seems to get everyone angry for legitimate reasons, but can’t take pushback, even if it’s minor. Dude really ruined his career and reputation for no good reason…

[@randyjake6226]

Sadly that has happened to lots of people who became famous in the 90's. It was a perfect storm so just being a contrarian was enough to find foibles and problems in society to find jokes. These days, life's a lot more complex so being a contrarian isn't enough anymore to catch such nuance in life.

[@Jmack1lla]

He is a contrarian but i dont think he cant take push back. He never had a meltdown or anything. He basically just trolls and claims he was pretending to be dumb at his convience. Sometimes is feels good to have shitty opinions

[@Windchanter420]

behind the bastard did an in depth view on one of his books

[@SirBlackReeds]

His politics are left of Bernie Sanders.

[@imdoneplus]

Narcissism is one helluva drug.

[@silverwheel]

Man, the Zippy artist was right on the money about where newspaper comics would end up. There's the occasional legacy strip like Hagar The Horrible that's actually funny, or something like Heathcliff that's aggressively off-the-wall, but most of them currently put shockingly little effort into the artwork.

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

...still better than calvin and hobbs... Calvin and hobbs is the reason i dropped the newpaper BEFORE i found out it's all just propaganda.

[@mr.x2567]

@@Infotainment-cb6cy 🤡

[@rdred8693]

@@Infotainment-cb6cy Can you expand on this please? I thought Calvin and Hobbes was top notch.

[@LinktoSonic]

@@Infotainment-cb6cyL take on Calvin and Hobbes

[@Black-Thorne]

⁠​⁠@@Infotainment-cb6cy “all just propaganda”, is actually crazy dude

[@lightningmchick8948]

He's like a kid who nailed a joke that everyone loved, so he kept repeating it, and it just grew to be annoying

[@MiddlePath007]

He somehow has over a million subscribers, though. I guess as long as that kid is talking to less intelligent kids, he seems hilarious

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

I DIDN’T DO IT. -Bart Simpson

[@antytrend]

but in the end, he had the last laugh didnt he? $

[@deementia6796]

Two things .. his speaking at corporate events helped to speed up the worsening of Dilbert. All of a sudden, he was hanging around a bunch of Pointed Haired Bosses, and that bled into his mindset. He was no longer Dilbert, but wanted to be liked and adored by the pointy-haired bosses of the world. Now that he was one, PHBs weren't that bad, right? They just weren't understood by the plebes and moist robots. Also, Scott Adams made it big around the same time that Kevin Smith did, and they both have that same zeitgeist. The difference is, when they both raised their profile in fame, and tried to become "more than just themselves" Scott took himself too seriously, while Kevin Smith figured out that him being the king of his own niche was more than enough to keep himself and his friends and family well fed and comfortable for the rest of their lives.

[@Industry-insider]

Finally something to watch while I don’t work

[@I_am_Mister_Y]

Work!

[@Flow-Joe]

Literally or figuratively?

[@treenincove1726]

I love you

[@purllow]

lol same

[@KurtisC93]

Intentionally or otherwise, that sounds like something straight out of a Dilbert comic.

[@FoamingPipeSnakes]

I love how the guy who made this video looks like he could be in the comic.

[@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945]

I never wished I could respond on youtube with an image more than now

[@Skycrusher]

The dude looks like the Ultimate Final World Boss of all jabroni nerds of the Gigaverse combined.

[@billy_werber]

TheGamerFromMars?

[@dhaqq18]

The kid from Far Side?

[@brinkbooks3492]

Looks and sounds 😂

[@patrickflanagan862]

Yesss I was waiting for the Dilberito mention! EDIT: dang, he didn't mention the time he tried to hypnotize his blog readers into having "the best orgasm of their lives"

[@infjmale91]

There is something, in business, called the "Jones effect" which states that people normally stagnate in a particular level within a corporation & are unable to get any higher (not skilled enough to go up, not not skilled enough to go down). I do agree with his idea about the most incompetent people being middle managers though as they usually are the most annoying, loud & argumentative so if you were their boss; you'd stick them in a promotion so you can keep an eye on them while they just deputize (not actually do a lot of work).

[@heathdionne7717]

WHAT

[@nostalgicumbry3279]

Imagine him hypnotizing you to have the best orgasm of your life and you scream/moan out "Dilbert"

[@billepperson2662]

​@@infjmale91 Scott, is that you AGAIN?!

[@infjmale91]

@@billepperson2662 hahaha. I asked him on X if he still has a Dilberito. I'll see if I can buy it, if he does & steam myself eating it (plus the aftermath). Don't think he liked it.

[@galleryofrogues]

My dad liked Zippy so much he got a signed comic panel framed and still has it hanging on his wall.

[@alaeriia01]

Zippy is a stoner comic. It's best enjoyed while high.

[@codaproto]

having a mexican style burrito is so funny to me, like isnt that the default for burritos?

[@liselotteline8596]

I love the "Garlic & Herb" style. I feel like garlic and herbs should be standard ingredients in every version.

[@Game_Hero]

Next : japanese style sushi

[@AdiG1]

​@@Game_HeroEnglish crumpets French baguettes German Frankfurters Quite a few he could possibly venture into. It's an untapped market

[@Game_Hero]

@@AdiG1 Indeed, such business genius, could only have come from affirmations

[@coolassjack3214]

No Burritos in Mexico are a bit different and are generally called burros not burritos. They even have different style burros here in Mexico like Burro Tapatios or Burro Nortenos. (Basically burritos done in the style of people from the Guadalajara area and Burros done in the style of people from the North of Mexico) On top of all this Burros or burritos are actually kind of rare in Mexico. You have to go looking for them as they aren't that popular of a food.

[@quinnzykir]

Scott: My restaurant is failing, should I hire a manager that knows what he’s doing? NO! ITS THE LIGHT FIXTURES

[@neglectfulsausage7689]

atmosphere is important. ther's a great vietnam soup shop in my neighborhood. But to go indoors the tables and chairs are all like weird hard plastic and bad shapes. It feels like being in a mcdonalds booth. And the floor looks awful. And its cramped. Its just really not pleasant to be inside the shop.

[@quinnzykir]

@@neglectfulsausage7689 I’m talking about light fixtures. Not tables and chairs

[@adolfojuangarcia1906]

Introducing the Dilbert Pregnancy Test

[@patrickflanagan862]

There was a two-part episode of the Dilbert show where Dilbert built a rocket that was designed to collect samples of life from outer space, but it went up Dilbert's ass and he did an mpreg. Stone Cold Steve Austin was the judge of the paternity suit.

[@ellec7188]

This made me audibly laugh. Kudos to you

[@crescentfreshbret]

“May cause birth defects.”

[@MyPhobo]

@@patrickflanagan862 Scott Adams' dilbert really is autobiographical, huh?

[@lotus_flower2001]

@@patrickflanagan862 Thats just nasty

[@rarbiart]

"how many rare illnesses do you want to have in order to look more interesting?" - "yes"

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

"Success is a fickle thing ...." Well, no, that's GETTING success. Once you HAVE success, all you need to do is to be as quiet as Elmer Fudd on a Wabbit hunt, something way too many people seem incapable of.

[@arthas640]

To be fair fame rally is fickle, it's pretty easy to piss off fans which is why so many famous people either never talk about politics or religion, or they stick with only the safest and most popular of opinions. Just look at all the drama with the youtube creator Wendigoo: he's a very sane mildly conservative guy but overall really nice but he gets constant accusations of racism, homophobia, classism, and just about every other -ism you can think of because he's got a few conservative traits (christian, owns some guns, born in the south, has a nuclear family) so people treat him like a right wing nut job.

[@GoldenGrenadier]

Seinfeld almost did this but then he did the bee movie.

[@claytonandres1194]

Jim Davis has done this incredibly well, especially considering he’s a huge donor to Mike Pence

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

@@claytonandres1194 But nobody knows that because the most political Garfield strip is one in which the TV claims "Cats are more popular than ever... [because of] ...payoffs to pet owners from the powerful Cat Lobby!" to which Garfield claims is all lies. That's it, that's all I can find. That and he imitated "the President" once... he didn't specify _which_ president, but judging from the way his "disguise" consisted of bubble bath bubbles on his head (presumably acting as a powdered wig), I'm guessing it was meant to be George Washington. Now, George Washington may have owned slaves, but he is somehow the least polarized political figure in History... in America. What I'm saying is that Jim Davis knows how to keep his mouth shut and be counted amongst the wise.

[@user-zz3sn8ky7z]

@@arthas640 I like how you mentioned the guy specifically notorious for being able to hold onto his fame and fanbase despite constant allegations, to the point that there are entire video essays devoted to the topic, as a proof that fame is fickle. And it's not like he does anything about them either, he rarely if ever goes out of his way to disprove them. All of that happens simply and solely just because they aren't true lmao. It really is that simple, every other content creator is a pedo or an abuser these days, the bar is a tripping hazard in hell. Just don't be literally insane online and don't diddle kids and you'll be fine. I can't recall a single person who got "cancelled" for minor offense these days, if anything i can name several who did some horrible shit and are still raking in wealth

[@LarryXLR]

The fact that the Dilbert-themed vegetarian burrito named the Dilberito actually existed blows my mind. It sounds like a meta-humor joke.

[@Carewolf]

And that it was so comically bad designed it was hard for many people to digest..

[@silverXnoise]

Literally used Comic Sans 🤦‍♂️

[@Hornfancy]

I don't know if anybody mentioned it, but the Dilbert principle seems to be basically a repackaging of the Peter Principle which basically says you get promoted until you are no longer good at your job, which is why all management sucks

[@joesterling4299]

"Every employee rises to his level of incompetence."

[@evilgeniusha01]

To be fair the book explains the Peter Principle and frames its argument as a refinement of that idea. Still a lazy cash grab but not literally renaming someone else's work.

[@martytu20]

Peter Principle assumes that you were competent enough in your previous position before you got promoted where you're not. Tvtropes uses the term Dilbert Principle to denote someone who is promoted away from productive jobs to cause the least harm in the company (aka Pointy Haired Boss).

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

​@@evilgeniusha01 It kinda is, he presented no paradigm shift, atmost it refined the principle but using his own brand name. In science you don't get to change nomenclature and terminology unless you actually propose something new. I do deductive content analysis, I have my own article defining its application to Information Science and the adaptations I use, but I can't change the name of the method nor the terms that define it.

[@poxpower]

@@joesterling4299 Makes no sense since corporations are pyramids so there's limited spots at the top. There's also an actual top spot ( CEO ). That guy must be incompetent! look! He's stuck at CEO! No one's promoting him! lol

[@MrMegaManFan]

Given how many times Scott stuck his foot in his mouth and got away with it, I don't feel the least bit bad for him when he finally went too far and got his just deserts.

[@Trashcom1917]

I mean he didn’t ruin his own life for no reason, more like he was always like this and having millions of dollars enabled him to expose his weird personal habits and views to a larger audience

[@dadassery8506]

I feel like it’s important to remember; he was never funny

[@KamalaIsNotBlack]

@@Trashcom1917 Do you feel the same about Robin DiAngelo who said the exact same thing?

[@Trashcom1917]

@@KamalaIsNotBlack I have no idea what you’re talking about

[@KamalaIsNotBlack]

@@Trashcom1917 Of course you don't! Robin DiAngelo said the same exact thing! I hope feel the same way about her too.

[@KamalaIsNotBlack]

@@Trashcom1917 If you dont have a clue what I'm talking about, read your post and then go read that Robin DiAngelo said "Those of colour need to keep away from whites" Same things are said, yet only one is canceled. It's almost like a bias.

[@slackerofhell]

The dude that made the Dilbert comics looks almost exactly like how i expected

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

...like a turtle?

[@turtleanton6539]

😅😅😅

[@MrChickennugget360]

Like Wally.

[@criskity]

The way he poked fun at corporate life made me think he was an anti-corporatist. Then he went all racist.

[@FrcNeru]

@@criskity zzz I have not seen sources on it, but apparently 47% of black people quizzed said they didn't agree with the slogan "it's okay to be white". Your counter-argument, because I have read it a billion times, is that the slogan is actually a "dog whistle" for white supremacism, but the "Black Lives Matter" movement has behind it way more proponents of black supremacism (seriously it's not hard to google some names and their affiliations), and is not a dog whistle because "nuh uh". Maybe extremists views like his would not even be given the time of day if people didn't find these moronic contradictions every. single. day. when researching an issue, and the response to pointing out those contradictions wasn't a metaphorical door shutting.

[@mronewheeler]

Thinking that a "Dilburrito" is a gift to mankind that will change the world is thw most out of touch egomaniacal thing I've ever heard. And of course it's predictable failure was everyone else's fault

[@JaneFraser101]

Scott Adams and Elon Musk have similar egos.

[@mronewheeler]

@@JaneFraser101 At least Adams isn't a billionaire, so we can all be grateful for that

[@Cat_Woods]

I'm surprised he didn't blame that on people not liking white men.

[@SuprousOxide]

Can't just say "I think a lot of people will find this burrito as an enjoyable way to eat healthier". It's got to be the BEST IDEA EVER. And of COURSE it must have scared other food manufacturers so much that they'd go around to grocery stores to hide it...

[@Cat_Woods]

@@SuprousOxide But only because he was a cis white man, you know. 🤣

[@ShidaPenns]

He eventually admitted he was wrong about COVID stuff, but he said he was right to trust the "experts" (as decided by the media and government), so he was right about being wrong. The guy can't admit being wrong about something.

[@HawkOfLight1]

Before Scott Adams had any money he was Dilbert. After he became rich he became Dogbert.

[@Exar_Kun]

Best comment here! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PetProjects2011]

To quote the man himself, "Dogbert says all the things I'd like to say, without getting punched."

[@HawkOfLight1]

@@PetProjects2011 oh shit! Awesome

[@matturner6890]

Dickbert

[@arthas640]

he was always somewhat wealthy. You dont get a masters degree at Berkley if your dad's a plumber or you're flipping burgers.

[@qinkster]

why does bro have a skin cream company

[@av7062]

I was focused on the Sourboys bag in the background lol

[@I_am_Mister_Y]

'Cause he has skin, and he likes to cream?

[@Gamingderpmonglers]

Why wouldn't bro have a skin cream company?

[@MrKajjaGG]

Because every "influencer" is trying to sell something to dumb people.

[@laughablybad222]

creamer from mars

[@Kington99]

Not sure i'd trust the business acumen of someone who can't work out how to buy blackout curtains

[@Balsiefen]

That really got to me too. I mean, it's such a dumb idea to begin with, but somehow _that's_ the part he got stuck on?

[@Eccentric_Charlie]

Or move the business to another site.

[@jimaylan6140]

There has to be more to that story.

[@bg6b7bft]

TLDR; He's an edgelord.

[@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965]

all of his pro trump racist rhetoric and self-immolation was just an elaborate prank and WE'RE all the dumb ones LOL OK sure scott

[@bathhatingcat8626]

I watched him for a long time. He’s weird. He tries to use logic and reason, but somehow he often gets its subtly wrong. Most people’s ideas follow a bell curve- with most ideas being average/fine and a few being good or terrible. Adam’s is an inverse bell curve. Most his ideas are either awful or good (or at least novel) and few are average and I might be being a bit generous classifying his novel ideas as good. He does see through media narratives well though, just, like I said, he often puts forth an equally bad narrative.

[@curtisbme]

With some severe mental issues.

[@Localken]

That comic strip diss battle must’ve been that era’s drake vs Kendrick

[@mollusckscramp4124]

I said this verbatim, ha!

[@XanthinZarda]

Not really. I don't think it was even much of a fight. Comics were changing. Yellow Kid and Thimble Theater were out. Old cranky comics like Gasoline Alley were going to stay, as were tired comics like Family Circus.

[@PappyHal]

Ngl though "queercakes" sounds more cute than insulting to me lol

[@T1C]

If someone called me that I'd melt

[@lungse.2565]

Gonna call my gf that brb

[@b0t123]

Ok, queercake​@@T1C

[@PatLund]

Probably because you didn't grow up back when queer was a slur.

[@T1C]

@@b0t123 🫠

[@pw6002]

"My doctor told me that I'm part of the litterature on the subject now, but my name is not cited". You bet.

[@leatheryfoot6354]

" You gotta stay away from these fucking guys." -Scott Adams

[@anthonydelange4128]

Amen

[@guillermoelnino]

and he's right

[@havenm6181]

The edited dilbert comics walked so garfield minus garfield could run

[@genericname2747]

Truer words have never been said

[@colin-nekritz]

Garfield Without Garfield is best Garfield

[@0Fyrebrand0]

@@colin-nekritz I love when it's just Jon staring at nothing for three panels, then finally he says something like "I hate my life."

[@bananawitchcraft]

Honestly I would love to see some Dilbert-themed horror art in a similar vein to what people are doing with Garfield

[@genericname2747]

@@0Fyrebrand0 Me fr fr

[@bradley163]

This guy's love of threats of lawsuits would find a very welcoming home here on YT.

[@heistingcrusader_ad3223]

Don't encourage it. We already have more than enough of copyright abusing filth in this site

[@DoctorDerpman]

My grandpa used to say "The smartest people always make the dumbest mistakes." His words to hold more truth every single day.

[@Darth_Bateman]

Is it the "smartest" people? Or those with the "Reputation" for being the "smartest" ?

[@mollusckscramp4124]

@@Darth_Bateman This

[@DoctorDerpman]

@@Darth_Bateman It's the folks with the inflated ego and smug sense of superiority. Usually the type who can't help but boast their IQ. Those lovely "I'm more intellectual than you could ever hope to be." kinda folks.

[@XanthinZarda]

@@Darth_Bateman Intelligence vs Wisdom, basically. Being smart is worthless without knowing how to apply it.

[@clray123]

Your grandpa was right... about himself.

[@StevenTemple-y2b]

He didn't ruin his life, not at all. He's got the kind of money that says " I just don't care anymore so I'll say what's on my mind."

[@TheDrexxus]

The movie Office Space tapped out that niche that Dilbert live in better in it's sub 2 hour run time than that comic did for its entire existence. There's only so much you can do in such a specific area and Office Space basically did it all without being redundant and repeating the same jokes a hundred times. And that ONE thing was literally all this man had outside of bad political opinions and an uncontrollable urge to share them with everyone.

[@torstenscholz6243]

I must admit I never read the Dilbert comic as it's not well-known in my country, but Office Space is an underrated comedic classic and still one of my all-time favorite films and really the best and funniest take on the dullness and pointlessness of office life, another underrated masterpiece from Mike Judge (who, unlike Adams, is a real genius that gave the world a lot of great stuff and, unlike Adams, also seems to be a really cool dude that would never ruin his career is such a way). Also, Office Space started the trend for office-themed films and TV shows. Only two years after Office Space, the first season of the original UK version of The Office, which was eerily similar in premise, premiered and finally brought the topic to the mainstream.

[@andrewgallo2098]

The way he talked about his stepson is just disgusting; are we 100% sure he’s not the reason the kid started using drugs in the first place?

[@jojomations2596]

Bro looks like Dilbert

[@qazmko22]

I think that's the joke

[@infjmale91]

The irony was he voiced his opinions through Dogbert which I'm not sure if is better or worse.

[@taconatorification]

@@infjmale91it gives me similar vibes of Brian from family guy and seth macfarlen

[@infjmale91]

@@taconatorification You read my mind. I was about to comment saying IF Dilbert (the show) was still on, I'd imagine Dogbert being Flanderised into what Brian is today (a joke/parody of himself).

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

...Dilbert has hair. Do you have eyes?

[@jimmytalking]

Makes a video about a man who makes crazy claims, then advertises some snake oil he made.

[@bubandlisa]

😂 ikr another youtuber that slaps their name on a bullshit product made from ingredients swept off the factory floor of big name companies in china 😂

[@alaeriia01]

Yeah, my immediate thought was "this skin cream is drop shipped from China at a ridiculous mark-up" and then he trotted out some woman I have never heard of as a spokesperson.

[@Ultra_64]

It's actually insane how quick all of Scott's fanbase found this video

[@tjmartin8516]

We stock him outside of his house, so it’s not that insane.

[@Darthweezer]

There are dozens of them. Dozens!

[@nephilimninjaofnibiru2907]

Did someone say Scott Adams? ... I smelled it.

[@WobblesandBean]

It's hilarious to see so many terrible people literally trying to redefine bigotry as "no big deal". One dude even tried to make the argument that calling people bigots is the REAL bigotry.

[@ObossRocks]

@@WobblesandBean bigotry is based asf actually. adams was right and will continue to be right.

[@Omni0404]

The only thing less likely than him failing to be promoted twice at two different companies for his race and gender, is them actually telling him that was the reason. It just doesn't pass the smell test. "I ordered no onions on my burger, and they put onions on just cause they saw I was in a Comcast truck!"

[@SuZ4242]

Good grief. I lived and worked back then. Women and people of color were first hires... y'all seem ignorant of actual history.

[@jeffp.7598]

That's what I was thinking. No way they would actually tell him that. Seems more like he didn't get a promotion and couldn't except the fact there was somebody they preferred over him for any reason other then DEI.

[@TheNormExperience]

“On the scale of immoral behavior, where genocide is at the top and wearing Spanx is near the bottom, posting comments under an alias to clear up harmful misconceptions is about one level worse than Spanx.” What in the hell does Spanx have to do with immorality?!?

[@imaferretmaster]

@@TheNormExperience think of a man wearing spanx

[@KamalaIsNotBlack]

@@imaferretmaster I'm sure you do think of that 🤮🤮🤮

[@roxannefoxx1322]

Hi! Im someone that was raised super religious. So the thing about spandex is they are very tight and highlight curves. Thus they are assoicated with promiscuous behaviors. So are leggings and yoga pants but in recent years many communities have let that one go.

[@KamalaIsNotBlack]

@@roxannefoxx1322 U don't have to be religious to know common decency and dignity

[@petrosinella]

@@roxannefoxx1322 But Spanx are worn under your clothes--isn't it common for religious women to wear leggings under dresses for added modesty?

[@taylorlibby7642]

Bit of a stretch to claim that Adams "ruined his life". He's still got all of the money from Dilbert and when you see current interviews with him he seems perfectly happy.

[@anthonydelange4128]

Yeah cause he got away 😂

[@joseroa5243]

"it's only a tought experiment, bro" should be the new meme

[@artistradio]

It's literately Schrodinger's douchebag.

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

*thought

[@Diembee]

I feel like as soon as a popular figure comes into contact with politics their career instantly ends

[@Johnmrobinson-vb5vd]

Yeah because no body likes being preached at goes for right wing poltics as well

[@FarzynoMusic]

From what I've seen, that mostly happens when said figure expresses political views mainly held by conservatives. If anyone knows of celebrities cancelled these days for expressing progressive political views, I'd be interested to hear about it.

[@ayonafulls3364]

​@@FarzynoMusic what conservative views exactly? I always talk with my family on how we should reduce government power, and cut taxes, and we get along just fine.

[@camharkness]

@@FarzynoMusic any time a game or show has a gay lead or any other kind of minority even existing in it, people get extremely angry and usually leads to actors, writers, directors getting harassed and threatened. The actress for Abby from the last of us part 2 legit got harassed and had her life threatened because people thought she was trans and that her character was trans. (Some where harassing her because they didnt like the writing of 2, but some were harassing her for the reasons I brought up) Any time a celebrity says anything good about gay or trans rights, a lot of people call them woke and want them gone. Same even happened with rage against the machine and green day when people realized that their songs weren't conservative.

[@FarzynoMusic]

​@@ayonafulls3364 Being anti-abortion, anti child gender transition, pro Trump, anti Black Lives Matter, anti covid vaccine mandate, pro gun, anti illegal immigration, pro Christianity/Christian values.

[@CantankerousDave]

He was the pointy-haired boss all along.

[@linksbetweendrinks7032]

The end of Calvin and Hobbes was the end of the Golden Age.

[@PrivateAccountXSG]

I've heard Scott Adams on multiple podcasts... he strikes me as an asshole. Literally said he has "F U money" and used it to press anyone who disagreed with his opinions.

[@rdred8693]

Well, face it, there are quite a few people who would do this if they had his money

[@clray123]

Obviously you have never been a target of woke vigilantism... otherwise you'd understand.

[@cryptiddy]

@@clray123 and you've clearly never been a target of real discrimination that held you back your whole life or literally threatened your life. You are a spoilt child with 0 life experience and no ability to connect with people who aren't just like you. Immature and childish behavior.

[@emcvideoproductions500]

When I was growing up, my dad read the Dilbert comic strips and I was a big fan of it. As much as I enjoyed the comics and still find some value in them, Scott Adams to me seems like a perfect example of a lost cause who is their own worst enemy.

[@captainpandabear1422]

"My source is I made it the fuck up" Sounds like this dude's motto.

[@aaronrocs]

Do you watch "The China Show" by any chance?

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

Finally, my tiring regimen of applying 5-6 different face creams each day can safely come to an end. Thanks, man. It's been pretty rough.

[@wmpx34]

😂

[@beeble2003]

Yeah but what will you do with all the extra time in the mornings, now that you only have one cream to apply?

[@cryptiddy]

@@beeble2003 I think we all know what he'll do

[@Deadguy2322forreal]

@@beeble2003 He will find, shall we say, alternative uses for the other face creams he no longer needs for his face.

[@steboTCB]

😅

[@weylinstoeppelmann9858]

Strange, after this entire 48 minute presentation, I am not filled with seething hatred for Scott Adams, but an intense craving for an entire Dilberito

[@dan77773]

NPC youtuber says cartoon man bad for having opinions he disagrees with.

[@turkeykaiser]

@@dan77773 I think, and you might have noticed this by the title of the video, the point was that Adams failed at pretty much everything he tried other than Dilbert and then tanked that by being a complete failure as a human being. I don't think he suggested Adams was bad at any point in the video.

[@turkeykaiser]

Feeling a burning need to crap yourself blind?

[@hebozhe]

​@@turkeykaiser This made me like him even more.

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

@@turkeykaiser Adams is a very intelligent man. You may not agree with him but the guy is smart. I read his books and he's not a failure by any means. Maybe you don't like his ethics, but it stands.

[@defender2222]

What comment the author of Zippy the Pinhead said about Dilbert always makes me tilt my head because there was a far better target for that: Garfield. For as much as Jim Davis has tried to claim why he made it he eventually has admitted he did a cat because everyone was doing dogs and he changed Garfield's design to make him easier for merchandise. it was all abut money.

[@TheIrreverentUncleAl]

The difference is Jim Davis is actually pleasant to be around.

[@Jonathanizer]

What a great insight. Business such as media corporations want to earn money, and design their products to achieve that goal. Who would have guessed.

[@kcrtxbw.4349]

And he somehow managed to not make a complete a§§ of himself in the process…

[@alaeriia01]

​@@TheIrreverentUncleAl yeah, but he also moonlights as Palcomix. You take the bad with the good, I guess.

[@TheIrreverentUncleAl]

@@alaeriia01 Well… guess that’s something else I learnt about Davis, then.

[@pierregravel-primeau702]

The terrible crime of looking for truth and pissing off the religious and the cat ladies community...

[@unclvinny]

I'd mostly forgotten about both Zippy the Pinhead and Dilbert. I got a lot of laughs from Dilbert back in the day, and, well... not really laughs from Zippy, per se, but it was mind-bending and always drawn with great care and creativity. Neither cartoon was shy about telling blunt truths about society, but Griffiths was braver and leaves behind a legacy he can be proud of.

[@DanaTheInsane]

You make it sound like Zippy the pinhead isn’t being made anymore he’s still doing it daily.

[@Nermaiden]

I was really hoping you'd say "you can put on five or six creams...or just ONE"

[@pascalsrager]

"why shop at five or six stores, when you could shop at just one" love it

[@dasani.like.the.water.]

@@pascalsragerI don’t need friends, they disappoint me

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

put of? who puts of cream? what? how did you get so many likes? Botting?

[@pascalsrager]

@@Infotainment-cb6cy bro... I'm pretty sure that was a little typo, and you don't even understand the reference!

[@Nermaiden]

@@Infotainment-cb6cy there pal i fixed it for ya

[@sporer_]

1:52 what a fantastically stupid way to pretend you just being a liar is somehow cool and part of a big plan

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

Once you realise someone's a compulsive liar it just means you shouldn't pay attention to anything they say, so well done for that I guess.

[@jaidev777]

I remember a few years back, Scott Adams was actually being interviewed for his support and admiration of Trump. While the interviewer was mainly trying to talk about Trump's morality, Scott kept basically marveling at how Trump _gets away with it,_ not making a statement on morality. This video kind of makes all the pieces fall into place in my mind. A consistent theme of having such a big ego (restaurant management fails, over and over) and just... constantly being a troll I guess (went "undercover" into the corporate world to "reveal" something about them... without knowing what exactly he wanted to reveal or anything. And stating he just likes to post opinions which are not his opinions and see what happens). His book, titled "How to fail at almost everything and still win big." His so-called "thought experiment" which is... really flippant butchering of logical thinking ("Your truck also exists in your mind when you are thinking about it, but also you can think about the easter bunny, so both are just as real."). There are so many parallels here with Trump's style. He just marvels that Trump "failed at almost everything and still won big."

[@petermgruhn]

@@user-zp4ge3yp2o The guy makes it clear very early in the video that he isn't to be trusted.

[@petermgruhn]

@@jaidev777 What, another person failed to validate a reporter's agenda? Oh no! Reporters should be there to find out what people think, not to tell them what to think. When they get pushback, they should go get a real job instead of acting superior. "Here's a question." "Okay, here's my answ..." "NO. Shut up and make MY point for me." "Um, I was sayin..." "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Say what I want you to say." Why not just write a blog if that's your goal?

[@jaidev777]

@@petermgruhn ?? Huh?

[@ericrowe2533]

The original "I'm just trolling, you guys are the real idiots"

[@lumen-youtube]

he's the original Schrodinger's Douchebag

[@justpat5076]

I love how you can see the "can you believe this shit" smile on Art's face when he talks about some of the events.

[@shirophoenix01]

Ikr, he's trying so hard not to laugh lol

[@jordanjoestar-turniptruck]

Remember when he cowrote a Dilbert episode where he made the titular character trans and pregnant, highlighted misogyny in the workplace, and the last moments were oddly sincere and heartfelt? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[@matturner6890]

Yeah that show had a good-weird ending. Thanks for reminding me!

[@trinketmage8145]

According to one of his vlogs, he didn't cowrite any episode. He solo wrote every episode. Other writers were just credited anyway because writer guild shenanigans.

[@arthas640]

his politics seem to swing wildly left and right.

[@mofftarkin78]

@@arthas640 Because he has different opinions on different topics, and every topic doesn't sit neatly on a left-right scale. His bigger problem is how he likes to declare victory after making multiple predictions on a single outcome. One of his predictions turned out right. Remember? Word games, wizardry, 4D chess. Lots of truth is said in jest.

[@dangerousdays2052]

@@arthas640 Scott's politics are wherever he thinks the money is. Seeing him fail spectacularly at the right-wing grift was funny tho. 😄😄

[@tacitblack4732]

Maybe it's 'cause Adams entered the old-man-yells-at-cloud phase of his life, or maybe it's just the Mandela effect, but I seem to remember a time when he wasn't a nut job.

[@beeble2003]

I think there was a time when he wasn't a nutjob, but he's come across as at least a bit weird for a long time. I remember reading all that weird stuff at the back of _The Dilbert Future_ and deciding that I wasn't going to read any more of his non-cartoon writing.

[@cryptiddy]

He's always been this way, his filter just decayed with him and now we all know who he is

[@SonnyShizzle]

Scott Adams has “fuck you money” and would probably throw himself out a window if he woke up one day with your level of wealth. His life is far from ruined.

[@Isthisjoebiden]

I don't think you realize how sad and ridiculous this comment/scenario is😂

[@guillermoelnino]

@@Isthisjoebiden Not nearly as sad and rediculous as y ou r daily life.

[@StCrimson667]

Scott Adams really does come off as a guy who was told all throughout his childhood that he was so very, very smart (perhaps even having a "genius level" IQ after all!) and made it his entire personality so now he just can't comprehend that there's anything on this Earth that he doesn't already know and that he couldn't possibly ever be wrong about anything because, as we all know, smart people know everything, have all of life figured out, and can never possibly be wrong. Because if he's not actually as smart as he believes he is and if he's not always right, then he's nothing.

[@TheBonkleFox]

That's literally what happened. That's exactly what happened. Behind The Bastards did several episodes on him and went through his autobiography and pretty much Scott got EXTREMELY lucky throughout his childhood and got solid advice from people in the comic strip business and let it all go to his head and just decided to never change as a person ever again.

[@jarrettwegelin8668]

That lead poisoning hit him hard all at once.

[@isaacgraham5727]

I knew one big Dilbert fan in the late ‘90s, and she was totally agree ensconced in the corporate world. I remember in like 2000 she had moved down to Texas to work for this really big and powerful new energy corporation…. Enron. It was supposed to be her big break, poor thing.

[@bobdole8830]

Well, the sex and gender barrier DOES exist in certain companies and in parts of academia. I remember a former Professor of mine, who was number two in his department, bragging about how he wanted to increase gender diversity in his team, but wasn't legally allowed to only open the position for women, so he had to invite men as well, which turned out to be 95% of the applicants, just to send them home after 3-5 minutes of interviews and he then hired the first female applicant that walked through the door. I didn't stay in Academia, but all the people I know that did, more or less tell me the same story: unless the department is predominantly run by women, you won't be hired based on your skill, but your sex and even if your field of research is predominantly female, you're still at a massive disadvantage. A friend of mine almost got expelled by his Universities equal opportunities officer because he didn't wan't to get robbed. Almost 80% of students at his University were women at the time, and you'd assume since men are a minority there, the equal opportunities officer would at least be somewhat motivated to aknowledge the needs of the few men there, but no dice XD His department was at a small satelite campus that was almost 2h away from the actual university, in a small town with one trainstation and basically no public transport worth mentioning. So students that came by train had to walk to University, and the fastest route was through a somewhat desolate park. During the time there was a series of robberies in that park so the equal opportunities officer offered all female students that didnt feel safe to walk the park to use a taxi and hand in the bill to be reimbursed. Guess what happened when my MALE friend, who, for some reason, didn't want to get robbed either, handed in a few receipts XD The equal opportunities officer told him to eff off and that he was apropriating, he told her, that her behaviour is extremy toxic and sexist and that he had the same right not to be the victim of crime than a female student. She did not like that one bit so she escalated the thing up the ladder, and basically he was told to revoke his application for reimbursement AND apologize to the EOO. I don't feel like we are heading in a good direction. Inverting injustice maybe "feels" just, but it isn't, it's just the next step in an endless spiral of misery and violence. I feel like many Western societies came pretty far and intorduced a lot of important and meaningful changes, but now we're reverting back to a state a healthy society should not be in.

[@georgelionon9050]

I just dont get the bro-whining about this, since when has been a black woman been the winning combination, why women complained for decades about the "glass ceiling"? now people come up with all kind of special one of kind stories, maybe some of them even true, but still the vast minority, that may be the other way around, like complaining the society is out to get them..

[@bobdole8830]

@@georgelionon9050 Kindergarten logic. There can be more than one problems at any given time and your attitude is exactly the mindset that formed the new apartheid.

[@georgelionon9050]

@@bobdole8830 Come on, you felt the need to post this on the topic of Scott Adams who made this ridiculous claims he didnt get promoted because he was not black, and now come with me with "kindergarten logic"; when I point out this "we are the new vicitims" trend here is laughable, albeit as I said, a few of the stories might even be true.. get some bigger picture perspective and dont resort to name calling please.

[@bobdole8830]

@@georgelionon9050 you extrapolated a lot from nothing, with all the wrong conclusions

[@georgelionon9050]

@@bobdole8830 So then enlighten me, since you keep claiming I'm at fault here I need to be pushy instead of letting it slide, how did you mean in regards how to video, and what bigger picture are you painting? If its not a bro-whiny story as the with men is now supposed to be the real victim here and now facing imaginary glass ceilings?