this has gotta be THE most unhinged youtuber meltdown 🪱

talking a bit about nerd city and the reddit NFT situation
in-depth commentary videos at ‪@DAngeloWallace‬

[@firefang225]

For context on the "cat owner" bit, the podcast he co-hosts with 3 other youtubers (of which he is objectively the worst host) has a discord server where people were posting pics of their pet cats. He got ass mad because every time he tried to shill his NFT's there, people would spam cat pics to clog up the chat and detract from his shilling, so his response was to ban anyone who posted more than 1 picture of a cat lmao. Also a meme in the discord was to make fun of him talking about his NFT shilling by responding in baby talk, he would talk about how everyone needed to mint tokens of his project (acronym of which is DAP) asap, so people kept responding to his posts with "dappy want mint mint" and this seems to have been the catalyst for his public meltdown here

[@CatDadNoLongerSad-mf4ne]

It's also worth noting that Conservatives tend to dismiss anyone on the Left as being lonely, hateful, SJWs with multiple cats. There's a lot to unpack there, but the tldr seems to be that normal, cool people = dog owners, and unhinged SJW Marxists = craaaazzzzzy cat owners.

[@sunbleachedangel]

Not often do you see someone lose so much respect so quickly. I always foudn his NFT rambling horribly cringe and stupid but seeing him lose his fucking mind over that garbage is just sad. Is he really that greedy? Or just insane? Maybe both

[@bece00]

Dappy wants mint mint MY GOD LMAO

[@nicematerial]

Dappy wappy minty winty

[@venusonearth2189]

Aww, dappy needs a nappy wappy🥺

[@justhearmeout3959]

Not Nerd City losing an argument to a cat photo 😭😭😭

[@thetrueone8252]

i love winning an argument with a cat pic

[@cheeseboogar]

Everyone should respond to his retorts with cat pics

[@spacewaffle575]

dappy want mint mint

[@irtimid620]

@@cheeseboogar

[@spectre9340]

the person who uploaded the cat photo is right above this comment. I love that

[@crispeggies]

"did the parasitic worm in your brain become as stagnant as your subscriber count? clearly something must not be working" is cold af 💀💀💀

[@shadowpixie01]

Yeah, that one was probably my favorite lol

[@soupgyal]

🪱

[@why7189]

"The problem is you are cringe and embarrassing" took me out

[@phuongle6670]

🪱

[@JayeCole]

🪱

[@averyeml]

Lmao him basically saying “it’s not sunk cost fallacy because I’ve sunk a bunch of cost into this and if I keep doing it, it’ll work” is incredible

[@RabidDogma]

I think I can explain his sudden hatred of leftists. A couple of years ago, someone suggested that Hasan watch one of his videos on stream, he got about a minute in and went to do something else. (Nothing against the video, it was one I'd seen and liked, personally.) Nerd City found this out and has never forgiven him since. That's the only explanation that makes ANY. SENSE.

[@jeltje50]

​@@RabidDogmanow his comment towards Hasan on the podcast makes sense. In one episode he cried about Hasan making the right click to download meme. Because "it would mislead his viewers". Now long time later it all makes sense.

[@daveykinqy]

Being told “tell your wife you love her” from MahNameJeff420 is so fucking funny. the fact he replied to any of these with the seriousness he did is baffling

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

Man, I remember when Nerd City was really well respected on KZbin. His video on how Jake Paul's videos violated the FCC's terms on advertising to children was great and well informative. In that video about KZbin's demontization system, he specifically made a point about how the system surpresses LGBTQIA+ creators. Sucks to see him become the very person he would've criticized several years ago.

[@peachy_lili]

it just makes me feel like maybe the criticism wasn't coming from a genuine place. people rarely turn their backs on intersectionality, so he probably just tolerated lgbtq+ people at best but now he's all bitter about the 'woke' suddenly he has issues

[@GummyDinosaursify]

@@peachy_lili I've watched people go from hardcore allies to anti-anything but male, white, Christian and straight overnight. Once you go down that twitter rabbit hole, there's no coming back.

[@imaginekudryavka9485]

@@peachy_lili Agree. I think he chose targets that people love to hate (Jake Paul, SSSniperwolf) and found new, typically very valid angles to criticize them. With demonetization and the terms KZbin was/is biased against, which included a whole bunch of LGBTQ+ related words, he likely knew exposing that would make him look good. He was, or at least seemed, "woke" (if you can call a general support towards minorities that) when it served him and he was revered in the KZbin sphere. But his real feelings were let out when his views and relevancy dropped, and now _he_ was the target of the criticism and ridicule, so now it's Marxist this and woke that and insert cat picture here. It feels like during the last few years, many people who were kinda teetering on the edge with their views (maybe making "I identify as an Apache attack helicopter" jokes but otherwise being respectful and not caring that much) have fallen down the far right rabbit hole and are now in this bubble of the bitter and hateful. They feel emboldened to say the quiet part out loud and see everything as black-and-white. Either you're _'woke mind virus'_ -infected sheep, or brave free thinkers (repeating the same talking points). Even back when I watched him, I thought the whole "Thot Patrol" thing was off. And cringe. But I pushed it off cause I wanted him to be someone I can respect - and I own up to being willfully blind to that. I can't remember the content of those videos and what his points were exactly (and I don't care to go back and watch now), but considering everything, I wouldn't be surprised if amongst the obvious criticism, there were jokes and arguments solely based on them being women on the Internet. Especially conventionally attractive women on the Internet.

[@dangerxbadger2300]

​@@imaginekudryavka9485hey, good for you for taking ownership of turning a blind eye to his shitty behavior and the subtle signs of this happening before it happened for real. Not a lot of people do that, and I've been trying to do a fair bit of it myself recently, especially as it relates to how I handled my own internalized misogyny for a really long time. It feels really good to see that other people who, like me, are out here eating their crow for everyone to see and are on the same journey. Here's to being better, and keeping ourselves accountable. ❤

[@bonnieparker1725]

@@imaginekudryavka9485Completely agree. Not to pull a 'I always knew there was something wrong unlike all the oblivious sheeple' because that would be wrong and I genuinely enjoyed some of his videos back in the day (the editing really was great) buuuut 'thot patrol' never sat right with me either. I kind of would have liked slightly more empathy about why so many women on the internet feel the need to photoshop their bodies, but also why this can have harmful consequences on impressionable young viewers, and basically just perpetuates the cycle of toxic and unattainable beauty standards. Instead the butt of the joke was basically just 'lol look at all these superficial women, isn't it funny how bad they are at photoshop' rather than like..the fact that anyone feels the need to digitally alter their face and body in this way obviously points to a larger issue and maybe it's worth discussing why it's only the 'thot' patrol and men on the internet seem to be immune to or at least much less affected by this problem. But nah, let's just stick to making fun of women like Tana and Sniperwolf who even a lot of self-described progressive people still love to subtly (or not so subtly) slutshame.

[@LilFeralGangrel]

Years back Nerdcity made a video about youtube's bias against LGBT people in the algorithm, now he's a cryptobro who constantly rages about "woke" people. He lived long enough to become the villain.

[@thebeginingistheend]

It is the most disappointing down fall to me. I literally yelled "not nerdcity!" when I saw this video come up. The crypto thing was the beginning of the end. His NFT experiment T_T

[@kittyburger000]

He just found what makes the most money. Which is outrage culture. NFT's and crypto and outrage culture, anti SJW, anti-woke crowd is a circle on a ven diagram.

[@BrookerTJustice]

@@thebeginingistheend He banned me from his subreddit when I pointed out that his twitter thread explaining the NFT stuff was pointless to anyone without twitter since it had just been made impossible for non-account havers to scroll through it. I was mocking him a little for being a dumb crypto bro after he got pissy.

[@user-s0m30n3]

Serious question: Does anyone know if he was having some sort of breakdown or psychosis during this?

[@aliciagreen5411]

I'm curious about that too​@@user-s0m30n3

[@Moonguided]

LMAO My favorite lines are either "Bro I've got some tulips to sell you" or "Counterpoint: This is hilarious". Thank you for taking us on this journey, D'Angelo.

[@itemushmush]

MahNameJeff420 is an absolute wordsmith

[@jeltje50]

​@@itemushmushhe visite r/redlettermedia. Ofcourse he is based.

[@666kittycat666]

Did his gf break up with him or something?? This is some divorced dad ass behaviour

[@ernestoacosta7918]

If I lost a baddie like her I’d be into crypto too, no coming back from falling off that high point

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

I was wondering the same thing; she was rad. Hope she still is rad.

[@deloreslena5422]

I think she did? hence why she no longer shows up in the videos

[@2ndbleak]

Thought exactly the same thing, girl was out of his league. Though maybe it was the other way around; she broke up with him because of his downward spiral

[@666kittycat666]

Turns out that Pyrocynical broke up with him 😢

[@strawberrywheels]

imagine being so obnoxious that a REDDIT user with the username "MahNameJeff420" calls you out on it

[@kylegonewild]

Get it out of my head get it out of my head

[@nowiecoche]

That's a Pyro viewer, isn't it?

[@FaceBack18]

He be straight jeffin'.

[@jeltje50]

​@@nowiecoche redlettermedia as well.

[@rory2393]

the second someone uses "woke" unironically, I lose all respect for them and no longer want to hear anything they have to say.

[@angery2002]

Same. Love when they do though ‘cause it immediately tells me where they stand.

[@vglycorpse]

Same. It’s just a right wing buzzword that they think holds magic power to instantly piss off the “libs” when in reality it just makes conservatives look extremely goofy 😭😭😭 I cannot take old people seriously man

[@spOOkytimes]

People who use it unironically are insufferable and mad the world is changing because they are no longer the center of it. Calling people "woke" from calling out a scam is so embarrassing. My jaw dropped when he first started shilling that NFT nonsense in that one video.

[@fawnieee]

I ask them to define what woke means, and they immediately stutter and can never answer me. It is literally just a buzzword to people who it unironically.

[@sh4rkb4it]

“woke” or when they call anyone with leftist leanings “libs”

[@Trempo-k2j]

This type of brain rot tirade reminds me so much of JK Rowling looks like we found another victim of the black mold

[@mollusckscramp4124]

The contagion is airborne at this point

[@claytonreeves150]

@@mollusckscramp4124 It's literally a memetic hazard. It spreads through knowledge of itself.

[@im4ft622]

Rowling is based though

[@TextbookSadass]

​@@im4ft622 Yes, starting a hate campaign against an Olympic athlete because you falsely believe they're transgender is 'based'

[@teathesilkwing7616]

@@im4ft622if you catch it early enough, you can stop the spread of black mold in your house. I’d recommend contacting an expert ASAP

[@mysteriousginge]

Using Marxism as an insult and then going on to say "it can never fail as long as I add value to it" is honestly poetic.

[@JaseekaRawr]

Yeah it just makes me sad, bc Americans in general have no idea what Marxism(or leftism) even is, yet try to use it as an insult. Whenever someone does that they're outing themselves hard. Shame, I used to like NerdCity. Let's hope he comes to argue personally in these comments, too 😆

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

@@JaseekaRawr There's an "AcousticSoul" who I think might be a sock posting all over.

[@LePetitNuageGris]

Liked because I wanted it to hit 1,000 to satisfy my OCD tendencies. Lol

[@karmica7591]

@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426I thought the same thing lol that could honestly be him

[@hershelroswell]

it cracks me up because you eventually get them railing against "marxist companies" and i'm like... are you hearing the words coming out of your mouth right now?

[@SkiggsMoDiggs]

The fact he just keeps freaking out and repeating "Marxists" and "Liars" is like a Danganronpa character breakdown 😭😭😭

[@Witchy_Hoo]

It's reminding me of third trial culprits specifically

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

ace attorney suspect type shit

[@kinkybooboo]

​@@NocturnalTyphlosion like when that clown chick started tweaking 😭

[@merlumili]

LMAO

[@vifurawa2715]

Whenever I least expect it, there will always be a Danganronpa reference in the comments section 😭

[@sarura]

dude i remember back when nerd city was so well respected in the community, and i never hear about him now

[@bridgette8748]

Yeah when I saw his face on this vid i was like NERDCITY??? I loved him back in the day

[@chickpea]

Same it jumpscared me

[@squin6959]

I heard him mentioned in an old video and meant to start watching his videos, sucks

[@saiyamoru]

dude, me too. i lost respect instantly. how did he fall THIS HARD and THIS FAR??

[@alexusa9153]

@@bridgette8748I really thought I was seeing the thumbnail wrong😭

[@jonesy279]

I love that NerdCity has been on the internet for quite some time and still thinks that complaining about there being “too many cat gifs” ISN’T going to result in him being drowned with cat gifs the second he looks at any screen for the rest of his life 😂

[@poorlyrenderedrolf8882]

Literally. He should know better but obviously doesn’t care

[@thetrueone8252]

HI HELLO! i'm the person who uploaded the cat pic responding to NerdCity's "cat owner spotted" message. it's became an inside joke now to have a cat pic occasionally when talking about nerdcity on the sub.

[@skunkrat01]

Hey, good job buddy!

[@user-s0m30n3]

Proud of ya

[@peachy_lili]

my favorite thing about it is that the cat in the pic looks just like they'd look if you grabbed them and set them down in front of NerdCity just to bother him. it's like "ok, I'm here. what?"

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

very cute kitty very funny reply

[@GummyDinosaursify]

🐈🐈

[@Pinkgobi]

I used to be a HUGE fan. HUGE fan. I watched his Jaystation video a dozen times. The fact that he has had a downfall so severe that he is coming off as hysterical in the KZbinR DRAMA subreddit, a subreddit known for being insane and reactive, is so crushing. It hurts bro. It's like when granny starts to not recognize you.

[@jaybee2337]

That Jaystation video is so good. This is sad to see.

[@TheNinToaster]

that JayStation video must have done psychic damage to the man

[@jaybee2337]

@@TheNinToaster “Something bad was in Jaystation. But when another KZbinr exposed him, resulting in Jay shutting down his channel, the bad jumped into a new host…”

[@lolok6338]

Me too!! I watched all of his vids multiple times and praised the editing. This is so disappointing (and omg your grandma comparison is such a good way of describing it)

[@TheNinToaster]

@@jaybee2337 he was Kermit all along....

[@coricognitions]

"cat owner" "Marxist mob" "woke" "word salad" I know these are all pretty common insults but they're especially common on Fox News right now. I think he fell right down the rabbit hole.

[@starrybytez]

wait "cat owner" as an insult is common on fox news? i believe you, but why...?

[@strangeaelurus]

​@@starrybytez iirc it has something to do with childless women? and Kamala Harris i think, but you should take me with a grain of salt

[@fashiharz8584]

​@@starrybytez not fox news, but the Andrew Tate crowd. Unmarried women who won't date alpha sigma men = cat people.

[@AlexHider]

@@starrybytezI think it’s loosely connecting owning cats with being single with having blue hair and pronouns and possibly toxo? Unclear

[@merlumili]

Oh yeah, he for sure got sucked into some right wing brain fucking

[@redminus]

Man, what a wild nosedive. Their older videos are still legendary, in particular they'll still always deserve credit for being one of the main channels to draw attention to the extremely horrendous "daddyofive" situation some years back. Somehow they managed to thread the nearly impossible needle of treating it with the seriousness it deserved, while staying in character and keeping it entertaining (or maybe "engaging" is a better word). IMO the weirdest part of all this is that as NFT projects go, it didn't really seem that bad. The times I saw it explained, it looked like it was basically being used as a Patreon-style membership token, rather than the usual "investment" scheme NFTs are known for. It still begs the question "why not just use Patreon" or whatever, but for a channel that also made its reputation on analyzing the inner workings of social media etc, it seemed at least like some kind of on-brand experiment. Having said that though, I recall the teaser/announcement of it being received VERY badly on Twitter. The Nerdcity account's reaction was roughly as hostile and defensive as all this reddit stuff, with some clapback about how everyone was being incurious and jumping to conclusions. At the time I had hoped that maybe they were doing a bit, perhaps working on some kind of NFT analysis video and doing their own project so they could look into the data first hand. In the end, I guess not. RIP

[@liquidwood4064]

the "don't trust people who hate cats" approach hasn't failed me once, glad to see it's still reliable lol

[@gnocchidokey]

fr 99% of the time it's a sign of latent misogyny

[@TheRaspyAspie]

Me thinking in the perspective of "people who hate dogs" 🤔 It has never failed me. My Great Dane tells ME what's what!

[@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks]

What if I used to hate cats, and then I found out that most cats are actually pretty great, but the issue was that my best friend’s cat when I was in elementary school absolutely hated me for no reason, and so I assumed that all cats hated me which was not actually the case, it was just one asshole cat

[@gnocchidokey]

@@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks valid, that's why I said 99% not 100%, because cats can be assholes

[@Sandstimes]

​@@TheRaspyAspie exactly, generally I avoid anyone who has some intense hatred of animals. They're all Innocent to me. Not only are they not capable of the same sort of malicious intent humans are, many of them are also dependent on us for food and safety, so directing vitriol towards them always feels completely unwarranted and cruel

[@oshaviolation]

another instance of "Marxism is when someone does something I don't like >:(": beautiful, marvelous, thank you NerdCity. lmfao

[@6thwilbury2331]

I honestly think people have swapped out Hitler for Marx to sidestep Godwin's Law.

[@moustik31]

Marxism is when my audience refuses to get scammed by me 10y after the scam was hype. - NerdCity

[@Thufferinthuckotash]

Markthithm 👅💦

[@KhayJayArt]

I like Marxism and hate NFTs, so he must be onto something.

[@oshaviolation]

@@KhayJayArt fuck, same, he got us

[@RandoSando.]

Surprised nerd city isnt in this comment section yet. Maybe he finally logged off, went to sleep, touched grass. And told his wife that he loved her

[@stephend9370]

Nah. Was morbidly curious, he's still commenting on his latest upload and unhinged shit on reddit.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Matter of time. But I'm wondering if someone insulting people up the page is a sock.

[@noodlz.mp4819]

hes already crying abt it in this podcast server he got booted off of its so funny 💀💀💀

[@BlackLabel2021]

Can't do that last part. Girlfriend left him.

[@galatea5455]

He'll show up in a month.

[@HectoGames]

6:32 this one’s so telling. He probably just spent years during quarantine browsing increasingly far-right forums and got brain rot.

[@xzwf]

"oh you're being ignorant? I BET YOU'RE TRANS" nerd city logic is the funniest shit on earth

[@kentuckyroutezero]

It’s on the same level as people who say ‘pronouns in bio’ as a way to invalidate your opinion, but they have literally no other material so they’ll word vomit that out in completely unrelated situations. like… we were just talking about the land before time movies, man, why tf are they so aggro 😂

[@TheDoomBlueShell]

@@kentuckyroutezero Remember a person that was going on a tirade about how 'pronouns on bio' were stupid and then went full meltdown mode when a person misgendered them by mistake and how should be obvious that she was a girl

[@Novaurawr]

Can I ask what is ur pfp from? :)

[@krystufek268]

love being an ignorant trans person ig..

[@WobblesandBean]

​@@Novaurawr According to google lens, it's called emergence/metamorphosis and the character is called Saki, apparently....and it's hardcore corn. Like, straight up full of sequences of Saki getting graped multiple times, and even more messed up stuff. ....And now I'm thinking the authorities should get a warrant to search OP's hard drives.

[@RobertStoll]

Nerd City had such crisp editing. Sad to see it go this way.

[@liathompson2332]

Right. His vids were great

[@fawnieee]

People really have no idea about his history on twitter, do you? He's always been this way. He's always been "edgy" (have to use that word thanks to youtube.)

[@kamikazelombardo]

​@@fawnieeeas a long time fan of him on KZbin, it's shocking to see. I wouldn't call this edgy, this is "old man yells at cloud"

[@yoshita4140]

@@fawnieee so was his twitter just directly contradicting everything he posted on youtube or what? because he used to be an LGBTQ+ ally in his old videos lol

[@RobertStoll]

​@@fawnieeelegitimately no, although even before Elon I didn't use Twitter that much

[@ArtieOfAstora]

These daily videos on the side channel have cured my depression

[@Flooreenciia28]

no its the only thing keeping me going im so happy

[@TheVideoChatter]

It’s definitely given me a boost, too.

[@imanadult7432]

Legitimately, I see those picture frames on my page and I exhale the stress of the day. You just know this will be articulate, it will make you laugh probably and it'll take you out of your real life and suck you into this drama QUITE completely! And I need that 😅

[@carolynr570]

Fr these uploads have me looking forward to each day 🙇🏾‍♀️

[@GuntWastelander]

If only it were that easy…

[@davesprivatelounge]

nerd city falling into the alt right pipeline was not in my 2024 bingo, bruh what happened

[@crablord9362]

it's not surprising. just listen to him talking on the TBH podcast, it was clear he was already in the process for a long time it made me stop listening to the podcast at some point (probably when he talked about demons or defended andrew tate) and unsubscribe from his channel

[@Farticuss]

I remember seeing a video by him shortly after the NFT crash just trying to grapple with it while also wanting to continue to pursue his project. He was talking about the Folding Ideas video and how much it bummed him out for days just thinking "is this all pointless? Is there no use for this?" He seemed to be on the precipice of realization, then he went "no, of course not. They're just leftists. Dan is a Leftist! Leftists want everything for free, that's why they hate NFTs. It's leftists that are the real problem". And then I never heard anything about him again until now.

[@arnaldomaldonado4467]

​@@crablord9362him being friends with keemstar prob also worsened that

[@pattykrabbies]

No one is as obsessed with "woke" politics as the right. LIke they just bring up gender in the most random conversations

[@soupy_soup2]

They think about LGBTQ people more than we do ourselves

[@yukikanegawa7470]

It's kinda sad. Imagine living through life paranoid about whether everyone out in the streets is lying about their gender. Like if there were any consequences to you personally whether a stranger chooses to wear a skirt or change their name to Jess.

[@triskadancer]

@@yukikanegawa7470 Truly the level of hysteria about someone else wearing slightly different clothes and using different words is insane.

[@TheRealAmadeusMozart]

I am as left leaning as you can get without teethering into the radical side of things, and I talk about gender less than right-wingers who supposedly hate the stuff. Getting mad over a few words is something they like to criticise us for, but they're so much worse in that regard.

[@soupy_soup2]

@@TheRealAmadeusMozart It's always projection. Every time. We're supposedly the triggered ones.

[@Gamingturtle090]

5:42 is so beyond brutal "Tell your wife you love her or something." the casualness of "or something" i was cackling

[@youraveragearmy]

Unfortunately, this is NOT as deep as the recent Nerd City drama goes. If you haven’t seen the phrase “dappy want mint mint” and screenshots of Nerd saying slurs in discord, you haven’t seen the end of it 💀

[@yageshabazz3456]

I’ve never heard of this nerd city person before, but seeing his meltdown is amazing entertainment

[@soniccraft5283]

Did you watch the pyro TV vid cause this is a funny and ironic follow up for the uninformed

[@GummyDinosaursify]

@@yageshabazz3456 I really enjoyed his video on Jaystation, but I never really went back to him after I seen that video and now he pops up like this.

[@mediacavernmc]

I think I've only ever heard of this men once but If he's scued to the conservative crowd I'm surprised he's not being boted in subs

[@suoutubez19]

@@mediacavernmche’s more so just ranting and raving because he’s upset that his KZbin career is in the toilet

[@nate6045]

I have never seen D'Angelo this happy before and I don't think I'll ever see him this happy again. This dude is in commentary heaven rn.

[@thekaticorn99]

"he would be rolling in his grave, or he would be rolling in OUR grave" took me out

[@sourgreendolly7685]

took US out 😂

[@Remiddi]

Yeah that was good 😂

[@thekaticorn99]

@@sourgreendolly7685 🤣

[@Lina-ti6qt]

lmaooo i was searching for this comment!!!!!

[@Boundless45]

Shit was so funny I woke myself up laughing

[@Iexapro]

ain’t never seen “x seconds ago” for anything maybe i am D’angelo hive 💀

[@badlilthang2]

damn you earlier than early

[@imanadult7432]

Welcome! It's nice here, and I brought a cookie from home 🥹

[@ruddiko]

Maybe you ARE D'Angelo

[@mariya_tortilla]

@@ruddikoomg thats it-

[@lizzyblitz07]

Absolutely love your username. Crazy you have it without any 0s or anything. Kudos (Lexapro fun fact: it helps with Narcolepsy with Cataplexy - a condition which very few meds are available for, especially to actually treat the sleep disruptions and quality issues)

[@ndnerd1781]

Ngl, I lost it at "Cat owner spotted"

[@hollowbox5723]

🐈

[@oshaviolation]

fucking same 💀😪

[@oshaviolation]

that shit broke me it was so funny

[@faeriegraver]

Saaaaame

[@thetrueone8252]

when i saw it i was just in shock tbh, like i had no idea why cat owner would be an insult. but as a cat owner, i had to at least respond appropriately

[@a_stray_dog]

I actually very legitimately feel like the people in this guy's life should like, go check on where he lives, make sure his house doesn't smell weird and that his water doesn't taste funny. This guy talks (in my limited and non-professional experience) like someone in the midst of a severe metal crisis, and the fact he apparently was a relatively normal dude up until a few months before this makes me wonder if he's suffering from some sort of intoxication or poisoning.

[@yann6109]

He accuses others of being disconnected from reality, meanwhile he references some obscure discord cat grudge in a completely unrelated subreddit. Does he think the same 10 people follow him wherever he goes?

[@Caffeine_Addict_2020]

I mean, no, there's a way more obvious answer that D'angelo is missing. What were they talking about - brain worms? What is very common with cat owners? Brain worms? Look up toxoplasmosis, I thought we all knew about this

[@caramel9154]

@@Caffeine_Addict_2020 lower risk of heart attacks is more commonly associated with cat owners because toxoplasmosis, while also extremely common, is rarely ever reported due those with strong immune systems not being affected in an extreme or noticeable way. However I fail to see how this is relevant to the nerdcity cat grudge.

[@pinkcapybara2]

“This is how a stupid person talks” is so simple yet so so perfect , I’m still thinking about it , i love it

[@CreoTan]

And it's so perfect because that brand of grifter just....always talks like that. They all pick up on the same obnoxious "i'm so smart" dialect AHSJDKF

[@obscurereference8798]

NerdCity is gonna find your comment and tell you how that's not a dunk at all actually and you're a marxist and a cat owner for thinking it is

[@DontSmokeInBed]

i maintain that spaces like r/KZbinDrama are for viewers, not creators. I always cringe when I see a YT'er in there, whether they are thanking people for compliments or lashing out at people for criticism. It's like how book reviews are for readers and not writers-- the space is for discussion, not feedback

[@peachy_lili]

it always looks cringe to see them in those spaces, because they should be too busy to be interested most of the time. if they're not something's going on, usually lolcow type behavior

[@ameddayr]

Exactly. Also, it's so beneath him. It's like if Kendrick Lamar responded to DJ Akademiks...

[@Savanna-e9m]

It can't be healthy to constantly read what online strangers say about you. If I was a creator, I would stay away from spaces where fans gather to talk about creators.

[@thetrueone8252]

@@DontSmokeInBed mod of the sub. Like 3 creators with a notable career who posted in the sub hasnt had a meltdown in the sub. Lady emily, paruko (bradtasteinmusics editor), and Saverino

[@radishfest]

​@@ameddayrappreciate the disrespect for ak, but nerd is clearly going through some type of kanye type situation - this has been a long and disappointing process and I think we have reached the "acknowledging that he's like this now" stage We got the pretentiousness, the delusion, and the hard right wing turn It's a shame. He had so many chances to Not Do This.

[@cheshiregerena6855]

I remember when jk rowling harassed JesssieGender the "of course she has a cat" as an insult too. So maybe it's a new anti-trans attack

[@highbread817]

Not an attack on trans people If anything they're just implying they're crazy cat ladies and the stereotype of anti-social people who live alone with their cats

[@uuh4yj43]

​@@highbread817 if it keeps getting used this way it will become a dog-whistle for this kind of shit regardless. it already is something i associate with manosphere and incel stuff because of all the "sad lady doesnt marry and end up with cats" trope that is regurgitated repeatedly in those circles.

[@cheshiregerena6855]

@@highbread817 hold ur horses bucko and let's not dismiss this pondering too quick. Not sure how that comment aimed at ostrasizing women not in relationships would be applied by transphobes to women they deem not to be a woman. It could be ig still used of course and I'm not like debating you bout this. Just wanna have folk essentially keep their eyes peeled for repeat usage of this phrase at trans women to be sure. Cuz this is a world where white supremacists and those who support it to varying degrees use dogwhistles and make acronyms as unassuming as "Have a NICE day" it's important to note patterns for minorities like myself to stay safe.

[@mimik222]

@@highbread817which is extremely ironic coming from brainwashed right wingers who sit on the internet all day and yell at clouds

[@Caffeine_Addict_2020]

@@uuh4yj43 If you keep interpreting things as attacks against you, then that's also a symptom of a mental disorder. They were talking about brain worms, nearly 50% of cat owners have brain worms from Toxoplasma Gondii. It takes a little bit of knowledge to connect the dots there, but to completely miss what is pretty common knowledge, and dig into some podcast beef from years ago to try and dunk on nerdcity some more is deliberately obtuse

[@yourwife1111]

‘I’m letting the liars know I found their little liar’s club. Holding it accountable, one might say.’ The way I know he was laying on his stomach, kicking his feet, and giggling like a school girl when he wrote this.

[@yourpookiescrapmetal]

HELP-

[@helixxia9320]

😭😂

[@proffesionalweredog7426]

pushing up the glasses

[@shaftjerker3000]

WTF LOLLL

[@ad2094]

Leave school girls out of this

[@bonkc]

The "is this a sex fetish thing for you?" HAS ME ROLLING

[@vl5008]

That line was my favorite. 🤣

[@galacosmos6014]

Mythological cartography is crazy to hear when you’re hand-drawing a fantasy map at the same time while watching this edit: love that we’re all in the same boat that’s hilarious

[@CoreKatalyst]

It was meant to be 😅

[@Pinkgobi]

DUDE I feel you!

[@harpoonlobotomy]

Mythological cartographers unite!

[@peachy_lili]

one of the best and most fulfilling hobbies, more people should try it

[@ghostly_lizzy4807]

omg im also making a fantasy map

[@kneau]

9:57 Oh, ew? Nerdcity might be "vibing" with the things JD Vance has said on record. The "childless cat lady" quote is longer than those three words.

[@hollowbox5723]

Now I watched this video and I'm worried Nerd City will pop up in the comment section to start arguing

[@Funcijej]

Worried? Nah, just get the popcorn.

[@Pee-z9n]

Just respond with "Dappy want mint mint"

[@spOOkytimes]

They say if you say his name three times in an internet comment section, he will appear...1 month later.

[@Monocultured01]

Don't worry, he's busy replying back to comments on his latest video since now people are starting to spam cat and worm emojis

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Someone in other threads is defending him by insulting others; I assume it's his sock.

[@cozyarbi]

As a socialist, I've come to understand two things: 1.) Never trust any KZbin personality's morality, just enjoy their content for what it's worth (this has nothing to do with Marxism, just a hard learned fact after 10+ years on this platform). 2.) Almost anyone mentioning Marxism has never read any theory and has no idea what they're saying.

[@GonwaLibbyVid]

I really want to agree, because it's getting exhausting being betrayed by these creators, but how can I watch someone without trusting that they have good morals? I only trust what D'Angelo is saying about Nerd City because I trust that he is telling the truth and has good intentions, just like I trusted Nerd City in the past with the same thing.

[@bigmistqke]

Typical Marxist propaganda

[@royalFiddle]

@@GonwaLibbyVid You can trust the topic of a video, but even then you should still verify it.

[@cozyarbi]

@@GonwaLibbyVid There's no good answer for this besides "don't think too hard about it" because there's always a non-zero chance that anyone who spends most of their time talking about the faults of other people as their main source of revenue/content is hiding skeletons in their closet. ESPECIALLY if you're a fan of the commentary community, I'm sure there's a LONG list of people "exposed" in that niche field.

[@MrMadXenomorph]

"Almost anyone mentioning Marxism has never read any theory and has no idea what they're saying." yeah, almost anyone mentioning crypto or NFTs has no idea how they work in the slightest, they're still right for calling them scams I'm wondering if there's any connection to Marxism in that regard, hmmmm

[@critically.panned]

“Bro I got some tulips to sell you” is such a good line

[@Scarfgirl]

that was my fave too. brutal in its honesty

[@botanicalitus4194]

i dont get it. Can someone explain?

[@vulgaritar48]

@@botanicalitus4194 Basically, there was a time when tulip bulbs were all the rage and were selling for the cost of a house. The price was hyperinflated for these fucking flowers until some bulbs that were expected to fetch a huge price at auction sold for less than anticipated, then everyone panicked, investors started mass selling their bulbs at gutter prices to try to get out of the market before the bubble completely burst, and the entire market collapsed in the blink of an eye. NFTs are unfavorably compared to the tulip bulb as a near-worthless item being hyperinflated by hype, investor ignorance, and delusion.

[@space__girl]

@@botanicalitus4194there was a time period in the early 1600s Netherlands where people were buying tulip buds at insane prices and was kinda similar to modern nfts, it's called the tulip mania if you want to look more into it!

[@firstnamelastname7708]

I like tulips.

[@atomic.madness452]

9:57 Biologist here! He’s referring to toxoplasma gondii, a type of parasitic brain worm that cats can carry and causes infected rodents to become more docile around cats. They’ve been known to infect humans as well, and appear to promote a slight pro-cat sentiment. Idk why he’s saying that in response to someone claiming *he* had a brain worm, but I digress

[@QT3.14-w2p]

"I'm not owned! I'm not owned!", he insists as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob

[@turboshazed7370]

😂😂 liooool

[@Bread-nx9fo]

GRRRR THE WOKE MOB IS ATTACKING ME! He types as he tries to defend himself from being an NFT shill

[@ethhics]

isnt this a wint/dril reference

[@wellsh582]

Video stars at 0:01

[@Spraycik]

Thanks mate

[@hyunjinsanity]

Cheers mate

[@Jatin_Kukreja]

This comment saved my life.

[@demigreen6495]

Godsend 🙏🏽

[@lailaauto33]

Thanks dude

[@BigOwl51]

Nerd City: “I don’t care about subscriber growth” Also Nerd City: “it’s my job to get attention”

[@jafizzle95]

There's a latent brain mold that has been coming out of dormancy in a lot of people's brains. I don't know how else to explain people trashing their own reputation like this. It's completely baffling.

[@whoopsydaisy6389]

He really went full Mike Lindell.

[@daniellelongacre4067]

ngl- I think there's something about being too online that can radicalize anyone because the algorithm sorts people into echo chambers filled with people's weirdest most extreme inside-thoughts. And if you have a habit of doubling down when people tell you you're wrong it can get even worse. Combine that with a desperation to remain relevant once someone used to fame sees the attention they're used to slipping and you can get some truly unhinged behavior.

[@alexiszimmer]

I was done with Nerd City when he tried to defend Dr. Disrespect on his podcast.

[@nicematerial]

Yeah that was a very dark last episode

[@SuperZura91]

Never saw his podcasts but I was (Not anymore since now) a long time subscriber of his youtube channel. Didn't expect him to do the same shit he kept making videos about before. Bet he didn't expect his main audience would get informed on his mask off moment. Fucks sake.

[@ND-nr6mx]

Guys c'mon, all Dr. Disrespect ever did was flirt with underage girls! Give him another chance! I mean, he also cheated on his wife before that ... but that's only TWO strikes! Give him three or four at least!

[@0uttaS1TE]

He WHAT!?

[@vishnu2407]

​@@0uttaS1TEhe said the reason Disrespect was cancelled was because he was caucasian lmao

[@funeeeeee]

I don't wanna be one of those people, but as a person who fell down the KZbin 2016 right-wing pipeline and got back out of it, I got the "anti-SJW" brainworm vibes from a mile away. During the th*t patrol, specifically with the edgelord creators he associated himself with.

[@thomasstone3480]

yeah, i thought his video making was good and he mostly chose targets that were pretty easy to hate, but i didn't think his argumentation or analysis was great. i did actually watch that sssniperwolf video, which seemed less like it came from someone who had gone full maga weirdo and more like it just wasn't very insightful or inspired- which, one could be causing the other, in either direction

[@GuntWastelander]

Congrats on getting out!

[@Ashleigh_Alexander]

God I’m so happy that I got out of that horrible fucking hole

[@Mitsaya]

Yeah, I enjoyed his content, but he did always have this vibe to him. Nothing particularly notable, just a mix of small things that added up to a bigger sense of unease.

[@ratatouillenut693]

​@@Ashleigh_Alexanderbro you making it sound like he got out of the Mexican cartel💀

[@vesseldritch]

very off topic but right as i got the notification my car passed a d’angelo’s restaurant

[@FlamingoBathroom]

D'angelo is a god confirmed

[@killicat]

omg slay

[@llllaarr2518]

Vertical integration

[@warcrimeinspector5684]

Sure buddy

[@aminamm3103]

Synchronicity!

[@drangelice]

The thing that really checked me out of Nerd City was an episode of TBH, the podcast hes on with Dolan, Pyrocynical and Colossal. They did an episode on Andrew Tate and Nerd City was consistently defending and batting for him. It went past devils advocate and started just being him talking about how much a great manly man Tate is. Nerd City was consistently abysmal in that podcast but that one episode was the nail in the coffin for me.

[@arnaldomaldonado4467]

I stopped watching when he came back to the podcast but from what i've read in another video he was playing devil's advocate on the dr disrespect being a pedo situation

[@psixi2668]

eww that's gross

[@reaperlou8649]

Me: oh hey haven’t heard from Nerd City in a while, I wonder how he’s been. Me, after he started talking about Marxists and wokeness: oh buddy no, what rabbit hole did you fall down

[@peachy_lili]

kind of looked like the Wendigoon/In Praise of Shadows situation a few months ago may have pulled him more openly to the right in that "cancel culture is gonna get me because I suck, so let me just suck real extra bad now in advance of the inevitable cancellation I'm in for" kind of way many future grifters do

[@JaseekaRawr]

He's another victim of covid brain worms I'm afraid 🧠🐛😔 That's when it all went downhill.

[@Savanna-e9m]

Right? This breaks my heart.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

@@peachy_lili I've liked some of Wendigoon's stuff but I feel bad for IPOS, he really shot himself in the foot. It doesn't sound like his video was thought thru, which sucks; the rest of his work, horror series, was stellar. I hope he's ok.

[@kylegonewild]

His cope in his podcast discord is he's the guy who likes proving what's fake and what's true about "conspiracies" but the wokies and pyro fans keep saying he's vagueposting about alt-right shit (which some of it undeniably is why be a coward about that if you're some truth teller).

[@theroadstopshere]

I actually remember when Nerd first started trying to make NFT's "work" for artists and educators, and it was really clear his heart was in the right place. He trashed on cryptobros stealing art, made a project of free NFT's to both highlight an artist who was stolen from and demonstrate how you could do generative NFT's without being a total piece of shit about it, and started selling a few NFT's specifically as access passes to educational content and streams in his Discord. I think he really saw the mechanisms of the blockchain and the aphorism of "code is law" as neutral and potentially usable to the benefit of creators. So when after all that he still got little reception to the projects and got clowned on for believing in NFT's at all, he started to get defensive because as far as he could tell, he was one of the only people actually trying to do right with the tech. The problem is that blockchains and their associated techs today are just so bloated and inefficient for the tasks they do that even ignoring all the baggage that comes with the crypto label, there's only a small set of actual use cases where it's a better option than existing tech, and even there it's difficult to argue the cost-benefit. And since most of us *don't* ignore the baggage of crypto, and even total outsiders now see it as wasteful and prone to corruption, he was really kinda SOL before he even started but couldn't recognize it from the space he was in. I actually tried to explain that to him in a comment on the first podcast vid where he brought it up and complained about the way people were reacting to his genuine effort to make the tech useful to artists. It got a surprising amount of attention and likes, more than some he personally replied to, so I suspect he probably read it, but he never responded. I held out hope for a while that maybe he'd take the L and recognize that whatever his intent now was not a good time to try and create a crypto-based project, but it seems like he dug himself in so deep that he ended up digging into a rabbithole and becoming deeply bitter about the whole affair and the online space in general. Which is a total shame, because as a younger white dork computer scientist find his way into the left, his work on the KZbin algorithm and its biases and mathematically-obscured bigotry was really helpful to me in understanding how and why the modern internet has become the way it is. And while I was never a huge fan of the "thot patrol" concept, SSSniperwolf was such an absolute POS that I was totally fine with her being called out for hypocrisy and shaming other women while lying about her own image, so I didn't see it as some early sign of misogyny or anything. Deeply saddened that this is where things led. An internet breakdown isn't "the end" of somebody's journey, and I hope he can pick himself back up and see more clearly how deep into a bad place he's put himself, but given how stubbornly he's dug himself in, I don't know... What a shame.

[@sleepzy3816]

Idk man he was surrounded by a couple of shitheads towards "the end" of his channel so it's hard to see if his heart is in the right place

[@michaelhaydenbell]

@@sleepzy3816 Who are you talking about?

[@michaelhaydenbell]

This is hands down the most insightful and helpful comment I've seen yet, and damn near the only one that's not just laughing it up and dunking on him (even though he mostly deserves it), and we need much more of this; ACTUAL dialogue, as much as the dunking and gawking can be satisfying. I'm extremely progressive and ALSO happen to be somebody who got intrigued with some of the tech involved with some crypto and NFTs, knowing nothing of any kind of "crypto culture" yet, only to see it get completely hijacked by reactionaries, libertarian weirdos, and most importantly, SHAMELESS SCAMMERS. Really sucks when I still see a lot of good that could come of the technology, but I don't think everyone anticipated that it would pretty much collapse under its own horrible reputation before it could ever really get off the ground. And some of that I will pin on "leftists" who just dogpiled it and repeated misconceptions and myths without actually understanding it, all because they just saw it as a tech bro thing and therefore bad. So there was plenty of blame to go around on why it failed, and so I'd imagine the only serious applications of it that will prevail will be with major banking systems, and other niche corporate uses, whatever, in ways where most of us never know it's happening. Long story short, I do think he heart was in the right place, and may still be as far as the NFTs go, but that in no way excuses all the other brainworm bullshit. As soon as I noticed he followed Jordan Peterson a few years ago I kept him at a distance. Hoped it was just from before JP had his OWN "woke mind virus" nervous breakdown, back when he was more known as a psychologist, but that was probably naïve of me to give him the benefit of the doubt there. Really a shame.

[@JamesLawner]

This is a great comment, I appreciate your take on this and giving insight into the why/how of it all with NerdCity and his NFT project. I just think it’s sad when a creator of his size falls from grace over a few comments (even if they were warrantee criticism, I don’t think he should’ve responded in any way). The best thing for NerdCity to do is to actually show people what good he can do with his NFTs, but I doubt anyone would listen or care.

[@professorsugoi]

you said everything that was on my mind i love you and yeah... i hope he can turn it around.

[@whicyc]

As an ex-Nerd City fan, I find it baffling that this is the same guy who criticized KZbin's algorithm for censoring videos regarding LGBT+ topics years ago. This situation would've been hilarious if it weren't so damn depressing.

[@benanderson89]

The alt-right pipeline is real. It's like how the right used to complain that JK Rowling was too liberal.

[@AlienfromY841]

The guy was a big Sam Hyde fan. This rant doesn’t come as that big of a surprise

[@averagemordhauplayer4821]

​@@AlienfromY841sam hyde fans try not to be cringe challenge

[@caillinm6465]

i commented on a nerdcity video as a fan on his most recent vid (*edit: his sniperwolf one oops, i unsubbed after this LOL) saying 'maybe dont use jordan peterson as a source' and he went on a rant about how leftists 'dont want to clean their room' and 'politicize things unnecessarily' and then deleted his comments and my replies to my comments over and over - only to leave up a reply saying "the attempt to suck me into politics isn't going to work, and you should be concerned about your pet priorities if the mob ever manages to politicize me. I'll getcha" dude has gone off the deep end, sad to see

[@mollusckscramp4124]

Yikes 😬

[@karendaniel450]

This feels like it's mental health related. Had a friend act like this once, found out she had stopped taking her meds.

[@xsarahelisa]

legit! I work in mental health and it's giving 🚨alarm bells🚨

[@mammoneymelon]

not making assumptions but it reminds me of a manic episode kinda

[@palyername]

@@mammoneymelon yeah that's my thought too, when i get manic i am ready to fight anyone over anything and will 100% believe i am in the right the whole time no matter what. it's half the reason i don't use social media, i don't need to be giving myself a way to make a fool out of myself like this when i'm going through it

[@anisa2273]

was thinking the same thing... he definetly doesn't;t seem to be okay, needs to see a therapist

[@terryo4352]

I still, stupidly, want to believe his NFT project's goal wasn't to make money. The way he has made videos about merch and how he has always showcased artists and stuff, I WANT TO BELIEVE that it was just another artistic project that he thought could be cool. It seems like he couldn't take the criticism or claims of it being a "scam" and just lost it. Marxists? Cat Owners? FAR LEFT? WHAT? I hope he can level out on some meds and talk to a professional.

[@alexkasper5029]

Okay…one of the key pillars of free market capitalism is that if someone is selling something that sucks people have every right to make that known and not buy it. The theory is that people get to choose and then only the best companies and products survive. We all know that isn’t actually how it goes, but it is how capitalism works ideally. KZbin is a business, and every creator is selling a product in a sense. You get to choose who to support, and if you think their content sucks, you don’t have to support it. That is capitalism dude, not Marxism. What makes it especially funny is that the free market (his viewers) have rejected both his content and his NFT scam….and he’s blaming Marxism….hilarious

[@JennaSchmithorst]

i hate it when people don't know what Marxism/Socialism/Communism is and use it to mean just something they don't like lol

[@alexkasper5029]

@@JennaSchmithorst SAME!! These are all complicated ideas and they shouldn't be hurled around they way they are by these alt-right clowns. It makes it so easy to point out the hypocrisies in their arguments, which is satisfying. But I also find it troubling that these people are clearly using words that they don't know the meaning of and that just signals how little thought they are putting into it! I guess it is easier to believe that all your problems are caused by liberal Marxists than it is to look up what Marxism actually means and what the antithesis of it is lol.

[@ashkebora7262]

The "free market" IS NOT capitalism. That's a basic money-based economy, NOT capitalism. Capitalism IS NOT the presence and usage of money...

[@totempolejoe1]

"In matters of taste, the customer is always right."

[@sarah69420]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@ashkebora7262"Capitalism is often thought of as an economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society. The essential feature of capitalism is the motive to make a profit." The whole idea of capitalism revolves around money, so it's fair to say that having a society revolve around money (USA) is capitalism. Capitalism is a money-based economy. Free market is a form of capitalism. You could just google instead of being wrong.

[@spookyt8692]

NFTs, raffles, crypto and taking ads from specific companies are all indicators of grifters who provide less to humanity than a Victorian mudlarker.

[@spOOkytimes]

TIL what a mudlarker was. Seems to have inspired Goblin-core on Tumblr.

[@MegCazalet]

Mudlarkers did honest work, though.

[@michaelhaydenbell]

What are you referring to "taking ads from specific companies"? Haven't heard any about this.

[@spookyt8692]

@@michaelhaydenbell Things that say, provide a service like that mental health/therapy/counselling app that sold peoples data to insurance companies that put up premiums because they have the data that adds to their trends ect. better help? better mind? You know, those who set up a company, and sells on data instead of providing an actually transformative experience. Or that scam that was buy a plot of land in scotland and become a duke or whatever. All total scams.

[@Oujouj426]

​@michaelhaydenbell My guess would be lack of any vetting or personal interest. Like how a lot of KZbinrs were shilling that Scottish titles scam.

[@felixfoster3983]

I'm an illustrator, and nerd city's video on art commissions and pricing, customer handling tips etc really helped me when I was starting out, so I'm so genuinely disappointed in him, especially as a member of the lgbtqia+ community.

[@scantthunder_2722]

theres no response as powerful as a genuine, heartfelt, “are you okay?”

[@EmpireAnts42]

I randomly saw him being transphobic on reddit and was like WHAT LMAO

[@imagineglasses7552]

My sister just sprinted into my room yelling "D'Angelo posted again!" Now we're watching with popcorn

[@woadxqueen666]

That's so cute

[@kennalikespizza4515]

I'm such a huge fan of "I'm sorry I think your nft is lame" so simple yet so venomous

[@frankreads8618]

As a cat owner, I can tell you that it is so weird- SO WEIRD- how people will use "cat owner" as an insult. I don't understand it and never will.

[@kentuckyroutezero]

9/10 times that I’ve seen, it’s just a person who wants to call someone (usually a woman), something way worse but they know they’ll get more flack for it so they default to something that’s not an insult, but is associated with a negative view of women, usually the old cat lady stereotype. In short, it’s misogynists having a meltdown because they can’t treat women like subhumans and still get a girlfriend any more. Shocker 😂

[@NotSmartPeppa]

Normally I see it used as a misogynistic insult against women (owning cats cuz u don't have a husband or kids as if it's a bad thing???) Anyways in this context, there was a time where whenever nerd city tried to talk about crypto in his discord server, people started spamming photos of their cats so that's probably where the "cat owner detected" comes from

[@EmiL_from_NieR]

Same, cats are affectionate sweet little beings. Some are jerks but they also cuddle with you and make you happy. Cats won’t rob me at gunpoint or r**e me so I mean they’re better than people 😂

[@666kittycat666]

Someone already said this elsewhere but it’s probably cause cats require consent and it angers them irrationally.

[@LittleMissLounge]

On top of it often being a misogynistic insult, I find that conservatives tend to dislike cats because they're not dogs.

[@Jyster370]

10:20 it was the TBH podcast, basically, Colossal is Crazy, Pyrocynical, NerdCity and Dolan Dark Nerd was complaining about how Pyro’s fans (I think it was his fans) in the discord kept “shitposting” cat memes and Nerd was getting annoyed and began blocking people. He claimed that he wanted a “constructive discourse” where everyone could talk and be constructive. But instead it became a shitposting forum, the other 3 pod hosts found it funny but Nerd was very upset, he was trying to maintain face in the pod, but the thread the mask fell off.

[@cbj4sc1]

I used to be a big Nerd City fan, super excited to see him pop up again only to be severely disappointed when he started shilling crypto shit

[@Lochimo]

If i had to go by context with his "woke" this and "Marxist" that and remarking on gender, what he's referring to when he says *cat owner" is the current US vice presidential candidate J.D Vance who in making a remark about gender roles and what should be expected of women, he called called left leaning or liberal women "Childless cat ladies who are miserable with their lives." Essentially its just another politically tinged insult.

[@Mourning_cloak]

I dunno if this has already been commented but also the cat owner comment sort of reminds me of the JD Vance quote about the country being ‘run by childless cat ladies who want everyone to be as miserable as them’. Since this Nerdcity guy seems to be obsessed with the woke being against him it could just be a common sentiment amongst those folks that being a cat person is a ‘woke left’ thing thus they hate it.

[@oo4758]

They've made owning a cat political 💀

[@maybemablemaples2144]

​@oo4758 they also complain about everyone else making things political....that actually are. They just can't be normal

[@modkip25]

No it's a discord thing

[@yahdudehaha]

pyrocynical, dolan dark, and colossaliscrazy have a discord server for their podcast, and its riddled with people posting pictures of cats, and nerd doesnt really like that, the discord was meant to be about the podcast, not just people posting whatever (which is silly to expect fans of those 4 youtubers to know how to behave but i digress) and on a podcast episode they had a conversation about why nerd left the server and he went on a rant about it, so its become a pseudo in joke in that community. it has nothing to do with politics, or anything else.

[@peachy_lili]

"cat lady" has been a right-wing insult for liberals for decades now. most people like NerdCity have that similar flavoring of resentment for things symbolically representing the side of politics they hate. it's a Discord incident reference, sure, but the crossover between the two ideas is not accidental overall

[@DanzelGlovington]

Broke: Reading the comments in Nerdcity's normal voice Woke: Reading them in Dr Downvote's voice Bespoke: Hearing his voice go between the two like a deranged Dr Jekyl Mr Hyde situation whenever he gets mad

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

I already liked your joke + have nothing to add but you have a delightful username

[@JamesLawner]

Why do people get this way? It’s just sad. This is a whole grown-ass man, and he’s acting like a 14 year-old! 😓🤦🏻‍♂

[@ameddayr]

if people like Keemstar and Sam Hyde become your friends...

[@AdvantageousAngie]

It's mental illness

[@Cat_Woods]

I don't know any 14 year-olds that crazy.

[@Kjll3rUnjc0rn5]

“What is nerdcity doing here” “Embarrassing himself” ….I couldn’t breathe

[@JJ-dh5vq]

Pyrocynical fans drove this man insane, RIP

[@brokentoaster4231]

dappy want mint mint :(

[@JBrodo]

😂

[@finnster3276]

What happened ?

[@jaimayy]

Dappy want mint mint!!!

[@jaimayy]

@@finnster3276nerd, pyro, Dolan dark, and colossal are in a podcast called the TBH Podcast. Pyro’s fan base is silly and every time nerd tried to be serious or shill his crypto in the server people (mostly pyro and Dolan fans) would just shit on him with either cat pics or babytalk.

[@SmartSmears]

The fact that "cat owner spotted" is one of the few comments by him that has a positive upvote rate makes it twice as hilarious. An ironic upvote for sure

[@Derapy]

Nah the picture of the cat as a reply is my favorite 😭

[@meow.4972]

Omg goat spotted

[@Derapy]

@@meow.4972waddup

[@eviljenkins9986]

Cats are always the best reply

[@JoshuaGuzz]

Can’t wait for the TBH podcast to become Pyro trying to middle ground colossal and nerd being unhinged and “anti-woke” while Dolan just stays quiet in the corner

[@one5e]

You haven’t heard? Pyro fans made fun of nerd for a bad take on trans people, and nerd couldn’t handle it and quit the podcast (called Dolan and pyro cowards for not policing their fan base to say only nice things about him too)

[@JoshuaGuzz]

@@one5e wait no way really? Is this in video format somewhere?

[@spockezri]

i'm personally voting for this guy going antisemitic with cultural marxism and not wanting to be controlled by the banks. but i think the worst insult he can think of is probably telling someone they're gay, bc he sounds like a 14 year old in 2008 edit: CAT OWNER???? i'm sorry what

[@borjaslamic]

From another coment, apparently whenever he would post NFT grifts in his podcasts discord, it'd get spammed with photos of cats, which fair enough.

[@rougnashi]

My guess was he was gonna go 12 y.o. 4chaner and start calling people autistic as an insult so cat owner was an honest upgrade 😂

[@terryo4352]

MOST people have NO idea that the cry of "MARXISM!!!" is almost always a direct line to literal Nazi propaganda. It's shocking how little people understand that. You sound like a conspiracy theorist yourself when you try to explain it, but its literally the grandchild or great grandchild of antisemitic dogwhistles used by the Nazis. *At least* he didn't say "cultural" marxism? XD I'd like to think many people who say "Marxism" just have no idea what they mean, but Nerd City has always been a clever dude, I can't imagine he just saw a buzzword on Fox and started repeating it... Idk im doing my best here. What a fall from grace. I should have realized after he disappeared during/after COVID that he would come out the other side with some seriously unhinged brain rot. What a bummer.

[@_lil_lil]

Honestly? I'm guessing either mental illness or drugs, while we're speculating based on vibes here. This isn't the behavior of a healthy adult, and he wasn't always this bad.

[@chunklevundt8953]

6:44 im sorry “rolling in OUR grave” took me tf OUT

[@alesbianhotmess]

Same😂

[@pinkerhero]

could you please explain the joke to me? 😅 I want to understand like everyone else

[@Feynix4]

Don’t you mean took US out?

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

​@@pinkerherofunny communist collective ownership joke

[@mdg245]

Damn, I dipped after that one video ended in an NFT push and wondered if maybe I was overreacting. Glad to know my gut instinct was right on that one.

[@luccorvus]

Same. Throughout the video I was picking up on some weird vibes, but just thought I might have misunderstood what he meant or whatever. But when he then ended with shilling NFTs himself, it clicked 🫠

[@musse4869]

I went back earlier this year and listened a bit to his podcast and I wish I didn't. He used to be a top 3 YT creator for me and now I just get sad AF whenever KZbin recommends one of his videos 😥

[@justdoodles9906]

The way he says "I'm an ally" then immediately proceeds to call the people who are responding to him the woke mob lol

[@레이안-p1b]

Nerdcity having a mental breakdown on reddit was not on my youtuber 2024 bingo card.

[@tmamone83]

"Cat owner spotted." JD Vance, is that you?

[@nyxxie-pooh]

8 IN A ROW?? weve been blessed 🙏🙏🙏😭

[@micahfoley9572]

"Bro I got some tulips to sell you"

[@theghost00]

Edit: Thanks for correcting me, I’m wrong with this one. Only knew about the stereotype, not going to delete the comment. It’s apparently something terminally online which is even more pathetic. 💀 10:03 It’s misogyny. Playing on the stereotype of middle aged childless single women who compensate their lack of a loving husband/partner with cats and lots of red wine. 💀

[@Moony1568]

Yes but also no. It is a discord thing

[@yahdudehaha]

to elaborate on the other reply, pyrocynical, dolan dark, and colossaliscrazy have a discord server for their podcast, and its riddled with people posting pictures of cats, and nerd doesnt really like that, the discord was meant to be about the podcast, not just people posting whatever (which is silly to expect fans of those 4 youtubers to know how to behave but i digress) and on a podcast episode they had a conversation about why nerd left the server and he went on a rant about it, so its become a pseudo in joke in that community. it has nothing to do with politics, or anything else.

[@littlefoxglove276]

this was my first guess too and i am losing it over the actual reason being even more out of pocket

[@NankitaBR]

​@@yahdudehaha So now he is even weirder than JD Vance? Oh, how he has fallen...

[@ephemeral999]

someone already said it but yeah unfortunately the reasoning behind it is not even as much of a logical thing. its Somehow More Embarrassing and Chronically Online (same for dappy want mint mint)

[@lluell]

As a big fan of the TBH Podcast, I've always felt a little alienated with how violently different our views are. I always tried to ignore it because I'm a fan and politics was never a forefront of his content before, but seeing him argue in month old Reddit threads, involving random homophobic statements in his comments is just disappointing and uncomfortable. Not to mention the recent episodes of his Podcast have been getting a lot more politically opinionated All in all, I might drop his content. Coo-ish guy, amazing editing, a bit deranged, and I'm clearly not welcome in his community anymore

[@pepperbee_]

For real. His takes always made me so uncomfortable and he would go on like 30 minute rants about sth then go "Pyro what do you think" and it would be so awkward cause everything he said was clearly bullshit

[@viatheanimator]

i genuinely wonder if he’s having a mental break. sentences that don’t make sense, making connections between unrelated things, and continuing to do this for hours + seemingly seeking it out. if not, then i don’t know what to say 💀 guess he’s just like this

[@Aimeeorangeburg]

Yeah as someone who went through a bought of craziness he just reminds me of this. Lowkey feel bad because if I was posting on a major platform during my wild era I would've been canceled so hard.

[@Adophie]

genuinely amazed that in the whole first section there was a singular mention of nerd city being maybe right wing (saying he referred to a bunch of stuff as "woke"), and the rest was just people saying his NFT's were lame but he kept bringing in "everyone's a nazi nowadays" and marxism and shit as if the woke mob was cancelling him and not the "i'm not a fan of NFTs" mob calling him cringe

[@duckimpala]

that comment thread reads like an intervention lmao

[@thisisnotphysics1857]

I wasn't expecting D'Angelo to cover NerdCity's "Pyro's more famous and it hurts my feefee" meltdown.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Maybe if he wasn't twisted up, he could do a video that was actually constructive, like the Jake Paul one. He posts so rarely, this looks even worse when he should have better things to do than harass redittors 5 months after a post. I mean I wouldn't re-sub now that I saw his dark dead shrivelled heart, but if he shut up & tried to make good work he could at least stop digging the hole.

[@karma.chameleon]

Wow it really does feel illegal to be this early

[@RenegadeVile]

My reaction to this is identical to the guy who just asked him: you okay? Seriously, where the hell did this come from? I feel like he's been stewing in rage for so long it just boiled over.

[@fizziep0p696]

Might be remembering this wrong but i remember awhile ago watching a podcast ep with the four boyz (pyro, nerd city, Dolan dark and colossal is crazy) I remember the topic of their patreon discord came up because nerd HATED when people would send cat gifs, like he was genuinely pissed😭and because cat gifs became sort of an inside joke in the chat, it was so constant that he wanted to outright ban anyone who shared more than 1 picture of a cat because he just couldn’t stand it anymore?? Like genuinely he was so heated over fans being silly in the discord chat they PAID for. He ended up literally LEAVING the discord chat, and I believe even started his own. So petty and weird Edit: omg I commented this before I saw the “cat owner” comment!!!!! I can’t. NERD IS SO WEIRD FOR THAT!!!

[@e_intelligence2487]

16:26 that reminded me of that clip of Gabby Hanna saying “THESE ARE BULLIES! HIGH SCHOOL FUCKING BULLIES!”😭😭

[@ronandoyle827]

i thought the exact same thing. i haven't exactly been quick to trust anyone who cries "bullies" ever since

[@purpleblah2]

Maybe his wife left him, this is definitely "wife left me" behavior

[@ameddayr]

i don't know about that, but according to himself his girlfriend was embarrassed for him when he thought that gary vee didn't act with bad intentions.

[@Atlas0fStars]

the reply consisting of simply a worm emoji made me chortle like nothing else