WEBVTT - DeSantis' Fashwave Adventure, Part 2 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.680 Yeah, I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well. 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.479 Let's go Brandon, Let's go. 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:16.680 I agree, let's let's talk about Let's go Brandon. I 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.560 maintained the only good thing Biden has done so far. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.239 It's pretty funny. It's very funny. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:30.479 So this is like also the sort of attitude that 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.560 is actually necessary to like win the culture war side 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.720 of these things. It's not like defending yourself, and it's 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.080 not when they do something like put out this meme 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.240 like being like, oh my god, this is so dangerous 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.520 and like some responsible no funk with him right back, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.760 you know, like boh, put some glowing eyes on Joe 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.519 Biden and make it looks like he plans to shoot somebody. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:53.800 You know. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:55.520 It's funny. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.160 So let's talk about the rise of dark Brandon. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.120 And also the other thing that they're kind of deterning 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:07.399 and reposting with here is like taking the uh what 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:12.000 is it, taking the fucking Brandon memes and let's go 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.720 Brandon meme, Let's go Brandon and going being like all right, yeah, 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.640 fuck it, call him Brandon, like doesn't hurt us, Like yeah, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:19.440 we'll be branded. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.840 But Biden did that himself, when someone asked him about it, 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.440 he didn't know what it meant, and he was like, yeah, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:25.360 let's go Brandon. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.360 I actually I actually already had that clip inserted of 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.800 above this conversation jameson good job, good job, We're on 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:32.400 the same page. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.120 Yeah, which is just being given the content. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.959 So Dark Brandon combines two different pro Trump memes while 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.199 trying to subvert them, both pretty successfully. I would say, 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.400 I'm I'm assuming everyone listening to this is is familiar 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.600 with the fuck Joe Biden, Let's go Brandon kind of evolution, 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.440 So I'm just gonna skip right past that because the 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.520 other half of Dark Brandon, I think is a little 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.840 bit more interesting. So Dark Brandon began with chronically online 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:04.400 life theftists doing a satirical riff on Dark Mega, replacing 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.600 the figure of Trump with an alter ego of Biden 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.200 and having and having this like mirror universe president appear 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.959 as some kind of like neoliberal socialist demagogue, because when 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.520 you replace the fascist figure with some largely ineffectual liberal 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:25.480 given like militaristic and socialist or anti fascist catchphrases, but 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.639 like otherwise leave the rest of the authoritarian ascetic stylings 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:37.840 of fascism. The result is pretty funny because it's Joe Biden. Yeah, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.600 so again, I think I've read a lot of stuff 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.040 on this, and there's like a two two to like 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.080 academic reports on on Dark Brandon. 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:46.959 Uh. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.720 Some people believe that Dark Brandon started as like a 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.680 right wing meme. They are they are mistaken. They are 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.960 misreading irony poisoned leftists as being like like alt right 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.360 memesters common common miss tank. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:05.680 But also yeah, because you wouldn't want to be stuck 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.400 in a car with any of them, right. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:16.760 But Dark Brandon evolved into satirically imagining what if Joe 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.600 Biden was actually the militant communist dictator many on the 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.880 right made him out to be. With all of the 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.160 authoritarian impulses of Dark Mega turned on its head and 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:31.440 ironically targeted against Trumpian conservatives, Dark Brandon can be seen 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.880 hunting down at Trump voters for execution, or sitting on 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:40.560 a throne of air fifteen's with yellow laser eyes. I'm 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.400 gonna play I'm gonna play one video for us to 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.680 watch here. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.640 President, There's no way. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:55.080 Out Joe Biden's America. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:56.600 He's putting on a skullman. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:02.600 No more malarkey tie me to a missile and fire 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:03.600 me into the suburbs. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:10.840 I'm ready, genuinely quite amazing. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.560 It's pretty funny. It's pretty funny stuff. I do like 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.080 the way that like Dark Brandon edits work is there's 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.320 there's there's this one smile that Biden does that looks 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.440 very like evil and mischievous that if you edit it, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.839 if you like, edit in after he says something ridiculous, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.279 it's pretty funny. So here we have here we have 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:37.000 a meme about Joe Biden publicly executing Patriot Front members 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:43.200 after they got arrested in Idaho. And probably my favorite 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.400 Dark branded meme is a picture of Biden with sunglasses 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.880 and a list of names. Has shinzu albe neutralized, gas 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:58.880 prices neutralized, COVID nineteen neutralized, Antifa fully armed, Roe v 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:05.159 Wade too coming soon, Global Homo coming soon, Communism coming soon, 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:08.480 which is pretty funny. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:09.559 It's good. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.800 So one of the reasons that Dark Brandon was able 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.760 to flourish where Dark Mega stagnated is that the Biden 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.080 version is both based on and never lost its sense 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:24.599 of irony, imagining the feeble, bumbling Biden as some like 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.960 hard lined, ruthlessly effective tyrant is in it is like 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.400 in innately humorous premise from like from the very beginning. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.719 The ironic nature also made a Dark Brandon all but 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.560 impervious from attack by conservative commentators on the right, because like, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.120 how can you attack this vibe? Like it's it's so 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.120 ironic and absurd that like there's no way to be like, look, 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:51.240 how dangerous the dark brighten memel what like come on? 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:51.679 Guess? 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.840 So Dark Brandon grew in popularity as Biden's Inflation Reduction 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.800 Act also known as the IRA past last summer. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:06.680 And memes out of that too, and it. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.400 Also it also kind of spread Afternows broke that an 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.360 American drone strike killed the then leader of al Qaeda 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.320 on July thirty first, twenty twenty two. So around this 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.320 time period is when Dark Brandon broke containment. So Dark 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.599 Brandon kind of started in March of twenty twenty two, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.600 and by by early August it has now left the 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.520 irony poisoned leftist like Twitter sphere and has now broken 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:38.080 out and is freely swimming around the liberal populace. So 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.880 come August, Dark Brandon no longer belonged to leftist ship 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.880 posters liberals started to catch on and make Dark Brandon 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:50.080 memes of their own, albeit much more cringey boomer versions, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:55.120 And although most of these liberals probably didn't really know 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.800 what was quite being satirized, that didn't stop them from 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.200 trying to emulate this cooler, more edgy version of Biden 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.760 with glowing eyes. So here I have a two liberal 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.640 memes here with with someone reacting to the news that 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.560 there was no civilian casualties in the drone strike at 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:18.680 Kilty al Kainda leader having Biden shooting laser eyes down 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.960 from orbit and then also him eating ice cream in 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.720 front of an explosion, which is horrible, like a not 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.559 very good meme, but the fact that there was bad, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.160 like very very bad, low quality dark branded memes is 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:32.760 actually very important for later. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.960 Yes, yeah, yes, no, it's good that this happened. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.480 Yes, the Internet has taken notice. And now there's a 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:44.120 new meme out there known as Dark Brandon, which shows 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:49.840 a badass Biden with super villain laser beme my malls. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.880 The liberalization of Dark Brandon was met with sadness from 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.720 the original memesters that pioneered the overtly ironic dictatory Old Brandon, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:05.600 who commanded battalions of Antifa. The The ongoing liberal co 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.239 option of dark Brandon was thought to signal the death 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.640 of the meme, although a completely unintended positive side effect 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.280 of this recuperation seems to be taking hold. We'll have 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.360 we'll have more on that later. I have I have 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.280 a four other pretty bad dark Brandon memes. 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.800 Here go on with corn ROAs is fully fully me. 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.600 It's not good. There's there's two of these are like 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:36.840 photoshop movie posters with Biden's face extremely poorly photoshopps on Tomeo's. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:44.120 Ship, photoshops again this is ms pat Yeah. 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:48.040 And then a poster for the Dark Brandon Rises with 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.440 the tagline that the Malarchy will end. Not not very 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:59.360 good memes. So it wasn't just overly online democrats on 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.959 social media who were spreading these dark branded memes. Soon enough, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.280 White House staff joined in to celebrate the passing of 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.480 the kind of Neutered Inflation Reduction Act. On August seventh, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.079 the White House Digital director shared a high contrast photo 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.040 of Biden grinning with red laser eyes pointed towards the 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.960 camera that quickly went viral. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.120 posted a dark branded meme, which was a drawing with 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.760 yellow glowing eyes. Later that same day, and the Senate 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:34.000 Environment and Public Works Committee posted the same picture as well, 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.320 and the Deputy White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates posted 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.800 a whole ass Dark Branded meme, writing dark Brandon is 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:47.280 crushing it with a horribly cringing photo abided with red 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.040 laser eyes and white text that reads, your malarkey has 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.920 been going on for long enough, kiddo, Like, oh my god, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:56.240 oh my god. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.960 Now you know what, Garrison, we were just celebrating this, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.040 but I think I am now a fascist. It's done. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.839 It of the White House Staff Secretary joined in by 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.920 responding to a tweet saying lasers shooting out of Joe 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.840 Biden's eyes is an official statement of administration policy by 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:19.760 saying that is indeed an official physician what anyway. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.240 So god damn it. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.840 Many people, myself included, suspected that Dark Branded would suffer 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.800 through kind of a regular meme cycle and die off 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.440 pretty soon once it hit this like peak popularity, But 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:37.320 somehow Brandon showed a surprising amount of resiliency, partially due 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.560 to liberals being a few months behind and they're being 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.200 really nothing else for liberals to meme about, because this 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.200 was like one of the this time in Biden's presidency 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.200 was the first time the Democrats actually felt like they 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.120 had something to celebrate, and having this kind of overly 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.680 outrageous kind of joking meme was like the first bit 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.200 of like agit prop that liberals have like done since 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.480 Trump went out of office. And it's also like the 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.440 first effect of etchiprop they've ever done period. Now, Dark 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:11.280 Brandon showed one other surprising trait very soon, the ability 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:16.160 to influence actual Joe Biden. On September first, Biden gave 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.960 a prime time bombastic speech addressed to the nation and 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.199 spoke about the threats to American democracy from extremist mega forces. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.560 Joe Biden stood outside of Independence Haul in Philadelphia, lit 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.960 with high contrast red lights and uniformed marines on either side. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:37.040 Far right politicians and influencers reacted with shakun horror, calling 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.840 the speech demagogic, outrageous, and divisive, while liberals and even 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.280 some leftists praised the speech for accurately addressing the threat 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.160 posed by far right actors in this country. But both 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.920 of those on the right end left definitely noticed the 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:56.920 Frank brandonness of the entire thing, especially with this being 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.920 less than a month after the White House's own Brandon post. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.640 The red lights, the background marines, and the impassioned and 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.520 oddly well delivered appeal to fight for the soul of 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.200 the country from the Trumpian mega extremist political faction set 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.480 on dismantling democracy played very well. Uh, the whole the 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.840 whole thing felt very dark brandon Esque. And the takeaway 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.319 many people had is that they had somehow memed Dark 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:29.160 Branded into existence. Do you know who else you don't 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.199 want to fuck with? It's the products and services that 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:39.040 support this vital, academic level research into Dark Brand and 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.959 truly truly unparalleled work on the part of myself. You're welcome, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:57.679 Here's here's fucking ads. All right, we are back. Let's 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.320 talk even more about Dark Brandon. I cannot believe I 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.480 wrote three thousand, over three thousand words on this, all right. So, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.920 like many natural predators, Dark Brandon went through a period 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:14.720 of hibernation, laying dormant through most of the winter, that is, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:19.120 until a huge resurgence in April of this year. This 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.959 past April, Biden launched his new twenty twenty four re 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:26.400 election campaign website, which not only featured a Dark Brandon 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.040 error four h four page reading your lost Jack, Let's 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:35.280 get you back on the rails, which is kind of 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.840 funny but not really funny because it's doing the whole 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.880 like Biden and track reference, And it's kind of funny 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.760 because it's like a four oh four page, So it's 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.800 like it's Dark Brandon telling you to get back to 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.120 the regular website because you're now on like the part 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.800 of the website that doesn't exist, because like Dark Brandon 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.160 doesn't exist. It's not I'm overthinking this. I'm doing way 0:13:55.200 --> 0:14:00.040 too high concept. It's like Beaudryard analysis of this. This 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.480 this joke is not that good. But beyond the Dark 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:06.800 Brandon error four h four page, there is also official 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:13.800 Dark Brandon merchandise. Biden's Dark line features dark blue monochrome 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.960 images of Biden or Brandon staring forward with red laser 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.880 eyes and a mischievous grin. The design comes on baseball hats, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:26.440 t shirts, mugs, stickers, and tote bags. Product descriptions are 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:31.720 as follows best worn while vanquishing malarkey. Protect yourself from 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.880 malarkey and the sun with this dark cap. Dark Brandon 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:42.480 Dark Rose, what dark dark Brandon dark roast tea drinkers welcome, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:47.840 And finally, the worst one malarkey is tot's over after 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.120 we re elect President Biden. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.240 This is the This is like the Internet equivalent or 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.320 the me I don't know what the I feel the 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.000 same way I feel in like old Yeller when you're like, 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.160 well the dog's got ra you got to shoot it, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.200 Like there's no other ethical way to deal with This 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.080 is like, but it's it hurts. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.000 It's like when someone's dad turns up to the skate park. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.160 This is what's happening here. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.840 Yeah, you've got to shoot him otherwise they'll give everyone rabies, Right, 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:16.880 that's what you meant, James. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.880 Yeah, Yeah, it's time for their life to end. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:19.280 Yeah. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.880 This is also like fascinating because like the fact that 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:27.480 that Biden, Joe Biden made assume direct control laser eye 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:32.560 dark merch before Trump did is wild. And now Trump 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.760 won't really ever be able to like capitalize on this 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.960 sort of thing because Biden just beat him to the 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.080 punch on this, and and and like in a way 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.800 that's like not actually promoting fascism, which effectively this this 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.480 whole thing effectively neutralized Trump's ability to cash in on 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.240 Dark Mega and the fashwave aesthetic, which is just a 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.560 pretty shocking and like amazing trajectory for fash wave. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.400 Yeah yeah. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.880 The latest appearance of Dark The latest appearance of Dark 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:05.240 Brandon was during the White House Correspondence dinner this past April, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:10.120 when Biden handed off the podium to comedian Roy Wood Junior. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.560 Roy the point of is yours. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.640 I'm gonna be fine with your jokes, but I'm not 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.200 sure about Dark Brandon. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.160 The coolest thing the Libs were so happy to have 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:33.040 a meme. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:31.000 A meme. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.520 They got one, they got one, and they were just 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.560 it's one of those things again, like like a little 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.880 kid having to shoot his dog. I just I couldn't. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.840 You can't take it away from him. They were just 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:41.440 so happy. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.480 I have I do have three. I selected the only 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.480 three Dark branded memes I like here for the very end. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.240 One is just Biden in a beard and eye patch. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.880 It says it's over Jack. One has Biden with a 0:16:55.000 --> 0:17:00.200 like a very like horrifyingly edited smile with laser eyes 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.480 saying malarkey detected and it looks. 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.159 Like the monster in a fucking like I don't know 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.320 exactly what from. But like demon teeth, like nightmare teeth, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.119 the leftists are so much better at making these memes 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.080 than anyone else. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.359 And my favorite is, this is a satirical rift on 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.800 the This post has been fact checked by real American 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.320 patriots trump Beam instead having an image of Dark branded 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.240 with laser eyes. That's saying this post was fact checked 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:33.160 by real Dark branded acolytes. So this is like fun 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.639 and good, right, Like this is this is fine, But 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.960 there's actually a surprisingly like positive result from this whole 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.679 Dark Brandon sega, because even as far back as August 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.880 of twenty twenty two, myself, some research colleagues, and other 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.600 journalists that I have like no connection to all started 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.480 to kind of observe the same thing. The liberal recuperation 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.560 of the fast wave style via Dark Brandon seemed to 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:02.800 seriously damage fast waves legibility in right wing circles. The 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:06.520 normy use of dark Brandon had already appeared to have 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.000 ceased all of the dark megaposting, because there was this 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:15.320 influx of like Minion's Facebook Tier branded memes, which offered 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.800 very strong levels of vicarious cringe that provided a social 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:24.040 disincentive for anyone wanting to post laser Eye dark Mega 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.280 memes due to their fear of being associated, even just 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:31.280 asthetically associated with the liberal boomer Biden memes, which now 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:36.080 represented this cringe and dead style. The widespread nature of 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.240 Brandon laser eyes also seemed to seriously dampen the Patrick 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.800 batemanification of characters like Homelander from The Boys, who was 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.720 at the time becoming one of the far right's favorite 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:52.320 memeable characters. There are few things that these online nazi 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:56.040 weirdos fear more than their special toys being played with 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.760 by normies, because almost immediately they're like esoteric play loses 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.560 all appeal once the ormies like start using it. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.439 Like it's a signifier that you're part of the club. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:10.120 And if yeah, fucking the DNC is posting these memes, 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.480 you're not part of the club anymore. Nope, Like there's 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.119 no or it's not a club you want to be in. 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:15.399 I guess yeah. 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.320 So I still maintain that one of the best things 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:22.040 Biden has done since taking office is utterly destroying fashwave 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:27.640 by complete accident. I postulated this back in twenty twenty two, 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.800 and it still pretty much holds true now. And it's 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.400 not just my opinion either others have noticed that Brandon's 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.520 disturbance in the far right to mean ecosystem has really 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.720 taken effect. I'm going to quote Ali Brieland in Mother 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.400 Jones quote. The fashwave athetic has already seen its best 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.719 days and wasn't as pervasive on the far right Internet 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.639 as it used to be. But by associating himself with 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.120 a meme style that had partially descended from it, Biden 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.560 and his earnest staff and followers have probably made it 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.760 impossible for neo nazi edge lords to make fash wave 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:05.040 posts for at least a bit. By enlisting fascist meme offshoots, 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:09.360 the administration unlocked a code. Earnest Democrats like Biden may 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.399 have a hard time being cool on the Internet, but 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.440 they can kill hip stuff that bad people like that 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:20.680 is extremely powerful. They made fash wave a bit cringe. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:22.840 Do you know what else is a bit cringe? 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:23.240 Robert? 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.800 That breaks the fact that we have to have advertising 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:32.320 on my on my fash wave Biden Dark Dark Gear 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.040 Brandon episode Garrison. 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.960 The only the only purpose of studying or learning anything 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:42.159 is to provide space for advertisements. That's why we do 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:42.560 it all. 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:48.080 No more, actually do you know, if you subscribe to 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.639 the new Apple Premium, you can have no more more 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.120 Larki because there won't be any ads. So there you go. 0:20:54.200 --> 0:21:07.080 That's right, all right, we. 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.360 Are back and we are finally finally going to talk 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:15.399 about Ron DeSantis and and his his kind of fash 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:20.200 wave misfire. So this happened about a year after Dark 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.240 Brandon had taken control, so there was at least a 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.760 y like a good a good year's worth of buffer 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:31.320 where fashwave was unacceptable and just not really even attempted 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:36.119 because of how cringe it is at this point. But 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.640 that did not stop the Dysantas war Room Twitter account 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:41.880 from trying to do it. And then we will see 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.560 what the right's reaction to this was. So, like I 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.040 said at the beginning of the beginning of this episode, 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:51.320 on the last day of Pride Month, DeSantis's campaign shared 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:55.040 a video on their Desanta's war Room account attacking Trump 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:58.679 for previously held positions seemingly in support of LGBTQ people 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:03.680 and sayments that he said about, like allowing transgender women 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:07.080 to compete in his Miss Universe pageants and allowing Caitlyn 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.000 Jenner to use the bathroom of her choice in Trump Tower. 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.040 This video opens with footage of Trump at the twenty 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:17.719 sixteen RNC saying that he would quote do everything in 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:22.639 my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens unquote. Now this 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:24.760 is pretty gross that the video opens this way because 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:28.520 very importantly this this was just a month after the 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:32.359 Pulse nightclub attack in DeSantis's home state of Florida, which 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:36.080 killed forty nine people. That's why Trump was saying this 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:38.639 is because there was just a massive massacre in the 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:42.399 state of Florida. And the fact that Dysantis is opening 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:46.919 up this Trump like homophobic attack ad by including this 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:51.760 little bit is pretty is pretty gross. So this video 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:55.280 then kind of transitions fifteen seconds in, accompanied by a 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.199 dark synthetic beat to a black and white image of 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:03.119 Dysantis standing in front of an American flag with red 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:08.080 glowing eyes shooting out little laser lightning things, before a 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:12.800 wave of pulsating images of Spartans and the Muscular Chad 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:15.879 and clips of American Psycho, the Wolf of Wall Street, 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:19.480 and Peaky Blinders. Overlaid on top of these flashing images 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:24.440 are headlines and short clips about DeSantis's extreme anti LGBTQ 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:28.199 policies that he enacted in Florida. I cannot think of 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:29.560 anything more plorified. 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:31.960 It really has shut down. 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:37.040 FRAG just produced some of the harshest, most draconian laws 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:39.760 that literally threaten trans existence. 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:45.440 Congratulations, Ron Sander's mission a complic You win, all right. 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:48.920 So first off, Garrison, it had been so long since 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:50.840 I looked at a bit shoot video so. 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:52.680 Weeks. 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:54.280 So first off, fuck you for that. 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:57.960 I had to watch a lot of bit chut videos 0:23:58.000 --> 0:23:58.800 for this episode. 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:04.639 I yeah, I know. Yeah, So that's I mean, absolutely 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:07.880 impenetrable for like anyone who is not out of their mind. 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:09.399 Yeah, like it is. 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:11.680 It's this Yeah, sorry, James. 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:13.640 It feels like his fourteen year old nephew who goes 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:17.040 by like groyper Chad fourteen eighty eight unfortune. 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:19.760 I'll describe what's happening as, like, you know, first you get, 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:21.960 obviously the beginning, which I think is clear just from 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:24.520 the audio, these clips of like Trump saying stuff that's 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:27.560 not it's pro gay, you know, from back in twenty sixteen, 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:31.840 and then it switches to like footage of like news 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:35.920 articles about DeSantis, you know, doing horrible things to queer 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:40.520 people in Florida, and like clips of pete leftists reacting 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:43.080 to how bad it is and like clips of Ron 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:46.159 de Santis like walking around or you know art of 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:50.040