Based Camp - The Left Stopped Fighting Back： How The Culture War Got Weird In 2026

00:00:00.000 hello simone i'm excited to be here with you today today we are going to be talking about

00:00:04.120 the year of the chud i thought last year was the year of the chud in terms of woke flops

00:00:10.800 but a lot of other channels they'll do an episode on every woke flop every big conservative win

00:00:16.280 i wanted to cluster all of these together because now their frequency and scale has been

00:00:24.820 genuinely astonishing and i think to a point where people are beginning to even in the industry be

00:00:34.000 like oh we can't do this anymore like we cannot cast these types of individuals anymore we cannot

00:00:41.160 lead with x types of characters anymore like the market simply does not tolerate it such as

00:00:48.080 Christopher Nolan's Odyssey which has just been absolutely destroyed in reactions on YouTube

00:00:54.960 with videos attacking it or mocking it getting more views than it has was a huge negative like

00:01:01.400 to dislike ratio and especially for a movie that like this mainstream this big and I think what

00:01:08.880 Hollywood may take away from this is you cannot cast black people in non-black roles going 0.55

00:01:15.580 forwards and you cannot cast trans people as cis people going forwards i think not that you can't 0.91

00:01:21.680 cast these people more broadly but those are things they should have no i mean like we learned 0.79

00:01:25.660 you can't cast white people as black people a while ago why did it take them so long to learn

00:01:31.300 that was white people or maybe they won't learn as you know i said in the kirscher thing we had 0.98

00:01:36.740 to literally shut down all of ubisoft to get it through their sick skull that we didn't want that 1.00

00:01:43.380 slop so maybe we'll have to shut down a lot of hollywood as well i love the women 87 percent like 1.00

00:01:49.460 dislike ratio for christopher nolan's the odyssey oh my god 446 000 dislike a ruskies and what's 1.00

00:01:59.600 interesting about this and this is what i'm going to start with because i think it's the

00:02:03.280 the most interesting part other than just cheering every individual victory

00:02:07.300 is it sort of feels like we don't have anyone playing against us and i want to explore why

00:02:17.600 we have another episode where we go into this called like the mystery of the missing woke

00:02:22.520 customer oh yeah because if we look at the number of people even number of people who like i know of

00:02:29.580 in my life who are still very urban monoculture um there should be a buyer base for wokeified

00:02:39.420 products and yet we are seeing numbers that are like 50 people bought it or something you know

00:02:48.120 like in some of the instances it'll be like you know five thousand people bought something that

00:02:53.100 cost 300 million to make right like they're numbers that simply do not make sense but i had

00:03:00.260 this realization well no there was one other detail that you said in that episode that really

00:03:04.240 stuck with me was that when you looked into it a lot of the developers of these woke audience

00:03:09.660 targeted games that no woke people are buying themselves don't even eat the dog food as we

00:03:14.220 say in silicon valley like they don't they wouldn't even buy the games are developing

00:03:17.520 oh yeah well i mean a number of like 90s media right yeah like if you even look at a game like

00:03:22.940 conquered or whatever when that bombed or or mixtape like it even if the development team

00:03:27.880 was playing it they would have better numbers right like that the the numbers are so low they

00:03:33.980 almost don't make sense and well i had this realization that changed a lot of this for me

00:03:39.520 which is i was talking with a reporter trans reporter who writes on us sometimes i actually

00:03:45.720 thinks she's quite a based individual i have no negative feelings towards this individual 0.68

00:03:49.320 one of those you know based trans people if you know any of them they actually exist but she

00:03:57.500 was like anything new going on in ai like what are you thinking about in ai what is your community

00:04:03.040 talking about in ai and i was like like ai is everything in my community right now like do you

00:04:09.240 know about the skybrow cinematic universe right and she i mean obviously she didn't but i started

00:04:17.200 to walk her through it and then i had this realization and i started researching it and

00:04:23.920 there isn't if you look at the the right-leaning community online you've got you know leaflet will

00:04:29.820 be on a stream and she'll be like wouldn't it be funny if we made a video game about what the tribe

00:04:35.540 of warrior women in africa who are actually like super involved with slaving and the people trying 0.95

00:04:39.920 to stop them were the british if we made a video game about that tribe and so she'll just start 0.98

00:04:44.220 like vibe coding it on screen in the background while she's streaming that's so fun or the other

00:04:51.460 game she made when she was streaming last time i mean i keep seeing her make ones a lot the other

00:04:54.720 one was on trying to catch mexicans crossing the border it was a lasso the other one was going to

00:05:01.520 the anthony trial and selling a pineapple that you had you know kept in the what do you call it

00:05:08.060 kool-aid or whatever whatever whatever the funny viral drink is and then people would try to rob

00:05:14.580 you and just fantastic i love it but it's it's you see that you see the shared and this this

00:05:24.180 is very interesting to me because i realized when i was talking to the reporter about it and they're

00:05:28.880 like well that's interesting and i go no no no no no like you don't get it like they're like oh

00:05:33.460 now this is cheap there's people making stuff with it and i'm like that's not really the fullness of

00:05:38.340 what's going on here that's a bit like looking at early 4chan and being like oh people have started

00:05:45.180 found a place where they can anonymously share stuff and so that now they've begun to like

00:05:49.380 iteratively share images and it's like yes that is true but more important a unique language and

00:05:57.940 artistic style began to be developed in the way that those images, those macros communicate.

00:06:07.540 And this language and artistic style ended up being a dominant force in American politics,

00:06:15.000 you know, about 15 years, 10 years after it originated, right? And having been around

00:06:22.120 during that period what is happening in the artistic language of the right and how we use

00:06:30.060 ai feels incredibly similar it feels like this type of and i think if you're on the right

00:06:39.600 or this broader community you do not notice just how frequently you are hitting ai art right like

00:06:49.880 i this happened to me when at first what i'm thinking is like skybrow stuff and then i thought

00:06:56.060 oh well you know the only person who really opposes us is dog shocker hassan and then i was

00:06:59.920 like oh yeah i should send them the video where hassan raps about shocking his dog and i was like

00:07:05.640 oh yeah that's an ai video it had actually gone out of my brain that the dog the dog shocking

00:07:15.020 video was made with ai because it wasn't done in the stylistic language of the things that i am

00:07:21.560 used to being made in ai oh that's so funny but it is you know on the the secondary stylistic

00:07:28.060 language in the same way was like as memes were first developed you had your wojacks you had your

00:07:32.560 pepes you had your the dog shocking video in terms of its artistic meme category falls into the same

00:07:40.300 category i put the spencer pratt for for mayor ad which again something into the eye and what's

00:07:47.340 important to know is if you're on the right you're like well of course we're using ai to make things

00:07:52.260 the left is i actually went into this with well with ai to try to find

00:07:59.000 is there any equivalent online like creation collaborative creation with ai community

00:08:06.720 on the left and the best it could find was somebody who was politically neutral and made like

00:08:14.040 a sci-fi universe with ai which was a cool product i thought it does sound really cool

00:08:19.220 yeah yeah i i tried to watch it it was unfortunately for me boring i didn't really

00:08:24.320 like it but we've obliterated our attention spans it's fair you know i like i like my stuff

00:08:30.780 entertaining right you know but you certainly and i yeah buddy we're not done can you finish

00:08:36.960 your math lessons for the day oh i i couldn't i think we gotta see his lessons today but we got

00:08:44.240 pc principal over here um tell him he made a promise you said he promised i i tried well you

00:08:53.960 but i got sleepy and i went with eric and i only did zero so far you know if it if it makes you

00:09:01.380 feel any better i was watching a video today about how children typically do better if you

00:09:06.380 wait to start teaching them language and math um until around the age of seven so we're we're even

00:09:12.300 before where we should be doing it if we were aligning with the studies okay which you should

00:09:17.720 probably look into by the way you you seem to have just like immediately defaulted to what the school

00:09:22.000 system says is best with well i have to maintain statutory requirements so i don't actually

00:09:27.800 consider like the lessons that he has to do to meet statutory requirements for us to like be able

00:09:33.840 to basically show the proof we have to show to keep him homeschooled i don't consider that with

00:09:40.660 education yeah figured that that would be love you buddy but yeah it's it's the stuff that he

00:09:50.860 learns with us i am not i'm when i think he needs to learn certain concepts i'm not going to have

00:09:56.960 him do lessons to learn those concepts i'm going to teach him those concepts we have different

00:10:02.140 versions it's like a two-sided homeschooling system one is keep him at a public school which

00:10:07.220 means meeting the statutory requirements side two is actually teach him things that he needs to

00:10:12.080 succeed they allow for like wardorf schools in pennsylvania and they operate on this principle

00:10:18.240 there there are ways around this mordor where you go to or whatever anyway so the point i'm making

00:10:24.700 here is that there isn't an opposing visual form being created artistic form or culture being

00:10:35.860 created on the left which feels very different from the early 4chan days because in the early

00:10:41.620 4chan days while 4chan was developing the culture that is now controlling the white house twitter

00:10:47.400 feed right and whoever is running that oh my goodness gracious we need to do a meme review

00:10:52.720 for for white house account the things they've posted this is next level unhinged ai funness

00:11:00.520 like i love it too yeah yeah i just it's so they had actually they had a great ai they've done a

00:11:06.380 number of really good ai projects like the one recently was a dr trump curing a bunch of lefty

00:11:12.180 celebrities of Trump derangement syndrome and them talking diagnosed with TDS. The symptoms

00:11:17.460 can be relentless. Fortunately, I'm Dr. Trump and I have a treatment plan. Let's hear what

00:11:22.280 some of my patients have to say. I have been suffering for over a decade. And after listening

00:11:29.240 to Dr. Trump, I can see some results. Man, I've been suffering for years. I really didn't believe

00:11:38.320 that was help out there that was when i came across this video on tv i really thought i was

00:11:45.180 a lost cause this was gonna affect me for the rest of my life but after using the treatment plan

00:11:51.940 i can see a difference i wish he changed their life but like what is fascinating about all of

00:11:59.680 this is it used to be we were competing against tumblr culture and the language and visual forms

00:12:07.820 and cultural norms that they developed came to dominate the modern left but right now

00:12:16.700 we aren't actually fighting with anyone and what it this really hit me as i was like who do we on

00:12:26.340 the right like pretend our core opponent is in the songs in the videos in the and the stuff it's

00:12:35.080 like hassan piker which i have never in my entire life met a real fan of hassan piker i and we've

00:12:43.980 talked about this before struggled to even model somebody who might be a fan of hassan piker i was

00:12:49.600 surprised right out that his fan base is actually majority male as well which is even more confusing

00:12:54.940 that is because the only people that we have heard of are some women who listen to this podcast who

00:13:00.940 have either friends or co-workers who are female who listen to hassan piker that's it yeah so and

00:13:10.120 hassan piker has like a small sort of orbit uh community if you know what i mean but they're

00:13:17.100 they're minuscule compared to like if you look at the the the wider community that we're a part of

00:13:23.800 you know your your nux and your asthma gold and your tech tone and your goth guy and your leaflet

00:13:29.880 and your kirsha and your smugglana and your powder can't can't leave her out outside of even 0.95

00:13:36.140 the the ai creators it's a fairly there there isn't a hassan equivalent to this right there

00:13:44.340 there there are orbiters but it's not like a constellation of real beliefs or anything like

00:13:51.240 that and this is what i realized it's like are we fighting like the air like do we just dunk on

00:13:57.900 hassan to dunk on hassan to give you an idea of what i mean here the two figures our community

00:14:02.560 makes fun of the most other than hassan are his fat muslim orbiter and mod who has like 60 regular

00:14:10.740 watchers that i'm aware of i don't remember her name and who's currently in a lawsuit with ian

00:14:16.640 klein and then also in a lawsuit with ian klein we often make fun of i dubs but i dubs we make

00:14:21.540 fun of because at one point in the past he was famous but he's certainly not famous now he doesn't

00:14:26.760 have an audience now that we have to dig to that extent where are our enemies i don't know the

00:14:35.180 large leftist content producers who i respect enough to not make fun of like contrapoints

00:14:41.940 simply don't produce videos anymore or not frequently philosophy tube we've done a video

00:14:48.200 on one of their takes but like even on the left they're seen as sort of a creep who tried to copy

00:14:53.940 contrapoints after dating her like her entire life which is really creepy what by that i mean

00:15:00.660 is apparently he dated her and then he went trans and then he like took her style and career which

00:15:06.380 is a weird thing to do and she has acknowledged this in a deleted tweet but anyway yeah she's

00:15:11.420 like you think your stalkers are bad at least nobody tried to steal your life actually now

00:15:17.200 that i think about it that could explain part of why the leftist influencer class disappeared they

00:15:22.240 have like psychological breakdowns and become incredibly unproductive they're just not as

00:15:26.600 hard working as well like contrapoints just dying off as a channel due to not working as hard or

00:15:32.640 not having as loud of a cultural voice or another person who this happened to was lindsey ellis uh 0.99

00:15:38.420 you know her her own side turned on her at one point and she ended up having a bunch of mental 1.00

00:15:42.680 issues as a result of that and then there was aluma hottie who ended up being a scam artist

00:15:49.020 and everybody descended on her like sharks like he doesn't seem to have credibility with any

00:15:54.920 mainstream demographic or movement or anything like that um and it's really fascinating where

00:16:04.020 i project what's going to happen or when i project what's going to happen to culture moving forwards

00:16:13.600 given that there isn't a meaningful leftist counterculture building something right now

00:16:21.400 and i am confused by that i know that leftists are like reactively anti-ai but the right had

00:16:36.940 some people who were anti-ai in the early days i guess just everyone ignored them i think it

00:16:42.340 it might be at the right that we got better at ignoring the people who were shrieking at us

00:16:46.400 i think a huge portion of it is that they all went to blue sky and well that this is the secondary

00:16:52.940 thing i was talking and i've noticed this as well to the journalist about i was like who are the

00:17:00.780 futurists who are the pro ai people on the left and we both came to sort of realize they exist on

00:17:08.240 the left but they don't make stuff so they're typically like in programming ai or like she

00:17:15.800 mentioned cory doctoro is one of these people and i'm like cory doctoro is kind of pro ai kind of

00:17:21.420 trepidatious on ai when i actually read his stuff but by the way you can look at look at the thing

00:17:26.480 starting up hey so getting getting that all set up for our kids hopefully i really want to get

00:17:36.280 this working by tomorrow that that would be so cool that i can start you know having people buy

00:17:40.540 the hardware products and trying it out well and try them out let's play test it on the kids first

00:17:46.440 because you might want to make a lot of design changes based on what they respond to but there

00:17:53.920 are people on the left who are okay with ai or even futurists they just don't make stuff

00:18:00.180 and i wanted to think through this one is and i will say this very strongly this was not entirely

00:18:10.580 organic on the right this was very seeded in a way where what i would say is having it called

00:18:18.140 the skybrow cinematic universe i think makes perfect sense what i mean by that is if the

00:18:24.240 human being who is behind skybrows didn't exist i don't know that we would have gotten off on all

00:18:28.620 this. Simone and I used to make AI songs at the end of our videos, but we never put in that much

00:18:33.000 effort because I simply didn't know that a product that good was possible. It hadn't been modeled to

00:18:38.320 us that this can be done. And I think all of us seeing that in such a familiar way, where it felt

00:18:45.340 like such a down to earth, oh, I watch the same types of people you watch, showed us all what we

00:18:50.680 could attempt. And we are the type of community that when we see something, we go, hey, I should

00:18:55.520 try that and also talking a bit about the language that's being developed in this before we go over

00:18:59.860 all these woke flops because i just want to think about this it like feels like we're fighting a

00:19:04.240 cultural battle and no one's on the other side of the cultural battle it's almost truman show-esque

00:19:11.140 these what it feels like to me is loosely tied and overlapping affiliative groups that enjoy

00:19:19.040 similar things and enjoy membership in their overlapping cultures and they don't really care

00:19:27.920 about what outsiders think i mean it's we've reached a point at which it doesn't really matter

00:19:31.580 they do actually i think i actually think that that's what is happening and and causing a lot

00:19:37.260 of this phenomenon is most people are not woke even most urban monoculture people are not woke

00:19:46.380 They might even think of themselves as a little subversive.

00:19:49.600 But at the end of the day, most people want status and to be seen as erudite, elite, sophisticated.

00:19:56.900 A recent study essentially confirmed this.

00:19:59.120 It was done at Northwestern University, Michigan, on performative progressivism in 2025 is when it came out.

00:20:05.180 It showed that 88% of students pretend to hold more progressive views than they really do.

00:20:09.500 and percent said that they disagreed with the idea that gender identity should override biological

00:20:14.520 sex and domains in sports and health and public data but that 77 percent also said they would

00:20:19.280 never voice that in public 80 percent say they misrepresent their views in coursework you know

00:20:24.080 knowing that they need to lie about their views to get good grades this is the degree to which

00:20:30.400 we are teaching people you have to hide any conservative belief you have if you want to be

00:20:35.840 seen as high status or get ahead in society we were interacting with a an old classmate of mine

00:20:40.680 recently who really fit into this category right in terms of like why she found our views so

00:20:47.000 mortifying and the way we're expressing them so mortifying is because it was trashy it was low 1.00

00:20:53.340 class it was because the wokes have successfully branded certain views and ways of talking and ways 0.99

00:20:59.460 of acting as as being that and when other people have done podcasts on us they bragged about how

00:21:07.240 their title cards didn't use ai and i don't think that they were anti-ai people but they thought

00:21:14.220 that that was something worthy of being proud of when all their title cards were was cutting out

00:21:19.280 people's faces yeah found from google images and putting them on the title card for real yeah

00:21:25.060 not not a flex not a flex our ai title cards are actually pretty hard to create like they

00:21:32.840 talent goes in to being this based people do you know that yesterday we had the pope being

00:21:39.880 mesmerized by a trans gun that was an awesome title card even the clickbaitiness of the title

00:21:48.140 cards requires some work you know it does yeah there is genuinely actually for for every title

00:21:54.080 card there are two to five alternate options that we discuss we we put way too much thought into

00:22:02.700 these no title cards are the most important part of an episode i know i know that they're the face

00:22:07.800 of an episode they're the cover of the book they matter completely and entirely and yes we do put

00:22:12.620 a lot of effort into them and you know but i think what we're missing is those types of people don't

00:22:20.340 go out and buy a woke show. They don't even consider themselves woke. They're slightly

00:22:25.300 annoyed by woke people. Well, I think this might be, it's similar to a dynamic we're finding with

00:22:31.680 reality fabricator. And I'd love to see this somehow be defied eventually, but right now,

00:22:37.160 like 95% of our customers are male. But about 50% of the site's users are female.

00:22:43.960 Yeah. And I feel like that there might be a similar dynamic with far progressives where

00:22:49.480 in the end, the money just isn't there. They're not buying the things. And that makes them

00:22:57.060 consumers with not a lot of influence in the end when they're working at least with companies that

00:23:02.200 actually look for a return on investment. And I will say that there has been a period where I

00:23:07.180 guess there's been this weird subsidy of woke products that lasted a lot longer than all the

00:23:12.940 go-woke, go-broke canaries in the coal mine would have thought. But I think maybe we're reaching

00:23:18.540 They all start going broke as soon as SAID gets shut down.

00:23:22.800 Weirdly.

00:23:23.740 Surprising, huh?

00:23:24.640 Yeah.

00:23:25.260 Yeah.

00:23:25.840 No, there is this very strange dynamic of large groups and segments and societies not

00:23:31.300 paying for certain types of products, just not being meaningful consumers.

00:23:34.960 And that will have an effect on culture.

00:23:38.200 So I'll go into all the flops in just a second.

00:23:41.780 You guys have all seen all the numbers before, probably.

00:23:44.320 so they're not that exciting but this the sheer scale of it i mean we culturally took down

00:23:52.980 ubisoft which was one of the largest brands in gaming simply by removing their customer base

00:24:00.480 right this has been astonishing that you could take down i used to buy every assassin's creed

00:24:11.040 release by the way i yeah i remember you looking forward to them with great anticipation i feel

00:24:16.120 like the last one you enjoyed was the pirate one that's this often thought of as the best one but

00:24:21.040 it's not the last one i enjoyed maybe the paris one was okay i was okay up to the the viking one

00:24:27.000 i thought the viking one was fine i don't remember you saying anything about the viking one ever

00:24:30.940 well it wasn't as good as the other i mean i didn't like it as much as like the i thought

00:24:35.580 the paris one was also fine the one that i've replayed is not the pirate one but the american

00:24:39.740 revolution one that one's i i think gets gets undersold in terms of you could you get to play

00:24:45.760 in areas that are like where we live today but in the colonial period yeah but the pirate one

00:24:51.080 had the sea shanties the pirate one had the sea shanties yes it did so how quickly people turn

00:24:57.240 against this stuff that were previously like totally okay with it like me being okay with

00:25:02.020 drippies of wokeness and then just reaching this point where it's like i'm absolutely radicalized

00:25:08.740 i'm not touching anything that you people have touched and so i think that that's the key part 0.60

00:25:14.200 of the mystery actual wokes are incredibly rare most of it is your average aspiring to be upper 0.97

00:25:21.740 class respected urban professional yeah that's who actually makes up the muscle of the wokes 0.98

00:25:28.820 but they don't like the wokes and they don't identify as woke they identify as the cultural

00:25:34.640 elite i keep in mind that the people who identify as a cultural elite are always going to be much

00:25:39.720 more than the number of people who actually are culturally elite you know these are the people who

00:25:44.800 have their sub stack that they pay for people to read you know like the the sad sad situations like

00:25:52.100 that but to continue let's go over some explicit drops other than ubisoft because that was

00:25:58.660 absolutely crazy that that happened i mean remember the the god the trans one veil guard

00:26:04.420 came out and the numbers were astonishingly low like in the low thousands in terms of purchases 0.92

00:26:11.260 but recently even things like disney so if you look at snow white snow white had a budget of

00:26:17.960 240 million and 270 million with heavy marketing on top of that was a worldwide gross of only

00:26:23.780 around 200 million that means that they lost around 100 million dollars that is impossible

00:26:30.280 sounding that that's vaporizing money oh my gosh that is that is i mean if rachel zegler ever gets 1.00

00:26:40.560 a job again i am going to like whoever gives it to her just is insane because she single-handedly 1.00

00:26:46.540 broke that like it didn't need to be that bad come on they made the fairest of them all

00:26:52.740 about who was the most fair the communists yeah i know i think that this there were many

00:26:59.860 there were many people who played a role okay sounded so bad the world oh remember they

00:27:08.320 originally tried to cast non dwarves for the seven dwarves they were just a multi-colored 0.84

00:27:15.000 group of misfits it looked so dumb and bad i would have preferred to see that honestly the 0.99

00:27:21.240 cgi dwarfs looked super creepy so i would have preferred the which was so much worse than real 0.99

00:27:27.120 dwarfs why did they not just right yeah and again totally spring over the dwarf acting community 1.00

00:27:32.380 which you know their their roles are few and far between give them a something to work with people

00:27:36.780 they must have been so excited they're like finally they're making a new snow white this

00:27:41.060 is our moment we've been waiting for decades for another job and then they cast and then they would

00:27:48.780 cgi anyway yeah miss miss oh okay oh buddy i'm so sorry but you are gonna have to do some more

00:28:00.240 because you have not done one if you have 40 or 20 okay tell him he has to go do it right now

00:28:08.500 and krampus might come oh daddy says krampus might come he yeah he doesn't because he made a promise

00:28:14.720 you said you made a promise and to do a course actually means to do a lesson actually means to

00:28:19.460 do it we know you're good at these okay i didn't know i'm sorry it's okay just go ahead four percent

00:28:25.540 or twenty percent means no change yeah it means failed so you have to do five that you actually

00:28:30.000 completed and passed okay okay marvels you had a total cost was around 300 million worldwide

00:28:37.080 it only made around 200 million again lowest grossing ncu film and this was around 100 million

00:28:42.680 loss supergirl the one that everyone's talking about right now it looks like it's under 99 million

00:28:48.500 right now and it costs around 275 million how many of these cost as much when so much is just

00:28:53.480 filmed on like a soundstage in front of a green screen um like films should cost less to film now

00:29:02.540 than they ever have before yeah but unions and they don't like i mean they're using ai too is

00:29:09.340 the thing like how are they failing even when using ai oh i thought the unions banned ai no no no they

00:29:15.620 use ai for special effects oh okay okay oh just not for actors yeah then you have

00:29:22.440 the and the other thing that we've noticed is that on the other side like when our side releases

00:29:30.540 something or they try to cancel something it almost always does really well obviously the

00:29:36.320 biggest example of this was hogwarts legacy which just absolutely crushed records so the same thing

00:29:41.620 had been with black myth wukon stellar blade warhammer 40k space marines 2 and things like

00:29:49.340 helldivers 2 oh yeah helldivers i just kept hearing about that everywhere when it came out

00:29:54.460 and in a good way of freedom and the king of kings and david and recently on ex-citizen vigilante a

00:30:03.220 film about going around and murdering immigrants who are graping people which is a fun idea for a

00:30:10.320 movie i like it elon made it free on x or something for 48 hours yeah after germany gave it a non-rated

00:30:18.200 status which was sort of their functional way to try to ban it that's awful but i love that that's

00:30:25.700 how he pushed back like oh you you're gonna give this unrated i'll make sure everybody sees this

00:30:31.360 movie yeah and started by armie hammer who armie hammer i'm glad he's making a comeback i always 0.87

00:30:38.140 felt his cancellation was i i think he was a jerk to his wife but i i felt the extent of the

00:30:43.720 cancellation was heavily unjustified yeah and so you know uh our side doesn't care we really don't 0.90

00:30:52.520 man we really don't it's honestly just appropriate casting in the end so like you know right i think

00:31:00.720 it he wrote the he wrote the reputation it's exactly have it be something that he's like

00:31:06.240 super into going around murdering these people make make it more believable make it make it

00:31:11.740 more morally dubious i think people love that the dexter thing you know yeah it's just like i just 0.94

00:31:17.560 can't stop killing people so i guess i'm gonna make it bad guys but then have them also be migrant

00:31:22.760 but yeah where i'm coming and the other thing about the leftists and i i did i have noticed

00:31:31.100 some other videos because i actually decided to at one point study their their behavior like what

00:31:34.700 do they say they consume and one thing that we know is that the leftists

00:31:40.640 who infiltrated video games like obviously famously anita shakizian being caught on film

00:31:48.660 saying well i don't really play video games much at all oh man consume that type of media and so

00:31:54.500 the question is that they're not consuming what they're creating like the category of media that

00:31:59.620 they've infiltrated what did the leftists actually consume and what i found was it's mostly just the

00:32:07.880 same thing over and over and over again from their childhood so i mean they're still like

00:32:13.940 re-watching steven universe or something they are still re-watching and part of it is because

00:32:19.740 they become so hypersensitized to anything they might see octavian please finish the lessons okay

00:32:27.320 octavian krampus will come oh yeah yeah so they they they re-watch a lot of the content from

00:32:34.000 their childhood because they become so hypersensitized to things that they might find

00:32:38.580 offensive that consuming new forms of media and content is really challenging for them even when

00:32:47.560 it's aggressively woke see i just thought it was for the same reason why we consume so much content

00:32:51.880 from the 90s is that it's just better then it's just so much better it often is a lot better yeah

00:32:58.940 to the extent that like we were watching what's the movie that we were watching i was like this

00:33:02.740 feels like a movie from the 90s hail mary yeah it was from that it was like and i just hadn't

00:33:08.260 heard a good original score in so long that it actually stood out to me that shouldn't be a thing

00:33:13.560 why why you know that like every other score film score recently has just felt so generic

00:33:20.340 like and you can watch it on amazon prime by the way if you want it's on for for prime members

00:33:26.420 it's it's it's long and quite good i'd suggest it for the family yeah maybe cry but i guess

00:33:32.640 i'm gonna cry kind of place right now so i don't like when movies make me cry but it's okay

00:33:37.960 but that that movie could come out and not be aggressively woke i mean when somebody said one

00:33:44.400 of the things that got them about the movie and i actually agree with this but i don't think it's

00:33:49.140 woke i think it's unfortunately the way it would really be is they have this council where it's

00:33:55.100 supposed to be like all the top scientists from around the world and it's like clearly got somebody

00:34:00.660 from like you know your african representatives your you know your representatives from like

00:34:05.220 eastern europe your representative so like south america that's what one of these would look like

00:34:09.320 today right and he's like but really if like if the world was actually under threat we'd want like

00:34:16.140 a bunch of people from america and israel like let's be honest here right like that basically

00:34:21.020 how we're running the world now just like the smart people from american and israel are in the

00:34:25.760 room deciding what happens next i'll be out that the smart people for america are actually the

00:34:30.140 smartest people from all around the world and then the people in israel i mean yeah you get some

00:34:34.140 indians in there you get some you know yeah we we this is true it was a lot of when you when you

00:34:38.360 listen to the all-in podcast which is some of the most you know the world's most successful

00:34:42.000 investors in vcs like the proportion of them that are immigrants to america huge elon musk

00:34:46.880 immigrant to america so many of these people were not born in america and that's notable

00:34:51.700 where was i talking well i think within the next generation that's where we're going to be i think 0.51

00:34:57.880 especially as world economies start collapsing and ai becomes bigger more and more of just

00:35:01.480 ignoring the rest of the world is going to become the norm just being like we do not need you on

00:35:05.860 this project we will give you some of our ai money to keep you alive if you're nice okay and now we

00:35:12.260 can add the caveat because we're republicans if you're nice the democrats would give money to

00:35:16.860 people who don't even like us in fact we should send no money to countries that have negative

00:35:21.660 favorability of the united states i don't care how much suffering there is that feels right

00:35:26.420 that feels very fair yeah you have to you have to vote on the surveys we love america if you want

00:35:32.320 to aid certain certain aid thresholds like net 90 or something and then you get then you get aid

00:35:38.660 but anyway the wider point here being is i think that we are in a very important cultural moment

00:35:45.660 where new forms of art and media are being defined new artistic languages are being defined oh and

00:35:53.220 the point i was going to make is i think part of the thing that got the right into all of this

00:35:57.860 that made the right productive with these types of artistic assets is a number of influential

00:36:06.260 people on the right just sat down and intentionally decided to inspire people when the first sky

00:36:14.980 browse video went viral that went viral the elon video um when when i saw that video i immediately

00:36:22.180 shared it with simone it didn't feel like something i was aware was possible was ai

00:36:28.640 technology at the time i saw that and i was like this is catchy entertaining culturally on point

00:36:37.980 for somebody like me i feel like heard i'm i'm compelled by this i feel like this person

00:36:46.760 culturally gets me right and then the next video comes out and this is when he started adding in

00:36:54.320 even more streamers and stuff like that and it was streamers who i know we overlap heavily with

00:37:00.080 or i've done collabs with or whatever and then i feel even more like and a lot of people see like

00:37:05.120 oh you've got you're like looking at my inbox you're looking at my youtube video feed you get

00:37:10.480 this perception of a shared cultural identity from the video and then from that because the

00:37:18.740 streamers decided to react to this then other people started producing videos mimicking aspects

00:37:26.100 of the stylistic element but building on them yeah and that is what led to the explosion of the

00:37:34.160 online ai music video phenomenon now we're in a secondary category where i talked about leaflet

00:37:42.680 sitting down and saying like i am going to make this game to show you how good ai is at vibe

00:37:50.960 coding how quickly it can create something is intentionally about activating our base to get

00:37:58.360 off their butts and start creating stuff because now we can consume each other's content every

00:38:04.260 you know holy ball or sky brows there's a new guy that i've been liking who did a good video on 0.97

00:38:08.540 k-nux or nux the king or something fantastic song

00:38:11.080 every song of theirs that we consume that our kids hear is an urban monoculture is a

00:38:27.300 big media song they're not hearing and as we begin to produce more full-length anime which i expect

00:38:34.120 we'll start seeing in our community within probably the next year every one of those i consume is

00:38:40.640 something of the urban monocultures i'm not consuming right the more content creators we

00:38:46.160 get in our space of that variety the more we can and this is something you see with rfab which is

00:38:51.540 also a new way of building and building a company people have shown the meme when they're talking

00:38:57.540 about rfab.ai which is our site of oh it's like one of those guns which has like a knife taped

00:39:04.200 on it and like a spatula and like a because of all the different things whether it's like you

00:39:09.280 know the ai for recipe generation or the ai for narrative dming or the the site that searches all

00:39:14.540 not safe for work image bureaus at the same time are all not safe for work video sites or all

00:39:19.840 torrent sites at the same time and strips all the annoyingness and ads out of the torrent sites

00:39:25.280 or all of the that one by the way needs the bridge app to be running in your browser for it to work

00:39:29.600 by the way when was the last time you tested the bridge app i need to test it again okay there's

00:39:35.100 an echo okay i hear a slight echo from you but you need to test it before you go downstairs

00:39:40.840 because that means it's been days and i had done the upload from my end i just need to see that it

00:39:46.320 opens so you want me to download it and reinstall yeah just download it and open it see if you can

00:39:52.340 open it that's all that's all i need to see if it opens it works it's more of an authentication

00:39:56.460 issue to make sure that that was correctly applied um but the point being is is it's all

00:40:06.520 of these different products and there's like three or four products in the site that are in the works

00:40:11.480 now that you haven't seen yet you've got the hardware feature which i've mentioned we've got

00:40:15.580 a tutoring feature for kids we've got a a feature that it you know does email consolidation i've got

00:40:23.080 a video streaming feature i've got a video editing feature that auto edits videos for production and

00:40:28.940 what what combines everything on the site like the vtuber creation it's that it's stuff that

00:40:34.340 at some point was interested in somebody in our community they're either fans like a fan asked me

00:40:39.500 he goes malcolm can you make a feature that can turn text into audio and determine who's speaking

00:40:44.820 and use different speakers and i'm like fine and that's live on the site right now

00:40:47.880 yes that's good that's 80 good job buddy keep going tell him to keep going so krampus doesn't

00:40:57.360 keep going okay you're doing great i'm really proud of you okay thank you my friend thank you

00:41:05.440 for focusing talking about the new type of website yeah but i think that this is where companies are

00:41:10.520 going in the age when you could just summon any ai you want right to make any product you want

00:41:15.600 is we're sort of developing in our community a degree of cultural siloing in terms of the

00:41:23.640 products that we're making right like i don't work on actually making the ai models but if you're on

00:41:30.940 our site you can use the roads model which has been trained to be super based right what by by

00:41:36.280 a fan so i might be able to put that in as an api leaflet doesn't spend a lot of her time making

00:41:41.340 utility software like vtuber rigs and stuff like this but she spends a ton of time on her music

00:41:48.680 videos you know if you look at the sky brows sky brows and i can't make videos like the ones he

00:41:55.480 makes it i just don't take the time to develop those skills yet well and he also has a very

00:42:00.960 distinct style it is definitely a human plus ai thing because you you can tell even just from

00:42:05.960 listening to it if it's a sky browse video from various flourishes that he maintains throughout

00:42:09.800 his all all of his songs i love it yeah so the point being is that the way that each of us have

00:42:17.840 taken to our role and building out our role is quite culturally unique for each of us and the

00:42:25.700 company that is just building products that are useful in your life and will hopefully be useful

00:42:30.860 in the lives of people like you I think is like the next thing and if you notice on our fab if

00:42:37.660 we're not being charged for something we always offer it for free you know whether it's the tip

00:42:42.680 feature or the image app that I made that I am actually I use it regularly it's a really useful

00:42:49.860 app for me and it also automatically like unzips things for you although I think that feature might

00:42:54.140 be partially broken I've got to figure out what's going on with that one so I'll get to that but

00:42:58.620 that's less important than the hardware i really want to get the hardware so i can get a school

00:43:01.800 going for octavian yeah and for you our fans yeah it's super cheap too because i'm gonna get this so

00:43:09.200 you can you know flash it yourself but the point here being is this is a new culture the way our

00:43:14.780 fab is structured is culturally totally unique compared to the way a normal website would be

00:43:18.820 structured you know offer one product lean on your core competency not build additional features

00:43:26.020 whenever you have an idea right but that's i think where we're going and it's the same with

00:43:32.180 with generation somebody gets an idea to do something like you know we i'm gonna make a

00:43:37.400 video i want to be like well it's leaflet it's i always wanted to be a an idol girl right like

00:43:42.780 wouldn't that be fun and it's like now i can just be an idol right and us people who are in

00:43:50.360 leadership within the community diving in so aggressively to this technology i think makes

00:43:56.160 the community feel empowered and thus dive in themselves which allows for this shared culture

00:44:02.280 of content creation to be born and normalized which i'm really excited about yeah well to me

00:44:10.960 it's it's just a way to really easily visualize techno feudalism as it starts to roll out that

00:44:16.920 there are these trust networks that are very distinct and interesting that i think

00:44:23.460 i wouldn't have expected to be able to see earlier but i could literally see them

00:44:29.120 through the cameos of the skybrow cinematic universe videos and you can see the overlapping

00:44:36.240 of different communities how they relate to each other just by seeing who makes cameos who makes

00:44:40.860 guest appearances and this is the most artistic and interesting and fun succinct way to see it

00:44:45.120 it's just super cool well i mean we are defining likely what's going to be the future of ai culture

00:44:51.400 the way these are fan communities what most of these creators do is serve as the filter through

00:44:59.340 which their audiences come to understand reality like malcolm and i were just talking earlier about

00:45:05.460 a crime or like court case that's taking place involving a woman in murder and both of us

00:45:13.900 understand it through the lens of an asmongol video like we haven't read original coverage of 0.98

00:45:19.020 it so this is important because these are people that are influencing pretty significantly the way

00:45:23.260 that people consume understanding contextualized world events yeah and i think that's that's what

00:45:31.780 i wanted to talk about yeah i mean i i just i don't i i cannot like say and i i hope our fans

00:45:42.160 our audience truly gets how astonishingly blessed our movement is to have no competent opposition

00:45:50.140 i mean other than the elites that control every institution in our society but they're not

00:45:56.140 competent and that is why we will be able to steamroll the next generation of culture

00:46:04.260 we've just got to keep at it and for all of you what i'd encourage is if you haven't gotten to

00:46:11.100 explore how you can use ai to fix some problem you have in your daily life dive into that

00:46:19.560 absolutely it's intimidating but i think it's worth it to do

00:46:25.020 all right okay i'll accept that oh yep i'll accept that text text wants really to start

00:46:35.280 school you did good you did good i think alia's outside if you want to go check okay thanks yeah

00:46:41.080 i love you buddy yes you can stop you kept your promise and that is you can leave it right there

00:46:47.040 love you buddy promise keeper oh wait that has a political charge doesn't it

00:46:54.440 i know that's the oath keepers right what am i thinking here

00:46:57.620 this is low effort parenting right here terrify your kid with monsters into finishing lessons

00:47:05.680 while you're off this is how bad it is though i won't name names but a friend's kid stopped by

00:47:10.560 warehouse this morning and i was just like oh hey like you want anything to drink like okay well i'm

00:47:15.860 gonna go in and work and then i i get this call and no it turns out like there's a panicked search

00:47:21.140 for this child i should have like stopped and detained the child and i guess called the

00:47:27.720 associated adults but i just see a child on their own like and you're like hey you want something

00:47:32.740 to drink you and i'm like hey how's it going you want to hang out for a while like

00:47:36.840 we're so now normalizing to our like free-range parenting and just kids coming and going hanging

00:47:44.580 out that i'm just like oh hey hi and i don't realize that there's probably a growing search

00:47:52.060 are we gonna be that house to hang out at i could see that happening yeah i mean we're fortunate in

00:47:58.200 that our oldest kid is an incredibly popular person octavian is very popular with like everyone

00:48:03.760 he spends time with yeah loves them all he he statted into tens in charisma maybe not tens and

00:48:11.320 smarts but definitely tens and charisma i'm actually very impressed with him and when you

00:48:15.820 think when we we we joke with him about like his technical scores with some legacy schooling but

00:48:24.340 you and I had exactly the same delays yeah but I'm a genius yeah he might be a genius too

00:48:34.900 look I'm just saying like I had exactly like my teachers were calling my parents and all that and

00:48:42.040 I don't know I turned out okay oh no I love you okay I love you too Torsten though he probably

00:48:53.860 will have changed his mind by the time he comes in tonight had requested grilled cheese sandwiches

00:48:58.640 tonight would you like grilled cheese sandwiches sure like one grilled cheese sandwich and one

00:49:05.620 hot dog like i don't know what do you want like a grilled cheese sandwich and a half

00:49:09.440 yeah you always want one and a half grilled cheese sandwiches and no hot dogs do we have

00:49:16.140 any tomato soup left no no that would have been like growing an entirely new species by now

00:49:22.880 it is it was consumed it was consumed by collectively the family they were convalescing

00:49:29.740 here do we have any like deli meats no we don't have deli meats but we do have the caramelized

00:49:38.460 pork we have burmese mint chicken we have one more if memory serves we have that cashew cream curry

00:49:47.720 we have no i'll just have the i'll just have the grilled cheese sandwiches one and a half

00:49:54.500 all these gourmet things i batch prepped okay okay you want one and a half with a small amount

00:50:00.840 of they come in allotments once i freeze them then one allotment of cashew curry with a

00:50:09.440 grilled cheese sandwich and just one grilled cheese sandwich then okay i'm sorry about my

00:50:16.780 allotments i'm so sorry i know i drive you nuts but i love you i'm gonna murder you one day that's

00:50:25.780 that's yeah well you know you're gonna need someone to take care of these noodles and 0.90

00:50:31.700 someone woke me up by kicking me at four in the morning repeatedly literally just woke you up

00:50:38.000 like yeah so you know welcome to my world all right i love you to death have a wonderful day

00:50:46.260 and let's try to get to bed early yes i would like that would you like that would you like that

00:50:52.180 i'm not going to bed until i figure out these systems you'll get it you'll get it i'll give

00:51:00.980 you some some time with the dinner prep because i have to somehow grab and hose off all the kids

00:51:06.240 and check them for text right bye text the hunk biscuit the hunk biscuit is what you're calling

00:51:14.160 him now we got building art fab devices that you'll be able to just with this one you can just

00:51:19.060 with magnets just like stick it on your fridge and it can watch what you're doing and talk to

00:51:22.980 you and go through it all with you and then this one's just audio to audio and i'm building an

00:51:28.720 auto flasher on the system so you won't even need to buy these for us i can just give you the name

00:51:33.620 of the product and you can buy this for like 40 bucks if you want it with video and video and then

00:51:39.820 this one is like 19 bucks and it's just like audio to audio and you could have these all over your

00:51:45.060 house or whatever give them to your kids i mean that's what we're using this for is i'm going to

00:51:48.060 turn it into an educator because i got tired of of having a parent you know i don't want to do

00:51:53.000 that anymore we had the kid yelling every day so let's the kids they don't go away they aren't

00:51:59.780 going home why are they not leaving they're like the guest that never departs it's gonna take a

00:52:06.360 especially since you and i are kind of bullish on having them here as newlyweds like it's it's

00:52:12.960 actually if they're like if they're newlyweds going through college or university or some kind

00:52:18.860 of professional training program or getting their business off the ground as long as they're

00:52:23.040 contributing yeah all right what's going on up here

00:52:26.400 what have you done what is this oh

00:52:38.300 andy why aren't you in the chair how have you jerry-rigged it 1.00

00:52:45.680 you're so silly 0.99

00:52:50.440 here. Look. Thank you for eating toasties. I'll get some shorts on you. Hey, listen to me. Hey, 1.00

00:53:13.800 We have three wishes.

Based Camp - July 08, 2026

The Left Stopped Fighting Back： How The Culture War Got Weird In 2026

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