Not related, but I think he (Cillian Murphy) turned 50 the other day. Or so I saw somewhere on the internet.
MrBeast before 2024. Everyone seemed to be pretty enthusiastic about the guy’s content and I don’t recall him attracting too much drama before the Dawson situation.
Which is something I just couldn’t compell. A guy who’s content is so extremely materialistic became a symbol of le reddit wholesomeness. Basically all his content is just him being a feudal lord sitting on a high horse, throwing money at peasants performing humiliating acts to his amusement.
Fucking disgusting.
Mr Beast has like this haunted look, I’ve disliked his shit from the jump
His dead eyes. His smiling is always just so damned unsettling.
I remember coming across him way before he was famous, when he was just keeping x amount of fidget spinners going for 24 hours and whatnot, and my first thought about him ever was “there is nothing behind those eyes”.
I hadn’t even heard of him until he did that Fortnite collab but he instantly gives off creepy vibes. He seems extremely fake.
Ion like him but if he does good stuff w his money i aint complaining
Man fuck that logic, you are rendering yourself a perfect target for the chugging scam
Wym? I absolutely agree his vids are too materialistic but Lets not act like he did bad stuff only, especially compared to other influencers like jake paul, tana mongue etc. He invested in sea cleanup and planting trees and paid surgeries for dozens of people. Im Not saying he’s a saint but he’s literally not that bad?? Sure Not everything he did was effective but he sure did more than most people in his Position do/would
I think that’s an age thing.
Gavin Newsom.
The very first time I ever saw a picture of the guy, he gave me “80s movie bad guy who wants to buy the local community center to tear it down and build a shitty hotel” vibes.
Definitely the suit who is revealed to be secretly behind the terrorists halfway through the movie.
Finding out that he did a photo op tearing down homeless camps definitely vindicated my initial bad vibes.
He’s overtly sleazy. Like I don’t see how people don’t see snake when they look at him. I have experience with narcs though, I’ve been gaslighted into rejecting reality by them and once you’re through it once, you see the signs from far away. I guess a lot of people don’t have that experience.
…electric boogaloo!..
So basically years ago Newsom gave you a momentary vibe which matches the way Trump has actually spent two presidencies.
Now let’s all talk about how much we hate Newsom.
Not sure what your point is but since literally nobody likes Trump, he doesn’t fit the topic at hand. People actually like Newsom’s sleazy ass.
My friend group was in our late teens, we partied hard, we had each others backs… but we were so very inexperienced with the world. Then this one girl brought her new boyfriend… early thirties, soldier, fit, cool, experienced.
I had this instant dislike, his words were… too smooth, his jokes were funny, yes, but also cruel. He radiated a kind of coolness like uranium radiates poison. Everybody was all over him, the lads wanted to be like him, the lasses wanted him. I could not bring myself to like him and got accused of being jealous.
He broke up some lifelong friendships and budding relationships. He ended up getting two of the girls pregnant and went to prison because one of them was underage at the time. I feel vindicated, but I can’t say I’m happy about it. The only good thing to come out of that is that I left that group and went a different way in life.
This was a while ago, but it was a Tuesday night at my bar and Cillian Murphy was there by himself, and he hung out and chatted with me for like an hour, hour and a half. I was a 20-somethiing bartender at the time- there was no one else there really, he had no reason to be nice other than he was just a nice guy. He was a 20-something superstar as well, this was after the Dark night
Mr.Beast , Elon Musk , Mamdani , Jordan Peterson ,every podcast idiot out there , the aristocrat family who owns the Daily Mail
Me for Bill Gates and Mark Cuban, back when everyone loved them. Bill Gates was basically idolized on reddit, partaking on reddit santa and all that.
They weren’t old enough to remember what a prick Bill was. Him being a retired philanthropist is standard whitewashing
Yep. He is doing the Rockefeller to buy his legacy. Tossing coins to children for photo ops and building libraries and schools to put his name on.
Gates was smart but mostly he is just another selfish manipulator with a huge hole in his soul. Home computers were new and he made them less than they could have been to keep his company on top. He lied he stole and in the end tried to convince everyone he was a decent person. Everyone else is just catching up.
The rehabilitation of Bill Gates’s image after he left MicroSoft was mind blowing. Like here’s the most capitalist capitalist in the world, the Elon Musk of the 90s/early 00s, and otherwise progressive people were fawning over him because he did a little philanthropy at the behest of his wife.
It’s like listening to gamers talk about Windows being an OS with such wide compatibility, when the only reason for that is market share forcing everyone else to bend to it and write Windows drivers for everything.
And I still wonder where we’d be in computing if MS hadn’t anointed Intel and their old-timey architecture as the winner of the CPU wars.
Ballmer dripping with sweat and screaming did wonders in the “taking eyes off Bill” department.
Mark Cuban is a difficult one. He has reduced drug prices to the cost plus a profit margin (which is low*) and so its like “Wow somebody cares!” And this has benefited thousands. But then he says I might fund a new venture and sell Cost Plus Drugs one day; So really he doesn’t care, he’s looking for a big buyer to come in and offer a huge payout to stop the big pharma company losses.
Of all the billionaires to worry about, Mark Cuban is way down the list. If we put him under a microscope, we can find things to complain about, but there are so many other better places to direct our wary eye.
I think from a Utilitarian approach, Bill Gates still falls into a net positive effect on the world. His foundation alone has saved millions of lives by nearly wiping out Polio and Guinea Worm, and severely reducing Polio. And you can try to argue that it isn’t him personally doing these things, but the dedicated people working at his foundation, but it’s his name on it, it’s his money funding it, and if he didn’t exist the foundation wouldn’t exist.
But I get it. Not everyone is a Utilitarian, and he’s done a lot of shitty things that are hard to overlook.
Melinda pretty much made him do it and he’s making sure to profit off his charitable efforts too.
Plus he’s got the whole Epstein friendship to whitewash.
Also his father steered him into philanthropy.
But he did make the turn and has followed up and lived it. I think it’s perfectly fine to give the man some credit.
He certainly stole intellectual property and made substandard software to build his fortune, but when I compare this to someone like Andrew Carnegie these look like pretty minor crimes.
Me for Jack Black
I guess I’m out of the loop, what did he do?
Capitulated to right wingers by firing his supposed best friend and band mate Kyle for making a joke about Trump.
OH GOD YES. He gives me the heeby jeebies
Used to work with a dude who took great delight in belittling others. He was quite Sr.
I thought I was taking crazy pills. “Oh, he’s actually a sweetheart once you get to know him”, “He doesn’t mean to be that way”. “He actually really likes me”
People were bending over backwards to defend a guy who was literally getting off on abusing his position of authority. Everyone seemed to think they were the special one who he liked and respected… they just wanted everyone else to “earn it” like they had.
It was scary! This guy had essentially formed a cult!
Anyways, our company got acquired and he was let go during HR vetting. The company doing the acquisition obviously had better due diligence then there was when this guy had been hired: sex crimes against a minor.
Everyone was shocked (STILL DEFENDING HIM). I was like “oh wow it’s actually crazy how perfectly that tracks”.
Anyways, our company got acquired and he was let go during HR vetting. The company doing the acquisition obviously had better due diligence then there was when this guy had been hired: sex crimes against a minor.
At a previous job for several months I worked 2 desks away from a new guy they hired who’d been in prison for raping his kid. I didn’t find out about this until he got fired for unrelated reasons. I was pissed because when I’d gotten hired at that place the background check they did raked me over the coals about my education history but they didn’t catch THAT. I treated that prick like a human being FFS. Now I google new hires myself to hopefully avoid that situation in the future.
Wow that is crazy what a twist.
It happened to me with many disgraced celebrities, but so far the worst one has been Leonardo DiCaprio. After The Beach, he gives me a horribly bad vibe. Strangely enough, it doesn’t happen with anything he did before The Beach.
Whatever horrible thing he did that stained his soul to such a degree, it must have happened between Celebrity and the end of filming The Beach. It’s as if he became 25, went to Thailand, and did something that turned him evil or something.
Keep going. Have you ever felt this way before about others and shown your feeling was accurate?
In person only a few times. For example, one of my relatives had a boyfriend who gave me a really creepy vibe.
He ended up being a controlling type with trust issues.
After the relative broke up with him, he appeared at the doorstep bleeding from cuts on his wrists.
Another relative had another biyfriend that gave me the vibe and he turned out to be a cheating bastards and a scammer who was only under control because of his mom, and when his mom died he went full unleashed. Now they are still in litigation over a piece of land he convinced the relative to buy, but now refuses to buy or sell, so the relative is stuck with that crap. The only reason to keep that is if he wants to get the whole terrain for free, or keep things like that to cause distress and harm my relative.On the other hand, one guy that I don’t like at all because he’s a very right-wing fascy type, doesn’t give me that vibe, and he’s been really good with another relative despite me not liking him and putting in my relative’s head all sorts of right-wing ideas I don’t like at all.
He may be wrong, but he isn’t ‘bad’, if you can get what I mean.Huh. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I have definitely been the only one in the room to realize that the person everybody likes, is a snake.
Were I the first and only person in ghe world to realize this? No, definitely not. But in that particular constellation of people in one specific room at one specific time, I was and it fucking sucked everytime it happened.
There have also been plenty of times where I was the one to figure out late that someone was shitty because I kept believing in the best of them, and that also sucks.
Can’t judge people who don’t catch on early to someone being a shit person.
There is this one guy I know in the org I’m with who gives me these vibes. I have been extremely open about this. I will not engage with him or talk with him. Everyone seems to like him for some reason, but every red flag for me was triggered for some reason. He comes off as extremely manipulative. As petty and vindictive. As emotionally immature. As ‘not safe to be around’ period. I have not a shred of doubt that he would be a domestic abuser.
If it helps, people with autism tend to see straight through people with narcissistic personality disorder. People with NPD tend to try and isolate and ostracize autistic people as soon as they recognize them, because autistic people miss or disregard basically all of their attempts at manipulation. And if a person can’t be manipulated, a narcissist will see them as a threat to be excised.
People with autism will usually be baffled at why everyone likes the narcissist, because the narcissist comes off exactly as you described. Manipulative, petty, vindictive, immature, etc… And for some reason, the entire group just seems to go along with what the narcissist wants.
Lmfao yea you clocked my autism correctly lol. And I agree, it does give you a bit of a bullshit radar I think.
I’m a DA outreach worker i say 100% trust your gut instinct it’s telling you something. DA perps are manipulative and so tend to be well liked IME. Just fyi there’s a list of DA warning signs here. Every tip for narcissism is someone that does more than their fair share of the talking, always brings things back to them.
Thanks for that, really. I’ll check it out. I’ve had my fair share of experiences so I have learned to trust the red flags. It just sucks when nobody else seems to notice them (though with this guy I am definitely not the only one noticing as I found out recently…)
Yep! I’ll bet there’s a few. The interesting thing is perps often know that, especially when they’re older… they test people to see if they do realise the perp is abusive.
That is a grim list to read. Especially since it describe my late mother exactly (other than the sexual issues I thankfully know little of).
But from what you’re saying, not a shred of evidence either. I mean srsly, sometimes we’re just wrong about things, and everybody else feeling differently can be a clue. Not saying you’re wrong, because I don’t pretend to have psychic powers, just that it’s healthy to question our own process sometimes.
Not hard evidence but I have heard of some scummy things he has done and he had several pretty bad moments already. But those are easily overlooked or ignored because of his charisma, which I seem to be immune to. Or repulsed by I guess.
That’s just every popular person. No shit, how else would you achieve that.
Yeah all the time, people are just dumb and willing to look past obvious red flags just because someone acts confident. I mean we literally have a name for those people “con man” short for “confidence man” a man who exhudes confidence while scamming people.
And yet, everyone just likes confidence even when it’s an obvious narcissist pos and then two years later they’re all crying to me “can you believe Geoff would do that?” And im like yeah it was pretty obvious and you guys kicked me out of your friend group so fuck you too.
Talked to my therapist about this just this Friday. I have a friend, let’s call him Saul. He’s got an air about him, the way he carries himself. Good looking but not great looking, wears a certain kind of goatee that looks a little devilish. He presents as he is a gentleman, has manners, good listener, has a light touch - masculine but also effeminate in a way.
Women adore him! Like every woman I’ve ever met says she likes Saul. Not necessarily romantically, but just generally likes him and enjoys his company.
I’ve lived with this man on multiple occasions. He has caused my friends and I emotional harm. He will act overly aggressive about the smallest transgressions. I put a day bed in the common room one time, for a few weeks, and rather than approaching me about him not liking it, he demonstrated overt sex acts on it. The last time I lived with him a decade ago, he and my ex would berate me and the other roommate, in very toxic emotional ways, like in some kind of sadistic hedonist thing that they shared doing together - I think it came from them both being tortured souls from their respective upbringings. Likewise, when he didn’t get his way or the rise he wanted, he would just yell or throw things. Rather than approaching in a discussion, he’d go nuclear.
But that’s not the worst part, because it wasn’t all about what happened to me. A good friend of mine and him started dating about a decade ago. Started out great, romantic, etc. but then he started doing the same things to her, so she broke it off and moved back home. The dude, on multiple occasions, drove the two hours down the road and would just stalk her. Like follow her all damn day. Would make sure she knew he was around.
We’re older now, I see him around town. We have coffee on occasion. He seems to be doing better, got an education, and has a little business that’s woman centric that seems to be doing well.
But I won’t ever forget what I know about this man. The closet is full of skeletons, and damned if this meme wasn’t on point.
How can you still be friends
This is beyond me
Not the OP, but I can help answer this:
Because sometimes you have a bunch of mutual friends in the group and it’s easier to maintain contact than to make a big deal of things that you don’t have empirical evidence of against someone with.
I would rather break contact with all of those friends and start over, personally.
That’s respectable and not the wrong way to handle it by any means, but after a certain age, and if you have a particularly intrusive career, it can be really hard to make new friends and have it get past loose acquaintances. I’m definitely experiencing that myself, but thankfully I’m still close to my old friends, just much farther away, geographically. (Also not OP btw.)
This happened many years ago for me. A guy at a party was giving me massive red flags. The final straw came when he outright lied to me and doubled-down on it when I asked if it was true, just to brush it off as a joke later that same day and make fun of me for believing him. I avoided him at every friend get-together afterwards.
A few years later, after I’d moved away, I learned that the rest of the friend group left him too. Turns out he had a habit of trying to hook up with teenage girls and after some event (that I never learned the details of) brought it to light, everybody abandoned him.
God, the vindication felt good.
Mr Tumble has a basement full of dismembered prostitutes, and you’ll have a hard job convincing me otherwise.
Now I wonder if the lying to your face behavior is actually connected to attempt statutory rape.
I’d say you were vindicated when they brushed off what you were saying. That’s just shitty behavior that’s completely disrespectful and people don’t take seriously.
Im an introvert so I actually don’t know how people generally accept that behavior
Are you absolutely insane? “Lying is connected to attempt statutory rape?” What the fuck kind of meds are you injecting? What does that even mean?
Yeah I legit asked that question. Wow I committed the atrocity of being curious
