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[–] 59 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Comic Sands had some background on this and I think it explains a lot:

Self-described content creator "Danny Spud" is known for producing ragebait video content. He frequently uses Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses to covertly film his "pranks."

Spuds "prank" videos routinely show him harassing strangers until they're forced to react. No one was buying his support of anything other than self-promotion. Danny Spud doesn't support ICE or law enforcement. Danny Spud only supports Danny Spud.

Spud got exactly what he was hoping for, in other words. This was his plan, his plan worked, so he should be happy, right? I had felt like an "I Love ICE" sign, in this day and age, was pretty much incitement, and it turns out, it was exactly that. In a perfect world, there would be consequences for doing that.

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  • [–] 48 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, this take is BS.

    If you hold a sign saying you’re pro-ICE, you’re pro-ICE. If you’re harassing people and pushing their buttons saying you’re pro-ICE, you are in fact pro-ICE. Anyone walking by will assume you are pro-ICE. It isn’t up to the viewer to perform a psychoanalysis of the person and calculate the odds of whether the person is lying, and if they're trolling… fuck ’em.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This post is the first time I've heard of him and I've seen the video and memes. At least for me you've done more to promote awareness of him than anyone else including spud himself.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This is the Tragedy of the Attention Economy (TM) I'm afraid.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Idk what you mean. I'd rather remember a good person. If his goal was attention then he failed utterly as the other kid got the credit

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Even when we say "This guy is an asshat and we should all ignore him," we are giving the asshat some attention, which was his goal all along. It's actually not possible to arrange a coordinated response that doesn't give the asshat what he wants, because a coordinated response requires many people to understand the identity and nature of the asshat. Which is what he wants.

    That's what I mean by "the tragedy of the attention economy."

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