Back during the SAG-AFTRA strike he did this thing claiming that everyone was happy with cable TV and that streaming was forced on us or whatever. The first comment to that asked “who is this guy, the CEO of Ads?”
That’s now what I think of when I see him. He’s the CEO of Ads.
Ad-am Conover
I have never enjoyed Adam Conover. He's like Penn Jillette but even more insufferable and less funny, which is a triumph in both respects. But unlike Penn Jillette, Adam has always seemed disingenuous to me. So I'm not particularly surprised to see him shilling crypto, and not particularly surprised to see him backpedal for dear life. It is weird to hear him keep calling himself a comedian. I genuinely didn't know that's what he saw himself as.
Penn Jillette is old Reddit personified, Adam Conover is new Reddit personified. That's all it is really.
part of the thing about conover is that today's milieu consists largely of untrained media personalities raw in front of a camera and he used to have a tv show. his adam ruins character involves amping the smarm, and it has not aged well. i find it rather grating these days as well.
He seems like a lifestyle leftist or progressive. As in being a leftist or progressive funds his lifestyle
He has done stand up for years. He's a part of the Dropout tv universe to some degree.
I've always felt the same way although I did think Adam ruins everything was somewhat good to expose normies to good new info
I watch a bit of Dropout and on one of their shows there was a bit where they had a celebrity judge and they were doing a survivor parody, I think. Can't remember who the celebrity was, I guess it doesn't matter. But Adam Conover was there, sort of randomly because he'd never been in an episode of that particular show before, and I remember thinking it was clear that he was only there because he was friends with the boss and must have wanted a chance to be around the celebrity guest. He just stuck out like a sore thumb because this was one of their improv shows which are entirely built around the actors' rapport with one another, a sizable part of the appeal is that you can tell all the performers and crew are friends who are hanging out, and none of the other performers seemed to know what to do with or say to Adam. I didn't necessarily feel like the other performers disliked Adam or anything, it was just very much the "friend of a friend who you don't know or have anything in common with has come to the get-together and it's making things slightly awkward" vibe.
Also he just wasn't very funny.
Adam's TV show "Adam Ruins Everything" started with CollegeHumor before moving to TruTV. He goes back to long before the the Dropout days and appears on a bunch of their shows.
yeah he also did one of the first dropout presents specials, I think the first was hank green who honestly gives me the same feelings adam conover gives me.
I don't like Adam, and I have a soft spot for "fool us" that pen&teller do, but I find Penn at his career peak way more insufferable than Adam now.
At least Adam shows up on picket lines, and not just for actors and writers, but also was pm the line with airline workers.
At least Penn Jillette has an honest ponytail and vest.
And a libertarian party membership. He did sell his prison themed mansion in Vegas though, so that's something.
If you really want to hate Penn, watch his show Bullshit. Every single season has an episode on how environmentalism is bullshit. There's also an episode on how NASA is a tax drain and should be privatized and one episode where they say the concept of peace goes against human nature and world peace can only be achieved through free-market capitalism.
I remember being obsessed with the show when I was in my late teens. On one hand they convinced me in a single episode that pot should be legal and that lawns are a scourge on the world. The dolphin episode was an experience. But the anti environmental ones did put some brainworms in that took some work to get out. Doesn't help that they were somewhat right in that recycling is sold as a cure when in reality a lot of recycling just doesn't work as advertised.
I haven't seen any of it but I've heard of it. I know there was also an episode about how secondhand smoke isn't harmful.
Jillette always struck me as a "I don't like taxes" libertarian and not a "I don't like black people or age of consent laws" libertarian.
Just checked his Wikipedia and he's not even a libertarian any more. Voted for Hilldawg and Yang and Biden
Wrote this guy off when he was doing "it's complicated, listen to my podcast for my full nuanced take" in response to people calling him out for his silence months into the Palestinian genocide. So, yeah, just a reminder that he stood his ground on not speaking out against genocide harder than he stood behind this shitty crypto grift.
wow. I don't follow him nearly that closely. fuck this guy tbh. A lot of people were doing that post oct 7 but still, coward shit
I just learned today, just now, that this guy: 
is Adam Conover, not Bobby from Queer Eye. What a world. I actually have managed to entirely avoid learning who Adam Conover is, to the point that up until right now, I assumed he was either half of Mythbusters or perhaps one of those cooking channel chef types.
I'm not usually the person offline enough to be like "wait, who are we talking about here?", but today I am. On this glorious day, it falls to me to be like "wait, who is this dumbass, and can I just ignore his existence entirely? Yes? Good."
genuinely baffling apology tbh. there would have been a certain respectability to taking the money and running, but the main takeaway of this video is that he got roasted for hawking a scam, that he wasn't even being paid to be nice about mind you, he did that himself, gave them the money back, and is now admitting it's a scam and is horrifyingly weird and dystopian. so that means...he tried to scam his audience because he thought he could get away with it? dumb. so dumb. "adam ruins his own reputation." just kind of embarrassing even.
Breadtube if it didn't suck.
Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.
There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.