Only slightly, and still thought most of these people were losers

One book of JP is a big hit in germany. Not sure what its called. Its about life advice i think. And that pipeline i got sucked into BIG TIME. Not because it helped but because i was still in the sphere of young entrepreneurs which is one of the most naive, careless and frankly stupid situations one can find themselves in imo.

I did figure out that he is a huge {insert string of slurs}. In any case, I got out and walked a different path, ultimately leading me here.

I was pretty homo-phobic and passively racist up till I got “class woke” but always I hated all those dweebs.

I can’t point to one thing that broke me out of that thinking but it overlapped my “come to jesus Marx” moment. A large part of it was reading theory and coming to realize that “equality for everyone” means “everyone” and “equality for all the people like me” is called nazism… and as a poor masking ND I’m on the block after the queer people.

I did get sucked into the thunderf00t sphere for a while which I think is a gateway to anti-SJW shit but I got out eventually.

I kinda watched h3h3 too but never really was a steady follower or anything. Same goes for Pewdiepie. They were mostly just the people well known in that era of YouTube.

TBF, I was 8-14 during that time

I listened to Joe Rogan tapering off by 2016. In the middle days of the podcast, there were occasionally interesting guests, and the discussions were good, but after a while, it just turned into Rogan’s moronic ramblings and the guests barely holding on. He also stopped pushing back against the dumb guests, probably as an effort to keep those dumb guests coming back. At a certain point, I remember thinking “Wow, all he says is ‘huh huh huh what if the monkeys just get stoned…do you think that guy would have done DMT?’”, and that’s when I stopped listening altogether.

I never fell for the anti-SJW stuff, because it always seemed pretty obvious that it was anti-anti-asshole advocacy. “The LGBTQ+ Agenda” was only ever a struggle to survive.

Is that James Rolfe? How did he contribute to the pipeline? I just watch his game reviews.

I started fell into it for a bit but their whole “fake news” and anti mainstream media thing made me question if mainstream media was lying about DPRK, China, Cold War history, etc.

I consider myself lucky this didn’t exist when I was younger and susceptible.

Zerohedge lead me to look at alternative left websites. Although now Zerohedge since become much more mainstream conservative since I stopped looking it.

I never bought into this far right shit, but I used to access content that was meant as right wing propaganda. I used to browse 9gag a lot, just to have some laughs. But then I started thinking the memes were becoming less funny and more racist, until I stopped going there and instead went to Reddit. Suddenly I discovered socialist subreddits and got hooked into the theory.

I had a cringe 12 year old Call of Duty player phase that I’m not really proud of. However, even before I knew anything about socialism I always felt a sense that there was something sleezy and dishonest about most the people shown here.

I remember being in the atheist online space back in like, 2009-2012 and there was a lot of the anti-SJW stuff then in that space. I mostly stopped going to those spaces because I always saw myself as a feminist and most of my friends at that time were women. So when I realized that they were just being shitty I just stopped listening to them. I replaced the atheist drivel with science education content, which has its own problems, but at least it wasn’t blatent misogyny. So, long story short, I didn’t get into this pipeline back in 2015, but I found the precursor and almost had issues with it.

closest i got was the internet atheist shit
when they started transitioning from dunking on creationists over to attempting to dunk on feminists i noped out

At the time i was reading Bookchin and was a staunch libertarian socialist. So maybe my moments were back further… I never got into meme sites until later, avoided online almost entirely from 2010-2014, out of circumstance (living in tents while trying go to school and such). I think my pivotal moments were based on: reading increasingly reactionaty books and finding their problems (my “put down in disgust” points were ER Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, as well as Atlas Shrugged, specifically when the copper baron has a tirade about altruism). But in general growing up, i was in–closet trans in male dominated spaces, so my own identity and femininity and increasing preference for femme spaces and friendships helped keep stopping me from taking the red pill/black pill.