Admittedly even though I’ve been listening to chapo since 2018-ish I only became “officially part of the community”, as in i started following the podcast every week and joined the subreddit, a few months ago when i became very politically invested upon seeing how bad the government dealt with the pandemic. as a result i’m not too familiarized with a lot of the inside jokes one of them being this collective annoyance at Amber. I’ve heard some rumours about her criticizing the subreddit and telling us all to “get a life” or something along those lines, but apart from that I don’t really know much about her outside of the chapo realm. Care to elucidate me?
She’s had some bad takes, hangs out with some sus people, published in Spike!, and there were definitely some pretty edgy “jokes” about Jews on some of the live shows.
But honestly, mostly it just kinda became a bit on the sub.
Now that we’ve evolved past the need for the CTH podcast, no one really cares.
she spends a lot of time doing the “i’ve been saying this for a long time; this is just like what i told you; i’m right again; what did i say?; i’m not like you nerds, i’m punk i’m cool; i have real working class roots cuz i went to junior college” attitude and that’s what i don’t like about her. she’s not very humble but her arrogance isn’t a joke like felix’s
oh yeah i’ve picked up on her being a bit stuck-up myself. not really in the podcast (although i have not watched most of the episodes) but i’ve just skim read a couple articles of hers and i can defs recognize a bit of an annoying condescending tone. i think what stood out the most was how she has this need to bring up and diss random groups of people whose mention doesn’t really aid to proving her point. like i remember she introducing a personal experience by pulling the “not like the other girls” card and ranting about how unlike other females she wasn’t an attention removed that puts her life on the internet. there are also these subtle stupid flexes like when she goes off about how full her real life is and how much unlike most of us losers she’s barely never on the internet. its definitely cringy.
listen to the recent premium episode about cancel culture or whatever. It’s a stream of endless uninformed, bad faith takes from her and Matt Taibbi. Every point they hit on is dead wrong, and not in a way where it’s like “oooh, does that CHALLENGE you?” like they intended it to. It comes off more as weapons grade liberalism, deliberately divorced from anything in the present day leftist discourse.
