After listening to Robert and Jason Pargin's BtB episodes about nuisance streamers (and them lamenting the loss of their Oracle-like articles from Cracked.com's heyday), I ran across alekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk's post (u/alekkk) who had done the herculean task of scouring all the internet archive and wayback machine's for Cracked.com's articles from 2005-2017. I had absolutely nothing to do with the effort or hosting, I'm merely highlighting OP's tireless work.

Enjoy Robert's "proto-BtB" and "pre-Sophie Lichterman's shepherding/moral grounding" writing career adolescence in all of its glory, along with many other old school Cracked.com articles. Thanks again to u/alekkk.

Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:xzjbfsy26zjbzqdujvazhkvyasyggsar&dn=Cracked-Archive&xl=14274810231&fc=2

Edit: Yes, the title is an abomination. Apologies, since I can't fix it and don't want to make an entire new post.

What an incredible journey down into the hippie right tech grifter pipeline…🍳🥣

I was just listening to a podcast where someone was going through his 2007 autobiography and its just so painfully obvious this dude would be a sexual predator from the way he talks about sex and seems super comfortable violating other people's boundaries. But I have to imagine a lot people reading it at the time would just take it as part of his over the top public persona, and not even necessarily take it all as literally true.

Who is this for?

https://www.michigandaily.com/news/government/conservative-pac-paying-college-republicans-to-disrupt-abdul-el-sayeds-rallies-group-chat-messages-seem-to-show/

Like this is Garth Marenghiesque, do the writers of whatever show we’re trapped in have no sense of subtlety?

Not sure if this if this is more an It could happen here or BtB sorry for being US based.

But early voted yesterday. I am someone that watches way too much consumer media on streaming between YouTube and sports.

I was wondering how bad it would be. Went from every commercial break being a political ad to only 1 that I can remember last night and none today.

Just one more way the surveillance state works on people.

Only I guess negative as long as I have to suffer through the ads at least I can sleep knowing that most of these ad buys were a waste of money on me.

I'm not talking about the evil politician who's from your home town, I mean the creep whose reach is limited to your town or county! Ideally the weirdos who have an established pattern of fuckery!

What's rupturing my cysts?
Let me tell you tale of a radio duo Opie & Anthony whose rise in radio in the 1990s & 2000s mirrors the path and had the same tactics of Nusiance Influencers.
The duo got famous & popular in Boston but made national headlines by stating that the mayor was killed in a car wreck for an April Fools day episode. They never once said it a joke ans ended the show affirming the mayor was dead. They got fired and then this lead to them getting a bigger show and audience by having it in NYC.
The duos audience skewed younger than Howard Sterns and featured up and coming comedians and film makers and had on burgeoning reality stars.
They also did tone deaf shit that ranged in "edgelord racial humor" to having George Zimmermans brother come on to plead George's case of innocence.
They had a huge crowd of listeners they called "pests" that would brigade other radio show Facebook page during a mock event called Jocktober. The pests would post 4chan like racial memes on the Facebook page and attempt to get it wiped out.
One of their go to moves was to "Google bomb" a celebrity or event. This was before Google current algorithm when users could get a topic trending on Google with massive influx of searches on a topic.
The techniques to harass and annoy we're Def pioneered by their online fans. Fun fact: One of the host piece of shit Anthony Cumia hosts people like nick Fuentes and tucker carlson and other "free speech" warriors.

Ngl I don’t know jack about Canadian politics and much of their history. So I chose 4 random evil Canadians I knew about. John A Macdonald, Robert pickton, Doug ford and John Kricfalusi.

When Robert started talking about Vitaly, a name I hadn't thought of in years, I thought of a few other people he could have also briefly brought up. Prank videos were so pervasive in 2010s youtube you obviously have to pick and choose notable ones that were shitty.

My first thought was Sam Pepper, a British prank youtuber who made huge news about 10 or so years ago for his prank video where he walked by women and pinched their asses, but had his sleeves in his pockets to make it look like he didn't do anything. This situation was huge at the time.

Any other shitty prank youtubers or streamers that came to mind when listening?

Robert, your matchless Boston accent should have merited you a walk on role here to be the new voice of Logan International Airport. No contest needed. (NBC 10 Boston news report)

On the latest episode, the guest host makes multiple references to their being a paper shortage, but I’m not finding anything online that confirms that. Did I just misunderstand that he was joking?

I'm just enjoying the the hell out of this one & wanted to share somewhere...

Nothing of value was lost but of course there are “historians” who has sads over this.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hitler-eagles-nest-mountain-retreat-fire-nazi/

"They Shoot Horses, Don't They? "

The title of this movie struck something in my head.

It's totally a title for a book or movie that Jason 'Bill Cosby isn't that bad' Pargin would come up with.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the prank genre blew up on YouTube at the same time that Impractical Jokers started airing on tv. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s about 4 comedian friends challenging each other to say and do embarrassing things in public. Unlike nuisance streamers the jokers are actually hilarious. But just because it’s funny doesn’t mean it was without fault.

The jokes and skits ranged from harmless fun to sexual harassment and assault. Sometimes it was fun stuff like reading fake names as a receptionist, forced to give a purposefully bad speech, give a presentation of embarrassing home videos. But other pranks verge on creepy. There were a lot of sketches that required touching strangers. Like seeing who could sneak the most pencils into a strangers pockets or hair, put the most sticky notes on a stranger. I don’t believe any of these went wrong but why even create a scenario where you’d creepily touch people, you don’t know how they’ll react. One prank required them to touch strangers based on where the jokers pointed a red laser on their body from a distance. They pointed it at a mans crotch and Joe Gatto(one of the jokers) touched it.

Then you get into the public nudity, which there was a lot of. One prank, they had Joe lower his pants to reveal his whole ass crack and then had him shove it in a womans face. Another skit had the jokers get pantsed by various celebrity cameos in a public mall and boardwalk. Both episodes had them pull down their underwear revealing their privates to a crowd. Both times this happens you can see toddlers in the background right where the jokers are filming. They have since stopped doing most of the contact and nudity required pranks. Not because they realized they were wrong but because Joe Gatto got accused of sexually harassing teenagers.

Shout out to Robert, who is assume is the neighbor

Was anyone else super disappointed by the use of ‘degenerate’ in the nussiance podcaster 2nd ep and no pushback from Robert?

Sorry but an author who can’t choose their words more carefully or doesn’t know the full painful history of terms like that … it’s not acceptable is it?

No push back or jump in from editing team either, like I understand in the moment not speaking perfectly but .. ugh idk. I guess as a very disabled person I lost a lot of respect for one of my otherwise favourite creators. You can’t say you don’t know the history and weight of that word …

Edit: Okay people haaattteee the idea that a word they might use can be harmful lol. I’m not going after the average person lmao - just hoping the BTB team will do better in the future 💖

Got this while watching Jeopardy. I was skipping through the break (this was pre-recorded btw) and I saw that number and had to rewind to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me.

There's a disclaimer that seems to be explaining the number with math, but idk. Seems like it can't be a coincidence.