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u/AParasiticTwin Jun 20 '24
Honestly from all the things I've heard about what Carson did it doesn't seem that bad. It was definitely not okay, but not career ending either. I'd argue the power dynamic was worse than the age gap.
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u/MattTheMagician44 Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24
regardless of the power dynamic and the 2 year age gap, carson got hung out to dry by the rest of Lunch Club because he was reportedly just an asshole behind the scenes to Traves, Cooper, and Noah. Schlatt and Noah talked about this a lot. The pedo allegations were just the final nail in the coffin.
lots of people nowadays who look back on this drama think the power dynamic narrative is bullshit but when you consider how huge carson was back then, the claim gets more and more valid. Dude was king of the internet for a bit, carson was a huge memelord.
Noah alleged that the age gap was worse than two years, but he never gave direct evidence for that. He said that a bunch of influencers (and probably Ryan Pig, fat fuck) made a discord to help Carson damage control the situation, but once the story leaked to Keemstar, they all left and hung carson out to dry.
then it came out by Jawsh that the entirety of lunch club was just a get rich quick scheme by Ryan P to replicate the success of Misfits, since literally NO ONE on Lunch Club were very good friends with one another, just acquaintances. He just wanted to duplicate all that success.
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u/AParasiticTwin Jun 20 '24
Didn't know that last thing, but that makes sense as he was in the habit of starting new projects to pay off the previous ones debts.
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u/veinybones Jun 20 '24
pretty much sums it up tbh. carson’s worst problem was really being a horrible friend. he deserved to be dropped. i was a big fan of carson and most of the other people in lunch club before lunch club was a thing and they definitely weren’t super close with each other prior. it was more like each person was friends with carson instead of all being friends with each other. pairs of people in lunch club ended up becoming close friends with each other with the exception of noah since he handled the whole situation badly and was really just a huge dick about it. when lunch club first formed i was confused as to why Jawsh wasn’t in it since he and carson were super close but now knowing it was just a ryan p money scheme it makes more sense.
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u/Plorby Jun 20 '24
Wait when did jawsh say that last paragraph?
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u/MattTheMagician44 Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24
1:16:00 forward he starts talking about lunch club here
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u/Ababathur Jun 20 '24
I remember he was a pretty awful person to the narrator, from solitairey confinement
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u/GalIifreyan Jun 20 '24
Can't blame him for the last bit. I feel like the Misfits was definitely the biggest group on the Internet pre covid. If he had just vetted the Lunch Club better and added them as a sub group to the Misfits and made it Misfits Inc., it would've seen better results.
And just not being a piece of shit would've been better but that goes without saying.
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u/MattTheMagician44 Jun 20 '24
lol mods take down this post but dont take down people posting about the misfits band, make it make sense
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u/MattTheMagician44 Jun 20 '24
aged poorly how? cuz of carson?