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Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:21 am
by Squinty
It's an interesting thing to think about. Like if he is eventually charged, because he has leaned into this far right shite, he has a good amount of money to fight it, bettering his chances of being acquitted.
There is also the possibility of being able to further milk really gullible people regardless of what the outcome is.
Either this is calculated or it isn't. I would guess the former.
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:50 am
by Gideon
Saw an interesting thing about how The Grift works a few days ago. You know how you get a scam email and the wording, spelling and punctuation is awful, it directly mentions places known for being a hub for scams and is just generally a list of different types of red flags? Sometimes you think ‘how hard would it be for them to hire someone with English as a first language to try and scam English speakers?’ or you laugh at just how obvious a scam it is. Well that’s actually by design. They’re deliberately made to be obvious scams because it immediately filters out anyone in any way skeptical, it essentially gets people who are somewhat illiterate, vulnerable to being lied to and taken advantage of to self-identify. Essentially anyone who replies to that email is an excellent target to be scammed, and you’ve filtered out anyone who might waste your time.
It’s the same thing with conspiracy chuds and far right grifters - the more fringe the content, the more absurd the claims, the more you repel anyone, well, sane. What you’re left with is a fraction of your possible audience, but you’ve filtered out anyone who’d disagree with you or question you and you’re left with just the people who’ll happily empty their pockets for you and validate others in doing the same.
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 10:09 am
by Victor Mildew
Gideon wrote:Saw an interesting thing about how The Grift works a few days ago. You know how you get a scam email and the wording, spelling and punctuation is awful, it directly mentions places known for being a hub for scams and is just generally a list of different types of red flags? Sometimes you think ‘how hard would it be for them to hire someone with English as a first language to try and scam English speakers?’ or you laugh at just how obvious a scam it is. Well that’s actually by design. They’re deliberately made to be obvious scams because it immediately filters out anyone in any way skeptical, it essentially gets people who are somewhat illiterate, vulnerable to being lied to and taken advantage of to self-identify. Essentially anyone who replies to that email is an excellent target to be scammed, and you’ve filtered out anyone who might waste your time.
It’s the same thing with conspiracy chuds and far right grifters - the more fringe the content, the more absurd the claims, the more you repel anyone, well, sane. What you’re left with is a fraction of your possible audience, but you’ve filtered out anyone who’d disagree with you or question you and you’re left with just the people who’ll happily empty their pockets for you and validate others in doing the same.
That's just what they want you to think though.
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 10:26 am
by Gideon
Oh gooseberry fool that’s right. Whose merch do I buy to stop Them?!
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 4:45 pm
by Roonmastor
Tomous wrote:Zilnad wrote:Pretty sure his True News stuff had a small following of GRcadians back when he started out. Obviously back then, it wasn't quite the completely bat gooseberry fool, conspiracy stuff that he now spouts but I can see how impressionable viewers would have been suckered in to his cult over the years. It's sickening that people like him exist to prey on the vulnerable.
I remember him arguing with Sean Hannity over Palestine and him coming across very reasonably...not that you have to do a lot to come across as the reasonable one while arguing with Sean Hannity. I think he changed direction and swung to the right and conspiracy theories during covid but maybe it happened earlier and I didn't notice?
Yeah, I was onboard with all the Trews stuff, but then he overreached his influence when he tried to dictate which way the audience voted in an election, broke his trust with the viewership and then went on an extended haitus, and unsubbed.
Until I saw the video list posted on the last page, I'd not fully grasped his swing in stance.
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 6:58 pm
by Lex-Man
Apparently, in his book he admitted throwing his dog down the stairs because he wanted to teach it not to go upstairs.
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:00 pm
by poshrule_uk
You can usually judge a person by how they treat animals.
In unrelated news apparently someone is murdering cats in a nearby town. How long until they progress to people.
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:15 pm
by Victor Mildew
Innocent until proven guilty!!!!!
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:02 pm
by KK
twitter.com/lozzafox/status/1706299443073486872
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 7:45 pm
by Squinty
Panorama special coming up. BBC haven't confirmed if it's related to stuff like this.
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 7:48 pm
by SEP
Squinty wrote:Panorama special coming up. BBC haven't confirmed if it's related to stuff like this.
They're getting revenge on Channel 4, and going for Jimmy Carr.
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 7:50 pm
by Memento Mori
Squinty wrote:Panorama special coming up. BBC haven't confirmed if it's related to stuff like this.
A week is quite a bit longer notice than the 24 hours or so Channel 4 gave for their documentary.
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:25 pm
by Godzilla
I often find that serial sex offenders threaten legal action to keep the press at bay. Saville did this as have many others.
In a completely unrelated story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66924967David Walliams sues company behind Britain's Got Talent
Re: Channel 4 Dispatches Special: Russell Brand
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:55 pm
by Tomous
Have to agree with Lawrence Fox here-i bet there's even more victims out there that haven't come found yet.
That's what he meant right?