446
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by favoredponcho@lemmy.zip to c/videos@lemmy.world
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 119 points 1 month ago

What is it with Peter Thiel grooming men who have a tendency to want to be pretty?

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 49 points 1 month ago

Ask Epstein.

[-] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 25 points 1 month ago

He's been rather upfront about being gay.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

but he doesnt like to be Open about his gayness to be out in the media or in general, hes still partway in, downlow. he made sure news about him doesnt stick very long. especially with his last sidepiece who got defenestrated in florida.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Literally the opposite. He was outed by Gawker, which caused him to bankroll lawsuits against the organization.

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago
[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Well his face is pretty fucked so they're on their way

[-] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Wayyyyy to old for Thiel already

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago

young men, he wants drain the blood from or sleep with. look what happened to THIELS last attractive sidepiece in florida after he became no use to thiel.

[-] notso@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago

just like bryan johnson sucking the blood out of his son for the same reason. they both look like vampires.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thiel needs a blood boy

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago

Mental illness is a hell of a drug

[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Yeaaaahhh.

The way Andrew asked clavicular "what do you mean"

When he said he didn't think people were worth connecting with.

Was almost heartbreaking if clavicular wasn't such a cunt.

[-] moot@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Did anyone watch the video? Clavicular talks with Andrew for like an hour about looksmaxxing and then complains when Andrew runs out of questions on the topic. The dude is capital W Weird.

https://youtu.be/-_6mni6k0Zw

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 month ago

What struck me so hard about that interview is there are times where he speaks knowledgeably about some aspect of health and he sounds completely sane and competent. Flashes of normalcy. Followed by long stretches of WTF.

[-] Soulg@ani.social 11 points 1 month ago

That's why the whole thing is so weird. They're taking something that should be positive; caring about and putting effort into your appearance, healthy diet, exercise etc... And just making it a fucking bizarre freakshow

[-] architect@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 month ago

Yea so the question is why? So they are targeting young men who are mostly sexless because, duh… then telling them they are a victim for that but also it’s their fault due to their physical appearance (seriously not an issue for men no matter how much men try to say it is. Men care about physical looks. Women care about what you can do. Interesting way to twist their minds up coming from a fascist who loves to rape young men as a hazing…) so if you’re not constantly trying to fix yourself that is a fault within you? But also women are to blame for literally everything.

So you get a bunch of violent fucked up young men from this. It needs to be stopped. Thiel is literally poisoning minds.

[-] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's seems to be the formula. Especially when they're targeting younger demographics or quite frankly simpletons. Normal + crazy = extremist cultures. Nobody can get through to the cult followers because they're lead to believe you're trying argue against the normal thing when trying to explain that they're misled about the crazy thing.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

probably coached by thiel before his sudden appearance recently?

[-] SCmSTR 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago

and there is speculation clavs rise in the news/media is so unnatural someone was definitely pushing his manosphere influence, turns out it was thiel all along.

[-] architect@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 month ago

Yea. He also nearly broke down when he asked Andrew if there was really nothing Andrew would change about himself physically and Andrew said no. Dude wouldn’t believe him, lol.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing is widespread. It has always felt uncanny how internet cultures pivot into bizarro worlds through the 2010s. We now know Epstein played a direct role in 4chan. We've always known Thiel is one of reddits early investors, but that has flown under the radar. Nobody talks about that.

One hallmark is how the most incendiary influencers have big studio level of production quality. Availability of high quality equipment doesn't account for this because if you look at the 99% of other people trying to make it, it's not the equipment you can afford but how well you can produce. That requires big bucks funding for more than just fancy gear.

[-] MortUS@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thiel is one of reddits early investors, but that has flown under the radar. Nobody talks about that.

I mean, is he still an investor? I feel like rich folx invest in a lot of things, but the thing they invest in doesn't necessarily mean they own it, control it, or even that that thing is necessarily bad.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Lol of course he is

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

It's always the guy you most suspect

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

"Real life comic book villain hatches evil plan."

[-] MortUS@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I'm lowkey glad Andrew has found his ride. Seemed like accusations were coming out of the woodwork after the Alex Jones interview and Jan 6th. Now though, after he got the Ground News spot, he's just been running it. Biden Interview, Ireland Trip, expose on Crypto, expose on looksmaxing.

I think we'll see a lot more of him in the coming years.

[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

He covers stuff no one else does.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] SaneMartigan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

He did some interesting interviews about the accusation process and how he dealt with it. Seemed like a reasonable dude but I'm sure there was some PR in there too though.

[-] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I heard looksmaxxing described as the beauty myth for men, which makes sense of a lot of it. Same bullshit, different audience.

[-] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 12 points 1 month ago

I can't be the only one feel like watching an interview with psychopath serial killers right? Something wrong with these guys...

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Color me unsurprised. Scumbags of a feather flock together.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Ah, I suspected that this was the dude who "microfractures" his own face before going out to clubs, by hitting his cheekbones with a tenderizing mallet. Turns out it was actually the dude who "microfractures" his own face before going out to clubs, by hitting his cheekbones with a tenderizing mallet.

These influencers must sit around and think "holy shit, I can actually get people to do literally anything."

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] eestileib 8 points 1 month ago

No wonder he is so fucked up

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

thiel the anti-christ clouds the mind of his puppet/prey, like the actual anti-christ would.

[-] SCmSTR 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Peter Theil looks like if you combined the guy from Oh Brother Where Art Thou and Darth Palpatine

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

And...? It's easier to just assume this is the case for everyone of these people

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Didn’t even see this coming absolutely shocked!

[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

There is some reporting that Thiel is an Epstein-like figure for young boys

https://ope1.substack.com/p/the-looksmaxxing-psyop-how-thiel

[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I believe he owes an apology to a certain reporter.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

How is it possible to be this cringe and the successful?

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

??? Mr Beast set the bar very low.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Most of the incelfluencers are.

load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
446 points (100.0% liked)

Videos

18318 readers
118 users here now

For sharing interesting videos from around the Web!

Rules

  1. Videos only (aside from meta posts flagged with [META])
  2. Follow the global Mastodon.World rules and the Lemmy.World TOS while posting and commenting.
  3. Don't be a jerk
  4. No advertising
  5. No political videos, post those to !politicalvideos@lemmy.world instead.
  6. Avoid clickbait titles. (Tip: Use dearrow)
  7. Link directly to the video source and not for example an embedded video in an article or tracked sharing link.
  8. Duplicate posts may be removed
  9. AI generated content must be tagged with "[AI] …" ^Discussion^

Note: bans may apply to both !videos@lemmy.world and !politicalvideos@lemmy.world

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS