Episode 148

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We’re taking a deep dive into the world of YouTube rant channels in the early 2000s. Tony48219 loved to sit in his computer chair and shout at the camera about evolution, geocentrism, women, and atheists. Most of his abrasive opinions were met with expected opposition online. As unpopular as his opinions could be, nothing is as unpopular and unbelievable as what happened when he took his online anger and acted upon it in the real world.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	I see her get shot in the back and fall relatively limp,
0:18.0	still having enough energy to let go of a breath to try to scream or call for help.
0:48.6	Hello and welcome to Sword and Scale season 6, episode 148, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. Yeah. Ah, social media.
1:04.3	What a wonderful invention.
1:07.4	A way for everyone in the world to connect, share ideas, learn from new cultures and new experiences.
1:15.6	It just brings the whole world closer together, doesn't it?
1:20.5	Of course it doesn't.
1:22.6	When you connect 7 billion assholes to each other, you get seven billion angry assholes, yelling at each other,
1:30.1	about nothing and everything. Mass narcissism combined with mass voyeurism, all neatly wrapped
1:37.1	up into an app that fits in your pocket and you take everywhere you go. One of the biggest and
1:43.0	most popular forms for this sort of collective insanity is YouTube,
1:47.9	the OG of so-called hate speech.
1:51.4	Many forget that just a few years ago, the comment section on YouTube was littered with
1:56.5	more racist profanity than even the darkest of the dark memes on 4chan.
2:02.6	However, unlike 4chan, 8chan, and any other chans out there, YouTube is a colossal
2:09.6	company that seems to be expanding each and every year.
2:13.6	It was the brainchild of three guys who worked for PayPal before they came up with a platform
2:18.6	idea and launched it back in 2005.
2:21.3	Isn't it crazy to realize how long self-important people standing on their soapbox have
2:27.6	been uploading their opinions in video format on the internet for the world to see?
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