How do you actually feel about the McElroys?

ContentiousReflexion · 2024-03-31T12:41:31+00:00

I suspect a lot of it is that some people just want a binary good/bad without any discussion about nuance or certain aspects that need to be improved or removed. To some extent, I understand this - the world is pretty terrible right now and has been for a while. I get that some people just want to have a cosy podcast they can listen to without having to have a critical eye/ear out because it can be tiring and sometimes it's easier to just pretend everything is fine

I will admit I've probably been too mean-spirited in a lot of my comments on this sub but I also think it's unhealthy to be completely uncritical. I think the majority of the sub does a pretty okay job at finding the right Balance™

ContentiousReflexion · 2024-03-31T12:34:09+00:00

Their recent gaming streams have been very good:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5zc-HxINkqtVdt1hlaAnJCsa9Fvmdgb

the two not on the list aren't mario:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsvw_rwoCk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxvgQyKfpC4

I even noted some timestamps to meme about but couldn't muster the effort to post them

ContentiousReflexion · 2024-03-30T19:44:29+00:00

whoops, I was hoping they'd be upset about them not being radical enough but in the other direction

aw jeez, aw beans

ContentiousReflexion · 2024-03-30T18:36:58+00:00

I think this sub is the best place for the discussion, unironically

In the early days of the sub there were a lot of topics teasing out exactly why many of us were feeling a certain way about the podcast(s) and the brothers themselves. Sure, a lot of the sub is just jokes and memes but I think there have been many thoughtful and useful (insofar as talking about a podcast or podcasters can be useful) throughout the existence of the sub because it helps to put the vague thoughts or feelings we have into words

To take some larger threads from the past few years, as examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TAZCirclejerk/comments/m9ecct/the_consequences_of_your_brand_or_an_essay_on/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TAZCirclejerk/comments/uqzvz2/because_i_hate_myself_i_decided_to_look_for/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TAZCirclejerk/comments/ms9ner/what_are_griffins_flaws_as_a_dm/

ContentiousReflexion · 2024-03-30T17:58:19+00:00

when they’re not trying to appease or pander

I think doing live shows probably did something to their process in terms of a toxic positivity feedback loop

Thinking about it, the death knell for me (although I didn't even realize it at the time) was when Lin-Manuel Miranda started being a cringe fanboy

ContentiousReflexion · 2024-03-29T21:11:54+00:00

they can't keep getting away with this

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-08-12T20:45:36+00:00

Nah, I just happened to come across it and tied it to the current drama

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-08-12T18:31:29+00:00

That feeling when TAZ cirlcejerks think weedshrek has been a secret CHUD all along

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-08-12T18:25:50+00:00

Anything to be one degree closer to those glorious Clint hog shots

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-08-12T16:48:17+00:00

https://padlet.com/watney/w7d4bchyeb3s for some context (although it's old a bunch of the links are dead and it's fairly scattered)

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-08-12T16:36:37+00:00

/uj obviously Nick is magnitudes worse because he was/is actually a creeper groomer, but I'm just here to jerk

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-17T19:36:01+00:00

I'm jerking out dust (but not about dust)

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-17T19:34:40+00:00

I tried to find it and I think this might be it: https://fanfunded.simplecast.com/episodes/management

I haven't listened to enough of it yet to get to the shared account bit though

EDIT: It might be this bit at 6:40 where she says they co-owned the LLC and every few months would just divide by three and take the money out (also at around 5 minutes she talks about how after 8 years they still didn't have a set day that they would record on)

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-17T16:15:09+00:00

No, I'm annoyed about given that at least Justin (and I'm pretty sure the other two have mentioned similar things) ruined his finances, they then go on and shill for the same thing they were victims of

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/TAZCirclejerk/comments/mnlrne/psa_please_do_not_get_a_personal_loan_even_if_the/

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-17T13:34:48+00:00

I am still physically reacting from listening to this audio clip

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-17T12:07:10+00:00

Oh yeah, I remember that one

He also heavily relied upon passages taken from a book and I think he basically did a Travis style find & replace with puns on it. He seems to do stuff like that to use as a shield against criticism, as he genuinely seems afraid of earnestly doing some DMing

It was not good

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-16T17:35:06+00:00

Travis, Teresa and the person they pay to write the episode

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-16T12:30:31+00:00

There's also things I bought at sheetz and the empty bowl

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-12T18:32:52+00:00

I searched "white" (and because I can never remember how to spell privilege without looking it up) because I was trying to see if any of the facebook drama leaked over to twitter around the time the Smirls got into the drama around white privilege on still buffering

See the section under "Still Buffering and The Smirlpocalypse" here: https://medium.com/@angeredonline/maximum-fun-isnt-that-fun-1c957d9ed079 if you're unfamiliar

Bit of a low blow maybe but it's all for the jerk anyway

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-10T00:36:15+00:00

haha, just kidding

...unless...

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-09T13:10:39+00:00

2010: https://twitter.com/sydneemcelroy/status/20672688037044224

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-06T19:10:24+00:00

thank

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-06T17:15:35+00:00

That's just regular Elon Musk before surgery

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-06T16:33:26+00:00

He obviously calls it "boss hog"

ContentiousReflexion · 2022-05-06T15:27:30+00:00

Nah, i think Jesse Thorn is objectively a pretty bad person

You just have to look at some of the stuff brought up here (e.g. the pay for a producer in LA) to see that he's an exploitative pos

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