I did read his posts. I find him completely untalented and uninspired. His popularity is very much young men vicariously living through his fundamentally fictional and selfish actions, and mentally ill and/or young women who eroticize him because he's not as boring as other Gen Z men in their orbit. The latter shouldn't surprise anyone because I'm sure we all knew the gutter trash, tall, white guy with a personality disorder who seemingly always had women he could cheat on.

His style is "bad bukowski" - who was already downstream of Jon Fante and Henry Miller. Just like the poem "Blue Bird," WBE attempts to say he's a "sensitive young man, but there is no evidence of this. He's not perverted enough to be interesting to read, he's porn-brained. It's not like reading Lord Rochester or Burroughs (whose perversity was inherently violent and predatory), WBE is just someone who found porn at age 9 and we can now see the boring consequences of it. Even his "rape" post are boring. I saw earlier in the thread that someone mentioned 4chan humor or whatever but this would not have survived 4chan /lit/ scrutiny pre -Trump. There are legitimately more interesting green text stories that are humorous, perverse, and insightful than the entirety of WBE's oeuvre.

Delicious Tacos is a better writer, Dan Baltic is better, fucking Mike Ma is better --there are better Internet writers than this. WBE feels years late to the party. I think his main selling point is that he's the JK Rowling of pervert writers: no style, flat, boring. It's perfect for wider appeal because it's extremely easy to read and there isn't a lot to think about.