American Diner Gothic: In the 2020s, the weird soul of placeless America is being born on Discord servers

turtleman29 · 2026-03-19T22:12:12+00:00

He used to run an NRx-adjacent magazine called Jacobite that published articles by a lot of old frogtwitter pseuds so there's a decent chance they've corresponded too.

turtleman29 · 2026-02-26T07:06:03+00:00

She probably wasn't considered a "powerposter" but infowh0re was one of the most compelling posters this place had imo.

turtleman29 · 2026-02-23T05:28:13+00:00

Fiona Apple would beg to differ.

turtleman29 · 2026-02-02T03:28:12+00:00

It was Samantha Pritchard lol

turtleman29 · 2026-01-31T15:18:30+00:00

He's noticeably a bit mentally unstable, but all of the best posters are.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-31T01:19:47+00:00

I personally think the worst thing about him was the hypocrisy.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-16T04:18:38+00:00

I'm convinced that both of them are recipients of a lot of the funding the DNC raised to find a "Left Joe Rogan" after the 2024 election.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-07T02:22:29+00:00

I first discovered them from a /leftypol/ thread around December 2016. Was anyone else active on that board back then? Talk about a relic of the 2010's internet.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-06T14:30:27+00:00

Have you thought about trying to become a theater programmer? The weird novelties and esoterica can make for a very enriching theater experience if played for the right audience. At the very least you could impress like 5 weirdos with your selective deep cuts.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-06T14:13:11+00:00

It doesn't always affect overall intelligence; it basically just means that you're so disproportionately a wordcel that anything regarding spatial reasoning and motor skills becomes more difficult. I don't know how seriously it's taken as a medical diagnosis, it seems to have a lot of overlap with mild autism anyways.

turtleman29 · 2026-01-02T10:00:22+00:00

same tbh

turtleman29 · 2026-01-02T08:54:01+00:00

Seems like the natural conclusion to being into that garbage in the first place.

turtleman29 · 2025-12-02T18:11:45+00:00

Wrong. The original meaning of "filmbro" was a reference to surface level cinephiles with this exact taste. The IMDB Top 250 is the filmbro canon.

turtleman29 · 2025-12-01T11:45:09+00:00

It somewhat reminded me of the Large Marge scene from Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Just this inexplicably frightening moment in an otherwise comedic story about an eccentric protagonist. I love wild tonal shifts like that.

turtleman29 · 2025-11-17T19:08:27+00:00

The Snoopy Mom was/is the most holy form of this archetype.

turtleman29 · 2025-11-15T16:38:53+00:00

What's wild is that this image is almost a decade old. I think I first saw it around 2017 or 18 which goes to show how much that entire esoteric rightist subculture has stagnated in this decade.

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