This market is a companion to my two markets for Time's Person Of The Year:
At the end of November, I will put all options that have been submitted to at least one of those two markets, as well as to this market, into a poll. The answers submitted to this market will not be on the poll unless you also submit them to one of the Time POTY markets.
The poll will run for one week in December, where Manifold can vote for who they think should be person of the year out of the options. This market will resolve to the winner of that poll.
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@jim He's an old Starcraft 2 player. Famous for his "Baneling Rape" analogy on using zerglings + banelings:
@Rucker yeah it's always wild when someone digs up a joke from 2011 to virtue signal how horrible destiny is, showing the world that they haven't got the slightest idea what internet culture generally was like 12 years ago.
@dgga I'm not going to comment on Destiny as a person since my knowledge of him starts at the Keffals manifesto and ends at the incest allegations. He does seem like an interesting figure though.
Edit: spelling
@NicoDelon huh? What does my age have to do with anything? That video is indeed 12, almost 13 years old. Internet culture was indeed a whole lot more inflammatory and offensive than today.
@dgga 1. How old were you then? 2. You’re saying that as if it happened in the 50’s. It’s like yesterday.
@dgga No, literally I remember watching it because I watched him play Starcraft 10 years ago. I was surprised to see him on Manifold and thought, "wait, wasn't he the baneling rape guy?" That's how I know and remember him.
1. I was an adult then
2. Socially/behaviourally the 50's in real life was closer to real life today than the internet in 2011 was to the internet today. And it's not even close. The internet gamer ingroup was mostly inhabited by young angry men that felt rejected by the society and purposefully acted as inflammatory and exclusive as possible. "To rape" literally meant "to win" in games and people referred to their friends with slurs more than their names.
@Mira okay I apologize, I saw non-existent snark in your comment then. His "best worst hits" often get reposted in this kind of "who is he?" situations as a dunk, as if he's some sort of rape apologist today.
@dgga Rape jokes were not funny in 2011. And I’ve been on the internet since the 90’s. No. The 50’s were a lot more different from today’s world.
@dgga I can attest that that's what he was famous for in 2011. I had the same reaction when I started seeing his name on Manifold.
@NicoDelon Either we must have inhabited very different parts of the internet or you have selectively erased from your mind how awful a lot of it was back then.
@NicoDelon I'm not making excuses. I'm saying it was awful and it was popular. You didn't find rape jokes on the internet funny in 2011 but orders of magnitude more people than today, did.
@dgga Oh I’m sure many people did. They just didn’t become internet celebrities that for some reason clueless internet addicts now look up to and vote to become POTY on Manifold. You want to be a Big Name? Fine, but then let people remind you of the rape jokes you made a long long time ago (narrator: that was only twelve years ago).
@dgga I had you blocked for many months until recently. I think I remember why. This site can’t get rid of you soon enough.
