Why I Became a Crypto Shill - Adam Conover
Why I Became a Crypto Shill - Adam Conover
genuinely baffling that he did this but I guess this is good
edit: wtf why does the "this link has already been posted" menu not work on Create Post, only Edit
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I have never enjoyed Adam Conover. He's like Penn Jillette but even more insufferable and less funny, which is a triumph in both respects. But unlike Penn Jillette, Adam has always seemed disingenuous to me. So I'm not particularly surprised to see him shilling crypto, and not particularly surprised to see him backpedal for dear life. It is weird to hear him keep calling himself a comedian. I genuinely didn't know that's what he saw himself as.
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Penn Jillette is old Reddit personified, Adam Conover is new Reddit personified. That's all it is really.
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He has done stand up for years. He's a part of the Dropout tv universe to some degree.
I've always felt the same way although I did think Adam ruins everything was somewhat good to expose normies to good new info
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I watch a bit of Dropout and on one of their shows there was a bit where they had a celebrity judge and they were doing a survivor parody, I think. Can't remember who the celebrity was, I guess it doesn't matter. But Adam Conover was there, sort of randomly because he'd never been in an episode of that particular show before, and I remember thinking it was clear that he was only there because he was friends with the boss and must have wanted a chance to be around the celebrity guest. He just stuck out like a sore thumb because this was one of their improv shows which are entirely built around the actors' rapport with one another, a sizable part of the appeal is that you can tell all the performers and crew are friends who are hanging out, and none of the other performers seemed to know what to do with or say to Adam. I didn't necessarily feel like the other performers disliked Adam or anything, it was just very much the "friend of a friend who you don't know or have anything in common with has come to the get-together and it's making things slightly awkward" vibe.
Also he just wasn't very funny.
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part of the thing about conover is that today's milieu consists largely of untrained media personalities raw in front of a camera and he used to have a tv show. his adam ruins character involves amping the smarm, and it has not aged well. i find it rather grating these days as well.
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I don't like Adam, and I have a soft spot for "fool us" that pen&teller do, but I find Penn at his career peak way more insufferable than Adam now.
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At least Adam shows up on picket lines, and not just for actors and writers, but also was pm the line with airline workers.
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He seems like a lifestyle leftist or progressive. As in being a leftist or progressive funds his lifestyle
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Back during the SAG-AFTRA strike he did this thing claiming that everyone was happy with cable TV and that streaming was forced on us or whatever. The first comment to that asked “who is this guy, the CEO of Ads?”
That’s now what I think of when I see him. He’s the CEO of Ads.
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Ad-am Conover
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Wrote this guy off when he was doing "it's complicated, listen to my podcast for my full nuanced take" in response to people calling him out for his silence months into the Palestinian genocide. So, yeah, just a reminder that he stood his ground on not speaking out against genocide harder than he stood behind this shitty crypto grift.
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wow. I don't follow him nearly that closely. fuck this guy tbh. A lot of people were doing that post oct 7 but still, coward shit
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I just learned today, just now, that this guy:
is Adam Conover, not Bobby from Queer Eye. What a world. I actually have managed to entirely avoid learning who Adam Conover is, to the point that up until right now, I assumed he was either half of Mythbusters or perhaps one of those cooking channel chef types.I'm not usually the person offline enough to be like "wait, who are we talking about here?", but today I am. On this glorious day, it falls to me to be like "wait, who is this dumbass, and can I just ignore his existence entirely? Yes? Good."
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genuinely baffling apology tbh. there would have been a certain respectability to taking the money and running, but the main takeaway of this video is that he got roasted for hawking a scam, that he wasn't even being paid to be nice about mind you, he did that himself, gave them the money back, and is now admitting it's a scam and is horrifyingly weird and dystopian. so that means...he tried to scam his audience because he thought he could get away with it? dumb. so dumb. "adam ruins his own reputation." just kind of embarrassing even.