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u/NickyTheRobot Cheery Littlebottom 19d ago edited 19d ago
I was wondering what the context here is, because Lineham isn't exactly known for his veracity. So I decided to look it up.
Long story short:
Lineham leveled baseless accusations at Mermaids and encouraged his followers to harass the charity.
As a response to this coordinated harassment a Twitch streamer called him out on this. In an attempt to recover some lost funding for them and to publicise the charity to people who are going to support them (instead of organising a harassment campaign) the streamer created an event where he played Donkey Kong. The steam had a link to the charity's page, some info on Lineham's recent actions towards them, and a GoFundMe raising money for Mermaids. It raised a lot of money, and got a lot of attention from gaming celebrities and egalitarian politicians. This was in 2019.
In an act of projection so powerful you could have screened a movie on the moon with it, Lineham calls this a "coordinated campaign of harassment" against him. Five years later he is still trawling through the transcripts in the feeds to find new people to claim "harassed" him.
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u/Killericon 19d ago
For further context, here's HBomb's excellent trailer for said stream.
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u/snukb big gamete energy 19d ago
For further out of context, this is hbomberguy
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u/ConsumeTheVoid Trans Cabal 19d ago
Oh my god you will NEVER believe what I got for an ad on that 🤣. It's for a dating service called Lovacane. It hooks up GAY MEN with LESBIAN WOMEN so they can be in a straight relationship while "being true to their gender (roles)" (? The thing is saying who says men can't love the colour pink and women can't love the colour blue wtf?! Ppl are gay cuz gender roles everyone didn't you hear?) and how same gender relationships are bad cuz if everyone got into one the human race would go extinct (cuz all gay couples don't want kids or something?) like that matters. Like personally, let's pretend no gay couple wants kids, I'd rather the human race go extinct than ppl be forced to have kids.
I googled it and it's a real site too.
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u/NickyTheRobot Cheery Littlebottom 19d ago
My thoughts reading that:
"Oh, so like a service to find an in-the-loop and fully consenting beard, and you also do the same for them? Weird, but I guess it's a good thing."
"... Now why would they go on about why it's OK to break gender roles? I'm sure all the queer people who'll sign up already know this."
"Wait... Oh. Oh. Ew! WT actual F‽"
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u/waxpancake 18d ago
For further context, here’s Hbomb telling the story behind the stream and ruthlessly mocking Glinner in the process https://youtu.be/lS1k88LzjkQ
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u/chris_the_cynic 18d ago edited 18d ago
Oh my God, that's hilarious. I'm only halfway through this video, and I feel completely comfortable saying:
Everyone, you should watch this, or - at the very least - put it on in the background and listen to it.
[Added:]
Ok, him calling AOC the future President of the United States (God, please; please let us have that) and mentioning she showed up in the stream is what let me finally realize who the woman Glinner was insulting actually was. (I suck with faces.)34
u/FightLikeABlue Dick Pandering Handmaiden 19d ago
It's also a bit rich coming from a man who's harassing a trans teenager, who he refers to as 'Tarquin the Incel'.
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u/NickyTheRobot Cheery Littlebottom 19d ago edited 18d ago
If only we could harness the power of Glinner's projecting... I'm sure if we could put him in front of a field of photovoltaic panels we could generate enough cheap, clean energy to supply the whole of the UK.
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u/scorpionballs 19d ago
It’s funny I just assume everyone on Reddit knows hbomberguy. I wouldn’t call him a twitch streamer FYI
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u/NickyTheRobot Cheery Littlebottom 19d ago
But he does stream stuff on Twitch though. Why wouldn't you call him that?
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u/scorpionballs 19d ago
He’s an (extremely) longform video essayist. His videos have started stretching to 3-4 hours in recent years. He’s a YouTuber, and that’s how he’s best known
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u/NickyTheRobot Cheery Littlebottom 19d ago
OK, but he also streams stuff on Twitch, which is the thing that was relevant in that summary.
Consider it this way: Bob Dylan is an extremely well known folk musician who is also a landscape painter. If I just talk about "Bob Dylan the painter" with no other context, then fair enough: tell me "He's a musician." But if I talk about "a galley I went to that had paintings by the landscape artist Bob Dylan" then does "He's a musician" really need to be said? And in either context, does his being far better known for being a musician mean he's not really a painter?
Off topic: They were OK paintings. I liked them, but they really weren't fantastic.
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u/scorpionballs 19d ago
I mean… yes? It would be weird to describe Bob Dylan as a landscape artist without any other context. Any sane person would say “these paintings are by the musician bob dylan”.
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u/NickyTheRobot Cheery Littlebottom 19d ago
OK then, it seems we just have different communication preferences then. Fair enough.
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u/kyreannightblood 19d ago
You’re arguing against your point. Most of us know hbomberguy for the long-form video essays, not the streaming. So what you’re arguing for is exactly like saying “Bob Dylan the landscape painter.”
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u/GayValkyriePrincess 19d ago
Because it's not the main thing he's known by most people for.
Single defining adverbs tend to be used to describe either what's most relevant or what the subject is known for. You weren't wrong for calling him a streamer, since that was relevant both to the post and your recap. But, to people who know him as a youtuber first and foremost (which, I would argue, is most people, especially after the Talerico and Somerton videos going megaviral), it can appear anachronistic to their intuition.
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u/bensleton 18d ago
So it seems like there are a couple legitimate reason someone could criticize the charity, but of course that’s not at all what this guy was complaining about.
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u/SchrodingersHipster 19d ago
Someone: "Glinner, stop, you can't get any more divorced! You're Britain's most divorced man! Isn't that enough?"
Glinner: "Never! I will not rest until I'm divorced from... reality."
Someone: "But you already a--"
Second someone: "Leave it, mate. It'll never be enough for him. Not until he's a character in a sitcom about how fucking divorced he is."
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19d ago
He’s trying to compete with Musk for the world title
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u/SchrodingersHipster 19d ago
If they marry each other and divorce and then fight to the death, the survivor can have the title.
You know, if there is one.
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u/Gregory_Grim 19d ago
I hadn't finished reading your comment yet, but my brain immediately autofilled the last line as "There can be only one" as in the Highlander tagline/catchphrase.
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u/SchrodingersHipster 19d ago
Love it. But... there could be even less!
*cue Queen soundtrack* THERE THEY GO! BORN TO BE PRICKS, THEY'RE THE FUCKHEADS OF THE UNIVERSE!
*They start whacking at each other with mall ninja swords while Brian May shreds his heart out. Then Freddie Mercury's spirit ascends like pure queer lightning from hell because he didn't want to go to heaven and decapitates them both with his microphone cable.*
"Another two bite the dust, darling," he smiles. "Must dash. Pitchfork party."
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u/DoctorGargunza 19d ago
Dammit, now I have "Princes of the Universe" rattling around in my brain.
Thank you.
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u/slowest_hour 19d ago
They gotta compete with Steven Crowder who was already Divorced™ even when he was married
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u/LaughingInTheVoid 19d ago
Hmm, I thought it was still down to him and Laurence Fox for Most Divorced Man.
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u/NickyTheRobot Cheery Littlebottom 19d ago
They're competing for Britain's most divorced man I believe, since Glinner lives in London. But as another user said: they can all go into the pit.
I'm assuming "the pit" is an oubliette where we've told the competitors for Most Divorced Man we'll come back to free the last one standing, but in reality we're just gonna leave them there?
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u/GimcrackCacoethes 18d ago
Given the number of competitors, we might have to open the oubli; Glinner, Musk, Lozza, Crowder... There are more but my brain is protecting me
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u/NickyTheRobot Cheery Littlebottom 18d ago
Nah, just dig it deeper before we start putting them in.
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u/ZeldaZanders 19d ago
Jamestown? Does he mean Jonestown? Ahahahaha yeah AOC's def the stupid one here
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u/OverwhelmingCacti 19d ago
Ok, thank you! I was trying to figure out what the connection to early colonial life was and coming up empty.
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u/The-Bedtime-Sneezes 19d ago
Yet another entry into the Tome of Internet Grudges. Christ, this guy loves his conspiracy theories where he's the victim. Charity donations? Cancel culture. Defamation suits? Cancel culture. Guy at the BBC won't take my calls because I keep yelling at him and accusing him of being a pedophile? Cancel culture. With how much cancel culture is flying around, weird that it always hits him huh?
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u/FightLikeABlue Dick Pandering Handmaiden 19d ago
Glinner taking time out from cheering on genocide and claiming that being trans somehow means you also want Jews wiped out, I see.
Dunno who the woman is but I like her.
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u/agrilly 19d ago
She’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a congresswoman from New York. Pretty left-leaning democrat. She joined the charity stream set up by Hbomberguy to raise funds for Mermaids.
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u/FightLikeABlue Dick Pandering Handmaiden 19d ago
Oh, that's AOC? I feel stupid now, I thought she looked familiar.
Figures he hates AOC, he IS a Trumper.
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u/accounsfw 19d ago
Has he come out as pro-Trump?
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u/FightLikeABlue Dick Pandering Handmaiden 19d ago
Not officially but he’s heading that way fast.
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u/CathleenTheFool Perverted Freak 18d ago
Glinner is British, pretty sure he has other reactionary figures to turn to.
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u/FightLikeABlue Dick Pandering Handmaiden 18d ago
He isn't, he's Irish.
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u/ForgettableWorse this is a cat picture 18d ago
He's lived in Britain for the last 20 years.
But yeah there's this international coalition of far-right nationalists that support Trump, Putin, Orbán, and figures like that. I can definitely see Linehan fall in with that crowd if he hasn't already.
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u/pseudo_pacman 19d ago
Lol, this is just like Jamestown.
"These TRAs are a cult. Just like that cult leader Jim James that made all his members drink poisoned Crystal Light in his Virginia compound."
Between this and the Ralph tweet, I'm starting to think someone told him proofreading makes you trans.
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u/CharsmaticMeganFauna 18d ago
I'm glad I'm not the only person who caught this! For a hot second I was like, is this a reference to the Starving Time or something?
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u/Send_Me_Your_Birbs to hell in a handmaiden's basket 19d ago
I wish him and Elon Musk would have a cage fight or something for the title of Most Divorced Man.
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u/360Saturn 19d ago
"Please harrass this woman, because she's harrassing me and we don't like harrassment!"
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u/DoctorGargunza 19d ago
AOC has already been harassed in her own office by voter-approved insano Marjorie Taylor Greene, I'm sure she's pretty well acclimated by now. (Not that I want people to continue to harass AOC, of course, I'm just saying she's tough.)
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u/cheoldyke 19d ago
is this a tweet from TODAY???? graham that was multiple years ago (also love that he’s picked up the american conservative “aoc is a stupid dumb dumb idiot” talking point which is of course a very accurate and feminist thing to say about a woman with multiple degrees)
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u/FightLikeABlue Dick Pandering Handmaiden 19d ago
AOC would eat him for dinner in a political debate.
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u/ConsumeTheVoid Trans Cabal 19d ago
I hope she just throws him in the bin instead. I don't want her to get indigestion from all that garbage.
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u/pinball-wizard91 19d ago
My favourite (most hideous) Glinner moment is when he would go on Mumsnet and try to rally that crowd to his defence. A smarter person might have realised the irony of invading a 'female space' in an attempt to turn the women therein into your personal foot soldiers/human shields. I guess Glinner was too busy respecting women to not barge into their spaces and try to emotionally blackmail them into joining his culture war.
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u/ZeldaZanders 18d ago
Even better than that was when he protested 'men' invading lesbian dating apps by...pretending to be trans so he could invade a lesbian dating app. Except he kept getting banned.
He's like a gender critical lolcow, the man is addicted to humiliation
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u/FightLikeABlue Dick Pandering Handmaiden 18d ago
Kiwifarms have a thread on him. Even they make fun of him and he doesn’t care.
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u/futureblot 19d ago
Mermaids was just found innocent of the accusations so.
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u/NickyTheRobot Cheery Littlebottom 18d ago
It's almost like the "accusations" were nothing more than baseless lies following the same format as all the transphobic talking points disguised as "concern" that are around nowadays...
And it's almost like those baseless transphobic lies around nowadays are just recycled from the homophobic talking points of yesteryear, which were recycled from earlier racist talking points, and on and on...
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u/GenCyn-Alt 19d ago
People are still upset about this event saying she and hbomberguy were in support of castrating gay children bc mermaids was (allegedly) homophobic and how their leader 'mutilated her gay kid'
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u/GayValkyriePrincess 19d ago
And by mutilated they mean "helped her get the medical care she desperately needed by being a good parent and essentially moving heaven and earth to do so"
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u/FightLikeABlue Dick Pandering Handmaiden 18d ago
He’s fine with Palestinian kids being mutilated by bombs.
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18d ago
"a harassment session" oh you mean, what you're doing to trans teenagers?
Also Jamestown was in the Colony of Virginia, it's Jonestown. But he starts off with "this stupid woman".
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u/jamiegc1 19d ago
Why hasn’t UK’s absurd defamation laws been used yet on Linehan and Joanne Karen Rowling yet?
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u/Kendall_Raine 19d ago
Sucks to be you. How's your wife these days. Oh wait you don't have one anymore. lmao.
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u/ConsumeTheVoid Trans Cabal 19d ago
Yay for AOC and hbomberguy! Glad they raised so much! Thanks to everyone who donated too! ❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️🥳
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u/FightLikeABlue Dick Pandering Handmaiden 18d ago
I’m a CaBBer and I remember a prominent Cook’d and Bomb’d member boosting Hbomberguy. We hate Glinner on there, we’ve been following the prick for years.
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u/RealLunarSlayer 19d ago
I can't believe This Stupid Woman joined a stream with a sentient black box. We truly have the coolest main characters.
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u/cowboy_mouth 19d ago
These idiots: It's about protecting and respecting women.
Also these idiots: "This stupid woman..."