(The post is about Sabrina Carpenter hosting but it's better out of context imagining a dude sneaking looks at Miss Piggy)

Ha, @devonlum.bsky.social has it handled. I've been snowed in.

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Decisecond?

From @robinsteinnyt.bsky.social, @devonlum.bsky.social, @dimakhavin.bsky.social, Alex Cardia, Jeff Bernier, and me.

No paywall on the video.

nah it's way too try-hard

preview of my followed communities to see what Reddit is really for: gawking

There is definitely more engagement here, for better and worse! But most people are lovely of course

Southeast! It's all pretty miserable, and not worth visiting on purpose (I can say as someone who's lived there and around Kansas for far too long)

Except Big Brutus!

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everyone is so tedious and turned up to 11 about everything

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They found out about the Problematic Men in Agriculture Google Doc that was going around......

Usually they watch for lolcow reasons (though they get sentimental/attached to them after a while). It's definitely a niche within this whole world. And honestly, I can understand why people watch these more than a generic guy playing for 4 hours quietly auto-spinning slots.

And for people a generation or so up, my age, there was some Runescape gambling mentioned :)
(That's actually how the founders of Stake/Kick first met -- organizing Runescape betting decades ago)

All these photos of these IDs/"verification proof" are sold to people who mass-create accounts and then sell them off at a huge markup to underaged gamblers or people in the US (or just link their gambling referral codes to the accounts so they get a percentage of all of the buyer's future wagering)

your piece was great! shouted it out at the end of the thread. and yes... basically zero has changed, just escalations from all sides.

5-8 is generous, it peaked 15 years ago with the one where you played MJ's career