Every year we’re told to care about some new freak
Why are online weirdos so popular these days?
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@someplaceovertherainbow523
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
I may be a few years off, but I remember something like:
2019: Belle Delphine
2018: Logan Paul
2017: Bhad Babie
2016: Onision
@JoeBeaudette
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Referring to Nick Fuentes as a “right-wing political commentator” is deeply disingenuous. He is a rather rare case of some who actually deserves to be called “far-right”. But no. We save that word for everyday conservatives, often when Christianity is involved, where the dreaded term “Christian nationalist” is frequently employed in tandem.
How come the narrative always moderates the actual extremists to the centre while the actual moderates are made out to be radical? It’s almost like there’s an implicit yet concerted effort to demonize and delegitimize conservatism or something…
@itsallpixelated
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Hassan Piker isnt a freak of the year yet?
@GibusWearingMann
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
It reminds me of the old idea of "Twitter's main character of the day", of which Bean Dad was a prominent example. That phenomenon, being much smaller in scope, had much less concern with gravitas, and was (is?) able to subsist mostly on the novelty of the "main character's" weirdness.
@Pretermit_Sound
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Hawk tuah was abrasive in that she was so utterly vacuous 🤦🏼♂️ also, I always got “squirrel” vibes from her (in that she resembles, and sounds like a squirrel 🤔)
@vietnamsemonky4082
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
"Freak of the year" is literally just lolcow of the year lmao, just with more "fame"
If Clavicular or Nick Fuentes stayed niche, they would just be called lolcows lmao.
@seanrowshandel1680
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Underlying trend: masculinity revolves around replacing all non-Eastern women with eastern women in your mind, and that's why non-eastern women express their backlash to us from before we're born and why our moms collectively invented the farce of the masculinity which THEY grumpily allude to (which doesn't exist and can be mortally dangerous to us).
All the senators in America are getting Asian wives and "coming out of the closet" in this way too. It's not new.
@frozencanuck3521
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
1:06 Andrew Callaghan, really? Dude, I’m sorry but Andrew Callaghan interviewing Clavicular was worth watching. If anyone has the creds to do a meaningful interview with these freak of the year weirdos, it’s definitely Andrew.
@reluctantme5183
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
All a bunch of flibbertigibbets …
@maavet2351
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
I'd rather not give them the time of day
@estebanfrisch2536
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
What % of these freaks are american? All? 'Nuff said.
@shalita310
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Famous for being famous people are a good way to gauge the zeitgeist,
The fact that they are increasingly political is important.
@uku4171
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Every year my sister tells me about a new guy that apparently all the guys follow. And then I talk to the boys and turns out she's genuinely right and half my friends are up to date with all the nonsense and I'm the one who's in a bubble. Found out about Andrew Tate like that too.
@goodroach9984
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
JJ with all due respect, you're old. I think these "freaks" matter because they may not affect the people of your age, but it certainly influences the younger generations. I mean think about it, who mostly follows these freaks? You don't see people in your classrooms who repeat talking points of either side of the freakshow. In 20 or so years, the people who grew up with Tate, Hassan, Fuentes, will become our next politicians, lawyers, doctors, scientists, and generals. I believe that these grudges and beliefs held within their early adulthood wouldn't go away like you think.
@dudobaggins4121
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
I would say the rise in celebrity-hosted podcasts in the 2020s has given a more sustained media platform to these freaks than in previous decades. Like you said previous decades had plenty of viral pariahs, but they would maybe get a single interview by a single cable news network and covered by a few then-niche youtubers then mostly fizzle out. Whereas now these pariahs basically have a weekly spot on a rotating list of A-list celebrities’ podcasts for months, which of course feeds into clipping and broadened exposure to the general public
@Howellness_Official
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
I can't wait for the 2020's to conclude.
@vitorafmonteiro
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
At this point, I had long stopped being dragged into the "new freak" panic (to the point I even cared noticing the new freak). I realised 2 things:
1) it all ends up feeling like a (to paraphrase The Who) "meet the new freak, same as the old freak" deal,
and 2) the new freak is irrelevent, because they all are part of a trend, any individual case is just born from all sort of problems with both individual people and the society we all share (and the later will always bread more of the later). I didn't even think of it as deeply as J. J.'s "freak industrial complex", but just that there's a revolving door, and no individual one matters (and something is multiplying them).
@89UO990
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
I know it’s chronological but hearing Hailey Welch (coughing baby) between the hydrogen bombs that were Nick Fuentes and Sneako gave me whiplash
@SpaceBoyS510
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
I tend to dissagree with J.J.s left-leaning oppinions, but I think he made a good video here. I agree with the premise of the video. It seems accurate.
@SpaceBoyS510
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Don't believe that the freaks reflect people genuinely. Andrew Tate does not represent real men and Nick Fuentes does not represent real conservatives.
@test-pattern
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Baby Gronk started in 2021
@johnsoltau620
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Have you ever considered that you might be in line for freak of the year?
@josepheridu3322
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
What's wrong? Women have been doing this sht since ever. They invented looksmaxxing, but somehow a man doing it is a problem.
@ryang1202
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
I heard from the Channel 5 guys that supposedly Clavicular was propped up by the Palantir CEO. I'm not sure how accurate that is, but it would really explain how a guy like that gets SO famous overnight.
A social media industry plant.
@jsdpatters473
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Let’s just start ignoring these people bruh
@LocalNomads
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Some of these are probably psyops designed to influence public opinion and not just random freaks.
@hydencp
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Good lord how fast does your hair grow?
@Mullet-ZubazPants
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
1:41 Is that a meat tenderizing mallet? Certainly he's a troll? I'm aware of who he is, but know little about him
@godieinafirenow
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
We’re living in a time of defensive individualism. This was brought on through social engineering.
@Yesaul19
May 19, 2026 at 4:30 pm
"The frog had sex with a snake" – Ukrainian proverb. Something awful that you can't look away from.