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Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009

Was gonna weigh in on the "Simp vs. Paypig" question, but this really muddies the water.

If this woman mocks and humiliates her simps for paying her, and if her simps pay her for the pleasure of being so mocked, then, even by the strictest definition of the word, her simps are also paypigs.

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Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.

The_Continental posted:

Yeah thats fair and Im not defending the behavior at all. Im just pointing out the series of inherently misogynistic assumptions one has to make for the term to be insulting. Additionally, the kind of folks throwing it around seem to be the same kind of people from r/exposingonlinewhores and other cesspits.

you're under the impression misogynists hate simps but simps largely are those guys. What you're seeing is the infighting between the ones that think vying for female attention is pathetic and the ones who think that all women are whores who can be bought literally or figuratively.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

I just think that with all of these parasocial relationships formed with internet personalities, which are a new form of media personality, is attracting a new form of fan. Its not like these people obssesed with Eminem, because he's so unattainable that you can't get close to him. But with these streamers and stuff you can interact with them and affect them in a way that is meaningful enough for people to really like, claim ownership over them. You can't donate your entire life savings to Eminem but you can do it to StreamerLady420, and that is unique and new.

The whole "paypig" thing seems different again because it has a sexual element.

busalover
Sep 12, 2020

Motherfucker posted:

you're under the impression misogynists hate simps but simps largely are those guys. What you're seeing is the infighting between the ones that think vying for female attention is pathetic and the ones who think that all women are whores who can be bought literally or figuratively.

There's also a third column of just lonely and broken dudes. Like most of Twitch is powered by isolated people craving a little bit of attention. It doesn't always have to be automatically linked to misogyny or hate.

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

Motherfucker posted:

you're under the impression misogynists hate simps but simps largely are those guys. What you're seeing is the infighting between the ones that think vying for female attention is pathetic and the ones who think that all women are whores who can be bought literally or figuratively.


Thats illuminating, but somehow makes me feel way worse. Lol gently caress the internet.

busalover posted:

There's also a third column of just lonely and broken dudes. Like most of Twitch is powered by isolated people craving a little bit of attention. It doesn't always have to be automatically linked to misogyny or hate.

Lets come up with specialized insulting language for video game streamers that pine for attention and have like zero viewers. Maybe "Lowtaxes"?

jarofpiss
May 16, 2009

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Is it not just a contraction of simpering?

Turpitude II
Nov 10, 2014

Benny Harvey posted:


This is really cute.

thank you. i had a good time :)

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.

busalover posted:

There's also a third column of just lonely and broken dudes. Like most of Twitch is powered by isolated people craving a little bit of attention. It doesn't always have to be automatically linked to misogyny or hate.

Thats... true, sorta... Like, There are probably incels who aren't that way by dint of being a lovely unlovable person but they're not who you reference when you use incel as a pejorative.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Motherfucker posted:

Thats... true, sorta... Like, There are probably incels who aren't that way by dint of being a lovely unlovable person but they're not who you reference when you use incel as a pejorative.

Unfortunately society is producing lonely and broken dudes on an industrial scale with unprecedented efficiency and lovely misogynists and outright nazis are actively and enthusiastically recruiting from them while literally no one else is speaking to them at all for the most part.

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Unfortunately society is producing lonely and broken dudes on an industrial scale with unprecedented efficiency and lovely misogynists and outright nazis are actively and enthusiastically recruiting from them while literally no one else is speaking to them at all for the most part.

I grew up with guys who absolutely were convinced that the deck was so stacked against them that they would never be loved. They eventually got older, got through it, and have been in meaningful relationships.

They were fortunate enough to be born in an era where there werent really widespread online communities for people in that situation. So while they had to face down their hangups more or less alone, they didnt have others feeding them bullshit about how things will never change.

I think its pretty easy to take pot shots at the uglier side of the incel culture but at the end of the day there is a very serious mental health crisis in the US and I think a lot of these guys need to be brought into the fold instead of pushed away despite how repulsive their views might be at first glance.

little munchkin
Aug 15, 2010

Pontificating rear end posted:

luckily for you fyad is back

fyad is mostly hipsters, not simps, Pontificating rear end

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

little munchkin posted:

fyad is mostly hipsters, not simps, Pontificating rear end

simpsters

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope
I maintain that "simp" is gender-neutral and that it is one's actions that define simp-hood. Women on judge shows who try to sue their ex-FWBs for large amounts of money that they voluntarily gave them are simps too.

As far as "paypigs" go, I thought that was a term that dudes who are inexplicably into findom gave themselves, not an external insult.

yook
Mar 11, 2001

YES, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG IS ABSOLUTELY A KAIJU
Weird timing. The thread wasn’t prompted by this vid that came out a few days ago was it? They use simp in the title.

https://youtu.be/auG2E53dFas

AHH F/UGH
May 25, 2002

FWIW I don't think "OnlyFans Simps" is even a possibly thing to be. You're expecting lewd photos and paying for the right to view them, the people who do OnlyFans are just more amateur, more easy to find directly and have smaller fanbases.

Actual simps are going into the weird streamer-viewer relationship with the express knowledge and intent of not getting anything in return as a way to show how non-sexual they are, in a weird attempt to make themselves seem not like creeps and win over their desired streamer (leading to having a chance to grow the relationship into sex, in their head). It's a weird push and pull of being sexually attracted to someone (that you can't get) and trying to show them just how okay you are that all you'll ever have is a platonic love through giving them all of your money and time.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

The_Continental posted:

Thats illuminating, but somehow makes me feel way worse. Lol gently caress the internet.


Lets come up with specialized insulting language for video game streamers that pine for attention and have like zero viewers. Maybe "Lowtaxes"?

i dont think anything could be more demeaning or insulting than just calling them 'streamers'

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
squirrels in my pants

yook
Mar 11, 2001

YES, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG IS ABSOLUTELY A KAIJU

AHH F/UGH posted:

FWIW I don't think "OnlyFans Simps" is even a possibly thing to be. You're expecting lewd photos and paying for the right to view them, the people who do OnlyFans are just more amateur, more easy to find directly and have smaller fanbases.

Actual simps are going into the weird streamer-viewer relationship with the express knowledge and intent of not getting anything in return as a way to show how non-sexual they are, in a weird attempt to make themselves seem not like creeps and win over their desired streamer (leading to having a chance to grow the relationship into sex, in their head). It's a weird push and pull of being sexually attracted to someone (that you can't get) and trying to show them just how okay you are that all you'll ever have is a platonic love through giving them all of your money and time.
IDK, while there’s a direct transactional relationship there, he makes the point that if if was only about the porn, there’s plenty of it out there for free instead.

The psychological hooks, namely the idea of a low risk pseudo relationship with automatic acceptance for the price of a couple dollars, remains. Every streamer I’ve seen of either gender makes a point of thanking their significant donors by name.

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Unfortunately society is producing lonely and broken dudes on an industrial scale with unprecedented efficiency and lovely misogynists and outright nazis are actively and enthusiastically recruiting from them while literally no one else is speaking to them at all for the most part.

Yeah, I wish there was a mentally healthy way to talk to dudes who throw money and effort after women who don't and won't ever care about them without resorting to misogynist tropes, but you can't radicalise or exploit people by helping them to respect themselves and others so down the drain we all go.

Benny Harvey
Nov 24, 2012

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Unfortunately society is producing lonely and broken dudes on an industrial scale with unprecedented efficiency and lovely misogynists and outright nazis are actively and enthusiastically recruiting from them while literally no one else is speaking to them at all for the most part.

Are there not then also a similar number of lonely and broken women? Or are they just lonely and not broken?

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005

yook posted:

IDK, while there’s a direct transactional relationship there, he makes the point that if if was only about the porn, there’s plenty of it out there for free instead.
most porn is terrible. the porn you watch? -i wouldnt masturbate to that with someone elses hand

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!

Benny Harvey posted:

Are there not then also a similar number of lonely and broken women? Or are they just lonely and not broken?

There are, but typically women have been encouraged to be more open emotionally and tie their self-worth to different things. That doesnt mean there isnt toxicity there, but it's not manifesting as the curdled self-loathing incels have.

Incels are a symptom of atomisation and late-stage capitalism. That doesnt mean sympathising with them; you dont sympathise with the shits you get after a cheap Mexican food binge, but they dont just drop out of the sky. Hell, I sometimes feel its but for the grace of God that I didnt read the wrong forum aged 15 and end up brain poisoned.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Disco Pope posted:

There are, but typically women have been encouraged to be more open emotionally and tie their self-worth to different things. That doesnt mean there isnt toxicity there, but it's not manifesting as the curdled self-loathing incels have.

Incels are a symptom of atomisation and late-stage capitalism. That doesnt mean sympathising with them; you dont sympathise with the shits you get after a cheap Mexican food binge, but they dont just drop out of the sky. Hell, I sometimes feel its but for the grace of God that I didnt read the wrong forum aged 15 and end up brain poisoned.

Yeah, you don't have to sympathise with the modern brand of internet nazis, but you can recognise that you do need to cut off their recruits and do something about what's funnelling desperate young men to them because the political mainstream is incapable of recognising actual problems.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Can we just shove em all in prison?

Ez8
Aug 5, 2004
I'm still unclear here: is OP going to give simping a try or what was the point of all this?

Ocean Book
Sep 27, 2010

:yum: - hi

Motherfucker posted:

you're under the impression misogynists hate simps but simps largely are those guys. What you're seeing is the infighting between the ones that think vying for female attention is pathetic and the ones who think that all women are whores who can be bought literally or figuratively.

this isnt a contradiction, they hate themselves

wilfredmerriweathr
Jul 11, 2005
Came here to post the coup, and pimp c's epic syrup verse, saw that other beat me to it, and then read the whole thread anyway and learned some poo poo I probably didn't need to know about streamers and broken men.

Good poo poo as always, GBS. I always thought it referred to simpletons and yeah, I just assumed it was a thing from pimp slang.

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

Theres nothing that can be said about this subject that hasnt already been said by 50 Cent lyrics

Simone Magus
Sep 30, 2020

by VideoGames
Simp guys are just topping from the bottom, I dunno why they needed a new word for it

It's stupid as hell though

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

What's a wife guy?

A guy who defines themselves by their wife.

"Curvy wife guy" "don't email my wife guy"and the rest

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

I'm not as online as I used to be. What's the relation of simps to incels

Worf
Sep 12, 2017

If only Seth would love me like I love him!

baalaagaa posted:

Like the idiot that spent all his rent money on Pokimane.
Then it was revealed that she has a boyfriend & her twitch subscribers bailed in droves.

sad n gross

Simone Magus
Sep 30, 2020

by VideoGames

Away all Goats posted:

I'm not as online as I used to be. What's the relation of simps to incels

The answer may SHOCK you!!!

Crazypoops
Jul 17, 2017



This is dumb

Star Me Kitten
Aug 10, 2020

Ez8 posted:

I'm still unclear here: is OP going to give simping a try or what was the point of all this?

Simpin' ain't easy.

Worf
Sep 12, 2017

If only Seth would love me like I love him!

Star Me Kitten posted:

Simpin' ain't easy.

lol nice op

Inverted Icon
Apr 8, 2020

by Athanatos
Simpin ain't no illusion

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

simping is when a goon thanks a mod for their service

FUCK SNEEP
Apr 21, 2007




Simps are just what fans of Simple Plan call themselves :confused:

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Simone Magus
Sep 30, 2020

by VideoGames

Crazypoops posted:

This is dumb

How many bottles of belle delphine water do u own op

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