Why America Keeps Making “Stupid People” Famous

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Published 2024-07-17
I am by no means Einstein, nor would I consider myself even to have any particularly high intelligence by any means. However.. when I see people believe that such viral phenomenons as “Hawk Tuah” are even slightly comedic, I start to think perhaps I’m sharper than I usually believe.

Many people have started to notice a trend. Western society, but particularly the United States seems to have an obsession with making “stupid people”, or perhaps more accurately, people who do stupid things famous. Rewarding unusual moments that seem insignificant at the time with lavish attention, and even in some cases wealth.

In this longer than expected lecture I will explain my thoughts on why I believe this keeps occurring.

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All Comments (21)
  • For the cash me outside girl. It's actually "catch me outside" meaning find her outside in public property so you can fight. She just speaks like a caveman
  • @Burns_RED
    HAWK girl is the most UNINTERESTING person to get attention I've EVER seen. Thank God her 15 minutes are finally over.
  • the normalization of perverseness is caused by the shrinks, they have normalized it because of nonsense around puberty and sexuality, the exposure to perverseness has always been around but the shame has been removed because of shrinks. this openness also doesnt only apply to sexuality but everything, people overshare and the "audience" are forced to listen and be okay with it. if you show displeasure you get penalized, if you refuse to share you get penalized, and the most extreme things that are shared are rewarded.
  • @spirosma
    What I've noticed is that in Gen Z, we're either really smart, or truly idiot with a almost non existent middle.
  • It's "hock" not "hawk." That has driven me insane since the whole idiocy started. I get that the "tuah" is phonetic, but hock is the actual proper verb and fits phonetically to boot. My God. If hocking a loogie has become an esoteric thing then we have no hope left.
  • @4850937
    "Collective ability to see what can be unburdened" "sitting at the table wearing a blue suit"
  • I mean, the Hawk Tuah girl just said something that because of it's shock value and vulgarity made for a funny clip. Nothing else. It should've been just that. Why oh why would someone offer her thousands of dollars to appear in events and stuff. I feel like there's 15 missing steps in between.
  • @RyIev
    Alex, I’ve noticed since your last video you’ve attracted a lot more attention to your channel (probably because the topic at hand is something that moderate American neocons love to focus on) It’s great that you’re growing and I pray you hold on to your soul since I know thinking about where the world falls short is so draining. Thank you for your brilliant videos and God bless!
  • @FearGX
    40:00 When I did well in my maths or other work in class at school as a kid and had free time, I was rewarded by being able to spend the rest of the day playing Diablo 1 on the schools Windows 98 computer. because I was too poor to own a computer. Now? Kids can play Diablo 4 or Minecraft or other games or tablets/smartphones whenever they want, which actually stunts their natural growth and intellect.
  • @4850937
    "Gotta get down on Friday". "Everybody's Russian gotta get down to the bus stop "
  • I played a game in school about a small town. you had to help the neighborhood by doing various jobs: baking, trash collecting, carpentry, even a tin can manufacturing job. I loved it, remember every detail. If they had put numbers, math, equations, material properties I would know the barebones of those professions at age 10.
  • Bro brought up the whole history of the human race to explain this
  • @hgriff14
    its because people want to feel like there are people that arent as smart as them and the stupider the famous person, the larger the audience will be. people will just watch for different reasons.
  • @Gares.
    Haven't even watched the video and I already pressed like. Bless the Hexagon 🕸️
  • The day I get too smart to enjoy stupid little things is the day "intelligence" becomes my personality
  • that MF not real woman was a very weird situation indeed. the apology she came with felt super forced and a lot of people pointed out that the person making the apology might not have even been her entirely. that was pretty weird nonetheless
  • Spot on with the you've been framed thing. Even when I was a kid I though it was the stupidist, most rubbish load of tripe imaginable. Because 90% of it literally was just old amateur footage of people falling over. Just awful.
  • Damned good to see ya again lad! Can't wait to tuck into this one!