Arthur Chu - Jeopardy Champion, Author, Cool Guy

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/19/please_let_david_letterman_go_from_mad_men_to_sopranos_our_obsession_with_endings_gets_everything_backwards/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/27/this-is-not-a-game-how-sxsw-turned-gamergate-abuse-into-a-spectator-sport.html

wasn't sxsw a music festival at some point?

this guy is maybe my worst twitter follow

#throwback

https://mobile.twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/669187312027217921

haha i very nearly posted something angry about him the other day then i felt embarrassed for even paying this much attention to him

98% spleen, 4% insight, -2% humor

how did this guy become famous and every other jeopardy champion save ken jennings just vanished back into the ether

he wrote thinkpieces during the great privilege bubble of 2014

I guess he was right about internet trolls being a sign of deep cultural rot seeing as now one is president elect.

i still like him but i think that's largely because i'm not on twitter

He sucks

definitely a problematic fav

I only really know Arthur Chu from this, are any of his other tweets as good?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqzW-WLXEAQMCCQ.jpg

yes?

there's.....a lot going on in that tweet

yeah that's incredibly homophobic and idiotic. i don't think it did much to diminish the rampant misogyny and sexual harassment online. sad.

What are these gay porn sites that Chu is being unwittingly inflicted with?

i think he goes there willingly in order to experience what it's really like to be a woman online. brave.

at least he did more research than he seems to have done on thatcher

i kind of miss this corny, misguided, performatively self-flagellating form of male feminism. feels like it belongs to a more innocent era.

this guy blocked me like a year and a half ago lol

idk i see him as pretty authentic (if def performative) and i think he fits pretty well within the current wokebro paradigm. he's not marc loi or peter daou or something (to his credit)

he would be ok as some random dude you knew who tweets but his reach is a little too far

which is that actor dude who was on orange is the new black? he's got some loi powers

Matt McGorry, the wokest / creepiest male feminist alive.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqQgrzBWEAAEEvm.jpg

I only really know Arthur Chu from this, are any of his other tweets as good?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqzW-WLXEAQMCCQ.jpg

― soref, Wednesday, November 30, 2016 8:29 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

this is a mount rushmore bad tweet for me. perhaps the best bad tweet of all time.

what's the rest of your rushmore

what a disgusting shitbag

https://mobile.twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/536300603962851330

what's the rest of your rushmore

https://twitter.com/thatkevinsmith/status/2554608773?lang=en

and

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/239459992086925312

are on mine

fuck that kevin smith tweet has ruined my day :(

quick, someone post kevinsmithjorts.jpg as an antidote

ahahahahahhaha https://twitter.com/BUSSCRO/status/805958233877839872

Topical

love too tweet storm

lol

this is a mount rushmore bad tweet for me. perhaps the best bad tweet of all time.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, December 1, 2016 2:12 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think about this tweet all the time

the kevin smith one is legendary i cant think of anything else that tops it

brb drilling a hole in my skull and pouring grain alcohol directly on my brain in an attempt to forget it

arthur chu's hometown paper reviewed his documentary and it is Extremely Savage pic.twitter.com/QIRf3UmfwV

— KRANG T. NELSON (@KrangTNelson) April 8, 2017

(3 pics)

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/04/ciff_2017_who_is_arthur_chu_fo.html

(The review)

he is the only dude on twitter who I have discovered has me blocked

I have absolutely no idea what I did to be blocked as I've never interacted with him but I am proud

If you followed any dirtbag left-types, he autoblocked anyone who follows them apparently

weak

He tries to explain - but not excuse - the mindset of the nerdy guys who hate women mostly because they feel rejected by women. And he wades into the blistering Gamergate battle, taking the side of female gamers and game developers when they complained about their treatment by male gamers -- who responded, naturally, by treating them even worse, attacking and vilifying them.

Meanwhile, though, the self-involved Arthur neglects and pretty much marginalizes his own wife, Eliza, who suffers from a debilitating chronic condition but puts what energy she has into supporting Arthur's hopes and dreams. In one telling scene, she tries to talk with him about her own struggles, and her own dream (writing a sci-fi novel), while Arthur scrolls through his phone, never looking up at her.

I feel like gamergate somehow opened the gates of hell. Everything is worse since then.

"arthur -- who has less depth than a full-length documentary requires"

the quiet harshness of this line is awesome

It's fucking crazy because the GG weirdos think anyone who has an opinion on sexism or racism is only saying it to get attention, but then there's dudes like this who really did jump on because they needed a platform

He says "dudebro"

site:ilxor.com dudebro
About 1,020 results (0.72 seconds)

Lol

yeah honestly i'm not really sure why arthur is/should be widely hated on ilx

Bc i think he is lame and ppl around here always follow my lead

i agree he's lame, but there are plenty of regular posters who basically seem to share his worldview

I like him, but that anecdote about him ignoring his wife is bothering me. I guess I'd have to see the clip in context, but I don't think I want to watch a doc about the guy.

Bizarro is my hero with that gif

it's because the chapo guys clown on him and all their followers/fanboys lap it up

Now I get it. Fuck the chapo guys and their fanboys.

i agree he's lame, but there are plenty of regular posters who basically seem to share his worldview

― k3vin k.

i wouldn't watch any self-made documentaries by any of those regular posters either

perhaps we do ask too much of our champions

it's because the chapo guys clown on him and all their followers/fanboys lap it up

― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, June 22, 2017 1:37 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is libelous. I don't even like Chapo Trap House.

every single Jeopardy champion seems like a strange dude to me, with the exception of the guy who won it the most

ken jennings probably has some deep, dark secrets

so the windows in that plane shot were definitely fucked with. someone found the stock footage it was pulled from and they aren't like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81YppIvdXMQ

lol wrong thread

i don't particularly like twitter war/culture personalities, but i still like Chu. he's generally on the right side of things even if he's clearly obnoxious and attention-seeking. but i'm definitely biased in favor of brash Asian American personalities of which there are so many ofc (kinda feel similarly conflicted about Eddie Huang)

yeah i liked him and was rooting for him for the same reason, but then it turned out he was bad. no shame in being wrong sometimes!

favourite chu related content:

when he tweeted that watching gay porn gave him a taste of being objectified like women get all the time

the tweets from his ex-wife about the drudgery of cleaning up for him and cooking for him

i just like how the latter exist and he has the temerity to smear 'brocialists' with the same

there are no brocialists.

there are no sjws.

these are caricatures.

arthur chu is one of the people who believes in the reality of caricatures/twitter phantoms.

life is not a meme war.

did he quit his job after winning jeopardy? he posts to twitter about a thousand times a day, i can't imagine how he has time to do anything else.

he actually makes money off being an internet celebrity/pundit which tbh i can see makes even more hatable

why u jelly

twitter phantoms give him reason to continue existing in his current form so

btw clown me endlessly for my old comments here:
LONG DUK DONG

I think he went from using his newfound fame to write about things he knew, from his own perspective, to a point where he's commenting on things for the sake of keeping the ball rolling

it's easy to have a conversation with a few people, decide you've come up with some interesting take on things, and then put it in front of a different person who immediately points out you had a group consensus but it was overall a bad idea. if you're glued to twitter 24/7 you're going to think something a few hundred people were rabidly chasing down the rabbit hole for a day has great importance. but it's just an extension of the "people in a room come to a conclusion" problem

afaict most of his new material is in service to that kind of thing, or weird observations like the gay porn comment jim mentioned

his first columns definitely weren't bad, let alone what he seems to shit out on social media every day now

he has multiple-tweet personal takes on news issues, usually controversial ones, nearly every hour. I'm assuming it's in the hopes one of them catches and he gets a boost of twitter fame, or as part of workshopping what to write a column about

all i know about this guy is that he doesn't know how to put on sneakers

ken jennings probably has some deep, dark secrets

― mh

i've heard rumors that he's a mormon