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I mean…you’re the only one engaging. Up until 3 days ago I had zero concept that this person existed.
The video has over 38 million views and 260,000+ comments in just a few days so they’re definitely not the only one engaging.
So just shut up, and he’ll go away.
That was sort of his point, apparently:
The ordeal is a timely reminder that seeing no longer means believing when it comes to the online world. Perry told NBC News:
While everybody pointed and laughed at me for overconsuming food, I was in total control the entire time. In reality, people are completely absorbed with internet personalities and obsessively watch their content. That is where a deeper level of overconsumption lies — and it’s the parallel I wanted to make.
Most of the people who have watched his content over the years have been hate watchers, there to mock his weight gain and supposed descent into insanity. It’s the “lolcow” phenomenon, basically.
Anyway, if people had actually ignored his low effort content it would have gone more like this. But they didn’t, so now it looks like he’s achieved something more masterful than he actually has.
It wasn’t a peace march, the organisers called for attendees to carry out citizen’s arrests on anyone they believed to be attending the convention. In 7:30’s footage you can see random people who have no connection to anything happening trying to walk past and being assaulted by protestors because of how they dress. The language used by the protestors was not “we are here to protest” but instead “we are here to disrupt” so their intentions yesterday were clearly never to be peaceful. In the footage you can also see some of them deliberately and repeatedly running into the police while filming for TikTok so they can be pushed away and scream about police brutality to their viewers.
EDIT: I should make clear that I’m referring to the organisers of the event and those protestors involved in violence. From what I understand there were like 2000 - 3000 people there and clearly not all of them were causing problems.