No criminal charges were filed, but the student who punched another student for holding a pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School last week received a two-day suspension and is back in class.
Self-described content creator “Danny Spud” is known for producing ragebait video content. He frequently uses Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses to covertly film his “pranks.”
Spuds “prank” videos routinely show him harassing strangers until they’re forced to react. No one was buying his support of anything other than self-promotion. Danny Spud doesn’t support ICE or law enforcement. Danny Spud only supports Danny Spud.
Spud got exactly what he was hoping for, in other words. This was his plan, his plan worked, so he should be happy, right? I had felt like an “I Love ICE” sign, in this day and age, was pretty much incitement, and it turns out, it was exactly that. In a perfect world, there would be consequences for doing that.
If you hold a sign saying you’re pro-ICE, you’re pro-ICE. If you’re harassing people and pushing their buttons saying you’re pro-ICE, you are in fact pro-ICE. Anyone walking by will assume you are pro-ICE. It isn’t up to the viewer to perform a psychoanalysis of the person and calculate the odds of whether the person is lying, and if they’re trolling… fuck ’em.
This post is the first time I’ve heard of him and I’ve seen the video and memes. At least for me you’ve done more to promote awareness of him than anyone else including spud himself.
Even when we say “This guy is an asshat and we should all ignore him,” we are giving the asshat some attention, which was his goal all along. It’s actually not possible to arrange a coordinated response that doesn’t give the asshat what he wants, because a coordinated response requires many people to understand the identity and nature of the asshat. Which is what he wants.
That’s what I mean by “the tragedy of the attention economy.”
Idk man, i forgot his name since i commented. Fast news cycle cuts both directions. Visuals and memes have a little bit more lasting impact. Punch nazis kid is much easier to remember.
Comic Sands had some background on this and I think it explains a lot:
Spud got exactly what he was hoping for, in other words. This was his plan, his plan worked, so he should be happy, right? I had felt like an “I Love ICE” sign, in this day and age, was pretty much incitement, and it turns out, it was exactly that. In a perfect world, there would be consequences for doing that.
Yeah, this take is BS.
If you hold a sign saying you’re pro-ICE, you’re pro-ICE. If you’re harassing people and pushing their buttons saying you’re pro-ICE, you are in fact pro-ICE. Anyone walking by will assume you are pro-ICE. It isn’t up to the viewer to perform a psychoanalysis of the person and calculate the odds of whether the person is lying, and if they’re trolling… fuck ’em.
Holy shit this is amazing
There kinda is. All the attention and glory is on the puncher, spud is a laughing stock. And it’s gonna stay that way memetically
This post is the first time I’ve heard of him and I’ve seen the video and memes. At least for me you’ve done more to promote awareness of him than anyone else including spud himself.
This is the Tragedy of the Attention Economy ™ I’m afraid.
Idk what you mean. I’d rather remember a good person. If his goal was attention then he failed utterly as the other kid got the credit
Even when we say “This guy is an asshat and we should all ignore him,” we are giving the asshat some attention, which was his goal all along. It’s actually not possible to arrange a coordinated response that doesn’t give the asshat what he wants, because a coordinated response requires many people to understand the identity and nature of the asshat. Which is what he wants.
That’s what I mean by “the tragedy of the attention economy.”
Idk man, i forgot his name since i commented. Fast news cycle cuts both directions. Visuals and memes have a little bit more lasting impact. Punch nazis kid is much easier to remember.
I think his name was Spuds Mackenzie.
he wants to be next right wing grifter.