If you’ve ever wondered what the carefree, unencumbered-by-women-and-their-cooties life of a true Man Going His Own Way looks like, you’re in luck, as the video above presents ACTUAL FOOTAGE of just this. Apparently, Going Your Own Way looks an awful lot like Hanging Around and Pestering, at least if you’re Vention1MGTOW, a YouTube videoblogger who regularly offers up little glimpses into his awesome life.
In the video above, our hero, in between fits of giggles, gleefully relates how he “trolled” a cutsey YouTube video showing a high school coach who’d gotten his team to help him propose to his girlfriend. Vention1MGTOW did his best to ruin the mood by posting “a few strategic comments” (that is, endless screeds) attacking marriage and women and, well, you know the drill. My favorite line from his comments, which he proudly reads aloud:
I’m sure some old wrinkled up, STD, ex-party party girl would love to move into my home and begin diverting my income for her own use but I don’t really see a benefit for me in that deal.
I hate to break it to you, dude, but I’m pretty sure even the most thoroughly wrinkled-up ex-party girl would rather die alone and unloved than have to put up with you. Hell, I’m pretty sure the only reason your dog (he has a dog) puts up with you is because he has no idea what you’re saying.
If you check out the coach’s video, you can see that a whole swarm of MGTOWers have descended upon the comments. Vention1MGTOW’s comments are actually some of the more polite from that bunch.
Vention1MGTOW – from his choice of snack (ramen noodles) to his, er, casual sense of interior decoration – seems like such a perfect embodiment of MGTOWer stereotypes that it’s hard to believe he’s for real. But he is. He’s got 82 videos up on his YouTube channel detailing his various obsessions: MGTOW, Bitcoins, hugelkultur gardening, doomsday prepping. Oh, and he’s got a Segway.
If the video above merely whetted your appetite for more of Vention1MGTOW’s trolling, here’s a video in which he successfully infiltrates the YouTube comments for an Enya video in order to inform the women there that they’re all going to get old and ugly and no one will want them.
I may have to come back to him again later. He’s a charmer.
Many thanks to the unknown hero on Reddit who brought this fellow to my attention.
Ack, I’ve been really busy, but I have it all bookmarked.
High on a hill, looking down on the city /
The way that I act is oh so sh*tty/
Thinking I’m alpha, really just a goon/
High on a mountain of poon
(LBT, I liked yours, but maybe it could be
Big Cock Randy Mountain? Also, look up the story behind the original lyrics. More than a little creepy)
My ding-a-ling,
My ding-a-ling,
Ev’rybody look at my ding-a-ling!
My ding-a-ling,
My ding-a-ling,
Don’t ya all want my ding-a-ling-a-ling?
What?
You don’t???
Hypergamous bitches!
I’m taking my ding-a-ling and going my own way.
You’ll be sorry!
Really!
You will!
>sniffle<
RE: Robert
(LBT, I liked yours, but maybe it could be
Big Cock Randy Mountain? Also, look up the story behind the original lyrics. More than a little creepy)
I knew it was one of the big wandering hobo songs, and I chose it since these guys seem to think their existence is a singularly austere one. Didn’t know about that deleted rapey verse though, ick.
This video got me to de-lurk, because after watching it and a couple others by this guy, and then reading the comments here, I feel like I’m missing something.
Has a (somewhat ominous) libertarian streak? Check.
Has spare time to write rants on YouTube? Check.
Has terribly regressive opinions about women? Check.
Would fit in at A Voice For Men? … Sorry, I just don’t see it.
Perhaps I’m biased because I’ve known a couple guys who come off the same way: mid-40s, conservative, unmarried (one involved, one not), non-stereotypical hobbies, a sense of (forced?) optimism, lacking somewhat in social skills, and a happy-go-lucky demeanor.
Because I’m also a white dude, I got along pretty well with both, in spite of our wildly differing political views. Except for this misogynist twist, he’d seem to be another one of them.
The people I’ve known also shared another trait: brutal honesty. Which is why I’m somewhat inclined to believe him when he describes his rants as “trying to meet people on their own level” — which he’s going to clearly miss by a mile, thank goodness — rather than because he expects to change the world, or is upset about the state of it.
He doesn’t seem to take those rants or us (see his new video on this post) very seriously at all. Trolling is a game, and he’s just having fun. At worst, he seems like someone trying to proselytize you to a new religion. Problematic and dogmatic, but not sinister; unlike, say, Paul Elam.
The comments above seem to suggest I’m giving him too much credit. What am I missing?
Happy-Go-Lucky demeanor? Damn, you weren’t kidding when you said you were missing something. This guy does not come across as being happy at all.
He doesn’t? Well, dang. Asperger’s strikes again.
I won’t ask you to get bogged down in details, but what is the tell he’s faking it? Something about his face?
Well, MGTOWs and MRAs are different. They have contempt for each other. They’re both misogynist and not as different from each other as they like to believe, but MRAs do not like getting mistaken for MGTOWs and PUAs.
The laugh isn’t a happy laugh. Like auggz said, it’s more a laugh that suggests bodies buried in the basement. The only thing he seems to derive pleasure from is the idea of women “hitting the wall”, which isn’t really a very happy or emotionally healthy mindset to be in.
@auggzillary
He also laughs at other things too in other videos, which is why I thought that was nothing more than just run-of-the-mill (for these guys) overt misogyny.
@cassandrakitty
Hmmm. Watching the first one again, I noticed his eyes were behaving just a bit oddly, and that did change my sense of him. I guess I missed that before.
Thanks, guys.
When your only pleasure is Schadenfreude, you’re not a happy person.
FWIW, all of us here (regulars) have multiple sources of pleasure, satisfaction and enjoyment. Mocking blobs of glup like Giggles McBitterson here, is just one small part of our day.
Sorry for my initially snippy tone, btw, nixscripter. Sometimes the concentration of trolls here leads to my reading genuine queries in a less than generous way.
::wheeze::
::gasp::
::cannot breathe halp!::
@kittenserf
I did chuckle, too.
@cassandrakitty
It’s okay. I spent about 10 minutes editing until I didn’t sound like a concern troll when I read it. If I’d posted my first version, I imagine you’d have been more than snippy.
Besides, in my book, getting an answer to that sort of question is a win — and it’s even bigger if there is no preliminary questioning of my intelligence or Terran origin. (I expected the regulars would do neither, which is why I even commented at all, but it’s still nice to avoid.)
On this site, genuine space aliens would probably be welcome! 🙂
They’d certainly be preferable to most of our trolls, unless they were intending to harvest us for food like in V.
Nixscripter: Since reading faces and voices can be hard, I think you can tell he isn’t happy just based on what he’s doing. First there’s his general lifestyle: It’s hard to believe that anyone can eat cup noodles twice a day and stockpile for the apocalypse and not have some sense that they’re missing out on life. But who knows, maybe there is someone out there for whom cup noodles are one of life’s finest pleasures, and who am I to tell them otherwise.
But the real tell is the trolling. He finds people who are happy (eg, proposing) and then posts mean comments. What kind of person finds happy people and tries to make them unhappy? Not someone who is happy himself. Misery loves company, right?
And have you had our welcome package yet?
Thanks, nixscripter, for alerting me he did a video about us. I find it disappointingly uninteresting, but I do like the title: manboobz army on the attack LOL
If anyone’s curious, it’s mercifully short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzms7I3q-yc
We’re an army now?
What colour are the uniforms?
Tabby.
Whoot! Sign me up!
But the comments are nice.
The dudebros really miss the point, as ever. Nobody gives a shit about his *cough*lifestyle*cough*. It’s his insistence on advertising it and his trolling other people who are happy that gets the side-eye. Like all the MGTOW, he can’t go far enough for me.
@katz
You have a point. I suppose I wasn’t taking the full content of the comments into account. I did notice they were a wall of text, but his demeanor sends such a different message — and that’s the kind of thing I really suck at untangling, and have learned from bad experience not to try and guess too much about.
Thanks for the welcome. I got most of the jokes, since I’ve been reading since 2011. I actually posted one other question, but that was also quite a while ago.
I haven’t read the Manosphere through Meowbify, but I have (as David suggested once) read pieces of it through Regender. It’s hilarious. Both because it’s considerably more surreal (I have found no feminist that extreme), and because the blanket statements as translated seem to be superficially true about MRAs in particular: “Men will rip you off in divorce court”; “Men are emotional beings”; “Sex with Men will just give you STDs”; “Men will drain your finances and try to rob you of your children”; “Men will abuse you under the guise of marriage”; “Men are ugly and used up when they hit 40″…
Whatever goes best with the lollipop pink knee high boots. Obviously!