I looked at a picture of two white people and wondered who they were. Then I looked at an uninformative caption, and wondered where the closing parenthesis went.

Ladies and gentlemen, the sheeple have spoken.

Don’t reply to the comments of the over-the-top racist troll impersonating a normal contributor. Dismiss his comments instead.

since your dancing around the fact... someone with the iq of rainmam

Photo: Erica Parise (Hulu

You don’t like that he’s the spokesperson for the only reasonably-priced cell plan in Canada?

Fuck you. Pick a fucking side, you pathetic hacks, you can’t have it both ways.

The real issue is that second line, which as rendered in full, goes “Sure as Kilimanjaro rising like Olympus above the Serengeti.”

“A [profession] travels to the foreign land of [country] with his [relative] to deliver a [activity] only to have that [same relative] kidnapped. The kidnapper communicates with him via [outdated technology], so when that device is accidentally swapped for one belonging to a [type of criminal], [protagonist] is forced…

If it’s only one of the biggest Youtube videos ever, then doesn’t that imply that there are other videos that stand a chance—indeed, not only stand a chance, but positively succeed at competing with and surpassing this video?

“arbitrarily”? You’re saying it had nothing to do with the pandemic?

OK, and just so you know I’m not making this up:

Jesse, wait, are you sincerely unaware of the fact that the account you responded to is a notorious A.V. Club troll who impersonates another user in order to spread virulent racism and misogyny? Hell, he goes to The Root and calls people stupid N-words while pretending to be this other user. This is all news to you?

Jesse, why the fuck are you responding to and promoting this guy’s comments instead of dismissing them and banning his account? What is wrong with you?

Obviously no one predicted quite how bad the Bush years would be

To the immediate right of the star there is a ‘three vertical dots’ symbol. Click on that symbol, a menu appears, and ‘Dismiss’ is one of the options.

In their defense, they have cancelled literally hundreds of his accounts, but don’t have the tools to prevent him from making new ones with a different username, but the same screen name and avatar.

Hey Ishena, are you or anyone else in the Root (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your…

It’s somebody’s job to do that, but it’s not theirs. They don’t have the means to do so.

Hey Ishena, are you or anyone else in the Root (or Kinja generally) ever going to do anything about the deranged troll who’s been harassing another user by taking his name and spreading vicious racism and misogyny on thread after thread for months, maybe years now? Or are you going to sit around with your thumb…