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Rolling Stone’s Gaming Editor ATTACKED Me — and the hypocrisy is off the charts.
Chris Cruz, senior editor of Rolling Stone’s new gaming division, and Alyssa Mercante, former Kotaku editor, decided to come after me publicly—mocking my writing, accusing me of using AI, and throwing around cheap insults. Why? Because of how I use punctuation. You can’t make this up.
But here’s the twist: the very same “em dashes” they mocked me for? They use them in their own professional writing. I show the receipts.
In this video, I expose the petty, elitist behavior from gaming media insiders who seem more interested in attacking independent creators than doing actual journalism. This isn’t about writing styles—it’s about power, control, and double standards in the industry.
📌 Covered in this video:
The full context of what Chris Cruz and Alyssa Mercante said
Why their attacks are not only baseless, but hypocritical
Proof they use the same exact formatting they mocked
A look at how gaming media gatekeeps and smears creators
Why these people are losing trust — and losing relevance
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rolling Stone magazine has attacked me
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the senior gaming editor at Rolling
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Stone Chris Cruz has attacked me he had
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to defend his Lady
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Gaga his ethics and drunk unemployed
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journalism Alysa Mercante today who
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everybody got triggered because just the
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other day I practically called her out
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on her hypocrisy for saying that I use
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chat GPT and it got so bad and so
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pathetic for her that even Smash at
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covered it you can see here's a tweet
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where he said Alysa Mante allegedly uses
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chat GPT for Rolling Stone we're going
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to talk about this cuz I think this is a
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pretty good gotcha she got caught and
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her fans put her foot in her own mouth
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but Chris Cruz said "How profoundly
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effing stupid do you have to be to think
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that using an M dash means chat GPT
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actually illiterate?" And I completely
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agree on that i 110% agree but uh real
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quick Mr cruz I have what's called a
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English degree right this is an English
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degree and I got Magna Cumloud for it
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at&m San Antonio magnaumloud look read
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that bachelor of Arts Magnaumloud
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English degree and I had teacher
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certification with it so I'm not
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illiterate i'm far from that but what
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you've just shown me today is that your
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journalist degree went to shits there
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was some kind of like death threat on
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Smash JT on his Twitter account somebody
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said somebody needs to take care of
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Smash for good in real life and she took
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it down now I'm blocked so let's go
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ahead and open this up so you guys could
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see the actual tweet she told me to
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please correct it cuz she told this guy
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to please take it down she didn't want
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or support that talk here and I actually
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gave her props they want people to
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retract statements but when it's time
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for them to retract they still somehow
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try to find a way to twist it and blame
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it on the person who did nothing wrong
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she's the one that says creators are
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responsible for their audiences that if
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they're echoing and mirroring their
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talking points they're responsible for
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that individual so good on you for doing
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this but I hope this showed you that you
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aren't responsible for your audience
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even though you told that guy to not put
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that stuff you're not responsible for
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them just like we're not responsible for
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anything that you get your way i don't
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condone harassment threats i disavow it
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but it's not going to invalidate fair
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honest criticism like this video just
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because you get it from people that
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watch me or watch Hypnotic or Smash or
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Toasty or So she told me "Please correct
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this with as much energy as you have
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spread false info." I told this person I
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didn't want need or support blah blah
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blah i said this and I think this was a
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an honest honest response very good i
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said "Thanks for addressing the tweet
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and getting it take it down honestly
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this is the first time I've seen you
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publicly push back against a threat made
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towards your critics and that's worth
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acknowledging." Is that not Is that not
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giving somebody props that last time I
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checked that's that's giving somebody
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some
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props so that said we can't spend our
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time trying to police the actions of
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people who aren't us no one can control
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the internet and trying to is a battle
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you're guaranteed to lose which is facts
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i'm not going to police you guys you
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guys are all grown you guys know right
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from wrong if you get in trouble with
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the law that's on you it's not on
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me said unless someone explicitly
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encourages bad behavior blaming them for
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what anonymous strangers do is both
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unfair and baseless and guess what it's
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also borderline defamation to say that
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you're getting rword threats or death
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threats just because of somebody that's
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borderline defamation we can go back and
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forth all day pointing fingers asking
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each other to rein in people on our side
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but that's not how any of this works and
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we both know it i could just as easily
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pull up threats insults and flatout
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unhinged messages from people in your
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replies i get them in my DMs and my
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email and while I'm live just the other
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day someone literally sent me a video of
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their butthole which is
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true that's the kind of stuff we're
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dealing with and honestly the smartest
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move is not to react which yeah the
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smartest move is to not react alyssa if
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somebody sending you threats don't post
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about it don't screenshot it don't
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acknowledge it that's what they want as
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for my little friend which is Smash this
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is what I told her he's a grown man
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making his own content i'm not here to
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tell anyone what they can or can't say
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everyone has the right to speak their
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mind criticism is fair game even when
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it's uncomfortable even when it's not
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fair that set her off that set her off
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so here's where the good stuff gets she
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put you tagged him how many times to get
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his attention retweeted his video
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pushing false information and you think
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this chat GPT ass answer gives you the
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moral high ground so she's the one that
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first said chat GPT right keep that in
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mind where's the same energy as when you
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were tattletging where's the hey dude
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actually we were wrong so I was
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tattletging so you are saying that your
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audience did something wrong right
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that's an admission right there so
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here's this person by the name of my
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human equation and this is where they
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start to say that I use chat
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GBT they said this is a dead giveaway
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that he used chat GBT has a habit of
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doing this and it tracks every time so
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they're pointing out the M
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dashes the M dashes that were in my
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thing very interesting so I wrote back
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go on and showed this Rolling Stone
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article all right this rolling stone
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article April 28th 2025 from Melissa
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Mante herself and weird
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uh there's m dashes
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there
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so if I'm using chat GPT according to
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Alyssa and to her followers like my
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human equation what does this mean
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somebody want to answer that what does
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what does that mean does that mean she's
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using chat GPT
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anyone anyone
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anyone oh I I I I figured that so of
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course Chris Cruz went on his little
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tangent today i'm not the one that said
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using an M dash mess chat
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GPT your writer for your gaming division
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senior gaming editor said it her
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followers said it i'm just saying hey
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she wrote for your publication using M
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Dashes does that mean she's using chat
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GPT so I wrote to him hey there Mr yo at
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yo Chris Cruz quick question want to
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explain this one alyssa and her crew are
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so sure I use chat GBT just because of
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how I write but
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surprise it's all over her writing too
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so what's the difference are you finally
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admitting they were full of it because
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if you are oof big oof that's a major
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yikes she writes for your publication
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while throwing around accusations and
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defaming people for doing the exact same
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thing she does
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right so just to point it out and guess
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guess what happened as a result of that
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mr chrissy Mr christopher uh blocked me
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blocked
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already weak thin skinned i said "Ladies
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and gentlemen meet Chris Cruz senior
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gaming editor at Rolland Stone
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apparently allergic to accountability i
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asked him a fair professional question
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after he personally attacked me and what
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did he do pass the buck and ran for
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cover real leadership vibes huh if this
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is the kind of paper thin skin running
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Rolling Stones gaming division it's no
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wonder that whole side of the brand is
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circling the drain good luck keeping it
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afloat when the editor-inchief folds at
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the first sign of criticism so typical
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on brand um guys please go check out
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this banger video on Smash's second
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channel shout outs to Smash and guys if
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you're a fan of Smash I'm the guy that
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dances with the McRib on his videos so
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please subscribe we're on the road to
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100,000 subscribers it's been a hot
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minute since I've talked Marante but
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she's been trying to get my attention
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all week it's really cute it's adorable
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she's playing hard to get honestly and
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she's showing me that she really loves
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me and that she wants my attention so
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what better way to give it than to
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actually call out her using M Dashes as
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well so if I use Chad
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GPT does
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she something to think about and uh
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she's telling people to please correct
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information and stuff how about you
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correct the information though if an M
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dash doesn't mean that you use chatb GPT
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but it means I did because I have them
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because I have them in my writing but
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you have them in yours too it means I
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use chat GPT but you don't how does that
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work again is it because I'm just a
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right-wing Chud i think that's what it
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is so another failure i've been catching
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her in it all week long i mean to the
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point where she's so triggered that
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she's posting uh clips of me from when I
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was drunk looking at a thumbnail of her
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boobs like it's a gotcha uh let me go
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ahead and pull that up there cuz that's
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that's [ __ ] hilarious each and every
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single time I said "Uh listen mante so
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salty she dug up a tweet from a year
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ago." And the gotcha is what a straight
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dude clicked a thumbnail of boobs
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groundbreaking you got me oh you got me
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right so um she's against me this week
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the other week she was against Cassie uh
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she's always daydreaming against Smash
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uh she was against Toasty for a little
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bit ryan Roger uh we already seen this
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song and dance guys she needs this
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interaction and this engagement for her
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book okay her legacy right now is trying
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to get all this stuff compiled so she
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could write this book about how she's
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some kind of big martyr and Gamergate
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and some kind of victim and that she
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powered through it all when it's all
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just [ __ ] it's a trap don't fall for
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what she's trying to do guys she's been
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exposed time and time again at this
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point let's just point and laugh at her
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because that's all that's
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left so yeah big shout outs to Chris
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Cruz at Rolling Stone guys big shout
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outs
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