"Gillis became a star among fans of the post-ironic leftist comedy collective Cum Town, the far more right-leaning Barstool Sports content empire, and, of course, The Joe Rogan Experience,” Winkie writes. “Three dominions of cultural capital that don’t have much more in common other than a combined distaste for a certain brand of earnest, identity-based liberalism commonly associated with people who aren’t edgy white men.”
This carbuncle of sweatpants men that follow Gillis around the internet have taken his standup as carte blanche to plaster sites like X, Reddit, and TikTok with cruel memes about people with Down Syndrome. And his apolitical, ironic slacker vibe has made him very popular with the post-Bernie Bro nihilists on the subreddit for the Red Scare podcast and within the New York Downtown Scene’s intellectual dark web, who have started using the word “retard” again because, one has to assume, they were desperate for something resembling a slur that they could use without goin"
