i miss headlines like "chrissy teigen DESTROYS neil degrasse tyson with LOGIC and SCIENCE" which were often just squibs featuring screenshots of some tweet with the "destroyer" repeating a trite but meaningless phrase in response to some equally insipid claim by the "destroyed"
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this "daily show gotcha" phenomenon still exists, of course (doing the "jeff tiedrich" work, as it were) and perhaps the clickbait articles do too, but i no longer notice so i operate as if it doesn't
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS
Well I think all those "Ben Shapiro destroys transgender feminist Muslim bisexual SJW" compilation videos on YouTube really made that phrasing gauche for the libs and killed the genre.
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Replying to @leftyotter
Yeah they adopted the form. Destructions all around
8:22 AM - 19 Jun 2020
from Pittsburgh, PA
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