People always aspire to this trace of wickedness, which does not take into account the subtleties.
Portnoy loves pizza with tank on the bottom, a pizza that does not flop when you keep it by crust. He seems to have an almost childish disgust for strong flavors such as oregano and parmesan. Vinyl signs, old photos on the wall, wooden woodwork – it is an aspiring for the vernacular shapes emptied of the northeast corner joint, and it visibly fights when a Mom and Pop store with a charming interior ‘old has a mediocre product. He is dying on his scores, always insisting on their decimals, which gives them the absurd specificity of this other famous user of the ladder decimalized in 10 points, Pitchfork.
This is only one of the many details – his love of Vintage Crish clothes, his favorite for authenticity, the yelp! -Nes of this quest for weakness with weakness – which finally made me realize: if Portnoy did this 15 years ago, you could be reasonably supposed that it was a kind of hipster, not an avatar of a fringe reactionary jock. (In fact, there was Something like that at the time: a viral blog called Slice Harvester, by a New York Punk Rocker, which ultimately became a memory published by Simon & Schuster and considered one of the best NPR books of 2015.) Once you have accepted this, you can see Portnoy more clearly. Portnoy in pizza videos often has a listent, difficult and almost effective quality that complicates its self -image. He worried about his weight when he has made too many criticisms; He shows his tan when he is in Florida. When someone goes with a dog, he talks about it in that baby voice, people sometimes do and try to guess his name. It cannot be seriously part of the formidable “Manosphere”, right?
If this is the case – if the Portnoy website and personal driving put everything it affects in a marginal category outside the limits of traditional decency – then its many fans have not received the message. In the videos, the fame of Portnoy distributes reality around him: people shouted passing passing, crowds are formed, smartphones are deployed, mothers put babies. If the media sector is to reach people, these people have indeed been reached – and not by the dominant current. But not by political propaganda either or anything with manifest ideological content. They were affected by pizza review videos. It is a common dynamic when the consumer media consider the manosphere: Joe Rogan, undoubtedly the biggest of his Boogeymen, makes the headlines when he transgresses one norm or another, but often he simply talks about DMT, MMA extraterrestrials and fights, at an atrocious length.
Over the past decade, the media have devoted a lot of energy to the purge of toxic elements – the presumption being that we will remain in control of what happened later. I guess we imagined that we are digging somewhere so that all these unwanted energies have, a since our fort of our fort. But after a few years, cesspool has become larger, and our fort became smaller, and ultimately the cesspool had to seem inviting. Because watch it now: people swim there, sunbathing on its banks, making donuts on their sea doos, probably mystified by all the affirmations that it is a sump. In fact, looking at our sad little fort, they probably appreciate the whole foam.