Telos Angara

18+ only.
Social media is hell, but you should live, even if others call life a sin.
Revenge is bad and not worth it.
Self defense for all alive.

[Telos Angara @TelosFusion]

People are dynamic, and I nearly lost a ton of friends today because of one bad apple, so I'm taking some time to look at how things work around here. Cherish your friends and family, know right from wrong, and remember to forgive when someone repents. #philosphy

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Minecraft and Call of Duty community servers have been branded "illegal" and compared to the "black market" by the Entertainment Software Association

The comments came during a debate over preserving games after official servers shut down

[MalCat @MalCat191392]

@Dexerto Tap the sign: "If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing"

If your company doesn't care enough to keep a game available, then shut the fuck up when people do it on their own.

[Chen @chens_art]

Totem warrior, completed

[TayZonday @TayZonday]

BIG PICTURE REASONS WHY "CHOCOLATE RAIN" WENT VIRAL:
• With no algorithms, the Internet was driven by novelty, not loyalty. Weirdness wins novelty.
• Myspace was #1 in social media. YouTube was unproven and Facebook had just opened up beyond colleges. YouTube needed a "model home" for what its cultural real estate meant.
• One person uploading a video that thousands of strangers parodied became YouTube's behavioral "model home." No other platform had that social dynamic.
• Soulja Boy, Chris Crocker, and other talented creators had viral YouTube videos that got widely parodied. "Chocolate Rain" became identified with a type of "shareholder safe" virality. YouTube's human editors promoted it on the front page.
• YouTube was an unproven business for both Google and creators. The idea of creators earning Internet money was not mainstream. I was added in round two of YouTube's experimental Partner Program. I believe round one had about thirty creators.
• Television remained the eight-hundred-pound media gorilla. Viacom's billion-dollar copyright lawsuit was an existential YouTube threat just as the first YouTube videos went viral. The fact that "Chocolate Rain" began on YouTube and transitioned to me being on CNN, Jimmy Kimmel, discussed by Carson Daly and dozens of other celebrities... came at a time when YouTube needed a Rosetta Stone. They needed to translate a massively subsidized, high-risk venture into understandable cultural value. "Chocolate Rain" became a stenographer of YouTube crossing over. I got parodied on South Park, Saturday Night Live, nominated for a People's Choice Award, sang with Boyz II Men on Tosh.0 etc.
HOW DID "CHOCOLATE RAIN" GO VIRAL?:
• "Chocolate Rain" was rushed to completion in April of 2007 since I had another song ("Love," made with Kooby) featured on YouTube's front page and wanted other new content. It sat at around 30,000 views until summer.
• "Chocolate Rain" got posted on Digg in July of 2007, an early Reddit-style social bookmark site. Someone saw it there and posted it on 4chan.
• 4chan worked to meme "Chocolate Rain," "Numa Numa," Rick Astley, and other things. In 2007, 4chan was dominantly "Howard Stern liberal." Being offensive, outrageous, and highly speech-tolerant used to be identified with leftist, avant-garde identity. My first inkling that "Chocolate Rain" was going viral was 4chan prank-calling Tom Green's self-produced show and the caller busting out singing "Chocolate Rain!"
MORE FACTORS IN "CHOCOLATE RAIN" GOING VIRAL:
• YouTube had no stereo sound in early 2007. I posted a free "Chocolate Rain" MP3 download, with a giant video banner announcing it, purely to circumvent this. I wanted my songs heard in stereo.
• "Chocolate Rain" begins with an instrumental and loops. This, combined with the MP3 download, made parodies easy. This was totally unplanned luck. It's like it was made to be parodied.
• I looked like Janet Jackson, moved like Mr. Bean, and sounded like Barry White. Not trying to mean-girl myself, just being blunt. I was a unique combination of attributes but also not self-aware. Social internet video of everyday life was a new experience. Like, "If that guy is singing 'Chocolate Rain,' what's MY neighbor doing?" Everyday life was transforming into a democratic video content frontier nobody had given much prior thought to.
• It's worth noting that 2007 was before mainstream mobile Internet video consumption. YouTube was overwhelmingly consumed on desktop computers and laptops. The later shift to engagement-optimized and loyalty-optimized social video was heavily influenced by phones.
PERSONAL FACTORS WHY "CHOCOLATE RAIN" WENT VIRAL:
• I built a bedsheet box in my living room to sing "Chocolate Rain" in because I'm agoraphobic. That's the opposite of claustrophobic. Boundaries supercharge me. It also turns out that lots of people have bedsheets to hang up.
• I moved stiffly and sang "Chocolate Rain" with elongated vowels because of dyspraxia, a neurological movement difficulty tied to me being autistic (first diagnosed at age sixteen).
• "Chocolate Rain" musically captured my tendency towards echolalia and echopraxia — repetition and reinvocation of speech and behavior. These are adaptations to being a partially verbal autistic who has to blend-in with speaking society. They also help in making catchy songs.

[BLACKSTAR @Art444Star]

This is beyond entitlement, this is actually evil, I'm not even kidding, you are a bad person.

[Anime Updates @animeupdates]

Kei Urana (GACHIAKUTA) has deleted her X/Twitter profile

After blocking certain individuals for criticizing her recent comments and online behavior, her account appears to have been deactivated

This comes just hours after GACHIAKUTA won 3 awards earlier today

[🎃CT🎃 @CaffeineTweaker]

What 24 year old these days is given the opportunity to be a show runner? I find it ironic that past generations complain that adults now 'act like kids' when that's how they're treated. You want adults, treat them like adults. Pay them properly, offer career advancement, and the ancient gnomes these companies call CEOs need to actually retire and get out of the way.

[AyakaMods @AyakaMods]

- Crunchyroll launched in 2006 as a pirate anime streaming site
- After a $4M investment in 2009, they went legal and abandoned the fansubbers who built them, no credit, no compensation
- Crunchyroll betrayed fansubbed
- Fansubs gave you karaoke OP/ED lyrics, translator notes, colored dialogue per character, and honorifics, none of which Crunchyroll has ever consistently offered
- Crunchyroll shut down its Games division in 2024, quietly killing it with little notice to users who had invested time in it
- Crunchyroll manga service was shut down in 2016, then relaunched recently, but folded into the subscription fee with a limited catalog
- Sony bought Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion in 2021
- Crunchyroll has raised subscription prices multiple times since the Sony acquisition, while delivering less
- Crunchyroll acquired Funimation in 2022 and shut it down in April 2024, eliminating the last major competitor
- Crunchyroll actively fights anime piracy
- Disabled comments section on all anime under episodes and news posts in July 2024
- Crunchyroll streams censored TV broadcast versions of anime, but piracy is an uncensored anime scene
- Crunchyroll denied switching to OOONA when asked by Anime News Network, refusing to confirm whether they'd used Aegisub, despite multiple staff leaks confirming the change
- Crunchyroll subtitles typesetting was gutted/downgraded
- Crunchyroll used AI translation a German subtitle (ChatGPT said: Wenn ich die Welt von hier an weiter genießen kann)
- Crunchyroll raised subscription tiers again by $2 in February 2026
- Crunchyroll stayed silent, made no public disclosure, as data was breached on March 12, 2026

[MΛKER @TheTrendMaker_]

°a man will take care of the kids that aren't his
°a man will go to jail, years in prison for child support that's not his
°a man will toil day to night, under harsh weather conditions just to provide for the family
°a man will be falsely accused of rape and sexual harrasment

not a single association/organisation fighting for "men's right"

women draw the line when they're told that not all jobs are theirs.

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

The internet constantly tells women that men are terrible listeners because the second a woman starts venting about her day, the man immediately interrupts to offer a logical solution. We are taught to view this as him being dismissive, emotionally unintelligent, or invalidating our feelings.

​The strict, unpopular truth is that to a man, fixing the problem is his absolute highest, most desperate form of empathy.
​Women vent to connect; we want our partner to just sit in the dark with us and validate the emotion. But men are hardwired to view the woman they love being in distress as an active threat. When he immediately offers a spreadsheet, a strategy, or a solution to your problem, he isn't trying to silence you. His brain has recognized that something in the world is hurting his partner, and his immediate, visceral instinct is to assassinate the thing causing you pain.

We constantly shame men for "not just listening," completely ignoring the fact that his attempt to fix your life is his most profound declaration of love.

[The Purgatory Cycle @Purgatory_Cycle]

You. No. But when an “actor” talks I wonder if it’s what the person is saying or what the “actor” is saying, and when they say something is it because there is a purpose for what they say? Or is it what they truly feel.

As in today’s world how do I know what they’re saying isn’t just them trying to get work or stay in the good graces of the ones giving out the jobs.

How many are held hostage and have to say something to keep a career?

[Cody Elijah @CodyElijah1]

Isn't it crazy that basically every profession in the US is saying this at the exact same time?

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

Sometimes the outrage over men simply asking for basic empathy reminds me of a behavioral experiment.

​Imagine two gorillas in adjacent enclosures.
The female gets a banana every single hour, just for existing. (This represents society's default empathy, the endless safety nets, and the unconditional emotional support handed to women).
The male gets a banana every four hours, and only if he performs a trick, protects the cage, or builds something useful. (Because society only loves men conditionally, based entirely on what they can provide).
​Then, someone decides to be a little 'fairer.'

They decide to give the male a banana every two hours. Society starts talking about male suicide rates. They start advocating for men's mental health. They ask for 50/50 custody fairness in family court.
​The female gorilla? She completely flips out.
She protests. She calls it a 'backlash.' she writes think-pieces about how focusing on the male is dangerous.
She is still getting her banana every single hour. Her inherent value and societal protection haven't shrunk at all. But because her relative advantage in the empathy market shrank, it feels like a loss.
​
That is exactly how society reacts to men struggling.
When a man asks for the exact same grace, understanding, and mental health support that women receive by default, it isn't viewed as justice. It is viewed as Theft of the Spotlight. They have hoarded the world's empathy for so long that a man simply asking to be treated like a human being instead of a utility is perceived as an act of oppression."

[Retroware @Retroware]

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[PROGRAMANCER @Programancer]

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[Telos Angara @TelosFusion]

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[Paul @WomanDefiner]

Hey guys remember after 2008 how employers switched requirements for job applicants so entry level positions needed like a decade of experience? That was so employers could say they needed an H1B.

[Telos Angara @TelosFusion]

@YouTube @MoistCr1TiKaL Here's hoping others have pinged you about this before I did.

[Telos Angara @TelosFusion]

https://t.co/AtD9q95au9

@YouTube Fix this. This is unconscionable and abysmally managed. Everyone I know is getting this in their recommended and your system is broken.

[Ignatius『YokaiLive』 @ignatius_en]

I am genuinely mad that people would rather protest over anything else but this. It is a crisis and every American should be outraged.

A generation of adults between 22 - 30 cannot find work in this country because the bar is set unbelievably high. What's the point of a GED if entry level businesses demand ten years of work experience?

[Telos Angara @TelosFusion]

@Gr8_Again @BonesawMD Men aren't single-minded automatons either. 8 to 5 is too long, and the world has put up with it for too long.