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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   4622 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 16, 2026

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Instead I'm thinking of that gulf of time between then and now, how much has happened and yet how clearly I still remember nodding along to j9461701 and BarnabyCajones, engrossed in mcjunker's stories, or bemusedly seething at darwin2500 and HlynkaCG.

Bring back TrannyPornO!

You can still follow him on Twitter and read his Substack.

Cremieux is TrannyPornO?! How was I so OOTL on this one?!

This adds to the dark humor of Cremieux’s pitbull arc.

Now I feel out of the loop. Did TPO hate pit bulls?

He was fairly recently attacked and bitten on the face by a pit bull, and has since been engaged in an anti-pitbull crusade.

Don't know—the dark humor from my perspective was that:

  • Cremieux, recently famous HBD internet personality who I get occasional glimpses of from crimethink corners of the internet such as The Motte, suddenly started rageposting 6/66 pitbull hatefacts after he got attacked, when previously he had not shown any interest toward The Pitbull Question (to my knowledge)

  • It turns out, from @erwgv3g34's comment, that I'd been reading Cremieux way before in the form of TrannyPornO (who I also do not recollect having any opinion toward pitbulls one way or another)

It's more absurdist than some particular punchline. I would not wish a pitbull attack on anyone, much less an internet personality that I have a fond recollection of.

Dang are all of the best poasters just graduates from the rationalist / SSC blogsphere? Seems to be that way.

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