Reading new reddit conspiracy theories about old reddit makes me feel like The Man With No Name hearing about Cap'n Walker and the Poxyclipse. If you take the big names of Classic Reddit and divide by 4 or 5 you'll have the total number of people. Maxwellhill(one of three handles that I know of that he controls) is a friend on LinkedIn. I love the self-centered naivete that goes "huh - the name contains 'max', therefore obviously the heir to a crushed billion dollar publishing empire is shitposting HuffPo links to a nerdy incel social network when she's not busy coercing 14-year-olds into giving Bill Clinton handjobs."
Side note: It is almost impossible to find any scenes from this part of Mad Max: Fury Road online. I just spent an inordinate amount of time with Google jacking all kinds of search tricks, and the best success rate was looking for this actress - Savanna Nix. And the source I found for this image (that WASN'T Pinterest or Fandom.com) was a blog post that mis-labeled this image as being from the movie Beyond Thunderdome and not from Fury Road. It's like nobody remembers who actually brought Max back to health!! It's crazy how people remember films...)
...like how it's from Beyond Thunderdome, not Fury Road?It's crazy how people remember films...
It's weird. This has been on my mind constantly for a whole day now. First: That I was unwittingly being the example of exactly the behavior I was lamenting. It's deeper than irony... and I dunno what the word is for it... somewhere between cognitive dissonance and irony... Second: That I intellectually know I am wrong. But I am still watching my brain do backflips to insert the Poxylypse Children into the Fury Road movie. My brain has stitched it in between the chase scene where all the different wastelander tribes are chasing Max and Furiosa through the storm, and meeting Furiosa's clan of motorcycle riding women. My brain has taken two VERY different-looking films, stitched in the scene of Max getting captured... and then that shot of him walking through the desert with the Jack-In-The-Box head over his head, hands tied together, falling down almost dead in the sand... and the Poxylypse Children picking him up, nursing him back to health, and getting him back out into the desert on a motorcycle to meet Furiosa's clan of badass women bikers. The brain is a weird thing. It does whatever it wants. :-)