rant · moment 9 of 16
Young Gravy, Lil Nas X, and Trolls Ruling the Culture
from Episode 150 - Your Thoughts Have No Value (with Luke Touma) · #150
5 min
They watch a Young Gravy music video and discuss how absurdist internet figures like Young Gravy, Lil Nas X, and Trump succeed as trolls in the current cultural environment, contrasting it with Steve Martin's earnest MasterClass advice.
- Young Gravy is a rapper Tim learned about sitting next to his social media guy on a mega bus.
- Tim initially thought Young Gravy was doing a parody of a white rapper as a joke, but realized Gravy is deadly serious about it.
- Watching Young Gravy's Mr. Clean video, Tim describes him as a tall guy who looks like a 7-Eleven cashier, not particularly good-looking.
- Young Gravy started as a joke but became real, like the Trump candidacy — things that begin absurd eventually become the actual environment we live in.
- People are enjoying Young Gravy's ridiculousness specifically because of how over-the-top it is in a world where that's what gets attention.
- Trump, Lil Nas X, Takashi 6ix9ine, Cardi B, and Kim Jong Un are all just trolls existing in an environment that makes them hilarious.
- The real master class is manipulating people on social media, not perfecting a craft.
- Steve Martin's MasterClass teaches earnestly and rationally while successful people like Young Gravy and Lil Nas X succeed by being ridiculous.
- MasterClass sells to untalented people for fifteen dollars a month who can't access Steve Martin's comedy directly.
- Tim's free masterclass in stand-up: move to LA or New York, ruin your life, destroy your credit and relationships, maybe get a few credits if you're lucky.
- The real masterclass ends with advice that you probably won't make it, but at least you'll save fifteen dollars you'll need for medicine later.
Young GravySteve MartinDonald TrumpLil Nas XTakashi 6ix9ineCardi BKim Jong Unsocial media manipulationMr. Clean