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15 Sep 2023
Dave Portnoy is a popular and viral pizza critic whose reviews are taken seriously by the pizza community.

Yeah, he's got this series. No, people know. He's really viral. He's really popular. It kind of goes back to your point earlier about something's happening on one sector of the internet that's huge and the other sector of the internet has no idea about it. He does these pizza reviews. He just goes to various pizza places on the East Coast, takes a bite of pizza, gives it a highly specific grade. And it's pretty harmless. I actually enjoy his videos, the pizza videos. I think they're good. I agree with his opinions. I grew up in New York, so I care a lot about pizza. And even though I'm not David Portnoy's... Target audience. Like, I think he's a pretty good pizza critic. Like, you know, everything he says about pizza, I'm like, yeah, I agree with you. Even if I disagree with him about many other things, I do enjoy his pizza reviews. So those have been pretty popular for a really long time. And he recently went into some guy's pizzeria who I interviewed after this happened. And this guy was like, no, I do not want this guy. Because apparently there had been some sort of rumors circulating in the pizza community that Dave Portnoy had a lot of power, like a review had a lot of power over the success of an individual business. And this guy was like, no, I don't want to be a part of this.

13 Feb 2023
Outrage over controversial content promotes it and generates clicks and views.

Do you remember when all the rappers were covering up one eye and making triangles and stuff and all the checkerboard patterns in music videos? It wasn't because the Illuminati is behind it. It's because you... Dumb Dumbs are giving them all this free press and all this controversy that ended up getting clicks and views on YouTube.