Sam Hyde may unironically be one of the most polarizing figures on this site and historically this thread can barely even agree if this is a lolcow thread or a fan thread
Harland is a legend and I'm tired of the slander towards his good name.
Not like Sam will ever be the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant any time soon, but Cormac McCarthy clearly had daddy issues he was working through for the entirety of his literary career. It's a thing, apparently.
I'm not defending Sam's behavior, but this is true about being mean spirited. Harland had no intent to just be playful, he clearly meant to be antagonistic. And Sam wasn't legitimately inviting Harland to the show either, he was definitely threatening him. If you look at Harland's eyes you can tell he was obviously really pissed but admittedly hid it pretty well.
Sam is an entertainer who produces a large amount of material of uneven quality, some great, some absolute crap, most of it somewhere in the middle *and* he is also a lolcow. A lolcow who is somewhat self-aware of what he is, and thus public milking sessions are rare and to be treasured when they do occur. I mean I like more than a few of his projects, but yeah, underneath is the theater kid faggot who always needs to be in control and thirsts endlessly for praise and approval and acts out when he doesn't get that... or gets too much of it.
There's something rich about anyone complaining about Sam being treated antagonistically or in a mean-spirit. If he can dish it out in spades and make it his bread and butter, he should be able to take some back in return.
Reminds me of Sacha Baron Cohen and Borat. Sam and Sacha do best when interacting with people wanting to placate them or treat them with some level of respect, which they can then treat the person with derision for having done so. Feel like that's why Sam's bit can fall apart so easily, since if someone doesn't bite then he's got nowhere to go.
I don't know why people think Sam is talented enough of an actor to always be playing a character, but a lot of people do. You can usually tell when he's "acting" and when he's actually pissed off. I saw it a lot on season one.
im pretty sure the content they have on their gumtree gets released on youtube for a week before they take it down on top of some big elaborate subscription setup like most content creators do now days, so i think they're trying to do the regular podcast circuit thing where they go on people's podcasts to promote the promotional machine they have set up and the entire thing Harlan set up was basically just mocking them to their face for taking his offer to go on his podcast and promote his material.
Not a complaint, just on observation that seems overlooked.
So he's basically like any traditional celebrity: fucking groupies, an avid gooner and reader with a vast collection of random shit on their hard drive (just like Bin Laden), problematic behavior on occasion and likes to drive cars fast, break shit and screw around.
I laughed more in that one and a half minute edit than I did in the entire original videos length.
The very beginning of candy news was funny, but it still is just a /pol/ post made into a sketch, which is not at all what MDE does best.
Sam's relationship with Shane Gillis is 100% more important than someone like Harland
