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http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/29/technology/milo-yiannopoulos-book-deal/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom

Shouldn't this be discussed under GamerGate?

Who fuckin' cares? He's nothing but a glorified Internet troll who makes money off of idiots who want to hear their own dumbass opinions spouted back at them. He's the conservative Anita Sarkeesian.

I feel like a whole lot more than just those people tap into that desire.

This, more or less. He, like Anita, either obtained fame or even gained more fame thanks to individuals from either side in all the GamerGate hubbub. Outside of anyone that shows any sort of care about Milo, no one else is really going to care about what he's doing.

lmao you guys he's been in the politisphere for like ten years, he was a prominent gay Catholic advocate with BBC guest spots for yeeeears before GG happened. Altho if you only get your info from memes, your description of him is dead on~

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know he was a prominent gay Catholic advocate with the BBC. That sounds like a real fuckin' important position.

Good for him. I hope it gives him something to do for a while other than write Breitbart articles about himself with bright pink title text. Such an eyesore when browsing the front page.

Joke's on you, the entire book will be printed entirely in pink, and if you complain about it he'll accuse you of being offended and write an article about it with more pink text.

You get a plain package in the mail. Taking it into your room with you and opening it gingerly, you observe the cover of Milo Yiannopoulos' new book. As a lifelong misandrist SJW, your hands shake and you perspire heavily at the very thought of subjecting yourself to this supervillain's writing – but your boss at KillAllMen.com assigned you to write a response article to this book, and you accepted because you need the extra money to donate to Anita Sarkeesian's patreon.

Reading through the first chapter, "About Me", and the second chapter, "About Myself", you feel the bright pink text pierce through your eyeballs and into your very soul. On several occasions you feel the need to curl up and cry as your regressive cuck worldview is systematically destroyed by his extreme eloquence and flawless command of reasons and logicks.

But then you reach the third chapter and realize, to your utmost confusion, that there are very few pages left in the book. Indeed, you had had a sneaking suspicion the whole time that the book seems somewhat shorter than what you had expected. The title of the chapter is "FEMINISM", but in a font that seems almost… handwritten? As you progress along the page, you realize that the pink text begins giving way to a bizarre shade of red, and the faint smell of dried blood fills the air. The text is now clearly freeform: it wavers and falters, becoming progressively messier toward the end of each sentence; the beginning of each new sentence comes with a visible attempt to correct and straighten the calligraphy, but the effort deteriorates further along the chapter and soon it becomes obvious that writer has stopped trying altogether. Turning the page, you realize that the text has stopped entirely and has become a series of doodles. They begin innocuously: the first is a fairly well-done drawing of him giving a speech at a university. You turn the pages quickly, and notice that they are becoming increasingly violent. One is a stickman in a crudely drawn turban stabbing another stickman labelled "freE speECh"; the next features Donald Trump being swarmed and bludgeoned to death by people holding "I'm With Her" signs, and at this point you drop the book in disgust, feeling sick to your stomach. It lands and on doing so flips over to its final page. On it are simply five words, almost etched into the page in sickening red: "DO YOU NOTICE ME NOW?"

You hear the door creak open behind you, and a distinctly British voice snarls your name.

I think that was more directed towards SicklyVivian, who said that not many would care about what he had to say outside the GG circle-- if he was involved in stuff apart from GG for years, then he already made a name for himself (at least, in his home country) and so it's less likely that he has no relevance outside of the GG circle.

His 15 minutes are up, he knows it and this is just a desperate last attempt to somehow regain relevance. Pack it up, nothing to see here…

Nothing to see here except a debut book by a controversial conservative which rocketed past Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist to #1 in Amazon's bestseller books category 3 months before it's released and has already presold enough to qualify for NYT's best seller list, where it's expected to debut in the top 3 if not at #1… and in spite of Sarah Silverman and Judd Apatow publicly calling for a boycott, which the Chicago Review of Books took up by declaring it will not review ANY books from publisher Simon & Schuster at all in 2017 regardless of their author and content.

I can never tell if you guys are just behind on the news or willfully ignorant.

Festivized Corsair Snickerway said:

Who fuckin’ cares?

Evidently, the Huffington Post, Guardian, New Yoker, CNNMoney, Slate, EW, Hollywood Reporter, Sarah Silverman, the Chicago Book Review, Raven Books, and enough people to get it to #1 on Amazon's Nonfiction Best Sellers. Had Twitter and the far left just shrugged and ignored the guy, he'd be another Breitbart writer few actually knew the name of. Instead, he'll rocket up the NYT Best Seller list next year and likely score a ton of interviews and speeches as a result. Rule 19 will never not be applicable.

Eh Yiannopoulos is a mixed bag for me. Sometimes the guy is wrong, but then sometimes he says something that makes sense to me. He seems very lucid about some matters and highly irrational concerning others, but I guess this applies to pretty much anybody else. There's no denying he's a complete gadfly though. Sometimes I think he says stuff just to see how people react – I know I've done the same many times before.

I remember thinking he was simultaneously quite smart and a bit silly one time in an interview with BBC concerning the alt-right; he said of them "we are here, and we are not going away". Which is true. But that also applies to his opponents in the regressive left. You can't kill an idea. The more he tries to fight the "SJW" the more he will strengthen it. And the more the left tries to lamely outmeme the alt-right, the more they strengthen that group. So the cycle will just endlessly go on.

It's basic human nature, pluralism. Humanity decides "right, we exist in two distinct groups" and then pretty much everyone chooses which side to jump on.

tl;dr it's like watching infighting between the Orcs and Uruk-hai. Personally I lean quite strongly towards a certain side but they often do shit I don't wish to defend or be part of too.

Because any bozo with 5 braincells and some knowledge of how these things tend to go on the internet, could predict this was going to happen. It happened with Streisand, it happened with DOAX, it's happening here. Milo haters will piss on the book, and in return his fans and the anti-SJW crowd will mass preorder it. You could write an article on it and only have to edit some names and reasons the next round.

I can never tell why people perceive this as pillar-shaking news. Just because people obsessed with this liberal stuff feel strongly about this book subjectively, doesn't mean it's suddenly important to everyone objectively.

Milo has been a loud controversial figure who rattled the caged of a lot of left leaning institutions. He was prominent during GamerGate, and became well known net-wide. He has also appeared on several news programmes.

Think about the political climate now. GG, the Trump presidency and the frustrations people have had with what they see as PC gone mad and you have the perfect storm. His book will piss of liberals which will in turn give conservatives a hard on and they will buy the book partially to spite their opponents.

So it's not surprising he got a deal or that his book is a bestseller.

{ in return his fans and the anti-SJW crowd will mass preorder it }

Have to be a hell of a lot of Milo fans out there to bump Carrie's 3 books out of the top within 24 hours when she was far more famous, far more loved, and her book sales are riding a post-death surge ¯\(ツ)/¯ Undoubtedly liberals and conservatives are buying up Carrie's books, so how can a minority fringe of angry alt-right GGers be floating Milo over all of them?

He pisses off the right people while being entertaining and even occasionally making good points.

Yet Carrie's book isn't reaching front pages the way Milo's book does. Her death is bigger news, but her book isn't. Once something is controversial and/or hits front pages, people want to have it. Frozen fans managed to have Let It Go beat Queen B, and Three Wolf Moon became a top selling apparel item due to funny reviews. Reaching first place is really nothing special with the right type of publicity.

You can try to act this book sale is reaching some biblical levels, but really it's nothing out of the ordinary if you knew what to assume ¯\(ツ)/¯

Think about this: How many of you even knew there was a Carrie Fisher book before the alt-right started boasting about how Milo's book was ahead of it?

No one cares about The Princess Diarist. It's going to get a few cheap sales off of Carrie Fisher's death, and that's it. Milo's book beating it means nothing.

I'm not the one acting like it's biblical, that'd be the entire liberal media calling for book bans and publisher boycotts. Only reason I posted was to correct the people who think Milo's existence is based on GG like he hasn't been a political commentator for the past decade.

You know who else had a book come out recently that gained massive support from the right, boycotts from the left, and thousands of troll/anti troll reviews? Ivanka Trump. Don't recall that one jumping to number one tho.

& btw The Princess Diarist got HUGE HUGE HUGE media coverage shortly after release because she exposed her affair with Harrison Ford while filming SW. It was in fact the front page headline for nearly a week and she was flying to her next book tour stop when she had the heart attack.

Rolling Stone: Carrie Fisher on LSD, Death and Sex With Han Solo

LA Times: In her unflinching 'The Princess Diarist,' Carrie Fisher revisits her Princess Leia days and her affair with Harrison Ford

NPR: Carrie Fisher Opens Up About 'Star Wars,' The Gold Bikini And Her On-Set Affair

yeah, who even knew about Carrie Fisher's book until the alt-right started talking about it lololol

You seem very dead set on de-legitimizing something that's notable in its own right by de-legitimizing the accomplishment of something else. I didn't know that there was a Carrie Fisher book out because I didn't look into news surrounding her death, which would include such news. But considering that she was a very famous actress that was still active before her untimely death, I would imagine that there'd be many that did know because they care more.

Milo's book beating it means something, since people certainly still buy books. It's not something super-spectacular, yes, but… not only have the only prominent reactions I've seen so far been negative ones, they seem to be making a bigger deal out of this than the people that would actually want to buy the book because they would like its contents.

No doubt it was directed at me. Outside of GamerGate, I hear jack about Milo outside of GamerGate save for him being something of journalist back then and getting into some spat with Leslie Jones on Twitter. Even then, that info I get from a forum I frequent that would laugh at both Milo and his detractors (well, the detractors that are cringeworthy and such).

That said, while I don't think anyone save for fans and detractors of Milo will care for the book, some sort of salt could be inbound. And said salt can come from any side.