The world is full of people that fit right into this category and while a lot of it is reserved for places I can't stand like TikTok or other such social media trash that I guess I am too old to understand the allure of, there are also people that have become quite famous in the political sphere who don't even know how to spell their own social media releases.
It was during Covid that I started following this guy named Diogo Cohea, who gained a lot of notoriety in Australia by becoming the first podcaster to have their channel completely banned by the Australian government. This stemmed from him being very vocal in resisting Covid lockdown protocols which to this day Australia is doing their best to try to make the population forget that their "democracy" had some of the worst restrictions and violations of freedom of anywhere in the world. I celebrated Diogo during that time because he was willing to get into a ton of trouble by resisting but did so anyway.
As time passed by he seems to be desperately seeking ways of remaining relevant in the political scene and I still subscribe to his Telegram output but not for the reasons that he would probably prefer.
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He has multiple podcasts, a spotify channel with reasonably large names that stop by for a chat, and he regularly gets invited to take part in other, mostly political-in-nature podcasts that are larger than his own. Obviously a lot of this is done for self-promotion and I don't really think that he is fighting the good fight of the common man anymore but is instead really trying to remain relevant and to make money. I suppose there is nothing wrong with that but some of the output that he makes in written statements meant to lure you to his channel look like they were written by a poorly-performing elementary-school child.
The first image is just for context, he doesn't actually make any mistakes here but still it is rather poorly written.
I am big believer in understanding grammar, capitalization, and punctuation when writing something and maybe it is just me and my journalism background but I am deeply annoyed by people that don't use hyphens properly or don't even attempt to use them presumably because they don't know how. Large-scale and large scale are very different things.
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That's me splitting hairs though and not the main problem I have with this. Diogo's specialty is pointing out injustice and corruption enacted by large-scale (see what I did there?) organizations. At the same time, the guy who is trying to be a leader doesn't know that "pray" and "prey" are very very different things.
When he says that Joe Rogan "prays" on anxiety what he really means is "preys."
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Diogo is a religious person so perhaps he is so used to typing "pray" that it is just a knee-jerk reaction. By the way, "knee-jerk" means "automatic in a very predictable way" and derives from doctors hitting your knee with a small rubber hammer where your leg will automatically "jerk" and fly up a little bit. At the same time "knee jerk" doesn't mean anything at all. I guess in a cartoonish way it could mean if your knee wasn't very nice.
He also writes "consumers" when he is referring to a singular entity.
These are small things I know and a normal person will get the point even though it is poorly conveyed. The problem I have is that this guy who doesn't understand basic spelling and grammar is a leader of sorts.
I don't need to be a grammar Nazi about everything and I am sure that even in my own posts I make mistakes every now and then. However, I don't have a global following of hundreds of thousands of people who believe that my words should be followed. Diogo has a lot of money and success despite the fact that the absence of Covid-19 and the oppression that came along with it in Australia has put a major hit into his potential earnings. The main issue I have with him is that he is an influencer and the guy is an idiot that frequently leads large gatherings of people that look up to him yet he doesn't know how to spell.
Maybe I am just getting older and cannot possibly understand why people follow the words of certain people who clearly are not very intelligent. Is idiocy celebrated in an ironic fashion and I am just not aware of it, or are the people of the world really this dumb?
