"I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too"
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There is a winking brutality in how Drew Curtis frames himself: not troubled, not conflicted, just an "evil bastard". It is obviously performative, but the performance is doing real work. By choosing a cartoonishly harsh self-description, he clears the room of any expectation that the internet should be tasteful, edifying, or even especially sincere. The line reads like a preemptive strike against moralizing: if you came here for purity, you misread the venue.
The hinge is "Fark allows me to vent weirdness". Fark, the link-aggregation site Curtis founded, was built in the early-2000s internet tradition where curatorship and sarcasm were features, not bugs. Calling it a pressure valve turns an editorial product into a psychological service: the site is both outlet and alibi. It suggests the kind of creator who understands that communities are shaped as much by what they permit as what they ban. "Weirdness" becomes brand identity, not a liability.
"Thank god for that, too" lands as punchline and confession. It's mock-gratitude with a nervous edge, hinting that without this sanctioned space, the impulse would leak elsewhere. Subtext: the web doesn't remove people's uglier instincts; it gives them platforms, rituals, and plausible deniability. Curtis isn't just joking about being bad. He's explaining, in one blunt shrug, how online culture metabolizes cynicism into entertainment and calls it community.
The hinge is "Fark allows me to vent weirdness". Fark, the link-aggregation site Curtis founded, was built in the early-2000s internet tradition where curatorship and sarcasm were features, not bugs. Calling it a pressure valve turns an editorial product into a psychological service: the site is both outlet and alibi. It suggests the kind of creator who understands that communities are shaped as much by what they permit as what they ban. "Weirdness" becomes brand identity, not a liability.
"Thank god for that, too" lands as punchline and confession. It's mock-gratitude with a nervous edge, hinting that without this sanctioned space, the impulse would leak elsewhere. Subtext: the web doesn't remove people's uglier instincts; it gives them platforms, rituals, and plausible deniability. Curtis isn't just joking about being bad. He's explaining, in one blunt shrug, how online culture metabolizes cynicism into entertainment and calls it community.
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