This is the Hales crew problem. They cheer service like touchdowns, ignore dismissals like funerals, smear targets, excuse filings, and call every hard question a coordinated attack. Hipsher is not a critic. He is a court jester for the Hales content mill, attacking Hales’ enemies while Hales feeds the audience loop. That bargain works until someone asks real questions. Then the jokes get lame, the answers disappear, and the “comedy show” defense sounds like cowardice. Toxic fandom is not loyalty. It is moral outsourcing. Hales breaks things. His hangers-on clap.
This is the Hales crew problem. They cheer service like touchdowns, ignore dismissals like funerals, smear targets, excuse filings, and call every hard question a coordinated attack. Hipsher is not a critic. He is a court jester for the Hales content mill, attacking Hales’ enemies while Hales feeds the audience loop. That bargain works until someone asks real questions. Then the jokes get lame, the answers disappear, and the “comedy show” defense sounds like cowardice. Toxic fandom is not loyalty. It is moral outsourcing. Hales breaks things. His hangers-on clap.
They have no core which is one thing which makes them a toxic fandom.