Poll of the Day > Ken Block dead at 55.

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hypnox
01/03/23 7:05:23 AM
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Damm snowmobiles.

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EvilResident
01/03/23 7:26:19 AM
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Who

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hypnox
01/03/23 7:52:09 AM
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EvilResident posted...
Who

Look out guys, we have an edge lord here. Hide your hot pockets.

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TimeCrisis
01/03/23 7:56:47 AM
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Literally who?

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JOExHIGASHI
01/03/23 7:57:02 AM
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hypnox posted...
Look out guys, we have an edge lord here. Hide your hot pockets.
Not everyone follows racecar driving. I had to Google him too because I had no idea who he was.

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SoreChasm
01/03/23 9:17:41 AM
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Since hypnox can't be bothered:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64150191

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Hard_Light
01/03/23 10:25:51 AM
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hypnox is one of the 8 people who knows who this is

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hypnox
01/03/23 11:25:47 AM
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Hard_Light posted...
hypnox is one of the 8 people who knows who this is

Yeah, his gymkhana videos having over 400 million views are all me.

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aHappySacka
01/03/23 12:41:18 PM
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Sadly he has been blocked from life.

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jiffdiff
01/03/23 1:56:45 PM
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hypnox posted...


Look out guys, we have an edge lord here. Hide your hot pockets.
Nah, I'm with him. I had literally never heard of this guy until some reddit subs started posting about his death. Has nothing to do with being edgy, I just don't think he's that famous.
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party_animal07
01/03/23 2:32:43 PM
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If you don't know who the person in the topic title is, why come into the topic? And if you're that curious, why not just Google them?

Not that hard.

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ParanoidObsessive
01/03/23 3:28:55 PM
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hypnox posted...
Look out guys, we have an edge lord here.

That word doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.



party_animal07 posted...
If you don't know who the person in the topic title is, why come into the topic? And if you're that curious, why not just Google them?

Because you generally assume if someone cares enough to make a topic about a dead person, they care enough to spend the extra 15 seconds it would take to actually indicate who that person is.

And if they decide to be an asshole about it, then they probably shouldn't be surprised when they get asshole replies in return. Because they kind of deserve them.

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Lokarin
01/03/23 5:51:16 PM
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party_animal07 posted...
And if you're that curious, why not just Google them?

Google causes anti-socials!!! people are here to chat

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Far-Queue
01/03/23 10:53:09 PM
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Oh man that's the dude in the red sweater from the 2016 Presidential Debate, right?

RIP in peace :(((

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argonautweakend
01/03/23 10:56:39 PM
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Yeah, hugely famous, popular extreme sports/racing guy.

sucks.
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BlackScythe0
01/03/23 11:12:15 PM
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party_animal07 posted...
If you don't know who the person in the topic title is, why come into the topic? And if you're that curious, why not just Google them?

Not that hard.

Dude threads like this are disrespectful. Reality is this person was part of a niche sport and relatively few people are going to know who he is. People click the topic and all they see is TC make a smart ass comment about snow mobiles like they are making fun of the deceased.

Threads like this honestly should be required to have some kind of indication of who the person is, because this shit is literally baiting a "Who?" as the most appropriate response.
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hypnox
01/04/23 2:00:56 AM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
Dude threads like this are disrespectful. Reality is this person was part of a niche sport and relatively few people are going to know who he is. People click the topic and all they see is TC make a smart ass comment about snow mobiles like they are making fun of the deceased.

Threads like this honestly should be required to have some kind of indication of who the person is, because this shit is literally baiting a "Who?" as the most appropriate response.

Yeah I mean the guy had a massive Youtube presence that included cross overs with many other famous youtubers, he was a world renown racer, had his own shoe line, was featured in many youtube recaps, and countless other things. But yeah, I mean some of the people on this page do live under a rock.

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ParanoidObsessive
01/04/23 2:27:27 AM
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hypnox posted...
Yeah I mean the guy had a massive Youtube presence that included cross overs with many other famous youtubers, he was a world renown racer, had his own shoe line, was featured in many youtube recaps, and countless other things. But yeah, I mean some of the people on this page do live under a rock.

"YouTube" famous isn't actually famous.

Even PewDiePie is still a nobody to more people in the world than not.

We're entering an age where the entire idea of a "universally recognized celebrity" is becoming more and more meaningless of an idea. Between globalization of culture and the diversification of media presence, any given person's brand identity awareness is weaker than it's been for more than a century.

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Krow_Incarnate
01/04/23 2:45:29 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
"YouTube" famous isn't actually famous.

Even PewDiePie is still a nobody to more people in the world than not.

We're entering an age where the entire idea of a "universally recognized celebrity" is becoming more and more meaningless of an idea. Between globalization of culture and the diversification of media presence, any given person's brand identity awareness is weaker than it's been for more than a century.
This is true. Pop culture "icons" are falling more and more into their own niche.

I think this goes beyond just YT culture as well. When was the last Beyonce? Rihanna? Angelina Jolie? The closest person I can think that would actually be a household name is Ariana Grande.

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FatalAccident
01/04/23 3:21:48 AM
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argonautweakend posted...
hugely famous
no

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SoreChasm
01/04/23 3:22:13 AM
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New year, same hypnox

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Joelypoely
01/04/23 3:26:06 AM
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I see both sides of it. I knew who he was and feel for his passing, knowing him as a very talented guy. I didn't realise he was 55, thought he was a bit younger. RIP legend.

In general I also think these topics should always have a description or link as an explanation of who the person was and what they accomplished. Just to save any confusion or to avoid usual arguments about what is respectful.

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Nade_Duck
01/04/23 3:49:12 AM
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it really isn't that unreasonable for people to not care about car racing or shoes. especially on a website like this. fail topic.

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Cacciato
01/04/23 3:57:12 AM
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SoreChasm posted...
New year, same hypnox

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Hard_Light
01/04/23 4:22:05 AM
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party_animal07 posted...
If you don't know who the person in the topic title is, why come into the topic? And if you're that curious, why not just Google them?

Not that hard.

because it's obviously some sort of celebrity person.

not everyone knows everyones name, he could have just been a voice actor who voiced some characters you know.

but that was not the case this time, and no one knew who this person was, so

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jon_davis
01/04/23 5:06:30 AM
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hypnox posted...
Yeah I mean the guy had a massive Youtube presence that included cross overs with many other famous youtubers, he was a world renown racer, had his own shoe line, was featured in many youtube recaps, and countless other things. But yeah, I mean some of the people on this page do live under a rock.

Nope

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Veemon_X
01/04/23 7:21:13 AM
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I'm another one who hasn't heard of him until now. Lol
Regardless, may he rest in peace.

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BlackScythe0
01/04/23 1:41:51 PM
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hypnox posted...
Yeah I mean the guy had a massive Youtube presence that included cross overs with many other famous youtubers, he was a world renown racer, had his own shoe line, was featured in many youtube recaps, and countless other things. But yeah, I mean some of the people on this page do live under a rock.

Dude you're still being ridiculous. He had 2 million subscribers on youtube. There are a ton of youtube channels with multiple times more subscribers I have never heard of. He wasn't even in nascar or formula one. I don't know what world renown means but if he's not part of the biggest forums for racing he's going to have niche appeal.

Your thread is disrespectful. You made fun of how he passed and now you're trying to be a dick to people who put their heads in here to see if he was someone they might have known from a show or something.
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wwinterj25
01/04/23 7:07:36 PM
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No idea who this is.

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KJ_StErOiDs
01/04/23 7:24:39 PM
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I never knew the man or his work, but may he RIP.

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Kyuubi4269
01/04/23 7:47:45 PM
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EvilResident posted...
Who

A US Rally driver who went to doing youtube stunt videos because he's not WRC competitive and got crazy rich off it

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adjl
01/04/23 7:48:22 PM
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hypnox posted...
Yeah I mean the guy had a massive Youtube presence that included cross overs with many other famous youtubers, he was a world renown racer, had his own shoe line, was featured in many youtube recaps, and countless other things. But yeah, I mean some of the people on this page do live under a rock.

Even if we just play a straight numbers game and presume that all of his subscribers were American, having 2 million subscribers means you've got a ~0.6% chance that a randomly selected American subscribes to him. Even if we generously say that 10 people know who he is for every actual subscriber, that's still only 6%, and given that PotD has less than 100 regular users (to make a very rough estimate), it's well within statistical expectations that only 3-4 people would know of him. And that's without considering that a video game website that hasn't been genuinely relevant since the early 2000's is likely to have a disproportionately lower number of people interested in sports of any sort.

It's not a matter of living under a rock. It's a matter of him just not being famous enough for people that aren't already invested in his field to know of him.

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vecryn
01/04/23 10:15:09 PM
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jiffdiff posted...
Nah, I'm with him. I had literally never heard of this guy until some reddit subs started posting about his death. Has nothing to do with being edgy, I just don't think he's that famous.
Definitely not that famous, I'm with everyone else asking who? Never heard of the guy. Sucks he died, but would have no reason to know who he was before this.
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party_animal07
01/04/23 10:23:55 PM
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Hard_Light posted...
but that was not the case this time, and no one knew who this person was, so
So scroll passed the topic about the person you don't know/care about.

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Sarcasthma
01/04/23 10:58:01 PM
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party_animal07 posted...
So scroll passed the topic about the person you don't know/care about.
If that was on purpose, well done.

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adjl
01/04/23 11:09:09 PM
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party_animal07 posted...
So scroll passed the topic about the person you don't know/care about.

Personally, I came in here because I was curious who it was, since even though I don't recognize the name off-hand it's certainly possible that he might have been involved in something I do follow more closely. Evidently, I wasn't the only one.

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BlackScythe0
01/04/23 11:15:43 PM
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party_animal07 posted...
So scroll passed the topic about the person you don't know/care about.

How are you supposed to know if you care? There are tons of people who we don't know the name of but we have a general understanding of who they are.

Threads like this should be required to make some effort to explain who the individual is, making fun of how they died is not ok. This thread was literally baiting people to go "who" just so people like you could get some sort of fake outrage over it.
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