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Gooning. Over the past few months on the internet, I've seen an increased usage of the words "gooning" and "edging". As I'm aging, I slowly feel like I'm losing touch to all the shit that's going on on the internet. I just feel like I'm not in tune anymore. This has apparently been an internet meme for a while, and I didn't know about it until a couple months ago. What these words mean is they involve explicit content, like the hub or
And they have long watch sessions of said content. This is the best way I can explain it without this video getting taken down. So if you know, you know. Gooning, edging, whatever the hell you want to call it, has become a serious addiction for people. And this has always been a huge problem in Gen Z. Consuming explicit content like that releases a shit ton of dopamine, so obviously it's
easy as f*** to get addicted. And that's why I advise you not to touch that shit with a 10-foot pole, bro. Block that shit at all costs, bro. It's horrible for you. I know a lot of people say these two words ironically, but there are some people who actually unironically do this shit. And they sit there for hours a day and just goon.
and basically just waste the entire day away. And of course, like any addiction, it causes a lot of problems. Gooners, I guess that's what you call them, I don't know. They sit in their room and do nothing but said activity, right? And they call this place the Goon-
Yeah.
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Goon Cave. That is the dumbest shit I've ever heard. They want to make it sound all mysterious and shit. They're trying to make themselves sound like a superhero. You're just lying to yourself, bro. There is nothing of value getting done when you head to, quote, the Goon Cave. When you're hanging out with your friends, bro, no one's sending out a bat signal for you to go back to the Goon Cave. Sorry, boys, I gotta go. The Goon Cave's calling the name. And it is basically just a fancy term for a musty-ass room where they just sit there and, uh, watch that content all day.
And I don't know how people could live in such filth. Everybody's room gets messy from time to time, right? But who the fuck would want to live in piles of pizza boxes, dirty clothes, a bunch of McDonald's bags, and yeah, I don't know, bro. You get the point. The room is in dire need of a Glade air freshener.
There was no superhero activities going on in this cave, bro. It looks like a f***ing episode of Hoarders when you walk in. And the only similarity that this room has to the Batcave is the insane amount of monitors right here. And of course, you can take a wild guess what they're doing with all these goddamn monitors. They got three things going at once. It's like one of the Subway Surfer videos you see on TikTok, but with explicit content. One video is already bad and just way too overstimulating for the mind to handle.
But they got like three videos going at once. How do you do that without your brain just exploding? I don't know, man. But I guess their goal is to try to consume as much of this content as possible for as long as possible. And gooners alike even have forums and communities where they share their goon caves and shit like that. They just go on here to brag about their gooning sessions. Very degenerate shit, bro. And they sit there and type up a whole paragraph. Yeah, bro, I just did a nine hour gooning session.
And this is just so weird that this shit's being encouraged and people are acting like this is some kind of achievement. This is degenerate ass activity. And gooning becomes their entire personality. And it's gotten to the point where they talk about it with people in real life. And I'm sure people have asked them, oh, what are your hobbies? What do you like to do? Yeah, well, I'm a D1 gooner, you know?
me. Nevermind. They don't really go outside at all unless they're gooning outside. Well, what do they do when they exit the goon cave? You know, like eventually they're going to be forced out of there when they exit their slumber and they leave hibernation. They bring what is called an emergency gooning kit. No, I am not even joking. I don't know if this post is a troll or what, but somebody said emergency gooning kit. I made just in case I need to goon immediately anywhere
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or i am this dude has six terabytes worth of material that's just a light day you know on the go six terabytes and let me put into perspective how much six terabytes is in my five years of having a pc everything i've ever downloaded has not equated to one terabyte all the games all the images i have to use for this video this is like thousands of hours of content right here this dude would a hundred percent get stopped at tsa they're just gonna scan his bag
See all the gooning material in there and be like, what the f*** is this dude packing with him? His mom's just standing there right next to him. These motherfuckers are packing this shit on a casual family vacation. You know how it is. And I don't even want to imagine what else is in that backpack.
And people also share their gooning hits on Reddit. Like, it doesn't exactly surprise me that this activity is going down on Reddit. Some of the deepest, darkest corners of Reddit have the most degenerate people in them. It affects their brain so goddamn much, that's literally all they think about doing. That's why they even do all this extra shit to make sure they never miss an edging session. This shit is actually disgusting, bro. And that's like all that plagues their mind. They have no dreams, no goals, no aspirations. And that's why it's commonplace
called gooning. When people goon, it's like they become stupid. They just lose brain cells as the time keeps passing. And these people never try to seek real relationships at all. That's pretty much like all they live for. Their brain is hardwired to think, oh, they're already getting so much action. Why do I even need to do anything? That is the primal instinct of
the brain. So it's pretty easy for these people to just fall in a cycle of just not doing anything with their life at all. They just lie down all day because their brain thinks they did some insane activity like climbing a mountain. Their brain thinks they're unstoppable. They're on top of the world. But in reality, their teeth are starting to melt from their hot-ass coffee breath and they haven't brushed their teeth in five days. People also goon to characters like cartoon characters, anime characters. It has gotten to a point where...
Like I said in my video last week, these people are more attracted to 2D woman than 3D woman. Like how the f- This activity has fucked up their brain so much. They look at a drawing and somehow find that more attractive than an actual girl. There are people who walk around with
body pillows in public marry their body pillows last shit's definitely musty as hell it's got holes in it i don't think i have to explain they gave up they waved the white flag they just turned to 2d as you know i'm not exactly the ceo of girls over here i'd rather get shot in the
faced by a rifle before I ever turned down that path. I'd rather just keep trying and keep falling over on my face because what's the use? We only live on this planet once. So why wouldn't you want to seek relationships with real people? I don't know. And this has become a huge problem with OnlyFans. People think they are getting some kind of real relationship out of it.
By giving these girls money. They think that talking to these people is a real connection. Even though they're just slowly draining away their pockets until there's nothing left. Until they have no motion at all and they gotta live on the streets. Some dude with like a bunch of OnlyFans memberships is probably gonna comment on this video. Dude, but they message me back all the time.
No, it's another dude that they paid behind the line to be their social media manager. That's who's messaging you. So next time you're down badass pays money for these people to message you, think twice about who you're saying this shit to. Because it's most definitely not the girl. And now OnlyFans girls are running these gooners bank accounts dry. There's people blowing thousands of dollars a year on OnlyFans. And this huge rise of OnlyFans started during quarantine because everybody was just locked in their houses and
really had nothing to do. Naturally, these down bad dudes started flocking to OnlyFans. These motherfuckers gotta pay that shit on their monthly bills. They got rent, electric, water, and then they got fucking OnlyFans bill. And sometimes these people will go out of their way and just send gifts to these girls out of nowhere. And people also do this for girl streamers as well. Yeah, it's gotten so bad to the point where they have a parasocial relationship now. The
Order is ready. I just need you to DM me your PO box. They got roses, a vase, you know, just to set the mood. Bro, she does not know you like that. What the f- None of these girls even know these dudes at all, but they still do this anyway. And they don't do it just out of the kindness of their heart, and they want to be a really nice person. No, we all know why they're doing. It's gotten to the point where people are making deep fakes of these streamers, so they can goon to it.
30 years ago, people thought one day technology was going to destroy the world, but this is what it's being used for. And of course, because of the whole gooning and edging trend, these girls wanted to see how far they could really go. So they went on Twitch to promote their OF and did stuff like this on stream. And they wanted to see what they could do without crossing the line. And to be 100% honest, Twitch pretty much just became an X-rated website. And the chats were full.
full of gooners. I mean, there was like 20,000 people watching these streams and they were pushed all the way to the top of Twitch. Like who else would be watching these live streams? And there would be thousands of people in this live stream just watching and donating to these girls for literally just existing. Like they wouldn't even do anything half the time.
The most they would do was play a game, and these girls never even really got banned until Twitch was getting a bunch of complaints. Twitch has always had bias towards girl streamers because they know their audience, alright? They know who's pulling up to these streams. There was a whole meta for hot tub streaming and all that shit. One of these hot tub streamers met her fans in real life, and this is how it went.
Yeah, it was the most awkward shit ever, bro. But apparently this is just achievement of the year right here for a down bad dude. Amaranth stepping on them was one of the biggest highlights of their life. And there's a crowd of people just sitting there watching this all go down. She gotta put on hand sanitizer before she shakes any of these dudes' hands.
Because she knows what kind of activities a lot of them were up to before they showed up to TwitchCon. There's a reason why when you go on the hub or OnlyFans or whatever it is, you feel shame and regret. Because deep down, you know it's wrong. You just sit there like a toad on a bench, looking out the window, contemplating your entire life. But you have to be a different species, different breed of human to be vocal and proud of this...
very severe addictions. But in all seriousness though, jokes aside for a second, it's really upsetting to see like how this addiction has ruined people's lives. And the first step of quitting is realizing that it's a problem. But if you want my advice on how to break any addiction, then click on this video.