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I appreciate the vote of confidence.
My well-established strong dislike of Gambo has offline precedent: that show was perhaps the last significant pop cultural monolith that I was not able to avoid while living and working around other people. When the hype wave finally crested and receded a decade later, what came after in the same genre of
may have been comparably toxic hog slop, but it has been a blessing that I don't have to hear about it if I don't want to, not anymore. Maybe it's just where I live now (haven't seen a single ZYBERTRUKKK with my own eyes yet) but the worst excesses of bazinga culture simply don't exist and having the choice to opt out has helped me significantly.