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I didn't want to get so serious, because I like to
react to Felix mentions on Hexbear. It isn't that serious, but the disdain is real. Disdain like "oh not this asshole bit again", but it did get into 
during the gaming sessions of 2020/21'.
I do appreciate that Felix and cth has never been anti-PRC/CPC, and has been in fact very inoculated to the hate mongering that goes onto those countries.
That said, Felix/Chapotraphouse-the-podcast didn't bother me before the Covid-19 pandemic. When the pandemic was underway, and the hearing of Felix's very loud gaming over the microphones, and the realization that Felix was pushing 30 or was 30 at the time, did I come to realize and appreciate a disdain that the chapo podcast had for writers of the NYT and media. The media that they once made fun of.
What was in the background became the forefront, and coupled with my (or our) own maturation and self-actualization did I notice flaws in things that once were quirks or tangents. Not that the podcast millionaires are privileged dudebros having a good time at our financial expense, or that they were entertainers, roleplaying as advocates of social justice, or intellectuals redefining discourse in America.
But that they were just spectating with us the decline. They were panicking in that room, but because they are insulated from the effects of disaster and really just "munching on snacks/wiping cheeto dust off fingers while on the controller" lamenting the end of the world, their panic felt like a pantomime of what real despair people felt. People listen to podcasts like Chapo for levity and comfort, and the least they could do while working (where hundreds of thousands were sent to their deaths by Covid for 'essential work') is to not play video games so fucking audibly. (They were a comedy podcast of news and politics in the manner the Daily Show was, but after their rants and serious attitudes towards the Trump Presidency and supporting, platforming, and canvassing for the Corbyn & Sanders campaigns, their podcast blended more into political advocacy with humor more than humor with political advocacy.)
That podcast, and podcasts in general, didn't expect to fulfill roles of social anesthesia and sedation during the pandemic, but that is what they became to be. And during that time of unease, uncertainty, and dread, the vibe of audible gaming was "damn bro that sucks for you".
summary version for too long, did not read:
I just don't like Felix's manchild persona, nor his literal voice with the cadence of a teenager who never grew up. I was around those types of "hot couch" guys in my youth and they aren't really people I ever admired.
If a negative identity is what you form your identity as, as a person not to be or defining yourself by what you are not, then the "hot couch" guy is an exemplar of an anti-model.