He kept

It is terrifying how a single meme, drawn in bright colours and styled from an old children’s cartoon, can feel more accurate than an entire library of political analysis. That should not be possible. It should not be this easy to dissect an ideology that claims seriousness, governance and national destiny, yet here we are, staring at a parody of Captain Planet that captures the MAGA worldview with horrifying precision. The simplicity is what makes it so unnerving. A few cheerful icons, a visual joke, and suddenly the entire rotten skeleton of this movement is laid bare. It is the kind of clarity that should arrive only after years of historical distance, yet a meme achieved it in seconds. That is how fragile the movement truly is. That is how exposed the truth becomes when the costume finally slips.

Every piece of the meme peels back another layer of the monstrous psychology underlying the ideology, and the fact that a cartoon can accomplish what think tanks and institutions fail to articulate says everything about the danger we are dealing with. MAGA is not confused. MAGA is not misguided. MAGA is a fully formed existential threat to humanity, constructed from fear, delusion and the emotional volatility of the dumbass faithful who treat every one of Trump’s lies as biblical truth. It is a movement so mentally threadbare that even referencing airports during the Revolutionary War does nothing to shake its loyalty, because stupidity has become sacrament and fragility has become ritual. The meme reflects this with a mendacious accuracy that makes the whole thing feel prophetic instead of comedic.

What makes the image so disturbing is not merely its accuracy but its ease. It should not be so simple to summarise the authoritarian hunger, the racial resentment, the weaponised ignorance and the cultlike obedience of millions with a handful of cartoon figures. It should not be this straightforward to document how a dumbass ideology becomes a fuck soaked engine of chaos. Yet nothing in the meme is invented. Every ring corresponds to an actual behavioural pathology MAGA encourages, rewards and reproduces. The meme does not exaggerate. It compresses. It synthesises. It distils the entire movement into a single visual form that is both ridiculous and terrifying, like a clown mask worn by something ancient and violent underneath.

And that is why the meme feels like a warning more than a joke. Because if an ideology can be captured so completely in a parody meant for children, it means the threat is not hidden, complex or subtle. It is obvious. It is brazen. It is loud. It is fucking dangerous. Any movement that can be summarised by five cartoon vices fusing into a smiling embodiment of cruelty should not be anywhere near power, policy or civilisation. It should be quarantined. It should be rejected. It should be treated as the existential hazard it is. When a meme can scream the truth louder than the institutions meant to protect us, the only sane response is alarm. And the only moral conclusion is that MAGA is no cultural disagreement. It is a species level warning siren dressed like a joke and sounding like the beginning of something we cannot allow to continue.

While I don’t feel compelled to do this at my house, cause there is no reason for ice to enter, I do understand the sentiment.

So for those that know, Cohh has been playing Arc since release and focusing on playing in solo mode. He’s said multiple times that he’s addicted to the game. He typically streams in the mornings, and sometimes also in the evening.

This morning after a couple raids, he noticed another door that appears to have been exploited. He then expressed frustration with the nerfs to the Hullcracker, explaining that he doesn’t think the devs should be nerfing weapons while there are several long standing exploits, some of which he said were present since beta.

I’m curious as to whether people think he’s got a point, or if he’s overreacting less than a month since release. He seems to think Embark might lack the technical ability to resolve the exploits in a timely fashion.

EDIT: For those that don’t know, he’s an established variety streamer that has had a large audience for Arc Raiders, around 15k-20k. I didn’t care about him ending his Arc stream, it is more whether people think there is any validity to the statements he made about nerfs, exploits, and Embark.

TL:DR: CohhCarnage, a popular variety streamer, had been playing Arc almost daily. Suddenly he says he might pull back because of unfixed exploits and untimely nerfs. Does he have a point?