Date: September 11th, 2026 9:41 AM Author: blathering hideous parlour
In June 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight topped the cable news charts — not only as the highest rated show on television, but as the highest-rated news show ever, with over 4.3 million average viewers across the second quarter of that year. A few days later, Neff got a message from Oliver Darcy, a media reporter at CNN. Since 2013, Neff had been posting anonymously on AutoAdmit, an online forum that functioned as a kind of 4chan analog for internet-brained law students and lawyers. Writing under the pseudonym “CharlesXII,” a reference to the 18th-century Swedish warrior king, Neff had made thousands of posts on the site, several of them containing racist, sexist and homophobic jokes. (“Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down,” Neff wrote in a post from June of that year. Elsewhere on the forum, he curated a lengthy thread of posts mocking a female online acquaintance, whom he referred to derisively as “Azn megashrew.”)
Darcy had gotten a tip that Neff was the poster behind “CharlesXII” and planned to publish his findings. When the report appeared in early July, it came as a crushing blow to Neff, though also not as a complete shock. Neff’s identity as CharlesXII had been something of an open secret on the site since 2017, when Neff had participated in a Washington Post “Date Lab” article and dropped several inside jokes from the forum. (The article, in which Neff referred to alcohol as “poison” and confessed that “most of my hobbies allow me to escape women,” did not lead to a second date. He’s still unmarried.)
Date: September 11th, 2026 9:44 AM Author: blathering hideous parlour
Neff told me that he doesn’t feel personally responsible for the trajectory of figures like Carlson, but he confessed to grappling, in a roundabout way, with the possibility that his maximalist position on free speech has helped foster the conditions that have allowed rank conspiracism to flourish. “I’ve reflected on this often,” he said, sipping a s’mores-flavored cold brew on a leather couch in the studio’s greenroom.
Date: September 11th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: Insecure nibblets house
“What I should have done is realize that you live in dangerous times and stop poasting — or if you’re going to poast, delete your account, start a new one and add more squid ink,” he said. “And the extremely dumb reason that I didn’t was that I was kind of a popular user there — a person who was generally liked. I didn’t want to just blow that all up.”
Date: September 12th, 2026 8:03 AM Author: the penis
> I asked him if, knowing everything he knows now, he wishes that he had just become a lawyer. He shook his head. “I have lived through interesting events, I have affected interesting events, and certainly I’ve never really thought, ‘Oh, I wish I had just gone to law school’,” he said, sipping his cold brew. “I think I got what I was looking for.”
Date: September 12th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: high-end razzmatazz nursing home
Unfortunately, it's lucrative enough. A chud like Charles wouldn't survive a minute in a proper profession like law. But he can make enough being a political media clown to fund his chud lifestyle (video games, pornography, a little studio in phoenix etc.).
Date: September 13th, 2026 9:53 AM Author: overrated public bath half-breed
“What I should have done is realize that you live in dangerous times and stop posting — or if you’re going to post, delete your account, start a new one and add more squid ink,” he said. “And the extremely dumb reason that I didn’t was that I was kind of a popular user there — a person who was generally liked. I didn’t want to just blow that all up.”
Date: September 13th, 2026 10:03 PM Author: Provocative Gas Station
“Sitting in the emergency room waiting area at Timpanogos Regional Hospital, Neff’s first thought was for Kirk’s wife, Erika, and his two children. His next thoughts, tinged with a sense of dread, were about Candace Owens.”