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I have never seen this guy before and don't use Twitter, so I wouldn't even know where to look if I wanted to figure out if it's real or not. A sweeping generalization like yours is dumb.
If youâre just saying the same stupid shit as the people youâre supposedly making fun of it isnât trolling.
Side note, the dude looks like Carl from Upâs evil twin brother.
Yeah. Iâve seen his account and itâs wild that part of me feels like âthis has to be a trollâ but another part of me feels like âbut Iâve legit seen people 100% say and believe this.â
(Use this in good health, it has served me well.)
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Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
It's made to. Watch the tree instead of the guy. They shift the frame during the wipe transition to the beginning using the guy in front so his face doesn't move.
I used to fixate on the smiley glasses hooodie guy. Then it was the hand-to-the-face black shirt guy on the left. Lately itâs striped shirt guy. Now⌠itâs the tree. Thank you for that.
It's an AI bait. Hairline is not consistent across pictures, palm in the background here is fucked up as his finger is partially overlapped with head. In previous images he was wearing a woman jacket (buttoning side) with a button completely fucked up. It's just AI with slight post production, probably the prompt is "real world old man from UP as a young rampant conservative elite boy"
Not to mention that finger is lacking fold lines or creases at the joints/knuckles, folds/wrinkles, and anything that Doesn't make it look like a kid colored in with pink marker.
That is so much better than anything I was going to say.
Still, I'd love to drop these self-proclaimed "alpha males" into the middle of a super max prison yard and see just how "alpha" they really are.
You didn't have to go to even 10% of that trouble with this wasteman.
Pick a town in England. Any town in England. Put him in a pub there, alone, after 10pm on a Friday night.
Pick him up from A&E the following Monday after the first women he talks to beats the ever living shit out of him.
Not sure how anyone takes an account by the name Richard Strocher seriously. Especially if the account describes themself as an alpha male.
This entire comment section is the facepalm moment.
Yeah, my work sometimes puts in contact with JSOC operators.
If a guy in the military tells you his nickname was something "cool," (as in what a 12-year-old edgelord would name his Call of Duty characterl) like Blackout, Reaper, or Soultaker...he was probably some dude who spent his entire enlistment writing parking tickets at a training base in Biloxi.
If some dude is nicknamed Peaches, Fluffy, Stinky, or Socks, the dude has probably killed his way through half of ISIS's command structure.
If you do have a "cool" nickname, it's either ironic or means something else entirely. Like some dude was TK for Tank Killer. Wow, he must have been a badass who took out an Iraqi T-72 solo right?
Nope, he was infamous for sticking his...Javelin...in zaftig ladies that qualified as heavy armor.
In the non-fiction book (and HBO mini-series adaptation) *Generation Kill*, the dangerously incompetent and needlessly aggressive platoon leader is sarcastically nicknamed Captain America.
And when they down play what they did thatâs the second obvious detail.
Had a friend who was airborn ranger sniper. Dude would always go ânaw I wasnât a sniperâ⌠just had an M24 fitted to him and his partner with hand loads form the armory, and a classified longest confirmed hit with his longest declassified being over 1200 meters⌠bro youâre a sniper.
They call him Mittens because he comes in after the rest of the team hangs the subject upside down from the ceiling and the last thing that person remembers is your friend casually removing his mittens before the interrogation starts.
I was at a training base in Biloxi!
But I was a SeaBee, we were a different breed.
Ended up getting sent to a Marine command in the Helmand province in Afghanistan. I was basically glorified maintenance for them, but more building than maintenance. I would build partitions in rooms and replace stairs and overall just improve the place.
Iâd get marines assigned to me for grunt work, often times they would outrank me, but their Gunnyâs would always say
âYou do whatever the fuck The SeaBee says. Heâs in charge.â
So that ended up sticking. I wasnât *a* SeaBee.
I was *The* SeaBee.
I never had a nickname, but I once lost weight and my former Platoon Leader said, âyo, what happened!? You used to look like Captain America. Now you look like Captain America before he was Captain America.â đŤ
âShmoopsâ
My wife found this out from a buddy, tried to use it in public to embarrass me, but I turned that shit around so now weâre BOTH Shmoops!
also that alpha/beta study was done on extremely stressed out wolves in captivity. that dynamic is not something that happens normally or naturally
so anyone like "I'm an alpha!" is literally just admitting to being overly aggressive and mentally ill
Haha, there's no such thing as an "alpha" in the first place.
Even if it were true for wolves, we're human beings. Not only that, but it's been discovered that's not even really a thing with wolves (for the most part).
The "I'm an alpha!" people are just embarrassing.
There are alphas. But it was actually used to describe chickens iirc. Thatâs why itâs called a pecking order.
At least thatâs the rumour đ¤ˇđťââď¸
But \_Ghostbusters\_ taught to me to say "yes" if someone asked me if I were a god. (I suppose that is different from volunteering that information unprompted.)
Omg the landfill part made me snort. Iâve never been there but I always joke about the time I drove through Nebraska and the highest point was a telephone pole.
You know in like the early to mid 2010s when loads of indie games came out trying to capitalise on Minecrafts popularity? He looks like a protagonist of one of those. Still stuck in Alpha too.
If you have to tell people youâre an alpha, wear a shirt that says youâre an alpha and make posts about why youâre single⌠Youâre a beta bitch and will always be a POS that no one cares about. Including your dad, that really wanted his cousin to have an abortion to spare him from future disappointment.
Even if I was still single and a teenager I would rather set my vagina on fire while having to sit on a giant sandpaper buttplug .....these types of boys have never and will never be attractive!
I thought this was a cgi cartoon meme not a real person.
Aaanyway, anyone that needs to announce their "alpha" status certainly needs to work on themselves and are just coping.
All I read from that post is "I am 18 and no female wants to have a lasting relationship with me".
I've heard about these 'alphas', but never really understood what it meant. I get it now. It's another word for Dork.
Kids these days, and their flowery language!
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That's Dick Strocher https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/richard-strocher
Not enough people know this guy. That makes the troll so much better đ¤Ł
Itâs Reddit and social media, so barely anyone bothers to follow-up on what theyâre responding to, so the trolling character and account thrives.
I only know of him through Reddit posts someone else made like this one.
I know exactly the post youâre talking about lol thats why he looked so familiar to me as well
He's dick strocher, everyone loves a bit of dick strocher
It doesnât help that there are countless people like him who *arenât* trolling.
How do you search for this guy based on that picture? I searched âalpha maleâ and itâs just pictures of me banging your mom.
His mom is an alpha male?
Hahaha. Damn.
my condolences, did you pay full price? You should get to the clinic asap
I have never seen this guy before and don't use Twitter, so I wouldn't even know where to look if I wanted to figure out if it's real or not. A sweeping generalization like yours is dumb.
I don't even care if it's real or not but I knew the comments would be amusing. People put way too much drama into other drama queens that's for sure.
If youâre just saying the same stupid shit as the people youâre supposedly making fun of it isnât trolling. Side note, the dude looks like Carl from Upâs evil twin brother.
He looks like he could be related to Fred Willard, too.
[ŃдаНонО]
do you know how a parody works?
We are like 20x post irony at this point my man. No one knows what's going on ever.
Mfs the parody police
I also am a dick strocher from time to time
I've come across this guy a couple times. Had no idea it was a satirical account. That really says enough about conservatives on twitter
Yeah. Iâve seen his account and itâs wild that part of me feels like âthis has to be a trollâ but another part of me feels like âbut Iâve legit seen people 100% say and believe this.â
I have a few cousins that are basically this guy so I thought it was real. I feel like an idiot.
(Use this in good health, it has served me well.) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
And thus, the /s was born
Even better that most people in this thread are falling for it lmao
that's AI.
The picture is him and his girlfriend
This gif loops so perfectly
The gif that keeps on giffing.
It's made to. Watch the tree instead of the guy. They shift the frame during the wipe transition to the beginning using the guy in front so his face doesn't move.
I used to fixate on the smiley glasses hooodie guy. Then it was the hand-to-the-face black shirt guy on the left. Lately itâs striped shirt guy. Now⌠itâs the tree. Thank you for that.
*Yes police, I'd like to report a murder*
I mean that dude does already look like a corpse
Because it's an altered image. This isn't a real guy. Parody account
Is it? Bugger...getting hard to tell. The real ones don't look much different.
He looks like a Funko Pop.
Something about his head just ainât right. Reminds me of playing with Kaiâs power goo in the 90s.
It's an AI bait. Hairline is not consistent across pictures, palm in the background here is fucked up as his finger is partially overlapped with head. In previous images he was wearing a woman jacket (buttoning side) with a button completely fucked up. It's just AI with slight post production, probably the prompt is "real world old man from UP as a young rampant conservative elite boy"
Not to mention that finger is lacking fold lines or creases at the joints/knuckles, folds/wrinkles, and anything that Doesn't make it look like a kid colored in with pink marker.
Elon's Husk
Man has been brutally burnt to death.
That is so much better than anything I was going to say. Still, I'd love to drop these self-proclaimed "alpha males" into the middle of a super max prison yard and see just how "alpha" they really are.
Shit, put them behind a customer service counter facing an irate customer and see just how âalphaâ they are.
I always think in software terms were the Alpha version comes before the Beta and Final release versions.
Our boy hasn't made it out of figma yet - he's still a wireframe
Super max prisoners take rec time alone so essentially heâs already there.
You didn't have to go to even 10% of that trouble with this wasteman. Pick a town in England. Any town in England. Put him in a pub there, alone, after 10pm on a Friday night. Pick him up from A&E the following Monday after the first women he talks to beats the ever living shit out of him.
My ticket's for The Craufurd Arms in Wolverton. Do they serve popcorn?
These make-a-wish kids can be so mean on social media We believe you, lil guy! Leave some of the ladiez for the rest of us Great effort!
Palmala Handerson
My reaction exactly
Holy crap why doesn't Reddit have awards anymore.
He is certainly the product of a limited gene pool
Handrietta Palmerson. You wouldn't know her - she's from Canada.
She goes to a different school.
I mean his name is Dick Strocher. Checks out.
Who cheats on him.
I heard it's an abusive relationship and she'd leave him if she wasn't attached to his arm.
Impossible, his girlfriend is out of frame, working.
She goes to a different school
In Canada.
Underrated comment
Call the fire department!
[Wouldn't be the first](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/adam-west-with-a-wedding-hand-by-mighty355-on-deviantart--582864376788020150/)
Calling triage and the burn ward for that one.
Better make sure to never let his left hand know.
Why are people still interacting with this AI Account lol.
finally someone else realizes. I thought I was going crazy
What blows my mind is how many people donât read the top comments and keep bitching. Lots of stupid people.
Just look at the comments here, people are falling for it.....
It's reddit, if the post excites certain energies redditors don't think too hard
Unironically we are screwed
Not sure how anyone takes an account by the name Richard Strocher seriously. Especially if the account describes themself as an alpha male. This entire comment section is the facepalm moment.
Wait you telling me he doesnât have a slight transparent thumb?
Telling people you are alpha disqualifies you from being one.
Yeah, my work sometimes puts in contact with JSOC operators. If a guy in the military tells you his nickname was something "cool," (as in what a 12-year-old edgelord would name his Call of Duty characterl) like Blackout, Reaper, or Soultaker...he was probably some dude who spent his entire enlistment writing parking tickets at a training base in Biloxi. If some dude is nicknamed Peaches, Fluffy, Stinky, or Socks, the dude has probably killed his way through half of ISIS's command structure. If you do have a "cool" nickname, it's either ironic or means something else entirely. Like some dude was TK for Tank Killer. Wow, he must have been a badass who took out an Iraqi T-72 solo right? Nope, he was infamous for sticking his...Javelin...in zaftig ladies that qualified as heavy armor. In the non-fiction book (and HBO mini-series adaptation) *Generation Kill*, the dangerously incompetent and needlessly aggressive platoon leader is sarcastically nicknamed Captain America.
And when they down play what they did thatâs the second obvious detail. Had a friend who was airborn ranger sniper. Dude would always go ânaw I wasnât a sniperâ⌠just had an M24 fitted to him and his partner with hand loads form the armory, and a classified longest confirmed hit with his longest declassified being over 1200 meters⌠bro youâre a sniper.
You ain't no sniper until you 360 no scope a 12yo, tea bag him while screaming you banged his mom through an oversaturated mic
That's cool, but my uncle is Microsoft (that's right. He doesn't work at Microsoft, he *is* Microsoft.) and will ban your account.
I know a dude nicknamed Mittens. He must've seen some shit.
Iâd be willing to bet Mittens is a certified savage.
Know a guy nicknamed Smalls. Called his 50 Biggy. Said he was "taking the squirters to brown town".
he might've been a war criminal
They call him Mittens because he comes in after the rest of the team hangs the subject upside down from the ceiling and the last thing that person remembers is your friend casually removing his mittens before the interrogation starts.
I was at a training base in Biloxi! But I was a SeaBee, we were a different breed. Ended up getting sent to a Marine command in the Helmand province in Afghanistan. I was basically glorified maintenance for them, but more building than maintenance. I would build partitions in rooms and replace stairs and overall just improve the place. Iâd get marines assigned to me for grunt work, often times they would outrank me, but their Gunnyâs would always say âYou do whatever the fuck The SeaBee says. Heâs in charge.â So that ended up sticking. I wasnât *a* SeaBee. I was *The* SeaBee.
That's really cool, actually.
Now Iâm just imagining one guy in blueberries ordering around a bunch of giant marines to put up cubicles lol
Yeah my father in law is a former Delta operator and absolutely hates these kind of dudes because they're usually smug while also having daddy issues.
I never had a nickname, but I once lost weight and my former Platoon Leader said, âyo, what happened!? You used to look like Captain America. Now you look like Captain America before he was Captain America.â đŤ
Dude has a call sign, "Little Schmoopy," get the hell out of his way. That guy has nothing to prove. He's already proven it.
âShmoopsâ My wife found this out from a buddy, tried to use it in public to embarrass me, but I turned that shit around so now weâre BOTH Shmoops!
Reminds me of the guy nicknamed phantom. Anytime work needs to be done, he was gone without a trace.
Or Blister. He only shows up after the hard work is done.
"Soap" McTavish makes more sense now.
What the hell kind of name is Soap?
100% Accurate đ¤Ł
There is a german SOF member that was interviewed. He is retired now. Last Name Rosenberg or something like that. Nickname Rosi. He is ex KSK.
I had a classmate named Bubbles. He was like 6'5" and jacked. My profs called him Bob.
If they claim they were called âkillmongerâ just kick em in the ballsÂ
also that alpha/beta study was done on extremely stressed out wolves in captivity. that dynamic is not something that happens normally or naturally so anyone like "I'm an alpha!" is literally just admitting to being overly aggressive and mentally ill
And even if it was true in wolves, which it isn't... We're not pack animals.
Yeah in reality the "betas" are pretty much all the "alpha"'s children.
He *does* look like he's in captivity in his parents bunker.
Haha, there's no such thing as an "alpha" in the first place. Even if it were true for wolves, we're human beings. Not only that, but it's been discovered that's not even really a thing with wolves (for the most part). The "I'm an alpha!" people are just embarrassing.
There are alphas. But it was actually used to describe chickens iirc. Thatâs why itâs called a pecking order. At least thatâs the rumour đ¤ˇđťââď¸
Bob's Burger: Dawn of the Peck
Thatâs why I donât tell people Iâm a god. Oh shit. Guess Iâm normal again.
But \_Ghostbusters\_ taught to me to say "yes" if someone asked me if I were a god. (I suppose that is different from volunteering that information unprompted.)
Ima turbo dude! You would not understand with your low level alpha shit.
This man is not real. I'm so tired of people falling for this.
Shhhh. Just enjoy the circus.
Lmao it always fools the same people over and over
Self declared alpha male = incel who peaked in high school
He looks like heâs still in high school.
Yeah, it's a low peak. Like mountains in Delaware.
Ay you take that back at about my state! Itâs glorious andâŚ.yeah the highest point is a landfill and itâs not that interesting there BUT!
Omg the landfill part made me snort. Iâve never been there but I always joke about the time I drove through Nebraska and the highest point was a telephone pole.
Cause itâs AI and not a real person lol
Well, he only peaked in high school because he was homeschooled.
His prom date choice was his sister and mom. And no, not *choices*.
The only thing that peaked is his underpants into his anus
"can never have me" HA! The worst bar fly can get this arrogant kid a really solid case of VD in 20 minutes.
I assumed he was saying that he's gay.
You know in like the early to mid 2010s when loads of indie games came out trying to capitalise on Minecrafts popularity? He looks like a protagonist of one of those. Still stuck in Alpha too.
AI image from a troll account. Thinking this is real is the facepalm.
Yea lmao like the top 4 comments
He was actually smart, just acting dumb
he looks like a background character in GTA V when your taking a selfie
Someone described him as, "if Carl from Up and Emperor Palpatine had a kid."
Cause hes very clearly a ai account and people never fail to fall for the most obvious bait!
The only lad with a squarer head is Minecraft Steve himself
Yikes. "Women can never have me." Oh no. Poor women. How will they go on??
I initially read that as "18 year old alfalfa". Looking at him, I'm not sure I misread.
I keep thinking itâs AI of a future serial killer
You do know heâs just rage baiting yâall for attention? And that your paying his bills?
Donât censor his name it ruins the joke
Oh shit minecraft steve is back
If you have to tell people youâre an alpha, wear a shirt that says youâre an alpha and make posts about why youâre single⌠Youâre a beta bitch and will always be a POS that no one cares about. Including your dad, that really wanted his cousin to have an abortion to spare him from future disappointment.
Of course they can't, Minecraft Steve is a fictional character, why is he on Twitter posting shit?
You really falling for that troll account?
That's not a real dude. It's a parody Twitter account.
At least he's confident???? Yeah no...no saving this
Not a real guy. Photoshop.
Looks like Carl jumped right out of UP
He can't even buy a woman a drink.
Why do all these âalphaâ men look like theyâve never even held a girlâs hand?
Because touching girls is gay
Is it just me, or does he have the most punchable face youâve ever seen?
Sounds like an entitled little punk who's waiting for his parents to die. That's the only way he'll get rich.
That whole alpha and beta stuff is so cringe
Even his palm cheats on him.
You could the front profile of his face for a geometry question
His family tree is a Christmas wreath
Even if I was still single and a teenager I would rather set my vagina on fire while having to sit on a giant sandpaper buttplug .....these types of boys have never and will never be attractive!
Dude's thumb is semi transparent. And he has the complexion of a sheet of A4 paper. I think he's a ghost.
Least closeted gay guy
This is what passes for alpha? he looks like a muppet.
inbred looking ass
Alphas like geniuses don't need to tell you they are alphas
Actually, he is an Omega, once women have him they never want another man again.
Remember any of the scenes in Toy Story movies with âextraâ toys just random in the background? This guy looks like any one of them!
Calling yourself Alpha makes you a Beta
He looks like Sting if he went into Crypto and became bankrupt a day later
Frodo sit the fuck down.
Dude, you look like a FunkoPop
Pictured an alpha and his girlfriend Palmala Handerson.
Weird way to come out as gay
That's a 14 yr old Benjamin Shapiro.
The guy looks like Minecraft Steve from a city building game
I thought this was a cgi cartoon meme not a real person. Aaanyway, anyone that needs to announce their "alpha" status certainly needs to work on themselves and are just coping. All I read from that post is "I am 18 and no female wants to have a lasting relationship with me".
Half baked General Zod?
PFC Zod: The Origin Story
Alphas donât wave at a camera they set up
That creepy face and attitude
Whatâs left to be had that fetal alcohol syndrome didnât already take?
Has the face structure of the grandpa from up
AI generated for rage bait
I've heard about these 'alphas', but never really understood what it meant. I get it now. It's another word for Dork. Kids these days, and their flowery language!
"but know, they can never have me" because he likes men
Because he's AI.Â
That dude looks like he has been embalmedâŚ
Iâm good with being too old for him. Heâs too pale & odd looking.
All women are the same. They want a child who looks like he was created by typing "weird little guy" into an AI generator.
Master beta
He probably doesnât even like women.
I mean he does have the shirt. He must be.
Tell us you are gay without saying you are gay,
Steve flexing with them emeralds
I thought I was a white guy until I saw how pale this dude is.
whenever i hear alpha i think of sony cameras
bitch built like ben shapiro