Has-Been Former Child "Star" Who Hasn't Worked in Years Tries to Cancel Dave Chapelle

No one has ever liked Wil Wheaton, ever.

>>>47 Who the f*ck is Wil Wheaton? I know who he is? But who the f*ck is he?

He is a professional Nerd and leftwing scold who was a minor actor on the Star Trek sequel series ages and ages ago and now exists entirely as an internet-based pseudocelebrity. He and I are up for all the same roles in movies and TV, and we each have the exact same odds of landing them.

Netflix is defying the Trans Ban on Dave Chappelle, making him the host of a comedy special.

Wil Wheaton is not only demanding that Chappelle be fired, but that any comedian appearing on this special also be #Cancelled.

After condemning Dave Chappelle’s remarks about transgender people in his most recent Netflix special, actor Wil Wheaton has apologized for his own past homophobia.

“For much of my teen years, I was embarrassingly homophobic, and it all started with that comedy special,” the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” alum wrote in a Facebook post, a reference to Eddie Murphy’s 1983 standup show “Delirious.”

In the lengthy social media post, he detailed a moment when he was young and said a slur, referencing gay men in a locker room — a room full of gay men, no less. He said he was “embarrassed” and “horrified” and still “thinks about it all the time,” offering up an apology nearly 30 years after the incident.

Then he turned to Chappelle’s comments in his controversial Netflix special “The Closer.”

“For a transgender person, those ‘jokes’ normalize hateful, ignorant, bigoted behavior towards them,” he wrote, then turning to those who defended Chappelle seemingly because he is a person of color. “And it’s all okay, because they were dehumanized by a Black man. And the disingenuous argument that it’s actually racist to hold Chapelle accountable for this? Get the f–k out of here.”

I have an incomplete observation about Wil Wheaton and social media. This observation isn't "going anywhere." Just something that I'm noticing.

Certain celebrities -- or former celebrities, or " " " celebrities " " " in Wil Wheaton's case -- jumped on Twitter early. Really low-value people like Chrissie Tiegen.

And like Jake Tapper.

Other idiots whose identity was wrapped up in being Twidiots fell in Twitter Love with these people, because they felt that if " " " celebrities " " " were wasting time on Twitter, that somehow validated their own excessive, obsessive use of Twitter.

I mean -- Wil Wheaton's a Somebody. Chrissy Teagan's a Somebody. Jake Tapper's a Somebody.

Therefore, AllahPundit must be a Somebody too, right?

It stands to reason. If you are desperate to believe it.

This partly explain the "homoerotic" devotion that some Twitter-addicted "right-wing" pundits have for Jake Tapper -- he made them feel good about spending ten hours a day on Twitter.

None of these people are anything. They're not Somebodies. They're much closer to Nobodies. They're just more Somebodies than the actual Nobodies of Twitter.

So they became Twitter "Stars." Not people who were famous for being famous, but people who were famous for... having a lot of followers on twitter.

And they fed the idea that Twitter was somehow a "Star-Making Machine," where you could "get noticed."

I mean, one retweet from Chrissy Teagan could really put you on the map!

(Which map? The map of nobodies who are nowhere and mean nothing?)

No one believes that Twitter or social media are "democratizing celebrity" any longer. It was always a deeply stupid idea.

And barely any of this "Twitter fame" extended very far away from Twitter itself.

Wil Wheaton's career, such as it is, was artificially extended by ten or twelve years just due to his posting on Twitter. Without Twitter, and without the Nerd Cred that Twitter gave him, he wouldn't have gotten those guest appearances on Big Bang Theory, for example.

And that's about all Wil Wheaton got out of his "Twitter fame." That and some low-pay hosting duties for nerd shill shows.

One million twitter followers can buy you a cup of Starbucks coffee if you also have five dollars and thirty five cents.

Twitter is fading as a force now, thankfully, and Twitter no longer elevates zero-grade non-celebrities into Twitter "Stars."

There will be no more Jake Tappers for liberal Republicans to fall in love with, thinking "Oh my gosh, we're both on Twitter, maybe we can be best friends some day! (Or maybe we can be more than best friends!)"

I'm glad that time is over.

And I'm glad that this will probably the last time I have to write about this pudgy, stupid no-account no-talent non-entity loser.

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