That Julian guy is a scumbag. I`ve got nothing against pickup as a whole, I was heavily involved in it until a couple years ago. And I`m familiar with RSD and know Alexander who is (was) an instructor with them, and in general RSD has created a lot of valuable content. But Julian tried to create this kind of Slim Shady style alter ego, and he actually started to become like that from what I can see. He was too stupid to realize that he had fanboys who would imitate him and his alter ego and cause problems.
I live in Japan, and about a year ago some of his fans came to Japan and were being fucking RETARDS - throwing their arms around girls on the street and not letting go, the girls were pulling away and screaming. I was like "What the fuck are you guys doing? If you want to get with a Japanese girl, just have a chat and smile, and don`t be scary." They told me "Yeah, we were doing that but Julian said we needed to be way more physically aggressive". They had added me to a private facebook group they`d made for the trip, and Julian was member of the group so I had a look. They`d been posting videos of their approaches and Julian had told them to be way more physical, to "just grab the girl and don`t let go". I responded to him telling him he`s WAY off, and in Japan you can get yourself in big trouble doing that. He didn`t respond. I ended up avoiding those guys, and one of them ended up on the front pages of newspapers in Hong Kong and Korea for uploading his pickup videos to the internet. Locals were PISSED not only at him but at white guys for being arrogant douches. I deleted that guy on all channels.
9 or 10 months later this Julian thing blows up, and there he is in the videos doing the same kind of shit I had seen his followers do --- except that his followers freaked the girls out much more than him. What kind of an idiot does he have to be to not understand that impressionable followers who look to him as a celebrity are going to recklessly try to imitate him, yet not have the charisma to "get away with" it? RSD fans are all saying "We know Julian was just joking" but I saw his followers acting like molestors after being advised by him, the guy was not joking.
Well, I guess his charisma only helped him get away with it for so long. In Japan the yakuza are now out to get him (they`re tied to Japan`s ultranationalists, who don`t appreciate their women being humiliated --- well, at least not by non-Japanese men). The police want him too. And every foreigner here wants to whoop his ass for making us all look like douchebags. He`s getting banned from countries around the world, and his company is now sinking fast. Game over, it seems. It could only get worse if someone files charges. You should have listened to me, fucker.
It`s all been a very interesting case study in social media and virality though.
I live in Japan, and about a year ago some of his fans came to Japan and were being fucking RETARDS - throwing their arms around girls on the street and not letting go, the girls were pulling away and screaming. I was like "What the fuck are you guys doing? If you want to get with a Japanese girl, just have a chat and smile, and don`t be scary." They told me "Yeah, we were doing that but Julian said we needed to be way more physically aggressive". They had added me to a private facebook group they`d made for the trip, and Julian was member of the group so I had a look. They`d been posting videos of their approaches and Julian had told them to be way more physical, to "just grab the girl and don`t let go". I responded to him telling him he`s WAY off, and in Japan you can get yourself in big trouble doing that. He didn`t respond. I ended up avoiding those guys, and one of them ended up on the front pages of newspapers in Hong Kong and Korea for uploading his pickup videos to the internet. Locals were PISSED not only at him but at white guys for being arrogant douches. I deleted that guy on all channels.
9 or 10 months later this Julian thing blows up, and there he is in the videos doing the same kind of shit I had seen his followers do --- except that his followers freaked the girls out much more than him. What kind of an idiot does he have to be to not understand that impressionable followers who look to him as a celebrity are going to recklessly try to imitate him, yet not have the charisma to "get away with" it? RSD fans are all saying "We know Julian was just joking" but I saw his followers acting like molestors after being advised by him, the guy was not joking.
Well, I guess his charisma only helped him get away with it for so long. In Japan the yakuza are now out to get him (they`re tied to Japan`s ultranationalists, who don`t appreciate their women being humiliated --- well, at least not by non-Japanese men). The police want him too. And every foreigner here wants to whoop his ass for making us all look like douchebags. He`s getting banned from countries around the world, and his company is now sinking fast. Game over, it seems. It could only get worse if someone files charges. You should have listened to me, fucker.
It`s all been a very interesting case study in social media and virality though.
