The thing you have to remember about Jamie is that he was a shitposting troll with no real life off the Internet and a lot of this stuff was performative. It was mostly histrionic and just fucking around; the people he liked and didn’t like on one level was just normal middle-school being in and out with a loud, prominent person. As for his ideology, he’s solidly right-wing turned MAGA in the last decade as many Twitter/4chan type trolls have. It was always a pet theory of mine that Jamie was MDISF, not least because they both posted as Dave for a while. But I have no proof.

In 2005-2007 after dropping out of college I was extremely online, anti-Bush but vaguely rightish myself and I see a lot of myself then in him. If I may suck my own dick*, I’m a secure enough, enough of a nice guy myself not to need to put up a front to be accepted and spent the long Fourth of July weekend in sex instead of being bitter and redpilled. If I had to guess he became very socially isolated after returning from Canada and Babble was his equivalent of today’s right-wing forums – which is probably a good thing for the world.

• Alpha Hammer could do that. member him?

But at heart he’s a nice, decent guy and a good dude as you’ll find if you followed him on Facebook, as hard as it may be to believe. No, really.