Bonjour,
New York Tech week has been great, but:
Deana and I had a fun time on this week's stream. We talked about Phoebe Gates' new star-studded cap table for her startup Phia, Obsession and Backrooms, a Peptides Event, Victoria's Secret's stock bump, and more. Check it out here.
Knicks in 4,
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Hunter Biden, son of the 46th President of the United States Joe Biden, won Twitter this week.
The Artist. Author. Recovery Advocate. (according to his bio) had a generational run on Elon's everything app.
For those unfamiliar with Hunter's lore, for much of his life he has been considered the black sheep of the Biden clan. His crack cocaine and alcohol addiction led him to make some poor decisions, getting him into legal trouble during his dad's presidency. Lucky for him, daddy pulled a pardon and he didn't serve jail time. For the record, I too would have called my president dad in this situation.
But he’s been sober for several years, openly speaks about his struggles and is radically transparent about his recovery journey. His channel 5 interview is testament to this.
Maybe it's that transparency, him being a screw-up in a prestigious American family, his seemingly complete lack of media training, or his blossoming painting career, but for some reason my side of the internet just loves this man.
Which made his reply-guying absolutely catnip for his edgelord fans this week.
His replies had range: coming to the defense of his mother, clarifying his drug of choice, introducing a new Illuminati (Epstein elite oligarch class as he calls it), telling antisemitic commenters to fuck off, calling White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller an "ugly fuck," and agreeing with followers that he needs to clean up his profanity.
Absolutely wildly entertaining stuff, and as ever with the too-online crowd, the personhood of Hunter Biden became a meme format, coming to life in many forms and fashions, including invites to hang out, often with suggested hot spots followers assumed would be his vibe:
We also saw some concern for what other vices our anti-hero might find:
And hypothesizing on some non-zero chances for his future:
Of course, there was the other side of the coin and some serious visceral hate for the man graced the feed, but that did not stop him. Go off king has never felt more approp.
