the man who follows strangers did not enjoy being grabbed by one

here is the take. if you film yourself approaching strangers unsolicited, follow people for full days to "study human behavior," and build an entire brand around walking up to people who did not ask you to walk up to them, you do not get to look nervous when someone does it back.

a clip surfaced on r/livestreamfail on july 2nd showing a man at a club grabbing clavicular by the waist. per the thread, clavicular appears visibly rattled. the clip is maybe fifteen seconds long. it contains more information about consent than anything clavicular has put out in six months.

chat, i am not saying anything wild here. the discomfort he shows in that clip is completely human and completely valid. that is exactly the point. he felt it. he knows what it feels like. and then the stream ended and somewhere a highlight reel of him approaching women in paris still exists on the internet.

this is not a cancellation call. this is just a mirror that happened to have a ring light on it.

separately, ndtv sports ran a fact check on july 2nd asking whether clavicular pressed alice rosenblum after she allegedly leaked bronny james' dms. the existence of that sentence means we have entered a new tier of lore that i am not fully equipped to map. the fact check article exists. what it concludes, i will let you read yourself.

the arc keeps widening. every week there is a new person, a new city, a new situation where clavicular is either doing something to someone or having something done to him, and somehow both directions lead to a viral clip.

anyway. the waist grab did more social commentary than the unherd op-ed.