this shit wasn't funny

Extreme Peace sucks ass. The editing is sloppy, the jokes are tired, and the energy is completely gone. For a guy who once defined the sharp, chaotic edge of alt-comedy, it feels like a sad imitation of what he used to be. This isn’t just about Hyde. It’s a perfect reflection of what’s happened to the broader online alt-right and its so called humor. In the early 2010s, the alt-right was obscure and niche, just like Hyde’s early work: a mixture of irony, internet in-jokes, racism, nihilism, and absurdism that only made sense to people who were extremely online. It was offensive, yes, but at least it was unpredictable and weird. Then it got popular. And like everything that goes mainstream, it got worse. The irony curdled into sincerity. The jokes were repeated into oblivion. Normies showed up, and the subculture stopped being subversive.

Sam Hyde’s fall from relevance mirrors the movement he once represented. Just as Extreme Peace is a lazy rehash of better work, the alt-right today is a hollowed-out version of what it was in 2016. Back then, it was using absurd humor and meme culture to push its ideology and troll the mainstream. Now it’s reduced to recycled talking points, doomer podcasts, and rage-bait Twitter accounts begging for money.