A friend of mine shared something in Slack about Questionable Content ending after 5000 strips. I remembered reading QC years ago, but I don't think I've read it since around 2005 due to lack of interest and I was impressed that it was still running after ~20 years. I went to check out the comic's page and saw that it's up to strip #5003, and it doesn't seem to be wrapping anything up. I clicked back to strip 5000 to see if there was an explanation for anything, but there's just a regular comic (I have no idea what's going on in the story, but it doesn't seem to be significant in any way) and a message from the creator saying that the comic isn't ending. I was confused, so I did a bit of searching and the first thing I found was that there are two subreddits for the comic: r/qcontent which is less popular but seems to support the comic, and r/questionablecontent which is larger but is much more critical of the comic. The latter has posts decrying the comic with people very publicly announcing that they're going to stop reading it, and some even giving advice on how to avoid the comic entirely.
From what I've been able to tell, it seems like a lot of people expected the comic to wrap up when it hit 5000, there's some sort of wedding that people were anticipating that would end the comic, and that some people in both subreddits think the comic has gone downhill recently (though I can't tell if the dissenters are a majority or vocal minority). So my question is why are so many people "quitting" the comic at this point, and was there ever any significance in the 5000th strip?
I remember seeing his vlog where he went to Afghanistan and it felt like a casual internet travel vlogger with the added bonus of discovering dangerous places and countries.
He was reported missing recently, and a Taliban government account (assuming) broke the news and said the forces are actively trying to look for him.
https://twitter.com/talibanprd/status/1635901656243003395
The surprising thing is how most of the replies under tweets about this are negative, hateful and even calling for his death, or wishing to see the ISIS beheading video of him? he seemed like a genuine guy, so what’s going on with all that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsETTn7DehI
I noticed that his most recent video has really odd comments, almost all of them being incredibly anti-semetic. Lots of stuff about the holocaust and Nazi Germany, and then many references to an old movie he starred in, Europa: The Last Battle. I'm wondering why these people are on Arnold's video out of all places, and how there are so many of them.
Recently I’ve gotten a ton of notifications from Twitter of people saying Mr Beast passed away. I searched google to try and find any news but nothing showed up relating to his death. However Twitter right now is torn between if its true or false and the tweet that im assuming started it has received a ton of retweets and likes. Other people have started to copy the same thing. Is this just another wave of misinformation?
https://twitter.com/extremeblitz__/status/1636030068714528774?s=46&t=SF__K_Euskk0w9uXnsAD_g
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