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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 27, 2024

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Kulak is not a woman. I think he's trying very hard to create a fake woman thirst trap persona.

It's entirely possible their onlyfans preview pics are AI

But if not, they're either a man with a top notch boob job and naturally pretty feet (also entirely possible) or a woman

Kulak wrote a long essay about why Supreme Commander Forged Alliance was the greatest RTS ever made. On pure probabilities, interest in niche decade-old RTS games has to be amongst the most manly topics. Just look at his twitter and substack: war, evolutionary psychology, Hitler, motorcycles and libertarianism!

I think he hired a chick to play him and terribly read his scripts.

Listen to him on a bailey podcast episode from back in 2020: https://thebaileypodcast.substack.com/p/e016-the-banality-of-catgirls-f65

He has claimed that he used to use a voice modulator to sound male to prove that "she" could make it without being a thirst trap. But that's just track covering. 2020 is before Kulak was down this influencer wanna be rabbit hole and that's just a dudes voice. And it has absolutely no resemblance in cadence or speech patterns to "girl" kulak

Also, no woman ever wrote like Kulak writes ever.

He has literally recruited an OnlyFans model to pose for pictures that he then passes off as himself on Twitter. Kulak himself looks nothing like this woman.

That is the funniest possible possibility, and had not even occurred to me. So the gal in the onlyfans is like a billboard?

She’s partially a billboard/catfish to try and pull in gullible Twitter/Substack subscribers looking to interact with a “right-wing e-girl” and partially just a prop for an extended bit he’s engaged in for his own amusement (and possible self-closeted autogynephilia).