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The internet is a wide, wild world full of characters vying for widespread attention. Sometimes these individuals get the fame they so desire, but not always because of their accolades; sometimes those who chase fame have no idea what to actually do with it when they have it.
Today’s internet tale focuses on a man whom witnesses have described as exhausting at best, and reprehensible at worst, and the embodiment of an asshole Twitter reply guy with a smug anime girl icon most colloquially: he is the content creator formerly known as TheWhiteBowser, AKA Earl Dube. This article will interchangeably refer to him as “Bowser” and “Earl” from here on out.
From most angles, Earl seems like any other eccentric anime and video game enthusiast on the internet. He edits anime music videos, makes 3D renders, and majored in informational technology, in spite of his self-declared hindrances of autism and bipolar disorder. By all means, he should be part of the scenery at the least, or a success story at most. I wouldn’t even be speaking his name today if he were so ordinary. However, in spite of Earl’s self-projected righteous image, he carries a sinister presence across at least four social media platforms with misdeeds urging from egging on suicide, to molesting his coworkers. He is a grown man who found out far too late in the game that you cannot use your conditions as an excuse for your misdeeds, especially when you gradually expand your wrongs into outright felonies.
This article is not presented as a doxx nor as any call to action. It is intended to lay out a loose timeline and to tell a cautionary tale about an obscure, self-made public figure, along with how to not become an unwilling internet celebrity. It is also a reminder for internet denizens of all ages to keep their eyes open for predators and groomers, the real kinds: sometimes a joke really isn’t just a joke, especially when it involves young girls.
Step 1: The Drive-By Dickhead
In recent years, Youtube has become a hub for videos about eccentric internet characters, whether these individuals are making their own videos, or being discussed in other users’ video essays. This micro-industry may be comparable to the mainstream paparazzi and tabloid industry, but this community is almost entirely grassroots – users are encouraged to make these videos for public entertainment, but not to expect money in return. Much of this community is home to what are known as “lolcow” spectators. A lolcow is any individual whose activity is entertaining in some way, and can also be “milked” for content, like a metaphorical cow. This is not limited to underground internet personalities, as some mainstream celebrities, such as Andy Dick and Perry Caravello have stumbled down into lifestyles of the “typical” lolcow.
Our story begins in late December 2022. There are countless lolcow commentators who Youtube users can grab onto for underground news updates. One of these commentators is SmokeyMcC – or “Smokey” as his co-hosts and fans simply call him – who was, and still is, is one of the foremost documentarians of the lolcow spectating community. Smokey has built up a sizable fanbase thanks to his calm, welcoming demeanour. Some Youtube documentarians may play up an edgy persona, but Smokey’s channel aims to be objective, and this is reflected in the face he puts to his speaking voice: his channel’s persona is a photo of Hawaiian musician Kenneth Kalei Ho’opai Jr., which was re-attributed during the late 2000s as “Surfshack Tito”, a prominent troll during the early days of the Chris Chan chronology who was named after a character from Nickelodeon’s Rocket Power. Smokey’s “Tito” character is separate from the Chris Chan troll, and instead used to reflect Smokey’s kindly, casual presence throughout his videos, which has helped contribute to his prominence.
At one point, his channel had an associated Discord chat server called The Smoke Shack, which is now defunct, but at the time served as a hub for fans of Smokey’s channel. Smokey himself was not usually in the server, but thanks to his moderating team, it was, for the most part, a welcoming atmosphere. However, the pleasantries would be temporarily shattered one night, when a dormant user leapt into someone else’s conversation and told them to kill themselves.
The offending user was simply known as “TheWhiteBowser”. Previously, “Bowser” was a fan of Smokey’s channel who got into the latter’s videos for coverage of Cyrax, a particularly infamous internet character who has rose to infamy in recent years. Bowser was in the Smoke Shack server for almost a year, providing a very minor, if not obnoxious presence. According to witnesses, Bowser most often frequented the server’s vent channel; these are common in large servers, and serve as a designated chat channel for serious discussions and advice separate from usual discussion topics. Bowser would go in the Smoke Shack’s vent channel to air out minor grievances about his life, and occasionally get in minor spats with other members. However, on this particular day, a friend of Smokey’s – who we will refer to for brevity as Vet A – entered the vent voice channel to discuss his trauma as a military veteran. He had served overseas in a particularly brutal tour, and because of the things he’d seen, Vet A was struggling with suicide ideation. Since Bowser was ever present in the vent channel, he was there to promptly suggest Vet A should follow through with ending his own life. According to witnesses, Bowser’s opened this with, “I support veteran suicide.”
Others in the server were understandably horrified by Bowser’s reaction. Bowser tried to justify this brisk response by bringing up his devout Catholic faith, through which he declared suicide as a sin: most Catholics are taught suicide is sinful because it wastes the breath of life given to humans by God, and therefore is an act of violence against God himself; Pope John Paul II had plenty to say demonizing suicide, and Catholic.com declares, “By taking our own life, we are destroying something that is not ours to destroy. Only God, in his infinite wisdom and justice, has the right to take human life, or confer on his creatures that right.” However, the Bible does not explicitly state that suicide is a sin; the only mention of suicide in the New Testament regards Judas Iscariot’s demise. This is all to say that the White Bowser was talking out of his ass. Most importantly, no one else in the chat at that time was Catholic, and even if they were, being reminded of the omnipresent vengeance of God is not the most helpful thing for anyone struggling with suicide ideation.
The server very quickly turned against Bowser. In the ensuing voice chats, Bowser claimed his remarks to Vet A were “jokes”; he would soon go on to tell these “jokes” again, this time targeted at transgender people, during an era where trans suicide was a hotly-debated online topic, along with gay people, “heathens”, and individuals with substance addictions. Before this, Smokey was not heavily interactive with the server. He had some trusted friends and moderators that he would pop in to talk with, but as soon as these friends presented Smokey with a laundry list of the White Bowser’s harassment attempts (with Smokey later calling this a “rampage”), Smokey gave the go-ahead for his moderators to ban him. The White Bowser later claimed he left the server of his own volition, but this is confirmed to be false by many former server members.
Smokey later went on to say that the White Bowser faded from his memory over the ensuing few weeks. During this time, friends and associates would send Smokey the occasional detail about Bowser, recommending the latter as a new lolcow, but Smokey did not take interest. This should have been where Bowser took his leave, tended to his wounds, and moved on…but he took the ousting personally.
Step 2: Throw Some Libel
At the group’s first glance, Bowser was just another internet tough guy with an eclectic digital footprint, a type that’s a dime a dozen in the grand scheme of the internet. Much like the average internet tough guy, Bowser couldn’t handle rejection upon being called out for his misdeeds. He attempted to reach out to Smokey on Twitter, tagging the latter’s account in a long text rant called “The Kiwi Farms 2.0 Rant”, which compared the Smoke Shack server to far-right gossip forum Kiwi Farms, and accused Smokey of personally kicking Bowser out of the server “for no reason”. Bowser would continue to bicker vitriolically with anyone who replied and tried to calmly explain why he was banned. Smokey paid no mind to this situation until Bowser suddenly released a video to Youtube, titled, “Smokey is the pedophile now? The true lolcow CONSPIRACY | Video Special”
Smokey was horrified. Unbeknownst to him, one of his colleagues named MF Goon lied to the White Bowser and said Smokey was involved with the lolcow Cyrax and the latter’s arch-nemesis, Music Biz Marty, forming a trifecta that created absurdist content and documented it for profit. Goon later remarked that he was shocked Bowser actually believed any part of this story, let alone took it so seriously to the point of dropping a “call-out” video with outright slander in the title. Smokey and countless others in the lolcow community begun to investigate the White Bowser for themselves.
Many people in the lolcow community are adept web archivists. Despite how much of the community may refer to autism in a derogatory manner, many in this community are autistic themselves, and use their interest in minute details and obscure knowledge to help document or explore the internet. Digital footprints are easy to trace when a user knows how to use various techniques and browser tools. Much of lolcow “history” is digital ephemera that is easily lost to time, but just as easily preserved by these archivists. If you’d like an example of how these archivists are able to follow a trail of ephemeral data, here is a reading of the trail that KiwiFarms users followed to identify Chris Chan troll Isabella Janke.
However, unlike Janke and her nightmarish web legacy, the White Bowser was far easier to hunt down. He used variations of his Super Mario-inspired moniker all over his original online content, and generally used one account for each social media website, collecting his digital footprint into several easy-to-follow threads. Bowser went as far as to reference his hometown and current whereabouts on his Twitter account, and sign many of his original edits with his government name. To quote Kiwi Tapes, Smokey’s co-host and colleague, “His full name was in his Youtube description, for Christ’s sakes.”
It’s not unheard of to want to make yourself into a public figure online. However, one must do this very carefully, and moderate themselves when they post anything under their online monikers. If you have to post something that would make your self-sustained identity look terrible, don’t do it under that name; make a throwaway, or discuss it with a trusted associate. Bowser may have been trying to make a name for himself with his video editing and 3D modelling, but unfortunately, he did this with the same identities he used to post about bizarre fantasies, and a self-admitted workplace sexual assault.
Step 3: Stop Posting This, Brother
The White Bowser was soon unmasked as a White anime enthusiast from Michigan, named Earl Dube. When traces of these information were gleaned and then flaunted at Earl, he was quick to search up his accusers’ offline lives too, and threaten them with legal repercussions. Thanks to Earl attaching variations of his White Bowser moniker, his social media URLs, and more to his online accounts, it was not hard to find a wide web of his online contributions – he was a frequent poster on Reddit as Custard_Few and known to numerous subreddits:
- r/prolife: He was anti-abortion, yet had to be warned by mods not to be rude to atheists
- r/martialarts: He had a black belt, and some people in the subreddit genuinely thought his photograph was from the late 1980s
- r/BigBoobProblems: He was banned after making disparaging and provocative remarks at women, either judging them for their Catholic-unfriendly indecency or asking to see more of their breasts, in a subreddit intended as a genuine support group for women with cumbersome breasts
- r/BigButtProblems: He would flaunt his assumed voluptuous ass, much to no one’s applause
- r/dreams: He shared a dream he had where he drank a lot of milk and then turned into a 15-year-old anime girl with large breasts
- r/daddit: He claimed to be a father whose 4th grade daughter was “starting to get up there in age”, and worried how the girl would feel when she watched more anime and saw the frequent sexualization of young female characters, or as Earl put it, “how her gender is really portrayed in Japanese cartoons“
- r/AnimeSuggest: Once again pretending to be a father, Earl asked what anime would turn “girls into women”; this was almost immediately deleted by moderators
- r/PMV: Short for “Pony Music Videos”, this now-defunct subreddit was dedicated to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic musical edits. After making it to the finals of the Bronycon 2017 Pony Music Video contest but ultimately not winning, he took to this subreddit to call the contest winner “selfish”, mock their past suicide attempt, and physically threaten them, allegedly with vehicular manslaughter. He also created an ear-grindingly awful (self-declared “ironic”) cover of “Moves Like Jagger” to curse out specific members of the fandom and yell things like, “I love to eat your shit” and “abortion is a sin”. He was swiftly excommunicated from the My Little Pony fandom
- r/confessions: He posted what many archivists consider to be the crown jewel of Earl’s ill-fated decisions, a post about his real life experience titled, “The day my life turned into an anime“.
No rational person, autistic, bipolar, or otherwise, would post this experience to the internet. I’m sure many people will click the link above and agree this information couldn’t be beaten out of them. In short, Earl described a mishap at a movie theatre he worked for, wherein he failed a group hand-stack huddle and wound up slapping his hand onto a female coworker’s breast. The coworker, referenced as a “girl”, was said to have been traumatized by the experience, prompting Earl’s managers to ask him not to come back to the theatre.
Earl’s description of this incident makes no sense the way he tells it. The only way to understand such a bizarre incident is to know it has been heavily redacted and altered from reality…the following information was not readily available until over four months after the post’s discovery, but at the time of the groping incident, the assaulted coworker was 17 years old – while Earl was 28 years old. According to the employee (who will be referred to as “Girl A”), Earl used the hand-stack as an opportunity to reach up and grab Girl A’s breast and deliberately poke at her nipple. Everyone involved with the hand-stack was repulsed, and the manager told Earl to go home early so his colleagues wouldn’t feel an urge to argue with, or even physically fight him. The next time Earl came into work, he was called back into his manager’s office and fired.
After all had been said and done, Earl looked back on this experience as being like “an anime”, specifically an ecchi anime: this is a genre of anime aimed at teens and young adults that can be best compared to the “boob comedy” genre in western media. Readers on r/Confessions may not have known the full story at the time, but it was still one hell of a way to rationalize the sexual assault of a 17 year old.
Around the same time this post was discovered, one of Smokey’s server moderators, Kairos, founded a server called The Trap House as a home base for researching Earl. One January evening, Kairos and crew “raided” Earl’s TheWhiteBowser server, initially putting up a neutral, if not friendly, front. Kairos entered a voice chat with Earl and the other members. Much of the call is lost to time, but when someone half-seriously asked Earl what hentai anime he enjoyed honking his dick to, he listed two specific titles: Freezing, and Getsuyoubi no Tawawa, the latter of which Earl habitually refers to as “Tawawawa on a Monday”. Earl also later recalled nostalgically that he would watch Freezing in a dorm room with his five best friends, so they could heckle and ogle it.
For the sake of journalistic comprehension, I decided to watch one episode of Freezing, and three episodes of the much shorter Tawawa, since its episodes are about 5 minutes long after opening and ending themes. I gained nothing positive from this experience.
- Freezing is about genetically-modified teenagers fighting for a shadowy organization. They use microbiological technology called “stigmata” to transform into battle gear and to heal themselves. In spite of the series’s serious stakes and often grotesque gore, the female students will often be depicted with their skirts blazing up and their breasts taking up much of the camera frame. These moments are presented as cheesecake fanservice for the viewer, even if most of the characters are aged 14-17 and being seriously injured while being objectified. At one point, a girl’s arm, severed by a sword, sinks off the rest of her shoulder due to the pull of gravity; seconds later, the girl’s underpants are featured on camera in spite of her screams of agony.
I am unsure of how enjoyable it could be to watch this anime with a group in somebody’s goon cave. When later questioned about his interest in Freezing, Earl tries to claim he is not attracted to anime teens, because that would mean the entirety of his friend group is attracted to anime teens. - Getsuyoubi no Tawawa is an ecchi, a softcore sex comedy, one that ran as 5-minute episodes during TV watershed timeslots. It is a slice-of-life series about buxom 15-year-old Ai-chan who strikes up a tenuous friendship with a 20-something salaryman. The two take the same Monday morning train, so the salaryman chaperones Ai to ward off any potential train gropers, while Ai provides the salaryman with morale for his upcoming work week. Ai is hinted to have a crush on the salaryman; he is at least partly aware of her affections, but does not do anything to ascertain he is only acting as a guardian. I and many other critics may consider this a form of grooming, but in-series, this is treated as an aspirational situation for the viewer.
The White Bowser Youtube channel resumed regular uploads throughout this time. Earl had taken to vlogging, and would often record himself playing the anime-style RPG Genshin Impact, or telling the viewers about his life in a series called “Diary of TheWhiteBowser”. Many Diary episodes contained damage control for what had been uncovered by SmokeyMcC’s fans, plus further oversharing. Much of his original Youtube content has been lost to time, but what has been archived is the most relevant to anyone’s interests; few archivists in the community seemed interested in preserving a 29-year-old man screaming and seizing like Daniel Stern being electrocuted in Home Alone just because he unlocked an anime girl in a miniskirt in his mobile game.
At the same time, Bowser also spent much of his time on screen continuing to slander SmokeyMcC’s team. He would attempt to defend his image through half-baked endeavours, such as asking his therapist if he was a pedophile for being interested in lolicon, and when told no, Bowser triumphantly displayed the therapist’s correspondence in his Youtube video, along with the therapist’s full name and office address without his consent. Another day, Earl recorded a voice-only plea asking the public to stop calling him a predator. “Don’t falsely support that, all right?” croaked Bowser, audibly attempting to sound like he was weeping, but instead bringing forth a dreadful, unintentional impression of John Travolta. “Leave me alone, okay? You have to! I want to move on with my life.”
As much as Bowser claimed to want to move on, he was more than content to keep posting to Twitter and Youtube about Smokey’s perceived misdeeds. During this time, Smokey had numerous other things going on with his channel and his real life, but White Bowser could not seem to stop popping up into his life. In reality, Earl was being bothered, or “trolled”, by people who had nothing to personally do with SmokeyMcC, but Earl remained convinced that Smokey was sending a steady stream of lackeys to Bowser’s inbox. One evening, Smokey and his cohorts confronted Bowser in a private Discord call, hoping to quell his further public attacks against them. Ultimately, negotiations fell through, and the group met on livestream for a mock trial.
Step 4: Mr. Dube Goes to Court
With litigation in the air and two fake lawyers in tow, The People Vs. TheWhiteBowser began. Earl wanted to sue SmokeyMcC and the moderation team for slander, to which Smokey was counter-suing. The winning party was set to win (a non-existent) $4.5 million dollars. The crew was an interesting selection of underground characters:
- Prosecution SmokeyMcCrack with lawyer Liquid Chris (an actor portraying the persona of famed Chris Chan troll Liquid Chris)
- Defendant TheWhiteBowser with lawyer Harold Newman
- Judge Kiwi Tapes, friend of Smokey and fellow lolcow documentarian (not affiliated with Kiwi Farms)
- prosecution witness Tony the Black Dragon, a man convinced he is the reincarnation of an ancient Aramaic dragon spirit
- prosecution witness Cow Wrangler, an independent investigator
The entire trial was livestreamed and archived, with a version of the trial being archived on Youtube with cuts for dead air; the complete trial was almost two hours long, but certain things stand out from the whole thing:
- Cow Wrangler reinforces how Girl A was 17 years old at the time of the groping incident. Bowser continues to insist she was 18 years old, as if this made the situation any less awful. While arguing with Cow Wrangler, Earl decides to split the difference and agrees, “Yes, I sexually assaulted someone.”
- Earl is reminded of his derogatory remarks towards suicidal people. He attempts to explain his remark against the veteran by way of a bizarre, winding tale that concludes with him claiming that being paralyzed from a suicidal attempt is “worse” than “leav[ing] their entire family in a hell of their own making”. The group audibly recoils, as prosecution “witness” Tony the Black Dragon is known to the entire group as being paralyzed from the waist down. Earl begins to formally apologize to Tony for the “hell” he’s “living in,” to which Tony interrupts, “I’m fine with it. I’ve accepted my disability. Do I let that get to me? No!” The rest of the group genuinely defends Tony, while Bowser insists he’s just “defending [his] logic”.
- Bowser claims Ai of Tawawa cannot be held to the real world’s laws and mores because the series could never happen in real life, by way of, “A 16 year old cannot fit into a K-cup bra”. Smokey counters by pointing out that it’s still off-putting to anyone outside of the anime community that being aroused by a canonically 15-year-old in her schoolgirl uniform – let alone telling others that it gets you off – is upsetting for others and paraphilic. Bowser’s arguments may have worked within the anime community, but he had invited himself into and contested the lolcow community, a space far less welcoming to child exploitation. (This is not to say the lolcow community is any bastion of moral supremacy; it is a diverse, scattered community that’s often prone to Prison Rules.)
The court case ended unceremoniously, as it was now clear to all parties involved that it was not a legally binding court, nor was $4.5 million dollars anywhere near winning. Kiwi and Smokey encouraged Tony to curse Earl in Aramaic, after which Smokey said, “Well Bowser, it was nice knowing you,” before booting Earl from the call.
Step 5: Continue Talking No Matter What
A few evenings later, Kiwi Tapes found Earl livestreaming his playthrough of Genshin Impact. This is a highly popular mobile game, but its online fanbase has a reputation for being cantankerous towards its young-looking characters. Kiwi Tapes featured Earl’s stream on his own livestream as it played out (an act known as “restreaming”), likely for the perceived humour of capturing a sex pest playing a game commonly stereotyped among online sex pests.
Unaware of the connotations, Earl took to Kiwi Tapes’s attention right away. Not long after finishing his gaming stream, Earl appeared on a stream panel with Kiwi. He was questioned about his top two picks for anime boob-watching as told to Kairos, and it went about as well as anyone could expect:
“Describe each of these anime,” instructs Kiwi.
“Tawawawa on a Monday is about…” Earl begins to sputter. “You know what’s qu– hold on, do…can you look up if they actually say how old Ai-chan is?”
Kiwi declines. “I don’t want that in my search history, bro.”
“W-Well, that’s the thing! They never say how old she is in the anime; they just say she has big tits.”
“…What does that have to do with anything, bro? What does that have to do with what we’re talking about right now?”
“Because that’s the thing… [Earl sputters] If you’re gonna throw out that a random drawing of someone who could be any age has the biggest tits ever, then how could you call that as something that’s part of reality?”
Kiwi pauses for a solid second. “I just wanted you to describe this anime to me, and you’re going on about big tits.”
Earl declares he’ll “concentrate”; he describes the anime to an extent, and briefly debates on whether or not Ai can be considered a “girl” or a “woman”. I am not a professional psychologist, but Earl’s immediate assumption that Ai’s age was going to come into question indicates he was 1. aware she is underage, and 2. bracing himself to have to talk about it. He attempts to enter a moral debate with Kiwi, claiming one cannot apply real-world morals and laws to a drawing – which Kiwi immediately shuts a door on, saying he would prefer to not see teenage characters in sexual situations. Earl tried to bring Kiwi into further debates, but these were curved each time. Earl continued to bleat what would later become his catchphrase among the community: “It’s just cartoons,” often written as “cahtoons”, emphasizing his natural Eddie Deezen-esque brogue.
After the frankly disastrous restream, Earl thought he had it in with Kiwi Tapes. He decided to propose forming an exposè podcast with Kiwi, called “110 [pr: one-ten] Autism”, the title of Earl’s choosing. Kiwi Tapes knew a goldmine of garbage had just been brought to his doorstep and, albeit reluctantly, he agreed to join the podcast.
Step 6: The Seven-Mile Spanking Machine
By forming the podcast with Earl, Kiwi Tapes began a manoeuvre known as the “Buddy Troll”. This is when an individual pretends to be friends with a lolcow to lower their guard, either to provoke deeper conversation, interrogation, or further schemes. It is also a risky move. In the days leading up to the 110 Autism broadcast, Kiwi Tapes made some announcements regarding the podcast on his Youtube Community page, much to the dismay of Bowser’s detractors and victims. The Buddy Troll move requires being outwardly sympathetic towards an oft-problematic character, which is, as the kids call it, a “bad look”. Fortunately, Kiwi’s motivations would be revealed in due time.
Earl was ecstatic about the podcast. Kiwi had told Earl he would be paid half of all stream donations after the end of the episode, and Earl likely assumed this podcast would make for a smoking machine gun against Smokey, his former favourite lolcow documentarian. However, little did he know, but Kiwi had just tricked him into walking into a lobby full of people who hated Earl’s guts.
Episode one began on the evening of January 28, 2023. The first guest panellist was Smokey himself. Earl immediately objected to this, but Kiwi reminded him of the conditions they’d agreed on: Earl would get paid at the end of the podcast, but they had to acknowledge every Superchat and every guest – who had paid to come on there (or so Earl was told) – because, as Kiwi reminded Earl, they weren’t scammers. Earl never missed an opportunity to play up his Christian godliness, and so, he was buckled into his seat for over an hour as guest after guest tore into him. He also had his webcam on the entire time, so the audience could watch as this man was spiritually mangled in a revolving door.
Each guest panellist tore Earl for his filth, especially decrying him for being a lolicon and a confirmed groper, but none more so than returning guest Cow Wrangler. Known only by an avatar of a Highlands cow, they would go on to become one of Earl’s greatest online enemies because of their sheer, unparalleled ability to make Earl lose his entire goddamned mind.
While Liquid Chris acts as defending attorney, Cow Wrangler leaps for the throat: “The fact that [Earl] likes to praise that he’s a Catholic – that he’s a good, righteous man – is bullshit.” Earl recoils, and removes his headphones. “Bowser…God doesn’t like you. You have made him miserable.” Earl appears to pray and take deep breaths in the most physically theatrical way possible.
The producer drawls, “Shiiiit.”
Smokey nervously chortles, “I’m gonna go smoke a cigarette”, before stepping away from his computer.
Cow Wrangler has not stopped. As they talk, Earl clutches his head as if he’s trying to stop it from exploding, Scanners style. “…And I’m just gonna emphasize it again: Tawawa does say that Ai is 15. It emphasizes that she’s in high school. And you still jerked off to it.”
The podcast producer agrees that he saw Ai’s age on the Wikipedia page for Getsuyoubi no Tawawa – Kiwi tries to ask Earl if Ai truly is 15 years old, but Wrangler sends the entire group a link to the page in the call’s text chat. As they talk about Ai, it seems to inflame Earl to the point of physically recoiling inwards, until he finally howls out, “Are you fucking done?!“
The podcast pauses. The producer declares a commercial break, while the livestream continues to flow. Kiwi decides to read out Superchats, reassuring Bowser they need to keep going and interact with the viewers.
Kiwi nonchalantly tells a withering Earl, “These people are our bosses, Earl,” before reading aloud a Superchat message saying, “Bowser, how does it feel knowing you screwed up for the rest of your life?”
Another panellist named Zippity eventually joins, and reminds Earl that he was fired from his theatre job, not resigned, and debunks even more lies while Earl begins to loudly pray to god. Cow Wrangler returns, and Bowser leaps out of the call, thus concluding the 110 Autism broadcast.
That evening, Earl requested his payment for the podcast. Kiwi pretended to try collecting the funds from Youtube, but feigned technical issues; this was a diversion, as Kiwi was not willing to give some hundred dollars to a man who made him deeply uncomfortable. By all means, Earl should have figured out that this podcast was scamming him, but he returned one week later to host another episode with Kiwi.
One may be tempted to feel sorry for Earl on this night. However, when one knows the full image of Earl that is soon to be unfurled, they would see this as a beautifully-orchestrated karmic punishment. The bully, a constant seeker of prey, was finally ensnared in a trap far more intricate than his own.
It is unclear why Earl returned to Kiwi’s streams so many times. Did he just want the money? Did he genuinely believe in Kiwi? Did he think he could finesse his way through a moral debate? We may never fully understand Earl’s motivations for walking in and out of his giant neon-coloured mouse trap.
Step 7: Pound the Alarm
It was now February 4th, and Kiwi Tapes had quite enough of Earl at this point. Around this time, rumours were beginning to circulate that Girl A was underage when Earl assaulted her, which was repulsive enough for Kiwi, but Earl’s self-sustaining ego also grated against everyone who attempted to communicate with him, making for an overall unpleasant podcast experience. The second episode of 110 Autism was less theatrical than the first, but the information Earl willingly gave out during its livestream sealed his fate in Kiwi’s eyes. Kiwi and a guest panellist would continue to ask Earl personal questions, all of which he gave an answer for. It is one thing to lean into others’ troll attempts, but it’s unspeakably dangerous and stupid to sprinkle in grains of the truth to people who actively dislike you. If Earl was hoping to control the narrative, he wasn’t doing it right at all.
According to Earl weeks before the trial and 110 Autism episode 1, Earl received a comment on one of his vlogs which contained the phrase, “Don’t go to the movies with him anymore.” The entire comment was a parody of the emails read by the character Strongbad of the Homestar Runner animated series. Earl was obviously unfamiliar with this series, because he interpreted the remark about “the movies” as a bomb threat against the movie theatre he worked at three years prior. Earl then immediately drove to the movie theatre on a Friday night and began screaming for all to hear that there was a bomb in the building.
This went exactly as you may expect, if not worse; the theatre was evacuated and searched, and the police were unimpressed with Bowser’s evidence, let alone the way he’d gone about “stopping” the bomb. He was then held as inpatient at Henry Ford Kingswood Hospital, a Michigan mental health facility that, as Earl alleges, has “pretty good” fried chicken at its cafeteria. (This is another meme in the spectating community around Bowser; people will often ask him to try fried chicken from various fast food joints and compare it to the facility’s chicken.)
Bowser claimed to miss working at the theatre so much that it made him act uncharacteristically, or so he claimed. One day, he vented his grievances to Ricky, his college friend and fellow member of the Freezing goon cave. Ricky told Bowser he should move on and that he was “too good” for the job. This was not what Bowser wanted to hear, so he responded by calling Ricky, an African-American man, a “n****r” to his face. The two have not spoken since.
Kiwi Tapes was ready for 110 Autism to be over forever. At the end of episode 2, Kiwi gave an unscripted monologue telling Earl everything he’d thought about him all along. Before this, a haggard Kiwi expressed wanting to end the podcast. Earl asked, “What about payment?”, asking for his cut of the Superchats.
With little joy and ample exhaustion in his voice, Kiwi says, “Bowser…I just want you to know, I do not like you. You are a pedophile, you are everything that these people call you…and the fact that you came to me and wanted to start a podcast with me, knowing the kind of shit that I cover is fucking hilarious. And if you think that you’re ever gonna talk to me again, or that you’re gonna get anything out of me, well…you’re gonna be waiting for quite a few Tawawawas on a Monday, I’m gonna put it like that. I’m never talking to you again, this podcast is never getting another episode. Um…”what about payment”?”
“Yeah,” replies Earl. “What about payment?”
Kiwi removes Earl from the call.
Not long afterwards, Earl direct-messaged Kiwi on Discord, saying, “guess I gotta block you, then” with an emoticon of Zero Two from Darling in the Franxx shrugging. Kiwi did not reply. Being blocked and excommunicated from Bowser was a gift, not a warning.
Unfortunately, Kiwi was soon faced with a dilemma: a friend brought Kiwi word of mouth that Bowser had committed an actual, undocumented crime, this time against numerous minors, but the only way to expose it involved having to go right back to Bowser.
Step 8: Laugh Tale
It would have been easy to call Earl a dumbass and a disgusting louse, and say that’s his worst crime in the story thus far. However, if that were the case, I would not have spent so much time and effort into writing about this loathsome Ron Jeremy lookalike. What elevates The White Bowser from most other internet gremlins is his now-defunct Discord server, Laugh Tale, wherein countless minors called Earl and five other moderators variations of “daddy”.
Laugh Tale takes its name from a mystical island of the same name in the anime series One Piece, where a dead pirate king hid his entire hoard of treasure. Unlike the island of riches, Bowser’s server was a semi-public nexus dedicated to anime and AMVs…at least, on the surface. The server was touted as a almost-no-holds-barred wasteland where minors, some as young as 12 years old, could discuss anime with a wide range of users. Anyone under the age of 18 had a specific colour rank for their username, making it easy to identify which users were underage and which were adults. According to chat archives, the server even had a custom emoticon called “:loli:” that depicted a very young child character in a graphic sexual situation. Worse yet, many of these kids had no idea what they truly had walked into: active users would chat with each other in Hindu, Spanish, and English alike, as if they’d just followed the Discord link from one anime forum or another. These users even shared innocuous selfies that clearly showed they were tweens in real life. Bowser, as one of the moderators, was known as Daddy Butcher, with “Daddy” being his rank and title.
The situation continues to get worse: if a minor showed the “daddies” proof that they’d gotten their chores or homework done, they would be invited into a nightly group voice chat where the attendees would watch ero-anime as a “reward”. Bowser claims this happened “only once”, while witnesses in the server remarked seeing this happen numerous times. Regardless, distributing or displaying sexual obscenity of any kind is still a federal offence in Bowser’s home country. To this day, Bowser insists his involvement with the Laugh Tale server does not make him a predator, much to the objection of everyone else around him…including myself, because this is the exact sort of environment I stumbled into as a young teenager that 1. normalized crass, edgy discussions of sex on main feeds, and 2. groomed me into an environment wherein it was considered a special, fun thing to be invited into NSFW discussions with adults. I was 15 years old when I first fumbled my way into these sorts of anime communities, and 18 going on 19 when an adult manipulated me into a relationship. These sorts of servers and overall environments are disturbingly common on the internet, thanks to the shrinking clearnet having few safe options for minors to hang out online. Young people online are forced to handle public Discord servers like Russian Roulette – one server may be safe if not conservative, while another server may have you calling a grown man “daddy” so you can be invited to a secret chat call to watch anime gorn.
I do not actually wish to converse with you, but Earl, if surrounding yourself with minors was not the intent of the Laugh Tale server, then why allow NSFW discussions in all channels, rather than limiting it to just 18+ members in a separate channel or even a separate server? Not only were you and your friends making your own litigation risk, but why did you want 9th and 10th-graders to have easy access to images of lolicon hentai?
There are generally three types of predators: those of diminished emotional maturity who relate more closely to children or teens, those who get off on the betrayal of a victim’s trust and comfort, and those who get off on being the authority in a power disparity. Bowser personally strikes me as the first and third of these three; he seems to surround himself with minors for the same type of rush as being the “cool adult” who buys beer for teenagers. I don’t have to tell you that this is pathetic and irresponsible.
When internet users caught wind of the server, they called Earl’s local police department with the evidence; the police ultimately visited Earl and told him it wasn’t “enough” for a full conviction. It sounds like he was let off with a warning not to leave the realm of animated child exploitation, but the way he retells it online makes it seem as if the police completely agreed with his stances and actions. Earl would also go on to claim, “streaming hentai isn’t illegal”, distilling the situation into a very basic, sanded-down retelling. He also goes on to claim that watching anime with provocatively-depicted minors is just so common in anime that if it were made illegal, “99% of Japanese media would go up in flames!”
This is a testament to how little Earl knows or cares about actual Japanese media and culture. He has resigned himself to seeing anime-style cartoon girls of any context and immediately assuming they are intended for sexual consumption. Again, this is the exact same belief I set out to dispute years ago with my various investigations into the underground anime scene and the Lolicon Boom. Contrary to Western assumptions, not every anime is made for or by lolicons. One of the biggest anime in the world right now, Jujutsu Kaisen, has no fan service aside from a few smouldering moments with adult male characters. Anime such as Nichijou, Spy X Family, Bocchi the Rock, Daily Lives of High School Boys, and, quite frankly, countless other titles have child/minor characters who are not intended as raw meat for a lolicon/shotacon audience. There are also countless anime with main characters that are not children, such as Trigun and Trigun Stampede, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Space Brothers, Spirit of Wonder, and many more. To be brisk about it, Bowser’s brain has been so thoroughly marinated in cum that he now thinks the entire Japanese animation industry caters to his ilk by default. He is detestable at best, and a loathsome racist pervert at worst.
Step 9: Just Keep Talking
Kiwi Tapes and his associate knew Earl would divulge more information about this server and its intentions if prompted, but they’d torn his membrane of disbelief too many times. Any sensible person, regardless of their neurotypical status, would have seen danger coming and known not to follow. But, when Kiwi reached out to Earl a third time, pretending to have been “trolled” into thinking Earl was a predator and that he was grievously sorry for it, Earl initially agreed to come back again for 110 Autism‘s third episode. However, he waffled on this decision several times, and just barely agreed to being replaced for one week with SmokeyMcC. Kiwi and Smokey spent episode three discussing other internet characters, and exposing the newly-leaked details of the Laugh Tale server to a horrified livestream audience. Information about Earl and Laugh Tale spread out to the rest of the lolcow spectating community, cementing Earl Dube as the “Discord Moderator Pervert” type of lolcow: a dime a dozen, but a predictable source of secondhand embarrassment and teenager exploitation.
The White Bowser returned as a panellist on February 18th for what would finally be the fourth and final episode of the 110 Autism Podcast. He was apprehensive from the get-go, audibly expecting Smokey and Kiwi to apologize to him, so the two had to begin the show by giving him sarcastic apologies. Smokey may have been saying, “I am so sorry”, but it was in the tone of an annoyed teenager being reprimanded. The ironic inflection completely went over Earl’s head. For almost an hour, the two hosts and the Superchat messages polished up Earl’s shoes. He became so drunk with smugness that he didn’t pick up on any of their thinly-veiled jeerings, but eventually, the hosts had enough.
It is important to remember that it is now late February 2023: for over two months, Smokey has done nothing to directly harm Earl, with his only transgressions being authorizing a server ban for suicide goading, and calling Earl a predator when presented with ample evidence. Smokey led the turn of tides, saying, “Bowser, y’know, earlier I apologized to you for being a predator, and that was really my mistake for calling you that. I should never have called you a predator. What I should have called you was a predatory groper, a pedophile, uh…’cause there’s a lot of things I could’ve called you that I didn’t call you, and…”
From his video feed, Bowser appears to grimace, focus on something on his computer, and click – he drops from the livestream. Kiwi announces, “Ah, he’s gone.”
On the morning of February 24th, just a day before what would have been the fifth episode of 110 Autism, Earl messaged Kiwi Tapes to inform him the podcast was over. Earl also made a police report against Kiwi and Smokey, and additionally claimed to have talked about them to a private investigator. Immediately afterwards, Earl blocked Kiwi, insisting they would never talk again.
Earl then began a bizarre series of videos where he half-assedly apologized to his numerous victims, each apology carrying a dismissive tone, and each time claiming these apologies would fully “absolve” him of his crimes in the eyes of the Lord. He additionally began to mass-report SmokeyMcC’s Youtube videos for facetious reasons, citing privacy violation and copyright infringement, a move known as “false-flagging” which has been a violation of Youtube’s Community Guidelines since 2012. Smokey eventually got most of these claims dismissed. Earl’s basis for the privacy and copyright claims was that Smokey had used his personal video footage for profit, but this was debunked when Youtube moderators determined Smokey’s videos were not monetized, and the trace video footage used was originally uploaded for mass consumption by Earl himself.
Elsewhere, Kiwi and Smokey started their own podcast together, 2 High 4 Stupid (or 2H4S for short). The podcast is still streaming weekly at this time of writing, with its hosts getting stoned together, and reviewing the latest news about popular internet characters. Initially, 2H4S was streamed on Saturday evenings, the exact same time slot as 110 Autism, because Earl always had Saturday nights off, and the hosts knew he would likely be available to attempt hate-watching it. They’d left a door open for Earl, almost daring him: you can either ignore us and prove yourself a man of your word, or you can run right back in here and embarrass yourself before hundreds of people again.
Step 10: Running Right Back In There
Someone behind the scenes had been telling Earl that his hackneyed apology videos were working on others. He may have delivered these apologies as snidely as Kiwi and Smokey’s, but Earl was convinced by this stranger’s claim. The first episode of 2 High 4 Stupid highlighted a few of Earl’s videos for mockey, but the tone changed after the hosts showed off a Discord message Earl sent someone in the My Little Pony community. The message is cropped from its full conversational context, but is damaging enough when considered as a thought from a 26 year old man: “Flirting with a 15 year old isn’t against the law, idiot, sexing one is.” I am unsure as to whether or not to put a (sic) after “sexing”, as I’m not sure if Earl meant “sexting” or if he’s trying to cutely refer to coitus.
The group then restreamed Earl’s Genshin Impact livestream, catching him just in time to refer to the character Paimon as a “legal loli”: the character is a fairy who looks, acts, and sounds like a child, but she is said to be hundreds of years old, hence lolicon otaku referring to these child-like characters as “legal” because they are secretly aged far above typical ages of consent. Kiwi invited Earl to join his livestream via the text chat, but Earl ignored him; his scheduled gaming broadcast block wasn’t over yet. He then joined Kiwi’s livestream an hour later.
Kiwi moderated while Smokey and Earl got into a verbal scrap: Earl tried to explain his rage against Smokey’s channel by blaming Smokey as the conduit for all the individuals trolling and harassing Earl. Smokey had sent none of them, and to this day, he denounces sending one’s viewers to harass someone. Many lolcow documentarians, including Smokey, encourage viewers not to approach or harass their targets of discussion. This is seen as “cow-tipping” and an unwelcome disruption to the target’s usual routine. Tampering with a lolcow is heavily discouraged in the community; a low-ball troll can jeopardize the entire audience if their antics drive the “cow” off the internet or even get law enforcement involved. In Earl’s case, he’d become so paranoid from the influx of outsider attention that he just assumed anyone who bothered him was an agent of chaos sent by some Youtuber he offended three months earlier.
When Earl refused to absolve Smokey, he was treated to a look at the “flirting with a 15 year old” message and asked to explain himself. Cow Wrangler then joined the stream, sending Earl flying out of 2 High 4 Stupid immediately after.
Step 11: Rug Pull
In Step 7, I mentioned briefly that Kiwi Tapes attempted to coax Bowser into a full confession of his involvement with the Laugh Tale server. All anyone knew at the time was that he was streaming hentai anime to minors, and he had a “daddy” rank system. But in April 2023, he was approached by a user named The Black Bowser and a friend, who claimed to be reporters for an unspecified media outlet. Bowser, asking no questions about what publication it would be printed in nor doing the simplest background check on their false names, took the interview.
The full broadcast is momentarily off the internet, but sample clips and viewer testimonials are still archived. The hosts attempted to catch Bowser in an environment where he admitted to streaming ero-anime to minors, but when these question arose, Bowser instead went on a long tangent about how he and the other moderators were allegedly acting as “teachers” to the thousands of minors in the server. Thousands.
According to the chat archives, the server had somewhere close to 1000-1500 members, and maybe 1/3 of them were active in the chat channels at any given time. The community only became more repulsed with Bowser as it was now clear he wasn’t just entertaining a handful of scrappy youths; he and the other moderators found a way to pull hundreds of people into a server under the pretense of it being an all-ages place to discuss One Piece.
There’s unfortunately not a lot that can be done about this server now. It has been shut down, with its contents archived in .7z format, but law enforcement has expressed a lack of interest in doing anything about the server’s existence…but, sadly, there really isn’t anything that can be done about it. The most we can do is learn from Earl and his friends’ schemes, and know what to look out for in the future. The internet is a dry desert of places safe for minors, and I can only hope there will one day be a chat room for minors that doesn’t have moderators getting off on their own power.
Step 12: Belching into a Strong Wind
It was now April 2023. Less than four months had elapsed since Earl told a veteran to kill themselves, and now the entire lolcow community associated Earl by name with predatory misdeeds. There is a long path to walk back from something like this. Earl should have perhaps retreated from the internet for a while to focus on bettering himself, but he did the worst possible thing in a situation like this: he leaned into it.
Previously, TheWhiteBowser Youtube channel had a formal description describing Earl as “an aspiring independent video editor and 3D modeler (sic) and animator looking to get a promising career”. In April, it was changed to refer to Earl as “your #1 weird delusional retard and anime otaku degenerate” and it stayed that way for several months afterwards. Earl knew full well at this point that his proclivities disturbed others, but he did not want to correct these behaviours, so Earl attempted to rebrand himself as an over-the-top character. This was unsuccessful because the Bowser “character” was nearly identical in behaviour and demeanour to the natural Bowser who’d already appeared in countless casual audio calls. Over-the-top internet characters like Filthy Frank, the Angry Ginger Kid, or Francis are very clearly different in personality from the actors who portray them, and moreover, the antics performed in their skits are meant to be spectated, not admired and emulated. Meanwhile, Bowser continued to livestream Genshin Impact while acting even more inappropriately towards young-looking characters in the game. He attempted to play up his new public persona by calling Paimon a “legal loli” once again in the title of one of his streams, seeking attention and clicks.
On April 30th, Earl turned 30 years old. That same day, he also uploaded one of his most daft videos to date: dressed up in his “confession uniform”, he performed a sermon-esque video confession discussing the groping incident. It is almost impossible to watch this video while knowing everything Earl has done in reality up to this point in time. He uses the full government names for Girl A, her two siblings, his coworkers, friends, and his therapist, knowing full well that this video would be seen by thousands of lolcow spectators; this is a crowd he knows can be dangerous and constantly laments getting the attention of. Under these conditions, I stagger to understand why he dispensed all this personal information about people he knew he’d offended or victimized.
Earl goes on to claim he cannot be considered a sexual predator if he feels guilt for grabbing Girl A. He emphasizes how sorry he is, and how he wishes people would believe him…but he also pauses while discussing the night of the incident to talk about the size of Girl A’s breasts, claiming that her twin sister Girl B “got the good genes” by having a larger cup size. He smiles, and his eyes trail off to the side, as if expecting laughter from a studio audience that will never clap for him. It was months too late for any sort of damage control, and the way Earl attempts it in this video is infuriating. The entire video is 53 minutes long. You could either watch an episode of Better Call Saul, or you could watch almost one hour of a blathering hebophile smugly describing how sorry he feels for molesting a teenage girl. The viewer is unable to think anything other than, “You thought uploading this was a good idea?”
The backlash from his confession did not get to Earl too badly, though something else soon would: on May 3rd, someone ordered a birthday clown to visit Earl’s house. The clown was portrayed by an African-American gentleman in colourful punk attire, almost evocative of Iggy Koopa, and he carried a cell phone on Facetime. The man who’d sent the clown was part of this video call, as he’d claimed Earl was an old friend who he wanted to say hello to in real-time, but this was actually so the sender could record and livestream the entire incident. The poor Clown had no knowledge of Earl’s internet infamy. As the livestream unfolded, The Clown knocked on Earl’s front door and began his birthday performance, but Earl’s mother opened the door. The Clown was barely able to explain he was a paid messenger before Mother Dube silently closed the door and locked it.
Later that day, Earl unblocked both Kiwi and Smokey to send them a long, passionate legal threat, claiming among other things, “My mother was lucky enough that [the clown] only had a cell phone on them this time. Next time, they could have a gun or knife on them; next time my mother might have her life put in danger when they are at my door.” Earl also stated he’d called the police to request that they watch over the crossroads in front of his house.
There was very little Smokey or Kiwi could do, because neither of them were at all affiliated with the streamer who sent the Clown. They also urge their viewers not to doxx anyone they cover; doxxing is seen as a lowball move within the lolcow spectating community, and most users within will urge each other not to engage with a lolcow’s place of residence or employment, unless there is an immediate threat to someone’s life or safety that cannot be prevented by external internet interaction. While Earl’s doxx does exist somewhere online, we here at GB urge our readers to please not fuck with Earl’s house. I insist this for the sake of his elderly mother, whom as far as we know has done nothing wrong in the grand scheme of this story. It’s not her fault that her son’s a schmuck.
Step 13: I’ve Informed You to Leave
Shortly after the release of his barmy confessional video, someone lied to Bowser and told him it was actually helping turn the lolcow community back onto Bowser’s side. This greased him up to accept an interview on 2 High 4 Stupid episode 12, accepting Kiwi’s invitation to a livestream for a sixth time.
As Kiwi and Smokey uneasily welcomed Earl in, he described being stressed-out due to harassment. People were sending Amazon packages to Earl’s house containing random objects, including a copy of the Satanic Bible, and a replacement ceiling fan. The Laugh Tale server had been deleted once and for all around this time, thus Earl began trying to shift responsibility onto the other moderators: he claimed to have been given the rights to the server by its original creator, Discord handle HAZZA#1636, and additionally claimed to be one of the more responsible moderators, citing an incident where a teenage boy posted AI-generated, realistic child sexual exploitation material in the chat, but Earl was the first one to delete the content.
Meanwhile, little did Earl know, but Cow Wrangler and friends had reached out to Girl A for a brief interview. It was not hard for them to find her, after all; Earl had referred to her by full name in his confession video, making her a part of his online lore without her permission. Wrangler’s interview with Girl A confirmed once and for all that Earl did not grope an 18 year old, as he constantly insisted: Girl A was indeed 17 years old at the time of the incident.
Someone tipped Earl off about this discovery a few days before 2H4S episode 13 was set to air. Kiwi Tapes later described Earl’s demeanour as begging to be let back onto the show in order to clear his name. Unfortunately, when given the airtime, the best excuse he could think to give for groping Girl A was how, at the time, was under the assumption she was of legal age, because her twin sister Girl B lied on “multiple occasions” about their ages. He couldn’t explain anything else.
Kiwi and Smokey then unleashed Cow Wrangler on Earl as per tradition, but this time, Earl resigned himself to his fate. Everyone sounded exhausted throughout this call. Wrangler aptly described Earl when they said, “It seems like the deeper we go when we look at you, the worse it gets. It’s like…every time, just as people are about to go and forget about you, something way worse comes out.”
Kiwi and Smokey struggled to make Earl understand that constantly referring to Girl A by her full government name was dragging her into The White Bowser Situation, and into the lolcow community to an extent, likely retraumatizing her and exposing her to negative attention. Earl could only describe the overall situation as “not healthy for [him]”. Earl tried to deflect from his actions, but inadvertently dropped another horrible crumb of truth about the Laugh Tale server: one of the fellow “daddies” of Laugh Tale had to be called out for flirting with their favourite underage members of the server, meaning at least one of the six “daddies” were actively grooming server members.
For weeks afterwards, Earl continued his usual behaviours: he recorded further vlogs trying to justify his past actions, and streamed video games on other days. He also changed his Youtube moniker to KnightFromAfar in an attempt to throw spectators off his trail. This is where his story should have stopped, with him finally comprehending the gravitas of the entire situation, going offline for some detox, and making efforts to clean up his life, but of course…
Step 14: Rock Bottom
…The White Bowser would not be silent for long. He also continued to post to his Youtube channel’s Community page while changing his Youtube moniker throughout the coming weeks: he was NeoBowser one day, and AMVW the next. For a short while, The White Bowser was a hot topic throughout the lolcow community, and one of the many spectators who took notice was none other than Music Biz Marty of the Cyrax “universe”.
To recap, “Music Biz Marty” is the online persona of livestreamer and professional troll Nicolas Biegler. Marty is best known for confronting, repeatedly exposing, and even at one point physically fighting Cyrax. Marty has an uncanny ability to pull off convincing Buddy Troll schemes due to his welcoming attitude and his ability to (for the most part) tolerate a target long enough for them to trust him. 2H4S had exposed the wider community to Bowser, but they wanted nothing to do with him, so Marty thought to try his hand at exposing Bowser further.
Ultimately, nothing notable happened. This era of White Bowser lore is rarely discussed by documentarians due to how uneventful Bowser’s time on the Music Biz Marty stream was. Two key moments do come to mind: Bowser talking to Cyrax directly after egging Cyrax on to dance on camera, and an incident wherein Marty reacted unfavourably to Bowser’s “Baby Got Back” parody about Ai-chan’s breasts:
“I mean, you can’t help what you like, I guess,” Marty suggests. Even he cannot pretend to enjoy this pedophilic parody poem. Earl begins to phonetically sputter like Woody Allen winding up for a monologue, which confuses Marty. “What?”
Earl eventually stumbles out, “Whatever…whatever…”
“All right. Whatever,” laughs Marty dismissively.
“Am I going to have to die on the hill of liking fictional cartoons?”
“If they’re of kids, then like…” Marty pauses. He’s about to drop the ball in the troll scheme, but he cannot bring himself to console Earl. “I would say that does say something, Earl. Like, it sucks, but…”
“All right, so, then that means…that means that everyone that watches anime that is of kids will also have to die on the hill, and that’s not just me, that’s like…pretty much every single user who browses anime forums on the internet.”
“Earl…” Marty tries to interrupt this tirade, fails, and sighs. The music man’s mask is off. “Okay, fine. Earl, you wrote, like…a rap song about how excited the 16-year-old cartoon’s boobs made you.” He begins to read the lyrics aloud like a concerned principal. “”I like boobs and I cannot lie / They are on a 16-year-old cartoon, I won’t deny”…”
Earl leaps into his usual defences while shouting out parts of his parody lyrics, emphasizing the line, “Her age is a work of fiction, my guy”. This argument may work in fandom spaces such as the Pro and Anti shipping community, but it was not working here, especially not among Music Biz Marty viewers. His fans tune in to see him tackle strange, often perverted characters, with his “greatest nemesis” Cyrax being a detested pedophile in Akron, Ohio. Marty was not moved by Earl’s pleas, and he kept reminding Earl how the character was, in spite of breast size, canonically a minor, and still depicted going to high school.
Earl, too, kept on. “I do not like 16-year olds! I like big boobs! I like big boobs! I like big boobs! The 16-year-old has nothing to do with it! I just like big boobs!”
Marty, on the verge of speechlessness, blusters, “But th–“
“Oh my gosh!” Bowser almost sounds out of breath. “Am I gonna have to go to jail for liking big boobs?” He then begins to grunt, “BOOBS! BOOBS!” over and over, like a Hulk having his gas station dick pill finally kick in.
In spite of these bizarre moments, Earl was ultimately paid approximately $1000 USD for his time on Marty’s show. This was a cut of Marty’s Superchats along with some viewer donations through CashApp. Fans and viewers highly contested Marty’s decision to pay Earl. While Marty seemed to pay out of charity for Earl’s mother’s welfare, it also gave a thousand dollars to a man who, months earlier, owned an anime server rife with pornography and unaccompanied minors. The money kept up the kayfabe between Marty and Earl, but it also led to the community joking about Earl getting a sugar daddy.
At first, Earl may have liked the attention he got from Marty’s crew, but Marty’s fans are a far different breed from SmokeyMcC’s fans. 2 High 4 Stupid and its hosts’ channels have a much different content structure, and even tone, from Marty’s content: both Smokey and Kiwi will upload edited, semi-self-contained videos about specific topics, and they will moderate themselves and the content shared during 2H4S episodes…but Marty’s streams are far more unpredictable and often far edgier. Marty can best be compared to The Opie & Anthony Show or The Howard Stern Show among the lolcow community in regards to how Marty’s livestreams focus on discovering strange, underground characters, and bringing them on as guests to talk, expose, or even fight. If someone is entertaining enough, or at least uninhibited enough, they’ll stay on the show’s curriculum. Unfortunately for Bowser, the Marty crew couldn’t get much out of him, nor was there anything left to “milk” from him and moreover, they found Bowser’s presence irritating. Eventually, they offered Bowser a “position” in Marty’s Team 11, a collection of strange tertiary characters he could call on for content when his usual guests and “guests” were unavailable. Bowser was offered the position if he could perform a racially-charged rap song. He ultimately declined, but still thanked Marty for the opportunity.
It was late July 2023 when Earl was ousted from Marty’s three-ring circus. The harassment and Buddy Troll attempts were truly beginning to interfere with Earl’s offline life, and his Youtube channel continued to experience an identity crisis. He briefly went dry for a while, until at some point, a message surfaced from a private Discord conversation between Earl and a Buddy Troll. It was cut out of its full context, but it still showed Earl remarking how “ironic” it was that the internet called him a child predator, when in fact he was soon set to work as a behavioural technician with mentally-challenged children.
![A Discord message from Earl, reading, "You want to know what the most ironic twist of fate is? The job [he just got] is working with mentally disabled kids. I'm going to be a Behavioural Technician."](https://gonzobrigadoon.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/christaliveno.jpg?w=300)
Users on Kiwi Farms immediately took to this development. On August 26th, a handful of Discord vigilantes began a time-sensitive investigation into which agency hired Earl, in an operation they called “Get Earl Fired 2: Electric Boogaloo”. The group wound up contacting every children’s mental health centre in and around Shelby Township, Michigan, going off trace amounts of data the Buddy Troll was able to glean off Earl. He was fired on the 28th. Earl begun trying to crack down which of his new friends was the mole, but by then, it was too late.
Earl’s life circumstances throughout the rest of 2023 remain unclear, but by November, his online infamy breached the real world enough to inspire his former coworkers at Kroeger to share their experiences working with him. Earl, in the meantime, receded from the surface internet, and ever since, has only surfaced for private Discord servers and the occasional email.
Is the White Bowser a predator?
Variations of the phrase “Earl Dube is a predator” and the audio clip of Smokey exclaiming, “Bowser, you’re a predator” have circulated as inside jokes in the lolcow spectating community. It was one of the first things others knew to say to make Earl actively furious, and the phrase is parroted to this day in defiance to his refusal to accept that, yes, he is a predator. He exhibits predatory behaviour, and his prolific digital footprint plays out like an exhibit of the many ways predation and grooming may play out in online communities.
This is not to say Bowser is any sort of supervillain on his own; he is the product of an online environment wherein self-indulgent behaviours and “edgy” takes are normalized, if not encouraged. There were five other Discord moderators who thought like Bowser. There were four young adults like Bowser who watched anime porn in a dorm room together. There are countless people online who think like Bowser when they say anime is just like that, Japan is just like that, these are just cartoons so who cares if I talk about being turned on by these characters, and other statements that reassure Bowser of the reality he wants to live in.
One cannot help but be in awe of Bowser’s sheer power of denial in regards to what the issue is with objectifying schoolgirl characters. It’s not just Ai; another one of his favourite “waifus” is Momo Yaoyorozu from My Hero Academia – this is a 15 year old girl in a revealing bodysuit, which is explained in canon by how her superpower is materializing objects from the energy of various body fat areas. The character exists as an excuse for the mangaka to draw a schoolgirl with huge breasts, posterior, and thighs. Earl, by his own admission, is an enthusiast of large breasts, and cites this as the only factor in his choice of characters. I can get you adult anime women with big breasts, don’t even worry about it, my guy – but Bowser remains committed to consuming exclusively schoolgirls. He has a consistent and long-running proclivity for watching shows about high school students, indicating he has a preference in both genre and character type.
Earl should never have been surprised that he would face backlash for expressing an interest in anime teens at his age; better yet, he should have never made these topics public. He was likely fishing for others who shared his interests, but boy howdy did he do it in the wrong community. When one invites unsuspecting strangers into their fetish or kink space, they are also inviting external criticism, because the unwilling spectator did not consent to see this particular subject matter in this context and cannot be forced into understanding this context. When Bowser first told Kairos about Getsuyoubi no Tawawa and Freezing, he knew full well Kairos did not like Earl and was actively raiding TheWhiteBowser server, and should have known this information could be used against him. During Earl’s first audio interview with Kiwi Tapes, Earl was the first one to bring up Ai’s age. Additionally, when Cow Wrangler first alleged Girl A was 17 years old, Earl kept correcting them to say Girl A was exactly 18 years old, so as to just barely toe the line into non-statutory territory. He has shown a constant knowledge of character ages, along with further awareness that it is wrong and often illegal to sexually engage with individuals under the age of 18. But these individuals are “just cartoons”, as Earl insists – indeed, they’re teenagers he cannot be legally reprimanded for collecting pornography of.
In short, if anyone needed an academic assessment of this individual, I can confirm for you that The White Bowser is a predator.
Epilogue
There is nothing more to learn about Earl Dube that doesn’t mirror something we already know about him, or worsen our disgust in him. I could go on and catalogue all of the idiotic nonsense he’s wholeheartedly shared with the internet (such as when he claimed eating ice cream could make a woman’s breasts bigger), but it would be a waste of your time and mine. Moreover, I am sick of thinking about The White Bowser. Even the mere thought of Earl feels like a cumbersome house guest inside one’s own head.
This is not to say that I wish Earl death, nor an ill fate in any way. I instead feel it is a public service to write out this timeline, so it may aid in future community-led background checks. Again, this all spiralled out of control because Earl was far too confident in what he put out on the internet…he was moderating the Laugh Tale server at the same time he was telling others in The Smoke Shack to commit suicide. Being an asshole on Discord one night wound up unravelling a half-decade’s long perversion spree that involved at least two real-world crimes.
In the year since all this began, Kiwi Tapes and SmokeyMcC have since publicly expressed regret about ever platforming Earl Dube. The two have since urged their viewers not to cow-tip, using the phrase, “don’t touch the poop”: don’t go out and tip a lolcow; only observe from afar. It’s a lesson many of us have learned the hard way, as Buddy Troll schemes often humiliate or incriminate the orchestrator, not just the lolcow. However, the two men’s efforts were not in vain. Kiwi may not have known at the time when to stop, but it was only because every time Earl opened his mouth, he incriminated himself more and more. He is to be observed, but ignored. Do not give him the satisfaction of self-importance by interacting with him.
Today, 2 High 4 Stupid still streams every Wednesday evening. Both Smokey and Kiwi still keep their real lives private, but Kiwi has mentioned his life partner “Mrs. Kiwi” having a son on the way. Most recently, Music Biz Marty successfully got Cyrax to dance on camera in exchange for getting his Steam account back. Earl Dube still maintains his own website where he posts his demo reels and anime music videos. At the bottom of the page is a rotating crawl of inspirational quotes attributed to himself, none of which sound like anything Earl has ever come up with on his own. He does not surface on social media anymore, at least not to anyone’s knowledge, though people have reported getting emails from him, implying he still looks himself up online.
Earl’s tale has been buried under the main stream of the internet due to his constantly flagging of all Youtube archives of his old videos; now, the most thorough White Bowser dossier is spread out across the Kiwi Farms thread about him. Reading the thread makes for an unpleasant experience, not only because of the surplus of clips of Bowser gooning on camera, but for Kiwi Farms’s inherently toxic site culture. By the end of the thread’s first page, visitors will be greeted by a user’s icon of Pepe the Frog shooting Nick Bougas’s Happy Merchant in the head; pages later, users get distracted arguing over what gender Cow Wrangler is. Elsewhere, an Archive.org chef’s sampler of evidence does exist, including the Laugh Tale archive, propped up as a public service against a man who may still be in contact with minors. We can only hope he’s not.
Throughout his online career, Earl has constantly dismissed himself as “autistic” or “retarded”, making a shield of his conditions, but aside from a fairly typical speech impediment, he appears to be otherwise well-spoken and self-sustaining, having graduated college, produced his own short films, worked retail jobs for periods of time, received an award from the Michigan Department of Labour and Economy, and was even interviewed for a business podcast as a success story. These are indeed achievements, but through his own hubris, he is now best known as a manipulative, self-serving individual addicted to lolicon. Autism is more demystified than ever: Earl can no longer get away with using it as a shield for his bullying and predatory behaviour. He was 24 years old during the PMV incident, 28 when he staged an opportunity to grope a teenage coworker, and 30 when he had to be told not to use someone’s full name online without their consent. This transcends any sort of genuine autistic mishap, and paints a clearer picture of a man who didn’t want to grow up, so he found his niche, got comfortable in it, and only found out he was the villain after it was far too late for everyone involved.
In the event that Earl finds this article: I have no association with Kiwi Tapes, Smokey McC, nor any of the other figures in this story. I’m not trying to send people to kick your ass. I am merely a bystander who felt compelled to write this timeline for educational purposes, using footage and words you willingly published. To quote Mr. Snowflake as he addressed Amberlynn Reid, “I’m just showing people what you’ve already showed them.”
Since Bowser seems to enjoy quotes, I’ll end with another one, this time taken from Red Forman of That 70s Show: “You don’t have bad luck. The reason bad things happen to you is because you’re a dumbass.”
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