{"id":177630,"date":"2019-07-29T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/29\/adding-to-the-list-of-they-who-must-not-be-named-4\/"},"modified":"2019-07-29T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T02:19:00","slug":"adding-to-the-list-of-they-who-must-not-be-named-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/29\/adding-to-the-list-of-they-who-must-not-be-named-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding to the List of They Who Must Not Be Named"},"content":{"rendered":"
Scott Adams, who has decided that using a mass shooting in California to promote his blockchain scam is the height of virtue<\/a>:<\/div>\n

When a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, on Sunday evening, killing at least three people<\/a>, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounding 12 others<\/a>, Dilbert creator Scott Adams apparently saw a juicy marketing opportunity for his blockchain app.<\/p>\n

Adams is best known for creating Dilbert, a comic strip satirizing soulless corporate culture and the grueling punishment dished out on its eponymous engineer by idiot co-workers and clueless management. But he also moonlights. In addition to punditry on topics ranging from fifth-dimensional chess analyses<\/a> proclaiming Donald Trump a genius Pavlovian manipulator<\/a> to tortured theological treatises<\/a>, to questioning<\/a> the specifics of the Holocaust\u2019s atrocities, Adams is the co-founder of app company WhenHub<\/a>. WhenHub is similar to Cameo, the app that allows everyday people to pay celebrities to create customized videos, except instead of pre-recorded messages from movie stars and rappers, it offers live chats with a range of subject-matter experts.<\/p>\n

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Adams seems to have concluded the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting was an ideal time to direct-market this app to witnesses\u2014who, as he made quite clear on Twitter, he believed could cash in on their traumatic experience by selling interviews to news organizations via WhenHub.<\/p>\n

According to the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, the gunman opened fire sometime around 5:30 p.m. PT on Sunday when the festival was nearing its conclusion. Less than three hours later, at 8:21 p.m. PT, about 13 minutes after President Trump advised locals to exercise caution<\/a> because reports indicated the shooter was still at large, Adams began pitching the survivors on signing up for, and charging for, interviews with media outlets via WhenHub.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you were a witness to the #GilroyGarlicFestivalshooting please sign on to Interface by WhenHub (free app) and you can set your price to take calls. Use keyword Gilroy,\u201d Adams tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roughly 23 minutes later, Adams had some advice for critics who correctly identified this as shameless opportunism aiming to capitalize off an atrocity: Grow up and stop it with the \u201cfake outrage.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Adams did not immediately respond to our request for comment, although he did respond to the controversy in a livestream Monday morning on Periscope<\/a>, where he continued to stand by his promotion efforts and blamed the controversy on socialism.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

#BoycottDilbert<\/a> is trending on Twitter, with good reason.<\/p>\n

He hasn’t had an original idea for his comic strip since before the end of the last century.<\/p>\n

Don’t read his comics, don’t buy his merch, and if you want to complain to your local paper about this, that would be nice too.<\/p>\n

Scott Adams should have been drowned at birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Adams, who has decided that using a mass shooting in California to promote his blockchain scam is the height of virtue: When a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, on Sunday evening, killing at least three people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounding 12 others, Dilbert creator Scott Adams …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,395,368,435,505,364,387,431,582],"class_list":["post-177630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-computer","tag-corruption","tag-crimes","tag-disaster","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-they-who-must-not-be-named","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}