The Curious Rise of Twitter Power Broker Yashar Ali

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In just a few years, Yashar Ali has become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country-mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny? https://t.co/SVGHPW7mgg
- Los Angeles Magazine (@LAmag) June 9, 2021

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Comments

[gumby]

was hoping someone would post this!

i can't ...

Ok I think this is probably the most haunting part of the yashar profile if I had to pick pic.twitter.com/dVne3lcj2q
- Sarah Hagi (@KindaHagi) June 9, 2021

[misato]

dude wtf lmao??

[swimbee]

I wonder if the PI following him is employed by a famous person looking for an exit strategy.

[pi_lady]

WTF at Tapper, so he's never met him and considers him a wonderful presence in his life? LMAO

It honestly just sounds like Yashar knows how to stroke their egos and they like that.

[elderpricely]

lmao I'm a dumbass and only read the first half of the quote

that is bizarre

[pi_lady]

It really is. And I can understand people like him not always remembering how they met somebody because of their job but if you consider somebody a friend, you should remember how you met them. lol

[vintage_boom]

hes "bffs" with Christie Tiegen apparently so yea definitely

[pi_lady]

Yeah, I think that was one of his first celebrity "friendships".

[littlebones]

tbh i do have ~online friends that i am very close to but seeing it all laid out like this is fuckin weird. especially since jake and yashar have the cash to have travelled to each other.

[pi_lady]

Yeah, I get having close online friends, I do too (though I have met all the ones I'm closest to) but this just seems so bizarre. Hnd he doesn't even remember how they met, he was just suddenly a presence. If I was as popular as Tapper, I would be careful about who I'm friends with, esp. if I don't actually know them.

[itscomicrelief]

Possibly a wish or some sort of spellwork caused this?

[ellie_andrews]

the matter of factness of this comment is killinggggg me

[gimmemoarjosh]

Right? It's the comments that keep me forever here. 16 years now? Lmao, I cannnnottt!

[snovasam]

It’s not even about not meeting him...it’s the fact that Tapper doesn’t recall whether he’s met him or not...yet Ali has a wonderful presence in his life and Tapper feels like he’s known him all his life? what

[trancexperiment]

he sounds like one of those alien parasites in Rick and Morty that penetrates your memories to make you think you’ve known them your entire life but don’t remember how.

[missjersey]

This is an acceptable head canon