Aren't you a Keith Woods/Joel Davis fan? I know who I stand with comparing Martinez to KW... it sure isn't KW.

JD and the people around him like Tyler Hamilton I appreciate intellectually, but I don't view them as doing anything practical whatsoever other than releasing occasional writings like the journal they're working on together. Even then, if these writings can't convert academics (they're useless for layman audiences, who couldn't possibly understand or care what the hell the likes of Deleuze had to say), these things are fruitless as well. A lot of what content creators are doing indicates that they've reached a dead end—unable to resolve the issues of our time because the System itself is vastly more powerful than all of us combined, they're looking into philosophy in the hope of finding answers. The DR attracts a lot of philosophy students, probably because people who think independently are going to be attracted to both things. The number of graduates in other fields put together probably don't exceed the number of philosophy graduates alone.

There certainly are some odd things about Martinez's past though. He went through a job in media that required him to be anti-Zionist/pro-Iran and then found his way to WN after he realized the hypocrisy of these 'anti-war' people who were essentially Chomskyite Leftist types who only opposed Western wars while being ambivalent to if not outright defensive of wars launched by non-whites. Some people think his Omegle trolling is weird, but it's popular and bringing people over. You know you're getting the message out when random Omegle users are like: "Hey! You're that Martinez guy on Telegram! I'm your fan!"