I've tried to get into his videos but his analysis are so

>>8785421
still waiting for an update from c fanwise on Cliff's newest vid

>>8785425
cringe.

saw his Recognitions video and dropped it at him reading the most popular quote he found on a quick google search. Also that unread copy he uses to fucking flex.

Why would you bother?

>>8785421
You just don't understand them.
Fucking pseud.

Wow, hating cliff sergent is really cool, right guys?

I don't hate him, I just don't respect his videos at all

>>8786881
Hi, Cliff.

is there a way to confront this retard without his legion of fanboys defending him?

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>>8786973
>legion

Why do people on 4chan love giving retards attention?

How old do you think he is? Late 20's?

I'm on a first name basis with Cliff. I knew that guy before he was famous. We came up together and learned literature in college while all our buddies were busy getting girl and going to bars. Literally, all we cared about were books, but he took it to a new level which I'd never seen before. I don't meant to appeal to authority, except to say every book he talks about, was one I first suggested to him and read before him. Every book suggestion he gets, he runs by me first to get my opinion. That's how close we are. I know my shit, and this guy is the real deal. Now I'm not going to tell you my name because if you knew my name you would start to get nervous the way you'd sperg out when your anonymous MMORPG buddy tells you they're a girl. We all know you're just visiting /lit/. So next time you want to talk shit about Cliff Sargent, know that I've seen every single one of his videos at least ten times and he couldn't care less if a bunch of 4chan kids with aspergers disorder know he's smarter, better looking, and more successful than they are.

>>8787006
I would guess that he's 34-36

>>8787013
>Now I'm not going to tell you my name because if you knew my name you would start to get nervous the way you'd sperg out when your anonymous MMORPG buddy tells you they're a girl.
Let me guess, your name is Sliff Cargent?

>>8787013
what

>>8787109
>>8787119
lol it's pasta

Motherfucker has the hair of a god and looks like a typical archetypal literary figure. Jealous as sin

I saw Cliff Sargent at a book store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my browsing, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen copies of Lolita in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the books and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each book and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

>>8787193
>but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face.
every fucking time

Just looked him up after reading this thread. He seems all right, but why is it that every book he reviews is/has been really popular on /lit/ at one time or another? Is he a /lit/ tard or does /lit/ just copy him recommendations?

>>8787309
I'm pretty sure it's the former, as there were several instances in which he almost blew his cover.

>>8787193

>When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen copies of Lolita in his hands without paying.

this is the one and only time this copypasta has made me laugh

>>8785497
Ola senor reddito

>>8787309
not every book, he's done A Rebours and Le Bas and others that arent mentioned a lot here, but still, the books he "reviews" arent the problem, it's the reviews themselves. they're kinda fluff, all personality and no substance, and even this personality he shows is disingenuous.

>>8787391
lmao lurk more new fag huysman is a frequent /lit/ meme

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>Yah Im really into existentialism. Have you ever heard of Neitzsche? He basically killed god, hes pretty epic. Im gonna go smoke real quick. Hey do I look like Camus when I smoke?

>>8787391
I'm not a fanboy by any means, but his reviews seem at least as comprehensive as any other 20-minute youtube review videos I've seen. I watched his reviews of Story of the Eye and Book of Disquiet, and they're decent enough. Not deep reading analyses, but I don't think that was ever the intention

>There are people RIGHT NOW who watch other people discuss and "review" things on the internet

Literally just as bad as vidya streamers

I read this book

Le smoke

Le drink

>>8787454
>Fingerless gloves
Immediately discarded

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>>8785421
His book reviews are p. terrible but his film reviews are good. Wish he'd devote himself to those full time

he still looks like anon's grandpa Irving

>>8787454
Is he auditioning to be an action hero stunt double in the 90s?

>>8787193
who started this meme wtf

people on here only don't like him because he has the same precious intellectual hobby they have but is also a good-looking successful guy

>>8788578
This he is basically appropriating our hobby, and there is a reason we do nothing but read all day. Any one of us would choose to be a normie like him if we could. HE doesn't NEED IT.

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What does Cliff do for a living? I know he studied film but what does he do to pay for all those iced coffees and travel?

>>8785421

>booktubers

Please leave

>>8788578
Eh, successful sure, but he's a 7 on a good day

>>8788615
Successful is debatable. I mean he got money from somewhere and has a youtube channel some people actually watch.

Meanwhile he talks like any day now he's going to have a script he's had for years made into a proper film. He has David Brent esque ego obsession with his lack of fame

>>8788610
Jesus Christ what a fucking faggot

This guy is the result of 50 years of feminization in the West, just a preening depthless worthless faggot

Jesus that image is like a parody someone made on purpose, everything from the name to the "heh yeah I'm a book guy. what about it" attitude, to taking selfies like a queer little gay woman, to making sure he looks BADASS in the selfie

I just feel bad for this guy

>>8788610
>arranged his hair faux-naturally messy like that to take a selfie
>Claims to be akin to Hemingway

>>8788610
He must have loaded parents. I don't see this guy as the productive type

Cliff is more of a teenage girl than all the actual teenage girl booktubers posted here.

I'm not even sure for such a perfect teenage girl archetype to be encased in a 40 year old man's body.

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>>8788645

I'm a girl and I thought of making videos once but I hate all the girls on booktube and I'm too autistic

>>8788653
Do the next best thing, post your arsehole on here

>>8788659

No

>>8788653
I think you should make whatever the fuck you want and not let people's expectations influence you, but you should also be aware that men will watch you just because you're female.

I can literally feel a numinous essence emanating from your post right now just because you said "I'm a girl." To my lizard brain instincts, you're more important than I could ever be, just by existing, and I want to lick the holes your excreta come out of. That's what you're dealing with when it comes to men as an audience. I already kind of love you and want your approval or at least your attention just because you're a girl. If we were roommates I would smell your worn clothing. Be ready for this. Always be ready for the Dick Dementia. We can't stop. But you gotta do what's right for you. I love you.

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>>8788669
>she already knows

>>8788700
>>8788669
u guys ok :p

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>>8788669
This is the definition of mansplaining

>>8787013
This wasn't funny the first time

>>8787153
>hair of a god

He's got a greasy mop

>>8788711
thanks for visiting 4chan, hope you enjoy the tour

>>8788669
pretty tasty pasta

>>8788610
Sucks cocks

>>8788719
whether he washes it is immaterial, that hairline and texture is a blessing. That makes me sound like a real faggot, but it's just seething envy

>>8788653
Let me see ur face to see if u have what it takes

>>8788653
>hehehe I'm a girl btw xd I don't want any attention or anything I swear!

>>8788747
sounds like someone is a virgin who can't get sex never been laid mad at woman who hurt you

>>8788653
i'm sorry this virgin talked to you milady

>>8788653
Post feet.

>>8788653
Be the change and make an actually worthwhile booktube channel. Assuming you are actually well-read.

>>8788854
>Assuming you are actually well-read

it's a girl..

>>8788927
>Manplaining is a meme, women do the same all the time.

This is such a guy thing to say

>>8788939

>all women are feminists and believe the mansplaining meme

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>mfw people actually watch these videos and give this hack money when they could literally read sparknotes or wikipedia instead

Why is consumer culture so stupid?

>>8788937
Well, a booktuber talking about philosophy and other non-fiction literature would be a breath of fresh air.
I don´t know how that making videos stuff actually works. Maybe just stand in front of a camera and say whatever's on your mind?, or write something like that and then read it. I don´t know really.
What´s your job about? Do you review books? I´m interested.

>>8788937
LET THE BLOGPOSTING BY A NEWFAG FEMANON WHO DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE SITE'S CULTURE OR EVEN THE BASICS OF POSTING BEGIN!

>>8788653
Are you the girl who posted her videos here and they started out interesting but then you posted one with no sound and then posted a few where you hadn't read anything?

They started out promising.

>>8788960

Enjoy your site.

>>8788971
Enjoy never fitting in because all you know how to do is wave your vagina around until you're old enough that people stop caring about it and you imperceptibly slink into being a nonentity in a family that takes you for granted you fucking hack.

>>8788998

You just described your life except for the vagina, which makes it sadder, right?

Have a nice life, anon.

>>8788958

I do, for a magazine. Comfy job, not very well paid, though.

>>8789012
I'm married to a woman who isn't an attention whore who isn't so lonely and purposeless that she needs to argue with men about how she isn't an attention whore on the Internet.

>>8789026

>married

Waifus and hands don't count

>>8789026

>married to a non attention whore
>spend your time after work insulting one on the Internet
>ignoring the supposed wife

:^)

>>8789043

the median age of posters for this board is relatively older than that of other boards. it's entirely possible that he is married.

you sound super miserable btw.

>>8789060

That wasn't me.

Anyway, I only mentioned that I thought of making videos once, that's all. I'll go read, enjoy your evening.

>>8789019
Great. I´d sk what magazine but that could reveal your personal information, and that wouldn´t be convinient.

>>8789074

>That wasn't me.

fair enough.

>>8789074
Enjoy the only value you have in life slowly wilting even while you reply to my every post.

You're drying up downstairs. Soon everything will be different. Even this shitty conversation you're having with ten different interlocutors, all those people are only interlocutors BECAUSE you're a woman and get instant free replies and attention for it. That's all going away.

You're gonna be a dried up old crone no one gives a fuck about.

>>8787006
Isn't he 26 or something but married to a filthy rich older woman?

>>8785497
12 year old faggot who thinks everything is cringy?

>>8787496
>he plays "vidya"
>he uses the word "vidya"
Go back to /v/, you uncultured piece of shit, literally the bottom of the barrel.

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>>8787006
In his 20s apparently

>>8790345
Clifford Lee Sargent (b. March 15, 1989)
Clifford Lee Sargent (son of Clifford Douglas Goforth and Deborah Ann Haynes) was born March 15, 1989 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

>>8790352
Did you make that up

Love this guy, seems smart

>>8790345
>>8790352
no way, he looks at least 35-40

>>8787193
>at first he kept pretending to be tired
My God you nailed it.

>>8785421
The only reason to make fun of Cliff is because he dresses and acts self-absorbed slacker and thinks it is a perfectly acceptable excuse for a personality. His summaries are fine if you haven't heard of the book and are looking for recs that are similar to his taste. Otherwise, if you're looking for a University level analysis what the hell are you doing on YouTube?

>>8792636
Having read most of the books he reviews, his reviews are terrible. It seems like he read the wiki page and some goodreads quotes, but not the novels themselves. Motherfucker seems to care a lot more about how his clothes look than about literature whatsoever. The type of guy who spends hours shaving his chest and deliberately making himself look like he has a perpetual 5 o'clock shadow

>>8792660
I don't think his reviews serve any purpose other than to introduce the viewer to the book and give them a general idea of what they are in store for, which is pretty much what I said. I couldn't agree more about Cliff as a person. But I don't know what the hell these people are expecting from booktubers. There are worthwhile analyses on YouTube, but they are typically on University channels, about the classics, and given by a literature PhDs . Cliff is approximately 75% of /lit/ though, and the remainder is made up of anons from other boards who are even dumber and less self-aware.

>>8787518
fingerless gloves in LA, no less.

>>8788653
Be the change you wish to see in the world, as they say. Not saying that with 100% conviction, but it'd be nice to have a halfway decent booktuber, and the competition so far is anything but stiff.

>>8785421
I agree. The gimmick of Thug Notes gets old incredibly quick, but even it has far better analysis than Cliff. Honestly, Cliff's attempts to talk about literature are just embarrassing.

>>8790345
Of course he's from fucking Portland