Edward Current

Edward Current (his music name, Eddie Current and his real name/pen name, Karl CoryatFile:Wikipedia's W.svg)[1] is a YouTube contributor and famous musician. He is a progressive atheist who plays a bigoted and ignorant Christian in his parody videos. Said videos parody common arguments from creationists. (That said, they are astonishingly close to the real arguments. Poe's Law doesn't mean that the satire isn't biting.)

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As of 2020, Current currently (get it?) has over 80.1K subscribers, 24 million views, and 177k "prayers said for Edward Current". No, really.[2]

Antitheism videos

One of his most popular videos features his boneheaded persona smugly rattling off a series of absurd fallacies[3] and spawned the satirical "Checkmate, Atheists!" Internet phenomenon. Current satirizes the "atheists hate god", saying: "As always, waging war on the atheists who hate our Heavenly Father. And by atheists I also mean agnostics, who are people who aren't sure if they hate our Heavenly Father."

Some of Current's videos are also pseudo-educational, e.g. in his "Christian meets Invisible Pink Unicorn" cartoon video he demonstrates the meaning of "emergence."[4]

9/11 videos

Current was originally a 9/11 truther; then, he noticed that his beliefs on the WTC7 collapse fell into the category of an argument from incredulity.[5] To test the gullibility of 9/11 truthers, he created a hoax video of WTC7 collapsing, and truthers overwhelmingly took the bait.[6] He came out as a paid government shill, inclusive of a $1,000,000 paycheck from Langley, Virginia,[7] and later, as a long-time crisis actor.[8] And, he made an ad for "TruthR" — the dating app for 9/11 truthers.[9]

gollark: I can breed them some if they want most.
gollark: @*@* **@**__@__
gollark: Which one?
gollark: Impressive.
gollark: Strange.

See also
  • RationalWiki:Vlogroll

Mentions

Skeptic Content

Jeopardy! Game Show

Music Career

References
  1. “I create comedy and music videos under the pseudonym Edward Current ("Eddie Current")”
  2. https://www.youtube.com/user/EdwardCurrent/about
  3. Checkmate, Atheists!
  4. "A Christian Meets the Invisible Pink Unicorn"
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UULUQfEQFuU
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8VAsoVuShM
  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLyaN8Sl8_8
  8. https://youtu.be/M5XwvoEULOg
  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LRf1PalFbA
  10. Gravity Explained, In One Simple Video, Huffpost
  11. Can you believe what you see on YouTube?, Digital Journal
  12. Brilliant satire of racial justice denialism by Youtuber Edward Current, Patheos
  13. J! Archive — Season 12 (you may have to search for his name using “Find in page”)
  14. Coryat Score, J! Archive
  15. James Holzhauer's Jeopardy! Greatness, in Charts, WIRED
  16. James Holzhauer Explains the Strategy Behind His Jeopardy Winning Streak, The Atlantic
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