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“”(inane shrill voice, speaking in full-auto and wild flailing for 10-30 something minutes) GOD FUCKING SPEED
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| —Every "Razörfist" video ever. |
Daniel Paul Harris (b. May 31, 1985), also known by his Awesome McCoolname pseudonyms Razörfist and The Rageaholic, is an "multi-talented" Arizonian far-right pundit and content creator, known primarily as a Youtuber, "The site formerly known as Twitter"-addict, gun nut mall ninja, Tommy Wiseau
cosplayer, media critic, inventive pulp author, getting F on history and a ephebophile.
Coming from a wide background of miscellaneous hobbies, he started to make his presence known as a clone of a noted Channel Awesome-era content creator Noah Antwiler alias The Spoony One. His early 2010s reviews were mostly focused on music, movies (Reaganite cult-classic action films) and video game reviews in which he could barely hide his contempt at everything modern, Hideo Kojima and the things that Gamergate would later latch on to.
Although he never made it to the big leagues as a geek media reviewer, especially after it was found out that Harris didn't play the games he reviewed, the year 2016 would pave way for his true calling. With ascension of one God Emperor Trump and the cultural infestation of alt-right, Harris could freely air out his far-right leanings and start singing his praises of Cheeto Benito while preaching oblivion to the Orange One's enemies.
From 2017 onwards, he started to gather more followers with his political bullshit, rising to new heights. And much like everybody rising to their level of incompetence, the more Harris' ego inflated, the more his ultracrepidarianism (and by extension Dunning–Kruger effect) started to surface. Crank magnetism ensued, declaring himself the Oracle of Arizona, Harris then starting to push pro-confederate/anti-Lincoln views on American Civil War and such and other.
As of October 2024, he has 383K subscribers on YouTube. Harris as gradually found more and more like-minded wingnuts as his content creator has progressed, including Styxhexenhammer666[2], Sargon of Akkad[3] and Sebastian Gorka. He also bears the dubious honor (along with Michael Coombs) of being one of the rare Kiwifarms “lolcows” that are politically right-wing.[note 1]
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Due to protecting his proverbial character mysticism from the truth, Harris is very secretive about his pre-Rageaholic/Razörfist life. Regardless, select elements have come to light over the years.
Daniel Paul Harris was born on May 31, 1985, in Phoenix, Arizona. His parents are Paul and Barbara Harris, and he has a sister named Kirsten. He was educated at an unspecified high school (where he learnt to speak Japanese), before allegedly completing college-level education at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, graduating as a journalist with a major in political science.[note 2] He has apparently done volunteer work in foreign countries like Mexico and Japan.
Around 1999-2008, Harris was part of a was Arizonian indie black metal band "Mortiferus", under the moniker "Acerbus".[4] In early 00s, Harris operated a DeviantArt account titled CaptainSpandex (now defunct). Circa 2004, he tried to mingle with DeviantArt user named Miss Macy (supposedly Japanese) but was shot down by her.
Rageaholic/Razörfist, the early years[edit]
Harris started his original Youtube channel in 2009, starting his content creation in earnest in 2011. At some point, Harris gained a YouTube partnership. Although he started a pretty swift rise in popularity, the momentum was stalled when in 2013, somebody in Encyclopedia Dramatica got access to his PSN account statistics, with it being revealed that Harris *barely* played any games he had made reviews of.
Sometime in early 2010s, he had dated a Canadian girl named Erica Rae Drake, known by her online alias "NocturnalCurves". She left Harris at unspecified point. Then, circa 2015, he started to date a 15-year old Latina girl only known as "Eve" (born April 12, 2000).
MAGA train[edit]
After Donald Trump winning the electoral college in 2016 to become the President of the United States, Harris had found his Saint Ronnie.
Despite putting more focus on political stuff expanded his following, it caused a rift amongst his older fans, who preferred Harris' review stuff over the political pundit vlogging.
In 2021, Eve and Harris started quarreling, with her taking control of Harris' Twitter account. First using to text that Harris was a disgusting pervert and then later deleting all content on Harris' account. In December 2022, the two broke up, with Eve stating that she had dated a "well-known right leaning asshole from [when she was] 15-20."
On November 5, 2024, he was guest on Salem Media Group coverage of 2024 U.S. presidential election with Sebastian Gorka.[5]
Personality and quirks[edit]
Daniel Harris is known to be a massively insecure, two-faced narcissist with delusions of grandeur who is constantly projecting his own flaws to others. He is also a star-fucking sycophant who, once reaching to/beyond the fame of his celebrity target, will discard them like a used condom. He does not like to be called by his real name.
As a content creator, his whole shtick relies on intellectual dishonesty and bad faith arguments (optics, quote-mining, half-truths and outright lies), delivered at breakneck speed and relying on histrionic theatrics and inflammatory language to agitate and/or overwhelm the other. His own stupidity (as evidenced by his habitual argument from incredulity) also factors into his rants. Additionally, due to his proverbial "character gimmick", he will absolutely never admit being wrong, while celebrating even an quarter-correct guesses as result of his supreme understanding of reality.
Harris is also a sneaky bastard who tries to delete everything and anything that might dent his imago. He deletes his videos and tweets, as well as closing his older social media accounts, to make sure nobody gets any dirt on him. If caught with the pants down, except lots of snarling and spinning around. However, Harris himself has no qualms of gleefully using others' past dirt against them.
Contrarian hipster[edit]
He has a strong hipster streak and gravitates to niche things which nobody cares for so he can play authority on it that he tries to bring to wider audience. Because of his niche likes, he tends to be very contrarian by nature.
Plagiarism this, plagiarism that[edit]
Harris is prone to accusing everything and anything he doesn't like being plagiarism. Maybe the best known case is him lambasting Batman for being an "rip-off" of the 1930's pulp character The Shadow.[note 3] Ultimately, this factor doesn't make Batman any worse or The Shadow itself any better.
Get out of my mind Liquid Kojima!![edit]
Harris has a incomprehensible, hate-fueled obsession with a noted video game auteur Hideo Kojima. How and why is usually one of the topics that are talked about regarding this guy. It is generally believed to be some kind of envy, as Harris is hell-bent in trying to champion similarly-themed video games such as Thief and Deus Ex, both whom Kojima's Metal Gear series has quite decisively overshadowed in terms of both visibility and artistic recognition.
He has gone as far as to accuse Kojima's fans of being in a "cult",[7] that his games are full of "virtue signalling" [8] and that Kojima is just Peter Molyneux in hipster glasses and a Yoko wig.[9]
Shitty behavior on (former) Twitter[edit]
As any egomaniac that's protective of their image and who is on "the social media site formerly known as twitter", Harris is a thin-skinned ninny who blocks anybody who directs even the slightest criticism or sarcasm towards him.
Being a terrible friend[edit]
In politically correct terms, Harris is a fair-weather friend. He has a bad habit of throwing hissy fits and burning bridges with everybody. Despite being timid in real life, Harris has a cowardly manner of shitting on his friends behind their backs.
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Politics[edit]
Harris is a typical nostalgia-driven Libertarian-Conservative with evident authoritarian/fascistic leanings, right at home with The Fandom Menace. He is a sworn anti-leftist, having declared his opposition to liberalism, communism and woke. Harris has personally identified himself as a "Goldwater Republican" (see Fusionism), which again is a half truth, as while his politics are a mix of social conservatism and right-libertarianism, Harris clearly holds more reactionary wingnut views than Barry Goldwater and other Fusionist Republicans at their worst.[10] He also appears to by a Joseph McCarthy apologist. Despite not identifying as a Trumpist, his mancrush on the Orange One is quite clear, with him even attacking the other Republican candidates during the 2024 U.S. presidential elections. He also really despises John McCain[11]
On the left, he only sees enemies. He claims that Bernie Sanders is a communist that needs to be dropped out of a helicopter[12]
Harris claimed that there was likely fraud in the 2020 Democratic primaries in favour of Joe Biden simply because there were so many more people at Bernie Sanders rallies while there were comparatively a lot less at Joe Biden's. [13] Another major talking point of his was that the 2018 Arizona Senate election was stolen. What evidence does he give that it was stolen? That there was NO WAY so many people could have voted for a Democratic Senator on the same night that a Republican governor won[14] despite it happening in several other states like Maryland. He has also accused an extremely conservative Democrat of being a literal communist and a "fake moderate" using a poorly edited page from Nate Silver's 538.[15]
Content[edit]
Harris' content can be divided into following:
- Politsperging
- Video Games (reviews + RazorFist Arcade)
- Music (Metal Mythos)
- Movies (Rageholic Cinema and Film Noirchives)
- Comic Books/Pulp Fiction
- Miscellaneous ego trips
As an author[edit]
“”[Book title] by RazörFist
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| —Harris using his cringe-worthy pseudonym to credit himself as a writer |
In 2020, he decided to throw his glove into the pulp novel writing ring and debuted with The Long Moonlight, the #1 volume in the Nightvale series (no, not that Nightvale). It was quickly pointed out by people that this book was basically glorified Thief fan fiction (which is especially hypocritical, since he's done the same thing he accused Batman of doing to The Shadow), complete with very flowery writing. It is assumed that the Nightvale books are a result of Harris being frustrated that nobody competent would ever arrive to fix the Thief series, and taking it upon his own hands to do so.
He and George Alexopoulos (reactionary Twitter agitprop comic artist) collaborated together in making "Ghost Of The Badlands" graphic novel. Funded via IndieGoGo, the first issue released April 2023.[16]
Stupid shit Harris has said[edit]
Michael is innocent!… as well as Bill Cosby?[edit]
Harris is fundamentally adamant that Michael Jackson was completely innocent from all charges of child molestation, claiming the documentary Leaving Neverland was a total shockumentary that was discredited within weeks[17] despite the fact that while the documentary was certainly bruised and battered, there is an ongoing controversy surrounding Michael Jackson's legacy. To take it even further, Harris suggests that sexual abuse allegations against Bill Cosby are also all totally false,[18] he asserts that since Michael Jackson was proven not guilty in court he could not be called a child molester yet he claims that despite Cosby's convection it should also be doubted because the justice system is broken.[19][20][21] If the justice system is so broken to the degree Harris claims, then how could we also legitimately assert Michael Jackson was innocent?
Nazis are socialists[edit]
Circa 2019, Harris threw his hat in the "Hitler and socialism" fallacy with a video titled "The Socialism of National Socialism - A Rant".[22]
Firearms hipsterism and other Mall Ninja antics[edit]
Harris is a gun hipster who trumps the Second Amendment and gravitates towards 19th century and early 20th century firearms. His favorites appear to be the Colt Single Action Army and the Mauser C96. Despite them being antiquated designs that do not compare to facile usability of modern firearms, Harris proclaims that they are viable in real-life situations and is capable of out-drawing and out-gunning any attacker.
He has also tried to needle Ian McCallum of Forgotten Weapons fame. McCallum, being a bigger man (and a functional adult in general) paid zero attention to Harris.
Civil War Myths and getting dunked by Vlogging Through History[edit]
“”Its false. No way. Not this time. Not this time. No. Not this time. Its totally made up. Pure fiction. It’s fiction. It’s fiction. It’s a made up tale. It’s a total fabrication. It never happened. It never happened. This one was invented by a writer. Not this time. It never happened. Its false. It never happened. Its a fake. It’s fiction. Its an urban legend that never happened. No way. Not a chance. Not this time. It never happened. It never happened. Its fiction. Not this time. Wrong. Not this time. Not this time. You’re wrong. Not this time, it never happened.
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| —Take a guess whatever its Jonathan Frakes in "jonathan frakes telling you you're wrong for 47 seconds" or Chris Mowery in "Vlogging Through History, Abraham Lincoln: American Dictator - My Response (Parts 1 & 2)" [note 4] |
At some point, Harris began pushing some inane bullshit regarding the American Civil War. Perhaps most notorious talking point is him proclaiming that Abraham Lincoln was a dictator, who began the civil war to carry out state terrorism against the south. Despite vehemently denying that he is a lost causer and that he is just asking questions, it is believed that he is parroting points that Thomas DiLorenzo (a neo-Confederate lost causer) made in his two anti-Lincoln books. In January 14, 2023, Harris published his 1h7m video titled "Abraham Lincoln: American Dictator". As of October 2024, that video has 654k views.
Then, in January 19, 2023, Chris Mowery of the Vlogging Through History Youtube channel decided to go through the video in two parts. Mowery, who has a background as a history professor, professional genealogist and written multiple books about various families (not to mention American Civil War - among with World War I, and Medieval English history, being his favorite subjects), had none of Harris' shit. Despite Mowery hoping that he would not need to stop Harris' video constantly to address the faults in his argument, he ended up doing so almost every 10 seconds. Although at end of part 1 Mowery said that "he was about to blow a gasket", he remained cool throughout and thoroughly pounded Harris' bullshit to the ground.
Other controversies[edit]
Not playing the games he reviews[edit]
Harris' first real controversy involved his video game reviews, which was one of the things he was known at the time.
Relationship with a minor[edit]
Harris became a subject of controversy around 2021-2022, when it came to light that the Latina girl he had been dating was under-aged. Turns out there was a method to the madness in regards to Harris' defensiveness towards Michael Jackson's pedophilia accusations.
As Eve was under-aged, this has caused speculation whatever Harris' previous girlfriend, Erica Rae Drake, was under-aged too.
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Relationships[edit]
Harris has quite a social web.
Amorous relationships[edit]
- Erica Rae Drake
- Eve (b. 2000)
Has collaborated with with[edit]
- Styxhexenhammer666
- Sebastian Gorka
- Vince Russo
- Sargon of Akkad
- George "GPrime85" Alexopoulos
- "Stuttering" Craig Skistimas
- Phil Burnell (DarksydePhil / DSPGaming)
- Emer Prevost
- AlphaOmegaSin
- Fatefulcoma
- NoGutsNoGalaxyTV
- fwofcomics.com
- Screenwave Media
- Yell Kaos
- Nerdrotic
- Geeks + Gamers
- YoungRippa59
Turned against/former friends[edit]
- Eric Gaede (Asalieri)
Enemies[edit]
- Anybody that's politically left, with Heinrich Himmler being his idea of a moderate.
- Hideo Kojima: Lives rent free in Harris' head, despite Kojima's post-Konami career with Death Stranding having not been too great.
- John McCain
- Dee Snider (Twister Sister): Yes, that Dee Snider. He apparently one-upped Harris on Twitter/X.
- Chris Mowery (Vlogging Through History)
- GröömerFist: parody account on YouTube, which has archived some of Harris' more infamous moments.
Stalking targets[edit]
- Noah "TheSpoonyOne" Antwiler
External Links[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Under assumption the site consists mostly of South Park Republicans and/or alt-right ass-clowns whose victims are mainly LGBTQ individuals.
- ↑ Allegedly, as in there are people who claim that the class he attended didn't exist when he was studying there.
- ↑ This is an half-truth, as while Batman had taken a fair share of elements from the Shadow (including Batman's first story being rewrite of one of The Shadow stories), the differences ultimately overweight the influence. Especially since Batman as an IP kept evolving into different direction(s) from its inspiration.[6] Additionally, there exists more blatant imitators of The Shadow than early Batman was, so "being a rip-off of the Shadow" doesn't quite apply to Batman to the degree Harris thinks it does.
- ↑ It's both
References[edit]
- ↑ Barnes, Liam (January 27, 2023). "Daniel Harris: UK teen sentenced over videos linked to US shootings". "A British man who posted far-right videos that influenced the gunman behind a US mass shooting has been given an 11-and-a-half-year sentence. Daniel Harris, 19, uploaded racist videos calling for the "total extermination of subhumans", Manchester Crown Court heard. They were shared by Payton Gendron, who killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York."
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/847101060900540417
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/youtube-lw-zuBA6g2Y
- ↑ "Acerbus". 2014.
- ↑ From McDonald's to Peanut the Squirrel, the 2024 election. Raz0rfist with Sebastian Gorka[a w]
- ↑ Bailey, Jonathan (September 27, 2022). "Was Batman a Plagiarism?". "Though Batman’s first story was a close copy of The Shadow’s tale, Batman clearly went on to become a very different character and distance himself from The Shadow in many ways. Though the characters still have many similarities, including both being wealthy playboy-type characters that protect a New York City (or a stand in), the two characters have gone in different directions. One key difference of note is that Batman no longer uses firearms or kills criminals, something The Shadow does and early Batman did as well. In the 1970s, DC Comics obtained the rights to The Shadow character (though it’s since been resold) and published several runs of his comics between then and the early 90s. During that time, The Shadow and Batman shared a couple of stories, with Batman acknowledging that The Shadow was his biggest influence. That, in turn, is where we are today. The copycat origins of Batman are largely forgotten and left behind, something that is made as an inside reference when the two share a story with each other.[...] As a result, Batman may have moved well past his copycat roots, but he’ll never be able to completely escape."
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1170953333915316225
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1194058231397568513
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1123087117515575296
- ↑ https://twitter.com/bashpr0mpt/status/1178908473980882944
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/980484018251509760
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO8-cWp4Wc8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO8-cWp4Wc8
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1061068023048495104
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1224926217515626496
- ↑ Jon Del Arroz (Apr 25, 2023). "RazörFist And George Alexopoulos Comes Out Six-Shooters Ablazin’ With Hot New Graphic Novel ‘Ghost Of The Badlands’".
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190811213728/https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1160665989295378432
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1044837612656168960
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1044813498084192256
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1044829769806827522
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/992098908351311872
- ↑ The Socialism of National Socialism (October 9, 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-SLqdhkvJo
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