Holy shit ok so by now you've probably seen plenty of photos of the guy on the right, but believe me when I say that the story below is the guy on the left. His name is Br*an Clowd*s. Thread:

Bri*n Cl*wdus is the founder and former artistic director of Serenbe Playhouse in Atlanta, GA where my friend used to work. During his tenure, the playhouse was featured in the New York Times and TIME, listed as one of the top 20 theaters in the country in Playbill, etc.

Here's a link to one of the articles he is specifically mentioned in. Guy was a growing name in his field and known for absolutely batshit cool ideas, such as landing an actual helicopter in this 2016 production of Miss Saigon. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/theater/annie-golden-miss-saigon-summer-stars.html

His website bio claims, among other accolades, he was also listed as one of Atlanta's most eligible bachelors on Jezebel. I have not confirmed this because I'm not a journalist and either way that's bizarre.

All of this changed earlier this year when an expose about him and his tenure was published via a local outlet. Sexual abuse allegations against him shortly followed thereafter. Brian was fired. Now it gets INSANE. https://www.artsatl.org/racism-claims-shutter-serenbe-playhouse-atlanta-theater-wonders-what-comes-next/

That article was published July 14th. Just a little over a month later, Br*an re-tweets this from the Log Cabin Republicans in support of Donald Trump. He then goes on a re-tweeting spree of conservative media. He's been on Twitter since 2015. All his prior tweets are now gone.

One month later, he tweets this about having re-located to the state of Florida under the guise of moving to a swing state, presumably to support Republicans. Remember: he lived in Atlanta before this. In Georgia. The swing state that arguably decided the election.

Two days later, he is now a DJT volunteer. Having been cancelled two months ago, he is rebranding himself as a Trump stan in real-time.

Next day, here he is with Candace Owens' new book, tags her in it. Think he might be trying to make some new friends?

It goes on and on for a while. He joins Log Cabin Republicans. Becomes a big Gays For Trump guy, hustles the social media game for a while. Won't bore you with the posts, go look at em if you want. He left Atlanta like FOUR MONTHS AGO.

Now he's going to GOP/Trump events in the front row or close to it. And then he snaps this one-- the viral video of Trump dancing. 25K likes. From here on out, his likes are in the thousands. You can guess what kind of folks are smashing that like button.

Does the obligatory "shout out to all my followers and fans". He's growing his base.

These two killed it. He left Atlanta TWO MONTHS AGO.

So he goes on. He goes to more rallies, meets Matt Gaetz, gets a Kirstie Alley RT. Dude is blowing up, fast. End of October, he even starts floating a Conservative Theater Company. He's back, baby!!!!

Goes on and on and on. And that's how we get to Jan 4-- Q Shaman is here! Two days later, Q Shaman is in the Capitol Building. My guy may have realized he overplayed his hand. See the righthand side.

And that's how we get to where we are today-- a video about him being "cancelled for a third time" for posing with the Q Shaman, delivered to his 40.7K THOUSAND followers, majority of whom are now MAGA types. Under the banner of a photogenic, clearly professional headshot.

I have no idea whether he is legit redpilled or if, in the face of universal rejection and accountability, this is his greatest acting turn ever. But the fact that this guy full-on rebranded himself within months to be a medium-tier viral MAGA sycophant is a lot to take in.

No prior evidence, to my understanding, of being anything close to this while in GA. I don't really know what the moral is here, and I'm not sure he knows either. We have never met and probably never will. Hope he finds peace. Don't think he has yet. End of thread.

Oh last thing-- all of this is public info, so if you really wanna go viral, you gotta be ready for all that entails there buddy.

acknowledgements: thank you to my best pal @TheMacAbides for, among many other things, satiating our mutual fascination with prospective grifters by bringing this tale to my attention