Jon Jones keyboard-battles a random guy, and I don’t think he’s the childish one
This piece was inspired by screenshots I saw on X.
[4:01 p.m.]
Jon:
How low is your IQ really, you’re probably in some trailer park somewhere.
Why follow me just to say that you don’t care what I talk about?
I just looked at your name, you’re probably not American, how did you get a cell phone anyways?
lol
Fan:
you beat your wife, cheat on your wife, cheat in the ufc
deadbeat dad and husband
[4:02 p.m.]
Jon:
Sounds like you’ve been a fan for a long time.
Fan:
takes about 5 secs to know
Jon:
My wife is out getting her hair and nails done.
My kids are playing on their side of the mansion.
What are you up to today?
Fan:
you google your name and all you see is garbage lol
your kids are scared of you
[4:02–4:03 p.m.]
Jon:
and your wife hates you lol
That’s what you would like to believe.
Again, you would love to believe that.
Fan:
jon jones, dr*g cheat loser, cheater, deadbeat dad and trash husband
[4:03 p.m.]
Jon:
The truth is I’m a black 6 foot four professional athlete, multimillionaire living in the American dream.
Are you living in the American dream?
Fan:
just because you have money doesnt mean you arent a loser lmao
Jon:
lol do you even own a car?
Fan:
hiding behind your fame to cope being a terrible human
Jon:
Yes, I am an incredibly wealthy influential successful loser lol
[4:04 p.m.]
Fan:
who doesnt own a car in 2025?
who was the n*ked girl in the car?
Jon:
Yes, again I’m a terrible human being but I’m incredibly wealthy, influential, people follow me from all around the world
Fan:
rmber that night or were you too high on coke again?
Jon:
That was your girlfriend lol
Fan:
answr the question pal
[4:04–4:05 p.m.]
Jon:
How can a man do c*caine and still become so much more successful than you?
Fan:
who was it
was def not your wife lmao
what does she think about that?
Jon:
That was your girlfriend.
How can a man do c*caine and still end up to be so much more successful than you?
You must be a true loser.
[4:05 p.m.]
Fan:
you truly are st*pid uh
lay off the c*ke bud
Jon:
I’m a terrible human being, I do drugs, but the whole world knows my name and no one knows yours.
You have made zero impact on society.
lol
Fan:
“blablabla let me cope by saying im famous”
youre a terrible human being lmao
Jon:
So enjoy your job at RadioShack, I’m going to go hop in my swimming pool.
[4:06 p.m.]
Fan:
have fun beating your wife while your kids hide in the closet and call the cops again (edited)
Jon:
Again, I’m a bad person, but you are no one.
Fan:
ok so you are a bad person got it
[4:06–4:07 p.m.]
Jon:
Is that what happened when your daddy came home? Did you hide in the closet?
Fan:
40 yr old man type this btw
how many times have you been jailed again?
jon:
Did you hide in the closet?
Fan:
35?
you hide under the octagon when the commission comes looking for you lmao
[4:08 p.m.]
Jon:
I’ve been to jail so many times and yet I still have turned out to have a better life than you.
Explain that.
Fan:
sounds like coping to me
[4:08–4:09 p.m.]
Jon:
Explain why I could sponsor you and your family and change you guys entire life.
You should be asking me for advice on how to become a winner.
Fan:
“i have money guys dont worry about all the terrible things i have done in life”
Jon:
Let me know if you need some help, you could be my intern.
[4:09 p.m.]
Fan:
hit and run on a pregnant lady?
domestic abuse cases
d*ug cheating scandals
Jon:
I’ll let you follow me around and watch what success looks like
Fan:
i’ll follow you around and make sure you dont hit any woman?
that sounds good?
Jon:
Bro, you’re mentioning my past like I actually care.
I’ve made about $6 million since I fought.
Fan:
again mentionning money to cope ahahahah
[4:10 p.m.]
Jon:
Reputations are for little girls to whisper about, I’m out here collecting massive checks
Fan:
massive amounts of c*ke yes
Jon:
Yes, because living like a King helps cope with everything lol
It seems that many people in the world feel a kind of happiness when they criticize Jon Jones. But my old “contrarian reflex” starts acting up again and makes me want to argue against that. Of course, this is a different matter from justifying Jon Jones’s violent behavior or the logical errors that appear as projection. If I summarize the conversation between Jon Jones and the fan, it goes like this.
It is a conflict of the power to define.
The fan says, “You are trash, you committed domestic violence, drugs, cheating, and so on, you are a human being who is finished. You are a moral failure.”
Jon Jones replies, “Yeah, I am trash. But I am successful and you are nothing. Because I succeeded, I win.”
This is a very realistic kind of Machiavellianism. If they had met in real life on the street, no one would dare insult a 193 cm, 110 kg human being, but in a keyboard battle such things do not matter.
The success narrative of the modern world has become so uniform that it is almost impossible to feel impressed anymore.
In one sentence, it says, “The reason you cannot succeed is not because you are incapable of success. It is because you think you cannot succeed.”
It is a very plausible line. But depending on who says it, that plausibility sounds different. If someone who actively used the wealth and opportunities inherited from his father to achieve his great “success” says such a thing, it does not sound very convincing. By saying it, he is satisfying a deeply personal desire to “deify” his own story.
The success narrative is not something that can be called bad. It contains an important insight. It is related to the idea of the “self-fulfilling prophecy.” The truth is that the world is not divided into success and failure, and the most effective and useful way to see possibilities of success is to look at the world with a mindset aimed at success. If there is a son who is economically poor and constantly pressured by his parents, a son who lives in a “mentally impoverished state,” this success narrative might work in a very positive way.
Jon Jones responded precisely to the standards that his era and society demanded. He grew up under a very strict and authoritarian father. According to Jon Jones, this father was someone who did not hesitate to hit him with a belt and said, “This is to make you stronger.” It is difficult to say that this has nothing to do with Jon Jones’s self-destructive tendencies. While becoming a successful sports star, Jon Jones likely formed a value system. He probably came to think, “The world is not divided into right and wrong. Right and wrong shift according to the size of one’s influence.” It is natural that he accumulated countless experiences that confirmed this viewpoint.
In that process, such experiences become the most important form of identity for a person. It is similar to a child who once believed that becoming an adult simply meant getting taller, because adults are tall and children are short. Then the child encounters several exceptions and realizes that height is not what defines adulthood. By going through this, one learns to separate essential properties from accidental ones, almost like cutting them apart with a sharp knife, and this becomes the method by which one decides how to understand the world.
Jon Jones has now succeeded in the exact way the world taught him. The concrete method was, “Do not listen to people who say you will fail.” But unlike before he succeeded, the world now seems to say something else. It now says, “You are a moral failure.” So from Jon Jones’s point of view, it is natural for him to think like this: “Because of my skin color, because of the community I belong to, because of the region I live in, and because of all the attributes that shape my influence, I am receiving backlash.” Yet did that fan actually know anything about Jon Jones? In reality, is it not more likely that the fan decided to hate Jon Jones in advance simply by looking at fragments of information found on the internet?
The feeling Jon Jones must have had while looking at the fan’s criticism was probably similar to the feeling I get when I see people on this site saying,
“If you leave a comment on this post, I’ll follow you.”
This piece was inspired by screenshots I saw on X.
https://x.com/crispyzucchinii/status/1943428100337123593