Between selling scientifically baseless theories that the coronavirus pandemic has triggered “mass formation psychosis” and switching to a fruit and meat diet, wildly widespread podcaster Joe Rogan discovered the time to change into lively on MAGA-themed social media web site Gettr. Surprise, he hates it.

On Jan. 2, Rogan posted to Gettr that “Just in case shit over at Twitter gets even dumber, I’m here now as well.” It’s apparently taken him a bit over per week for him to remorse the choice. After a round of gloating from Gettr CEO and former Trump aide Jason Miller over a spike in new sign-ups—to not point out breathless praise from conservatives satisfied the choice validated their fantasies of oppression by left-wing overlords at Facebook and Twitter—Rogan has already come full circle and concluded Gettr is a stupid, busted mess that sucks massive time.

According to the Daily Beast, Rogan mocked the location on The Tim Dillon Show on Monday as a “fugazi” operation filled with “fuckery”, happening to inform host Dillon that he wasn’t even certain if he may delete his Gettr account with out operating into some new form of bullshit. Rogan took explicit subject with Gettr’s apply of juicing follower counts and inflating its notion of general affect by displaying Twitter follower counts on a person’s Gettr profile.

“I might be part of the Chinese Communist Party now, I believe,” Rogan joked on the present, referencing fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, who runs a small empire of conspiracy-tinged media operations. Guo seems to have initially bankrolled Gettr underneath its earlier identify, Getonme, a type of self-importance venture for his cult-like group of followers and claims of “virus truth” earlier than it pivoted to the MAGA crowd.

“Well, the news story is their fucking amount of people that signed up increased by 1,150 percent or something,” Rogan added. Dillon responded, “Yeah, you have like 9 million followers on Gettr.”

“Yeah, it’s not real, though,” Rogan defined. “Gettr doesn’t even have 9 million people… This is where the fuckery is. They take all my Twitter followers… and then they port those over.”

“So Gettr is fugazi,” Dillon quipped.

“Definitely fugazi,” Rogan continued. “… I don’t know how to get off. Like if I get off of Gettr, I don’t think I can.”

“You have to sit down with Marjorie Taylor Greene, personally,” Dillon replied, to which Rogan added, “She’s gonna tell me all about what’s in the basement of Comet Pizza.”

Currently, Rogan’s Gettr profile states he has “1.2M GETTR followers” and “9M Total Followers.” Numerous screenshots on Twitter present that Gettr seems to have pushed an replace prior to now few days that modified the way in which these follower counts are displayed, because it beforehand said that he had “8.9M Followers” with out the extra context.

That one among their highest-profile will get is now trashing the location might be very embarrassing for Gettr. The web site already has to compete towards a constellation of different area of interest websites for conservatives starting from Parler to neo-Nazi hub Gab and should quickly face a direct problem from Miller’s former boss, Trump, who’s launching a enterprise referred to as Truth Social. Miller recommended to Gizmodo in a press release that the corporate has reassured Rogan they don’t the truth is suck, explaining the location’s apply of cloning Twitter followers was associated to future performance as an alternative of a determined gamble to seem related.

“We’ve been in contact with Joe Rogan’s team and hope that we have addressed any concerns he may have,” Miller wrote within the assertion. “The follower count on GETTR includes Twitter followers because we will soon be incorporating cross-platform posting, meaning that when you post on GETTR, it will automatically post on Twitter at the same time. This number shows your true reach.”

“We are a six-month old company, and despite being the fastest-growing social media platform in history, are still working to improve every day,” Miller added. “The truth is, we already offer a far superior platform than our Silicon Valley competitors, with a commitment to protect free speech and our users’ privacy.” (Gettr is loaded with trackers for Silicon Valley rivals Facebook and Google.)

Asked if he understands what the time period “fugazi” means, Miller responded “‘Fugazi’ is a term generally considered interchangeable with ‘Gizmodo.’” It’s comprehensible he would possibly really feel this fashion, as Miller misplaced not one but two $100 million defamation lawsuits towards Gizmodo dad or mum firm G/O Media.

Since the Jan. 2 tweet, Rogan seems to have uploaded just one submit to Gettr that doesn’t additionally seem on his Twitter profile: a 28-second video of him goal taking pictures with the caption “Perishable skills.”