Trivia / True Capitalist

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• Approval of God: Ghost claims to have liked the Doom mod based on him.
• Corpsing:
  • On June 21st, 2011, Ghost can be heard trying to stifle a laugh at a Skype troll's name.
  • On May 4th 2012, Tub Guy can be heard breaking when telling Ghost he convinced Hasbro to make a Pony based on Ghost.
• Creator Backlash: He hated doing the shows because of Trolls.
• Fan Community Nickname: The Capitalist Army is the most popular term (other commonly used nicknames include The Milky-lickers and Bronies for Ghost, as well as on occasion the Melting Pot).
• Fanwork Ban: Implied, since Ghost isn't really amused by soundboards, splices (which often take things he has said, and either take them comically out of context, or re-arranges them, simply to make him rage), and remixes of himself. However, this may be more because he thinks they damage the integrity of his show or make fun of him.
  • Ironically, despite this hate of people mashing him up to make him rage, he actually objects to the Stop Online Piracy Act because he supports the creation of independent content that the internet allows.
  • Even more ironic, is that he dedicated New Year's Eve to honoring them.
  • Averted ever since his return. Ghost has said that he doesen't mind even if people are making money with True Capitalist Radio related fanwork, because that just proves that he has created more jobs than Obama.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Mostly averted, since the site automatically records and archives episodes. However...
  • Schedule Slip: Often after an episode with a major trolling, it'll just go off the air for a period (as little as a day, or as much as a week) and then come back. Although sometimes the show does sometimes doesn't occur for other reasons.
    • He planned to bring back 3 hour shows after his 2016 return as far back as May, but only implemented in September 23rd.
    • Since Ghost's return, this has mostly been avoided, however as of 2018, Ghost has been taking several short breaks and skipping many shows for various reasons.
    • Ghost said he'd make his return on July 4th, 2017 but due to complications he didn't return until October 31st of that year.
    • The Saturday Night Troll Show has been experiencing extended gaps between episodes beginning some time in 2019. Some have been months long.
• Missing Episode: Thanks to Ghost's problems with Youtube, episode 74 of The Ghost Show is considered a lost episode by Ghost himself due to the website banning him during the stream.
• Old Shame: It seems Ghost doesn't want anyone to listen to the 2018 Ghost.report episodes of True Capitalist Radio, to the point where he removed all of them from his website. They're still up on the True Capitalist Wiki.
• Screwed by the Network: Arguably, in Ghost's opinion, BlogTalkRadio screwed over his show several times. On January 27th, 2012's episode, they randomly took away his after-show privileges, causing an odd end to the show. On April 17th, 2012's episode, he couldn't start the show until fifteen minutes after the show was originally supposed to start. Ghost didn't take that very kindly. In September 2016, BlogTalkRadio failed to archive some episodes post-show hour, which led to the death of the post-show and Ghost extending the show to a full 3 hours. BTR has also occasionally gone down in the middle of shows, or not allowed Ghost to broadcast at all, the most notable example being during the final Presidential Debate, forcing him to go to Paltalk.
  • Ghost was screwed by both BlogTalkRadio and Gumroad following Elfoxoloco complaining to both sites about Ghost's behavior, causing ghost.market to go down permanently and one of Ghost's shows to disappear from the archive.
  • Taken up to 11 as of early 2018, with BTR not paying Ghost anymore. Ghost has decided, as a result, to go on a short hiatus and host the show himself when he comes back.
  • YouTube already demonetized Ghost's show from day 1, but they started giving him the business when he got community struck for using homophobic slurs on the air, some of which were from previous episodes that he claimed were splices, and was temporarily suspended. That made him move to a new streaming site called Vaughn.Live, before he got tired of that and moved to DLive.
  • Since a lot of users were complaining about Vaughn.Live's terrible bitrate and buffering issues, Ghost went back to YouTube. until he got banned again. He then went to Periscope, only for him to be banned from the platform after a few episodes. This, once again, forced Ghost to move to another streaming platform, this time to DLive.
  • Ghost, once again, suffered one of these in June 2021: first, DLive suspended his stream and chatroom after complaints from someone named Snickerpie. Then Twitter suspended his new account for a few days after he posted a video of Bill Gates with tits. And lastly, StreamElements suspended his account thanks to the trolls. Ghost is considering taking a break from streaming until he finds another platform for his show, but nothing has been decided yet.
• Series Hiatus: Ghost has taken these several times. The first was in late 2010, ending in 2011 when Ghost abandoned the "True Conservative" moniker in favor of "True Capitalist". The second started in May 2012 and ended in March 2016, due to drama in the community and Ghost growing tired with doing the show. The third one went from May 2017 and ended October 2017, with Ghost initially vowing to return in June. This was later pushed back to July 4th, and then once again indefinitely until he can sort out his alcoholism. He eventually returned on October 31st of that year. The last one started on March 27th, 2018 and ended on May 7th, 2018, after some differences between Ghost and BlogTalkRadio forced him off the platform and caused a short break to work out an independent broadcasting solution.
• What Could Have Been: Before May 24th, 2012, there were several potentially entertaining splices and running gags that had not been (respectively) played on the show yet and brought to their full potential. Trolls were looking forward to a long, fruitful, fruitbowl summer of Karaszkun splices and tiger shrimp-induced rages.
  • Not to mention that there were a lot of other subject matters that never had been used, such as the Petter fanbase which came into existence in November 2012. (and knowing Ghost his love for Bronies, he must love pets as well... right?)
  • Averted with the Undertale fanbase, which appeared to be what could have been a successor to the bronies had True Capitalist still been on the air. Not only did Ghost return when the game's hype was still at its peak, neither he nor the trolls gave it any more of a reaction than incidental annoyance.
  • Who knows what would have happened had he learned about a certain song about thrift shops...
    • But would capitalism involve having a #1 hit released on your own record label?

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