Fans of asshole conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol staged a sit-in and formed human chains outside of his residence in the Hannam-dong neighborhood of Seoul on Friday, so far succeeding in their goal of blocking cops from entering the home and cuffing the impeached and suspended leader on his sedition arrest warrant, KoreaPro.org reports from the scene.

Fun stuff. Anyway last week an article in the English version of Korea JoongAng Daily shows there’s there’s a direct line between Yoon’s impending political demise that began with his martial law declaration and the country’s right wing YouTuber scene, writing that two just days before he was impeached last month, Yoon “stood before a camera and made controversial and somewhat confusing statements to the public for nearly 30 minutes. He accused the opposing liberal Democratic Party (DP) of colluding with North Korea to shut down parliament and claimed that the April [2024] parliamentary election, where the opposition won the majority, was rigged. According to Yoon, there was no choice but to impose military rule and save Korea from ‘antistate forces.'”

“One month ago, far-right political YouTuber and popular pundit Ko Sung-kook uploaded videos that mirrored the president’s televised public address, including the tone and rhetoric. ‘No one trusts the polls and the NEC [National Election Commission] anymore. They carry the votes around in a basket and are a severe threat to democracy. They should not be trusted,’ Ko is filmed telling his 1.1 million subscribers,” the article continues, and damn that sure does sound like someone we know who likes to constantly rant publicly about bizarre shit that the median voter knows little to nothing about.

Except if Yoon started off ranting “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets!” then some South Koreans would be like “THAT’S A DIRTY LIE! We don’t eat cats!”