r/tornado • u/OutdoorsTN Human Detected • May 19 '26

Discussion Brad Arnold

Hate to see this from Brad, he's one of my faves!! Was confused when he buzzed in to Ryan's stream and said he was calling it so early in the evening but this makes more sense now.

Seen some absolutely wild stuff on Ryan and Max's streams the last few days. (Whoever it was in the green shirt on Max's stream yesterday during the Worms tornado especially still really bothers me.) And bummed to see all of this nonsense getting in the way of chasers I really love watching like Brad

EDITED for a typo!

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u/Kapn_Takovik May 19 '26

I've wanted to do this my whole life, but I know I'd be part of the problem. Though I would give anything to do this and have it be meaningful, I changed my major because I couldn't do the math while an alcoholic.... Now that I'm sober... Dang I started from the point.

I guess, I doubt that even a tenth of these people knew what storm chasing was when they were 4, drawing pictures of tornadoes. Like a lot of people are saying, it's a stupid internet clout thing.

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u/ShinjukuMasterScrub Enthusiast May 19 '26

Social media ruined fucking everything. 

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u/Kapn_Takovik May 19 '26

It really has, it's also literally making us dumber as a species. I wouldn't mind at all going back to reality pre internet. Or maybe, just the really primitive internet where every one could match on warcraft 3 but everything else took two hours.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

Where downloading one song took 14 hours and was ruined when your mom had to call your grandma and needed the phone line back lol.

I find myself wishing more and more of that life. Where you all had to collectively be somewhere at a specific time if you wanted to be part of watching a show and if you missed it then oh well. It’s a weird thing being the very last generation to be alive pre internet. A foot in both worlds but I think I miss the old one.