>> Twitter's unofficial mayor,
Chrissy Teigen, deleted her account
on Twitter after citing
its negativity and toxicity.
So, I'll read you her reasoning and
then we can vote in the poll,
Chrissy Teigen, yes or no?
She says that for over 10 years-
>> No, I want to be clear, but
we're doing news program here, and
I wann be fair to Chrissy Teigen.
No one is questioning whether she's
yes or no.
Twitter, yes or no is a poll.
>> Okay.
>> Okay, yeah, I think that's
a real drumsy poll, I can't wait
to tell you the other side of this,
but we're going to tell you why
Teigen left and and why she's a no.
I assume she'll be voting in
the poll imminently and
she'll probably be voting no.
>> Well, here's what
she has to say about it.
For over 10 years you guys have
been my world, I honestly owe so
much to this world we have created
here.
I truly consider so
many of you my actual friends, but
it's time for me to say goodbye.
This no longer serves me as
positively as it serves me
negatively, and I think that's
the right time to call something.
My life goal is to make people
happy, the pain I feel when I don't
is too much for me.
I've always been portrayed as
the strong clap back girl,
but I'm just not.
Live well tweeters, please know,
all I ever cared about was you.
No, I think we should do a poll,
Chrissy Teigen, yes or no.
[LAUGH]- >> No, really?
No, I love that comment.
>> No, that statement was so
ridiculous, Cenk.
Did anyone actually believe she
thinks that?
Come on.
>> I do.
>> Come on.
[CROSSTALK] >> All I ever cared
about was you.
>> No, I don't know.
Look, call me naïve, but
it felt heart, it set,
I think it was heart felt.
This Anna, this kind of
skepticism is what drove her from
Twitter in the first place, okay?
>> Good point.
Now, CNN reports that Teigen is
known for her witty Twitter
comebacks, and has had several
colorful spats which have trended
on the platform, including with
former US President Donald Trump.
Who she called The P word [LAUGH]
according to Ben Shapiro.
No, I'm sorry editors, you guys are
going to have to bleep this out.
But yes.
And after the President branded her
as legends, quote, filthy mouthed
wife following discussions about
criminal justice reform.
So look,
I agree with her wholeheartedly
about the toxicity of Twitter.
I certainly feel that and
I've been more cognizant about my
own participation in toxic behavior
on Twitter,
because I think everyone kind of
ends up falling into that culture
if you're on Twitter too much.
I think it's really healthy to take
long breaks from Twitter as
I've done.
I don't know if I would delete my
Twitter account only because I'm
not Chrissy Tegan and I don't have
as much influence as she does.
And Twitter is still at least some
way of reaching out and hearing
from our actual viewers and people
who have constructive feedback.
But overall yeah, the culture of
Twitter is incredibly toxic, and
everyone should log off for
long stretches, and enjoy the real
world, go outside, take a nature
walk, enjoy the flowers,
enjoy real life a little bit.
>> Yeah, look, I'm on Teigen side,
but ironically I'm going to do
a spirit defense with Twitter here,
and I'm going to vote yes on
Twitter in our poll, tyt.com/polls.
We have sophisticated polls like
Twitter, yes or no.
So look, first of all, look,
she's plenty wealthy,
she doesn't have to do a grip.
She doesn't have to do any
of that stuff.
She has 13.7 million followers on
Twitter, she's gigantic.
They have everything they need in
the world, right?
So when she says my life goal is to
make people happy,
I actually believe her, and
I think that's wonderful.
And when she says, people think I'm
the clap back girl, but
I'm not really.
I get hurt, I'm human and
my feelings get hurt.
I think that's really raw and
honest, and I appreciate that and
I think it's true.
And I think that's true for
almost all of us.
I say almost because I think
I'm past it.
And so, I just
don't want to be overconfident.
We'll talk about that in a second.
But the reason that why I think
Twitter is great,
and I get the toxic part, right?
And I do participate in it,
I want to come back to that.
But we are breaking through
to mainstream media through
Twitter unlike anything we've ever
experienced.
And when I say we, I mean two sets
of folks, and I mean both of those
camps, progressives.
Before Twitter there's a wall,
it makes the Great Wall of China
look like a stepstool, okay?
The mainstream media does wall
against progressive would never
ever hear us out.
But on Twitter, they're hearing us
the same group as outsiders.
And so the insiders never heard
from outsiders,
now they're hearing from them for
better and for worse, and at least
that message is getting through in
some way to them, which is
an outlet that didn't exist before.
All right, Annie,
you were going to say something.
>> So I wanted to thank our member,
Jess Ortega, who's watching right
now and she actually tweeted with
a tidbit that's really important to
know about the story.
Christy Teigen was also being
relentlessly harassed by people.
And in her statement she's like,
and to the queue people who think
I'm in Guantanamo Bay right now,
lol, I saw Q into the storm and
saw what I'm working with here, and
I lol, I no longer care,
don't flatter yourselves.
So maybe that also played a role in
her decision to disable her Twitter
account.
But look,
that's the other part of it, right?
And I think Cenk and I have a lot
of experience with this, every once
in a while you'll be the target of
some Twitter campaign, right?
Of some sort.
And you know what happens?
Nothing.
There'll be harassing you for
x amount of days.
Just log off and
then come back a week or
two later and it's done.
>> Yeah.
>> Most of them are bots, and
if they're not bots,
if they're real people they'll be
distracted by whatever the soup of
the day is tomorrow or next week.
Just, it's not a big deal.
>> Yeah, no, with me they see like
parasites forever,
but I'm used by them.
So [LAUGH] mission not
accomplished.
So, I want to give one more piece
of credit team before we move on.
She also shared really
tough details of her
life like miscarriage on Twitter.
And so, people gave her
a lot of crap for that.
But I think it took tremendous
courage for her to do that.
And she actually spoke for
a lot of women there and
helped them realize it's not
a shameful thing et cetera.
And I just,
I think that was a very brave and
actually did help.
So now to me, look,
I get both sides of it.
One side is the attacks that Anna's
talking about.
Somebody should do a doctoral
thesis on my Twitter mentions.
Now you guys are so arrogant.
No, it's just fascinating, right?
But one, it's substantial enough
that you will see,
you'll have a lot of data, right?
And number two, and
this is the interesting part.
I get attacked by almost every
contingent, and it's fascinating.
Like there's the weirdo left that,
no, Cenk wants to do the thing we
want to need to do it and
I hate you forever.
And they're like, non stop, right?
There's the hardcore communist left
who's like, my god,
you're a capitalist pig who doesn't
want to murder all the bankers,
okay?
Then there's the right way, and
of course, every kind of not on the
right way, there's so many layers
that you can't get through it all.
The chunk yogurt, is and
everybody's got their different
talking points.
This on that historical thing, and
that on this, and
half the talking points are ancient
are not anywhere near relevant.
Again, it might be bots or
it might be like, never got
the memo like, yeah, we're going to
get Cenk out of this.
That was.
[LAUGH] >> By the way,
the last part is the establishment.
It's amazing,
because the establishment will come
in and be like, you're not kissing
it off Democratic ass.
It's hilarious.
If you just get high and check out
my twitter mentions on any
posts I have, it doesn't matter.
And I think you'll be
deeply amused.
But look, I also take part in
the arguably, what people would
call the toxicity.
And why do I do it?
And so, what do I mean by that?
So, I will kick people's ass
on Twitter and I will enjoy it.
And so people say, damn Cenk,
that's what.
No, look,
Nester is not Matt Gate's son.
And I'm here to talk about, okay?
He did it again the other day,
by the way, I don't know if you
guys saw that, he was like,
Nester needs to take spring break.
And everybody saw him, you shut up.
It's like super weird that you're
living with a non related male
adult and you keeps calling him
your son when he's not even yours.
Anyway, so will I point out how
stupid Republicans are?
God damn right I will, okay?
Is it because I like to make people
uncomfortable?
No, it's because the rational left
does not fight hard enough.
And that leaves the playing field
unfortunately to the right wingers,
and so there needs to be people
like us who are both rational and
aggressive, and that's super rare.
So we fight those battles online,
because we don't want to lose
the framing wars.
And you want to point out
the absurdities of the other side,
and the corporate Democrats
are never ever going to do it.
So I don't mind being a warrior in
there, but don't let it get,
I know it's super hard,
but don't let it get to you.
For me, it all rolls off my back.
It's just a fun night for
when I get high and read that.
So, sometimes as I've said before,
I'll do like
a quote I actually mean, but
is on the non political side,
is about philosophy or something,
because that sets everybody off.
And then- >> I know,
it's sad though.
>> No, I love it.
>> I hate that it sets people off,
because every once in a while I
want to tweet about things that
aren't even political, right?
Like this morning, I
decided to treat myself to a tasty
little treat of putting honey in my
coffee and I was like, why am I
keeping this secret for myself?
Why don't I share this with my
Twitter followers, they should also
sweeten their coffee with honey.
And then I'm like,
I know the second I do this,
it's going to lead to a bunch
of annoying trolling.
So I didn't do it, right?
>> No, you do it Anna, do it.
Look, I do that sometimes.
>> Yeah.
Who cares about their trolling?
I'm amused by it.
So if I did that tweet, secret,
hashtag not secret anymore after
this honey and coffee,
think about it, right?
[LAUGH] >> So what would happen
next is, of course you would
say that you capitalist pig,
you want to say goodbye to
too strong coffee, >> [INAUDIBLE]
The honey lobby didn't you?
You sell out, you corporate shill.
>> Yeah.
>> You corporate Hillary
cash taking shill.
>> Yeah, I always knew you were
part of hashtag big honey.
>> [LAUGH] And then the right wing
will come in and be like,
we do you live like that's,
that's not tradition in America.
In America we put sugar in our
coffee.
That what you guys do in
the Middle East, okay?
But we don't put honey in
there, right?
>> You know what I sometimes do,
by the way, Cenk?
Sometimes, I put condensed milk in
my coffee.
My- >> Try it, you'll like it.
>> Okay, of course then there'll be
the contingent who's like,
when we want to you to put honey in
your coffee, you wouldn't do it.
You wouldn't force the honey, but
now all of a sudden, okay?
You got connie in your coffee,
we see you, right?
And then establishment will be
like, yeah, I noticed that you
didn't give credit to Kamala Harris
even though she has a K hide.
And what do you
think the honey comes from?
[LAUGH] >> So, Twitter, I vote yes.
>> Twitter, I vote maybe.
Like- >> [LAUGH] I didn't know that
was one of the options.
But Anna, you know what?
A legend once told me,
you do you boo.
You don't have to follow the rules,
you want to vote maybe, vote maybe,
and vote it on Twitter.
Say it loud, say it proud.
>> That's what I'm doing.
>> It just happened.
>> [LAUGH] All right.