Did he figure it out before it was "cool"?
he was only doing it because it was already cool
>>2905864>figure it outIt was a case of right time/right placeHe only really started traveling in the early/mid 2000's. Globalization was in full effect, countries were open and accessible, but smartphones and browns weren't an issue yet. By the mid-to-late 2010s, it was pretty much over.
>>2905864Anthony was kind of a failson of New York execs. A punk rock kid who became a chef and got hooked on heroin. Eventually got clean.He wrote a (good) book about being a chef called Kitchen Confidential. His NYTimes mom got it published, and he became a star overnight. He was like a daywalker, able to class. He got offered the Travel Channel show and carried over a punk rock energy that other shows just didn't have at the time. Samantha Brown cheerily posing with Beefeaters at the Tower of London was something people had seen before.Anthony mopeding around Vietnam and eating street food wasn't.Yes, he was a boomer and promulgated some cringe lib takes on his show from time to time. His peak episodes were in 2012 when he went to Italy and France with chef bros in Season 9 Episodes 4 and 5.If he figured out anything, it was that if you play with fire, you're going to get burned.
>>2905864It was figured out over 100 years prior
>>2905956Fair writeup. No Reservations is a good show and only sometimes cringe because of modern lens. The latter show with CNN was mostly propagandist slop though.
>>2905864>figure it outhe offed himself, retard
>>2905958If anything traveling polarized me, I can completely channel my hate to certain demographics and confirm which stereotypes are true
>>2906314He wanted whites to be genocided to end racism and started with himself
>>2905956He was as genuine as it goes, considering his upbringing.In many of his interactions, he was like an alien trying to experience real life and love. The fact that he killed himself makes him even more sympathetic. He does represent modern americans, cut from genuine interactions, full of vacuity but trying to acquire a meaning for their life like you buy a pair of sneakers, and ultimately failing, getting rejected by the genuine life and people he admired.
>>2908748If he was genuine he wouldn’t have invented half of Kitchen Confidential and hidden the fact that he was Jewish.
>>2905864no, this white-hating kike didn't invent anything. travel was invented in the 17th centuryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour
>>2905950Internet made it accessible, smart phones even more so, then by the late 2010's it was a trivial hobby for women and everyone low key knew they were doing it as sex tourism.
>>2908854>travel was invented in the 17th centuryThe Ancient Greeks were making lists of sights to see in their empire, that's where the 7 wonders came from.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World#Known_lists
>>2905950Don't forget too that the massive volume of vlog travel content has been so exponential that I know for many people the idea of going to many of these places has either decreased or completely gone away. Either you've "seen enough" of a country through someone's online experience or you've seen enough that you know longer think it's worth your time or money. Yeah you can scream "living with the locals" or "the food" and thats true to a degree, but globalism has also brought a lot of those foods to your local doorstep albiet maybe not as "authentic." There's been a few cuisines too that i've tried that should not be shared with anybody.
>>2905956Would.
