"I think my most famous and award-winning [book] would be Space Raptor Butt Invasion, he explains politely. It was nominated for a Hugo award. One of Mulaney's guests, actor Ayo Edebiri, asks if he'd won. I didn't win, but then I wrote a book called Pounded By My Hugo Award Loss, because you can write erotica about just about anything, Chuck replies. Edebiri and the other guest, Conan O'Brien, react with increasing delight and bemused glee, but the call soon ends without Mulaney fully exploring the comedic potential of his interlocutor."
"A chunk of Mulaney's fanbase which leans young, queer, and extremely online rushed to the comments to let him know he'd missed a trick. That wasn't just any old internet weirdo this was an elite-tier internet weirdo known pseudonymously as Chuck Tingle. Originally going mildly viral for extremely specific self-published erotica with charmingly janky Photoshopped covers and titles like Pounded In The Butt By The Handsome Velociraptor, Tingle became a flashpoint in a deeply stupid and politically ominous culture war over the Hugo awards waged by a fringe far-right group."
A caller on John Mulaney's show identified himself as Chuck, an author of dinosaur erotica, citing Space Raptor Butt Invasion and Pounded By My Hugo Award Loss. The caller said Space Raptor Butt Invasion had been nominated for a Hugo and that he later wrote Pounded By My Hugo Award Loss after losing. Guests Ayo Edebiri and Conan O'Brien reacted with delight, but the call ended quickly. Mulaney's predominantly young, queer, online fanbase urged deeper engagement, identifying the caller as Chuck Tingle, a pseudonymous creator known for specific self-published erotica, janky covers, and viral, provocative titles. Tingle later became entangled in a Hugo awards culture-war controversy instigated by a fringe far-right group.
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