Funyung

Funyung (Fishtank Chatter)

Funyung is a well-known and controversial chatter in the Fishtank Live community, having been active since the earliest days of Season 1. Self-described as a “leftist media critic” and “Fishtank’s working-class conscience,” Funyung is best known for flooding the chat with progressive hot takes, calling out perceived “fascist energy” among contestants, and sparking ideological flame wars with users like Cracka_Jack. He is also easily identified by his trademark septum piercing, which he has referred to unironically as “a symbol of post-capitalist softness.”

Whether you consider him the Hasan Piker of the chat or just an over-opinionated dude with a sociology degree and too much time on his hands, Funyung is a core figure in the lore of the Tank.

Background

Funyung made his first appearance during the pilot week of Fishtank Season 1, immediately derailing the chat with an unsolicited lecture about “hegemonic masculinity” after Jon clapped during a push-up competition. Over the next few weeks, he became infamous for:

Typing long, paragraph-length rants during the middle of physical altercations.
Describing the Tank as “late-stage capitalism in a blender.”
Claiming that Frank (Season 1) was a “neoliberal psyop.”

His early presence split the community — half wanted him banned for spamming socialist theory in an entertainment chat, the other half followed him religiously, calling him “The Tank’s AOC.”

Fishtank Season 4 Activity

By Season 4, Funyung had fully matured into his final form: a leftist micro-celebrity within the Fishtank ecosystem. His commentary evolved into a constant stream of anti-capitalist observations, race and gender critiques, and Twitch-style takedowns of contestants he deemed “bootlickers” or “reactionary-coded.”

Signature Season 4 behaviors include:

Declaring Aryeh an “IDF war criminal” live on stream.
Posting screenshots of Angelina and Ellie with captions like “Queens, but colonized by male gaze.”
Starting every political debate with, “Listen, as someone who’s anti-imperialist…”
Live-reacting to Fishtank clips like a Twitch streamer with 12 viewers, webcam on, copy of State and Revolution visible in the background.

He was also the first to popularize the term “Tankistani Class War” — referring to the fabricated divide between blue-collar and tech-adjacent contestants.

Beliefs and Persona

Funyung aligns closely with American online socialism — advocating for:

Universal healthcare
Worker-owned cooperatives
Abolition of the police
Anti-Zionism and Palestinian liberation
Full demod of Cracka_Jack

Though well-read in leftist theory (he constantly cites Marx, Fanon, and Graeber), Funyung’s delivery is often holier-than-thou and aggressively smug. He’s been accused of “performative radicalism” by other chatters — especially when he dropped a $50 dono mid-argument just to say “Imagine being this wrong in public.”

He wears his septum piercing like a war medal and claims he keeps it in to “destabilize heteropatriarchal beauty norms.”

Feud with Cracka_Jack

The rivalry between Funyung and Cracka_Jack is the stuff of Fishtank legend. What started as a disagreement over whether Jon from Season 1 had “crypto-fascist energy” devolved into a digital cold war spanning multiple seasons. Highlights include:

Mutual false mod accusations.
Competing lore drops written in Medium-style manifestos.
Cracka_Jack calling Funyung “Hasan with lower T.”
Funyung retaliating by commissioning AI art of Cracka_Jack getting “re-educated in a Maoist tank.”

Legacy

Love him or hate him, Funyung is an unerasable part of Fishtank history. His presence represents the more politically active, progressive faction of the chat — the ones who treat the house like a case study in power, privilege, and collapse.

He has been interviewed anonymously for three fan podcasts and maintains a private Discord server called Fishtank Mutual Aid, where he shares pirated PDFs, anti-tank memes, and girlboss edits of Angelina.

Trivia

Has a Twitter bio that reads: “Just a Tankie in the Tank.”
Claims to have “debated Destiny once” but there’s no footage.
Designed a “Defund Production” hoodie that was never shipped.
Refers to the Fishtank house as a “dialectical battlefield.”
His septum ring is rumored to be made from recycled Tesla parts — which he claims is “material reclamation.”