It’s just such a gormless “hmm yes smart people probably like shit like this, right?” empty signalling thing. Like this is a book every child is made to read in school and the surviving text is a very simple prose (ostensibly because the original format was a core story being embellished differently by every reciter as part of a broader environment of what was basically fanfics, and what survived as later written copies were stripped down summaries with some snappy lines to remember to include when making up your own spoken version), it’s not some elite past time to listen to someone else read a sped up version of a short novella.

Not that he even does that. Dude only consumes pay2win mobile games and I can only presume random gooner slop animes from the mid 00s which he has an AI-fueled text to speech redub with fresh new slurs.