In what feels like a script rejected from Netflix’s latest season of “Unhinged Influencers,” the social media personality known as “Liver King” has managed to transform his digital theatrics into real-world legal troubles. Brian Johnson — the self-proclaimed champion of raw organ meat consumption — found himself in handcuffs at Austin’s Four Seasons Hotel last week after allegedly making threats against podcast titan Joe Rogan.
The whole mess reads like a cautionary tale about what happens when social media fame collides with unchecked ego. Johnson, whose perfectly-sculpted physique and primal lifestyle shtick earned him 2.9 million Instagram followers, apparently decided that 2025 was the year to escalate his long-running beef with Rogan from keyboard warrior status to something considerably more concerning.
Here’s where things get weird — and trust me, they get properly weird.
Despite never having met Rogan in person (yeah, you read that right), Johnson embarked on what can only be described as a one-man crusade against the podcast host. Through a series of increasingly unhinged Instagram videos, the shirtless wonder progressed from standard influencer callouts to statements that had Austin PD sitting up and taking notice.
“Man to man, I’m picking a fight with you,” Johnson declared in one post, displaying all the self-awareness of a caffeinated peacock. The situation might’ve been almost comical if it hadn’t taken such a dark turn when he started documenting his journey to Austin — Rogan’s home turf — while making cryptic statements about being “willing to die” for his cause.
Let’s pause for a moment to appreciate the rich irony here. This is the same guy who got caught with his grass-fed pants down in 2022 when leaked emails revealed he was dropping $11,000 monthly on steroids — all while preaching the gospel of “ancestral living.” Rogan, never one to bite his tongue, had previously called out this contradiction on his podcast, noting that Johnson’s physique was “preposterously jacked” for someone in their 40s claiming to live au naturel.
But wait — because somehow this story needed an extra splash of absurdity — Johnson’s final act before his arrest involved recording himself doing a “coffee enema” in his hotel shower. (Sometimes the jokes just write themselves, folks.)
The arrest itself played out like peak reality TV, broadcast live on Johnson’s own Instagram account — because apparently, if you’re going down for making terroristic threats, you might as well get the content. The Class B Misdemeanor charge could land him up to six months in county jail and a $2,000 fine, a far cry from the primitive showdown he seemed to be gunning for.
As we roll into the spring of 2025, this bizarre saga serves as a stark reminder that the line between digital persona and reality has become dangerously blurred. The Travis County justice system now faces the peculiar task of dealing with a social media star whose commitment to character apparently extended well beyond the boundaries of common sense — or legal limits.
Perhaps the most fitting detail? Rogan’s response to investigators that he “had never had any interaction with Johnson.” Sometimes the most devastating blow isn’t a punch — it’s complete irrelevance.
For now, the self-styled “ancestral CEO” finds himself grappling with a thoroughly modern predicament that no amount of raw organ meat can resolve. Turns out the justice system isn’t particularly impressed by Instagram followers or primal living philosophies. Who knew?
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