Exposing the Grift: The Critical Drinker

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  • @Th3Birdman
    @Th3Birdman  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +542

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    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Starting off with a defined term is gonna be a banger

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Morning time for Th3Birdman I'm glad I got my oj and toast let's go

    • @drangbone6062
      @drangbone6062 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Be careful Birdman you're gonna have his entire braindead fans on you

    • @destructo-pizzatv2263
      @destructo-pizzatv2263 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Loving this exposing grifters series

    • @isaiahdeas6219
      @isaiahdeas6219 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I think you might like PillarOfGarbage.

  • @Dano135791
    @Dano135791 หลายเดือนก่อน +2305

    My favourite Drinker moment was when he was naming his favourite *recent* *Japanese* movies: Oldboy (2003, Korean) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Chinese).

    • @ScaleroftheSentry
      @ScaleroftheSentry หลายเดือนก่อน +336

      That is some next level stupidity

    • @the_crypter
      @the_crypter หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ScaleroftheSentry On par for a next level moron.

    • @stevenclubb7718
      @stevenclubb7718 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

      Old Boy is at least based on a Japanese manga and exists in the shared cultural space of Japan & Korea, as the two countries do have a lot of the same problems that show up in their media. Before I started learning Japanese and really paying attention to Japanese media, I thought it was Japanese... and it still feels very Japanese in a lot of ways, such as the big reveal that makes things creepy is something that pops up in more of the Japanese media I've read/seen, while I've yet to encounter it in any other Korean media (I've only recently started indulging)
      Absolutely zero excuse for Crouching Tiger. While China was very influential in the region and aspects of their culture show up in Japan, the two cultures are so distinct I don't think I've ever confused the two, not eve when I was a kid in the 70s.

    • @whereammy
      @whereammy หลายเดือนก่อน +89

      A real movie buff huh?

    • @FTZPLTC
      @FTZPLTC หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Always love when people treat China and Japan like a mass and ignore the fact that they've been at each other's throats for literal centuries.
      And Critical Drinker isn't even a product of America's dogshit educations, so he should actually know better.

  • @dunnowy123
    @dunnowy123 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    At a certain point, buddy needs to realise if he complains people of color being cast all the time, it's a him problem

  • @paulinegeorge289
    @paulinegeorge289 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    I unsubscribed from Critical Drinker 3 years ago after 2 month watching his mind rot.

  • @quietchap
    @quietchap 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

    I miss just being able to say “I didn’t really get into this movie” or “The messaging was really on the nose, so it didn’t click for me.”
    Not drawn out vids about how miserable apparently every movie coming out these days is. It’s just endless griping, looking for every tiny nitpick to somehow stick it to the other side of the culture war.
    Sometimes he doesn’t even watch the stuff he’s complaining about, like The Boys. I don’t personally enjoy The Boys, but I’m not going to go on a full video rant about how it apparently sucks now without even watching the damn show.
    I miss when film criticism was fun. Arguing about whether a movie sucked or not used to be fun. Now it’s just mind numbing. And for what? People vote with their wallets, naturally. So unless people just up and stop watching movies that clearly advertise themselves with Drinker’s dreaded “The Message”, it shows that there’s still an audience for the films he and his compatriots loathe so much.

  • @celestinemasha
    @celestinemasha หลายเดือนก่อน +829

    The thing that’s crazy about his Peter B Parker’s complaints is that across the spider verse is one of the only pieces of media where Peter Parker actually has a good life, gets MJ, has and child and finally settles down but that’s apparently a bad thing. Also Peter B Parker’s Spider-Man was the only one out of hundreds of spider people to easily catch miles and slow him down when everyone failed

    • @AD-ub7ly
      @AD-ub7ly หลายเดือนก่อน +80

      but he didn't rag-dolled miles...and that hurts certain sensibilities

  • @toastonmitchell2636
    @toastonmitchell2636 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +953

    Isn't there a video where he's talking about Japanese media and he picks a Korean film??

    • @Thelorecookie
      @Thelorecookie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +241

      Yeah someone asks him to name his favourite Japanese film he watched recently and he answers with Oldboy 💀

    • @docvince1491
      @docvince1491 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +190

      @@ThelorecookieAnd Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. A Hong Kong movie.

    • @toastonmitchell2636
      @toastonmitchell2636 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      That was it! Thanks

    • @SlamBeegad
      @SlamBeegad 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Thelorecookie EVERY film he names is NOT Japanese. LMAO Total fukking fraud. WISH that podcast would get HUGE numbers so people can SEE what a twat he is.

  • @Ghost8386
    @Ghost8386 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1563

    RIP James Earl Jones.

    • @Zac_Frost
      @Zac_Frost 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

      Unrelated, but welcome. Man is a legend. Very talented actor, and one of the most incredible voices in history. He could literally read the paper towel dispenser in a men's room and make it the most badass thing you've ever heard.

    • @Dhampire1976
      @Dhampire1976 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

      Rest in peace. He lived a very long, successful life and I can only hope his family is doing okay at the loss. Fly high

  • @GamerSapss
    @GamerSapss 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1048

    3:43... yes, seeing the man who was depressed because he fears losing his loved ones to the point where he sacrifices his happiness, to then gather up the courage to live with those choices, to turn out to be a very happy an affectionate dad, which he didn't think he would be able to be, is belittling Peter Parker and making fun of him... maybe to someone with no media literacy or a grift to sell

    • @TeamTowers1
      @TeamTowers1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

      This and the Peter Parker of Mile's homeworld was portrayed as the biggest giga chad among the Spider people

    • @timlee5711
      @timlee5711 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +206

      To add it that, imagine thinking being a fun and loving dad going on adventures with your child isn't a fucking goal for lots of guys in life

  • @codyconnor6981
    @codyconnor6981 หลายเดือนก่อน +273

    I’m so glad I stepped away from all this culture war nonsense, and just went back to my tried and true method of does this interest me.
    I’ve been much happier since, and now I just focus on what I enjoy.

  • @lorienator
    @lorienator 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    I am so glad you made this. I stumbled across his channel a while back and listened to one or two old vids of his and thought "oh this guy is very ironic and very funny" then I watched two more and realised "this guy is very serious and very unfunny".
    I genuinely thought it was supposed to be kinda satirical!

  • @icemaster9728
    @icemaster9728 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    He said he refuses to watch season 4 of The Boys because it's "too woke", but he had no problem making a video on every single episode of The Acolyte. Weird.

  • @grimdolo918
    @grimdolo918 หลายเดือนก่อน +618

    The Drinker is like a drug dealer, that deals in outrage. And there are so many outrage addicts out there.

  • @johnmcternan4157
    @johnmcternan4157 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    I decided to watch the recent Tomb Raider series on Netflix, shockingly I thoroughly enjoyed. They all hated it of course, apparently there was a lesbian undertone going on in it that wasn't there when I watched it.
    What else have they made me miss out on?

    • @Raiders1917
      @Raiders1917 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      You can tell he didn't play the 2013-2018 games. Otherwise he would know Sam is Lara kinda sort of love interest, not her cousin. The guy just repeats "woke", and "DEI" on repeat and watching the views role in.

  • @KraggleZord
    @KraggleZord หลายเดือนก่อน +437

    I won't lie, when I first found the Critical Drinker, he was reviewing media and critiquing things that I myself did not enjoy and I agreed with a couple of his sentiments. Then I went on to look at all the content he released and I realized this was not a place for me and I unfollowed. It was too late, the TH-cam Almighty Algorithm to this day tries to send me his videos even when I've asked it to stop

  • @kamekakarot
    @kamekakarot หลายเดือนก่อน +220

    I stopped watching him by 2022. I liked his critiques of modern film trends because he explained his gripes and offered sensible suggestions. But I started noticing that his reviews of new movies felt forced and formulaic. His insight and wit regarding storytelling and character conventions were replaced with reaching, nitpicking, rage bait, playing dumb and just straight-up lying. Like he was afraid that if he actually admitted to liking something and didn't hit this specific list of buzzwords and complaints, his audience would turn on him.
    He used to do actual critical analysis before he sacrificed his integrity in favor of playing a caricature for money. Dude turned into a worse version of Cinema Sins.

    • @adamk.7177
      @adamk.7177 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      I agree. I used to watch him too, but then he started calling everything woke and got really angry at The Little Mermaid for some reason. Like dude, it's a kid's movie, you aren't the target audience. At that point I pressed the 'Don't Recommend Channel' button.

    • @browhat1247
      @browhat1247 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I began to notice this too, he would point out things that were easily passed over in the movie and turn them into a central pillar of his video "critique". or try to insinuate that the casting was weighted/did poorly when you could tell they were doing a great job in their roles.
      I cant remember seeing any videos that *praised* a movie either, though I may have skipped them

  • @sweeety969
    @sweeety969 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    I accidentally watched one of his videos. It was about Wicked. He had a point about the actress coming across a little egotistical, but threw the r slur around and all his examples of similar people, who came across as egoistical and stuff were women. I took one look at my recommendations and it was all 'woke' this and 'woke' that and realized I accidentally stepped into the bad part of youtube, filled with the kind of misogynistic incels who comment the most atrocious shit on reddit videos and somehow always find a way to blame the woman for anything that happens in those stories. I accidentally walked into their den.

  • @necaacen
    @necaacen 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +45

    i had no idea about all this tbh, i blocked critical drinker from my youtube suggestions a long time ago simply for being a negativity baiting bore who just feeds of "everything new sucks" toxic energy. turns out he was far worse than i realised.

  • @obredaanps3
    @obredaanps3 หลายเดือนก่อน +633

    Driniker complains about Batman villains being white men, imagine his complaints if Joker or Riddler had been race or gender swapped. Grifters just always find a way to make it about race/gender no matter how faithful it is to the source material.

    • @nont18411
      @nont18411 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

      And now you make me wanna see a black Joker. Idris Elba as the Joker when?

    • @Comicbroe405
      @Comicbroe405 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      ​@@nont18411 Dude... He's a great actor would love to see how he works with it.

    • @MoeNuke-zr8hu
      @MoeNuke-zr8hu หลายเดือนก่อน +106

      Can't win either way. Like playing a game with a kid who makes up new rules halfway through.

    • @antonakesson
      @antonakesson หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      @@nont18411 I mean the Joker from The Batman 2004 was voiced by a black man. The character was white in the end but still XD

    • @TabathaTMartin
      @TabathaTMartin หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@MoeNuke-zr8hu He legit as the mindset of manchild, pretty the equivalent of "The Pot calling the Kettle black"

  • @Ydudodat
    @Ydudodat หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    My man saw a movie where a rich straight white male is a hero and a symbol of hope to his community and thought "maybe this movie is anti-white"
    100 grift

  • @Gervardo
    @Gervardo 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Wow, what a hidden gem this channel is amidst my recent terrible algorithm!! Truly a safe port in this sh*t. For some reasone I have been hit with a huge wave of anti-woke conservatives on youtube, I don't know if it's also being influenced by where I live.

  • @kaylaclark3660
    @kaylaclark3660 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    I used to hate-watch him but I quit entirely after his *The Boys* S4 “review.” This man literally admitted he hadn’t watched a single episode and went on a preachy rant after reading off Rotten Tomatoes reviews

  • @fireandblood2919
    @fireandblood2919 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    I was the one who found out about him changing the HOTD title after the premiere broke viewers records. Still got the tweet from when I called him out on it too lol. Good to see it's being spread throughout the internet as an example of criticals grifting behavior.

    • @Th3Birdman
      @Th3Birdman  หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Thank you for your service, kind sir.

  • @jskrabac
    @jskrabac 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +747

    Here's the funny thing. Imagine a world where in GvK during the boat scene Kong was NOT in chains. CD's take would then be:
    "Oh...so you have this gigantic monster and your characters are too stupid to protect themselves by taking precautions. You know in original versions of King Kong he was ALWAYS carried over in chains...as it was an allegory for the slave trade. But God forbid today's WOKE Hollywood would risk including that kind of imagery since it would offend all the snowflakes...even though it would be entirely practical and serve the story."

    • @r4pt0r12
      @r4pt0r12 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +205

      That was uncannely accurate

    • @sgvmvp
      @sgvmvp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

      You didn't even mention Tatiana once 0/10

    • @yungmuney5903
      @yungmuney5903 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

      Yeah he's been shown to be absolutely two faced before.

    • @rafetizer
      @rafetizer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

      I totally read that in the Drinker's voice.

    • @officialmonarchmusic
      @officialmonarchmusic 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +135

      That's the thing. The points he makes... he could make them both ways. If he doesn't like a villain, he can call them either "diverse," "strong female character," or "evil white man." Those 3 definitions pretty much fit all human antagonists, and he uses them interchangeably

  • @pepperman2385
    @pepperman2385 หลายเดือนก่อน +243

    The Critical Drinker: "Woke, woke, racism, woke, the message, woke, virus of unknown origin, woke, the message, racism, the message woke, anyway go away now."

  • @BootsRR
    @BootsRR หลายเดือนก่อน +193

    There's been a pretty noticeable uptick of grift exposes over the past few weeks, and I'm 100% here for it.

  • @aeronlangheim3462
    @aeronlangheim3462 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    I made the mistake of watching a singular critical drinker video once on a movie called "Annihilation" a film which I genuinely like. He literally spent almost the entire time complaining that it starred a woman and that's it. The rest was him complaining that stuff didn't make sense that was explained in the movie. Thoroughly convinced me to never watch him again.

  • @CurlyJones
    @CurlyJones 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +337

    21:35 of all the legitimate reasons to hate PETA he picked the one that doesn't even make sense. Incredible

    • @solvseus
      @solvseus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      A coworker was trying to troll me with this, being an animal lover, and pointed out a bunch of stuff about PETA. I noted I don't like them either, but corrected him on a few things. He dug down to the point where I said "stop making me defend PETA". Then I said that every time he tried to argue about nonsense. Sometimes you have to troll the trolls.

  • @indiegamerred553
    @indiegamerred553 หลายเดือนก่อน +231

    I've noticed this a lot with grifter youtubers. Is that when they start their channels, they make some genuinely fun and entertaining videos. Then they gain shit tons of fame and turn their channels into echo chambers and their content suffers for it.

  • @orangejuice46982
    @orangejuice46982 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I fuck with this dudes nuance takes you get a subscriber birdman W.

  • @coolbritannia1979
    @coolbritannia1979 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Well done on speaking out about drinker. Like many others, I started following him when I agreed with a few reviews, and then abandoned ship when every black actor was referred to as "token" or "woke". Hes a horror show

  • @ScaleroftheSentry
    @ScaleroftheSentry 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +890

    We really just jumped from the warmup to the magnum opus… I like it

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      The flip flop joke had me rolling lol

    • @transyuri4534
      @transyuri4534 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Because he's th3 fucking birdman!

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@transyuri4534 yes he is

  • @GojiraRising
    @GojiraRising 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    It's Monday and this guy chose violence and I love it.

  • @hardhat8595
    @hardhat8595 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +397

    21:40 If there's one thing I'll defend the Drinker here is shitting one PETA, there have been countless incidents of euthanizing animals who did not need to be put down. Their protests are some next level gruesome, even going as far as to make a detailed comic book called "My Mommy Kills Animals" and give these to children coming out of the mall if their mothers were wearing fur, real or not. That isn't their worst protest in my opinion, but it's a pretty damn good one to show what they will do to even attempt to get people on their side.

    • @Th3Birdman
      @Th3Birdman  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +308

      Yeah I know. I included it as a joke, because I thought him responding to them was just funny.

    • @solvseus
      @solvseus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Former coworker was going on about them, and I noted I don't like them either, but then he started saying stuff that was blatantly false. I knew, because I'd just read some factchecking about them. Kept having to correct him, and he just dug in. Sometimes these guys just like to troll, to make others as miserable as they are I guess. I said, "I don't know where you get your info, but don't", which only made it worse. I finally said, "stop making me defend PETA!", and then kept saying it whenever he started, with anything. Sometimes you have to troll the trolls.

  • @VideoGamesAndTheWorld
    @VideoGamesAndTheWorld 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    If I had $5 for every time I heard the word "woke," I'd had a private jet on 24 hour standby

    • @BurgertubeFounder
      @BurgertubeFounder 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And then you'd be in hot water when they catch you riding it to Little Saint James island with Bill Clinton.

  • @paolocorpuz8676
    @paolocorpuz8676 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    It seem like the Critical Drinker is a Crab Mental person after all. I dare him to watch 70s-80s Filipino films directed by Lino Brocka and other good Filipino directors. I, as a tokusatsu fan, dare him to watch Ultraman Tiga Episode 28 and Kousoku Sentai Turboranger Episode 22.
    One more thing, sometimes there are those who misinform us of the crucial things in life that hold us back from thinking about our future. There those who choose to inform us about some good and bad of certain things in life.

  • @IndominusGojira
    @IndominusGojira 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +381

    4:00 Did he just call Peter Parker's daughter "it"?.

  • @PagIiacci
    @PagIiacci หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    This guy literally made an entire video about how the boys was bad and doesnt even watch it

  • @Halacon
    @Halacon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +513

    His facade of the “tough Scottish guy with whiskey and guns” is so cringe

    • @indigohammer5732
      @indigohammer5732 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

      I'm Scottish, and he makes me cringe.

    • @adamgates1142
      @adamgates1142 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

      Especially considering he mostly criticizes children's content

    • @steve94183
      @steve94183 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Especially considering he's just a twink that most men could fold in a fight.

    • @wephilips6651
      @wephilips6651 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      Especially how he wears sunglasses indoors ALL THE TIME

    • @linkfromzelda1002
      @linkfromzelda1002 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@wephilips6651 I wear shades indoors :/

  • @sullyb23511
    @sullyb23511 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The opening quote is attributed to Joseph Goebbels.

    • @Th3Birdman
      @Th3Birdman  หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Yes, hence "a fucking Nazi"

  • @NeilDegrasseTysonWithAKatana
    @NeilDegrasseTysonWithAKatana 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +22

    The sight of critical drinker, nerdotic, mauler, and TLP on the same screen at once is enough to cause a worldwide vaginal drought event

    • @cranberryrosebud
      @cranberryrosebud 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I'm so embarrassed I ever watched EFAP or believed Mauler to be a good critic. All those guys are bullies at best and grifters at worst, and it somehow took me like 3 years to see it...

  • @Koifin3
    @Koifin3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

    I’m so tired of hearing about politics on the internet, especially American coin flip politics.

    • @darioactive-man3287
      @darioactive-man3287 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Agree ...The USA Centre of the universe XD

    • @aetheriox463
      @aetheriox463 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      this is why we like Th3Birdman. no political views, only (actual) facts and logic.

  • @rossjones8656
    @rossjones8656 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +222

    It's been damn near forever since I heard of the drinker and I'm going to be real. I haven't really wanted to watch him for a long time.

    • @keithwoodcrest
      @keithwoodcrest 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Same. The most boring content on TH-cam.

    • @garbageparade5144
      @garbageparade5144 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He's got a cool voice but it's a lot of the same water downed content

    • @HOTD108_
      @HOTD108_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's been damn near forever since I considered giving myself brain damage and I'm going to be real. I haven't really wanted to for a long time.

  • @thereallocke8065
    @thereallocke8065 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

    8:05 it's funny that he's mad about the Kong thing. A lot of more recent adaptations of the story have been more sympathetic towards Kong and used as lenses to look at things like colonialism and the triangle trade. He's mad that it's there but like does he not want subtext in films does he not want genre films to discuss and explore real world issues? As somebody who enjoys genre films it gets kinda frustrating when people say they want it taken seriously out of one side of their mouth but deny any attempt to analyze or communicate deeper themes out the other.
    That said we kinda know why in this case. He nor his audience want to acknowledge the things being discussed subtextually

  • @Theokal3
    @Theokal3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    I am glad criticism of this guy become more common and more accepted; there used to be a time where you couldn't criticize him without having his army of synphocants to dislike bomb your video.

  • @graymermoth6228
    @graymermoth6228 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    In conclusion: CriticalDrinker is not a film reviewer. He’s a political TH-camr disguised as a film TH-camr and should stop being a lying butthead.

  • @CallMeVanEl
    @CallMeVanEl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    Oh man when you were talking about KDrama I was hoping you'd include the clip of him saying his favorite current Korean media was Crouching Tiger

  • @SingularityMedia
    @SingularityMedia หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Ah the critical grifter.
    I have the script for his next podcast.
    Drinker: : "The message. The message. The message. I stubbed my toe because The message".

  • @Dunsparce99
    @Dunsparce99 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    If x-men were to be released today it would have been called woke… oh wait.

  • @robertlawson7329
    @robertlawson7329 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    Wait, the cap to the Jack Daniels bottle is still on in that picture of the Critical Drinker!

  • @hdadyala9878
    @hdadyala9878 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Finally he’s getting called out. Quit watching him a while back, he came across as someone who could never be pleased which got annoying to watch

  • @jonahblock
    @jonahblock หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    at some point, why is drinker watching movies he knows wasn't written for him as an audience. it's like If i hated soup, ordered soup at a restaurant and then said how terrible it was because the waitress was Asian

  • @BenRai2k
    @BenRai2k 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +275

    Remember how he made one video about Andor's whole season? And yet he did a video for every Acolyte episode? to capitalise on the hate watching.

    • @BenRai2k
      @BenRai2k 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

      @@geckogeckogecko152 Yeah, because he isn't interested in talking about good stuff, he is a grifter. He claims Disney is negative and mean spirited but that is all he is. If it is trash surely Acolyte deserved 1 video, not one for every episode. And the one that is good, Andor, deserved more attention. But no, they thrive on the negative while claiming Disney is mean spirited, ironic.

    • @BenRai2k
      @BenRai2k 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      @@ULTlMATEKA Why wouldn't he - integrity, maybe? But true- he is the definition of a grifter so of course he focused on the rage bait that will rile up the chorus of baying sea lions. Could have made vids for each episode of Andor, given us his 'amazing critical insights' of eachepisode. But he knew people liked it so he wouldn't get as much dollar because STAR WARS IS BAHD sells more. He is just as money hungry as Disney which he complains about.100% rage baiter for money.

    • @Panamaniax507
      @Panamaniax507 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@BenRai2kbecause it pays the bills? Why do any of you care how another man pays his bills lol that’s the real question

    • @lokimiguel2452
      @lokimiguel2452 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Panamaniax507 why do you care about him being criticized for being a moro

    • @mckenzie.latham91
      @mckenzie.latham91 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Panamaniax507because the way he pays the bills is to lie and falsify accusations and information
      That causes people in real life to receive death threats, rape threats and harrassment
      The woman journalist he made up a woke quote from and disclosed online
      Got massive harassment and hate attacks on her social media
      And she never said it, he just made it up for clout and hate brigading

  • @flobbergassy
    @flobbergassy หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    Lol she did a racism and he fell in love with her

  • @RogerValor
    @RogerValor หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    He started off targeting usually obviously disliked movies, and had a funny spin, so I used to like watching him tear down stuff years ago, but I think at some point he started to go for the message in everything and alienated me to write angry comments to his videos. I am thankful people review him finally.

  • @benjaminwilliams41
    @benjaminwilliams41 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I think what I hate most about him, is that I can't point out that the Acolyte WAS boring and unwatchable without being associated with this guy.

  • @Emanon...
    @Emanon... 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    Thanks man. I've been saying this forever about CD, Nerdrotic and the rest of the "Grifterverse" on TH-cam.

  • @MIloszKluski
    @MIloszKluski 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    16:47 Wow, I always suspected those guys have something in common... That's the group of people I wouldn't like to share a space...

    • @xenon5493
      @xenon5493 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Nightmare blunt rotation

  • @usernamepersonperson4376
    @usernamepersonperson4376 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Came for the cinema sins criticism, stayed for the great commentary. Great content.

  • @mikeydflyingtoaster
    @mikeydflyingtoaster 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I was ashamed of myself that I had an instinctive desire to skip over this video as I rather enjoy Drinker's videos. This was really interesting to watch and has opened my eyes to what I had either not noticed or ignored

  • @diamondsanchez224
    @diamondsanchez224 หลายเดือนก่อน +175

    This is why I never take someone seriously if they unironically use the word "woke" in recent years.

    • @cyrollan
      @cyrollan หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      been saying this for years now. the word has lost all meaning and has simply become a culture war buzzword.

  • @_KRYMZN_
    @_KRYMZN_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

    3:55 every time I see this clip, it kills me that he calls Mayday “it” like we don’t know she’s a little girl 💀💀

  • @NickEn816
    @NickEn816 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +211

    Birdman emptying the clip and I'm here for it

    • @johnroscoe2406
      @johnroscoe2406 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Magazine* It's called a magazine and he's mag dumping.

    • @Gova_01
      @Gova_01 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@johnroscoe2406 A clip is the part of the magazine that holds the ammo INSIDE of the magazine. A mag does much more than that.

    • @NickEn816
      @NickEn816 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @johnroscoe2406 also, in the lexicon of phrases we use....I've never heard anyone say mag dumping or empty the mag. It's always empty the clip.
      Besides, at the end of the day, the message was understood.

    • @briannajazmin7144
      @briannajazmin7144 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Omg yes I was like stop stop hes already de@d 😂

  • @jb6668
    @jb6668 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    I remember watching the Drinker pivot into the clearly very profitable right wing grifter verse in real time. It was when he really stated top lean into his 'THE MESSAGE' meme that I completely checked out and never went back. The guy is the worst most cynical kind of reactionary internet hack.

  • @TheDanWhoSoldTheWorld
    @TheDanWhoSoldTheWorld 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    There is more truth in this 25 minute video than 'the drinker's' entire back catalogue. He should probably lay off the drink, it's going to his head.

  • @Bridgeburner4477
    @Bridgeburner4477 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    I was subscribed to will but dropped him after he stopped being a movie critic and started being a political activist.

  • @cksmith08
    @cksmith08 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Coming up next on Exposing the Grift: Nerdrotic, More on Shandy the Squirrel and an Icelandic TH-camr who is a Movie Fan with a Mario Video on Peeing (okay forget that last part but you know what I mean)

    • @Chuck_EL
      @Chuck_EL 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      That Star Wars Girl needs the smoke too

  • @abthedragon4921
    @abthedragon4921 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I watched a few of his videos a while ago and his entire vibe was just so off-putting. I almost never felt like he was actually looking at the films on their own merits or looking at a situation objectively. Like, there are few creators where I can feel the braincells leaving my head as I listen to them, but this guy is one of them.

  • @TheDoBetterPodcast
    @TheDoBetterPodcast หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    22:06 "what this person does is not honest critique. he looks for ways he can jimmy in alt right political talking points under the guise of being a movie reviewer" bro SPOT ON. i used to watch him years ago. but after a while it was so obvious who he is and what he's about. 🖕🏾 that guy

  • @OpticalResonator
    @OpticalResonator 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Simple and substantiated. Hope more people see this and stop feeling attacked by media because someone tell them too.

  • @peterlynchchannel
    @peterlynchchannel หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    I'm really glad to see this video. The phenomenon represented by Critical Drinker has always been disturbing to me. I've called it the, "I'm not racist, but HELP! THERE'S A BLACK WOMAN ON MY SCREEN!"
    It's engaged in on some level by all of the right wing commentators, Crowder, Shapiro, Pool, etc. and clearly strikes a chord that is unfortunately present in a large segment of the population.

  • @TerraJ-ug6nc
    @TerraJ-ug6nc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    5:50 OMG... He's the real life Firecracker from the Boys... 😂😂😂

  • @char5285
    @char5285 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

    Losing it at the fact that CD said that about peter’s baby like he wanted peter to go “yeah I actually have a baby now and I love her and she’s super cute and has spider powers but you can’t meet her cuz she’s at home”

  • @FixTheWi-Fi
    @FixTheWi-Fi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +385

    oh here we fucking go...
    *grabs popcorn*

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      I grabbed coffee instead lol

    • @OutsiderLabs
      @OutsiderLabs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@grantpowell4135 I grabbed my d, that's how into this I am

  • @BOFAMET
    @BOFAMET 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    Why that dude think it's "belittling" to portray a very humanized new dad as spending time with his own child even when he has stuff to do?? Guys like this are either telling on themselves as being deadbeats or they were fathered by deadbeats and now they're bitter and angry at any depiction in media that reminds them of how crappy their dads were.

  • @cocosdad
    @cocosdad หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    I just hate how every time he talks he sounds like he's pushing out a turd

  • @AriaKyuKyu
    @AriaKyuKyu 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    Ooooh I'm so happy Drinker is finally destroyed
    I laughed so hard when I watched the episode 1 from Acolyte , he says "Strong Female character" 24 times in an 8 minute video

  • @artsbyoba
    @artsbyoba 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    Came across critical drinker's content a few years ago. After watching a few videos, he came across as a bad faith critic. I wasn't even aware of America's culture wars back then. Stopped watching his videos

  • @BenRai2k
    @BenRai2k 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Remember when Jeremy from GnG got annoyed in the live chat that they never talk about stuff they like, and Ryan and Nerd got angry and said no, they don't want to talk about good stuff. Jeremy even called them out with blowing stuff out of proportion for the sake of vids lol

  • @EdwardMacNamara-b8e
    @EdwardMacNamara-b8e 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Another person who is definitely a grifter is someone known as Jesse Grant, he constantly posts these videos with rather absurd claims that can easily get debunked with the slightest bit of research. Not to mention that he is an ardent defender of the Critical Drinker.

  • @AngeloKhumalo-n3z
    @AngeloKhumalo-n3z 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Finally. Was waiting for a video on this guy from you.

  • @BlackWestCoast
    @BlackWestCoast 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    This is the most revelant video ive seen in ages. Dude as someone who actively watches TCD just for his wild takes , thank you so much for confirming what i always thought. Also that Mic Drop "go way now" was just perfect.
    Subbed !

  • @A113-p9e
    @A113-p9e 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +124

    The “a fucking Nazi” line with the quite i just found hilarious

  • @Jim2point0
    @Jim2point0 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    The hardest part about watching this video was stomaching the critical drinker clips.

  • @van-hieuvo8208
    @van-hieuvo8208 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

    I think Cody Johnson summed it pretty well when describing right-wing grifters like Ben Shapiro. "Are you stupid, or are you lying, or are you both?"

  • @shortperson20
    @shortperson20 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I used to like critical drinker because he made fun of things I already didn't like, but got bored of him because he became repetitive, and started to notice he was just flat out making things up, or intentionally misrepresenting things. Also backtracking on positions when he found the majority actually likes whatever he's complaining about

  • @fernandodecarlosmalcher7977
    @fernandodecarlosmalcher7977 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    what I hate the most is the fact that he lies so much in his reviews, when you're reviewing you have a responsability to be honest of what happens in the movie because people will take your word for it and will decide whether to go see the movie depending on your opinion and you could hurt the movie's performance by lying. The worst part is that when defending him most people just say "nu-uh", honestly, thank god that his own fanbase called him out on his video of the boys season 4, makes regain faith in humanity

  • @againstalltyrants9001
    @againstalltyrants9001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    I'll say for the minecraft shot, I was disappointed not because of kids, or the black woman, or momoa in a pink jacket, but that any of them were live action because it just clashes really bad to me.
    That said, I'm thrilled to see this video because I was just Introduced to the critical drinker a few days ago and couldn't understand why anyone thought he wasn't a clown lol

  • @senorbob2909
    @senorbob2909 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Whenever he does a review on a film he likes, he literally just recounts what happens in the film from start to finish which is a hilarious excuse for an "in-depth analysis/review".

  • @cangulicious
    @cangulicious หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    His review of Alex Garland's Annihilation tells you everything you need to know. Anything that isn't mainstream and 100% on the nose and doesn't hold your hand the entire time is too much for him to handle as "film critic".

  • @kimshinshiro
    @kimshinshiro หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    And about the spiderverse.... It's a spiderverse! Of course it has a diverse cast! It's a freaking multiverse!! You will see so many different spidermans, a plushie, a car, and a lego. How is he complaining that peter B is a only straight white man?! (And as th3birdman said there are other men same as peter B)

  • @wildhunt6350
    @wildhunt6350 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    "The MESSAGE"
    Critical Drinker

    • @FrankieTeardrop1998
      @FrankieTeardrop1998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Nah, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

  • @freemantle85
    @freemantle85 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +198

    "Its woke! Its woke!"
    "Yes Critical Drinker, everything's woke"

    • @the_letter_5579
      @the_letter_5579 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      Society has become so woke that I have been suffering from insomnia for 3 days

    • @axelhopfinger533
      @axelhopfinger533 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And thus everything is going to shit. QED

    • @skaldlouiscyphre2453
      @skaldlouiscyphre2453 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Critical Drinker isn't smart enough to talk his way out of Rainer Wolfcastle's revenge.

  • @lukescrew1981
    @lukescrew1981 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    He's going to watch this and somehow miss the point.

  • @altarux7312
    @altarux7312 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Tbf I think this would be really interesting @Th3Birdman. Would you go in a podcast like Open Bar or EFAP your criticisms to drinker and debate him? The group has been very welcoming of differing opinions and they tend to keep things cordial, respectful and even lighthearted when they can.

  • @japeth3213
    @japeth3213 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

    Just out of morbid curiosity I checked out his video on Matt Walsh's Am I Racist?
    The comment section is fucking UNHINGED!

    • @KingKirby-q9l
      @KingKirby-q9l 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      What do they say? I want to keep my sanity.

    • @Binzob
      @Binzob 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      Why does he need to make a whole movie to answer that question? A simple yes would suffice.

    • @japeth3213
      @japeth3213 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@KingKirby-q9l Literally dozens of "racism doesn't exist" to "racism is inevitable" to "racism DOES exist... but only against white people."
      This is the audience he is now saddled with.

    • @EarthboundX
      @EarthboundX หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      The comment sections on the ragebait culture war channels are always the worst. So much anger, so much hate. I don't know how it's not incredibly exhausting being angry all the time.

    • @justint8851
      @justint8851 หลายเดือนก่อน

      we he is basically the Daily the Daily Wires Whore

  • @nemesis-t3ddi
    @nemesis-t3ddi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    "The integrity of a sand castle." is a perfect summation of this mealworm of media.

  • @WynnterGreen
    @WynnterGreen หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Drinkers flip-flop on Gina Carano is, ironically, because of "The Message".
    The right-wing culture war message that's central to his grift.

  • @FerociousPaul
    @FerociousPaul 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Birdman this is some of your best work.

  • @Zecuu
    @Zecuu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    Pulling a slavery analogy out of Godzilla vs Kong of all things was not something I was expecting to hear today. Like I knew Drinker was racist but damn.