Even more wonderful when you consider that Armenians, like Sarkeesian, are actually natives of Caucausus and among the most white people by US' metric. Hell, Armenians were the first nation to adopt Christianity, something some US conservative defend at any opportunity, as its official religion. But this does not matter, she has a foregin-sounding surname that noone even pronounces right.
@@TheSolarWolf as one of the whitest people I know I can tell you there are some small differences around the lips which is typically a lighter complexion but as for the muscles themselves I can tell you all of them are the same
To be fair, growing up in the far off, exotic land of Canada, Sarkeesian would have had very little exposure to white people much less our smile customs.
Strange Days Is it true that you have to say 'cheese' when you smile? I'm not white so I don't know. What happens if you don't say it? Also what is cheese? It only exists in Sweden I think.
Cheese exists in Winsconisn, too ,silly. It also depends on the region what you say . In Texas we go 'Yeehaw Yipee Ride 'em Cowboy 'before we take the picture, just to get into the spirit to properly smile.
Maybe we should ask Molly how much money she received over the last couple of months by Jordan to unravel a part of the mystery of where that pile of dough went into.
How should I smile if I'm mixed-race? Should I just never smile because miscegenation is a curse upon this earth and so I should never feel happy as long as I exist?
I'm so glad you asked this so I didn't have to! Yet one more way the world makes us feel invisible by ignoring our existence in conversations about race. How do we smile correctly???
Left side of face, fathers ethnicity Right side of face, mothers. In the event either of them are mixed as well, divide that half into quarters Personally, my father is Quebecois and my mother is from France, so I can relate. I need to knock out all the teeth on the left side of my face and use the other half to surrender to Germany
No, you still smile "like a white person." Really tap into your white side. Look at pictures of your white family smiling, then practice in the mirror 😂 you can do it, I believe in you! 🤣
Put it this way, she has actively misrepresented games for her examples. She also has a fairly unreliable track record with the several series' she's kickstarted (not making all the episodes). The death threats and all that junk is unacceptable, but she is certainly not innocent and it is understandable as to why people can be upset with her.
@@notfunnydidntlaugh8621 I’m sure typing all that out made you feel proud of yourself and that’s great but what do your reasons for hating Anita Sarkeesian have to do with the fact that Davis Aurini is racist
I remember back in 2014, these kinds of loonie tunes are who drove me to check out Anita's videos. And I was blown away by how normal and no-big-deal her opinions were. Sure, there was a reference here or there that I felt may be out of context or maybe could have been looked at with more nuance, but overall her takes were pretty cold. Games from the 2000s were overwhelmingly aimed at a young male demographic. Yeah, that is true. That's not to downplay her work, she did present a lot of interesting and thought-provoking takes as well. And yet these guys just lost their shit over her and Zoe. And in so doing they made me a fan of Anita and Zoe for life.
Nice. While it is an example of the Streisand effect I prefer the boomerang effect. Anytime there is a media outrage that spreads - a good chunk of people might agree but they'll also get curious and explore the opposing views side genuinely to figure out what all the hub bub is about and a contrary outrage will be on its way. Once you notice it you can time it like a watch.
Anita is a scam artist tackling a non-issue and cherry-picking. They're bad takes. She's the Feminist version of Jack Thompson. If you use critical thinking skills and actually examine the evidence you'll see why her takes are bad. Great logic here BTW. "People reacted negatively to Anita and Zoe therefore I like them now." Yeah totally makes sense dude nice emotional thinking. Let's use your logic with a different person- "People reacted negatively to what Dr. Josef Mengele did so I will be contrarian and like him now" Okay see how your logic falls apart? P.S. She doesn't allow for disagreements. If you check her "Damsel in Distress" video series comments are turned off. This is to control the narrative.
"If you have a problem with any aspect of the production, fuck you." This man will surely prosper and develop a healthy network of business contacts by speaking to his investors and audience like this.
The irony of all these racists and misogynists freaking out over Anita is she's not even a radical feminist. the stuff she was saying wasn't edgy. she's a pretty basic moderate feminist yet she was turned into this demigod of feminism by gamergate. It was pretty bizarre looking back on it.
minus naming gamergate, which I remember starting after or in the middle of the Anita craze, you are rigth that the responses to her were always pretty bizarre to me. I remember seeing MrRezeption? (but butchered the name) getting really upset and in a "do you hate all man" rant, about what I viewed as a pretty relax calm criticism of video games.
@@tuscanyiscol This whole Sarkeesian hatred towards her i will never understand. I dont know much about her work but the couple of videos ive watched of her she comes off as a pleasant person and articulate. This is one of those things which is why i hate the internet sometimes. People making a mountain out of a molehill.....just so ridiculous
People on the internet hate women. They hate having their boys' club being "invaded" by women. It's angry incels who live a life in video games getting upset they may have to be held accountable for their shitty behavior. To me, it's absolutely hilarious when people call Sarkeesian a "radical" or an "extremist." She's a pretty normal, run-of-the-mill 3rd. Wave intersectional feminist. These guys have never heard of the Lesbian Separatist Movement, the Stonewall Riots, or how 1st. Wave feminists would literally stab men who offended them, sometimes taking out their eyes or causing permanent damage to the ear canal.
@@nekrataali I mean I hate to say it but I think people in general hate women, and anything 'feminine'. Even a lot of women hate women, bc they belive they are the exception. It's a depressing reality but its one which the internet really helps to illustrate. Being a woman means being weak and irrational. those violent civil liberties organisations and riots occured when bias against women and homosexuals was enshrined in law. Now it's simply enshrined in society.
+Void Burger That's the endgame for SJWs: Steal all the caplocks key both from people's computers and within people's vocal chords so that they look ridiculous when they make reasonable arguments about how feminists are trying to erase video games from existence.
"SHE'S A WRONG SMILER, THAT'LL BE $54,000 PLEASE!!!" Something about hbomberguy laughing just illuminates my entire day and his content has honestly improved my life outlook. I've been having a rough time with my mental health lately and he, philosophy tube, Contrapoints, and Shaun have helped me feel better. Now I just gotta stop binging or I'll run out of beautiful content and hbomb giggles.
@@billybobferguson3946 Yeah, it's been really positive to see. I admit at first I was a little disappointed to learn bomberguy was a fellow leftist - I'd seen his video game reviews and from those, he struck me as having some incidental similarities to otherwise similar ("politics and nerd stuff") content creators I've seen on the right, i.e. kind of smug and condescending at times, completely certain that their opinion is the objectively correct opinion, etc. I guess it didn't fit with my biases about lefties being... well, more like Contrapoints and Joel: less overtly opinionated and more cautious and measured. But over time I've grown to appreciate his style more; I think Contrapoints is great but since 2016 I've come around more to the "fighting fire with fire" approach, meaning I've started to roll my eyes at people who insist the left be held to significantly higher standards of "civil discourse" than the right. They've shown us why we need to take the gloves off. In that respect I've come to find bomberguy's more visceral style to be equally necessary for our current social climate. Not sure what I was trying to say with this rant but ultimately I agree with you, it's been a very positive development on this platform.
"I started taking Patreon seriously in December, and look where it got me!" *ironic cross dissolve to the far-off future of 2021, where hbomb is in the same garage, smashing profiteroles with a comedically large syringe full of cream* Honestly, I can't even be mad, money well spent I'd say
7:50 Walt Disney wasn't a fan of Hitler. But he sure did like to accuse animators that wanted a union in his studio of being communists and effectively ruining their lives.
@@beatthegreat7020 Late reply but... maybe? But the thing is, when you get good and experienced in something, you will want to meet even objectively awful people, if they have talent. On balance, she was just a propagandist. She was an awful human being but wasn't out there actively unaliving people like Von Braun, and we let him come into this country. We let the Unit 731 guy live, even if he possibly could have tortured American POWs to... unalive. A film maker meeting with another, recognized as supremely talented, film maker makes sense. It's like people who study "Birth of a Nation." ALSO made by a horrible human being. Who was talented. Sadly, talented is not restricted to morally perfect paragons. It's a random skill, and awful people can be randomly skilled.
My mom recently read all of Atlus Shrugged and told me what it was about and we genuinely can not believe there are people who can take that book seriously it is CARTOONISHLY ridiculous.
Maybe Rand's followers are actually just a variation on scientologists? You know, if you're a poor science fiction author, maybe consider establishing yourself as a cult leader? Hey presto...
"Smile like a white person" Fun fact: In 1915, the US Congress actually held a vote on whether Armenians should be considered white or not. After weighing the pros (Armenians aren't Catholics) vs. the cons (they're hairy and come from a part of the world that's far closer to Asia than Western Europe), they decided that in fact, yes, Armenians are white people. That act of half-assed race science was why my great grandfather was able to be able to be smuggled out of Armenia at age 13 in a boat full of onions, and eventually make his way to America (where he eventually attended Stanford and became a professor of chemistry). All the rest of his/my family was slaughtered back in the home country in the Armenian holocaust. 6 years later, in 1921, Herbert Hoover the Republican president of the United States famously said "the white race cannot survive without dairy products". Armenia is one of the few "white races" that are not lactose intolerant, after thousands of years of being destitute poor goat herders living on land that's suitable for little else. Watching this video, I wish I hadn't gotten the lactose tolerant gene, so I could chug a bottle of milk and fart up a storm worthy of this terrible, terrible man.
Bruh how are most “white people” lactose intolerant. Think you mistyped or something but “white people” are usually the least likely to be lactose intolerant.
Hey, my great grandmother was an Armenian, first in her family born in America, right around the time of the genocide! Thank you for sharing this story. It's not often that people know this about Armenian American history.
"Mean spirited ballbags who yell and scream at the top of their lungs at women on the internet." That's actually a really good description of the internet itself!
Calling pigs incapable of self awareness “sociopaths” a) is belittling to those that actually suffer from sociopathy, b) is just flat out not how sociopathy works, and c) excuses and divests said pigs from taking responsibility for their actions. Apologies to any actual pigs who might gain sentience and feel affronted by the comparison.
That is probably the single douchiest edgelord Gone Home joke I've ever heard anyone make. And I read TH-cam comments, so that's really quite impressive.
+Goatmon He quietly deleted it when it turned out he was dead wrong. It's archived in a few places though, for example here: th-cam.com/video/WOGHqCwJMS0/w-d-xo.html
Well, I for one am happy to see that such games industry veterans are treating internet angrymen & obsessive Sarkeesian-haters with all the respect and consideration they deserve :D
+InnerPartisan To be fair, Roberta Williams' primary role in the industry was to troll the living shit out of players with convoluted and nonsensical puzzles, but my respect for her has grown now that she's publicly snubbed Jordan Owen.
i know im about 6 years removed from this topic but its still hysterical to visit it again every now and then. also, just as a side note, hbomberguy has around 10,000 backers on patreon now, while jordan owen has…….8. 8 backers. 8. i thought the saying was “go woke, go broke”
@@Jeremy-ql1orExcept youre lying, they didnt say it was financial, they said it was exhaustion and burnout. It was also a non profit and not for monetary gain
The insane focus on Anita's style of smiling reminds me of Phrenology. Except Phrenology had a small claim to being knowledge before we actually knew anything about the skull or brain.
Yeah, I'm not being fair to Al Lowe. He is pretty cool, and Larry is supposed to be a failure. Besides, Al also gave us the lesser known but brilliant Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist.
osriccauldwyn I think you are quite fair. Lowe is a nice guy, I am sure thats the reason he gave interview. Well, and he probably didnt know who Owen was, as the comment above says. So he is cool.
+osriccauldwyn LSL is can sometimes be surprisingly feminist, at least before the later titles. LSL 3 had a female protagonist! Consideirng LSL is about how much Larry DOESN'T succeed in his pick-up artist ways.
jeff cowdrey eyyyyy **finger guns** George Washington Carver joke! (though apparently he didn't invent the modern process for making peanut butter according to a quick google search: www.nationalpeanutboard.org/peanut-info/who-invented-peanut-butter.htm )
Yeah, you should check out Shaun and Jen, his videos cover similar subjects and get at least 50% dislikes whenever he makes a video about an anti- SJW channel.
@KyleAugie ContraPoints is my go-to TBH. She's funny to watch, has a lot of character, isn't afraid to concede a point or try and see things from another's perspective and yet is always ready to call out BS from pretty much anyone. Her videos come across as well balanced, well made and most importantly, different.
Five years later, I'm looking at this and wondering why the hell a devout misogynist would want to do a documentary on a company cofounded by one of the most notable women in videogame history.
"I would like very much to spend Christmas with somebody. They know who they are." Combined with Jordan's unsettling smile, this sounds like a threat. I hope Molly's alright.
2:50 Oh the Irony is that Sarkeesian is an Armenian surname. 5 seconds of Google reveal that Anita's family is from their diaspora in Canada. You know, LITERAL, ACTUAL CAUCASIANS FROM CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS. Where Armenia is located. SOAD, Cher, Kardashians - those are also people of Armenian heritage - _and Armenians are as Caucasian as you can get._
+FrankieSmileShow Naa, it's from a, like, two-hour-long livestream where he and some other reactionary shouty man talked about things they didn't understand.
6:55 That's actually pretty unlikely. Disney was pretty politically naive, according to people who knew him. Art Babbit started the rumor, claiming he had seen Disney and a friend going to German American Bund meetings. But Babbit had a whole lot of personal shit with Disney, so I'm highly skeptical of his claims. The two fucking hated each other, primarily over early striking and a lawsuit or two forced Disney to rehire Babbit *multiple times*. Also, it would beg the question of what the hell Babbit was doing there in the first place. Other than Babbit's accusations, I've seen no specific accounts or evidence that attests to him being a Nazi sympathizer. As far as I can tell, the anti-semitism bit is extrapolated from this and the fact that he was part of the Motion Picture Alliance for a while(which had a number of anti-semites in its group, among others). Even Babbit didn't accuse him of being an anti-semite which wouldn't have been a particularly foul accusation, especially in the 30s and 40s(until near the end of WW2). So it's highly unlikely that either of these apply to him.
Willi Kampmann has anyone actually seen the song of the south? I have. For it's time, it was actually pretty remarkably forward thinking. First, while today all the tropes and generalizations would absolutely be racist, but back then? Having African stories, told by a black actress as something to be learned from, while going against white authority to do so was pretty damned revolutionary. Plus in a time when blacks couldn't eat in white establishments, all the black characters were pretty well respected. I'm not saying it isn't problematic by today's standards, but it was rather groundbreaking, and I would say many actors wouldn't have jobs now if it wasn't for that film.
Willi Kampmann has anyone actually seen the song of the south? I have. For it's time, it was actually pretty remarkably forward thinking. First, while today all the tropes and generalizations would absolutely be racist, but back then? Having African stories, told by a black actress as something to be learned from, while going against white authority to do so was pretty damned revolutionary. Plus in a time when blacks couldn't eat in white establishments, all the black characters were pretty well respected. I'm not saying it isn't problematic by today's standards, but it was rather groundbreaking, and I would say many actors wouldn't have jobs now if it wasn't for that film.
Disney was a misogynist, a control freak, and a creepy ultra-capitalist a$$hole in a lot of ways, but all the (admittedly scatter-shot) research I've done shows that he was neither racist nor a Nazi/anti-semite. He was, however, the B'nai B’rith Man of the Year in 1955, which should certainly count for something. He's an interesting guy, and very morally complex. (Also, if you're really interested, here's a good video on Walt and how his image is handled, from Lindsay Ellis: th-cam.com/video/w9dCWUuJZLw/w-d-xo.html )
Monty R I do enjoy Lindsay’s video essays. Walt was both beholden to his times and in many ways ahead of them. His views were probably pretty progressive and “liberal” for the era. But he was still stuck in the mind frame common of that generation. He was also often very naive and idealistic. Which meant that he didn’t understand why his workers weren’t “grateful.” To him, they were making history in their chosen field of passion. Hard work was a given, but his privileged position as boss and therefore the primary shareholder (so to speak) meant there was a disconnect between him and his workers. The many union disputes and falling out of underlings left him bitter and resentful. He was in many ways an asshole, like you said. But I don’t think he was genuinely malicious. Just a little ignorant and ultimately child like. Whatever you think of the man, he was certainly a visionary. I saw a documentary on him. Very interesting guy.
My favorite thing about all of your measured response videos is how you point out how palpably unhappy these people are. Pointing out their ineptitude and stupidity is fun too and you do it very well but no one else seems to touch on their obvious misery derived from their shitty worldview. I just plowed through all of them and I want MORE. Wrong Smiler is also now my favorite term ever.
Comment by Jordan Owen (now deleted of course): "I will talk about Hbomberguy until the day I die and consider it a life well lived." He's beyond help at this point!
It's a bit sad, you know - Jordan looks so obviously unhappy, and the way he talks about needing at least a day for ~1 hour of actual work is very much how I feel, being depressed. He just seems lonely and pathetic and deeply unhappy. Which is not an excuse, of course, but does make me wonder if people like him could be cured at least of some aspects of their obsessiveness if they just got their life together.
+Sarah Watt (NuclearSarah) What career? Because I'll I've ever seen him do is try to make boarderline character assassination videos with shitty editing
You're right; I just meant his chances of ever being able to do anything legitimate with that crap attached to his name. (Especially since there are now documented instances of people avoiding him like he's a leper now)
The thing about it taking him six months to edit that interview is lot worse in hindsight after you and channels like Shaun and Contra and others have made a consistent videos on a huge range of topics with much much better editing then he has done here.
i just checked in on Jordan Owen after some sense of curiosity overcame me. he still pretty frequently makes videos, usually about his autism (but not in an informative or interesting way, more in an…incelly, strange way, if that makes sense). but i was taken by a post on his community page; recently, he created an album of classical music for his cat, Mitzi, to listen to while recovering from her surgery. the fact that a man so abrasive, hateful, disgusting and harsh was able to do something so, well, delicate, really touched something in me, and i just can’t stop thinking about it. i genuinely get emotional, misty even, thinking about how he loved his cat so much he wrote an album of music just for her. he is capable of love and care, apparently. doesn’t change the fact that his contribution to the TH-cam landscape for over a DECADE now has been nothing but hateful misogynistic filth. if anything, it makes it much much more sad and pathetic.
I'm like 4 minutes in and you seemed genuinely worried that you're not funny and you're hilarious (that was probably just acting for the sake of comedy but you're so good at making me happy and laugh that I didn't wanna NOT reassure you anyways)
+whatevs memepost There's still something comforting about the fact Christy Marx flat out denied an interview with him though. Ah, life works out well sometimes.
How can he have needed sixty fucking thousand dollars to do a video game documentary? Look at the Nostalgia Nerd's content. He has _several_ hour and a half to two hour long documentaries on his channel about the British home computer market of the 1980s. Sure, he probably spent a decent amount of money on physical hardware to do his focus-changing shots of keyboards on (I'm not a filmographer, I don't know what you call it when you change the depth of field in a single shot), some of that stuff he surely owned in his own collection, but a big part of his freedom to make these documentaries was being a competent vlogger beforehand. On the same token, your own long-form videos are longer and more thorough than many documentaries on Netflix. Sure, they aren't intended to be highly informative documentaries, more extended evidence-based opinion pieces, but they demonstrate just how much content you can produce with a camera, a microphone, and some basic video editing.
oh, it's pretty easy to explain: Nobody will ever watch his schlock, so he needs the 60k up front for the sake of making bank on stupid shit, almost certainly he pockets 2/3rds of the money at bare minimum
>#gamedev This needs to stop The #gamedev tag is for people to share progress, ask for feedback and give eachother tips Not for people to shit up with propaganda
Dude just a heads up, this video response to the Sierra Effect has essentially caved Jordan Owen's life in on itself, he's just been complaining about it, had to see it, awesome work 🤣
I've dived back into this because JO got algorithm shoved at me. Upon seeing his name, i immediately wanted to comfirm if this person was indeed, the "smile like w-hite person" man...
Coming back to this again just for the laughs, all I want to add is that I really hope Anita Sarkeesian saw the videos that you made dunking on these assholes, and got a good laugh at their expense.
I met not like Anita's show mostly because there's alot of flaws in it, especially when it comes to her arguments. but making a documentary out of her is kinda sad tbh.
I hope his fav stripper played him for every cent he managed to squeeze out of ppl for these projects industry professionals refused to acknowledge him over
It really does feel like that. Although I know a lot more about politics now than I did then. Which makes this time all that much more devastating. Europe's looking more and more inviting by the day.😅
@@kevinlawrence1582 Europe is no different... sorry to say. Anywhere western will have these problems so I'd say either go to Latin America or settle in and organize if you want change in the US
I feel like I got really lucky by somehow never learning anything about gamer gate while it was happening. The whole thing just sounds more and more stupid the more I hear about it.
He seems to have taken down all his gamergate stuff and said that the Sierra effect was a mistake. He's still making content. I've not watched it but I didn't see Anita's name anywhere so that's a good sign. I'm glad he seems to have put that behind him.
I just wanted to say I absolutely love your videos; I've pretty much had your Measured Response playlist on repeat all day, and I've been laughing non-stop. Don't ever stop making these.
"She even learned how to smile like a WHOOite person" I nearly spit out my drink at that!
the big W I D E M O U T H G R I N
🤣🤣🤣
Wait, us white people have a particular smile? Why wasn't I informed of this?
Even more wonderful when you consider that Armenians, like Sarkeesian, are actually natives of Caucausus and among the most white people by US' metric. Hell, Armenians were the first nation to adopt Christianity, something some US conservative defend at any opportunity, as its official religion. But this does not matter, she has a foregin-sounding surname that noone even pronounces right.
@@TheSolarWolf as one of the whitest people I know I can tell you there are some small differences around the lips which is typically a lighter complexion but as for the muscles themselves I can tell you all of them are the same
To be fair, growing up in the far off, exotic land of Canada, Sarkeesian would have had very little exposure to white people much less our smile customs.
Strange Days as we all know people in canada are almost never pale
Strange Days Is it true that you have to say 'cheese' when you smile? I'm not white so I don't know. What happens if you don't say it? Also what is cheese? It only exists in Sweden I think.
Cheese exists in Winsconisn, too ,silly. It also depends on the region what you say . In Texas we go 'Yeehaw Yipee Ride 'em Cowboy 'before we take the picture, just to get into the spirit to properly smile.
eartianwerewolf you won the comments
Maybe we should ask Molly how much money she received over the last couple of months by Jordan to unravel a part of the mystery of where that pile of dough went into.
I subscribed to you like a month ago, HOW do I keep seeing you everywhere all out of a sudden? XD
i would wanna even bring her into this mess tbh
He doesn’t seem like the kind of person to generously pay sex workers
Or pay them at all
@@alisonpurgatory85 He pays them alright. Probably in small change.
Honestly.. That would probably have been the best use of the money lol.
Honestly, I just hope Molly from Tattletale's is ok.
Phillip Morgan thats the biggest mood
Rewatching this video again, and honestly I hope so too.
@@abnerdwight There is a 100% chance she has a restraining order against him at this point.
She's okay. She had plenty of life choices to make money, and she chose the one where she will make the most money. I think she's doing just fine
@@pervysueno7749 ?
How should I smile if I'm mixed-race? Should I just never smile because miscegenation is a curse upon this earth and so I should never feel happy as long as I exist?
Don't you know we all smile like Two-Face?? You have failed us, you monster! FAILED US!!!
I'm so glad you asked this so I didn't have to! Yet one more way the world makes us feel invisible by ignoring our existence in conversations about race. How do we smile correctly???
Left side of face, fathers ethnicity
Right side of face, mothers. In the event either of them are mixed as well, divide that half into quarters
Personally, my father is Quebecois and my mother is from France, so I can relate. I need to knock out all the teeth on the left side of my face and use the other half to surrender to Germany
@@potaterjim c'est bo le joual
No, you still smile "like a white person." Really tap into your white side. Look at pictures of your white family smiling, then practice in the mirror 😂 you can do it, I believe in you! 🤣
No matter how many times I watch this, I always die laughing when Aurini is described as a racist magician
we demand to be taken seriously
Tbh that's a good description of Voldemort
Put it this way, she has actively misrepresented games for her examples. She also has a fairly unreliable track record with the several series' she's kickstarted (not making all the episodes). The death threats and all that junk is unacceptable, but she is certainly not innocent and it is understandable as to why people can be upset with her.
@@notfunnydidntlaugh8621 I’m sure typing all that out made you feel proud of yourself and that’s great but what do your reasons for hating Anita Sarkeesian have to do with the fact that Davis Aurini is racist
1:39 for those wondering.
I remember back in 2014, these kinds of loonie tunes are who drove me to check out Anita's videos. And I was blown away by how normal and no-big-deal her opinions were. Sure, there was a reference here or there that I felt may be out of context or maybe could have been looked at with more nuance, but overall her takes were pretty cold. Games from the 2000s were overwhelmingly aimed at a young male demographic. Yeah, that is true. That's not to downplay her work, she did present a lot of interesting and thought-provoking takes as well. And yet these guys just lost their shit over her and Zoe. And in so doing they made me a fan of Anita and Zoe for life.
Nice.
While it is an example of the Streisand effect I prefer the boomerang effect.
Anytime there is a media outrage that spreads - a good chunk of people might agree but they'll also get curious and explore the opposing views side genuinely to figure out what all the hub bub is about and a contrary outrage will be on its way.
Once you notice it you can time it like a watch.
I watched a few of her videos and didn't really get what all the fuss was about.
Yeah, the fact she forgot nuance/context was really her only problem with her arguments. She at least stuck to her guns...
Anita is a scam artist tackling a non-issue and cherry-picking. They're bad takes. She's the Feminist version of Jack Thompson. If you use critical thinking skills and actually examine the evidence you'll see why her takes are bad.
Great logic here BTW. "People reacted negatively to Anita and Zoe therefore I like them now." Yeah totally makes sense dude nice emotional thinking. Let's use your logic with a different person- "People reacted negatively to what Dr. Josef Mengele did so I will be contrarian and like him now" Okay see how your logic falls apart?
P.S. She doesn't allow for disagreements. If you check her "Damsel in Distress" video series comments are turned off. This is to control the narrative.
Hope she sees this bro
"Nobody will speak to me"
- Jordan Owen
"If you have a problem with any aspect of the production, fuck you."
This man will surely prosper and develop a healthy network of business contacts by speaking to his investors and audience like this.
What, you don't subscribe to, "Bitterness and hate will get you wherever you want to go"?
She's a wrong-smiler, George. She smiles wrong!
+PaladinusSP JORDAN'S GETTING UPSET!!!!
Goddammit I came here to make this joke and you did it two years before.
I am also here to comment on something 2 years old. Dang it is hilarious someone actually tried to make that argument about smiles XD WhATTTTTTTTTT
It's the wrong smile, Gromit, the wrong smile!
(Tiny megalomaniac penguin hijacks her smile and robs a museum)
It's Vandelay to you.
"...it isn't made by a racist magician." That line was so good I had to pause because I was laughing too hard.
megalodonMT
Especially combined with the picture...
The irony of all these racists and misogynists freaking out over Anita is she's not even a radical feminist. the stuff she was saying wasn't edgy. she's a pretty basic moderate feminist yet she was turned into this demigod of feminism by gamergate. It was pretty bizarre looking back on it.
minus naming gamergate, which I remember starting after or in the middle of the Anita craze, you are rigth that the responses to her were always pretty bizarre to me.
I remember seeing MrRezeption? (but butchered the name) getting really upset and in a "do you hate all man" rant, about what I viewed as a pretty relax calm criticism of video games.
Somehow a huge number of affluent white people, in complete power over their situation - where persuaded that they were being victimised and oppressed
@@tuscanyiscol This whole Sarkeesian hatred towards her i will never understand. I dont know much about her work but the couple of videos ive watched of her she comes off as a pleasant person and articulate. This is one of those things which is why i hate the internet sometimes. People making a mountain out of a molehill.....just so ridiculous
People on the internet hate women. They hate having their boys' club being "invaded" by women. It's angry incels who live a life in video games getting upset they may have to be held accountable for their shitty behavior.
To me, it's absolutely hilarious when people call Sarkeesian a "radical" or an "extremist." She's a pretty normal, run-of-the-mill 3rd. Wave intersectional feminist. These guys have never heard of the Lesbian Separatist Movement, the Stonewall Riots, or how 1st. Wave feminists would literally stab men who offended them, sometimes taking out their eyes or causing permanent damage to the ear canal.
@@nekrataali I mean I hate to say it but I think people in general hate women, and anything 'feminine'.
Even a lot of women hate women, bc they belive they are the exception.
It's a depressing reality but its one which the internet really helps to illustrate. Being a woman means being weak and irrational. those violent civil liberties organisations and riots occured when bias against women and homosexuals was enshrined in law. Now it's simply enshrined in society.
actually it's about ethnics smiles in video game journalism
laughs at this 3 years too late
I miss the days when this was the worst we had to worry about with regards to the alt-right.
Right?
Alt?
Enkufka God, I know...
A nazi party came third in my country’s last election. I want to f*cking die.
@@XescoPicas where?
*Him:* Wow, you have such a white smile.
*Me:* Oh thanks, I use Listeri-
*Him:* I mean you smile like a white person.
*Me:* 0_o
I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT JORDAN ALSO HAS A FUCKING SKULL.
WAIT. I CAN DEFINITELY BELIEVE THAT, WHAT AM I SAYING?
SJWS STOLE MY CAPSLOCK KEY, HELP.
+Void Burger We prefer to be called Social Justice Adventurers thank you very much.
ps the CAPSLOCK joke was funny
maybe they bought it together! #truelove
+Void Burger Apparently Jordan got custody of Macarthur after his breakup with Aurini.
+Void Burger That's the endgame for SJWs: Steal all the caplocks key both from people's computers and within people's vocal chords so that they look ridiculous when they make reasonable arguments about how feminists are trying to erase video games from existence.
ShadowPa1adin Well honestly. Would you seriously let Davis Aurini be the guardian of anything inanimate or otherwise?
"SHE'S A WRONG SMILER, THAT'LL BE $54,000 PLEASE!!!"
Something about hbomberguy laughing just illuminates my entire day and his content has honestly improved my life outlook. I've been having a rough time with my mental health lately and he, philosophy tube, Contrapoints, and Shaun have helped me feel better. Now I just gotta stop binging or I'll run out of beautiful content and hbomb giggles.
How did you get ahold of my TH-cam recommendation feed???
Honestly, yeah. Same. They give me hope for humanity and "facts and logic"
I'm so glad that, overall, content which counters the far right rabbithole has gotten so much more prevalent over the last 2-3 years
@@billybobferguson3946 Yeah, it's been really positive to see. I admit at first I was a little disappointed to learn bomberguy was a fellow leftist - I'd seen his video game reviews and from those, he struck me as having some incidental similarities to otherwise similar ("politics and nerd stuff") content creators I've seen on the right, i.e. kind of smug and condescending at times, completely certain that their opinion is the objectively correct opinion, etc. I guess it didn't fit with my biases about lefties being... well, more like Contrapoints and Joel: less overtly opinionated and more cautious and measured. But over time I've grown to appreciate his style more; I think Contrapoints is great but since 2016 I've come around more to the "fighting fire with fire" approach, meaning I've started to roll my eyes at people who insist the left be held to significantly higher standards of "civil discourse" than the right. They've shown us why we need to take the gloves off. In that respect I've come to find bomberguy's more visceral style to be equally necessary for our current social climate.
Not sure what I was trying to say with this rant but ultimately I agree with you, it's been a very positive development on this platform.
YESSS I STARTED LAUGHING ALONG WITH HIM AND IT FELT LIKE WE WERE TWO FRIENDS LOOKING AT A STUPID LIBERTARIAN HAVING FUN TOGETHER
"She's a wrong smiler. That'll be $54,000, please."
That had me dying.
"I started taking Patreon seriously in December, and look where it got me!"
*ironic cross dissolve to the far-off future of 2021, where hbomb is in the same garage, smashing profiteroles with a comedically large syringe full of cream*
Honestly, I can't even be mad, money well spent I'd say
7:50 Walt Disney wasn't a fan of Hitler. But he sure did like to accuse animators that wanted a union in his studio of being communists and effectively ruining their lives.
Wasn't he also the only person in Hollywood to ever associate with Leni Riefenstahl?
@@beatthegreat7020
Late reply but... maybe? But the thing is, when you get good and experienced in something, you will want to meet even objectively awful people, if they have talent. On balance, she was just a propagandist. She was an awful human being but wasn't out there actively unaliving people like Von Braun, and we let him come into this country. We let the Unit 731 guy live, even if he possibly could have tortured American POWs to... unalive. A film maker meeting with another, recognized as supremely talented, film maker makes sense. It's like people who study "Birth of a Nation." ALSO made by a horrible human being. Who was talented. Sadly, talented is not restricted to morally perfect paragons. It's a random skill, and awful people can be randomly skilled.
My mom recently read all of Atlus Shrugged and told me what it was about and we genuinely can not believe there are people who can take that book seriously it is CARTOONISHLY ridiculous.
Maybe Rand's followers are actually just a variation on scientologists? You know, if you're a poor science fiction author, maybe consider establishing yourself as a cult leader? Hey presto...
"Smile like a white person"
Fun fact: In 1915, the US Congress actually held a vote on whether Armenians should be considered white or not. After weighing the pros (Armenians aren't Catholics) vs. the cons (they're hairy and come from a part of the world that's far closer to Asia than Western Europe), they decided that in fact, yes, Armenians are white people.
That act of half-assed race science was why my great grandfather was able to be able to be smuggled out of Armenia at age 13 in a boat full of onions, and eventually make his way to America (where he eventually attended Stanford and became a professor of chemistry). All the rest of his/my family was slaughtered back in the home country in the Armenian holocaust.
6 years later, in 1921, Herbert Hoover the Republican president of the United States famously said "the white race cannot survive without dairy products". Armenia is one of the few "white races" that are not lactose intolerant, after thousands of years of being destitute poor goat herders living on land that's suitable for little else. Watching this video, I wish I hadn't gotten the lactose tolerant gene, so I could chug a bottle of milk and fart up a storm worthy of this terrible, terrible man.
Bruh how are most “white people” lactose intolerant. Think you mistyped or something but “white people” are usually the least likely to be lactose intolerant.
all of your family got killed back there
BUT SOMEHOW YOU SURVIVED!
The leadup to that punchline was a fucking masterpiece
@@thorkellhyden9694 yeah i was a bit confused at that too
Hey, my great grandmother was an Armenian, first in her family born in America, right around the time of the genocide! Thank you for sharing this story. It's not often that people know this about Armenian American history.
I am shocked, UTTERLY SHOCKED, that upstanding guy such as Owen is a fan of Ayn Rand. Did not see that coming.
I thought capital was his favorite book....
I feel sorry for Jordan's cat tbh
+crossmirage To be fair on his cat - he is in the best position to injure Jordan. He is a hero for that.
Me too....looks like a nice cat. Too bad he had such a shite owner.
petition for molly at tattletales and the poor cat to run away together and have beautiful adventures free of this fucking guy
"Mean spirited ballbags who yell and scream at the top of their lungs at women on the internet."
That's actually a really good description of the internet itself!
Only half.
@@fightingmedialounge519 The other half being mean spirited ballbags who yell and scream at the top of their lungs at men on the internet?
And then Jordan Owen realized he didn't like being treated the same way he treats everyone else, yet learnt nothing from this experience. Meninism.
Stacey, this is typical of sociopaths and what also confirms hes a sociopath is that he worship the Queen of the sociopathic mindset Ayn Rand.
Sociopathy is a real mental issue that people suffer from. Please don't use it as an insult.
Llamamall It's not an insult just an observation.
Calling pigs incapable of self awareness “sociopaths” a) is belittling to those that actually suffer from sociopathy, b) is just flat out not how sociopathy works, and c) excuses and divests said pigs from taking responsibility for their actions.
Apologies to any actual pigs who might gain sentience and feel affronted by the comparison.
@A Pigs are actually sentient beings and are very smart and compassionate animals.
That is probably the single douchiest edgelord Gone Home joke I've ever heard anyone make. And I read TH-cam comments, so that's really quite impressive.
whatevs memepost I bet that VN already exists.
So what's the video where Jordan thinks he caught Anita lying about something, and then shouts so loud that the audio gets fucked?
+Goatmon He quietly deleted it when it turned out he was dead wrong. It's archived in a few places though, for example here:
th-cam.com/video/WOGHqCwJMS0/w-d-xo.html
hbomberguy hahha excellent, thanks.
+hbomberguy Its funny because reference Jordy saw on TV show th-cam.com/video/z-9Sv3a_ASM/w-d-xo.html
+hbomberguy I didn't get what this was all about anyway, about some missing call record? But thanks for the link!
@@hbomberguy aww it's private now
Well, I for one am happy to see that such games industry veterans are treating internet angrymen & obsessive Sarkeesian-haters with all the respect and consideration they deserve :D
+InnerPartisan "internet angrymen." youtube doesn't have enough bold and italics to emphasize this term you just coined
+InnerPartisan Correction: Internet angrymanchildren :P
faction60 Thanks, but I can't really take credit for it. Definitely heard it from others before. :D
+InnerPartisan To be fair, Roberta Williams' primary role in the industry was to troll the living shit out of players with convoluted and nonsensical puzzles, but my respect for her has grown now that she's publicly snubbed Jordan Owen.
P Ferreira Uh, that kinda was my point?
i know im about 6 years removed from this topic but its still hysterical to visit it again every now and then. also, just as a side note, hbomberguy has around 10,000 backers on patreon now, while jordan owen has…….8.
8 backers.
8.
i thought the saying was “go woke, go broke”
Lol, Antia Sarkesian's operation went broke and had to close down about a month after your comment was posted.
@@Jeremy-ql1orI don't think FF went broke, did it?
@@Jeremy-ql1orExcept youre lying, they didnt say it was financial, they said it was exhaustion and burnout. It was also a non profit and not for monetary gain
SIXTY NINE BILLION BISON DOLLARS
+Elwood They are worth 5 British pounds, afterall ;)
+Tyler Street but only after M. Bison kidnaps Queen Elizabeth though
of course!
The insane focus on Anita's style of smiling reminds me of Phrenology. Except Phrenology had a small claim to being knowledge before we actually knew anything about the skull or brain.
*Watches video like a white person*
*Smiles like a white person*
*Laughs like a hyena because this is too funny*
DAMNIT 2/3 I HAVE FAILED MY RACE
There's a curvature to it.
1. No.
2. It's seppuku. Sudoku is a puzzle game.
*****
I believe the correct term is Subaru.
Caz You are a wronglaugher
Owen is STILL seething over this 8 years later 😂
"...Feminist Frequency likes to Feminist Frequently release PDF documents..." Very nice.
+P Ferreira No one's talking to you bro
P Ferreira m8 citing a youtuber isn't proof. Especially when you don't even link the video.
8:34 You're welcome!
i read this comment the exact moment hbomb said "feminist frequently"
Big surprise the only guy who WOULD talk to him was the guy who made Leisure Suit Larry.
+osriccauldwyn I sincerely doubt Al Lowe has any idea who he is.
Owen probably forgot, how Leisure Suit Larry pushes lesbian agenda by having Larry constantly owned by in-game women
Yeah, I'm not being fair to Al Lowe. He is pretty cool, and Larry is supposed to be a failure. Besides, Al also gave us the lesser known but brilliant Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist.
osriccauldwyn I think you are quite fair. Lowe is a nice guy, I am sure thats the reason he gave interview. Well, and he probably didnt know who Owen was, as the comment above says.
So he is cool.
+osriccauldwyn LSL is can sometimes be surprisingly feminist, at least before the later titles. LSL 3 had a female protagonist! Consideirng LSL is about how much Larry DOESN'T succeed in his pick-up artist ways.
I was smiling like a white person for this entire video. Good job as always :)
that's a pretty weird thing to say tho
gotta be said
Marius Alsén (isn’t having slaves kind of expensive?)
jeff cowdrey eyyyyy **finger guns** George Washington Carver joke! (though apparently he didn't invent the modern process for making peanut butter according to a quick google search: www.nationalpeanutboard.org/peanut-info/who-invented-peanut-butter.htm )
A WHO-ite person, you mean.
oh my god, I just checked and this guy has made a "response to hbomberguy fans" as of TWO MONTHS AGO.
It's been YEARS. what!?
Do I dare try to find it?
Naw, don't want to give him any more views.
WHAT!?
WHERE.
No joke: he’s STILL making regular videos about Harry!
1:48 SKULL! ANOTHER SKULL! OVER HIS LEFT SHOULDER ON THE BOOKSHELF!!!!
+ModelOmega OH MY FUCKING GOD
Oh my god
Why skulls?
... are we the baddies?
ModelOmega its like finding the supermen in seinfeld
you seem to be some of the only anti anti-sjw related channels that is relatively safe from dislike bombings. Good job!
Reuben Ackroyd This is the only anti anti-sjw channel I watch and his videos usually have a 20% dislike ratio, is it worse on other similar channels?
Yeah, you should check out Shaun and Jen, his videos cover similar subjects and get at least 50% dislikes whenever he makes a video about an anti- SJW channel.
I didn't see the second anti at first and got a bit confused
@KyleAugie ContraPoints is my go-to TBH. She's funny to watch, has a lot of character, isn't afraid to concede a point or try and see things from another's perspective and yet is always ready to call out BS from pretty much anyone. Her videos come across as well balanced, well made and most importantly, different.
because he looks like a Labour Leave voter (white North of England man)
Five years later, I'm looking at this and wondering why the hell a devout misogynist would want to do a documentary on a company cofounded by one of the most notable women in videogame history.
...exactly for that reason
Woah this guy is a genius. MRA's are heavy in number and stupid as fuck so they'll give him as much money as he wants. Genius
Goddamn, Cole absolutely *destroyed* Owen in that text post.
"I don't need your permission to laugh at you, fascist" underrated line
"I would like very much to spend Christmas with somebody. They know who they are."
Combined with Jordan's unsettling smile, this sounds like a threat. I hope Molly's alright.
hbomb you got the cutest potato face ever. please don't get killed by the idiots you're roasting and keep these vids coming.
+DBG:4.25 While I would certainly prefer it if he doesn't get murdered, he doesn't have a potato face! Poor Hbomb, don't listen to him XD.
amen
*He said that like he owns a plantation*
Been laughing for 5 minutes
2:50 Oh the Irony is that Sarkeesian is an Armenian surname. 5 seconds of Google reveal that Anita's family is from their diaspora in Canada. You know, LITERAL, ACTUAL CAUCASIANS FROM CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS. Where Armenia is located. SOAD, Cher, Kardashians - those are also people of Armenian heritage - _and Armenians are as Caucasian as you can get._
That footage of hbomb reacting to 2:36 onwards is honestly some of the most relatable shit.
Woa is that part about the wrong smile from the actual documentary
goddamn
+FrankieSmileShow Naa, it's from a, like, two-hour-long livestream where he and some other reactionary shouty man talked about things they didn't understand.
I can't imagine the kind of life one must lead to have opinions about how an ethnicity is supposed to smile.
Thank goodness this documentary never saw the light of day or else my name would be tarnished!
Don't worry, I'll be sure to do that.
i doubt it would have gotten very far
It's 8 years later and its amazing how obsessed with her they still are.
Imagine citing a person who had the arrogance to create a philosophy named “objectivism”
She was the margaret thatcher of philosophy.
@@rafaellucadetena9355 at least margaret thatcher practised politics
6:55 That's actually pretty unlikely. Disney was pretty politically naive, according to people who knew him. Art Babbit started the rumor, claiming he had seen Disney and a friend going to German American Bund meetings. But Babbit had a whole lot of personal shit with Disney, so I'm highly skeptical of his claims. The two fucking hated each other, primarily over early striking and a lawsuit or two forced Disney to rehire Babbit *multiple times*. Also, it would beg the question of what the hell Babbit was doing there in the first place.
Other than Babbit's accusations, I've seen no specific accounts or evidence that attests to him being a Nazi sympathizer. As far as I can tell, the anti-semitism bit is extrapolated from this and the fact that he was part of the Motion Picture Alliance for a while(which had a number of anti-semites in its group, among others). Even Babbit didn't accuse him of being an anti-semite which wouldn't have been a particularly foul accusation, especially in the 30s and 40s(until near the end of WW2). So it's highly unlikely that either of these apply to him.
Thank you. I keep hearing the Walt was a Racist talking point but every time I google it I can't find a single credible source.
Willi Kampmann has anyone actually seen the song of the south? I have. For it's time, it was actually pretty remarkably forward thinking. First, while today all the tropes and generalizations would absolutely be racist, but back then? Having African stories, told by a black actress as something to be learned from, while going against white authority to do so was pretty damned revolutionary. Plus in a time when blacks couldn't eat in white establishments, all the black characters were pretty well respected. I'm not saying it isn't problematic by today's standards, but it was rather groundbreaking, and I would say many actors wouldn't have jobs now if it wasn't for that film.
Willi Kampmann has anyone actually seen the song of the south? I have. For it's time, it was actually pretty remarkably forward thinking. First, while today all the tropes and generalizations would absolutely be racist, but back then? Having African stories, told by a black actress as something to be learned from, while going against white authority to do so was pretty damned revolutionary. Plus in a time when blacks couldn't eat in white establishments, all the black characters were pretty well respected. I'm not saying it isn't problematic by today's standards, but it was rather groundbreaking, and I would say many actors wouldn't have jobs now if it wasn't for that film.
Disney was a misogynist, a control freak, and a creepy ultra-capitalist a$$hole in a lot of ways, but all the (admittedly scatter-shot) research I've done shows that he was neither racist nor a Nazi/anti-semite. He was, however, the B'nai B’rith Man of the Year in 1955, which should certainly count for something. He's an interesting guy, and very morally complex. (Also, if you're really interested, here's a good video on Walt and how his image is handled, from Lindsay Ellis: th-cam.com/video/w9dCWUuJZLw/w-d-xo.html )
Monty R
I do enjoy Lindsay’s video essays.
Walt was both beholden to his times and in many ways ahead of them. His views were probably pretty progressive and “liberal” for the era. But he was still stuck in the mind frame common of that generation. He was also often very naive and idealistic. Which meant that he didn’t understand why his workers weren’t “grateful.” To him, they were making history in their chosen field of passion. Hard work was a given, but his privileged position as boss and therefore the primary shareholder (so to speak) meant there was a disconnect between him and his workers. The many union disputes and falling out of underlings left him bitter and resentful.
He was in many ways an asshole, like you said. But I don’t think he was genuinely malicious. Just a little ignorant and ultimately child like.
Whatever you think of the man, he was certainly a visionary. I saw a documentary on him. Very interesting guy.
My favorite thing about all of your measured response videos is how you point out how palpably unhappy these people are. Pointing out their ineptitude and stupidity is fun too and you do it very well but no one else seems to touch on their obvious misery derived from their shitty worldview. I just plowed through all of them and I want MORE. Wrong Smiler is also now my favorite term ever.
I like that Freudian part where he realizes how ridiculous he is. lolol
Nice stuff here :)
I looked up Jordan Owen and his channel is just full of hbomberguy responses. It's a bit weird.
“I’m funny. I’m funny”
I felt that for reals. Love being very late to your channel.
My god...Gamergate...such a long time ago and I don't even _remember_ this guy lmao. Anita Sarkessian STILL living rent-free in their heads! 😆
Comment by Jordan Owen (now deleted of course): "I will talk about Hbomberguy until the day I die and consider it a life well lived." He's beyond help at this point!
It's a bit sad, you know - Jordan looks so obviously unhappy, and the way he talks about needing at least a day for ~1 hour of actual work is very much how I feel, being depressed.
He just seems lonely and pathetic and deeply unhappy. Which is not an excuse, of course, but does make me wonder if people like him could be cured at least of some aspects of their obsessiveness if they just got their life together.
"noted mass murderer, Anita Sarkeesian"
That will always crack me up
lol RIP Jordan Owen's documentary career.
+Sarah Watt (NuclearSarah) What career? Because I'll I've ever seen him do is try to make boarderline character assassination videos with shitty editing
You're right; I just meant his chances of ever being able to do anything legitimate with that crap attached to his name. (Especially since there are now documented instances of people avoiding him like he's a leper now)
***** You're right
welp, at least I haven't said anything as repugnant as these guys
***** Almost nobody uses their real names online
I want a pie chart on how he spent those 8 cents
Seven years later, and the line “she’s learned to smile like a white person” still hits like a ton of bricks. Jesus Christ 😂
i love the contrast between the mac and the garage/warehouse honestly
The thing about it taking him six months to edit that interview is lot worse in hindsight after you and channels like Shaun and Contra and others have made a consistent videos on a huge range of topics with much much better editing then he has done here.
i just checked in on Jordan Owen after some sense of curiosity overcame me.
he still pretty frequently makes videos, usually about his autism (but not in an informative or interesting way, more in an…incelly, strange way, if that makes sense). but i was taken by a post on his community page; recently, he created an album of classical music for his cat, Mitzi, to listen to while recovering from her surgery.
the fact that a man so abrasive, hateful, disgusting and harsh was able to do something so, well, delicate, really touched something in me, and i just can’t stop thinking about it. i genuinely get emotional, misty even, thinking about how he loved his cat so much he wrote an album of music just for her.
he is capable of love and care, apparently. doesn’t change the fact that his contribution to the TH-cam landscape for over a DECADE now has been nothing but hateful misogynistic filth. if anything, it makes it much much more sad and pathetic.
Alternate take, maybe the problem wasn't him, but leftoids and their divisive ideology all along.
@@snozzlehead92 do you smile like a white person? Do you smile like your race?!
@@snozzlehead92 You liked your own comment loser
“She’s a wrong smiler!”
Sounds like it came out of we happy few
I'm like 4 minutes in and you seemed genuinely worried that you're not funny and you're hilarious (that was probably just acting for the sake of comedy but you're so good at making me happy and laugh that I didn't wanna NOT reassure you anyways)
Gee, I wonder why the creator of Jem wouldn't talk to Jordan Owen. Such a mystery.
+whatevs memepost I signed on just to say that! In what universe were Christy Marx and Roberta Williams ever going to talk to him?
+whatevs memepost There's still something comforting about the fact Christy Marx flat out denied an interview with him though. Ah, life works out well sometimes.
How can he have needed sixty fucking thousand dollars to do a video game documentary? Look at the Nostalgia Nerd's content. He has _several_ hour and a half to two hour long documentaries on his channel about the British home computer market of the 1980s. Sure, he probably spent a decent amount of money on physical hardware to do his focus-changing shots of keyboards on (I'm not a filmographer, I don't know what you call it when you change the depth of field in a single shot), some of that stuff he surely owned in his own collection, but a big part of his freedom to make these documentaries was being a competent vlogger beforehand. On the same token, your own long-form videos are longer and more thorough than many documentaries on Netflix. Sure, they aren't intended to be highly informative documentaries, more extended evidence-based opinion pieces, but they demonstrate just how much content you can produce with a camera, a microphone, and some basic video editing.
You forgot an important piece of equipment: a point. Jordan Owen doesn't have one.
oh, it's pretty easy to explain: Nobody will ever watch his schlock, so he needs the 60k up front for the sake of making bank on stupid shit, almost certainly he pockets 2/3rds of the money at bare minimum
Oh lord I'm so glad I stumbled upon this channel. You're doing great work! :)
I'm so glad he got a new mic though, the mic peaking as he screamed about "catching her in a lie" hurts my soul.
"It isn't made by a racist magician". I laughed so hard, I cried.
>#gamedev
This needs to stop
The #gamedev tag is for people to share progress, ask for feedback and give eachother tips
Not for people to shit up with propaganda
this is a five year old video, but i had to say, the cross fade at 8:36 killed me, that was a really well timed gag
Dude just a heads up, this video response to the Sierra Effect has essentially caved Jordan Owen's life in on itself, he's just been complaining about it, had to see it, awesome work 🤣
I literally had someone bring up Gamergate as an argument against modern gaming journalism.... in the year 2023....
Looking back at this in 2021 is like trying to remember a wild fever dream
Jordan: "These people won't speak to me"
Me: "HA! IN YOUR FUCKING FACE FUCKWAD!"
I've dived back into this because JO got algorithm shoved at me. Upon seeing his name, i immediately wanted to comfirm if this person was indeed, the "smile like w-hite person" man...
That "Fountainhead" joke fucked.... my.... shit.... UP.
WHAT THE FUCK!? That was gold. XD
Coming back to this again just for the laughs, all I want to add is that I really hope Anita Sarkeesian saw the videos that you made dunking on these assholes, and got a good laugh at their expense.
I met not like Anita's show mostly because there's alot of flaws in it, especially when it comes to her arguments. but making a documentary out of her is kinda sad tbh.
Knuklez self defeatist too, she'd be irrelevant without this kinda backlash all the time
3:30 Just wow. That's a way to treat your customers right.
wait is *this* the video jordan owen just posted a "response" to? 8 years later??
Jordan is going to spend Christmas with his right hand?
I hope his fav stripper played him for every cent he managed to squeeze out of ppl for these projects industry professionals refused to acknowledge him over
4:48 Cat on right yawns
Thank you very much for this information, you genuinely just made my afternoon
At the 8:02 mark I noticed something on Jordan's bookshelf. My chest hurts from laughter now.
Ive watched this video like 10 times and I never noticed that. So now I'm laughing my ass off too. Thank you for that😂😂😂
@kevinlawrence1582 It really feels like we're right back in 2016 lol anything I can do to cheer people up
It really does feel like that. Although I know a lot more about politics now than I did then. Which makes this time all that much more devastating. Europe's looking more and more inviting by the day.😅
@@kevinlawrence1582 Europe is no different... sorry to say. Anywhere western will have these problems so I'd say either go to Latin America or settle in and organize if you want change in the US
I feel like I got really lucky by somehow never learning anything about gamer gate while it was happening. The whole thing just sounds more and more stupid the more I hear about it.
For anyone wondering, Jordan Owen did eventually manage to turn his life around. Good job to him, i wish the very best.
He seems to have taken down all his gamergate stuff and said that the Sierra effect was a mistake. He's still making content. I've not watched it but I didn't see Anita's name anywhere so that's a good sign. I'm glad he seems to have put that behind him.
5:07 I think what he was saying was “All the people I wanted to talk to turned out to like Anita Sarkisian’s work”
Which is sooo much better >_>
He probably blew all the money on that Virtual Boy in the backround
🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥
7:13 I like how the voice over dude reading a Starfox-related quote transforms into Starfox SNES style jibberish by the end of it
I just wanted to say I absolutely love your videos; I've pretty much had your Measured Response playlist on repeat all day, and I've been laughing non-stop. Don't ever stop making these.
Really telling that the creator of Leisure Suit Larry is the only one who'd talk to a guy who come across as suuuuper-sleazy.
5:17 I hope that kitty escaped and found a better home
You got me with the ironic cross dissolve. Why am I laughing so hard? Damn you hbomberguy!