Two Men in a form of media together without a hint of romance! Twitter:”OmG ThEy’Re GaY, YoU GuYs!” Creator/fans:”They’re not Gay!” Twitter:”OmG HoW DaRe YoU, HoMoPhObE!”
It’s creeps like him who see characters who are great friends with each other and their immediate thoughts are, “OMG, SO GAY!” Like, are people not allowed to be friends anymore? If these people depend on the media to boost their self-esteem, let alone inflate their egos, then they don’t need a movie-they need therapy. Nobody owes them anything.
I love both of your takes, since it's something I realized happens with ALL characters. If people are in a room and are simply "pretty enough" it's OMG they're fucking. People existing, being friendly, working in the same area doesn't mean they're romantic and or having sex. "Like dammit stop imposing your own wish fulfillment on everybody else but you"
These ppl excuse this with the fact that sometimes in both history and art/media, when homosexuality wasn't allowed to be mentioned or represented they would use "friendship" to explain the relationship or lack thereof of some people or characters. This doesn't mean that platonis relationships don't exist tho lol.
I'm into shipping, but not into those kind of madness. I would never insist that two fictional characters are together because "muh ideology!" Fuck ideologies when it's about having fun!
Exactly! Shipping is something done for fun, a "what if" creative exercise. Nothing more, nothing less. It's not activism or anything of the sort, and I wish people would stop treating it as such .-.
"Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest." - C.S. Lewis
@Anonymous Cheese Just propose already! Hahaha, in all seriousness, boss that you got someone like that in your life, we all needs bros and people in our corners.
"he's not all black" Uh wow what the hell is Hariyanna's problem? Never heard of her until today. As a biracial asian, I can confirm that the gatekeeping among some races is real, and I don't understand why. She sounds pro-segregation, but if she lived in such a country she wouldn't last one minute. And if she lived in a monoracial country, then she would experience segregation based on political views, religion, income, and so on, except it would be far worse than it is in western countries.
That ship started as a joke because Netflix messed up and categorized the movies in the Lesbian/Gay section. And they weren't mad that Pennywise killed a gay kid because they think he's a gay icon, they were mad because the movie showed a gay hate crime on screen.
@@kirikakirikakirika wait so killing a gay character is a hate crime but straight characters or couples being in many slasher movie is perfectly fine, you being treat the same way a straight characters kill in these movies, in fact the most stereotypical jokes about slasher movies is that straight couple that have sex or even In a relationship in these movie die a horrible death think of Friday the 13th
@@aerithroses2683 Killing a gay character isn't a hate crime, people were just upset to see a hate crime against gay people portrayed on screen. It wasn't really necessary, especially considering that nothing comes from it plot-wise and movies/TV shows kill off their gay characters often. Every single straight character doesn't get killed off, but gays and people of colour do. So much so that it's become a running joke against horror and drama genres. I'm straight, btw.
@@kirikakirikakirikaso Michael myers killing a gay couple was also hate crime as well because they also complain about that too, penny wise killing a gay kid was to show how evil he is & not no kids safe from him not even gay kids, that true that not every straight characters killed off but if they are the meat grinder of the movie Aka meant to be killed off it only because they are in relationship or having sex which is also running joke in horror movies & the straight characters who do survive are final girl or boy & some people did ship penny wise and the other dude, it started as a joke then it became actually ship, some people did see penny wise as LGBT icons and were pissed off when penny killed the gay because of that headcanon
@@kirikakirikakirika but there were some people that were mad at pennywise killing off gay because of the headcanons, so because they are rare & get kill off that mean automatically a hate crime, wouldn’t that mean any gay character that get killed is also hate crime, again is micheal myers killing a gay couple a hate crime to because they complain about that as well, I already said the running joke is someone in a relationship or having sex will get killed & usually the final girl or boy Aka one or two people survive the horror movie, a huge group will be killed off except like two people that includes gay characters & straights characters as well
There are teenage boys in my neighborhood who double up on the rent-a-bikes here. I've seen two of them, one riding in the basket, going down a hill just the other day. I saw them as kids having fun, but there's going to be weirdos who would think otherwise. 🙄
I'm almost sad that I missed the culture war over Godzilla being "trans"... Seriously, that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard... Leave the giant, lazer spitting dinosaur out of that shit!
@@karablack8336 The only proof that Godzilla is a "She" people have is the 1998 Godzilla movie... That not only isn't canon, but it was later retconned into not even being Godzilla. So, no... Godzilla is a dude in the Toho movies.
Honestly same 💀 Luckily, there are some based gay people out there, some even make good movies and stories, like the writer and director of the How To Train Your Dragon trilogy or the guys who wrote American Psycho and Fight Club respectively.
He really makes it sound like gay men and lesbians literally cannot have platonic friendships with same-sex people-they can only have either relationships or friends with benefits at the bare minimum regardless of the characters' ages. Platonic relationships *are* a thing and all this talk about relationships and flirting sounds really phobic against asexuals.
People like James has no real friends, and sounds like a male incel or a Pick-up Artist. Where they say it's impossible for a man and woman to be friends. He looks at CHILDREN and considers it queer-baiting because Luca had two male main characters who were just kids having fun. He's a man who has nothing but his sexuality to define him. And he looks to popular media to validate his perverse nature disguised as "lol, I'm gay". Because I sure as hell don't see kids being kids as future gay relationship nonsense.
No doubt. Men can be friends with men or women, regardless of sexuality. Women can be friends with women or men, regardless of sexuality. Gays, straights, asexuals, bisexuals. They can all be friends as long as they put forth the effort to build a friendship. Platonic relationships are just as important (if not more) as romantic and sexual relationships.
I find it so regressive that he's like "this is exclusively a gay experience that people are trying to argue is a straight one" like gay people and straight people can't have ANYTHING in common. What a slap in the face to humanity itself.
😂 Gays and Straights never ever have similar experiences and issues in life, when that gays boss shorts them on their paycheck by accident because they missed out of the time card list, that Gay, was experiencing it in a much Gayer wayn
Bridgerton (as far as we know) is a show that is shutting down gay ships from the tumblr fanbase. After season 1 where two characters (Eloise and Benedict) talked about wanting a different kind of life (aka the restrictions of upper class society) and Benedict had a gay friend, the tumblrinas lost their minds and starting screaming that these characters were/should be gay. The showrunner (who himself is gay) made a statement that there was never any intended gay context, then the show vanished the gay friend and gave both Eloise and Benedict straight love interests in season 2. They swung back hard. As they should bc the show is based on straight couple romance novels. Now the show is too scared to include side characters with gay relationships because the weirdos will take it too far.
Years ago the gays wanted to be seen as normal people. Now, this gay man implies that homosexuals are completely different from straight people. He thinks that some experiences are exclusively homosexual. He is acting like the two groups are two different species because they have two different processes to him. My family is very conservative in some ways I am also, but they do not think this way. 'Luca' was based on the director's own experiences, yet he is acting like the director could not act that way. How is this man real?
Actually, gays want to be treated like people, and they _are_ different. Being gay is different, and if you accept them for who they are you also have to accept that they're gay. They _do_ have different experiences from straight people and they _do_ live through different processes. Their lives are generally more difficult because they don't know who is and isn't safe to approach. They don't know if it's okay to have a simple crush. Gay children in particular struggle with loneliness and confusion, especially if they have no support. Moreover, the director of Luca, Enrico Casarosa, came forward and said he understood how the film could be seen as a gay coming of age story.
@@kirikakirikakirika so, gay people can never relate to straight people? Every single gay person live the exact same life? Just because some gay people have some different struggles from straight people about being gay and have somewhat different processes, doesn’t mean the two have absolutely no common ground whatsoever. If keep focusing on the differences you’ll never see that both sides still have a lot in common, if you remove the struggles gay people go through specifically because of their sexuality, many of them would be no different from straight people. Even with the struggles some gay people face, they still have a lot of similarities to straight people, it seems overall offensive to gay people to say they are completely different when they really not that different at all.
@@trentmoore6947 No one, not even James, implied straight people and gay people have nothing in common. The only ones who seem to be saying that are the people in this comment section. But the fact remains that when it comes to gay people, especially gay kids/teens, their experience is very different from straight people's. It's ignorant to suggest it's the same, especially when so many people demonize homosexuality. James' video doesn't serve to divide people, it serves to help you _understand_ them.
After watching this I'm sort of relieved that Static Shock was never rebooted in this current period in time. It spares Vergil and Richie's friendship from being over analyzed by these sex-depraved lunatics and the writers being threatened into turning them gay.
Not to mention they probably aren't even going to do their friendship justice because they have to worm in BLM matters somewhere which will ruin the show entirely
Honestly I always felt uncomfortable with shipping characters from live action tv shows. It’s always felt like I was shipping actors and it bothered me? Idk. I mean I do have ships I won’t lie. Because it’s fun and harmless but if someone gets mad or acts like their ship needs to be canon just because they like it, that’s when it bothers me. Ship all you want just remember your ships don’t mean that the company or creator or anyone is wrong for not seeing it the way you do.
I mean, it's not that hard to separate actors from characters, it's a part of separating fantasy from reality. if you have trouble with it in regards to live-action, the only advice I can give is to maybe imagine animated versions of the characters? But yeah, shipping is just for fun amongst most people. Kinda wish that toxic people who force their ships on people didn't exist.
@@Raptorworld22 that’s not bad advice, but being the weeb I am I don’t watch live action shows too much and the live action shows I watch have canon couples so it’s not really shipping? Maybe it is lol but yeah people who act like they are entitled to having their ships canon or harass the creators make all shippers look terrible
@@sunglassesgirl41 Yeah, quite a few of the ships I have for live-action shows are either actual canon or assumed canon (Y'know, they act like an actual couple but very-rarely-if-ever kiss), regardless of orientation.
Crazy how some people view everything through the lens of sexuality. And the same people are the one telling us sexuality is a private thing and should not matter.
They're likely not the same who say it's private. These days it's the hot new thing to put your race, sexuality, pronouns, medical history, and geneology in your Twitter bio basically.
Sexualizing all relationships in fiction causes people to misunderstand friendship and then avoid it. This is done with the purpose of intentionally isolating people.
@@Galvatronover You gotta get rid of the romance for a bit and simply highlight friends can be friends. Nothing more comes from it, since a problem in romance is that it's always friends that are shipped.
Yeah it's not a gay men projecting problem but a media problem. People complain about gays looking too hard at what are clearly just friendships, but uou can't blame gays for projecting on same-sex friendships when media's conditioned us to see nearly all opposite-sex friendships as destined to be together. One author that accidentally did this right but almost didn't was JK Rowling. It was nice that there was never any romantic tension between Hermione and Harry. They were two hetero friends who never felt more than friendship between each other and that is so refreshing. JK almost messed this up though because she said in an interview years later that she thought Harry should've ended up with Hermione but nah that would've ruined it. Yeah, Hermione and Ron aren't a great pair either - them as a couple feels kind of forced - and if Ron wasn't in the equation JK would've forced Harry and Hermione together, so not a great example, but it goes to show how excessive forced romance in media warps our perception. I totally can't tell the difference between friendliness and flirting and it totally fucks with my head. I think a lot of people can't, straight or gay.
@@brandonlabbe3577 That's if you accept such media conditioning. You ignore some of us out here are ace and see hetero/gay relationships as the same o' romcom shit. You barely see anybody no matter whom they're with or not and you have people shipping them. It's a projection of what they want with somebody else. Which ruins the appeal of characters or even the IP for people.
Exactly. And I get the point that people make about hetero/straight kid characters in love not being talked about as much, example Carl and Ellie from “Up”, or even Aaron and Abbey from Mitchell’s vs. the Machines. But the difference here is that when a little boy and a little girl in a movie have a little crush on each other, people don’t OBSESS with them, pardon me, FUCKING each other, like they do with “gay” kids. They just think it’s cute and move on. Here, people are thinking it’s a personal attack on them that these two little BOYS are NOT in love. “They HAVE to be in love, because it fits with what I imagined in my head!” That’s where it gets creepy, where they use these child characters to exploit for their political BS. Why can’t you just wait until they actually WANT to do it, such as with Luz and Amity from Owl House? They’re kids, and nobody had a problem with it! They just thought it was cute, and a good step forward, and moved on. But I especially cannot forgive and will not stand for people who tell writers what to write. At that point, it’s just entitled and narcissistic, acting like you have more power over the actual writer, and that they owe you and should give you what they want. If a writer doesn’t want to write their story a certain way, you respect their decision, and gtfo. Ship whatever you want, but accept the facts at the end of the day.
Gay person here. Personally find it creepy how attached these people get over seeing a friendship as gay relationship. It is no better than straight people taking 2 boy and girl child characters and romantacizing their friendship. Plus this is just a personal pet peeve, but i believe it woud be better if actual seried that feature actually gay characters would be highlighted by these people instead, because there are legit good series that feature gay leads that are not politicised like batwoman(and suck like batwoman) and don't make you look like a creep for romanticizing minors. For example heaven official's blessing, bongcheon's bride and nier series all feature pretty great gay reps while not making it a point like hollywood does like the stories dont beat you into submission wity them being gays. I honestly feel like videos like the whole disney's gay appropriation do not care for gay people, but rather for views, because they use homosexuality and popular company productions as title bait for people who are starved for representation yet give a hollow analysis of nothing.
Omg can you please tackle some more Harriyana Hook’s videos. Her videos always rubbed me the wrong way, and not a lot of people talk about how toxic she is
I watched some of her videos and I had to stop. She spends 7 minutes talking about nothing shit before bringing up the topic. Even then she's got the blandest of takes everytime.
@@Nightman221k well yeah, she makes multiple videos on shows like Miraculous and movies like Descendants, complaining about how she doesn't get a black girl lead who isn't black enough as well as how the white characters have white privilege, yet characters like Adrien have been traumatized by multiple things.
WTF does the lady in the second video have a video essay going after panty and stocking? It’s an anime from 2012 thats basically just the Japanese animators making fun of American culture. P.S English dub if your gonna watch the show.
@@SatoruwaFeng This is the only anime where dubs are superior. It’s a LOT funnier dubbed. The dub team worked with the original creators and the creators even learned some new swears! There are videos comparing the dub and dub on TH-cam. Go check them out. They’re night and day.
Oh sweet Lord above that pineapple-headed dolt is insane, he is full-blow cooming grooming Creepster, especially with the Luca part of his video, my God I was laughing and losing it when he was basically flat-out saying innocent childish friendly behavior was gay, like what is this bruhs major malfunction because he makes me actually worried because he seems to be unable to distinguish between plutonic and romantic relationships and it seems to be all sexual for him... oh and a good free AI image generator I found is called Wombo art and you just click create and works without needing to install the app.
I think he's still having issues with his own choice with being gay. Yet I've noticed this with a lot of people that ship characters/people. They impose their own IRL failures in social interaction onto others and it's rarely not creepy
@@lifecanhurt716 He literally puts sexual tensions in the movie where was none, and especially when the protagonists are kids. And yet those same people whine about anime.
So i just hit the "loki is bi" portion at 01:40. Does he know that part of his being "bi" is beastiality? Cause i don't think he wants to address that.
@@ember2.031 Assuming you mean the loki bit... Loki has given birth to multiple magical beasts. Most notable after turning into a mare(female horse) "he" got pregnant and eventually birthed Slepnir the eight legged horse.
Shipping kids who are written to be friends is probably worse than loli. That's a take I didn't expect to have. And the moment I typed this, JL said it.
I think I remember twitter bullied and harassed the director of Luca because he explicitly said that the two boys aren’t gay. It was a movie meant to depict his own childhood, and people decided to get so entitled about it.
It's nearly 4% and it also takes place in Toronto, where a huge majority of the black population lives. You can't walk down a single street in Toronto without seeing black people absolutely everywhere. And not just black people, but people of colour in general.
I have a real problem with how he kept saying how beautiful gay relationships are. That's typical selfish bullshit. "I like this thing, therefore it is beautiful." It's a really bad argument made just to put up a shield to defend their opinion. You now have to argue against the concept of beauty instead of a mundane thing. I'm not really surprised though, gay men practically invented the identity shield, that trick is woven into the core of gay culture and later formed the foundation of the modern progressive ideology.
Objective of analysis of (the four main) sexual orientations, here we go! Asexuals: Asexuals aren't at risk of STD's, as they abstain from sex altogether. Due to their sexual orientation, they are incapable of producing offspring. Bisexuals: Bisexuals aren't as at risk of STD's as homosexuals, but are still more at risk of STD's than heterosexuals. Due to their sexual orientation, bisexuals can produce offspring. Heterosexuals: Due to heterosexuals being less likely to participate in anal sex, they aren't as at risk of STD's as homosexuals are. Due to their sexual orientation, heterosexuals can produce offspring, which is the objective purpose of sex. Homosexuality: Due to homosexuals being much more likely to participate in anal sex, they have a significantly higher risk of STD's. Due to their sexual orientation, homosexuals cannot produce offspring, which is the objective purpose of sex. Ranking (the four main) sexual orientations (from best to worst), here we go! 1: Heterosexuals: Heterosexuals have the second lowest risk of STD's, while being the best at producing offspring. 2: Bisexuals: Bisexuals have the second highest risk of STD's, but are the second best at producing offspring. 3: Asexuals: Asexuals have the lowest risk of STD's, but are unable to produce offspring. 4: Homosexuals: Homosexuals not only have the highest risk of STD's, but they're also unable to produce offspring.
@@muddashucka9743 What the fuck is this shit? Did you just see an excuse to be homophobic in a pretentious way and had to take it? Your dataset is also horribly biased. Neither of those things matter and no one makes their relationship decisions based on those factors. Not to mention that sexuality isn't a choice. Might as well rank whether men or women are better, then insult the one you arbitrarily decide is worse (no doubt the one you aren't) for something they didn't get to choose.
I think the weirdest part is the idea that there are children who need role models that are gay. Issue with this idea is that gays are a minority and kids don't have or need an understanding of sex at the age broadcasted for movies/TV shows. Sexuality is going to go over their head at the ages that these shows are meant for and forcing it on them at such a young age doesn't really do anything. Humans look to belong somewhere, especially at that age. A gay preteen's main concern isn't going to be if their feelings are normal, their concern is if other ppl will accept them. They aren't going to look at the TV shows for this acceptance, they're looking for that in their parents, friends, and loved ones. At least, that's my understanding.
I mean, I'm gay and yeah, I kinda agree with what you're saying. Because when you're 12 or 13 years old and still trying to figure out your sexuality, at least for my case I wasn't really bothering about representation because I was still learning to accept myself. And I eventually did, and that's something that I did on my own and only afterwards I was able to appreciate GOOD representation in movies like Brokeback Mountain or Moonlight. But it's not like I didn't have any role models though because there were a lot of shows and movies that had some great characters that I looked up to. Like Sokka from Avatar The Last Airbender, because I loved how eventhough he wasn't the main character and didn't have any bending abilities or anything he basically carried the whole plot of the show.
@@timtam3730 that brings an issue where I don't really try to argue due to my ideals of it not making much sense to me. While I loved certain characters in tv shows or cartoons I never looked up or aspired to be them as much as admired certain traits or ideals they encompassed. Or just enjoyed watching them. Simply put, I liked these characters but they weren't my role models. It's one of the problems I find prevalent with this representation craze: Role models in TV. Why are we trying to make fictional characters role models for these kids and not, at the most, moral guides? It's silly to me. And as you've made clear through your writing, characters don't have to be like you in order to be role models. You just have to admire them enough; I admired Oscar de la Hoya as a kid and I'm black
@@TheeOK1 I have a a lot of real life role models as well, most notably my parents. Like, when you're young of course you would love your parents but as I got older and became more aware of the world I began to appreciate my parents even more because a lot of kids have divorced parents or parents who don't give a shit about them but I somehow got lucky with my parents because they've been married of almost 30 years and they've always been there and involved with me and my 7 siblings (yes, we're ALL biologically related and are from the same parents) which is why I really admire them. I guess another real life role model for me with would Randy Shilts. He was the first openly gay news reporter but that's not why I admire him, what I admired about him was how he was one of the first people to really spear head the research into the AIDS epidemic, and was not afraid to speak solid facts, even if it went against what gay community believed in. He was also so stringent on being non-biased that when he was working on a compilation of his research, he suspected that he himself might have AIDS but he didn't go to get a diagnosis because he was worried that his diagnosis would make him biased on the topic. He passed away in early 90's, sadly. I did a book report about him in 9th grade and I got a B+ but my dad thought that it should have at least gotten an A.
It's not about sex. It's about who you are allowed to love romantically. Even kids can be romantically involved. I don't see any of you guys cry and complain about the vampire boy and werewolf girl having an on-going romance with ON-SCREEN KISSING in the Hotel Transylvania movies. And those kids are, like, what, 5?
Oh but they don't. This is all pandering and predatory behavior to try and inspire new generations of gay youth. Children don't ever ask why there are no gay heroes; because they never actually question it unless their parents enforce such curiosities. All this gay character pandering is adult men and women demanding to be represented in media they either don't care for, or revolve their lives around like adult children.
If anything, the relationship I got since the beginning of Sam and Bucky were brothers constantly bickering and Cap was the single dad who has to deal with it.
God! If I was tasked with talking about ONE side of my personality (in this case sexuality) being "represented" in movies for an hour, ... I would bore myself to death and fall asleep! And also: "Representation" is now a word that instantly turns me away from what you want to express, anyway.
I tried watching one of this guy's videos and almost immediately clicked off. The funny thing is that I was agreeing with much of what he was saying and the overall premise of the video, I just couldn't stand his presentation or obnoxious aura. I wasn't expecting to see this cringe again, tbh. On shipping: I can back a shipper if she (let's be honest, it's mostly females doing this) can logically support her ship with sound arguments for how it adds to the narrative without betraying the characters. But most people aren't doing that, and the bigger problem is that they _simultaneously_ take themselves way too seriously. So I ignore them. What's really disturbing to me is when someone ships real people. That's a line I refuse to cross.
I would love to see a friendship between a straight man and a gay man. I'm writing a story currently in my head about it. Affectionate straight man and a more serious gay man.
Here's a solution I think everyone will like. Disney should just focus on making content for normal families raising children instead of trying to cater to weirdos who always complain about not being represented no matter what you do.
What is it with reviewers just having the worst possible takes on Turning Red of all things? It’s by no means a flawless movie, but people treat this honestly harmless kids film like its the worst thing ever made by humans.
@@evilherodiamondcat Pointing out the flaws in people's arguments isn't "fangirling". I barely even watch his channel. What's embarrassing is that people keep feeling the need to put words in his mouth and cry that his like to dislike bar isn't to their liking. You can't "tamper" with a like to dislike bar, you can only private it. Cry harder.
Wanting more overt romantic contact between cartoon kids as an adult. Yeah, not a great thing to insist on. Especially given that the cartoons he talks about are directly aimed at children and not him. I have a uni teacher who gets really weirdly excited about this kind of thing even though she’s around 30.
@@mr.selyumor5402 The irony is that Gumball was way more edgier than Steven Universe. Gumball even called out people who liked to virtue signal on Twitter and Tumblr.
@@timtam3730 oh I know, gumball’s the mvp but it was also written in a way that felt like it was for everyone. SU was inconsistent in a way that felt like it was written more for, as J says, “adult children”
@@timtam3730 I try not to let the mistakes of the past have too much power over my perception of the future but I’d be lying if I didn’t feel a sense of dread during the episode where Steven fuses with his girlfriend. That’s… not good with the knowledge of Rebecca Sugar’s past.
I remember shippers guilt tripping fans into shipping Sam and Bucky because they felt like it was racist that white male characters always get shipped together but it's rare when its black characters. That's why I think Sam/Bucky increased when Steve was gone. This was back when shipping was seen as a form of activism on tumblr.
@@hope-cat4894 Yeah because I guess they forgot White people and Black People aren’t the only ethnicities on Earth? Either that or I guess that they don’t want to acknowledge same sex relationships nor White or Black people having romance with Asians,Native Americans,Latinos(fuck the term Latinx),Indians/South East Asians,Arabs,Samoans/Maoi and every other race in the Fucking world!!! Which sounds Racist, just saying!
He's not suffering "autism", J, he's suffering "arrested development" (in the clinical sense of the term as used in the 80's up to the mid-90's) plus the requisite "neediness" which goes along the disorder.
I would make the argument that Loki is “fluid” because he can completely change his entire being into another specie with fully working genitalia. Because in the mythology, Loki turned into a mare, and and gave birth
Treasure Planet and Titan: AE are both very good films, along with other films like Atlantis, Emporer's New Groove, etc. Dreamworks also pumped out absolutely memorable classics at their peak (eg, The Road to El Dorado), despite each being over twenty years on now. Though their flaws will be apparent when you do get to see them, you're definitely gonna wonder why we allowed ourselves to fall so far. Nobody will ever look back fondly on modern programming & writing, if they even remember it; late-90s and early-Aughts films, however? Those are what I hope millennial parents choose to share with future generations.
Dude's just literally demanding he knows better than the writers... now granted, there are times where I can say that might be true, but like... in the context of shipping... hell no... but it's always only ever going to be what's recent and popular, never the handouts, which is even funnier, like it's just the thrill of taking
I went to Disney for my honeymoon, and admittedly I enjoyed the encounter with Kylo Ren and Chewbacca. Kylo knocked off my Goofy hat, and Chewbacca and I bonded and shared a hug because we're both tall boys.
53:56 It's that scene from Ratatouille when Emile comes out of the trash pile holding... something he's eating, and Remy goes, "What are you eating?" Which Emile looks with a very slow realization, "I don't know." In this simile, we the people who know what a relationship should look like are Remy, and this idiot is Emile.
At 58:32 I HAVE TO CALL OUT BULLSHIT AT 4:30AM. The group was fighting so THEY get treated "fairly" but as we saw in no way home and Wandavision the people who got snapped were also screwed over. They lost homes, jobs, family members. In ENDGAME steve is attending a group therapy for people who lost loved ones and you know some people moved on, got married, and now their ex is back, their new relationship is complicated and they have to come face to face with so.eone they moved on from. People were left homeless, jobless, they were removed from school. And what about people like Monica's mom, who lost children, do you know the statistics for people who end themselves because their CHILD died. And again NWH told us that there were children who disappeared but NOT their parents, like Hawkeye. God it pisses me off when mfers try and paint the flag smashers at the good guys fighting for the little guy when they were selfish entitled pricks who didn't want to give up other people's stuff.
Btw the other white guy only killed ONE person after they killed his black best friend, and immediately after he lost his job and got dishonorably discharged, lost the title of Captain America and got thrown under the bus on national television and the two people who SHOULD understand him best immediately replaced him and told him he can eat a dick. Not even going into that they painted him as the villain for "stealing" the shield when SAM GAVE IT AWAY BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE CAPTAIN AMERICA. AND THIS WAS IN THE LORE OF THEIR SHOW.
Also I have no idea why ANYONE would want to claim nimari when the whole movie is Raya out to get revenge because Nimari pretended to be nice to her to get access to Raya's kindom's portion of the magical gem even knowing that when she took that gem everyone in the kingdom will die. They weren't even friends. The entire movie was predicated on psychological and emotional abuse from a manipulative narcissistic who only did the right thing at the end because her actions ended up biting her in the ass and killing her people too. But before that she had no qualms about killing a literal baby.
What. Do. The flagsmashers. Have to do. With the stated purpose. Of this guy's video? What is the purpose of this little rant? Edit: oh good Lord. He actually does try to link it to the LGBT... That's a stretch, dude
"MCU fans are kids." Can confirm. I work with kids and they love this garbage. Worse than that, I work with Korean kids who love The Eternals and Thor Love and Thunder.
If the dude wants gay representation and not just baiting/shipping then he should just watch Word of Honor, ffs! There's still no kissing and stuff like that because of Chinese censorship, but the relationship is obvious at least.
“Straight guys were excited to see Call Me By Your Name meets The Shape of Water.” Aren’t those both sexually charged stories? Like, Call Me By Your Name is a romance story that involves the two characters connecting sexually, and Shape of Water is someone getting wet for Abe Sapien(no really it’s the same actor, Doug Jones). I don’t think Luca, an animated kids movie about two bros being bros in an unknown world, could be considered a combo of those two movies. I mean, two dramatic romance movies with R ratings don’t make a feel-good Pixar movie for kids. Keep in mind I haven’t watched either movie (yet), but it wouldn’t surprise me if James hadn’t either. It’s likely he just saw the poster and was like, “I know everything about these movies. Me super knowledgey.” Also Michael Stuhlbarg was in both of the first two movies and not Luca, so…
No, he didn't say "Killer Stalking" is a romance story. He was lambasting fans who romanticized the story. He even said and pointed out that the story was intended as a horror story. Whoever was in chat that told you about the video just saw the title and didn't even click on it.
As someone that has watched a lot of Adventure Time. The Romance between PB and Marci was set up since Season 5... and they kiss in Season 10. So, I think that should be fine.
It is. I haven't watched all of Adventure Time because it's not really my thing but if what you're saying is true that they were hinting at them being interested in each and were slowly building it up till they finally acknowledge their love in a later season, there's nothing problematic or shallow about that at all, that is good romantic storytelling.
@@KaiDecadence Season 5 heavily hints towards it but in early seasons it is heavily implied that they at least know each other on a deeper level. I'll probably talk about it at some point cause I have a problem with the fetishization of gay characters specifically lesbian ones. The same way I have a problem with stupid romances that come out of nowhere.
@@KaiDecadence Not by the creators but by a big portion of the fanbase. Not the creators fault but there is another series called Motherland: Fort Salem that did exactly that. I'll probably compare the two.
>Disney+ and HBO are the touchstones of modern culture the coomsumers have won, I can't laugh at any of their snaffes and gaffus without simultaneously lamenting, "How did it come to this?" 👌😂🔫
This isn't about what's on screen or any subtext that's implied---this guy seems mad that he can't self-insert into scenes to kiss Bucky, Sam and Loki.
There are plenty of bisexual characters in media that are in gay relationships. Just because they aren't making characters you decided were gay or queer doesn't mean they queer baited you. People of the same sex can be friends and care about one another without being queer. If a shipper wants to headcanon a character as gay cool do that but don't get pissed off when it turns out the creator of that character makes them straight. I don't mind some shippers as long as they are respectful to the creator and actors in a show. The really creepy ones are the ones that start shipping the actual actors as gay because they saw they had "genuine chemistry and they clearly weren't acting" stop being delusional and harassing actors at cons. Like you stated there is plenty of queer bating in media but they cherry pick what they wanna get pissed over. Also as far as his comment on how the media is controlled by straight people I clearly remember a queer creator working for Disney stating publicly they were going to add queer representation as much as they can in everything. If Disney keeps queer baiting you how about you stop watching it? I've pretty much stopped watching all the new stuff Disney makes cause it's a absolute dumpster fire at this point regardless.
1:34:23 Especially annoying that he doesnt acknowledge their ability to get stuff trending might be because someone's leaning on the button to promote their lifestyle that coincidentally also terminates bloodlines en masse. He didnt even have to take it that deep¹ but at least acknowledge shit works in his favor because people at Twitter want it to. I hate when people are smug just because corporations or government agencies never suppress or censor their activities. ¹ Ugh sorry pun was actually not intended 🤢
Saying two people are gay is not the same as saying two people are having/should have sex. The fact that people associate gay with sex says more about them and you that it does queer people.
Where is the patriotism? where is the nationalism in Captain America show? In all seriousness we should just let men and boys be friends instead of forcing sexuality onto them whether in real life or in fiction, A huge enough amount of creepers sexualize the movie “Luca”, there is no such thing as “black culture” or “white culture”, and melting pot is a better allegory for American culture than a salad because it in melting pot we’re all united and a salad we are separate but equal.
Life is funny Walt Disney might not have been a good man (idk one way or other) but he created beautiful, good things. The current Disney bosses, probably try to appeal to any and every group and actively involved in activism.. But they make hateful,spiteful bullshit
Anyone that instantly assumes or demands that the two male characters on screen must be gay because they exist together, is a person that cannot form healthy relationships in their own lives or even understand what a healthy relationship is.
Bootilicious was written in part by Stevie Nicks and produced in part by Rob Fusari. Neither black. Most popular music was written or produced by multiple people. Was she even alive during the 90s to know how big DC was?
Its like they've never heard of philial, or platonic love. All they ever think about is lust and any characters showing affection towards eachother must be in love sexually because... they touched eachother?? Wtff.
Two Men in a form of media together without a hint of romance!
Twitter:”OmG ThEy’Re GaY, YoU GuYs!”
Creator/fans:”They’re not Gay!”
Twitter:”OmG HoW DaRe YoU, HoMoPhObE!”
MHA Twitter
@@randomduck8679 Nah Mate Twitterati Full stop!
Literally was called homophobic for calling out the Velma sexuality shit. 😤
@@misskat7567 she had a crush on Shaggy in one of the cartoons so no she’s not gay!
@@henrygambles3652 She's also dated and liked several men throughout the cartoons.
It’s creeps like him who see characters who are great friends with each other and their immediate thoughts are, “OMG, SO GAY!” Like, are people not allowed to be friends anymore? If these people depend on the media to boost their self-esteem, let alone inflate their egos, then they don’t need a movie-they need therapy. Nobody owes them anything.
People who confuse romance and friendship are people who've never experienced either in their life.
I love both of your takes, since it's something I realized happens with ALL characters. If people are in a room and are simply "pretty enough" it's OMG they're fucking. People existing, being friendly, working in the same area doesn't mean they're romantic and or having sex. "Like dammit stop imposing your own wish fulfillment on everybody else but you"
You just described 40% of all Letterboxd reviews
Preach, man.
These ppl excuse this with the fact that sometimes in both history and art/media, when homosexuality wasn't allowed to be mentioned or represented they would use "friendship" to explain the relationship or lack thereof of some people or characters. This doesn't mean that platonis relationships don't exist tho lol.
Jlongbone: “Nice argument senator, why don’t you back it up with a source?”
James Somerton: “My source is I made it the fuck up.”
Damn Right He did! He can’t even support it with an argument or facts!
Well this aged like fine wine
This really did age well
Or “I stole my source from someone else”
I'm into shipping, but not into those kind of madness. I would never insist that two fictional characters are together because "muh ideology!" Fuck ideologies when it's about having fun!
Exactly! Shipping is something done for fun, a "what if" creative exercise. Nothing more, nothing less. It's not activism or anything of the sort, and I wish people would stop treating it as such .-.
@SUGARTOWN That sounds like a perfect revenge for a toxic shipper.
Shipping is somehow taken seriously... -.-
"Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest." - C.S. Lewis
Two guys: * exist within close proximity of each other *
Society: "Why are you gae?"
@Anonymous Cheese Just propose already!
Hahaha, in all seriousness, boss that you got someone like that in your life, we all needs bros and people in our corners.
Not society. Twitter and Tumblr.
@Anonymous Cheese Cool. Didn't ask.
"Who says I am gay?"
@@UltimateThanos Twitter, Tumblr, the media, etc.
It ain't all of society, but it's enough of society to be a problem.
"he's not all black" Uh wow what the hell is Hariyanna's problem? Never heard of her until today. As a biracial asian, I can confirm that the gatekeeping among some races is real, and I don't understand why. She sounds pro-segregation, but if she lived in such a country she wouldn't last one minute. And if she lived in a monoracial country, then she would experience segregation based on political views, religion, income, and so on, except it would be far worse than it is in western countries.
She hates his white part.
@@tultsi93 yeah, she wants pure dark chocolate, not milk chocolate. She'll also take pure white chocolate, cause hypocrites gonna hypocrite.
They were gay shipping Pennywise with Badook. And got upset when he killed gays in the second film.
That ship started as a joke because Netflix messed up and categorized the movies in the Lesbian/Gay section. And they weren't mad that Pennywise killed a gay kid because they think he's a gay icon, they were mad because the movie showed a gay hate crime on screen.
@@kirikakirikakirika wait so killing a gay character is a hate crime but straight characters or couples being in many slasher movie is perfectly fine, you being treat the same way a straight characters kill in these movies, in fact the most stereotypical jokes about slasher movies is that straight couple that have sex or even In a relationship in these movie die a horrible death think of Friday the 13th
@@aerithroses2683
Killing a gay character isn't a hate crime, people were just upset to see a hate crime against gay people portrayed on screen. It wasn't really necessary, especially considering that nothing comes from it plot-wise and movies/TV shows kill off their gay characters often. Every single straight character doesn't get killed off, but gays and people of colour do. So much so that it's become a running joke against horror and drama genres.
I'm straight, btw.
@@kirikakirikakirikaso Michael myers killing a gay couple was also hate crime as well because they also complain about that too, penny wise killing a gay kid was to show how evil he is & not no kids safe from him not even gay kids, that true that not every straight characters killed off but if they are the meat grinder of the movie Aka meant to be killed off it only because they are in relationship or having sex which is also running joke in horror movies & the straight characters who do survive are final girl or boy & some people did ship penny wise and the other dude, it started as a joke then it became actually ship, some people did see penny wise as LGBT icons and were pissed off when penny killed the gay because of that headcanon
@@kirikakirikakirika but there were some people that were mad at pennywise killing off gay because of the headcanons, so because they are rare & get kill off that mean automatically a hate crime, wouldn’t that mean any gay character that get killed is also hate crime, again is micheal myers killing a gay couple a hate crime to because they complain about that as well, I already said the running joke is someone in a relationship or having sex will get killed & usually the final girl or boy Aka one or two people survive the horror movie, a huge group will be killed off except like two people that includes gay characters & straights characters as well
There are teenage boys in my neighborhood who double up on the rent-a-bikes here. I've seen two of them, one riding in the basket, going down a hill just the other day. I saw them as kids having fun, but there's going to be weirdos who would think otherwise. 🙄
I'm almost sad that I missed the culture war over Godzilla being "trans"... Seriously, that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard... Leave the giant, lazer spitting dinosaur out of that shit!
@@karablack8336 The only proof that Godzilla is a "She" people have is the 1998 Godzilla movie... That not only isn't canon, but it was later retconned into not even being Godzilla. So, no... Godzilla is a dude in the Toho movies.
Dear god, these people me want to go straight…
Honestly same 💀
Luckily, there are some based gay people out there, some even make good movies and stories, like the writer and director of the How To Train Your Dragon trilogy or the guys who wrote American Psycho and Fight Club respectively.
He really makes it sound like gay men and lesbians literally cannot have platonic friendships with same-sex people-they can only have either relationships or friends with benefits at the bare minimum regardless of the characters' ages.
Platonic relationships *are* a thing and all this talk about relationships and flirting sounds really phobic against asexuals.
The irony is people like him will get mad at the "straight" version of their own ideal that men and women can't be friends.
I mean, the reason he thinks this is because he literally doesn't have friends. These people are pitiable at best
@@Evarakeus
He actually has a ton of friends. He talks about his friends in-depth all the time. Many of them even edit/write for his videos.
People like James has no real friends, and sounds like a male incel or a Pick-up Artist. Where they say it's impossible for a man and woman to be friends.
He looks at CHILDREN and considers it queer-baiting because Luca had two male main characters who were just kids having fun.
He's a man who has nothing but his sexuality to define him. And he looks to popular media to validate his perverse nature disguised as "lol, I'm gay". Because I sure as hell don't see kids being kids as future gay relationship nonsense.
No doubt. Men can be friends with men or women, regardless of sexuality. Women can be friends with women or men, regardless of sexuality. Gays, straights, asexuals, bisexuals. They can all be friends as long as they put forth the effort to build a friendship. Platonic relationships are just as important (if not more) as romantic and sexual relationships.
I find it so regressive that he's like "this is exclusively a gay experience that people are trying to argue is a straight one" like gay people and straight people can't have ANYTHING in common. What a slap in the face to humanity itself.
It's so reductive.
I hope that's the right word...
😂 Gays and Straights never ever have similar experiences and issues in life, when that gays boss shorts them on their paycheck by accident because they missed out of the time card list, that Gay, was experiencing it in a much Gayer wayn
Bridgerton (as far as we know) is a show that is shutting down gay ships from the tumblr fanbase. After season 1 where two characters (Eloise and Benedict) talked about wanting a different kind of life (aka the restrictions of upper class society) and Benedict had a gay friend, the tumblrinas lost their minds and starting screaming that these characters were/should be gay.
The showrunner (who himself is gay) made a statement that there was never any intended gay context, then the show vanished the gay friend and gave both Eloise and Benedict straight love interests in season 2. They swung back hard. As they should bc the show is based on straight couple romance novels. Now the show is too scared to include side characters with gay relationships because the weirdos will take it too far.
It's tragically funny how hardcore yaoi shippers ended up being their own worst enemy. (I use ÿaoi"because their obviously in it for the fetish.)
Not to mention that it supports sexual abuse on men by blaming the rape victim as a bad guy who needs to beg for forgiveness from his rapist.
Now…this is a man…who KNOWS how to manipulate people into siding with his sexual fantasies!
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Years ago the gays wanted to be seen as normal people. Now, this gay man implies that homosexuals are completely different from straight people. He thinks that some experiences are exclusively homosexual. He is acting like the two groups are two different species because they have two different processes to him. My family is very conservative in some ways I am also, but they do not think this way. 'Luca' was based on the director's own experiences, yet he is acting like the director could not act that way. How is this man real?
Actually, gays want to be treated like people, and they _are_ different. Being gay is different, and if you accept them for who they are you also have to accept that they're gay. They _do_ have different experiences from straight people and they _do_ live through different processes. Their lives are generally more difficult because they don't know who is and isn't safe to approach. They don't know if it's okay to have a simple crush. Gay children in particular struggle with loneliness and confusion, especially if they have no support. Moreover, the director of Luca, Enrico Casarosa, came forward and said he understood how the film could be seen as a gay coming of age story.
@@kirikakirikakirika, I know that they can be different, but he implies that there is less common ground.
@@angelaperrine9201
No he doesn't, he implies that being a gay child is difficult without support.
@@kirikakirikakirika so, gay people can never relate to straight people? Every single gay person live the exact same life? Just because some gay people have some different struggles from straight people about being gay and have somewhat different processes, doesn’t mean the two have absolutely no common ground whatsoever. If keep focusing on the differences you’ll never see that both sides still have a lot in common, if you remove the struggles gay people go through specifically because of their sexuality, many of them would be no different from straight people. Even with the struggles some gay people face, they still have a lot of similarities to straight people, it seems overall offensive to gay people to say they are completely different when they really not that different at all.
@@trentmoore6947
No one, not even James, implied straight people and gay people have nothing in common. The only ones who seem to be saying that are the people in this comment section. But the fact remains that when it comes to gay people, especially gay kids/teens, their experience is very different from straight people's. It's ignorant to suggest it's the same, especially when so many people demonize homosexuality. James' video doesn't serve to divide people, it serves to help you _understand_ them.
After watching this I'm sort of relieved that Static Shock was never rebooted in this current period in time. It spares Vergil and Richie's friendship from being over analyzed by these sex-depraved lunatics and the writers being threatened into turning them gay.
Not to mention they probably aren't even going to do their friendship justice because they have to worm in BLM matters somewhere which will ruin the show entirely
I want more omega male representation. I demand everything be written through my lens.
Be the change you want to see!
Find YOUR truth!
Two men: *make eye-contact*
"Oh, you too need to get a room already... and let me watch"
Honestly I always felt uncomfortable with shipping characters from live action tv shows. It’s always felt like I was shipping actors and it bothered me? Idk. I mean I do have ships I won’t lie. Because it’s fun and harmless but if someone gets mad or acts like their ship needs to be canon just because they like it, that’s when it bothers me. Ship all you want just remember your ships don’t mean that the company or creator or anyone is wrong for not seeing it the way you do.
I mean, it's not that hard to separate actors from characters, it's a part of separating fantasy from reality. if you have trouble with it in regards to live-action, the only advice I can give is to maybe imagine animated versions of the characters?
But yeah, shipping is just for fun amongst most people. Kinda wish that toxic people who force their ships on people didn't exist.
@@Raptorworld22 that’s not bad advice, but being the weeb I am I don’t watch live action shows too much and the live action shows I watch have canon couples so it’s not really shipping? Maybe it is lol but yeah people who act like they are entitled to having their ships canon or harass the creators make all shippers look terrible
@@sunglassesgirl41 Yeah, quite a few of the ships I have for live-action shows are either actual canon or assumed canon (Y'know, they act like an actual couple but very-rarely-if-ever kiss), regardless of orientation.
"As if t you couldn't exploit your own people?"
As it turns out, he can.
Crazy how some people view everything through the lens of sexuality. And the same people are the one telling us sexuality is a private thing and should not matter.
They're likely not the same who say it's private. These days it's the hot new thing to put your race, sexuality, pronouns, medical history, and geneology in your Twitter bio basically.
@@cherrylimeali4393 yeah the gays who just want left alone are just living life. Some in horror like me at dumb asses like this dude.
Sexualizing all relationships in fiction causes people to misunderstand friendship and then avoid it. This is done with the purpose of intentionally isolating people.
Yeah that why the media need less romance and sex in the content because people need to understand how friends act.
@@ExeErdna I wouldn’t say less romance just more friendship
@@Galvatronover You gotta get rid of the romance for a bit and simply highlight friends can be friends. Nothing more comes from it, since a problem in romance is that it's always friends that are shipped.
Yeah it's not a gay men projecting problem but a media problem. People complain about gays looking too hard at what are clearly just friendships, but uou can't blame gays for projecting on same-sex friendships when media's conditioned us to see nearly all opposite-sex friendships as destined to be together.
One author that accidentally did this right but almost didn't was JK Rowling. It was nice that there was never any romantic tension between Hermione and Harry. They were two hetero friends who never felt more than friendship between each other and that is so refreshing. JK almost messed this up though because she said in an interview years later that she thought Harry should've ended up with Hermione but nah that would've ruined it. Yeah, Hermione and Ron aren't a great pair either - them as a couple feels kind of forced - and if Ron wasn't in the equation JK would've forced Harry and Hermione together, so not a great example, but it goes to show how excessive forced romance in media warps our perception. I totally can't tell the difference between friendliness and flirting and it totally fucks with my head. I think a lot of people can't, straight or gay.
@@brandonlabbe3577 That's if you accept such media conditioning. You ignore some of us out here are ace and see hetero/gay relationships as the same o' romcom shit. You barely see anybody no matter whom they're with or not and you have people shipping them. It's a projection of what they want with somebody else. Which ruins the appeal of characters or even the IP for people.
Exactly. And I get the point that people make about hetero/straight kid characters in love not being talked about as much, example Carl and Ellie from “Up”, or even Aaron and Abbey from Mitchell’s vs. the Machines. But the difference here is that when a little boy and a little girl in a movie have a little crush on each other, people don’t OBSESS with them, pardon me, FUCKING each other, like they do with “gay” kids. They just think it’s cute and move on. Here, people are thinking it’s a personal attack on them that these two little BOYS are NOT in love. “They HAVE to be in love, because it fits with what I imagined in my head!” That’s where it gets creepy, where they use these child characters to exploit for their political BS. Why can’t you just wait until they actually WANT to do it, such as with Luz and Amity from Owl House? They’re kids, and nobody had a problem with it! They just thought it was cute, and a good step forward, and moved on. But I especially cannot forgive and will not stand for people who tell writers what to write. At that point, it’s just entitled and narcissistic, acting like you have more power over the actual writer, and that they owe you and should give you what they want. If a writer doesn’t want to write their story a certain way, you respect their decision, and gtfo. Ship whatever you want, but accept the facts at the end of the day.
Gay person here. Personally find it creepy how attached these people get over seeing a friendship as gay relationship. It is no better than straight people taking 2 boy and girl child characters and romantacizing their friendship.
Plus this is just a personal pet peeve, but i believe it woud be better if actual seried that feature actually gay characters would be highlighted by these people instead, because there are legit good series that feature gay leads that are not politicised like batwoman(and suck like batwoman) and don't make you look like a creep for romanticizing minors.
For example heaven official's blessing, bongcheon's bride and nier series all feature pretty great gay reps while not making it a point like hollywood does like the stories dont beat you into submission wity them being gays.
I honestly feel like videos like the whole disney's gay appropriation do not care for gay people, but rather for views, because they use homosexuality and popular company productions as title bait for people who are starved for representation yet give a hollow analysis of nothing.
like the owl house
James Somerton fetishises homosexuality in a similar fashion to how Oakwyrm fetishises disability. You'd do well to steer clear of them both.
Omg can you please tackle some more Harriyana Hook’s videos. Her videos always rubbed me the wrong way, and not a lot of people talk about how toxic she is
Princess Weekes has the same issue too. These essay writers tend to stay in the same circles.
I watched some of her videos and I had to stop. She spends 7 minutes talking about nothing shit before bringing up the topic. Even then she's got the blandest of takes everytime.
She’s a racist ask pirate if you ask me.
@@Nightman221k well yeah, she makes multiple videos on shows like Miraculous and movies like Descendants, complaining about how she doesn't get a black girl lead who isn't black enough as well as how the white characters have white privilege, yet characters like Adrien have been traumatized by multiple things.
WTF does the lady in the second video have a video essay going after panty and stocking?
It’s an anime from 2012 thats basically just the Japanese animators making fun of American culture.
P.S English dub if your gonna watch the show.
I submit a formal "obligatory insistence of subs over dubs" form. My lawyers will contact your lawyers.
@@SatoruwaFeng
Dub's better here, case closed
@@SatoruwaFeng This is the only anime where dubs are superior. It’s a LOT funnier dubbed. The dub team worked with the original creators and the creators even learned some new swears! There are videos comparing the dub and dub on TH-cam. Go check them out. They’re night and day.
The way he says “the straights” is so gross.
Writers owe their audience a good story and nothing else.
Communities just assume that writers owe them representation.
I didn't realise there was a gay culture to appropriate
Oh sweet Lord above that pineapple-headed dolt is insane, he is full-blow cooming grooming Creepster, especially with the Luca part of his video, my God I was laughing and losing it when he was basically flat-out saying innocent childish friendly behavior was gay, like what is this bruhs major malfunction because he makes me actually worried because he seems to be unable to distinguish between plutonic and romantic relationships and it seems to be all sexual for him... oh and a good free AI image generator I found is called Wombo art and you just click create and works without needing to install the app.
I think he's still having issues with his own choice with being gay. Yet I've noticed this with a lot of people that ship characters/people. They impose their own IRL failures in social interaction onto others and it's rarely not creepy
@Anonymous Cheese Yeah that's what seems to happen.
Platonic shipping art with kid characters isn't bad (holding hands, eating ice cream), but I bet he loves exploring Luberto rule34 stuff.
@@tultsi93 We are throwing out accusations.
@@lifecanhurt716 He literally puts sexual tensions in the movie where was none, and especially when the protagonists are kids. And yet those same people whine about anime.
The whole point of voice acting is too play a character you are not in real life
So i just hit the "loki is bi" portion at 01:40.
Does he know that part of his being "bi" is beastiality? Cause i don't think he wants to address that.
Damn J, gotta watch Treasure Planet. It's one of those actually good movies.
@@Pistonrager I wanna fuck the cat lady captain. That is all
Bro what, lol please elaborate!
@@ember2.031 Assuming you mean the loki bit...
Loki has given birth to multiple magical beasts. Most notable after turning into a mare(female horse) "he" got pregnant and eventually birthed Slepnir the eight legged horse.
@@Pistonrager bruh, yeah I saw that later in the comments. Personally, I think that's great representation for the Alphabet community.
Shippers are the worst specially the ones in the anime community.
Maybe those "rude" Asian people were catching wind of all those hate crimes perpetrated against them by
Wait no we can't talk about that
This dude unironically said that Disney has a heterosexual agenda.
What the fuck?
Jesse and James need to get married and I'll die happy.
They got married and I think even have a kid in one of the Pokemon mangas.
Shipping kids who are written to be friends is probably worse than loli.
That's a take I didn't expect to have. And the moment I typed this, JL said it.
The target audience of loli at least is creeps.
I think I remember twitter bullied and harassed the director of Luca because he explicitly said that the two boys aren’t gay. It was a movie meant to depict his own childhood, and people decided to get so entitled about it.
Turning Red takes place in Canada which is like 2% black or some shit.
It's nearly 4% and it also takes place in Toronto, where a huge majority of the black population lives. You can't walk down a single street in Toronto without seeing black people absolutely everywhere. And not just black people, but people of colour in general.
I have a real problem with how he kept saying how beautiful gay relationships are. That's typical selfish bullshit. "I like this thing, therefore it is beautiful." It's a really bad argument made just to put up a shield to defend their opinion. You now have to argue against the concept of beauty instead of a mundane thing.
I'm not really surprised though, gay men practically invented the identity shield, that trick is woven into the core of gay culture and later formed the foundation of the modern progressive ideology.
Objective of analysis of (the four main) sexual orientations, here we go!
Asexuals: Asexuals aren't at risk of STD's, as they abstain from sex altogether. Due to their sexual orientation, they are incapable of producing offspring.
Bisexuals: Bisexuals aren't as at risk of STD's as homosexuals, but are still more at risk of STD's than heterosexuals. Due to their sexual orientation, bisexuals can produce offspring.
Heterosexuals: Due to heterosexuals being less likely to participate in anal sex, they aren't as at risk of STD's as homosexuals are. Due to their sexual orientation, heterosexuals can produce offspring, which is the objective purpose of sex.
Homosexuality: Due to homosexuals being much more likely to participate in anal sex, they have a significantly higher risk of STD's. Due to their sexual orientation, homosexuals cannot produce offspring, which is the objective purpose of sex.
Ranking (the four main) sexual orientations (from best to worst), here we go!
1: Heterosexuals: Heterosexuals have the second lowest risk of STD's, while being the best at producing offspring.
2: Bisexuals: Bisexuals have the second highest risk of STD's, but are the second best at producing offspring.
3: Asexuals: Asexuals have the lowest risk of STD's, but are unable to produce offspring.
4: Homosexuals: Homosexuals not only have the highest risk of STD's, but they're also unable to produce offspring.
@@muddashucka9743 What the fuck is this shit? Did you just see an excuse to be homophobic in a pretentious way and had to take it?
Your dataset is also horribly biased. Neither of those things matter and no one makes their relationship decisions based on those factors.
Not to mention that sexuality isn't a choice. Might as well rank whether men or women are better, then insult the one you arbitrarily decide is worse (no doubt the one you aren't) for something they didn't get to choose.
I think the weirdest part is the idea that there are children who need role models that are gay. Issue with this idea is that gays are a minority and kids don't have or need an understanding of sex at the age broadcasted for movies/TV shows. Sexuality is going to go over their head at the ages that these shows are meant for and forcing it on them at such a young age doesn't really do anything. Humans look to belong somewhere, especially at that age. A gay preteen's main concern isn't going to be if their feelings are normal, their concern is if other ppl will accept them. They aren't going to look at the TV shows for this acceptance, they're looking for that in their parents, friends, and loved ones. At least, that's my understanding.
I mean, I'm gay and yeah, I kinda agree with what you're saying. Because when you're 12 or 13 years old and still trying to figure out your sexuality, at least for my case I wasn't really bothering about representation because I was still learning to accept myself. And I eventually did, and that's something that I did on my own and only afterwards I was able to appreciate GOOD representation in movies like Brokeback Mountain or Moonlight.
But it's not like I didn't have any role models though because there were a lot of shows and movies that had some great characters that I looked up to. Like Sokka from Avatar The Last Airbender, because I loved how eventhough he wasn't the main character and didn't have any bending abilities or anything he basically carried the whole plot of the show.
@@timtam3730 that brings an issue where I don't really try to argue due to my ideals of it not making much sense to me. While I loved certain characters in tv shows or cartoons I never looked up or aspired to be them as much as admired certain traits or ideals they encompassed. Or just enjoyed watching them. Simply put, I liked these characters but they weren't my role models. It's one of the problems I find prevalent with this representation craze: Role models in TV. Why are we trying to make fictional characters role models for these kids and not, at the most, moral guides? It's silly to me.
And as you've made clear through your writing, characters don't have to be like you in order to be role models. You just have to admire them enough; I admired Oscar de la Hoya as a kid and I'm black
@@TheeOK1 I have a a lot of real life role models as well, most notably my parents. Like, when you're young of course you would love your parents but as I got older and became more aware of the world I began to appreciate my parents even more because a lot of kids have divorced parents or parents who don't give a shit about them but I somehow got lucky with my parents because they've been married of almost 30 years and they've always been there and involved with me and my 7 siblings (yes, we're ALL biologically related and are from the same parents) which is why I really admire them.
I guess another real life role model for me with would Randy Shilts. He was the first openly gay news reporter but that's not why I admire him, what I admired about him was how he was one of the first people to really spear head the research into the AIDS epidemic, and was not afraid to speak solid facts, even if it went against what gay community believed in. He was also so stringent on being non-biased that when he was working on a compilation of his research, he suspected that he himself might have AIDS but he didn't go to get a diagnosis because he was worried that his diagnosis would make him biased on the topic.
He passed away in early 90's, sadly.
I did a book report about him in 9th grade and I got a B+ but my dad thought that it should have at least gotten an A.
It's not about sex. It's about who you are allowed to love romantically. Even kids can be romantically involved.
I don't see any of you guys cry and complain about the vampire boy and werewolf girl having an on-going romance with ON-SCREEN KISSING in the Hotel Transylvania movies. And those kids are, like, what, 5?
Oh but they don't. This is all pandering and predatory behavior to try and inspire new generations of gay youth. Children don't ever ask why there are no gay heroes; because they never actually question it unless their parents enforce such curiosities.
All this gay character pandering is adult men and women demanding to be represented in media they either don't care for, or revolve their lives around like adult children.
If anything, the relationship I got since the beginning of Sam and Bucky were brothers constantly bickering and Cap was the single dad who has to deal with it.
God!
If I was tasked with talking about ONE side of my personality (in this case sexuality) being "represented" in movies for an hour, ... I would bore myself to death and fall asleep!
And also:
"Representation" is now a word that instantly turns me away from what you want to express, anyway.
Add problematic, progressive and diverse to that pile.
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Don't forget inclusive, bigot, all the -ists and -phobes, etc
I tried watching one of this guy's videos and almost immediately clicked off. The funny thing is that I was agreeing with much of what he was saying and the overall premise of the video, I just couldn't stand his presentation or obnoxious aura. I wasn't expecting to see this cringe again, tbh.
On shipping: I can back a shipper if she (let's be honest, it's mostly females doing this) can logically support her ship with sound arguments for how it adds to the narrative without betraying the characters. But most people aren't doing that, and the bigger problem is that they _simultaneously_ take themselves way too seriously. So I ignore them. What's really disturbing to me is when someone ships real people. That's a line I refuse to cross.
That lunatic needs more straight stories so he knows boys hugging doesn't automatically mean gay! Absolute lunatic.
He'd just think that the boys were secretly gay.
I would love to see a friendship between a straight man and a gay man. I'm writing a story currently in my head about it. Affectionate straight man and a more serious gay man.
James Somerton has a victim complex.
This statement aged a little too well
Here's a solution I think everyone will like. Disney should just focus on making content for normal families raising children instead of trying to cater to weirdos who always complain about not being represented no matter what you do.
What is it with reviewers just having the worst possible takes on Turning Red of all things? It’s by no means a flawless movie, but people treat this honestly harmless kids film like its the worst thing ever made by humans.
There is no way his like to dislike ratio is like that without tampering.
Yes it is, lol. I think you're just mad.
@@kirikakirikakirika Stop fangirling for him. You're embarrassing yourself.
@@evilherodiamondcat
Pointing out the flaws in people's arguments isn't "fangirling". I barely even watch his channel. What's embarrassing is that people keep feeling the need to put words in his mouth and cry that his like to dislike bar isn't to their liking. You can't "tamper" with a like to dislike bar, you can only private it. Cry harder.
@@kirikakirikakirika He made shit arguments. No one needs to put words in his mouth.
@@kirikakirikakirika and I'm sure if he wanted to, he can gets bots to view and upvote his video.
Wanting more overt romantic contact between cartoon kids as an adult. Yeah, not a great thing to insist on. Especially given that the cartoons he talks about are directly aimed at children and not him. I have a uni teacher who gets really weirdly excited about this kind of thing even though she’s around 30.
Well, maybe not aimed directly in the case of Steven universe but it was still sharing network and time with gumball
@@mr.selyumor5402 The irony is that Gumball was way more edgier than Steven Universe.
Gumball even called out people who liked to virtue signal on Twitter and Tumblr.
@@timtam3730 oh I know, gumball’s the mvp but it was also written in a way that felt like it was for everyone. SU was inconsistent in a way that felt like it was written more for, as J says, “adult children”
@@mr.selyumor5402 The creator of Steven Universe also got a lot of flak for drawing and uploading rule 24 art of underraged characters back in 2008.
@@timtam3730 I try not to let the mistakes of the past have too much power over my perception of the future but I’d be lying if I didn’t feel a sense of dread during the episode where Steven fuses with his girlfriend. That’s… not good with the knowledge of Rebecca Sugar’s past.
Some people who shipped Bucky and Steve also shipped Steve with Flacon sometimes. But not nearly to the same level.
Sam was Steve's side pea.
I remember shippers guilt tripping fans into shipping Sam and Bucky because they felt like it was racist that white male characters always get shipped together but it's rare when its black characters. That's why I think Sam/Bucky increased when Steve was gone. This was back when shipping was seen as a form of activism on tumblr.
SamxBucky is popular, and I still don't give a shit about Sam.
@@hope-cat4894 Yeah because I guess they forgot White people and Black People aren’t the only ethnicities on Earth? Either that or I guess that they don’t want to acknowledge same sex relationships nor White or Black people having romance with Asians,Native Americans,Latinos(fuck the term Latinx),Indians/South East Asians,Arabs,Samoans/Maoi and every other race in the Fucking world!!! Which sounds Racist, just saying!
He's not suffering "autism", J, he's suffering "arrested development" (in the clinical sense of the term as used in the 80's up to the mid-90's) plus the requisite "neediness" which goes along the disorder.
I would make the argument that Loki is “fluid” because he can completely change his entire being into another specie with fully working genitalia. Because in the mythology, Loki turned into a mare, and and gave birth
Why does pineapple-head even keep talking?
@Anonymous Cheese All this going in circles is making me sick.
Treasure Planet and Titan: AE are both very good films, along with other films like Atlantis, Emporer's New Groove, etc. Dreamworks also pumped out absolutely memorable classics at their peak (eg, The Road to El Dorado), despite each being over twenty years on now. Though their flaws will be apparent when you do get to see them, you're definitely gonna wonder why we allowed ourselves to fall so far. Nobody will ever look back fondly on modern programming & writing, if they even remember it; late-90s and early-Aughts films, however? Those are what I hope millennial parents choose to share with future generations.
He had a livestream and the guy was all about “gay this, gay that” seriously.
People like him ruined Guilty Gear
The OG Otokonoko is apparently a girl now. I fear for Astolfo 😰
I'm only half an hour in and I just find this man so irritating. I just find he gets on my nerves
Dude's just literally demanding he knows better than the writers... now granted, there are times where I can say that might be true, but like... in the context of shipping...
hell no... but it's always only ever going to be what's recent and popular, never the handouts, which is even funnier, like it's just the thrill of taking
43 seconds into 'his' video and all I can think about is the wild Lovecraftian Throat Slab of Beef he's sporting under the ultra-weak chin.
this is a shoggoth in human form
I went to Disney for my honeymoon, and admittedly I enjoyed the encounter with Kylo Ren and Chewbacca. Kylo knocked off my Goofy hat, and Chewbacca and I bonded and shared a hug because we're both tall boys.
53:56 It's that scene from Ratatouille when Emile comes out of the trash pile holding... something he's eating, and Remy goes, "What are you eating?" Which Emile looks with a very slow realization, "I don't know." In this simile, we the people who know what a relationship should look like are Remy, and this idiot is Emile.
Eww he even looks like the stereotypical discord mod
Also what's up with these types of TH-camrs and their obsession with neon lights?
This guy’s Killing Stalking vid is telling with how much personal stake he seems to have in people’s reactions to that story
Harriyana seems to have the pirate equivalent to Lunchbox's clown obsession, her "CLIFESTYLE" as she put it.
At 58:32 I HAVE TO CALL OUT BULLSHIT AT 4:30AM. The group was fighting so THEY get treated "fairly" but as we saw in no way home and Wandavision the people who got snapped were also screwed over. They lost homes, jobs, family members. In ENDGAME steve is attending a group therapy for people who lost loved ones and you know some people moved on, got married, and now their ex is back, their new relationship is complicated and they have to come face to face with so.eone they moved on from. People were left homeless, jobless, they were removed from school. And what about people like Monica's mom, who lost children, do you know the statistics for people who end themselves because their CHILD died. And again NWH told us that there were children who disappeared but NOT their parents, like Hawkeye. God it pisses me off when mfers try and paint the flag smashers at the good guys fighting for the little guy when they were selfish entitled pricks who didn't want to give up other people's stuff.
Btw the other white guy only killed ONE person after they killed his black best friend, and immediately after he lost his job and got dishonorably discharged, lost the title of Captain America and got thrown under the bus on national television and the two people who SHOULD understand him best immediately replaced him and told him he can eat a dick. Not even going into that they painted him as the villain for "stealing" the shield when SAM GAVE IT AWAY BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE CAPTAIN AMERICA. AND THIS WAS IN THE LORE OF THEIR SHOW.
Also I have no idea why ANYONE would want to claim nimari when the whole movie is Raya out to get revenge because Nimari pretended to be nice to her to get access to Raya's kindom's portion of the magical gem even knowing that when she took that gem everyone in the kingdom will die. They weren't even friends. The entire movie was predicated on psychological and emotional abuse from a manipulative narcissistic who only did the right thing at the end because her actions ended up biting her in the ass and killing her people too. But before that she had no qualms about killing a literal baby.
What. Do. The flagsmashers. Have to do. With the stated purpose. Of this guy's video? What is the purpose of this little rant? Edit: oh good Lord. He actually does try to link it to the LGBT... That's a stretch, dude
Muh gay representation
"MCU fans are kids."
Can confirm. I work with kids and they love this garbage. Worse than that, I work with Korean kids who love The Eternals and Thor Love and Thunder.
Has James never heard of Yaoi and its main audience?
The main audience is made up of psychopaths.
If the dude wants gay representation and not just baiting/shipping then he should just watch Word of Honor, ffs!
There's still no kissing and stuff like that because of Chinese censorship, but the relationship is obvious at least.
i did some diging on him and discovered that he plagarises other people's work so he isn't even that original in his content
I remember this guy saying he shipped future trunks with Gohan and said it's fine cause theres time travel
“Straight guys were excited to see Call Me By Your Name meets The Shape of Water.”
Aren’t those both sexually charged stories? Like, Call Me By Your Name is a romance story that involves the two characters connecting sexually, and Shape of Water is someone getting wet for Abe Sapien(no really it’s the same actor, Doug Jones).
I don’t think Luca, an animated kids movie about two bros being bros in an unknown world, could be considered a combo of those two movies. I mean, two dramatic romance movies with R ratings don’t make a feel-good Pixar movie for kids.
Keep in mind I haven’t watched either movie (yet), but it wouldn’t surprise me if James hadn’t either. It’s likely he just saw the poster and was like, “I know everything about these movies. Me super knowledgey.”
Also Michael Stuhlbarg was in both of the first two movies and not Luca, so…
His finger to the chin crap is so annoying.
No, he didn't say "Killer Stalking" is a romance story. He was lambasting fans who romanticized the story. He even said and pointed out that the story was intended as a horror story.
Whoever was in chat that told you about the video just saw the title and didn't even click on it.
"anime's got enoguh problems"
Yes lord, a truck full on it's own. Worth a playlist of videos.
James is so creepy, he’s stereotypically creepy, dude acts like Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy
LobsterHero did a great review of this video.
As someone that has watched a lot of Adventure Time. The Romance between PB and Marci was set up since Season 5... and they kiss in Season 10. So, I think that should be fine.
It is. I haven't watched all of Adventure Time because it's not really my thing but if what you're saying is true that they were hinting at them being interested in each and were slowly building it up till they finally acknowledge their love in a later season, there's nothing problematic or shallow about that at all, that is good romantic storytelling.
@@KaiDecadence Season 5 heavily hints towards it but in early seasons it is heavily implied that they at least know each other on a deeper level. I'll probably talk about it at some point cause I have a problem with the fetishization of gay characters specifically lesbian ones. The same way I have a problem with stupid romances that come out of nowhere.
@@CarlolucaS Ah okay, interesting. Wait so was PB and Marceline handled in a fetishistic way?
@@KaiDecadence Not by the creators but by a big portion of the fanbase. Not the creators fault but there is another series called Motherland: Fort Salem that did exactly that. I'll probably compare the two.
There's no lesbianism in Raya and the Last Dragon!! It's just a story!!
>Disney+ and HBO are the touchstones of modern culture
the coomsumers have won, I can't laugh at any of their snaffes and gaffus without simultaneously lamenting, "How did it come to this?"
👌😂🔫
This isn't about what's on screen or any subtext that's implied---this guy seems mad that he can't self-insert into scenes to kiss Bucky, Sam and Loki.
This aged like fine wine 🍷
There are plenty of bisexual characters in media that are in gay relationships. Just because they aren't making characters you decided were gay or queer doesn't mean they queer baited you. People of the same sex can be friends and care about one another without being queer. If a shipper wants to headcanon a character as gay cool do that but don't get pissed off when it turns out the creator of that character makes them straight. I don't mind some shippers as long as they are respectful to the creator and actors in a show. The really creepy ones are the ones that start shipping the actual actors as gay because they saw they had "genuine chemistry and they clearly weren't acting" stop being delusional and harassing actors at cons. Like you stated there is plenty of queer bating in media but they cherry pick what they wanna get pissed over. Also as far as his comment on how the media is controlled by straight people I clearly remember a queer creator working for Disney stating publicly they were going to add queer representation as much as they can in everything. If Disney keeps queer baiting you how about you stop watching it? I've pretty much stopped watching all the new stuff Disney makes cause it's a absolute dumpster fire at this point regardless.
Thanks for the stream, J.
Always a delight.
I ship Rowley & Greg in Diary of a Wimpy Kid as being gay, why, because they are 2 boys who are best friends
1:34:23 Especially annoying that he doesnt acknowledge their ability to get stuff trending might be because someone's leaning on the button to promote their lifestyle that coincidentally also terminates bloodlines en masse. He didnt even have to take it that deep¹ but at least acknowledge shit works in his favor because people at Twitter want it to. I hate when people are smug just because corporations or government agencies never suppress or censor their activities.
¹ Ugh sorry pun was actually not intended 🤢
Saying two people are gay is not the same as saying two people are having/should have sex.
The fact that people associate gay with sex says more about them and you that it does queer people.
"being is a good thing because it's not normal-"
and not being normal makes you quirky, and quirks make you special
_thats what it boil down to_
This is for the algorithm.
Where is the patriotism? where is the nationalism in Captain America show? In all seriousness we should just let men and boys be friends instead of forcing sexuality onto them whether in real life or in fiction, A huge enough amount of creepers sexualize the movie “Luca”, there is no such thing as “black culture” or “white culture”, and melting pot is a better allegory for American culture than a salad because it in melting pot we’re all united and a salad we are separate but equal.
No joke I almost mistook her username for the Pokémon Hariyama.
Life is funny Walt Disney might not have been a good man (idk one way or other) but he created beautiful, good things.
The current Disney bosses, probably try to appeal to any and every group and actively involved in activism.. But they make hateful,spiteful bullshit
Remember when that one Disney exec said she was trying to put as many gay characters into movies and shows as she can get away with...
Anyone that instantly assumes or demands that the two male characters on screen must be gay because they exist together, is a person that cannot form healthy relationships in their own lives or even understand what a healthy relationship is.
Bootilicious was written in part by Stevie Nicks and produced in part by Rob Fusari. Neither black. Most popular music was written or produced by multiple people.
Was she even alive during the 90s to know how big DC was?
3:41:02 An OneyPlays fan in chat, nice.
Its like they've never heard of philial, or platonic love. All they ever think about is lust and any characters showing affection towards eachother must be in love sexually because... they touched eachother?? Wtff.