@@Ennrod-ly5stComplaining about a liberal hivemind while being part of the conservative hivemand is so ironic. You can now proceed to use the word "soyboy, woke, DEI, colored hair" as you were indoctrinated to do
You notice how they never talk about things they actually like unless they can use it to put something else down. All their videos about House of The Dragon had to bring up the Rings of Power and they were all using Godzilla Minus One to take shots at Disney and Marvel as though those things have anything to do with one another. They can never like the movie/show on its own merits it always has to be in opposition to something else.
Yeah people say that over ideolism is fake and people should be more cinical, but even beeing over cinical can be just as fake as over ideolism is theres nothing good to fight for. Superman can be an ideliolist character but he can get cinical if things don't get better, batman is a cinical character but he can believe in peacefull ideas if he can know another way. Every person has a balance and if we can't see that balance then we don't relate at all.
Exactly. I think the part I find most humorous is how their fanbases/supporters love to “call out” creators like Pillar of Garbage for “obsessing” over calling this stuff out while simultaneously ignoring that these grifters almost never talk about stuff they love or talk about without comparing it to a “woke” property. The majority of the content is whining about The Culture War. It’s embarrassing
@@mizushogun i wonder if these people ever talk about doom, you know.. that game where you kill demons, go big, go home and that it.. you know actual fun! Oh who im kidding they will find a way to shit on games like spider-man 2 or jedi survivor because they are woke! also baldurs gate but i doubt these people ever play a game where you can bang ANYTHING
That's the nature of competition. Competition requires a nebulous They to attack. Competition is inherently destructive. See Alfie Kohn's "No Contest".
At some point, you just realize that these people are Sailor Moon villains: Leeching of negative energy, causing discontent and distrust to empower themselves. And never forget: The Leopard party will eat your face eventually, as the Leopard party always needs an ethnic or social group to eat the faces of.
Their are a few precure villains that are lime that...Heck the main antagonist of a recent precure season I watched had his name based on the Term Skin head, dude was even bald.
This is the decade of open bullshit and deception. The 10s were about masked bullshit 20s are about openly boldly bullshitting your way to success even if the shit your peddling is openly anti reality.
And the assassin creed Yasuke situation show us how they distract us form real problem like ubisoft business practices because the focused is on Yasuke a samurai that is considered a samurai buy Japanese and is a part of their history on a game that do historical tourism and fantasy but the loser really don’t like reality and want to make their bs fantasy a reality
@@Hawkatana Since 2021-2022, it’s been heading towards its Bronze and Dark Ages. Many people who used to get sucked down these rabbit holes are getting older and wiser, I mean, the majority of them were high school and college kids when Gamergate and Comicsgate were at their peak, and they’re starting to understand that all of this is and always has been bullshit. I was thankfully not one of them, because I’m not gullible and I have an understanding of what’s good and what’s bad (I knew that Trump and his allies were all evil and corrupt since his run for president in 2016), but I’ve seen all this heading downhill as we speak.
I really appreciate how he’s put things together - all the brogan brained morons need to understand how they’re being played - I remember complaining about the state of politics in 2005 during the GWOT and an older friend said to me: “we’ll look back on this as the good old days” Putin truly is the wizard of Oz
I gotta admit, I listened to Alex Jones years ago. The day I stopped was when Sandy Hook happened. Now that my world views have become more broad over the years, I’ve come to understand that these grifters are doing what they want for their own agendas and end goals. What they want is carnage, justifications for white supremacy, and, in Turning Point USA’s case, child marriage, because, according to Charlie Kirk, “women are less attractive and fertile at 30 years old.” Yeah, I talked to my fam about that fact recently and even they find that idea disgusting and shocking.
@@KingKrouch yeah. No kidding. I knew I made the right choice to stop listening to him years ago after Sandy Hook when I saw news coverage of him having Nick Fuentes on his show. He’s the biggest Far Right ghoul of them all. Plus, now that I look back at that time, I wasn’t made aware of the dog whistles until I started looking into the manosphere recently and seeing how it and the far right intertwine. It’s a very insidious pipeline, and I thank God every day that I stopped myself from going down it.
@@PillarofGarbage How can they now say they are the “victims” of a Russian scheme, when we’ve been saying for years now - dude, your message plays right into the hands of Putin, you’re like his mouthpiece.” And the whole time they called us “snowflakes” and accused us of TDS? Now think of the wider implications: The GOP in Congress (MTG, etc.) refused aid to Ukraine, and some of the reasons they gave match exactly with what Tim Pool says about Ukraine and Zelenskyy.
This is little to do with the video but is vaguely related. It's painful going anywhere online now when theres just people being casually racist, or sexist, or homophobic or transphobic and it's sad that I could keep that list going and going. I can't pin point when this shift started but that's maybe because truthfully it has always been there but it really slowed down and now it's ramped up more than ever in my opinion
yeah, it's now just fucking exhausting being online and I hate it Tom Holland posted on Instagram about the Romeo and Juliet version he's in (with a black Juliet) and the comments are just out and out racist Today I jumped in a game of CS and a couple of the other players were just pasting swastikas in chat i feel like a frog in a boiling pot and i do not like it
It’s definitely come to the forefront lately, we just have to endure really, because as long as there are reasonable people that know to call out prejudice, then maybe things will get better
It's definitely a case of reactionary pushback to social progress. Wherever strides in social equity are made there will be rabid reactionaries aggressively trying to push back. It wasn't so long ago when sexist, homophobic, racist, transphobic, etc. language was incredibly common and not really something that a lot of people really even noticed and just about every piece of popular media was created with a white, straight, male audience in mind. Now that that's changing a bit the people who actually liked, or at least weren't bothered by all those "isms" and liked being catered to almost exclusively are lashing out against anything that is challenging the status quo that they enjoyed for so long. It's not just a problem with these chuds either. They're just the loudest. This kind of thinking is pretty common amongst a lot of the "normal," "apolitical" (read: right wing but privileged enough that they don't have to think about it) folks who are perceived as being the politically disinterested "everyman," who are "divorced from political bias" and just "speak from a place of common sense." Which just helps launder the image of anti-woke nutcases like the ones referred to in this video.
In the 90s, the internet felt huge (almost infinite) but it was very local. You could find your little corner and it was good. There were appalling places filled with hateful people of every stripe, but you didnt have to engage with them. If your, say, Zombie-themed crochet page became toxic, you could find another one. Now, the internet feels tiny. We're all forced to share the same space, managed by tech-filth that spent their adolescence on racist message boards. I think of it a bit like what happened to cities in the 80s. All the small, independent bars, clubs, shops, museums, community spaces couldn't compete with giant shopping malls. Suddenly, a night out meant some awful chain bar full of the kind of people you could avoid in your old part of town.
How is ita conspiracy you just need to look at live streams and websites those guys usesure not all of them know each other but most do unless you were referring to nerdrotic and geeks and gamers and healsbabyface being conspiracy theorists and not pillar of garbage then my mistake
The dictionary says a conspiracy is “a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.” Thats exactly what the online far right is. @@anotheronebitesthedust-fs6wr
I f****** absolutely love how these guys think that X-Men is going woke. Do they not realize that the X-Men and the mutants in that universe were a direct stand-in of the oppressed groups in america, of the world? That it was really a story directly inspired by the civil Rights movement?
The fact that Lauren Chen ran TENET, where they featured other alt-right commentators, and which as it has now turned out was almost completely financed by Russia/RT, really adds another layer to this story.
This video is going to draw the ire of many of the worst people on the internet. That said, i respect the balls it takes to post it anyways and wholeheartedly support its message. You sir are a true BAMF! 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for being one of the few that speaks out against these people. They need to be talked about and shouldn’t get away with their nature. Great video.
@ThatWolfArrow These people enganged in an harassment campaign that's studied to this day. If they'll try to define what "ethics" mean, you can throw that definition to the trash. Heck, they can't even define what wokeness AKA their whole brand even means. They are merchants of outrage and they should be treated as such, that's my TL;DR.
@@ThatWolfArrow They hate journalists because journalists are held to a standard and "truth tellers" aka Twitter freaks that spreak fake news, aren't. It's a good thing to remamber. Also, these people can't define what wokeness is, which is THEIR WHOLE IDENTITY so there's no chance they can define what ethics is.
"Marxist colonists invading geek culture" I actually love the appropriation of the anticolonialist language to describe the conspiracy theories they apply to what are fairly often children's films. It's some of the most cossetted, pampered, first-world shit you could imagine. It's genuinely fascinating. These are people that have no real problems.
Thank you for speaking on this. I wish bigger creators spoke on it in a more direct way. Especially since these guys genuinely think they have “shifted” the culture when they didn’t. Just because they’re loud and consistent doesn’t make them right.
@@BoboftheOldeWays It's all going to come to a head in the next couple of years. As they continue to lose ground, they are going to have to get more and more extreme in their rhetoric to keep the grift going and it's just not sustainable. A candle burning on both ends burns twice as bright for half as long and that's what we're seeing right now.
Yes, they didn't make any cultural shift. At best they learned to take advantage of the Conservative-leaning people that always existed in nerd spaces (Michael Moorcock and Norman Spinrad where already complaining about them back in the 70s)
I'm old enough to remember when Breitbart actually published that alt-right article and saw Milo tweet about it. I didn't realize at the time how much this type of thing would shape internet culture in the coming decade.
Milo hasn't been gone long enough. I recall that he basically endorsed pedophilia in a radio or podcast interview, which one exposed surprisingly cost him an invite to CPAC, and Breitbart parted ways with him as well as losing his book deal with a publisher. I can't imagine why any publishing company would have cut a deal with him in the first place.
That's because they probably throw a bunch of money to get their ads to show up in anything remotely related to them, even if it is criticizing them. There's a organization that honestly, is basically a Brazilian version of that called Brasil Paralelo that does this same bullshit.
@@whattheegadWhich causes psychotically Conservative ads to show up for anyone who searches for things related to politics, yes. It is a known problem.
Chris Raygun was offered a lucrative deal to tow the conservative line a few years ago. Although he declined, because he is pretty left leaning he suspects a lot gamergate type people were offered the same deal and accepted.
@@kostajovanovic3711 yeah "pretty left leaning" was a rather odd way to label him. "Ain't No Rest for the Triggered - Social Justice: The Musical" is a video he made, did he ever walk back running around being an anti-SJW?
@xBINARYGODx I think he and lacy greene kinda balanced each other out. She toned down the weird, somewhat cringe white girl performative liberalism, and he toned down the weird, cringe anti-sjw stuff. I believe they started out debating and seemed to just get along as people, so they got together. It was kinda a nice story, tbh. She saved him from the woke watch black hole, and she's a real one for that, I think.
@@a.jherbert5436 I think that is somewhat right even though Chris would never admit it. Although he was always left leaning even then. I listen to his playstation podcast every week. And most of the time when there is culture war conversation he always seems balanced. And he regrets doing interview with grifters like Dave Rubin.
Ideally the thing we should be doing with that is largely ignoring it. We know it's all bullshit so we say that and refuse to let them control the narrative.
@@scruffopone3989 thats a good idea. It's just annoying because now they're trying to say it's contributing to the awful state of the game industry when we and them know its fucking greed.
You introduced Nerdrotic and I immediately got an ad for an adult only cruise. I was washing dishes at the time, not looking at my screen and was super confused and the decidedly not-nerd content I was listening to lmao.
When you said “you probably never heard of Lauren Chen” I knew this video wasn’t for me. I was subscribed to Lauren. I know all these people. That’s why I know they only say BS 😂 This is, of course, no criticism to your video. Not everyone was a edgy young adult and that’s perfectly okay 👌
@@netanelaker4437 as someone who had both one would describe as a "woke" phase and and an anti-woke phase I can confidently say that I outgrew both of those
@@bulgarianreaper6587usually, the truth is somewhere in the middle. What always bugged me about the anti-woke stuff is that they never realize most of the time the wokeism is only injected into movies or series because of the credit scores of the companies making the stuff. So the right wing grifters are stupid enough to believe Amazon is "woke" for having some PoC in Rings of Power (who probably earned a lot less than a white superstar actor would have cost) when in fact Amazon is evil incarnate in the form of a company exploiting their workers to maximize profits for the owner. Same with Disney. They're not "woke" they just try to pander to the audience and at the same time fulfill all the criteria to get more money from the finance sector that thinks companies that are profit oriented should also make "social impact" but they're not doing that by maybe actually paying their workers probably but by their "messaging".
You should focus on Curtis Yarvin and the NRx (Neo-Reactionary) movement which had ties to JD Vance and to philosopher Nick Land, who became a proponent of eugenics post-2008
Loved it. I think you could have thrown in a few more names, but brevity is the soul of wit and so forth, which is why you're the youtuber and I'm the commenter ;)
Yeah - a video like this could be any length, really, but after a point I worry you’d just get an increasingly unengaging list of less and less recognisable names My thought process was keep it punchy & prioritise communicating the general idea & picture over all the info - because once someone _gets_ the picture, they can go down the rabbit holes to their heart’s content
LMAO, I was looking for this comment. The anti-pronoun brigade thinks it's very important that you know her profession is FEMALE comedian. Not regular comedian, like a REAL comedian--a funny one. No, she's a GIRL comedian. Lower your expectations viewers, and just enjoy looking at lady.
Everything you could ever want or need to know about Nerdrotic and his sycophantic cronies can be gleaned from watching his review of the Finnish war movie Sisu. He starts by praising the film for the quality of its content, made on a very low budget, but then goes on to use that praise as a means to criticise the entirety of Hollywood in general, first by attacking actor's and writer's unions for holding movie companies to ransom (like it's a bad thing for people to want a decent wage for the work they do) and then stating that unions have no place in the creative sphere whatsoever; finally adding that he just hates unions period. I really am sick to death of him and the people that inhabit that echo chamber he lives in calling out everything that exists outside of the MAGA political sphere woke, left wing and Marxist. Good on you for calling it out.
I remember when I was first discovering Drinker and Nerdrotic and found them mildly entertaining for about a week before I realized that the only thing they did was endlessly whine about children’s movies/shows and complain non-stop about “wokeness” while pushing alt-right rhetoric. It’s all become so grossly pathetic.
@@dronessential basically, any time there’s a black person in a movie it’s a “DEI” higher, as with just about any other minority. Just not someone to be taken seriously. He’s also a big Daily Wire guy, so that should speak for itself
@@dronessential "Anything that isn't a white cis hetero male that feeds my red pilled fantasies is real bad" sort of rhetoric, the same all of those grifters have been doing basically. Drinker started veeeeery slow with it, I remember watching some of his Star Wars sequel trilogy videos back in 2019 in which he seemed very critical but not a hateful weirdo, and thinking he was somehow "normal", especially because what he was criticizing deserved it. Fast forward 1 year and he's dropped the mask and is now doing the same far right propaganda of pigs like Nerdorotic and getting into cringe fights on Twitter.
i think its a timeline of things shes been. like libertarian atheist was the first thing she was a while ago, then she were the other things and now shes a christian nationalist
I almost feel bad for them cause being "woke" isnt something you just delete off of disney+ or an actor in an amazon series. Theyre fighting a mentality that cant and wont go away. They dont understand what theyre fighting agaisnt, which is why they will inevitably lose.
I think they'll be forced to confront that reality in the next couple of years but rather than self reflect, they will just continue to sink lower and drag their fans down with them unfortunately.
And yet the people who they are fighting against aren't winning either; they seem to be alienating the public every time they appear to the public eye and not getting as much money as they should
Most of them don't realize it, but they whole ideology is based on the notion of never wining their fight. Fighting is the end in itself, that's what the "hard times create strong men, etc." quote ultimately means, that even if they win it will mean loosing, their only real victory is to keep the conflict forever.
@@ldcg106 they're alienating mostly those who are going down the rabbit hole of those grifters, 'cause they're not only "bad written characters" to them, they're a much bigger menace that must be fought with everything in order to satisfy a persecution complex.
@@marcello7781 You just described all the hacks in Hollywood, except that they are fighting the menace of infinititely better products that they will never hope to even copy their shadows, let alone make something of similar value.
TH-cam profits from these propaganda machines because they are fueled by lies, hate, tribal division and ad hominems. Nothing creates reactions as much as lies, hateful division, getting personal and taking sides in an escalating spiral of name calling, bullshitting and mobbing up on each other: more traffic, more online time, more ads to sell. TH-cam might act as if they have moral standards but that's just part of the grift. They won't delete any high-traffic generating channel unless being legally forced to.
Rewriting Ripley wrote a few articles on their connections a few years back. It's not surprising because if you subscribe to one it's inevitable that you'll be lead further down the Fandom Menace rabbit hole.
Years ago (christ, well over ten now) I had thought to make TH-cam videos bitching about geek stuff that was pissing me but also praising stuff I liked and I had watch some of these people's video or those of their precursors. At first I thought them to be honest gripes about media, but over time noticed it was really just continuous performative outrage over and over again... that it was often a grift at best or rampant outright bigotry at the worst. That realization killed my desire to ever really try to be a TH-camr because it felt like in order to even just do well you had to take part in that crap playing off people's bigotries and insecurities as well as pander to the tribalism of fan culture in general... which I just... I just don't want to be that type of asshole. That's not to say I'm not an asshole (I am) I'm just not that type of asshole. And worst of all the internet grift-sphere has only gotten worse and even more toxic in the last several years... and far too many people are falling for it.
They presented them as honest critique at first which is how they got away with it for so long. They would point out faults of movies without talking about any positives. That came after the decade before it which was the whole Channel Awesome boom of hating on older movies that were terrible which came about after the AVGN channel hit the scene which complained about stupid NIntendo games made by LJN which were honestly kind of funny. I don't blame AVGN for any of it. That was his idea to begin with. But man did the internet run with it and twist it into something nasty.
He's a has-been who took his grift to podcasting and somehow got a deal from a platform that should have known better. Without his manipulative podcast, he would have gone into well-deserved oblivion years ago.
I think the thing with Alex is less that he is at the center of any web and more that he is desperately clinging to anything and everything that can supplement his income in a way that can't be taken by the Sandy Hook lawsuit. He also has had a LOT of people come and go that he has since burned bridges with like Millie Weaver and Steve Pieczenik, so any past connection he has is not necessarily a current connection. The point is that Alex has become more of a hanger-on, trying desperately to use the clout of people who do his job better than him to keep his head above water with a 1 billion dollar judgement over his head. So I wouldn't be surprised if those green lines are mostly tangential, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he does have an employee or a contributer running Nerd Wars as a way to open doors for him to try to expand his audience and his sources of income.
I think I've talked about this somewhere before but basically the reason I refer to them as grifters is that they're selling lies & knowingly making mountains out of molehills in exchange for audience devotion + engagement, etc but yes I do of course agree that even the ones who're aware of this are 'true believers' in that they see the above as white lies in service of a greater good
They're a bit of both. A lot of them clearly know that they are making a big deal over nothing but they still do legitimately care. It's a phantasm thing
Fascism is a grift. It's selling people a false view of the modern world and of history and saying "we must return to tradition, give me power, I will bring us to the promised land".
Before HvB was yelling about Disney and Marvel he was yelling about Blizzard/WoW. Not much has changed. He seems like a bitter man. You can criticize bad products without losing your mind each time.
I think I know HvBs story I think he’s an unmarried 30 something hermit who thinks the world owes him everything . He likely failed in everything he tried and now solely relies on Yt because he has a 10 year employment gap and no where will hire him because he has the personality of sandpaper.
@@hypothalapotamus5293 In name so far only HvB is in the first row. And he was more of an edited content creator, might have streamed it for a few months. Asmongold has basically started farming the fringes of these outrage bait topics. He also "abandoned" WoW streaming because he just wants his teenage years back and Microsoft hasn't invented a time machine yet.
I really wish you would have talked about Steve Mnuchin and his attachment to the DCEU and possibly the funding of those projects using Taxpayer money.
Dear Fascist Jr., I’m sorry bottom feeders are trying to profit off you by being dishonest. They’re trying to drag you into a futile redo of World War Two.
To those who love film, television, comics, etc. Fanndom as a whole. I want to throw a few names of good content creators who are reasonable people who aren't grifting and are actually knowledgeable at the same time. •Coy Jandreau. He has his own channel and is seen on Kristan Harloff and ReelRejects channels. •John Campea. •John Rocha. •Winston Marshal •Star Wars Explained •ScreenCrush I know there are more. But these are my go to people on TH-cam, Twitter, etc. It's actually a video I'd love to see you make. Unless you hav, andI'vee not seen it as i just recently found your channel. But a video shouting out channels/people who arent grifters.
There needs to be more videos like this out there. There is so much hate in fandoms that simply don't need to exist because of these guys. Hopefully this video inspires more people to talk about this
It also wouldn't exist if Hollywood wasn't hellbent on destroying the franchises people loved and didn't throw hissy fits when fans rightfully called them out on it.
Imagine how appealing social media (or even the Internet in general!) would have been to Goebbels and co. for spreading their "message" same way the alt right feels!
Wow! I just watched this the other day and this is totally in line with the new Russian asset information that just dropped. This is honestly extremely solid journalism. Excellent work.
They're even clipping a video when "Amandla" the actress from the Acolyte where she said "White people crying was the point" The clip was for an interview of a film based on a book about police brutality and the struggles black neighborhoods go through because of racism btw. People love to take what she said out of context. Her saying “white people crying was the goal” was in response to how she wants there to be more awareness and more empathetic to black people and their struggles. Apparently, that makes her super racist.
Hey-! Pillar I've got to ask, have you seen Innuendo Studo's series 'The Alt-Playbook'? If not, I _highly_ suggest watching 'The Card Says Moops', 'Always a Bigger Fish', and 'I Hate Mondays' episodes. It was extremely formative with regards to how I conceptualize conservative thought. I can also suggested 'Endnote 5', his UC Merced talk. I'm not going to type 'the thing' that it's about for the comment filters sake, however it offers *a ton* of clarification with regards to what in the hell happened there.
This is a good and important piece and I despise all of these people and what they stand for. I will say though that I also despise what Kennedy has done with Lucasfilm as a fan of Indy and SW for decades. My criticisms have to do with story, characters respecting of lore etc and not about how “woke” these projects allegedly are. There are a lot of us out here. Disliking a lot of what Disney has done with these franchises doesn’t automatically equal “anti woke”.
Thank you for this. It's been annoying me for a very long time that many people couldn't see these entitled brats echoing each other over innane matters and pretty much avoiding the tougher discussion...
Although the conservative "indy" set is new faces, the model is an old one in publishing and propaganda. The Cheney-Miller-NYT-Fox ouroborus was a notable example.
Do I watch Nerdrotic? Yes Do I agree with what he says? Nah, by a long shot. Is it fun to watch? Yes But now for years of watching these guys, I have let the hate go. As a jedi does 😉.
I don't mind Dan Slot, even if I don't like everything he makes he seems like a cool guy. Besides it's not like he's done anywhere near the worst stuff eith Spider-Man out of everyone at marvel.
I’m definitely not saying a video on mauler won’t ever happen - but it’d need more time & focus than I could give it at present. Any weakness, mistake, or exaggeration would be enough to discredit the whole thing (in the eyes of many).
@@PillarofGarbageyeah, critique videos on that side of TH-cam are looked at with an insane amount of scrutiny. I guess since they always talk about “objective truth” in film and art and whatnot. Take your time to make something good
You’re right! They’re all connected. It’s one big tangled web. Wait, at 17:49 what’s that name in your Patreon supporters list right between Adriana Rodriguez and Alorravex? Oh no, they’ve gotten to you too! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 Great video as always man, keep up the great work.
Some times something is crap because its crap even if the critical drinker is pointing it out Like the Acolyte stretches a thimble of plot to breaking point with cringe acting bad dialogue and a super weak payoff, dullness and laziness are key to why especially Disney ive started watching Agatha and much like Secret Invasion it too is dull and kinda predictable and as a Gay guy im getting pretty sick of effeminate camp homosexual guys being put forward as a symbol of gay pride as its kinda sad and predictable its the gay best friend to women not the uber masculine who doesn't need women that the majority of gay men are its kinda pathetic that you cant have someone like Captain America being gay and macho instead "representation" is a skinny camp guy who acts like a teenage girl and is usually the butt of jokes no leads just the punchline.
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could you do a video on a channel called liberal hivemind
@@Ennrod-ly5stComplaining about a liberal hivemind while being part of the conservative hivemand is so ironic.
You can now proceed to use the word "soyboy, woke, DEI, colored hair" as you were indoctrinated to do
no im not like that there's a youtube channel literally named liberal hivemind that I was asking him to do a video essay on
@@Ennrod-ly5st Lol you had us
Speaking of grifting ...
You notice how they never talk about things they actually like unless they can use it to put something else down. All their videos about House of The Dragon had to bring up the Rings of Power and they were all using Godzilla Minus One to take shots at Disney and Marvel as though those things have anything to do with one another. They can never like the movie/show on its own merits it always has to be in opposition to something else.
Yeah people say that over ideolism is fake and people should be more cinical, but even beeing over cinical can be just as fake as over ideolism is theres nothing good to fight for.
Superman can be an ideliolist character but he can get cinical if things don't get better, batman is a cinical character but he can believe in peacefull ideas if he can know another way.
Every person has a balance and if we can't see that balance then we don't relate at all.
Exactly. I think the part I find most humorous is how their fanbases/supporters love to “call out” creators like Pillar of Garbage for “obsessing” over calling this stuff out while simultaneously ignoring that these grifters almost never talk about stuff they love or talk about without comparing it to a “woke” property. The majority of the content is whining about The Culture War. It’s embarrassing
@@mizushogun i wonder if these people ever talk about doom, you know.. that game where you kill demons, go big, go home and that it.. you know actual fun!
Oh who im kidding they will find a way to shit on games like spider-man 2 or jedi survivor because they are woke! also baldurs gate but i doubt these people ever play a game where you can bang ANYTHING
That's the nature of competition. Competition requires a nebulous They to attack. Competition is inherently destructive. See Alfie Kohn's "No Contest".
Real. When Dune 2 came out all they cared about was how it was so much better than Star Wars
"Before they were assets... they were marks." Is a no-scope one shot.
At some point, you just realize that these people are Sailor Moon villains: Leeching of negative energy, causing discontent and distrust to empower themselves. And never forget: The Leopard party will eat your face eventually, as the Leopard party always needs an ethnic or social group to eat the faces of.
So what you're saying is that we need a coalition of magical trans girl lesbian to nuke them with rainbow energy . . .
Checks out.
Their are a few precure villains that are lime that...Heck the main antagonist of a recent precure season I watched had his name based on the Term Skin head, dude was even bald.
Anime fans seem to be a pretty good target for this type of Astroturfing.
Not the Sailor moon type, but the Isekai crowd.
Pretty good assessment.
You saw the video POG made on the Leopard party, right?
Who’s here after the DOJ indictment? Lock them all up!!
Lets gooo
Yeup! They're all Putin's bitches
D🤡J??? Merrick Garland is the Neville Chamberlain of att🤡rney generals, either a C😰WARD! 🤔r c☠️mplicit.
@@richardking888 low iq
HER WEB CONNECTS THEM ALL ‼‼‼🗣🗣🗣
As it was written!!😳
the 2020s is going to be remembered as the decade of grifters
That was more the 2010's, we're just living in the aftermath.
This is the decade of open bullshit and deception. The 10s were about masked bullshit 20s are about openly boldly bullshitting your way to success even if the shit your peddling is openly anti reality.
And the assassin creed Yasuke situation show us how they distract us form real problem like ubisoft business practices because the focused is on Yasuke a samurai that is considered a samurai buy Japanese and is a part of their history on a game that do historical tourism and fantasy but the loser really don’t like reality and want to make their bs fantasy a reality
@@Hawkatana Since 2021-2022, it’s been heading towards its Bronze and Dark Ages.
Many people who used to get sucked down these rabbit holes are getting older and wiser, I mean, the majority of them were high school and college kids when Gamergate and Comicsgate were at their peak, and they’re starting to understand that all of this is and always has been bullshit. I was thankfully not one of them, because I’m not gullible and I have an understanding of what’s good and what’s bad (I knew that Trump and his allies were all evil and corrupt since his run for president in 2016), but I’ve seen all this heading downhill as we speak.
Unfortunately yes.
Im not sure a video has ever aged SO well in such a short amount of time, holy hell.
I really appreciate how he’s put things together - all the brogan brained morons need to understand how they’re being played - I remember complaining about the state of politics in 2005 during the GWOT and an older friend said to me: “we’ll look back on this as the good old days”
Putin truly is the wizard of Oz
I gotta admit, I listened to Alex Jones years ago. The day I stopped was when Sandy Hook happened. Now that my world views have become more broad over the years, I’ve come to understand that these grifters are doing what they want for their own agendas and end goals. What they want is carnage, justifications for white supremacy, and, in Turning Point USA’s case, child marriage, because, according to Charlie Kirk, “women are less attractive and fertile at 30 years old.” Yeah, I talked to my fam about that fact recently and even they find that idea disgusting and shocking.
Don't forget that that's a viewpoint also held by Don lemon
@@zufalllx but unlike him, I’m not a hack. The Far Right are ghouls. Nothing more nothing less.
Surprised the FEMA camp stuff that Alex Jones was talking about wasn't enough to turn someone off from him.
@@KingKrouch yeah. No kidding. I knew I made the right choice to stop listening to him years ago after Sandy Hook when I saw news coverage of him having Nick Fuentes on his show. He’s the biggest Far Right ghoul of them all. Plus, now that I look back at that time, I wasn’t made aware of the dog whistles until I started looking into the manosphere recently and seeing how it and the far right intertwine. It’s a very insidious pipeline, and I thank God every day that I stopped myself from going down it.
Apparently he forgot about women aged 18-29
Given recent news, this video is probably more relevant now than before.
yep haha
working on a followup as we speak 🗣️
@@PillarofGarbage How can they now say they are the “victims” of a Russian scheme, when we’ve been saying for years now - dude, your message plays right into the hands of Putin, you’re like his mouthpiece.” And the whole time they called us “snowflakes” and accused us of TDS? Now think of the wider implications: The GOP in Congress (MTG, etc.) refused aid to Ukraine, and some of the reasons they gave match exactly with what Tim Pool says about Ukraine and Zelenskyy.
This is little to do with the video but is vaguely related. It's painful going anywhere online now when theres just people being casually racist, or sexist, or homophobic or transphobic and it's sad that I could keep that list going and going. I can't pin point when this shift started but that's maybe because truthfully it has always been there but it really slowed down and now it's ramped up more than ever in my opinion
yeah, it's now just fucking exhausting being online and I hate it
Tom Holland posted on Instagram about the Romeo and Juliet version he's in (with a black Juliet) and the comments are just out and out racist
Today I jumped in a game of CS and a couple of the other players were just pasting swastikas in chat
i feel like a frog in a boiling pot and i do not like it
It’s definitely come to the forefront lately, we just have to endure really, because as long as there are reasonable people that know to call out prejudice, then maybe things will get better
@@PillarofGarbage Sounds like it's time to grow some balls.
It's definitely a case of reactionary pushback to social progress. Wherever strides in social equity are made there will be rabid reactionaries aggressively trying to push back.
It wasn't so long ago when sexist, homophobic, racist, transphobic, etc. language was incredibly common and not really something that a lot of people really even noticed and just about every piece of popular media was created with a white, straight, male audience in mind.
Now that that's changing a bit the people who actually liked, or at least weren't bothered by all those "isms" and liked being catered to almost exclusively are lashing out against anything that is challenging the status quo that they enjoyed for so long.
It's not just a problem with these chuds either. They're just the loudest. This kind of thinking is pretty common amongst a lot of the "normal," "apolitical" (read: right wing but privileged enough that they don't have to think about it) folks who are perceived as being the politically disinterested "everyman," who are "divorced from political bias" and just "speak from a place of common sense." Which just helps launder the image of anti-woke nutcases like the ones referred to in this video.
In the 90s, the internet felt huge (almost infinite) but it was very local. You could find your little corner and it was good. There were appalling places filled with hateful people of every stripe, but you didnt have to engage with them. If your, say, Zombie-themed crochet page became toxic, you could find another one. Now, the internet feels tiny. We're all forced to share the same space, managed by tech-filth that spent their adolescence on racist message boards. I think of it a bit like what happened to cities in the 80s. All the small, independent bars, clubs, shops, museums, community spaces couldn't compete with giant shopping malls. Suddenly, a night out meant some awful chain bar full of the kind of people you could avoid in your old part of town.
This aged well
Bannon was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching the Alt-Right before she died.
Did your mother die around 2010-2014?
I have this question because it was at this time that the far right grew in Brazil.
I understood that reference
Ironic how conspiracy theorists were the ones who made a conspiracy.
How is ita conspiracy you just need to look at live streams and websites those guys usesure not all of them know each other but most do unless you were referring to nerdrotic and geeks and gamers and healsbabyface being conspiracy theorists and not pillar of garbage then my mistake
Most of the time, if the Right makes an accusation, it's actually a "Freudian Admission".
The dictionary says a conspiracy is “a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.” Thats exactly what the online far right is.
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@@Gelatinocyte2 Didn't they call it "Sargon's Law" at one point?
@@Gelatinocyte2Oh the bubble you must live in to think that doesn’t happen on both sides.
Unrelated to anything but if you ever get big enough to have a fandom and need a name for it, they should be “Pill-heads”
Garbagemen is also in contention 🚮
@@PillarofGarbageI vote garbagemen. They’re real pillars of society.
@@PillarofGarbage *Garbagefolk
@@PillarofGarbageI like both
What about "People of Garbage"?
It's incredible who they consider intellectual.
It strikes me that the "intellectuals" are just what stupid people imagine a smart person sounds like.
I f****** absolutely love how these guys think that X-Men is going woke. Do they not realize that the X-Men and the mutants in that universe were a direct stand-in of the oppressed groups in america, of the world? That it was really a story directly inspired by the civil Rights movement?
They know, they just don't care
The fact that Lauren Chen ran TENET, where they featured other alt-right commentators, and which as it has now turned out was almost completely financed by Russia/RT, really adds another layer to this story.
This video is going to draw the ire of many of the worst people on the internet. That said, i respect the balls it takes to post it anyways and wholeheartedly support its message. You sir are a true BAMF! 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for being one of the few that speaks out against these people. They need to be talked about and shouldn’t get away with their nature. Great video.
GamerGate never ended. The only cure is education. Thank you so much for the video.
It's crazy how most of the figures mentioned on both webs got their start from that whole fiasco alone. "Ethics in game journalism" though, right?
@ThatWolfArrow These people enganged in an harassment campaign that's studied to this day. If they'll try to define what "ethics" mean, you can throw that definition to the trash. Heck, they can't even define what wokeness AKA their whole brand even means. They are merchants of outrage and they should be treated as such, that's my TL;DR.
@@ThatWolfArrow They hate journalists because journalists are held to a standard and "truth tellers" aka Twitter freaks that spreak fake news, aren't. It's a good thing to remamber. Also, these people can't define what wokeness is, which is THEIR WHOLE IDENTITY so there's no chance they can define what ethics is.
Back to fat ugly not white women female characters right ????
"You disagree with me, therefore you must be uneducated." Sure man.
"Marxist colonists invading geek culture"
I actually love the appropriation of the anticolonialist language to describe the conspiracy theories they apply to what are fairly often children's films. It's some of the most cossetted, pampered, first-world shit you could imagine. It's genuinely fascinating. These are people that have no real problems.
As someone with actual severe myopia -- the Hitler Salute is absolutely identifiable without vision correction.
Thank you for speaking on this. I wish bigger creators spoke on it in a more direct way. Especially since these guys genuinely think they have “shifted” the culture when they didn’t. Just because they’re loud and consistent doesn’t make them right.
The next step is them realizing that they can't meme their perfect world into existence, and deciding to use force to make it happen.
@@BoboftheOldeWays It's all going to come to a head in the next couple of years. As they continue to lose ground, they are going to have to get more and more extreme in their rhetoric to keep the grift going and it's just not sustainable. A candle burning on both ends burns twice as bright for half as long and that's what we're seeing right now.
Yes, they didn't make any cultural shift. At best they learned to take advantage of the Conservative-leaning people that always existed in nerd spaces (Michael Moorcock and Norman Spinrad where already complaining about them back in the 70s)
Steve Bannon: mouldering slab of spam (and that is an insult to the lunch meat)
Justice for Spam!
I've sadly known who Lauren Chen was since she was "The Roaming Millennial" and my own chud days.
I'm old enough to remember when Breitbart actually published that alt-right article and saw Milo tweet about it. I didn't realize at the time how much this type of thing would shape internet culture in the coming decade.
Milo hasn't been gone long enough. I recall that he basically endorsed pedophilia in a radio or podcast interview, which one exposed surprisingly cost him an invite to CPAC, and Breitbart parted ways with him as well as losing his book deal with a publisher. I can't imagine why any publishing company would have cut a deal with him in the first place.
The sad part is when I watch this video is that it was sponsored by PragerU. I hate TH-cam ads
There’s a billboard nearby touting Epoch Times as the most-trusted news source and it makes me want to vomit.
That's because they probably throw a bunch of money to get their ads to show up in anything remotely related to them, even if it is criticizing them. There's a organization that honestly, is basically a Brazilian version of that called Brasil Paralelo that does this same bullshit.
That's why ad blockers, and the programmers that make and regularly update them for free, are comrades.
TH-cam shows you ads based on your search history.
@@whattheegadWhich causes psychotically Conservative ads to show up for anyone who searches for things related to politics, yes. It is a known problem.
We tend to underestimate how well organised something can be with some grifter funding and set to thrive with hate & ignorance.
Love the parody of across the universe. I'm a big beatles fan and i always like to hear tributes
Chris Raygun was offered a lucrative deal to tow the conservative line a few years ago. Although he declined, because he is pretty left leaning he suspects a lot gamergate type people were offered the same deal and accepted.
Yeah a lot of these people are just money-grubbing little s****
Since when is he anything other than a liberal, especially "left leaning"?
@@kostajovanovic3711 yeah "pretty left leaning" was a rather odd way to label him. "Ain't No Rest for the Triggered - Social Justice: The Musical" is a video he made, did he ever walk back running around being an anti-SJW?
@xBINARYGODx I think he and lacy greene kinda balanced each other out. She toned down the weird, somewhat cringe white girl performative liberalism, and he toned down the weird, cringe anti-sjw stuff. I believe they started out debating and seemed to just get along as people, so they got together. It was kinda a nice story, tbh. She saved him from the woke watch black hole, and she's a real one for that, I think.
@@a.jherbert5436 I think that is somewhat right even though Chris would never admit it. Although he was always left leaning even then. I listen to his playstation podcast every week. And most of the time when there is culture war conversation he always seems balanced. And he regrets doing interview with grifters like Dave Rubin.
Oh please do a video about Sweetbaby inc. The amount gamer hysteria over this company is Hysterical
Ideally the thing we should be doing with that is largely ignoring it. We know it's all bullshit so we say that and refuse to let them control the narrative.
@@scruffopone3989 thats a good idea. It's just annoying because now they're trying to say it's contributing to the awful state of the game industry when we and them know its fucking greed.
Never knows best did an astounding fucking video.
@@icysisdee9547🤣
It's hilarious how much power they think a consulting firm has. lol
I feel like there is a never ending pool of these people. It’s truly disturbing.
It’s funny now that we know Lauren Chen is a legit Russian asset lmfao.
You introduced Nerdrotic and I immediately got an ad for an adult only cruise. I was washing dishes at the time, not looking at my screen and was super confused and the decidedly not-nerd content I was listening to lmao.
When you said “you probably never heard of Lauren Chen” I knew this video wasn’t for me. I was subscribed to Lauren. I know all these people. That’s why I know they only say BS 😂
This is, of course, no criticism to your video. Not everyone was a edgy young adult and that’s perfectly okay 👌
I'm genuinely ashamed that I know most of these names. Most of us had the phases, and I hope most of us would find a way out.
Thankfully I only know all of these names from similar call out videos like this one lol
It's nice to know people escape that web. Gives me hope for humanity
@@netanelaker4437 as someone who had both one would describe as a "woke" phase and and an anti-woke phase I can confidently say that I outgrew both of those
@@bulgarianreaper6587usually, the truth is somewhere in the middle.
What always bugged me about the anti-woke stuff is that they never realize most of the time the wokeism is only injected into movies or series because of the credit scores of the companies making the stuff.
So the right wing grifters are stupid enough to believe Amazon is "woke" for having some PoC in Rings of Power (who probably earned a lot less than a white superstar actor would have cost) when in fact Amazon is evil incarnate in the form of a company exploiting their workers to maximize profits for the owner. Same with Disney. They're not "woke" they just try to pander to the audience and at the same time fulfill all the criteria to get more money from the finance sector that thinks companies that are profit oriented should also make "social impact" but they're not doing that by maybe actually paying their workers probably but by their "messaging".
You should focus on Curtis Yarvin and the NRx (Neo-Reactionary) movement which had ties to JD Vance and to philosopher Nick Land, who became a proponent of eugenics post-2008
This aged like fine wine considering Lauren Chen just got deleted on youtube for grifting for Russian money lol
Loved it. I think you could have thrown in a few more names, but brevity is the soul of wit and so forth, which is why you're the youtuber and I'm the commenter ;)
Yeah - a video like this could be any length, really, but after a point I worry you’d just get an increasingly unengaging list of less and less recognisable names
My thought process was keep it punchy & prioritise communicating the general idea & picture over all the info - because once someone _gets_ the picture, they can go down the rabbit holes to their heart’s content
Wouldn't be surprised if Russian money is also a common connection. 😂
I absolutely love that Chrissie Mayr’s chyron describes her as a « female comedian »
LMAO, I was looking for this comment. The anti-pronoun brigade thinks it's very important that you know her profession is FEMALE comedian. Not regular comedian, like a REAL comedian--a funny one. No, she's a GIRL comedian. Lower your expectations viewers, and just enjoy looking at lady.
Everything you could ever want or need to know about Nerdrotic and his sycophantic cronies can be gleaned from watching his review of the Finnish war movie Sisu. He starts by praising the film for the quality of its content, made on a very low budget, but then goes on to use that praise as a means to criticise the entirety of Hollywood in general, first by attacking actor's and writer's unions for holding movie companies to ransom (like it's a bad thing for people to want a decent wage for the work they do) and then stating that unions have no place in the creative sphere whatsoever; finally adding that he just hates unions period. I really am sick to death of him and the people that inhabit that echo chamber he lives in calling out everything that exists outside of the MAGA political sphere woke, left wing and Marxist. Good on you for calling it out.
Well this aged rather Well!!!
I remember when I was first discovering Drinker and Nerdrotic and found them mildly entertaining for about a week before I realized that the only thing they did was endlessly whine about children’s movies/shows and complain non-stop about “wokeness” while pushing alt-right rhetoric. It’s all become so grossly pathetic.
What such rhetoric has the Drinker been spreading? I'm not that familiar with the situation...
@@dronessential basically, any time there’s a black person in a movie it’s a “DEI” higher, as with just about any other minority. Just not someone to be taken seriously. He’s also a big Daily Wire guy, so that should speak for itself
@@dronessential "Anything that isn't a white cis hetero male that feeds my red pilled fantasies is real bad" sort of rhetoric, the same all of those grifters have been doing basically.
Drinker started veeeeery slow with it, I remember watching some of his Star Wars sequel trilogy videos back in 2019 in which he seemed very critical but not a hateful weirdo, and thinking he was somehow "normal", especially because what he was criticizing deserved it. Fast forward 1 year and he's dropped the mask and is now doing the same far right propaganda of pigs like Nerdorotic and getting into cringe fights on Twitter.
the entire rightwing of the political spectrum consists of two distinct groups of people the rich and the suckers
4:52 how can she be a libertarian atheist and a christian nationalist at the same time lol
likely because Christian nationalism has little to do with being Christian and libertarianism is gaining popularity among the right rn
Lauren's a grifter. And like all grifters, she'll say whatever is convenient at the time to hold her audience's attention to rake in the dough.
i think its a timeline of things shes been. like libertarian atheist was the first thing she was a while ago, then she were the other things and now shes a christian nationalist
@@anniee5487 that just tells me she has no conviction tbh
I almost feel bad for them cause being "woke" isnt something you just delete off of disney+ or an actor in an amazon series. Theyre fighting a mentality that cant and wont go away. They dont understand what theyre fighting agaisnt, which is why they will inevitably lose.
I think they'll be forced to confront that reality in the next couple of years but rather than self reflect, they will just continue to sink lower and drag their fans down with them unfortunately.
And yet the people who they are fighting against aren't winning either; they seem to be alienating the public every time they appear to the public eye and not getting as much money as they should
Most of them don't realize it, but they whole ideology is based on the notion of never wining their fight. Fighting is the end in itself, that's what the "hard times create strong men, etc." quote ultimately means, that even if they win it will mean loosing, their only real victory is to keep the conflict forever.
@@ldcg106 they're alienating mostly those who are going down the rabbit hole of those grifters, 'cause they're not only "bad written characters" to them, they're a much bigger menace that must be fought with everything in order to satisfy a persecution complex.
@@marcello7781 You just described all the hacks in Hollywood, except that they are fighting the menace of infinititely better products that they will never hope to even copy their shadows, let alone make something of similar value.
If TH-cam ever decides to delete their channels entirely someday that would be nice. But they'd probably sue the company over that.
TH-cam profits from these propaganda machines because they are fueled by lies, hate, tribal division and ad hominems. Nothing creates reactions as much as lies, hateful division, getting personal and taking sides in an escalating spiral of name calling, bullshitting and mobbing up on each other: more traffic, more online time, more ads to sell. TH-cam might act as if they have moral standards but that's just part of the grift. They won't delete any high-traffic generating channel unless being legally forced to.
I really appreciate it when you just call these folks out
Like fine wine...
No One remembers Dan Quayle attacking Murphy Brown in the 90s wrecking the image of women by being a single mother in the workplace!!😅😂
I love that people are pointing these toxic people out for what they are.
Rewriting Ripley wrote a few articles on their connections a few years back. It's not surprising because if you subscribe to one it's inevitable that you'll be lead further down the Fandom Menace rabbit hole.
Years ago (christ, well over ten now) I had thought to make TH-cam videos bitching about geek stuff that was pissing me but also praising stuff I liked and I had watch some of these people's video or those of their precursors. At first I thought them to be honest gripes about media, but over time noticed it was really just continuous performative outrage over and over again... that it was often a grift at best or rampant outright bigotry at the worst.
That realization killed my desire to ever really try to be a TH-camr because it felt like in order to even just do well you had to take part in that crap playing off people's bigotries and insecurities as well as pander to the tribalism of fan culture in general... which I just... I just don't want to be that type of asshole. That's not to say I'm not an asshole (I am) I'm just not that type of asshole. And worst of all the internet grift-sphere has only gotten worse and even more toxic in the last several years... and far too many people are falling for it.
They presented them as honest critique at first which is how they got away with it for so long. They would point out faults of movies without talking about any positives. That came after the decade before it which was the whole Channel Awesome boom of hating on older movies that were terrible which came about after the AVGN channel hit the scene which complained about stupid NIntendo games made by LJN which were honestly kind of funny. I don't blame AVGN for any of it. That was his idea to begin with. But man did the internet run with it and twist it into something nasty.
Youve gotta do a video on how Joe Rogan fits into all this. He's the starting point of the alt right pipeline
💩 pipe.
lmao
He's a has-been who took his grift to podcasting and somehow got a deal from a platform that should have known better. Without his manipulative podcast, he would have gone into well-deserved oblivion years ago.
You ever enjoy life just to flex on these weirdos?
Sometimes I watch a really bad movie that I can enjoy just fine and smile, thinking about them.
All the time.
You can't really "flex" an emanciated arm.
@@ldcg106 you must not understand how metaphors work because your response implies I don't frequently enjoy things which I regularly do
@@BlueBeetle1939 No, it seems we both understand perfectly; difference is you missed the intended target: the person making the video.
Polarization is the game today. We're all being played.
So glad someone took the time to lay all this out. Also, this is 100% the same pivot pattern used to radicalize multiple communities.
Knowledge Fight is a great podcast about Alex Jones & the right wing girftosphere as a whole.
I'm a policy wonk!
Man is out here educating
On what not to do or listen
a lot of what you said reminds me about the "Olay and Friends" podcast episode about the state of US black media outlets
I think the thing with Alex is less that he is at the center of any web and more that he is desperately clinging to anything and everything that can supplement his income in a way that can't be taken by the Sandy Hook lawsuit.
He also has had a LOT of people come and go that he has since burned bridges with like Millie Weaver and Steve Pieczenik, so any past connection he has is not necessarily a current connection.
The point is that Alex has become more of a hanger-on, trying desperately to use the clout of people who do his job better than him to keep his head above water with a 1 billion dollar judgement over his head.
So I wouldn't be surprised if those green lines are mostly tangential, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he does have an employee or a contributer running Nerd Wars as a way to open doors for him to try to expand his audience and his sources of income.
Wouldn't surprise me if it's someone like Chase Geiser or Harrison Smith.
they are not grifters. they are completely sincere in their fascistic predilections.
Almost as scary.
I think I've talked about this somewhere before but basically the reason I refer to them as grifters is that they're selling lies & knowingly making mountains out of molehills in exchange for audience devotion + engagement, etc
but yes I do of course agree that even the ones who're aware of this are 'true believers' in that they see the above as white lies in service of a greater good
They're a bit of both. A lot of them clearly know that they are making a big deal over nothing but they still do legitimately care. It's a phantasm thing
Fascism is a grift. It's selling people a false view of the modern world and of history and saying "we must return to tradition, give me power, I will bring us to the promised land".
Great, more people using words they have no idea what they mean.
Before HvB was yelling about Disney and Marvel he was yelling about Blizzard/WoW. Not much has changed. He seems like a bitter man. You can criticize bad products without losing your mind each time.
I think I know HvBs story I think he’s an unmarried 30 something hermit who thinks the world owes him everything . He likely failed in everything he tried and now solely relies on Yt because he has a 10 year employment gap and no where will hire him because he has the personality of sandpaper.
Bro got triggered by optional pronouns and a cut scene character calling him out, that was priceless.
Speaking of Warcraft... What fraction of former warcraft streamers do you think are part of this economy...
@@hypothalapotamus5293 In name so far only HvB is in the first row. And he was more of an edited content creator, might have streamed it for a few months.
Asmongold has basically started farming the fringes of these outrage bait topics.
He also "abandoned" WoW streaming because he just wants his teenage years back and Microsoft hasn't invented a time machine yet.
@@Nightstalker314 Asmongold definitely feels like he is drifting towards this space.
Turn the freaking frogs gay clown never gets old
I literally laughed out loud when he said that.
How on earth can anyone take that bull crap seriously?
I really wish you would have talked about Steve Mnuchin and his attachment to the DCEU and possibly the funding of those projects using Taxpayer money.
At this point the views don’t matter it’s just truth and real messages of the truth with these guys
Btw it’s sad that most of their fans will and probably won’t ever open their dam eyes
meet the grifters
Dear Fascist Jr., I’m sorry bottom feeders are trying to profit off you by being dishonest. They’re trying to drag you into a futile redo of World War Two.
To those who love film, television, comics, etc. Fanndom as a whole. I want to throw a few names of good content creators who are reasonable people who aren't grifting and are actually knowledgeable at the same time.
•Coy Jandreau. He has his own channel and is seen on Kristan Harloff and ReelRejects channels.
•John Campea.
•John Rocha.
•Winston Marshal
•Star Wars Explained
•ScreenCrush
I know there are more. But these are my go to people on TH-cam, Twitter, etc.
It's actually a video I'd love to see you make. Unless you hav, andI'vee not seen it as i just recently found your channel. But a video shouting out channels/people who arent grifters.
Oh I’ve seen some of those guys, they’re pretty cool👍
1:22 hell yeah showing spider island love
hey!!! i'm so sorry for the random comment, but what is the song in the background music around the 12 min mark??? i need it please
that's 'Escapism' by Yung Logos
I'm already subbed, but Xanderhal's reaction got me to watch this one.
Connecting this to world of Warcraft isn’t surprising to me at all. 😂
It's a grifters economy... may have always been.
The Grifterverse
The crossover no one wants
and also a crossover of Christian that everyone hates, not respected
There needs to be more videos like this out there. There is so much hate in fandoms that simply don't need to exist because of these guys. Hopefully this video inspires more people to talk about this
I feel like this is my call to action.
It also wouldn't exist if Hollywood wasn't hellbent on destroying the franchises people loved and didn't throw hissy fits when fans rightfully called them out on it.
Imagine how appealing social media (or even the Internet in general!) would have been to Goebbels and co. for spreading their "message"
same way the alt right feels!
Wow! I just watched this the other day and this is totally in line with the new Russian asset information that just dropped. This is honestly extremely solid journalism. Excellent work.
“Milo yeonopolous is good at connecting with the kids”
That’s gonna be a Texas sized “Oof” from me lol
Well done. It looks much of the cess pool my research has discovered.
They're even clipping a video when "Amandla" the actress from the Acolyte where she said "White people crying was the point"
The clip was for an interview of a film based on a book about police brutality and the struggles black neighborhoods go through because of racism btw. People love to take what she said out of context. Her saying “white people crying was the goal” was in response to how she wants there to be more awareness and more empathetic to black people and their struggles.
Apparently, that makes her super racist.
Of the 10 I know about on the picture @4:14, all absolutely belong except one - The Critical Drinker.
Excellent video!
Grumpy isolated young men getting angry about changes to video games and comics are the perfect marks for the alt-right pipeline.
Hey-! Pillar I've got to ask, have you seen Innuendo Studo's series 'The Alt-Playbook'?
If not, I _highly_ suggest watching 'The Card Says Moops', 'Always a Bigger Fish', and 'I Hate Mondays' episodes.
It was extremely formative with regards to how I conceptualize conservative thought.
I can also suggested 'Endnote 5', his UC Merced talk. I'm not going to type 'the thing' that it's about for the comment filters sake, however it offers *a ton* of clarification with regards to what in the hell happened there.
This is a good and important piece and I despise all of these people and what they stand for. I will say though that I also despise what Kennedy has done with Lucasfilm as a fan of Indy and SW for decades. My criticisms have to do with story, characters respecting of lore etc and not about how “woke” these projects allegedly are. There are a lot of us out here. Disliking a lot of what Disney has done with these franchises doesn’t automatically equal “anti woke”.
If you look at a live action disney remake and think "this would be better with more white people", that is immediately suspicious.
Thank you for this.
It's been annoying me for a very long time that many people couldn't see these entitled brats echoing each other over innane matters and pretty much avoiding the tougher discussion...
So you are thanking him for doing exactly what you just typed in the big paragraph? Ok
What about Hassan then
This is the lamest league of villains of all time.
And yet you are watching this channel; wow...
@@ldcg106 What point are you trying to make here exactly? lol
@@nikidelvalle The irony of your comment, given whom the video belongs to.
@@ldcg106 What is the irony? Literally wtf are you talking about? lmao
@@nikidelvalle Do I seriously have to spell it out for you? No wonder you left your 1st comment.
Although the conservative "indy" set is new faces, the model is an old one in publishing and propaganda. The Cheney-Miller-NYT-Fox ouroborus was a notable example.
Your forgetting geeks and gamers amala ekpunobi and Brett cooper and Sydney Watson
Always strikes me as odd that Jayexi is friends with mauler, but otherwise not like any of these assholes.
They subscribe to the same absolutely mind melting perspective that a critique can (and should) be "objective" as Mauler. That's your connection.
Do I watch Nerdrotic?
Yes
Do I agree with what he says?
Nah, by a long shot.
Is it fun to watch?
Yes
But now for years of watching these guys, I have let the hate go. As a jedi does 😉.
I don't mind Dan Slot, even if I don't like everything he makes he seems like a cool guy. Besides it's not like he's done anywhere near the worst stuff eith Spider-Man out of everyone at marvel.
I want to see you make a video about Mauler and the shit heads he streams with. Take his mask off
I’m definitely not saying a video on mauler won’t ever happen - but it’d need more time & focus than I could give it at present. Any weakness, mistake, or exaggeration would be enough to discredit the whole thing (in the eyes of many).
@@PillarofGarbage that's fair. Thanks for the response
@@PillarofGarbageyeah, critique videos on that side of TH-cam are looked at with an insane amount of scrutiny. I guess since they always talk about “objective truth” in film and art and whatnot. Take your time to make something good
I've noticed lately that Wisecrack is also drifting over to the grift.
How? I thought they were like.... Liberal or left leaning?
Woke+Good writing= Great show 💯................Woke+Garbage writing= Garbage 🗑️
Once again an excellent video! Keep up the good work!
Been saddened to see RMB now hanging out with these guys now too.
What does RMB stand for?
@@officialmonarchmusicRobert Meyer Burnett, I think.
@@Zer0DigitalStudio yes sorry too used to being online I didn’t think about using the full name for reference apologies
@@darklorddysart No apology necessary. I'm glad I could help!
@@darklorddysartI still don’t really know who that is
You’re right! They’re all connected. It’s one big tangled web. Wait, at 17:49 what’s that name in your Patreon supporters list right between Adriana Rodriguez and Alorravex? Oh no, they’ve gotten to you too! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Great video as always man, keep up the great work.
i have been compromised 💀
Some times something is crap because its crap even if the critical drinker is pointing it out Like the Acolyte stretches a thimble of plot to breaking point with cringe acting bad dialogue and a super weak payoff, dullness and laziness are key to why especially Disney ive started watching Agatha and much like Secret Invasion it too is dull and kinda predictable and as a Gay guy im getting pretty sick of effeminate camp homosexual guys being put forward as a symbol of gay pride as its kinda sad and predictable its the gay best friend to women not the uber masculine who doesn't need women that the majority of gay men are its kinda pathetic that you cant have someone like Captain America being gay and macho instead "representation" is a skinny camp guy who acts like a teenage girl and is usually the butt of jokes no leads just the punchline.
Roger Stone is less of a media figure, but his rap sheet... dear gods. Look up the 'Brooks Bros Riot'.