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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- BuzzFeed's film 'Dear David' is considered the 6th worst film of 2023 and my own personal nightmare. It's based on a story ex-employee Adam Ellis told on Twitter, but somehow misses the point of what engaged people in the first place.
What's the deal with Dear David 0:00
Who is Adam Ellis 2:00
Original Tweets 3:00
Plagiarism 6:47
Abandon hope all ye who enter here 8:42
Dear David 9:30
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not buzzfeed taking the creative liberty to make dear david homophobic 😭
Tbh we all kinda knew 😫
Homosexual relationships never work. At least the movie got that right.
@@Trevor_NewJerusalemHeterosexual couples actually have higher rates of divorce 💀 too ignorant to use google for 2 minutes?
@@Trevor_NewJerusalem BOOOOOOO homophobe get outta here BOOOOOOOO
@@Trevor_NewJerusalem i hope you’re joking, buddy.
New phobia unlocked: my company making a whole ass movie talking shit about me after I leave
Ngl I would probably applaud their bravery to even think of this dumb idea. While at the same time shit and make fun of them for that
Disney made an entire movie making pot shots of a long dead actor that was once a child actor they screwed over as a teen.
@@insertianameia2224 what movie
from his wording, sound like that live action (sorta, not really, or is it?) chip and dale movie
where the villian is peter pan. who is based off from what the commentor has said
@@cyaneetnoodlesmaker2251 I never knew Peter Pan was played by a child actor
A ghost child catfishing you on grindr is so fucking funny
Just a normal sunday
Average Tuesday
Typical Friday for me
Just a little extra context, but iirc, Adam Ellis said at one point that part of the reason his art ended up kinda stiff and repetitive while working at Buzzfeed was because his deadlines were quite tight, so I kinda get why he was a little snippy with people about it. Not saying his response was justified, but it's also not as simple as him being bad at taking criticism like the movie seems to be indicating.
Also there's no room for experimentalism and boldness in corporate comics. Had he presented them the nice stuff he currently does with his art, Buzzfeed would tell him to shave all that up his ass and do another "soo relatable tee-hee" bland ass strip
From the response Todd showed in this video, he didn’t even seem *that* mean
Honestly his response wasn’t the worst.
It’s not like he’s some nepo baby who stole someone else’s job, he did serviceable work so he was hired. I’d be frustrated too if my job was constantly challenged.
@@thatrantinggirl7376 yeah, as an artist trying to get commissions, hes right. its not his fault that hes making money while others arent, like do you expect him to starve himself in solidarity?
@@6Shots_ofEspresso re-read what I said
If anyone’s curious, the art he’s making now is pretty good. Short horror and comedy comics and you can tell he’s allowed to do what he likes and not use a super corporate art style
Yes! I've been following him since he left buzzfeed and you can tell how much more he likes working on the content he makes now. I have his patreon and the art is so cool now
too bad he's a bad person and lies about everything
@@milapartment that's a good point, if only you weren't a horrible person who lies about everything...
@@milapartment so what has he been lying about? what terrible things has he done?
@@milapartment Please elaborate???? Getting my popcorn and lawn chair out???
I’m confused as to why the movie decides to make his sexuality such a focal point and pivotal to the origin story of David. The original tweets barely mention this detail, which makes it feel so forced/unnatural.
It’s Buzzfeed, they don’t need a reason to be cringe
It doesn’t seem to make it about his sexuality, just more about relationship issues, him being gay seems to be secondary
probably trying to make it deeper than it is. like oooh David represents this part of his brain David is a manifestation and while I love those I feel like those work better for like, places. occasional monsters. but always a monster that you can tell wasn't once human.
This feels like a character assassination. I don’t like his work very much but Buzzfeed is definitely a shitty company.
have you seen his newer works? he makes really good horror comics. unless you mean those and just dont like horror lol
@@potatolettuce3416I get that art is subjective but those comics suck. He can draw well but his storytelling is extremely basic.
@@niamhythedegen You're right. Art IS subjective.
@@potatolettuce3416 i've seen a couple of his horror comics, but i wouldn't call them "really good." they're kinda basic creepypasta-esque stuff, and i feel like his kinda goofy art style doesn't really lend itself well to horror. it almost feels like sanitized horror at times. but i'm glad he's out from under buzzfeed, and i have no doubt that he'll only improve by being able to work on his own terms and develop his art according to his interests.
It feels like it was written by people who work for buzzfeed who really, really hated him and wanted to come as close to slandering him as possible without risking a lawsuit
It’s crazy how this movie isn’t even remotely trying to hide the fact that it’s a character assassination…? Like, did they think they were being subtle, or did they just not care?
at this point it's not character assassination, it's just straight up defamatory, like to the point there's a history of other movies getting sued for implying similar things about real people.
(in fact the exact same thing with the cheating implications. a similar case is actually why so many movies make sure to clarify they are fictional stories)
its buzzfeed is feel like there is no shame
I know Buzzfeed owns the rights to his story but no way this isn't edging to some sort of legal issue. A story created by a guy that worked for this company and then they use his story and paint him as a villain. Like the over dramatization of flaws and they didn't even like change his name! THEY USED THIS MANS ACTUAL NAME AND ARTSTYLE THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE!?
Unfortunately it seems like it’s totally legal to make films about real people without their knowledge or consent. When Netflix’s dahmer series came out a bunch of the victims family members talked about how they got no warning that they or the victims would be in the show
@@katereagon4299bruh HOW is this legal oh my god 😭 this has to be the first on my list of stuff that sounds illegal but actually aren’t
@@katereagon4299 well this is defamation which is illegal there aren’t even any excuses to this dear David says it’s a true story and uses his name while saying these things about him
Of course it’s legal. Anything I create under my employment is owned by my company. I’m an engineer. Do you think I own the rights to the new hydrophilic coating I designed? F no.
@@jmox1776 dude this is literally defamation which is illegal it’s different because it’s not a creation that they can market even if it’s not theirs but still this IS illegal
David was supposed to be from the 1800s in the og story, him finding that old ass shoe was such a pivotal moment in the story. like the story was all written out for them but they decided to completely abandon it
Old shoe and didn't he find a marble too? Either way, David was by no means a 90's kid.
@@wolvie1618maybe an 1890s kid 😂
Oof, a lot of this is so weird to do about a former employee, like the “yanking meat” scene 🥹🙃 low key creepy and also so many continuity errors ugh!!!
Honestly when you think about it, it kinda feels like its bordering on revenge porn, what with the blatant attempt at character assassination throughout the film. So disgusting & makes me lose any modicum of respect I may have had for Buzzfeed in the first place.
Honestly this just feels like one giant attempt at defamation. They turned a smear campaign into a film
fun fact, scenes like the one implying adam cheated on his boyfriend are literally why movies, even movies based on true stories, try as hard as they can to emphasize that they're completely fictional, or more specifically one scene like this.
there was a movie made about the life and death of a guy i can't remember the name of, but along with accurate depictions of things that did happen, they completely made up a scene where he hypnotises and rapes the wife of the guy who killed him. this implied that said wife was unfaithful, and because of that, the couple sued the movie for defamation. the court ruled that because the movie had emphasized that it was based on true events, that it was in fact defamatory, and ever since most films clarify that they don't reflect real events.
all this to say, if adam hypothetically cared enough, he might have a chance to sue buzzfeed for depicting him as an unloyal asshole.
I heard about that. It's why in the earliest episodes of law and order they used to mention being based on true stories but later switched to saying they're fictional and don't mean to represent any real people or cases (which is balantantly false I haven't watched any of the shows in many yrs now but I remember there being quite a few still being based off real event and cases.)
The movie is “Rasputin and the Empress” (1932)
This feels like such an insidious reach on BuzzFeed’s part.
I get that BuzzFeed legally owns his tweets; truly unfortunate contracts, but it is what it is. They could’ve taken the Dear David idea and divorced it from its original creator. How does owning the rights to an employee’s online content mean owning the right to use their actual identity in such a way? Did he not only sign away his creativity, but also his personhood?
How is this different to RPF? (Real Person Fiction; fanfiction written about real people, usually celebrities, instead of fictional characters.) The ethics of RPF have long been debated in fandom spaces and I’m not here to pass judgment on it one way or another, but like… Come on, BuzzFeed, you didn’t need to profit off of his idea AND piss all over his character all in one go.
If I recall, there was a whole thing with Buzzfeed years ago where they took control over the personal accounts of some of their employees and after those employees left, Buzzfeed continued to use those accounts and refused access to the people who's likeness they were using. So honestly, it would not be surprising to me if Buzzfeed thinks that as long as someone worked for them for some time, they forever own their likeness.
Oh man, like with vtuber companies after the person leaves!
@@AliCatDarling holy fucking shit ew wow thats bad lmao
Didn't buzzfeed also steal one of their black creators shorts and remake it and started getting awards for that vs the short that was basically shot for shot. A black trauma groundhog day short. I think Twilight Zone (peele) also did that too. What's up with big companies stealing creative people's art?
What are the shorts called if you know? I didn’t know that wtf
It's capitalism.
Huh
why does it matter what race?
@@playernotfound9489 Because it was about black trauma.
Iirc midway through the story Adam Ellis made a statement clarifying that the story was, in fact, fictional (because there was some debate at the time) and based on a real dream he had, I think the initial tweet about the sleep paralysis demon was real but he decided to turn it into a story after the fact, he put a lot of effort into it too, I can’t say I’m a big fan of his but I loved the Dear David story when it was going on on Twitter, the fact that Buzzfeed can just own the rights to a story he made in his free time NOT for Buzzfeed, a story which heavily involved his real life personal life and which is based on his dreams, and they can use all of that in a film where the protagonist is literally him, yet they won’t even give him so much as a story credit is wild to me, it feels like it shouldn’t be legal for them to use his likeness like that without his permission when he no longer works for the company, not to mention they got rid of everything that made the story actually good, why is David a haunted chatroom now??
for real, if part of the requirement of working for a company is that they get to own my personal tweets and whatever else i make in my free time… that is not a company i would be working for lmao.
Dear David was such a fun ARG type story, I was following it from the beginning...kinda don't want to know what happened with the movie 😭
@@theotherauthor740you described how most vtube companies work
@@theotherauthor740its...Actually pretty common. Amazon is the same. Their goal is more for patents and inventions but any copyworks belong to Amazon. At one point t it says I'm general but then another specifies when worked on while on the clock. It also doesn't really have an exit clause for stopping if you leave the company...
I love this artist and I had no clue bro worked for Buzzfeed at one point. Man poor guy-
Gross
@@tundra4331what?
@@Justapikachu577 Gross
@@olathianwhiskey416 explains nothing
@@Justapikachu577 gross
This feels like a butchering of both his original story and his own character irl. Its almost malicious!
Definitely malicious
Almost??
So a bit of context: for as much hate and criticism as Adam Ellis received during the early 2010s, he was also REALLY popular on Twitter during that time. His comics circulated like crazy and got tons of attention, his comics got pretty wide exposure and you'd pretty much always see his art around Twitter in that time period if you were on it with any kind of frequency. A lot of the sentiment against him was a sort of Garfield/Nickelback-style backlash where it was comprised of a significant number of people who were baffled his comics were popular or were outright angry they were as popular as they were (as well as at least one or two folks in there who like to hate on things just because they are widely popular)
Lmao the way they’re just attacking an ex employee…I remember being there for the original story and I remember it being super interesting. But it works because it was online, it was almost arg like.
The end of the movie should have been Adam getting fired by Buzzfeed, which somehow means that Buzzfeed now owns Dear David, and now the ghost just haunts Buzzfeed.
this just feels like Defamation: the movie. wtaf?
Ikrrr like how was he ok with making a cameo in this movie??
The fact that the company you work for owns the art you make in your spare time is insane and makes me even more afraid to work than I already am
It's so odd seeing Adam depicted being out like this, he was giving "closet case that likes to gay bait" vibe at the time. Also thought he's bi(followed him since Books of Adam blog).
Not to mention that he should've been very easy to cast a lookalike to considering he has that default bearded white guy face. 😅
P. S. Not surprised if Buzzfeed is salty with their ex-employees, most of their employees went indie when they got popular. It's like Buzzfeed is just a stepping stone.
even back when BuzzFeed for a newer thing, i think it was largely regarded as a stepping stone, esp for people out of college. Which is funny given how hostile they can be to ex employees, they could definitely use it as a marketing thing
@@conan4real I only know Buzzfeed as a website for mind numbing listicles & quizes so was surprised to see many youtubers came from them. But yeah, they can rebrand themselves like a content house.
"Build your brand with Buzzfeed"
I know Adams main userbase is thirsty gay men (per his own words regarding the dad in one of his newest short horror story comics, specifically the one with the branch and the big sea bugs in the girls brain. who, if you see the dad, you know why he said that LMAO) and I could've sworn he said he was gay himself 😭 but then again I don't see him much I only follow him on twittah
Adam’s been out as gay for a while now on instagram. I don’t really feel like he was in the closet, more so just not putting a focus on his sexuality while working under buzzfeed
i remember him making comics posted to buzzfeed about rupaul's drag race and other related subjects. i also remember that most of his readers knew he's gay, but i don't recall him ever having a big coming out. (i didn't follow him as far back as you did, so feel free to correct me on that one.) i don't think he was closeted, as much as making gay comics about what he wanted wasn't what buzzfeed was looking for out of him, so he only occasionally made gay comics.
Adam is such a good horror artist and since he has left BuzzFeed he has been creating so many much better comics and stories and art pieces, its sad that he felt pressured to make cookie cutter art to meet deadlines there, and that they made this movie without paying him or anything
Dude absolutely should hook up with A24 and write for them.
Moral of the story, artists: Don’t seek a salaried contract. Focus on your five dollar deviantart commissions. /j
Goddamn. I wasn’t too far past that point in the video when I commented this. These plot points are bizarre. I wonder if the skeleton of their script was half constructed of keyword-generated ChatGPT ideas. “Bill, put in ‘gay cartoonist’ and ‘twitter arguments’ and ‘haunted by a ghost’”
Furry art. Furry art is a goldmine.
@@bananonymoussupreme3345It really is. I used to run an instagram art page where I posted furry-esque artwork (I was a young teen) and it had quite a bit of attention. I never had commissions since I didn’t really have any way to receive money, but furries tend to be more than fair regarding commissions.
True
Change that tone indicator to /hj bc you definitely want to avoid a salaried job bc they will work you to the bone. Stay freelance and contract based!
I found it weird that one of the pics on david's monitor was like, a clean chest scar. I've had several surgeries in the past few years (love being born premature), and like... my stitches probably looked worse than that for a while before they healed! They don't even look bloody. I get it'd be disturbing for a kid, but when they bundle that with p-rn and violence it sends a weird message.
Especially when Adam's character was watching gay p-rn just prior. Like hey, you got something to say there, Buzzfeed? Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but they already set themselves up for scrutiny by writing fanfic of one of their employees in the first place.
ya and at first I went "oh fuck that's a top surgery scars isn't it"
why did they write a movie about an ex-employee thats so weird
Oh dear I don’t want David to make me a Grindr account :(
I can only imagine what the hell a ghost child would say when trying to catfish as you on Grindr. like, is he gonna send cat memes or some shit??? because I doubt the ghost child would be able to guess what people say on Grindr or to people they fancy. when I was a kid we sent each other memes that were like, idk two cats cuddling and the text says "you're purrrrfect" or some shit
Having worked for "fun" tech companies its actually not that odd for people to have liquor bottles at their desks. Not common, but some people will have them for team stuff or milestones.
I was around when Adam Ellis was posting tweets about Dear David and definitely enjoyed the thread so i do think about it when I randomly see him reply under viral posts on Twitter but damn, Buzzfeed completely butchered his story?? For me, his tweets featuring his cats were def one of the main things why I kept reading and following along the thread bc it was like the "see!!! even the cats know something's up, i'm not crazy!!" of the story. Also, iirc i think people were also concerned about the safety of the cats so people were quite invested and it kept the audience engaged. A shame they cut it out because i thought it was a good addition in the original, bc if the main character isn't really likeable, you have to give the audience something to give a sht about in the story, no?
I can confirm 17:03 that yes the desks at buzzfeed were typically covered in more alcohol than one person could ever feasibly consume in a work day
Omfg this is the pettiest movie I have ever heard of what in the heck--
Fun fact, when I was in middle school I read the Dear David tweets late at night one night and it scared the shit out of me so bad that I pulled my first all-nighter and scared my parents when I slept for hours in the afternoon the following day
I love adam’s horror stories he’s posted in the past few years. They are so well done and I’m glad buzzfeed has no way to take them and ruin them now. This beef is crazyyyy
I've seen some of his more recent work a back in 2022 or so. The style and the stories I read were quite amazing.
I remember following along with the Dear David story. I liked it ngl and so did a lot of people but, ohhh boy the amount of hate Adam got after people realised it was fake was ridiculous lmao His work while working with Buzzfeed was so stiff and awkward at times because he was given short deadlines to finish them by. Theyre a lot more expressive and posed now that he draws on his own time. His style has also changed some, and it makes his already well written comics even better imo
Man I already hated Buzzfeed but this made me hate them more.
did they really use the modern twitter layout when it's meant to be in 2017?? lmao
Honestly I was never a huge fan of Adam Ellis and did end up unfollowing him when he was working for BuzzFeed due to the repetitive nature of his comics. I didn't blame him or have any hard feelings towards him but I do hate BuzzFeed and how they treat their employees so between the two it just didn't feel worth the follow. Finding out the repetition was likely due to right deadlines makes me feel kind of bad but I was following his Twitter for a while and enjoyed the Dear David series but it got a little long for being told through tweets. But it was definitely interesting and I'm pretty sure most people were aware it wasn't actually true.
It genuinely sucks that BuzzFeed stole this from him because it was actually an extremely cool way to tell a horror story that you intended to come across as happening in real time. I think I would have followed it more closely if it had been told through its own Twitter page so it was a little easier to follow but I definitely think Adam did a great job with this project and they could never have captured it the way it felt watching the tweets in real time. It was great. But also wild how people stopped supporting BF due to the treatment of their team members and how they created content and then pivoted into film using the same blueprint of artist exploitation.
I follow a ton of people who used to work for them and their content has improved dramatically and they have much more freedom of expression. I might go see what Adam is up to now because I kind of forgot about him until I saw this video. BF did him dirty and so did that other company that stole his work. It's not an "adaptation" if you stole it. It's just art theft.
I've been loosely following Adam for years and from what I can remember he seems like a pretty cool guy. The fact that a massive company like Buzzfeed can create a literal homophobic smear campaign using his name, likeness, his work, and details of his personal life is absolutely insane. How tf has this not turned into a massive legal issue what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
I implicitly trust a man who likes Ryan Bergara
as a concept i think illustrating a typical ghost/demon possession scene as being a video game character controlled by a spirit is pretty cool. this looked too literal and made it seem kind of corny, but if it were more stylized and came up more frequently it could've been fun (kind of like malignant)
Yeah, and it would need to be more thematically connected to the movie as a whole. And instead of doing that fake video game thing it could use like the character’s customized character that looks like them in an existing (whether irl or just in-universe) game and they realize their character is doing stuff on their own and not letting them control them and like it cuts back and forth between the avatar and the actual person replicating what the avatar does.
the buzzfeed adam ellis beef is so crazy!! excited to watch this
yeah really feels like an anti adam ellis movie, i can understand some exaggeration for creating more conflict but damn
the Dear David tweets were a fun little ARG, the tension built very naturally (maybe till the abrupt end, which seems to not be his fault I guess)
this movie not only assasinates the original charm of the ARG but also shits on Adam Ellis as a character...wich is interesting of a company to do for a former employee
"I love Ryan Begara; I love his integrity. He never disappoints!"
Oooooooghhhhrhrhrhrhrhghhh 😬😬😬
This is like a documentary about a guy writing a horror story but then they just made the documentary into the horror.... Why is BuzzFeed even in this movie lmao why is the main character even named Adam?? I wish the real Adam insisted everything was a true story so he could sue lol
I love Ryan, I love his integrity.....2 months later....(Oof.mp3)
came here to say this lmao
i think the original story was so much better because it was a mystery. i wasn't on twitter at the time but i followed youtubers that discuss ARGs and each time Adam found a piece of evidence or a new form for haunting happened, we all felt excited and intrigued. it was like we were all putting a puzzle together. it sucks because i can imagine this movie being good
While I can believe there are some artistic people who made this film, I am also convinced this was made from impossible turnover times so the loopholes and ridiculous things weren't caught before buzzfeed shat this out into the world.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but while a company might own your creative works they should have no rights to your likeness, meaning that Adam Ellis shouldn't even be the 'main character' in this film. It would have been no skin off Buzzfeed's nose to even just use a different name for the protagonist here, instead of this blatant attempt to slander an ex-employee (based on my opinion, but there is no need to include alcoholism or his sexuality in the first place, and especially not in the Grindr aspect, which is disturbing not because of the cheating, but considering the ghost is a CHILD. Physical body aged up or not, but mentally he is a child, and that cannot be overlooked.)
As someone who was a part of it when it came out first and was spread and covered by every creepypasta channels I have to add the detail that was left out in the video. That he actually did mid when it was in it's peak before 2016 he actually even released a tweet explaining dear David was a art project. Which most creepypasta channels then showed as well the tweet while explaining it's better made then Slenderman which is another art project only
BTW yes someone can own the rights to your experiences. You remember _The Blind Side?_ Michael Oher's conservators, Leigh Ann and Sean Tuohy own the rights to his life story.
I remember reading the Dear David story as a teenager and completely believing it (or at least finding it convincing). I can’t believe I’m just now finding out Adam was behind it 😭
Ayo! Didn't know the dude by name, but I definitely recognize the art style. Good to see another ToddyBoya video!
his name is Adam Ellis
@@conan4real They know, it is basically impossible to watch the video without learning his name
@@naplockblubba5369 i was just letting them know his name was Adam Ellis.. did you know his name is Adam Ellis?
I remember when this story first came out it scared the shit out of me for some reason LOL it’s pretty much left my mind since then but looking back god its ridiculous
"I love Ryan Bergara's integrity", is really funny in hindsight
35:08 re: if I dont like the video, David is gonna create a Grindr account for me.
He might make a better Grindr account than I could if he was messaging guys.
Do you think David's available for hire as a profile ghostwriter?
I wonder what pay he'd take as a ghost child.
Not buzzfeed making their protagonist completely unlikeable and ruining their movie out of complete pettiness for a former employee.
This movie feels like they ignored everything that made the story actually interesting and just fucked around
How shameless can they be? This is so absurd. I was already uncomfortable when my boss took pics of me while I was recording material and posted on our stories without telling me. If I quit my job and years later I found out the company I work for produced a whole ass film with a character named after me and casted an actor supposed to look like me, I would be shitting my pants, that’s borderline stalkerish. That would be more horrifying for me than any horror movie bullshit.
I don't think Dear David ever could have been a good movie. The format it was originally told in was integral to the story; the sense that we, as the readers, were discovering these things along with Ellis. Without that, it's just an everyday creepy-child-ghost story.
Companies trying to make their former employees seem evil? Never heard of that one before.
holy shit I remember reading the original DD thread six years ago, absolutely wild the lengths buzz will go to for content
six years ago I would have been so invested no matter how bad it was, why wait this long
Not even giving him credit for creating the story is so gross
I suppose the idea had potential? Maybe they should have worked with the actual creator....
Adam actually makes reallly good horror comics now! His twitter is gold
I just watched the tweet story and was like “could be a good movie” but….this right here, no bueno. Horror is being done dirty recently 😢
Wait if david’s mom’s name was loopy linda why is it also Martha?
This kind of feels like slander?? Because it very much feels like this movie was made just to make fun of Adam...feels weird that it isn't a legal Grey area for a company to make an entire movie just to make fun of a former employee.
Wait so buzzfeed didnt own the right of keratin right? So he could technically sue them if he had the money, right??
I kinda wished they just leaned into the meta aspect and made it a story about the tweet and what the hell was going on behind the scenes.
Headcanon: This is the Prometheus timeline from the Alien franchise and the Cyborg David is so fücked up because he is possessed by Dear David.
I used to follow Adam back then and people just dogpilled on the comics he made for a company that was known for quantity over quality, he even said later on that his work stagnated cause he had to hit so many deadlines and when he left his stuff immediately became more personal and less... advertiser friendly if you will. But the amount of just casual vitriol against his stuff was just a lot and I doubt it helped him mentally at all, critcism is one thing but people who never heard about this guy or read his comics would talk about him like he was the worst cartoonist to exist it was pretty sad ngl. I haven't really kept up with his stuff since then cause I left social media but I doubt he is happy that his previous workplace that caused people to dogpile on him would use his tweets to milk more money out of him?
It always left a bad taste that Buzzfeed could/can just own ANYTHING that their employees created even off work hours. It's basically saying "we own the left side of your brain during your employment."
I havent read the original story ever since it first came out but wasn't Adam Ellis bi? Or at least had a girlfriend at the time? Cause I kinda remember one of the tweets for the Dear David story having a glitchy photo with his girlfriend. I don't know but if that was the case it's kinda odd they decided to give him a boyfriend in this film.
It was a friend of his not a girlfriend
I'm not even halfway through this video and that "LMAO HE UPLOADED THE LEFT COMIC IN 2015 AND THEN THE UPLOADED THE RIGHT COMIC IN 2017" tweet made me wheeze because like... have people heard about remaking old drawings???
The original tweets are like an even lower-effort version of r/nosleep
I remember watching that tweet thread play out in real time, it was probably one of the first pieces of spooky internet media I ever saw and I remember waiting with bated breath for the next tweet to pop up. I didn’t even have twitter I was googling his twitter just to see this thread. It was so fun! I didn’t really like his comics at buzzfeed but I loved this thread it’s a shame to see it and his character butchered like this. I hope he has some recourse here for how he’s portrayed in the movie.
i thought it was kurtis conner in the thumbnail this is not kurtis conner
glad buzzfeed went under
Hey! Old zylbrad fan from forever ago, love the quality of this vid man! Keep it up happy to find you still going :)
This is a shame to hear. I really enjoyed the og story and had been anticipating the movie (I didn't know it had even come out). To hear it turned out so poorly is disappointing.
It's actually wild that they could do this to a former employee, even copying his art style in the comics and such, and not pay him anything for it.
A company owning their employees' personal twitter feeds is insane.
Tod I love you, I've been watching forever and I love what you're doing with the new channel. Would you ever consider bringing on guests for certain videos? I just think you're so funny when playing off over people in conversation and it could be a good dynamic fit something like a reaction video. Nothing against you and I respect this channels a lot more focused on you individually and I still love the content.
I’ve been following Adamtots for years, I remember when he left Buzzfeed it was a slightly big deal in the art community. His art has improved dramatically since then.
adam's current content is pretty awesome; i very much enjoy his creativity and his illustrations are miles above what they were at buzzfeed. his fever knights project is insanely cool and is one of my favorite concepts on the internet currently. this movie is like a clear attempt at basically smearing his character - interesting choice on buzzfeed's part (and by that i mean petty and poorly executed)
The only reason I know the tweets, despite being annoyingly addicted to Twitter, is bc of Captain Disillusion
the way u talk/ur personality is so refreshing!!
the absolute tragedy that this man was not only being shit on constantly for his work at buzzfeed (which i would heavily argue isnt his fault, buzzfeed seems like it loves to suck the soul of its employees, especially artists), but he made a good ARG while he happened to work there and never got to finish his own story, and then they take the story they for some reason legally own and make it HORRIBLE and make him out to be a bad person.... like just give the guy a damn break. what did he do that they really hated him that badly, like, get over it lmaooo
what i personally dont really get about this and other similar projects being owned by a big company and the original creator being unable to make any more content about it is like... why cant they make _literally_ any more content about it? is it some sort of wording in the contract that even if they make content about it that doesnt earn money that theyre somehow breaking the law? like? they cant even pass it off as fanart or something? like, will they sue him if he continued making tweets about it? idk i just think its stupid. id be horrified if my creation was taken by a big company and i couldnt make any more content about it.
18:11 “am I stupid??” incredible line
Never a big fan of Adam Ellis i think his work and humor is too pre-2010 millennial core and borderline cringey for me. But he didn't deserve all the hate and the bullying he got back then
love ya brodie, keep making what you like making, you’re great at it
This movie is even worse than I thought it could be
Hey man, insanely great content for a 17k channel. Do you have another main one? Either way, subbed to this one.
You know it’s a good day when this lil fella uploads
I genuinely think the video game thing was just a product of them doing research into similar stories while writing this movie, finding Ben Drowned, and just copying that to fill out the run time.
I had NO IDEA THAT THE ADAM WHO MADE "DEAR DAVID" WAS THE SAME ADAM AS ADAMTOTS
I FUCKING LOVE HIM
i was waiting for this after i just found out abt u an hour ago
Just found your channel. Really good video!
this man is the educational little sleep paralysis elf i have always wanted, thank u so much algorithm
Can he sue for defamation?