F him for taking Knights Watch. George R.R. Martin writes gay characters. George R.R. Martin was asked why he included gay characters in his books, He said, "I noticed there were gay people in the world, so they should be in my world too."
For the few homophobic ASOIAF fans I've interacted with, it seems like they're fine with the way gay characters are represented in the series because their gayness isn't "a focus" the story. They're okay with gay people as long as we stay quiet, in the background and suffer in silence in a homophobic society and that's what ASOIAF portrays for the most part. As long as being gay is a joke and seen as perverted and immoral these people are a-okay with portrayals of gay people. They have no empathy.
@@boianko I don't think Martin portrays gays that way. They are princes. And literally one of the deadliest fighters in the book series. The viper died really quickly though. I don't remember Martin playing them for jokes. I haven't read them in years though.
@@antarchy1 I'm not saying Martin portrays them like that necessarily, the gay characters in the books are powerful, influential and driven. However when it comes to their sexuality, they need to hide and talk in allegory. Renly marries a woman he clearly isn't attracted to because he could never achieve his political goals if he came out as gay. Jon Connington has to hide his feelings his whole life and even after the death of his one true love because they would never be accepted. The world is hetero normative for the most part (Dorne is an exception) and gays aren't allowed to exist out and about in public society unless they burry that part of themselves deep down. I don't think it's a bad thing to write the world that way, it's realistic, and I don't think George is portraying homophobia as a good thing. The people who already have homophobic ideas read about this homophobic world and think "oh wow, that's so cool", the same way sexist ASOIAF fans appreciate the realistic portrayal of how women were treated in the olden days. They don't empathise with the plights of these characters, they see them as people who either got unlucky in the way they were born and need to suck it up, or as people who annoyingly struggle against a system that rightfully tries to put them in their place.
@@boianko Isn't that more him writing about political intrigue in a medieval setting. It's good Drama and it's realistic to the way those societies were. I don't think it was a conscious choice on his part. It just fits the world and story. But I haven't read them in at least 10 years. So I barely remember anything about it, and I wouldn't have been dissecting the way he wrote gay characters back then.
@@boiankoI am honestly always baffled by those kinds of people, the whole point of ASOIF is that its world is AWFUL in almost every societal way imaginable, George's writing is about pointing out every flaw possible about those societies and our own. Sure, it's realistic within the boundaries of a fictional effing world, so by agreeing on how those characters are treated, you are actually doing what the story is criticizing, it's never portrayed as how thing should be. I am honestly surprised these people enjoy something they don't understand, it's media illiteracy at its peak
The rapid fall of Shad is so wild and sad. Sure, given his background, I expected that certain views were likely, but it's absolutely wild that he shifted from medieval weaponry and armor talk to, well, rage-bait nonsense. But, also, he's Jazza's brother. Jazza is nothing like this. Additionally, thinking his entire community (medieval nerds and ren-fair fans) were likely to follow him into alt-right grift was an absurd misread of the fans he used to have.
Agreed. I used to be his fan, his comments section had many LGBTQ people and progressive. As soon as he dropped the rants about wokeness his views dipped, and the guy still haven't got a clue. Like, read the comments, and don't just read the complimentary ones, bro.
He always was open about being a religious mormon, perfectly fine, that's his life, and he managed to not have that be part of his content at least overtly for many years. So sad to see him abandon the strategy that helped him reach a wide and varied community of accepting people, and instead try to go for a niche of hateful people.
Even before we consider religious trauma and the indoctrination into inherently racist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc ideas, yes Mormons ALSO happen to abuse their children quite often
They said you can't be gay because it doesn't help the species survive and yet Shad literally has chronic illness... Shads own existence disproves his point.
He has own children and his family line will continue. Unlike those whom will round their life and persona around perversions and will never have own family. Their family lines will die and nations that have lots of this happening will fall. Every nation that has ever gone to this level of degeneracy have fallen, history shows that. And me personally, I find it very refreshing that there are channels like Shads who doesnt push this obtrusive homo agenda everywhere.
I always hate when people use this comparison. Glasses are a Human invention made to fix one of our faults, much like light bulbs fix our bad nightvision, clothes fix our lack of fur-covered bodies, and dental care fixes the fact we often outlive our own teeth. Now let me ask you, what problem does being gay fix? Can't think of one? That's because "gay = glasses b/c both are unnatural" is a stupid comparison. These two things have nothing in common.
@@vervetwrydavigy3006 This is not a debate, being able to express your sexuality without being persecuted for it is something straight people take for granted.
Same. I'm a trans person too and I practice HEMA and love history and swords/swordfighting. I used to watch a lot of the "sword" youtube channels but these days everything just feels like hate content.
Even if being gay was "unnatural", that doesn't inherently make it bad. Taking antibiotics for an infection is unnatural, but it's not bad. Getting a cancerous tumour surgically removed is unnatural, but it's not bad. *Wearing glasses* is unnatural, but it's not bad. Something being natural/unnatural is not indicative of whether it's good or bad. A prime example of something that's natural and also horrifically bad is the gimpi-gimpi, a plant native to Australia that, when touched, has tiny needles that inject a neurotoxin that basically lights your nerves on fire. The pain is so agonizing that there're documented instances of horses accidentally brushing against the plant and then running off a cliff because of the pain. So the claim that "this is bad because it's unnatural" is profoundly idiotic
Well, the stuff you mentioned as unnatural are still necessary for humans. You could mention using a computer or something. Not as necessary as the other stuff.
not against your point here actaully quite agree with the whole natural vs unnatural debate here BUT anti biotics are natural the primaryo ne we still use is from a fungus now it might be derived at this point and heavily altered from iuts natural state who knows but anti biotics are infact natural
If my local historical longsword fencing club (wow this translates bad from German) is anything to go by at least 10% but the club is in a huge city area so that number may wary.
I've never really watched his content or this channel's content but I am also a trans woman who likes history and weapons and somehow ended up here through the algorithm. Greetings all.
One part of it probably is that this type of interest appeals to a lot of neuro divergent people, who also are way more likely to be part of LGBTQ community as well. Not the sole reason, but probably a part of it. (And yes, I'm agender ADHD who makes their own longbows, so I'm part of the problem myself. 😁)
Lol 'debunking gayness'. Thats like saying you got a method to debunk my office chair. You can refuse to accept its existance if you want, but my chair is here, right under my arse wether or not anyone likes it.
One of their points was that "the animals aren't gay, they're just horny and cant find the opposite sex/get confused" or whatever, shockingly, this is dead wrong, theres been studies done on rams where some of the rams when given the choice of a sheep or a ram, they will always go for the other ram, and if i remember correctly i think it was giraffes that are like 50% gay and only are straight enough to not die out lol
That argument of theirs really only applies to species that are very "simple", those without good enough sensory ability and such they genuinely cant tell the difference....who arent any of the common examples talked about in this discourse, who yeah genuinely actually know fully what they are getting into, and basically only talked about by biologists.
TH-cam didn’t kill his old channel. He killed it, and he made a video whining about it by saying his proof was his multiple year old videos weren’t getting views anymore. it’s called the consequences of your actions.
@@junjunjamore7735 That's amazingly fantastical, considering how hard it is to find left-wing content, while every other video is some right wing propaganda. I don't watch em, I click "don't suggest channel to me" and they still keep coming.
I used to watch his stuff regularly, but once he started knights watch the whole vibe changed and I lost interest. Didn't help my politics were headed in the complete opposite direction from his.
@@Fade2GrayOGaverage right wing moment, it’s actually funny whenever media or content flips to the right… they lose their appeal and start to fail… it’s almost like advertisement from companies prefer to be more left centre to right centre oriented as that’s the most broad and appealing range to make ads for and around. When content goes to far right it loses the appeal of advertising as they would rather not be associated with that, furthermore people don’t want to be exposed to more extreme beliefs for no good reason. People go to certain creators for a certain thing, say a dota 2 creator they either like that creator or are searching for their content type and they prefer them or maybe they make the more niche content in that genre. However, the moment that person starts exposing their more extreme beliefs when it has little or nothing to do with their content they will likely fall off as they alienate the wider audience.
I remember when humans were “special” because they were the only species that used tools to achieve tasks… then we found a load of other species using tools and even teamwork to achieve tasks..
Yep crows and birds in general are smart, even at its simplest they will drop shelled creatures onto rocks and use rocks to crack things open. Orcas are very smart creatures and use tactics to hunt their prey. Etc.
@@draketurtle4169 Crows are smart enough that a boarded zoo keeper thought them to swear at passerbies in the local zoo where I live. It was an absolute riot and the crows got thrown a lot of snacks by the visitors. Long story short they thought each other to swear or picked it up themselves. Third generation of crows insulting humans by now (I think).
@@WhatsTheTakeaway I’m sure it’s crows., but they have combined and modified sticks to achieve a task, and used stones to raise water level in a pot to asses its contents they couldn’t reach..
I remember a time when Shad would test fun things, like firing a bow/arrow while standing on a tree bough, or throwing an axe with a rope tied to the handle for easily retrieving the axe. You know, stuff we see in movies and it was fun watching him test it out. Oh, I remember when he and some friends tried to float in barrels like the dwarves in The Hobbit. Those days he was fun and thought provoking, poking fun at movies and games, and didn't get political. In the last couple years he's become increasingly a conservative douchebag hater who Dunning-Kruegered himself into thinking Shadiversity was the perfect vehicle to own the libs by teaching us how to hate and fear things like he does. If ever a good channel jumped the shark into a black hole of awfulness, Shadiversity is one of the best examples I can think of.
Aktuwally.... The medieval period for Europe was super gay too - various bishops even wrote treatise encouraging men to spank the monkey together to "release tension" Vikings were open to a lot of gayness, too Remember, a lot of their social ideals are left over from the Romans - a people that thought bisexuality was the norm, had 3 gay emperors and 2 trans emperors
Yeah, I know the points he was trying to make, but needs to brush up on evolution. Easy mistakes to make if it isn't a subject you study, but hurts a bit in a video trying to defend evolution.
It's cartoonishly stupid to look at sharks and crocodilians and go, "They never evolved!" Meanwhile, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of individual species under those categories, all of which evolved to thrive in their individual environments.
fascinating note, you say sharks are ancient but people forget just how ancient let me put it this way crocodiles are old but they are half the age of sharks *sharks came into existence; before trees came into existence* it's actually ridiculous 😂 edit: for specificity the ages are: sharks 450Mill y/o trees 420mill y/o crocodiles 230mill y/o for reference the oldest animal that everyone agrees was an animal lived 570mill years ago the shark body plan has worked so well that its been around and similar in style for 78.9% of macroscopic life's entire history you are right, they have changed drastically evolution never truely stops, but still, impressive
It's called Kin Selection, btw. There are traits that don't help the individual pass on genes, but may help related individuals pass on genes, some of which they share. In this case, a social animal having non-breeding adults that are still able bodied and capable of gathering food is a huge evolutionary advantage for the group. Biologists figured out Kin Selection before they even knew how genetics work.
Pointedly, it reduces in-group competition for resources. As long as there's enough replacement of breeding individuals, concentrating more support for fewer young is more effective at keeping those young alive. The logic becomes increasingly clear in smaller groups - if food is scarce, is it better to have meager gatherings split between clusters of cousins, leaving everyone hungry, or to have parents and aunts/uncles working together to feed one group of siblings enough to grow healthy for competition outside the family?
It also helps with the massive amount of effort it takes to raise human children, especially with the high rates of parental mortality back then. Human reproduction is about massive investment in few offspring, not throwing massive numbers into the wind to see how many survive.
I'd also like to point out that the evolutionary effort required to eliminate homosexuality would itself have far reaching consequences. Species don't actually have the ability to just selectively change their attributes at will. Changing a gene or two could lead to many other changes in addition to eliminating the possibility that some members will be gay. And since natural selection is the only method we really have for this, it makes sense that it stuck around.
I'm sure even the ancient Greeks and Chinese knew about kin selection. That's where both of these quotes from from: "A society grows great when old men plant trees they know they will never sit" -- An old Greek proverb "If you think in terms of a year, plant rice; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people." -- Confucius Even in ancient societies, it was recognized that you can contribute to society far more than producing children. It's about helping other people and your community thrive.
I was a "skeptical" *Atheist Edgelord* back in high school. Then, in the fallout of Gamergate, I loosened up, started thinking for myself, & went with the Progressive/Feminist side. I found Shad's channel & followed because I liked the content: Medieval history, fantasy, swords, board games, etc. I figured, I'm not an Anti-Theist anymore, I'll tolerate this guy being Mormon, it's not getting in the way... It got in the way.
Felt this entirely too hard. I still catch myself getting a rise out of buzzwords only to step back, ask why, then remember "oh yeah I taught myself that". (I do this more with harmless religious stuff because I've been a "achtually" theist hater longer than a conservative).
"started thinking for myself" "went to progressive/femmenist side" Damm dude you sure do mental gymnastics in order to appear better but you are just another sheep who "thinks for himself" but truth is not that
Exactly my experience lmao. I never accepted that he is a missionary for a literal cult, but I thought to myself "well, he isn't spreading propaganda in his videos, so that's not really a problem with the channel." Now we are here. It's so frustrating hearing his r***rded rant, because you can tell he has absolutely no understanding at all about this topic, constantly lies, and doesn't even understand his own position enough to make a single half decent argument. Also, a side note: when the film said there are more than 11 million species on earth and his yes man said "surely there's more animals than that" I burst out into laughter. That's all you need to hear to get an idea of the quality you can expect from the rest of the video.
Some theist are a bit more reasonable (although I think it makes them more harmful but we can’t police belief so). Like Dr. Mary Schizer (don’t know how to spell her name), and Dr. Dan McClellan. These two are great scientists and scholar. Hell Dr. McClellan is probably one of the reason I’m an atheist.
Biologist here: First of all, it can be an evolutionary disadvantage to have all adults breeding in a family or social group, as infant mortality can rise due to the high child-to-adult ratio and resources can become depleted. In these cases, non-breeding adults who participate in childcare strongly improve the fitness of the kids, on the whole making 'homosexual behavior' a win for the family and, by extension, the homosexual individuals own genes as well since their are bringing up siblings (50% similar genes), nieces and nephews (17% similar genes). 90% of giraffes mounting other giraffes is male on male, and they are seeming willing participants. This occurs even when there are females present. Lions are not as high of stats, but show similar behavior. First encounter of squid s*xual acts was both gay and interspecies, with the smaller species male topping the larger one. We've known of penguin homosexuality since the 1900s, but the poor Christian scientists where so aghast and befuddled they covered up their research by writing their findings in Greek, making it primarily inaccessible to general society - potentially due to the risk of being ostracized as well, since they could be accused of making up random stuff in Antarctica to then come home and 'spread their filth' to general society. Dolphins form pair bonds with the same sex, often between breeding seasons, and engage in s*xual behavior. Many parrots have same-sex couples as a first choice, too. None of that is by any means due to absence of alternatives Finally Bonobos shouldn't be held to human standards wrt p*do stuff. In their species it's normal and common, with youngs initiating things themselves a lot of them time. Further, they primarily participate in oral, both giving and receiving. In our species, a majority of cultures keep kids away from that sorta thing (side-eyes aspects of A. Greece real hard here) and kids rarely naturally engage in such stuff and form trauma around it. To Bonobos its an evolutionary adaptation, to humans it is not Bonobos are an absolutely wonderful species and I will take no slander of them. Meerkats, however, a totally a different thing.
@@manxcatcoot Thanks for taking the bait ;) Their are the most homicidal little maniacs on the planet. They have an intraspecies murder rate of 20% deaths occurring at meerkat hands compared to 12% in chinchillas (second on the list alongside other mongoose species), 6% in top predators like many big cats and an approximation of ~2% in our fellow ape species (excluding Bonobos and Orangutans from here). Humans swivel between 1-2% depending on where we are in history. The average propensity to murder in mammals is about 0.3%, so even humans are rather staggering. To top it off, it's primarily infanticide against another female's young in the social group. Wanna emphasize I don't hate them by any means, but I ain't protecting them from public outrage so long it remains verbal. Let's just say, I've really questioned Timon's reasons to leave the nest in Lion King 1.5 after I reached adulthood.
@@manxcatcoot I actually already responded to your comment, but apparently YT doesn't like when I talk about this topic - and you'll see why in a moment. Cause meerkats have the highest m*rder rate of all mammals at a whooping 20%, from what I understand of all meerkat endings of life, coming that the paws of another meerkat. This contrasts the ~12% of chinchillas and other mongoose species, the ~6% in many predator species like big cats and the 2% average for primate species among which humanity differ span between 1-2% depending on time in history. It further contrasts the 0.3 percent average determined in all mammals as a whole. Specifically, meerkat females will cease the existence of youngs of other females in the group in high rates to 'make way' for their own young to get food and space. As such, I will tolerate these mofos getting blasted by public outrage, even tho I don't advocate for hate and demand it remains verbal. But I gotta say, Timon leaving the nest in Lion King 1.5 was cast in a whole new light for me.
@@manxcatcoot I actually already responded to your comment twice, but apparently this is a bit sensitive - and you'll see why in a moment. Cause meerkats have the highest finishing-off-another rate of all mammals at a whooping 20%, from what I understand of all meerkat endings of life, coming that the paws of another meerkat. This contrasts the ~12% of chinchillas and other mongoose species, the ~6% in many predator species like big cats and the 2% average for primate species among which humanity differ span between 1-2% depending on time in history. It further contrasts the 0.3 percent average determined in all mammals as a whole. Specifically, meerkat females will cease the existence of youngs of other females in the group in high rates to 'make way' for their own young to get food and space. As such, I will tolerate these aholes getting blasted by public outrage, even tho I don't advocate for hate and demand it remains verbal. But I gotta say, Timon leaving the nest in Lion King 1.5 was cast in a whole new light for me.
tbf, he always was a werd shouty man, he was just trying to hide it back then it took me rly long to notice, but looking back the vibes were kinda off since the beginning imo
Well, he also argued against the whole archery community that they used a specific kind of draw in medieval archery and he based it on paintings while having historians all around tell him he is not right in his assumptions.
@@MrAreallycoolname Exactly, that's like the opposite of critical thinking. Critical Thinking often literally involves looking at what the experts say, considering each point of view and then making decisions based on nothing but fact. The only reason anyone would ignore people who actually know what they're talking about is to gratify their own feeling that that they know better.
I do a bit of medieval archery. Specifically I shoot an English longbow. I like to keep it as medieval as possible too. I saw that video and he is full of shit. He even makes the bold claim that he is doing “experimental archaeology”. He is neither an archaeologist nor a historian. He is a LARPer, and he is very incorrect. Those manuscripts were drawn incorrectly. But he thinks he’s discovered something that has already been tested and debunked.
@@eddiev3052 I've been practicing archery for 17 years now and am well aware of his BS. I dont know that much about HEMA, so I believed him there when he came up with something. What i do know is archery, and thats the point i came to realize he's probably full of shit concerning swords and other weapons aswell. Same shit with Lars Andersen, a few years ago he had his time in the spotlight and people kept arguing that he's the only real archer with his trickshot BS.
I used to watch Shadiversity regularly for his knight content. As someone working on a little historical fantasy comic, his research was pretty good and easy to digest, as far as I could tell. Turns out, he really doesn’t seem to know much about anything outside that specific subject. And as soon as he started talking about literally anything else, he fell off hard. Like, I’m a Christian too, but that doesn’t mean I have to pretend that evolution isn’t real or that being gay isn’t natural. That should just be common sense.
hell i argue if you try to debunk evolution you might alienated even the anti woke/anti lgbtq people (who still had some common sense) from your sides the thing is evolution is why we can learn adapt and thrive in our planet without evolution and the fact our minds where giving by gods to be really smart we wouldn't survive we would just be a dominated animal that will be replace by another one in the next million years or so
@@Thefool201Oh bro, as hard as it is to believe these days, Shad actually used to annotate inaccurate videos with corrections, and post videos correcting himself when he was wrong. Now he just treats any criticism, whether constructive or otherwise, as a personal attack.
For years I've been trying to understand bigots and why they believe what they believe, and why they make such utterly terrible arguments; and I'm embarrassed it took me as long as it did to figure it out. A lot of bigots will give some reasoning as to why they're homophobic, but what I've learned is that a significant amount of homophobes didn't come to their hatred from the reasoning they state - they just didn't like gay people to begin with, and then tried to justify it with some bogus reasoning. That's why a lot of them don't care when you disprove their points, and that's why a lot of them don't care when you show how circular some of their arguments are; their reasoning was simply never important to begin with and they meant none of it, it was merely there to give credence to their already existing view. Arguing against bigots by disproving their arguments won't change anything in most cases, because those arguments are just shields of distraction (and often just smearing). By the time you've shown how they're wrong, they'll often just make up some other reason, hence why a lot of reasons given make no sense. You can change the "homophobic" topic in my previous paragraph to any type of bigotry, be it racism, sexism or transphobia, and it still applies. I don't know what's at heart of their hatred, or how you would even go about changing someone's views. It appears to me to just be tribal thinking; tho I am not entirely sure that's what it is.
Yeah, a lot of super homophobic/transphobic and racist people are literally just driven by a feeling of disgust which is probably the product of their upbringing, strict religious, homophobic upbringens are of course quite effective in that way. Or sometimes they feel the disgust because they themselves see certain non-stereotypical tendencies in them and they basically hate those parts of themselves in such a strong way that they transfer it to other people who show those tendencies off and may even be confident while doing so. Like, mentally stronger individuals may discover such non-stereotypical tendencies and may hate themselves for a while, especially when reinforced through religious dogma, but will eventually come to accept themselves and leave the bigoted religious ideas behind them, but some people just get devoured by their self-hatred.
I mean men being manly men being burly and wielding giant phalic shaped objects and crossing swords Like mans must see the homoerotic undertones in what he discusses?
I dunno if it's widely accepted bu I remember reading about a 'Gay Uncle' concept where basically having some members of your species around who don't reproduce is actually beneficial since they can then help look after the young of their siblings if they die prematurely. Since their genes are already mostly the same, this helps the trait pass down through generations.
I'm a teacher and I'm basically the "gay uncle" (gay niece, more accurately lmfao) for a whole bunch of rotating kids. I'll have no desire of reproducing even if I wasn't gay, I've done my part tenfold already. People concerned with biological reproduction forget how much work and organization at a society level is required for us to maintain natality rates. "Gay" people certainly aren't a threat to human evolution and even might be a sign of a new socialadaptation that moves the responsibility of reproductive work OUT of the closed environment of thetraditional family, into a more efficient and healthy community based approach.
There have been studies indicating that to quote the findings "female maternal relatives of gay men have more reproductive success than their counterparts who are related to heterosexuals." It's like an evolutionary compensation mechanism that factors in gay people as part of the species. But then there are thousands of books full of what Shad doesn't know about evolution so not surprised he wouldn't know.
He actually says that we're different from animals because we know right and wrong, so we can know homosexual sex is immoral. Well, dolt, it's not immoral. There has to be harm or a violation to be immoral. Two consenting adults having loving relations with each other, regardless of sex or gender, is categorically not immoral. The only reason people think it might be is because ancient and irrational social taboos told them it was.
Morality is subjective to different cultures. You gave your definition of what is moral, but a deeply religious person would probably define it differently, along the lines of "what God (any god really) deems right or wrong". He is a mormon, did you really expect him to be a fan of gay people? Right, wrong, moral or immoral are all subjective and contextual words. You cannot give them a definition set in stone, we can mosty come to an agreement to what we collectively think they mean, but it will never be a universally shared vision.
@@giulioceresini1435morality absolutely can be objective. There are certain things that, logically and objectively are and are not moral, taking aside any belief in the mandates of imaginary mythological deities.
@actualgoblin "Imprison people," lol. I never said anything like that, nor do I believe it. What a wild imagination you have. The OP said there has to be harm for homosexuality to be immoral. There is harm in homosexuality. Therefore, it is immoral. And yes, people probably shouldn't indulge in fast food.
Thing is, in gregarious species like, say, *OURS,* the survival of the group is much more important than the survival of the individual, and homosexual members who don't reproduce often help taking care of the offspring of the ones that do, therefore making the community stronger than if *everyone* reproduced and stretched local resources thin.
Not only that. Siblings also exist, so even if homosexual members of the group don't directly pass on their genes. So long as they function as part of a family unit and help their siblings out then the genes they carry are indirectly passed along as well since their heterosexual siblings share many of the same genes.
@@joendeo1890 some evolutionary psycologists have claimed that homosexuality is to some extent related to stress conditions in the mother durring pregnancy, so that means there is a bigger chance for homosexual offspring when ever the herd neds help to survive. It sounds like a sound theory.
@@joendeo1890 you can look at colonial species too. They served their colony with their life if needed. As long as the colony survive their genes is passed on.
@@joendeo1890 It's not just about the family unit...We used to live in groups larger than modern families for several 100,000's of years, moving around, hunting and gathering, and sleeping together in caves, etc. The notion of a "nuclear family" (and strictly monogamous relationships), didn't come about until after the invention of agriculture, just a few thousand years ago. We didn't have "bedrooms" - or even permanent homes to live in - until agriculture made it possible to stay at the same place your whole life. Back then, when we were living in small groups, you couldn't be absolutely sure who fathered which children. So the nurturing was likely done by the group as a whole. In those circumstances, having 10-20% not procreate would be a great benefit for the groups survival.
@@Rocco049 some of the acting was quite decent, though. Not enough to save the show, but the hobbits part was pretty solid all along i'd say. The lore is just nonsense of course, but the acting almost sold it
For me it was earlier when he was whinging about the Wheel of Time tv show. I thought the show sucked ass, and was vibing with his episode reviews, only to notice they kept circling back to culture war nonsense talking points. Friggin pit in my stomach man.
RoP was kinda bad imho, but you're still right, 9.9/10 times when someone says it like that, they're probably a fkin chud-brain-orc who thinks the entire world is exactly like their tribe and any deviation from the tribes norm is obviously an abomination that has to be removed. literal cave man methodology.
It's crazy that Shad seems like a real a-hole while his brother Jazza seems like a really chill and nice dude. I was chocked when I learned that they are brothers
Not only does he seem chill, he seems like the type of guy to double check that his friend group not be mean about the fact you don't like [common thing] and to not bring it up.
@@StormCrownSr yeah. their family gatherings must be really awkward. I felt so bad when I watched them on a livestream playing some tabletop game at some convention and Shads "art ability" came up. Jazza did everything to be nice and not to try to offend him. yeah it was hard to watch.
@@GentlemensClubHolyEdition speak for yourself man I am already on my way out of that, what helped me most was learning to not lie to myself and I am happier, stronger and more resilient than before, so please stop lying to yourself, you are quite literally feeding yourself poison
@@elpsykoongro5379 if you truly learned to not lie to yourself, you also would do research and try to understand trans people instead of writing them off as "liars", which is a way to soothe your feelings by applying labels instead of engaging with learning the facts of the matter or why you feel the way you do clearly, you haven't given this topic much more thought than "I don't like it" also, quick question, what "poison" are they feeding themselves?
Shadiversity used to be a good youtuber and he taught me a lot about swords and castles but as a member of the gay and trans/non-binary communities i feel kinda betrayed i used to like his content but now i say that shad should go give a handshake to a box jellyfish
Isn't it horrible when someone you admire does something that makes you feel betrayed. The good thing is that he was always like this but now you know and don't need to be fooled any longer so if anything it's a positive tonnage that knowledge
So does Shad think that men have to actively choose not to want to have sex with other men? Speaking as a cis-het man myself, that never seemed to come up for me.
Same. From the way a lot of anti-gay men speak, women too, they say that they made a choice. Which implies they're somewhere on the spectrum of bi, which does range all the way from a step from het to a step from totally gay. So, it sounds like their system they live under, their believes they are grown to, all this, it forces them to a position where they hate that part in themselves, and effectively project it onto all others, because they refuse to believe that being different on that scale (or many other scales) is normal, being the same is what they perceive as normal. Everything's got to be very standard and singular without any variation, all things different are evil, scary, or otherwise untrustworthy (and they certainly couldn't be any more different than anyone else, thus all must have these feelings, and choose to actively pursue them, or deny them). They are the normal ones, so everyone else has to be wrong.
That’s a bit of an oversimplification. The book isn’t a r*pe fantasy, it’s r*pe apologia. The main character (supposedly) regrets being a r*pist, but the story justifies his past actions. So, it’s actually worse than a r*pe fantasy.
The main character also kills his own son at one point. The son is also bad so him being killed is treated as a good thing even though the father is far worse.
What Shad doesn't understand about evolution is that it doesn't only happen on an individual level, but also on the level of populations. It isn't only about the survival of the individual, but of the entire group, because a lot of animals are *social* - just like humans - and do not live alone in a vacuum. And when a group has a trait that makes a certain percentage homosexual and thus has a higher chance of survival (maybe because it lowers sexual competition - especially among males - without reducing group size) that trait is advantageous and gets passed on.
Same with a lot of dialogue about "choosing" to be straight. Since they can't imagine they are actually bi, since of course, they must be normal and natural, while others are strange. Ironically not realizing it is perfectly normal and natural...
I find not only *that* weird, but also how the stupidest guys tend to put on the biggest "intellectual" act. Those two, for instance -- they even do the beard-stroking thing. Ugh.
I mean to each their own, and I don't need to body shame anyone, but if you're gonna make a big deal about say physical fitness and conventional beauty standards Dude is not practising what he preaches.
"You'd never see an animal mating with another animal of the same sex! It's unnatural!" *Provides evidence of gay animals* "Well, Humans can't just go about doing everything animals do, now can we?" It's not just shifting goalposts. They're literally pretending they were the other side all along after they lose.
Crocodilia “the modern crocodilians” didn’t appear until 85ish million years ago during the late Cretaceous. Alligators have only been around for 35 million years, but the crocodilian body plan is so successful that it evolved multiple times in the pseudosuchian line (the line that would eventually lead to modern crocodilians), and even in non crocodilians such as early whales and amphibians.
So what you're telling me is that crocodiles are *so* successful, that other things keep evolving into crocodiles? Have we finally found the vertebrates' crab?
I mean... I guess... But so is the 'shark' design, because fish, whales and reptiles have adopted it. Sharks being the ones with the name, ictiosaurs and dolfins. Sure the latter seats the tail up and down... But swap that and they are essentially one and the same. You also have the cat design, which canines (some fox) have achieved, as well as the fosa. Watch Madagascar, those guys are not cats they are closely related to mongoose.
I said something similar, but I was more correcting his timeline than pinpointing the evolution of Crocodilians. It is good to see one other person willing to research evolution. I am fairly tired of left wingers defending evolution without the slightest depth of understanding. It makes them look like theists and their poor understanding of their own scripture.
Not really related to the video. As someone who is all for A.I. art, I hated Shad's video on it. A.I. art like most A.I. programs, is a tool to assist us. In this case, help with artists block or to easily describe and/or visualize an idea. Using it to straight up replace artists just because you cant afford one, with stolen art on top of that, is almost Saturday morning cartoon villian BS.
@bagelenjoyer3437 Basically, the same thing as writers block where you're completely stumped when it comes to ideas and need an extra spark to get going again. I'm saying this as an artist too, dont agree much with Ops use of it but i respect the idea of HOW it shouls be used atl.
@@TheOnePhun211 i was using artist block as an example because my brother gets it all the time. In my case I can't draw but I have great ideas. Part of the reason I can't draw is because I can't describe or visualize what it is I am thinking. So I can use A.I. art to help me describe an idea and my brother can draw it up based on the idea, rather than the image itself. In other words, the A.I. art is a place holder and a jumping off point. No one is using the art and claiming it as our own. Since one, its not our art and two, it's essentially concept art in the earliest draft.
I stopped following the guy when i heard he started being openly like this, but i never realized just how bad it got, since i never really looked into it that much. holy shit man, i used to like his stuff.
Humans pop out half baked potatoes that can cry, mostly one at a time and it takes forever for them to reach a stage where they can survive independently, having additional adults that aren't focused on their own offspring and can instead contribute to the group or take in orphaned children is an evolutionary advantage for the group, improving the survival chances of nieces and nephews still allows your genes to be passed on.
exactly. if every single person was having children, nobody would have enough spare time to do anything else. not to mention you'd be absolutely drowning in babies.
Even as adults, we still need help from others to take care of us so we can care for them. Imagine being alone in a forest without anything other than your healthy fed and hydrated body. ONE SICKNESS and your chances to survive is super low or you're handicapped for a long time leading to more troubles and starting a spiral. You would need to start a fire, find food and animals to get pelt from. All this takes so much time and energy for one person that it's basically impossible. You sprained your ankle ? Too bad, you have to continue hunting and gathering. Also hunting is super risky because you won't be able to get yourself fixed up or at least get back to your encampment if ever injured in any major survivable way. We're so bad at starting from literally nothing. And even if equipped beforehand, it's still really tough. Our biggest strengths are also our biggest weaknesses and those are our intelligence combined with community. Without people, we're doomed.
Dude. This is such an interesting development in evolution. When I heard it, it made so much sense. My gay and asexual uncles took such good care of us. They helped my Mom through so much crap after my Dad left. It’s genius!
9:38 "You don't get to believe in gay animals and evolution at the same time." - I can only imagine a cartoon character with a bunch of missing teeth saying that after an unironic "duhh"
Hi guys! Gay Bio student popping in to say that they are actually starting to spot genetic differences between gay and straight men specifically. Nothing is really set in stone, of course, but they did find a cluster of about 30 genes highly corolated with homosexuality. What's funny is that those genes are basically always present and unlocked hormonally via epigenetics when in the womb. A current theory for this is something called kinship selection. Looking at factors that make men more likely to be homosexual (next male birth in succession is more likely and mothers stress/duress seems to make a boy more likely to be gay) its believed that they take on a general caretaker role unable to have children. And if im able to theoretically help my siblings produce more children through helping care for them rather than make my own, it becomes a beneficial reproductive strategy because there's more children in the next gen. And since my mother gave all of us our cluster of gay genes but only unlocked mine, all of my neices and nephews have those genes to continue the gay. Stunting parts of your bloodline also prevents overpopulation. Since we are a social species, it's easy to see us evolving biological fail safes to make sure we dont starve.
I think what I wanted to put as a takeaway is that homosexuality doesn't have to be some defect in the human species just because it doesn't directly aid human reproduction. The principles behind biology wrap, warp, twist, and turn in many weird ways, but all life "cares about" is making more of itself. It doesn't care how it does.
That makes perfect sense. Ive been saying homosexuality is likely a form of evolutionarily built in self population control for years so this being the mechanism behind it seems to check out with that theory perfectly.
Same. I had dropped my viewership of his content to once every few months when he kept putting out rant videos “calling out” other creators, but fully unsubbed when I saw what he was like on Knights Watch. The only positive thing I can say about Shad now is that he’s the reason I found Matt Easton and Skallagrim.
@@Xeonortyea, i didnt know about his konntent on knights watch tbh, I just didnt like the transition to a bigger channel tbh. Idk it happens often that i switch channels like that. I really enjoi scall, I used to watch shad here and there. But i kinda started to find it a big Kringe how far he got into his role? But thats nit a critisim at all
@@ignatius929Jazza has a pretty healthy take on AI art imo. He sees it as a helpful tool when used correctly (namely getting references) but should never be relied upon.
it started years earlier, back when he had beef with the archery community, then with skallagrim, then he started knights watch and it quickly turned into these "everything I dislike is woke and a political personal attack on me" rants, then he wrote a fantasy book that tries to justify rape and I could continue for hours
@@TrueSonOfWalhallthe sellsword arts thing is funnily enough the least bad of any of that, if anything that was good, really good. Sellsword arts is not ran by a good guy, but shad is ehhh really showing he isn’t of any place to be calling other people out for being a bad guy when he is straight up discriminating not just being a bad guy or spreading misinformation.
That channel is 3 years old, so not really new. But I think most of his falling off was from him promoting Ai Art, and essentially bragging that it makes him better or just as skilled as his brother Jazza... Jazza is quite popular, quite the artist, atheist, and just a totally different apple.
Not just. Many things. That gave him a blow in artist communities, which also happen to be fairly strongly left leaning. Him going full crazy anti-woke drove out a whole lot of audience, since surprisingly, a lot of sword communities, at least from my experience in Europe, are pretty left leaning and very reasonable people, regardless of their religion or lack thereof. Then he started beef with bunch of people like Sellsword Arts, then his followers started going after Matt Easton of Scholagladiatoria, also some shenanigans with Skallagrim, you know, everybody, he was reeeally fighting everybody for their woke agendas and shiiet. The whole knight's watch rants started to bleed to his main channels. He made all the wrong choices, time and again, and just kept making them.
I liked when Shadiversity covered just medieval life, which helped with my fantasy writing. I saw the videos where he kept complaining that his channel was doing so poorly, right after he bought his dream home, had plans to build castles for an Aussie medieval experience, and went on a dream vacation to Europe to see real castles. I didn't understand why there was such a massive drop off just as he seemed to be so successful. I had no idea he had a side channel like this. Yikes! Thankfully, I've found many other medieval TH-camrs.
They have to resort to strawmen because their actual argument, "this thing is bad because an old book says so," falls apart under the tiniest bit of scrutiny.
Right wingers "debunking" everything and talking as if everything outside of their bubble is a competing faith is just baffling to me. "Do you believe in the concept of rain? But why? How can you be a follower of both God AND the water-from-the-sky religion?"
These guys seem to not understand the idea that there are actually very few species that have sex just for pleasure. Infact a lot of animals don't get pleasure from sex at all
Chudiversity's grifter transition is now complete. The only way to get more shameless from here is to tease about being a flat-earther, like Tucker did
The idea that only humans think is also wrong. We don't know if animals have a moral compass since that's something we made up, but learning pretty much anything about animals proves that they really aren't different from humans. Elephants apparently bury their dead (only the children, which are transportable) and are known to mourn and seek revenge. Ravens are working with wolves in a way that looks very similar to the idea of how humans domesticated wolves including hunting together and playing with the pups. Some whale species has been known to follow trends, like one will be seen wearing a "hat" and then most of the rest of the pod will start doing so as well, and like any other trend it dies out in popularity over time. Dolphins enjoy getting high. When introducing "money" to whichever primate it was studied, where the money could be exchanged for food, they started "paying for services". There was an animal in the rodent family that, when presented with food while another of its species was locked up separately and couldn't get any, would actively choose to share it. The best we've got now for how humans are different is that we're really, really good at tool making (fine detail work) and our spoken and written language has some features that allow for generational knowledge to be passed on for generations and even centuries. I also heard the whole "humans am smart, no infant-side (spelled wrong intentionally)" which ignores the entirety of human history from leaving infants in the woods after giving birth, to the need for laws to be passed in medieval europe to prevent parents from "accidentally" rolling over on their infant while sleeping, to empires like the romans removing any child who did not look fit and healthy because they would otherwise be a burden, to women being "accidentally" pushed down stairs while pregnant, to some of the drastic things done in china during the one child policy when the parents found out their one child was a girl. It's like they're talking about humans and how perfectly peaceful they are during a lecture on world war ii. It shows they are intentionally ignoring the facts
More we learn of animals, more we come to realize how much smarter they are than we thought. That is true nearly in all cases of research, with reasonable exceptions standing. Humans on the other hand, can revert into basic "bestial" behavior with a flick, if the circumstance, upbringing, or chemicals are the wrong way. The people that spout this stuff, they don't work off reality, truth, or research. They work off scripture, feelings, and preconceptions. Now, feelings matter, of course, but if you are unable to recognize reality around yourself, and allow emotions to drive you along the scripture and preconceptions entirely, well... That's not very logical, nor cognitive.
He had a good thing going. He could've kept talking about swords, castles, what people actually watched his content for. I loved his fight scene content. I'm sad, and disappointed to see this is the real Shad.
Shadiversity is still up and the videos there are focused on medieval realism and practical fantasy arms and armor Knight's watch is his low effort channel where he rants without focus
It's when the conversation moves to temptation, Like chocolate cake is tempting, gay people are just people, if somethings tempting over there for you, I've got something to tell you.....
That’s the main lesson I got from dealing with progressive social justice types for years - every one of them which makes some stink, or whatever about somebody else is really covering up their own wickedness with a preemptive attack. They join in the Lynch mob in order to not be targeted for sitting out.
Well this is sad to see - probably even sadder for his family. His brother Jazza is like a huge kids TH-camr, does art & what-not. Used to see him on Drawfee often (& they’re like the biggest LGBTQ+ supporting channel with no LGBTQ+ people that I know of, ha).
I think they're from a Mormon family, but Jazza left the faith a long time ago. So I wouldn't be sure that huge parts of his family other than his brother don't agree with his views.
From some of what I've seen I think Shad thinks the outrage content is real and doesn't understand it's a grift (for the most part) and that's why he doesn't quite understand how to make the fake outrage content. Like your not supposed to drink the coolaid yourself, but why am I giving advice ?! Great job shad, you really got this keep going.
As someone who used to watch shad often, it's saddening to see him making such cringe takes... I think part of the problem is that a lot of ppl who are (understandably) against the woke agenda don't seem to recognize the distinction between it and ppl who literally just want to freely be themselves... For instance, I'm pansexual and I hate what Disney have done to Star Wars
On gayness and evolution: evolution is about ensuring the continuation of your dna, siblings share 50% of your dna, homosexuality is thought to be an epigenetic adaptation to scarcity and by not having children themselves, they increase the likelihood of their siblings offspring to survive due to reduced resource strain and being able to help them raise the children and by extension make sure that some of their own DNA goes into the next generation via their siblings. Effectually you share as much DNA with a sibling as with your own child so helping relatives and their children is like helping your own children with their children and it is actually evolutionarily selected for. Hence why homosexuality is a positive trait and why it's perfectly in line with evolution. Evolution doesn't just work on an individual level but also on a societal/group level. Robert sapolsky is a great source on this topic.
Further to this, sapolsky has also been leading in neurology and has identified structural differences in gay and trans brains to cis brains. It's currently thought that perinatal hormones along with epigenetic factors during gestation play a key role in someone being gay/trans + autism +adhd
I have a bachelor in biology and i am currently in my master. I always thought there was no evolutionary advantage for individuums being gay. What you wrote makes a lot of sense. TIL.
@@AnLaggy it is the big thing about the "Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins. That if you replace the organism with genes seeking survival you can find many statistical reasons for many seemingly illogical behaviors when driven by evolution.
dude is a conservative mormon, this was his true self all the time, he just figured he could go mask-off without losing his audience because other right wing grifters are successful and he bought into his own propaganda of the "silent majority"
Everyone who ever had a Male Dog, knows they jump on anything that looks good to them and there have even been signs of Lionesses growing Manes if the pack lacked a Male, making Trans Animals a possibility. Gays are more Natural than the teeth of the one in Red xD
Saw some people in the chat saying he's a kiwi and I couldn't tell if they were referring to Jazza or Shad but neither of them are, they're both Australian, kiwi means a New Zealander and only a New Zealander. I don't know why but I've seen some people call Australian's kiwi which I find confusing and I thought I'll clarify for people who didn't know which seems to be a lot of people.
As an Australian, it shames me how we got our share of right-wing nutters and grifters, first Rupert Murdoch, then Bearing, then SC Reviews, and now this guy.
It's sad. I have started adding the battle scythe to my character after one of Shad's videos. Sad to see him turning out to be a piece of human garbage
I also used to like him, but dropped him like a rock as soon as I heard what was happening on his second channel and in the interactions with other people. I was already a tad annoyed by a few reaction videos of his to other content creators that felt negative on purpose, but those above were the proverbial drop. I honestly remember fondly the "Sexy Armor" videos because it tackled it from a relatively unexplored angle. "Ok, this is not effective armor, but can we make it work somewhere else? Is it traditional clothes? Is it cerimonial armor? Is it a fashion statement?" It was something that helped me quite a bit in how I thought about my characters.
Thought shadiversity was just the guy making vids about medieval weapons armour and other stuff like that. Didn't know he was homophobic.... That sucks man...
He wasn't too open about it for the longest time. Like, we knew he was a devout mormon and therefore he'd have some more conservative viewpoints, but he didn't really get into it all online, so people didn't care about it. Unfortunately, he's gone full-on culture war mode since.
It wasn't youtube. I was a long time subscriber of Shadiversity. But I unsubbed when his political madness took over. I knew before that he unironically was wearing magic underwear. But I am tolerant. I think you can do what you want even if that means living in a fantasy world. ANd I watched his videos for the content not his personal kinks. But at some point his kinks started to leak into his content too much.
13:50 tbf a lot of genetic diseases are either recessive (e.g., cystic fibrosis), manifest after reproduction age (e.g., Huntington’s) or have a positive effect when not over expressed (e.g., the phenotype that causes sickle cell is malaria resistant, it’s an over abundance of those types of red blood cells that cause sickle cell anemia), so genetic diseases that get inherited don’t usually effect one’s ability to reproduce
13:02 to add to your point. There is literally a species of moth that has no mouth. They immediately, after their cocoon, look for a mate and then die of starvation. Kinda sad and fcking up what evolution did
@@jameltandersonNah, they're way too ignorant to do any real damage as long as they're kept in check, and you guys get a candidate on the left that isn't a senile Alzheimer's patient
What marriage? There has never been such a think as "gay marriage" because marriage implies there is a man and a woman Your shitty dialectic religion has burned your braincells to a crisp if you can't understand such basic thing
Next up: interracial marriage. Then women's suffrage. Then workers' rights (some of those are rolling back already). Then disabled rights (not that there were many to start with). They are desperate to get back to the 90's (the 1790's).
I think he burned too many bridges for that to be viable. That, and it becomes abundantly clear that Shad does not know anything about Sword fighting when you see him side by side with a guy like Skallagrim or David from SellSword Arts. I think this decline was inevitable just because of who Shad is a person.
Now i can't remember the video/source off the top of my head so i'd have to go back through my watch history to try and find it, but someone did a pride month video about how scientists do in fact find a lot of engage in homosexual behavior but that it's really, really underreported. And even if it's observed, it can be hard to tell the full story without doing experiment type studies what the actual situation is. For an example of what i mean, sheep were studied and there was a decent percentage that were distinctly labeled as gay. If a gay ram had the option of a ewe in heat or another ram, they'd still mount the ram. But the biologist had to conclude that ewes commonly do not initiate contact (they stand still and wait to be mounted) so there would be plenty of lesbian ewes that just don't get physically involved with each other due to that. Some rams would stand still instead of looking to mount and some ewes wanted to mount their partner regardless if they were rams or ewes. If there's one thing biology and evolution make abundantly clear, it's that there's variation in populations for everything. Height, sexuality, hair color, etc, are all on sliders at character creation
Just a correction. Shadiversity is still being run. The Knights Watch channel is a channel for him and his friends to discuss pop culture, movies and other topics. The main channel is still uploading videos. He's also uploaded a video at one point discussing the decline in views on his channel (do with it what you will). But saying he has stopped his old channel and started a new channel is factually wrong. :)
Just a reminder that talking about someone's appearance isn't the way to criticize him. F**k shad, but making fun of his friends snaggletooth just hurts everyone else that has a snaggletooth, including people in your audience.
He tried to say his main channel doesn't have any politics on it so it should be fine Without realising a large portion of his audience was going to be put off by him as a person regardless the content Especially when other channels like Skallagrim and sellswordarts are options. It seems like he's niche-d himself out of an audience.
Same, I followed him for years just watching his medieval content featuring castles and swords. I started to notice more and more awful political and religious stuff starting to creep in and then after I discovered his 2nd channel I had to unsubscribe. He has gone so far down the right wing fundamentalist morman route that he is just unbearable to watch now.
@@nikogarcia201True. Before, they always masked their bigotry behind the idea that they just hated "wokeness", and they were actually fine with general progressive ideas. Now that they dont care, we see tons of those channels who were antiwoke in the past doing reactionary apologia.
We are Metazoans. As Forrest Valkai says, we're too big to be bacteria and we move around too much to be plants. Also it's kind of weird that they don't usually object to 'mammal' or 'chordate' but have a problem with 'animal' (metazoan) and everything below 'simiiform'. Why are phyla and classes acceptable but kingdoms and families not?
2018. Back before I knew Shad was a charlatan, and knew less than half of what he was talking about when it came to the medieval period, and next to nothing at all about HEMA. Silver lining though, he introduced me to Skallagrim and Matt Easton.
evolution deosnt necessarily select against every trait. as long as a trait isnt hindering survival/reproduction of the species enough the trait doesn't get "culled". gay people have been around as long as humans have existed. apparently it doesn't stop us from from breeding
he also tried acting like he was attacked by sellsword arts, a channel that is all about genuine historical sword fighting, who made a video about sword/armor youtubers and who to watch for actual stuff and what not
The funny thing about that “beef” is that Shad was not mentioned nor showcased at all in the first video SellSword put out. Shad took it as a personal attack anyway. The second video that mentions Shad was made in response to that nonsense. Best of all, the only thing Shad accomplished was making SellSword into a bigger channel with new merch.
F him for taking Knights Watch. George R.R. Martin writes gay characters. George R.R. Martin was asked why he included gay characters in his books, He said, "I noticed there were gay people in the world, so they should be in my world too."
For the few homophobic ASOIAF fans I've interacted with, it seems like they're fine with the way gay characters are represented in the series because their gayness isn't "a focus" the story. They're okay with gay people as long as we stay quiet, in the background and suffer in silence in a homophobic society and that's what ASOIAF portrays for the most part. As long as being gay is a joke and seen as perverted and immoral these people are a-okay with portrayals of gay people. They have no empathy.
@@boianko I don't think Martin portrays gays that way. They are princes. And literally one of the deadliest fighters in the book series. The viper died really quickly though. I don't remember Martin playing them for jokes. I haven't read them in years though.
@@antarchy1 I'm not saying Martin portrays them like that necessarily, the gay characters in the books are powerful, influential and driven. However when it comes to their sexuality, they need to hide and talk in allegory. Renly marries a woman he clearly isn't attracted to because he could never achieve his political goals if he came out as gay. Jon Connington has to hide his feelings his whole life and even after the death of his one true love because they would never be accepted. The world is hetero normative for the most part (Dorne is an exception) and gays aren't allowed to exist out and about in public society unless they burry that part of themselves deep down.
I don't think it's a bad thing to write the world that way, it's realistic, and I don't think George is portraying homophobia as a good thing. The people who already have homophobic ideas read about this homophobic world and think "oh wow, that's so cool", the same way sexist ASOIAF fans appreciate the realistic portrayal of how women were treated in the olden days. They don't empathise with the plights of these characters, they see them as people who either got unlucky in the way they were born and need to suck it up, or as people who annoyingly struggle against a system that rightfully tries to put them in their place.
@@boianko Isn't that more him writing about political intrigue in a medieval setting. It's good Drama and it's realistic to the way those societies were. I don't think it was a conscious choice on his part. It just fits the world and story. But I haven't read them in at least 10 years. So I barely remember anything about it, and I wouldn't have been dissecting the way he wrote gay characters back then.
@@boiankoI am honestly always baffled by those kinds of people, the whole point of ASOIF is that its world is AWFUL in almost every societal way imaginable, George's writing is about pointing out every flaw possible about those societies and our own. Sure, it's realistic within the boundaries of a fictional effing world, so by agreeing on how those characters are treated, you are actually doing what the story is criticizing, it's never portrayed as how thing should be. I am honestly surprised these people enjoy something they don't understand, it's media illiteracy at its peak
The rapid fall of Shad is so wild and sad. Sure, given his background, I expected that certain views were likely, but it's absolutely wild that he shifted from medieval weaponry and armor talk to, well, rage-bait nonsense.
But, also, he's Jazza's brother. Jazza is nothing like this. Additionally, thinking his entire community (medieval nerds and ren-fair fans) were likely to follow him into alt-right grift was an absurd misread of the fans he used to have.
I guess he is this conservative but I think a lot of content creators got lured in because they get a bump in views for this anti woke shit.
He is still doing medieval stuff and rather more weapon content than he used to.
Agreed. I used to be his fan, his comments section had many LGBTQ people and progressive. As soon as he dropped the rants about wokeness his views dipped, and the guy still haven't got a clue. Like, read the comments, and don't just read the complimentary ones, bro.
He always was open about being a religious mormon, perfectly fine, that's his life, and he managed to not have that be part of his content at least overtly for many years.
So sad to see him abandon the strategy that helped him reach a wide and varied community of accepting people, and instead try to go for a niche of hateful people.
Did not know he was jazzas brother wow. Real shame Shad turned out like this
Shad talking about anyone being dangerous to kids is wild when he is a Mormon. A group notorious for all the child abuse it perpetuates and covers up.
Child marriage and polygamy being but two of them.
F. He is Mormon?!?
Even before we consider religious trauma and the indoctrination into inherently racist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc ideas, yes Mormons ALSO happen to abuse their children quite often
Srsly, just why. All he had to do was fun videos about swords and he fugged it up
@@BinaBeckerWhat's wrong with polygamy
They said you can't be gay because it doesn't help the species survive and yet Shad literally has chronic illness... Shads own existence disproves his point.
He has own children and his family line will continue. Unlike those whom will round their life and persona around perversions and will never have own family. Their family lines will die and nations that have lots of this happening will fall. Every nation that has ever gone to this level of degeneracy have fallen, history shows that. And me personally, I find it very refreshing that there are channels like Shads who doesnt push this obtrusive homo agenda everywhere.
Shad: "gayness is not natural"
Also Shad: *wears glasses*
I always hate when people use this comparison. Glasses are a Human invention made to fix one of our faults, much like light bulbs fix our bad nightvision, clothes fix our lack of fur-covered bodies, and dental care fixes the fact we often outlive our own teeth.
Now let me ask you, what problem does being gay fix?
Can't think of one? That's because "gay = glasses b/c both are unnatural" is a stupid comparison. These two things have nothing in common.
@@vervetwrydavigy3006Tell that to Alan Turing
@@cairox1509 Please explain how you think that invalidates my point?
@@vervetwrydavigy3006 being gay fixes boredom
@@vervetwrydavigy3006 This is not a debate, being able to express your sexuality without being persecuted for it is something straight people take for granted.
As someone who loves swords and history i used to watch Shadiversity before all of this, his turn to this has saddened me as a trans person
Same, fellow transfemme and sword lesbian, loved his content but stopped watching for a while due to life stuff I come back and boom he's a homophobe
Same. I'm a trans person too and I practice HEMA and love history and swords/swordfighting. I used to watch a lot of the "sword" youtube channels but these days everything just feels like hate content.
At least we got Skallagrim
Same, I loved his content, it's sad to see that's what he makes now.
Scholagladiatoria seems like a decent dude too.
Imagine thinking gay people are unnatural and bad but ai art is fine and good
Can I dislike both?
@@leonrussell9607 No.
@@leonrussell9607 only if you dislike ai art and like gay people.
@@leonrussell9607 You can but one makes more sense than the other...
@@leonrussell9607 no.
I find it curious that homophobes spend more time thinking and talking about gay sex than gay people do.
It's definitely weird. My husband and I laugh at these idiots.
I wish I thought about men more than them😔
@@danboru_bakooo1966same
It’s because they’re gay
To me it’s because they see sex as for procreation and can’t see sex as something that can be for pleasure or fun that’s why it baffles them
Even if being gay was "unnatural", that doesn't inherently make it bad. Taking antibiotics for an infection is unnatural, but it's not bad. Getting a cancerous tumour surgically removed is unnatural, but it's not bad. *Wearing glasses* is unnatural, but it's not bad. Something being natural/unnatural is not indicative of whether it's good or bad. A prime example of something that's natural and also horrifically bad is the gimpi-gimpi, a plant native to Australia that, when touched, has tiny needles that inject a neurotoxin that basically lights your nerves on fire. The pain is so agonizing that there're documented instances of horses accidentally brushing against the plant and then running off a cliff because of the pain. So the claim that "this is bad because it's unnatural" is profoundly idiotic
Of course it's native to Australia...
There's nothing more natural than being mauled by a Grizzly bear, doesn't sound really good tho
Well, the stuff you mentioned as unnatural are still necessary for humans. You could mention using a computer or something. Not as necessary as the other stuff.
@@JKBDTS That is his entire point. Its not natural but its still good
not against your point here actaully quite agree with the whole natural vs unnatural debate here BUT anti biotics are natural the primaryo ne we still use is from a fungus now it might be derived at this point and heavily altered from iuts natural state who knows but anti biotics are infact natural
I wish he understood just how many trans women who love swords were his biggest fans before he took the mask off.
Didn't know there were so many of us
If my local historical longsword fencing club (wow this translates bad from German) is anything to go by at least 10% but the club is in a huge city area so that number may wary.
I've never really watched his content or this channel's content but I am also a trans woman who likes history and weapons and somehow ended up here through the algorithm.
Greetings all.
Sisters 🤝
One part of it probably is that this type of interest appeals to a lot of neuro divergent people, who also are way more likely to be part of LGBTQ community as well. Not the sole reason, but probably a part of it. (And yes, I'm agender ADHD who makes their own longbows, so I'm part of the problem myself. 😁)
Lol 'debunking gayness'. Thats like saying you got a method to debunk my office chair.
You can refuse to accept its existance if you want, but my chair is here, right under my arse wether or not anyone likes it.
ok mr hover-butt, sure. we totally believe your chair claims.
The true question is "whats between your cheeks" 😂
sitting was a marketing ploy invented by the chair industry.
real shit
@@mallardofmodernia8092lots of hair, and a little bit of lint
One of their points was that "the animals aren't gay, they're just horny and cant find the opposite sex/get confused" or whatever, shockingly, this is dead wrong, theres been studies done on rams where some of the rams when given the choice of a sheep or a ram, they will always go for the other ram, and if i remember correctly i think it was giraffes that are like 50% gay and only are straight enough to not die out lol
That argument of theirs really only applies to species that are very "simple", those without good enough sensory ability and such they genuinely cant tell the difference....who arent any of the common examples talked about in this discourse, who yeah genuinely actually know fully what they are getting into, and basically only talked about by biologists.
@@Masterblader158 Koalas come to mind. Maybe that argument does apply to those smooth brained, eucaliptus munching dorks.
How the fuck is this how I learn that sheep and rams are the same species. I thought they were different but related.
Edit: I was thinking of yaks...
@@henrywong7607 I’m guessing it’s like cows and bulls are the same species
@@PokemonRules333Whaaaat?? No. Fucking. Way!!! 😮
TH-cam didn’t kill his old channel. He killed it, and he made a video whining about it by saying his proof was his multiple year old videos weren’t getting views anymore. it’s called the consequences of your actions.
IIRC, he also implied that TH-cam is favoring left-wing creators like Lindsay Ellis.
@@junjunjamore7735 That's amazingly fantastical, considering how hard it is to find left-wing content, while every other video is some right wing propaganda. I don't watch em, I click "don't suggest channel to me" and they still keep coming.
@junjunjamore7735
Yet I can't go a day without seeing a Prager community post/advertisement....
They just want to be angry
I used to watch his stuff regularly, but once he started knights watch the whole vibe changed and I lost interest. Didn't help my politics were headed in the complete opposite direction from his.
@@Fade2GrayOGaverage right wing moment, it’s actually funny whenever media or content flips to the right… they lose their appeal and start to fail… it’s almost like advertisement from companies prefer to be more left centre to right centre oriented as that’s the most broad and appealing range to make ads for and around.
When content goes to far right it loses the appeal of advertising as they would rather not be associated with that, furthermore people don’t want to be exposed to more extreme beliefs for no good reason.
People go to certain creators for a certain thing, say a dota 2 creator they either like that creator or are searching for their content type and they prefer them or maybe they make the more niche content in that genre.
However, the moment that person starts exposing their more extreme beliefs when it has little or nothing to do with their content they will likely fall off as they alienate the wider audience.
I remember when humans were “special” because they were the only species that used tools to achieve tasks… then we found a load of other species using tools and even teamwork to achieve tasks..
Yep crows and birds in general are smart, even at its simplest they will drop shelled creatures onto rocks and use rocks to crack things open.
Orcas are very smart creatures and use tactics to hunt their prey.
Etc.
@@draketurtle4169 Crows are smart enough that a boarded zoo keeper thought them to swear at passerbies in the local zoo where I live. It was an absolute riot and the crows got thrown a lot of snacks by the visitors.
Long story short they thought each other to swear or picked it up themselves. Third generation of crows insulting humans by now (I think).
Complex tools are solely human domain.
@@WhatsTheTakeaway I’m sure it’s crows., but they have combined and modified sticks to achieve a task, and used stones to raise water level in a pot to asses its contents they couldn’t reach..
@@MikeB-nn4nhwhen we catch corvids using lathes then we can talk. . . In a nuclear fallout shelter, cos like those raptors don't need help
I remember a time when Shad would test fun things, like firing a bow/arrow while standing on a tree bough, or throwing an axe with a rope tied to the handle for easily retrieving the axe.
You know, stuff we see in movies and it was fun watching him test it out.
Oh, I remember when he and some friends tried to float in barrels like the dwarves in The Hobbit.
Those days he was fun and thought provoking, poking fun at movies and games, and didn't get political.
In the last couple years he's become increasingly a conservative douchebag hater who Dunning-Kruegered himself into thinking Shadiversity was the perfect vehicle to own the libs by teaching us how to hate and fear things like he does.
If ever a good channel jumped the shark into a black hole of awfulness, Shadiversity is one of the best examples I can think of.
If you want bow content and comparing to how it is in movies/fantasy, blumineck is a great channel. He's a mix of archery, D&D, and pole dancing.
Man loves the medieval period so much he adopted their beliefs 💀
And it looks like his buddy adopted their dentistry, too.
Maybe his humors are out of balance
Aktuwally....
The medieval period for Europe was super gay too - various bishops even wrote treatise encouraging men to spank the monkey together to "release tension"
Vikings were open to a lot of gayness, too
Remember, a lot of their social ideals are left over from the Romans - a people that thought bisexuality was the norm, had 3 gay emperors and 2 trans emperors
He needs leaches to balance out the black ick@@casualsleepingdragon8501
“Vintage fashion, not vintage values”, Shad.
Sharks and crocodilians are an ancient linage, but anyone who thinks they haven’t evolved is completely ignorant of the fossil record
Yeah, I know the points he was trying to make, but needs to brush up on evolution. Easy mistakes to make if it isn't a subject you study, but hurts a bit in a video trying to defend evolution.
It's cartoonishly stupid to look at sharks and crocodilians and go, "They never evolved!" Meanwhile, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of individual species under those categories, all of which evolved to thrive in their individual environments.
Yup not to mention the fossil record goes back before there were even vertebrates in the oceans, let along sharks and land animals.
Sooooo...Shad.
fascinating note, you say sharks are ancient
but people forget just how ancient
let me put it this way
crocodiles are old but they are half the age of sharks
*sharks came into existence; before trees came into existence*
it's actually ridiculous 😂
edit: for specificity the ages are:
sharks 450Mill y/o
trees 420mill y/o
crocodiles 230mill y/o
for reference the oldest animal
that everyone agrees was an animal lived 570mill years ago
the shark body plan has worked so well
that its been around and similar in style
for 78.9% of macroscopic life's entire history
you are right, they have changed drastically
evolution never truely stops, but still, impressive
It's called Kin Selection, btw. There are traits that don't help the individual pass on genes, but may help related individuals pass on genes, some of which they share. In this case, a social animal having non-breeding adults that are still able bodied and capable of gathering food is a huge evolutionary advantage for the group.
Biologists figured out Kin Selection before they even knew how genetics work.
Pointedly, it reduces in-group competition for resources. As long as there's enough replacement of breeding individuals, concentrating more support for fewer young is more effective at keeping those young alive. The logic becomes increasingly clear in smaller groups - if food is scarce, is it better to have meager gatherings split between clusters of cousins, leaving everyone hungry, or to have parents and aunts/uncles working together to feed one group of siblings enough to grow healthy for competition outside the family?
It also helps with the massive amount of effort it takes to raise human children, especially with the high rates of parental mortality back then. Human reproduction is about massive investment in few offspring, not throwing massive numbers into the wind to see how many survive.
I'd also like to point out that the evolutionary effort required to eliminate homosexuality would itself have far reaching consequences. Species don't actually have the ability to just selectively change their attributes at will. Changing a gene or two could lead to many other changes in addition to eliminating the possibility that some members will be gay. And since natural selection is the only method we really have for this, it makes sense that it stuck around.
I'm sure even the ancient Greeks and Chinese knew about kin selection. That's where both of these quotes from from:
"A society grows great when old men plant trees they know they will never sit" -- An old Greek proverb
"If you think in terms of a year, plant rice; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people." -- Confucius
Even in ancient societies, it was recognized that you can contribute to society far more than producing children. It's about helping other people and your community thrive.
Soldier andworker drones in eusocial insect colonies are probably the quintessential example of this.
I was a "skeptical" *Atheist Edgelord* back in high school. Then, in the fallout of Gamergate, I loosened up, started thinking for myself, & went with the Progressive/Feminist side. I found Shad's channel & followed because I liked the content: Medieval history, fantasy, swords, board games, etc. I figured, I'm not an Anti-Theist anymore, I'll tolerate this guy being Mormon, it's not getting in the way...
It got in the way.
Felt this entirely too hard. I still catch myself getting a rise out of buzzwords only to step back, ask why, then remember "oh yeah I taught myself that". (I do this more with harmless religious stuff because I've been a "achtually" theist hater longer than a conservative).
"started thinking for myself" "went to progressive/femmenist side" Damm dude you sure do mental gymnastics in order to appear better but you are just another sheep who "thinks for himself" but truth is not that
This.
Exactly my experience lmao. I never accepted that he is a missionary for a literal cult, but I thought to myself "well, he isn't spreading propaganda in his videos, so that's not really a problem with the channel." Now we are here. It's so frustrating hearing his r***rded rant, because you can tell he has absolutely no understanding at all about this topic, constantly lies, and doesn't even understand his own position enough to make a single half decent argument.
Also, a side note: when the film said there are more than 11 million species on earth and his yes man said "surely there's more animals than that" I burst out into laughter. That's all you need to hear to get an idea of the quality you can expect from the rest of the video.
Some theist are a bit more reasonable (although I think it makes them more harmful but we can’t police belief so). Like Dr. Mary Schizer (don’t know how to spell her name), and Dr. Dan McClellan. These two are great scientists and scholar. Hell Dr. McClellan is probably one of the reason I’m an atheist.
Biologist here:
First of all, it can be an evolutionary disadvantage to have all adults breeding in a family or social group, as infant mortality can rise due to the high child-to-adult ratio and resources can become depleted. In these cases, non-breeding adults who participate in childcare strongly improve the fitness of the kids, on the whole making 'homosexual behavior' a win for the family and, by extension, the homosexual individuals own genes as well since their are bringing up siblings (50% similar genes), nieces and nephews (17% similar genes).
90% of giraffes mounting other giraffes is male on male, and they are seeming willing participants. This occurs even when there are females present.
Lions are not as high of stats, but show similar behavior.
First encounter of squid s*xual acts was both gay and interspecies, with the smaller species male topping the larger one.
We've known of penguin homosexuality since the 1900s, but the poor Christian scientists where so aghast and befuddled they covered up their research by writing their findings in Greek, making it primarily inaccessible to general society - potentially due to the risk of being ostracized as well, since they could be accused of making up random stuff in Antarctica to then come home and 'spread their filth' to general society.
Dolphins form pair bonds with the same sex, often between breeding seasons, and engage in s*xual behavior.
Many parrots have same-sex couples as a first choice, too. None of that is by any means due to absence of alternatives
Finally Bonobos shouldn't be held to human standards wrt p*do stuff. In their species it's normal and common, with youngs initiating things themselves a lot of them time. Further, they primarily participate in oral, both giving and receiving. In our species, a majority of cultures keep kids away from that sorta thing (side-eyes aspects of A. Greece real hard here) and kids rarely naturally engage in such stuff and form trauma around it. To Bonobos its an evolutionary adaptation, to humans it is not
Bonobos are an absolutely wonderful species and I will take no slander of them. Meerkats, however, a totally a different thing.
What do meercats do?
@@manxcatcoot Thanks for taking the bait ;)
Their are the most homicidal little maniacs on the planet. They have an intraspecies murder rate of 20% deaths occurring at meerkat hands compared to 12% in chinchillas (second on the list alongside other mongoose species), 6% in top predators like many big cats and an approximation of ~2% in our fellow ape species (excluding Bonobos and Orangutans from here).
Humans swivel between 1-2% depending on where we are in history. The average propensity to murder in mammals is about 0.3%, so even humans are rather staggering. To top it off, it's primarily infanticide against another female's young in the social group.
Wanna emphasize I don't hate them by any means, but I ain't protecting them from public outrage so long it remains verbal. Let's just say, I've really questioned Timon's reasons to leave the nest in Lion King 1.5 after I reached adulthood.
@@manxcatcoot I actually already responded to your comment, but apparently YT doesn't like when I talk about this topic - and you'll see why in a moment.
Cause meerkats have the highest m*rder rate of all mammals at a whooping 20%, from what I understand of all meerkat endings of life, coming that the paws of another meerkat. This contrasts the ~12% of chinchillas and other mongoose species, the ~6% in many predator species like big cats and the 2% average for primate species among which humanity differ span between 1-2% depending on time in history.
It further contrasts the 0.3 percent average determined in all mammals as a whole. Specifically, meerkat females will cease the existence of youngs of other females in the group in high rates to 'make way' for their own young to get food and space.
As such, I will tolerate these mofos getting blasted by public outrage, even tho I don't advocate for hate and demand it remains verbal. But I gotta say, Timon leaving the nest in Lion King 1.5 was cast in a whole new light for me.
@@manxcatcoot I actually already responded to your comment twice, but apparently this is a bit sensitive - and you'll see why in a moment.
Cause meerkats have the highest finishing-off-another rate of all mammals at a whooping 20%, from what I understand of all meerkat endings of life, coming that the paws of another meerkat. This contrasts the ~12% of chinchillas and other mongoose species, the ~6% in many predator species like big cats and the 2% average for primate species among which humanity differ span between 1-2% depending on time in history.
It further contrasts the 0.3 percent average determined in all mammals as a whole. Specifically, meerkat females will cease the existence of youngs of other females in the group in high rates to 'make way' for their own young to get food and space.
As such, I will tolerate these aholes getting blasted by public outrage, even tho I don't advocate for hate and demand it remains verbal. But I gotta say, Timon leaving the nest in Lion King 1.5 was cast in a whole new light for me.
And people say only Tik-Tok censors these things. Quite clearly it's happening here on YT too (I've had posts fail for the same reason).
I used to like him for his sword content, now he's a weird shouty man
tbf, he always was a werd shouty man, he was just trying to hide it back then
it took me rly long to notice, but looking back the vibes were kinda off since the beginning imo
but arent sword people already weird and shouty (but not the shadiversity kind of weird and shouty) ?
@@die_cutestesame, i only noticed it a few videos into Knight's Watch
@@tusk9687 *NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING WEIRD AND SHOUTY!*
@@die_cuteste Being weird shouty man is in on itself isn't bad, but using bad argument isn't helped by saying it louder.
His use of "critical thinking" is amusing because he's an excellent example of someone who doesn't apply it.
Well, he also argued against the whole archery community that they used a specific kind of draw in medieval archery and he based it on paintings while having historians all around tell him he is not right in his assumptions.
@@MrAreallycoolname Exactly, that's like the opposite of critical thinking. Critical Thinking often literally involves looking at what the experts say, considering each point of view and then making decisions based on nothing but fact. The only reason anyone would ignore people who actually know what they're talking about is to gratify their own feeling that that they know better.
I do a bit of medieval archery. Specifically I shoot an English longbow. I like to keep it as medieval as possible too. I saw that video and he is full of shit. He even makes the bold claim that he is doing “experimental archaeology”. He is neither an archaeologist nor a historian. He is a LARPer, and he is very incorrect. Those manuscripts were drawn incorrectly. But he thinks he’s discovered something that has already been tested and debunked.
@@eddiev3052 I've been practicing archery for 17 years now and am well aware of his BS.
I dont know that much about HEMA, so I believed him there when he came up with something. What i do know is archery, and thats the point i came to realize he's probably full of shit concerning swords and other weapons aswell.
Same shit with Lars Andersen, a few years ago he had his time in the spotlight and people kept arguing that he's the only real archer with his trickshot BS.
@@MrAreallycoolname as far as i know even hema people think he's full of shit a lot of the time.
I used to watch Shadiversity regularly for his knight content. As someone working on a little historical fantasy comic, his research was pretty good and easy to digest, as far as I could tell. Turns out, he really doesn’t seem to know much about anything outside that specific subject. And as soon as he started talking about literally anything else, he fell off hard. Like, I’m a Christian too, but that doesn’t mean I have to pretend that evolution isn’t real or that being gay isn’t natural. That should just be common sense.
Even what he says about history can be dubious.
Yeah the historical stuff is also kinda meh ngl, not the best but let's be fair not the worst either , atleast a few years ago
hell i argue if you try to debunk evolution you might alienated even the anti woke/anti lgbtq people (who still had some common sense) from your sides the thing is evolution is why we can learn adapt and thrive in our planet without evolution and the fact our minds where giving by gods to be really smart we wouldn't survive we would just be a dominated animal that will be replace by another one in the next million years or so
@@Thefool201Oh bro, as hard as it is to believe these days, Shad actually used to annotate inaccurate videos with corrections, and post videos correcting himself when he was wrong. Now he just treats any criticism, whether constructive or otherwise, as a personal attack.
@@Xeonort yeah used to watch his video once in a while but now it's just cringe inducing and sad to see
As a gay I think a lot of shad audience was the nerdy dnd crowd , as a dnd nerd its a lot of gays at the table
For years I've been trying to understand bigots and why they believe what they believe, and why they make such utterly terrible arguments; and I'm embarrassed it took me as long as it did to figure it out.
A lot of bigots will give some reasoning as to why they're homophobic, but what I've learned is that a significant amount of homophobes didn't come to their hatred from the reasoning they state - they just didn't like gay people to begin with, and then tried to justify it with some bogus reasoning. That's why a lot of them don't care when you disprove their points, and that's why a lot of them don't care when you show how circular some of their arguments are; their reasoning was simply never important to begin with and they meant none of it, it was merely there to give credence to their already existing view.
Arguing against bigots by disproving their arguments won't change anything in most cases, because those arguments are just shields of distraction (and often just smearing). By the time you've shown how they're wrong, they'll often just make up some other reason, hence why a lot of reasons given make no sense. You can change the "homophobic" topic in my previous paragraph to any type of bigotry, be it racism, sexism or transphobia, and it still applies.
I don't know what's at heart of their hatred, or how you would even go about changing someone's views.
It appears to me to just be tribal thinking; tho I am not entirely sure that's what it is.
Well said
Yeah, a lot of super homophobic/transphobic and racist people are literally just driven by a feeling of disgust which is probably the product of their upbringing, strict religious, homophobic upbringens are of course quite effective in that way. Or sometimes they feel the disgust because they themselves see certain non-stereotypical tendencies in them and they basically hate those parts of themselves in such a strong way that they transfer it to other people who show those tendencies off and may even be confident while doing so. Like, mentally stronger individuals may discover such non-stereotypical tendencies and may hate themselves for a while, especially when reinforced through religious dogma, but will eventually come to accept themselves and leave the bigoted religious ideas behind them, but some people just get devoured by their self-hatred.
Shad definitely has gay fantasies about knights in armor
I mean men being manly men being burly and wielding giant phalic shaped objects and crossing swords
Like mans must see the homoerotic undertones in what he discusses?
unrobe yourself, noble knight!
I mean have you seen those giant codpieces on some medieval armor? 😄
I have gay fantasies about knights in armor
@@cryptidcaddy1449 house of the dragon will do things to a man.
I dunno if it's widely accepted bu I remember reading about a 'Gay Uncle' concept where basically having some members of your species around who don't reproduce is actually beneficial since they can then help look after the young of their siblings if they die prematurely. Since their genes are already mostly the same, this helps the trait pass down through generations.
I'm a teacher and I'm basically the "gay uncle" (gay niece, more accurately lmfao) for a whole bunch of rotating kids. I'll have no desire of reproducing even if I wasn't gay, I've done my part tenfold already.
People concerned with biological reproduction forget how much work and organization at a society level is required for us to maintain natality rates. "Gay" people certainly aren't a threat to human evolution and even might be a sign of a new socialadaptation that moves the responsibility of reproductive work OUT of the closed environment of thetraditional family, into a more efficient and healthy community based approach.
There have been studies indicating that to quote the findings
"female maternal relatives of gay men have more reproductive success than their counterparts who are related to heterosexuals."
It's like an evolutionary compensation mechanism that factors in gay people as part of the species.
But then there are thousands of books full of what Shad doesn't know about evolution so not surprised he wouldn't know.
Or a straight uncle who dosen’t want kids, like mine
Uncle Iroh lol
@@healgoth Dude he literally had a son
He actually says that we're different from animals because we know right and wrong, so we can know homosexual sex is immoral. Well, dolt, it's not immoral. There has to be harm or a violation to be immoral. Two consenting adults having loving relations with each other, regardless of sex or gender, is categorically not immoral. The only reason people think it might be is because ancient and irrational social taboos told them it was.
Morality is subjective to different cultures. You gave your definition of what is moral, but a deeply religious person would probably define it differently, along the lines of "what God (any god really) deems right or wrong". He is a mormon, did you really expect him to be a fan of gay people?
Right, wrong, moral or immoral are all subjective and contextual words. You cannot give them a definition set in stone, we can mosty come to an agreement to what we collectively think they mean, but it will never be a universally shared vision.
@@giulioceresini1435morality absolutely can be objective.
There are certain things that, logically and objectively are and are not moral, taking aside any belief in the mandates of imaginary mythological deities.
There are many health risks for M.O.M. sex. Haven't you looked them up?
@@WhatsTheTakeaway eating fast food has health risks, and yet, you are not trying to imprison people for eating mcdonalds
@actualgoblin "Imprison people," lol. I never said anything like that, nor do I believe it. What a wild imagination you have.
The OP said there has to be harm for homosexuality to be immoral. There is harm in homosexuality. Therefore, it is immoral.
And yes, people probably shouldn't indulge in fast food.
Two things that with make Shad start fuming.
1. Gay Penguins
2. Male seahorses get pregnant
Seahorses make zero sense in general, it's like they live to defy expectations.
A Mormon trying to debunk evolution? Colour me surprised.
Thing is, in gregarious species like, say, *OURS,* the survival of the group is much more important than the survival of the individual, and homosexual members who don't reproduce often help taking care of the offspring of the ones that do, therefore making the community stronger than if *everyone* reproduced and stretched local resources thin.
Not only that. Siblings also exist, so even if homosexual members of the group don't directly pass on their genes. So long as they function as part of a family unit and help their siblings out then the genes they carry are indirectly passed along as well since their heterosexual siblings share many of the same genes.
Yes, but that kind of thinking requires both empathy and critical thinking. Abilities right wingers lack.
@@joendeo1890 some evolutionary psycologists have claimed that homosexuality is to some extent related to stress conditions in the mother durring pregnancy, so that means there is a bigger chance for homosexual offspring when ever the herd neds help to survive. It sounds like a sound theory.
@@joendeo1890 you can look at colonial species too. They served their colony with their life if needed. As long as the colony survive their genes is passed on.
@@joendeo1890 It's not just about the family unit...We used to live in groups larger than modern families for several 100,000's of years, moving around, hunting and gathering, and sleeping together in caves, etc.
The notion of a "nuclear family" (and strictly monogamous relationships), didn't come about until after the invention of agriculture, just a few thousand years ago.
We didn't have "bedrooms" - or even permanent homes to live in - until agriculture made it possible to stay at the same place your whole life.
Back then, when we were living in small groups, you couldn't be absolutely sure who fathered which children. So the nurturing was likely done by the group as a whole. In those circumstances, having 10-20% not procreate would be a great benefit for the groups survival.
When he started using the word 'woke' for things he doesn't like (e.g., Rings of Power), I gave up on him.
RoP wasn't great tough, but not because it is "woke" whatever it means anyway.
@@dawoifee yeah Rings of Power was pretty bad because the writing was terrible
@@Rocco049 some of the acting was quite decent, though. Not enough to save the show, but the hobbits part was pretty solid all along i'd say. The lore is just nonsense of course, but the acting almost sold it
For me it was earlier when he was whinging about the Wheel of Time tv show. I thought the show sucked ass, and was vibing with his episode reviews, only to notice they kept circling back to culture war nonsense talking points. Friggin pit in my stomach man.
RoP was kinda bad imho, but you're still right, 9.9/10 times when someone says it like that, they're probably a fkin chud-brain-orc who thinks the entire world is exactly like their tribe and any deviation from the tribes norm is obviously an abomination that has to be removed.
literal cave man methodology.
It's crazy that Shad seems like a real a-hole while his brother Jazza seems like a really chill and nice dude. I was chocked when I learned that they are brothers
Not only does he seem chill, he seems like the type of guy to double check that his friend group not be mean about the fact you don't like [common thing] and to not bring it up.
@@StormCrownSr yeah. their family gatherings must be really awkward. I felt so bad when I watched them on a livestream playing some tabletop game at some convention and Shads "art ability" came up. Jazza did everything to be nice and not to try to offend him. yeah it was hard to watch.
As a trans woman who used to love his videos, it's crazy to me that he actually thinks TH-cam is making his chanel die
I read it as "as a liar who will end up destroying his own body"
@@elpsykoongro5379 I hope you seek therapy someday 🙏
@@GentlemensClubHolyEdition speak for yourself man
I am already on my way out of that, what helped me most was learning to not lie to myself and I am happier, stronger and more resilient than before, so please stop lying to yourself, you are quite literally feeding yourself poison
@@elpsykoongro5379 if you truly learned to not lie to yourself, you also would do research and try to understand trans people instead of writing them off as "liars", which is a way to soothe your feelings by applying labels instead of engaging with learning the facts of the matter or why you feel the way you do
clearly, you haven't given this topic much more thought than "I don't like it"
also, quick question, what "poison" are they feeding themselves?
@@chaosundivided2525 you tell me
Shadiversity used to be a good youtuber and he taught me a lot about swords and castles but as a member of the gay and trans/non-binary communities i feel kinda betrayed i used to like his content but now i say that shad should go give a handshake to a box jellyfish
Isn't it horrible when someone you admire does something that makes you feel betrayed. The good thing is that he was always like this but now you know and don't need to be fooled any longer so if anything it's a positive tonnage that knowledge
So does Shad think that men have to actively choose not to want to have sex with other men?
Speaking as a cis-het man myself, that never seemed to come up for me.
Same.
From the way a lot of anti-gay men speak, women too, they say that they made a choice. Which implies they're somewhere on the spectrum of bi, which does range all the way from a step from het to a step from totally gay.
So, it sounds like their system they live under, their believes they are grown to, all this, it forces them to a position where they hate that part in themselves, and effectively project it onto all others, because they refuse to believe that being different on that scale (or many other scales) is normal, being the same is what they perceive as normal.
Everything's got to be very standard and singular without any variation, all things different are evil, scary, or otherwise untrustworthy (and they certainly couldn't be any more different than anyone else, thus all must have these feelings, and choose to actively pursue them, or deny them). They are the normal ones, so everyone else has to be wrong.
Maybe he’s projecting.
@@koboldparty4708
He has a wife and kids you are just severely schizophrenic
Only if you have severe schizophrenia
@@elpsykoongro5379 Oh, your non-sequitor cuts me to the quick and totally doesn't make you look like you don't have an actual argument.
I see they're all dressed up for crossing the swords.
All that's missing is the caps with bells.
They definitely sucked each other off after this video.
@@R.T.Logan.80 lol, pretty much what crappaversity does.
But they too afraid to Penetrate each other
Fondling thy pommels and shaking thou spear
Apparently he wrote a book that was one big rap fantasy. Like, the main character, who is supposed to be good and likeable and not evil, likes rap.
It was a badly, very badly done remeeed Villain story.
That’s a bit of an oversimplification. The book isn’t a r*pe fantasy, it’s r*pe apologia. The main character (supposedly) regrets being a r*pist, but the story justifies his past actions. So, it’s actually worse than a r*pe fantasy.
The main character also kills his own son at one point. The son is also bad so him being killed is treated as a good thing even though the father is far worse.
@@trentonbuchert7342 the thing is, there is no rap ist in the world that has ever regretted it. They are incapable of human emotions at that point.
I love rap fantasies it's my favourite genre of music
What Shad doesn't understand about evolution is that it doesn't only happen on an individual level, but also on the level of populations.
It isn't only about the survival of the individual, but of the entire group, because a lot of animals are *social* - just like humans - and do not live alone in a vacuum.
And when a group has a trait that makes a certain percentage homosexual and thus has a higher chance of survival (maybe because it lowers sexual competition - especially among males - without reducing group size) that trait is advantageous and gets passed on.
Poor Shad. just because his brain never evolved passed the 5ft grade, he automatically thinks that that happens to everyone.
Same with a lot of dialogue about "choosing" to be straight. Since they can't imagine they are actually bi, since of course, they must be normal and natural, while others are strange. Ironically not realizing it is perfectly normal and natural...
Don't be so harsh to kids in grade 5.
I always found it super weird that the ones whining about "traditional beauty" not being in video games tend to be the ugliest men out there.
Or about masculinity...
I find not only *that* weird, but also how the stupidest guys tend to put on the biggest "intellectual" act. Those two, for instance -- they even do the beard-stroking thing. Ugh.
I mean to each their own, and I don't need to body shame anyone, but if you're gonna make a big deal about say physical fitness and conventional beauty standards
Dude is not practising what he preaches.
its bad ugly representation
@@BinaBeckerRW “politics” is all about their own inferiority.
"Hold on, this whole naturalistic argument was your idea."
"You'd never see an animal mating with another animal of the same sex! It's unnatural!"
*Provides evidence of gay animals*
"Well, Humans can't just go about doing everything animals do, now can we?"
It's not just shifting goalposts. They're literally pretending they were the other side all along after they lose.
Crocodilia “the modern crocodilians” didn’t appear until 85ish million years ago during the late Cretaceous. Alligators have only been around for 35 million years, but the crocodilian body plan is so successful that it evolved multiple times in the pseudosuchian line (the line that would eventually lead to modern crocodilians), and even in non crocodilians such as early whales and amphibians.
Neat!
So what you're telling me is that crocodiles are *so* successful, that other things keep evolving into crocodiles? Have we finally found the vertebrates' crab?
@@tzorfireis425 Dang. you beat me to it.
I mean... I guess... But so is the 'shark' design, because fish, whales and reptiles have adopted it. Sharks being the ones with the name, ictiosaurs and dolfins. Sure the latter seats the tail up and down... But swap that and they are essentially one and the same.
You also have the cat design, which canines (some fox) have achieved, as well as the fosa. Watch Madagascar, those guys are not cats they are closely related to mongoose.
I said something similar, but I was more correcting his timeline than pinpointing the evolution of Crocodilians. It is good to see one other person willing to research evolution. I am fairly tired of left wingers defending evolution without the slightest depth of understanding. It makes them look like theists and their poor understanding of their own scripture.
Not really related to the video. As someone who is all for A.I. art, I hated Shad's video on it. A.I. art like most A.I. programs, is a tool to assist us. In this case, help with artists block or to easily describe and/or visualize an idea. Using it to straight up replace artists just because you cant afford one, with stolen art on top of that, is almost Saturday morning cartoon villian BS.
"Help with artists block" bro what
@bagelenjoyer3437 Basically, the same thing as writers block where you're completely stumped when it comes to ideas and need an extra spark to get going again. I'm saying this as an artist too, dont agree much with Ops use of it but i respect the idea of HOW it shouls be used atl.
@@TheOnePhun211 i was using artist block as an example because my brother gets it all the time. In my case I can't draw but I have great ideas. Part of the reason I can't draw is because I can't describe or visualize what it is I am thinking. So I can use A.I. art to help me describe an idea and my brother can draw it up based on the idea, rather than the image itself.
In other words, the A.I. art is a place holder and a jumping off point. No one is using the art and claiming it as our own. Since one, its not our art and two, it's essentially concept art in the earliest draft.
If people used AI the way you do, I would have no complaints about it. Sad that so few have as much common sense as you do.
Y'know? I liked Shad when he was just discussing weapons and armor. Then he started expressing more personal views and lost me entirely.
I stopped following the guy when i heard he started being openly like this, but i never realized just how bad it got, since i never really looked into it that much.
holy shit man, i used to like his stuff.
Humans pop out half baked potatoes that can cry, mostly one at a time and it takes forever for them to reach a stage where they can survive independently, having additional adults that aren't focused on their own offspring and can instead contribute to the group or take in orphaned children is an evolutionary advantage for the group, improving the survival chances of nieces and nephews still allows your genes to be passed on.
exactly. if every single person was having children, nobody would have enough spare time to do anything else. not to mention you'd be absolutely drowning in babies.
@@manboy4720 Child mortality would go trough the roof because it would have been impossible to meet the need or every kids if there are two many.
Even as adults, we still need help from others to take care of us so we can care for them. Imagine being alone in a forest without anything other than your healthy fed and hydrated body.
ONE SICKNESS and your chances to survive is super low or you're handicapped for a long time leading to more troubles and starting a spiral. You would need to start a fire, find food and animals to get pelt from. All this takes so much time and energy for one person that it's basically impossible. You sprained your ankle ? Too bad, you have to continue hunting and gathering.
Also hunting is super risky because you won't be able to get yourself fixed up or at least get back to your encampment if ever injured in any major survivable way.
We're so bad at starting from literally nothing.
And even if equipped beforehand, it's still really tough.
Our biggest strengths are also our biggest weaknesses and those are our intelligence combined with community. Without people, we're doomed.
Dude. This is such an interesting development in evolution. When I heard it, it made so much sense. My gay and asexual uncles took such good care of us. They helped my Mom through so much crap after my Dad left. It’s genius!
That argument bears one issue: Freedom of choice. You don't have to be homosexual to elect not to have children.
9:38 "You don't get to believe in gay animals and evolution at the same time."
- I can only imagine a cartoon character with a bunch of missing teeth saying that after an unironic "duhh"
They think believing in gay people means that you think all are gay, or should be gay. Its a disingenuous strawman argument.
Hi guys!
Gay Bio student popping in to say that they are actually starting to spot genetic differences between gay and straight men specifically. Nothing is really set in stone, of course, but they did find a cluster of about 30 genes highly corolated with homosexuality. What's funny is that those genes are basically always present and unlocked hormonally via epigenetics when in the womb. A current theory for this is something called kinship selection. Looking at factors that make men more likely to be homosexual (next male birth in succession is more likely and mothers stress/duress seems to make a boy more likely to be gay) its believed that they take on a general caretaker role unable to have children. And if im able to theoretically help my siblings produce more children through helping care for them rather than make my own, it becomes a beneficial reproductive strategy because there's more children in the next gen. And since my mother gave all of us our cluster of gay genes but only unlocked mine, all of my neices and nephews have those genes to continue the gay. Stunting parts of your bloodline also prevents overpopulation. Since we are a social species, it's easy to see us evolving biological fail safes to make sure we dont starve.
I think what I wanted to put as a takeaway is that homosexuality doesn't have to be some defect in the human species just because it doesn't directly aid human reproduction. The principles behind biology wrap, warp, twist, and turn in many weird ways, but all life "cares about" is making more of itself. It doesn't care how it does.
That makes perfect sense. Ive been saying homosexuality is likely a form of evolutionarily built in self population control for years so this being the mechanism behind it seems to check out with that theory perfectly.
TH-cam didn't kill Shadeversity. Shad killed it. I stopped watching him a long time ago, but anytime I see a video about it, it's never positive.
Same. I had dropped my viewership of his content to once every few months when he kept putting out rant videos “calling out” other creators, but fully unsubbed when I saw what he was like on Knights Watch.
The only positive thing I can say about Shad now is that he’s the reason I found Matt Easton and Skallagrim.
@@Xeonortyea, i didnt know about his konntent on knights watch tbh,
I just didnt like the transition to a bigger channel tbh.
Idk it happens often that i switch channels like that.
I really enjoi scall,
I used to watch shad here and there.
But i kinda started to find it a big Kringe how far he got into his role?
But thats nit a critisim at all
Jazza! Come pick your brother, he's at it again!
I don't think he wants to though.
@@CaptainWelshieand I don’t blame him
Who's Jazza?
@@arx3516 Shad more successful brother. Who is an accomplished artist, you can imagine his stance on ai art
@@ignatius929Jazza has a pretty healthy take on AI art imo. He sees it as a helpful tool when used correctly (namely getting references) but should never be relied upon.
I legit learned about him from a gay furry before he was out and proud. Imagine my shock lmfao
As a gay furry I was equally shocked 😔
As soon as I heard I immediately converted to sell sword arts
As soon as I heard I immediately converted to sell sword arts
As soon as I heard I immediately converted to sell sword arts
As soon as I heard I immediately converted to sell sword arts
No, he did lose his audience, he used to be a respectable sword guy before he picked a fight with Sellsword arts
He started falling off years before that.
I love sellsword arts :D
The woke rants is what gotten him.
it started years earlier, back when he had beef with the archery community, then with skallagrim, then he started knights watch and it quickly turned into these "everything I dislike is woke and a political personal attack on me" rants, then he wrote a fantasy book that tries to justify rape and I could continue for hours
@@TrueSonOfWalhallthe sellsword arts thing is funnily enough the least bad of any of that, if anything that was good, really good.
Sellsword arts is not ran by a good guy, but shad is ehhh really showing he isn’t of any place to be calling other people out for being a bad guy when he is straight up discriminating not just being a bad guy or spreading misinformation.
That channel is 3 years old, so not really new. But I think most of his falling off was from him promoting Ai Art, and essentially bragging that it makes him better or just as skilled as his brother Jazza... Jazza is quite popular, quite the artist, atheist, and just a totally different apple.
Not just. Many things. That gave him a blow in artist communities, which also happen to be fairly strongly left leaning. Him going full crazy anti-woke drove out a whole lot of audience, since surprisingly, a lot of sword communities, at least from my experience in Europe, are pretty left leaning and very reasonable people, regardless of their religion or lack thereof.
Then he started beef with bunch of people like Sellsword Arts, then his followers started going after Matt Easton of Scholagladiatoria, also some shenanigans with Skallagrim, you know, everybody, he was reeeally fighting everybody for their woke agendas and shiiet.
The whole knight's watch rants started to bleed to his main channels.
He made all the wrong choices, time and again, and just kept making them.
I liked when Shadiversity covered just medieval life, which helped with my fantasy writing. I saw the videos where he kept complaining that his channel was doing so poorly, right after he bought his dream home, had plans to build castles for an Aussie medieval experience, and went on a dream vacation to Europe to see real castles. I didn't understand why there was such a massive drop off just as he seemed to be so successful. I had no idea he had a side channel like this. Yikes! Thankfully, I've found many other medieval TH-camrs.
🎵Birds do it,
Bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it!
Let's do it,
Let's gay it up!🎶
They have to resort to strawmen because their actual argument, "this thing is bad because an old book says so," falls apart under the tiniest bit of scrutiny.
Right wingers "debunking" everything and talking as if everything outside of their bubble is a competing faith is just baffling to me.
"Do you believe in the concept of rain? But why? How can you be a follower of both God AND the water-from-the-sky religion?"
These guys seem to not understand the idea that there are actually very few species that have sex just for pleasure. Infact a lot of animals don't get pleasure from sex at all
Chudiversity's grifter transition is now complete. The only way to get more shameless from here is to tease about being a flat-earther, like Tucker did
The idea that only humans think is also wrong. We don't know if animals have a moral compass since that's something we made up, but learning pretty much anything about animals proves that they really aren't different from humans.
Elephants apparently bury their dead (only the children, which are transportable) and are known to mourn and seek revenge. Ravens are working with wolves in a way that looks very similar to the idea of how humans domesticated wolves including hunting together and playing with the pups. Some whale species has been known to follow trends, like one will be seen wearing a "hat" and then most of the rest of the pod will start doing so as well, and like any other trend it dies out in popularity over time. Dolphins enjoy getting high. When introducing "money" to whichever primate it was studied, where the money could be exchanged for food, they started "paying for services". There was an animal in the rodent family that, when presented with food while another of its species was locked up separately and couldn't get any, would actively choose to share it.
The best we've got now for how humans are different is that we're really, really good at tool making (fine detail work) and our spoken and written language has some features that allow for generational knowledge to be passed on for generations and even centuries.
I also heard the whole "humans am smart, no infant-side (spelled wrong intentionally)" which ignores the entirety of human history from leaving infants in the woods after giving birth, to the need for laws to be passed in medieval europe to prevent parents from "accidentally" rolling over on their infant while sleeping, to empires like the romans removing any child who did not look fit and healthy because they would otherwise be a burden, to women being "accidentally" pushed down stairs while pregnant, to some of the drastic things done in china during the one child policy when the parents found out their one child was a girl.
It's like they're talking about humans and how perfectly peaceful they are during a lecture on world war ii. It shows they are intentionally ignoring the facts
Nature is both equally cruel and gentle. Humans are part of this system unfortunately.
More we learn of animals, more we come to realize how much smarter they are than we thought. That is true nearly in all cases of research, with reasonable exceptions standing.
Humans on the other hand, can revert into basic "bestial" behavior with a flick, if the circumstance, upbringing, or chemicals are the wrong way.
The people that spout this stuff, they don't work off reality, truth, or research. They work off scripture, feelings, and preconceptions.
Now, feelings matter, of course, but if you are unable to recognize reality around yourself, and allow emotions to drive you along the scripture and preconceptions entirely, well... That's not very logical, nor cognitive.
He treats his brother like shit too (Jazza). Jazza was definitely the more successful of the two on TH-cam.
Wait what, jazza is his brother??
I had no idea they were brothers, it's crazy that Jazza is related to this guy, they could not be more different.
Shad is definitely jealous of Jazza. Jazza is literally bigger than all of Shad's channels combined.
I love the video of them together at an event. Jazza roasts him the whole time.
Wait what did he do to jazza?!?
All the atheist skeptic youtube I watched as a kid prepared me for this.
Except Armored "Skeptic"...
@@ExtremeMadnessX if your talking about sir sic then the hell did he do
@@piglin469 nah armoured sceptic is a different fella, sir sic is cool
@@rethagos8295 I see then where good then. Have this 🍪
@@ExtremeMadnessXI weep at what happened to Greg.
He had a good thing going. He could've kept talking about swords, castles, what people actually watched his content for. I loved his fight scene content. I'm sad, and disappointed to see this is the real Shad.
Shadiversity is still up and the videos there are focused on medieval realism and practical fantasy arms and armor
Knight's watch is his low effort channel where he rants without focus
Remember folks with these people every every accusation is a confession
It's when the conversation moves to temptation,
Like chocolate cake is tempting, gay people are just people, if somethings tempting over there for you, I've got something to tell you.....
It never fails to amaze me that anti-gay people think about dicks and anal sex more than I do.
That’s the main lesson I got from dealing with progressive social justice types for years - every one of them which makes some stink, or whatever about somebody else is really covering up their own wickedness with a preemptive attack. They join in the Lynch mob in order to not be targeted for sitting out.
You mean yourself in these case
Well this is sad to see - probably even sadder for his family. His brother Jazza is like a huge kids TH-camr, does art & what-not. Used to see him on Drawfee often (& they’re like the biggest LGBTQ+ supporting channel with no LGBTQ+ people that I know of, ha).
I think they're from a Mormon family, but Jazza left the faith a long time ago. So I wouldn't be sure that huge parts of his family other than his brother don't agree with his views.
From some of what I've seen I think Shad thinks the outrage content is real and doesn't understand it's a grift (for the most part)
and that's why he doesn't quite understand how to make the fake outrage content.
Like your not supposed to drink the coolaid yourself, but why am I giving advice ?!
Great job shad, you really got this keep going.
As someone who used to watch shad often, it's saddening to see him making such cringe takes...
I think part of the problem is that a lot of ppl who are (understandably) against the woke agenda don't seem to recognize the distinction between it and ppl who literally just want to freely be themselves... For instance, I'm pansexual and I hate what Disney have done to Star Wars
Yea they fall into a rabit hole, same with anti sjw
On gayness and evolution: evolution is about ensuring the continuation of your dna, siblings share 50% of your dna, homosexuality is thought to be an epigenetic adaptation to scarcity and by not having children themselves, they increase the likelihood of their siblings offspring to survive due to reduced resource strain and being able to help them raise the children and by extension make sure that some of their own DNA goes into the next generation via their siblings.
Effectually you share as much DNA with a sibling as with your own child so helping relatives and their children is like helping your own children with their children and it is actually evolutionarily selected for. Hence why homosexuality is a positive trait and why it's perfectly in line with evolution.
Evolution doesn't just work on an individual level but also on a societal/group level.
Robert sapolsky is a great source on this topic.
Further to this, sapolsky has also been leading in neurology and has identified structural differences in gay and trans brains to cis brains.
It's currently thought that perinatal hormones along with epigenetic factors during gestation play a key role in someone being gay/trans + autism +adhd
I have a bachelor in biology and i am currently in my master. I always thought there was no evolutionary advantage for individuums being gay. What you wrote makes a lot of sense. TIL.
@@AnLaggy it is the big thing about the "Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins. That if you replace the organism with genes seeking survival you can find many statistical reasons for many seemingly illogical behaviors when driven by evolution.
He's falling down the reactionary hole. He's following the views down to the mud
He’s always been like that, he just used to keep his shitty views separately from his main channel
dude is a conservative mormon, this was his true self all the time, he just figured he could go mask-off without losing his audience because other right wing grifters are successful and he bought into his own propaganda of the "silent majority"
Typical con... take the thing that debunks your argument, and pretend it's an argument someone else came up with out of the blue
Everyone who ever had a Male Dog, knows they jump on anything that looks good to them and there have even been signs of Lionesses growing Manes if the pack lacked a Male, making Trans Animals a possibility. Gays are more Natural than the teeth of the one in Red xD
Saw some people in the chat saying he's a kiwi and I couldn't tell if they were referring to Jazza or Shad but neither of them are, they're both Australian, kiwi means a New Zealander and only a New Zealander. I don't know why but I've seen some people call Australian's kiwi which I find confusing and I thought I'll clarify for people who didn't know which seems to be a lot of people.
The best part about Bonobos, too, is that they're our closest living relative. Just goes to show how much more gay we really should be. 😂
There is an entire species of lesbian Lizards.
Technically it's parthenogenic lizards, so no male whatsoever.
@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 Nature finds a way.
@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 well they do mount each other to trigger the parthenogenesis. Which is why people call then lesbians.
@@DivineFalcon As Lindsay Nikole says. "Nature doesn't give you sh*t straight"
That's specially true about lesbian lizards.
@@ellakarlqvist7587 i had that as part of my original comment, but youtube deleted it, so i reposted it without the syggs.
As an Australian, it shames me how we got our share of right-wing nutters and grifters, first Rupert Murdoch, then Bearing, then SC Reviews, and now this guy.
WHY ARE THERE MORMONS IN AUSTRALIA?!!!!
Don’t forget Ken Ham
I haven't heard about Bearing in a while.
@@dracorex6876 Missionaries
There's a good reason we exiled the puritans out of Europe. In a world before media and the printing press, they tried to ban music and acting. 🤦🏻
It's sad. I have started adding the battle scythe to my character after one of Shad's videos. Sad to see him turning out to be a piece of human garbage
I also used to like him, but dropped him like a rock as soon as I heard what was happening on his second channel and in the interactions with other people.
I was already a tad annoyed by a few reaction videos of his to other content creators that felt negative on purpose, but those above were the proverbial drop.
I honestly remember fondly the "Sexy Armor" videos because it tackled it from a relatively unexplored angle.
"Ok, this is not effective armor, but can we make it work somewhere else? Is it traditional clothes? Is it cerimonial armor? Is it a fashion statement?"
It was something that helped me quite a bit in how I thought about my characters.
Thought shadiversity was just the guy making vids about medieval weapons armour and other stuff like that. Didn't know he was homophobic.... That sucks man...
He wasn't too open about it for the longest time. Like, we knew he was a devout mormon and therefore he'd have some more conservative viewpoints, but he didn't really get into it all online, so people didn't care about it. Unfortunately, he's gone full-on culture war mode since.
Imagine sitting around in cheap faux-medieval costumes yet having the audacity to make fun of OTHER people
im not here to say something witty or quippy, i am here to boost this video so the algorithm pushes it more
Common engineer W
Literally had it run on mute for a few minutes as even through the filter of a reaction I could not stand shadiversity without physically cringing.
It wasn't youtube. I was a long time subscriber of Shadiversity. But I unsubbed when his political madness took over. I knew before that he unironically was wearing magic underwear. But I am tolerant. I think you can do what you want even if that means living in a fantasy world. ANd I watched his videos for the content not his personal kinks. But at some point his kinks started to leak into his content too much.
Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you guys? Why everything seems to involve kinks around you?
13:50 tbf a lot of genetic diseases are either recessive (e.g., cystic fibrosis), manifest after reproduction age (e.g., Huntington’s) or have a positive effect when not over expressed (e.g., the phenotype that causes sickle cell is malaria resistant, it’s an over abundance of those types of red blood cells that cause sickle cell anemia), so genetic diseases that get inherited don’t usually effect one’s ability to reproduce
I was going to make a comment on this as well, hope this boost it up a bit.
13:02 to add to your point. There is literally a species of moth that has no mouth. They immediately, after their cocoon, look for a mate and then die of starvation. Kinda sad and fcking up what evolution did
I feel really bad for Jazza. Nobody deserves to have someone like shid as a brother.
Damn it. Now that they no longer have abortion to rally against, they’re moving back to gay marriage.
Sadly I think they’ll get it to
As was predicted. On the chopping block are also, contraception, interracial marriage, and women's suffrage.
Conservatives cannot have power.
@@jameltandersonNah, they're way too ignorant to do any real damage as long as they're kept in check, and you guys get a candidate on the left that isn't a senile Alzheimer's patient
What marriage? There has never been such a think as "gay marriage" because marriage implies there is a man and a woman
Your shitty dialectic religion has burned your braincells to a crisp if you can't understand such basic thing
Next up: interracial marriage. Then women's suffrage. Then workers' rights (some of those are rolling back already). Then disabled rights (not that there were many to start with). They are desperate to get back to the 90's (the 1790's).
Shad should've just stuck to the sword content, but the brainrot took hold
I think he burned too many bridges for that to be viable. That, and it becomes abundantly clear that Shad does not know anything about Sword fighting when you see him side by side with a guy like Skallagrim or David from SellSword Arts.
I think this decline was inevitable just because of who Shad is a person.
Now i can't remember the video/source off the top of my head so i'd have to go back through my watch history to try and find it, but someone did a pride month video about how scientists do in fact find a lot of engage in homosexual behavior but that it's really, really underreported. And even if it's observed, it can be hard to tell the full story without doing experiment type studies what the actual situation is.
For an example of what i mean, sheep were studied and there was a decent percentage that were distinctly labeled as gay. If a gay ram had the option of a ewe in heat or another ram, they'd still mount the ram. But the biologist had to conclude that ewes commonly do not initiate contact (they stand still and wait to be mounted) so there would be plenty of lesbian ewes that just don't get physically involved with each other due to that. Some rams would stand still instead of looking to mount and some ewes wanted to mount their partner regardless if they were rams or ewes.
If there's one thing biology and evolution make abundantly clear, it's that there's variation in populations for everything. Height, sexuality, hair color, etc, are all on sliders at character creation
Just a correction. Shadiversity is still being run. The Knights Watch channel is a channel for him and his friends to discuss pop culture, movies and other topics.
The main channel is still uploading videos. He's also uploaded a video at one point discussing the decline in views on his channel (do with it what you will).
But saying he has stopped his old channel and started a new channel is factually wrong. :)
Just a reminder that talking about someone's appearance isn't the way to criticize him. F**k shad, but making fun of his friends snaggletooth just hurts everyone else that has a snaggletooth, including people in your audience.
I remember finding out about this guy from an Overly Sarcastic Productions collaboration back when he was just a sword guy.
OSP wouldn’t touch this channel with a war scythe these days.
@@kenji6492 You mean the channel with two Ace creators don't want to associate with someone that is anti-LGBTQIA+. *Shocked pikachu face*
I really liked his show back when he talked about swords and d&d and the like. It's a shame.
He tried to say his main channel doesn't have any politics on it so it should be fine
Without realising a large portion of his audience was going to be put off by him as a person regardless the content
Especially when other channels like Skallagrim and sellswordarts are options.
It seems like he's niche-d himself out of an audience.
@@neutronstarpilot4393 Skallagrim was just always based and stayed that way and I really appreciate him for that.
To think I use to watch that piece of trash.
Ikr? His videos about historical stuff were interesting at least but then he decided to go for the route he constantly complains about "go political"
Same, I followed him for years just watching his medieval content featuring castles and swords.
I started to notice more and more awful political and religious stuff starting to creep in and then after I discovered his 2nd channel I had to unsubscribe.
He has gone so far down the right wing fundamentalist morman route that he is just unbearable to watch now.
@@simonorourke4465 Whenever a TH-cam begin to complain about wokeness, they always end up showing their true colors.
@@nikogarcia201True. Before, they always masked their bigotry behind the idea that they just hated "wokeness", and they were actually fine with general progressive ideas. Now that they dont care, we see tons of those channels who were antiwoke in the past doing reactionary apologia.
I feel like I'm listening to an absurdly long concept album called "Everywhere at the End of Shad"
5:13 I prefer to say "humans are mammals" because that way they get less annoyed than when you call one of them a "great ape" or a "big animal."
We are Metazoans. As Forrest Valkai says, we're too big to be bacteria and we move around too much to be plants. Also it's kind of weird that they don't usually object to 'mammal' or 'chordate' but have a problem with 'animal' (metazoan) and everything below 'simiiform'. Why are phyla and classes acceptable but kingdoms and families not?
@20:30 Ah yes, the classic "it's not gay because I WOULD have done it with a woman but I could only find my bro" argument.
I miss when shad was all about swords and machicolations. It was a simpler time
2018. Back before I knew Shad was a charlatan, and knew less than half of what he was talking about when it came to the medieval period, and next to nothing at all about HEMA.
Silver lining though, he introduced me to Skallagrim and Matt Easton.
evolution deosnt necessarily select against every trait. as long as a trait isnt hindering survival/reproduction of the species enough the trait doesn't get "culled". gay people have been around as long as humans have existed. apparently it doesn't stop us from from breeding
Nor countless other species.
he also tried acting like he was attacked by sellsword arts, a channel that is all about genuine historical sword fighting, who made a video about sword/armor youtubers and who to watch for actual stuff and what not
The funny thing about that “beef” is that Shad was not mentioned nor showcased at all in the first video SellSword put out. Shad took it as a personal attack anyway. The second video that mentions Shad was made in response to that nonsense.
Best of all, the only thing Shad accomplished was making SellSword into a bigger channel with new merch.
Wait is he actually Mormon? That explains everything
He did a video about the Sword of Laban. It really made me doubt his ability to access historical accuracy of his sources.
A handful of Mormons are kind of OK, but then again those are the most likely to become ex-Mormons.
I used to love shadiversity and I feel fooled now that I know this is what he has become