@herpderp7114 corporations tend to like money, too...as does the government for that matter. Even if the gaming culture wars hasn't been on their radar much this year, they definitely all know about Concord now.
@@JayDamaso78 Government can just hold you at gunpoint and take your money, they don't need you to like them. The corporations can make an agreement with the government for the government to give them the money they take from you in return for helping keep the government in power, so they don't really need you to like them either.
Oh no, that is so SAD, can you feel how sad i am? Imagine being surprised that you might lose your job because of your incompetence, and then wanting empathy and help from the people you constantly patronize and demonize. Their logic is flawless.
Its not that they forgot, they just think gamers are doormats that will willingly take their abuse and still keep buying their games because of brand recognition
Well... Not jack shit. They bully people to give them money. Then have inexperienced people write stories. And defend those badly made stories by attacking their paying customers. Basically what ever that one game, dust something, considers as "powers"
The gamers are tired of poor writing, mismanagement, negligence and overall corruption currently sinking its fangs into the gaming industry. We're voting with our wallets, and the scare tactics used by people to try and devalue our efforts just aren't working anymore. These people are getting scared and desperate. Their masks are slipping, and we're tired of our beloved industry being held hostage by the people who constantly berate, belittle, and demean us simply because we don't approve them force feeding the same messages we've been hearing for the last decade down our throats.
Giving money to a company that actively wants me gone? Whoa, boy let me get my credit card right quick so I can make a withdrawal... and buy myself some popcorn as these clowns put on a show
They do belong in gaming, freedom of speech and expression and all this good staff. It is just people who use games to promote their activism should not act surprised when consumers reject it.
@@StillDoingStuffThey claimed to try spread 'diversity and inclusivity' in video game industry. They're the social justice warriors who 'fights for diversity and inclusivity', yet in reality they behaved like a colorful, short haired Karen who demands to meet a manager and will yell at anyone who tried corrects their logic.
@@StillDoingStuffvigorous campaigning to bring about political or societal change. Basically, politics. If it’s something that is rooted in politics and has no aims to be fun, it should be defined as a political game. Sure, political games can exist, but that should just be a different genre in and of itself.
The name "Take This" alone doesn't really sound like they are being helpful people. Sounds way too aggressive for a supposedly organization to help people.
@@EnigmaBarry funny thing I came across a dating app that used the same tag line in a flyer. I ended up uninstalling the app the same day I looked at it.
@@RambleOn07 There were great female creators working in the industry decades before wokeness took over, not as many as men, obviously, but the ones that were there were very passionate about gaming. It's ìdeólògicálly possesed people that are the problem now, they just use labels like "female", "black" etc. as a shield from criticism, even though nobody cares about those labels because they have nothing to do with why people hate them. Calling them out over those labels is buying into their fabricated narratives, and that's exactly what they want.
Just read their financial reports, it gets worse. At the end of 2022 (they havent filed 2023...) they had over $200k in their balance. So they burned through that in less than 2 years. In 2022, they paid nearly 3/4 of their revenue as compensation to employees. That is quite a lot for a non profit, I think.
[They previously had a gov't grant in the tens of thousands! Yet they're failing still! More money wasted after bad spending? Half-a-brain Steve here agrees, to *NOT* give y'all a dime!!🚫💰]
The crazy part is that the entire AAA gaming industry has been desperately prostrating themselves before these lunatics for a good decade. The good part is that AAA is collapsing.
There's only so much money in the pot for these type of organisations. Most of these types of things are 'one and done' where you scam the government out of money then spend years not producing much until the money runs out. I can guarantee that the thought leaders will bounce leaving the useful idiots to go down with the ship. Give it another few months and they'll be back with a new company; begging the government for another few hundred thousand dollars of tax payer money.
It will never not be funny that Niji only sold out one piece of merch at a con, and it was lightsticks because they were sold out at all other vendors.
I feel they should be audited. The fact they keep begging for funds this frequently is raising concerns regarding management. I especially want to see what's on their financial statements to see where everything has been going.
Advertising creating AFK rooms at conventions is kinda weird- admittedly the ones I've been to don't have them but- like- isn't that just going- 'Hey, it'd be a good idea to make a room for people to get away from the noise' 'Good idea, I'll just put a sign up on that room there. Have someone working here just check in when they walk past it'
This smacks of the whole post-'VID "Let's just put the past behind us" attitude that scumbags tried to play after trying to ruin other peoples' lives and failing.
>Organization claims Game development should turn away from their core customer base Calling em in Kahoots with GG II >Tries to Defend SBi despite one of their employees basically having bigoted views and was riding government cash years ago >Begging for money now I don't even have a joke for this The joke is writing itself
Literally what is wrong with being a gamer? Like, they are LITERALLY people who play video games. Also, I just fundamentally do not understand the trend that’s been popularized over the last decade, which is to anger and vilify your own audience and consumers. What is wrong with people? Are they allergic to success?
Not allergic. They don't have the intelligence to understand WHY something was successful, and they don't have the creativity to duplicate or create successful things on their own. These are the folks who got the job for reasons aside from merit.
This is why you get givernment out of business. Businesses need to sink or swim in the market where they must serve the needs of the consumer who has no obligation to them.
Gamers, due to their demonized status since the 80s, GG, and the inherently competitive/results mindset, are notoriously anti establishment and pro individual liberty. The DHS really hates those types because they call out the gross malice of them and their friends in the corporate world. That's how you get antigamer propaganda funded by the US taxpayer while the military is actively trying to recruit from the exact same demographic their higher ups hate.
There have been a few articles that came around where the FBI has been listening in on people's voice chats while playing CoD. Some of which, homeland security, deemed as extremism and the FBI went busting a couple of doors.
Just waiting for some whistleblower from within to describe all the abuse, discrimination and wanton spending/wasting that was going on the whole time.
This actually looks a lot like a money laundering scheme actually. You make a non profit organization with extremely vague activities and goals that can't be measured and claim whatever money you receive as "anonymous donations" and write down whatever expenses and operation costs you want
Gaming (specifically video games) makes more money than all other entertainment media COMBINED. By a massive margin. It is also a major global market. Meaning that games have to appeal to a very broad audience. These are two major things that some folks aren't grasping or understanding.
What is GamerGate2? And wasn't the original GamerGate about a game dev sleeping with game journos for good reviews or something? I don't see where any of this is gamer's fault.
waitwaitwaitwait... a mental health organization focusing on gaming and gamers... tried to have game developers denounce gamers... are surprised they are having an issue with funding?
“Help by sharing and/or giving” okay I’m gonna share the news not the good news like many would think just news I either never heard of these people or I forgot about them and honestly they’re antics have backfired on them so much I’m expecting it at this point so they’re not important enough to be good news
“A company chasing Gamers away is Now Begging For money In Order To Remain Open” Where have I seen this before?… hmmm? I feel like this happened before, except it affected a whole country.
@@angel_of_rust "Land reform in Zimbabwe". the Oversimplified version is that Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe chased out white farmers off their land and gave it to black farmers. The country's agriculture decline and cause major food shortage. The country later offered the white farmers their land back and a compensation deal. They declined, but later accepted the deal. Their is more information on wikipedia.
The absolute NERVE! Lots of companies can't make payroll on a regular basis and they take out short term bank loans to do it and pay it back. They think people are so dumb as to get them to fund their payroll instead of doing it honestly like everyone else. If banks are refusing to do a bridge loan for them then that means the bank is not confident they're going to still be in business in the next few months.
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*"Look at these little activists.... Gonna cry?"*
"The burning you feel? ... It is Shame."
-Heavy TF2
"poop your pants maybe?"
"I am gonna put some reality in your eyes"
-Realist Mcquire
"Talk shit, get bit. Top Dawg!"
- Redneck t-shirt slogan.
What is a activist? A little pile of misinformation! Have at you!
Journos: "Get rid of gamers!"
Also Journos: "Hi, gamers! Please give us money so we won't shut down!"
Pathetic. 🙄
"Ironic" -Palpatine
@@BanishedSilentShadow3318 "Let the poverty flow through you!"
I am pretty sure they are just asking the government and corporations for money, not gamers. Gamers don't have to be your audience after all.
@herpderp7114 corporations tend to like money, too...as does the government for that matter. Even if the gaming culture wars hasn't been on their radar much this year, they definitely all know about Concord now.
@@JayDamaso78 Government can just hold you at gunpoint and take your money, they don't need you to like them. The corporations can make an agreement with the government for the government to give them the money they take from you in return for helping keep the government in power, so they don't really need you to like them either.
$80k? Well i know where im NOT putting my money let them sink!
Didn't Homer blow that much money by designing a car that one time?
@@LucarioBlade Thats something i would put my money! Thats sound BETTER
You just know some loaded guy is going to give them the money.
And $200k in June. Sounds like a scam. Remember blms has a mansion
@@dearthditch Yup
Oh no, that is so SAD, can you feel how sad i am?
Imagine being surprised that you might lose your job because of your incompetence, and then wanting empathy and help from the people you constantly patronize and demonize.
Their logic is flawless.
Their logic is based on abuser logic. They expect you to be happy when they hurt you.
SAD - Single Ability Dependent?
@@RokuroCarisu Probably. Because it's "die" time 🤣
What they are doing is not even a job. They are just grifting.
It's crazy how many people involved in the game industry forget gamers is a term for a customer for a very specific product
Its not that they forgot, they just think gamers are doormats that will willingly take their abuse and still keep buying their games because of brand recognition
The left and playing childish word games goes hand-in-hand.
I'm guessing they never took business class
@@Tony_409 Gamers truly are the most oppressed group.
@@nullpoint3346 but its that true that gamers are a minority? its a hobbie, not a race.
They really went from "take this" to "gimmedat"
They call themselve "take this" as if they have anything to give to anyone.
That’s just money they use to give themselves cushy salaries while doing jack shit
I wouldn't say they/them are doing jack 💩. If that was all they/them were doing things wouldn't things wouldn't have become as bad as it is now.
Well... Not jack shit. They bully people to give them money. Then have inexperienced people write stories. And defend those badly made stories by attacking their paying customers.
Basically what ever that one game, dust something, considers as "powers"
The gamers are tired of poor writing, mismanagement, negligence and overall corruption currently sinking its fangs into the gaming industry. We're voting with our wallets, and the scare tactics used by people to try and devalue our efforts just aren't working anymore. These people are getting scared and desperate. Their masks are slipping, and we're tired of our beloved industry being held hostage by the people who constantly berate, belittle, and demean us simply because we don't approve them force feeding the same messages we've been hearing for the last decade down our throats.
Giving money to a company that actively wants me gone? Whoa, boy let me get my credit card right quick so I can make a withdrawal... and buy myself some popcorn as these clowns put on a show
Got me in the first half, not gonna lie
Activism and activists don't belong in gaming
they don't belong *anywhere*
They do belong in gaming, freedom of speech and expression and all this good staff. It is just people who use games to promote their activism should not act surprised when consumers reject it.
What exactly defines activism?
@@StillDoingStuffThey claimed to try spread 'diversity and inclusivity' in video game industry.
They're the social justice warriors who 'fights for diversity and inclusivity', yet in reality they behaved like a colorful, short haired Karen who demands to meet a manager and will yell at anyone who tried corrects their logic.
@@StillDoingStuffvigorous campaigning to bring about political or societal change. Basically, politics. If it’s something that is rooted in politics and has no aims to be fun, it should be defined as a political game. Sure, political games can exist, but that should just be a different genre in and of itself.
Take that "take this", completely deserved, hope they don't get enough money.
We ahould "Take this" ORGANIZATION, and push it SOMEWHERE ELSE!!! - Patrick Star
I hear Burning Dumpster Mountain is nice this time of year.
@@gryphose1849 I read that as Burning Dumpster Island.
@@PlaystationTaxation69999 eh, either/or
Push!!!!
It's obviously a scam. "Take this" ought to be investigated 🤔
Money laundry baby
@@nerrychael Not even something as elaborate as money laundering just begging under false pretence.
The name "Take This" alone doesn't really sound like they are being helpful people. Sounds way too aggressive for a supposedly organization to help people.
I think the name comes from what the Old Man says in "The Legend of Zelda" on NES. "It's dangerous to go alone! Take This!".
Oh ya, I memba. Good ol memba berries.
@@EnigmaBarry funny thing I came across a dating app that used the same tag line in a flyer.
I ended up uninstalling the app the same day I looked at it.
It's advertised as a mental health charity to help those with depression in the gaming community. It's actually about pill pushing.
Here's something we should give to Take This 👇
"TAKE THIS!!! 🖕"
I agree
“TAKE THIS!!! 🖕”
Flop the bird.
Read that in Phoenix Wright's voice
😂😂😂
A consumer market with some of the kindest, most naive people has been cursed with one of the scummiest industries controlling their high end goods.
Women get involved in primarily male industry. Industry self destructs. Women most affected.
@@RambleOn07 There were great female creators working in the industry decades before wokeness took over, not as many as men, obviously, but the ones that were there were very passionate about gaming. It's ìdeólògicálly possesed people that are the problem now, they just use labels like "female", "black" etc. as a shield from criticism, even though nobody cares about those labels because they have nothing to do with why people hate them.
Calling them out over those labels is buying into their fabricated narratives, and that's exactly what they want.
What happens when an industry gets BIG MONEY. The Greedy follow it. Same with film, manufacturing, you name it.
So just like "He who must not be named" the spell rebound and they cancelled themselves?
Activism in 2024 is just embarrassment for clout speed runs. No pride, no shame, no thoughts behind their eyes.
no heart no soul no BRAIN
That’s like saying “Doctors, denounce your patients.” It’s stupid.
Which was EXACTLY what happened 4 years ago.
Still going on now till this day.
*These people are so annoying* 😑
They are evil.
very
Just read their financial reports, it gets worse. At the end of 2022 (they havent filed 2023...) they had over $200k in their balance. So they burned through that in less than 2 years. In 2022, they paid nearly 3/4 of their revenue as compensation to employees. That is quite a lot for a non profit, I think.
Ty.
I find it hilarious that all of these organizations trying to cancel literally everyone are only managing to cancel themselves 🎻
[They previously had a gov't grant in the tens of thousands! Yet they're failing still! More money wasted after bad spending? Half-a-brain Steve here agrees, to *NOT* give y'all a dime!!🚫💰]
I think this is the scariest part, that the govern ment support and fund these people who clearly hate whi te people and want whi te peo ple erased.
The crazy part is that the entire AAA gaming industry has been desperately prostrating themselves before these lunatics for a good decade. The good part is that AAA is collapsing.
It would have been hilarious if Hero Hei was doing another fundraiser for something useful.
It's like asking makeup companies to denounce women. Really not surprised that this didn't work out for them 🤦♂️🤦♂️
That or beer companies to denounce beer drinkers!
Nope! I'm not giving them my hard earned money!
But you can give them a FIST OF JUSTICE!
I'm sure the "Modern Audiences" will have their backs on this one.
They have absolutely no shame begging money from the same people they're going against
Why would I give bullies my money.
Bringing activism in gaming is one of the 7 deadly sins of gaming
They need an AWFUL lot of money for a supposed "nonprofit organization".
80K is actually very little if they have even one full time employee. My guess is it's what they are missing, their budget is probably higher.
Get Woke, Go Broke Baybeeeeee.
Public programs must show what they spend money on.
Couldn't they just ask the government again for funding their "cause" or am I missing something here?
At 1:05 calling for violence against jewish people, DHS is not gonna give them any more money after that.
There's only so much money in the pot for these type of organisations. Most of these types of things are 'one and done' where you scam the government out of money then spend years not producing much until the money runs out. I can guarantee that the thought leaders will bounce leaving the useful idiots to go down with the ship. Give it another few months and they'll be back with a new company; begging the government for another few hundred thousand dollars of tax payer money.
@@Jimmy2gKind of surprised given who's captured that institution.
@@Jimmy2g if even (((they))) wont fund you then you know youre fucked
Hilarious that they are called "Take this" but all they do is to say "give me, give me, give me" xD
Gamers, give me money so I can call you a bigot, if you don't pay me, you're a bigot! 🤣
what a waste of taxpayers money. whoever approved that funding needs to get imprisoned.
"Hey, get rid of all your customers. Also can the customers give us money?"
What was their plan?
Take This: Going bankrupt.
Me: "Take This." Lol. Fitting name.
It would have been even funnier if the name was take that! I would have made a ace attorney meme
"silent rooms in cons"
Nah now they have Nijisanji for that
It will never not be funny that Niji only sold out one piece of merch at a con, and it was lightsticks because they were sold out at all other vendors.
I feel they should be audited. The fact they keep begging for funds this frequently is raising concerns regarding management. I especially want to see what's on their financial statements to see where everything has been going.
Would be a net positive for them to shut down. The fallout from that alone among "Journalists" will be good content.
"non profit" is pretty easy. You just get funding and spend it all on wages, tada, non profit
Get woke.... You know the rest
Why is the government giving them this money. Give it to me ffs.
Im enjoying the schadenfreude quite a lot
Advertising creating AFK rooms at conventions is kinda weird- admittedly the ones I've been to don't have them but- like- isn't that just going-
'Hey, it'd be a good idea to make a room for people to get away from the noise'
'Good idea, I'll just put a sign up on that room there. Have someone working here just check in when they walk past it'
The salt must flow
This smacks of the whole post-'VID "Let's just put the past behind us" attitude that scumbags tried to play after trying to ruin other peoples' lives and failing.
You? Cancel me? Just one problem with that: I’m already gone…
I don’t know what’s more sad, the people who are corrupt in this business or the people who will inevitably fall for it.
I don't think these people realize how outnumbered they are, but they're gonna find out.
If they want my money I want a full exposure- Lemmie see your bankbooks.
When will they realise that WE don’t need THEM, THEY need US. 🤷🏻♂️
Well I wasn't gonna give them my money, but now I'm REALLY not gonna give them my money!
Shows _them_ who's boss, heh.
It must be rough working in an industry where all your customers hate you, and think you don't provide any value.
They really need to "TAKE THIS" L to their graves smh
>Organization claims Game development should turn away from their core customer base
Calling em in Kahoots with GG II
>Tries to Defend SBi despite one of their employees basically having bigoted views and was riding government cash years ago
>Begging for money now
I don't even have a joke for this
The joke is writing itself
Literally what is wrong with being a gamer? Like, they are LITERALLY people who play video games. Also, I just fundamentally do not understand the trend that’s been popularized over the last decade, which is to anger and vilify your own audience and consumers. What is wrong with people? Are they allergic to success?
Not allergic. They don't have the intelligence to understand WHY something was successful, and they don't have the creativity to duplicate or create successful things on their own.
These are the folks who got the job for reasons aside from merit.
Video game developers just make video games. There are plenty pf games that were made without funding.
I think the government needs to audit their books, find out what happened to that money
Where are the people that are supposed to prevent defraudation and money laundry? Jesus Christ, who was responsible in gov office for trashing $700k?
Probably fired so the gov has more money to give
They're going with the Darksydephil approach i see.
DSP is unoronically more successful than them
@@angel_of_rust The fact that you are right is crazy
They really shouldn't be biting the hand that feeds them their paychecks
burn through almost 1M while dodging taxes, kinda crazy.
This is why you get givernment out of business. Businesses need to sink or swim in the market where they must serve the needs of the consumer who has no obligation to them.
okay, why the hell is homeland security involved? genuinely, I'm baffled by this whole thing
Gamers, due to their demonized status since the 80s, GG, and the inherently competitive/results mindset, are notoriously anti establishment and pro individual liberty. The DHS really hates those types because they call out the gross malice of them and their friends in the corporate world. That's how you get antigamer propaganda funded by the US taxpayer while the military is actively trying to recruit from the exact same demographic their higher ups hate.
There have been a few articles that came around where the FBI has been listening in on people's voice chats while playing CoD. Some of which, homeland security, deemed as extremism and the FBI went busting a couple of doors.
@@totalmockery3639 oh I see
My guess is they want more authority to arrest people for anything they want
_"Aww… My heart's breaking for you, Kerrigan."_
These people do nothing for games to make them profitable. Their very existence is begging for money because they can't make a profit.
2:50 pay your taxes so government can -build muh roads- fund a random ass ""non profit"" organization.
And nothing of value was lost.
Sending my most heartfelt THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
Its about as much worth to them as their actual worth for gamers.
Just waiting for some whistleblower from within to describe all the abuse, discrimination and wanton spending/wasting that was going on the whole time.
That makes me think their bubble have layers of bubbleness... Nobody can lack so much self-awareness...
I guess they can't "take this" anymore.
So when will the dhs and this company be audited to find out where the money went?
Looks like 'Take This' can't take it.
This actually looks a lot like a money laundering scheme actually.
You make a non profit organization with extremely vague activities and goals that can't be measured and claim whatever money you receive as "anonymous donations" and write down whatever expenses and operation costs you want
Thats equivalent of asking someone to asking their targets to buy them bullets so that shoot at them.
Gaming (specifically video games) makes more money than all other entertainment media COMBINED. By a massive margin.
It is also a major global market. Meaning that games have to appeal to a very broad audience.
These are two major things that some folks aren't grasping or understanding.
What is GamerGate2?
And wasn't the original GamerGate about a game dev sleeping with game journos for good reviews or something? I don't see where any of this is gamer's fault.
"cry some more."
The heavy
waitwaitwaitwait... a mental health organization focusing on gaming and gamers... tried to have game developers denounce gamers... are surprised they are having an issue with funding?
Who would even want to fund that company?
everyone to that organization: "you gon LEARN today!"
Guess, they have to ...
TAKE THIS L !!!
Take This? more like Take That!
“Help by sharing and/or giving” okay I’m gonna share the news not the good news like many would think just news I either never heard of these people or I forgot about them and honestly they’re antics have backfired on them so much I’m expecting it at this point so they’re not important enough to be good news
Why would a non profit need money? Obviously you need money for anything, but this is too much money
Encourage people not have a customer base, how amusing.
I thought Take This is a music band? I remember a song "Patience" or something
And then the state will bail them out with tax dollars.
The sadness is immense!
“A company chasing Gamers away is Now Begging For money In Order To Remain Open”
Where have I seen this before?… hmmm? I feel like this happened before, except it affected a whole country.
a whole country what?
@@angel_of_rust "Land reform in Zimbabwe". the Oversimplified version is that Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe chased out white farmers off their land and gave it to black farmers. The country's agriculture decline and cause major food shortage. The country later offered the white farmers their land back and a compensation deal. They declined, but later accepted the deal.
Their is more information on wikipedia.
'Let them cook'
The absolute NERVE! Lots of companies can't make payroll on a regular basis and they take out short term bank loans to do it and pay it back. They think people are so dumb as to get them to fund their payroll instead of doing it honestly like everyone else. If banks are refusing to do a bridge loan for them then that means the bank is not confident they're going to still be in business in the next few months.
Ha HA, Pete Hines is on the Board of Directors or something according to their website.
Oh no so saaaad.
Seriously, them asking for money should be asking their own supporter (oh wait they don’t have any!)