Chick Tracts: An American Tragedy
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- What is a chick tract. But more importantly, Why Is A Chick Tract? Let's look at history and some deranged pamphlets, and also let's crack some jokes babyyyy.
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“The Holy Spirit is wearing me like a FNAF head animatronic”
this line fucking murdered me, bravo
That's a bar
I beg you to not insult the Holy Spirit. Please don’t.
@@echohunter4199 never mind that spook 👻
@@echohunter4199 why?
It’s like ro writes these videos using cards against humanity cards that she writes in the middle of the night between nightmares
Why did you write this comment exacltly like a ro ramdin bit
is it a she?..
@@jeffcarlson3269 yes! :)
@@just-mees cuz we are merging into one
@@jeffcarlson3269 Are you a "he" Karen?
obsessed with the very long and weirdly specific descriptions of things. It reminds me a bit of Chris Fleming and I am absolutely here for it
i really enjoy the parts of your videos where you shift from commentary and jokes to raw compassion and care for the topic at hand. you're already an ace of youtube commentary for sure
I had a horrible day today. A depressive episode caught up to me and I shut down at school, and I haven’t been feeling well since. This sounds cheesy and fake I know, but knowing that a video was scheduled for today kind of pushed me to stay up and moving? While waiting for this I finished some work I’ve been procrastinating on and I’m really thankful for that. Again this probably sounds fake, but your content helps more than you know
No problem- I’m sorry you’ve been struggling with a depressive episode. I promise you it’ll get better. I will continue to make my silly quips in the meantime!
yeah, their scripts are top tier
Hi Violet! Peace and love! Not sure if you'd appreciate advice but exercise is the best thing for me on a bad day. I started with half hour walks (save up for some nice trainers) that turned into jogging and then some light weights. I sometimes feel like hell is other people and struggle with social circles but have found things easier as everyone got older. Remember there is always time and make small achievable goals! Ro is awesome, really cheers me up too!
Doesn't sound fake. Sounds incredibly self-centered. There's no such thing as self-love. So stop focusing on yourself, focus on legacy to improve the world and help others and you might find real love.
@@lkae4 …. what r u on about
I usually watch everything at 1.25x speed but for you 1x speed is warranted to catch more jokes
HAHAHA SAME i usually watch everything at 1.75 but i watched this at 1.25 speed bc i wanted savour this video more LMAO
@@samannasar5651 😧
@@samannasar5651 1.75?? menace
@@samannasar5651 you are so much worse than neo what the hell is wrong with you
they should have one that just says "LISTEN to the voice of God!!" and its just the lyrics to Faceshopping by SOPHIE
"Murphy's Law isn't legislated in Washington" is such a great fucking line
Thank for approaching this subject with both levity and reverence. As an ex-evangelical, this particular brand of preaching had an incredibly negative impact on me throughout my childhood. I mourn for all of us that have been harmed and I want better for all those still trapped in these cycles of hatred. ❤️
another absolute banger! really love that you’re not afraid to get serious in your videos, and huge props to you for not avoiding the genuinely scary consequences of this type of religious propaganda. i was born and raised in a super religious and conservative area and the effect this kind of stuff has on kids/teens/young adults is so often swept under the rug. i’ve seen so many of my former friends and peers fall into these extreme mindsets about sin and righteousness and it breaks my heart, because as angry as it makes me, i can’t bring myself to hate them. i feel sad for them. and not /because/ they’re religious (because there are plenty of religious people who don’t suck!), but because people have used religion as an excuse to manipulate them.
Yep, it’s overlooked far too often.
My parents are scarily religious and it’s really taken a toll on my mental health because, since I’m under their roof, I have to believe in the same things they do. For years, I actually did. They had me believing I could heal people and raise the dead, and simply pray mental illnesses away. Insane shit.
Fortunately, I finally realized just how crazy and damaging it really is. It’s hard to fake it around them now but ya gotta do what ya gotta do to get through it yk.
If I didn’t fake it, they’d have me exorcised for sure, just like they tried doing with my sibling 🕳🧑🦯
Yeah I 100% agree with this. I was brought up in an extremely conservative/religious household and wasn't exposed to anything other than far right politics and then a few people who were standard ignorant bill Clinton stans, that was the political compass to me and I understood the problems with Clinton but there weren't right wing political figures I was really aware of. It was always "both parties suck but the Republicans are closer to our ideals" kind of stuff, but my fam was farther right than Republicans. I had *no clue* how bad it was until a few years after moving left around 2016, my parents are pretty nuts I came to find. It was so difficult for me to get out of that mindset, I still have so many problems I have to work through whether it be just or some subconscious racism or sexism, and also the negative things they instill into us ourselves regarding our own personality - being unable to express ourselves emotionally or feeling extreme guilt/shame over our own sexuality, it has had some serious long lasting effects and I've been a leftist for 5 years now. It's insane. Not to mention that when I realized how bad right wing politics was - i didn't know anyone that was really left wing at the time so I literally had to close myself off from my entire social group/family basically to prevent them from pulling me back into it. It was so difficult but I knew I was doing the right thing so I kept with it, the only reason I think I was able to do it was because I had recently gotten my first wireless touchscreen device (I'm a boomer, not like literally - I'm a millennial - but I used flip phones for years until I was given an ipod touch around 2015) and I was able to learn and expand in isolation despite not having a friend group I could find and congregate with about it. I honestly can't believe I got out of it now looking back.
Edit: just for the record, I kind of got side tracked - I meant to talk more about my religious upbringing but I got sidetracked, I became an atheist/agnostic around 2012 or so, but my family literally doesn't even know because my dad would disown me straight up. Or at the least he'd never stop bringing religion up to me, and he's a very aggressive person. I hadn't been able to talk to him for a long time because of his anger issues and his politics, but I just recently started seeing my parents a tiny bit again, and if they'd known I was an atheist holy crap.
i hate how ashamed i felt literally all of the time while i was still religious bcuz of the very strict beliefs of my family... its really damn sad that some ppl never break free and perpetrate that actual hell on earth
@@dudeman5303 i feel you! i began questioning my religion around the same age and in response my mom and aunt started crying and....... at one point they tricked me into believing i would be seeing a therapist for my depression only to attempt to get me exorcised o-o thankfully the priest i was taken to was more sane then them (we just kinda sang some songs with a bunch of nuns and he gave me a 'you gotta believe in yourself kiddo, god loves you' speech). proud of our progress outta that trap! *high-five*
@@jupiterzombies wow that is wild that they did that. It's nice to know the preacher ended up not being too crazy but wow imagine how bad that could've been? Cuz there is bound to be some preachers who will really be messed up about it and use lots of guilt and manipulation tactics. You kind of lucked out a bit with that one lol. My parents weren't approachable in the slightest on those things so to this day they have no clue I am an agnostic/atheist. (I tend to use them interchangeably, mostly I use agnostic when I'm talking to someone who's religious but I think it's a bit redundant because i feel anyone who is scientifically minded is going to always say we *can't know* the real answer.)
Man, if I would've told my dad I was questioning religion back in the day - oh my god I would've gotten the belt I can say that for sure. When I hear a story like yours it just blows my mind because it comes off like usually you could talk to your parents about other things, with mine I learned very early on I couldn't talk to them about anything serious because they just were crazy. To be fair, I had terrible anxiety and depression so part of that could've been me projecting, but I never felt comfortable talking to my parents about anything like that. The only time I remember doing so was when I was in kindergarten or so and I realized what death really was, I remember crying about it to my mom because I realized she would die at some point and it was very intense. I remember her comforting me by saying we will all end up in heaven, and I kept asking her "mom how do you know that though?" And she just kept telling me "because I believe". It was probably one of the most emotionally intense moments I'd had at that point, it's kind of hard to put into words because as a kid those kinds of things feel truly catastrophic. But honestly at that point I think the skepticism was already there for me, and I forgot about the whole ordeal until a few years ago but yeah I remember being pretty devastated by it. I never talked about any of it to my parents again though.
What is really sad to me about your story is it sounds like you felt comfortable bringing it up with your parents and like they betrayed that trust rather than talk to you about it, that seems just really sad to me because as a kid that kind of thing is really eye opening and it's not like you can erase that kind of experience, I just wonder how they perceive the situation in hindsight.
The giving a dog a gun running gag is the only thing keeping me going anymore!
the brockhampton slander....incredible
Now I'm wondering what else they did
@@DS-xg7hk its all the stuff on that google doc that went around. weird stuff
@@jesuskillmyopps what Google doc??
its not slander if its true
@@Screehcile haha ur right, didnt mean to imply it wasn't
“A sailor on the USS homophobe” really got me lololol Ro you are quickly becoming one of my favorite TH-camrs 👏🏼👏🏼🤙🏼
Also I vote we find the 3 dislikes for some “constructive bullying”. Kidding - love everyone, even those with bad taste ✌🏼
this video really spoke to me. i went to a religious middle school and met types of people like this all of the time, and i really related to hearing you say that you didnt hate them, you hurt for them. seriously, this is now probably one of my new all time favorite TH-cam videos.
thank you for putting into words the way that ive felt for so long.
Your user name and profile are perfect
@@dez-m im glad you enjoy them lmao
not to be a hater but I feel like a lot of big commentary channels have been doing this thing where they’ve stopped making actual jokes and just started capital-r Reacting to content that is obviously meant to shock or “””troll””” ppl? if that makes sense? which isn’t very fun to watch, particularly when it’s like “this guy is so sexist and homophobic, isn’t that CRAZY”, and you already have to think about that stuff irl all the time and not by choice, so it’s not like some str8 white dude explaining why that’s wrong is very fun to watch as “comedy” “entertainment”? my adderall clearly just wore off but what I’m trying to say is I appreciate your JPM rate (jokes per minute) and your videos are a breath of fresh air for someone who’s been watching commentary videos for several years now!!!
omg i was just talking about this, so true!!
"Is there a manga for this?" You bet there is. It's called Manga Messiah, and I own both the English and the Japanese copy
Throwback to my homeschool co-op high school graduation where one kid gave a passionate speech about using the art of manga to bring christ to the Japanese. Unhinged behavior
@@xanderguyer7512 “I have the power of god and anime on my side! AAAAAAAA”
So funny story, when I was 18 I naively joined a fundamentalist Christian cult. We went to Thailand to do “”outreach””, and one of the tracks we handed out was the first one, but it was written in Thai. The Thai version was super fucked up. One of the panels was straight up a drawing of the dead guy watching porn and a number of other panels were unnecessarily graphic as well. After I left the cult, I stumbled across the English version of the tract and was kind of excited to actually see what it says. But when I flipped through it, I realized how different it was from the Thai one. Super weird, and to this day I have no reason why the Thai one was way more intense than the English one
Several of the Chick Tracks were republished with different demographics cast as the main characters actually
This Is Your Life was probably the most common one to have this happen, I've seen ones for Mexicans, POC a gay man and women along with the standard straight white man
Oh and yes, they're all extremely stereotypical and racist
@@noahkarpinski1824 there's also one where the main character is a "catholic" and it's the same story as This Was Your Life. The name of it is best omitted here imho. So much misinformation that I try hard not to laugh, because it's sad really
Racism?
@@resetsetmefree478 as long as you don't laugh your way into hell laughing so hard at Chick Tracts...that information is true...read your bible and see
@@jeffcarlson3269 yes I've read my Bible and I really should read it more often. So perhaps you can help me out here, where does it mention anything about somebody passing out cartoon tracts ? Please show me the book chapter and verse (s)
2005- homeless, squatting at the Batcave in Brooklyn (RIP), i walked into a half-intact room one cold winter morn. pinned onto the crumbling walls beside me .. chick tracts. dozens, perhaps hundreds. many of them unique, and all of them insane and wonderfully horrible. i spent a freezing afternoon removing these wallpaper abominations from the wall to make sense of the stories. i was raised catholic, and definitely hadn't seen anything so openly evangelical. i kept a few of them, and to this day, 2 of those still hang on my living room cork board. fin.
you know that feeling when a youtube video really excites you so you wanna spam the comments section discussing a bunch of details or observations that were really good and funny but you know the person doesn't have a huge audience so you dont wanna overwhelm them and you just try to keep it tasteful instead? this is one of those channels for me, cant wait til it blows up more so i can destroy the comments section :)
when i get excited like that i usually open up my notes app and just write one long comment as i watch
WWEJD had me crying, honestly you’re my favorite commentary channel on yt right now, keep it up
WWEJD broke me
I’m so glad that was one of my favs
Remember, when in doubt ask WWWWEJD. What would World Wrestling Entertainment Jesus Do??
holy shit hivemind
This video has the perfect balance of humor and acknowledgment of bigotry and religious abuse. Thanks for this masterpiece
OMG. Idk if you remember me, but I went to highschool with you. (I was a year ahead of you, but we were in some of the same theatre classes. I'm Sydney btw). But I distinctively remember those creepy people standing outside the school passing out those pamphlets. Me and my friends would huddle in the back of class to read them and laugh. I also remember the hallways being littered with discarded copies of these little colorful booklets. Good times. Good times. Hope you're doing well, Ro!
do you remember the creepy people with gender issues in high school as well..?.. oddly when I went to school we had neither one...
End of the serious section really hit me. I was raised catholic as well and I'm still overcoming the ingrained guilt and self-hate that came with it. Now when I see people taking that hate out on others instead of learning to love themselves I just feel really sad. Love the vid Ro keep it up.
I used to collect these little booklets because I thought they were weird and funny, I'm binge watching your videos today and I feel like I'm taking psychic damage from how rapid fire your jokes are, 10/10 hilarious. Digging this content 🖤
having watched fundie fridays' video on chick tracts has prepared me for this moment
I need a collab between her and Ro STAT
the reenactments still live rent-free in my head
@@whatthehellisthis they were beautiful masterpieces
@@genrecritical wait actually though that'd be amazing
yessss jennonite moment
oh my god the delivery on the breadbox line is knocking me out this is incredible
I think you have the most jokes per minute of any commentary channel I know of, it's impressive!
I was thinking the same thing, because it's super impressive. It's like Chris Fleming levels of pacing, while still being hilarious the whole time.
omfg "white people tongue kissing their dogs" I've never heard this phenomenon expressed quite like that and my sides are in orbit right now imagining some karen absolutely eating face with a rottweiler. Thank you so much for your content you are an inspiration.
You have seriously became one of my favorite commentary channels. I can tell how much work you put into these. I really look forward to the future of your channel. Know that your content makes me smile and i look forward every new video. Love you Ro
Your humour is something else holy shit, I love these videos so much
You're, like, the Taika Watiti of video essayists. Both unabashedly hilarious and very real and serious.
I know you made a joke about there being a manga of the Bible, but there is actually a manga series of the Bible, simply called the Manga Bible. I think it's composed of 9 books the succinctly tell some of the more important/memorable parts of the Bible while also trying to be funny. My dad used to buy me them and it's how I engaged in Christianity willingly. I'm agnostic now tho
There’s also the action bible, which is the WHOLE THING as a comic book, and the art is actually cool af. I may have religious trauma, but do I use the action bible as an art reference? Yes. Yes I do.
@@gentlesandladymen My dad actually bought that as well for me haha I didnt like it as much as the Manga Bible tho but i still finished it
@@gentlesandladymen it is a sad day... when the only bible one trusts is the "action bible".. I have all that too... but I bought it as a commodity... the King James.... is the standard You SHOULD be using... one without pictures... not the children version.....
are you a child?..
@@killernubby i'll bet your "dad".. didn't buy it for you when you were an adult did he?.. there is a big difference..
@@jeffcarlson3269 Jeff my dear do you honestly think I would know about the action Bible if I didn’t have a very Christian upbringing. I own the NIV, NLT, KJV, and ESV bibles. Read and studied them for years. I don’t have faith in ANY bible because I’m not Christian.
i literally just found this channel today and you're probably already in my top 5 favorite creators on this platform. your pacing, editing, sense of humor, it all comes together so well - even if i end up not catching all the jokes that come in rapid fire at me cause my adhd brain doesn't process the previous one before another one comes in, but i appreciate them all the same! finding you was like finding buried treasure and i'm really looking forward to future content you'll make!!
just getting into the video, but ive already had to rewind so many times to see ur epic little face and hear ur silly big jokes again! reveluvs for ro!!!
some of the chick comics were familiar from like memes…until i realized i have a chick comic pamphlet pinned to my wall because of how fucking absurd it is and the blatant white supremacist notes and anti semitism as well as general bigotry, i found it on a bench at a farmers market randomly, and as someone who grapples heavily with religious and christian shit from growing up, the part towards the end talking about how you feel for people whove been indoctrinated and the fear they felt legitimately made me almost cry, good content 👍🏻
My only criticism is that despite his fanbase, Jimmy Buffet doesn't deserve that; he's an ardent ocean conservationist and a really nice old man. However, holy crap you are funny. The fast-paced dry wit and mile a minute hilarious descriptions had me rolling! I can't wait to see what you cover next. If you keep covering exvangelical or cult topics, I will be extra excited!
Literally right after your amazing speech about the toxicity of this branch of indoctrination, I got an ad for Chick-Fil-A
… that’s ironic.
Amazing video :)
you should know you are the only youtuber i watch in normal speed and not 2x bc you pack so many jokes and i dont wanna miss them
you've quickly become one of my favorite content creators
also happy belated birthday!!! :^D hope it was pleasant !!
I really appreciate this video. I grew up with reactionary Christianity, and holding fast to its impossible standards almost killed me. Even at its worst, though, I had comfort in Christ. For so long, I was surrounded by people telling me I was damned because of who I am.
I denied who I was because it was easier than abandoning the only support network I had. The same people who guilted me for being bi, who demanded I be masculine in a way that I hated were my sense of security.
It took me a long time to realize I could take Christ's comfort and leave the bigotry I'd been fed. There is a huge threat of radicalization through evangelism. I was literally taught to take advantage of people when they were desperate to convert them. I'm still realizing the horrible shit they taught me. They know how to exploit desperate people, and we need more arms reaching out.
As a Christian, I don't want Chick Tracts to be what convinces people to come to Christ. Thank you for taking that asshole to task.
❤️
Thank you for sharing your testimony on here tanuki, and you are by no means the only one who has been hurt by this type of "evangelism". Rest assured you are in my prayers 🙏
@Tanuki 1029
I think you need to read the King James verse 1 Corinthians 6:9 and then look up the word "effeminate".. in a Webster's dictionary... then you will see where the real problem is...
Thank you for taking this topic seriously. There's so much I could say about why I love the way you approached this, but I won't go all college thesis in yt comment section. Can't wait for your next video
To be fair, if there was ever an audience that was going to be receptive to a thesis-as-comment it's probably this one.
I wasn’t anticipating that this would make me cry going into it but… really well done.
@Jenny
this video made ME cry as well but for different reasons than yours I am sure...
I cried cuz I couldn't believe someone like this could even make a video like that!!
@@jeffcarlson3269 I can’t believe someone can be so obsessive! Get a job!
@@tatejensen7892
there SHOULD be limits on the stupidity involved with the making of...certain videos.. for sure..
@@jeffcarlson3269 how is this video stupid? You’re just mad because you are a religious extremist or something, that’s your own fault. What’s your problem?
@@tatejensen7892
If you call believing in God a "religious extremist".. then yes ..I am guilty of being that..
this person in this video.. has chosen to place his own "anti Chick tract" biases on display.. and everything he states is TAINTED with his/her own warped philosophy...
(I still can't decide what to refer to them as)....I am trying Not to be gender offensive.. but honestly it is hard for me to tell....
why is it being a religious extremist to disagree or disapprove with someone spreading malicious lies.. about something...?
everything about this video is a lie..
they state that Not much is known about Jack Chick... ..THERE ARE WHOLE BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT HIM...
I have one....
here is one example:
" "Biography of Jack Chick". Chick.com. Archived from the original on February 18, 2008. Retrieved November 2, 2016."
I cannot stand liars... who lie especially to slander something or someone they know NOTHING about..
Yes in that regard I am an EXTREMIST..
anything anyone wishes to know about Jack Chick ..they can find out about by reviewing some David W. Daniels' videos or by reading any of David's dozens of books published..
David W. Daniels is the President of Chick publications at this time...
why not just get the truth about Jack Chick. ."straight from the horse's mouth"...?... so to speak..
quit relying on LIARS to give you truthful information...
This video was not only super funny constantly but transitioned smoothly into serious critique that was earnest and held my attention hard
you're genuinely so entertaining to watch. your story telling and pacing and just in general the way you talk, I feel like my best friend is casually telling me a buckwild story while we drive around our boring ass small town. my favourite!
Getting a Christian dating app advert in the beginning of this video is… is just so good. But also I’m on a marathon of your videos and you are legit fucking brilliant and I spend so much time rewinding parts bc I want to hear them again. Sometimes I’m like… I wanna experience this for the first time AGAIN. Ily.
thank you for talking about this, I've never been able to put into words how my childhood religious trauma shaped my views of religion in such a negative way. you said it perfectly
Holy shit, 22:17 to 24:27 is art. I cried. I was no longer watching a TH-cam commentary video, i was watching something raw and honest and emotional, some thing special. I feel the same, I hope in my heart that people can unlearn and break the cycle of hate that certain religious sects and groups and people bring to the world.
I really appreciate your gravity in calling these out as tools of hate propaganda. They are ridiculous, and at some point we have to laugh or go crazy but that doesn't mean these are harmless. It's a bit like microtransactions: most people aren't sucked in but a vulnerable minority is--and the impact can be devastating.
Also, I adore your content. You're one of the few creators I can't listen to while working because I'll miss your rapid-fire jokes.
i love the more cinematic (?) serious bits of your videos as well - they blend so seamlessly into the more lighthearted comedy and i feel like i need a lie down to think about what you said now, in a good way
🚨ANOTHER BANGER🚨
based Thom 😎
highly recommend watching this with a nice bowl of chex mix. absolutely delightful.
HAVENT WATCHED YET BUT I KNOW ITLL BE GOOD. KEEP IT UP
im SO happy youtube recommended your channel to me, you're so funny and you have an amazing camera presence so i was surprised to see that you only have a handful of videos (which i have binged). never stop, your viewpoint and humor is so refreshing
it was a rough day for me and a new ro video is just the ticket for this evening
Hope it gets better!!!! ❤️
Ok but the jokes for the whole day after getting those pamphlets before school was almost worth taking a paper from a man in a trenchcoat
12:01 he looks like the guy that would play hp lovecraft in a netflix adaptation of his life, including the racism
I’m so glad u posted today
your delivery of the "ah, what did you do to this" at 3:56 was so perfect im dead
Your videos are so good that I don’t even feel that guilty about not studying to the very last minute for my Roman history midterm. Also, happy belated birthday !
Holy shit, I think I found a Chick Tract when I was ~13. It was on the subway, tucked into one of those metal frames that advertisements go in. It was a classic "This woman died, you won't believe what happened next!" one, I read it and accepted it as a Deranged Little Pamphlet and left it there. It was thoroughly amusing. I wonder if someone left it for other people to find and be ~turned towards Christ~ or if they were just like "I was given this wild comic and must get rid of it somehow". Watching this video was certainly enlightening, I think I'm going to become a sodomite now.
(Also I scrolled through the Chick Tract catalogue, some of them are definitely pretty fucked...peruse with caution.)
I think I have seen about every Chick Tract... and Love them all
you came into my life just when I needed you Ro, Thank you
I didn't even know what Chick tracts are, not being from an English-speaking country, but I know we have our own BS in my country so I'm not gonna be all high and righteous over the US.
(cw: references to bigotry and related violence)
But it does remind me of the first time I went to a Pride parade, when I was 16 and only beginning to understand how I was different and why that meant my parents were telling me I was sick. I was alone, because no one in my family would have wanted to go with me even if I asked, and the first thing that hit me was how many lovely people just asked if I wanted to march with them, if I wanted a pin or a temporary tattoo with some cool symbols and flags I didn't know anything about. And when the march started, barely fifty metres into the beginning of the parade, as I was talking with the group who had kindly taken me in (I guess it's true what they say about the community choosing their own family), we walked by three people in front of a pamphlet kart.
They handed me one and I instinctively took it to look at it. Plastered on the front, in lovely colours, was the sentence: "Gay mariage is the West' suicide". That sentence has stuck with me ever since, into adulthood and the confirmation that I would never be fully accepted. So on that day, I looked at my new group of friends, which included a gay couple who carried their kids on their shoulders, and we turned back to the pamphlet people and just asked for them so we could distribute them ourselves. There was enough of us, with the attention it drew from other people in the march, that we cleared the kart and were able to dump all of it in the trash on the next street. But it sticks with you.
I was a 16 yo kid who knew they'd never be accepted by their family and took the trip to the parade anyway, and now I'm an adult who became an activist in part because of the psychological damage that pamphlet and all the rhetoric that comes with it did to me. When I left that parade at the end of the day, holding hands with a crush-at-first-sight I had met on the march, I had my first flag around my shoulders and that was enough for a middle-aged man who passed us by to think to himself: "oh, two teenagers, how could would it be if I assaulted them?" and spit in the face of my friend before dragging me by the hair up to a wall and yelling at me.
How can you not be taught what life will be for you by experiences like these? So it disgusts me to see that kind of abhorent stuff in tracts distributed in front of your schools, but it doesnt susprise me. And I guess that's maybe the worst part of it all.
I was raised in an insular fundamentalist evangelical christian community, including pretty much every member of my immediate and extended family on both sides dating back as many generations as I know of. I have hella religious trauma deep in my bones, yet I was only slightly nervous to click on this video bc I knew you would do the topic justice. I appreciate how you handled the material of this video, the weight and compassion you treated it with, and the way you seem to genuinely understand it. Not to mention, you're hilarious and absurdly clever!
i'm so happy you started a youtube channel! you are seriously one of my favorite content creators, and you bring such a refreshing feeling to youtube. can't wait to see what else you make!!! :)
every video you post is just "stop stop he's already dead" but i'm enjoying every second of it
Ro, you literally made me laugh out loud. I award you a "lol", and I'm that guy who always writes "haha" unless he actually laughs. Which, now that I'm writing it out, seems kinda arbitrary...
Anyway, thanks for making such awesome, thoughtful content!
amazing work as usual, ro! proud of you
Thank you Mina love u :-)
I'm in love with the way you pace your videos. The jokes are rapid fire banger after banger, reminds me of like a Chris Fleming bit, and then you halt the momentum to get really serious and introspective, but somehow it all just flows really well. Excited to see more!! I feel like you're gonna go far.
You made me tear up a little bit with this one. You are such a great creator who understands how to be serious and funny.
I'm so glad you mentioned the link to Tijuana bibles cause ever since my professor brought a stack of them for us to look at in class they are imprinted in my brain like a burnt phone screen
youve so quickly become one of my top 3 youtubers
Subscribed at 53 seconds. I adore you.
Editing to add: I used to collect these and had about 25 or 30 different ones.
Holy shit I had no clue this was a widespread thing- my dad had a copy of "Big Daddy" and I LOST MY SHIT over it because it was so absurdly bad.
Finding out my dad kept it for as long as he had (maybe, 4 decades) was absolutely chilling honestly. Because of what you said about the evil of these things. Its wild.
I am guessing your dad was a Christian and You are not?..
you are very witty and good at this. Seen your stuff on tiktok but I love this on a whole new level
your video really impacted me in a great way, im really glad i watched the serious stuff and the end and while it was heavy it was beautiful and it deeply resonated with me... youre amazing and an incredible at making videos.
My new weekly Tuesday routine is bombing my math quiz then washing it down with vodka and a new ro video
I’ve always loved ur TikTok content but never thought you would be THIS good at TH-cam. Quickly becoming one of my favorite channels
seeing someone reference teacher resigned was such an amazing experience thank you for posting :] laughed
*Its gets more uncanny; Christopher Hitchens (an acclaimed atheist) even stated that Hitler and Mussolini has Catholic background-similar points Jack Chick (a WW2 veteran) made*
Your videos are hilarious and I've loved all the topics you've covered so far! You've got the perfect blend of goofs and seriousness in all your videos, but the break in the middle of this one really felt like it needed to be said, Chick Tracts are such a weird and uniquely harmful thing. I'm surprised you didn't mention Dark Dungeons though, the "d&d is satanism" chick tract that also got turned into a movie
I couldn't understand how you had so many views and subs until I saw this video. GD you earned it, and are very talented.
I love the way you Balance humor and deep serious issues. You're amazing.
The elderly Jack chick roast segment has Mr as dead as him. Hilarious
The thought of god being a film bro is simultaneously vile and perfect
As a fellow chick tract survivor, I 100% approve of this message and am amazed by your relentless wit. Brava on your best vid yet! 😊
NOT ME GETTING AN ADF AD IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS VIDEO??? like, im binge watching Ro... this ad is going to the WRONG audience😂
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
This video was so cathartic to watch. I grew up in (and still have) a very very evangelical conservative family that agrees with everything in all of these chick tracts. I saw and heard and tried my best to believe shit like this every day, so it is so comforting to hear someone mock and criticize this with all of the derision it deserves. I somehow managed to go from a little kid helping my parents give trick-or-treaters Finding-Nemo-themed Christian tracts (which were appropriately littered all over our yard the next day) to a bisexual atheist and a pretty well adjusted adult all things considered, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones lol. This video made me laugh really hard I just also wanted to comment in earnest that this means a lot to me
I found one at Walgreen's... and I'm giving it the treatment it deserves.
I'm a huge fan after one video. I discovered the alternatingly humorous and horrifying world of Chick tracts about 10 months ago at a short-lived mail sorting job. I'm so glad this video exists
Thanks for making this Ro, it felt really good to have someone who I look up to agknowledge the terrible bigotry of groups that I have been around my entire life, love you
P.S. Free Palestine pogchamp.
I know you didn’t just say “Swiss Army Slur” I’m dead hahaha
the jokes are nonstop and it's very overwhelming 10/10
i have never clicked on a video quicker. thanks for the sweet sweet content ro, I love your stuff
Ugh I love you, saving this to watch on my lunch break tomorrow lol
i started loving ro when i found out our birthdays are back to back, here’s to 20!!!
That church organ sting you play when that angel hucks that guy into hell cracks me up every time!
ro's videos always manage to fluctuate perfectly between amazing, fast paced roasts and silly jokes to poignant commentary on serious things. I really admire you for that
First of all, I can't believe you don't have more subscribers! Second of all, and most importantly, it is SO refreshing to see content from a creator who trusts that their audience is able to understand and keep up with fast-paced and intelligent humor. It seems so many creators nowadays are almost spoon-feeding their viewers simple jokes and offering up the explanation of said jokes in a way that feels so patronizing. It's almost like they think we couldn't possibly keep up with what they see as their creative genius or something. You truly speak to your audience as equals and trust us to be able to understand your witty responses and creative/extensive language in a way I have only ever seen from maybe 3 other creators before. You're definitely one of my top 5 favorite creators now and I watch a lot of fucking TH-cam so I hope that means something to you! lol :) Keep pushing out the absolute gold-tier videos!