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Sarcopenia posted:I stopped watching Illuminaughtii after she publicly shat on a smaller MLM critic channel because they dared to send a nice message to her about having a problem with her plagiarizing them. Whats the details on this, my partner likes their videos a bunch.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 01:15 |
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# ? May 31, 2024 03:20 |
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I don't know any discourse regarding Illuminaughti but I will say I bounced off their content not because of what they cover but because what I saw could've used better editing IMO. It felt like they repeated a lot of their points the same way somebody tries to pad out a high school book report, it just got to be a bit grating I imagine it's fine if you're just listening to one of their videos in the background like it's a podcast (which might warrant repetition in that case) but it wasn't for me Edited for more neutral pronouns Blood Nightmaster fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Jul 10, 2021 |
# ? Jul 10, 2021 01:28 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e2HpKhVOKE Fun overview of Loki's queerness and how it's both been reflected and shifted during the trip from Myth->Comics->MCU. warning that it's pretty long though.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 01:31 |
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Supersonic Shine posted:Jacob Geller lavishes praises on Dead Space 2, the second entry of the much-loved Dead Space duology. apperently they are showing off the RE 2remake style remake of 1 at ea play this year. i kinda like 1 a little more because its slower pace and you see the levels evolve over time and poo poo. Andrast posted:This thread, D&D and C-SPAM can all be bad together
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 01:40 |
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Jimbot posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJuDD80J_Jo it was ok. its alot of "yeah no poo poo, your kinda late to the party jacobin" type video though. better then renegade cuts stupid poo poo video on it though.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 01:44 |
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Kim Justice posted:I'm probably more friendly towards Contra than a lot of you (her videos, at least) but I can't condone her continuing to treat Buck Angel as if he's some legend who just has outdated opinions about trans topics. Which as of a few weeks ago she was still bloody doing in a Grauniad profile.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 01:45 |
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I just don't get it really. Buck Angel is essentially a TERF, truscum and alt-right troll on Twitter. Those are the people he retweets constantly. Other people of this type would not be given the same amount of slack by Contra. Why are we supposed to cut this guy slack? Because people wrote tabloid articles about him 20 years ago? I mean, of all the "trans elders" out there to stan for you choose this guy and pretend he's actually all fine and cuddly because he tapped like on your Instagram once, ffs. "He paved the way for us!" - He's now digging the path up!
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 02:04 |
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Stormgale posted:Whats the details on this, my partner likes their videos a bunch. From what I can remember, Cruel World Happy Mind, a smaller youtube channel that does anti-MLM content did a video on some topic and was advised by her followers that iilluminaughtii had copied one of her videos and was stealing ideas from her, so she got in touch to say that people were telling her about this. iilluminaughtii never replied but then started talking poo poo about her in a podcast about how entitled it was for her to think that she owned certain topics and how she was totally unaware that anyone else even did any anti-MLM content or that there was a community around it so to accuse her of plagiarism was rude and untrue. Cruel World Happy Mind posted a video, I think, explaining what had happened and apologising if she came across like she was trying to accuse her/start drama and iilluminaughtii took to instagram or twitter or something to say the video was slanderous and how she was going to expose her etc. In conclusion, very petty, low level drama but enough for me to decide that iilluminaughtii isn't really providing any content I couldn't get from someone else.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 02:08 |
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Kim Justice posted:I just don't get it really. Buck Angel is essentially a TERF, truscum and alt-right troll on Twitter. Those are the people he retweets constantly. Other people of this type would not be given the same amount of slack by Contra. Why are we supposed to cut this guy slack? Because people wrote tabloid articles about him 20 years ago? I honestly think that Contra's biggest priority at this point is spiting her twitter enemies (read: large swathes of trans people), which means doubling down in the face of any criticism is her first and only move. So gotta defend Buck Angel no matter what he does, because admitting he's become a piece of poo poo in his old age would be letting said twitter enemies win.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 02:28 |
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I dunno, maybe part of it is spite, but Contra has always treated reactionaries of many stripes with a lighter touch than they warrant. Because she is one of the higher-profile trans folks with a leftward lean, I feel like a pitfall people often stumble into is wishing or assuming she is more progressive than she is. She's always been pretty liberal, and her history on trans issues is mixed, at best. It's really not a shock that she would adopt the "my dear friends, whom I disagree with on some issues," frame that you see a lot of liberals use when referring to various conservatives.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 02:33 |
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Stormgale posted:Whats the details on this, my partner likes their videos a bunch. Apparently the best source on this, the video that CWHM herself made on it, is no longer available because of the squashed beef and the Twitch stream didn't happen for the same reason. The podcast might still be up though but I don't remember what it was called.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 02:42 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koud7hgGyQ8
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 02:43 |
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Kim Justice posted:I just don't get it really. Buck Angel is essentially a TERF, truscum and alt-right troll on Twitter. Those are the people he retweets constantly. Other people of this type would not be given the same amount of slack by Contra. Why are we supposed to cut this guy slack? Because people wrote tabloid articles about him 20 years ago? Contra, for whatever reason, seems to view herself as some kinda trans version of an 'old soul' despite being like loving thirty. She constantly uses terms like 'transsexual' and all and complains about those drat anime kids that are...about her age. It's by far one of her weirdest traits, she clearly views herself as one of the 'elders' because...I guess she started her channel fairly early compared to other prominent trans folk?
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 02:58 |
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sexpig by night posted:Contra, for whatever reason, seems to view herself as some kinda trans version of an 'old soul' despite being like loving thirty. She constantly uses terms like 'transsexual' and all and complains about those drat anime kids that are...about her age. It's by far one of her weirdest traits, she clearly views herself as one of the 'elders' because...I guess she started her channel fairly early compared to other prominent trans folk? It's a guess, but I think the big dividing line is that she came up in the era of 4chan vs. the folks who came later on Tumblr. Not a generational boundary as most would see it, but I think she does have a point in that the tenor of online spaces toward trans people experienced a pretty major shift between the early-to-mid aughts and the twenty-teens.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 03:03 |
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Skippy McPants posted:It's a guess, but I think the big dividing line is that she came up in the era of 4chan vs. the folks who came later on Tumblr. nah those two 'generations' are the exact same one. Like, yea which 'side' you were on more than the other probably painted things but 'tumblr kids' and '4chan kids' are the exact same age for the most part considering 90% of 'tumblr kids' on the older side of things were just livejournal kids
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 03:12 |
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I seem to recall Contra was, idk, mentored or somesuch by an older transwoman. That's probably the main reason.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 03:20 |
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I don't know anything about Buck Angel but every person I know IRL who posts about how he sucks is also a white person who tries to argue that our local police force is actually one of the good ones and that BLM should work together with them moving forward so I'm kind of on the fence about whether or not I'm supposed to give a gently caress about this (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 03:43 |
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Bleck posted:I don't know anything about Buck Angel but every person I know IRL who posts about how he sucks is also a white person who tries to argue that our local police force is actually one of the good ones and that BLM should work together with them moving forward so I'm kind of on the fence about whether or not I'm supposed to give a gently caress about this yea Buck Angel probably has cool opinions about cops and BLM, great post
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 03:44 |
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Buck Angel is a huge piece of poo poo who outs other trans people and constantly tries to degrade and delegitimatize other trans people and their struggles? How very racist of you to say...
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 03:45 |
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cops suck and so does buck angel, hth
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 03:49 |
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Bleck posted:I don't know anything about Buck Angel but every person I know IRL who posts about how he sucks is also a white person who tries to argue that our local police force is actually one of the good ones and that BLM should work together with them moving forward so I'm kind of on the fence about whether or not I'm supposed to give a gently caress about this Holy poo poo
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:02 |
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Bleck posted:I don't know anything about Buck Angel but every person I know IRL who posts about how he sucks is also a white person who tries to argue that our local police force is actually one of the good ones and that BLM should work together with them moving forward so I'm kind of on the fence about whether or not I'm supposed to give a gently caress about this why does someone make a post like this
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:03 |
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Bleck posted:I don't know anything about Buck Angel but every person I know IRL who posts about how he sucks is also a white person who tries to argue that our local police force is actually one of the good ones and that BLM should work together with them moving forward so I'm kind of on the fence about whether or not I'm supposed to give a gently caress about this lol
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:03 |
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Bleck posted:I don't know anything about Buck Angel but every person I know IRL who posts about how he sucks is also a white person who tries to argue that our local police force is actually one of the good ones and that BLM should work together with them moving forward so I'm kind of on the fence about whether or not I'm supposed to give a gently caress about this Next time Remember the adage of broken clock and do your own research.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:08 |
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Buck Angel threw the first brick at Stonewall. He was aiming for another trans person when he did.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:09 |
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Tell us about the white people you know who think that Buck Angel is good.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:10 |
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jfc lmao goddamn Also, I think what gets under mine and others I've talked to's collective skin about Contra isn't that she has these dumb rear end opinions that she doubles down on all the time, but that she's deigned herself the grand arbiter of The Trans Experiencetm which leads to her really making GBS threads on expressions and experiences of being trans that don't align with her (relatively smooth, privileged) own, and that self-ascribed position then gets reinforced by a constant conga line of allies and institutions that defer to her in leu of literally any other trans voice. She just really sucks and you can't loving escape her.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:20 |
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I've always been afraid to ask as a nontrans person, but, did her whole "mouthfeel" thing ring as strange or offensive to anyone who is trans? I remember hearing it and wondering how many chaser types it must have enabled...
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:23 |
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Meh, chasers gonna chase and I see trans4trans people making similar jokes quite often. Mind you, they also tend to be the types she regularly shits on so it can feel a little... appropriative, for lack of a better term when her fans parrot it.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:29 |
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I know she shyed away from the "last old school transexual" thing she said and yet it still feels like she believes it at heart. which is just..er, I dunno what the gently caress that's about lol. It makes no sense, it's really really stupid. As stupid as that troll post up there. Like there's prominent people in the community who've been out longer than you've been alive, lol Famethrowa posted:I've always been afraid to ask as a nontrans person, but, did her whole "mouthfeel" thing ring as strange or offensive to anyone who is trans? Eeehhhh not really. Not to me anyways. I mean chasers will be chasing no matter what and I don't think that's what they're gonna be watching. To expand on SteelMentor more, the character who said it was a riff on Riley Dennis (back when she was getting ripped on badly by Blaire and co). Dunno how she feels about all that. Riley doesn't really do trans vids anymore. Kim Justice fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Jul 10, 2021 |
# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:31 |
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The most comfortable way I've found to deal with this is to find and watch other trans Youtubers.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:37 |
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Contrapoints seems to have a ton of hangups and problems that have snuck out in her videos, including some seemingly pretty serious self-loathing. The inability to let go and not just take criticism constructively as appropriate and ignore the rest is one of those problems. I’m generally content to leave it at the phrase someone in this thread posts often and just shrug with “contrapoints is a land of contrasts” and take what seems useful or clear from her videos and leave the rest. I hope she’s found some therapeutic help along with the added income, as she has a knack for reasoning clearly when she has some distance from her subject and has her heart in the right place if she’s not being petty or grandiose. I think a problem with the internet generally is that if you’re on it enough to make it your thing, one of the reasons you’re terminally online is either that you have problems that brought you there or your being there so much has caused you problems.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 04:52 |
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repiv posted:her patreon is per-month rather than per-video, so mostly living it up on >$26,000 a month regardless of whether she actually makes any content i think Ah the Hbomberguy way of patreon video making.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 08:04 |
Bleck posted:I don't know anything about Buck Angel but every person I know IRL who posts about how he sucks is also a white person who tries to argue that our local police force is actually one of the good ones and that BLM should work together with them moving forward so I'm kind of on the fence about whether or not I'm supposed to give a gently caress about this oh word
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 09:00 |
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I just have to give props to someone so lazy they get five figs from their patreon and still don't put out content.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 12:39 |
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Archer666 posted:Ah the Hbomberguy way of patreon video making. To be fair videos from both are often feature length, have an incredibly high standard of aesthetic production and are studiously researched. I think making two feature length documentaries a year is more work than this thread seems to think.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 12:50 |
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As best I understand it Natalie does a lot of streaming now. And Y’know what, if her patrons are happy with that and she can make a living that way and stop making GBS threads on other trans people with more videos like he previous work? Great, everyone wins, please continue down this path.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 14:12 |
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Still better than whatever Spoony is doing for his patrons these days..
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 15:22 |
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DeafNote posted:Still better than whatever Spoony is doing for his patrons these days.. Doesn’t he make like 10 bucks now?
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 15:46 |
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# ? May 31, 2024 03:20 |
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You guys are also forgetting that a lot of people make smaller patreon exclusive videos fairly often for their supporters. A lot of people are also happy to just give money in support of the creator they like and are not expecting a direct transaction of money for goods and services.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 15:54 |