The Youtube Intellectual Mock Thread! [Part 2]

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BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Rugoberta Munchu posted:

For those who remember the goon who made that music video "Random Access Memory" with his band The Unhandled Exceptions, he is still at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvyTnUl-ss

Oh my god. This might have been the funniest thing I saw all day. I'm not sure if it's the inspirational cloud background, him pretending to play the piano, or HOLY poo poo! your trying to parody John Lennon.

I'm crying.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 03:47

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 10:08

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

business hammocks posted:

There's a book about them and the rest of the alt-right coming out tomorrow:

https://www.amazon.com/Kill-All-Normies-Culture-Alt-Right/dp/1785355430

I hope this is good. There is not enough real, through journalism out there on what chan culture is and how it influences culture at large, especially politics. I forget who said it before but 4Chan is the most influential website you never heard of.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 23:43

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

boner confessor posted:

only if you're voluntarily celibate from lack of sex drive and not abysmal social skills or religious pressure

Or if being a dude socially makes no sense to you at the end of the day and it takes you almost 30 years to realize your trans. :iamafag:

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 23:49

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

i like nagal and honestly i think she understands the alt right the best and how/why they tick and its more complex then a lot of people act, not that its excusable.

yeah, he stuff has gotten alot better, but i prefer Lindsey ellis, contrapoints, and liana kerzner. her old stuff under her old co-director and co writer was pretty ehh and once he hosed off she got better and lace straight faced preachy.

Her former co-director was the dude who does Pop culture Detective right? I've seen a few of his videos and yeah, he can be a bit much sometimes. One of those leftists who's not wrong but might need to be reminded now and then to tone it down some because your not helping.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 23:51

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Pencils R Cool posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JymtGcDAg-M

In which a man who claims to be left-wing has a complete meltdown because a Socialist did well in an election.

I came.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2017 14:56

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

rkajdi posted:

A lot of these guys are into the No Fap thing, so that's a non-starter. It's like they watch Dr. Strangelove and somehow got the message that General Ripper was the hero.

I don't understand the No Fap thing. I tried it a few times in high school and never lasted more than a few days.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 02:51

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

It COULD also be a product of media and a culture that suggests that dudes should be losing their virginity by their senior year of highschool. No later than first year of college. If you don't get laid by then your not a man. People deal with that feeling in really strange and possibly dangerous ways.

rkajdi posted:

I know. Plus, the other thing I don't think they get is that it's going to hurt their performance. Who wants to be a two pump chump? Your partner has a bad time, and the amount of fun for the amount of prep is awful.

I KIND of see where this is coming from? Granted I didn't lose my virginity until I realized I was trans but I have never been able to finish without doing it myself. And this was totally a thought that crossed my mind and "OH GOD! Their gonna think i don't actually like them"

BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Jun 12, 2017

# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 02:59

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Zikan posted:

Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle is a pretty good history/overview of the alt-right's various sections from America's Leading Mindset Expert, gamergate, and the pepes. Doesn't go as far back as all of the reddit controversies of FPH tho.

Granted it's probably the only academic overview of this whole thing, everything else is internet oral history.

That's kind of the problem with doing a academic dive into chan culture. A lot of channers can just say any piece of information is true because that person is a troll. Plus so much of it is also just boring ten year old internet drama that not even the parties involved care about.

What was FPH about?

# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 17:45

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

NikkolasKing posted:

I saw this in my Recommendations while watching Garrett's video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weiQx3rKg7o

Oh hey, I forgot Sam Seder was still around. I use to listen to his show on Air America Radio.

BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Jun 20, 2017

# ¿ Jun 20, 2017 13:45

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

WHat is the deal with the Young Turks anyway? I never watched their show but keep hearing about them.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2017 16:30

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Jim actually didn't a really great couple of videos on shadier Side of games journalism. First was on Brash Games which was paying its writers in exposure and then removing their names from the by lines when they quit. Which was then followed up by how casino sites advertise on small gaming sites by tricking the google search althorithims.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2017 17:49

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Is there anything that covers the whole Whitewater/Vince Foster thing? I was young when it happened and know just the short summery. "Clintons had a land deal that went south, and a business partner turned up dead"

# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 02:56

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Has anyone watched Laci Green's Two genders video? Because I dont wanna give her clicks and it's sitting on Youtube's Spotlight Page for Pride month.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2017 03:51

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

So Zinnia Jones made Tucker Carlson's show, talking about how straight dudes who don't wanna date trans women should sit and think why they don't like trans women.

https://twitter.com/Alternate_F4cts/status/882782619049570306

Congrats to Zinnia? Also is it me or does Tucker Carlson sound like he is really, really scared? Like either Saying this about Zinnia is going to get his rear end kicked or he just doesn't like being in front of a camera.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2017 03:45

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Is Davis Aruni even worth talking about at this point? He's the bottom of the barrel for these guys. No one takes him seriously.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2017 16:51

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Trust Funds for all my nephews and nieces, pay off all my parents and sisters and my debts. Then weekend trips to Disney world every week till I was sick of the place.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2017 23:37

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

So what is the line between discussing Youtube videos and talking about Internet Drama. I think this falls into the latter but...ughh it's making me mad.

Social media was a mistake.

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Maybe you should pay Greg back for buying your house you lousy freeloader

Is this a reference to something? Cause it wen't over my head.

BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jul 9, 2017

# ¿ Jul 9, 2017 04:15

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Honest Thief posted:

Turns out one of the biggest gaming forums out there, neogaf, had his own aatrek situation recently and looking at twitter it seems sargon's crowd having a field day with it due to neogaf being very pro-lgbt.

Whos aatrek? I forget but it sounds familiar.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 15:10

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

JVNO posted:

Then let's talk Laci Green and her disingenuous refusal to acknowledge her new demographic of supporters will abandon her as soon as they realize she's still a 'feminist'.

Like, the interest in her among the alt-right/antifeminists seems to begin and end with, 'we can convert her fully!' She's a darling now, because in their mind she makes them look like the reasonable ones for engaging in discussion... But give it a few more months and a few more times asserting 'gender and sex are different' and 'the wage gap is real!'. I don't think they'll be sticking around once the novelty wears off, unless she goes full Honey Badger or something.

Or maybe she will stick around as 'one of the good ones' to 'prove' antis aren't above debate or something.

Laci is already half way there as someone pointed out a few pages back talking about how a penius=male.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 15:14

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

business hammocks posted:

Contrapoints is having a one-on-one conversation with Laci Green about genderqueer identities and expression on Thursday at some yet to be determined time, if anyone's curious. It's probably going to be on Laci's channel.

It's part of a series including Blaire White and some TERF who tells people to kill themselves when they call her a TERF.

I'll watch the replay of this when it goes up, but I do tend to advoid these things. They never end well for either side.

Didn't Contra do a stream with White at one point that didn't go well?

# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 16:08

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

business hammocks posted:

Yes. His conversations with Roamingmillennial and some weird quasi-mra catholic went better. The justification is that Laci has an audience that would benefit from hearing an informed voice on the subject and there's nobody else in the series repping a pro-trans or more-than-two perspective.

I hope so.

I do agree with Contra that you need to be willing to defend your ideas against people who disagree with you in a civil tone.

But that idea hits a wall when you are dealing with people like White and Sargon. They do not give a gently caress about what ever you have to say because their world view is the correct one, how dare you say otherwise. Or worse is guys like Bearing and sides who post on Kiwifarms who find the idea of trans people and not conforming to beauty standards of porn, real or hentai to be funny. After a point, a lot of trans people just go into immediate "gently caress you" mode when people ask them questions.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 16:56

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

I can't figure out what he thinks happened in 1965.

*SLUUUUURP*

Start of the veitnam war? The voting rights act?

BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jul 10, 2017

# ¿ Jul 10, 2017 17:52

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

OwlFancier posted:

I mean one did punch richard spencer in the face. Vast horde no, but entertainingly effective, seemingly.

Imagine living in fear that you won't be able to talk about white genocide in public without the black power ranger materializing out of the ether and punching you in the head.

If there was a real Antifa movement in the states, the loving Megazord would be the one making that punch :v:

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 04:01

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Who What Now posted:

Like, how do you even begin to address the argument of "REEEEEEEE" at all, especially without coming off as smug?

"Well, my opponent is very intelligent and obviously put a lot of thought into his screech, but I respectfully disagree on the grounds of"

The most shocking part of that video is that one dude shouting REEEE out loud. Like, what the gently caress?

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 15:53

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

So did anyone watch Contra and Laci's talk? How did that go? Woth the watch or just same old poo poo form Laci?

# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 01:12

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

I honestly would like to know if it would be possible to get an accurate snapshot of what the average 4channer is. Do they eventually grow out of the site and a younger generation is coming in or are the people there now the same ones since 2001 or whatever. Average age of it's users? How many women actually use 4chan? And I mean as a whole, not just POL or the places you don't go in after midnight.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 02:05

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

isn't 4chan only a few years younger than SA?

# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 02:44

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

The best explanation for Tumblr culture I found was int he trade collection for Kim and Kim

Kim and Kim Forward by Imogen Binnie posted:

Look: the short version is that I talked a lot of poo poo about Neil Gaiman, and I�m sorry. I used to have this blog where I wrote about what I was reading and I got swept up in the Your Fav Is Problematic craze of the early mid 2010s. Maybe you remember this? It took place mostly on an internet hell made up primarily of pornography and self-righteousness called Tumblr, where people would write up little reports on how artists or singers or writers or whatever - your faves - had hosed up, so you could feel bad about liking their work and hate them forever.

It was fun, dude. You can�t really argue with the sense of power you feel when you�re taking down a famous or semi-famous or almost semi-famous person who has done something that makes you feel like you�re better than them. Of course, when you�re dividing people into two groups (�problematic� and �not yet problematic�), and those two groups roughly equate to �bad� and �good,� you�re not doing analysis as much as its opposite. But it�s enticing, right? We all live in a culture that makes us feel lovely and hurt and powerless all the time. Of course we�re all doing whatever we can to feel less powerless.

So okay. When I was a kid I loved Neil Gaiman�s Sandman comics. And like a lot of teenage trans girls who haven�t quite figured out that they�re trans, I built myself an elaborate personal hall of mythopoetic mirrors in order to sort of understand that I was trans and sort of not know. And there were trans women in those Sandman comics! In the mid-nineties, in the rural part of New Jersey that they never seem to show on TV, I wasn�t really seeing trans women anywhere else. I mean, they were there. We�ve always been there. I just didn�t know yet, so the trans women in Sandman comics became really important to me. They were basically a lifeline.

On re-reading those comics a couple years ago, though, I noticed something kind of disappointing: the trans women in those comics kept dying. There were something like a dozen trans women who died offstage over the course of those comics, and I think one who died onstage? None live. So I did what any self-righteous grownup with a laptop would do: I talked a bunch of poo poo on the internet.

YOUR FAVORITE, NEIL GAIMAN, IS PROBLEMATIC, I hollered into the void.

Other jerks on the internet loved it. That post got passed around extensively. Neil himself seems still to have a career, which I am happy about, because at the time I don�t think I had an endgame besides feeling powerful by attacking someone who was more powerful than me. And I regret it.

Neil, I�m sure you�re reading this, and I apologize. I was being a jerk. We haven�t met but I�m told that you are not, actually, a bad person who hates trans women. You yourself have said that if you had it to do over again you�d write those characters� stories differently. And honestly, while I still very strongly prefer stories in which trans women do not die, I�ve realized that I was never mad at you. I was mad that those comics were the best I could do at fourteen. You know? I was mad.

If there�s a point to any of this, it�s this: it rules that it�s no longer the early mid 90s. Everything is awesome now. I mean... actually I guess there is a lot of stuff from now that is not awesome. A lot of stuff blows. But there is way more awesome stuff now than there used to be. The late mid 2010s are amazing: now it is the future and we have G.L.O.S.S. and Ryka Aoki and Janet Mock and Her Story and Tangerine and look. Check this out. If you want fun and monsters and spaceships and legit sexuality and gender stuff and hitting robot gorillas with bass guitars and cool girls giving a poo poo about each other and cute boys also giving a poo poo about those cool girls and interdimensional death magic, good news: we live in the future and we also get to have Kim & Kim.

I�m not sure how to tell you about this collection of Kim & Kim without spoiling the best parts. There�s a bunch of stuff I could quote. I won�t! You�ll get to the part where the guy is making fun of the boys and the part with the word �fuckhead� and you�ll see. If Kim & Kim had existed when I was in high school, it would have hosed me up in such a good way. Even now it�s a legitimately important contribution to the way we talk about and portray trans women. I mean, it is not a comic about being trans. It�s a comic in which one of the protagonists is trans in a way that feels real - not �just happens irrelevantly to be trans� or �will not shut up about being gender.� It�s just a thing that comes up sometimes. You know That�s what being trans feels like to me and to a lot of my friends and one of the best tricks that writer Magdalene Visaggio pulls off here is to set a relatable version of being trans as the grounded heart of a story about sand worms and octopus monsters and what appears to be the van that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles drove in the Saturday morning cartoons from the 80s, modified for space travel. It�s a bright, fun, funny comic that works because at its center it�s got this sweet, real relationship between two imperfect queer women who you fall in love with.

And also? I care about trans women, but you don�t have to. There�s plenty here for you even if you have a deep, profound indifference about that stuff: parent drama, the struggle to pay rent, organized space crime, cosmic bounty hunting, bright pink guns, you name it. You know: the stuff that makes comic books rule. I�ve argued before that if readers can accept dragons and warp drives, they can probably also handle trans women with agency. In Kim & Kim, we get all three. And I�m happy to spoil this for you: over the course of these issues of Kim & Kim, no trans women die, as far as I can tell.

Your move, Gaiman.
Imogen Binnie
10/2016

My point is Kim and Kim is a Good Comic. And that maybe we need a thread to discuss Internet subcultures, communities and how they affect political opinions and life.

BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Jul 17, 2017

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 01:13

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Yeah. The argument is that TERFs argue that a Patriarchy society doesn't oppress women because of the social constructs of Gender, but because of biological sex and what's between their legs. Therefor, Trans women do still have male privilege because they have male genitals and ave no right to call themselves women or feminists.

I don't think I ever saw that int he TERF wild though. THen again I don't tread in TERF waters beyond this thread and people I follow on Twitter.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2017 03:54

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Somfin posted:

It's deeply comforting that money does indeed corrupt people.

Or at the very least doesn't inherently solve all your personal problems

# ¿ Jul 18, 2017 14:29

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Did anyone else notice that Shawn and Jen's latest video on The Great replacement also got flagged off YouTube?

BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jul 18, 2017

# ¿ Jul 18, 2017 18:26

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

I have a good litmus test for this kind of stuff. When loving Stormfront starts saying your their favorite YouTuber, maybe rethink your style of humor.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2017 01:25

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

The worst part of that is the trans woman on the panel in question was Laura Kate Dale. She has been a target of this kind of poo poo before because god forbid a trans woman make a name for herself in games journalism.

Or be a woman in games journalism and actually try and do her job for that matter.

Edit: Speaking of which. Did anyone see Contra's new video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayuqizp4fyY&t=615s It's more of an art piece about how gender dysphoria affects them. It's super loving good and hits me in a few places.

BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jul 24, 2017

# ¿ Jul 24, 2017 02:56

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

It wasn't just that rabbids game. She was one of the few people willing to put an actual PS4 Slim on youtube before Sony even announced it and she was called a lire up and down the street for it.

BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jul 24, 2017

# ¿ Jul 24, 2017 03:29

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Guavanaut posted:

Wait, they're complaining about having to import games from Japan?

I remember back when gamers loved that poo poo, because it meant that they had the games that normies didn't. What changed?

Free market economics is censorship.

The latest version of this is the director for the senran kagura games, which are porn games disguised as brawler games, said in an interview that future releases might be toned down because he was the big gaming news sites to review and talk about his games.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2017 15:34

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

NikkolasKing posted:

https://twitter.com/RileyJayDennis/status/894388793121292289

The video taken down? "How to Apologize." Because of "sexual content."

Seriously, gently caress these people

# ¿ Aug 7, 2017 14:04

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

business hammocks posted:

Does the review involve a living human at any point? A video of a clothed human talking to a camera should pass even machine intelligence tests for nudity.

If past examples have shown, no.

Let's get S&J, Contra, Hbomb, everyone reuploading it. That should be the new SOP for gen this happens.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2017 14:27

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Go Daddy is kicking The Daily Stormer off their hosting in 24 hours. Let the Free speech takes roll in!

And apparently Anonymous is DDoSing other white nationalist sites. Some Anon posts on twitter is saying this might be a false flag thing though.

BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Aug 14, 2017

# ¿ Aug 14, 2017 14:29

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Goon Danton posted:

What, like the sites taking themselves down and saying they've been ddosed? Because I don't think it's possible to pretend to be Anonymous.

I think so. But yeah, I'm seeing Anon twitter accounts saying "that wasn't us". Plus I'm guessing most people who know who Anon is might not have a problem with taking. Daily Stormer down.

Does Anon even still use the chan boards?

# ¿ Aug 14, 2017 15:09

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 10:08

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Rugoberta Munchu posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3hr0iONQ5A

STOP! Please lose the gimmick. If you were talking about retro games or comics or something this is fine. For political discussions. Just no. I don't need a pallet swap of Deathstroke in a top hat talking about anarcho capitalism in my life

# ¿ Aug 17, 2017 03:56

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