Seriously, is this just some elaborate practical joke? Are Davis Aurini and Jordan Owen deliberately trying to convince the world that they’re such bumbling nincompoops that they shouldn’t be trusted with $15 much less $15000 a month to make a documentary? Or are they really this incompetent?
I’m leaning towards the latter interpretation.
Watch the video and you’ll see what I mean. It’s their latest official update video for their backers on Patreon, to let the people who collectively sent them $9000 last month and another $7000 this month know what’s the SarkeesianEffect duo have managed to accomplish with their money so far.
And it’s filmed on a cheap webcam with bad lighting. Apparently these guys can’t be bothered to spend ten minutes to set up the equipment that their donors have so generously provided for them in order to make a video that looks even vaguely professional.
Even more hilariously, they filmed the whole thing using a directional microphone that 1) makes Jordan Owen sound like he’s fallen down a well and 2) RENDERS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO HEAR WHAT DAVIS AURINI IS SAYING ALTOGETHER.
You don’t have to watch the whole thing to see what I mean — skip ahead to about 1:15 in the video and wait until Aurini starts talking. He manages to get in a couple of words before moving out of the microphone’s range, and from then on nothing he says is audible (unless you want to blast your speakers out every time Owen talks).
In other words, not only can these two not be trusted to make a professional quality documentary, they can’t even manage to make a crappy webcam video properly.
Had their bete noire Anita Sarkeesian put out a similarly shitty video in order to tell her supporters what she was doing with their money, she would have been run out of town on a rail. Possibly literally.
In the comments on YouTube, Owen tells his disappointed backers that he can’t upload another video to replace this obviously fucked up one because that would trigger something on Patreon and cause all their backers to get charged again.
Uh, dude, you can’t upload an improved video with a different title, or on Aurini’s channel?
Huh. Maybe you should have, you know, watched your own video once to make sure everything was ok with it before putting it up in the first place?
I swear, these guys must have thought that Tim Burton’s movie about Ed Wood was a how-to, not a comedy.
I don’t know, they might have accidentally made a video featuring the two of them that isn’t immediately disgustingly offensive by making it impossible to hear either of them clearly.
The face of true journalism, men’s rights style!
Aurini never sounded so intelligent.
Anita Sarkeesian is apparently a scam artist because people kept giving her money after she made 25 times more than she asked for, but there’s nothing shady at all about asking for an unknown amount of monthly donations for a project like this.
This is similar to the commentary they’ve separately offered about the first trailer. Aurini was basically inaudible then too and in the dark to boot. Owen’s quality wasn’t much better.
They put out 50 minutes of content over multiple videos… with those screw ups recently in mind, when are they going to learn to view their videos before uploading?
I didn’t read the post before I clicked play so I laughed out loud when Aurini started talking. These guys, man.
Let me just reiterate that a humble German indie gaming website called it months ago. They must have prophetic powers!
http://superlevel.de/spielkram/the-sarkeesian-effect-we-spoke-to-the-creators-to-hear-what-they-really-have-to-say/
LOL one of the comments to the video, re: you can’t hear what Aurini is saying:
I don’t know why they didn’t just clean it up the same way they’ll be fixing their interview audio later.
@Chevrolet, you think they’re going to fix the interview audio?
Also, maybe they plan to make this like a Kickstarter backing scheme? At one point, Owen says that going over 10 000 “would really hit us out of the ballpark”, maybe he means then backers will reach the second tier, when you can actually hear Aurini speak? From 15 000, they use an actual light instead of what I can only describe with the German word “Funzel”? From 20 000, they will interview actual intellectuals (ha!) instead of “street intellectuals?
Sometimes I think about doing this to get money from MRAs, but then I remember that stealing is wrong, even if it is from the chronically blind to reality.
@isidore13
Of course not! Just being sarcastic.
I got into an argument with someone on YouTube about this project months ago comparing it to Anita Sarkeesian. I pointed out they were asking for more money and have never done anything to to even hint they knew what they were doing. I wish I remember who I was talking to, because I could have told them, “Told you so.”
Gee. It’s like they’re just blowing all that donated cash on coke and strippers, eh?
Warning that German website blasts audio when you load the page.
At least it explains how Aurini managed to afford his toy skull collection.
Didn’t you know? Decent video quality is misandry. Anita has it so it must be true.
@Bernardo Soares That video made my day, thanks.
They mansplained gendered violence. These two white guys literally explained what one should do *and feel* when someone else decides to break the law with a real, honest to god rape-torture-and-murder threat with your home address on it.
Because the blowback of anything that you *say* should include a “to-do” plan what to do when someone literally threatens your life and the life of your husband at your home address.
What’s embarrassing is literally mansplaining rape threats on video.
Lol just checking!
Ah, basic competency. Apparently a trait not shared by these two clowns.
They look to be having a pretty good time fundraising off the Sarkeesian name recognition and it is obviously working cuz people are giving them money to do so. What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe they’re doing a show-and-tell for their supporters of what scam artists sound like and do.
Otherwise, I got nothing.
OK, the German page won’t load properly on my tablet. If I scroll down, Aurini takes over the page. If I’m scroll up, the same thing happens. All I get is a huge image of his smarmy face.
I’m laughing my ass off, its like a fever dream.
I did link to another page by clicking on con.text and that was fun
“Videogames, misogyny and Terrorism: a guide to Assholes” at badassdigest.com
@zennurse: It should load this video:
I am really looking forward to Jordan Owen trying to get his hands on “deleted scenes” from Colbert, which he claims show Anita Sarkeesian being unable to explain why videogames don’t cause violence, but do cause sexism (an allegation that once again shows how they really are unable to understand even the tiyiest bit of what she is saying). Maybe they’re saving the money for license fees?