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.
Chubby Brendan Fraser always looks like he’s recovering from a coke binge, which is extra sad because I’m pretty sure that the coke binge part never happened, that’s just how he looks all the time.
I just tried to explain to my boyfriend and he started watching the vid. Before skullboy even starts ‘talking’ he was questioning things. I was like ‘just wait…just wait’. We are now laughing together. It’s funny just listening to it.
Hahaha, omg, I thought he’d turned it off then I heard cubby brendan fraser saying yep yep yep. It’s been on this whole time. Incredible.
Maybe not being able to hear them properly is an inventive.
I almost start to feel bad laughing at these clowns. Almost.
Boyfriend is now looking at skullboy videos. What have I done. Just heard him (aurini) mention ‘obamacare’. Then heard him take a swig of whiskey. You can hear the arrogance. YOU CAN HEAR THE ARROGANCE.
Boyfriend has pointed out he is pretending to knock the ash out of an e-cig. He also pretends to light it with a zippo. This is embarrassing.
So now they are trolling themselves with their extraordinary doxxumentary?
What do you call the embarrassment equivalent of a contact high?
I know @Catherine already mentioned this, but…
“WE CAN’T BE RACIST; WE LIKE ASIAN FOOD. QED, MOTHERFUCKERS.”
BWAHA HA HAAAAA!! As someone who is currently relying heavily on my e-cigarette to kick the dread habit, that’s the funniest thing I’ll hear all day.
Funniest thing, Misha, or most distressing?
Both, in equal amounts. The image of Aurini lighting an e-cig with a zippo… brilliant. I’m tempted to donate to their Patreon just to keep up the amusement value.
The e-cig thing makes no sense. I’m breaking my brain trying to make it make sense. All I can do is laugh, because WHY seems to have no answer!
So, these guys try to cope with being gross by acting like half baked villains? What’s the doublethink there? Women are repelled by me — but that’s the way I like it! Or, if women don’t like me, I’ll make them afraid of me —- aaahhh, a win-win. Creepers.
I wonder how much money it took to fly Aurini down to Georgia so he could inaudibly sit on Owen’s couch? Does he sleep on the couch while he is in town, or get an expensive hotel room? Does he listen to Owen ramble, look down at all the belts and think to himself that hanging would be an easy way out?
“Why is there a skull? Why is he knocking the ash from an e-cig? Why the belts?”
These are the questions of our times.
They’re just play acting. They’ve seen other people do these things and were impressed so they attempt to emulate the behaviour of a competent person…and fail. It’s tragic.
Tragically hilarious.
I seem to have underestimated how much of a problem it would be to use the term ‘gypsy’ so casually. I said something stupid and I’m sorry for that.
(I’m a current, not a former, 4chan user, but at least some of us are capable of acknowledging when we make a mistake)
This video makes me quite puzzled. In fact, I am facing one of the biggest dilemma I have ever seen so far in my life: should I laugh at the poor quality of what these two bozos are trying to do or should I laugh at all the schmucks who gave their money to the aforementioned bozos ?
I read somewhere about the battery in an e-cig exploding. Maybe next time he clicks his lighter near his e-cig he might just hold them too close together and produce an interesting result.
For some reason this is the most pathetic and funny part of the whole thing. Even more than the skulls or the inaudible audio. I can see someone who just transitioned from regular cigs to e-cigs unconsciously trying to ash it from muscle memory. What I can’t make sense of is the pretending to light it. Was he ever even a smoker at all? Maybe he thinks smoking would add to the cool, bad, and mysterious persona he’s trying to create but he doesn’t want to actually take up smoking so he tried to pass off an e-cig as the real thing?
So many questions.
The knocking the ash off the e-cig thing is something I caught myself doing when I first stopped smoking. I didn’t mean to. It’s like when you go to push your glasses up and realize that you’re wearing your new contacts. I’ve done that one too.
I don’t know why he pretends to light his e-cig or why he carries a lighter at all. I assume it has something to do with him being a giant douche.
It’s not an unconscious thing when he ashes the e-cig, it’s very deliberate. They just think somehow they can get away with their ridiculous behaviour (but ingrained privilege isn’t a thing no siree.)
Makes my brain hurt.
Policy of Madness sez:
It’s not like you can’t do pretentious shit while using an e-cig properly. There are tutorials for that all over YouTube.
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Shalimar sez:
The couch is no doubt perpetually soggy from all the male tears that leak out of Owen when he’s in despondent slug mode.
Cassandra –
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What do you call the embarrassment equivalent of a contact high?”
I call it second-hand embarrassment.