The wait is over! The Sarkeesian Effect Trailer is out at last! So, without further ado, here it is:
Sorry for any confusion. “The Sarkeesian Effect Trailer” is the name of my new 43 second long film, starring the top of my head, and a very special guest I was lucky to be able to have the opportunity to film: my cat Sweetie Pie Jonus. (My other cat, Pantz, was in the other room.)
I handled the audio and the cinematography. My cats helped with the set dressing.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Oh, and by the way, The Sarkeesian Effect: Official Trailer #1 is also out as well. You know, the one put together by those other guys. You’ll be pleased to see that The Empty Pizza Box made the final cut!
I have to say, those guys don’t really seem to know what they’re doing.
re: “based”
Once upon a time, there was a hip-hop artist named Lil B. Some critics described his work as “based,” as in “debased.” Lil B decided to reclaim that word of criticism and now uses it to refer to a lifestyle of positivity and good attitude.
Some (mainly) young white men decided that sounded great and appropriated the word, applying it to whatever appeals to them, no matter how hateful.
Now you know.
@Policy of Madness
Wow, ‘positivity and good attitude’….. Jack Thompson and Cristina Hoff Sommers…
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@Moocow
Yep. Not only is this word being used incorrectly, it’s straight-up appropriation. Good times all around!
You have to be a gamergater to know what this is about. It starts out promising, like violence in video games, and then goes i dont know where.
sevenofmine:
Oh, they’re totally aware of his history and always have been. But he criticized Sarkeesian, therefore all is forgiven. One thing you have to give GG, their capacity for cognitive dissonance is astonishing.
Check out these bonafides!
– converter of oxygen to carbon dioxide
– vertebrate
– masticater
– shoe wearer
@Moocow,
I love how they’ve chosen a picture of Anita holding a games console, while accusing her of not playing the games she critiques.
And would it have killed them to dig up some actual quotes rather than attributing a load of bullshit ones which apparently the facebook commenters below took at face value?
David I love your video but where are the skulls? I mean, this IS “The Sarkeesian Effect,” so there’s supposed to be several background skulls.
– About to donate funds
– Seriously considering clicking on Paypal
– Thinking about action
– Started many “not hot” actress imdb threads
We don’t have microaggressions. We have macroaggressions.
(Also yes, yes of course we have microaggressions. Every time I go back to South Africa to visit family, I become more and more acutely aware of how the society is full of them. It’s probably no more full than any other society, but the fact that I’ve been out of South Africa for a long time means that I notice it more acutely.)
@sn0rkmaiden
My favorite was “THE CONTROLLER ISN’T EVEN ON!!!!” XD
Looks pretty terrible, like they took a bunch of youtube commentators and have them say a lot of bollocks, oh well, can’t say i expect anything at all from this.
Okay I watched the trailer a few times, (okay, I did that after I watched David’s trailer and cooed over the kitty) I am still really confused by how they are “inside the world of social justice warriors.” It seems, from their trailer, that they only talked to people outside of that world. Is this 1) a failure to understand how words and marketing work, or 2) I am hoping for WAY TOO MUCH sense out of this “documentary”?
@Kestrel
Definitely point number 2.
– Twitterer
– Walmart shopper
– Pharmaceutical taker
– 40-year-old virgin
– Treadmill owner
– Registered sex offender (but not the bad kind)
Seriously, ridiculous taglines have been a comedy trope for years and years. Are Tub & Skull trying to make themselves look bad? I guess that’s what makes them so eminently mockable.
Also, the subtitle is “inside the world of social justice warriors” yet the entire perspective seems to be from outside the purported SJW world. Or maybe they mean the SJWs have taken over and the news footage represents the inside view. The world of social justice warriors… is out world! Twist ending!
Speaking of titles, what is up with that font combination? MY EYES THEY BURN.
Ninja’d by Kestrel!
Also, “our world” not “out world.” *facepalms*
I sadly don’t have time yet to truly savor this delight, but my favorite moment so far is when Nick Robalik, describes an unidentified man as “disturbing” and “a genuinely frightening man”. Robalik uses both “he” and “him”, so he’s definitely discussing someone he considers an a man and I presume he knows Sarkeeeeesian is a woman. So he’s discussing a random unidentified man in a trailer for a doc about one woman and the viewers have no idea who or what he’s going on about. Well done boys.
They should have considered watching how interviews are professionally filmed before they made Attack of the Awkward Two Shots. j/k I’m going to love every unprofessional misstep in this goofball monstrosity.
Speculation time: What species of small animal left that bite mark on Elam’s hand?
I have more than half assumed that he’s referring to David Futrelle.
@ Ej
I was chatting to a SA friend about Charlze Theron. His take:
“She’s from Benoni cuz. She probably thinks ‘Mad Max’ is a Rom-Com compared to that place”
Re: “based”
It’s actually a reference to freebasing cocaine, i.e., “basing”. He was indeed reclaiming the word (you’re right that some journalists made the “based/debased” pun), there’s just another, even grosser layer to it.
Those tag lines – dilettantes! Unworthies!
Me? Check out the credits I can list, just for myself! All from the last month!
water boiler
failed vegan
licensed driver
pancake flipper
surgery survivor
litterbox scooper
imported tea drinker
good-music enthusiast
bio-active enzyme producer
published internet commenter
children’s bicycle-chain re-installer
reverse-engineer of photosynthesis
newly republished internet commenter
They can’t hold a candle to…
wait!
Candle holder.
Yeah.
Do Gamergaters exist in Sub-Saharan Africa?