With all the trouble and uncertainty in the world today, it’s sort of heartening to remember that there are still a few things that we can count on to remain the same, forever.
Like reactionary doofuses yelling pointlessly about nothing on YouTube for hours on end. And when they’re not yelling about nothing they’re yelling about each other. They’re basically internet versions of free energy machines, able to generate endless drama without any input from the outside world.
The latest bit of drama? Reactionary YouTube blatherer and Sarkeesian-botherer Sargon of Akkad — who is literally just a dude named Carl from Swindon — managed to get himself temporarily banned from Twitter for Tweeting gay porn at some of his fans who just happened to be Nazis.
Which raises the question: if you don’t want Nazi fans, maybe instead of sending them porn you should stop saying so many things that Nazis like to hear in the first place? Also, weren’t you recently bragging about the endorsement you got from the Nazi-esque thugs of the English Defence League?
These are a few of the pertinent questions raised in the following video on the controversy, put together by the artist known as Hbomberguy, an expert if somewhat hyperactive skewerer of self-important YouTube pontificators. (You may recall his classic takedown of The Sarkeesian Effect.)
Anyway, enjoy. It’s a nice respite from watching Trump destroy the world. Also COMULISTS!!!!!!
Some Sort of Username:
Why haven’t I heard the name of this important political comedian before? Presumably he’s something like Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart, mocking those who wield the power of life or death over the rest of us. More power to him! Resist!
What’s that? He… jokes about the vidya games? Ok then.
@EJ
Well, if I must…
https://youtu.be/J19MnKVYHVs
Some of the links need to be updated in the Welcome Package. Links that still go to Manboobz (instead of the updated We Hunted The Mammoth versions of the same articles) go to a mildly NSFW “Domain For Sale” page.
Schnookums, you are awesome. And you have a badass beard.
Sounds like a “godaddy.com” ad….
Also jontron gave an interview over at bitefart.
Have not read it, won’t give them the clicks.
Him being terrible makes me sad, because i was sort of enjoying the gamegrumps playthrpugh of sonic 06. I guess i will just have to play it myself! Then i’ll get less of the jokes i didn’t like, and stay for the terribly broken game.
I have difficulty understanding how tweeting porn results in a suspension, but threats do not?
(I will also abstain from any whtm bbq. Though i will perhaps only stay away from the meat dishes, and enjoy some of the lovely vegetarian recipes people have been sharing!)
Wait. How did we get to Soylent Orange?
In Re: JonTron, I’ve been around the Webbernetz enough to recognize that he was on GameGrumps, which I’ve never watched because “two guys sit on a couch and talk about video games” was old when Penny Arcade started.
The amount of media I have had to abandon because one or more white guys behind it said something hurtful and then doubled down … oh well. My webcomic list is still full of content by white guys.
For those of you plotting what appears to be a recipe based revolution…
Attacking Sarkeesian is an instance of what Michael Mann calls the serengeti strategy.
Mann wrote about it in the context of environmental and health policy (being himself a victim in the context of global warming). But it applies fine for social policy issues as well.
Alan: my cat does not like that song.
She is sitting on the receiver. As soon as I played the video, she shot me a look of WTF.
@ numerobis
Aww, and after Motörhead made so much effort reaching out to the kitty demographic.
Ooh, I needed that. Hbomberguy has advanced permission to marry my daughter (if she would have him).
I finished reading a most excellent book, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. I recommend it highly. Not your typical fantasy, and very much the sort of thing folks here might like.
I’m noticing some parallels between the behaviour of Carlgon here and the broader Republican Party of the United States. They know that the antics of the deplorables leaves them unpopular in the eyes of the broader public now that they’re under the microscope, but at the same time they understand those very deplorables constitute their gravy train. This is why Carlgon is using a counter shitpost as his weapon against his Nazi supporters rather than doing the more obvious thing of going on a stream and actually denouncing them.
Because this is the last thing you will ever hear one of these guys utter: “the SJWs were right all along.” Because the minute he does that, all his followers would abandon him for the next shitposter who regurgitates their hideous opinions back to them. We told him that he was playing to the worst instincts in some of the worst people that inhabit the internet back in the heyday of GamerGate and he did it anyway. But now it’s reaching critical mass and effecting what little credibility he has, so he feels the need to distance himself by whatever means he can within the edgelord paradigm.
Apparently the word “commulism” actually has been used on purpose before, as a neologism meaning “communism fueled by capitalism” (a system like modern China’s).
I doubt that’s what these characters were referring to, though.
If anyone is up for signing a petition calling for access to education for girls and women – apparently the plan is to physically deliver it to national leaders in various countries next International Women’s Day; they have about 1/4 million signatures so far.
http://one.org/letter
Ah, Lemmy. Loved Lemmy.
Ted Nugent, however, can KMA.
Alan: holy shit. An awful summer camp my sister and I were sent to pilfered the intro to “cat scratch fever” to announce that a “practical joke” was about to be played. I had no idea where that riff was from.
A summer camp with practical jokes being played on the little kids at the camp. Worst thing EVER.
@ peevee
Roadie anecdote: I had some dealings with Motörhead’s crew. One item of gear was an effects rack (a flightcase full of stuff like EQ, reverbs, delays and the like). There was one thing I didn’t recognise though. Just a panel with a few LEDs and a single button. It was labeled “SULF-8”.
I was told to press the button. The panel slid out and it was a drawer full of amphetamine. 🙂
I just… can’t understand how people can think that Sargon is good at thinking, other than because he says things that they agree with.
I recently had a discussion* with a bloke who was mad about an article that a black man wrote about that recent incident of the white kid being assaulted by four black kids, essentially pointing out the discrepancy of treatment between black criminals and white criminals. This fellow called it biased trash because the article didn’t decry BLM (despite there being no solid ties between BLM and the incident), and because it didn’t discuss the effect that poverty has on the black community. Because systemic racism isn’t real, only poverty, thus bla bla bla, biased left, etc. It went downhill from there.
Anywho, he linked me a Sargon video as “evidence” of something or other, and it was terrible. It was a dissection of an interview Trevor Noah gave to some racist woman (can’t recall her name), and I had to turn it off after like 5 minutes of strawmen, not understanding how interviews work, and uncharitable interpretations of Trevor Noah’s words. (e.g. Noah said “For someone who isn’t racist, you have to spend a lot of time saying ‘I’m not racist.'” which Sargon took as Noah agreeing that she isn’t racist, rather than basically the opposite which he clearly was implying.)
But this fellow put Sargon (along with Christina Hoff Sommers and Stefan Molyneux lol) in a list of “independent thinkers” that I should try listening to in order to get an objective, rational perspective on things. It only coincidence that all those objective, independent thinkers just happen to support his opinions, right? No need to critical of your ideas when you agree with people you’ve labelled as objective! I actually half-suspect that he was the living embodiment of cognitive bias.
I just told him to watch the Sargon video again, except this time realize that Sargon is an idiot. It didn’t help. :/
*”Discussion” to him was apparently “go on long screeds about any tangentially related opinion at people you disagree with”
@Rhuu
As far as Sonic 06 goes, Restupurae did a pretty good playthrough of it and they’re generally nice boys. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo4M1tlpv9ruMPtP4IqHhLz6DPflyWoY8
Also, streamer/letsplayer TieTuesday had a full playthrough of Sonic 06 as a patreon incentive. Its not uploaded on youtube so I haven’t watched it yet (can’t watch streams with my shiternet) but he’s also one of the good ones and his stuff is usually really good. Plus judging by his tweets and how he’s now apparently mildly obsessed with speedrunning it, he actually had fun playing Sonic 06 (he tends to find the fun side of trash.)
He has the whole raw stream on Twitch right now, but will eventually edit the videos down and post to youtube at some point –
part 1: 7hrs https://www.twitch.tv/videos/116143954
part 2: 10hrs https://www.twitch.tv/videos/116337922
So far they’ve all shown themselves to be genuinely good people, stood on the right side of Gamergate, actively try not to use slurs and make offensive jokes, have apologized and corrected themselves when they did wrong, stood up for friends being harassed by misogynist buttwits, etc, all that good SJW beta-cuckery.
Rhuu:
Porn is sex, sex is bad.
Threats are violence. Violence is fine.
@Alan,
That is a wonderful story. Dem were da days.
Ah, Lemmy. Every time I hear of Motörhead or Lemmy, I have the same reaction: a wistful grin, a rueful shaking of my head, and an “Ah, Lemmy.”
DLouwe, that was Tomi Lahren Noah Trevor was interviewing. And I’ve had many arguments with assholes who think that the awful crime in Chicago was in any way, shape, or form related to BLM because the perps were black.
As an aside, Tomi Lahren never did answer the question Trevor Noah asked: “What IS the correct way for black people to protest?”
I will admit, on a side note, that the things that make Carl upset, and I mean yelling into the microphone/banging the table upset are fascinating and illustrative.
Kristi Winters observed on a recent hangout that one of the things that separates social justice-y YouTubers from their edgelord kin is that a lot of these guys admit to playing some kind of character rather than reflecting genuine views and attitudes. To an extent, the smug delivery gives the game away that they really don’t care that “SJW X did Y”, and they’re just doing it to pander to the 4chan crowd. But every so often, Carl gets a little animated, his “F&^@ING FEMINIST SYSTEM” rant the most obvious example of it.
What seems to really bother him is what bothers a lot of the “rationals”: being confronted with marginalized people and being told the typical ways of interacting with them are problematic. Like hbomberguy said in a previous video: “He doesn’t know, he doesn’t care… and he wants to know and care less.”
So I just noticed #freekekistan trending on twitter. Bunch of 4-chan edgelords mocking persecution by claiming themselves as an oppressed minority, apparently.