That youtuber has a history of using their platform in order to encourage their fans to harass smaller creators. They didn’t delete their account out of fear of harassment. They deleted their account to cover up their grift.

I feel like the peak level of my frustration here was when Contrapoints was rightfully having people point out that her associations with someone like, say, Buck Angel in any capacity felt hurtful, and flippant remarks about nonbinary people also felt hurtful, and while she absolutely did receive vile and over-the-top…

The punisher is hardly a “don’t be a mass murdering, genocidal, psychopath” poster child

Bautista, who vocally proclaims his love for the character, but also talks about the difficulties of the make-up process, wasn’t even asked to participate in a format where he could play the character and not deal with the make-up??!

I recognize the shady history of the term and the reactionaries who have latched on to it, so I would welcome an alternative to describe this specific phenomenon of “abusing people using weaponized faux woke language” for some small slight or perceived sin. I’m talking people claiming they had PTSD triggers because of…

I still remember the dark days when SuperWhoLock was a thing. Preferred those though because at least it was mostly just putting up with their annoying levels of dedication for a commercial product and not whatever we’re doing now is meant to be.

Or at least, ‘fandom that’s inherently insular breeds toxicity the way that a physical community that’s inherently insular breeds xenophobia’.

The one with the fight on top of a spaceship and the screaming totally looks like “What if ‘Kill La Kill’ was a Star Wars” (probably the one produced by studio Trigger)

Yeah, that account stating they were Anne Atomic was replying to me with that and I trust their word on their end. However it doesn’t answer my thoughts on the Kotaku end though because:

I don’t care how she or any streamer chooses to present herself quite frankly, if it’s legal and consenting and allowed on whatever site they do it then it’s all fair game.

it’s pretty obvious it was a joke.

Fuckin’ edit window...

I’m not saying that current issues are equivalent to past stoning or decapitation (an argument I’ve made), but I’d add the following to the “medium” argument: ease and volume.

Yep. Their “outrage” at this comes across amusing to me as I distinctly remember them sending me comment after comment about how I was spreading “fake news” when I criticised Hasan Piker’s evidenced questionable behaviour when it came to women and his uncle’s misogynistic views.

Yeah, but it’s a joke based not only on the whole Scar Jo thing but also on the idea that Anderson doesn’t cast non-white women. But he does. (Not a lot, obviously, but he does.)

I get that. It is weird. I wasn’t bothered so much as baffled by that character. So much of the non-dog dialogue is already subtitled that I don’t see why the movie needed any of the humans to be non-Japanese or to speak English: if you don’t like subtitles, that isn’t your movie.

Is there any independent confirmation of this?

I mean, we’re kind of aligning with a Roman trajectory...

This is where I think nuance is always important and gets loss no matter the political spectrum. People should understand that you can dislike certain aspects of a certain, while also understanding the point its try to make. I.e. I very much doubt that the game itself agrees with a character that it largely recognizes…

These people really be out here carving up the *juciest* red meat for reactionary chuds to point to about the dangers of “cancel culture.” Stop making their work easier, dipshits.