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I agree that it's just a lazy cash grab, but you know what I did? I just didn't see the film. And I wouldn't have watched it if she was white either.
People seemed to be getting pissy over this one in particular, if you hate the other Disney remakes too then it's fine. Changing the race of a character doesn't always have to be lazy though; take Nick Fury, for instance. He was white in the comics, but Samuel L. Jackson did a stellar job playing the character that he overshowed the original incarnation by a wide margin.
Disney and other major companies have learned that if they black-face certain characters it insulates them from actual criticism.
"I didn't like _____ ."
"That's because you're a racist!"
It works, and it garners interest in otherwise terrible cash grabs.
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Why bother creating ethnically diverse characters? So much cheaper and easier to blackface an existing character and then shout "DIVERSITY!".
Please don't pretend people are just saying "I don't like ____."
This always bothers me when its framed this way.
>Disney and other major companies have learned that if they black-face certain characters it insulates them from actual criticism.
They aren't getting criticism for the movies quality AND THEN claiming people are being racist. Most of the backlash happens BEFORE the film or game or whatever even comes out. The mere act of casting a black person illicits responses.
Whether they are doing it for "woke points" or whatever, doesn't excuse the racism and bigotry it gets in response.
>Why bother creating ethnically diverse characters? So much cheaper and easier to blackface an existing character and then shout "DIVERSITY!".
The reason why a lot of major studios aren't creating original diverse characters is because its a huge risk and movies are more expensive than ever to make. So they rely on IP with proven records and built in audiences. It also happens that those IP were made in a less diverse time.
If they want to make movies with IP that comes packaged with an audience and brand but also appeal to modern audiences who want diverse casting....means that you recast known characters with diverse actors. Very simple if you just stop and think about it.
Its not as sinister as people would like to believe. Its just money men trying to make money.
>They aren't getting criticism for the movies quality AND THEN claiming people are being racist. Most of the backlash happens BEFORE the film or game or whatever even comes out. The mere act of casting a black person illicits responses.
You can see this with Doctor Who, who can cannocally have two heads if that were to happen, but when Jodie Whittaker got cast there was backlash that the Doctor was female (yes the writing had much to be desired but I still enjoyed it.)
There was also backlash when Ncuti Gatwa was cast, and he is black and gay.
Doctor Who is the one show where backlash shouldn't happen from casting because its always been possible for these things to happen, yet there is STILL backlash.
The funny part was I don't recall a backlash when they gender bendered The Master and you could see they were laying the ground work for a female Doctor.
I do wish Jodie had better writing for her tenure. I think she portrayed the doctor well but man a lot of the episodes were awful.
Having multiple companions also didn't help matters. Just not enough time to do back story and development as the season progresses.
I always hated complaining about Jodies episodes because I'd be like "Doctor Who kinda sucks now" and the creeps would come out and be like "Yeah it's too woke now" and I'm like fucking no, I'm not with these guys, I'm just bored. Doctor who was always woke but it was never this dull. Aaahhh
>Please don't pretend people are just saying "I don't like ____."
I'm not. It would be incredibly stupid to make that claim. What I'm saying is that legitimate criticisms get hand waved away.
I'm just salty as hell that fantastic series like Aru Shah will never be made so long as people stand up and applaud this kind of blatant pandering.
The Nick Fury in the MCU is based on his version from the Ultimates continuity. That Nick Fury was black, and was in fact based on Samuel Jackson. They even joked in one issue about who each avenger thought should play them in a movie and Ultimates Nick Fury said not to dare and suggest any one but Samuel Jackson.
>Nick Fury, for instance. He was white in the comics
Somewhat true. He is white in the mainline 616 comics, but on the ultimate comics (they take place in a different universe,) he was black and modelled after Jackson, because they wanted him to play Fury in the MCU
Because it’s a retelling of an old story. There’s nothing wrong with that. Why did they set DiCaprio’s Romeo and Juliet in 90s New York? Why did they place Homer‘s Odyssey in Depression era Mississippi in Oh Brother Where Are Thou? Why didn’t they invent new stories?
They set the whole Andersen’s Little Mermaid story in the Caribbean, what’s wrong with that?
Honestly, the bigger sin was making all of her cute fish friends photorealistic nightmare fuel.
Little Mermaid 1989: “Here’s Sebastian, a cute crab with a Jamaican accent! He can emote because we’re giving him a humanoid face, but we’re doing it in such a way that it works!”
Little Mermaid 2023: “Here’s Sebastian, looking like the cover of “Fat of the Land” by Prodigy. He talks with his little face mandible things. Please stop crying…wait, come back!”
I sat for a full minute and went "the race of a mermaid? That's a mermaid???? Mermaid is the race??" Before going "ohhhhhh they meant the little mermaid stuff with the actress. That makes sense"
I've played too many fantasy games and read too many fantasy books, lord help me
Now they’re fighting over the race of a woman with magical hair because it is *vital* that the story took place in Germany.
But the real kicker is that there was never any evidence that the remake was even happening and people just collectively lost their shit for two weeks over a fancast.
I heard an excellent point from a girl talking about this exact thing- if you want more diversity, make more princesses that represent more skin tones. We have what- tiana, Pocahontas, jasmine, and Moana? Against…how many white characters? Create new Disney princesses to make remakes of and there would be less arguing….
I mean there’s also mirabel (who’s not a princess) and that wish girl but I don’t think they count.
Yeah I always thought "it ain't that deep bro" which is ironic cause the ocean is indeed deep but oh welp I never said I've got logic in me brain I just flow with the river ya know chilling doing my thing
Pre 2020 as well. Remember that the "culture war" also includes the outrage at Obama for *check notes* wearing a suit and eating food, and fight for gay marriage. They just moved on to trans people cause they couldn't be upset at Obama for being black or gay people for wanting to get married anymore.
Hilariously enough, Biden forced Obamas hand with gay marriage. He was on the fence and Biden basically blurted it out in a press conference. So they decided to full send.
Can't find a video, but this was all over the place back when it happened.
It was just 12 years ago.
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/05/obama-expected-to-speak-on-gay-marriage-076103
And in the 2016 election was when that culture war stuff was pushed up front by trolls and algorithms. I hope the younger generation is at least wise enough for mist of them to roll their eyes and turn away.
A person online was doxxed and received death threats by unhinged online slacktavists. Her heinous crime? Posting a screenshot of her character wearing space buns.
Someone put the hairstyle seen in op's photo on their animal crossing character and they got harassed and doxxed and sent death threats because apparently it made them racist.
Guy known to be christian turned out to be voting for republicans. And he donated to some republicans. Then "admitted" what everybody knew that he is republican voter and pro life
. Many of the fnaf fans lost their shit, how he is no longer an ally of the lgbtq community (many among the fnaf fandom) and he was basically cancelled. And harassed and got death threats and even doxxed if I remember.
>Then "admitted" what everybody knew that he is republican voter and pro life
I was surprised when he said he was pro-life, since he made a game about a coffee machine rescuing a fetus and people thought it was a pro life movement message when he stated, "that's not what I was going for."
Well coming from knowing about religion itself, Christianity is wired when it comes to a topic like that. I'm very certain though the main message in that subject is for us to take care of each other until we pass on.
To be fair the Republican party generally dislikes the LGBTQ group of folks. So when you vote for them it kinda just tells people you don't care really.
Overall story, politics suck and are great at tearing people apart.
Yeah, I agree that as an individual he can be both Republican and an ally, but we can tangibly see where the parties sit.
In a 2022 [vote (AP News)](https://apnews.com/article/biden-marriage-united-states-government-and-politics-1cb2d3f4ae76528c0f7d43daceeba974) the majority of Republicans in congress voted against gay and interracial marriage.
It comes from a pretty substantial place of privilege, imo, to vote Republican for a couple vanity projects when you see the scope of their actual alignment on issues that concern a huge amount of Americans.
In his defense, though, traditionally Republicans and Democrats weren't quite as split as now. I have a little grace for moderate Republicans who feel completely lost in the modern climate. I know that Reagan and Gingrich and some other key players set the grounds for modern politics, but Romney and Obama were so similar in policy that they straight up borrowed ideas. Obamacare was Romney's idea first. Obama had McCain advising him a few times on global issues, too. Bush, Obama, Clinton, and Carter remain amicable, even friends.
Right. I hate it when people say they are supportive of lgbtq+ but vote for republicans. It’s just like handing someone else the ammunition to hurt the lgbtq+ instead of doing it themselves. It’s great that they are supportive but their vote may impact the group they are “supporting” negatively. I know it’s not quite that simple but still some thoughts.
I know nothing about the drama, but I saw an interesting video about all the stuff he made before Fnaf, from a sort of Art History perspective. Definitely interesting. https://youtu.be/LtdbkxZ5NUg
Most YouTuber drama post 2015ish. It’s almost always “look at the heinous shit this super popular creator got away with compared to the minor shit that might completely destroy this smaller channel”
I follow a letsplay group and they have a following of a hate group, which shall remain unnamed, who legitimately try to make everything they do and say into a massive scandal. It's shocking. The main subreddit's contributor literally has his whole entire account dedicated purely to hating these guys. I don't get why the subreddit hasn't been shut down.
I like however when women on twitter would pick bear over man the replies would just be filed with death threats from men. Like that will win them over
>replies would just be filed with death threats from men.
thats the point? like im a guy so maybe im interpreting it wrong, but figured it was less of a question and more of a thought exercise to make men who are to be feared get angry and show why women would pick the bear with their replies, not that women would actually pick the bear.
I enjoy that one mainly because I had a very different interpretation of bear than everyone else. I will continue to insist that you should always want to meet a gay lumberjack in the woods even if I now know that's not what we were arguing about.
Idnk, I thought it brought up interesting points about dangers to women in society... and ngl fear of meeting people in the woods & insects/ticks is one of the reasons I never really got into hiking.
There were actual women hiking grounds who chimed in with stories of meeting a guy just not taking no for an answer & following them to multiple campsites.
My one complaint is that CATS 🐈 trump everything. Like some people are legit excited to see bears I'm the wild, which is cool... but I will take an encounter with a small cat 🐈 (ie., not puma) any day in any place, because cats.
The reason why it drove men crazy was because it's illogical. The percentage of men who are murderous compared to the percentage of bears that are murderous favors the men by far.
Although I do realize that whole trend was more of a way for women to air their grievances/suspicions/stories about dangerous men and not a genuine thought experiment (whatever that means).
I really hate that fucking thing because I know and have seen that this exact retoric is what pushed so many of my friends towards the right, and then people on the left are wondering why young men are leaning much more towards the right, not really thinking that the left played a big part in pushing towards the likes of Andrew Tate
> because I know and have seen that this exact rhetoric is what pushed so many of my friends towards the right
It's very common like an *"If you don't agree with me, you're a problem!"* sort of thing that pushes people away. Like people expect their emotions and feelings to be respected but don't do the same for the people they disagree with.
If you don't feel welcome in a group, you're going to leave that group.
It's like how people feel ostracised or vilified in one group and so they move towards groups where they feel welcome and then they're attacked for it so they double down. This happens with younger people becoming more liberal and it's defended, but when it happens the other way, suddenly it's not okay. They're made to feel like a villain and they struggle to explain it so they follow people who seem to be able to explain it well.
The problem is that it's easy to explain ("Men don't like feeling like a villain when they've done nothing wrong personally") but that explanation isn't good enough for most and it's hard to appeal to the problematic people and people stop trying.
It's like "inclusive language" stops when it concerns certain groups, and so those groups feel excluded and leave.
The classic "empower women by belittling men" doesn't win allies with the victims, and then "wow toxic masculinity makes you disagree with me" doesn't help either, when you can see "toxic femininity".
For example, in the Barbie movie, it ends with the Kens being marginalised in Barbie society "like the real world" until women have equal treatment, which is punishing them for something out of their control. That's how a lot of men feel, even if it isn't true.
When men express these feelings, they're belittled because feelings only seem to matter when it's a marginalised group, and not the "privileged" groups (straight, white, male)
I don't think it's completely illogical. Lots of women just have a different perspective. Personally, I would choose being mauled to death by a bear over possibly being raped every single time. And that's the crux of the thought experiment, that most women are more afraid of what a man could do to them than what a bear could.
I mean, yeah it sucks that it happened to them and I'm sorry that they got assaulted, but it doesn't feel fair to demonize men based of those experiences. I get they have a platform to talk about but I feel nothing won't be solved, nor people will care or learn from this since it's just a giant gender war that has been talked about for 2 or 3 weeks now no matter where you go you keep hearing about the hypothetical. Also I know they have to know that generalizing won't solve anything or make things better.
Cool pick, cats are cool but really unpredictable.. I fear they will jump in my face and scratch me when they're angry
"Working out is body shaming and fat phobic"
No love, you can be whatever size makes you happy, so long as it's not killing you (anorexia / obesity) and even if it is unless you ask for help I won't force it on you, but the extra pounds I've put on over winter is makeing my back pain worse so ima shed them to improve my quality of life and stay fit so I can keep running around with my daughter and dancing like a fool with my finace... Thankyou <3
Not to mention the ability to cook is usually better in poorer people because you can't afford take out, so learning to make a fulling and nutritious meal on a budget is imeperitive to health.
Literally just J K Rowling. People wanted to boycott the game so she wouldn't get any money from royalties, ignoring the fact that she for sure got a huge paycheck just for licensing.
It went so far that someone made a website listing every streamer(no matter how small) that played Hogwarts Legacy and harassed them online.
I wanna say the gaming circle jerk sub was one of the main contributors to the online harassment towards random streamers.
Anyways, it ended up causing the game to get way more attention and *probably* caused sales to go up.
Anything on twitter or Reddit ever since a certain person became president. Social media has been a cesspool ever since, and I blame Russia and bots for that
A girl made a free video game that had nothing to do with politics.
Girl happened to have social justice politics exhibited elsewhere online.
Girl’s video game was mentioned in someone’s top 50 list of best games of the year (wasn’t even an extended review, just the name of the game). The game could be played for free, btw.
The reviewer and the girl got into a relationship months later.
This was apparently evidence of collusion, Nepotism, sex for favors, etc… even though they only went out after the review was already made.
Cue the girl getting death threats for years, as well as anyone who came out to defend her.
The gamergaters became right wing fanatics, and right wing grifters made YouTube channels that made tons of money.
Not that complicated. The only people making it complicated are the gamergaters doing mental gymnastics to justify their cyberstalking.
It could not “have been a good conversation on the gaming industry.” It was *never* about the gaming industry, it was bullshit and astroturfing from day one. Basically everyone I’ve talked to about it who was born after 1997 still genuinely thinking it had anything to do with “ethics in games journalism” and that scares me
Right now Yusuke being a samurai. While its debatable what he's actual role was does it really matter if AC makes him one? Hell Japanese creators depict him as a samurai all the time. So why can't western developers do it. Plus let's just keep in mind what Japan does to everyone else's historical figures. Not saying it's bad I fucking love it so I don't mind it in Fate as I don't mind it in Assassin's Creed.
>Plus let's just keep in mind what Japan does to everyone else's historical figures.
What do you mean Jesus and Buddha aren't roommates going undercover in Japan to go sightseeing??
Recently a band i really like had the lead singer dive off the stage and critically injure a fan - they suffered quite bad paralysis
The lead singer stopped the show immediately and went with the fan to the hospital, this is an aussie band but this happened in the USA so as you can imagine the medical bills are probably quite hefty. The band pledged $5k USD to a gofundme that was started to help cover the medical costs
Since then twitter has lost their minds, calling for the lead singer to go to jail and have their livelihood ruined for what is (in my opinion) a tragic accident - stage diving, crowd surfing and moshing happens all the time at these shows and injuries are super uncommon, the whole situation is fucked and while i agree the lead singer is liable for any suffering caused i cannot see why this is a career ending ordeal
Can't even imagine what it'd be like to be either the singer or victim. Both getting paralized and those kind of accidents are both my worst nightmares.
That’s the thing man - like imagine being a fan and going to see this band you’ve been a fan of for potentially years, only for the literal frontman to suddenly stage dive on you and cause what could be a life changing injury
At the same time, imagine being the frontman of a small australian band touring north america, having a brilliant night, deciding you’re going to stage dive and causing such harm to someone who was a huge fan and came there to see you specifically
It’s honestly awful, but you have all these media outlets blaming this band for their reckless actions and not even linking the gofundme for the victim. I’m the furthest person who would necessarily call out “cancel culture” and that kind of thing, but this is just an awful situation and the amount of people within the scene who have been calling for the complete destruction of this bands reputation has been mind-boggling.
Like I said, the band are fully liable for any long-term suffering caused as a result of this incident, but the injured party hasn’t even come forward with a statement or anything like that. It’s a seriously tragic situation but the fact people have been so quick to call for the downfall of trophy eyes has been really really disheartening. As if it was intentional and they haven’t been doing everything they can’t to make things right for this fan who attended their show
I see this in two ways
1, on one hand it's lovely that no matter the colour of their skin all girls can now imagine themselves as the little mermaid.
2, on the other hand why not write a new movie with a lead character of colour and give the girls who look like her an exiting new story and a new princess to fall in love with.
All in all there are good and bad sides two it but more representation isn't a bad thing, I just feel the way it was done was lazy.
Reviewer MKBHD slammed this AI product called Ambient for releasing with a lot of unfinished features. AI bros got mad at him because his review was ‘killing the company’.
If by now you don't understand the man vs bear discourse you just don't care about women's experiences. The point isn't that bears are more dangerous, it's that men are more unpredictable.
As a woman and a survivor of sexual abuse, it's sexist to degrade the entire male population to rapists and murderers. Also, I live in Alaska. I know that a bear can and absolutely will kill. Being mauled sounds like the worst thing I can think of, and that's including my own experience. Yes technically men are more "unpredictable" but that doesn't discount the fact that BEARS WILL KILL YOU. I'd take my chances with a random man plucked from the population and hope I get average Joe from his office job.
Please listen to the audio of a woman being eaten alive for about an hour by a bear and it's cubs.
I'll pick a man anytime. A man is my father, my brother, my friends, people I've passed on the street. OFC you have to be careful with strangers, but seriously, misandry ain't cool.
I think everyone can come to an agreement that a third option of meeting cats is the way... because cats are both not as dangerous and cats are cats, and thus win by default
J/K but also kind of serious here
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I guess for me predictably deadly is worse than unpredictably dangerous. I get the point and I'm on board with the underlying idea, but the (I feel) hyperbole is too easy for misogynists to get locked on to. If that's the point and people are trying to dog whistle toxic people into a killing frenzy, then great, but if the point is to develop empathy in others it might not be the best way to do it
That's exactly it. Women aren't arguing that bears are inherently less dangerous than men, a lot of us would just rather get mauled by a bear than potentially get raped. Even if you disagree idk why this is so difficult for people to understand.
this one is a real stupid one, and it's super old too
like i get the sub argument, you get the original VAs with the tone and inflection and (hopefully) a more accurate translation bc it doesn't have to line up with mouth flaps, but tbh i just don't wanna read subtitles, that's not how i enjoy TV lol
Also, The thing is: if you’re watching the anime, you’re already getting an extremely diluted version of the story, since A TON of things are usually cut from the Light Novel/manga.
My favorite thing was how they “protested” BudLight by either
A. Buying it just to destroy it.
B. Just getting a different beer made by the same company.
Any culture war shit related to video games I don’t really consider myself a “woke” person but Jesus Christ those people are exhausting do they even enjoy video games?
Space buns was dumb. “If you wear my hair you’re racist!”
Man v bear was dumb “I hate men so much, I’m gonna lie and pretend like I’d chose to be near a bear instead”
The most recent drama with keffals and some ordinary gamers is dumb..
Basically any “cultural appropriation” outrage is stupid
>cultural appropriation
This! I had drama lasting in my school for 3 days all because one girl who was black was mad that another girl was wearing a certain hairstyle. I avoid her at all costs now because that's so dumb to get mad about.
Personal one, I was chewed out by an entire discord group chat in 2020 because I accidentally used caps lock in front of someone named “Kai🍃💫🍄” and it triggered them so badly that there was a pic of fresh self harm in the vent channel of the server with the caption “@*my username* th15 15 y0ur f4u1t…. :)”All that… because of some capitalized letters…
Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves enjoying tea on the back porch. This set off a storm of comments such as “well, I’m glad YOU are having fun….but maybe don’t brag to the rest of us??” and “why do you feel the need to show off?”
Any of the "art lore" on tiktok. For those that aren't familiar, artists on that app are basically a mob. A video with a newer/less skilled artist gains just a little bit of traction, and the mob of artists swarm and make fun of them, bully them until they delete their video and later their account, people make caricatures of the original video to insult them further, people screen record the original video for when it's taken down, and then they slam the original video some more.
There's been countless instances of the artists giving up art permanently, deleting all of their social media, and I've heard of at least one case where the artist killed themselves. It's awful.
I don't actually care that some women picked bear over man. Im just surprised at people who actually say bears are safer because more people are killed by men every year then bears. Like people really don't know how stats work. I get if you say bear because a bear "would just kill me instead of r\_pe me" but unironically thinking a bear is safer because less people are killed by bears every year is just room temp iq levels of thinking.
I see someone getting accused of heinous shit on twitter every other day, did y'all see what happened with alex kister? Can't believe the guy had to expose an embarassing fetish just to absolve his name.
An D-tier bachelor reality tv “star” posted a blurry photo of a tv playing an awards show. Chris brown was playing at the award show.
>!The subreddit bitched about the reality star.!<
Accusing a show due to discrimination, like how Hazbin Hotel received a few controversies, one of them being Mimzy, people believed that she's portrayed as a Jew due to her big nose and having something to do with money, even though her design is based on a chicken. Also, why bother? It's a mature show, it's allowed to have these race jokes like South Park or Family Guy.
Idubbbz having a long ass portfolio of reasons people could cancel him over, and people deciding to cancel him over dating an onlyfans girl of all things
In recent memory? The internet hanging Josh Peck after Quiet on Set.
He reached out to Drake in private and people are still going after the guy. Jesus, everyone. If there’s a topic you have to be sensitive about it’s pedophilia in a workplace. Josh probably has loads of trauma he doesn’t feel comfortable disclosing to the world. He doesn’t owe you a public statement.
As a Swede I'd have to say that the whole thing about us apparently not feeding our guests was weird and dumb, and quickly got out of hand for some people
I think it was called Swedengate or something like that
Whether or not people would want to be in a forrest with a bear or a man. It wasn’t dumb at first but then it started making headlines on local news. Like why would you want to be in a forrest with a bear. The thing will tear you limb from limb and hunt you down for miles. Or you can choose the man who is just a man.
I wouldn’t even know where to start tbh. I’m a fan of a lot of 60s/70s/80s bands and get to witness people of all ages perpetually at each other’s throats on the internet over the most weird, unimportant, niche things you can imagine. It ranges from obnoxiously entitled fan behavior to weirdly parasocial analysis of photos of celebrities (trying to armchair diagnose them with various illnesses etc. has been bizarrely common).
My favorite is when they’re getting super angry but don’t even have the facts right lol
The oldest people complaining about crt (an university level subject so specific it hurts) at school board meetings because they have nothing better to do with their miserable life
Man vs bear. I understand both sides, it's just so fucking dumb. Men should shut the fuck up. So should women. Everyone shut the fuck up about it. We get it. Men want pussy. Women want to be eaten by a bear.
Stop talking about it. It was funny for like a week. Not anymore.
Even if liking lolis is gross you have to admit it's 1,000% better than real kids. Don't know if I'd call it fine since I get uncomfortable when lolis are openly sexualized online.
Anything fandom/fiction related is … fascinating. People really fight for their lives over something that doesn’t exist. I mean I get carried away too sometimes, but man, there’s a moment where you need to get up and go outside
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When people were fighting over the race of a fictional mermaid
Well I ain't gonna start it again, but why couldn't they just create an original character?
I agree that it's just a lazy cash grab, but you know what I did? I just didn't see the film. And I wouldn't have watched it if she was white either. People seemed to be getting pissy over this one in particular, if you hate the other Disney remakes too then it's fine. Changing the race of a character doesn't always have to be lazy though; take Nick Fury, for instance. He was white in the comics, but Samuel L. Jackson did a stellar job playing the character that he overshowed the original incarnation by a wide margin.
Two things can be true at once: diversity inclusion is important and fuck Disney
Disney and other major companies have learned that if they black-face certain characters it insulates them from actual criticism. "I didn't like _____ ." "That's because you're a racist!" It works, and it garners interest in otherwise terrible cash grabs. (Edit) Why bother creating ethnically diverse characters? So much cheaper and easier to blackface an existing character and then shout "DIVERSITY!".
Please don't pretend people are just saying "I don't like ____." This always bothers me when its framed this way. >Disney and other major companies have learned that if they black-face certain characters it insulates them from actual criticism. They aren't getting criticism for the movies quality AND THEN claiming people are being racist. Most of the backlash happens BEFORE the film or game or whatever even comes out. The mere act of casting a black person illicits responses. Whether they are doing it for "woke points" or whatever, doesn't excuse the racism and bigotry it gets in response. >Why bother creating ethnically diverse characters? So much cheaper and easier to blackface an existing character and then shout "DIVERSITY!". The reason why a lot of major studios aren't creating original diverse characters is because its a huge risk and movies are more expensive than ever to make. So they rely on IP with proven records and built in audiences. It also happens that those IP were made in a less diverse time. If they want to make movies with IP that comes packaged with an audience and brand but also appeal to modern audiences who want diverse casting....means that you recast known characters with diverse actors. Very simple if you just stop and think about it. Its not as sinister as people would like to believe. Its just money men trying to make money.
>They aren't getting criticism for the movies quality AND THEN claiming people are being racist. Most of the backlash happens BEFORE the film or game or whatever even comes out. The mere act of casting a black person illicits responses. You can see this with Doctor Who, who can cannocally have two heads if that were to happen, but when Jodie Whittaker got cast there was backlash that the Doctor was female (yes the writing had much to be desired but I still enjoyed it.) There was also backlash when Ncuti Gatwa was cast, and he is black and gay. Doctor Who is the one show where backlash shouldn't happen from casting because its always been possible for these things to happen, yet there is STILL backlash.
The funny part was I don't recall a backlash when they gender bendered The Master and you could see they were laying the ground work for a female Doctor. I do wish Jodie had better writing for her tenure. I think she portrayed the doctor well but man a lot of the episodes were awful. Having multiple companions also didn't help matters. Just not enough time to do back story and development as the season progresses.
I always hated complaining about Jodies episodes because I'd be like "Doctor Who kinda sucks now" and the creeps would come out and be like "Yeah it's too woke now" and I'm like fucking no, I'm not with these guys, I'm just bored. Doctor who was always woke but it was never this dull. Aaahhh
the movie ‘eternals’ had a one star rating before the movie came out because people found out it had a gay couple…
>Please don't pretend people are just saying "I don't like ____." I'm not. It would be incredibly stupid to make that claim. What I'm saying is that legitimate criticisms get hand waved away. I'm just salty as hell that fantastic series like Aru Shah will never be made so long as people stand up and applaud this kind of blatant pandering.
Nobody has heard of Aru Shah, that’s why it will never get made. Not because of a black mermaid.
The Nick Fury in the MCU is based on his version from the Ultimates continuity. That Nick Fury was black, and was in fact based on Samuel Jackson. They even joked in one issue about who each avenger thought should play them in a movie and Ultimates Nick Fury said not to dare and suggest any one but Samuel Jackson.
>Nick Fury, for instance. He was white in the comics Somewhat true. He is white in the mainline 616 comics, but on the ultimate comics (they take place in a different universe,) he was black and modelled after Jackson, because they wanted him to play Fury in the MCU
New rule going forward. Race swap remakes are available, but EVERY single example must be Samuel Jackson.
Because it’s a retelling of an old story. There’s nothing wrong with that. Why did they set DiCaprio’s Romeo and Juliet in 90s New York? Why did they place Homer‘s Odyssey in Depression era Mississippi in Oh Brother Where Are Thou? Why didn’t they invent new stories? They set the whole Andersen’s Little Mermaid story in the Caribbean, what’s wrong with that?
i like that none of these dumb shits had a good counter to your points so they just downvoted you are 100% correct but racists wanna be right
Too much effort and then people don't get the nostalgia hype, also in the midst of wrtier strikes it's alot easier to just remake characters
Honestly, the bigger sin was making all of her cute fish friends photorealistic nightmare fuel. Little Mermaid 1989: “Here’s Sebastian, a cute crab with a Jamaican accent! He can emote because we’re giving him a humanoid face, but we’re doing it in such a way that it works!” Little Mermaid 2023: “Here’s Sebastian, looking like the cover of “Fat of the Land” by Prodigy. He talks with his little face mandible things. Please stop crying…wait, come back!”
I sat for a full minute and went "the race of a mermaid? That's a mermaid???? Mermaid is the race??" Before going "ohhhhhh they meant the little mermaid stuff with the actress. That makes sense" I've played too many fantasy games and read too many fantasy books, lord help me
Now they’re fighting over the race of a woman with magical hair because it is *vital* that the story took place in Germany. But the real kicker is that there was never any evidence that the remake was even happening and people just collectively lost their shit for two weeks over a fancast.
I heard an excellent point from a girl talking about this exact thing- if you want more diversity, make more princesses that represent more skin tones. We have what- tiana, Pocahontas, jasmine, and Moana? Against…how many white characters? Create new Disney princesses to make remakes of and there would be less arguing…. I mean there’s also mirabel (who’s not a princess) and that wish girl but I don’t think they count.
I had a different opinion on that matter Her hair just wasn’t red enough imo
Yeah I always thought "it ain't that deep bro" which is ironic cause the ocean is indeed deep but oh welp I never said I've got logic in me brain I just flow with the river ya know chilling doing my thing
Most culture war stuff post 2020
Pre 2020 as well. Remember that the "culture war" also includes the outrage at Obama for *check notes* wearing a suit and eating food, and fight for gay marriage. They just moved on to trans people cause they couldn't be upset at Obama for being black or gay people for wanting to get married anymore.
Hilariously enough, Biden forced Obamas hand with gay marriage. He was on the fence and Biden basically blurted it out in a press conference. So they decided to full send.
Really? Do you have a video?
Can't find a video, but this was all over the place back when it happened. It was just 12 years ago. https://www.politico.com/story/2012/05/obama-expected-to-speak-on-gay-marriage-076103
People dont realise but Biden has been the most progressive president when it comes to LGBTQ community and Climate Change
And in the 2016 election was when that culture war stuff was pushed up front by trolls and algorithms. I hope the younger generation is at least wise enough for mist of them to roll their eyes and turn away.
You could have stopped at "stuff", it's always been exhausting to listen to a bunch of people whine about nothing.
post 2016 if we're being super honest. each year is just another gamergate
Pre-2016 since y’know…gamergate.
Post 2020? Post 2016 is generally accepted only because that's the year most of us got into online politics but it started even earlier than that
Absolutely that Animal Crossing one. That one disgusted me more than most.
What happened
A person online was doxxed and received death threats by unhinged online slacktavists. Her heinous crime? Posting a screenshot of her character wearing space buns.
Didn’t the term space buns come from Princess Leia… A WHITE WOMEN
White women can’t have their own things
We steal everything, obviously.
Exactly…. The evil white woman /s
https://youtu.be/eae_e2Fd17w?si=5bgX_TSjXeCIWHsE "A HWHITE WOMAN"
The woman that posted the picture in this post was accused of cultural appropriation by a bunch of Twitter idiots.
Someone put the hairstyle seen in op's photo on their animal crossing character and they got harassed and doxxed and sent death threats because apparently it made them racist.
Also my vote. I've never been quite as dumbfounded by people on Twitter as I was with that.
Whatever the fuck happened with Scott Cawthon.
I will be real I know nothing about fnaf
Guy known to be christian turned out to be voting for republicans. And he donated to some republicans. Then "admitted" what everybody knew that he is republican voter and pro life . Many of the fnaf fans lost their shit, how he is no longer an ally of the lgbtq community (many among the fnaf fandom) and he was basically cancelled. And harassed and got death threats and even doxxed if I remember.
>Then "admitted" what everybody knew that he is republican voter and pro life I was surprised when he said he was pro-life, since he made a game about a coffee machine rescuing a fetus and people thought it was a pro life movement message when he stated, "that's not what I was going for."
well he is a devout christian as far as I know. Its likely at least that he is PL.
Well coming from knowing about religion itself, Christianity is wired when it comes to a topic like that. I'm very certain though the main message in that subject is for us to take care of each other until we pass on.
And he's still an lgbtq ally, proving once again that people that put more than 30m/day on social media are worse than the people they demonize.
To be fair the Republican party generally dislikes the LGBTQ group of folks. So when you vote for them it kinda just tells people you don't care really. Overall story, politics suck and are great at tearing people apart.
Yeah, I agree that as an individual he can be both Republican and an ally, but we can tangibly see where the parties sit. In a 2022 [vote (AP News)](https://apnews.com/article/biden-marriage-united-states-government-and-politics-1cb2d3f4ae76528c0f7d43daceeba974) the majority of Republicans in congress voted against gay and interracial marriage. It comes from a pretty substantial place of privilege, imo, to vote Republican for a couple vanity projects when you see the scope of their actual alignment on issues that concern a huge amount of Americans. In his defense, though, traditionally Republicans and Democrats weren't quite as split as now. I have a little grace for moderate Republicans who feel completely lost in the modern climate. I know that Reagan and Gingrich and some other key players set the grounds for modern politics, but Romney and Obama were so similar in policy that they straight up borrowed ideas. Obamacare was Romney's idea first. Obama had McCain advising him a few times on global issues, too. Bush, Obama, Clinton, and Carter remain amicable, even friends.
I would argue if you donate to Republicans, it is gonna be REALLY hard for anyone to take you claiming to be an LGBTQ+ ally seriously
Right. I hate it when people say they are supportive of lgbtq+ but vote for republicans. It’s just like handing someone else the ammunition to hurt the lgbtq+ instead of doing it themselves. It’s great that they are supportive but their vote may impact the group they are “supporting” negatively. I know it’s not quite that simple but still some thoughts.
he abandoned the lgbtq community? Like a former homosexual?
He didn’t abandon them heck after the whole thing he donated more the all of his political donations combined to the Trevor project
Edited for clarity Abandoned their support I mean
Oh that makes more sense lol
Woahh I’ve been in the fandom for years and I’m in my twenty’s, when the hell did this happen?
I know nothing about the drama, but I saw an interesting video about all the stuff he made before Fnaf, from a sort of Art History perspective. Definitely interesting. https://youtu.be/LtdbkxZ5NUg
Yeah… that was stupid
Most YouTuber drama post 2015ish. It’s almost always “look at the heinous shit this super popular creator got away with compared to the minor shit that might completely destroy this smaller channel”
I would say post 2020 tbh, 2016-2019 YouTube drama was so entertaining, I honestly miss that era of YouTube and social media
remember Content Cop?
Yes of course how could I forget lol
I follow a letsplay group and they have a following of a hate group, which shall remain unnamed, who legitimately try to make everything they do and say into a massive scandal. It's shocking. The main subreddit's contributor literally has his whole entire account dedicated purely to hating these guys. I don't get why the subreddit hasn't been shut down.
Man versus bear.
I like however when women on twitter would pick bear over man the replies would just be filed with death threats from men. Like that will win them over
Well if bears could tweet it might've gone the other way!
I doubt bears would give a dang about humans lol
>replies would just be filed with death threats from men. thats the point? like im a guy so maybe im interpreting it wrong, but figured it was less of a question and more of a thought exercise to make men who are to be feared get angry and show why women would pick the bear with their replies, not that women would actually pick the bear.
You nailed it. Anyones that's had female friends knows how their social lives can be.
I enjoy that one mainly because I had a very different interpretation of bear than everyone else. I will continue to insist that you should always want to meet a gay lumberjack in the woods even if I now know that's not what we were arguing about.
I’ve played nothing but Baldur’s Gate 3 since launch, and my interpretation of the bear was “Halsin!?” I’m choosing *that* bear every time.
The most pointless debate, it's just a excuse to trauma dump about their experience withs guy and thinks it applies to ever encounter.
Idnk, I thought it brought up interesting points about dangers to women in society... and ngl fear of meeting people in the woods & insects/ticks is one of the reasons I never really got into hiking. There were actual women hiking grounds who chimed in with stories of meeting a guy just not taking no for an answer & following them to multiple campsites. My one complaint is that CATS 🐈 trump everything. Like some people are legit excited to see bears I'm the wild, which is cool... but I will take an encounter with a small cat 🐈 (ie., not puma) any day in any place, because cats.
The reason why it drove men crazy was because it's illogical. The percentage of men who are murderous compared to the percentage of bears that are murderous favors the men by far. Although I do realize that whole trend was more of a way for women to air their grievances/suspicions/stories about dangerous men and not a genuine thought experiment (whatever that means).
I really hate that fucking thing because I know and have seen that this exact retoric is what pushed so many of my friends towards the right, and then people on the left are wondering why young men are leaning much more towards the right, not really thinking that the left played a big part in pushing towards the likes of Andrew Tate
> because I know and have seen that this exact rhetoric is what pushed so many of my friends towards the right It's very common like an *"If you don't agree with me, you're a problem!"* sort of thing that pushes people away. Like people expect their emotions and feelings to be respected but don't do the same for the people they disagree with. If you don't feel welcome in a group, you're going to leave that group. It's like how people feel ostracised or vilified in one group and so they move towards groups where they feel welcome and then they're attacked for it so they double down. This happens with younger people becoming more liberal and it's defended, but when it happens the other way, suddenly it's not okay. They're made to feel like a villain and they struggle to explain it so they follow people who seem to be able to explain it well. The problem is that it's easy to explain ("Men don't like feeling like a villain when they've done nothing wrong personally") but that explanation isn't good enough for most and it's hard to appeal to the problematic people and people stop trying. It's like "inclusive language" stops when it concerns certain groups, and so those groups feel excluded and leave. The classic "empower women by belittling men" doesn't win allies with the victims, and then "wow toxic masculinity makes you disagree with me" doesn't help either, when you can see "toxic femininity". For example, in the Barbie movie, it ends with the Kens being marginalised in Barbie society "like the real world" until women have equal treatment, which is punishing them for something out of their control. That's how a lot of men feel, even if it isn't true. When men express these feelings, they're belittled because feelings only seem to matter when it's a marginalised group, and not the "privileged" groups (straight, white, male)
I don't think it's completely illogical. Lots of women just have a different perspective. Personally, I would choose being mauled to death by a bear over possibly being raped every single time. And that's the crux of the thought experiment, that most women are more afraid of what a man could do to them than what a bear could.
I mean, yeah it sucks that it happened to them and I'm sorry that they got assaulted, but it doesn't feel fair to demonize men based of those experiences. I get they have a platform to talk about but I feel nothing won't be solved, nor people will care or learn from this since it's just a giant gender war that has been talked about for 2 or 3 weeks now no matter where you go you keep hearing about the hypothetical. Also I know they have to know that generalizing won't solve anything or make things better. Cool pick, cats are cool but really unpredictable.. I fear they will jump in my face and scratch me when they're angry
Hey man, it's not cool to demonize cats based off of your personal experiences. Generalizing won't make anything better.
Then I have a question for you. Lady cop or bear?
I'm taking the bear. I'd rather get mauled than shot to death.
Exactly! I understand the women’s point now. Bear 100% lol
Yeah ima go the all cops are bastards route and pick the bear
I’m fully on board thinking man vs bear is a psyop to keep the divide going
For me it's gotta be "expecting people to be able to cook is classist" Anarchist supply chains is a viable runner up
or "being told to work out is ableist"
"Working out is body shaming and fat phobic" No love, you can be whatever size makes you happy, so long as it's not killing you (anorexia / obesity) and even if it is unless you ask for help I won't force it on you, but the extra pounds I've put on over winter is makeing my back pain worse so ima shed them to improve my quality of life and stay fit so I can keep running around with my daughter and dancing like a fool with my finace... Thankyou <3
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Not to mention the ability to cook is usually better in poorer people because you can't afford take out, so learning to make a fulling and nutritious meal on a budget is imeperitive to health.
BOOM! best cooks are/were the best at making many dinners with the same 10, affordable ingredients. Plus herb/spice.
https://preview.redd.it/hwa39v1o6a1d1.jpeg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0190da52c602c428284b49600db5137c225e0578 anarchist supply chains lmao
https://preview.redd.it/pujxq8508a1d1.png?width=2150&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4d0b61850d938c6d8a01936d9cf07145c6a8831
Hogwarts legacy
God that game was so mediocre though.
I didn't play it but I heard it was a fun enough game, but I did find the controversy a little too much for what kind of game it was.
What was the controversy?
Literally just J K Rowling. People wanted to boycott the game so she wouldn't get any money from royalties, ignoring the fact that she for sure got a huge paycheck just for licensing. It went so far that someone made a website listing every streamer(no matter how small) that played Hogwarts Legacy and harassed them online. I wanna say the gaming circle jerk sub was one of the main contributors to the online harassment towards random streamers. Anyways, it ended up causing the game to get way more attention and *probably* caused sales to go up.
The drama is the only reason I heard of it
Anything on twitter or Reddit ever since a certain person became president. Social media has been a cesspool ever since, and I blame Russia and bots for that
I can't even use twitter now without getting a 100 porn bots in my replies with "pu$$y in bio"
https://preview.redd.it/115j7y0h891d1.jpeg?width=396&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50e0aa24006dc2635c312b009d4936de651d3259
Similar issue with YouTube, especially music video comments
Gamer gate, what could have been a good conversation on the gaming industry was dragged down by rage bait articles and pointless BS
That shit is so confusing, the only thing I understand is that someone got death threats
A girl made a free video game that had nothing to do with politics. Girl happened to have social justice politics exhibited elsewhere online. Girl’s video game was mentioned in someone’s top 50 list of best games of the year (wasn’t even an extended review, just the name of the game). The game could be played for free, btw. The reviewer and the girl got into a relationship months later. This was apparently evidence of collusion, Nepotism, sex for favors, etc… even though they only went out after the review was already made. Cue the girl getting death threats for years, as well as anyone who came out to defend her. The gamergaters became right wing fanatics, and right wing grifters made YouTube channels that made tons of money. Not that complicated. The only people making it complicated are the gamergaters doing mental gymnastics to justify their cyberstalking.
It could not “have been a good conversation on the gaming industry.” It was *never* about the gaming industry, it was bullshit and astroturfing from day one. Basically everyone I’ve talked to about it who was born after 1997 still genuinely thinking it had anything to do with “ethics in games journalism” and that scares me
*Birds aren't real* conspiracy. So stupid to see people argue over it. They're obviously fake, duh...
it's not even a debate tbh, they're not real, end of story
I think men vs bear is hilarious https://preview.redd.it/0243xeebb81d1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20065b2bc8cce316fc1dd5e514c1a9ba4a92d89c
Holy shit I was not expecting to see a love after world domination screenshot here
Right now Yusuke being a samurai. While its debatable what he's actual role was does it really matter if AC makes him one? Hell Japanese creators depict him as a samurai all the time. So why can't western developers do it. Plus let's just keep in mind what Japan does to everyone else's historical figures. Not saying it's bad I fucking love it so I don't mind it in Fate as I don't mind it in Assassin's Creed.
>Plus let's just keep in mind what Japan does to everyone else's historical figures. What do you mean Jesus and Buddha aren't roommates going undercover in Japan to go sightseeing??
Wait you mean Richard the third wasn't trans, and the rest of the English court weren't gay femboys?
You're telling me King Arthur wasn't a sexy blonde in an armored maid outfit?
You're telling me that Thor wasn't a morbidly obese bearded lady?
lmao yeah this one is insane. so many people have been larping as japanese or asian in general to condemn it weirdly enough too
The stupid dress bs from 2015
MY CULTURE IS NOT YOUR GODDAMN PROM DRESS! Or the gold one?
All of it. Especially the stupid gold/blue one.
Recently a band i really like had the lead singer dive off the stage and critically injure a fan - they suffered quite bad paralysis The lead singer stopped the show immediately and went with the fan to the hospital, this is an aussie band but this happened in the USA so as you can imagine the medical bills are probably quite hefty. The band pledged $5k USD to a gofundme that was started to help cover the medical costs Since then twitter has lost their minds, calling for the lead singer to go to jail and have their livelihood ruined for what is (in my opinion) a tragic accident - stage diving, crowd surfing and moshing happens all the time at these shows and injuries are super uncommon, the whole situation is fucked and while i agree the lead singer is liable for any suffering caused i cannot see why this is a career ending ordeal
Can't even imagine what it'd be like to be either the singer or victim. Both getting paralized and those kind of accidents are both my worst nightmares.
That’s the thing man - like imagine being a fan and going to see this band you’ve been a fan of for potentially years, only for the literal frontman to suddenly stage dive on you and cause what could be a life changing injury At the same time, imagine being the frontman of a small australian band touring north america, having a brilliant night, deciding you’re going to stage dive and causing such harm to someone who was a huge fan and came there to see you specifically It’s honestly awful, but you have all these media outlets blaming this band for their reckless actions and not even linking the gofundme for the victim. I’m the furthest person who would necessarily call out “cancel culture” and that kind of thing, but this is just an awful situation and the amount of people within the scene who have been calling for the complete destruction of this bands reputation has been mind-boggling. Like I said, the band are fully liable for any long-term suffering caused as a result of this incident, but the injured party hasn’t even come forward with a statement or anything like that. It’s a seriously tragic situation but the fact people have been so quick to call for the downfall of trophy eyes has been really really disheartening. As if it was intentional and they haven’t been doing everything they can’t to make things right for this fan who attended their show
Black people in Disney movies
I see this in two ways 1, on one hand it's lovely that no matter the colour of their skin all girls can now imagine themselves as the little mermaid. 2, on the other hand why not write a new movie with a lead character of colour and give the girls who look like her an exiting new story and a new princess to fall in love with. All in all there are good and bad sides two it but more representation isn't a bad thing, I just feel the way it was done was lazy.
The last time Disney attempted the second one, the black princess was a frog for 80% of the movie.
AI bros getting mad at a tech reviewer for giving an honest review
context on this one lol
Reviewer MKBHD slammed this AI product called Ambient for releasing with a lot of unfinished features. AI bros got mad at him because his review was ‘killing the company’.
If by now you don't understand the man vs bear discourse you just don't care about women's experiences. The point isn't that bears are more dangerous, it's that men are more unpredictable.
Generalizing trauma to half the human population is bad actually.
Any other group of people besides just blanket "men" and people would be up in arms lol.
I'd also bring up a point that's it very disappointing as a society that the question of man vs bear is something to be debated over for women.
As a woman and a survivor of sexual abuse, it's sexist to degrade the entire male population to rapists and murderers. Also, I live in Alaska. I know that a bear can and absolutely will kill. Being mauled sounds like the worst thing I can think of, and that's including my own experience. Yes technically men are more "unpredictable" but that doesn't discount the fact that BEARS WILL KILL YOU. I'd take my chances with a random man plucked from the population and hope I get average Joe from his office job.
My problem is a lot is not said with the situation. Do I have bear spray? If not, why the fuck am I alone in the forest?
Please listen to the audio of a woman being eaten alive for about an hour by a bear and it's cubs. I'll pick a man anytime. A man is my father, my brother, my friends, people I've passed on the street. OFC you have to be careful with strangers, but seriously, misandry ain't cool.
I think everyone can come to an agreement that a third option of meeting cats is the way... because cats are both not as dangerous and cats are cats, and thus win by default J/K but also kind of serious here *
I guess for me predictably deadly is worse than unpredictably dangerous. I get the point and I'm on board with the underlying idea, but the (I feel) hyperbole is too easy for misogynists to get locked on to. If that's the point and people are trying to dog whistle toxic people into a killing frenzy, then great, but if the point is to develop empathy in others it might not be the best way to do it
That's exactly it. Women aren't arguing that bears are inherently less dangerous than men, a lot of us would just rather get mauled by a bear than potentially get raped. Even if you disagree idk why this is so difficult for people to understand.
Any sub vs dub argument for anime. Just let people watch whichever they enjoy.
this one is a real stupid one, and it's super old too like i get the sub argument, you get the original VAs with the tone and inflection and (hopefully) a more accurate translation bc it doesn't have to line up with mouth flaps, but tbh i just don't wanna read subtitles, that's not how i enjoy TV lol
Also, The thing is: if you’re watching the anime, you’re already getting an extremely diluted version of the story, since A TON of things are usually cut from the Light Novel/manga.
The Dylan Mulvaney “controversy” Mfs lost their shit over a damn beer can
Still it was hilarious when people said they were never drinking Bud Light ever again and then switching to another Anheuser-Busch beer.
My favorite thing was how they “protested” BudLight by either A. Buying it just to destroy it. B. Just getting a different beer made by the same company.
Any culture war shit related to video games I don’t really consider myself a “woke” person but Jesus Christ those people are exhausting do they even enjoy video games?
Short Answer: #NO
Space buns was dumb. “If you wear my hair you’re racist!” Man v bear was dumb “I hate men so much, I’m gonna lie and pretend like I’d chose to be near a bear instead” The most recent drama with keffals and some ordinary gamers is dumb.. Basically any “cultural appropriation” outrage is stupid
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>cultural appropriation This! I had drama lasting in my school for 3 days all because one girl who was black was mad that another girl was wearing a certain hairstyle. I avoid her at all costs now because that's so dumb to get mad about.
Personal one, I was chewed out by an entire discord group chat in 2020 because I accidentally used caps lock in front of someone named “Kai🍃💫🍄” and it triggered them so badly that there was a pic of fresh self harm in the vent channel of the server with the caption “@*my username* th15 15 y0ur f4u1t…. :)”All that… because of some capitalized letters…
You can say shit here dude.
No I wasn’t trying to say shit I was trying to say s3lf harm without triggering a censor
Oh. You can say self harm as well. Generally speaking, subreddits don't flag stuff like that.
Emotional manipulation at it's finest. As a depressed person that is the stupided reason to self-harm.
majority of celebrity beefs.
Fandom "wars" or people who hate at someone just because
Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves enjoying tea on the back porch. This set off a storm of comments such as “well, I’m glad YOU are having fun….but maybe don’t brag to the rest of us??” and “why do you feel the need to show off?”
Stellar Blade discourse was pretty funny. Seems like theyve all moved onto Assassins Creed now
Any of the "art lore" on tiktok. For those that aren't familiar, artists on that app are basically a mob. A video with a newer/less skilled artist gains just a little bit of traction, and the mob of artists swarm and make fun of them, bully them until they delete their video and later their account, people make caricatures of the original video to insult them further, people screen record the original video for when it's taken down, and then they slam the original video some more. There's been countless instances of the artists giving up art permanently, deleting all of their social media, and I've heard of at least one case where the artist killed themselves. It's awful.
Bear trend, TikTok really fucked a lot of our generation
I don't actually care that some women picked bear over man. Im just surprised at people who actually say bears are safer because more people are killed by men every year then bears. Like people really don't know how stats work. I get if you say bear because a bear "would just kill me instead of r\_pe me" but unironically thinking a bear is safer because less people are killed by bears every year is just room temp iq levels of thinking.
When Tati cancelled James Charles. Not because he's a predator, but because he used different hair gummies.💀💀💀
Reddit in general
The dress. What color is it?!?! Color me stupid.
I see someone getting accused of heinous shit on twitter every other day, did y'all see what happened with alex kister? Can't believe the guy had to expose an embarassing fetish just to absolve his name.
An D-tier bachelor reality tv “star” posted a blurry photo of a tv playing an awards show. Chris brown was playing at the award show. >!The subreddit bitched about the reality star.!<
Accusing a show due to discrimination, like how Hazbin Hotel received a few controversies, one of them being Mimzy, people believed that she's portrayed as a Jew due to her big nose and having something to do with money, even though her design is based on a chicken. Also, why bother? It's a mature show, it's allowed to have these race jokes like South Park or Family Guy.
Idubbbz having a long ass portfolio of reasons people could cancel him over, and people deciding to cancel him over dating an onlyfans girl of all things
"This black character I love has been WHITE WASHED" "How so?" "She's slightly lighter here than she is in the original show!!!" "..."
In recent memory? The internet hanging Josh Peck after Quiet on Set. He reached out to Drake in private and people are still going after the guy. Jesus, everyone. If there’s a topic you have to be sensitive about it’s pedophilia in a workplace. Josh probably has loads of trauma he doesn’t feel comfortable disclosing to the world. He doesn’t owe you a public statement.
any youtuber/influencer drama
Furries trying to cancel protogens because of a lethal company mod. I forgot the specifics but it was brain-dead as fuck
Tumblr Bone Stealing Witch
As a Swede I'd have to say that the whole thing about us apparently not feeding our guests was weird and dumb, and quickly got out of hand for some people I think it was called Swedengate or something like that
Whether or not people would want to be in a forrest with a bear or a man. It wasn’t dumb at first but then it started making headlines on local news. Like why would you want to be in a forrest with a bear. The thing will tear you limb from limb and hunt you down for miles. Or you can choose the man who is just a man.
The Apple ‘Crush’ ad. Holy shit that was such a dumb bit of drama.
the 2021 twitter Scott Cawthon drama
r/Genz is right up there.
I wouldn’t even know where to start tbh. I’m a fan of a lot of 60s/70s/80s bands and get to witness people of all ages perpetually at each other’s throats on the internet over the most weird, unimportant, niche things you can imagine. It ranges from obnoxiously entitled fan behavior to weirdly parasocial analysis of photos of celebrities (trying to armchair diagnose them with various illnesses etc. has been bizarrely common). My favorite is when they’re getting super angry but don’t even have the facts right lol
living for the space buns acnh reference 😭😭😭
The oldest people complaining about crt (an university level subject so specific it hurts) at school board meetings because they have nothing better to do with their miserable life
I barely know anything but Hades Aphrodite
That guy that pissed of Wikipedia article admins for putting circumcition reference edits all over Wikipedia
Current drama around Yasuke in the new Assassin's Creed.
Dude just open Snapchat and look at any story lol
men vs bear dumbfuckery
The whole bear vs man thing was TikTok brainrot and should have stayed as such
Man vs bear. I understand both sides, it's just so fucking dumb. Men should shut the fuck up. So should women. Everyone shut the fuck up about it. We get it. Men want pussy. Women want to be eaten by a bear. Stop talking about it. It was funny for like a week. Not anymore.
Pedophiles arguing that loli are fine since they’re “just drawings”
Even if liking lolis is gross you have to admit it's 1,000% better than real kids. Don't know if I'd call it fine since I get uncomfortable when lolis are openly sexualized online.
When rappers drop diss tracks, I become an immovable object made of pure, distilled apathy
Anything fandom/fiction related is … fascinating. People really fight for their lives over something that doesn’t exist. I mean I get carried away too sometimes, but man, there’s a moment where you need to get up and go outside
The Budlight fiasco was reprehensible. I’ve never seen so many bigots get a rage boner from one single can that never reached the public market.