Well, it’s Time for another random grouping of thoughts, this time mostly dedicated to the one social media site I haven’t really talked about, a site called YouTube. It’s really quite great but also really shitty too.
1.) YouTube is probably the best social media site. You really do get tons of people that work their hearts out to create fun and unique content. Also tons of movie and tv show clips (hell even full movies and tv shows). I felt that I should start off positive because I have some really negative as fuck things to say about this website too. It’s not perfect and not even close to it and they really need to do something to fix some of the things I’m going to bitch and moan about.
2.) I think I’m going to start with retro gaming YouTube and stuff. I watch a good amount of the stuff. I even watched retro gaming resellers (which I admit I found interesting because the guys seemed likable enough, it was an interesting look into the other side of retro gaming (how the people who sell games at conventions get those games) and other stuff. However I’ve grown to not be able to watch the content. And no it’s not because they helped raise the prices of games. I mean yeah they have but I felt that I was priced out of retro video games in 20 and fucking 14, not because of the new group of people, but because I’ve been hearing some sleazy things about these guys. Like undercutting people (sometimes even on video. I don’t think I’ve seen every fucking video these guys put out) but what gets me is that they use WhatNot to sell things and that’s a video ebay site thing. A lot of people in this day and age end up having parasocial relationships with YouTubers they will never meet. No I’m not going to make fun of these people because loneliness will make you do weird fucking things and a lot of people these days are lonely. What I’m getting at is I just feel this way of selling things is sleazy as it takes advantage of these people with parasocial relationships. Oh no my friend DifferentStrokes-AvengersFan696969 needs money help, I’ll buy this thing for twice its worth to help him out! It just feels wrong to me. I dunno.
3.) I fucking hate anti-woke YouTubers like Nerdrotic and YellowFlash and Eric July and others. I fucking hate that I watch that stuff to be annoyed (either by inaccuracies about the things they talk about like say comic books or the politics that yes are in the fucking videos. Nerdrotic showed up on Piers Morgan and Prager U. Sorry but you’re political when you join up with those guys) and the main reason I don’t like them is that I believe they help radicalize people using things they love like Transformers or Indiana Jones or Star Wars. I’ve seen this happen thanks to using Twitter and other stuff. It’s very annoying. I’m sorry but Hollywood realizes that they can get money from people who aren’t dudes and they will keep going with this. Do I think every single case of diversity works in new media? No, I’m sure some are just shitty due to all kinds of reasons but I’m not going to get mad over every single attempt. Sorry but they will keep doing this (and hell I’m just going to go here and say I liked that lady character they hated in Indiana Jones and The Hopefully End of This Series because she seemed to care about being in a movie and Harrison Ford clearly wanted to be anywhere else.)
4.) In all fairness I also fucking hate pretty much most of left wing YouTube too (even though I consider myself left wing) I even believe getting into this content due to things like parasocial relationships and other things will help radicalize people to a completely different cause and no one wants to talk to a radicalized political person who won’t step one iota out of their comfort zone to maybe I dunno actually fix any of these problems. Also these guys do the worst thing left wingers do which is expect literal perfection that only Jesus could ever do from every single person. Sorry, I’m not perfect, sometimes I’ll even say conservative things are not completely wrong. One example is that so many of these people will pick some random things made between I dunno 1910 and 2000 and get offended by the fact that this thing was different than 2024. It’s a pointless thing because none of us can change the past. The past does not change ever for anyone. I guess what I’m saying is that both groups seem to forget about the concept of nuance (i’ll bring my point of not getting offended and angry about old movies and TV shows and stuff into here. My parents want to show my nieces Adventures in Babysitting from the 1980s because we all pretty much enjoyed the hell out of that movie when we saw it in 1990s, however it’s a PG-13 rated 1980s movie and those had swearing and cursing and all kinds of stuff and children as young as these probably shouldn’t be seeing it. Probably at an age where you can say “Hey they did things differently back then, you’ll enjoy this movie but I sure as heck don’t want you repeating a ton of words in this movie”) I dunno. I just don’t want radicalization to happen because it just shits up the political system and is no good.
5.) If I hear another half baked comment about capitalism and billionaires in a discussion video about some goofy nerd thing like Power Rangers I will rip the rest of my hair off my head and shove it down the You Tuber’s throat. I don’t even think we gave ourselves (the human race here) a good system of ideals with capitalism I just think that to even change that stuff a little bit we have to be ADULT WITH OUR ARGUMENTS ABOUT IT and not bring in things like Power Rangers or Harry Potter or Webster or Boy Meets World or any of these things into it. I say this as an adult who likes silly goofy crap like Voltron and RoboTech and comic books BUT this is a serious thing that needs to be taken seriously!
6.) back to Nerdrotic and the others of his ilk, the vast majority of them are not actually fascists. A term the internet learned and I don’t think most people know how to use correctly. No, Nerdrotic and all of these people literally would be profusing love for these ideas and movies, every single one of them, if it wasn’t fucking profitable as SHIT to do so but you make more money selling anger to people. Now will I say the fans may end up being fascists? Yeah, I can totally see a fan of Nerdrotic wanting things like everyone who has even a single left wing thought eradicated from the world which IS a fascist ideal. Nerdrotic just doesn’t give a shit because he gets money which is a reason people use YouTube.
7.) It annoys me that someone who clearly puts effort into their research and editing and planning of ideas (and no I’m not talking about my crummy YouTube videos here either) gets less likes then the angry dickhole yelling about Star Wars or Dr. Who or what the fuck ever. An example of this is PopArena, I’m not saying the videos are perfect (He talks about Nickelodeon but brings up politics and weird shit way too often. He talked about the Dennis the Menace show from the 1950s/1960s and went off in random 5 second quote about how Hank Ketchum wanted to actually keep his job at Disney and dared to not join the strike in the fucking 1940s working for a dude that if he could would have fired every single striking person without breaking a sweat. We can argue about unions and all that shit now in 2024 and I’m for them but I’m not going to browbeat a dead man for a reason like that. Sorry, it’s weird and kind of annoying) but they clearly put effort into them and it’s sad that they don’t have even half as many subscribers as the guy who just turns on a microphone and yells KATHLEEN KENNEDY IS THE WORST HUMAN BEING WHO EVER LIVED!!!!!!
8.) Kathleen Kennedy put up money (which is how you become a producer Nerdrotic fans, not get Steven Spielberg coffee) which helped get Gremlins, Gremlins 2, Back to the Future films, Jurassic Park, and a ton of fucking other amazing movies get made (and the Steven Speilberg Warner Brothers cartoons of the 1990s). I don’t even know how I’ll end up feeling about the Star Wars movies she helped get made (because I haven’t seen them) but you really should do some research on the woman because those producing credits is what got her the damn job (and George Lucas trusts her too actually seeking her out for the job before selling it all to Disney I believe). She was a hands on producer for these movies too, but even if all she did was hand out the money she deserves fucking respect for helping to bring those to life.
I’m off to actually watch something on YouTube now but man it was fun getting this shit off my chest. Portnoyd will probably disagree with at least one of these points and we will get into a stupid pointless fight in the comments.
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