One more thought about the "sexy She-Ra" discussion:
Let's be real here, due to the nature of Filmation's rather...limited animation style, the He-Man/She-Ra character with the most sex appeal was Skeletor.
Dozens of women and girls: "Vic Mignogna sexually abused me"
Con staffers and industry insiders: "He's been a creepy asshole for years and it needs to stop"
Random people who probably only met Vic briefly at a convention, if at all: "YOU'RE LIARS, HE'S A GOOD GUY!"
#KickVic
WATER SLIDE FIRE: A Vernon, New Jersey-area water park slidewent up in flames Tuesday. The ride, appropriately called 'High Anxiety,' is known for shredding the nerves of its riders.
@MattEldritch
Basically "Sacrificial Trash" describes a piece of media that isn't good, or at least it's just mediocre, but it gets a very large backlash from people looking to tear apart something diverse or "woke"
Here's the whole video
Okay, in all seriousness, I know that Parler was only asking for SSNs if you wanted your account verified or you wanted to send DMs...
BUT HOLY HELL, THAT'S REALLY NOT MUCH BETTER
Y'ALL WERE HANDING OVER YOUR SECURE IDENTITY INFO JUST TO DM PEOPLE?!
Everyone else who's seen James Somerton's apology video has already pointed out how manipulative it feels, so I'm just gonna point out that the dude implies he didn't want to make the Utena video but only did it because people requested it and I'm like YOU DON'T SAY
Okay, controversial statement: as mind-boggling as the James Somerton situation has been, I'm kinda grumpy that people are describing him as the biggest liar Hbomberguy uncovered when TOMMY TALLARICO IS STILL THERE
OR WHEREVER HE IS RIGHT NOW
Twitter, please don't shut down before I get to see whatever unhinged reaction Tommy Tallarico has to being completely exposed in Hbomberguy's latest video, I genuinely wanna see if he calls him a "gaming racist"
Hot take: I think everyone who left Channel Awesome as part of the Change the Channel controversy years ago has every right to still be pissed at how they were treated by the site. Just because it isn't a million-dollar company doesn't mean you get to be treated like shit.
It kinda says something that Marilyn Manson made a disturbing short film called "Groupie" back in the 90s and the content in it was apparently SO bad and career-destroying that ANDY DICK, of all people, told him to never release it, and now it's partially lost media.
@OreganoJeauxns
@matty_d22
...so you would be friends with someone who thinks people who share your race/sexuality/gender are inferior, if not outright sinful?
What's the simpler, more believable situation here:
1. Dozens, if not hundreds, of unrelated individuals decided to up and falsely accuse an anime voice actor of sexual assault for...I dunno, profit?
2. The accusers are telling the truth and HE'S the liar.
#KickVic
@merrittk
With all due respect...what fandoms are YOU reading fic in? I thought the classic stereotype was that women (and anyone not a cis male in general) were largely the ones doing the majority of shipping and horny-fic-writing?
I'm just now catching up on the "Illuminaughti accuses fellow YouTuber Legal Eagle of ripping off her editing style" fiasco and putting aside how ridiculous it is that she's trying to claim very generic editing techniques and motion graphics, why start this drama with a LAWYER???
Remember, if you see any evangelical/fundie Christians getting invested in the Gaza war, chances are they're just disgustingly hyped because they think the Rapture is about to happen, and they don't actually care about the Jewish or Muslim civilians there.
A couple thoughts re: Vic Mignogna telling his fans to fight against accusations of him being a predator
1. That's such an underhanded, disgusting move
2. Wait, does his fan club still consist mainly of teenagers? Because if so, Y I K E S
#KickVic
Utena's one of those things where, if you don't have any passionate feelings of ANY kind towards it, any analysis you make is gonna be flaccid at best and insulting at worst. He just should've admitted he didn't care about the show.
Did you seriously think none of the VAs supporting Anairis DIDN'T know you'd previously voiced Yoruichi? All they were doing was supporting a colleague who'd been recast through presumably no fault of her own, that's not automatically a slight against you.
@anairis_q
Wishing Anairis the very best. I reached out & apologized. Mistakenly assumed my colleagues knew I originated the role and felt unsupported by the disappointment expressed in their comments re the cast change. Apologies, and heartfelt well wishes to Anairis. Welcome to the cast.
September 13th is not only MY birthday, but also the birthday of probably my favorite DR1 girl, Sakura Ogami! So of course I had to draw her.
#danganronpa
#danganronpafanart
Oh god, "Switch 2" is trending again? Haven't we learned that most people "predicting" this hypothetical console's release don't actually have insider knowledge and just keep predicting over and over until they're right about something?
Oh my god, I just realized: Tommy Tallarico is the video game equivalent of Butch Hartman. Both claim WAY too much credit for work that was at least partly done by others, both had infamous crowdfunding disasters, they even kinda look like they're from the same gene pool?
Stonetoss' literal only strategy anytime anyone points out his bigotry is "you're giving me free marketing" as if
1. His Nazi fans wouldn't be attracted to his crap anyway
2. We're just supposed to shut up if someone's using a large platform to spread hatred
You're telling me now-known plagiarist and thrower-under-the-bus of queer women James Somerton was gonna make an Utena video?
Oh Jesus, that would have caused me physical pain.
A couple weeks ago, someone tipped me off that Mysterious Mr Enter, the increasingly-controversial cartoon reviewer, had put out a very bad video on "modern PSAs". Because I suffer from morbid curiosity, I clicked on it.
I. Have. Notes.
So Anime Matsuri, after years of people digging up dirt on how awful a convention they are and years of standing behind alleged sex pest VAs...is starting an anime dubbing studio out of spite?
Jesus, who's gonna try this doomed venture next, Ryan Kopf?
Between SunnyV2 and Internet Historian, I feel the need to reiterate my theory that if you speak in a non-American accent and learn decent editing (or hire good editors), you can easily get people to forget you're a bigot.
I don't like CinemaSins. I just prefer movie-analyzing YouTube videos that feel like people actually enjoy making the video and/or talking about the subject matter itself.
@OreganoJeauxns
@matty_d22
There's also the fact that many people in marginalized groups may have trauma associated with bigotry against them; they're not obligated to be friends with someone who perpetrates that trauma.
@GreatCheshire
Oh, so even if he hadn't just been exposed, there's a good chance he'd never do that teased Utena video either, so I've definitely avoided an anger-induced aneurysm there.
Me seeing that people are drawing Rule 34 of Jaiden Animations' sona, despite that being that avatar of a real person and said person being uncomfortable with it
Aaaaaand in the wake of the Sarah Z video explaining the proship/anti thing, people are already dredging up vague accusations about her again without actual receipts, I am so tired.
Why is it so hard for people to BE SPECIFIC
@JimSterling
Love all the people in the QRTs trying to go "But STERLING'S weird, they can't call Scott Cawthon weird!" as if anything they're doing actually hurts anybody
Aaaaand he's complaining about the Animaniacs reboot and how Dot is now more of an "abrasive" feminist in his opinion and OH OF COURSE HE PULLS OUT THIS IMAGE
I am getting so tired of people thinking Jordan Peterson is a credible "intellectual" just because he's got a degree and says things certain people already want to believe despite not providing solid, peer-reviewed evidence.
@midnight_pals
...this Twitter account should not be how I find out which authors have written buckwild bigoted stuff, but at least I'm entertained while doing so.
@M_Nerdskull
The fact that people STILL use soy as an insult even after actual fact checking proves that soy doesn't increase your estrogen is kinda telling.
After seeing Dan Olson's video and watching the actual movie, I think I know why Doug Walker's review of The Wall bugs me:
It has the tone of an unqualified neurotypical person lecturing someone else on their mental illness and trauma.
"The human desire to save itself is one of the most destructive forces in the entire universe"
THIS IS BECAUSE HE SAW CHILDREN'S CARTOONS WITH MESSAGES HE DISAGREED WITH
Okay, given how long it takes to make stop-motion animation, it's pretty safe to say that it was too late to recast him after we found out he's an asshole.
@CaseyExplosion
Transphobes think that trans people are the weird ones, and then they'll turn around and come up with bizarre scenarios and theories that fall apart if you know anything about how humans actually work.
"But Vic denied he was a sexual predator and/or homophobe!"
Do people honestly think that a homophobic predator just loudly goes "I HATE THE GAYS AND LOVE SEXUAL ASSAULT" all the time, of course he's going to pretend otherwise. Look at his actions, not his words.
#KickVic
Finally read up on the "Maus being banned from public school curriculum" thing.
You know the whole "it's not about Holocaust denialism, we just don't like profanity and brief nudity" thing is nonsense when you realize it was being assigned to EIGHTH GRADERS
Hardcore AI techbros have such a disturbing lack of empathy. I'll see people raising legitimate ethical concerns about generative AI being used to spread harmful disinformation, or to push artists out of work, and they get the most callous, dismissive replies defending AI.
@marysuewriter
I will never forget the communication class I took where we all had to make a presentation to persuade the class to donate to a particular cause, one dude chose an anti-abortion group, and BEN SHAPIRO was one of his main sources.
Needless to say, hardly anyone chose his cause.
Jesus, he goes on entire nihilistic rant about how the human race is gonna destroy itself. I remind you, he did this because he saw an Arthur cartoon where Muffy shows off her new face mask.