TGWTG Nostalgia Chick / Lindsay Ellis / TheDudette - aka Hotdogs in face girl

[Random Internet Person]

He’s already been ID’ed earlier in this thread as Kenneth Munson (birth name—not sure if he changed his name to Todd Nathanson legally or if that’s still just a pseudonym).

I’m assuming pseudonym. Either way, hope you’re enjoying the random Todd talking. It’s the closest he’s getting to his own thread at the moment.

Anyway, not sure if posted already, but Todd’s cohost on the Song vs Song podcast talked about Lindsay. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1475753056314789892.html

 

[Doctor Placebo]

It makes me wonder if these people ever had a job before their e-celeb status. They all seem terrible at keeping to a schedule and getting work done in a consistent manner.

Many of them didn't. Others worked McDonald's tier jobs.

I’m assuming pseudonym. Either way, hope you’re enjoying the random Todd talking. It’s the closest he’s getting to his own thread at the moment.

Anyway, not sure if posted already, but Todd’s cohost on the Song vs Song podcast talked about Lindsay. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1475753056314789892.html

Tim Pool would be proud of the level of fencepost sitting in that post. Hell, maybe he can repurpose some of it to address the Jackoff Murphy situation.

 

[Mizafuginmike]

Anyway, not sure if posted already, but Todd’s cohost on the Song vs Song podcast talked about Lindsay. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1475753056314789892.html

Is that a guy?

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Lindsay's case of getting mobbed over her past comments on Raya being ATLA bait is just karma for her generalizing everyone who criticized leftist movies as sexists. (Like the way she claimed that criticisms of The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi were based on sexism). But, the fact remains that she was right about Raya and the Last Dragon being one of the latest in a long line of Hollywood films made to appeal to Asian sensibilities, and the Last Airbender cartoon was one of the earlier works that sought to appease that cultural sweet tooth.

If only Lindsay laid out her point with kinder words, like say, "Raya and the Last Dragon gives us a thoughtful look on diverse, colorful Asian cultures in the same, wonderful way that Avatar: the Last Airbender did", she'd not only still have the left's support, but she'd get fans of both works to praise her. Especially since Raya is essentially Korra lite, which wouldn't surprise me if some fans of the latter saw the former in a positive light. So it astounds me that Lindsay would speak in such an abrasive way, when huge swathes of her fanbase are all about getting triggered when someone talks the wrong way about something.

I mean, if you're a leftist film critic, and most of the people who watch your videos are leftists, and you're talking about a film that many people in the Social Justice crowd see as a work of wholesome diverse inclusivity, then pulling off this Terry Silver-style PR BS while smiling at the camera and pretending to like Raya should have been common sense. I mean, no idiot with more than two brain cells to rub who waltzes through Trump town would openly call him a traitor.

It's not that surprising that leftists who claim to be, by default, nicer, end up having a cynical and abrasive attitude to even the things that are meant to pander out to them. The culture of leftism isn't one of inclusivity, but one of constant shaming and scapegoat-hunting. Lindsay's abrasive way of describing Raya as essentially Avatar Lite got her accused of wrongthink and expelled from the proper leftist crowd, which bullied her with more ferocity than any right-wing crowd ever did. But it's hard to feel sorry when she contributed to this kind of culture, this sort of reverse-Joe McCarthy ideology where the moment you talk as if you're to the right of feminist Karl Marx, you're automatically branded with the Internet Mark of Shame.

Todd worked as a substitute teacher (middle school English maybe?) but it didn't go well. He's talked about going to work hungover and how students are assholes. It was part of the reason he did the whole shadow gimmick, so he wouldn't be recognized. But the whole CA/TGWTG has been living the YouTuber lifestyle for over a decade so they are all useless when it comes to reality. Didn't Lindsay have a deadend office job before getting the Nostalgia Chick role?

That idiot went to work in a school drunk? Damn. That's worse than the students being assholes, because in the modern American school system, students being assholes is likely to happen 3-5 times out of 10, even in good private schools where everything is supposed to be tidy. But this idiot went in to work with kids drunk? That's horribly unprofessional. No wonder he put a bag over his head in his videos.

 

[Ninon42]

Is that a guy?

Yes. It's Dany Roth, who officially trooned out last year (but has been about that ace tranny life for a long time while married to a they/them theater girl) and now goes by Lina Morgan. He's been a hanger-on to the Chez Apocalypse crowd for a decade and was getting some traction as a podcaster and movie commentator on SyFy when he publicly sperged about giving positive reviews to movies in exchange for access and derailed his own career. He still does a fair few podcasts as a sad semblance of a livelihood, including and most prominently Song vs Song with Todd, but his reputation in the industry is shit even though he wasn't wrong in claiming "everyone does it".

He was also sort-of-cancelled when Kyle Kallgren's ex-fiancee Jourdain Searles claimed Dany sexually assaulted her by kissing her at a party when they were drunk. She also fancies herself a movie critic and professional Strong Disabled Black Woman so she accused not just Dany but that entire clique of Dany, Todd, Lindsay, Beth Elderkin and their cronies from Gawker Media and CA of being racists covering up her abuse. It caused Kyle to defend his lady love and lose that entire friend group, while Jourdain made shady comments whenever she could about how terrible they all were. When Lindsay was getting flamed over the Raya Incident, Jourdain brought it up again and it did get more attention, to the point where both Dany and Todd released longass Google docs (Todd and Dany) about what really happened from their point of view.

So after being cancelled twice, he trooned out and changed his name despite having a unisex one in the first place. But you can't escape your past. As a 40+ year old man, he's kind of grown up enough to see why cancel culture is bad but not enough to not make that statement All About Him. He also never shuts the fuck up on the podcast, constantly bitching about queer shit in media.

Anyway, short answer: yes, that's a guy.

ETA: and just for fun, here's a more recent pic of Todd aka Ken He Munson

 

[Sneeds_Sniggerly]

Lindsay's case of getting mobbed over her past comments on Raya being ATLA bait is just karma for her generalizing everyone who criticized leftist movies as sexists. (Like the way she claimed that criticisms of The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi were based on sexism). But, the fact remains that she was right about Raya and the Last Dragon being one of the latest in a long line of Hollywood films made to appeal to Asian sensibilities, and the Last Airbender cartoon was one of the earlier works that sought to appease that cultural sweet tooth.

I mean, if you're a leftist film critic, and most of the people who watch your videos are leftists, and you're talking about a film that many people in the Social Justice crowd see as a work of wholesome diverse inclusivity, then pulling off this Terry Silver-style PR BS while smiling at the camera and pretending to like Raya should have been common sense. I mean, no idiot with more than two brain cells to rub who waltzes through Trump town would openly call him a traitor.

It's not that surprising that leftists who claim to be, by default, nicer, end up having a cynical and abrasive attitude to even the things that are meant to pander out to them. The culture of leftism isn't one of inclusivity, but one of constant shaming and scapegoat-hunting. Lindsay's abrasive way of describing Raya as essentially Avatar Lite got her accused of wrongthink and expelled from the proper leftist crowd, which bullied her with more ferocity than any right-wing crowd ever did. But it's hard to feel sorry when she contributed to this kind of culture, this sort of reverse-Joe McCarthy ideology where the moment you talk as if you're to the right of feminist Karl Marx, you're automatically branded with the Internet Mark of Shame.

ATLA was made by weebs that were into Eastern philosophy (in a meme way but still) and wanted it to have the kind of animation style/quality of many anime. Raya was some gay gook appealing shit "see? we have an Asian hero! #StopAsianHate". Avtar was far more inline with "Asian cultures" than a generic "girl hero" story but with Asians. Of course she's too fucking stupid to get that and I doubt she ever watched even one episode of ATLA, but of course she can give her time and money to Disney. Saying these two are the same is like saying cartoon shows from the 2000s that had a Mexican style to them are the same as the gay new Mexican Disney movie about a fucking magic house lol

On the "scapegoat-hunting" thing, there's an idea is business called "the tone at the top". More or less, if the person at the top of a company cares about his work, the people below him will as well, if only wants to do the bare minimum for an easy paycheck, that passes down too. Since Jews are the true master of the left in terms of their values and attitude, of course they match Jews beat for beat. Scapegoating is literally a Jewish ritual. "OY VEY! Everyone that disagrees with me is not of my tribe. Everyone that is not of my tribe is my enemy! All my enemies are NAZIS and they want to KILL 6 million of us and enslave the rest! We have to get them before they get us! I swear! Are are perfect and do nothing wrong! We are on the right side of history and are the chosen people! They hate us just because they are hateful and evil!"

Also, Joe McCarthy was right.

 

[nigga that crab pollack]

There's a damn good reason that people in left wing circles end up getting increasingly cynical and it's because the main framework of critique they're using is the most cynical and abrasive thing imaginable.

The primary framework for media criticism in academia is critical theory - at least that's what they told me in academia. It's the exact opposite of the (forgive me allah for uttering this phrase) angry video game nerd school of criticism, where it's about the critic's opinion. Saying "it sucked, i didn't like it for these reasons" is not ~professional~ so you have to say "it's bad for these reasons". Even the name critical theory is a semantic trick that appears to be about critical thinking but it's really just about being critical. If you can say 'well lord of the rings is good but the racial allegories are a bit racist' then you can get your foot in the door for whatever you can slap on top of that initial claim. It's legitimately about finding something 'bad' in a piece of work and trying to crowbar it as wide as possible so people recognize your critique on the merits of how big the flaws are rather than any sort of critique of the thing itself. It takes any individual agency out of the act of criticism too, but some people without agency find that empowering.

The thing with critical theory using talking points to give legitimacy to an argument is that it loses its weight when everyone does it, and everyone is doing that shit right now. So you have to use increasingly higher-stakes cynicism and abrasiveness to get your foot in the door compared to all the other retards doing it, and it's reached such critical mass that it's basically impossible to use that framework of critique anymore without outright saying that the thing you're critiquing is literally hitler

 

[Sneeds_Sniggerly]

There's a damn good reason that people in left wing circles end up getting increasingly cynical and it's because the main framework of critique they're using is the most cynical and abrasive thing imaginable.

The primary framework for media criticism in academia is critical theory - at least that's what they told me in academia. It's the exact opposite of the (praise allah for uttering this phrase) angry video game nerd school of criticism where it's about the critic's opinion. Saying "it sucked, i didn't like it for these reasons" is not ~professional~ so you have to say "it's bad for these reasons". Even the name critical theory is a semantic trick that appears to be about critical thinking but it's really just about being critical. If you can say 'well lord of the rings is good but the racial allegories are a bit racist' then you can get your foot in the door for whatever you can slap on top of that initial claim. It's legitimately about finding something bad in a piece of work and trying to crowbar it as wide as possible so people recognize your critique on the merits of how big the flaws are rather than any sort of critique of the thing itself. it takes any individual agency out of the act of criticism.

The thing with critical theory using talking points to give legitimacy to your argument is that it loses it's weight when everyone does it, and everyone is doing that shit right now. So you have to use increasingly higher-stakes cynicism and abrasiveness to get your foot in the door compared to all the other retards doing it, and it's reached such critical mass that it's basically impossible to use that framework of critique anymore without outright saying that the thing you're critiquing is literally hitler

Sad so many normal girls fall for Jewish bullshit like Critical Theory and end up ruining everything in their life that's not gay bullshit. Oh well, at least they won't have kids.

 

[Common Shadow]

Yes. It's Dany Roth, who officially trooned out last year (but has been about that ace tranny life for a long time while married to a they/them theater girl) and now goes by Lina Morgan. He's been a hanger-on to the Chez Apocalypse crowd for a decade and was getting some traction as a podcaster and movie commentator on SyFy when he publicly sperged about giving positive reviews to movies in exchange for access and derailed his own career. He still does a fair few podcasts as a sad semblance of a livelihood, including and most prominently Song vs Song with Todd, but his reputation in the industry is shit even though he wasn't wrong in claiming "everyone does it".

He was also sort-of-cancelled when Kyle Kallgren's ex-fiancee Jourdain Searles claimed Dany sexually assaulted her by kissing her at a party when they were drunk. She also fancies herself a movie critic and professional Strong Disabled Black Woman so she accused not just Dany but that entire clique of Dany, Todd, Lindsay, Beth Elderkin and their cronies from Gawker Media and CA of being racists covering up her abuse. It caused Kyle to defend his lady love and lose that entire friend group, while Jourdain made shady comments whenever she could about how terrible they all were. When Lindsay was getting flamed over the Raya Incident, Jourdain brought it up again and it did get more attention, to the point where both Dany and Todd released longass Google docs (Todd and Dany) about what really happened from their point of view.

So after being cancelled twice, he trooned out and changed his name despite having a unisex one in the first place. But you can't escape your past. As a 40+ year old man, he's kind of grown up enough to see why cancel culture is bad but not enough to not make that statement All About Him. He also never shuts the fuck up on the podcast, constantly bitching about queer shit in media.

Anyway, short answer: yes, that's a guy.

ETA: and just for fun, here's a more recent pic of Todd aka Ken He Munson
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Bu--but that isn't Todd! He said so!

 

[Arthur Morgan]

It makes me wonder if these people ever had a job before their e-celeb status. They all seem terrible at keeping to a schedule and getting work done in a consistent manner.

Most of them only worked retail or fast food. Linkara even apparently liked working retail. Never heard the Todd as a teacher story, but in Lindsay's SOPA video he mentioned being a journalist for a newspaper before he was TITS. Lindsay also mentioned being someone who was paid to watch TV but was really lazy about it.

But yeah, after nearly fifteen years of doing this, they're all fucked.

 

[BigTubboWithLittleChina]

Linkara even apparently liked working retail.

Now, see, I can respect that. There's no shame in being a damn fine shop assistant. Or dustman. Or janitor. Or whatever. Quite the reverse. If only he'd stuck to it. He could be fondly and proudly regarded as a serial Employee of the Month, rather than the HMMMMM-ing lardarse with a fetish for confectionery and Muppets.

 

[Water-T]

If only Lindsay laid out her point with kinder words, like say, "Raya and the Last Dragon gives us a thoughtful look on diverse, colorful Asian cultures in the same, wonderful way that Avatar: the Last Airbender did", she'd not only still have the left's support, but she'd get fans of both works to praise her. Especially since Raya is essentially Korra lite, which wouldn't surprise me if some fans of the latter saw the former in a positive light. So it astounds me that Lindsay would speak in such an abrasive way, when huge swathes of her fanbase are all about getting triggered when someone talks the wrong way about something.

There's the problem - around the time Wine Aunt left CA, her reviews got more and more cynical and snarky. She's gotten to the point where almost every word in her videos drip with venom. Lindsay just stopped giving fucks about even TRYING to appear pleasant and likable anymore, which is why she wants to avoid being on screen from now on (and because she hit the wall)

 

[Ninon42]

There's the problem - around the time Wine Aunt left CA, her reviews got more and more cynical and snarky. She's gotten to the point where almost every word in her videos drip with venom. Lindsay just stopped giving fucks about even TRYING to appear pleasant and likable anymore, which is why she wants to avoid being on screen from now on (and because she hit the wall)

Exactly. When you can't even talk about the weather without sounding cloaked in 10 layers of snark, irony and pretention, it gets tired. It also comes across as contrived and inauthentic, a dangerous state for parasocial relationships built on perceived authenticity. The only times Lindsay has sounded as though she actually likes or enjoys something has been on the podcast when talking about musicals.

 

[quickthrowaway]

Now, see, I can respect that. There's no shame in being a damn fine shop assistant. Or dustman. Or janitor. Or whatever. Quite the reverse. If only he'd stuck to it. He could be fondly and proudly regarded as a serial Employee of the Month, rather than the HMMMMM-ing lardarse with a fetish for confectionery and Muppets.

And there was no shame in at least doing it part time instead of begging for money on stream to pay your bills which is shameful.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

On the "scapegoat-hunting" thing, there's an idea is business called "the tone at the top". More or less, if the person at the top of a company cares about his work, the people below him will as well, if only wants to do the bare minimum for an easy paycheck, that passes down too. Since Jews are the true master of the left in terms of their values and attitude, of course they match Jews beat for beat. Scapegoating is literally a Jewish ritual. "OY VEY! Everyone that disagrees with me is not of my tribe. Everyone that is not of my tribe is my enemy! All my enemies are NAZIS and they want to KILL 6 million of us and enslave the rest! We have to get them before they get us! I swear! Are are perfect and do nothing wrong! We are on the right side of history and are the chosen people! They hate us just because they are hateful and evil!"

That's why Nazis have been so trivialized now that no one truly cares anymore when you accuse someone of being fascist. It's the academic man's way of calling you the F-word in school. If everyone who opposes you is a Nazi, then the label stops being special.

Also, Joe McCarthy was right.

Considering how many people in the modern media and academia are open Communists, the man must be rolling in his grave.

There's a damn good reason that people in left wing circles end up getting increasingly cynical and it's because the main framework of critique they're using is the most cynical and abrasive thing imaginable.

The primary framework for media criticism in academia is critical theory - at least that's what they told me in academia. It's the exact opposite of the (forgive me allah for uttering this phrase) angry video game nerd school of criticism, where it's about the critic's opinion. Saying "it sucked, i didn't like it for these reasons" is not ~professional~ so you have to say "it's bad for these reasons". Even the name critical theory is a semantic trick that appears to be about critical thinking but it's really just about being critical. If you can say 'well lord of the rings is good but the racial allegories are a bit racist' then you can get your foot in the door for whatever you can slap on top of that initial claim. It's legitimately about finding something 'bad' in a piece of work and trying to crowbar it as wide as possible so people recognize your critique on the merits of how big the flaws are rather than any sort of critique of the thing itself. It takes any individual agency out of the act of criticism too, but some people without agency find that empowering.

The thing with critical theory using talking points to give legitimacy to an argument is that it loses its weight when everyone does it, and everyone is doing that shit right now. So you have to use increasingly higher-stakes cynicism and abrasiveness to get your foot in the door compared to all the other retards doing it, and it's reached such critical mass that it's basically impossible to use that framework of critique anymore without outright saying that the thing you're critiquing is literally hitler.

This is why no one outside of academia uses Critical Theory. Most people use older methods of critiques, while others just admit their criticisms are just opinions. Critical Theory is literally poison for any honest discourse, wrapped in the cloth of academia and professionalism. Critical Theory just tries to paint anything it critiques as Hitler 2.0, and as I said before, the more you use such descriptions towards people, whether it be fascist, racist, or sexist, the more the accusation loses its weight, and the more people identify with those accused of being fascist, racist, or sexist. That's why the Alt-Right grew in importance after the Social Justice movement became more prolific and troublesome-if they're going to be accused of being fascists, racists, or sexists anyways, then they might as well go full in and become what they're being accused of. At least it will piss off the Social Justice crowd, which is what these people want, in the end.

There's the problem - around the time Wine Aunt left CA, her reviews got more and more cynical and snarky. She's gotten to the point where almost every word in her videos drip with venom. Lindsay just stopped giving fucks about even TRYING to appear pleasant and likable anymore, which is why she wants to avoid being on screen from now on (and because she hit the wall)

She was already snarky enough as Nostalgia Chick, and that snark didn't stop rising after she left. And of course, it's hard for her to find her niche when there's no end to the number of leftist Youtube critics who can do the same job she does. Supply and demand, folks. What she's supplying, there is already too much of, so no one demands her return.

Exactly. When you can't even talk about the weather without sounding cloaked in 10 layers of snark, irony and pretention, it gets tired. It also comes across as contrived and inauthentic, a dangerous state for parasocial relationships built on perceived authenticity. The only times Lindsay has sounded as though she actually likes or enjoys something has been on the podcast when talking about musicals.

And when she can't even see the good in the things she critiques, she just comes off as ill-tempered, abrasive, and unpleasant, no matter how much she tries to paint herself otherwise. Like, why would you invest so much time on things you hate? At least the Nostalgia Critic and the AVGN get across the fact that they love movies and games, and on occasion, they'd review something they love. Outside of musicals, how many of Lindsay Ellis' reviews are positive?

Now, see, I can respect that. There's no shame in being a damn fine shop assistant. Or dustman. Or janitor. Or whatever. Quite the reverse. If only he'd stuck to it. He could be fondly and proudly regarded as a serial Employee of the Month, rather than the HMMMMM-ing lardarse with a fetish for confectionery and Muppets.

Linkara would have less fame, but more respectability, and he could probably climb the corporate ladder and maybe even become a middle-manager with a well-to-do salary that doesn't depend on him reviewing kids' shows that feature rubber monsters and robots awkwardly beating each other up.

And there was no shame in at least doing it part time instead of begging for money on stream to pay your bills which is shameful.

The man wanted to review comics as his day job, that's why he was whining about ads. He wanted to turn a hobby into a job, which is sad when he could have just continued with his real job and just did the comic reviews as a side hustle.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Also, Joe McCarthy was right.

Dude went to his grave a hated man, and modern history has proven him to be absolutely right.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Yes. It's Dany Roth, who officially trooned out last year (but has been about that ace tranny life for a long time while married to a they/them theater girl) and now goes by Lina Morgan. He's been a hanger-on to the Chez Apocalypse crowd for a decade and was getting some traction as a podcaster and movie commentator on SyFy when he publicly sperged about giving positive reviews to movies in exchange for access and derailed his own career. He still does a fair few podcasts as a sad semblance of a livelihood, including and most prominently Song vs Song with Todd, but his reputation in the industry is shit even though he wasn't wrong in claiming "everyone does it".

He was also sort-of-cancelled when Kyle Kallgren's ex-fiancee Jourdain Searles claimed Dany sexually assaulted her by kissing her at a party when they were drunk. She also fancies herself a movie critic and professional Strong Disabled Black Woman so she accused not just Dany but that entire clique of Dany, Todd, Lindsay, Beth Elderkin and their cronies from Gawker Media and CA of being racists covering up her abuse. It caused Kyle to defend his lady love and lose that entire friend group, while Jourdain made shady comments whenever she could about how terrible they all were. When Lindsay was getting flamed over the Raya Incident, Jourdain brought it up again and it did get more attention, to the point where both Dany and Todd released longass Google docs (Todd and Dany) about what really happened from their point of view.

So after being cancelled twice, he trooned out and changed his name despite having a unisex one in the first place. But you can't escape your past. As a 40+ year old man, he's kind of grown up enough to see why cancel culture is bad but not enough to not make that statement All About Him. He also never shuts the fuck up on the podcast, constantly bitching about queer shit in media.

Anyway, short answer: yes, that's a guy.

ETA: and just for fun, here's a more recent pic of Todd aka Ken He Munson
View attachment 2867153

Well, this is the crowd Todd and Lindsay has chosen. I'm just waiting for the neuralizer(s) of One Hit Wonderland, TrainWreckords, or constant tweeting about his dog or other random and pointless shit to come around before we get around to asking if he's threadworthy, and then making it if he is. Clever bastard, that Icarus.

He also never shuts the fuck up on the podcast, constantly bitching about queer shit in media.

Enough for there to be a drinking game of "take a shot every time is something is said to be a metaphor for the closet, or being in the closet"?

 

[nigga that crab pollack]

Buddy, you're saying that nobody uses critical theory, but that's almost every single media critique I've seen on youtube in the last decade. Ellis especially. They don't know what they're doing, they're just aping the people they look up to, and when you look up to PBS and NPR then it's obvious. Critical theory might be commie horseshit, but 90% of the people who use it don't go full blown pink hair with it.

Exactly. When you can't even talk about the weather without sounding cloaked in 10 layers of snark, irony and pretention, it gets tired. It also comes across as contrived and inauthentic, a dangerous state for parasocial relationships built on perceived authenticity. The only times Lindsay has sounded as though she actually likes or enjoys something has been on the podcast when talking about musicals.

Well twenty years ago the snark and cynicism was what made people seem authentic, back when the mainstream media complex was full of saccharine kumbuya bullshit. To grossly oversimplify like forty years of cultural osmosis, a ton of reactionary media in the 90s was fresh and interesting for that cynical snark, but by the time social media rolled around it had gotten to the point where literally everything coming out of mainstream media had that snark. It stopped really being "counterculture" and started just being the culture. People like Lindsay are just going through the motions and wondering why it's not working as well as it did ten, fifteen years ago.

It ties into the 'not having a real job' thing too because broadly speaking that entire age group of people who grew up to see that snark become cool kind of absorbed this twisted notion that getting a real job was for suckers because they could make the same amount of money just reviewing television shows. Why work in a factory when you can work for Wired? Well, everyone wanted to do that, so now there are tons of 30-40-somethings cloying for brain-dead 'journalism' jobs. Lindsay is just one of the successful ones and is unsurprisingly unsatisfied

 

[Ninon42]

Enough for there to be a drinking game of "take a shot every time is something is said to be a metaphor for the closet, or being in the closet"?

Nah, his drinking game is every time he says he's from New Jersey. Todd's is when he says "Y'know, it's funny..." Dany just sees everything as some type of trans allegory and went on a long rant in the Frozen 2 episode whining about why neither Anna nor Elsa were gay when the internet and their weirdass creative circle said they were.

 

[Cobalt-60]

If only Lindsay laid out her point with kinder words, like say, "Raya and the Last Dragon gives us a thoughtful look on diverse, colorful Asian cultures in the same, wonderful way that Avatar: the Last Airbender did", she'd not only still have the left's support, but she'd get fans of both works to praise her. Especially since Raya is essentially Korra lite, which wouldn't surprise me if some fans of the latter saw the former in a positive light. So it astounds me that Lindsay would speak in such an abrasive way, when huge swathes of her fanbase are all about getting triggered when someone talks the wrong way about something.

I mean, if you're a leftist film critic, and most of the people who watch your videos are leftists, and you're talking about a film that many people in the Social Justice crowd see as a work of wholesome diverse inclusivity, then pulling off this Terry Silver-style PR BS while smiling at the camera and pretending to like Raya should have been common sense. I mean, no idiot with more than two brain cells to rub who waltzes through Trump town would openly call him a traitor.

Lindsay could have also just as easily criticized Raya but rather than focus on the diversity paint, focus on the shit in the movie that the leftist crowd would immediately rally to hate: abuse apologia. The movie has a strong message about forgiving and being nice to the people who abuse you and fuck you over....because one day your kindness make change them into better people. At the same time, the movie dumps on the heroine for being distrustful of the person who never apologizes for fucking her over. Maybe it follows an Eastern philosophy that it's better for you to lie down and quit complaining for the sake of community harmony, but to a Western audience it's rather fucked up. Who cares if she pretended to be your friend so she could steal from you and destroy your family and isn't sorry for doing so, you should be nice to her!

If Lindsay had tackled the movie from that approach she would have gotten everyone in her circle praising her and probably made people a lot more critical about the movie. Instead she made the mistake of having a relatively benign take on Twitter that was easily extrapolated as some racist bullshit.