Make no mistake: everything you say about Destiny is correct and it's a stupid PR move for MauLer to do that. In this case, I find the bit with Aydin more damning than anything else. (I hope that girl gets help someday, but she probably won't); it's kinda a shame that, even on the forums, she's been dropped from the EFAP EU (I threw up in my mouth typing those six letters). The moment she became problematic, she was basically left to the wayside.
I really hate this notion in the EFAP sphere that being a reaction channel is somehow a bad thing anyway. Yes, there are some channels that are exactly what this Redditor describes, including the EFAP minis. The Batwoman EFAP minis are a prime example. They follow a strict formula: Recap what happened last time, make predictions, laugh at the show being bad, then recap how bad it was. They don't add anything substantive at all. Which, for the record, doesn't make the videos valueless. You don't have to have a substantive opinion on everything you watch.
The funny thing is that they make this argument all the time for why 3 is bad, but completely discount anyone who values themes in things that they dislike. I think it stems from the people they argued with forever ago in regards to TLJ, but I'm not entirely sure. It's the same shit they do with Batwoman, actually. There's moments in that show that are fairly contrived solely to push a pro-LGBT message. This bothers the EFAP crew. It bothers me to. It bothers them because politics makes them feel icky or something. It bothers me because I don't like fags. Nonetheless, I can see why people who lean in favor of LGBT stuff might appreciate that messaging. I can see where the writers are coming from and why they felt the message justified the contrivance. The EFAP crew simply don't care about that. They have no interest in the art or the artist, they only have interest in how the art can serve as entertainment for them. They're just consoomers with a more elitist mindset.
Rate me autistic but I think that the "art is objective, themes don't matter" argument is a development of the "art is apolitical" stance that people took against SJWs. Yeah, we all laugh when Lindsay Ellis makes a video on feminist theory in the Transformers, and I do hate the fact that modern critical theory has led to the widespread belief that all tv show writers have to incorporate hot-button politics into their material. But in retrospect, the opposite position that stories can be purely neutral with no ideology basically does what MauLer does, it removes the artist from the equation.
Y'know, for people who constantly harp about "visuals don't matter as much as the writing", they were really pedantic about that shaky cam.
This is what's inspiring about EFAP: knowing you can not pay attention and make no effort to understand what you're talking about and still be taken seriously as a voice of criticism. So thank you, EFAP, for setting the bar so low.
Or pointing out something to criticize only to realize it wasn't even a problem. Like Jay saying "why does Obi-Wan need binoculars to watch Luke" only to realize that it's because he's far away.
I doubt MauLer would be pissing himself if a celebrity he liked hopped on the Morbius train. But yeah, how dare Jared Leto participate in the meme.
Typical YouTuber becomes slightly popular and wants to fuck teen girls and surprise surprise they get outted.
Dick dropped the ball hard at the end. Could have and should have said "No, I have a problem with them pretending they're objective when they aren't. They can value bra sizes and luminosity for all I care."
Is it bad if I wish that were more common? The outting I mean. A lot of popular youtubers out there who need to be driven off into the woods but no one ever says anything.
If the movie is not part of the MCU then no.
