Conrad Aaron Collins / Diginée / Digibro / Digibrony / Otaku Gonzo Journalism & the Pro Crastinators Podcast - Pedophile, Two-Faced Weeaboo Ponyfag Youtube Analyst Who Wants to be a Loli + Drama, Friends & Enemies

[NotTheBooks]

This so far excellent documentary (with a part 2 to come) on Digibro came out a week ago:

From the comments:

That's some 1984 level of rewriting history. We've always been at war with East Maysia.

 

[Retink]

I'd argue that TV series or films don't really match up to novels in the detailed story they tell, but there are many heroic epics or even folk tales that are about a hero struggling against something, be it the gods, society, nature and/or himself.

Sure and I've probably had more of a reaction to books than visual media, especially stories where someone is struggling until their hands are bleeding and they're completely spent but they still lose essentially, but I never thought that was too anxiety inducing or whatever.

 

[Lolidaki]

I'd argue that TV series or films don't really match up to novels in the detailed story they tell, but there are many heroic epics or even folk tales that are about a hero struggling against something, be it the gods, society, nature and/or himself.

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So apparently an archive of the said video is no longer valid. Maybe Digi - sorry - "Trixie" can try that in court when the IRS catch up to him.

the fag has so many videos he contradicts and trips over himself constantly, a negative in one video can easily end up being positive in another and vice versa.

 

[Law]

The resemblance is fuckin uncanny

Lucky also made his girlfriend do everything and mantrum-ed his way into $50,000.

He always finds a way to surprise me with his horrible decisions.

And that's why he's a lolcow.

Why does he think he's an influencer? The average person has no idea who this fool is.

I think this is true of most people who consider themselves influencers.

The answer would be forcing himself to grow up by surrounding himself with people that make him not being able to regress

Who would want to be around him? Besides Bird and Mint? People with real jobs who could force him to get one wouldn't want to hang out with him. What does he even do all day?

How much of this disinterest in shonen in favor of moe because muh femininity do you suppose isn’t actually him retconning his own life to somehow prove he’s been trans all along?

He liked Linkin Park - the Shonen of music.

 

[Pierrot Lunaire]

He liked Linkin Park - the Shonen of music.

Digi made some videos about Linkin Park in his Fantano-inspired side-channel back in the day, and I remember him saying that listening to Chester Bennington made he realize it's okay to have a pretty voice even if you're a man, and that he came to terms with his high-pitched voice thanks to Linkin Park. Doesn't sound like the average shounen loving Linkin Park fan.

 

[Law]

I remember him saying that listening to Chester Bennington made he realize it's okay to have a pretty voice even if you're a man, and that he came to terms with his high-pitched voice thanks to Linkin Park.

That's just more troon retconning. I think he liked Linkin Park for the same reasons all the other white teen boys from the suburbs liked Linkin Park, and they can't all be secret anime girls on the inside.
He wasn't talking about how O-Town had high voices but were still men.
I think Digi really was pretty typical.

Spoiler: Now with added autism

Edit to add: Something that always stood out to me about Digi and other weeb troon men is how they take being part of heavily male-dominated fan bases for shows made by men, for men, as proof that they're female. Are there any female Love Life fans? Any women who obsess over "cute girls doing cute things" shows? Where's Digi's essay about Nana? Why doesn't XXXHolic turn anyone trans?
I really think that Saito Tamaki was on to something with his thesis in Beautiful Fighting Girl, namely that anime about "girls" has nothing to do with actual women at all. It's just male psychological anxieties and projections. It's as masculine as you can get.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

Look, ain't nothing wrong with liking Linkin Park.
We all had a phase lmao.

 

[Pipi420]

Sword Art Online is about a brave and powerful warrior who saves the world, his friends and is a married man with a wife and a child who love him.

Is that the real reason DIgi hated the series?

Digi made some videos about Linkin Park in his Fantano-inspired side-channel back in the day, and I remember him saying that listening to Chester Bennington made he realize it's okay to have a pretty voice even if you're a man, and that he came to terms with his high-pitched voice thanks to Linkin Park. Doesn't sound like the average shounen loving Linkin Park fan.

Can you guys stop trying to attribute sane human behavior to being a tranny please?

 

[Some Badger]

I'd argue that TV series or films don't really match up to novels in the detailed story they tell, but there are many heroic epics or even folk tales that are about a hero struggling against something, be it the gods, society, nature and/or himself.

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So apparently an archive of the said video is no longer valid. Maybe Digi - sorry - "Trixie" can try that in court when the IRS catch up to him.

I find this interaction deeply amusing because MercuryFalcon is one of the niche retro anitubers Digi has been kissing ass as of late in an effort to salvage his career and “befriend the Internet” and all that gay shit. Of course, even smaller anitubers like MF can see that kind of dick riding from a mile away, so props to him for calling Digi out on his past breaches of journalistic integrity.

Makes me wonder though: do troons consider posting footage of their pre-transition self a form of deadnaming?

 

[Fuck It We'll Do It Live]

The Yggers try to e-bully some 40 year old "grandpa" (because apparently the Yggers are spring chickens themselves) because he didn't like the latest Thor movie and doesn't like "modern mainstream comics" in general; I don't want to give the non-Digi Yggers too much clout so here is the link if anyone wants to read the online 'debate':

Most importantly in all of this for those interested in the main subject of this thread is that Digi wades in to both promote the idea that SUCKERPUNCH is "representative diversity in media production" and to do some Dickguarding on the side:

 

[Roundman]

Something that always stood out to me about Digi and other weeb troon men is how they take being part of heavily male-dominated fan bases for shows made by men, for men, as proof that they're female. Are there any female Love Life fans? Any women who obsess over "cute girls doing cute things" shows? Where's Digi's essay about Nana? Why doesn't XXXHolic turn anyone trans?

I'm not really taking a stance on your overall point here, but since this isn't the first time someone has brought up the 'by men, for men' idea ITT, in relation to Conrad and K-On, I think it's important in the interest of honest discussion to note that K-On was directed by a woman and the script and screenplay were written by women, as well as the animation director and many of the animators also being women; which seems to go against the point. It's a similar case with Conrad's other favourite cute girls anime, Hidimari Sketch, which was also originally created by a woman.

Not so much for Love Live, but I know from experience that it's very easy to find female mega-fans of K-On, probably owing to the 'realism' those women brought to it. I can see where you're coming from with an anime like Love Live, but at the same time while that show is very obviously the product of soulless and male dominated production committees, the fanbase isn't much of a tranny hot-spot either, it's mostly very straight, albeit annoying, otaku-type men in my experience.

 

[believe all women]

I'm not really taking a stance on your overall point here, but since this isn't the first time someone has brought up the 'by men, for men' idea ITT, in relation to Conrad and K-On, I think it's important in the interest of honest discussion to note that K-On was directed by a woman and the script and screenplay were written by women, as well as the animation director and many of the animators also being women; which seems to go against the point. It's a similar case with Conrad's other favourite cute girls anime, Hidimari Sketch, which was also originally created by a woman.

Not so much for Love Live, but I know from experience that it's very easy to find female mega-fans of K-On, probably owing to the 'realism' those women brought to it. I can see where you're coming from with an anime like Love Live, but at the same time while that show is very obviously the product of soulless and male dominated production committees, the fanbase isn't much of a tranny hot-spot either, it's mostly very straight, albeit annoying, otaku-type men in my experience.

There are some women in the manga/anime industry, the same way there are some women in the videogame industry, and any other male-dominated media sphere. It doesn't change the fact that these are overwhelmingly male interests. Different people can appreciate different things from the same media. The observation that a huge portion of the MTF community is obsessed with (or even centers their entire lifestyle around) male interests is a valid point, and one of the many things that make us doubt their claims to be women born in male bodies.

I noticed that you have been a member since 2021 and only have 7 messages. What was it about this post that inspired you to log back in to make your first comment in over half a year?

EDIT: I meant MTF, not FTM.

 

[Roundman]

There are some women in the manga/anime industry, the same way there are some women in the videogame industry, and any other male-dominated media sphere. It doesn't change the fact that these are overwhelmingly male interests. Different people can appreciate different things from the same media. The observation that a huge portion of the FTM community is obsessed with (or even centers their entire lifestyle around) male interests is a valid point, and one of the many things that make us doubt their claims to be women born in male bodies.

I noticed that you have been a member since 2021 and only have 7 messages. What was it about this post that inspired you to log back in to make your first comment in over half a year?

Like I said, I'm not commenting on this transgender hypocrisy as a whole as I'm not here to start arguments or try and make people look like idiots or whatever, but it's important to be truthful. Bringing up K-On and the idea of 'male dominated media by men, for men' together in the same breath like a user did a few pages back is just being ignorant, and using Digi's cutesey interests as examples in this particular case is simply ironic since the ones he likes the most at best have sizeable female fanbases, and at worst are predominantly created by women. K-On isn't an example of there being 'some women' present, practically all the creative positions were filled by them (I think he even touched on this in his video about it, but it's been a while), and that's without mentioning how huge it was in female-dominated spaces like tumblr when it was releasing, or that anime as a whole is currently probably more popular amongst women and girls than it ever has been thanks to Netflix.
There might be a case for those other than Digi, but then again if you look at the fanbases of the actual 'by men for men'-type anime/anime girl games, like Love Live, Nepgear, Idolmaster, Senran Kagura, Uma Musume, Fate spinoffs and so on, you don't really find trannies, just otaku men with shit taste. Trannies are actually very careful about what they consume because their identities revolve around image, so you'll rarely find them engaging with anime that don't have that feminine or LGBT aspect to the production- think more CLAMP, Ikuhara anime, and KyoAni.

Spoiler: off topic

In regards to you asking about me, if there's something that needs to be said or clarified that nobody else is doing, then I'll post about it. This thread is a good resource and if I can be helpful to facilitate discussion then I'll do so. If there are other people who have already said something I'm thinking and expressed it much better, which is usually the case, then it would be redundant to write anything. I also have a 'lurk before posting' mentality and don't plan on jumping in and spamming thousands of messages despite being a relatively new member to the site.

 

[Protistology]

Like I said, I'm not commenting on this transgender hypocrisy as a whole as I'm not here to start arguments or try and make people look like idiots or whatever, but it's important to be truthful. Bringing up K-On and the idea of 'male dominated media by men, for men' together in the same breath like a user did a few pages back is just being ignorant, and using Digi's cutesey interests as examples in this particular case is simply ironic since the ones he likes the most at best have sizeable female fanbases, and at worst are predominantly created by women. K-On isn't an example of there being 'some women' present, practically all the creative positions were filled by them (I think he even touched on this in his video about it, but it's been a while), and that's without mentioning how huge it was in female-dominated spaces like tumblr when it was releasing, or that anime as a whole is currently probably more popular amongst women and girls than it ever has been thanks to Netflix.
There might be a case for those other than Digi, but then again if you look at the fanbases of the actual 'by men for men'-type anime/anime girl games, like Love Live, Nepgear, Idolmaster, Senran Kagura, Uma Musume, Fate spinoffs and so on, you don't really find trannies, just otaku men with shit taste. Trannies are actually very careful about what they consume because their identities revolve around image, so you'll rarely find them engaging with anime that don't have that feminine or LGBT aspect to the production- think more CLAMP, Ikuhara anime, and KyoAni.

Spoiler: off topic

In regards to you asking about me, if there's something that needs to be said or clarified that nobody else is doing, then I'll post about it. This thread is a good resource and if I can be helpful to facilitate discussion then I'll do so. If there are other people who have already said something I'm thinking and expressed it much better, which is usually the case, then it would be redundant to write anything. I also have a 'lurk before posting' mentality and don't plan on jumping in and spamming thousands of messages despite being a relatively new member to the site.

Hi Conrad.

 

[Pierrot Lunaire]

I'm not really taking a stance on your overall point here, but since this isn't the first time someone has brought up the 'by men, for men' idea ITT, in relation to Conrad and K-On, I think it's important in the interest of honest discussion to note that K-On was directed by a woman and the script and screenplay were written by women, as well as the animation director and many of the animators also being women; which seems to go against the point. It's a similar case with Conrad's other favourite cute girls anime, Hidimari Sketch, which was also originally created by a woman.

Not so much for Love Live, but I know from experience that it's very easy to find female mega-fans of K-On, probably owing to the 'realism' those women brought to it. I can see where you're coming from with an anime like Love Live, but at the same time while that show is very obviously the product of soulless and male dominated production committees, the fanbase isn't much of a tranny hot-spot either, it's mostly very straight, albeit annoying, otaku-type men in my experience.

That's a lot of bullshit. K-ON is published in Manga Time Kirara, a seinen magazine i.e. a magazine aimed at adult men. Hidamari Sketch is also published in Manga Time Kirara. It's irrelevant whether they were written by women or adapted to anime by women, both were originally manga intended for an adult male audience. That's like arguing that Fullmetal Alchemist is intended for little girls because it was written by a woman, conveniently ignoring the fact that it is published in a shounen magazine for young boys.

The Kirara line of magazines that publishes K-ON, Hidamari, New Game, Yuru Camp, Gakkou Gurashi and pretty much all of the popular "cute girls doing cute things" manga is so prominent in Japan they call the entire genre Kirara-kei (Kirara style). And every single one of the Kirara magazines is seinen.

Idol and Kirara-style anime are marketed to men, and cute boy shows, BL, and male idols are marketed to women.

 

[believe all women]

Bringing up K-On and the idea of 'male dominated media by men, for men' together in the same breath like a user did a few pages back is just being ignorant, and using Digi's cutesey interests as examples in this particular case is simply ironic since the ones he likes the most at best have sizeable female fanbases, and at worst are predominantly created by women.

I'm not really concerned about who makes the media, because while it might be a passion project for the writers and directors, it is ultimately a job for most of the people involved. As for who actually consumes this media, I suspect there is a split between female children (the target audience...supposedly) and socially maladjusted male adults, which is the same as Conrad's original blogging interest, My Little Pony.

Trannies are actually very careful about what they consume because their identities revolve around image, so you'll rarely find them engaging with anime that don't have that feminine or LGBT aspect to the production- think more CLAMP, Ikuhara anime, and KyoAni.

I don't think trannies are "careful" about their media consumption at all. It seems like they can't wait to sink their teeth into every popular show imaginable and explain that if one male character so much as smiles at another, they're a "ship" that is probably already banging one another.

 

[malapropism]

I can't believe this man once hosted a panel at anime expo, and a full one at that. Hype was so real that i was thought weird in a realm of weirds for not "getting" his essays/humor/persona/whatever.
Id say the fall from grace is far more interesting and cautionary that most overplayed lolcow/internet history subjects but just like any of his tracts or interests, it just ends.
He's like Citizen Kane without Rosebud.

About the moe/female character dominated series, its really just an open avenue that Japan has really made an industry out of, and that girls can be an avatar of situational humor, especially if one is isolated from them to the point mundane normal things are interesting - those series detail the onsen expeirence often not for fanservice alone but letting the reader/viewer into a window of what girls do. Don't get too lost in the demographic targeting of magazines, Prince of Tennis has an almost entirely female fanbase despite being in Jump, and Cardcaptor Sakura is heavily male on both sides of the ocean despite being from Nakayoshi.
Either from perfect timing, a network effect, or really really good color theory/visual design My Little Pony filled this niche in the nerd scene in the west and was either a connection to whatever feminine properties they saw in their youth or a fresh perspective on entertainment that might of worn out over time (bronies don't have the population they had decade ago - I see it discussed more on japanese sites now than english) In a sense some teenagers went from idolizing badass self insert heroes who love their allies (fps vidya, shonen anime) into wanting to be popular with a set of female friends, and maybe the lack of a direct self insert leads to trannyism idk.

I won't even armchair diagnose digi because anything i described here could apply to him

 

[暑いバンス]

He's like Citizen Kane without Rosebud.

his last words before he died were "brony lecture"

 

[Nick Obre]

his last words before he died were "brony lecture"

"...horseshoe..."

 

[Pierrot Lunaire]

Don't get too lost in the demographic targeting of magazines, Prince of Tennis has an almost entirely female fanbase despite being in Jump, and Cardcaptor Sakura is heavily male on both sides of the ocean despite being from Nakayoshi.

That is true, but I would argue there is a clear difference between Cardcaptor Sakura and MLP having crossover appeal to a male audience, and a series being made primarily for a male audience in the first place. I'm sure there are girls who are into cute girls doing cute things and idol anime out there, but that doesn't change the fact that these series are filled with boob jokes, yuri bait and panty shots, that idol concerts have an overwhelmingly male audience, and that these kinds of manga are usually seinen.