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Not really important but wendigoon has an appearance in gun meme review, partying with Brandon Herrera, grand thumb and what appears to be a krink.
 
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Not really important but wendigoon has an appearance in gun meme review, partying with Brandon Herrera, grand thumb and what appears to be a krink.
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Homie be expanding his Holy YouTube Empire, uniting the nations of true crime, guntubers, and Christians under the flag of the Goon.
 
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Not sure if this works, but Wendigoon recently did a stream where he watched two analog horror series. He also went on this rant about the first series, Urban Spooks, for being incredibly visceral, featuring very graphic descriptions of these murders or some such. Was wondering what you guys thought about this. Personally I just felt uncomfortable and uninterested, though I did not feel like making a comment on horror writing.

As for Vita Carnis, I'm only at the monolith part, but so far it's fairly mid. It's interesting enough on its premise alone, even if I feel the creator didn't go far enough with the worldbuilding. I'm reminded of Gemini Home Entertainment, that masterpice, and in some ways Broodhollow and Local 58. And I really like some of the Trevor Henderson-esque illustrations. The guy, going by his twitter page, is a very talented artist in all regards.

My only problem with it is how its presented. You have a world where living meat things have appeared over the world and have made enough of a disruption of society that a documentary to inform / promote these things to the public have been commissioned, and where you already have several great examples for how to tell this type of story, and yet it's all delivered so blandly and directly and without substance, like a shitty high school essay that was clearly written the night before. Then again it seems like the creator is fairly young -- the kind to (un)ironically call Wendingoon dad and have pronouns in his bio.
 
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like a shitty high school essay that was clearly written the night before.
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In universe the documentary series is literally that, a high school project about the creatures. If it was the author's way of going around his limitations as a videoeditor it's pretty clever.
As for UrbanSpook I like his series a lot, horror is supposed to be shocking/disturbing/disgusting after all, but it's clearly going for shock value and rides the line between being horrifying and just being an edgefest. There's always at least one layer of separation between the horrifying shit being clearly presented which elevates it from being just pure edge. The last episode is especially an assault on the senses and Wendi got further into the series than I'd imagine he would.
 
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In universe the documentary series is literally that, a high school project about the creatures. If it was the author's way of going around his limitations as a videoeditor it's pretty clever.
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Huh, now I feel dumb. Does that get mentioned in-universe at any point? Admittedly I don't care enough about it beyond whatever is related to Wendigoon.
 
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Huh, now I feel dumb. Does that get mentioned in-universe at any point? Admittedly I don't care enough about it beyond whatever is related to Wendigoon.
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In one of the later videos there's a news clipping about how a group of highschool students were arrested for making a documentary which "contained sensitive information."
 
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Not sure if this works, but Wendigoon recently did a stream where he watched two analog horror series. He also went on this rant about the first series, Urban Spooks, for being incredibly visceral, featuring very graphic descriptions of these murders or some such. Was wondering what you guys thought about this. Personally I just felt uncomfortable and uninterested, though I did not feel like making a comment on horror writing.

As for Vita Carnis, I'm only at the monolith part, but so far it's fairly mid. It's interesting enough on its premise alone, even if I feel the creator didn't go far enough with the worldbuilding. I'm reminded of Gemini Home Entertainment, that masterpice, and in some ways Broodhollow and Local 58. And I really like some of the Trevor Henderson-esque illustrations. The guy, going by his twitter page, is a very talented artist in all regards.

My only problem with it is how its presented. You have a world where living meat things have appeared over the world and have made enough of a disruption of society that a documentary to inform / promote these things to the public have been commissioned, and where you already have several great examples for how to tell this type of story, and yet it's all delivered so blandly and directly and without substance, like a shitty high school essay that was clearly written the night before. Then again it seems like the creator is fairly young -- the kind to (un)ironically call Wendingoon dad and have pronouns in his bio.
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The two best highlights of that stream are 1:27:47 where Wendigoon realizes that the comma and period keys let you skip frame by frame on YouTube videos and he has a mental breakdown over how he never realized that and he did video analysis by playing it at 0.25x speed, and 1:48:27 where he got tricked by the door knocking sound in the video twice, and only by the third time he realized it was from the video and had another mental breakdown over it. :story:
 
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I did a big thread in Art & Literature about Blood Meridian to not go too much off topic. But I just want to say that the most brutal moment in the book is one of the Indian gang members taking two infants by the hair and fucking smashing them together like it's a Mortal Kombat fatality.
 
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I'm late to complain about it now, but Wendigoon is too optimistic in his readings into Cormca McCarthy's works. I can't imagine what he would think of The Sunset Limited.
 
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRwCNiWuUpQ)

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Nipponese really going Full Chink Death on that one, I do wonder what a medical professional would say about the medical advancements by that unit. Funny that getting them nuked potentially prevented a biological weapon being unleashed on the USA, though the target being San Fransisco it wouldn't be that much of a difference. Wonder what if someone would have brought that argument in favour of nuking.

Also having an old fortress being a cover for mass human experimentation would be a kickass idea for a Resident Evil style game.
 
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I was listening to the video on the way home yesterday, so least it had gotten cleared up without much hassle.
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Fortunately for him, his audience seems to have raised enough attention to get it addressed quickly.

On an unrelated note, while searching for his twitter, this year old reddit post came up and I found it too funny not to share.
This Community is Problematic and I'm Disappointed

Hello y'all, I'm the person who asked the political stance of Wendigoon and accidentally created one of the most controversial posts on this sub ever. After looking at the comments, and the number one controversial post, I'm just so disappointed by this community.
I got a ton of comments saying that I shouldn't care about the political stance of Wendi and learn to enjoy his content. I wish I could do this and pretend to not care otherwise, but I can't. Maybe some people took it the wrong way when I termed it 'political stance'. What I really meant was that I was curious whether Wendi was a closeted bigot, which never seemed at all likely until I saw that he was following some accounts notorious for their stance towards minorities in society. Now, (probably) unlike most of you, I too am a minority in many ways, and I don't want to follow or consume the content of someone who, secretly or not, thinks that I am subhuman. Men wouldn't want to follow a content creator that believes that all men are sinful. This is not me trying to insert politics into an apolitical channel, this is me being a reasonable fucking human being.
Speaking of which, you can't hide from politics, no matter how much you hate the discourse. It's impossible and frankly irresponsible to turn a blind eye to political matters just because a channel does not go into them at such lengths. You can't just cover your ears and eyes until the only thing you hear is Wendigoon's Conspiracy Iceberg Tier 9. Just because you don't see any injustice in your own day-to-day life does not mean that injustice does not occur in any parts of the society. And seeing how politics is fundamentally a discussion on how to solve such inequalities, I think every person should at least harbor some interest in these matters. I know the content on the channel is very neutral, and that is a big reason I liked Wendigoon's content too. That's all well and good, but it shouldn't immediately lead to a knee-jerk reaction where you all flood the comments and DMs telling me that I shouldn't care and that it doesn't matter. You can say that a you want, but it does matter and I should care for reasons mentioned above.
Lastly, I have a suspicion that a not-insignificant amount of the fanbase in the subreddit has some dangerous and dehumanizing beliefs. The most controversial post of all time was a screenshot of Wendi having retweeted a message denying the effectiveness of the COVID vaccine which, you can cry and yell all you want kids, but has been proved by scientists all over the world to work. The comments on that post were beyond terrible. So many comments unironically pushing the antivax narrative, with no concrete evidence by the way; just the same regurgitation of the "side effects" as reported in the media. These comments wouldn't have gotten positive upvotes in any other subreddit, much less karma counts in ther two digits.
By the way, antivaxxers, I used to be like you. I didn't trust the media to deliver impartial news, so I took the matters in my hands and went onto Google Scholar to read a bunch of academically sound resources on the COVID vaccine, Pfizer or not. Turns out the benefits far outweigh the minimal chances of side effects which have been exaggerated by media. I'll leave you to your 'impartial' research on this one.
I digress. The point is, no matter if the majority of reactions to my post where I said that a neonazi cartoonist was bad and I was worried that Wendigoon might be a bigot were born out of a genuine exhaustion from political discourse or reflexive hatred of alt rights at seeing a liberal(me), I gotta say I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed that the so-called fans of the Youtuber with some of the chillest vibes I've seen are this quick to anger on whim, fall to unreasonably dumb conspiracy theories, and otherwise hostile ((towards me)).
You can't just pretend to be a normal community while being this toxic. It won't work out.

With comments slowly trickling into this dumbass post made a month ago, I feel like I should make it clear: All I wanted to know was if Wendigoon was a bigot or not. I dont think it's unreasonable to suggest that I do not want to support a bigoted person. I guess my mistake is conflating this with the word 'politics,' but even then, it does not justify the amount of belligerence I reveived.​

https://www.reddit.com/r/wendigoon/...community_is_problematic_and_im_disappointed/ (https://archive.is/XjhyT)
 
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On an unrelated note, while searching for his twitter, this year old reddit post came up and I found it too funny not to share.
This Community is Problematic and I'm Disappointed

Hello y'all, I'm the person who asked the political stance of Wendigoon and accidentally created one of the most controversial posts on this sub ever. After looking at the comments, and the number one controversial post, I'm just so disappointed by this community.
I got a ton of comments saying that I shouldn't care about the political stance of Wendi and learn to enjoy his content. I wish I could do this and pretend to not care otherwise, but I can't. Maybe some people took it the wrong way when I termed it 'political stance'. What I really meant was that I was curious whether Wendi was a closeted bigot, which never seemed at all likely until I saw that he was following some accounts notorious for their stance towards minorities in society. Now, (probably) unlike most of you, I too am a minority in many ways, and I don't want to follow or consume the content of someone who, secretly or not, thinks that I am subhuman. Men wouldn't want to follow a content creator that believes that all men are sinful. This is not me trying to insert politics into an apolitical channel, this is me being a reasonable fucking human being.
Speaking of which, you can't hide from politics, no matter how much you hate the discourse. It's impossible and frankly irresponsible to turn a blind eye to political matters just because a channel does not go into them at such lengths. You can't just cover your ears and eyes until the only thing you hear is Wendigoon's Conspiracy Iceberg Tier 9. Just because you don't see any injustice in your own day-to-day life does not mean that injustice does not occur in any parts of the society. And seeing how politics is fundamentally a discussion on how to solve such inequalities, I think every person should at least harbor some interest in these matters. I know the content on the channel is very neutral, and that is a big reason I liked Wendigoon's content too. That's all well and good, but it shouldn't immediately lead to a knee-jerk reaction where you all flood the comments and DMs telling me that I shouldn't care and that it doesn't matter. You can say that a you want, but it does matter and I should care for reasons mentioned above.
Lastly, I have a suspicion that a not-insignificant amount of the fanbase in the subreddit has some dangerous and dehumanizing beliefs. The most controversial post of all time was a screenshot of Wendi having retweeted a message denying the effectiveness of the COVID vaccine which, you can cry and yell all you want kids, but has been proved by scientists all over the world to work. The comments on that post were beyond terrible. So many comments unironically pushing the antivax narrative, with no concrete evidence by the way; just the same regurgitation of the "side effects" as reported in the media. These comments wouldn't have gotten positive upvotes in any other subreddit, much less karma counts in ther two digits.
By the way, antivaxxers, I used to be like you. I didn't trust the media to deliver impartial news, so I took the matters in my hands and went onto Google Scholar to read a bunch of academically sound resources on the COVID vaccine, Pfizer or not. Turns out the benefits far outweigh the minimal chances of side effects which have been exaggerated by media. I'll leave you to your 'impartial' research on this one.
I digress. The point is, no matter if the majority of reactions to my post where I said that a neonazi cartoonist was bad and I was worried that Wendigoon might be a bigot were born out of a genuine exhaustion from political discourse or reflexive hatred of alt rights at seeing a liberal(me), I gotta say I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed that the so-called fans of the Youtuber with some of the chillest vibes I've seen are this quick to anger on whim, fall to unreasonably dumb conspiracy theories, and otherwise hostile ((towards me)).
You can't just pretend to be a normal community while being this toxic. It won't work out.

With comments slowly trickling into this dumbass post made a month ago, I feel like I should make it clear: All I wanted to know was if Wendigoon was a bigot or not. I dont think it's unreasonable to suggest that I do not want to support a bigoted person. I guess my mistake is conflating this with the word 'politics,' but even then, it does not justify the amount of belligerence I reveived.​

https://www.reddit.com/r/wendigoon/...community_is_problematic_and_im_disappointed/ (https://archive.is/XjhyT)
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I'd never understand people like that. Is he trolling to stir drama? Is he trying to ruin things for everyone to feel validated? Is he just unhappy and wants everyone else to be unhappy as him?

Wendigoon talks a lot about awful people, but the current trend of what amount to awful boring bureaucrats who spread hate without letting any risk come to them is in some way worse fron the people who either accept the law of might makes right to the fullest extent, or doing horrible things for their own pleasure/a greater goal.
 
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Misery golem.. It doesn't matter if they are a troll or completely genuine, it's basically just controlling the discussion and being vaguely right about a topic. The Covid thing is trying to break the community. The best move is just to ignore them. It's like how trannies will make an entire community about themselves in order to feed their egos even though it was a community about fly fishing or minatures.
 
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