I played this in the background as I was exploring Elden Ring in excitement for the expansion. I didn't even really pay attention I just want to spite In Praise of Shadows by giving Wendigoon views.
Yes Zane, Wendigoon has an audience on the notorious Kiwifarms. Make a new video exposing him for that!
You aren't spitting the guy because he doesn't even know you exist, and wendi has close to 4 million subs. Wendi could upload a 5 second video of him belching directly into the camera and get more views than that pooner looking faggot could ever hope for.
You aren't spitting the guy because he doesn't even know you exist, and wendi has close to 4 million subs. Wendi could upload a 5 second video of him belching directly into the camera and get more views than that pooner looking faggot could ever hope for.
FInally watched the Cthulhu vid and I don't like it. It feels very "this is my first time exploring Lovecraft and here's my thinks". Especially his normie tier "lol boat" view point. CoC definitely isn't HP's best work, though I'm personally very partial to it, but Wendi seems to have based his opinion on it from the stance of "this is the most popular story the man did. And I'll judge it as such".
He's a faggot and will seethe over anything as we've been made aware. Breadtubers hate everything that isn't their very specific brand of faggotry anyway. I just think it's retarded to be on some dumb anti-bandwagon to stick it to someone who doesn't matter and got ratioed by basically everyone who cared. The damage was already done. Why give these irrelevant cunts any amount of rent in your head?
It feels very "this is my first time exploring Lovecraft and here's my thinks". Especially his normie tier "lol boat" view point. CoC definitely isn't HP's best work, though I'm personally very partial to it, but Wendi seems to have based his opinion on it from the stance of "this is the most popular story the man did. And I'll judge it as such".
This was my interpretation too, although I was pleased that Wendi wasn't going for low blows on racism. (I wonder if you would get demonetized for "degenerate esquimaux.")
You can't take your first look at Lovecraft in 2024 and get the same impression that someone did in the '20s.
This is the same way you can't show someone first-season Twlight Zones without half the twists seeming hackneyed, and the same way the modern eye looks at an episode of Star Trek: TOS and sees how much writing is clichéd, how much of the set is stolen from the Mission: Impossible dumpster. Some works have had such pervasive influence on their whole genre (and beyond) that going back to the original, everything seems predictable and done-before... because this is what did it first.
There's another part of Lovecraft's influence that is forgotten by surface-level reviewers: his insane networking skills, backed by his good humor and beyond-prolific correspondence. Much of his writing was unpaid, or barely paid, but he wrote to and with dozens of other writers, big names and nobodies. If HPL were born 100 years later, he would have thrived on the Internet. He'd have been a Reddit powermod or a big name in fandom, answering every single post on his multiple Livejournals.
SJW types act like they definitely wouldn't have been racists, or at least nationalists, years ago when that was the accepted outgroup to stigmatize. I've never ever seen a source on "the KKK told Lovecraft to tone it down;" the KKK doesn't exactly seem like the type to notice pulp writers. HPL was a Le Wrong Generation teaboo (occasionally Romeaboo) and if his timeline happened later, he'd be cheerfully bitching about allosexuals or his sadbrains, because that's the modern equivalent. Writing cat anecdotes in his letters would be 1:1 with emails and blogposts, though.
All those letters and all those friendships are the other reason there's still a "Cthulhu Mythos." Writers borrowing their friends' OC elder gods/cursed tomes as little jokes, or to make the reader wonder briefly if maybe X grimoire is real--after all, both these writers mention it in passing. If Lovecraft weren't so chummy, there wouldn't have been a Derleth and an Arkham House to keep Lovecraft's name alive.
FInally watched the Cthulhu vid and I don't like it. It feels very "this is my first time exploring Lovecraft and here's my thinks". Especially his normie tier "lol boat" view point. CoC definitely isn't HP's best work, though I'm personally very partial to it, but Wendi seems to have based his opinion on it from the stance of "this is the most popular story the man did. And I'll judge it as such".
He's a faggot and will seethe over anything as we've been made aware. Breadtubers hate everything that isn't their very specific brand of faggotry anyway. I just think it's retarded to be on some dumb anti-bandwagon to stick it to someone who doesn't matter and got ratioed by basically everyone who cared. The damage was already done. Why give these irrelevant cunts any amount of rent in your head?
FInally watched the Cthulhu vid and I don't like it. It feels very "this is my first time exploring Lovecraft and here's my thinks". Especially his normie tier "lol boat" view point. CoC definitely isn't HP's best work, though I'm personally very partial to it, but Wendi seems to have based his opinion on it from the stance of "this is the most popular story the man did. And I'll judge it as such".
He's basically Oprah for zoomers. His take on Blood Meridian isn't deep either, but it got a lot of people interested in reading that book to the point where sales of it increased significantly around the time he made that video. Perhaps he wasn't responsible for those sales, but it seems likely because he was the only one talking about the book at the time. His takes might not be deep but I appreciate that he's getting a lot of people interested in cool books and films.
Personally, I like the guy and I'm curious to see if his turn the other cheek behavior actually works. General advice regarding progressive leftists is that it's a bad idea to apologize to shitheads like In Praise of Shadows because they see this as a weakness and go for the throat, but he is doing the Christian thing and I want to see if he succeeds as a result.
Haven't watched yet but if he only covers CoC I'm going to pass. I've read through the entirety of Lovecraft's work before, there's plenty of way better stories more indicative of his style and ability.
I liked the blood meridian story because it's in a genre and style I've never really been interested in but the video was a good introduction to it.
No need to watch, as others have said, a normiefied take on Lovecraft's work.
It was likely a large part. This was before the movie announcement so the only thing going on was Cormac doing interviews, a clear sign he was sick and didn't have long.
Only reason we haven't seen him take on the Gooner yet is because the last time he tried going after a massively well liked youtuber, Internet Historian, it amounted to jack shit because IH doesn't acknowledge drama. Has nothing to do with Goon being "difficult prey". If anything he's actually an easy target because he puts more of his actual life and beliefs out there and is incapable of ignoring shit.
The absolute non-reaction from IH was the best part of that. I bet 'lil Harry really thought he stuck it to a big wrongthinker and it'd torpedo his audience.
I wish Wendigoon went that route, but what can you do? He's trying to be a good Christian boy. That said I've found his actual content to be a bit mid lately. He's consistently funny on the CreepCast though, so I don't know why his main channel content has been lagging.
Eh, his wife is into the same shit. She even seemed to be a bit more of a sperg about it based on what I remember of their conversations back in the patreon podcast days. Hell she wendi were edgy enough to have zero hesitation calling his subs and patrons retards for having opinions
I think it's just as simple as him being too big to ignore/slip under the radar, even with his personal handlers at youtube who will help him keep his vids monetized, as well as being spread thin across multiple podcasts.
Plus when everything you do is clearly being scrutinized by culture vultures like HBomb or that In Shadows faggot, it's not surprising. Especially when instead of just turning the other cheek and ignoring it like an IH does, you feel the need to address it because you're too nice not to.
Oh man I really wish we got The Thing in the Basement part 2 instead of this. Don't even know what to say the whole story's pretty much just like those old super graphic creepypastas, short and straight to the point without any real meaning to it beyond the shock value. Only instead of people being horribly mutilated and filmed for the protagonist to view, it's... well, this. It is effective for what it is, though I really can't see why it got two prequels and a sequel. I think someone needs their hard drive checked.
I was wondering if they were going to cover the more disturbing ones. I'm kind of hoping they do the 1%, just because I remember it was gross but don't remember if it was any good.
Oh man I really wish we got The Thing in the Basement part 2 instead of this. Don't even know what to say the whole story's pretty much just like those old super graphic creepypastas, short and straight to the point without any real meaning to it beyond the shock value. Only instead of people being horribly mutilated and filmed for the protagonist to view, it's... well, this. It is effective for what it is, though I really can't see why it got two prequels and a sequel. I think someone needs their hard drive checked.
Vaguely remember the name Tommy Taffy, is it the one about a vampire or something that fucks with a family throughout the generations and rapes the children?
I thought the story seemed really effective for like 98% of it (depending on how long the parts that they paraphrased were) and that last 2% really just needed to be elegantly glossed over, "He wanted to teach me about alone time" like Meat put it I thought would have been more than enough of an explanation. I did really like the part where Tommy asked the dad if he loved the bear. I didn't read the original to see exactly how it was put, but that explanation and the lingering trauma and consequences that would result from it is really haunting and effective imo. The ending of the first part was excellent. Kinda torn on if I want more, if the other parts are significantly different I'd be interested but if it's just more of the same, especially with the pedo shit, I think this one episode is enough
Decent episode of Red Thread as well. Mostly DB Cooper is just a fun story. I was vaguely aware of the general situation, guy says he has a bomb on a plane, asks for cash, jumps out and is never seen again. But some of the details that they get into later on into the episode, specifically regarding the parachutes that he was given, are surprisingly interesting if, like me, you've heard about it but never actually dug into the full investigation
Watching them slowly realize exactly what direction the story was going in was darkly funny.
I actually agree with Hunter on this one, they needed to elaborate more on Tommy Taffy. What exactly his lesson were about and more than just sexual abuse.
They need to shut up about how tough they are and what they think they would have done when a demon is raping them and their children.
Oh and make sure we blame the fucking dad, and only the dad, when the story is a metaphor for the cycle of abuse and it's very clear both of the parents chose to continue the cycle, not just the dad.
Horrible fucking episode and made even worse by two retards who can't just read the next goddamn paragraph without stopping to make sure, "HEY. YOU DON'T LIKE CHILD RAPE? NEITHER DO WE. IT'S BAD, RIGHT?"
Yes. It's bad. Read the story. Neither of you are being funny. Neither of you are adding anything. Glad you think you'd have done better in the position of the dad but no you wouldn't have and shut the fuck up. Jesus Christ.
Implying child rape is tasteless and cheap shock value, but writing graphic child rape scenes is good writing, good horror, as long as you use sufficient flowery language and backstory.
