The Mysterious Mr. Enter / Jonathan Rozanski's "Growing Around" - IndieGoGo Campaign Failed, John going off the deep end, "Turning Red" is ignorant about 9/11 (later retracted)

[Piga Dgrifm]

Chapter Five:

Spoiler

 

[LiquidKid]

This is what I was getting at.

If people are already feeling the pedophilic undertones from one of the tamest books in the series, just imagine what they're gonna think when they find out about all the fucking crossdressing in the other ones.

If I had pick something that definitely destroys any chance that GA has of ever becoming an actual TV series, (besides all of Enter's other unprofessional fuck ups) it would be the sheer amount crossdressing, and other fetishistic shit in it. Maybe I'm being naive, but even if by some miracle it got past the meeting pitch, I don't think it would ever get past the censors.

You never know, Shezow existed, and that’s a show entirely based around cross dressing. And cross dressing is among the most classic of looney tunes comedy.

 

[Gingervitis]

You never know, Shezow existed, and that’s a show entirely based around cross dressing. And cross dressing is among the most classic of looney tunes comedy.

But that was before [CURRENT YEAR]. You can bet that the troons would throw a fit over crossdressing being treated as a joke.

 

[LiquidKid]

But that was before [CURRENT YEAR]. You can bet that the troons would throw a fit over crossdressing being treated as a joke.

True, but it as a joke is probably better than forced as a means of personal torture until the character is conditioned to enjoy it

 

[Crescent Fresh]

True, but it as a joke is probably better than forced as a means of personal torture until the character is conditioned to enjoy it

Honestly, in this era, I think that all that bullshit could be more of a plus than anything else as long as it’s spun the right way. That kind of “playing around with gender roles” thing tends to be catnip to the kind of audience that gets into these shows these days.

 

[BlueCandle]

Adding to the whole crossdressing thing, I can basically confirm that enter has a fetish for bodyswapping too which is a sort of complimentary kink that often goes with it. During the indiegogo streams he mentions multiple times his desire to write a body swap episode, but getting annoyed because he couldn’t think of a way to do it without resorting to fantasy or science-fiction methods which he banned from his show for some reason.

Fortunately for him, his stupid spin off series had no such rules so don’t be surprised if he pulls out a body swap script at some point.

 

[Buddy]

Didn't he already do a bodyswap script?

 

[Icarus B. Nezzer]

Adding to the whole crossdressing thing, I can basically confirm that enter has a fetish for bodyswapping too which is a sort of complimentary kink that often goes with it. During the indiegogo streams he mentions multiple times his desire to write a body swap episode, but getting annoyed because he couldn’t think of a way to do it without resorting to fantasy or science-fiction methods which he banned from his show for some reason.

Fortunately for him, his stupid spin off series had no such rules so don’t be surprised if he pulls out a body swap script at some point.

Didn't he already do a bodyswap script?

Yep. And it's even more disturbing than you'd expect.

GA Summerway Spitballs - Changing My Mind by MrEnter on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

 

[Master Shake]

Yep. And it's even more disturbing than you'd expect.

GA Summerway Spitballs - Changing My Mind by MrEnter on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

Anyone care to give me a rundown of what happens? I value my brain cells too much to read his shit. (Also he blocked me so I can't fucking see it anyway.)

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Adding to the whole crossdressing thing, I can basically confirm that enter has a fetish for bodyswapping too which is a sort of complimentary kink that often goes with it. During the indiegogo streams he mentions multiple times his desire to write a body swap episode, but getting annoyed because he couldn’t think of a way to do it without resorting to fantasy or science-fiction methods which he banned from his show for some reason.

Fortunately for him, his stupid spin off series had no such rules so don’t be surprised if he pulls out a body swap script at some point.

Yep. And it's even more disturbing than you'd expect.

GA Summerway Spitballs - Changing My Mind by MrEnter on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

It goes even further than this, my friends. His first "writing tips" guide wasn't about structuring a plot, developing an enjoyable protagonist, or making a threatening villain... No, instead it was about the all important Body-Swap episode:

Writing Tips: Building a Better Bodyswap Episode by MrEnter on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

Seriously. This is where he decided to start when he wanted to give people writing advice. Fucking this.

I've wanted to do a review on a body swap episode for the longest time, an admirable for something that got everything right or an atrocity for one that just didn't understand the concept and completely wasted it. I couldn't find either, and that's sad since body swap stories have a lot of potential that most media doesn't know or doesn't want to tap. The two main draws a writer can use a body swap episode is to closen the relationship between two characters, or to have a lot of hilarity, as a boy and a girl are swapped or an adult and a child. A third reason also presents itself: to make one person's mundane be a very difficult obsticle. We'll be talking about all three of them, and though I am an animation critic, these ideas are largely for body swap stories in live action shows or movies. (I don't think I've ever seen a video-game specific or a music-specific example of this trope in play).

But speaking of animation, there is a problem unique to body swap stories in cartoons. That is the voices. While I like the "body swap" trope, I do not like the "voices are mental trope." What essentially is done is (using a Gravity Falls example), even though Dipper is in Mabel's body, he still has Dipper's voice. While it seems an improvement in terms of comedy (after all, how funny would it be if a guy's voice came out of a girl) it's sacrificing the long-term for the short term. There is much more potential for comedy when it's absolutely impossible for someone to prove that they're not who they appear to be. Characters would have to be out-of-character stupid in order to continue thinking that there's nothing out of the ordinary with a girl having an insanely deeper voice, and as such either the episode is harmed as a result or the concept isn't used to its full potential, though there are exceptions (if person A has a special power that takes years to master, with person B in their body renders that ability unpredictable if not useless and can become the conflict).

There's a reason for this voice thing that is virtually only present in animation. Some live action shows may do it for a quick gag, but they WILL eventually drop the voices are mental trope. This isn't because people think that kids wouldn't know who is who during the body swap, it's because this is the easy way out. It's easy to switch around voices in animation and have them sound the same. What's hard to do is match someone else's speaking style. Just imagine Lilo's voice actress babbling like Stitch. The problem presented here is that it adds another layer of disbelief when you do this, and the point to telling a story is maintain the illusion as much as possible. The Disney cartoons love to use the body swap storyline, as most non-slice of life stories have had one and almost all of them keep their voices: Lilo & Stitch, Kim Possible, Gravity Falls, Darkwing Duck, Jake Long, etc. This makes it strange to me because when their live action shows do this, they voices do not switch. Oh yeah, that would be MORE work for the live action department. Seriously, the only animated body swap episode I could find that didn't have the voices swap with the minds was The Replacements. Doing this might not make your body swap episode the greatest thing ever, but it'll keep yourself ahead of the curb.

The next issue that came up a lot is time. Whether you have 11 minutes, 22 minutes, or an 1 and a half movie you want to get into the body swap as fast as possible, but you don't want to rush the catalyst. This is why Carpet Diem from Gravity Falls suffers, and becomes a weaker Gravity Falls episode and a weaker body swap episode. They spend so long establishing Dipper and Mabel's arguments and pieces of their life that once they finally do switch we're halfway through the episode. On the contrary, there's Code Lyoko who gets this step perfectly. In this 22 minute episode, how long is it until we're hit with the body swap? In the episode A Fine Mess, Odd switches bodies with Yumi... 20 seconds in. They explain the catalyst with the bodies already swapped. While they still do the voice thing, it's a perfect example to why you don't need to bog us down with the details. Chances are we know who these characters are already and we know how they contrast. One of the most important rules of storytelling is to start as late into the story as possible, and the second of being swapped seems to be that point. Literally, you could start an episode with two characters swapped and have them try to figure out why in each other's bodies. This obviously does not apply to movies where we don't know who these characters are.

Whether a body swap story lives or dies though is almost 90% dependant on how characters contrast. There are two main ways to come up with a good swap: based on appearance, or based on personality. Based on personality tends to be easier as long as you're comfortable playing with stereotypes. This is the boy swapping with the girl, the parent swapping with the child, owner swapping with pet, or some combination. The more different lives the characters lead, the better. Getting two characters leading roughly the same life is almost a death sentence, unless their personalities contrast enough. The jock swapping with the nerd. The goof-off swapping with the hard worker. Which swap you go with probably is going to depend on whether or not you're going for humor or you're going for character insight, or if you're clever enough to write with tension. Most of these scenarios are flexible enough to do them all. A parent with a child can lead to comedy with the classic role reversal of power, it can lead to tension as the child is hit with responsibility, and insight as they learn to get along.

As for a plot, there are four roads you could take. The first is characters try to live each other back as they wait for the change to reverse. The second is that characters actively go after who changed them, or try to find an artifact that can undo it. The third option is that the two characters aren't getting along, and want to sabatoge each other. The forth option, though rarely seen, is one character is happy with their new life and becomes the antagonist, trying to stop the switchback. This is usually done with villains who want to stop the hero for good, but it can also work with an average Joe who is just high on the change.

It sounds... amazingly simple, right? Have an episode with two main characters with different lives/personalities swap bodies (and voices) within two minutes of screentime, and essentially force unfitting roles on them. Unfortunately I haven't really found any episodes that did everything well. Not to mention that many series (like slice of life ones) don't give themselves the posibility to do a body swap episode at all. So... is your body swap episode good? We'll do a scoring system here:

Give the episode +5 points if the swapped characters have at least a five year age difference.
Give the episode +10 points if the swapped characters have at least a ten year age difference (does not stack with previous).
Give the episode +15 points if the swapped characters have at least a 20 year age difference (does not stack with previous).
Give the episode +10 points if the swapped characters have different genders. Keep in mind that gender is different than sex.
Give the episode +10 points if the swapped characters do not live in the same house/with the same family.
Give the episode +25 points if the swapped characters have a different species (does not stack with gender or age).
Give the episode +10 points if the episode requries the swapped characters to use each other's talents.
Give the episode +10 points if the antagonist swapped with the protagonist.
Give the episode +10 points if the swapped characters' personalities can be considered "contrasting"
Give the episode +10 points if the swapped characters have a different social standing.
Give the episode +20 points if it makes the two normally friendly characters angry with each other (the swap, not something like the contest in Carpet Diem).
Give the episode +20 points if the characters realistically learn something about the person they swapped with.
Give the episode +10 points for each extra character swapped besides the main two.
Give the episode -20 points for having characters keep their own voice. (for the entire episode/movie). Internal voice does not count.
Give the episode -5 points for each minute before the swap. (does not apply to movies)

Note that gender swapping nets the episode more 'points', as does age regression, which is worth paying attention to as well since a bit of forced infantilization is kind of just part of being an adult in the world of GA.

 

[Buddy]

"Give the episode +5 points if the swapped characters have at least a five year age difference.
Give the episode +10 points if the swapped characters have at least a ten year age difference (does not stack with previous).
Give the episode +15 points if the swapped characters have at least a 20 year age difference (does not stack with previous)."

Jesus Christ. I used to think those pedophilia accusations are just some edgelords trying to make Enter look worse, but I think I changed my mind. This is fucking creepy.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

What blows my mind the most about the whole crossdressing thing (outside of it being really gross, and creepy) is that he still includes in every episode of his show even after people pointed out how rampant, gross, and fetishistic it was.

I mean, God forbid I ever created a series that accidentally frequently included something people found fetishistic, and pedophilic. I know for a fact that I would be utterly horrified, and stop including it immediately the moment someone pointed it out to me.

The fact that Enter just doesn't, and piles it on more along with other incredibly disturbing shit is baffling, suspicious, and beyond creepy.

 

[Buddy]

Dude, why are you still here?

 

[The Last Stand]

The fact that Enter just doesn't, and piles it on more along with other incredibly disturbing shit is baffling, suspicious, and beyond creepy.

Somebody check his computer for cheese pizza. I smell a "We got them." situation.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Somebody check his computer for cheese pizza. I smell a "We got them." situation.

Enter honestly seems too developmentally stunted for that. His puritanical ranting about cartoons suggests his mentality is stuck in a pre-sexual state of arrested development.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Chapter Six. We're over halfway done now.

Spoiler

April sounds even less like a child than the others. It's kind of stunning how blatantly Enter ripped off Rarity from MLP to make her. The way that April speaks, the phrases she frequently uses, are all things that Rarity says often in the clips I have seen. April's also a fashion designer, which is Rarity's job. And April is usually with Molly, a character with a country accent that gets messy a lot, similar to how Rarity is typically in episodes with Applejack, a character with a country accent that gets messy a lot. I'm surprised no one's called him out on yet, especially considering how big he used to be in the Brony scene. If I'm able to notice it this easily, I'm sure MLP fans can pick up on even more similarities I'm missing.

 

[OmnipotentStupidity]

View attachment 1205779Dude, why are you still here?

He's like a fly fucker to honey. Every time he says he's going away, he comes back here to defend himself in an attempt to "own us" and "correct the slander we preach". Meanwhile I'm just waiting until the day he inevitably pisses off the wrong person and gets his main account and any new side accounts he'll continue to make permabanned from the site.

Then again, every time he returns, he always brings us new juicy details about his personal life to laugh at. Whilst acting just autistic enough to do so, but not enough to actually cause more than mild frustration.

What blows my mind the most about the whole crossdressing thing (outside of it being really gross, and creepy) is that he still includes in every episode of his show even after people pointed out how rampant, gross, and fetishistic it was.

I mean, God forbid I ever created a series that accidentally frequently included something people found fetishistic, and pedophilic. I know for a fact that I would be utterly horrified, and stop including it immediately the moment someone pointed it out to me.

The fact that Enter just doesn't, and piles it on more along with other incredibly disturbing shit is baffling, suspicious, and beyond creepy.

It's even stranger when you consider how much it bleeds into his reviews. Go back and watch anything of his from him announcing Growing Around in the Shorty McShorts video, and count how many times he brings up body-swapping/anything related to sissification in them. Bonus points if it has nothing to do with the episode/show he's reviewing. May not happen as much early on, but come 2018-2020: it's way more frequent than you'd think.

Doesn't matter what it is, nor how many times people point it out to him. He'll just constantly double, triple, and quadruple down on that aspect unless he either physically cannot or is forced to do so after admitting something was a massive fuck-up (i.e. his book/the Kickstarter).

 

[LiquidKid]

Somebody check his computer for cheese pizza. I smell a "We got them." situation.

Knowing him, he wouldn’t even know where to begin to look for it, so I think his hard drive is clean aside from loli hentai

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

I doubt he has lolicon. I think he legitimately doesn’t realize the sissification thing is his fetish. He keeps insisting he’s a sex repulsed asexual, but I’ve seen numerous spergs claim the same when the reality is just that they’re only attracted to a particular kink. He likely doesn’t recognize the reason he’s so drawn to this sort of content.

But, I can’t think of any other reason he has to stick it into so many scripts, draw/commission art of it so often, and bring it up in his reviews and writing guides. It can’t just be a joke, because I’d think even an autist would tire of the same joke after the tenth time it happened. It’s not Max’s “character development” as he claims because A) it happens with so many of his other characters just as often and B) Max reacts to it with displeasure every time so there’s no “development” taking place. It’s happening because he’s obsessed with it. Maybe he doesn’t realize that himself or is in denial or whatever, but it’s clear as day to anyone who’s seen enough of his work.

 

[Tragedy of the Senate]

I doubt he has lolicon. I think he legitimately doesn’t realize the sissification thing is his fetish. He keeps insisting he’s a sex repulsed asexual, but I’ve seen numerous spergs claim the same when the reality is just that they’re only attracted to a particular kink. He likely doesn’t recognize the reason he’s so drawn to this sort of content.

But, I can’t think of any other reason he has to stick it into so many scripts, draw/commission art of it so often, and bring it up in his reviews and writing guides. It can’t just be a joke, because I’d think even an autist would tire of the same joke after the tenth time it happened. It’s not Max’s “character development” as he claims because A) it happens with so many of his other characters just as often and B) Max reacts to it with displeasure every time so there’s no “development” taking place. It’s happening because he’s obsessed with it. Maybe he doesn’t realize that himself or is in denial or whatever, but it’s clear as day to anyone who’s seen enough of his work.

Considering that Enter went on a whole rant about porn and plot in his Drawing Together: The Movie review, I highly doubt he's asexual, and I'm certain this is a fetish.

I see only two other reasons as to why Enter is sticking the crossdressing into so many places:

1) Ava. We know she's super into including things like gays, bisexuals, transgenders, etc, so it's not unreasonable to think that she'd want crossdressing too, since I think it falls into the queer category. In any case, Enter is the sole writer, so he has complete control over this and shouldn't let his artist shoehorn what she wants into his project.
That's IF Ava even has a hand in this, which I doubt. As has been said here, his interest in body swapping has been present for a long while now, and crossdressing goes hand-in-hand with it.

2) He hates writing male characters. Enter's made it clear that he prefers writing for female characters because they "can do so much more" (hypocritical considering he hates boy/girl stereotypes in media). Therefore he wants the male characters wearing feminine clothing because it leans towards his preference.
Also something to keep in mind, how many guys have been the main characters of episodes compared to girls? Not many in the grand scheme of things, and it's usually Max. Keep the mentality of boys in girls' clothing (essentially being a girl character for the sake of this example) and Enter has mostly used girls as main characters because it's what he likes.