General GunTuber thread

[likeacrackado]

Book will be put out anyway I'm sure. If they drop it all the "alt" publishing companies will jump on the phones/dms to the author. I'll buy it when this happens. Probably won't have a nice hardcover though

 

[Uranus Pink]

Last I checked, Ian doesn't control any social media related to Forgotten Weapons outside of his Youtube, Patreon, Facebook and... Instagram, I think? Instagram doesn't see much use. So no, whoever is shitting up the place doesn't have his blessing.

What about the https://www.forgottenweapons.com/ website?

 

[Corn Flakes]

What about the https://www.forgottenweapons.com/ website?

That's obviously his, yes. But it's not a social media account, it's a personal website.

On the other hand, looks like he's got a Twitter since the last time I checked. So add that to the list of things he does actually control.

 

[Uranus Pink]

Thank you for the clarification.

 

[RSU 1741]

I'll go against the narrative here: the book in this form was a retardo move.

If he presented it as a study of fighting in the Ukraine with indepth commentary and first-hand accounts, or merely gave a boost to another author like he did with Ed Nash, I don't think anyone from any side would have been bothered (bar hyper-nationalistic Russians, but, eh, fuck 'em). Instead he clumsily tried to sold the memoirs of a quite peculiar character as "primary sources for modern combat" managing to place himself in an untenable position: if he trucks on he'll be branded a Nazi enabler for giving a platform to a weirdo and gain the support of a minority he doesn't want to be the champion of, if he cucks out he'll be branded as a traitor and gain nothing because another loud tard minority has already been soured.

He should have known better and sold it better. I wonder what's the backstory on this, if someone pushed for it behind the scenes or Ian is truly that clueless.

 

[Matt Damon]

I'm genuinely surprised that you people are surprised that a leftist cuck, cucked under to internet pressure.

If Ian were a leftist cuck, he'd have never considered this project in the first place, much less announced and started fundraising for it.

What you're suggesting makes no sense based on what happened just today.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I'll go against the narrative here: the book in this form was a retardo move.

If he presented it as a study of fighting in the Ukraine with indepth commentary and first-hand accounts, or merely gave a boost to another author like he did with Ed Nash, I don't think anyone from any side would have been bothered (bar hyper-nationalistic Russians, but, eh, fuck 'em). Instead he clumsily tried to sold the memoirs of a quite peculiar character as "primary sources for modern combat" managing to place himself in an untenable position: if he trucks on he'll be branded a Nazi enabler for giving a platform to a weirdo and gain the support of a minority he doesn't want to be the champion of, if he cucks out he'll be branded as a traitor and gain nothing because another loud tard minority has already been soured.

He should have known better and sold it better. I wonder what's the backstory on this, if someone pushed for it behind the scenes or Ian is truly that clueless.

Pure speculation, but I suspect the author was not willing to sell his work piecemeal and they really thought the story was interesting. And hey, they got me there. I would love to read that damn thing now, because mercenaries and foreign soldiers are always... unique characters. Generally not good people, but certainly worth talking about.

Really, they should have put it up under a pseudonym and not directly advertise it as being about someone who fought in Azov. Maybe the guy didn't want to do that either. We don't know, and we might never know, barring Ian himself revealing it on the inevitable struggle session as he apologizes for having the gall to try to publish something an angry swede wrote.

 

[Mikoyan]

Cuck status:

 

[Matt Damon]

Cuck status:
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I'm sure this will be the last time the wokefags bother Ian now that he's cucked to them.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Here's the actual video, too. Dumb move all around, Ian.

 

[CyrusHowler]

Someone said something earlier that I think is what the real situation is. Ian is kind of old fashioned and thought that people would be able to be grown up enough to read the book and separate it from the author. He didn’t expect the backlash he got and he panicked and cucked out.
Sad to see, would have loved to see him stand his ground but oh well.
From what I can see, the people in his comments are disappointed to not be able to get the book too.

 

[Mikoyan]

I'm sure this will be the last time the wokefags bother Ian now that he's cucked to them.

Exactly. I wanted to read this thing on its own merits, and I wanted to see it get done for speech-ideology reasons.

Someone said something earlier that I think is what the real situation is. Ian is kind of old fashioned and thought that people would be able to be grown up enough to read the book and separate it from the author. He didn’t expect the backlash he got and he panicked and cucked out.
Sad to see, would have loved to see him stand his ground but oh well.

He's thought that before and been wrong. Gun Jesus keeps overestimating us.

 

[CyrusHowler]

He's thought that before and been wrong. Gun Jesus keeps overestimating us.

He’s kind of old fashioned for his age. I think he keeps forgetting what kind of world we live in nowadays.

Watching the video, it sounds like he’s disappointed the book won’t be coming and he mentioned that it was taken down by the funding platform and not himself.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Well it looks like I was wrong about him holding his ground. Sad to see.

 

[Shaka Brah]

He's screwed. This is his death warrant signed and delivered to the mob. They'll never stop now that they know he's weak.

 

[CyrusHowler]

Well it looks like I was wrong about him holding his ground. Sad to see.

From what he says, it was out of his hands and Kickstarter did it.

Double post but I don’t care.

Ian looked like he was gonna cry at the end man…I genuinely think he just didn’t know how to deal with backlash like this cuz he’s been on the web for many years now and nothing like this has ever happened.

I fucking hate leftists, I really do. I guarantee if the author had been a far left ANTIFA type then they’d be creaming their little soy pants over the book.
Fuck all of them.

 

[Mikoyan]

He's screwed. This is his death warrant signed and delivered to the mob. They'll never stop now that they know he's weak.

"Aktully, Ian, you need to tell everyone to grind the Waffenamts off their guns"

From what he says, it was out of his hands and Kickstarter did it.

Yes, but that's where you go 'okay we'll look for another processor'. Because more than 'bugging Ian' they know they can go for Backerkit as the weak link.

You can't tell me they didn't know this was a risk, that's why they didn't do a crowdfund campaign, just sold through Backerkit.

Countdown to being pushed onto Subscribestar?

 

[likeacrackado]

Its very odd to me that they didn't vet anything about this situation. He truly looks blindsided by the whole thing and I cannot understand how he(or anyone else associated with the publishing) was unaware that the subject matter would lead to backlash.

Cucking out is bad, with that said, the fact that he wanted to publish it with an eye only to the interesting material rather than the overall political environment gives me a good impression of his mentality towards these things.

Spoiler: bonus comment

 

[quaawaa]

Countdown to being pushed onto Subscribestar?

Well, he's on Utreon now, and this is the list of banned topics over there:

There is a very short list of organizations who are explicitly forbidden participation, representation, or promotion of any sort on Utreon because they tolerate (or even encourage) violent bigotry and/or domestic terrorism from their membership. Individuals are likewise forbidden if their public persona is strongly associated with such an organization. The current list of pariah organizations includes: the KKK, Antifa, and neo-Nazis.

Neo-nazis is probably just so they don't turn into Bitchute with nothing but "The Jews Did Everything" conspiracy videos. KKK because its the normie thing to hate, even though they don't exist today.

The owners of that site also wrote this blog post, so as long as they exist, Ian doesn't have to worry about being banned from Patreon.

 

[Mikoyan]

Well, he's on Utreon now, and this is the list of banned topics over there:

Neo-nazis is probably just so they don't turn into Bitchute with nothing but "The Jews Did Everything" conspiracy videos. KKK because its the normie thing to hate, even though they don't exist today.

The owners of that site also wrote this blog post, so as long as they exist, Ian doesn't have to worry about being banned from Patreon.

Yes, but this book could've been framed as 'Neo-Nazi content' so idk. I too hate that free speech inevitably leads to 'nigger nigger nigger and they're the kikes' fault too'.