Really good idea to stop playing random garbage songs live and encourage people to have interesting thought provoking superchats in order to stay true to the original form of the streams. Almost everyone else would just take the money and say fuck it, the first person who comes to mind that is guilty of this is Rekieta.
I am late to the discussion, but I think Null should shill to the maximum extent his dignity allows and any handwringing about the “quality” of the podcast is whiny bullshit.
I do not begrudge the man the opportunity to make as much money as possible before the payment processors notice him again.
I don’t care if that means wading through weird parasocial bullshit. Any awkwardness is padded by the fact that my boy Null is squirrelling away cash for future pizza day.
If Null made enough money to disappear forever to a farm in Montana, I’d be sad MATI was over, but god damn does he deserve some peace and security.
It's not for his dignity, it's for the listeners of the streams - their enjoyment of a show which is interesting, funny, concise, doesn't waste their time needlessly, and one which rises above the usual dreck that "content creators" put out. If he really just wanted money then he could hustle a lot more by censoring, bending the knee, running low quality merch, etc. Its not about dignity, its about integrity.
Josh you're being groomed by the Megumins. By even indulging them you are being brought closer to anime. Today you even went as far as playing weeb music on your stream and that just shows how much influence they already have over you. You have to trust your instinct and never pay attention to anime avatars.
These degenerates worship a 14 year old anime girl. Use your brain please.
This song was used as the outro for the Deagle Nation steam. Music is music.
Have to say I totally disagree with Null's take when he played the pooner video. I see men cry all the time about male suicide rates due to not being able to share their emotions and not having anyone to talk to and how being a man is so lonely and you're never allowed to cry blahblah. That's not just something that pooners feel, this is a sentiment widely shared among men of all political spectrums and while liberal men blame "toxic masculinity" right wing men blame "feminism" and women being so mean to them when they cry (cause they trauma-dump on random women and the women are like "ew, wtf?").
This is all of course entirely self-imposed because the people who make fun of men for wanting friendship and to share their feelings are other men (like Null) saying that shit is gay. Women work hard to build social structures around them, put in effort to make and keep friendships, send out birthday cards, gifts, call each other up to see how they are doing, listen to each other and offer emotional support. In turn women are rewarded by having social companionship and people they can go cry to and get help with their problems from. Men want this same thing but without putting in any effort whatsoever. Men usually entirely rely on women to do emotional labor for them that's why they move on from mommy to wife and can barely function when left to their own devices and become depressed angry incels when no woman is around to help them process their feelings, which they have never had to learn how to do on their own.
This problem could easily be solved if men just learned how to talk to each other without making fun of each other for having feelings.
Addressed when he observed how often people who deviate from the norm suffer from mental illness. For men it's overemotional oversocialized men who don't fit in, for women it's stoic independent women who don't fit in. The social reasons for these norms isn't really what is being discussed, just the fact that there are certain norms which exist, and observable deviations from it which more often than not are the result of, or exacerbate, mental illness. The norms themselves may well be negatively reinforcing harmful stereotypes we'd be better off without, but that's not really the point.
This is all of course entirely self-imposed because the people who make fun of men for wanting friendship and to share their feelings are other men (like Null) saying that shit is gay.
He has never said having male friends is gay. In fact while refuting disaffected aloof Internet daddy types like Dick Masterson, he has gone out of his way to tell people to get off the Internet and go make friends with other men, go out and shoot a deer and skin it, do something, because caring about things is not gay. I don't recall the stream but this is a quote almost verbatim,
And yet there doesn't pass a single week where I don't hear a man whine about their high suicide statistics, male depression and how men feel sad because they can't talk to anyone about their feelings? Why do men make memes like this?
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Probably for the same reason why women make memes about feminism patriarchy and rape. In case you missed it, an entire genre of youtube videos were spawned in 2014-2015 by the likes of Serg'n of Akkad to refute memes like that. Think of how stupid the average person is, and now realize that half of them are stupider than that. These memes appeal to and intersect with the aforementioned norms that define clear and observable differences between the sexes. We are similar and distinct in strange and ludicrous ways.
"Why do I constantly see memes about male suicide?!" He cried, as he replied "Based" to a post that told men to kill themselves for being whiny bitches. Haha, you cannot possibly be real right now. And if you are, you cannot possibly care about the reasons for all of this beyond a superficial understanding. Please say sike.
