Todd In The Shadows

Is Todd In The Shadows a lolcow?

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Anonitolia said:
Weird, Youtube told me it was a month.
Regardless of that: if the podcast is also running behind, that's something. Maybe he just went on vacation and didn't feel the need to announce it.
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Could be that him getting older and trying to keep up with a scene that is aimed at much younger people is really exhausting. I would probably feel that way if I were him.
 
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New Todd, specifically Trainwreckords, complete with Lindsay shilling at the end
It's been both funny and sad to see that, as Todd has totally lost sponsors for the most part, he is now wasting his audience's time with slots at the end that would've been saved for sponsors now being taken up by unrepentant shilling of some random girl more popular than him that he really really wants to get with
As for the actual video, I think it's kind of boring. Feels worse than the rest but it's hard to pinpoint why. Maybe because of the extended break his usual whining about "lame white people" and "homophobia and racism being the driving force behind disco hate" is more annoying than usual. (Both near-direct quotes from the video btw. Second one might be slightly off because I only heard like 95% of it.)
 
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Anonitolia said:
New Todd, specifically Trainwreckords, complete with Lindsay shilling at the end
As for the actual video, I think it's kind of boring. Feels worse than the rest but it's hard to pinpoint why. Maybe because of the extended break his usual whining about "lame white people" and "homophobia and racism being the driving force behind disco hate" is more annoying than usual. (Both near-direct quotes from the video btw. Second one might be slightly off because I only heard like 95% of it.)
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I rolled my eyes far back into my head when he said that everybody knows that racism and homophobia are what fueled the disco backlash. Only for him to point out a couple of minutes later, as though it was some profound and obscure fact, that a lot of disco was actually awful overproduced slop, that it was everywhere, and that it crowded out pretty much every other kind of music for a good couple of years, and that may have been a factor in the backlash.

Way to figure out what literally everyone outside of your echo chamber has known for decades, Todd you moron. P.S. Lindsay will never fuck you.
 
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Idiot Asshole said:
I rolled my eyes far back into my head when he said that everybody knows that racism and homophobia are what fueled the disco backlash. Only for him to point out a couple of minutes later, as though it was some profound and obscure fact, that a lot of disco was actually awful overproduced slop, that it was everywhere, and that it crowded out pretty much every other kind of music for a good couple of years, and that may have been a factor in the backlash.
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It actually took me a moment to register just how easily that first conclusion came to him when I initially heard it
How balls-deep do you have to be in leftist retardation and misanthropy for your immediate first assumption regarding the fate of disco to be "people hated minorities so they hated this music genre because it originated in minority communities"?
 
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Ninon42 said:
Weakest episode of Trainwreckords. The jokes (such as they were) failed to land and his commentary on race tried so hard and missed. The writing also came across as unnatural and overly scripted. Is Todd even trying anymore?
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He probably rushed this episode to get his Patreon check for the month. It could of have been worse, considering the Pop Song Review of Last Night.
 
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The only thing I have to say about Lindsay is this: Is Nebula really the ONLY place where Todd can get a sponsorship deal these days? If that's the case, that's gotta be pretty freaking sad.

As for backlash, I only look to Disco Demolition Night. Here's the backgroud section from its Wikipedia:

Disco evolved in the late 1960s in inner-city New York City nightclubs, where disc jockeys played imported dance music. Although its roots were in African-American and Latin American music, and in gay culture, it eventually became mainstream; even white artists better known for more sedate music had disco-influenced hits, such as Barry Manilow's "Copacabana".[1] The release of the hit movie Saturday Night Fever in 1977,[2] whose star (John Travolta) and musical performers (the Bee Gees) presented a heterosexual image, helped popularize disco in the United States. As Al Coury, president of RSO Records (which had released the bestselling soundtrack album for the film) put it, Saturday Night Fever "took disco out of the closet".[3]

Some felt disco was too mechanical; Time magazine deemed it a "diabolical thump-and-shriek".[2][4] Others hated it for the associated scene, with its emphasis on personal appearance and style of dress.[2][4] The media emphasized its roots in gay culture. According to historian Gillian Frank, "by the time of the Disco Demolition in Comiskey Park, the media ... cultivated a widespread perception that disco was taking over".[5] Performers who cultivated a gay image, such as the Village People (described by Rolling Stone as "the face of disco"), did nothing to efface these perceptions, and fears that rock music would die out increased after disco albums dominated the 21st Grammy Awards in February 1979.[6]

In 1978 WKTU (now WINS-FM) in New York, a low-rated rock station, switched to disco and became the most popular station in the country; this led other stations to try to emulate its success.[3] In Chicago, 24-year-old Steve Dahl was working as a disc jockey for ABC-owned radio station WDAI (now WLS-FM) when he was fired on Christmas Eve 1978 as part of the station's switch from rock to disco. He was hired by rival album-rock station WLUP. Sensing an incipient anti-disco backlash[4][7] and playing off the publicity surrounding his firing (he frequently mocked WDAI's "Disco DAI" slogan on the air as "Disco DIE"), Dahl created a mock organization, the "Insane Coho Lips", an anti-disco army consisting of his listeners.[8] According to Andy Behrens of ESPN, Dahl and his broadcast partner Garry Meier "organized the Cohos around a simple and surprisingly powerful idea: Disco Sucks".[4]

According to Dahl, in 1979, the Cohos were locked in a war "dedicated to the eradication of the dreaded musical disease known as DISCO".[9] In the weeks leading up to Disco Demolition Night, Dahl promoted a number of anti-disco public events, several of which became unruly. When a discotheque in Lynwood, Illinois, switched from disco to rock in June, Dahl arrived, as did several thousand Cohos, and the police were called. Later that month, Dahl and several thousand Cohos occupied a teen disco in the Chicago suburbs. At the end of June, Dahl urged his listeners to throw marshmallows at a WDAI promotional van at a shopping mall where a teen disco had been built. The Cohos chased the van and driver and cornered them in a local park, though the situation ended without violence. On July 1, a near-riot occurred in Hanover Park, Illinois, when hundreds of Cohos could not enter a sold-out promotional event, and fights broke out. Some 50 police officers were needed to control the situation. When disco star Van McCoy died suddenly on July 6, Dahl marked the occasion by destroying one of his records, "The Hustle", on the air.[10]



Dahl and Meier regularly mocked disco records on the radio. Dahl also recorded his own song, "Do Ya Think I'm Disco?", a parody of Rod Stewart's disco-oriented hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?".[8][12] The song characterized discotheques as populated by effeminate men and frigid women. The protagonist, named Tony after Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever, is unable to attract a woman until he abandons the disco scene, selling his white three-piece suit at a garage sale and melting down his gold chains for a Led Zeppelin belt buckle.[13]

A number of anti-disco incidents took place elsewhere in the first half of 1979, showing that "the Disco Demolition was not an isolated incident or an aberration." In Seattle, hundreds of rock fans attacked a mobile dance floor, while in Portland, Oregon, a disc jockey destroyed a stack of disco records with a chainsaw as thousands cheered. In New York, a rock DJ played Donna Summer's disco hit "Hot Stuff" and received protests from listeners.[14]
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May be one guy, but I can't think of anyone else who hated a genre of music so much that he was able to turn that hatred into blowing up records in a baseball stadium.



As for Todd, I'm starting to wonder if he only got as far as he did through a sheer lack of competition.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
As for Todd, I'm starting to wonder if he only got as far as he did through a sheer lack of competition.
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It helped, but that is not the only reason. Look at Marzgurl, if lack of competition guaranteed success, why is that Marzgurl only got 10k subscribers because of the #ChangeTheChannel movement? She had been doing online videos for almost a decade at that point, you think she would easily have gained a big following as a result but not really. Todd has the success he has because he made good videos back then, and he then adapted with changing his format of his videos from angry reviews to video essays with his video quality arguably getting better than ever compared to a lot of the ex-CA contributors whose video quality either stayed the same and thus getting stale like Linkara or changing their format to something with less effort that is less entertaining like Lupa or Filmbrain.
 
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Idiot Asshole said:
P.S. Lindsay will never fuck you.
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Well, never fuck him again. Lindsay probably doesn't want to be a divorcee with a child. She's heard enough horror stories about that. So, what does Todd offer? He can play an instrument? So can she. Yes, it's an accordion, but with her ego she probably thinks that's better than playing piano. He's brown? The only reason that mattered before was to piss off daddy, and he's dead now. He makes money on patreon? She makes more for doing nothing.

Nope, he'll just have to accept he's not getting any more of that bloated, alcoholic puss ever again.
 
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As for Todd, I'm starting to wonder if he only got as far as he did through a sheer lack of competition.
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No, his videos are genuinely good.

This episode was a fucking miss but almost every other trainwrecord is fantastic, for example. His casual racism is idiotic but bro, have you seen other music youtubers out there? They are 10 times worse.
 
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I wonder if he's going to review the "racist" song about hood rats not being able to get away with the same crimes in a small town that they do in the city.
 
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