Wendigoon Thread

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Rick The Stick said:
I cannot possibly say it enough. He's a fucking faggot for saying this kind of shit over and over again. No one other than his zoomer "omg daddy" fanbase buys that bullshit. The nigger has sponsors, ads, has said on a podcast he's got a personal rep at youtube, and was featured by youtube outright. He makes enough money off all this shit that he felt confident in closing his patreon that, by my conservative estimate back when I was a paypig, was getting him at least a smooth 20k a month. Him saying this malarkey makes me MATI.

It's not like he's Donut Faggot and showing video, albeit censored, of people dying. He's covering largely well known topics, conspiracy shit, and doing random book reviews and ARG nonsense. And even if you wanted to try and claim its because of youtube weird ass no-no word list, the dude goes above and beyond to self censor to get around it anyway.

It's a dead ass meme that no one other than the most retarded of his followers could possibly believe, and I refuse to think he himself believes it for even a second at this point.
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Wendigoon's videos are "safe edgy". Not in the same way as being edgy towards acceptable targets, but they're safe edgy for conspiracy content. Youtube and sponsors aren't going after Wendi for "spreading harmful misinformation", but he and his followers are acting like he's saying things the government really doesn't want you to know.
 
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Xerxes IX said:
Wendigoon's videos are "safe edgy". Not in the same way as being edgy towards acceptable targets, but they're safe edgy for conspiracy content. Youtube and sponsors aren't going after Wendi for "spreading harmful misinformation", but he and his followers are acting like he's saying things the government really doesn't want you to know.
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I think the “in Minecraft” meme broke Zoomers.
 
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Currently at the part with Isaiah at his computer as he brings up what pop culture has turned Ted into, and I think what makes this part weird and why it may be the philosophical angle isn't working for some people is he's talking about it through the eyes of someone who was born after Ted was arrested. He's done his research, he's working through some biases to try and be as neutral as possible, but he cannot deny that he's been raised by the Internet, and that's colored some of his perception of the Unabomber.

If there's an extensive Unabomber video from someone who lived through the '80s and '90s while still acknowledging the meme status the Internet has painted Ted as, please link it. I don't care how much of a boomer the host is, I think it's actually important to get that kind of perspective. It's like how important it is to get the perspective of a pre-9/11 society because of how much things have changed since. Teddy's antics were pre-9/11, and there was fear in America during that time. What was that like, exactly, as a teenager, as an adult working in such targeted fields and becoming a potential target by some nobody? As far as I can tell, every single Uncle Ted parody and meme was born on the Internet because IRL society as run by people older than most Millennials can't seem to bring itself to make jokes on the matter, especially not since shortly after his arrest, we got anthrax scares and of course 9/11 happened.

I ask this because my mom last year or early this year (it might've been like in 2020, I dunno) saw over my shoulder a Kiwi avatar of Ted's sketch, and had some concerns as to why they had his picture as their avatar. She's not savvy about Internet culture because of course she isn't despite needing the Internet for work, so I don't think she's aware of the Uncle Ted meme. And I have a very good idea that she would not be happy about that, if only because she lived through that fear as someone who was a teenager and became a mother (in her 20s) during Ted's reign.
 
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Another old lady take: wouldn't it make much more sense to divide this into a few shorter videos? One with the facts about Ted's life and capture, one about his manifesto vs. his independent existence as a meme, and then one where Wendi gives his own editorial/journey.

It just seems lazy to put it all in one long video, especially when it's not like the stories are interwoven--instead of saying "but we'll get to his philosophy" he could have said "but that's the next video" and it wouldn't have been any harder to edit.

That way people who just want the story get the story, people who want the "deep dive" can hear the manifesto discussion, and Wendi's fans have easy access to his summary.

I don't know the YouTube meta but it can't be encouraging 3+ hour videos, can it?
 
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Aunt Carol said:
Another old lady take: wouldn't it make much more sense to divide this into a few shorter videos? One with the facts about Ted's life and capture, one about his manifesto vs. his independent existence as a meme, and then one where Wendi gives his own editorial/journey.

It just seems lazy to put it all in one long video, especially when it's not like the stories are interwoven--instead of saying "but we'll get to his philosophy" he could have said "but that's the next video" and it wouldn't have been any harder to edit.

That way people who just want the story get the story, people who want the "deep dive" can hear the manifesto discussion, and Wendi's fans have easy access to his summary.

I don't know the YouTube meta but it can't be encouraging 3+ hour videos, can it?
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Most of Wendigoon's videos are multi-hour long monsters. Pretty sure long form content is one of his appeals and the reason I started watching him.

I can't remember where, but I've seen it explained (and it was a common complaint among live streamers) that putting short form content out on a long form content channel would tank the channel's metrics.
 
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Catgirl Tyranid said:
I can't remember where, but I've seen it explained (and it was a common complaint among live streamers) that putting short form content out on a long form content channel would tank the channel's metrics.
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Yeah, I could see that; it makes it make sense that he's reuploaded megacuts of previous videos, too.

In this case it'd only have been "short" as in 70 minutes or so, divided more for thematic reasons than to get people tuning in every day.
 
Just finished it. I thought it was ok.
It's clear that he has some sympathies for Ted's position, especially on the encroachment of technology into personal lives, but his clear disdain for the methods and calls to violence shine through much more.
He goes into a lot of detail on Ted's life, the bombing campaign, and the events leading up to his arrest, then kind of skips over a bunch of years to his death.
Those years under arrest are pretty important. He only really takes a deep dive into Industrial Society and doesn't touch on his other essays and writings.
All in all, it was ok. Some things he discussed well, other things I think he missed the point, other things I think he would have benefitted by going into it more, but then again it was already hours long...
Perhaps there would be benefit to an addendum for Ted's later writings?
 
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Xerxes IX said:
Wendigoon's videos are "safe edgy". Not in the same way as being edgy towards acceptable targets, but they're safe edgy for conspiracy content. Youtube and sponsors aren't going after Wendi for "spreading harmful misinformation", but he and his followers are acting like he's saying things the government really doesn't want you to know.
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Another channel that does this shit, without being featured by youtube anyway, is The Why Files. Covers a lot of the same general topics of conspiracy and whatnot, and constantly acts as if youtube and the feds are gonna get him at any moment. Nevermind the fact that he'll turn around and debunk whatever dumbfuck alien or simulated reality conspiracy he's talking about, Nevermind that when he talks about the government it's usually over stuff that's already known and freely available info like MK Ultra etc.

But his channel, unlike wendi, is full of dipshit boomers instead of dumbfuck zoomers. Same coin, different sides, as far as being retarded and believing whatever the magic man on the talking box says.
 
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Just finished it. I thought it was ok.
It's clear that he has some sympathies for Ted's position, especially on the encroachment of technology into personal lives, but his clear disdain for the methods and calls to violence shine through much more.
He goes into a lot of detail on Ted's life, the bombing campaign, and the events leading up to his arrest, then kind of skips over a bunch of years to his death.
Those years under arrest are pretty important. He only really takes a deep dive into Industrial Society and doesn't touch on his other essays and writings.
All in all, it was ok. Some things he discussed well, other things I think he missed the point, other things I think he would have benefitted by going into it more, but then again it was already hours long...
Perhaps there would be benefit to an addendum for Ted's later writings?
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I agree, I think that his video's weakest point is post incarceration Ted. I knew next to nothing about Ted beyond a broad overview of his manifesto that's often parroted so I enjoyed the history, but feel like I'm missing a major piece of the puzzle.

I assume Wendi ran out of time given that there were more editing mistakes / lack of polish than I would have expected. The times he messes up and has to restart lines seem like mistakes, not gags because there weren't any visual or audio cues to highlight the mistakes. This seems rushed to meet a Halloween upload deadline.
 
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Catgirl Tyranid said:
I agree, I think that his video's weakest point is post incarceration Ted. I knew next to nothing about Ted beyond a broad overview of his manifesto that's often parroted so I enjoyed the history, but feel like I'm missing a major piece of the puzzle.
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Especially because Ted had two major activities: ruminate about his philosophy, and send mail bombs. Prison just stopped one of those. It's like if the Gospels ended right at the Crucifixion, yo.

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Eyeroll at dismissing Ted's contemplation of trooning out. Don't worry, he wasn't a true and honest transfolk, it was just a phase and fetishization of the idea. So a reclusive man unable to procure pussy decides he'll become a woman. Haha that's just mental illness. Wait.
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Has anyone ever explained how Ted wasn't a transwoman but every third Redditor is? I need one of those side-by-side comparison graphs with the checkmarks like you get when you're shopping for a hard drive.

It should also cite who the "experts" are, although I'm certain in this instance it's just the desire not to open a huge can of eternally-online worms.
 
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verymuchawful said:
Eyeroll at dismissing Ted's contemplation of trooning out. Don't worry, he wasn't a true and honest transfolk, it was just a phase and fetishization of the idea. So a reclusive man unable to procure pussy decides he'll become a woman. Haha that's just mental illness. Wait.
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I knew he was never going to go into it, but he was right on the edge of perfectly describing AGPs, but then veered course with the Youtube safe no-true-trans-person line.

All it would take is one line:
blahblahblah... Teddy questioned if he was trans... blahblahblah... psychiatrists believe he wasn't truly trans but was exploring sexual deviancy due to his social isolation... I wonder how many more "trans" people out there this might apply to?
 
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