Wendigoon Thread

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I think I might like this format of doing a handful of smaller stories maybe with a theme than their existing format of one long story. It's just more digestible than a four hour long podcast. Not to say there's not a place for that but I think this works better for the most part.

I don't know if its in their wheel house, but a episode covering some of the more famous /x/ stories could work really well with this format. I agree with what one of them said in the episode where they should probably take a break form Creepypastas for a while, I think they've milked that cow dry at this point.

 

[Rick The Stick]

why did this guy decided to ruin or at least severely damage his Youtube career

Because he never had one in the first place and this is the most attention he's ever gotten.

 

[Mnutu]

Still on watch. Especially now.

Came here to say; Gooner officially on countdown. Place bets on what officially causes the turnaround on general opinion.

My bet? Ditches the Christian angle and falls down a whole load of nonsense like Repzion.

Edit : To expand, his recent shenanigans are really signaling this. It started with the Aidens, then his constant association with PKA, now TurkeyTom and even Critikal. He’s really the male equivalent of a true crime YouTuber. Publishing so much of his personal life and going almost terminally online. His wife is also starting to really push her personality in his main vids, watch the new Mandela vid and notice the “fantastic” editing she’s doing. Furthermore, his appraisal of terrible acting as good is two handed; it’s part of his lowdown charm, but Mandela acting is bad acting. Don’t expect any good to come from his STALKER movie.

Too many flags to disregard.

 

[Godchu]

Still on watch. Especially now.

Nah. Sure he's an easy target but he's such a nice guy it'd be hard to actually cancel him. So far it's just been some jealous fags. Maybe if he was a bit more of an asshole and it got viral, or if he was suddenly more open about his actual beliefs (in his videos) I'd see it happen.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

Sure he's an easy target but he's such a nice guy

Personally I think this will be part of his Downfall, he doesn't have a solid backbone and will get down on his hands and knees to beg for forgiveness from anyone who calls him a mean word. The only thing Wendigoon has going for him at the moment is that the people coming after him are either Twitter Trannies or insufferable Breadtubers no one can stomach listening to for longer than a minute. The day someone like Hbomber, Hasan, or anyone who can get a point across sets their sights on Wendi its over, He'll back pedal and apologize until he can't anymore.

 

[Active User]

People who are more a fan of Wendigoon's crime videos than the horror ones may like the channel Manic Cadence. He doesn't upload often, but I liked the videos I listened to while mowing the lawn on Marvin Heemyer/killdozer, Ted Kaczynski, and on Timothy McVeigh. The variance in views is kinda crazy though.

 

[The_Bladder_Splatter]

The day someone like Hbomber, Hasan, or anyone who can get a point across sets their sights on Wendi its over, He'll back pedal and apologize until he can't anymore.

I beg to differWendigoon is a well connected dude that doesn't really have enemies or has butt heads with anyone therefore there are several people willing to stand up for him, constrast that with Somerton who somehow managed to get on the bad side of many breadtubbers in his quest to join Nebula, i wouldn't imagine Hbomb going for a difficult prey

 

[Rick The Stick]

i wouldn't imagine Hbomb going for a difficult prey

Only reason we haven't seen him take on the Gooner yet is because the last time he tried going after a massively well liked youtuber, Internet Historian, it amounted to jack shit because IH doesn't acknowledge drama. Has nothing to do with Goon being "difficult prey". If anything he's actually an easy target because he puts more of his actual life and beliefs out there and is incapable of ignoring shit.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

In hindsight I'm glad how the situation with the breadtuber turned out. Wendigoon stood by his morals and principals. The internet decided to stand it's ground a come to his defense and in the end he became the better man in this situation. Wendigoon is a man of a many things but he's one of the few Christians on the internet that truly captures the spirit of Christianity. He's a better Christian then a lot of people (including myself) and am very grateful that he exists and wish we could all be more like him.

 

[Godchu]

Lovecraft video watch NOW

 

[Aunt Carol]

Lovecraft video watch NOW

Big Lovecraft 'sperg here. I am gritting my teeth and pressing "play." Guessing there's gonna be a lot of racism hyperbole.

 

[jeff7989]

Lovecraft was based? Nice.

 

[crowabunga]

Big Lovecraft 'sperg here. I am gritting my teeth and pressing "play." Guessing there's gonna be a lot of racism hyperbole.

I haven't gotten much past the introduction, but so far I was pleasantly surprised to hear him give a disclaimer about imminent racism in an at first purely factual, and then dryly humorous manner: no moral grandstanding, no whining shift in the pitch of his voice.

Addendum: there's further description of Lovecraft being racist, some light criticism of the consistency of that in the context of the story (also generally applicable to Lovecraft; e.g. being an immortal fishman doesn't sound too bad in my book), but it is actually literary criticism, not moral grandstanding and not made in that scolding, sighing, raised pitch which breadtubers have taught me to despise.

 

[Rick The Stick]

I haven't gotten much past the introduction, but so far I was pleasantly surprised to hear him give a disclaimer about imminent racism in an at first purely factual, and then dryly humorous manner: no moral grandstanding, no whining shift in the pitch of his voice.

Addendum: there's further description of Lovecraft being racist, some light criticism of the consistency of that in the context of the story (also generally applicable to Lovecraft; e.g. being an immortal fishman doesn't sound too bad in my book), but it is actually literary criticism, not moral grandstanding and not made in that scolding, sighing, raised pitch which breadtubers have tought me to despise.

So Wendi was actually sorts based by simply critiquing the racism within the context of the stories and NOT HP's real life? Neato.

 

[Catmannjew]

While I could never get into Lovecraft, the production and way the content was handled was great. It was just that, the context of the book and why and not about Lovecraft himself.

It was very straightforward, having wendigoon read passages and break it down, as he does with his book videos. The text and highlights were such a nice addition.

 

[Godchu]

His criticism that it only took a boat to take out Cthulhu is kind of stupid. It specifically states that he was caught by the city sinking and that's what did him in. Why he couldn't just walk away from the city before it sank is something that you could dissect, but he doesn't.

As a whole I'm kind of surprised this story in particular got so popular in the first place. It's honestly kind of mediocre for a Lovecraft story, and large parts of it were done way better in his other stories. And Cthulhu himself is so uninspired--supposedly impossible to describe (so you don't have to lol), yet whose overall silhouette is like that of a man with a squid for a head and wings--and only relevant because people have somehow made him out to be the center of all of Lovecraft's works. The one who dreams himself and will the set the world right as it should be, and as it always was or whatever.

I don't know. Maybe I've just been too spoiled by Providence, and now any other adaptation I read feels so inferior by comparison.

 

[Aunt Carol]

As a whole I'm kind of surprised this story in particular got so popular in the first place. It's honestly kind of mediocre for a Lovecraft story, and large parts of it were done way better in his other stories.

I think the part of "The Call of Cthulhu" that gets missed in an oral retelling is the writing style. Lovecraft is infamous for avoiding dialogue, but "CoC" was an epistolary story, nearly all articles and testimonies and ships' logs.

The HPL Historical Society sells "The Angell Box," [archive] a reconstructed version of all of the different pieces of media that are gathered together to make the story in "The Call of Cthulhu." It's very expensive (some of it is written by hand) but man, remember back when video games came with feelies?

 

[Kulee Baba]

I played this in the background as I was exploring Elden Ring in excitement for the expansion. I didn't even really pay attention I just want to spite In Praise of Shadows by giving Wendigoon views.

Yes Zane, Wendigoon has an audience on the notorious Kiwifarms. Make a new video exposing him for that!

 

[Maniacal Foreigner]

I think the part of "The Call of Cthulhu" that gets missed in an oral retelling is the writing style. Lovecraft is infamous for avoiding dialogue, but "CoC" was an epistolary story, nearly all articles and testimonies and ships' logs.

heh, "CoC"

 

[AeroGavin Rossdale]

Late as hell but I just saw this thread and feel the need to sperg about the Blood Meridian video.

Him reading passages in his Sunday School teacher voice fucking killed me with how wrong it sounded considering the text. I'm also of the opinion that McCarthy, especially his Western works, isn't read but heard. BM is a story being told to you by an old man, met by chance in some wild place, around a fire. With Cormac evolving beyond the need for punctuation, how you read it in your head, the timber, cadence, etc. can change how you look at some important but ambiguous passages (EG "You speak truer than you know.") that over the course of the book shape your conclusion on the final unanswerable mystery of what the Judge is. It even influences that sixth sense you develop of when an author wants you to pay attention because important subtext is happening. It's a testament to McCarthy's skill that I could watch Goon come to different interpretations of scenes, sometimes wildly, and trace it back to the fact that despite being the same words, it sounded different in my head than his. Likely having different religious and cultural upbringings too. I always took the fact that the closest the Judge has to an opposite in the company is an ex-Priest in Catholic Mexico to mean we should take a broader scope of the spirituality of BM than the American literature tradition. (Unrelated but I've only met one Europoor who read BM and he did not get it in the slightest).

Anyway, I think Goon did himself a disservice by reading BM for a video. Too much note taking and time pressure for a first read and he probably colored his interpretation by researching influences and theories. McCarthy basically states you shouldn't expect to figure out the Judge from outside sources and to focus only on the text itself. I'd like to see him return to it in a year or so with fresh eyes and see how his theories change.