Shadiversity The Gatekeeper

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[@RawketSushi]

Shad: "people identify with wall-e for crying out loud and he's a robot!" And you have a hard time identifying with a black person, Shad?

[@ayajade6683]

He's a hardcore Mormon so odds are he believes in the curse of Cain and curse of red ie that black and indigenous people are only that color because of not being pure enough in the eyes of God. The cult started teaching it again officially in 2019 but it has stayed for ages

[@aralornwolf3140]

Well... I have a hard time identifying with Wall-E... but then again, I never saw the movie...

[@Vo_Siri]

This entire video I was thinking about that study that, near-universally, every time women get interested in a niche hobby or community that is historically male-oriented, the men who are actually good at the hobby are happy to welcome them in, and the men who suck at the hobby are the ones who mald about it.

[@kurisu7885]

...... one of those things South Park once again nailed.

[@rcarfang2]

@@kurisu7885 Cartman: " girls actually do their homework and read ALL the RULES to board games. It sux. Girls are unfair".

[@avlaenamnell6994]

this happens all the time in warhammer, all the self concious "that guy" wierdos try to keep you out, Ask a decent guy whos good at the game, and they often will go out of their way to give you the best welcome they can, often asking where do you want to start, what do you find cool, EG doing what they can to find something you like about the hobby so they can go from there.

[@brainfreezeyes1910]

> argues that media isn't made to appeal to everyone > gets mad at an article arguing x men isn't made for conservatives

[@ninegearcrow]

"NOT LIKE THIS!" screams man clad in a bathrobe painted like a medieval jerkin.

[@avlaenamnell6994]

its so sad that he cant even realise it lol

[@nisiwilli]

Shad spent 10 mins talking about how nerd stuff aren't supposed to be for everybody, but also they all have to be cater to him specifically.

[@ShinGallon]

Pandering (read: having any representation in the media in question) is only bad when they're not the ones being pandered to.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

Actual missed opportunity with the title "You _Shadn't_ Pass"

[@nicholasatticus2644]

This is the kind of article title quality I expect from now on, for everything.

[@Soulrender95]

I love how Shad is all like "yes we should gatekeep the property we like from wokeness" and then immediatly demonstrates how little he knows about said properties. there are some content creators who I know are just grifting because they have realised they resemble the villains in the things they are complaining about, but Shad I think isn't grifting, he's just not smart enough to understand the subtext and clearly lacks critical thinking, I mean a series called X-men 97 is a sequel to a cartoon from the 80's according to him.

[@andrejg4136]

The pilot for XMen was like 1989, that's as much as I'll give them.

[@Soulrender95]

@@andrejg4136 that was for Pryde of the X-men, which didn't get picked up for a series. Night of the Sentinels was the pilot for the X-men 92 series.

[@kurisu7885]

Plus if you don't let new people in the thing you love is probably going to die.

[@nielsjensen4185]

Archcast did something similar some time ago.

[@avlaenamnell6994]

@@kurisu7885you see this happen in video games a lot, toxic communities will push away/bully new players, and the player count steadily drops as no new players are coming, then boom dead game.

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

You know, if Shadiversity is the gatekeeper, then i have no fear. Dude propably is flopping around like a turtle on his back, once you get past his wannabe double sword and tackle him. That guy couldn`t even proparly guard an outhouse....

[@Cosmoproto]

He'd be defeated by his own footwork, lol

[@sabletooth]

Star Trek has been "woke" since before Shad was born lmao.

[@comradequestion4206]

Shad is young enough that Star Trek was probably woke while his parents were in diapers

[@phoenixheart79]

I've got almost a decade on Shad and fools like him make me think that all the sneering comments about millennials might be right.

[@Canoby]

"The Original Social Justice Warlord" is a nickname I have for Gene Roddenberry

[@Mischievous_Moth]

@@phoenixheart79 I'm a millenial and can confirm that some of us are absolutely INSUFFERABLE.

[@Nuvizzle]

I genuinely can't imagine what kind of Star Trek enjoyer would think the series hasn't always been "woke". Someone who only saw the JJ Abrams movies and thinks Star Trek is just Star Wars without Jedi? Are there movie-only Trek fans? I genuinely don't know.

[@lorenloiselle1733]

Shad doesn't even know about Hotdog Water. He shouldn't talk about Scooby-Doo

[@tinstrings6312]

Loved Hotdog Water. Mystery Inc. is severely underrated.

[@ninegearcrow]

So the TL;DW of Shad's video is that he's mad that he thinks Cyclops is going to be replaced by Storm as the leader of the X-Men in X-Men '97. Spoilers: Cyclops is in fact replaced by Magneto, another white man, as the leader of the X-Men after the first episode--a thing that is literally shown off in the trailers for the series. Man, Shad is just not good at this whole "understanding" thing, like at all.

[@kenlee4356]

Did he forget about the times storm took control before this?

[@rcarfang2]

@@kenlee4356 Storm and Jean has better powers though. Cyclop's Optic Blast is only good for battle. While Storm can stop a tornado and give rain to drying up plants and trees. Jean's telekinetic ability can save lives, can stop objects from hitting people get critical information, can get people to stop fighting.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Shad: has a good idea pop into his head (put Storm in charge) Also Shad: not used to having good ideas, freaks out at the sight of one and projects it onto his enemies as a bad idea

[@matthewjaniss4103]

Funny thing is that storm has been the leader of the xmen on multiple occasions. When cyclops left, she took over for him. She's also the leader of the xmen gold team. I don't want to go grab all my xmen fleer ultra cards from the 90's right now but I remember most of the teams.

[@revalation92]

It’s because (1) Shad has terrible, borderline non-existent media literacy, and (2) often he bases his understanding of a piece of media on either the trailer or other conservative reactions to a trailer/speculation. He did the same thing with the Super Mario Bros. movie.

[@gabbytabbycat]

Shad's rant at 19:44 "This was never about inclusion, this was about dominance, supremacy, and revenge [...]" is pure projection. People with views like Shad say this because they can't conceive that people are able to compromise, discuss ideas peacefully, and live in equality. In their worldview there is only one solution to all social problems and at its core that solution is violence.

[@cassieisnothere]

it's the old for people with privilege, euality feels like oppression

[@6dragondaddy913]

They're mad about Morph, who can turn into anyone or shape, being non binary...

[@philippschwarz4539]

My thoughts were, "Morph is a shapeshifter, right? Morph can turn into anyone, man or woman or other. Morph is non-binary. Okay, that makes sense." It makes sense to me that a shapeshifter wouldn't conform to any fixed expression of gender.

[@Magus12000BC]

Two points. 1. Non-binary is not a thing. It was a fever dream thought up by a child predator named John Money. 2. Even assuming that the first point isn't true or moot, how come Mystique doesn't get the same treatment that Morph does? She is literally the same character. She's also black as she is Storm's mother.

[@avlaenamnell6994]

@@Magus12000BCbecause mystique identifies as a woman? just because she can shapeshift dosent mean she HAS to be non binary.

[@Magus12000BC]

@avlaenamnell6994 - And up until this point, Morph identified as a man. But Morph was always mentally unstable. Regardless, non-binary wasn't a mainstream thought experiment when the show started, nor is it within the timeline of the show. The teachings of the child predator didn't become mainstream until about a decade ago. So not only is Morph being a magical third gender a clear retcon, it's one that makes no consistent sense.

[@Flippylover_69]

@@Magus12000BCJohn Money did not invent the concept of “nonbinary” (which was a term that wasn’t even in use at the time he was practicing “medicine”) or gender identity. John Money performed cruel experiments on people that rarely reached any meaningful conclusion, he’s mostly known for his beliefs about gender more than what he actually discovered about it (which was very little). I’d say the true father of modern gender ideology was Magnus Hirschfield. He was credited as among the first physicians to distinguish between same-sex attraction and “transsexualism.”. John Money’s cruel experiments were conducted in 1966 while Magnus’ discoveries were first made in the early 1900s. However, it should be noted that the condition that causes transgenderism (gender dysphoria) was NOT recognized as an official diagnosis until the 1980s, a significant amount of time after both Hirschfield and Money had made their discoveries. To put it simply, the story isn’t as black and white as your comment implies.

[@martinjrgensen8234]

If we are keeping Mary Sues out, then we also have to keep Gary Stues out. Equal rights after all.

[@kenlee4356]

Nnnoooo! How is shad going to promote shadow of the conqueror now?

[@autobotstarscream765]

​@@kenlee4356Badly, as usual.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@autobotstarscream765, And... use the "I published a novel" as a selling point on why people should agree with him.

[@penpointred]

100% they’re talking about Warhammer. These types are deathly afraid of female space Marines

[@DefaultProphet]

Even if it’s not canon there are a million space marines and there have been way more over 12000 years so 1000% there’s been trans women space marines and I think that’s great. There also should be afab space marines.

[@roganzar]

The in game answers to female space marines are; gene seed mutation, Belasaurius Cawl, Fabius Bile and Slaanesh. The answer that matters is make whatever you want. They're your expensive lil' green army men.

[@eko6620]

They are even scared of women being part of the Imperial Guard. I remember how this kind of people had a meltdown, when GW released the new Cadian Shock Troopers and the Squad was way more diverse than the old one.

[@randomtheorist251]

Best part is they don't even notice that Space Marines are satire of toxic masculinity.

[@zenmaster60]

Aren't Sisters of Battle the quote unquote female space marines?

[@cassieisnothere]

Shad will absolutely lose his mind when he finds out about fanfiction

[@andrejg4136]

I love fanfiction because it runs gamut from "I want to work with these characters but I don't want to pay for licensing" to "Are you sure you aren't a professional writer?" to "Are you sure you are literate?" to "How horny were you when you wrote this?"

[@Flippylover_69]

Ironically, that elephant in the room is exactly what exposes the stupidity of Shad’s arguments for me. Shad claims that if fandoms don’t gatekeep certain things, parts of the fandom could twist canon to fit their own agenda while he’s forced to watch.. yet he’s completely unaware of an entire community within pretty much every fandom that does exactly that all the time 💀 I miss the days of “don’t like, don’t watch/engage” within fandom, I really do.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@Flippylover_69, Would he be pissed if people wrote "fan fiction" of the Tales of Everfall? 🤔 I'm just asking because my favourite fan fiction is the one in which Dayless gets killed...

[@markburns2621]

Would there be actual characters in that version? His version is a maniac, rapacious Arisen and soulless pawns who forgive him every time.

[@readwrecks]

Oh! I got an answer on harakiri/sepuku thing recently! I went to the Samurai and Ninja Museum in Osaka, last summer. And They had a Japanese man giving tours in English. So, I asked the guy what’s the difference between harakiri and sepuku. He said he wasn’t entirely sure, but “harakiri” literally means “gut out” and sepuku is the name of the ritual. So it’s like the difference between saying “getting married” and “having a wedding” or “being wed.” Y’know, the name of the ritual is “wedding” (or “sepuku”) but you can refer to the act as “getting married” (or “harakiri”). Either way, the ritual isn’t complete until you reach inside your belly and pull a handful of your guts out.

[@ArcologyCrab-gq9ub]

It’s insane how their entire argument for gatekeeping is literally “they changed it, now it sucks!”

[@yaotlenemy666]

I unironically think we should gatekeep cool stuff from right wingers. Bigots dont get to enjoy fun shit

[@avlaenamnell6994]

its allways right to keep nazis and fascists out of everything.

[@Shorroth]

Wait, you mean Storm will end up taking leadership from Cyclops, JUST LIKE IN THE COMICS!? OH NO!

[@autobotstarscream765]

OH YEAH!

[@ayajade6683]

The comic arc he's talking about has Magneto take the leadership role. He'd know that if he read it but Storm has been in charge so many times it makes tracking/ discuss Storm's leadership a state the arc name you're talking about then continue

[@ladyabelev4166]

Transformers went "woke" because it was one of the first franchises to include Trans characters, though kinda accidently. More recently in the comics the transformers have been very gay and trans, because they dont have the concept of Gender, some transformers just chose to present with genders.

[@ShinGallon]

It's funny I never heard a word about pronouns or how "they don't have gender" whenever Optimus Prime used he/him to talk about himself or Megatron. The pronouns only became an "issue" with these losers when it was she/her or they/them or when the IDW comics introduced the concept of romantic couples (because these alien being feeling every emotion EXCEPT romantic love makes so much sense, right?) So, same old story, just queerphobia and misogyny, tale as old as time.

[@DahVoozel]

It's in the hecking name.

[@StevetheWizard2591]

Honestly, the weirdest part is that the Transformers adhere to human concepts of gender at all. They're robot aliens, so them even having the concept of gender in a way that can map neatly into human language is less likely than getting struck by lightning while simultaneously winning the lottery. The fact it's only a small number of them that are what humans would call non-binary is weird. To put it simply, they should be even more gay and more trans, because they aren't human, and don't have human cultural baggage against that sort of stuff.

[@TheKeyser94]

It seems that they never seen Tiger Hawk in Beast Wars, and Beast Wars was very morally ambiguous with themes about honour, war and what define the side that your own, your programming or your own morals, like Black Spider, she was a Maximal programmed to be a Predacon, to then become a Maximal, Dinobot turn Megatron as soon in the first two episodes, because Megatron was a megalomaniac that fight without honour.

[@UberNoodle]

​​@@ShinGallon meanwhile conservatives pretend like they never even considered that Optimus Prime was obviously coded male, as were every single other Transformer character on that show except for a single episode about a mindless robot, who was coded female, and the first official female transformer on the show, who was introduced in the movie.

[@Techno_Bunny433]

Bro deadass forgot that he can WATCH REPEATS of the shit he likes. An franchise has to evolve to stay relevant but if you don't like it you can watch the old shit too lol

[@ShinGallon]

No, don't you see, new episodes of franchise TV shows will break into your house and steal your DVDs/Blurays.

[@Techno_Bunny433]

@@ShinGallon niooooooo the woke mob strikes again!!!! 😭😭😭😭

[@Nuvizzle]

Yeah I don't really enjoy Rings of Power but I still re-watch the LotR trilogy at least every other year, it hasn't ruined it for me because I'm not a literal baby.

[@Techno_Bunny433]

@@Nuvizzle litterally, like I didn't fuck with the 13th doctor but i didn't act like Doctor who was forever "ruined by the new people" cus that's childish, i watched the series i liked amd then i heard about the latest series wirh the new guy and I can tune back in

[@kurisu7885]

@@ShinGallon And delete all the old stuff off the internet.... oh, wait, I was just watching old stuff, ON the internet!

[@garyshaver1945]

All these properties only survive with new perspectives. Which means you need diversity in your creative team.

[@numberonedad]

i like the idea that to enjoy superman comics you have to a) be american and b) be optimistic. as if those comics can't be about anything else or that people only enjoy media because they believe it agrees with their politics (or i guess, in this case nationality, which is unsurprising from these types). or that comics aren't specifically written to interrogate and subvert those very themes. the truth is these are extremely, extremely simple minds.

[@Nuvizzle]

@@numberonedad You see, the problem is Shad is a Mormon - so unlike every other Abrahamic religion in the world he believes Jesus was born in America, thus a Christ allegory (which is ultimately what Superman is) is an inherently American story. Yes he is a non-American who was somehow indoctrinated into a religion that believes Jesus was born in America, he is very very cucked.

[@andrejg4136]

Adapt or Die: that's the 'rule' for nature. These properties reach an inevitable point where they change to fit their audience or the audience leaves. Some bring in new people, some change with the core audience, but all properties have to keep shifting or they eventually stagnate and die.

[@kurisu7885]

And hobbies tend to die if no new people are coming in to keep it alive. If you keep pushing people out the thing you love will probably not be around long.

[@BradLad56]

Yes, diversity of thought would be nice.

[@Gamingpandacat]

he man was gay from day 1, it just had to be played off as "no way guys haha this is totally straight" just to get on air, and there is no heterosexual explanation for velma

[@andrejg4136]

Velma ranges from ace to un-femme but not really butch lesbian depending on context and writer. Also He-Man being bi with a lean toward other men is something I'd easily cede. Outright gay, maybe but I dunno.

[@ninegearcrow]

@@andrejg4136 There's multiple interviews and retrospectives from Filmation staff who worked on both He-Man and She-Ra who have outright said "we made it as homoerotic as we could get away with in the deregulated hellscape that was 1980s children's animated television." So yes, MotU, at least the version of it that most people encountered, was absolutely gay as hell by design.

[@LeoWolfish]

@@andrejg4136 Regardless of where Velma falls, can we all agree that tried to make a snarky protagonist and got a bit too carried way? I actually feel sorry for the others around her.

[@commiecomrade2644]

Star Trek?? What? These guys have had their heads in their asses their entire lives and it shows. NEARLY. EVERY. EPISODE. Is a morality play.

[@danielomar9712]

There's a thing I've seen from anti woke people trying to do mental gymnastics "Yeah it was woke before but it wasn't in my face !" My friend , my comrade , STAR TREK PUT A KISS BETWEEN A WHITE AND BLACK PERSON , DOCTOR WHO THREW THE IDEA OF SOCIALISM IN YOUR FACE

[@danielomar9712]

Oh i almost forgor , Star Trek also talked about the Irish Unification of 2024 , which im very excited

[@TheRealBrit]

​@@danielomar9712don't get too excited, only way Ireland is reuniting is if the Republic joins the UK too lol

[@danielomar9712]

@@TheRealBrit sounds like a dystopia lmao

[@DefaultProphet]

The lord of the ring trilogy has literally 3 women who speak and they got so upset that Arwen was going to be a badass they harassed Liv Tyler and the production so hard she got edited out of Helms Deep. So yeah could use a lot more diversity lol

[@Youcancallmeishmaell]

Was Arwen at Helms deep in the books?

[@DefaultProphet]

@@Youcancallmeishmaell No but neither were the elves

[@Youcancallmeishmaell]

@@DefaultProphet neither should have been there.

[@paraplegicleopardman]

@@Youcancallmeishmaell Arwen also didn't carry Frodo across the river in the books. It was Glorfindel. Frankly though, I don't think the change was bad at all, and it worked towards forwarding Arragorn's character as well. Net gain from that change.

[@comradequestion4206]

@@Youcancallmeishmaellthe elves showing up to fight a desperate battle against evil side by side with humanity was a good creative decision actually

[@penpointred]

There’s an awesome documentary about Chris claramonts time writing for x-men and they were straight up getting rid of all the male x-men characters as much as they could get away with to make the team diverse as possible. And that’s when the x-men blew up and got good.

[@UberNoodle]

As far as Shad is concerned, unless a female character in X-Men has a power that makes them a whizz in the kitchen, then they're an intruder.

[@penpointred]

Storm and Cyclops fought for leadership of the x-men way back in the day and Storm kicked his ass and lead the team hella

[@roganzar]

The time Storm was leading the X-Men is definitely one of my favorite arcs in the comics. I love that the new animated series is using her mohawk look. It's my favorite look from the comics.

[@russellharrell2747]

Yeah Storm defeated him when she had zero mutant powers as well. She’s the real leader.

[@andrejg4136]

​@@russellharrell2747 Storm depowered is still one of the most capable X-Men-adjacent characters. Her at full power is a borderline (at worst) demi-god.

[@russellharrell2747]

@@andrejg4136 uh yeah. Storm proved she was a bad ass way back in the All New All Different days when she picked a lock with her teeth when all the X-men were reduced to the physical dexterity of infants. Street Urchin Storm from Cairo would probably beat half the x-men. Gambit’s first appearances with a de-aged storm as his sidekick were some of my favorite comics pairings.

[@nasafo8292]

There is nothing more cringe what nerds seeing themselves as “holy defenders of our beloved works”

[@Hobofish11]

How embarrassing. Shad just proves how little he knows about all of these series.

[@AmyTalksAni]

So Shad doesn’t understand the concept of nuance, I see.

[@reggiel7313]

Also saying that Scooby Doo got corrupted is such a funny sentence

[@ninegearcrow]

What they mean is "they made a Scooby Doo series where Velma's the main character and is black". Nevermind the fact that there are multiple Scooby Doo series and movies running concurrent to it with more and more constantly coming down the pike. But one (1) series where the characters are black and the whole enterprise is ruined forever to someone like Shadthimus Brooks.

[@andrejg4136]

​@@ninegearcrow Scooby Doo has been through so many iterations that it's a trope in and of itself. Anyone aged 50 ish or grew up with either early Cartoon Network or Boomerang knows what I am talking about.

[@aholafungi]

@@ninegearcrowVelma isn’t Black in that series, she is South Asian, lmafo

[@rcarfang2]

@@ninegearcrow that thing is also the one show that the internet agrees is a HORRIBLE and should have never been.

[@rcarfang2]

but Scooby Doo was created in the 60's and had a hippie vibe to it. Shaggy is a literal stoner.

[@emory5533]

So gatekeeping = whining like little babies got it

[@gnomesaiyan1680]

Shad's protag in his "novel" is like the biggest Gary Stu in the Universe.

[@Nuvizzle]

But you don't understand, it's fine when a MAN is chosen by god to be the most powerful mortal being in the universe (for some reason, despite being by all regards the worst human to ever live), it's only unreasonable when it's a woman because women are biologically incapable of being imbued with divine powers.

[@kurisu7885]

I watched Shad's videos for a while and told my brother about his book, my brother is a big fantasy reader and he thought that book sucked.

[@matthewjaniss4103]

Also his "Hero" is a scumbag r@pist who never gets ANY consequence for all the horrible shit he does. In fact the victims of this so called hero fall in love with him.. just wow.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@kurisu7885, "sucked"... that's an understatement, lol. If there was any good writing in that novel, it must have been well hidden, lol. Note: The novel is a power fantasy... of the most vile human most people could imagine... who's tying to be redeemed. The entire concept of the novel fails right there. It fails even more, as no one _questions_ the protagonist's usage of sexual violence on "bad people"... not even at his own freaking trial. Then it gets worse more you analyze the message, the events, the backstory of the character... Plot is full of contrivances. The characters are inconsistent, especially the protagonist. The world building/setting is full of contradictions. The only redeeming quality the novel has is it being a good example on how not to write a story. Yet, Shad considers himself to be an authority figure on "writing" since he wrote and published a novel. Anyone can write and publish a novel these days... that doesn't make what they wrote _good._ Nor does it make them an authority figure on what good writing _is._

[@Gloomdrake]

Taking a moral stance against the very concept of “change” is a great way to develop hypertension

[@MinkStolle]

These two guys are waiting for a knight in shining armour to come and save them from the woke dragon. They're also the only people who can approach unicorns. You know: they've never "known" a female.

[@mrelba9176]

This entire conversation is "Wait, Rage of the Machine are political!?"

[@nielsjensen4185]

Missed a chance with the thumbnail. It should have been "YOU SHAD NOT PASS!"

[@nhilz]

read the thumbnail as "YOU SHAT PANTS"

[@jennyeblain6604]

It's funny, but I lost a sense of connection to lotr when I hit puberty, and realized it was because as a girl I wasn't represented in the story. Lol, I actually felt betrayed, as if a friend group had left me out! 😂

[@Tazirai]

Yo people like Shad. The 51% of the world population don't matter. His book is horrible. I read the reviews and read a preview on good reads. His book is bombed back to the singularity of universal creation. Lol.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@Tazirai, It was bombed to the point that it has 4.2 stars out of 5 on Amazon several months ago when Shad created the video "what people *Really* think of [my shitty novel]". *Shrugs* Most of the 5/5 star reviews were "I like the story. I like his youtube channel! Good stuff".... whereas the negative reviews (1 star and 2 stars) tend to be filled with examples on why the novel is utter garbage. *Shrugs* But, to Shad the 5/5 reviews were more indicative of the quality of his work than the well thought out detailed explanations on what's wrong with it.

[@numberonedad]

"embrace the property" is a great slogan for conservatives in general

[@kmanalpha453]

Tolkien probably would've disliked Rings of Power, at least for it's production waste it created...but he'd probably absolutely despise Shadiversity to the core of his being.

[@edienandy]

Tolkien kinda just disliked movies in general tbh

[@DS-tv2fi]

My least favourite X-Man (and I’ve only read things before Giant Size X-Men, so it’s out of the OG team) is currently Angel. He’s just a rich kid with wings. All the other characters have more personality and more interesting power sets. (My favourite evil mutant if anyone cares is Unus the Untouchable. He’s such a 60s villain and I love it.)

[@hilliard665]

My only critique of Rings Of Power is there aren't enough bearded women dwarves. Other then that I love it 😁

[@TheKeyser94]

My only critique of Ring of Power is that Halbrand didn't have enough character development, you cant sell him as the Walter White of Middle Earth when he immediately goes to mount doom in the end, Walter transformation into Heisenberg was gradual, but Halbrand is to sudden, and if he is a god, they could make him out worldly, sure, he was disguise himself as a human, but good example of character like this are Gaunter O'Dimm and the recent Verna from the Fall of the House of Usher, they not seems threatening, but you see how scary they are when their mask fall off.

[@bosneb]

Remember when society decided that nerds were cool? I think those days are over.

[@AshleyOlivia90]

If you get mad about any change to an IP, then you should just argue against adaptions completely. Adaptions of books or video games for tv require changes and compromises to the original material. Like Tom bombadil would never work in the films, Jackson took him out and you don’t see them melting down about that.

[@ShinGallon]

Peter Jackson leaving Tom Bombadil out of the movies was the best decision he's made in his entire career.

[@rita_calamity]

@@ShinGallon Why's that, anyway? I think Tom Bombadil is a pretty neat character

[@Nuvizzle]

@@rita_calamity Wouldn't work in a movie. Total momentum killer. You'd have to devote too much screen time to explaining what the hell this dude is and why, or else just have him show up for 5 minutes and leave the audience asking a million questions about what in the world just happened for the rest of the runtime.

[@ShinGallon]

@@Nuvizzle ^ That. At the point in the story they meet him the movie is just getting going and having him show up would grind the pacing to a halt.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@ShinGallon, Even the animated movies from the 1980's had Tom removed... in the novels.. here's there to explain to the Hobbits (the reader) that the world is full of unexpected dangers and always to keep your guard up.

[@lorenloiselle1733]

Jake needs to wait in line behind Tyler for the duel

[@callsignapollo_]

Add jack saint to that list lol And its just gonna keep getting longer

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

"Embrace the property" is what Shad says during the initiation hazing ritual for new fans, before they're knighted by his blade.

[@UberNoodle]

@16:04 "Are you saying that people can't identify with a character if they don't look like them?" But that's exactly what the anti-woke brigade say. It is probably the second or third most common exclamation of outrage that they produce.

[@Tareltonlives]

Shad: There's nothing wrong with making a movie made specifically for a single demographic! X-Men: This show is liberal Wrinkle in Time: This movie is for girls Shad: No, not like that. I mean MY demographic. The others shouldn't get movies.

[@vladrevenko6485]

"Supermen is for Americans and Optimists" I'm neither american or optimist, i can't enjoy Superman now 😭

[@FurTheWorkers]

It's so odd to me because they seem to think "nerd stuff" is a naturally occurring resource that people don't create. Also the idea that Star Trek was ever not woke is absurd on the face of it.

[@halversonnoel0]

The actor that played elrond was actually much better than i hoped for. He really did a good job mimicking the facial expressions of hugo weaving.

[@TheRealJanetteJones]

I just realized that shadiversity is just how Wayne from Wayne's World would say diversity, "Sha, diversity!" 😂

[@GM_MorganV]

I’ve heard him called Shae Diversity

[@rcarfang2]

but unlike Wayne and Garth who support diversity, Shad is REPULSED by diversity. He shouldn't have Diversity in his name.

[@TheRealJanetteJones]

@@rcarfang2 agreed, the irony is icky.

[@matthewjaniss4103]

Yeah, Wayne and Garth would have had no problems with strong women or anyone else, kinda their whole thing, seeing through the bs and living a chill life.

[@YokaiLover699]

I love how conservatives draw the line at black hobbits. I mean, dragons, wizards, elves, an entity made of pure evil, and a ring that turns you invisible are fine. But, black hobbits is where they draw the line!

[@TheKeyser94]

Well in the lore, it seems that Sauron after his master lost the war, decided leave all behind and began a wander around Middle Earth, sure, he was selfish and wanted power. But totally evil? Not at this point, I think that Galadriel quest to kill him in the Second Age was misguided, because most of the carnage was made by Sauron master, not Sauron himself, he was his second in command, and as soon they lost the war, he abandon everything, maybe wanting some peace, but something happen to bring back to the dark side and began the war all over again.

[@coreygraybz]

I went to my first heavy metal concert recently and was blown away by how everyone i met went out of their way to welcome me. Also, for every person that got knocked down in the mosh pit there were 5 people trying to help them up.

[@caseyfox5855]

Stan said from the beginning that X-man was woke from issue on. The 5 season show ended in 1996 that why it X-man97. In fact, Stan got the idea of X-man from the creator of Doom Patrol and he just ripped it off and made it his own thing, Shad so much wished he could be the English Ben Shapiro and he still just a lapper that got shown his ass.

[@roganzar]

X-Men wasn't specifically political for like the first 10 issues in the '60s. When Stan Lee didn't deliberately make it political. The stories were still inspired by the politics of the time. The first issue was Magneto attempting to steal missiles to attack the US. Kind of like how everyone was worried about the USSR was going to launch missle attacks against the US.

[@GasparGa]

These guys are terrible, but to be fair, Rings of Power is also objectively terrible, there's no reason to defend that show. (Not because it's woke, but because the writing is awful)

[@TrendingFrog]

Shad isn't respected in any of these communities so he ain't capable of gatekeeping anything, he's so funny and pathetic

[@NiraSader]

Just imagine how much shit these people would be flinging if X-men or something like that came out today.

[@jeramiejoseph6745]

the only thing i can think of as t o why people dont think x-men and other comics werent commentary on political or social issues is that they were kids when watching/reading it and it just never clicked for them. or they just didnt really watch or read the comics to even understand them. but I dont know. its all pretty obvious honestly so how you miss x-men being what it is just oof.

[@tevisstier9044]

I stopped watching him years ago because he said he agreed with Matt Walsh about woman fighting. That and his constant whining about the Star Wars sequel trilogy. However, his brother Jazza is a much better person IMO.

[@AgentForest]

I also have no clue why Shad likes Brandon Sanderson's books. He writes extremely woke books queer, autistic, atheist, feminist characters and those with mental and physical disabilities being treated like people and showing that anyone can be a hero. He writes some of the most "woke" fantasy books.

[@TheKeyser94]

Maybe because Sanderson is a Mormon, and had a recent controversy about that, but not as huge as Orson Scott Card, and people really stopped caring about it.

[@AgentForest]

@@TheKeyser94 I know it's largely because of religious solidarity that he supports Sanderson, but I don't get how he can justify it considering how woke and non-problematic Sanderson's writing is.

[@TheKeyser94]

@@AgentForest Originally in the black community, WOKE means: "Be aware of injustice", a better term for Sanderson books is that he have political and social commentary, no the twisted and wrong version of whatever the right-wingers like Shad think that WOKE means, mostly if there a black person or a woman in any class of media.

[@AgentForest]

@@TheKeyser94 Yeah, the original definition of "woke" was being "awake" to the lies of the established narrative and how that system is used to oppress. It always cracks me up when conservatives are like "wake up, sheeple!" then when we're like "okay I'm woke now." and they get pissed, lol.

[@Chaosqueenngami]

Gate keepers just don’t like change. Which is a better story? A perfect character who never changes or experiences growth, or one that does.

[@Kenspiracy664]

Note shads accent is not represetive of Victoria. Noone talks like that, let alone country Victorians. Hes been doing his fake british "im smart" for so long hes stuck with it

[@paulsmart4672]

Hey, hey, now. Let's not be too hard on Cyclops. There are some really good stories about how Cyclops is actually a really terrible leader, he's not psychologically equipped to deal with the gravity of his situation, and his decisions lead to tragedy.

[@Anghellik9]

These people, man. We're getting massive budget films for nerd properties that fandoms have been clamoring for decades over, and these guys are just like "They ruined it, they made some of the characters BLACK!"

[@scarefish6689]

Transformers was always woke. They're not cisformers.

[@luxshine]

Cyclops quits the X-men in the book right after Dark Phoenix, in From the Ashes, and little later, Storm gets the leadership of both X-men and the Morlocks in a trial by combat. And Cyclops is a good character, when well written, which is not very often lately unfortunately.

[@TheKeyser94]

And then he screw that up when he was willing to send children into battle, sacrificing everyone by any means necessary, that was the last straw, and he allied himself with Magneto and Emma Frost (re-linking their relationship for a while), but Summers become to extreme even for Magneto, and he and Emma Frost leave him, now at days Summers become the new Magneto, with Logan and Ororo continuing the legacy of Professor X, but Summers is way more brutal and ruthless than Magneto ever was.

[@luxshine]

@@TheKeyser94 I think you may be answering to someone else? As that is what started Schism? That was like 20 years after From the Ashes and definitely when Cyclops was written horribly. I think that Maybe now that Gail Simone is going to write X-men he may have hope, but I certainly haven't liked any of Scott's storylines since... Man, I think the original Inferno when he left Madelyne Pryor to go back to Jean... without TELLING Madelyne!

[@JadeHarleyCoffeeMug]

“I am attracted to the asians, FOR EXAMPLE” -shadiversity quoting jordan’s last stand also writers figured out cyclops by just making him more of a radical in the mutant cause. the best form of scott imo

[@HavartiCamembert]

As a huge fan of dwarves in just about every fantasy genre, the chud argument here really pisses me off. Personally, I feel like they fixed dwarves. Dwarves are supposed to have the complexion the color of earth, because they were made of earth. How much white earth have you ever come across Shad?

[@Sedgendary]

this is classic conservatives don't understand the media they consume. I used to like Shadiversity when he talked about castles and breaking down sword fights in media. Ironic now then that he changed his content and is now complaining that KZbin is killing his channel instead of taking responsibility for his audience not liking his new content

[@6dragondaddy913]

Storm has been leader of the X-Men more than once

[@ninegearcrow]

Near the end of the video: I can't believe someone's response to the criticism "You don't seem to understand the themes and ideas of Doctor Who" is "Oh yeah! Well look at all the useless plastic crap of it that I own!" and Shad thinks that that's some kind of game-winning argument.

[@Grim_Beard]

I'm fine with black dwarves. What I cannot accept is _beardless_ dwarves.

[@aralornwolf3140]

Well... you see... they only grow a beard when they hit puberty... and some of them decide that shaving their beard is a good way to thumb their noses at their elders.

[@YakBat]

Some of ya'll need to remember that Cyclops is NOT a "goody two shoes" but rather a hardcore militant leader. The OG X-men are, in case you didn't realize, CHILD SOLDIERS. Growing up is realizing that Wolverine is cool, but rude, but Cyclops LEADS. Scott is more like Octavian, while Logan is more like Marc Antony. IDW introduced "homosexuality" to Transformers. They made Arcee trans, amongst other things, But it was mostly well reviewed by fans. The neckbeards were just really loud as usual.

[@TheKeyser94]

No, Cyclops is more like Cicero, backstabbing everyone for his own gain, and portraying himself as the hero of the story, even that he had become even more ruthless than Magneto was, and totally unhinge, even when he watched his naive and idealistic young self wasn't enough to change his mind.

[@YakBat]

@@TheKeyser94 lol. Yea no. Not at all. One was a warrior turned leader. The other was a politician his whole life, never once setting foot on a battlefield that mattered. Nice try though.

[@TheKeyser94]

@@YakBat The only occasion where Mac Anthory was cheered for being a good leader, is when they crushed the Brutus rebellion in Greece, the troops cheered "Imperator" meanwhile Octavian was in the rear, but after that, was a disaster behind another, and I am speaking more about character, Octavian could lead, but one of more occasion his leadership was in the border of disaster, and the Roman people almost rebelled against him, if wasn't for Marcus Aggripa saving his ass, he couldn't become the first Emperor without his help, like I say before, in term of character, Summers is more like Cicero, always backstabbing everyone and self-serving, with illusions of grandeur, like he was a saviour, when everyone else see him as the villain, and now he become the new Magneto, without the ideals.

[@YakBat]

@@TheKeyser94 like I said nice try, but you clearly know nothing about Scott. Backstabber? You keep describing someone else. Scott is not about personal gain, never has been. Nor is he petty. Everything he has done has been perfectly logical at the time, and when it goes sideways it's usually the result of other people's actions.

[@TheKeyser94]

@@YakBat Back in the day I had 10G of X Men comics, from the main universe, the Uncanny X Men, Excellent X Men, First Class, Ultimate X Men, also some events featuring the X Men, like House of M, Avengers Vs X Men, and others, I only stopped reading X Men because my hardrive broke and I lost all the data, all my 50G of comics, so not tell me that I not known Scott Summers, I have been reading nearly all the comics of the X Men that I could find, and he is not a boy scout, at contrary, now he become the antagonist, that even Magneto believes that is to extreme, even for him, and to selfish, Summers is even more ruthless than Magneto, have dreams of grandeur and is very self-entitled, believe to be the saviour of mutants, but he have no problems if mutants that aren't with his cause are collateral damage, now only Logan and Ororo continue the legacy of Xavier, Summers become the new Magneto, only that he fight for himself and not for the mutants.

[@LundunDansqua]

Good luck with having a talk with him😂. Shad is a coward.

[@frostyfrenchtoast]

This is so dumb. In order to obtain resonance with an audience - your stories and characters have to *reflect* that audience in some way, and be the best version of those reflections. The “audience” of today is more varied, more diverse and more colorful than back then, so naturally our storytelling has evolved to reflect this shift. These men are simply just *left behind* as fans, and are kicking and screaming about it.

[@TheKeyser94]

This idiots not read the comics, Scott Summers hadn't been the leader of the X Men for nearly two decades, only Logan and Ororo continue Xavier legacy, Summers now have dreams of grandeur, and become to unhinge even to Magneto and Emma Frost, that were his allies in the past, now Scott Summers become the new Magneto of the X Men, but way more self-entitled, ruthless and unhinge, at least Magneto is fighting for a cause, Scott Summers is fighting for himself.

[@TheKeyser94]

Also, seeing the recent popularity of the "evil" Supermen, it seems that they are not seeing the point of Superman, when people are beginning to question if beings like that deserve to have that kind of power and what they do with it, at least DC is getting the point, and doing things that I was asking years ago, put Kal - El in a science fiction setting or a medieval fantasy setting, not get stuck repeating the same story over and over again.

[@nielsjensen4185]

Kitty Pride is made the leader of the X-Men in several future timelines because she ends up as the most competent.

[@Alresu]

Cyclops isn't the leader because they didn't know what to do with him in the series but because he was always the leader. From the first issue on he was the one who led the X-Men in the field and after they graduated he was the first one after Prof. X to lead them officially.

[@Caitlin_TheGreat]

The beta-fash-boys. What a surprise, they want to be able to control what others can even enjoy. And also assume everything should cater to them. Also, they can just f--- right off about The Wheel of Time. I don't like the show, but not because it's "woke". Also, I'm totally okay with other people enjoying it. By the barely-defined definition people like this use, the original book series is woke. There's lesbians and trans-adjacent characters, women stand up to men _and are stronger and smarter_ in many instances. Men with power are a liability and danger to the world. The main male character has to learn to not be toxic and emotionally closed-off. The only thing the book series doesn't deal with is class disparity and the exploitation of the wealthy, royal, or otherwise powerful over the working people. You could probably find some elements to support that reading, but it's clearly not a focus of the author(s).

[@vereornox701]

Shad is clearly still traumatized when people gate kept him from Elden Ring

[@MaxibonHR]

It’s been 5 fucking years how are we still on the Last of Us part II?

[@Djanck000]

I always get a feel that i must be crazy when i hear people complaining about Star Wars nowadays. Like, who TF thinks Star Wars is not living it's best life right at this very moment? The "New" trilogy was already ages ago and doesn't reflect on anything of the newer Star Wars stuff. The best ever products of the Star Wars franchise ALL came out recently. The first season of The Mandalorian is just an absolute masterpiece. It's leagues better than any of the movies (dialogues are better, cinematography is better, it's way better acted...). The people in charge of the new series are all die hard fans and lore munchers who don't own the franchise so they're more open to pick ideas from legends and other sources that are not their own heads. I really can't see where people complaining about the newer Star Wars projects are coming from. Old Star Wars was always circling around George's work. Authors would create something in the expanded universe just for it to be undone in the next movie. George had a myriad of great ideas and his wife knew exactly how to edit a movie, but he is not a great director and his dialogues are "I hate sand" levels of bad. I LOVE the old movies with a passion, but pretending Star Wars is bad today is weird.

[@darththeo]

I tried explaining to people that Star Wars as a brand is better now than it was in the last years under Lucas and they think I am insane for saying that. Yes, it has stumbled and isn't doing the numbers Disney wants (they were hoping MCU Avengers level stuff). And they have had some flops, but seriously, if the brand was as damaged as the haters say ... DISNEY WOULD HAVE DITCHED IT. If a brand's not doing good enough, Disney has zero reservations about killing it. They aren't going to try to save it, if they take a loss, they'll write it off for take purposes.

[@andrejg4136]

​@@darththeo Star Wars is definitely making money. It's just not making stupid money in some estimations. Also I think they should adapt some of the Legends stories as What Ifs, since the EP 7-9 have established a new trajectory.

[@Djanck000]

@@andrejg4136 The "what if" idea is nice. There's a lot of cool stuff in legends, but there are rumors that some legends stuff will become canon now that the Ahsoka series opened canon Star Wars to other galaxies (like the yuuzhan vong) so i think they're treating legends as a pool from which to pull stuff. One thing they've said won't become canon at all (because George hated the idea with a passion and the people in charge are all Lucas super fans) is "grey jedi", but there's a good chunk of the fan base that love this concept. Maybe they could do something with that.

[@andrejg4136]

@@Djanck000 honestly grey Jedi always felt like wanting the branding of a Jedi for a character but not the constraints. You can write a force sensitive that's not a Jedi or Sith but you also have to really explain how they in particular work.

[@TheKeyser94]

Most Star Wars fans not care about Star Wars, not because fucking inclusion, but because Disney is unable to move on from the fucking OT, the Original Star Wars fans are their darlings, and some times they give crumbs to the rest of the Fanbase, I remember back in the day, when Force Awakens come out, when Kennedy, Abrams and Simon Peg says that everyone that wasn't a Original Star War fan, wasn't a real fan. And they expect that everyone buy their products after that? They receive a massive backlash for that stupid commentary.

[@aralornwolf3140]

*Shrugs* I didn't pay attention to the media... I still don't, lol. Yet, I wasn't happy with the Prequel Trilogy (quality issues)... so I went to The Force Awakens with very low expectations... and I checked out of the movie mentally when the Red Beam of Death destroyed Not-Coruscant. TFA was the worst of the "main" movies I saw to that point. It was quite literally a rewrite of A New Hope. They wanted us to be happy for a Galactic Empire vs Rebel Alliance story because that's what sold so well in the past. Once a majority of the fans got past the member berries, they recognized how bad the movie was. TLJ's bad quality also helped to make it clear the ST had no story. My expectations, as I said, weren't that high... 1. Show us Luke training his Jedi. 2. Show us how Han and Leia are doing. 3. Show us how the Republic is doing, and what tools it has to deal with the new "threat". 4. Learn from the previous movies' mistakes! I got none of that... because... the person who was hired to write the first movie just couldn't write a good story in the time he had and once that had a hard deadline arrived, he threw the story together and hoped the next person can adequately explain the in-universe reasons for how things are like... That's fundamentally the difference between the OT, PT, and the ST... the first two had _plans_ and stuck to a cohesive narrative. The ST on the other hand... there was no consistent story... there was no cohesive story being told. Sure, the movies looked great, the acting was right were I hoped they would be at... but the underlying narrative... was just _bad_ fan fiction given a huge budget to play with.

[@TheKeyser94]

@@aralornwolf3140 You are forgetting that the Sequels lack of world building, context and no substance whatsoever, we not known nothing about this galaxies or the factions, even a rookie writer could do a better job, sadly seems Hollywood is taking this approach of writing, with Villanue Dune, with a more aggressive marketing, we cant have the Dune fans questioning our product because how lazy it was done, at least Villanue Dune have some substance, but is undermine by the total lack of world building and context, they barely show the factions, they literally killed the Space Guild, and some of the changes were really dumb, like suggesting that Feyd Rautha could be a replacement for Paul, it like the Bene Gesserit were totally dumbed down, and had no knowledge of their own ten millennia plan, hell, Jessica didn't even supposedly to have a son, but a daughter, their special being, but because Jessica loved the Duke she had a son, screwing the Gene Gesserit plans, they were piss off, but they hide under the pretence of having a daughter to make peace with the Harkonnen, but no, now they pretend that Jessica having a son was the plan all along, and worse of all, they tell that to a novice, Irulan, that didn't become a full Bene Gesserit till Children of Dune, and she didn't even hide it, to Jessica dismay.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@TheKeyser94, Sorry, I skipped your rant. I was never interested in Dune...so I am pretty ignorant. However, book to movie/t.v. adaptions are never done well (with very few exceptions). Most of the time, the writers/producers _cut_ content to make sure the story fits within the number of minutes the movie/t.v. series has. Sometimes, that means deleting entire things. _I_ didn't like Eragon, the movie, for that very reason. The writers/producers pretty much cut out _multiple_ important characters. Hell! They cut two entire _cities_ out of the movie! ROFL. By making those deletions, the _next_ movie becomes even more derivative than the first one. *Shakes Head*

[@TheKeyser94]

@@aralornwolf3140 They did a pretty good TV adaptation twenty years ago, so well that not only win awards but got a sequel, Children of Dune, and the budget compared to Villanue Dune is marginal, never the less, the first episode of the three episode miniseries, have more world building than the two Villanue movies, and ironically, the miniseries is as large as the two movies, six hours.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@TheKeyser94, As I said, very few exceptions. *Shrugs* This is why I have a low "expectation" value when it comes to such adaptations.

[@6dragondaddy913]

Same people were mad but less noticeable when Tuvok was a black Vulcan

[@gehinkun]

"Fandom" can be such a pathetic thing. Man children who feel a sense of ownership of something because they buy a lot of toys from a corporation. Utterly fucking baffling and sad.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

"Hatedom" is worse and Shitiversity like other fascists leeches on that.

[@Marqhll]

The arrival to Numenor scene in Rings of Power almost made me cry. The layout of Numenor is perfect and the score is one of the most beautiful compositions in all of the Lord of the Rings including the films.

[@kermitthorson9719]

they all seem to forget the 2000s xmen movie where magneto assinates a senator or whatever position

[@aralornwolf3140]

He didn't assassinate... he tried to forcibly mutate him... and the unforeseen consequence was his death.

[@kermitthorson9719]

@@aralornwolf3140 knowing that since he was forcing the xgene that it would overload him and end the senator

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@kermitthorson9719, He didn't know. Senator escaped before he died.

[@kermitthorson9719]

@@aralornwolf3140 he let him go so that he could make an even more impactful transformation in the public. magneto know 100% that was going t be fatal

[@Versaites]

bro described Superman as an "optimistic American" when the dude was, quite literally, an illegal alien.

[@finecommathanks]

It's so funny listening to this, especially the cyclops tangent after seeing the two episodes. Cyclops is a badass and the show absolutely slaps.

[@thehumantoeRD]

Two dudes in a room, wearing tunics, talking about how there shouldnt be black people and women in the stories they watch.... christ its sad to watch.

[@elfbreath]

only 6 minutes in and I'm calling it right now: one of the things Shad doesn't like fans "inserting into media that doesn't belong there" is gay shipping.

[@nat1659]

You didn't see yourself in WALL-E shad? Oh, you mean in the robots, nm

[@GM_MorganV]

Never have they ever heard of an adaptation. Imagine these yahoos watching the Battlestar Galactica miniseries today?

[@dirtbag1713]

"I can more easily identify with a robot than a black person" - Shad. Brilliant.

[@radsaq]

Did he say "the male characters are the heroes in the story" about the Wheel of Time? I mean, that's partially true, but the women are also the heroes of the story too, so uh... weird. (I mean, he really hates it because they didn't cast all white people, right?)