Conservatives are FURIOUS Over The Boys TV Show | Hasanabi reacts to The Critical Drinker

[@crestren5996]

We literally saw Stormfront word for word, say "People like what I have to say. They believe in it. They just don't like the word Nazi, that's all". The show is as subtle as a brick

[@AgentAika001]

Still not 100% clear whether it's good or bad-Every conservative ever

[@jonathonwallen]

Conseravtism is 100% bad and theres never been a single good one of them at all. Its like saying there has to be at least one good neo-liberal somewhere...lol Basically: "well i identify as a Conservative, im not a bad person so there must be good conservatives. No, you are a bad person 😆 ​@AgentAika001

[@TheonlyROXDOG]

@@jonathonwallenok commie. Can you just pour my coffee please?

[@TurtleChad1]

"If allied soldiers could see their countries now they'd have dropped their weapons and fought with the Germans" David Irving

[@NunYabiznass-hd6dj]

​@@TurtleChad1yeah that's a load of bull

[@wavemoon]

Pro "life" people when Homelander decides not to save children out of a plane: "Wow this guy is kinda awesome"

[@holmes5670]

Well, they should just have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and flown into the sunset.

[@shadebleu]

That's not canon.

[@davesprivatelounge]

No, its on brand. They dont care about you once you are born. George carlin had a great bit about it

[@shadebleu]

@@davesprivatelounge They made that up.

[@smh-TV]

@@davesprivateloungeit’s funny bc they quote carlin all the time acting like he was one of them. Dude is a comedian-truth teller. That just screams woke.

[@potluckfollie]

"How to destroy your audience" Conservatives, you are not the audience. You're the subject.

[@calmye633]

😂😂😂☠️

[@ruru7169]

Like, They weren't even supposed to be enjoying watching the series, but apparently they only discovered that they were being made fun of when the series made it very clear.

[@jayroach_4443]

​@@ruru7169I've known from day 1 it was clearly making fun of conservatives. But who cares? Does it surprise you that we can still enjoy media that takes jabs at us? I understand the left has a problem with that.

[@ruru7169]

@@jayroach_4443 so uh.... what is all this bullshit then?

[@caelanarcher756]

@@ruru7169This is insanely ironic because you’re exactly the type of person the show makes fun of as well lmaooo saying that any group can’t enjoy something because of satire in the show is such an ignorant statement and you’re a great example of what they make fun of in the “starlighters vs Homelanders” parallel.

[@omegahaxors9-11]

Media: This character is a nazi Conservatives: [Soyjack Cheer] Media: and Nazis are bad Conservatives: [Soyjack Cry]

[@wesleysmith187]

Conservatives think that a corporation flying rainbow flags in the show is "making fun of the left"

[@notnick7963]

No i think black noir being a clone of homelander and killing him is making fun of the left

[@goestheboom5211]

But it literally is lmao it makes fun of how liberals act like saviors but really couldn't care less about those people they are advocating for they just want the views

[@wesleysmith187]

@@goestheboom5211 it's criticizing capitalism, corporatism, and performative activism.

[@meganek0597]

​@@goestheboom5211 Yes because its those dang liberals who own the souless mega corporations that pander to minorities for profit

[@relei]

​@@goestheboom5211you are acting like corporations represent leftist communities. They don't, they are just appropriating the ideas to try to sell.

[@nobodyofimportance3922]

Eric Kripke: "The Boys is a lot of things, but subtle isn't one of them. If you think Homelander is the hero of the show, I don't know what to tell you but seek therapy"

[@shadebleu]

None of the heroes are just or moral. They're all Progressive trash.

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

based

[@Heavnelydemon]

Eric Kripke should seek therapy if he thinks so little of his viewers inteligence. Nobody thinks Homelander is hero people just like the character/actor

[@Deminese2]

@@Heavnelydemon There's plenty of idiots who love what he protects/stands for/uses for his image thats the point.

[@Blue-EyesWhitePrivilege]

​@@HeavnelydemonNo shit, he's a fictional character, no one said "People think he's a literal hero in actual real life." We mean people see him as a hero in the context of the show, you dolt. There are people who think Homelander is doing the right thing when he kills left wing people or when he pushes Nazi ideology. That's what OP meant, Einstein.

[@cerealbox7872]

I thought conservatives idealizing homelander was just a meme. God help us all.

[@rubylove9]

I think they choose to forget some things.

[@3dartxsi]

They literally want a fascist daddy to come and kill all their chosen enemies. They unironically think Homelander is awesome.

[@Mr.Coffee576]

@Nopenopenope6969Nah, I think they just wanna be edgy.

[@Cloudaddy220]

No one does that child, just you in your own head

[@CadillacEulogy]

​@@Cloudaddy220cope

[@cyberspacecat]

Dude didn't watch the season, read some user reviews, made some vague rant about "raah, my show's woke!", and called it a day, 2+ mill views.. Conservatives have it so fucking easy man.

[@GraphiteShores]

To be fair, he needs the ad revenue to fix those teeth he is grinding down whenever he speaks.

[@jubilantsleep]

It’s easy to entertain people who just want to be angry at everything all the time.

[@Enel97]

And they have the fucking balls to call leftists like Hassan "grifters doing it for the money". Like if Hassan just wanted money he would do the same shit

[@trappedinamerica7740]

That’s why half of them do it it’s a grift

[@ianianianianian]

it’s reassuring in a way to know that if I hit rock bottom, I can always start an anti-woke youtube channel and the neanderthals and sycophants of the right will gobble up whatever slop I put out ✊😔

[@StakeFromJateFarm]

Calling yourself an "independent" while being staunchly socially conservative is about as American as it gets

[@Alastair_Adana]

“I do my own research”

[@dixon137]

I don't think you realise what you just said there..

[@IfImYouAndYourMeWhat]

@@dixon137 I don't think you understand political ideology, but we can agree to disagree?

[@egggge4752]

Most socialist movements around the globe were socially conservative. Just look at baathism or syrian socialist nationalism.

[@StakeFromJateFarm]

@@dixon137 Try to explain what you think my comment means 😂 Go on buddy

[@todd1928]

The Boys is a satire targeting basically every aspect of the modern right wing. The idea that people were too dumb to notice is hilarious to me.

[@unbothered5240]

It's funny but also terrifying how stupid they are...and yet they can have kids, operate machinery, and drink, buy guns and vote...

[@Deminese2]

I remember when I read Season 1 reviews and the only bad ones were right wingers because they were pissed the show made fun of them.

[@dewilton7712]

They do not see these characters like normal people. They see nothing wrong with some of the behaviors of them.

[@Poopieman01]

Liberal cattle jump at any opportunity to felate themselves at the slightest hint of intelligence. Everyone knew the show shits on right wingers, it even shat on liberals, now however it's way more obvious, and it's annoying. You are not special lol.

[@Kuchhh]

It’s a satire of our world in general, not just the right…

[@iamNazrak]

I grew up in a conservative household and my family let me watch the daily show and the colbert report every morning because they didn’t understand that the Colbert report was satire

[@Remedy462]

...Colbert was so obvious he basically slapped you through the tv and said, "America!"

[@H56Nooc]

Jeez. That's bad. Colbert was so obvious lmao

[@Venjur40]

So many people thought he "sold out" and took that CBS money when he took over the Late Show and started doing his actual stuff....

[@wildesage4172]

This is hilarious.

[@marcellagflowers]

that's so funny bc I grew up in an extremely progressive household & watched both those shows regularly too. they really hit both ends of the spectrum with them lol

[@siniister710]

not knowing the show is political just shows how poor conservatives media literacy is lol

[@AsecasJavi]

It's always like this fr. I remember the first time I saw a "friend" talk about politics and I said, how come you like x character then? "What? That's a show and even then the character is cool" I can't even understand how they see characters like Luffy and say he's the goat and clap and say hes the best person ever and not connect the dots. He would kick your ass

[@smallshaq8062]

Ben Shapiro once said that the Empire Strikes Back is a conservative movie

[@siniister710]

@@smallshaq8062 the star wars stuff is hilarious too lol like wow you do not comprehend what you're watching

[@mrthingus]

"The Boys makes fun of conservatives" 🤓 "umm actually it makes fun of everyone" Conservatives and reactionaries are unable to comprehend that rainbow capitalism isn't reflective of anything except corporations being tone-deaf and toothless. Any time one of these clowns starts yapping on about "liberalism everywhere" that's what they think is happening, that corporate signaling towards progressive causes is liberalism and the left.

[@DamienEditsYT]

They think media literacy is just 'To be annoying on twitter'

[@russt360]

It only took em 4 seasons, almost an entire presidential term for them to connect the dots😂

[@anieltavares7991]

It’s obvious as a nose on a head I mean the team “the boys” is just made of minorities An English dude A Scottish dude (in comics) A Japanese gal And black and french dude I mean c mon 😂

[@markedward1166]

my occasional apology from Scotland for allowing count dankula and the critical drinker to get internet access

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

I dunno who these guys are

[@deathserpent9747]

I dont think dankula is *that* bad. His audience is fucked tho

[@Molotov_Milkshake]

@@deathserpent9747 Dankula is a clown

[@deathserpent9747]

@@Molotov_Milkshake i dont remember him doing anything that bad besides the hitler dog thing which was more stupid than anything.

[@andrewkathe3471]

@@deathserpent9747he’s been on the anti woke grift for a while if memory serves. Also he looks like a human boil with pubic hair glued on it

[@maya.furtado]

They literally have a character who is their version of Tucker Carlson. He even talks in the same way as Tucker Carlson, dresses like him and is presented on the news like him.

[@aniket8350]

Also likes to get his balls crushed The resemblance is uncanny 😂😂

[@dewilton7712]

They do not see these characters like normal people. They see nothing wrong with some of the behaviors of them.

[@yan008]

And it still went over their head

[@TheHate222]

Lets not forget the S2E7 convenience store clerk was killed by someone radicalized by an Alex Jones knock-off.

[@thevikingmeyhem]

@@TheHate222and in this season they criticized pizza gate

[@AliRizwanMasood]

People forget that right wing fans genuinely didnt understand how depraved Homelander was, and btw legitimately thought Homelander didn't rape Becca. Which is why in season 2 they had Becca explicitly say it and massively reduced the subtext about Homelander. Their lack of Media literacy literally forced the show to explicitly explain why Evil Dude is clearly a psychopath.... And they STILL cant comprehend it

[@Celebriedad]

They have mom level denial

[@JimmyNuisance]

In their minds it wasn't rape.. Cause kinda nothing is by conservative standards. They're STILL shocked to learn that you need consent from your wife. Same with their wives who think they're just a fleshlight to be used by the man at will. Literally no idea they can say no.

[@WhiskerDooz]

I think all of yall are underestimating how fucked up some of these folks are. How many do you think "don't understand" versus "do understand and like that shit"? If we had numbers, I think it would be a terrifying figure.

[@ronnit24]

Wait didn't we see in the camera footage that Becca goes in with Homelander in his room in S01?, I think that was crystal clear that she had affair with homelander and wasn't like raped as butcher thought of. Anyways long time since season 1 came out

[@JJMusic217]

@@ronnit24 “an affair” 🤣🤣🤣 are you kidding?

[@3dartxsi]

The reason why conservatives took four seasons to figure out Homelander is the bad guy is because conservatives think the shit he does is good.

[@sweepyourspeech8350]

He Rapped Butchers wife, what was her name again E. Jean soming😮

[@keithwoodcrest]

And because they're just blatantly stupid people who couldn't get the picture even if it was connect the dots and already done for them

[@RuminatingRaptor]

@@sweepyourspeech8350 They probably blame her for that happening.

[@UnoDinero95001]

@@RuminatingRaptorcountless reaction channels had to have it said outright to them that that’s what happened so i don’t doubt that unfortunately 😂

[@Kakarot.K]

Is this some type of coping mechanism? Literally no one thought homelander was the good guy or even a good guy in general, yet people keep parroting this narrative.

[@ericklopes4046]

Hasan is underestimating. It's not that they're dumb. Here's how it works: 1. The far-right knows it's satire, but they still idolize it because they look at Homelander and think "This, but unironically". 2. The regular right also knows it's satire, but they're still capable of enjoying the show, as long as it's entertaining. 3. So, the writers decided to make it more and more on the nose, so as to "clear any confusion". But there was never any confusion. You made a character that represents the far right. They loved it. You made him narcisistic, handsome and powerful. So you try and act as if they're just dumb and didn't notice it was satire. They DID notice. They just don't care. Like a sexual fantasy, they just want to continue indulging in it. So they can still enjoy it for as long as Homelander himself doesn't point to the camera and say: "Hey! I'm evil and you're stupid!" Which is pretty much what they made him do, and that's why right wingers are pissed, that's why they're complaining about "poor writing". It was blunt before, but now it's just so in their face that they can't even indulge in it anymore.

[@jonirischx8925]

This is spot on, and exactly what is going through their heads.

[@viciouspen]

No, you're not getting it. They did not actually understand. That's not a meme. It's not some grandmaster plan of theirs. They were literally that dumb

[@ericklopes4046]

@@viciouspen Ok, please hear me out. It's no grandmaster plan, and it isn't a case of just plain dumbness either. It's a matter of optics. I'll explain with a video game. Helldivers 2. You know that in the game's universe, you're in the wrong, it's obviously satirical, but it's still an incredibly popular game, many enjoy it (including the far right, who, again, indulge a bit too much in the roleplay). Why? Because even though the Helldivers are obviously portrayed as fascistic cannon fodder, it still feels epic and grand. It's still fun, and that allows the far right to put the fact that it's a satire aside and just indulge in militaristic roleplay. Just forget that it's satire and have fun with violence and gameplay. It's not that they *don't know* it's satire, they do know. They just put it aside. Now imagine for a moment if all the NPCs started pointing the finger directly at the player, saying "you're literally Hitler" every 5 seconds. Imagine if after every completed objective, the game condemned war crimes. It would probably stop being enjoyable and become just annoying to them. That's what right wingers are complaining about in The Boys. Homelander is obviously satirical, but seeing that the far right was idolizing him, they cranked it up even more, and it just ended up being not enjoyable to them anymore.

[@17-MASY]

Some of them are that dumb tho​@@viciouspen Also, I find it a bit ironic how both Hasan and the drinker are discussing the show while neither of them had watched season 4.

[@foolishmuleth6757]

Lindsay Ellis has a great video discussing The Producers and other works that critique Fascist world views. To paraphrase and parrot her a bit, the reason why The Producers never got co-opted like other more "subtle" critiques is because it never showed those ideas as anything but nonsensical and wrong

[@L1ghtweaver]

You're trying to tell me conservatives are media illiterate? I'm shocked.

[@lolkthnxbai]

His love interest was literally called stormfront LMAO

[@Emilbarrit2]

Yeah the metaphor of the american right flirting with nazism isnt exactly subtle 😂

[@LokTar_Ogar93]

anthony starr was also actually concerned that people saw homelander as a hero

[@aadliafiq]

​@@Emilbarrit2 "they agree with what i said they just don't like the word N4zi" as subtle as a foghorn during nighttime and they still missed it

[@greg1685]

Most don't know stormfront exist despite most of their talking points spawning there.

[@Reidy12345]

@@LokTar_Ogar93 now that I see it from this point of view I don’t blame him either 😬

[@joelhenry5489]

The craziest thing about that Critikal Drinker video is that homie didn't even watch the show. This is grift-level 1000.

[@RoguSpanish]

It's so depressing that a guy can admit he hasn't seen something, then rant for 8 minutes about how it's bad now without being able to give any specifics whatsoever, and get millions of views. Conservatives are so fucking desperate to hear people mirror their views back at them.

[@tediekgb]

@@RoguSpanishthey’re all like trump….they didn’t get enough attention from daddy so they need to hear they’re right…..narcissists just like their lord and saviour the orange dipsht

[@sarab89hj]

He has been high on his own shit for a few years now.

[@0o0ooo0o0oo0]

So is this, more ragebait for one side of the circus, no thoughts just be angry and spiteful to the other party

[@pieman3141]

I fucking hate that guy. Guy doesn’t know what the fuck critical means if someone whined about gas prices

[@santifocus7432]

I just got whiplash from the idea that there is a possibility that there are right wingers out there that saw the black history month scene with Vought and thought "Vought is so woke."

[@Alastair_Adana]

Black history month is a joke to actual black history. Don’t get me wrong I’m glad it exists but it is just so sad

[@GraphiteShores]

I never watched the show (I don't have amazon prime, sue me) But when I heard about 'LGBTurkeylegs' and 'BLM BLT sandwiches' I was just like 'that's a little too much' and then it turns out MULTIPLE COMPANIES TRIED TO MAKE BLM BLT SANDWICHES IN 2020 WHEN FLOYDS BODY WASN'T EVEN IN THE GROUND.

[@Random-sk6hm]

@@GraphiteShores In the UK there was a BLTG sandwich (bacon, lettuce, tomato, and guacamole for some reason) from a major supermarket. As a gay dude I got 2nd and 3rd hand embarrassment. The show calls out corporate rainbow-washing and I love it cos I've never seen a show do that.

[@goestheboom5211]

Lmao they were making fun of liberals how do yall turn this against conservatives you're making yourself look stupid cause they're making fun of liberals just as much 😂

[@santifocus7432]

@@goestheboom5211 You are in the comment section of a Hasan video, there isnt alot of liberals sorry to tell you, mostly just leftists.

[@itsnearlv]

Why is nobody really talking about the fact that the dude admits he DIDNT EVEN WATCH THE SEASON.

[@OlgaZuccati]

drinker telling someone else "not everyone agrees with you" is such a hillariously unself aware statement.

[@hrodebrt]

Told a right wing buddy of mine that he was acting like a crying liberal when he was ranting about season 4 and he hasn't spoken to me since lol

[@gavriloking5637]

sounds like a conservative - they invent problems in their heads and live a daily meltdown about transgender people or DEI, and when they encounter people not having a freakout they freakout even more. Total nutjobs.

[@ananousous]

"Slurping up them tears" 🍵🗿

[@BananaBossYT]

Goes to show how childish/sensitive most conservatives can be

[@hrodebrt]

@@BananaBossYT He is usually pretty alright nowadays. Just has these moments where he goes full on nutty mode over nothing, but like a year or two ago he was much worse.

[@BananaBossYT]

@@hrodebrtI get where you are coming from. I know some decent folk as well, who I can have a lovely chat with. You just need to make sure to avoid a certain amount of topics to avoid a conversation getting heated.

[@maxwell9211]

they can't even make the "Go woke, go broke" argument because The boys Season 4 is up 21% from last season

[@FrancisR420]

Also they don't even have to spend money on marketing anymore, I heard about the premiere on the day from another fan and then the next day somebody recommended it with the same story.

[@trappedinamerica7740]

Well an incredibly woke film, Barbie, was far and away the biggest film last year and everyone knew it would be woke

[@Starfire10982]

I mean, there was the same outcry about the X-Men ‘97 and they have one of the highest scores for a Disney plus show. They kept saying “X-Men went woke.” And it’s just like…what did you THINK it was an allegory for?

[@RoguSpanish]

Conservatives need to believe anything that doesn't have their support will fail because they are incredibly insecure about the fact that they're a small and ever shrinking minority. I guarantee you, when the show ends after the 5th season like the creators planned from the beginning, conservatives will claim it was cancelled due to low ratings because nothing can survive without them.

[@vantahawk2834]

They can't make that argument on anything.. never stopped them from making it anyway.

[@jarrod7465]

This "controversy" reminds me of the published peer reviewed study "conservative beliefs linked to lower cognitive ability"

[@daviddobarganes9115]

I mean you have to be dumb(er) to advocate against your own best interest, so yes

[@dewilton7712]

They do not see the world the same as normal people.They see nothing wrong with some of the behaviors of the characters in the show. That is why the look up to real world authoritarian figures and do not understand why most of the world hate them.

[@MichealHallowell]

We need to educate everyone from birth. No more ducking around

[@BananaBossYT]

@@MichealHallowellToo many people take anything for granted nowadays, it’s very concerning how on social media few bother to doublecheck bold statements

[@JackDespero]

Also known as the Fetterman effect.

[@TajinQ]

I thought magic wasn't real, then I heard that right wingers didn't know The Boys was political for 3 whole seasons. It has to be magic, there's no other way for me to explain how people can be so dumb. A child would understand Homelander is a villain.

[@TajinQ]

@@RednGone This is fine criticism ! I think season 4 has some issues as well. But we're talking about story elements here. Pacing, characters arcs, etc. The political aspect of the show has remained consistent throughout the entire show, not the story. Right wingers saying the 4th season is worse *because of its politics* just shows they lack media literacy

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

They understood he was the villain but they didn't get the critique of society aspect. That, or whoever controls the outrage machines recently decided to target The Boys.

[@Gamingguy-my4wn]

Right wingers knew all right but season 4 has lost all it’s subtlety and has completely focused in making fun of “the right”. Not in a very clever way either, the writers portray basically anyone who leans right ad stupid, bigoted and just downright evil.

[@TajinQ]

@@Gamingguy-my4wn I have my issues with season 4. But they've always shown the right as bigoted and manipulative (which it is). And to be fair, nobody's a saint on the left side in the show either.

[@Gamingguy-my4wn]

@@TajinQ come on man you’re smarter than the “All people who are conservatives are bigoted nazis” rhetoric. it’s no different to when conservatives call left leaning people libtards and braindead democrats. Over the years I’ve been on basically every portion of the political spectrum and one thing you realize is how easy it is to get trapped in an echo chamber that displays the absolute worst and extremes in “the other side” and makes those extremes to appear to be the norm among conservatives and liberals when in reality most normal people who lean left/right have way more in common than they think.

[@LP-zn8sc]

The very first episode has almost every member of the 7 commit murder or sexual assault. Like you only need to watch one episode to know most of the superheroes are the bad guys.

[@comradechill]

some of my normie lib friends have even been telling me "wow, this show is getting pretty obvious with their political views this season, isn't it?" And I was like, "yeah man it's been like this since episode 1. What are we talking about here?"

[@traplover6357]

Like did people not expect this climax?

[@brianc620]

It’s still not obvious based on how a lot of liberals aren’t getting it either. The fact that they’re hung up on Homelander being the villain when he’s not is telling. Vought is the villain. They’re the ones that created Homelander and will just create another Homelander after he’s gone. The show’s true satire is how they accurately depict both in the show and in the fandom how the right and left will fight each other while the actual villains just continue to do what they do.

[@NameUnknownz]

Here's the problem, the writing and execution of the satire isn't up to par with the early seasons. It just comes off as lazy and overdone at this point

[@iitstre_4550]

@@NameUnknownz now take what you just said, and apply it to the totality of the show. The satire doesn’t live up, because it’s no longer satire. The point is that the show is that it’s culminating event, where they are just straight up showing Republicans as Republicans. You’re seeing a true reflection of real life, that’s why it doesn’t feel like it’s the same, because it’s literally just what happens. Obviously, is why the Republicans have now realized what the show was about.

[@Dontdoit_]

@@NameUnknownzno it’s all coming to a climax so the subtlety is no longer there because it’s all been uncovered. It’s how writing works

[@tmcryptic2140]

One of the conservatives in this video is a KZbin channel called 'The Critical Drinker' this was the channel that got me into the right wing pipeline in the anti-sjw era, about a year ago I discovered Hasan who changed my world view thankfully. Thank you @Hasanabi Productions for the uploads, I hope this channel reaches those like me from a year ago.

[@smellycat57]

great to see someone who made it out. its not fun seeing people go the other way

[@kingjoeblack5]

How do Americans get tricked into racism? In all the “anti sjw” nonsense there’s always an obvious anti Black people sentiment. But like when has anti Black American sentiment ever been the right side of history? It’s not like you weren’t raised to know better…

[@k1xnt]

critical drinker is cringe though, there's much more entertaining alt right creators

[@liro6]

To be fair, I'm definitely a leftist but he has some videos with good points I know he's a conservative but i don't care and that won't change my opinions. Just like for example how how big Studios don't care about making good movies anymore thats not that controversial.

[@OvenHut]

this dude and the other alt-right scottish commentary dude sent me down the pipeline years ago i feel u

[@robinvik1]

You can make a show as woke as you want. As long as you have a toxic guy as one of the main characters right wingers will think the show is on their side. See: Breaking Bad, Fight Club, etc.

[@denkinoms]

Lol

[@ergoproxy-gx2cq]

Its funny how right wing ideology boils down to "we idealize assholes"

[@planetfinance999]

Explain how breaking bad is even political

[@robinvik1]

@@planetfinance999 I don't think Breaking Bad is an especially political show, but it's very clearly about toxic masculinity and the negative outcomes of that. Walter is given sooo many chances to just quit and be fine, including the very first episode! He didn't have to do any of it and it tore his family apart and put all of their lives in danger.

[@uS0ra]

@@planetfinance999 toxic/fragile masculinity and ego

[@JRL-8]

He's objectively the villain once you see him destory the fucking plane, the fact conservatives identity with him shows a lot of their values 😂

[@Molotov_Milkshake]

"Creators are not allowed to have politics in their creations." -Conservatives

[@anieltavares7991]

😂 I don’t mind them watching a wall all day long then

[@notaspy1227]

Being Conservative is being upset at everything for no reason.

[@BananaBossYT]

And they have the gall to call other people snowflakes

[@Mr.Coffee576]

Literally

[@Starrypaws64]

Fr​@@BananaBossYT

[@dewilton7712]

@@BananaBossYT They have always used projection and do not understand the hypocrisy of their actions. When they call someone something like snowflake, they are the actual sensative ones.

[@Avokrypha]

Political schizophrenia

[@raven_g6667]

What's ironic is the latest season has been lampooning that performative woke liberalism that everybody hates too. Like, what do these ppl want?

[@StuartM62]

Because right wingers think performative liberalism encompasses all left wing politics. They think that the ad A Train does kicking the Kylie Jenner ad is for them to laugh at left wingers when in reality everyone laughed at that cause it was dumb centrist bullshit created by a massive right wing corporation but right wingers don’t interact with things on a deeper level they just take it all at surface level.

[@ananousous]

What season _didn't_ do that? 😂 I still chuckle at the LGBTurkey legs, Woke Wok, and the BLM BLTs food stands at Voughtland

[@SailorSlay]

To be contrarian. Das it

[@shadebleu]

The ruined Frenchie.

[@theratking14]

​@@shadebleubecause he is bi? or because he is having more character development?

[@lukek4073]

These are the type of guys to play Born in the USA and Fortunate Son at trump rallies and military events

[@JimmyNuisance]

And rock out to Rage Against The Machine while dressed mostly in american flags, trump's chinese produced fascist merch and a ton of crosses.

[@severalwolves]

@@JimmyNuisanceand complain that RATM has “gone woke” haha

[@aurelien5747]

@@severalwolvesit is annoying that their concerts cost so damn much tho

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

Tbf American militarism itself is EXTREMELY good at adopting anti-militarist songs for itself in general.

[@D0S81]

''the problem Eric, is that people don't always think exactly the same way we do, or have the same opinions'' says the guy complaining that the show should think or hold the same opinions he does.

[@LAZ-org]

I had to skip the Scottish guy's segment, pretty much the entire show. His vocal aesthetic of dropping pitch at the end of every sentence was worse than any of his gripes about any shoOOWWWW.

[@interdimensionalsteve8172]

The boys is 20% more popular this season than last. The Critical Drinker is a clown.

[@Juancarlosinc1995]

Dude his rant about The Boys being bad and getting cancelled is so monumentally more study knowing that the show already has it's fifth and final season GREENLIT.

[@Eismagier]

his video is bad, he didnt watch the show and tries to comment on it, but popularity doesnt really define a show the shows quality, if you have a good first season => more viewers 2nd season, bad second season => less popular 3rd season etc.

[@interdimensionalsteve8172]

@@Eismagier it's all cope - his attempt to come to grips with the fact that the show has been directly insulting his audience since the beginning and he's only just realized this now...

[@Eismagier]

@@interdimensionalsteve8172 i mean, most ppl in general, enjoy the show anyways, even if it insults them, yk not every joke is aimed at them, bc even right wingers dont all share the exact same opinions, you can laugh at the stuff you enjoy, and try to ignore the satire that doesnt hit that much, but imo even if the satire isnt your thing, theres still plenty to enjoy ab this show

[@interdimensionalsteve8172]

@@Eismagier :) Indeed.

[@swiftxrt]

It took them 4 seasons to realize they're being mocked lmfao jfc.... I was told the far right was intensely stupid but this is taking it to the next level

[@dewilton7712]

They do not see the world the same as normal people.They see nothing wrong with some of the behaviors of the characters in the show. That is why the look up to real world authoritarian figures and do not understand why most of the world hate them.

[@Poopieman01]

Dawg it was always obvious but no one cares until it became purely one sided. Bro the entire show is about gay sex who cares about it's politics at this point

[@Kakarot.K]

This is such a cringe take that keeps getting parroted over and over again. No one thought the show wasn't woke from the beginning. Shows can be "woke" and still be entertaining. The problem comes from how bad the storyline has gotten simply to push crappy political agendas down the audience throats. It like "liberals" don't understand what the meaning of nuance. The guy(crit. drinker) that this guy is reacting to, LITERALLY says this as the closing segment of his video and you still have morons with this braindead take saying.... "conservatives didn't know the show was making fun of them until season 4 lul"

[@alexmanrique2280]

I remember clearly in season 2 when stormfront tries to convince homelander about the white replacement theory and even he didn't believe her, openly mocking the white supremacists

[@smellycat57]

He's more of a supe supremacist, but he's still absolutely a white supremacist

[@gg_sam7847]

It's cause the actual elite don't give a shit about race, it's only about class. In the past race and class used to be synonymous but now it's not. It's the same dynamic except people from the "lower" race can now be elite and people from the "higher" race are now just (okay maybe not JUST) as shoved down as the rest of the peasants

[@Alastair_Adana]

Yeah I remember when he gave her that double take as she was feeding that crap to ryan

[@greasher926]

That’s because Homelander is beyond white supremacy, he is super abled supremacy. White supremacy is beneath him. He realized how pathetic Stormfront was for still caring about pathetic normie white people, when she and homelander have god like powers. In Homelander’s eyes, stormfront lost the plot.

[@GraphiteShores]

I mean...why would he agree that white people are superior? He barely considers himself human and more akin to a God; it would be like looking at red and black ants fighting over who is the 'superior' ant.

[@TempestAmethyst]

"Even Homelander and Butcher can't save this season" and the fact that these are your favorite characters is exactly what's wrong lmao.

[@skyty0]

I love how the only way conservatives understood that the show was laughing at them was when the matt walsh/IDW standin character in this newest season straight up looks at the camera and says 'youre worthless nobody and very easy to manipulate,' as if the superman rape and nazi worshiping werent enough. Zero empathy unless theyre the ones that are personally and directly attacked.

[@twilightmiffy]

Firecracker literally made a QAnon reference. How can you be terminally online and not notice the overwhelming evidence that The Boys is satire of America lol

[@RicardoPetinga]

They probably also think she's one of the "good guys". The cognitive dissonance is real.

[@easiersaidwithmeg]

What’s scary is they walk among us

[@joelcoll4034]

Isn't that season 4?

[@allinefeyn9224]

@@joelcoll4034 Yeah that's why they are suddenly hating it now, because season 4 just basically straight up said what they were hinting at all along, and now they're like wait a minute they are making fun of us.

[@XXLpeanuts]

KZbin wants me to watch critical drinker so much, despite me telling it never to show me the channel. All his videos are literally just crying about imagined woke stuff ruining everything he watches. I think it's a mental illness at this point, persecution syndrome or something. They want to be upset and they don't understand satire.

[@siniister710]

there a multiple right wing channels I've hit either not interested or do not recommend again on and it never works lol, couldn't imagine why

[@SBRS47]

His accent sounds like he's doing a bit

[@kimmeallay5043]

We have Tyler Oliviera for investigator crooks, and now TCD for entertainment critics fraudulent😑

[@denkinoms]

Why is yt pushing that on me too? I don't even watch anything political other than hasan

[@johnnyph12]

Even after I select "do not recommend channel" he still pops up later.

[@Farticuss]

What a great critic "I didn't watch it and I don't plan to but it's bad."

[@hopefulbadger2160]

As someone who has been keeping up with the boys for a hot minute, this is not the first time a swath of concervatives misunderstood the show and suddenly 'realized' it was woke. Season 3 had this same controvercy IIRC. Season 4 def went more into it with all of the qanon iconography and firecracker, but the critiques have always been there, and every season it feels like more conservatives realize the show wasn't made for them just because it takes jabs at the optics of liberalism and the aryian rapist is venorated as a god by the public.

[@hopefulbadger2160]

@@RednGone I liked the musical number of the Christmas scene. The whole thing with hughie in the vents was fuckin stupid though. I will actually acknowledge that's probably some with the worst writing in the show. He's literally sneaking to watch in on two supes that should both just be able to sense him in the area as they have a super secret meeting.

[@FelpudoChannel]

for some reason I ended up commenting some dumb thing in the original video and someone responded saying they cheer for the EMPIRE in Star Wars When I said like, dude, they're named after the literal nazi division he came back with "yeah, but for aesthetics, the movie's about Vietnam" Dude can't even comprehend what it says about America in Vietnam... I can't even... That's Critical Drinker's audience...

[@lizd2943]

Their mistake is thinking the show was making fun of "both sides" in previous seasons when it was actually making fun of corporate performative wokeness. Now that Homelander is totally in control of Vought he has no interest in the clumsy "Brave Maeve" campaign or anything like that.

[@paulburns7951]

If anything you could make the argument that this show makes fun of people who does the whole “both sides suck” thing.

[@NezeruGaming]

Love the concept of a rightwing The Boys / One Piece / Helldivers / Starship Troopers / Star Wars / Arknights fan. My favorite type of media illiterate hog.

[@isabella16939]

They'll swear on their lives that those shows/games/movies are actually on their side. It's unreal.

[@JimmyNuisance]

This is what Verhoeven(director) said about Starship Troopers: "I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don't." A resounding success in every respect.

[@demoninveins]

Abigail Shapiro's favorite game is Bioshock. Can't make this shit up

[@xblade149]

Don't forget the matrix

[@MasterofFates]

21:40 Wild one of the reviews was essentially like: " I don't wanna feel anything when I watch media, only see violence." Where we are at in our American "Culture".

[@GraphiteShores]

The type of people who make 'all the violence on The Wire' videos and say 'don't give me context, just give me black people killing other black people!'

[@papaflowers5726]

Dude is just on KZbin sobbing and slurring about how his ideology is universally recognized as shit. I almost watched one of his videos a few months ago. That was a close one.

[@BananaBossYT]

Really dodged a bullet there

[@davass82]

My mind was blown when I heard people didn't know Homerland was a bad guy. I thought they were trolling.

[@anthny2463]

The way critical drinker talks is so damn annoying. He growls at the end of every fucking word.

[@SeanMatheson-n3x]

Yes!!! I normally like Scottish accents but the way this guy speaks is f*kin weird.

[@800Ms-k6n]

Of course he growls at the end of every word, he drinks alcohol......a lot

[@doandadrestarahma5290]

Brexit geezer

[@davidtaylor142]

I love how his entire metric for a good writer is that they are a centrist. That's it.

[@emarbeats6896]

People who spend all day watching fictional content with zero critical thinking skills walking away with nothing more than main character sybdrome.

[@algernonsidney8746]

They might not have any critical thinking skills but they sure have critical drinking skills.

[@OldBaldWookiee]

Why are people against making fun of trump? The fact is both biden trump and our countries politics in general are a comedy goldmine

[@conrradotorres4653]

The problem is that you can't make fun of Biden because he can humbly laugh it off or use it on himself. Trump and his supporters, on the other hand, will cry about it, which makes it funnier.

[@rivera229]

​@conrradotorres4653 It depends. Apparently, his staffers have admitted that Biden hates the pro-Palestine protesters for making fun of him.

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

Homelander might be older than Trump controversy. It was a comic.

[@BobectorGamesBobector]

​​@@conrradotorres4653Honestly I saw Liberals make fun of Biden all the time. But I've almost never seen a conservative make fun of Trump.

[@tarettime9392]

I like how his criticism is “it’s not fun and exciting anymore” but refuses to elaborate on what that means at all other than it’s political. But then says it’s fine to have a political show. Like definitely a coherent take

[@LovesAGoodPigsRoast2]

I hate this scottish guys voice. Why does he drag out each word like that.

[@davidblank420]

Are these the same people who thought Rage Against The Machine were a conservative band? "Yes sir, I'll do what you tell me."

[@Milimeteypetey]

I’ve actually seen some of them thinking “F you I won’t do what you tell me” is referencing using preferred pronouns lmaooooo

[@MarcyRavenManji]

​@@Milimeteypetey LMAOOO

[@gg_sam7847]

Or the nutters who think they're telling it to "the (left wing) deep state". Because they can't imagine a world without some sort of supreme authoritative figure

[@Jesse-Pinkthem]

@@Milimeteypetey That's one of the most embarrassing things I've ever read, good LORD

[@xero2135]

@@MilimeteypeteyHow? Isn’t the song that comes from literally about police brutality, white supremacy, and how the police are often literally members of the Klan?

[@trainenjoyer22]

complete side note, how do people watch the critical drinkers content, his vocal inflections are so annoyingly aggravating

[@philbuttler3427]

Amen, I had to watch this video in chunk cause he's sounds annoying AF.

[@xhixiang9790]

I thought he was an American doing a terrible Scottish accent.

[@Milimeteypetey]

People just wanna be spoon fed “woke bad” content no matter how lazy it is

[@TajinQ]

It feels like he's constantly constipated and about to have a stroke

[@Milimeteypetey]

@@TajinQ You know what I just realized: it’s like he’s doing an unironic Mr. Plinkett from Red Letter Media but without the self awareness to know that all the jokes are terrible and actual sound film criticism.

[@golgothavirus]

Conservatives are pissed because season 4 critizices chaya raichik

[@soulstealer5625]

At least the show one knows shes grifting, Chaya is actually that stupid.

[@ΓιάννηςΜεταξάς-ρ5φ]

wait when that would be so funny

[@soulstealer5625]

@@ΓιάννηςΜεταξάς-ρ5φ I think they are talking about firecracker

[@ΓιάννηςΜεταξάς-ρ5φ]

@@soulstealer5625 thought she was the infowars proxy

[@golgothavirus]

Yes, that's what I am referring to.

[@MrInuhanyou123]

Its weird. Right wingers will say media being inclusive to all people is bad but then turn around and say that its good when their feelings are hurt by a show portraying bad people as bad.

[@exoskeletonalremains]

I’m so glad Hasan mentioned right wingers failures to grasp the colbert report. my AP-USH was my absolute favorite person in high school. The man LOVED the Colbert report and I remember thinking because he put it on all the time in class that we had a similar belief systems and politics. So, I added him on facebook the year after I graduated. Then the 2016 election came around and I remember seeing his facebook rants. The dread I felt realizing he was not in fact this cool leftist teacher who understood satire, but was the exact kind of person the show was depicting was immeasurable.

[@AgentAika001]

The reason they view Homelander as a hero is because he does to his opponents what they want to do to their opponents. Like when that one guy on camera asked Charlie Kirk "when can we start shooting them?" And instead of 100% disavowing violence he hemmed and hawed about the political optics of it

[@notnick7963]

Homelander does try to be the hero until black noir kills him

[@LeeHarrison89]

Critical Drinker has to be the most media illiterate KZbinr on the platform and people just lap up his dumb opinions and imprint them on to their own. Ironically becoming the most NPC of the "anti-NPC" brigade.

[@StakeFromJateFarm]

British conservatives are stuck in that Era where everyone assumed you were smart just because of your accent 😂

[@gg_sam7847]

I always considered him one of the most media literate conservatives (emphasis on conservatives) Like he's so often so close to the point, but then completely whiffs it Dude's playing darts but given himself a board that's only the bullseye, and as the name suggests, he only plays after a few drinks

[@StevesRepairs54]

The Boys was refreshing during a time when super hero’s were all the rage. A raw and unfiltered version of what it would be like living with people who had powers. The only unbelievable thing about the shows is that Vought didn’t develop a vaccine to remove a persons super powers when someone got too big and didn’t listen to the shareholders.

[@dewilton7712]

You must not have watched the spinoff show. They should have developed it sooner. They may have already had something else and that is why they were not afraid of Homelander.

[@rojahj6524]

"Should be proud of comparison with Homelander". This is the same logic they apply to Israel and AIPIC's involvement in US politics.

[@ramon6567]

It genuinely surprised me to hear that people did not realize the very clear politics of this show from the very beginning. It amazes me the poor media literacy of people

[@aerisfan2]

the critical drinker try and have media literacy without living in your conservative echo chamber challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[@SimpleSlave]

Growing up I never understood why mass murderers like Darth Vader and The Joker were so popular and celebrated. Now I understand.

[@rivera229]

People like good villains. But I think things have gone overboard.

[@SimpleSlave]

@@rivera229 And don't get me wrong, these are good villains for their respective stories and properties. My problem is when they start infantilizing these characters and taking them out of context in order to sell them to kids as family friendly products. I mean, I guess I'm just salty I didn't got my Silent of the Lamb's Lego set with Hannibal Lecter and a Buffalo Bill with a Basket Full of Lotion. Or my Seven's John Doe Lego Set with a What's in the Box Lego Surprise!!

[@dewilton7712]

They do not see the world the same as normal people. This is a big issue with conservatives around the world. They do not understand why the villians are that bad and then normal people are surprised when conservatives adopt hateful ideology like it is nothing to them. That is why they look up to authoritarian strong men as heroes. The conservatives have been the bad guys for thousands of years. They have always been the power hungry genocidal monsters throughout history that have opressed people.

[@rivera229]

@@SimpleSlave Well people forget that Star Wars and Batman were made for kids. Well, I'd argue teenagers. But George Lucas is still adamant that Star Wars is just for kids. I'd also argue that the reason why it looks like corporations are infantilizing their characters is because we've spent so many years growing them up, we kind of forgot their original purpose. It's kind of why Alan Moore hates modern-day superhero comics. He's brought up that they were once fun creations made up by imaginative young adults and teens meant for working-class children, and are now taken as seriously as a religion. Then again Alan Moore blames himself for making superheroes more "adult" and mature.

[@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylord]

​@@SimpleSlavecome bro I've never heard anyone say the joker is actually the a hero. A completely different situation is happening with the boys. And darth Vader is also Anakin Skywalker so yea he's gonna get some love. Plus darth Vader turned good and help save the galaxy honestly its a horrible example.

[@jonathonwallen]

the fact that they saw Homelander as a "good guy" all the way through season 3 is pretty darn scary.

[@dewilton7712]

They do not see the world the same as normal people. This is a big issue with conservatives around the world. They do not understand why the villians are that bad and then normal people are surprised when conservatives adopt hateful ideology like it is nothing to them. That is why they look up to authoritarian strong men as heroes. The conservatives have been the bad guys for thousands of years. They have always been the power hungry genocidal monsters throughout history that have opressed people.

[@notnick7963]

The fact that you dont know homelander turns out to not be the bad guy shows you didnt read the book. Black noir is his clone and was the one who did all the bad things they used to convince him he was evil

[@pixel6698]

​@@notnick7963Except the show is good, unlike the book. It's literally never once implied that Homelander doesn't know about what he did. He's literally proud of what he's done and is still doing and the show depicts his fucked up childhood. It would be insanely stupid for them to reuse that plotline after all the fleshing out they have done on Homelander.

[@quickie17]

​@@notnick7963no he still did plenty bad things , including rape and murder

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

Notnick I'm assuming you didn't read the comic. All of the supes were bad including Billy Butcher. Just because Homelander didn't actually eat a baby doesn't make him a good guy.

[@hempracer]

Conservatives are melting snowflakes.

[@julienmarvin]

Oh i get it....They thought 'The boys' was Southpark. U know where the writers nake fun of both sides so everyone can come and select only the parts they like to feel smug about and the writers can also feel smug catering to the widest demographic. They honestly thought the corporate pandering/hypocrisy of vought represented leftism. And so they thought the show had balance, nuance and 'good writing'. As the show more blantly leans toward disecting mordern conservatism it becomes more obvious despite it doing what it has been from season 1.

[@sektorify]

I had long arguments with a co-worker about Colbert Report. He loved it unironically from a conservative perspective.

[@brianc620]

Homelander is as much of a villain as Trump is - in other words, he’s just an empty puppet. Vought is the villain. They’re the ones that created Homelander and will just create another Homelander after he’s gone. The show’s true satire is how they accurately depict both in the show and in the fandom how the right and left will fight each other while the actual villains just continue to do what they do.

[@GliphAbar-ie6ri]

I actually disagree. I think that's the point of the comics, but the show to me seems to be heading in a different direction. I think they're setting Homelander up to be the out of control final villain that was created and encouraged until his ego outgrew it. He's basically Donald Trump to the part of the Republican establishment that wants rid of him now.

[@brianc620]

@@GliphAbar-ie6ri Homelander being an out of control final villain is not outgrowing Vought. If it wasn't clear enough to you, that's the exact result of Vought's abuse. But, people will blame Homelander in both the show and in reality rather than focus on the actual villain. It's just like how people obsess over Trump but ignore everything wrong that led to his creation. When Homelander is gone, do you think that the type of corporate abuse that allowed for his creation will also be gone? I doubt it.

[@JimmyNuisance]

The GOP did not create Trump. Trump is a singular anomaly spawned from a boom of male idiocy. Men have not been this dumb in many many decades, and THAT is what created Trump. Weirdly enough, Trump actually is a monkey wrench in the machinery. Luckily for the elite, he is also a part of the elite, so what's good for Trump is good for those who normally create the presidents. Even when the shadowy figures pulling the strings fail at pulling the strings.. their strings still get pulled.

[@NunYabiznass-hd6dj]

Trump sucks Homelander sucks, just because they're lower level villains doesn't make them not villains

[@GliphAbar-ie6ri]

@brianc620 You're missing my point. Homelander is clearly the consequence of Vaught and what they do and stand for. Vaught's villainy and its real world counterparts are made very clear. That doesn't mean they purposefully designed for things to go to way they are. We're already at a point in the show where Vaught and Homelander don't align anymore. It's like how Fox News radicalises people into the far-right fascist pipeline. But the Fox News executives don't actually want a Fourth Reich, or to upend the American liberal order.

[@calcifur]

I kinda loved how the even made the AOC insert a villian as well

[@bautistabarabino5821]

A piece of advice: never trust a review that contains a sentence similar to "this was worst than GOT".

[@Omar_E11]

True LMAO

[@Zombittenkitten]

LOL "ratings have gone to hell" IMDB- 8.7 Rotten tomatos is actually-93% IGN- 7/10 google users- 92% I came here because they're soooo wrong, and soooo fucking stupid. and YES, if you don't like something it IS as easy as not fucking watching it. It always was making fun of their politics, and the fact that it took them this long only proves they should have been made fun of even HARDER. They've lost basically no fans, especially because season 4 was AMAZING and holy fuck did I laugh, yell, and cry... Shit was hella good, as far as it getting canceled? Fat fucking chance.

[@christophergarrett7082]

I don't trust audience review cause you have no proof if they have actually watch the show

[@soulstealer5625]

I remember people whining in the hades 2 steam reviews about woke and every single fucking one didnt have the mouse symbol that shows they bought the game. Tourists the lot of them.

[@Milimeteypetey]

I remember when the HBO Watchmen show came out and everyone lost their minds. I watched it and loved it. Then I realized none of their criticisms were legitimate. They just didn’t like a black female lead and left wing themes.

[@RoguSpanish]

Didn't that new Star Wars show get audience review bombed into oblivion before the first episode aired? And then they also review bombed an unrelated movie called The Acolyte? Yet we're supposed to believe it was because of "bad writing" with no specific examples, just like this.

[@sumcoolguy]

The issue isn't that the show has changed or became MORE anti-conservative. It's that the conservatives have become the very snowflakes they used to dump on. They became the very thing they hate, a bunch of whiny crybabies who need their safe space on Facebook, where everyone is also crying about how mean everyone is 😅😅

[@iitstre_4550]

Did they finally figure out that the show was making fun of them? Because I’m honestly impressed if so, that would’ve happened way too fast given their current track record.

[@kiral3859]

These are the same people who didn't realize Starship Troopers was a satirical look at fascism and that the humans were the invaders, not the bugs.

[@haha-lj5sq]

I’m right wing. I like the show throughout the four seasons and understand it’s messages clearly. It actually concerns me how many of my so called political peers are just now realizing that homelander and stormfront are supposed to be the bad guys. Like come on. The country isn’t gonna get anywhere if you can’t acknowledge crazy ideas as crazy.

[@headfangs]

since when is it a mark of a "good writer" to garner as wide an audience as possible? there can be phenomenal writers whose audiences are super niche. the aim of entertainment writing isn't to form a bipartisan political coalition. lmao

[@gg_sam7847]

Look at Harry Potter, Rowling is objectively (and I don't use that word lightly when it comes to art) a terrible writer, but she stumbled across an idea that was marketable as hell and extremely inoffensive (for people that were just there for a good time, which everyone was at first)

[@greasher926]

I think there are two different types of writing. There is profound writing that doesn’t cater to anything except the writers point of view. Oftentimes the writing’s value isn’t fully recognized until way later when the writer has long since passed away. And then there is entertaining writing that caters to the masses, it doesn’t really stand on anything and after the zeitgeist has passed the writing has mostly been forgotten.

[@BananaBossYT]

When I’m in a media illiteracy competition and my opponent is a MAGA supporter:

[@0o0ooo0o0oo0]

@@BananaBossYT doing the same blatant metaphors and satire doesn't make you fucking Shakespeare

[@fynndiesel3161]

They claimed xmen97 was too woke, XMEN!?!?

[@BananaBossYT]

Conservatives love having grudges so much to the point where they imagine things that aren’t there, genuinely revolting

[@krestr-md1ju]

The 4th season has a scene of clones tossing the salad train at the very start at a conservative convention. It is hilarious! and i suspect that scene is why they now hate it.. :D

[@betorockmetal]

They didn't know he was the villain? That's just scary, the fact that people like that exist, holy guacamole.

[@npierce14]

Conservatives just realizing this show has been cooking them for 5 years is wild to me lol

[@Kakarot.K]

This is such a cringe take that keeps getting parroted over and over again. No one thought the show wasn't woke from the beginning. Shows can be "woke" and still be entertaining. The problem comes from how bad the storyline has gotten simply to push crappy political agendas. It like "liberals" don't understand what the meaning of nuance. The guy(crit. drinker) this guy is reacting to literally says this as the closing segment of his video and you still have morons with this braindead take saying.... "conservatives didn't know the show was making fun of them until season 4 lul"

[@abrahamibanez4364]

14:42 Dude, at the age of 14 I knew immediately that Colbert was a satire Republican character. How tf did adults not get the damn joke lol

[@StakeFromJateFarm]

Your brain developed normally ig

[@cakeandwine6933]

So basically the ring wingers are just mad that the jokes hit too close to home that it makes them uncomfy at how absurd yet real right wing views can fully be when replayed back to them

[@dewilton7712]

I do not think that is it at all. They do not understand satire and in their mind their absurd hateful bigoted worldview is good and do not like it betrayed as bad.

[@Milimeteypetey]

Literal snowflakes

[@Cristian-vh5fh]

@@dewilton7712 I could give a rat's ass about USA politics since I am not even from the same continent, and I have noticed a drop in quality in the first three episodes. Can't we just not strawman all the critics of the fourth season and ponder for a moment to study if there has been an actual drop in quality? I'm not saying S4 is trash but it's DEFINITELY not as good as season 1.

[@dewilton7712]

@@Cristian-vh5fh S2-3 was not quite as good as 1 either. Only watched Episode of season and it seems on par so far. Why make comments on a US politics video that is about conservative people that finally realized the satire against them? And the politics are relavant in other parts of the world using the same fascist and bigoted tactics as our people.

[@ChristianIce]

Critical Drinker slowly but surely got more pandering to the right for the views. Now he's paying the price.

[@iamjanedoe4real]

So this dude wants an apology for being too stupid to understand a show? 👁️👄👁️

[@Average.writer]

My friend and I started to do a react watch of Drinkers whole "Modern Movies Suck" and it's some unhinged shit the way this man views movies because he can't escape his anti woke fuck marvel and star wars narrative. But the saddest part are the episodes when he doesn't target star wars ect, and he uses his actual literacy skills to teach us, because you start realizing that he is really not good at it.

[@Mr.Coffee576]

Anti woke content has become a lucrative business on KZbin.

[@gg_sam7847]

And it's always the exact same shit over and over and over and over that he brings up too... And HE complains about "the message"

[@Clippidyclappidy]

The Boys are back in town

[@aliasalias8681]

Gotta love how he uses a clip of Obi-Wan Kenobi to transition into talking about the boys, not recognizing Obi-Wan Kenobi was in opposition to another Nazi allegory in the Empire. Let me guess, he doesn’t realize the Empire is evil in Star Wars. It’s gotta be willful self to see, right? Are they actually this uncritical about the things that they watch?

[@caspy-fn]

It's hilarious that Drinker is completely unaware that every "critique" he has of other people apply to him. He's the definition of insecure.

[@atimeforjuice]

The amount people can't see past a surface level is insane.

[@JimmyNuisance]

About 20% of the population are dumb enough that it's a genuine problem in their lives, and satire is definitely going to pass them by. On top of that, feels like about 40% of the young conservatives have severe autism and would be ill suited to understand satire, even extremely obvious satire would pass them by. It's why Colbert had conservative viewers.. Satire is hard for the dumb and for certain groups of neurodiverse people. Those same people are also extremely prolific in online discourse. It's absurd how dumb some people are.. And it's sad how broken others are.