Exposing the ACT MAN 's bull(@#%) Act

[@TheDezembro]

I swear I'm not doing this on purpose. I forgot to plug my f*cking socials AGAIN Follow me here for updates: x.com/TheDezembro and occasional memes.

[@jakobstisen6366]

This is not really a expose video to any big level and the commends here are so negative saying Act is a grifter, this commend "Act Man and everyone who shares his mindset are the reasons why we will rarely see anything above mediocrity ever again." like anyone can prove that. And you giving a heart to someone saying that the "the quantum tv incident broke him" and saying "fence sitting denialist" sure making it sound like Act wanted to be a 100% clear on all point other that what he wanted to say, sure. Or someone saying "Andy pants is to the extreme of things like he hurt the gamers more than anything". Why do you go for super negative commends? You even gave a heart for "Well said." like what is this bot glazing? And when you argument about Overt Radical Ideology seems like a mess of and idea, like how can one just say its how something is implemented that is the problem. I can say okay, that make sense, but who can tell me that something can always be implemented without standing out or just being lost? Is the real title of the video not "Exposing the AndyPants 's bull(@#%)"???

[@TheDezembro]

@@jakobstisen6366 Like what do you mean by "super mean"? Far as I know I didn't give any hearts to any inflammatory sh*t or grifting comments or quantum TV stuff. Quantum TV was an asshole who went WAY too far, not just the flagging but the stuff calling his mom and sh*t. So, what are you talking about, dude? Slyaspie's comment, I found the Act Body Type 1 funny. Other than that he mentions Act Man to be fence sitting. I googled what this means just now, I guess the Act Man isn't necessarily sitting ON the fence, he did take his side. But he pretends to be far more knowledgeable on these matters and far more open for discussion on them, than he ACTUALLY is. Blackcat, I agreed with his assessment that when you're trying to "fence sit" (which I thought meant staying neutral but I guess it means something slightly different - regardless, still applies) and one side goes to extremes, you end up looking bad. And how is this a lie or a false concept? It's easy to stay neutral if a matter is balanced but when you're POSING as neutral - or fence sitting in this case - and there's this gigantic cloud of sh*t that you're pretending doesn't exist, and not tackling at all, outside of just saying "guyyyz i know there's thissss and that..." only to just blow right past it and not elaborate, then you're indeed left with egg on your face. And what's this bot glazing sh*t? 😂 what, I can't heart comments supporting my video? And I'm supposed to believe my dumb not-even-2K-subs-having ass is getting bots boosting me? Gimme a break. Also this is the Act Man video, not the AndyPants video. I already have 2 of those, feel free to check them out.

[@ASHURAHEN]

​@@jakobstisen6366Pro level glazing

[@bludwurm]

Btw. Andy Pants may be shit at debating but that doesn't mean he's wrong. He's 100% right imo. A lot of us agree. Before you jump all over his performance, you do better. You go debate that weirdo. Then you can talk.

[@alanmacdonald1457]

dont worry, no one gives a shit about twitter

[@slyaspie4934]

Act body type 1 can pretend it's not happening, but people have pattern recognition and we can see whats going on, I think the quantum tv incident broke him when he got demonetised by youtube then, he seemed to take a left turn into a fence sitting denialist

[@TheDezembro]

Act Body Type 1 😂😂😂

[@KoeingseggCCM]

Okay, credit to you sly, I'm stealing that. Act Body Type 1... Marvelous. 🤣

[@seeinred]

He was like that looong before. The only reason is, he was slightly less egotistical and mainly was on the same level of mild non-opinions as Charlie, for example. Afterwards he just got much more bolder with his act.

[@Ziko577]

A lot of creators I know have gotten like this over the years. When they have to confront real world issues, they act like him or just make foolish statements that paint them in a negative light and somehow they live life like it's not a big deal? Cognitive dissonance is very much a real thing. MoistCritikal had this happen to him not too long ago and the only thing that came out of that was him quitting a podcast which was a bunch of nothing imo. I didn't hate him but it was obvious he was led into a trap and he got screwed over by Sneako of all people.

[@acev3521]

@@Ziko577moistcritical is the most boring Internet personality ever plus he’s also a groomer he’s way worse than act man

[@smallestgoober9399]

Act Man and everyone who shares his mindset are the reasons why we will rarely see anything above mediocrity ever again.

[@NormanReaddis]

People like him are the influence of ignorance. We will be in this purgatory forever if people like him have millions of followers. There's already manifesto of the said industry but this idiott still denying it means he's just grifting on it and he doesn't really care about the industry but his algorithm paycheck.

[@brkenppt2222]

Lmfao imagine commenting sh*t like that

[@Elisium6]

Exactly! His and his viewers attitude of "who cares" is one of the main reason we are in this mess to begin with. Also it's funny who it is only "who cares" until there's a change they personally dislike and then all of sudden it becomes very important. It's that blatant hypocrisy and double standards that I absolutely despise.

[@PolishedVideoProductions]

Yup. Trust me the gamers don't want change a lot of them know they are helping sell out gaming and they don't care. These people just love propaganda and no integrity.

[@shayanali8771]

The guy is a complete a. Miserable to listen to.

[@walterandrews4985]

Act man man pretends to be Centrist but whenever someone calls out his favorite IP hes goes into full blown Consoomer mode and the mask falls off

[@maninthecamohat2735]

@@walterandrews4985 He's also a Democrat which I don't care if he is but him calling himself a centrist is not cool when he's legitimately a Democrat.

[@Anedime]

@@maninthecamohat2735 I think you're confusing political affiliation with leaning viewpoints. You can be a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, and still be near or far leaning left or right winger, or a centrist. It's a matter of where your opinion lies within the party system. I mean, I'm just giving you the general pitch, I honestly think the political party system is too archaic to define any real affiliation but you can definitely be a democratic centrist because it's a matter of which broader side you lean on specific issues rather than which political party you support.

[@fearlesswee5036]

The problem with playing a character is eventually the mask will come loose.

[@bdleo300]

She-Man is a paid rent-a-mouth shill and nothing else.

[@WhiteWolf126]

A centrist is just a person that agrees with all the fundamental leftist principles but think the change and leftist "progression" of society is going too fast, and that this rapid societal change will cause backlash. So in other words, they're just a leftist that has a better understanding of tactics than the average leftist.

[@RedwindAndBeyond]

Actman is just the embodiment of: “Don’t ask questions, just consume product and get excited for next product”. He cannot hold down a decent mature conversation and will probably fold under an actual serious debate. And to think I used to like the guy.

[@TheCybercoco]

Especially when it comes to Halo. Nothing more irrational than a drooling, mindless fanboy.

[@HSG4meR]

He already declined a debate from AndyPants

[@Franku_4]

@@HSG4meR kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4eaoqmsZrGLl9Esi=qz0NFfeCB6atrpNR

[@Franku_4]

@@TheCybercoco He criticized halo in a lot of his videos.

[@chaserseven2886]

@@HSG4meR bruh they debated once and andypants was just insane

[@MsGhoulz]

Shill Man was real quiet after Payday 3's launch.

[@BluBone]

Can't blame him for that, by the looks of it, every content creator that was moderately interested in the game probably got payed, even the Payday2bers. I don't hear you complain about Raid shadow legends sponsor, because that's how they get payed, yet it's still a bad product, with misinforming ads and promoting addicting in app purchases . You can get mad, if so, blame the whole bunch of asses that made me buy this mess !

[@Whoisthatguy96]

@@BluBone "Can't blame him for that" Yes you can. You can also blame all the people who shilled it as well. They're all responsible adults who have control of their own actions.

[@gaymin3252]

Except he literally talked about it.

[@ChronoStrife]

@@BluBone You make a very solid point, every time MsGhoulz leaves an opinion about someone's ad sponsorships, they now have to make a list of every single person on youtube who've ever advertised anything, even meme games like Raid.. actually wait no that's retarded.

[@BluBone]

@@Whoisthatguy96 yeah, my b, i meant in a way like only him for getting that bag, not for shilling shit. thats why i said to be mad at everyone that shilled it, not just him yknow. Most of us also are responsible for buying it, we should know better than listening to content creators for our spendings. Hell i blame mostly myself for buying it, even tho close ones and theknowley hyped it too much. We are at least as much to blame as they are :(

[@EndThusIAm]

Many lost their patience with him thanks to his drama with AZ, but I dropped him earlier with his take on Ashley mods. He showed zero understanding of the situation and sounded like any puritan when it comes to NSFW mods as a whole. No trace of "Mods are for fun on a personal level" nor "Leon has three times as many naughty mods without issue."

[@M_CFV]

Not too related, but I fucking love the Ashley mods lol. Theres an alternate chinese site to nexus mods that has a ton of the amazing ones

[@EndThusIAm]

@@M_CFV I found one besides LoversLab that has a lot of NSFW, one being a cult outfit for her. I'm not much a fan of NSFW, but it's a sick design.

[@EndThusIAm]

@@bigs42069 Mostly because youtube has a tendency to shadowban comments that have any relation to outside sites. Hell it's a nightmare asking for someone's di/co/ord.

[@EndThusIAm]

@@bigs42069 Mostly because youtube has a tendency to shadowban comments that have any relation to outside sites. Like it just did to my first reply to you.

[@espurrseyes42]

Wasn't he also caught being on sankaku while whining about something?

[@Anonymous-x1x]

Act Man laments how the industry doesn't take any risks. He's not going to change that by being a fence sitter. One of the purposes of DEI is to remove "problematic" content from games and make them more "palletable" to a modern audience. These people's job is to water down your games stories and narratives with their extremely narrow-minded worldview. They are this generations version of the moral panic.

[@TheDezembro]

Very true! We already lost quite a bit with the industry being afraid of taking risks. A lot of Ubisoft's games stories got very degraded because of that. This DEI ideology will only further water down game narratives by sanitizing even more stuff that they don't deem appropriate. Or that they deem "risky". There's a whole list of narrative restrictions from Microsoft. I have it on a couple of other videos but, f*ck, i should've used it on this one too. 😤

[@abhishekverma4029]

​​​@@TheDezembrohey ,I like your vids but I think there are some problematic things which I don't,t think should be bad to not put in your games, for ex - how a certain PPL or culture represented. Of course I don't,t want them to be virtue signaling communists feminists, but at least not reduced to damaging stereotypes or misinterpretation of them. I think you should make a vid on this issue, when removing problematic things can be bad or good

[@TheDezembro]

@@abhishekverma4029 I did make a video on DEI that touches on that stuff, but it was my first one in this style at around 300 subscribers, back in september, so it kinda died out and never took off despite me getting more views and 1000 subscribers over the past few weeks... This is still something that I reinforce here and there, in my other videos though, but not directly. I pretty much just lean on common sense, and when I say for example that we've done better diversity before DEI ideologies took over - and that games were far more INCLUSIVE by simply not being EXCLUSIVE of anyone, it's kinda implied that, obviously, things that are problematic are wrong. I've also mentioned that I want to make a few videos featuring good examples of Diversity where it's not ideological. I could try to work that into it in the future.

[@nicholasrova3698]

Yep. Aside from them just being pansies, the other issue with activists is they always put their activism first. The goal is to push the activism and 'make the change' socially speaking, damn everything else. Art direction, gameplay, good writing, fun, everything else is secondary. If the activist in question is particularly talented then they can do their activism and also push out a halfway decent product. But that is rare, especially since many veteran developers have been jumping ship for years from companies that in the 90s and 00s were power houses, but are now shadows of their former selves. The end result is a lot of propaganda stuffed into garbage video games.

[@abhishekverma4029]

@@TheDezembro I think exclusion has to be discussed in detail. Like is it bad to have groups focused on specific groups. There are 2 main points in this: For ex : if there very less % of women than men. 1)is it cause of discrimination, If yes then there should be reduction policies for it. 2)if not , then how can you bring more women, without malpractice against men. Cause if men already don,t have those problems, doesn't that mean a women focused group is needed. Of course, I have to mention companies like BBC make vids on women underperformed & harassment against them, buy never on the political harassment which are mostly towards men. I suggest you watch this vid by "THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP" called "HOW PPL ARE BEING RADICALISED" Tbys is also an anti woke yter, who has nuance & cites his sources & is knowledgeable in his field , his vids are mostly on health,lifestyle,politics, etc. HE also has 1 vid on sbi, it's a well made vid ,he also tries to give a solution st the end of his vids too. In the sbi vid ,he discussed how good girl games can be made without turning boy ones into something else. Also what really is bad with dei consults Like sbi in contrast to others like well ghost of tsushima had consulting too, but it was used to it's advantage. It even had good girl characters in it, who nobody said were woke. So consultancy based for better representation inherently isn,t bad right? Cause here is where the crux of argument bw both sides exist, atleast one of the main conflicts. Of course another is ,when they "YOUR media has always been woke". Or "EVERYTHINHG IS political" disease. Also if you have seen my other comments, you know act man will be making a vid on andypants again soon.

[@trippymartian8847]

Yeah, i just stopped watching once he attacked Az

[@TheDezembro]

Az seems like such a good natured & easy person to get along, and have a healthy and very enlightening conversation with. How the Act Man managed to f*ck that up, should be analysed by astrophysicists as a dimentional anomaly.

[@DeftCrackerGaming]

His beef with Az just exposed his inauthenticity to me. So I stopped watching his videos.

[@jeremiahtorrevillas4396]

He was talking mad shyt when he liked exposed az Like expose him for what?

[@xilenclev7524]

ive avoided his channel for a while now. Which vid was this and who is Az?

[@MyaboSores]

Yea, I started being annoyed by his lack of awareness of what was happening in the games industry before the Az incident. After he was a piece of shit with Az, I unsubscribed and never watched a video of him again.

[@thegifting267]

It’s not that they should be forced to talk about specific things. It’s about how they avoid it, even though they claim that they want better media. How are you gonna get better media, if you avoid talking about what’s affecting it? This just makes these KZbinrs look fake. These kind of KZbinrs seem to be in it for money.

[@TheDezembro]

Thanks for watching! 🙏 It's not even how they avoid it for me, it's how they lie about it, how they cover for it or twist it. You can avoid the matter entirely and have your channel be simply about games for example, but actually going to talk about this stuff and continuously cover the giant elephant in the room, while demonizing everyone who actually tries to TALK about it, is unacceptable. At least just own it. Acknowledge it exists and that you either LOVE it, or legit believe it doesn't have any impact on the media whatsoever. At least that's a shortcut to the clown paint rather than giving everyone this huge run-around while misrepresenting the situation to his entire audience.

[@attilamarics3374]

@@TheDezembro The way they avoid it, makes me wonder if he gets paid or has some financial benefit from avoiding it. Most oyutubers that make these arguments or avoid talkign about this topics often happen to be paid by the problem. Like Belular etc.

[@Touma134]

They avoid it by not avoiding it and being in lock step with the ideologs.

[@tadaokou4919]

If he actually just wants to avoid it he should avoid calling people out. By calling people out & strawmanning people (which he did many many times) he takes a side. That doesn't really sound like avoidance to me...

[@GutsTheBeast]

Vast majority of the KZbinrs are in fact in it for the money. This isn't new. People just treat them like somehow they have any level of integrity and principle when in reality they don't.

[@pengin56]

17:00 they literally did say that resident evil 5 was rascist because it takes place in africa, and (shocker, i know) there are black zombies that you have to kill.

[@kizuki2650]

While in Shadows, black man kills japanese and they don't view it as racist.

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

@@kizuki2650What even more disgusting the fact this is a real life person killing Japanese people. This guy whole life was just being Japanese people slave he didn't do anything the level of racism from these "activists" are beyond gross.

[@legacymse7095]

@@kizuki2650 Because according to them, asians are "white-adjacent", meaning they don't see themselves as victims that need protection and reparation and therefore they're not compatible with the woke and racist mindset of "people of color=victims". So to them, it's perfectly right to worship captain BBC bringing justice to the evil, oppressing civilization of Japan

[@extinctgraph9150]

And the whole thing about that game is dumb. Cause when you think about it like this it makes no sense. Resident Evil 5 is racist because you kill black zombies in Africa…but what about RE6 where you go to China and kill Chinese zombies? In a way you have the same “issue”, a game where white people go to a country and kill the indigenous people there. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s dumb to complain about having to kill black zombies in Africa. Cause then if you made every single zombie in Africa white then they’d complain about Africa being white washed.

[@AlfredFJones1776]

21:58 Melonie Mac has been gaming on this platform longer than Act Body Type 1 has.

[@TheCybercoco]

Unlike Actman, she's actually worked in the industry as well.

[@valentinvas6454]

I don't think I can take her seriously after seeing all that Bible stuff she does and how hard she leans into Christianity.

[@lazaroskarmaniolas7410]

The 'Pick Me" girl? Puh-leeze.

[@bigfella4546]

She's completely irrelevant except for when she screams slurs on Twitter.

[@gus439]

@@lazaroskarmaniolas7410 nice misogyny there

[@lou2282]

I recommend MentisWave's video called "How Psychopaths Hijacked the Gaming Industry". It explains the root problems with the current state of the gaming industry and the corrupt system as a whole.

[@grandmanitou6563]

MentisWave cited 🔥🔥🔥

[@matthewdeklerk3457]

MentisBASED god-tier channel for thinkers

[@65firered]

I hate the rise of this anti "anti-woke" mindset where these creators (many of whom called out these same issues before or call them out for some games) gaslight their audience and straight up lie about what's going on. Insulting and lying about anyone calling out these issues and pretending they aren't happening. This was especially a problem with AC Shadows where many of these people created an entire false narrative around the criticism and pushed it every time the game is brought up or as a way to dismiss any criticism.

[@Selrisitai]

I still haven't figured out what Ya Boi Zack is doing. He's made a dozen or more videos in the last couple months dunking on anti-wokes, but in between those videos he continues making anti-woke videos. He seems to be alright with wokeness in movies and TV shows, but not in comics. That's such a damning accusation that I have to believe I'm wrong and that his arguments are better than that for which I'm giving them credit, but I haven't been able to make sense of it beyond that, yet.

[@tylerulfmann4586]

I’m a little confused on what specifically are you trying to convey Is it the historical inaccuracy in which yeah ubislop effectively made it up Is it the destroyed torii gate The anti woke noticing the pattern of diversity being used to hide problems in core narrative immersion I feel While the wrong message is ultimately real bad writers and bad companies do use those themes to ship out a “safer” and hopefully more profitable project It rarely works out like that but I understand it from an artless sociopathic husk would come to that conclusion which is most of management making these choices

[@dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd]

YBZ really lost touch with reality

[@DatcleanMochaJo]

@@Selrisitai I unsubscribed because he got vicious and toxic with it going after people in the comments in little blogs on YT mobile. Its like brother get a grip. Focus on the real enemies here. Making up lies that critical drinker doesn't watch the movies he criticizes.

[@Selrisitai]

@@DatcleanMochaJo I haven't seen him respond to anyone, he just "hearts" the comment. Shoot, he STILL hearts mine occasionally even if I'm disagreeing with him. (He's made it clear that a heart doesn't mean he agrees, it's just a form of engagement.) I'm not going to say he's off the rails or anything, I've watched him for too long to have so little loyalty, but we'll see. A man can only tolerate so much.

[@adrianalexanderveidt344]

Act Man is just a thinner Boogie2988.

[@randalthor6872]

hehe even Boogie isn't as cucked as Act Ma'am :)

[@Lornext]

That is actually a pretty good correlation.

[@randalthor6872]

lol they deleted my comment about how cucked act ma'am is

[@SenArmstrong-j2z]

hey, don't corrupt the boogie lore like that,

[@randalthor6872]

@@SenArmstrong-j2z :) Even boogie isn't a kuk. Act ma'am has it bad.

[@Portato19]

"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good" - J.R.R. Tolkien.

[@NOVAROMA753BC]

The Nazi style seems pretty new to me.

[@godcats959]

Act Ma'am is your typical no back bone individual. He doesn't have any principle and will follow whichever side that looks like they are winning. He mocked Grumps for pointing out that Starfield might be lacking in content due to how lazy the starting menu look. At the time he did so, because it looked like Grumps is on the weaker side. He hasn't apologized for that, even when Grumps prediction proven to be correct. He supported censorship in video game and mods when that position was looking strong, until its proven to not, then he claimed satire/sarcasm.

[@Arkadiaraven]

Don't give a quota to any of these initiatives that demean and insult your intellect, The same gamer gate they touted as smaller and sadder in a pathetic attempt to gaslight our ability to recognise patterns which led us to push back against their garbage output, it's a shame how we let it get this bad in the first place that you can't even criticise anything as a dev without losing your livelihood but I'm happy that most people are seeing right through their facade.

[@TheDezembro]

I imagine it started through kindness, tolerance, better awareness and understanding of delicate matters, and a literal DESIRE to be better & more progressive. It was things that most people didn't even notice on account of having no problem with it and finding it "natural", like a normal amount of diversity in some pieces of media and for example the desire of wanting to STOP whitewashing in Hollywood. And DESPITE IT ALL, despite it actually working, despite the majority of people actually adhering to it, they just kept pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing. It was never enough, now we need MORE diversity, now we need MORE awareness, now we can't say THESE words, now we HAVE TO SAY those words, etc, and f*ck, it just kept going beyond that as well, we're at a point where children transitioning - KIDS who can't even consent to it - is a political matter that if you don't support, you're an alt-right transphobic bigot. It is crazy how far it got simply out of fear of cancel culture, or of being seen a certain way. This has been years of total dominance and manipulation of Social Media & Entertainment. Whenever I go to work, "IRL", it's actually a breath of fresh air to see how NORMAL the people actually are. Sorry for ranting. lol thanks for watching.

[@LimC.A]

Tbh i think even if small YTers did it like now i dont think bigger YTers would join in easily cuz Sponsor deals. Furthermore i think they would keep pushing the agenda regardless look at SBI hiding after the XOXO conference thing lol. If gaslighting were a skill they would be the heroes in Dustborn😆

[@Arkadiaraven]

@@TheDezembro They tried to trojan their way through the industry and got greedy and arrogant in the process revealing their true intent by claiming to infiltrate and burning the industry down from within. anyway I appreciate your content so far, I'm sure the act ma'am will be doing a hit piece of a response but I'm glad you call it out as it is.

[@nicholasrova3698]

@@TheDezembro Demanding an inch and pushing that into a mile has always been the collectivist mantra, whether that collectivism is communism, socialism, Marxism, fascism, and yes, progressivism. Collectivists always hide behind emotional and sensical sounding causes, masquerading as wolves in sheep's clothing. And good natured people always fall for it, unfortunately.

[@CoalCoalJames]

@@TheDezembro Yup, it was great in the 80's/90's/early2000's. When natural diversity was on display (for the most part), then came the dark times. When suddenly holloywood and the MSM suddenly started acting like there where never any black people or gay people ect ect~ before the 2000's. It's been freaking bizarre seeing people say on record say "it's nice to finally have a black super hero" or " it's nice to finally have female action stars" and it goes on forever~ They gaslight people into thinking there was never any progress, that our lives did not happen and we went from being "color blind" to people telling us to "always see color", that type of styff.

[@DustinTempleton]

Good video. That guy reminds me of Destiny. One thought: The word woke is not meaningless. It has a very specific meaning. Back around 2015, progressive activists created the term “woke” to describe their own identity-driven political ideology. Twitter even made #WokeAF t-shirts for their staff. A few years later, the right picked it up and began using it as a pejorative because the ideology is divisive trash. Now dishonest leftists are falsely claiming the word means nothing. They created the word. It means something. Don’t allow ill-intentioned activists to downplay one of the most powerful ways to push back on it. They want us to stop using it because it is effective and it hurts their agenda.

[@TheDezembro]

I know it means something and I'm fine with using it to "shorten" an explanation when discussing it with people who know what I mean. But the reason why I call it meaningless is because of how it goes when talking to other people who are on the fence or who disagree. I say meaningless in the same way that, for example, the word bigot, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc are becoming meaningless because of being used without thinking. "Oh u think the Acolyte is shit? Sexist. Racist. Homophobe", etc. When I'm talking to someone online about this type of stuff, if I use the word woke, I just get a bunch of idiots reducing me and my entire point. And a bunch more asking me to "define woke" and then laugh reacting my replies lol.. the word has gotten that "fame", because of it being used without thinking as well. But in those same types of arguments if I directly mention the stuff that is influencing the product, I at least don't get that same reaction. They just scroll away from the things calling out their BS, and I attract people who appreciated the way I put it. So that's why I don't tend to use it much. But like I said, if I'm chatting with someone who actually knows what I mean then of course it's a much simpler "shortcut" than to have to SPECIFY everything. Sorry for the long comment, thanks for watching!

[@M_CFV]

Not to mention people like Beyonce and her "stay woke" garbage song. Blatant proof

[@chilbiyito]

It goes way back than 2015 whit all those online conspiracy theories

[@TheYardninja]

small correction, it existed as a concept IRL among the black community as a term for being aware of the sneaky racism (you know the sneaky racism like "Many black kids in Harlem have never seen a computer" NY Governor, a White Woman) that actually affects you and not the caricature of a hateful southerner lurking around the corner, then the twitter white girls started using it in solidarity and bastardized the term into what we see now encompassing ideologies that actually put people down based on identity

[@Soapy-chan]

same as with SJW, they used it unironically and now cry about us using it against them

[@yagamijubei28]

He literally Lied twice about Concord and Sweet Baby inc. he lied and said he was not aware of them both. everyone and their grandmother knew about it as he played the "live under a rock" mentality. he's a content creator that focuses on Videogames, how could he say he was not aware? I unsubbed from him because he lied about something that he was aware of and feigned ignorance. he also brought up the matter of the game Concord being released in a saturated market was the reason why it sold poorly. it sold poorly because the game was bad, atrocious designs and Ideological injections. and he deliberately pushed those aside to simply lie boldfaced.

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

I mean, Concord being released into a saturated market without a clear niche of its own was a major factor for its failure. It wasnt the only reason, nor would it have failed as catastrophically as it did if its designs werent made for the "modern audience", but I do think that releasing a buy-to-play hero shooter without a clear niche in a competitive market that's pretty much entirely F2P at this point (and is no longer the "in" thing it was when the game's development started) was bound to lose Sony money no matter what. Gundam Evolution failed in the same market, and it actually was F2P, wasnt console exclusive on PS5, was based on a known IP, and didnt have the awful woke character designs. But the terrible designs and ideology made the difference between Concord being a game that would have gone F2P in 6 months and maybe shut down in another 6 months (assuming it didnt get a major overhaul), and it being a game that didnt even make it a month.

[@yagamijubei28]

@@BroadwayRonMexico there are games that are being developed or near release that are also hero shooters that are doing way better than concord in just wishlist numbers alone because it gave the customer/gamer what they want. no Ideology, no politics, no garish and unsightly designs. the market is not saturated as there is very little competition in hero shooters, the heavyweights are Fortnite, Overwatch, Valorant and Apex Legends. those 4. WarFrame and The First Descendant are Looter Shooters. there was another shooter that I forgot that was like a third person Overwatch but it isnt doing well. its not the saturation, its what it offers. fortnite is #1 big fish in the pond but look what happened when they added a politically influenced map? nobody wanted that. the numbers dropped.

[@nabulalke]

Good take . He is a grifter simple. Heel vs baby face proved it

[@Sir_glizzius]

Heel vs baby face is a grifter to lol they all push a agenda 😅

[@icarushyde3395]

@@Sir_glizzius you all push agendas too

[@nicholasrova3698]

@@Sir_glizzius Heels may be a grifter or not, but there's only one side pushing "The Agenda".

[@Sir_glizzius]

@nicholasrova3698 when every person is oppositional to the supposed side, that mean they are also pushing an agenda they all do it. I'm not disagreeing with you, but heel vs. babyface isn't some saint fighting the good fight the industry itself is imploding he has nothing to do with it . The wallet has the most say if the best games that are selling isn't woke then how is the industry woke how is the message being pushed if no one is there to buy into the message in the first place this is a objective fact that those quote on quote woke games don't sell in the first place so does calling it out even matter no cause people aren't even buying those shitty games in the first place.

[@Mikedot]

@@Sir_glizzius The only agenda AZ from Heel vs Babyface is pushing is "Make good entertainment and stop injecting social/polticial propaganda into everything", which is what 99% of humanity would agree with.

[@SPInvadestheWorld]

33:02 That's the funny part. For some reason, people like the Act Man believe the community is going out of its way to be spiteful and hateful. It's like they genuinely think we want to be upset about every little thing. No one wants to be upset, we just want companies to focus on making good video games again. The issue is that people read these gripes the "anti-woke" crowd has, and they only understand the context of what they're saying from a surface level without actually doing the research themselves to fully grasp the point being made.

[@nicholasrova3698]

Just because all we want is to be left alone and play our games doesn't mean we won't fight like hell when it comes time to fight... especially when the thing we're having to fight for is our games.

[@Skycrusher]

@@nicholasrova3698 Gamers cannot and will not fight for anything. You do two things: You either play your games, or you cry and complain about them. You are not capable of performing any other actions.

[@Senumunu]

act ma am knows exactly what is going on. he is just investing into the left wing cultural victory. and if it looks ike the leftoids are losing then he will invest into the right wing cultural victory again. pathological social climbers like him always reveal themselves through actions, not trough words. this is also why act man from a few years ago could argue against act man from today.

[@bdleo300]

@@nicholasrova3698 Act Ma'am only believes in $$$$$. He supports whoever pays him. To quote Groucho Marx: "those are my principles and if you don't like them... well i have others" 😀

[@sarcasm-83]

I fully admit that his point about the "boy who cried wolf" is a valid one and that if people keep on saying "woke" about everything and always complaining, always reviewbombing at the drop of a hat etc. we lose any impact the complaints can have. I fully agree we should focus on criticising more tangible things and that on some parts, the criticism goes too far. Like kneejerk reactions towards ANY female protagonist for one. However I feel like Act Man is so much against any and all "anti-woke" sentiment that he acts as if there is no merit to any of it or barely any of it. The "Everything is woke now" video for example he is both an example of where anti-wokeness goes too far and to the ridiculous, but at the same time he uses it to make a mockery about anyone criticising the big picture of the current industry and how much of a sh!tshow it has become in priorities. Where escapism becomes lecture and good entertainment falls by the wayside to agendas or even comes far after greed and virtue. This video hits the mark spot on, as I finally hit unsub on my own (not influenced by anyone elses video but Act Man's own) about a week or two ago as well, after being a "fan" for quite a long time. Sure, I can disagree with people and still be subcribed and many times did, but his antics about all of this.. being a naysayer and so adamantly ignoring something such blatantly obvious push... No thanks.

[@Senumunu]

the term not properly disambiguating does not mean that there is nothing to disambiguate. "boy who cried wolf" implies that there isnt a wolf. but there is a wolf from the beginning. the subtext of media is openly anti male, anti white and proliferating the priors of leftoid ideology and lunacy. you not pointing out the "small" aspects is what allows them to grow to grotesque proportions. and yes this means that older media as well get a new analysis. back then the people didnt know what the final destination of "just ignore it lul" is.

[@The_Primary_Axiom]

It’s actually not valid because he was more worried about the word rather than the act. Call it what you want to. Call it cheese. Call it chicken monkeys. What does it matter what the word is? The whole point is people have become more concerned with the word rather than the act. He is just saying the boy who cried w0k3 as an excuse to not talk about the actual act. Who cares what the word is right. Let’s change that word w0k3 to cheese. Why are all our games now cheese? What is his excuse now? See the word is not the thing anyhow. Like the word door is not the door. See what I’m saying? No matter how many times I tell you the word door it’s not the real thing. I can describe it to you. I can tell you the shape I can tell you the function, but you will never see the actual door. So focusing on the word w0k3 is utterly meaningless. You have to talk about these things for it to come into perception and he doesn’t want to. It’s just a way for him to snake his way out of talking about the real issue. That’s why he went after the word. It’s a copout. I don’t even think he did it consciously. He has become so entrenched in ignoring and not talking about the issue like others that he probably subconsciously went after the word rather than the act.

[@Senumunu]

@@The_Primary_Axiom that cynical ghoul is 100% conscious of what he is doing. he is a pathological social climber and the chuds being against the mainstream culture means they are lower status within the general perception he seeks to be a member of. for the long term sustain of his fake brand.

[@samwellcheck562]

The problem with this is that the activists are so pervasive an influence that if you call a western game woke and assume it will be garbage simply for having a female protagonist, you're almost certainly right. We are talking about people who purposefully mistranslate eastern games to literally change the narrative to suit their ideology. Almost every aspect of media that can theoretically be used as a vehicle for their ideology is targeted and used for precisely that; all it takes is one ideologue in the writing room or on twitter to destroy the work of an entire team that just wanted to make a fun game. This issue also unavoidably dips into the cultural issues at its root, forcing people to question how this ideology got so powerful and pervasive in the first place. Did it spring out of nowhere, and there was nothing anyone could've done about it? Or did it already have fertile ground to take root in? So I imagine a lot of the "going too far" is people criticizing the norms and assumptions that nurtured the rise of wokeness, rather than the wokeness itself. That's a perfectly reasonable conversation to have, but you need to parse it out from the wokeness conversation first, or else people won't know what it is you're really critiquing and you just sound like you hate everything.

[@BlindMango]

Act Man: "I just want to get back to talking about video games!" - Continues to bring up drama for days and days even though the other person involved as moved on with their life

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

For some reason he constantly try to beef up with other content creators they are just doing their job like criticizing video game he go out of his way to insult them. I feel like he try to start another drama the whole thing with Quatum got a lot of people expose to him.

[@Jdudec367]

When did he do that days after?

[@BooleanIndecisive]

It's weird that the gaming industry is in an adversarial relationship with their customers. Who invests hundreds of millions into a product only to turn around to fight and insult their customers? It's crazy.

[@thetruestar6348]

That has been the playbook for the last ten years in all entertainment

[@Crow12619]

The hope is on a long enough timeframe people will come to accept it, whether through a new generation that grows up with it, or through the current one giving up.

[@DeadPixel1105]

@@Crow12619 Exactly.

[@SkySweeperSyn]

because public trading. That's really all it comes down to. He likes to quote Black Ops with "Train go boom". Well the gaming industry is just "bar go up".

[@flatpepsi]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnnadKymhdZkn68si=jtYBTb0qMheRgwLJ This video actually explains exactly how we got here and it's really good too. Comes from an industry insider.

[@DustinBarlow8P]

Him and Jim Sterling fell off of a bridge.

[@Ivan-uf8ud]

Also Angry Joe

[@The13thRonin]

Learn that these people are not your friends. They're the farmers. You're the sheep. Wakey, wakey sheep.

[@Lornext]

Jim Sterling... Now that's a name I havent heard in a long time, thank god. How long before Act Man becomes Act Woman? :D

[@Lornext]

@@Ivan-uf8ud I feel like the difference with Angry Joe is that he is trying to protect the little "access" he still has from the olden days. Overall he has definitely gone the same woke liberal direction as Act body type 1.

[@jeremycampbell4021]

@@Ivan-uf8ud The difference with Joe and Sterling is Joe actually still makes decent game videos when he can keep his political views to himself. I don't want to hear the man's viewpoints but I can separate the art from the artist in his videos when he just talks about the game he's reviewing and not his real world takes.

[@Kuroganemk2]

Actman and Angryjoe not wanting to admit that woke stuff exists has always bothered me, they seemed like the types of guys that would be against it.

[@pc14thenumber9]

These KZbinr try to stand on safe side as much as possible, for the sake of easy getting sponsorship from some company.

[@troypowers750]

​@pc14thenumber9 especially after the BFV situation. Angiejoey seriously can't help himself when it comes to nosediving into drama.

[@Kuroganemk2]

@@pc14thenumber9 I'm not sure, I've even talked to some people like this on discord, it seems to be politicaly motivated as they were all quite left leaning.

[@canyongoat2096]

But hasn't Act Man created a video about "woke stuff ruining games" (or something similar) some years ago? I haven't watched him for ages (I slowly stopped watching around that time) but he seemed to be fully anti-woke? At least back then. So what happened?

[@troypowers750]

@canyongoat2096 maybe he has. But maybe he keeps flip-flopping when nobody's looking. Az, his ego getting the better of him, generalizing people, jumping the goat, and his contradictions on Twitter? He's a grass.

[@MaterielPneumatique]

He's lost, he even blamed Elon when the totally non-corrupt government of brazil banned twitter. I feel you can still find some value in him when he talks about anti consumer practices but you can't trust him at all when politics get involved.

[@Laternater]

I stopped caring for his stuff ever since his PayDay 3 review

[@bioswat96]

Remember: lewd mods are bad, talking about woke gaming is bad, but all new CoD-s are masterpieces, concord is a good game with no real visible problem (especially not their atrocious character designs and agenda)

[@linkfreeman1998]

Yeah thats what I realized...the dipshit also put Half-Life in the same level as the original MW trilogy...as someone who played all three of them I can say that compared to HL1 they're like modern soap opera vs the Twilight Zone.

[@DeathSyndrom]

I mean… act man never said concord was good nor did he say all the new cod games were masterpieces-

[@daemonnewton2202]

Lewd mods are bad though.

[@bioswat96]

@@DeathSyndrom bro did you even watch his last vids on cod? I think not, if you're saying this

[@voidimperial1179]

@@bioswat96 These people do not argue in good faith

[@marcomongke3116]

The tide will eventually turn on them. People grow up become smarter, truth will reach everyone eventually and the market will make the biggest impact.

[@danielnolan8848]

Younger generations (Z and later more so alpha) will reject the politics and positions of their parents (the now middle aged millennials), mostly out of spite

[@sparklestonebro]

He'll just change positions again if it's beneficial to do so

[@marcomongke3116]

@@sparklestonebro The bigger someone is, once lost fame and name will never return, everyone will turn on you and likely to be remembered in history and beyond as how bad he or she was. For example, Elizabeth Holmes, Amber Heard, Jeffrey Epstein and Hitler etc. The dude has almost 2m subs, the bigger they become, the higher the fall might become. If he continues to be not geniune, has no integrity, goes more corporate, no amount of activism, money or power cant help him in the end. It really depends on the people who listen him or her. I want to believe that even the most naive people will not stay naive and gullible forever.

[@Senumunu]

when the tide turns he just makes another "anti woke" video and the chuds are back on board. no one has integrity in this space and under these circumstances. act ma am is just seeking to profit as well.

[@lanthelancer]

The Act Man is taking the Idubbz route and it’s really sad to see.

[@negobranclim8640]

dude been a while since i heard the name idubbz last i remember seing him was b4 he turned into a ntr mc and i just remembered my chiildhood filthy frank was awesome

[@moisesezequielgutierrez]

I mean, considering that most woke liberals support the cuckold trope as well, it's not that far fetch that that Act Ma'am will also become like Idubbz too as well

[@Jdudec367]

Not really

[@stlawstlaw7585]

The Act Man.ure

[@OGTheDemon]

@@Jdudec367 Yea rly. Hes buddying up with all these breadtubers n shit lol. Just like Ian.

[@PoweredByFlow]

The Act Man is disingenious on porpous, simply because he wants to benifit from it. I mean he willingly promoted Payday 3 to his audience as a "certified banger" while knowing that it was an absolute bug ridden, microtransactions infested stinker, going against everything he criticizes befor in games. That alone should tell you everything about him as a person.

[@cubix_walrus7560]

That video was on a functional beta Overkill gave him before the actual launch. That scenario was entirely on Overkill baiting and switching their customers.

[@zzodysseuszz]

He called dark souks 1 a masterpiece. He’s a grifter who preaches to the choir. Nothing more. He plays unfinished messy games but because a bunch of npc clowns consider it perfection he started throwing around unsubstantiated rhetoric and vague praises for a whole video for an easy millions of views and tons of subs.

[@slenderblakchannelDarkNess]

​@@zzodysseuszzdark souls 1 is still a masterpiece, even if it is unfinished, so i wont read the rest of your buffonry

[@PoweredByFlow]

@@cubix_walrus7560 But he didn't retract any of it and defended the game post launch.

[@espurrseyes42]

What kind of porpous?

[@furyberserk]

We don't mind politics in our games, but we mind if it's propaganda specifically. Characters have their own ideals, but good stories challenge important elements as such rather than believing them as absolute truths. We want to see the argument, not just a rant. Life is about taking advantage of your opportunities, but being human is about grasping contradictions. And if you squint, propaganda kinda looks like bigotry, but with clown face.

[@blackcat7k]

He's always seemed to be a fence sitter, so I never bothered with him. Whenever you're trying to fence sit when one side had gone off the deep you're going to end up with egg on your face.

[@professordantehs]

Did you guys watch the debate, this is what happens whenever you don't exercise. You don't leave your house and you don't get sunlight. You get way too swept up. An internet, moral district issues where your bias is so clear to everybody, but yourself

[@Ghost101]

I think he's always been secretly a lefty like SFO (ShortFatOkatu). If he came out as a lefty from the get go, he would at least be authentic about it, but no, he's just a fake enlightened "centrist."

[@Nein99x]

Calling him a fencesitter is not really accurate. He is an opportunistic engagement farmer who starts talking about topics previously thought of as controversial when it becomes safe to do so.

[@bdleo300]

@@professordantehs says a beta Ioser from his uncle's basement....

[@SLRModShop]

I moved to a small village in Spain a year ago. Went out for drink with 60 years old locals multiple times, they are quite aware of wokeness. For some reason, many people decided that, after 10 straight years of "in your face" wokeness, denying its existence altogether was a sound debate tactic... Anyone who pretend not to see the ugly-fication, race and gender swap, or even the obvious political agenda should be laughed out of the room.

[@Halfrican-Jones]

As a black man, and someone who is not straight, I have to agree what SBI (and by extension, Black Rock global) is doing IS “benevolent” discrimination. Overcorrecting the mistakes of the past to look like they care about minorities like myself, when in reality we are the first to be refused promotions and the ones who are written up first for layoffs. These companies implementing DEI policy with no merit as a top priority are only harming any progress of inclusion by going backwards, causing the ignored white people who are driven to desperation to blame minorities for the actions of the corpos above both groups.

[@yuurou7927]

It's about class. It's always about class. Everything else, gender, race, sexuality, identity, are all superficial. A distraction to make people avert their eyes from class conflict.

[@Halfrican-Jones]

@@yuurou7927 Absolutely it’s that!!!

[@Skycrusher]

"As a black man..." why would you invalidate anything you'd ever have to say?

[@Halfrican-Jones]

@@Skycrusher rather would not have morons on either side of the debate misconstrue my opinions just because I don’t fit the archetype of either. Hate it when people invalidate anyone because of their race, hence my hate toward SBI invalidating the opinions of critics.

[@NathanielReynolds-fq7bi]

@@Halfrican-Jones Yes, same here. I want to actually try to convince someone rather than try to attack a strawman. Sorry about the other dude, that was uncalled for

[@shaunrovig541]

Thanks!

[@TheDezembro]

Holy sh*t, dude thank you so much! 🙏

[@Momoka7]

I think, people like Act Man are a part of access media by now. Those people that get invited to press events, to take a look at a upcoming games... like Act Man and SkillUp here... what else are they? They are like those games magazines, the difference is just the way they present their material.

[@Nahyan_971_]

It's really sad how far from grace he fell off... he's not the same 2017 Actman nowadays.

[@Walamonga1313]

At least it wasn't as bad as idubbbz's lol. Or at least not yet

[@Roadvoice]

Used to like his content... His videos about Dark Souls and Halo are top tier. Then, he got big, YT bought his soul and he became part of the problem.

[@seeinred]

I like that people call his bullsh*t out more and more.

[@Pale_ghost]

its not actman alone, his opinion is the general and only correct/accepted opinion in a "small" community called reddit. In the video where he talked about 16:20 his spreadsheet. That was just to simp for his reddit audience and to tear down all the imaginary anti woke strawmen that reddit memes on. Its crazy to me how the great liberal lefty reddit has become like the 1990 -2000s religious conservatives when it comes to censoring video games and anime.

[@projectz358]

Every time there’s a flag option, never do I see a country’s flag at launch but the gay flag and other variations are there. Like you said, there’s a patten we see.

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

Do gay people know gay video game exist right there are countless of gay dating sim , and a crap load gay medias Japan got a whole gerne of them. Why do feel the need to shove their existence into people face I am Vietnamese I don't care about gaming companies represent my people all I care about are good game

[@CoalCoalJames]

@@SWANSWAN-nc7ds They are the ideological gays, normal gay people hate them with a passion because it takes away from just wanting to be any other normal person like everyone else. For normal gay people being gay is not their entire persona like the ideological gay's.

[@donimusprime1112]

See this is the problem a lot of people have when those who do have valid opinions get mixed up with statements like this. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not homophobic but you cannot possibly blame gay people for corporate greed.

[@projectz358]

@@donimusprime1112 if they were all there then they are showing “everyone is included” but instead one can say “I wonder why only those particular flags are there at launch?”

[@jakeiswayblack3377]

I lost all respect for him when he posted that video making fun of people who have a problem with woke LGBTQ bullshit in videogames that target kids. I would have preferred that he kept his shitty political opinions to himself and stayed in his lane

[@donimusprime1112]

Alright dude I really need you to understand that calling that stuff woke is a regressive mindset that blinds you to actually understand why games you think suck, suck. And nothing that is "LGBTQ", is political. The corporate CEOs do not care about any minority or gay/trans person. They are only just doing it for greed and nothing else, now some non CEOs may have an agenda but that gives no excuse to just say "games are bad because woke". Overwatch while not being the most popular game right now, still was for years while having a very diverse cast.

[@are3287]

Act MA'AM is not merely stupid, he is an intentionally malicious actor.

[@espurrseyes42]

Act *Body Type 1*

[@chilbiyito]

For not taking a bunch of reactionary idiots seriously?

[@JayceCH.]

I thought it was quite obvious when he made videos Pokemon despite never have touching it. Hot topic, yea, but he definitely is a grifter.

[@Jdudec367]

He realy isn't one

[@MikeMovesPLK]

Act Man Smokes Pole Now A days, i remember him and angery Joe, said Pay 3 was gonna be awesome i bought the highest edition and it was the biggest bust i ever bought lol

[@TrollAxeThrower]

The way he "handled" the apology to HeelvsBabyface, shows he has narcissistic tendancies.

[@SubliminaIMessages]

Basically, Act Man doesn't do any deep research on the topic of DEI-pushing in video games and only tackles it on in the most surface level possible, making his feedback on the matter not only pointless but even sometimes bad faith, as he then generalizes the people who calls out these practices in one broad stroke

[@kizuki2650]

Yeah agree but he doesn't address a game being woke when that game downfall is completely dei pushing and woke story and dei ugly characters.

[@dennisthemenace4288]

@@kizuki2650 Have you watched his dragon age veilguard review?

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

The fact Actman use some random terminality online steam user that I have never heard of as a way to generalize the people that discuss about the woke problems in videogame just prove of how much of a clown he is. I am surprised by the number of people that take his video serious.

[@sniiiper3d645]

1:37 “supposed lgbt cabal” bro it’s not even a question at this point, they exist in the form of DEI hire, sweet baby inc and activist game devs. sorry but that’s a big L on your part🤦🏽‍♀️

[@TheDezembro]

A couple of things here: - There is no "LGBT Caba"l *STOPPING THE BILLIONAIRES* from doing what they want with their companies and our games, which was the point in that part of the video. If there is a "cabal", these billionaires put them there in the first place, and approve every single thing they push onto the media in order to profit off them. - Generalizing LGBT people into the DEI-worshipping & virtue signalling morons who want to force-feed us with their ideologies is just as bad as any other kind of generalization based on the fact that there are a ton of LGBT people who do not think that way nor support these people, and what they're doing to media in the first place. They don't want to be represented by them, and just want to live their lives normally, but they're being automatically associated because of identity politics. Andy does not differentiate this, and is doing everyone a disservice by not doing so and just promoting baseless hate instead.

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@TheDezembro it’s not a generalisation. The amount of lgbtq who don’t massively support these things is so small that they it can barely be acknowledged.

[@euric869]

Exactly the LGBT only exist because the elite prop them up. They're an arm of the system.

[@mystic6121]

@@TheDezembro Generalization work off the basis of the statement being generally true. saying I know a lot of people that don't fit the claim, doesn't disprove the generalization because that would just be anecdotal evidence.

[@sniiiper3d645]

@@TheDezembro it’s pretty easy to generalise them when they come from the same circle and scream it aloud, generalising is a disservice but when it IS literally that group that is force feeding us then how do we not generalise them. What seems to be the case is activism being weaponised with million dollar companies at the trigger, there are people from said community who want nothing to do with this but there are also people from that same community that push this and hijack our spaces. There’s too much of a big shift in the industry that it’s hard to ignore and saying this from my personal experience when I was a fan of saints row, an entire studio hijacked and the devs calling their original fans including myself terrorists for not liking their new game. It’s not even a pattern anymore but a trend, dustborn, flintlock: siege of dawn, concord, fable, south of midnight, saints row 6, Star Wars outlaws, dragon age the veilgaurd, halo infinite, I can go on forever and the common theme here is that activists are at the helm. You should see the person that runs “halo” studios so ignoring all this is just sticking your head in the ground and pretending you don’t see it but fair enough, not everyone wants apart of this but I’ve been watching Andy for awhile and since when did he promote hate???

[@wrayday7149]

Dude made a video as to why Halo failed.... identified why the characters were crap and the DEI behind it. Then went on an attack against people trying to get that DEI shit out of the industry to get games back to where they were... good and fun. Then blew out all his integrity by exposing his agenda and duplicity of just trying to stir beef for clicks..... while pretending to be cool with someone to talk with them while making a hit piece. There is nothing Act Man can do now that will ever make me believe he operates in good faith.

[@zinney9316]

FInally someone said it. Act mans problem is that instead of not getting involved he demonizes anyone who does get involved and then he uses strawman arguments to make them seem crazy or hateful while completely ignoring any actual points or arguments thoes people bring up.

[@ThatDamnedGamer1]

Something you're wrong about. This DEI plague hit gaming a long time ago, I was a part of the OG GamerGate and we've been fighting against this stuff infecting gaming/movies/comics since 2012.

[@TwilightWolf032]

I dropped the Act Ma'am during his defense of RE4 Remake censoring Ashley's outfit, calling everyone complaining about the unnecessary cover up and her remodeling perverts and creeps, without ever addressing the actual arguments that were being made.

[@Ducq33]

“The 3 ACTs of Act Man’s fall:” 1. Supporting the Banning of ishowspeed from Riot Games content. 2. The Starfield “Fallout.” 3. The Woke List Video.

[@M_CFV]

His ashley mod comments were very dumb too

[@M_CFV]

And there was the whole payday 3 situation, although people have said the studio gave them limited betas that had a lot less bugs

[@Aquageo555]

Lets be fair with the woke list video though, no one knows if it was a joke or being serious. I think in the video he goes in assuming its probably a troll.

[@snintendog]

The AZ fallout and his doxxing attempt on Quantum.

[@MooseCastle]

​@@Aquageo555 Anyone who can't tell that it's a troll/falseflag has a 2 digit IQ. Even entertaining it for a second is pandering to an audience that is actively helping to kill video games.

[@Zeriel00]

Ignoring politics when reviewing a game is dishonest if the game is full of political and woke ideology. If a reviewer doesn't point the politics out then he's not a good reviewer because he's been complicit in hiding the woke agenda from costumers. There's a place for politics and for virtue signaling but we're paying for ENTERTAINTMENT not to be indoctrininated.

[@Senumunu]

"politics" is another bad term. its "leftist activism" getting shoved down your throat that people reject. you are inviting the cheap straw men with that term. "hurr durr so you want to enjoy your old games with no politics like call of duty, command and conquer and bioshock"

[@shanekhan6492]

What if there was a game where you play a nazi and work at auschwitz and tries to paint the nazis as heroes? Bet you would find a way to justify it.

[@monsterboomer8051]

These big youtube personas always fall because ot this: 1) big numbers make them extremely overconfident 2) their 13 year old crazy fans worship them as idols while being only small % of their total audience, although very loud in opinion

[@SvenHeidemann-uo2yl]

Act man is fully aware and lies purposefully.

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

Act Man created a following by sharing Reddit opinions while targeting the lowest common denominator. Even today he made a video glazing BO6 Beta. The most soulless product today in gaming!

[@torikazuki8701]

Thank you sir, for acknowledging that the term 'Woke' has become little more than a useless buzzword that most opponents of it (rightly so) dismiss. Because people are all too often not willing to do the research and work into the Ideologies at play, 'Woke' often boils down to- 'Whatever I don't like.' And again, that makes it _useless_ as a descriptive term. When used properly, the term most accurately encompasses the ideology of Cultural Marxism, but can also be related to its kissing cousins of Communism/Feminism & Postmodernism/Relativism. To be specific and define our terms, Cultural Marxism, for example, is a belief that everything is a Social Construct, Objective Truth does _not_ exist and Feelings create reality. When that is understood, you can easily see (especially with the 'Trans' movement) how that applies & how it's being used. Another critical part of it is that to them, everything comes down to POWER. It was actually openly stated in the recent show, 'The Acolyte' that it wasn't about 'good' or 'evil', but Power. Because to them, since Feelings make truth, if you have enough power, you can enforce your feelings on others, thus, in effect, making their 'reality' for them.

[@Jetblast01]

Act Man is a fitting name. He's a corpo idealogical actor pretending to be on our side and gaslight those that disagree with his views.

[@PCG117]

Act man fan here and not gonna lie, I still find the Act Man content entertaining and good, but your video touches some very fair points.

[@The13thRonin]

The Act Ma'am can always be relied upon to have the stupidest and most 'advertiser friendly' take. Should be called the Shill Ma'am.

[@CarlosAlbertoGarcíaJiménez]

2:05 MauLer? The guy who ranted about Joe Biden in his Fallout video? That's apolitical?

[@zetsun0]

That's exactly why Act Man will only "debate" AndyPants and not the Side Scrollers, for example. Because we all know he would be destroyed in a real debate versus a person with an IQ above room temperature.

[@wherethetatosat]

Kirsche and her 1,000 tabs of truth.

[@LordEJ.]

MAn some people hate andypants

[@zetsun0]

@@LordEJ. I don't hate him, but that video was unhinged as fuck, you gotta admit that.

[@dallinjc3]

Finally 🙏 Edit: You're tearing him apart bro. I'm like a 3rd through the video and you're hitting with 100 accuracy on every point

[@TheDezembro]

Thanks so much for watching! Glad you liked it 😆

[@JohnDoe-ip3oq]

You know. He kinda admits what he is in his name. "Act" man.

[@Jdudec367]

I mean...not really, he's already called out companies in other videos before so him trying to deal with people like Andy who gets a lot of support is fair really.

[@soldat88hun]

We can pretend that they are not bad games because they are politically pandering but at the root of the issue, they choose to make a political game over a good game, and that is absolutely on them.

[@CptEddyPrice]

Actman and Skill Up are just sell outs.

[@weavatronobservatory]

33:29 This timestamp is for me, for faster access. Because it deserves to be laughed at more than once.

[@Marcara081]

Consider the following: Act Man's mind is being warped by simp-brain and once he's dumped he'll come back around with an apology video. Speaking for millions of men, we've all seen this before and it's always a woman at the root of this personality shift. Pin for posterity.

[@projectz358]

Never understood why folks like him who can get a girls easily always stick to one girl that messes them up

[@Selrisitai]

New girlfriend confirmed or are you just guessing?

[@Marcara081]

@@Selrisitai Educated guess. There are so many instances in various communities (not just my own experiences) that it's much more likely than not. He's not doing a heel-turn these past years. His mind is just pu55y-fogged.

[@moister3727]

You think so? I just think he took a stance. Though it would be interesting to see him talk about both sides of the fence, only seeing attacking one is tiring.

[@exodias6529]

what the hell are you talking about go touch some grass or something 😭🙏

[@ouchiegiverjr]

Don’t forget Asmongold defended this clown and took shots against Az, these people are just grifters. Edit: To add to this, many people had explained to Asmo that Az is taking out of context to look horrible when it you watch him explain himself he makes perfect sense, instead of seeing if it was true he just jumped the Az hate wagon.

[@Selrisitai]

I don't think Asmongold is a grifter, I think he's a sometimes-low-information reactor.

[@InkyBlitz]

@@Selrisitai He is owned by a political organization connected to a variety of streamers.

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

This is not even the worst part about Asmongold he constantly uses other people content and never credit the creator. He is such a lazy content creators

[@MgelikaXevi]

He probably had another "mis-informed reaction moment". Streamers do take L s more often than other video creators. Asmongold brought so much shady crap to the attention of millions of ppl, that he ended up as one of the most hated dudes on the internet for the wokists. They don`t care that he is pretty liberal overall - the fact that he mocks some of their idols is enough to chastise him. Basically, the damage he had inflicted to the woke agenda is enough to forgive his occasional dubious takes, or overall shallowness of streaming genre`s takes.

[@sdqsdqsdqs3825]

​@@SWANSWAN-nc7ds huh, he always posts the video url in the description. Or at least on his asmongoldtv channel, i don't know about the other channels

[@pikabolt09]

Act man? more like the "Straw" man.

[@CoalCoalJames]

The pirate king?.... oh wait that's straw hat not straw man~ NVM, move along.

[@BloodPaladin88]

What an excellent video that presents the issues with today's society in a very eloquent manner. I wish more people would put this much effort into learning about these issues before opening their mouth. Also, PORTUGAL CARALHOOO!

[@thcioci]

I love the patience with which this video approaches every aspect of the controversy in a very nuanced, considerate manner, taking the time to properly explain every failure

[@TheDezembro]

🙏

[@RobbazCorgiPikaPikaMadaFaka]

After the Act Ma'am told people to Shoot Az the Siver Back with horse Tranquilizers, knowing some idiot might actually do it, i stopped watching him.

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

What was that anyway Az want to have civil conservation with him but he just insult him behind his back Az didn't even bother to insult act man back. You can find his pronoun rant is cringe but telling them to unalive themselves just make you a bigger loser

[@christopherjones5700]

pretty spot on, though lynching andypants while giving melonie mac a pass if you're distancing yourself from that spectrum of the "anti-woke" movement is a questionable choice. Act Man's biggest thing you bring up though is his choice to character assassinate people he doesn't like while NEVER acknowledging wokeness as an issue, rather attacking it from the middle. Also IMO... BG3 is definitely and unequivocally woke, every RPG in the world is going to have a pansexual companion cast now and look at now Nexus Mod's polices what's allowed to be uploaded. Stuff like the "Ser Aylin" mod being zucked among others is just as insidious as actual executives and dev studios conspiring to hamstring existing franchises.

[@snintendog]

its doubling down. The Creator made a take down on Andy and refuses to admit he was 100% in the wrong. You see it all the time with the enlightened centrists types.

[@Crow12619]

​@@snintendogyou're not seriously going to defend Andy, are you? You can agree with his general points while also acknowledging that he's an insincere grifter that is most definitely NOT on our side.

[@snintendog]

@@Crow12619 No Andy is 100% correct. Act maam Screaming he used to be an xbox fanboy means nothing when you have no evidence to say he was all for wokies, Best you got is some base Fanboyism and Cope that was abandoned. Try again Enlightened Centrist. Preferably without the ad hominem attacks.

[@Crow12619]

@@snintendog What ad hominem attacks? What did I accuse you of besides being incorrect? Also, who's to say I'm an "enlightened centrist"? How do you know what my politics are? You sound like the one trying to make strawman arguments about my character.

[@bdleo300]

@@Crow12619 Spot on. Also, Andy is very.... limited. The only reason why the Act Man--ure chose him for 'debate'.

[@LosZavion]

Kirsche and Actman should duke it out in a podcast. That woman does so much deep diving on these topics.

[@lezardex6335]

I don't understand how someone like Act man have so much views and subscribers. And it's not only about his opinion, He litteraly Promoted a Broken Game Pay day 3 and many other greedy stunt in the past. Everyone just forgot? his opinion is as trustworthy as a Kotaku journalist.

[@2156Charlie]

He’s had videos that’s about specific games, mainly FPS. I enjoyed watching them years ago but he doesn’t make them like he used to so I had to unsubscribe.

[@dennisthemenace4288]

@@lezardex6335 because you are not level headed and wants to sniff "woke" in everything even in the slightiest.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

Finally first spoon now you, it's time act Ma'am gets roasted.

[@crazistuff7051]

ahh spoon... The connoisseurs content creator, my favorite utensil

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

​@crazistuff7051 He has severely soured on me after his narcissistic temper-tantrum after people didn't 100% agree with him on his Stellar Blade videos. What's worse is that pretty much everyone agreed with him on everything except on one detail, and he totally flipped out. I haven't watched him since.

[@ekenerobinson3280]

@@SockieTheSockPuppet Oh I remember you. He made an episode on you. I get if people dislike spoon. He does have the habit of throwing away like a quarter of his own audience after each month by saying something along the lines of "I'm right and the rest of you guys are all wrong and if you disagree then you're cringe and gay." I still watch him, though he's stubborn but also consistent, wise and doesn't care about how harsh he is.

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

@ekenerobinson3280 Oh man. I can't even begin to tell you how relieved I am to finally have someone vindicate what I've been saying. Honestly I've long since stopped caring, but still. In all serious, he's continuing to do this? Has he made other videos attacking audience members who decide to speak up? Because if so, I sympathize.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

@@SockieTheSockPuppet to be fair with his other responses the audience in question were mostly bad faith ir genuinely retarded I've maybe diaagreed with spoon 3 or 4 times out of hundreds of videos.

[@lendrigangames]

Using misrepresentation and other obfuscations, TheActWeasel has become a vigorous defender of Modern Gaming.

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

His argument is like searching up hardcore grape corn, and use that to generalize all men are grapist . I am shocked at the amount of people that take that video serious

[@LeeSimp9029]

As much as I understand people cringing when they see so many who completely write off games when they see pride flags and other small DEI additions, it really is the canary in the coal mine. Pretty much any game that provides such cosmetics has a dedicated DEI hire/department and that is the real issue that people are paying attention to. Its quite ironic that the other side of the aisle is the first to mention "dog whistles" and "hidden imagery" and yet they love to criticize others use of "woke", and other such phrases, which effectively serves the same purpose.

[@MasterDecoy1W]

It isn't ironic at all, it's a strategy.

[@dylives7667]

I had been subbed to TheActMan since the 343i days, as he's a Halo fan 1st and foremost, and so am I. So, it made sense. Him, Luke AKA HiddenXperia (check out his cooking channel as well), HaloFollower, RocketSloth, LateNightGaming and MintBlitz. Those were my go to channels back then, and they still are. Except for TheActMan when he attacked heelvsbabyface. I knew the Payday 3 video was foreshadowing. And man, he just keeps falling off. This is how Obi Wan must have felt when he found out Anakin turned to The Dark Side.

[@linkfreeman1998]

I think thats one of the reasons I moved on from him that long time ago...I'm not interested in Halo, and he keeps complain about CoD yet he will always buy them...

[@gopdrifto]

his takes on halo, or at least infinite, weren't great anyways

[@OldManJ3nkins]

I stopped watching Act Man a few months ago. He’s had a couple undisclosed ad reviews, and he fence-sits. He makes okay content but he cares more about money than credibility and I don’t like that.

[@FrostbiteDigital]

Side Scrollers talked about having Act Man on for a discussion. Vee said he's up for a debate and Vee himself is very well versed in holding an argument live and dealing with bad faith arguments and gaslighters like ShortFatOtaku for example. I would argue watching Act Man get absolutely eviscerated by Razorfist would be a glorious sight to behold but Razorfist sadly wouldn't be interested due to him not enjoying debating people. Especially when it's people that do not intend on changing their minds like Act Man has become.

[@BukaKEK]

The only disagreement I have with this video is 02:20. Mauler is not as he lets on. He just uses big words that makes him come across as an intellectual. Also he is horrendously cocky and thinks his takes are objectively right.

[@jasongray6665]

100% him and rags are openly left leaning and jayexci. Even so he went after SythenticMan over political issues

[@brownsauce0921]

Also, claiming you are objectively analysing media but don't talk about the political themes in a piece of work makes no sense.

[@WillieDangerously]

I watched 1 Andypants video, and he lost me. On one hand he was saying "now look, I don't have a problem with women in games, it's just incompetence I dislike", but this was after agreeing with his anonymous "insider interviewer" that you can't critique a woman's ideas in the workplace the same as a man. I understand eggshells in the modern political climate, but with the way they spoke about these people, it's like they struggle to see them as teamates. I'm used to working with incompotent people too, but you can't just go lumping in ALL people of this sex/race and say "nah, they're just too much to work with". I hate forced diversity and DEI, it's reductive and tokenizing, but when you make arguments like that you just sound like the strawman Kotaku and SBI want to paint us "old fashioned gamers" as, you're doing the work for them!

[@TheDezembro]

It's a tough minefield to work through when talking about and it requires evidence and a bit of tact so that we don't end up looking like what Kotaku and SBI paint us as, yes, but it definitely exists out there. There's for example Ubisoft insiders who reported to Legendary Drops that people even got called into HR simply for not using emojis, or using exclamation marks in their internal messages. And there's also a video of the lead dev of ValiDate saying that she has a team of only people of color because she doesn't want to work with white people. Despite that video being public and obvious racism, this lady has since moved onto a much bigger project, working on EA's Black Panther game. So, yeah, no consequences whatsoever.

[@ZeroNumerous]

Yes, because they can't see them as teammates. If you have a teammate who can get you fired for disagreeing with them, then they're not a teammate are they?

[@rara3538]

leftist playbook: 1) "debate me on anything!" 2) "im not an expert you have to consult the experts on that" (the experts are either woke or the field doesn't need experts so they don't exist)

[@SirHugsalot13th]

It really bothers me that a number of the video game reviewers that I respect either will not acknowledge DEI in games even when it clearly had bearing on the reason the game failed (which is fair enough, they just don't want to bring that discourse in), or they will acknowledge it but only to, ostensibly, call me dumb for believing it had any reason for the game's failure (and that's the one that hurts). Yes, on a technical level, bad art direction and ugly character design is arguably the largest reason for Concord's failure. But there is a reason as to why the bad art direction and ugly character design was present at all, and the reason why is DEI. Things like the shoddy gunplay could have been fixed over time, but the things DEI touch can't be fixed.

[@duffystrings9680]

Andy pants is to the extreme of things like he hurt the gamers more than anything

[@christopherjones5700]

i think he's a net positive minus the stupid shit he did to make act man look like the good guy... he's not insane like quantumTV and that's pretty much all we need nowadays to make the wokies look stupid especially when his videos get 1 million views on a good day.

[@DoMyHomework_]

Andy is a reaction to the extreme leftism seen in the gaming industry now. He probably wouldn't have made his channel if gaming studios stuck to making good games rather than leftist propaganda.

[@Selrisitai]

@@christopherjones5700 I think he's terrible at arguing for his point, but I think his point itself is good. I don't know how to feel, but I can't be bothered to watch most of his stuff because I just sit there annoyed with his bad argumentation.

[@Crow12619]

​@@Selrisitaiagreed. I think he's a net negative in that he makes all of us look bad. Being correct only goes so far if you present that argument in the most laughable way possible. It also doesn't help how clearly insincere he is given his past.

[@christopherjones5700]

@Loathsome_Lynx he comes at it from the Christian gamer angle and even though I'm atheist I still laugh my ass off at calling act man a woke commie Satanist 😂😂😂

[@kowaikokoro]

Kinda ironic to see act ma''am attempt moral highground when he shilled that dogshit payday 3 game, the az drama didnt help as it exposed his true self. The fact that people are actually waking up and realizing ''if you dont like it dont buy it'' actually has an impact look at suicide squad, concord, star wars outlaws heck even asscreed shadows had to be delayed as its demise could spell doom for ubisoft, duskborn like there's so many ''woke'' flops in 2024 alone that its quite gratifying.

[@Beautoks]

I stopped gaming in 2019 (work, father duties), and I'm watching the whole DEI policy in the gaming world from afar. It's really glamorous. Maybe I'll comeback in Tekken and Warframe casually. You have a good perception. Keep it up.

[@DonCrack97]

The entertainment industry is using the lgbt movement and feminism as a mask, so all the problems the games have, will be directed to this movements and not the incompetence or the lack of ideas within the industry And it has worked a lot...

[@wanicki3579]

Remember when act sham shilled payday 3 effectively betraying his audience for a paycheck?

[@vadamsvengeance3219]

ikr, shilling halo infinite before launch saying it was going to be the best halo ever, then bashing it after it comes out, then saying he's done with halo, then last week he's paid to go to HCS and shill the studio name change announcement. he has no real opinions.

[@MapSpawn]

I just recently told Act Man off. . . and then I found this video. I noticed Act Man doing two things that bothered me. First he acts like a buzzard, showing up to kick people who are down like Doc and Mr. Beast, two dudes I don't watch but still I don't like how Act Man jumps on that bandwagon. Secondly I think it is offensive for Act Man to pretend like wokeness is not a threat to gaming and that it is being overblown. I just saw him for the beta male that he is, it is insane for him to insinuate I am insane and noticing things wrong.

[@esbenm6544]

👶🍼

[@MapSpawn]

@@esbenm6544 probably almond milk knowing you

[@esbenm6544]

@@MapSpawn You don't know me but we know you're the type who'd think being a baby > almond milk. Seems like only a baby would come to that conclusion.

[@SpragginsDesigns]

Came for the truth bomb on Act Man. Stayed for the FF7 background music.

[@okbVinyl]

Are all tracks in the background from FF7? I felt like the music was familiar, but couldn't remember where I heard that ost, and I'm not exactly familiar with FF7

[@SpragginsDesigns]

@@okbVinyl not all background music is but the last 10min or so of the video is FF VII music. I love the OST and listen to it from time to time and recognize it easily.

[@ProxyDoug]

Act-man could've kept his good guy appearance if he just didn't attack people, meanwhile, Jeremy Jahns was attacked simply for reviewing a movie from a guy the woke crowd deemed unacceptable. There's a good difference here and it's a shame people who claim to take the high road can't see it at all.

[@kali882]

What game are you playing? at 20:10

[@TheDezembro]

@@kali882 Mad Max (2015)

[@vectorsky3838]

Some youtube creators are only chasing for the money and Actman is one of them, he never tries to debate people who is making actual arguments about today's game problems, instead he finds a strawman and says that everyone who disagrees with him acts like it.