Investigating the Guilty Gear Degenerates

[@Technicals]

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[@GSEleven]

I was actually thinking of getting perfumes and stuff. I actually used a KZbin ad for once, thanks Technicals.

[@ace0135]

That is some bullshit blazing

[@sgtfignewton9413]

bro you gotta quit using that girl voice in your vids you kinda riling me up if you pickin up what im puttin down

[@PlatinumSmasherHD]

Lord knows smash players need to use this

[@GSEleven]

@@PlatinumSmasherHD On god, my reply deleted but I actually got the subscription for once. Thank you, Technicals.

[@CineGoodog]

Mankind knew that they cannot change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves. They blamed technicals.

[@ALivingBruhMoment]

Bruh 💀💀💀

[@chidi5570]

LMFAO

[@Gamerbijjy]

But that’s the smell of the game bud

[@assassingamer1125]

Damn

[@fatman4079]

LMAO

[@Zquiddo]

Guilty gear player drama feels like trying to piece together middle schooler discord drama

[@matmil5]

That's just twitter to be fair

[@TheEighthWorld]

Glass beach pfp spotted

[@AlexMax2742]

@@matmil5 Most poor decisions can be traced back to "...and then I posted about it on Twitter." Not a great decision, especially in TYOOL 2024.

[@GyaruRespecter]

It even has the same rate of child molesters as the average discord channel.

[@outtrigger]

goated album art pfp

[@kDallas_]

daisuke's vision

[@squidee]

💀💀

[@Cherry_zayn]

Its so funny how none of this happened when xrd was around, xrd pros are fuckin cool yo Maybe its cause strive is lame and boring so they have to compete with their private parts instead

[@sharzinlalebazri5673]

Unironically, yeah. This IS the fanbase that Daisuke chose to have over the old Guilty Gear fanbase. He made the bed and now he has to lie in it.

[@sergoarkhipov9364]

@@Cherry_zayn blaming the game's quality cause of community is such a stupid thing to do

[@coolman5242]

@@sharzinlalebazri5673 At the end of the day money speaks unfortunately

[@razputin711]

I swear you put a bunch of nerds in a room and they just start forming the weirdest relationships and engaging in all sorts of dumb shit and then like 2 years later regret all their decisions and start turning on one another out of embarrassment.

[@otakuthegreat]

Always seems to be the case ain't it

[@mrbemystar]

Lots of repressed sexuality.

[@queuedjar4578]

Add sexually deviant, immature, and terminally online nerds to the list and it's all downhill.

[@jasonelbow3807]

Well, the left does eat their own eventually.. Because what is offensive always changes..

[@alchemist1651]

i realized this in school when certain groups of people would date within their small circle and end up ruioning everyttrhing cause they cant keep it in their pants and not cheat with their literal best friends friend cuz their froiend group is only like 8 people

[@pank3245]

Terminally Online Queer People ✅ Omari pfp ✅ Autism ✅ Anime Fighting Game ✅ Socially Awkward ✅ Alcohol ✅ Hooking up at a video game con ✅ Not a Potemkin Player ✅ Yep it all checks out

[@AbdAbdAbdAbd]

the 7 deadly sins of autistic communities

[@ToMaSsS10]

Omari pfp LMAOOO

[@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen]

What about Potemkin players make them exempt of of brainrot ? I just got into Guilty Gears so I'm not very familiar with in-community jokes.

[@averydissatisfieddwarf1407]

​@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen 300 hours on potemkin has taught me that if anything brainrot is the entire playstyle for him.

[@mcl_official20XX]

@@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen Burly grappler man cool, it's really that simple

[@SupremeChimp]

These terminally online dorks are exhausting.

[@thesyclemonte6571]

Aye got it must be exhausting to maintain such a discordant self schema. To be that narcissistic and yet so self pitying

[@MrDmoney156]

for real 😂😂

[@TwilightAnarchy]

Not when they crave attention from their "friends"

[@ArcaneMantis]

Sums it up perfectly.

[@a1337turtle]

stay far, far away from the FGC

[@dekaidoku]

"Just dont drink" and "dont go to fighting game stuff for sex" and "dont think like a teenager at high school with this stuff" it isnt hard to keep boundaries. If you cant do that, you end up like the Smash Community

[@kingboo_bh3919]

I feel the FGC community is worse

[@thesyclemonte6571]

@@kingboo_bh3919quite, the rot is starting to set in

[@markclovisllorente93]

​@@kingboo_bh3919 I thought Smash was also an FGC Community?

[@pierreaoun9600]

@@markclovisllorente93not according to the FGC itself lol

[@ZeroniaNM]

The FGC is worse than the Smash Community

[@Goldskull_96]

This man really said "smash community is being real quiet rn... Lets burn the guilty gear community in the meantime", what a legend

[@banjabalst4973]

guilty gear strive community** dude, come on...

[@Sockren]

@@banjabalst4973 not really a difference when the main argument in guilty gear is that a female character is female and not a femboy

[@javi994]

@@banjabalst4973why are the communities separate?

[@banjabalst4973]

@Sockren see this exactly why I specified the 2 communities. Before strive, Bridget was a BOY who was raised as a girl due to his backstory. Because of that he fights to prove his masculinity. It wasn't until strive they made him gay as hell. @javi994 because one community is from like the 90s cuz this series is old and a lot of old heads don't like strive due to its casualization, so the communities split

[@Ender-bg2hx]

@@Sockren I disagree but won’t waste time trying to explain if you go with that. Edit:Someone explained it already

[@ShaunInce123]

We finally have a community that gives the Smash community a run for their money. It's funny how one of the top players in that community is also a Smash player.

[@rodimusprime8616]

Irony is tasteful lol

[@imarock.7662]

"Gives the smash community a run for the money" Smash has actual p3dos, Strive has highschool level he said/she said bs. I think its clear which one is worse.

[@leothevirgo3375]

he's only a top player because of happy chaos

[@CaptainFalcon-exboyfriend]

Yeah well... the smash drama actually had serious legal implications. This shit is.... borderline asinine the way Technicals framed it (I had to watch the whole thing 2x speed with captions on, didn't have the patience) If I were friends with the victims maybe I'd feel it was less trivial through their framing, but I am just happy knowing that me and my friends compete in smash and fighting games and mind our own fucking business.

[@gwen9939]

@@CaptainFalcon-exboyfriend Preach. This Technicals guy is such a massive waste of space. Incredible how you can just mind your own gd business and maybe not contribute to putting more negativity into the world because you got rent to pay in a new accustomed lifestyle. There's a loud minority of toxic low-lives that are just waiting to pounce on anything bad about the top level GG community because they dislike that their favorite game to bitch about online is dominated by queer people and queer allies, and they're just sipping on hatorade all day long. And finally here is their smoking gun: pointless interpersonal drama between friends turned into a spectacle by some dancing internet circus clown who was explicitly told not to use their names and statements for content.

[@NesuProps]

Something I learnt from a Megaman main after talking about these FGC drama was this: "Don't go to tournaments to make friends, go to play the game"

[@redica_val8805]

I don't really agree with that. You can make friends at tournaments, you just need the social skills of a normal person to figure out if those people are worth being friends with.

[@NesuProps]

@@redica_val8805 That's what most people in tournaments lack of. See what resumed the former top players with tough backstories or with a notable lack of boundaries. You can be friendly, but in the end, those persons aren't normal as most of them cannot figure out when something is going tremendously wrong.

[@___________0Z0X]

Based mega Man main.

[@covereye5731]

I like that it coming from a Megaman main was somehow important enough for this statement to get specified.

[@tyuptydown]

I just wanna ask, which version of Megaman did he play Smash or Marvel vs.

[@gamingmoyai3950]

You know, I don’t know why people keep threatening lawsuits, it’s stupid, and quite literally always backfires. They’re trying to be Billy Mitchell, except unlike Billy, they don’t have the money to drain.

[@RadikAlice]

They're more like Todd Rodgers, represent themselves in court and misspells their name on the lawsuit

[@VaSoapman]

Even then Billy Mitchell also loses his lawsuits.

[@The3Answer1]

Because people don't know how the justice system works. I mean really just the government in general

[@ruikirisame1744]

I heard it's American culture to sue. Idk how true that is though

[@gzach70]

​@VaSoapman billy mitchell has only lost the one high profile court case. He is probably going to lose to karl in the next couple months. But, otherwise billy's lawsuits are actually strategic since in america civil suits are very costly and often a jury verdict is not beneficial for either party. Billy weaponizes the legal system against smaller creators who cant sustain the costs of lawsuits. Thus forcing them to settle out of court (see twin galaxies and that one youtuber i forget his name). Effectively billy is able to use the threat of a sustained lawsuit because he actually follows through with it, everyone knows hes in the wrong, but knows that a long battle in the american court system to prove it would win them absolutely nothing other than tens of thousands of dollars down the drain.

[@HerMajestyVelvet]

Imagine my disappointment when I move away from Smash to Guilty Gear only to realize Leffen and other degenerates also poison that community Can just one of my favorite competitive games not have a super toxic community Edit: Yall are doing a great job of convincing me to play SF6, and if Terry lives up to my expectations as a huge SNK/Fatal Fury fan I'll get into it

[@GrayD_Fox]

You'll always have some form of toxicity in a community, that's just how it goes.

[@ytcmbt2505]

Street fighter. Literally the worst we have is a shittalker on twitter.

[@radio100jogosdeemacs2]

play blaz

[@bibleotaku]

Me from Smash => Skullgirls

[@HerMajestyVelvet]

@@ytcmbt2505 If I had sf6 I'd fs try to get into the game since it's the least dramatic FGC community from what i've seen and it also looks really fun If Terry is as cool as I hope he is, SF6 will be an easy christmas but for me

[@shadicpro21]

A friend of mine once said "If you are into a polyamorous relationship, you are practically asking for drama".

[@Shlankyman545]

It’s even worse given how many of these people are socially inept and probably couldn’t handle a monogamous relationship. They just want multiple people giving them affection and attention and believe polyamory to be the easiest option.

[@chidorisnake22]

As someone that is polyamorous, I don't think that's necessarily true. It takes a ton of emotional maturity to be involved in one, and it seriously requires ego to be checked at the door for the sake of a healthy relationship, which is tough because we are all humans that are prone to fuck up, just like monogamous people are. It's definitely not for everyone, but it can work. It just takes the right people with the right mentality.

[@yungmuney5903]

As if monogamous aren't?

[@vanadlehyde3600]

You're not just asking for drama you're asking for a whole ass theatre

[@ExplosiveBolts]

Poly relationships are bogus, it's just friends with benefits under a slightly more socially acceptable title.

[@Psych0boost]

Blocking Tech is basically an admission of guilt at this point

[@Psych0boost]

Pun not intended

[@LoliconSamalik]

@@Psych0boost That was a lie and you know it! 🤣

[@Invictissimi]

By this statement alone, the worst folks in the Smash community sure love making themselves visible needles in a haystack.

[@fresherprofessor]

Guilty gear old heads need to speak up about this degenerate behavior; this new strive community has literally stained a franchise that has been seen as innovative and cool for decades now. such a pity

[@gunkhead]

Hate to break it to ya, but some of the oldheads run around with their heads cut of too, aha

[@fresherprofessor]

@@gunkhead I agree there has been issues in the past, but this new community has shifted how people look at gear as a whole.

[@1shoryuken]

Strive ain't a game worth saving, we are too busy cooking in +R and Xrd.

[@doin10hitcombos]

​@@fresherprofessorhas it? I think people still view GG as those fgs with the good music and cool characters. Most people know about GG either through some degen shit in which case they don't give a fuck. Or because they already like fgs, they play like Tekken or something, and in that case they're like "damn this games community is just like ours hahaha, anyways games cool :)"

[@GyaruRespecter]

We've been doing that ever since the Bridget character assassination. In fact, Technicals's callout is an important part of it.

[@GyaruRespecter]

The more of a shitshow Strive becomes, the more fitting it is that Leffen became their number one.

[@substitutedoll5224]

even they don't like him

[@GyaruRespecter]

@@substitutedoll5224 That's like being kicked out of Hell for being too sinful

[@GrayD_Fox]

He's not, and what shitshow. Is it in the room with us right now?

[@GyaruRespecter]

@@GrayD_Fox Dilate harder.

[@JudgeNicodemus]

​@@GrayD_Fox holy shit an actual Leffen dickrider? Haha! I thought you chumps went extinct!

[@SHAO_L1N]

Man GG used to be so cool, just a bunch of stoners and 40 year old Japanese Business men grinding some of the best games of all time.

[@nacholibre134]

Now instead of heavy metal its heavy hormones, FUCK STRIVE #WHENSGUILTYGEARXRDREV3

[@Section8dc]

The Xrd and pre Xrd days, as soon as I saw the "wall" mechanic in strive I knew things would never be the same lol

[@ShebaFr]

Also Metalheads.

[@Nyagro]

Strive indeed "destroyed" a lot of it like Daisuke intended. Bloke is oblivious to what happened to the community in the west once Strive attracted all the weirdos and he probably always will be.

[@bigredradish]

if you wanna hang out with old Asians I've got good news: they still love some third strike and KOF97

[@Arvoyea]

Childhood is wanting Guilty Gear to get more love and respect from the general public Adulthood is wishing it never happened

[@theoracle2288]

Guilty Gear community truly followed their own motto "Mankind knew they could not change society" (The Allegations coming out) "So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beast" (Alcohol + Anime Fighters)

[@Dan.R.A]

I'm a 40 year old dude, to me it's crazy how anything and everthing gets posted online these days; seeing these cases, it just feels like young people have never learned the ability to resolve things amongst themselves and not involve the internet at large. They always depend on strangers to come tell them that oh poor them, and that they're right in spilling the beams. Damn man, the future will be tough for this generation. I'm usually grumpy about getting old, but when I see shit like in this video, I'm just glad I was a kid of the 80s and 90s, when the technology that facilitates this behavior was still years away.

[@MrInfernollama]

You may find yourself arguing with adult children online. And you may watch videos showing people be degenerates. And you may say to yourself these people are messed up in the head. And the next day you see it all again. And you may ask yourself. Well. How did we get here?

[@osakeleto]

not entirely the kids fault. some of them have it pretty good but still end up like this because the internet was their babysitter.

[@kingmanga8575]

@@osakeletothat’s how I look at it too. The iPad babies didn’t buy those iPads themselves. Adults just don’t want to parent their children anymore. It’s much easier to shove a screen in their face and have them watch KZbin or TikTok for hours.

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

Amen to that. I miss the 90s. Much simpler times

[@wakeupsweep8278]

​@SonofTiamat Dude, I miss the early 2000s. Things are changing just as I start to understand them.

[@oneoutoffive]

Remember when the most complex thing you see in fighting games are combo videos?

[@vulcan422]

Those were the days. Things are...different now. Easier. Still really fun in some cases, but definitely easier. There's less of a satisfactory feeling in pushing past your own limitations.

[@PJrock1]

This drama is so degenerate. Almost all issues covered can be solved with direct honest communication.

[@Drackzgull]

Some of them even were solved with direct (not all that honest) private communication, and then these people still decide to go make public drama about matters that were long settled, but they changed how they felt about them.

[@Essu_]

Alright he put emphasis on separating Strive from actual Guilty Gear, we're cooking with this one folks.

[@VongolaXanxus]

Im glad Blazblue is gone for now. I'd be sad if my favorite series had any of these Strive-era twitter weirdos attached to it.

[@hashhashbrowns5381]

What happened to blazblue

[@mystic_ramen]

creator left arcsys & since the focus is on GG we won't be getting an actual BB game for a long time besides that rougelite (I think that's what the genre is called) that came out

[@Roaring__Moon]

@@hashhashbrowns5381 nothing, just that there hasn’t been a mainline fighting game entry in a long time

[@Hypanoz]

@@mystic_ramen goated rougelike tho

[@leorickaldana366]

​@mystic_ramen That's sad to hear. I was just starting to get into Blazblue because of the rouge like and BBTag.

[@Shlankyman545]

Seems like there need to be more therapist appointments, more psychiatrist appointments, a complete end to drinking alcohol, and a complete stop to being on social media and discord for these FGC people. It’s like they stopped maturing at 15 and got lost in cyberspace and fandoms.

[@leonxpc1]

No joke these people need to cut the internet hours down to like 3 hours a day and tocuhing grass at least 1 hour and that is still not enough to ¨fix them¨

[@urallnoobs8943]

That's what happens when these guys make playing video games their "job" and spend most of their time in front of a screen. They probably also got into the FGC at a young age, so these adult children creating drama is honestly no surprise at all

[@mankdemes8887]

Where do you think the time spent getting good at fighting games came from

[@ytnukesme1600]

it's the way the games themselves are designed. some of these games take years to learn and master, so by proxy it takes these kinds of individuals to be professional at them.

[@spitfiremanlizerd]

Therapy is what got them there in the first place. They are legally obligated to promote everything pathological about them. We all know what's really going on here.

[@SeveredWorldLore]

All I had to do was look at the top players to figure out how corny the community was.

[@tbc1880]

Yup

[@customizablemilk353]

and the only person that looks "normal" is leffen...

[@javi994]

……..Leffen…….

[@1shoryuken]

shoutouts for acknowledging that the +R and Xrd players want nothing to do with this community. You want us to gatekeep Strive??? helll no they can keep it.

[@nacholibre134]

Ain't nobody with sense want anything to do with Strive. FUCK STRIVE. #WHENSGUILTYGEARXRDREV3

[@weggygaygay9940]

bro your games didn't even get rollback until strive lmfao, no one cares that you aren't playing a fighting game

[@crawlingboy]

why would we gatekeep and obviously garbage game with bad gameplay and terrible story and designs hell nah let me play my accent core and xrd

[@imarock.7662]

Yall were saying the same shit about Xrd when it first released💀 Shitting on it, and saying shit like "there's GG fans and then there's Xrd fans". Like, am I the only one who remembers that??

[@1shoryuken]

@@imarock.7662 I remember ggxxac players shitting on +R 💀

[@-LastStand-]

"So you can imagine my shock when the next thing she decided to do was to have sex with Luca." I legit had to rewind that at least five times. Like what?

[@DSR505]

its called mania

[@Tetragramz]

@@DSR505 WRESTLEMANIAAAA

[@StubenhockerElite]

Crazy how as a regular person you just need one look to recognize a discord goon in the wild, yet they still act surprised when someone's clocking them just right

[@MoeHasubandoAbsolver]

I'm guessing you're a discord goon that got caught in the wild to know this?

[@TheDeviousDooDooDevourer]

this is what happens when rev 3 doesnt get released

[@nacholibre134]

This highly intelligent man gets it. FUCK STRIVE #WHENSGUILTYGEARXRDREV3

[@thesyclemonte6571]

@@nacholibre134it’s in my basement

[@RisingPhoenix05]

​@@thesyclemonte6571I'll live in your basement

[@megaszx08]

@@thesyclemonte6571 Your basement is probably safer than being around the people in this video.

[@monke6600]

Its probably guilty gear V

[@ShinDMitsuki]

I miss old Guilty Gear. These are the people who try to gaslight me into thinking that nothing was lost and the game and the community is the same.

[@RyanPhilip-w6d]

Spoken like a true old head

[@nacholibre134]

@@RyanPhilip-w6d naH spoken like a true fan FUCK STRIVE #WHENSGUILTYGEARXRDREV3

[@byonixen]

​@@nacholibre134 This is so flippin agreeable

[@akabkb6692]

​@@nacholibre134 I was with you until you brought up Xrd Decent amount of GGfans pre-strive didn't like Xrd as much (myself included, outside of the visuals.)

[@Digital.midori]

Because most people who “miss old guilty gear” did not play it

[@tking2199]

Like my momma used to say, "these groups are like street dogs, they look different, but theyre all dirty and drop the same shit." Not surprised Strive is like this.

[@nacholibre134]

yup FUCK STRIVE #WHENSGUILTYGEARXRDREV3

[@crawlingboy]

@@nacholibre134 sadly that hahstag is not happening cause of the fact they ruined themselves i like to see and agree that xrd rev 2 was a good ending to gg

[@Lenarian]

@@nacholibre134 Ain't ever happening. At release they flirted with keeping the door open to return to Xrd in case things went bad, but a few months back they did an interview where they laid out that they specifically intended to kill off old GG and they don't give a damn about their old fans because they brought more than enough new blood in to replace them.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

​@@Lenarian Which is why they're making a Strive anime, just casually skipping 30 years worth of lore.

[@ratedr7845]

​@@Lenariandamn, i think this will bite them back in the future

[@kinganondorf]

>it happened last year >traumatized you for most of your life ever since must really not have much of a life

[@kDallas_]

😂😂

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

So because Guilty Gear became a simplified fighting game, it weeded out OG players and left us with "Will they, won't they" sexual assault.

[@a1337turtle]

idk about that, take a look at the +R community and tell me if it looks any different from strive

[@Sassy_Witch]

doesnt help they reconned a beloved character into one of them

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

@@Sassy_Witch Two to be exact.

[@Spectrik]

​@a1337turtle yea, I don't see the point in pretending that this is a strive only thing, lmao

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

@@Spectrik Before Strive, Guilty Gear's community was just old Japanese guys, metalheads and stoners. Sure, you had degenerates but they were few and far between, they definitely didn't have orgies at tournaments because they were old enough to know a thing or two about boundaries.

[@taken_over3416]

I don’t know how you keep a straight face using the cringiest discord DM’s I’ve ever seen as evidence

[@Landmasters]

I do love how Strive has created such a cesspool of a community that it has to be separated from everything else. Not even Smash has to separate their respective games despite being a disorganized and power hungry mess, like what the hell is wrong with you Strive

[@___________0Z0X]

Yeah, though it's not too surprising when you consider the insane spike in popularity compared to the previous entries.

[@osakeleto]

​@@___________0Z0X if you want to completely kill a community, just pander to a certain western demographic

[@Emerald12222]

Well the melee and modern smash community are pretty different (the only difference here is that the melee and modern community are both cancer)

[@smashbrosgoat]

P O P U L A R I T Y

[@MoeHasubandoAbsolver]

"not even smash has to separate titles" like bruh are you not reading what you're writing how are you this dumb 💀

[@DistantKingdom]

its so weird seeing members of that community act like sharing victims stories is somehow a bad thing. likely have skeletons of their own that they don't want you to come across 😂

[@ninjaniknik6136]

"Don't say SA, just say sexual assault." Love to hear that, it does sound very stupid to abbreviate the term. People who can't bear to hear two measly words are too sensitive for the real world.

[@fenneko3116]

Reminds me of the George Carlin bit on soft language. It's everywhere now, lol. People can't take hearing certain words and it's ridiculous.

[@themage1016]

@@fenneko3116people just too sensitive nowadays, we cam to a point where ppl get easily offended for others behalf.

[@xravenx24fe]

​@@fenneko3116 that's not at all what it's about, it's about monetization. Anyone who says it's not about getting demonetized for saying naughty phrases is just virtue signaling or lying lol

[@squidee]

That's the thing, hearing it *should* make you uncomfortable. Trying to downplay sexual assault with a more soft word only reduces the gravity of what it actually means

[@tek87]

I always thought it was to avoid getting demonetized or age restricted. You can thank YT for this garbage.

[@megaszx08]

"What I said is my truth and nothing else." I swear every time someone uses "my truth", you know it's some bs story.

[@Akira-Strider]

Exactly more like "my lies" most of the time whenever someone says stuff like. It shouldn't be about "your truth" but the whole truth itself.

[@SpideyfanX]

And it's always someone from the T-Virus community.

[@GekkoOne]

Just some 'alternate facts' with a side of fake news lol

[@GrimDim]

What happens when you let your community be consumed by these types (avid twitter users)

[@LIGHTANGEL_EX]

*woke twitter users

[@RadikAlice]

I wonder what excuse y'all would use if this one was a no-go

[@nacholibre134]

@@RadikAlice What do you mean by "excuse"? Those are facts, even still it doesn't account for it being a gutted out restricted game thats now known more for its politics than its (very bad) gameplay.

[@YDelirious]

I really, really wish the FGC wasn't so tightly bound-up with Twitter. It's such a toxic environment, and breeds terrible mentalities and ways of thinking

[@crabhmandu5819]

gay sex

[@GrayD_Fox]

One thing I learned from Vorobey, is if you announce you're going to talk about someone in a community but don't say Who, someone else will come out and start doing pre damage control.

[@GrayD_Fox]

(and they're usually guilty of a lot more than you thought)

[@Jardonius]

@@GrayD_Fox oof~ Imma remember this in the future for... Entertainment. Might get a little weird on twitter, who knows?

[@RadikAlice]

It's great comedy

[@Gaboinanutshell]

There is a medival saying in Latin that says: Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta; which would be translated as "Uncalled excuse, manifested guilt"... Go figure haha

[@gentlguy1101]

Vorobey as in Vorobey TF2?

[@pingpong5877]

Instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the Beast.

[@disgaealikerasapOG]

>Polyamorous Yeah no wonder they have issues.

[@dayadabu3028]

Half of these people looks like actual science experiments bro 💀💀

[@balther10]

Bro lmfaooo

[@shagaru1234]

LMAOOOOOOO

[@SpideyfanX]

I mean they ARE experimenting with the T-Virus, so no wonder they look like that.

[@Plumbly]

how you gon transition and name yourself enema 💀

[@purplebunz]

If you're going to transition, why wouldn't you name yourself something awesome like "piss baby," "the destroyer," or "enema."

[@egrassa1480]

​@@purplebunz because it sounds retarded

[@stacystealer]

​@@purplebunzevery freedom in the world and you picked "Lily".... as a piss baby herself, it is superior.

[@JCHauntsman]

Strive was a fucking mistake.

[@avzer5408]

Its a good game and it made gg more popular. Too popular if you ask me... It attracted the weirdest kind of people on the site

[@Akira-Strider]

It was a mistake as soon as it went mainstream and for modern audiences

[@MajoraVT]

Strive was personally my first fighting game that I clicked with. So I don't think it was a mistake itself, but I do think that gatekeeping being seen as a "sin" was a mistake along with making the game mainstream. Because then you get the weird people in it and because gatekeeping is seen as a "sin" in gaming now, there's no way to really weed out those people. Gaming communities have become way too overly accepting of anyone who touches the game, leading to shit like this happening.

[@smashbrosgoat]

I 100% Agree With You

[@diobrando-qv3uv]

(Dumb comment I made because I was mad)

[@not-so-noble]

don't use my tweets... ill get my lawyer!!!

[@iwantanapple1848]

So true noble we gotta squash the beef

[@ShinSHOGO]

It pleases me greatly to see that now the Strive degens are in the crosshairs from now on. It was a long time coming. 😂

[@magno172]

I was hoping for the drama to be about the game or money matches or match fixing. Like the good ol' days of MvC2. Now it's GenZ not knowing how to socialize or set any boundaries because they are part of "the community". Yuck. I'm here to play fighting games and whoop ass or get my ass whooped. Anything else is just asking for trouble.

[@protostnl6369]

⁠@@magno172You are not wrong and this is coming from someone who’s a part of Gen-Z. I’m getting a Ps5 copy of Strive in a week and the thing I want to do with it is to play the game in peace as well as being a bystander.

[@LXRDKVRAMA]

Oh hey Saito, what are you doing here?

[@TaulantDomi]

​@@magno172 Ah man Marvel drama was something else 😂 It was just straight beefing over skill or maybe some match colluding or stealing prize money at worst. RayRay vs Fanatiq, Fanatiq vs Joker, FChamp vs KBR, FChamp in general haha, Cloud vs Flux, Viscant vs LTG(it was SF but still same era), I think Neo was accused of stealing money from a backpack once. RayRay sleeping with Noel Brown's girl and Noel rocking his shit over it was the closest thing to this video but it wasnt all this weird awkward creepy shit. She cheated, the dudes threw hands, and everyone moved on pretty fast. Not to defend it but at the time it seemed like the audience loved it. It was toxic but you couldn't look away because it was kind of exciting. The shit you see now tho with Smash and the anime fighters is just creepy and weird tho. It's disturbing. No one wants to see this. These people probably wouldve legit gotten their ass beat in that old era of Marvel drama. Those guys were aggressive but it was mostly about the competition. Imagine if they found out people were sexually assaulting each other or messing with minors. One of the main Marvel locals in NYC is in the Bronx (Bum's House of Crack now known as House of Chaos). I know people from the Bronx. Some of my coworkers are from the Bronx. They're cool dudes but they do NOT play that shit. Ever since the FGC went e-sports they had to start censoring all that stuff and toning it down. Degeneracy is what they proudly used to call it iirc. When the FGC first started going e-sports there was a lot of criticism about that. A lot of people felt like it was ruining what made the FGC special and left over it. At the time we thought it was for the best but look what's taken over in it's place. Maybe they were a deterrent to these weirdos, because it seems like now that they're gone these people feel safe to get try and get away with this behavior.

[@RetroGhost16]

​@@magno172 Couldn't have said it better myself. I only recently joined Ggst when season 4 started. I bought the game to play around with my silly anime character and watch them bounce around the screen like fricken beyblades. Speaking of beyblades Brisket literally is one and it's hilarious, one of the reason I decided to get Ggst she's so much fun.

[@satouhikou1103]

It's because of troons.

[@VeeVevo]

I think the reason so many FGC members end up in these kinds of situations is because they're unsociable nerds with years of pent up urges, so when you force these kinds of people into close proximity with each other through tournaments, and none of them have any kind of experience with explicit relationships - much less consent - you're setting yourself up for catastrophe.

[@ytnukesme1600]

do you really need that much experience to understand 2 simple concepts of "keep your hands to yourself" and "don't invite random people to your room and get into bed with them"?

[@VeeVevo]

@ytnukesme1600 that's a fair point but u have to consider that they're also all autistic

[@shinmasterryu]

@@ytnukesme1600 In this day and age: yes.

[@SteelTiamat]

On top of that, you can add the baggage that comes about their gender identity. It's a bit unreal hearing Technicals talk about them as she and such when they are mostly dudes posing as ladies. So you have that, their social awkwardness and their willingness to participate in polyamorous relationships that they are not mature enough to handle and you get a recipe for disaster.

[@Drilbit]

Jiyuna really had a good point when he said that people need to have a life outside of the fgc. Because I imagine now these people just rot away on discord all day and don't have any social skills at all when they're at tournaments

[@__-be1gk]

"There is a distinct difference between the general guilty gear community and the Strive community" Gee... I wonder what the reason for this could be...

[@moonwarrior3342]

Gee I wonder if this has to do with a certain character. But who can it be???? 💀

[@silveryo7678]

🤔🤔🤔

[@RadikAlice]

I wonder what other excuse y'all would pick if she wasn't playable Maybe it's Testament's fault? It's all more predictable than a flowchart shoto

[@KopperNeoman]

@@RadikAlice The character OP was referring to is male, you know. Nobody's out here complaining about Poison in the SF games.

[@FGCDistress]

@@RadikAlice If he was playable, you wouldn't be here.

[@NaehiroEnjoyer]

The fandom went to complete shit the moment the Bridget discourse started.

[@bfFAN221]

I'd say it even started a bit before even Testament - the vibes were there... you *KNOW* something's wrong, the moment that one certain, blue suited zoophile professional, is a part of your playerbase...

[@thelegendaryhunter0]

yup and its only gonna get worse

[@isthatsquid]

You can blame that on the localizers

[@pailofawesome]

It went to shit the moment it became popular. That's the problem with literally any fandom: The moment "everyone" is allowed in you've already let in the worst of the population. I'm not saying things should be gatekept from people necessarily, but it sure isn't a coincidence that when things become overly popular across all mediums they somehow miraculously turn to shit too. Numerous examples of this happening to franchises/series.

[@cyancat8633]

​@@pailofawesomeokay then name all

[@-obamium5320]

0:15 There’s definitely a big difference between guilty gear old heads and the newer “fans”, lot of the newer people like posting about it but haven’t played any of the games

[@eastcoasttone3952]

Tbf there’s a lot of people that claim to love Xrd but never play it too

[@juju_fym]

That's kind of the thing when niche games become popular in the west. It becomes flooded with all types of people and it smears a franchises name a bit

[@firetoofan5555]

​​​​@@eastcoasttone3952 Ngl, this is a subjective issue. That could be applied to any three games. For, strive players considered Xrd Slayer Strive character before knowing anything about character. End result, we all know. Also, Xrd has a lot of stuff that cannot be found in both XX and Strive or vice versa. Also, XX would be a completely different experience because there is no slowdown, air grab combo, force break, Frc and the weight system exist. Strive complaints could be personal or stupid because of the complete shift.

[@Nyagro]

Strive players specifically. The GG community wasn't this weird before it got the more mainstream appeal it did with Strive. It went from my most beloved one pre Strive to generally my most hated community I was ever a part of. Good thing I finally dipped out like most older fans like a year ago.

[@wordswordswords24]

It’s almost like weirdos are a part of every community and when that community grows, surprise surprise, the number of weirdos grow too

[@thesyclemonte6571]

@@wordswordswords24communities overlap and all I’m saying is that anime fighters have a lot of overlap with lol and rhythm game communities. I’m just saying

[@hideharu-xiii8852]

Not to mention Bridget being trans completely character assassinates him

[@sammydray5919]

​@@thefgcsensei4482 I know nothing about GG lore tbh so forgive me if I am wrong here but wasn't Testament Trans ? I don't think there was much discourse about that character. So why was Bridget such a huge deal? 😅

[@crawlingboy]

everything that becomes mainstream becomes garbage especially when you realize they took out things cause of china and also they made a california branch to consult them on things guilty gear was awesome and fun and radical then it got ruined

[@scurvyrum]

Pattern recognition prevails again. I knew this would happen when the floodgates opened a few years back. I really do love -Strive- but I hate what the community has become.

[@NicerChile]

MDF got a scent sponsorship for a Guilty Strive video? AHAHHAHAHA legend

[@christheophilus7154]

none of the legendary guilty gear players compete in strive and that tells me all i need to know about the game.

[@RisingPhoenix05]

Real asf

[@Canadiansamurai]

Cuz strive is dumbed down compared to previous entries

[@SHAO_L1N]

@christheophilus7154 Strivers done even know the legendary players man. Johnio San who?

[@imarock.7662]

Tbf Hotashi does I consider him Legendary

[@taejoonkim5122]

Different doesn’t mean bad if that’s what you’re implying. Just putting that out there

[@alexmineru]

love how he starts the video off by making a difference between strive and pre strive gear communities

[@akumaisreal2090]

It always makes me laugh when people have this weird attitude that their PUBLIC posts/profile should be treated like its private. Either privatize your profile and posts, or just dont make an account at all or post anything.

[@GekkoOne]

100%. The public space is public. Either use some basic level of discernment with what you release, or accept the consequences.

[@Trinioutsider34]

At this point...The FGC is killing itself with stuff like this.

[@Waterking001]

I stopped interacting with the community after Bridget came out. Devs ruined his story for me but all people saw was 'TRANS RIGHTS!! WOOOOO!!!' and we had an influx of LGBBQ types. They're utterly insufferable and aren't even open up to conversation or debate since it's all classed as hate speech. I'll just keep playing ranked by myself and enjoying Xrd

[@NaehiroEnjoyer]

Bridget is just Poison from Street Fighter but inconsistently written.

[@Meme_Lor]

She's trans get over it lol

[@bfFAN221]

@@Meme_Lor You're lobotomized, get used to it kek

[@fukaze2021]

​@@NaehiroEnjoyerAt least poison has a good reason why she's a newhalf in final fight, Bridget on the other hand is just a retcon much like Testament to trying to get more audience to play the game

[@Blahblahblah28504]

Bridget returning really was one of the worst things to happen to the GG fandom.

[@abaddon5420]

​@StartsWithACee Mad cuz it's true lol

[@kerryvanskonsol792]

​@StartsWithACeethe truth is hurt but just accept reality bro

[@johnnyspillowfort377]

Always happy to see Leffen appearing in videos with weirdos. It's like a cameo

[@JamestheKilljoy]

Finally, someone called them out Im so sick of ppl saying "SA"

[@kyuketsukirook]

You don't understand, you might make people slightly uncomfortable if you mention Something Awful by name

[@owencmyk]

The reason people say it is because it's emotionally harder for victims to say sexual assault or rape. I don't know the logical reason for why it's so hard, but it just kinda is

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

The real reason people say it is because Social Media sites block certain words.

[@owencmyk]

​@@gimmeyourrights8292 That's part of the reason, but not all of it. It's common for victims to say SA in private conversations because it makes things easier to talk about

[@GekkoOne]

​@@kyuketsukirook Well legend says if you say it three times in front of a mirror, Lowtax's ghost will pop out and beg for money.

[@N00BSYBORG]

Looking forward to the inevitable Strive documentary on how you can absolutely nuke your community with one game. This is only the beginning too. There's an army of skeletons waiting to jump out of this closet.

[@Doc-Glock]

I'm honestly not surprised that there's probably some more dirt waiting to be unearthed around Strive.

[@senatorwilsonphillips8724]

​@@Doc-Glockyeah,the video didn't go over the Strive orgies or the harassment even actual trans people faced for publicly disagreeing with the Bridget retcon, especially Gustygal.

[@weebster-vo1zy]

Damn it I'ma watch the video later but these comments suck to see, I always thought guilty gear strive was such a good game

[@RockinSockems]

@@senatorwilsonphillips8724 I'm sorry, "Strive orgies"??? WTF?

[@Bathin-uv6xb]

@@senatorwilsonphillips8724 As someone who actually knew the person you mentioned they did NOT suffer harassment that much over making that Bridget thread. It only got worse after videos were made about the situation. It was such a minor thing that got blown up due to videos being made and sure arguments were had but harassment with that specific thing wasn't ever prevalent. There's tons of horrible stuff in the GGST community but harassment with disagreeing with the Bridget retcon was very minor if memory is correct or just not even classified as harassment.

[@TheCasualSubculturist]

Just dodge any community Leffen's in.

[@ninjagold9244]

Dragon Ball seems fine for now 😂

[@-LastStand-]

​@@ninjagold9244careful now. It just might have anothet transformation up the ass.

[@gwynmoth3940]

I hope he branches out and plays like mobas or something so I can quit immediately.

[@greenpoolball5136]

Never trust a person who identifies or calls themselves Bunny

[@justice8718]

Did you know those are tied to a demon known as the Queen of Heaven.

[@greenpoolball5136]

@@justice8718 now I know!

[@smashbrosgoat]

@@justice8718 i would love to know more about how it's related to a demon, i never even knew that lol. even more of a reason to not trust anybody named bunny

[@justice8718]

@@smashbrosgoat Tamuz’s mother.

[@smashbrosgoat]

@@justice8718 ?

[@mds_main]

It really looks like the 2020 Smash allegations were the patient zero and now every esport community follows suit and it is disgusting...

[@redpenguin111]

pun intended

[@mds_main]

@@redpenguin111 It actually wasn't intended, but now that you mention it, it is funny yeah 😂

[@brycerichardson3687]

@@mds_main patient zero is society itself. There's been sexual assault, and fake sexual assault allegations since the Law of Raptu and Emmet Till. It's always weird when this happens people start talking about the "individual communities" these games happen in as if it wouldn't happen in any community because it's just how humans have always been.

[@mds_main]

@@brycerichardson3687 That's true, but it is also true that after it succeeded in the Smash community it got an incremental boost in all other esports communities.

[@TaulantDomi]

Man the Guilty Gear community used to be so chill before Strive. I remember getting into Xrd really late into the games life and everyone seemed so nice and laid back. Ya hate to see it

[@surrendering2within]

People making broad generalizations about a large group of people (strive has had over 3 million players since it launched 3 years ago), based on the actions of less than a dozen people within that group. You hate to see it

[@webadagrande]

@@surrendering2within 3 million player only 2k on team playing? no bro the entire fgc wants guilty gear out the game is shit and the community worse

[@surrendering2within]

@@webadagrande bad news: you don't represent the entire FGC, and you seem to be under-informed about this 26-year old franchise.

[@webadagrande]

@@surrendering2within nah most people of the fgc started to hate guilty gear when the most important part of guilt ybecame we have the bitch ass bridget trans character and every new patch i see guilty players crying about hating the patch people talk more about of bad the people of guily are and the trans shit of the franchise that the game

[@iDerpen]

Crazy, two uploads in one month? We're eating good. Gucci rats on hopium.

[@MattyGeneric]

That's that "SA" Joke was on point😂.

[@MeatMonsterMan]

Threatening to sue Technicals when there was no confirmation that he was specifically going to talk about you to begin with? Bold strategy Cotton, Let's see how that works out. 😂

[@BLUEPELICAN234]

This story could honestly be a documentary on what being chronically online has done to people. These people are in their 20s and have the mentality of a 10 year old. Insane.

[@terriblyterrified8742]

1:22 they're guilty, but they're not gears? fake fans

[@69Deez_Nutz69]

They don't Strive to be the best Weeb degenerate that has a barely hidden p3d0 tendencies and sexual delusions of grandeur. They not a real Japs.

[@wattboat]

Holy, those gears sure are Guilty...

[@phil_left8842]

man all that HRT in the mix cant be good lol. Helps with blocking mix ups though.

[@josiahtheawkward6008]

I cannot wait for the obligatory “I can’t believe he used my trauma for money” tweet from some users. Everyone’s okay with making videos based on topics for a living until the topic is you.

[@TheBoboSamurai]

It amazes me how these people will air their own dirty laundry. People don't know shit about boundaries.

[@sharzinlalebazri5673]

This is the audience that Daisuke chose over the old Guilty Gear fanbase. I hope he enjoys his franchise now forever being associated with these people.

[@NaehiroEnjoyer]

He does, he changed the game to pander to them, remember?

[@Wulfsmasher]

If Strive looked more like Ninja Scroll instead of Boku no Pico this shit wouldn't have happened.

[@osakeleto]

if you appeal to weirdos dont be surprised when your community get filled with them.

[@dippin4dots]

I like how they threaten Tech with a lawsuit, but not their supposed Assaulter. And you can’t say that they didn’t want to out themselves cause a lot of sexual assault victims are afraid of that info getting out and that’s their reason for not reporting, since this person is literally shouting it out to the heavens. And their excuse is “Because it might fail to be true according to law”. How do you lay your cards out on the table that flatly?

[@PreacherJenkins]

Gucci rat makin a cameo gave me ptsd. You will hear from my lawyer

[@Sassy_Witch]

queer people and false allegations. Name a more iconic duo

[@surrendering2within]

AMEN (sad but true)

[@formerlymax]

oh boy, strive players setting trans and lgbt rights back generations with this one

[@ytnukesme1600]

the hell does that got to do with anything?

[@egrassa1480]

Because majority of those strive weirdos are trans

[@kaihimura3897]

A lot of the people involved in these absolutely insane situations are trans or LGB. They are almost as crazy as the situations they find themselves in. So it is pretty fucking relevant. These types of weirdos poisons the well for a lot of other people in terms of impressions. Just like how when people of certain races commit crimes other people “clutch their pearls”.

[@urallnoobs8943]

@@ytnukesme1600 i think half of the "girls" in this video are trans lmao

[@spitfiremanlizerd]

@@ytnukesme1600 It has everything to do with their sexuality and very little to do with fighting games actually.

[@h2_]

Was there a single ovary-haver in this entire cast of characters?

[@thesyclemonte6571]

Real sausage fest. That and they’re all as pale as ghosts. Victorian women drinking vinegar for a pallid complexion would approve

[@RisingPhoenix05]

No

[@queuedjar4578]

I really can't imagine why any real women wouldn't want to be part of the fighting game community after all the stuff that comes out of it hmmmmm

[@BronzeAgePepper]

"ovary haver" sounds so freakin funny and depressingly weird at the same time, this is what it's come to letting so many mentally ill clowns and their enablers into the community

[@thelegendofzeina1707]

As someone who is a fellow ovary-haver who is also a fellow video game enjoyer, you can't pay me enough to go anywhere near these communities 🥲 I just want to enjoy the games.

[@TheHollywoodHino]

I literally have no clue what gender any of these people are.

[@juanlow20]

They’re all dudes, are you blind?

[@yusefvonshekelstein3185]

Every single one of them is xy and has a bepis.

[@___________0Z0X]

How? It’s pretty explicit, they are theys.

[@Seph4096]

i thought i was the only one lmao

[@rschmidt93]

Neither do they

[@BeaverKrieger]

Trans and probably some borderline shit are the perfect ingredients for dumb drama like this. Also all those wishy washi accusations of sexual assault does nothing but hurt the credibility of actual victims. Absolutely disgusting.

[@RiscuitLancer]

Strive was crack hitting the streets for guilty gear

[@Homegrowntone666]

LMAO FONDLING FAUSTINGS IS CRAZY

[@hexginnkgo]

The biggest takeaway from all of this is that people really need to learn how to communicate better and get over this high school level cuddling, touching, sorta kinda BS. Maybe don't try to game up a bunch of people if you lack the confidence and social skills that you aren't developing from playing fighting games all of the time.

[@SaishuuKessen]

I still say I would love to see you do a video on all the scummy shit the community has done to me. You can still see guilty gear players like this bragging about leaving me for dead at tournaments and showing pictures of me on oxygen and how funny it is. The FGC is full of terrible fucking people from top to bottom.

[@LDPRxPS3x1]

Pretty sad to see this comment buried all the way down here. I really do hope a notable FGC youtuber does speak up about the conflict between you and the FGC and how they have treated you.

[@justice8718]

If you picked up the Bible and read Romans 1, you would see prophecy being fulfilled.

[@smashbrosgoat]

oh my goodness. i feel so horrible for you that you went through the absolutely crazy crap this community has caused. i have no words, i geuinely can't believe that they would do something so subhuman like that to you. i pray that GOD will comfort you and protect you in these insane times and that i pray that you will come to know JESUS, for he is the one that can take away your emotional and mental wounds, in JESUS name i pray. Amen

[@LKommo]

damn

[@zachstarattack7320]

hi clayt

[@mikeynohmore]

Technicals the Terrible off to become the supervillain of yet another community. How many events and Subreddits will he get banned from this time?

[@bawbehh]

the alt-right andrew tate of the fgc is back and worse than ever!

[@substitutedoll5224]

all of them because people prefer to keep their misguided stage play and be blinded to rationality rather than be told the actual truth

[@Exidel]

The reason the phrase Sexual Assault is often abbreviated to "SA" is because KZbin's content bot scans the video for certain worlds and phrases and can either demonetize them or outright take them down. So we can thank Google for that.

[@beatdown_kai1534]

this is NOT the xrd community

[@JoshTheBear]

It's wild that it seems like people want so desperately to have attention due to being chronically online. I understand Tempest violated boundaries for Claire, but to feel as traumatized as she does is actually ridiculous. Tempest was in the wrong, but it shows the lack of human interaction when people get made to feel uncomfortable and they feel the need to try to cancel someone or post a twitlonger when it is something that can be hashed out and moved beyond. I'm not defending Tempest or minimizing what happened to Claire because is clearly made her uncomfortable, but I see this stuff happen consistently with FGC people and it puts a bad name out there for real victims of assault. People cross boundaries and need to be kept in check, but saying they assualted you by being WAY too friendly or because they tried hitting on you is absurd.

[@FlyXcur]

The worst part about it was it was hashed out and moved along. They had a discussion 3 days after the altercation and saw each other many times after that event and never had an interaction like ff 2023 happen again. But Claire just never got over it. Which sucks sure but I do not understand why it was brought to the Internet in the first place.

[@JoshTheBear]

@@FlyXcur chronically online behavior and a lack of understanding of human interactions. It’s fine if she couldn’t get over it, but she should have talked to him about it more and seeked a therapist

[@capasourusrex]

My goat is finally talking about Strive. The stars have aligned

[@abaddon5420]

Not a single woman in this video

[@NaehiroEnjoyer]

Now, now. Be nice to trans people if they don't make a huge scene over Bridget.

[@abaddon5420]

@@NaehiroEnjoyer I'll pass

[@thirstysquidward3554]

Based.

[@Jacqli-Rivoli]

I am a woman and a survivor of s**ual a***ult myself. I firmly believe that people who have the temerity to fake being victims for the purpose of ruining the life of someone they don't like or have a grudge against should face jail time.

[@gongstar123]

tempestNYC and tempestFGC are two different people btw

[@thesyclemonte6571]

That’s confusing