Let's Taco Bout Nerdrotic

[@PillarofGarbage]

In lieu of the typical pinned Patreon link, please consider directing any spare change to The Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.net/ - Blue Beetle is, obviously, far from a perfect film. I’ve talked about its limitations myself, in previous videos - as have a great many other reviews/analyses here on KZbin. The point here isn’t to argue otherwise - it’s to look at the way a film is contorted, misrepresented, and nitpicked mercilessly into a launching pad for anti-fan content & narratives. Footnotes: (8:43) 1: It’s also worth noting that Jaime’s Blue Beetle was created concurrently with 616 Spidey’s Iron Spider suit (both appeared for the first time in February 2006, with the similarities, the ‘arms’ and the nanotech basis, being unveiled for each character over the next couple of months). There is truth in the claim that Blue Beetle (as a character) was partially a response on DC’s part to Spider-Man, but it's _not_ true in the way it’s being leveraged here - accompanied by the the visual/tech comparisons to MCU Spidey, the true claim is being saddled with some sneaky subtextual baggage. (21:46) 2: Fans tend to protest claims that Mauler has any role in the alt-right/anti-woke pipeline by denouncing points like the ones I mention here as ‘guilt by association’ - and, solely because I know that otherwise I’ll get approximately ten billion comments on the matter, I think it’s worth laying out why I think that’s a silly response (and why the section from 21:24 to 22:00 is in this video). Guilt - nor any judgement on character or beliefs - is not what’s being asserted. What’s in question when people make this point is whether or not Mauler is playing a part in that radicalising algorithmic funnel. It doesn’t matter if he’s ‘guilty’ or not. It doesn’t matter if you’ve spoken to him and he seems politically moderate. It doesn’t matter if he _is_ politically moderate! It doesn't matter what his _intentions_ are - it matters what he does, where he does it, and who he does it with. If you grant that such a pipeline exists, and if you grant that Nerdrotic, Geeks + Gamers, et al. are part of it, then you must also grant that by repeatedly appearing on podcasts like FNT, and by having FNT’s regulars on EFAP (to say nothing of the way EFAP appearances have helped build the profile of some of the anti-woke neophytes), Mauler - as a personality, not as the sum of his main channel videos - is a _de facto_ part of that pipeline. A minor part, perhaps, but a part nonetheless. As a well-established personality in his own right, appearances draw more viewers, thus better analytics, thus more recommendations, and so on. Now, if your objection to all that is that _none_ of these characters are part of the pipeline, nor even EFAP guests such as Sargon, then congratulations - you’re not a hypocrite! But you _are_ an idiot.

[@Comicbroe405]

Based asf. Also great video.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

If anything Jaime is a knock off of the guyver in the same way that Dan Garrett is a knock off green hornet and the phantom and Ted Kord is a knockoff batman(they were owned by different companies at the time). People take inspiration from things when creating new things

[@waywardlaser]

Funnily enough, Steve Ditko created Ted Kord so I've always thought there was a bit of overlap between Blue Beetle and Spidey to some extent.

[@BillMan5000]

God I love Mauler criticisms.

[@inquirohaqq1472]

Great video, and I personally appreciate your Palestine charity plug

[@Camo1177]

The fact that he called his truck a Taco, may be because he is Mexican, or because it is a Toyota TACOma. Taco is a common nickname for the truck. I used to work at a Toyota dealership, and we had plenty of people call them Tacos, because when you are talking about a thing over and over again, it’s pretty common to give it a nickname.

[@incognitofool6516]

It doesnt excuse the fact that he literally put a taco in the thumbnail along side a racist mexican character. If you dont see that as blatant racism you must be white. Because only a whit boy would go "pEOpLe CaLl cARs tAcOs AlL dA TiMe"

[@Cheezus]

lots of yodas and tacos in this family, all tacoma pick ups.

[@icurnvs776]

I’m from Vegas, can confirm they’re called Tacos. Also this gaggle of racists are absolutely feigning their own ignorance/outrage on these points. They know EXACTLY what they’re doing. As an aside I find it funny that Jeremy has the audacity to be shocked that others are upset at his opinions/stances when his screen name is Heel vs BABYFace. Ya know, like you choose as an adult with good motives/in good faith. That told me everything I needed to know about how clever he thinks he is years ago.

[@HotteaLT]

Yet this has nothing to do with the message of the Nerdrotic's video. You got fooled by the pillar of drama :D

[@CKT1138]

Everyone I know calls the Tacoma the Taco. It's basically a universal nickname.

[@brotherjustincrowe]

Jaime returns home, gets tacos. Tony returns home, gets a cheeseburger. No difference.

[@Cheezus]

yes exactly. I'm mexican american raised in the states and even still, we stick to our roots about it. It's just comfort food.

[@vgmaster9]

Tony doesn't get a cheeseburger, he gets a pizza.

[@strapps5404]

@@vgmaster9lefty misinfo

[@ajaxmaxbitch]

​@@vgmaster9so burger King sells pizza?

[@brotherjustincrowe]

@vgmaster9 Maybe on Earth-838

[@GBomb9704]

Getting mad over a Mexican family eating tacos is like getting mad at a Scotsman for eating haggis.

[@ArvindRajAgnosticAtheist]

Or at an Indian eating curry.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

"How dare people call out stereotypes! They're the racist ones! Not the incredibly bland corporate Superhero movie that's pandering to Mexican people!"

[@ShadowSonic2]

@@jeremyusreevu237 Every movie panders to someone.

[@sgtroach1510]

@@jeremyusreevu237what’s wrong to pandering for Mexican audiences? Your comment is pretty racist

[@jeremyusreevu237]

​@@sgtroach1510 Saying that Mexican people deserve genuine representation is racist? Dafuq?

[@azazel166]

As someone(from Greece) who has eaten Mexican food, Mexicans should be proud of their cuisine, because it is delicious.

[@PillarofGarbage]

👆

[@theunknowncommenter725]

Greek food is superior to all other cuisines.

[@jacobcortez3545]

We are proud, and we're happy to share with anyone who is interested.

[@Hawkatana]

As an Australian, no arguments. The Mexicans understand that spicy food is king, and we should all learn from their example.

[@epis8613]

Don't worry, México is very proud of her cuisine.

[@CouncilofGeeks]

“Let’s talk about Nerdrotic.” Do we have to…?

[@thegamingprozone1941]

😂😂😂 good one 👍

[@Jolis_Parsec]

My response to such a statement would be “Why? So that drug pusher and convicted felon can get even more attention that he clearly doesn’t deserve?”

[@dsuch81]

Jealous?

[@PapasGatito]

​@@dsuch81funny how that's always the reponse of a bootlicker when their idol gets criticized

[@ataridc]

The funniest thing to me is how they never understand character arcs. Like why are you even talking about movies? "the character made mistakes and isn't perfect!" yet they also get mad when femme characters are (admittedly poorly) written to be perfect in all ways. That should be what they want, right?

[@SilverMoonUwU]

"what about how blue beetle essentially killed his father" Is also a massive point in Spiderman origin of how his choice to not stop the bad guy ends in Ben's death. I know the scenario isn't exactly the same, but they were just comparing them and I bet that guy would never bring up that event like is something dumb in Spiderman.

[@AlexeiIgnavich]

Hell, how many people have died because of Batman’s commitment to not killing anyone.

[@j10ant]

It’s ingrained throughout fiction, so many hero’s journeys see the death of a guardian or mentor, it is practically a cliche.

[@JeffHanke]

If you see a video from these outrage merchants on your home feed, remember you can click/tap on the three dots and say "Don't recommend channel", you won't have to see anything from them again, and I imagine it's one of the worst things you could do to them: non-engagement.

[@hobbes4011]

I always do this. Hate watching is still watching, I rather remove the chance for engagement with these clowns altogether.

[@leeswift7883]

I do this even as KZbin constantly tries to force feed far-right and rage inducing bs through recommendations

[@daniellauricella5132]

Amen. That's what I've now done to dozens of these channels, Nerdrotic's cesspool included.

[@svenm4740]

Problem is it never ends. There are so many of them. And I think it will get worse with The Marvels starting soon. Females in the lead? Think they will just use the Videos they made for the Captain Marvel movie again and just change the title. The "arguments" will be the same.

[@daniellauricella5132]

@@svenm4740 Yeah, probably.

[@Herbert-west-re-animator]

I like how my first thought upon seeing the podcast was "OMG ITS THE STARFIELD PRONOUN GUY!"

[@waywardlaser]

FUCKING GENDER AMBIGUITY!!!

[@DastardlyDavid69]

Lmao, imagine that being what you are known for, fucking nuts.

[@peanutsveryepicchannel8699]

he is, however, not a pro, at nouns

[@DGN2324]

@@peanutsveryepicchannel8699 He's not a human either.

[@Salvo-3172]

​@@DGN2324he is

[@fallingskymedia4421]

Jaime's reaction to eating a taco after going to college for years is honestly the most relatable scene I've ever seen from a modern superhero film. I'm not Mexican, but I am Indian and being away from home for so long then coming back, it changes how much you appreciate the food that you took for granted before.

[@Ivytheherbert]

I think it's worth noting that the panel was made up of Americans, Brits and Australians, and none of those cultures have food that people miss when they leave.

[@elizabethsmith7224]

Southern America here,yes we do I looked forward to red beans and rice ,and my dad's cooking in general when coming home from college.

[@jinorism]

@@Ivytheherbertlmaoo you’re right

[@CoolxBreese]

Sometimes I wake up on Sunday mornings with the aroma of my mom's french toast on my mind. I can smell it like it's coming right out of my kitchen, like she's there. I absolutely cannot order french toast at a restaurant or enjoy someone else's, because it's not hers. So yeah, I get where Jaime is coming from.

[@josueayala1249]

@@elizabethsmith7224 Went to NOLA a couple years ago, and the red beans and rice I had there was delightful. Had to find a recipe because I wanted to be able to have it at home.

[@elijoslyn1786]

For those who don't know: almost 4 years ago Nerdrotic invited an open white supremacist Bowlestrek. A guy who has said this gem: "In good old days cities like London and Toronto were mostly white, but now they have become a victim of a massive social experiment. The goal of that experiment, is to wipe out the white Christians. For a review (read: a conversation about how the Jewish plot has destroyed the show) of Doctor Who.

[@PillarofGarbage]

humbly requesting other Comment Section Readers to thumbs up this comment for visibility 🫡

[@elijoslyn1786]

That review also featured a strong contender for the stupidest lie ever told on his channel. Bowlestrek said (to which Nerdrotic nodded) that the episode "Fugitive of the Joodoon" has a white man as the villain. That statement is so categorically, unapologetically untrue I have no idea how he came up with this. That kind of interpretation is so brain-dead I actually doubted if those two idiots even knew English.

[@Lo33y_]

@@PillarofGarbage You can just pin it btw

[@flibberfrogman5508]

@@Lo33y_ the pin is being used for a palestinian charity, which obviously is going to take priority.

[@Lo33y_]

@@flibberfrogman5508 thought you could have more than one pinned comment?

[@roterotevideo]

The dad being a chulo boomer with a ultra decked out truck is so on brand. Same as with the suburban dads who cosplay bikers on the weekend.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

“Every Hispanic uncle is a tech genius” is not at all a trope I’ve ever heard before 😂

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

The only other tech genius uncle I remember from older popular movies is Danny Trejo in Spy Kids, but the dad was also a tech genius so it ran in the family and was not out of nowhere.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

the "real fans" crying about something they never read not being accurate is probably my favorite trope of these goobers

[@allenlowe314]

GOOBERS!!!!

[@davida12345]

Mine is seeing the irrational uninformed folks like you that say weird things that don't make sense and then are backed up by a bunch of other people who genuinely don't think before they try and get clout.

[@jakethet3206]

What’s worse is that at least a few of them HAVE read the source material, so they’re just EXTRA cynical liars.

[@jakethet3206]

@@davida12345Did that mean something? Or are you just licking boots?

[@davida12345]

@@jakethet3206 just proved my point, thanks kid

[@jackofallclaws6672]

These dingbats didn’t know that Salsa is also a type of dance?😅

[@Johnston212]

I mean, do they seem like they are the type to have social skills, let alone dance skills

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

@@Johnston212sure, but I had assumed falsely that they’ve left their basements at some point in their lives… that’s like not knowing what ballet is

[@Johnston212]

@@OscarLangleySoryu I've had roommates with multiple computer degrees who have no idea what DARPAnet was. Never underestimate human cluelessness

[@qrowing]

One of the commentators brought up "Blue Beetle doesn't kill people.... Spider-Man doesn't kill people.." Like.. Yes??? That's.. the thing with heroes, usually??

[@Paugose]

No, Heroes can kill. The concept that "A hero must never kills" is only a thing maybe since the Batman Nolan Trilogy, I don't see why Mr.A, Harry Callahan, Doomguy, La Gardère, Herakles or even Zatoichi are lesser heroes than Spider-Man because they have killed their ennemies. Now that you disagree with their philosophy is one thing, but saying outright that it goes against being Heroic is a bit too far. Especially that Spider-Man had killed ennemies (Morlun, Digger, Green Goblin or Shathra), granted most of those were during the JMS run, but Stracz gave a reasoning, those were predators wanting to "consume" Spidey and he had to slay them to survive, doesn't make him less Heroic.

[@hypothalapotamus5293]

It depends on the arc and the company. -Supereman 1: Lex tries to sink half of California into the ocean. Superman defeats him without killing him. -Shonen jump... Ah, that's the living incarnation of every human's fear that someone will illegally dispose of old TVs on your doorstep...

[@vlc-cosplayer]

@@hypothalapotamus5293 "Lex tries to sink half of California into the ocean" zamn, why, to solve their water shortage issues for good? 💀

[@franklinbadge1215]

​@@Paugose Funny considering Nolan's Batman has a higher body count than most live-action Batmans

[@Paugose]

@@franklinbadge1215 I know, but they make the "one rule" some absolute thing in The Dark Knight. If you ask a Nolan fan about memorable scenes, that interrogation is probably at the top. And it's only since that movie that I see everyone really Bible-thumping that "one rule". It's like Superman, I love Superman, Kal El will do his best to spare someone, but understand that, by moment, that's the only option left. There's a great scene showing that in Superman/Batman : Apocalypse, Supes and the Amazons fight a Legion of Doomsdays, and he freezes all of them to then erase them with his optic blast. He still finds himself saddened by it, but know it was the only option to save everyone.

[@sonicpsycho13]

The truck is a Taco! It's a Toyota TACO-ma. That's a common nickname for that truck.

[@PillarofGarbage]

common sense? in a Nerdrotic stream? (Insert Black Panther ‘we don’t do that here’ gif)

[@theunknowncommenter725]

@@PillarofGarbage how to say you've never watched a nerdrotic stream without saying you've never watched a nerdrotic stream. Common sense is an unknown practice to SJWs

[@WritingGeekNL]

​@@theunknowncommenter725 He literally put clips of it in this video. There is common sense in the stream, but that only extends to the small bubble they created for themselves. If they ever go out of that bubble... well... just look at this comment section to see how much common sense they actually have, lol.

[@svenm4740]

@@theunknowncommenter725 Just watching this video makes me glad I stopped watching videos from nerdrotic and others like him. Hearing from them I always think of the ending of the "Jay and Silent Bob strike back" movie.

[@shis1988]

​@@theunknowncommenter725 why would I watch a racist meth addict?

[@yumabaeza8851]

I didnt see this movie. My 45 year old, Mexican dad did. When he got home he wouldnt stop talking about all the small details and elements he loved about it. This was surprising to me since hes someone who doesnt really watch movies and doesnt really care for superheros so to hear him say how much he enjoyed it made me glad. The people on that podcast have no idea what theyre talking about when they say that this movies 'racist' or whatever

[@empresselizabeth95]

And these dingbats still say representation doesn’t matter

[@aamerkastoff1447]

My Mexican Dad and Mom weren't surprised over how overtly racist Hollywood was with the movie (We are used to Hollywood's racism). The majority of the Hispanic community didn't care for it either given the low turn out and ratings. But hey don't let facts interrupt this circle jerk led by a British guy's video. Always nice to have White British leftist racists putting us in our place about how we should love what they tell us to love.

[@rahbeeuh]

Aww that's so wholesome that your dad enjoyed Blue Beetle. I'm not Mexican but I really enjoyed the film. I especially liked when the family were together and spoke Spanish to each other. Gave me warm fuzzies

[@HotteaLT]

So, you don't care about this movie, your dad watched it because he's Mexican, and he won't watch anything similar ever again. Look, the writers took a comic book hero (who is not mexican), raceswapped him, splattered a ton of cliche's of mexican people on it and reached a minority audience, pissing off a majority of the audience in the meanwhile. This is called pandering. Will your father now watch every superhero movie, did he become a fan? No. Did the movie lose a ton of fans overt his? Definitely. I guess you are right, you father is happy, but the company is net negative. *Applause*. YOu have no idea what you are talking about. When the movie studios go bankrupt and there will only be fanmade superhero movies with 20k for a budget, remember your dad was happy for a mexican superhero.

[@KittyOfChess]

That's literally exactly how I felt watching Ms. Marvel and the Mumbattan parts of ATSV. I think I would have actually exploded if people were saying these kinds of things about that when they don't actually have the background to give them context. The idea that just showing a different culture is stereotyping and racist is just dumb, and you can tell theses people don't actually think that. They're just insecure that media is portraying someone who isn't them for once, that they don't get the reference. They're just mad that it isn't tailormade for them.

[@mercedesjones4029]

The worst part about these kinds of “fans” is that KZbin puts them in the spotlight. I’ll watch trailers of movies/tv shows even just one time and my recommendations for the next few days is flooded with freaks like him…it’s ridiculous

[@eatatjoes6751]

Thank you.

[@Zoroasterisk]

The 'don't recommend channel' button is your friend

[@michaelmaroney1660]

Have you ever actually watched any of them?

[@bradDark6941]

​@@Zoroasteriskunfortunately they'll still show up even if you press that, the block button however

[@TheFLAMEXD]

​@@michaelmaroney1660Pretty sure anyone with a functioning brain wouldn't waste their time with these very bad people.

[@milkinobama]

wait, the pronouns guy, the guy who got angry over Peach wearing pants AND the guy who was angry over black people being in the batman? What a stacked cast of clownery.

[@Aspirider0220]

I know who the first 2 are but who is the guy that got mad over black people in the batman?

[@milkinobama]

@@Aspirider0220 shad M Brook. He got mad at the Mario movie since it showed Peach wearing pants despite the fact it also showed her wearing her dress. Someone made a video about it and he made a response video coping about it

[@Aspirider0220]

​@@milkinobamai knew he got mad about peach, those jack saint vids were great. I didnt know he was mad at black ppl in he batman but its on brand for how pathetic he is.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

​@@milkinobamabut they asked about who got mad about black people in Batman

[@milkinobama]

@@Aspirider0220 my bad. Misread your comment, the Ryan guy is the one who got mad at the Batman

[@skarletxkabal]

He is the definition of “well I have a black friend so how can I be racist?” and “well I have a wife so how can I be misogynistic?”

[@jeremyusreevu237]

"I know this person has numerous friends of various ethnicities and genders, but he's still a bigot because he disagrees with my poorly thought out definition of what bigotry is."

[@jeremyusreevu237]

@@leosklein7118 Ah yes, "incredibly bigoted shit" like "this movie is bad" and "there are some stupid things within said movie." Truly racist rhetoric. Also, last time I checked, bigots don't associate with or like people of varying skin colors and genders. You can only use the "Muh black friend fallacy" fallacy so many times until someone just isn't a racist bigot.

[@MAGACOPP]

@@leosklein7118He’s not a Bigot you Lefty NPC.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

​@leosklein7118 What kind of argument is that? "You have a Robocop pfp therefore your argument is invalid?" Dafuq?

[@TheJohhnyE]

​@@jeremyusreevu237it's hilarious seeing you get destroyed or completely ignored all over the comments here. 😂

[@pressplayulysses]

Let's face it. As long as the cash keeps flowing for these "critics", they will never EVER listen to us. They'll just continue their stuff.

[@Mad_Possum]

youtube is largely to blame for always being very cowardly about this stuff. it takes A LOT to get perma banned on KZbin and even then you can come back as a faceless channel with a voice pitch changer or something and still peddle the same garbage. this is why capitalism and fascism are best buddies historically. capitalism just wants money and results to the point where the system enables the growth of fascism for fear of losing money making opportunities.

[@Westlander857]

I can’t imagine viewing every single piece of media through the lens of wether or not it’s “woke” instead of just, idk, judging it based on the writing, editing, performances, cinematography, and things that actually matter?

[@samuelbarber6177]

Yeah but that doesn’t get clicks now does it… or, it probably does but they’ve made their bed, I guess they have to lie in it

[@thegamingprozone1941]

Just like critical Stinkers old videos

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Because it's not like faux progressivism is BAD or something!

[@UncleSamsoniteLover69]

It’s literally the opposite of what the anti woke crowd accuse “woke” films of doing. They’re constantly accusing movies of “checking boxes” whenever they feature one or two minority characters, yet the second a film checks that metaphorical “box” the anti woke folks take notice immediately. It’s almost like they’re the ones with a list of demands longer than the Great Wall of China, and all Hollywood did was make movies with more diversity.

[@kami_in_the_skye]

@@jeremyusreevu237 Knock off the whataboutism. Actual critique isn't what the Friday Night Fuckbois are there to do (and they aren't even close to media literate enough even if they wanted to), and you know it. They are doing this to grift off the insecurities of brainwashed cowards, full damn stop.

[@omniframe8612]

It's unfortunate that so much of KZbin comics and nerd culture is this racist right wing Fox News influenced thing. Pillars of Garbage is one of the best things to exist in this space. I appreciate your insights on comics and TV and film.

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

I've been thinking that since he defended Moses Ingram from all the Chadbeard takes from Star Wars "fans".

[@HiddenHandMedia]

Like who?

[@officialmonarchmusic]

@@TheHumanPurpleTape Ehhhhhh... I still don't think her character was well written, even after seeing his video, but I still really enjoyed Moses Ingram's performance. For all I know, though, we might actually be talking about different videos

[@tecpaocelotl]

X2.

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

@officialmonarchmusic I agree... but we all remember the backlash and it had nothing to do with her performance and everything to do with those pesky, entitled Star Warsians pissing up a tree.

[@benmmedia9534]

Don't forget, this is the guy who went to prison for selling meth to kids

[@philiphunn194]

@@benmmedia9534 Which makes his harassment of Mark Hamill over his granddaughter even more repulsive (long story short, Hamill doesn’t speak with his daughter because of a disagreement over abortion, and for a while Nerdrotic was badgering him about it as if he thought he had the moral high ground).

[@billbill6094]

​@@philiphunn194 what was the disagreement specifically?

[@tortoiseoflegends4466]

@@billbill6094 Mark Hamills son, Nathan, got a woman pregnant. She didn't want an abortion and says that Mark kept pressuring her to change her mind, going so far as to trick her into going to an appointment at an abortion clinic under the belief it was an ultrasound appointment. That was back in 2016/2017, since then the mother has said that the family has maintained ties, regularly see's the daughter and has a loving relationship with her.

[@benjohnson9753]

He WHAT

[@Loggodover]

Wait actually?

[@Yeetusdeletus897]

These “anti woke” or whatever content creators always claim they aren’t racist but then do stuff like this and it genuinely makes my blood boil

[@Danceswithwitches]

And when they have one of the good ones of this or that ethnicity just to say see were not racists but that good one says the same stuff they say

[@Yeetusdeletus897]

@@Jack-Sparrow007 welcome to everyone’s favorite gameshow “YOU PROVED MY POINT”

[@phangkuanhoong7967]

it's always the racists who most loudly proclaim they aren't racists.

[@Kasey_Barkle]

@@phangkuanhoong7967the rest of us never have to clarify that everything we are doing isnt racist

[@Kasey_Barkle]

@@Jack-Sparrow0071/4 blackie

[@stefan6347]

Are we gonna ignore how by they imply that Peter wanting to kill the man who murdered Uncle Ben is the right thing to do with their logic?

[@abdalln8554]

Bloodthirsty nerds really want the babyfaced teenager to be Omniman levels of ruthlessly efficient murderous.

[@thisistheplan414]

logically that makes sense

[@purgatoryprince]

Huh that makes sense

[@steelshanks1265]

But... He didn't kill him... So... What is yer point?

[@MouldMadeMind]

@@steelshanks1265 that it goes against the morality endorsed by these stories.

[@Ivytheherbert]

I'm surprised Eric Cartman's hand wasn't included in his panel as a "token Mexican".

[@bobbybooshay5388]

Name a more iconic duo than anti woke fake nerds and being completely wrong about comics they claim to love. You can't do it.

[@isaiahkayode6526]

There's a channel called "NeardWars who you guess makes Culture War bullshit and he's a huge Nerdrodtic Fanboy and he worships him like a war hero who will save us from "The Woke mind Virus its really sad how far these clowns are willing to go down the rabbit hole that is 2016.

[@cyborgparrot1996]

People with anime profile pics and garbage opinions. No joke, they're in the same ballpark of trash IMO.

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

Waterboy and Based Fans. We outchea.

[@leonardovegaolmedo5483]

Star wars fans and complaining about star wars.

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

@@leonardovegaolmedo5483Accurate.

[@skep2923]

Oh hey the Starfield pronouns guy is there. Truly an all-star cast of embarrassing.

[@dennisbowen452]

Only one missing is melonie mac aka butter girl aka miss going to the hospital for not drinking water girl lmao

[@zephyr8072]

PRONOUNS!!!11

[@aegisScale]

*_FOKKIN PROUNOUNS!!!!_*

[@dennisbowen452]

@@aegisScale yknow, he should be the new big red except she actually had hair. He doesnt so hes a big red because of how angry he got XD

[@Cheezus]

@@dennisbowen452 and apparently she tweeted about british cigarettes and is now openly devout about christianity. She likened supporting LGBTQIA to supporting playing in traffic, she fell off hard

[@amazingspiderlad]

It's hard to take their conversation seriously when one of the people they have front and centre is the guy who had a meltdown over a game asking him to select pronouns for a character. The starfield pronouns guy is not an intellectual.

[@amazingspiderlad]

@donuthead8699 I propose that we stop calling him by his username and refer to him exclusively as the "Starfield pronouns guy", that meltdown should be forever associated with him.

[@amazingspiderlad]

@donuthead8699 HOLY SHIT YOU'RE RIGHT-

[@TheSolarWolf]

I knew it was the “FUCKING PRONOUNS!!” Guy. God, how can you still have a career after that?

[@thesnowmiser6728]

​@@TheSolarWolf likely a certain portion of the internet saw that and loved him for it

[@iopohable]

I'm not mexican, but I'm south america, and like all my brothers and sisters of this beautiful continent I grew up on Chapulin Colorado. and blue beetle was the shit. fuck them fascist fake nerds. jaime reyes made me actually excited about what the next dc movie might be.

[@hyewonderfull]

same I'm peruvian but i loveeed blue beetle so much.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

They're not fascist, you don't know what that word means, nor are they fake. They just didn't like the movie because it was not good.

[@Guitarton]

@@theunknowncommenter725mf can’t spell fascist trying to criticize how people use the word

[@theunknowncommenter725]

@@Guitarton voice-to-text is not always reliable.

[@IsaRican810]

I’m Puerto Rican and I second this!

[@thefailinganimator8609]

18:08 oh well. Oh shit Jamie is a murderer who killed his own father… Well I guess Peter murdered Aunt May in No Way Home. I guess Star Lord Killed Gamora. I guess Hawkeye killed Quicksilver. Miles Morales Fucking Killed Uncle Aaron

[@ARTEMISXIX]

"no doctor would say this in reality" British doctors have called me multiple slurs before 😂

[@MrSnoots]

Nobody would EVER say that to a sharply dressed Latino. Oh, but superheros are real.

[@IsaRican810]

The thing I find insidious is the implication that being poorly dressed is the reason people are prejudiced towards minorities instead of just racism or prejudice. It reeks of respectability politics and it is very telling although not surprising coming from this group.

[@longislandicedtea6323]

​@@IsaRican810Respectability politics? What's that?

[@billbill6094]

​​​​​​​@@longislandicedtea6323 Respect for anyone not like you needing to be earned by reaching some arbitrary goalpost that NEVER gets applied to those who are like you. You see it with how people talk about gay people, trans people, every ethnicity of people that exists, used in every social situation there is. It's always "give a basic level of human respect to people implicitly until they prove themselves not worthy of your respect." Except when, say, bigots see a black person move into their neighborhood or a trans person shopping in the same supermarket. Then they always apply a hypercritical eye on them, about the value of their person and the level of decency they deserve. They're not valid in spaces frequented by the bigot or in social dynamics until they've proven themselves via special treatment to the bigot (they need to show more respect from the start than the bigot shows them) or otherwise assimilated into the bigot's lifestyle. The bigot mistake treating someone poorly until they've reached some usefullness barrier for _them_ as somehow the proper exchange of respect and human decency. So in the above's example, it's "latinos won't be seen as mere delivery staff if they make sure to present themselves exceptionally. It's the _normal_ way they present themselves that's the issue!" This of course ignores how common it is for latinos presenting in any manner of elite or eurocentric ways to still be assumed to be labor, just more friendly/professional labor presented that way for their comfort. And of course it's inherently wrong because nothing about presenting as yourself becomes inherently less worthy of respect if you're latino. That speaks to the bigot viewing what they see as latino as negative, it's their perception that's the only error, the only thing that's harmful.

[@spiderssssssssssss]

@@longislandicedtea6323 Basically a theory of politics where oppressed minority groups are blamed for their own oppression for not being "respectable" enough (ex. black people speaking in AAVE) and thus it dodges the idea that racism is a thing that exists and is bad by tying their oppression to "oh they're just not civilized like us" instead of pointing at the political and economic reasons why people are in those positions to begin with.

[@mytoll6529]

@@longislandicedtea6323 Being nice to people

[@mr.medina9836]

I am a Mexican-American nerd and a big fan of superheroes. Blue beetle (Jaime reyes) was one of my favorite superheroes as a kid, just behind Spider-man and Static shock. I was first introduced to him in the cartoon Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Since seeing him as a kid, I have read some of his comics and enjoyed his portrayal in Young Justice. I even remember in middle school drawing my own superhero who was basically a rip-off of Blue Beetle named Red Ant. I went to see the Blue beetle movie in theaters and I enjoyed it. Not the best movie ever, or anything, but I still had fun and enjoyed myself. Very funny, decent action and some touching moments, especially with the dad. Id probably rate the movie as a 7/10. In my personal opinion, I think the Hispanic rep in the movie was fairly accurate. I think the characters felt like real people and some of the struggles they faced are real struggles that many real Hispanic people deal with, including racism, gentrification and being undocumented. Jaime's dad, in some ways, reminds me of my own dad, who also immigrated to America to make a better life for his family. I can relate to the pressure Jaime feels to try to make it big because of the sacrifices his family made for his sake. Jaime's uncle in the movie also reminded me of people I've met in real life. And of course, Jaime's Nana was awesome. She was very funny and cool. Overall, I can tell that the creators of this movie know their stuff in regards to Mexican American culture. This isn't like a documentary, of course, but it felt like an authentic portrayal to me. Of course, this is just my opinion. Some people might feel differently and thats ok.

[@stringer2295]

The problem also is that these people don’t really know minorities, specifically Latin Americans. So when they saw what was an authentic Hispanic experience, they didn’t know that it was a pretty authentic take and it didn’t lean into Latino stereotypes.

[@LadyDoomsinger]

I would really love to see an adaptation of Jessica Cruz (Green Lantern), not only is she an awesome character that has been criminally underused in screen adaptations, but even from a cynical big-corpo "inclusivity is profitable" perspective, she's like a diversity triple score shot: She is Hispanic, but not so immersed in the culture to alienate all the racists (except those who take offense to brown skin), she's a woman, but her stories have little to no focus on women's issues, and while she's not overly feminine in behavior or appearance, she's also not so masculine to drive away all the misogynists who are scared by "strong female characters", and she has mental health issues in the form of general anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, which pretty much anyone can relate to, as feelings of uncertainty around other people or new situations is a fairly universal human experience.

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

​@@LadyDoomsingerYou don't understand how the anti-woke crowd works. If a woman is in a lead superhero role there's a good chance they will find a way to call it 'woke' for something.

[@nkemnoraulmanfredini7286]

Exactly, it is sad@@TheDawnofVanlife

[@longislandicedtea6323]

​@@TheDawnofVanlifeYeah, the only way they'll like a woman in media is if they're eye candy with all the personality and depth of a bagel. A plain, bland, boring bagel.

[@JarvisBaileyVA]

All these anti woke grifters blow my mind. Imagine regurgitating the same 4 talking points to cater to a specific demographic that would otherwise have nothing to do with you. Kinda like the way they see modern media....OH SHIT I GET IT NOW!

[@benoitcecyre7081]

That's why I never click on any Nerdrotic videos. I refuse to give them with any clicks.

[@benoitcecyre7081]

Nerdrotic isn't the only party to do these types of hateful videos. Sadly, far from it.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

⁠@@benoitcecyre7081unfortunately, right-wing, anti-woke outrage content gets a tonne of views and makes people tonnes of money. It’s a remunerative grift.

[@officialmonarchmusic]

I saw one of his videos and thought it was good, and then I realized what his channel was... QUICKLY

[@lukedelport8231]

So you don’t actually have an opinion you have a predefined view point then a view point made by people who like pillar of Garbage do exactly what they accuse the other side of this video has only at most five minutes of opinion and the rest is off the cuff attacking on points that do not make sense. You are doing exactly what you accuse threw out her side of and this channel is no more than what he accuses nerdrotic of being glass houses man glass houses

[@bulgarianreaper6587]

I've seen a few of his vids. It's one of the few things in life I regret

[@MindoftheNorthStar]

A lot of bad content creators will lean into the trendy culture war BS to boost engagement like "vaccines are killing you!" or "OMG trans people exist?!?" Unfortunately the classics, like overt racism, will still give ya clicks.

[@eko9554]

There was a guy on Tim pool’s show of a guy getting angry over masks. It was this year and early 2022 was the last time majority of us would wear masks. He’s definitely one of those Karen’s in 2020.

[@timmothytim-tickle4648]

fun fact: the name of his uncle's truck is likely a double meaning, since Toyota Tacomas have been lovingly nicknamed "Tacos" by the car community.

[@giovannibuscaglia1891]

The hate flow is the most annoying part of this kind of channels. If i had a channel for movie reviews I'd post mostly videos about films that I liked or loved. If there aren't films to enjoy I'd simply leave the movie review job and talk about any other hobby i like.

[@LadyDoomsinger]

There's nothing wrong in healthy, constructive criticism - art without criticism is just noise and colors and shapes. But it is possible to criticize something, even harshly criticize it, without actively hating it, everything it stands for, and every person involved in it's making - and certainly it's possible to criticize something, without obsessing about the "woke agenda".

[@damarkisallen1013]

Fr it’s ok to criticize but when most of ur content is u talking about things u hate and how u shouldn’t watch then it seems more like u love complaining than watch good stuff

[@LadyDoomsinger]

@@damarkisallen1013 Some people love to hate, apparently.

[@margotpreston]

@@LadyDoomsinger That's not what these channels do though. The commentators, if you can even call these tools that, just bitch about 'forced diversity' and 'wokeness,' and how every protagonist should be a white heterosexual christian man. All these types do is throw tantrums over media that has queer and folks of colour that are part of the main cast and not one note caricatures. These tpes don't criticize jack, all they do complain that not everything caters to them their reactionary politics. They're all just entitled little whiners.

[@margotpreston]

Oh my sweet summer child. These types don't make videos to criticize nerd culture, as that would mean they have to be able to think critically, and these folks are severely lacking in that department. These tools make videos to spread their reactionary BS. Criticizing nerdy things is just the veneer they use in a poor attempt to deflect from that.

[@TylerSkylionChilders]

You ever hear a little kid start talking about something they only have a little kid's POV. You ask a question about whatever the something was about, they're not prepared for it and the kid's brain has to do a soft reboot. Then they just start making stuff up, cause it's funny goofing around like that when your a kid. And they kinda know they're BSing you...... Nerdrotic not even close to being that fun or engaging....

[@dominikainslie9168]

I think you've articulated exactly what him and his gang are all about. It's an economy of rage, and they're making bank off of people who are probably frustrated with the state of things but have fallen into the pipeline. I used to be a part of that "crowd." Once you get out of it, their motives are so obvious that it surprises me when others fall prey to it. Anyway, sorry for the ramble. It's an excellent video!

[@AskenOrbital]

No real difference between Gary and Tim Poole, for instance.

[@mhawang8204]

“Economy of rage” is so apt. Glad you got out. 👍 Movies can be fun without all the woke reactionary nitpicking.

[@CountOfMonteCristo_]

I’m curious if your attitude has changed in staying away from that type of content. I ask because my friend used to a happy, laid back guy a couple years back, but ever since he’s gotten apart of the far right anti-woke crowd, not only is he much more negative, but he’s not very fun to be around anymore, he constantly complains, and goes on and on about ___ that bugs him, it’s genuinely disturbing.

[@dominikainslie9168]

@@CountOfMonteCristo_ Sometimes I feel a little cynical about everything, but from a "we're all in this together" perspective. But I'm much more open to things than before, and now I want to be as positive as possible. I never went as far as your friend so I can't say with absolute certainty if getting out of it will make him like he was before his radicalisation. However, decoupling from far-right nonsense will make him feel better. It's all designed to make you scared of everything, especially "change".

[@ArcTrooper269]

*0:15** FINALLY! Someone Says it* _The worst part is that THE PIC WASN'T OF A TACO, WAS OF A CHALUPA_

[@autobotstarscream765]

"Look at these Mexicans and their Mexican food!" >Shows a picture of Taco Bell

[@ArcTrooper269]

@@autobotstarscream765 a restaurant that IRONICALLY is blacklisted from Mexico & LatAm

[@Nubifier]

I find their focus on the receptionist being racist to be so odd. The bit in that conversation that really stuck out to me was her insistence on mispronoucing his name despite only hearing it and having no indication that she was reading it wrong. I still wouldn't go on a rant about how racist that was, it just felt out of place.

[@LPTheGas]

More importantly, how stupid - or disingenuous - do you have to be to claim *the movie* is racist because it contains a depiction of racism by a character clearly intended to act as an antagonist (albeit a minor one in this case) to the hero? Is literally every WWII movie fascist?

[@mytoll6529]

@@LPTheGas It just shows they don't work / know people outside their own bubble.

[@lareporsh9936]

tHEY SAW A COOL ASS SWORD AND THEY COMPLAINED

[@mytoll6529]

Also swords are thousands of years old and they get bent on video games.

[@enbydeadly]

this actually makes me want to watch blue beetle, i'm not latino but the characters seem so charming and the art style's colourful but muted palatte and fun looking gadgets vaguely reminds me of spy kids but made with more modern cgi

[@PillarofGarbage]

Blue Beetle’s not going to change the way you look at the world, but it wears its heart on its sleeve, and is a fun, goofy, campy time (with a little more kick than you’re expecting toward the end). Definitely worth a watch!

[@johnadams3802]

I was impressed with the way they managed to make his family feel lovable and thoroughly embarrassing at the same time.

[@longislandicedtea6323]

Looking at this, I kinda regret not seeing it when it was in theaters.

[@thurmanstevenson5692]

They are a fun family it was a pretty good movie

[@devforfun5618]

it would be a great movie, if it hadn't come after almost 100 other movies, as mentioned in this video over time iron man adopted a lot of the stuff that made the character unique and them appeared in a movie first, but the characters are really nice to watch

[@BillMan5000]

I’ve heard even Mauler has gotten annoyed with Nerdrotic’s takes before. Shows how bad he is. Edit: apparently they’re writing a book together, so Mauler couldn’t even pass the lowest bar of not supporting Nerdrotic as much anymore.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

Damn that's a low bar.

[@arbitarious]

That's actually funny. Mauler sucks tho. It's a shame jay is friends with him. Oh well.

[@TheShanicpower]

I was gonna say that you know your takes are bad when even Mauler hates them, but then I remembered Mauler’s whole deal is getting upset over other people’s opinions

[@arbitarious]

@@TheShanicpower lmao

[@mrhopadopalus]

The thing with mauler is his movie takes are rarley of the race or gender bait nature, but he constantly surrounds himself with these anti woke losers and will never call them out on anything.

[@SymbiSpidey]

These guys are not "nerds" or "fans". They're people without talent who realized how easy it is to milk outrage for clicks.

[@jamesweston4089]

Nerdrotic knows more about Tolkien than most Amazon seals could imagine.

[@SymbiSpidey]

@@jamesweston4089 Only thing he knows about is selling meth to children

[@bigjawline9235]

@@jamesweston4089 so? we're talking ab actual fans not the ppl who made rings of power. and yk the reason y ppl hate him is bc hes racist right?

[@Mad_Possum]

​@@jamesweston4089no he is like most internet people and just binge researches stuff for a video then forgets it all a week later. here is your totally valid fair and balanced left wing version so you don't cry about inequality. Destiny and Vaush do the same things. all the time. and they're called out for it. all the time. it is called pseudointellectualism aka being a charlatan, being a fraud, being a pretend expert. I read all the Lotr stuff years ago too. I don't parade myself around like an authority. it is pathetic and it is so much more sad because Rotic is like 58 years old or some shi. dude is about to be put up in shady oaks retirement home and is trying to be cool with people half his age online. sad. sad sad.

[@jakethet3206]

I wonder how many of them actually liked the movie, but have to publicly hate it because that’s their brand, and they have the keep the grift going. I also really like how the two women in that podcast are relegated to being alone at the bottom of the screen. Definitely on point for that group. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@WhiskeyTom]

Hey there- it’s genuinely a shit movie btw. Stop looking for stuff to be offended by, nobody gives a shit.

[@nahkaboltsi6315]

nobody likes that woke trash, if you werent in your far-left bubble you would see how unnatural and unrealistic that is to vast majority of the world, also one woman is producer and they constantly rotate their order, but how would you know when you live in your degenerate bubble

[@lukeyznaga7627]

excellent point. I think I might have been guilty of that 2 years ago. But no longer. I like telling the truth. Nowadays, I actually have friends from different people groups and I don't care. they are my friends and we have good times.

[@mytoll6529]

@@lukeyznaga7627 Inclusion in your own personal life is eye opening and rewarding. Sticking to your guns and being prideful about it can be a huge hindrance on your own personal development. We live in a country where you can experience this and they're throwing it all out the window its so sad

[@trashboat5388]

37:36 Bro has no right to call her fat.

[@onearmedbandit84]

Mauler complaining about how the horror-adjacent transformation sequence doesn't work well tonally because its inconsistent with the rest of the film while in Spiderman 2 which is widely regarded as one of the best superhero films of all time, features the iconic mechanical arm surgery sequence which is classic Raimi horror juxtaposed with camp and corniness (in the best way possible, mind you) for the rest of the film. There's something just really unnerving about how clinical their consumption of media is, its less like a human being engaging with a piece of art and more akin to a college professor grading term papers.

[@PillarofGarbage]

great point the funny thing here though is that if you _made_ that point, this lot’d just flip flop to whining that _it’s copying Raimi there too, it’s so unoriginal, blah blah bl_

[@onearmedbandit84]

@@PillarofGarbage Pray nobody introduces these guys to Kurosawa.

[@ramert32]

​@@PillarofGarbageMauLer doesn't think Spider Man 2 is good either.

[@PillarofGarbage]

@@ramert32 why am I not surprised lmao

[@onearmedbandit84]

@@PillarofGarbage He also apparently doesn't like Avatar: The Last Airbender.

[@butHomeisNowhere___]

I used to watch Nerdrotic, I'm sort of embarrassed how long it took me to unsub. But one day, I guess I was tired after work or something and I pulled up KZbin and it was like the first video I saw. I just looked at it, like, "why do I watch this crap? It's nothing but negativity and I'll probably never see 80% of these movies anyway."

[@afib4968]

I think that is how I stopped watching the Critical Drinker too. So much negativity. If he isn't complaining because a film has a strong female character then he is still complaining that a movie knows how not to include a strong female character

[@PatrickWDunne]

Babyface complaining about someone else being fat is certainly one of the takes of all time

[@James.B.Russell]

True! Fat people aren't allowed to acknowledge that other people are fat

[@dng2usb]

They certainly shouldn't complain about it if they don't want people pointing out their hypocrisy. It's stupid, which makes sense considering it's CrybabyfaceVsShitheel, lol

[@James.B.Russell]

@dng2usb haha very true brother!! And quite a humorous name for him! He's fat so he cannot speak about other fats! I agree.... I heard he's losing lots of weight so maybe he'll soon have the privilege to "weigh in" on that, though...... nuff said!! 🤣

[@Gnarfendorf]

The guy who cries about "fuckin pronouns" in a character creator in a videogame ruining said game for him shouldnt be allowed to voice his oppinion on anything, it makes the people forced to listen to his bs dumber with every word...

[@James.B.Russell]

@@Gnarfendorf hmmmmm I think it was 8 hours into his stream but i agree....... pronouns should be mandated in every game!!!

[@obara7366]

Nerdrotic? Racist? Colour me shocked. Next you'll tell me water is hydrating.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

He isn't racist. You have just never of the concept of humor before.

[@BillMan5000]

@@theunknowncommenter725 but he’s not funny either.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

@@BillMan5000 I think he is.

[@WarMonger_the-One-and-Only]

@@theunknowncommenter725 I found him, lads! The one guy who thinks Nerdrotic is funny!

[@theunknowncommenter725]

@@WarMonger_the-One-and-Only I'm not the only one. There's at least 800,000 of us and find them funny, and a million more well on the way.

[@stetsoncrobison]

I hope you talk about his blatant racist response to the Spiderverse movies. They have this whole thing where they go Miles Morales is....Miles Morales and they refuse to call him Spiderman. It makes no sense whatsoever, literally just because he's black.

[@Yeetusdeletus897]

These same people probably say “they have to honor Stan lee” when it comes to Spider-Man being gay (since Stan lee didn’t really want Spider-Man to be gay) but then when it comes to “anyone can be Spider-Man” they change their tune

[@Akkatlah]

​@@Yeetusdeletus897I think Stan Lee didn't want Peter Parker to be gay not Spider-Man. Stan Lee wasn't against the idea of another character doning the mantle or being gay as long as it wasn't 616 Peter because when they created Peter they didn't created him as gay.

[@Yeetusdeletus897]

@@Akkatlah that’s what I meant I just misphrased it a-bit

[@HelloHuman1]

@@Yeetusdeletus897Yeah, I haven’t really heard that take before. I know some people wanted a gay Spider-Man and people got a gay variant of Pete. He’s actually has a pretty cool story in the multiverse. I, for one, am okay with whatever as long as they give Pete a fucking break. That guys been through enough shit.

[@arbitarious]

​@@HelloHuman1a break? Nah, Peter's anguish is lgbt inclusive. Lol jk. I know what you mean tho.

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

Conservative media illiteracy is a common joke these days because it never stops being funny. It's truly bizarre how much difficulty they have understanding themes and how easily they get distracted by surface features.

[@1YCARADOFACAO]

Conservatives are the epitomy of: form over substance

[@TheRealVolk]

Nerdrotic isn’t a conservative, but he has different views than you, so I guess he is tho. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@joshua2870]

@@TheRealVolk So what is Nerrotic's political alignment then? Since you seem to know it?

[@Vhlathanosh]

@@TheRealVolk being reactionary is a very right-wing thing.

[@TheRealVolk]

@@Vhlathanosh Lol! That’s hilarious coming from a Lefty. And who were the ones that mainstreamed the concept of being triggered about literally everything? I’ll wait…

[@netanelaker4437]

We need to start calling these people for what they are - culture leeches. They don't hate Marvel and DC. Heck no - they LOVE them more than the average fan, if not for Marvel and DC, these leeches won't get fed well.

[@davida12345]

No, they just actually think and actually care, they aren't brain dead tiktokers like this fan base lol

[@headquarterproductions1484]

they're not even real nerds, if they can't call it "the iron spider" or "scarab"

[@netanelaker4437]

@@davida12345 OK bot 12345. At least use random numbers, this is way too obvious lol.

[@phangkuanhoong7967]

I'm gonna go one step further: they're just a bunch of bigots using media nitpicking to say bigot crap.

[@davida12345]

@@netanelaker4437 ... Well, you're definitely as smart as I thought you and the other fans of this video were lolol what, call me a.i. next? Lol I knew you were all wet blanket m0r0ns

[@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

Pre Watch: He doesn't know how to read subtext and take every opportunity to makes scenes into White, Straight Males VS Political, Political and Political no matter how flimsy. And he might maybe be a little bit, tiny racist, a bit. Post watch: Shouldn't have limited it to "he".

[@stringer2295]

No you’re right, instead of killing the studio, it seem deli,e he’s more mad at the minority or women in the role

[@ectoplasmicentity]

41 year old Mexican American and I loved Blue Beetle! Loved it so much I had a movie night in my backyard and invited the whole family. We all loved it and had fun. These grifters can never take those memories from us.

[@saeedrazavi4428]

Is that the Starfield pronoun tantrum guy in that group call? Very embarrassing company for them to keep lol Edit: lol yes I got to the point where PoG confirms it

[@PillarofGarbage]

indeed _fooking pronouns_ guy is a core member of that entourage

[@saeedrazavi4428]

@@PillarofGarbage fooking wild

[@acronen]

Weird part is "Fuckin' pronouns" guy isn't even the worst of the bunch. He fits right in that cramped clown car.

[@Gloomdrake]

Was 1/4 Black Garret a Steven Crowder employee?

[@DeadpoolNegative]

@@Gloomdrake Yup. Now imagine how Awful a boss Crowder has to be for Gary Beuchler to be an improvement.

[@TheVincentKyle]

I grew up just as obsessed with nerd media as this guy and was likely just as socially ostracized to the point where I frequently considered taking my own life. All that being said, I believe in empathy and building bridges and understanding peoples' pain to help them become a better version of themselves. I've come across lots of media from him and his ilk, and the consistent throughlines are all mentioned here. The whole vibe of him and his other cohorts (hi TCD et. al!) is "girls ruined my childhood and now I have no identity except anger!". So Nerdrotic, my dude, my brother in fandom: GROW UP.

[@PillarofGarbage]

Hope you’re doing better now!

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

The issue is that you actually cared and had some self reflection, while Nerdotic and his cliques are just assholes who know what they're doing and just want that ideological clout and/or cash.

[@TheVincentKyle]

@@PillarofGarbage Oh I'm a pimp now, no worries. And what (stupidly) bugs me is that I'm old, like "saw Star Wars in theaters" old - if anything, to all these toxic salty boys I want to say all this was mine before it was yours. I thought the prequels were a trash fire lit on *my* childhood, and then I realized the most important thing of all - *it's not about me*. So boys, if I can stop whining about it so can you. Go make something (but not a family, at least until you get this silly nonsense out of your system - we don't need more of you).

[@StuartFknLil]

I saw the "fking PRONOUNS" guy and immediately everyone in the podcast lost any possible credibility.

[@MrSnoots]

When people show you who they are, believe them. This is a group of bigots hiding behind comic books; bigots nonetheless.

[@kettchuk918]

That’s what I noticed with them, they all started off fairly normal, then slowly, their mask slipped a bit at a time, until now, the mask is on the floor.

[@FA-nd9uk]

Lmao this simpleton

[@plants_before_people5329]

Like Shadiversity. I remember watching a bunch of his swordfighting videos in the past which felt pretty innocent and interesting. Turned out that his media analysis was exactly like these people: racist and bigoted. His medieval interest also now feels more linked to his conservatism and extreme Christian beliefs, so the toxic kind of medieval nerd. I can't ever watch his videos anymore knowing what an awful person he is

[@patmann9363]

​@@kettchuk918Sad but true mate.

[@gunkulator1]

@@kettchuk918It's either an unmasking or them morphing into what generates the most clicks. Probably a bit of both.

[@TurquoiseIcy]

This group has the guy who bitched about pronouns on a videogame. No way you can take them seriously.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sF7PgaCKqNSVapI

[@rickyrackey7930]

“WE’RE SO F*CKING BOOORING!!!”

[@zephyr8072]

It's a shame that Az is now infamous for that and not the even more hilarious and stupid bit in the same stream where he confused a female character who was cloned from a man's DNA with a trans woman and _went nuclear_ over it.

[@rickyrackey7930]

@@zephyr8072 He had it coming. He has always been a huge asshole.

[@TheRealVolk]

Yeah, because he’s tired of seeing this shit.

[@Faynwulf]

Holy hell that podcast group is such a nightmare blunt rotation.

[@superpiktwo5933]

Nerdrotic channel and claims (and clickbait titles) are just bewildering. I tried to take him seriously at first, but when things just boil down to "M-She-U" and similar stuff (racism, basically), I can't. I've loved all your content. Your Superman isn't Jesus 3 was excellent and now, this is a video I have been expecting from ANY content creator in this platform. Someone who isn't afraid to speak up on these topics or channels, and still does so maintaining a calm reasoning persona. That's why you're one of my favorite channels. You aren't afraid to go out there and speak about things like misinformation or different interpretations of a character

[@marcelineenjoyer]

Amazing analysis video ! watching blue beetle as a mexican american with my family was very fun and it was the most accurate way i’ve seen a mex-american family shown on the big screen to my personal experience especially the struggle the older members of the family had with trying to make something in a country they weren’t born in from nothing felt very real to hear and see even with they way they spoke both english and spanish felt more natural than in anything else i’ve seen as well (sometimes it’s hard to show how a conversation can flow using both languages) sad they didn’t even try to understand the movie biased but it’s A+ superhero movie to me

[@Targetstrike]

Every time Nerdrotic posts a video, media literacy dies. Every time someone corrects his mistakes, media literacy is reborn.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Media literacy: the intellectual Pheonix that dies and rises again every day with the setting and rising of the sun.

[@daelen.cclark]

Wokespotting is a hell of a drug, isn’t it? Desperation for whatever fix they can get no matter where.

[@lukeyznaga7627]

I have to admit, at first, I was very angry and raging at woke stuff. But by now, its just an excuse for lazy people to hate and misjudge, Yes, some Woke stuff is wrong. But wokespooting is the art of LYING TO ONESELF to find an excuse to hate, criticize and rage, to get popular among other low educated people. I am out. I am permanently out of Anti Social Justic Warriors. Everyone deserves heroes and entertainment. If movies are bad, it isn'g because they are Woke. Its bad writing and bad scripts and bad politics and acting. Bust SOME WOKE movies and TV shows ...i have RECENTLY seen...surprisingly, they were good. Unnhhh!! Shocker! Surprise. I have the right to grown and expand my brain without fools who love labels and categories.

[@daelen.cclark]

@@lukeyznaga7627 It took me a bit to understand what you were saying, but I get it now. That’s awesome.

[@lukeyznaga7627]

sorry about the unclarity. Its okay to evolve and think about important things in life. People are people. I don't want to be anti people. Thank god we are not all acting , and looking the same. Wisdom teaches that some things new are bad and good. But those Nerdrotic people just hate too many people. I can't do that anymore.@@daelen.cclark

[@clemonade5964]

I wonder if any of these people had a problem with Tony Stark instantly asking for a cheeseburger after the beginning of Iron Man.

[@sirdaveysockrocker]

I’ve never seen someone so accurately and succinctly describe the ignorance and idiocy of those nerdrotic goosesteppers. Bravo 👏🏆💯

[@archangel1of7]

Literally the only time I ever seen these kinds of people on KZbin are when you talk about their bullshit. It's enough exposure to help me know that I never want to lol

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

It's weird how all these racists look the same. Beard, black glasses, a bunch of toys in their room that they proudly display

[@JinxSanity]

My guess, the glasses are to display how "smart" they supposedly are. The beard because of the whole naive believe that is a "Alpha male" body feature. And the toys because they wanna look like they are part of Nerd fandom and say "Look at me! I always been part of comic books!". At this point having toys in the background has become a mandatory KZbin display to attract comic book audiences rather than an actual display of the person's history or showing their interests. Otherwise these Alt-right KZbinrs would had toss those toys to the garbage because it contradicts their belief in being a "Alpha male" and not being a childish "snowflake".

[@TransWomanTalksOnYouTube]

Transphobes too , bigots have adopted the 2010s hipster look and ran with it. I mean matt Walsh has the same kind of look

[@arbitarious]

​@@TransWomanTalksOnKZbinyeah it's really strange. 0 swag will make you a bigot. It's sad really.

[@AndrewBehm]

I came here to say the same thing! They must all buy the same costume at Grifters-R-Us

[@arbitarious]

@banquetoftheleviathan1404 yeah I really like lego stuff but couldn't have unplayable toys, I'd get bored.

[@samidayal5408]

Nerdrotic and his squad of losers like to bash people for enjoying something yet the moment anyone criticises older movies they suddenly say we’re fake fans

[@jeremyusreevu237]

"Bash people for enjoying something" Sorry they won't let you be mindless shills for your shiny new toys. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@samidayal5408]

@@jeremyusreevu237 you say that when nerdrotics setup is literally littered with “shiny toys” that he clearly shilled for

[@heavenly2k]

​@@jeremyusreevu237"won't let you" they aren't my dad lmao

[@ShadowSonic2]

​@@jeremyusreevu237Are you going to whine "SHILL" anytime someone enjoys something modern?

[@jeremyusreevu237]

@@ShadowSonic2 Says the dude who repeats the same 5 catchphrases over and over again like a broken record.

[@SharpZStudios_gamedev]

Nerdrotic makes me feel sorry for walls, like seriously the action figures make it feel like a mix between a pawnshop, an attic and a robot chicken set.

[@alvarogarcia4735]

Please don't put action figure collectors in that awful group... though we usually put ours on shelves.

[@SharpZStudios_gamedev]

@@alvarogarcia4735 I’m a game collector I don’t judge people for collecting, as you said it should be somewhat organized or at the very least look aesthetically pleasing to other people.

[@alvarogarcia4735]

@SharpZStudios_gamedev Yeah that's fair, that is an ugly set up

[@rickyrackey7930]

I bet if Toy Story was real, all of his action figures would talk about how much he sucks.

[@TheNoviceOAO]

your level of patience for these guys is outstanding. my version of this vid: man................................F THOSE RACIST PRICKS!!! THE END lol

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Making fun of a bad movie isn't racist.

[@timdunn0]

@@jeremyusreevu237 Cool, good thing no-one said that.

[@kami_in_the_skye]

@@jeremyusreevu237 It wasn't bad and they didn't even engage with it, sockpuppet.

[@3MolesInATrenchCoat]

​@@jeremyusreevu237 I think they're whiny. They're complaining about shit that people of said demographic actually liked. That's real snowflake shit. Even Nerdrotic's friend liked it. They're being fucking snowflakes about a movie they don't even care about, and not even doing it well. How are you not embarrassed to defend that?

[@somik-i3x]

​@@jeremyusreevu237If you consider Blue Bettle a bad movie, go watch more movies. Blue Bettle is still far away from the shitiest movie you can watch.

[@PatrickWDunne]

Nerdrotic thumbnails are the greatest nightmare known to man

[@daelen.cclark]

All these bigots have ugly nightmarish thumbnails.

[@autobotstarscream765]

YellowFlash2: "Hold my beer."

[@alexbrave9634]

Once again an amazing and insightful analysis!! I try to never click on videos from nerdrotic, shad, pronouns guy etc. cause I don't want to give them views and also I wanna keep my sanity. Having you go through them and analysing them is great though, for us at least not so much you. ( I hope you didn't get too many headaches from all the insane and racist things you had to hear) You're doing a great job Pillar!! Keep it up!! We love you!!

[@UltraVioletKnight]

Shad's fall from grace has been painful to watch.

[@daelen.cclark]

I forgot who Nerdrotic was until this crap came up… Speaking of which; I’ll keep forgetting who nerdrotic is because I don’t care enough to remember.

[@aidanortiz2737]

The taco this is so funny to me cause it doesn’t even have to be a race thing, he’s back from college having the first good meal he’s had in a while at a good spot is family eats.

[@calebmarmon1310]

I remember watching a Nerdrotic video on Venture Bros, and really enjoyed it. Then I found out how terrible they are and that was just a bubble of non-toxicity.

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

Thats how they pull in a lot of people, occasionally making normal content in order to normalize all their garbage to a prospective new viewer.

[@tonymcneill7779]

That's half of youtube. I couldn't tell you how many channels I stumbled upon and liked a few vids and subscribed only to start seeing anti woke crap fill my feed. Followed by me unsubscribing them immediately.😂

[@parrot998]

​@@tonymcneill7779This. It has made me immensely paranoid about checking unknown media focused channels.

[@brodieorr5393]

​@@tonymcneill7779yeah the algorithm loves that crap

[@theunknowncommenter725]

Snowflake.

[@jackofallclaws6672]

22:04 Mauler and Co. were surprised by the fact that a superhero movie had a body horror moment in it…despite the fact that that’s actually quite common in the genre, since several superheroes and supervillains have their origins in horror/body horror. Panels to Pixels did a whole video about the topic, I highly recommend everyone watch that to see what I mean. But to give a few examples: Hulk, Venom, Ben Grimm, Iron Man, Captain America (yes, he counts), Dr. Doom, Plastic Man, Abomination, The Leader, Ghost Rider, Etrigan, The Spectre, Darkchylde, Spawn, Deadpool (Hell, The X-Men just in general), Werewolf By Night, Morbius, Hannibal King, Blade; the list goes on.

[@Paugose]

MauLer is not a comic reader, plus he's a gigantic hypocrite. So I won't take what he says as valuable, his essay on "Objectivity" was a good insight, but he seemed to have never realised how much what he said in it applies to himself. Comic's biggest genre was horror before Comic Code, heck, Lee & Ditko wrote horror until they had to put Spider-Man because of said code, and Spider-Man always played a lot with it. Most of his first ennemies are typical comic horror bad guys, lizard people, martians, creepy old man, a man hunting other men. You cannot get rid of those. Plus you'll always need a little bit of horror. It's like Empire Strike Back's director said : "Because we are doing basically a fairy tale, you need horror. You need it so the child will understand there are stakes and the Hero might loose the fight."

[@cleverpsyche115]

Hell, plenty of prior superhero/comic flicks dipped into horror, Batman Begins with Scarecrow, The Dark Knight with the Joker, the Raimi Spider-Man films, Doctor Strange 2, Blade, and Hellboy all dipped into horror themes at various points.

[@littlemoth4956]

@@Paugose It's a shame he doesn't seem to understand this, given his series on DS2 was really, really good.

[@Paugose]

@@littlemoth4956 That's because he's a rules for thee type of guy.

[@Paugose]

@@cleverpsyche115 I mean, Comic books first were highly sucessful with horror, then it was forced to be Super Heroes, and once the Comic Code got lighter, they went full Horror with Hulk, Moon Knight, Dracula, The Mummy, Batman got back into gothic and all other kind of grim stories. But don't ask MauLer to understand things, he's only good at Star Wars because that's his little favorite.

[@Philsburneraccount]

Conservative gamer gate KZbinrs misrepresenting content to grift? Shocked (not really)

[@kamillavalter]

I stumbled across Nerdrotic when the first episodes of Rings of Power came out and, well, they were infuriatingly stupid. But all his criticisms were about WOKE BAAAD and Strong Female Protagonist baaad with sprinkles of racism. Like, does he believe if Galadriel was a guy she wouldn’t be the same unlikable, clumsily written character? 😂

[@RictusHolloweye]

My favourite response is to ask such people what was "woke" about Rings of Power that doesn't also apply to House of the Dragon. See there's a bit of a problem for the anti-wokes in that House of the Dragon was popular and successful... so it hurts their message to describe it as "woke", but all the same complaints can be applied to both. Strong female lead, mentions of sexism and class divide, black actors playing characters that were originally white. Both shows had all of these attributes, but apparently only one is "woke". In the end, of course, it comes down to one having good writing and the other not having good writing... but they can't acknowledge that because then you can't say Rings of Power failed due to being "woke".

[@daniellauricella5132]

@@RictusHolloweye The one thing I've seen RoP haters fall back on is the "b-b-but the LORE is different! THAT'S NOT WHAT TOLKIEN WROTE!" In my experience, that's the thing the RoP haters fall back on to justify their hate when playing the woke card doesn't work. To be fair, RoP doesn't adapt its source material very well, and there ARE numerous alterations. But I think it's also clear that bad actors are still part of that conversation.

[@BillMan5000]

@@daniellauricella5132 which is super funny too because the Velaryons are white in the book House of the Dragon is based on. And there are other differences beyond that as well.

[@RictusHolloweye]

@@daniellauricella5132 - Well, that's exactly correct. Not very good writing, including how it diverged from the source material. Being "woke" was not the cause of the problem, but their brains malfunction when you point that out.

[@daniellauricella5132]

@@BillMan5000 True. Though, in fairness, I'd say HotD is overall more faithful to its source material than RoP is. I don't even despise Rings of Power the way most do, though I do agree its inferior to HotD (and PJ's Lord of the Rings movies, obviously).

[@BigGwenStrikesAgain]

I'm very glad I left that sphere

[@thegamingprozone1941]

Me too ✋️

[@EmoBearRights]

It does give me hope that people like you guys do. It's nice that sometimes people do wake up - we need more stories like yours.

[@masotheripper4232]

Real

[@ollien3359]

OMG these WOKE movies are so RACIST because they haven't WHITEWASHED multicultural characters enough to make me feel COMFORTABLE watching it.

[@thethinkingcatakaneonormie3527]

The most hilarious thing about Gary is as well as getting his information along with Doomcock from 4chan he is a failed comic store owner who blames "Woke" comics for his bankruptcy not that he was probably scaring people away with his ranting bullshit that was actually a parody in Space back in 2000 "You didn't understand Star Wars You Weren't there" Gary is also a Quanon Believer along with Krissy Mayr who is constantly dogwhistling that all of Hollywood is run on child napping, really the funniest of the sad collection of broken toys on the stream is Heel Vs Baby-face who is a failed Writer who made a big deal about his failed job applications to the BBC claiming it's Wokism not he's a bad writer it's actually something you see with alot of anti woke film reviewers the hate is usually linked to a an IRL failure.

[@thedude4840]

Conspiracy is the easy out for people who don’t want to face their own failures. Didn’t know heel was a failed writer but honestly most of these people being failed creatives who go alt right because they don’t want admit they suck sounds right. How else does an “expert in medieval weapons” write a book where the main protagonist is unironically a rapist but it’s ok because he’s really sowwy about it.

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

@@thedude4840I know this comment is a month old but wow that’s bad. Medieval weapon guy wrote a story where protagonist is a rapist!?

[@thedude4840]

@@bearerofbadnews1375 yeah his main protagonist was hitler Stalin in a past life and now he’s been reborn to be a good guy or some horse shit like that. I’m burying the lead cause actually I was mistaken he wasn’t just a rapist he was a CHILD RAPIST.

[@melvinlinderoth7108]

Why is it always these youtubers that get together and do crossovers. Where’s my Pillar of Garbage, Nando v Movies, Full Fat Videos, Mr Sunday Movies, Nerdsync, Friendly space ninja five hour movie discussions

[@jeremyusreevu237]

I love Friendly Space Ninja too. That dude is awesome!

[@EdinburghPokemon]

Would the Mr. Sunday Movies + Pillar of Garbage crossover be "Caravan of Pillar of Garbage?"🤔

[@isaac6077]

These guys are all actaully bots thats why….(sarcasm… maybe)

[@RenegadeVile]

The Latino Slant video is the perfect proof that sometimes you really don't know anything about another culture and should just shut up and listen to their perspective BEFORE forming your own opinion. But hey, most of the people on Nerdrotic's podcast are used to talking in bubbles so...

[@crazybrony104]

It's sadly some people take these people seriously or gospel

[@philippemarcil2004]

Wow, Nerdrotic and his idiot friends comment about Blue Beetle not killing someone clearly show how they devalues human life in general.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Remember: babies in the womb are people and their lives must be protected. Once they're born, they become citizens and must pull themselves up by their baby bootstraps or be criminalized and destroyed.

[@chr1sda1sey]

I wonder what they think about Batman, after-all he doesn't kill

[@Gloomdrake]

@@chr1sda1seythat’s something a lot of film adaptations of him actually don’t get. Off the top of my head: In Batman Forever he kills Two-Face. In Batman Begins he kills R’as al Ghul. Batfleck

[@Gnarfendorf]

Eye for an eye seems pretty on point for all these rightwing shitheads. The disregard for others and using violence to get what they want is such a typical thing for these wannabes to promote.

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@mytoll6529 Then they're super citizens! 🫡

[@NicolasSequeira]

Nerdrotic seems like the type of guy to stand in the middle of a highway at 12:33 P.M. with empty eye sockets and stare blankly at the drivers who rush toward him

[@pokemondaily7815]

Projection lmao why so specific I swear only the most miserable people can say some stuff like that about a stranger

[@NicolasSequeira]

@@pokemondaily7815 I dunno, he just somehow seems like a 12:33 P.M. kind of guy to me

[@pokemondaily7815]

@@NicolasSequeira so edgy of u very nice

[@LotkaVolterra]

I'm glad the general public reacted the way they did to that Nerdrotic video. They've been a blight on the website that survives by remaining just obscure enough that the moderate masses don't cancel them. The type of people that search for those videos have no interest good faith media criticism - they just want to hear the sounds like they like to hear while playing a game in another monitor.

[@oldfan4049]

1. That's not how the cancel culture works, do a better research 2. Isn't it QUITE THE SAME about you guys, who wants to live in an echochamber of leftist idealogy forever and not hearing any far-right things? So what's the real difference??

[@isaac6077]

You say that like there isnt dozens of videos just like this one btching about them….

[@victorthegreat1553]

The uncle called his truck “Taco” because it was a TACOma. Only those who speak Spanish got the joke

[@wantedminion5966]

37:32 Wait a minute. Did Heelvsbabyface made fun of the actress’s weight? He does know what he looks like right?

[@maaderllin]

Nobody that's sharing spaces in an amicable way with Shad M. Brooks has the right to complain about "bad writing".

[@joedatius]

"I made my protagonist an evil pedophile rapist in the hopes of coming off as deep"

[@thesnowmiser6728]

​@@joedatius what is this in reference to?

[@hyewonderfull]

I'm confused how they thought this movie was woke?? I thought they loved traditional heteronormative family values? I thought they loved Chri stianity? I thought they loved it when the guy kisses the girl at the end? I thought they loved male leads? (Oh its because they're brown) And also how does he consider One piece the best show of 2023 when the whole theme of the show is explicitly about raycism, classism, an extremely diverse cast and has a few gender swapped and race swapped characters (all things these people hate)?? Oh it's because Blue Beetle didn't perform well while One piece did. I just know if One piece didn't get as many views, all the thumbnails would be "JUAN PIECE WOKE FAILURE" with a picture of inaki godoy as a racist Mexican stereotype.

[@svenm4740]

I am surprised they didn't try stuff like "Netflix lies about the numbers of One Piece watchers" as they did with Captain Marvel and the "Disney bought tickets to bolster the sale numbers" idiocy.

[@svenm4740]

@@TheAllSeeingIan There were more than enough people like this saying that. That is not my "preconceptions and bias" showing it is fact. And just watching this video(one of the many of them doing that) them making stuff up is not really helping the case.

[@autobotstarscream765]

I now have the mental image of Luffy in a bushy mustache tearing down a border wall with his Gum Gum powers, then stealing an ICE truck. 😂

[@cyberiusrex2343]

A real breath of fresh air that channels like yours exist man, you're doing good work here.

[@TripleS-Reviews]

Friday Night Tights? You mean The Klan Meeting Podcast?

[@nahkaboltsi6315]

HAhaHAhaHAHA good one!!