MEDIA LITERACY FOR WRITERS - Terrible Writing Advice

[@reubenoakley5887]

Media literacy is super easy, barely an inconvenience! I didn't even have to watch the whole video before commenting, because being early is WAY more important than being informed!

[@vijayhare3787]

Lmao I read that entire comment in Screenwriter Guy's voice. It sounds 100% like something he'd say 😉

[@pixelgoat7317]

Media Literacy is TIGHT

[@toko90s9]

Especially on KZbin! KZbin itself even agrees since it rewards you for commenting before watching the video!

[@westphalianstallion4293]

The screenwriter guy needs more exposure. I use the phrase "super easy, barely an inconvenice" too often when teaching martial arts and no one is getting it. "Emotional damage" as a phras eis way more whide spread.

[@catbatrat1760]

@@toko90s9 Wait, it does? What reward?

[@ninjacat230]

The "having a thing in a story is the same as endorsing it" resonated with me.

[@sianais]

Seeing someone equating a character characterized as a bully and awful person before their redemption arc in a story saying something "misogynistic" being used by a reader to justify their belief of the author hating women was an incident which convinced me that people can achieve infinite levels of stupidity. I've even seen a few accuse authors of being in favor of classism because the story was set in fifteenth century Europe, despite the main character being expressly portrayed as being against the current system. The entire premise was based on the protagonist using those rigid rules against the establishment. People honestly just want to get offended. They ignore context. They ignore the fact that it's fiction. And once they see something triggering, despite the context, they start saying the most ridiculous crap that sometimes includes things never mentioned in the story-not even hinted at. They straight up start talking about another story or life experiences. The craziest ones can't seem to separate the piece of fiction from their life story. It's the most mind boggling thing I've ever witnessed.

[@reubenoakley5887]

Yeah, I've heard people argue that JK Rowling endorses slavery because of the house elves in Harry Potter 🙄

[@ginogatash4030]

I remember there was a guy who wrote a hot take about Attack on Titan being pro fascist because the main character or whatever does questionable things, and his defense when people gave him shit for it and asked how the show itself is pro fascism was something along the lines of "because I have eyeballs and I studied at school!" These people are genuinely the bane of media criticism.

[@neoqwerty]

@R. P. That's easy! you just go take Mannimarco from Oblivion, whose biggest villainy is cheating you out of a semi-decent boss fight because he doesn't have enough magicka to cast his spells so he's just a squishy mage trying to stab you with a butter knife.

[@happynihilist2573]

My favourite example is how some people said Hazbin Hotel is homophobic because a side character was was said "i don't touch the geys" when refusing to give the main character a handshake.. The show is set in hell, this side character is someone how was literally damed to HELL!!!

[@trinaq]

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." Mark Twain Not according to JP, he doesn't!

[@leohex8767]

Its JP, and your typo proves Twain right.

[@dragonfell5078]

​@@leohex8767 well yes, that's literally the point

[@cryolocker0224]

If I can’t read, I cant lose any arguements because my sources cannot be wrong Checkmate

[@nightstar6179]

I dont like reading. My adhd does not agree with it. Audio books and video essays are my jam

[@marocat4749]

​@@nightstar6179audiobooks count as reading thou.

[@avysunrise]

This is a petition for JP to make an episode about the mighty love triangle for the hundredth episode. Even if it is five years from now. I NEED IT

[@yogeybogeybear3542]

U must be the pinned comment!!!!!

[@n-extrafries-surprise]

I'll be setting up camp here until JP uploads a Love Triangle video

[@KiraSlith]

Look, JP can't bait new people into watching ALL OF THE EPISODES if he doesn't leave a topic scattered across it.

[@m-pc5334]

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[@idontknoq4813]

Should've been ep. 69.

[@kirstenpaff8946]

Shipper vision is a truly terrifying power to behold. Doesn't matter if the characters spend the entire story trying to kill each other, have never actually met, or exist in completely separate points on the timeline, shipper vision has them playing tonsil tennis like the survival of the human species depends on it.

[@cara-seyun]

Bases their entire argument off ✨vibes✨ but will also call you braindead if you don’t agree with them

[@takanara7]

Sure but in the real world most people who are murdered are murdered by their romantic partners, therefore, what's more romantic then trying to kill eachother? That's just LOGIC.

[@neoqwerty]

See this is why crackships are superior. We might be folding the continuity into an incomprehensible pretzel more than Baki the Grappler mauls physics, but we're really really sure that it's not possible and we're doing it because it sounds fun and/or we want to baffle others as much as we were confused. Shout outs to whoever wrote the Link/Mailbox crackfic that I read as my first english fic, thinking that I MUST have translated that one wrong, only to find that it was specifically inexplicably adult Link with the mailbox in Clock Town in Termina. (Yes Link was wearing the Postman's Hat so the mailbox would be open to his advances, of course, can't break its established characterization.)

[@loojiejie7381]

​@@neoqwertyagreed, as someone in a fandom with a bunch of crackships. I will be genuinely surprised if any of them are taken seriously. Most of them unanimously agree that it's basically the fandom equivalent of junk food. Is it nonsensical? Yes. Is it garbage? Yes. Am I having fun? Yes.

[@henryfleischer404]

@@neoqwerty Yeah I love crackships too. I'm A Touhou fan, most ships are between characters that don't know each other and have no reason to be together. I should see if I can fine a Cirno X Utsuho manga.

[@Entropic_Alloy]

The comment about having a "bad thing" in the story, and the protagonist doing it no less, is so on point. It is fucking wild the leaps in logic some people will make, saying that the author would endorse "bad thing" when it is clear that the author is using it as a story element and way to criticize it.

[@Dave102693]

Sometimes it’s necessary to condone it, or be neutral to said actions to make the story more compelling.

[@hauntedwafflecake]

Even when the entire point of the story is that the protagonist is a huge piece of human garbage and/or about their journey to become a decent human being that will forever be haunted by the terrible things they used to think and do people still somehow find ways to think the author is endorsing the bad things.

[@stephonmanny7555]

The first thing I thought of was AOT

[@GamersHolyArmy]

@@stephonmanny7555 What I thought was the people saying that about South Park and how Cartman is a bad person

[@christianweibrecht6555]

​@@stephonmanny7555 I have seen too many laughable laughable reactions to season four by people who applied zero critical thinking

[@jackson4672]

Something I always found funny in regards to media literacy is that 1984 was banned in the USSR for being anti-communist, banned in parts of the USA for being pro-communist, but the book itself was about totalitarianism.

[@plantainsame2049]

Fact check that

[@metalsludge8205]

It's almost like dehumanizing authoritarianism doesn't fall neatly onto one side of the economic axis

[@hectorrodriguezgonzalez8938]

​​@@metalsludge8205false, the book was writen as a endorsment of socialism as explaind by the author in the prologe, that was cut in the US realise

[@mina9e]

G.O. be playing no one's side so he always ends up on the bottom, hahaha!

[@firelordeliteast6750]

@@hectorrodriguezgonzalez8938 I'm pretty sure the means of productions don't ever come up as a major plot element of the story, it's really the propaganda machines and mob mentality that get pushed.

[@ji_ji_]

U missed one! Make sure to create a persona that's not designed to entertain people, but to deflect most valid criticisms that come your way. This way, if someone accuses you of being wrong - like twisting the facts of a movie to fit your own agenda - you can dismiss their accusation by saying they're taking your 'character' too seriously.

[@kin-3877]

CinemaSins, Dunkey etc

[@almightycinder]

Nostalgia Critic is really bad about that. He always says his character is a complete loser who gets way too upset about movies and that everything is just that character doing that. ...So naturally, every analysis he's made out of character matches up 100% with his in-character videos. And he barely talks or acts differently when he's out of character.

[@mrlaz9011]

ah, the classic "schrodinger's douchebag" reviewer.

[@cam4636]

You can't get out of paying damages that easily, Alex Jones

[@iranam1004]

The Arin Hansen experience

[@cinderellaskeleton6720]

My fav kind of media literacy is when people criticize something when they clearly have not even watched the movie. For example, i have seen so so sooo many people say ariel wanted to be human for a man when there is a WHOLE FUCKING MUSICAL NUMBER about how she wants to learn about humans. It's like they don't watch the movie and they just copy their opinions from buzzfeed articles.

[@iceyflowergamer4474]

“I have no experience with GTA or video games in general, therefore I can tell you that Rockstar is run by psychopaths that cause violence and need to be shut down!”

[@thegillmachine]

right, as if her interest in Eric couldn’t possibly have stemmed from her fascination with humans from the beginning. since he was the first hot young human man she saw tbh

[@MusicoftheDamned]

Lack of media literacy and/or watching the actual movie is honestly the only explanation I have for the worrying trend I've seen of several people decry _Blazing Saddles_ as a racist movie...despite it being one of the most anti-racist movies made even to this day. I can understand being uncomfortable with watching it if you're (super) sensitive to racial slurs, but that's *not* the same thing as it being racist, especially when literally every character who uses a racial slur is shown to be, at best, an idiot. At least with the first _Starship Troopers_ movie I can somewhat see how people miss that it's a satire of fascism somehow, but the _Blazing Saddles_ "hot take" is as dumb as it feels insincere.

[@PeterDanielBerg]

dang i forget does she ever even get a chance to light a fire she was so curious about what fire is

[@n-extrafries-surprise]

That and victimblaming Cinderella for not being a girlboss in the original animated despite being strong willed, and Belle having stockholme syndrome yet in the animated movie she has shown no interest / despise the beast and has the option to leave if she wishes to but stayed only developed feelings for the Beast past his captor phase

[@reubenoakley5887]

It was really nice of Greed to pause dramatically during his pre-recorded message so that General Chainsaw could give his reactions

[@ulaznar]

He learned from Lelouch how to plan even the reaction of his target when presenting him a pre-recorded message

[@teddyhaines6613]

@@ulaznar If he'd learned from Batman his pre-recorded message would tell the recipient to shut the hell up directly after they finished their remarks.

[@ArifRWinandar]

It's like how Spider-Man No Way Home has pauses during cameos and references that it knows would make the audience cheer and laugh.

[@orrorsaness5942]

@@ArifRWinandarThat is truly amazing 🥲

[@joesmutz9287]

In 22 minutes he manages to take a shot at the entirety of KZbin at various points That's honestly an impressive

[@jasminv8653]

Tells more about youtube, I think 😂

[@ghostface5559]

surgical in precision

[@Teyuqueuiquop]

😒

[@yuin3320]

I disagree, I think it's _two_ impressive

[@SuperVoodude]

I've never been confronted with media illiteracy more bluntly than when I talked to a coworker about the One Punch Man anime. They said they liked it because it looked great, but asked me why Saitama was "drawn badly sometimes instead of super cool all the time". I had no idea how to respond.

[@nathankurtz8045]

I would say it's to stress the idea that he's not a larger than life person, he's just a guy. And it has the side effect of making any time he's rendered "seriously" a potential gag, as there's almost no conflict in the show that warrants actually being taken seriously.

[@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo]

Also because One sucked at drawing in the original web comic but was saved by the writing.

[@danaa-]

I feel my braincells exploding like microwaved popcorn reading this. SAITAMA BEING UNSERIOUS AND HIS ARTSTYLE REFLECTING THAT IS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT-

[@IronLand-f3g]

Isn't that because of how unserious he is compared to others?

[@anoninunen]

Media literacy is not just for fiction - understanding the context and content of any written work is important

[@viperstriker4728]

Especially history, which is written in older dialects. But we do love to assume the author meant the definition that has only been around for a few years.

[@sanfransiscon]

It felt liberating for me when I finally really realized that I can enjoy works that have themes or messages that I disagree with. It's perfectly fine to go, "Interesting idea. Moving on."

[@sanfransiscon]

@allksjndlkasjdkl Fair enough. imo just feel however you wanna feel about something.

[@wren_.]

yeah exactly! If the argument is pointless, than two conflicting opinions on it can exist at the same time and both be true. it’s like the infamous pineapple on pizza debate. Pineapple is both fine on pizza and should never be within a 50 foot radius of one. The debate doesn’t really matter, it’s not like it has lasting consequences. Both opinions are true, and they are allowed to conflict with each other.

[@R_lulu]

I realized that long ago. Now I'm like "oh, well. You're wrong, but please go on"

[@danaa-]

As an indonesian, this is what it feels like talking to a conservative muslim. "What the fuck are you cooking? Anyways, keep going."

[@milicadiy]

Yeah, Gone With The Wind is a great movie.

[@underrated1524]

See, the problem with self-awareness is that everyone thinks they have it.

[@ThorfinnSonofThors892]

Bingo.

[@ctnc6059]

I know I'm not self-aware and even I think I'm self-aware because I'm self-aware enough to realize I'm not self-aware.

[@wren_.]

and if you do have it, then you won’t get involved in pointless discussions because you’ll be aware that they mean nothing. The most self aware people on the Internet are the people that don’t scream over it

[@Joshua_Hale]

A well placed 'else' would have made that statement much less accurate but much more hilarious.

[@tripwire202]

​@@Joshua_HaleLove that addition XD

[@shadithakis]

JP definitely had an experience with these kind of people recently or all of the time

[@KPX01]

not surprise there considering how social media especially twitter react, like a villain being bad is bad and equal to author endorsing it is very twitter behavior.

[@adriftinglink]

He has released a book and probably has had to deal with people who lack media literacy. This video felt very personal.

[@wilburdemitel8468]

bowser incident 2023

[@ethanwilliams1880]

The sarcastic "anti-advice" he gives is entertaining, but also encourages a lack of nuance, specifically in every section including and after "Loud internet Pseudo Celebrities can be Wrong", where he implies they are all always wrong, which, even ignoring any evidence they use to support their arguments, is highly statistically improbable. Also this video really encourages the idea that both sides of any given argument are wrong, the classic "fence sitting" stance I'm more tired of than any of the annoyances put forward here. To dismiss both sides as wrong is just a dishonest sympathy play at best, and detracts from the value of any discussion. I suppose that this also falls under a lack of nuance, as a more reasonable, honest take on an argument would be to discuss which parts are right/wrong from each side.

[@KPX01]

@@ethanwilliams1880 that the point of this video, entertaining first . If you want a full blown in depth commentary on issue JP video is definitely not it.

[@marshmallowmountains4636]

People assuming something happening in your story is you endorsing it is a huge problem in some character communities (like Toyhouse). If you have an evil character or story, they assume you agree with and push those same views no matter how much you show it's negative.

[@cara-seyun]

You can’t even do morally ambiguous protagonists now Because so many people think protagonist = author mouthpiece

[@neoqwerty]

@@cara-seyun You can still do them you just have to put sparkling 48 pt font ALLCAPS author notes in bright red text about how [x] is bad, don't do [x], mmmkay.

[@Dave102693]

It’s only bad for me when fans ignore all of that ti give said characters a free pass while hating characters who would do those evil things unironically.

[@marshmallowmountains4636]

@@neoqwerty I have a giant warning on my character's profiles that I don't agree with their beliefs and actions and I still get people yelling at me for supporting evil actions lmao

[@mrlaz9011]

dont even bother at this point, some people are just looking to be offended.

[@creeperkingdom3190]

The worse version of this is when the themes are in direct opposition to what actually happened in the story. Say the theme if a story is how violence is bad because every character repeats it every five lines. But when you actually think about the story everytime violence is used it easily fixes problems and makes everything better and when violence isn't used it always goes bad. You go and talk to fans about how the is fighting itself and they just call you stupid for not "seeing the themes" I understood the themes my entire point was the themes do not match tge context of tge story.

[@ginogatash4030]

That's more of an author faliure than lack of media literacy though, obviously authors can butcher their stories and while I'm not a "death of the author" kinda guy, I do agree that the author should be questioned about self contradicting tendencies and other faliures, but I don't think it would've been super relevant to this video, as it's pretty much exclusively about bad faith criticisms from the audience, maybe he'll make a video on writers fucking up intent later, but he covered so much stuff he probably already talked about it all throughout those videos.

[@justinambru8529]

I personally like this sort of irony.

[@chopperjoe1998]

On your point about violence, that can be a pretty difficult theme to tackle. I think it works better if the protagonist or “good guys” look for peace first, only for the antagonist or “bad guys” to almost always choose violence (unless we’re telling a cautionary tale, and showing violence from the protagonist leads them down a dark and destructive path) That can invite some fairly uncomfortable questions about the “finite possibilities of diplomacy” and “the inevitability of violence in the face of extremism, fanaticism, or might-makes-right philosophy” There are ways to get around this. For instance, showing how, even though the problem is now “solved”, their are irreversible consequences: death, injury, destruction, loss, bitterness, etc. Sorry for my random ass tangent. I absolutely agree with what you’re saying. I’m more emphasizing how challenging blending themes with story in a consistent way can be.

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

I think Harry Potter is a great example of this. It says a lot about prejudice & discrimination as one of the main driving factors for the conflict. Mainly the villains wanting to maintain a pure-blooded status and to keep their power for them and close closed-minded people. Yet the main cast & Hogwarts academy treats all Slytherin as defacto evil in training, who often get sorted into said groups, against their will, at age 11. How deterministic of them. Is it any different than the villains wanting to maintain pure-booded race purity? Okay, TBF, there are some shades of grey but 96% of the time treats the baby snakes as evil.

[@ginogatash4030]

@@pickyphysicsstudent201 It also doesn't help that the notion that all Slytherins are evil is pretty much proven to be correct time and time again, and that their house is just allowed to indulge in their racist ideas without anyone saying anything about it, even though they're pretty much exhibiting the Wizarding world's equivalent of Nazi sympathising, all that simply never gets acknowledged by the story. It's rather odd that Hogwarts simply didn't give a fuck about an entire house of their school is displaying bad guy traits despite the supposed good guys being in charge not approving of said behavior, and the fact that Voldemort himself and his ideology are still a very sensitive and controversial topic, it's like they're completely clueless about anything that happens in their own school, and it's all just one fart away from tumbling down if not for a bunch of meddling kids, I get that the adults can't be too active cause that'll ruin the adventure for Harry and his friends, but there has to be a better way of achieving that without making the adults who run the school look like hypocritical negligent morons.

[@Starsmasher287]

3:49 JP clearly has experience with these kinds of people given the sheer accuracy of this.

[@davibrelazdealbuquerque5766]

Maybe he's one of these people 🤣

[@cyberprime9355]

​@Helzhangstudiosofficialwhen are they not?

[@e_sky3045]

r39-r40

[@e_sky3045]

@Helzhang Studios I legitimately can’t tell if this is parity.

[@Ale-dd3ek]

​@Helzhang Studios agree But I think that Disney being Bad at handling Star wars Is Also true

[@kirstenpaff8946]

Tolkien threatening wanna-be analysts of his work with his pipe is just too funny.

[@marocat4749]

Yes extremely funny The thing is he hed metaphors, he just let it up to the readers. I am pretty sure thst just becaiäuse he let people come to their own meaning tere, does make them less metaphors. Just not ametaphor for one thing.

[@deriznohappehquite]

@@marocat4749 applicability vs. allegory.

[@purplehaze2358]

Making an initial thesis and proceeding to back it up with evidence from the text is something taught in high school writing classes, so I'm not sure I understand why it's so hard for certain people to grasp.

[@chrisschirripa5917]

Because people are dumb especially ones on the internet

[@steamtasticvagabond474]

Consider how many people have dropped out of high school, or simply didn’t care about their English classes

[@elizabethshaw7472]

"Ugh! When will I ever use this in real life?!" Meanwhile in real life:

[@nebula8072]

most of the people constantly whining about media literacy are kids in high school

[@aoBubs]

cause people get through high school classes without really learning the stuff

[@arjunsatheesh7609]

6:40 - Academics and shippers sharing that aspect of being dedicated to their particular interpretation of subtext, just made me laugh. Not something I expected from a academic sounding line.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Yeah, except one group is a plague trying to push their delusions backed by cherry-picking shoddy evidence and shutting themselves down to any form of dialogue or criticism, and the other group is just shippers.

[@pikminman13]

@@DonVigaDeFierro because everything must be accepted at face value and not questioned because it was """settled""". yet the entire point of actual science is repeatability. go figure. almost like bastardizing an idea but keeping a flashy name gets you nowhere good. meanwhile, i once constructed an entire argument on why the earth is round provable from me being some random dude that doesnt have access to my own rocket. i didnt even need to, i just wanted to make an example of something we "know" is right and actually proving it in increasingly lower tech and less trust-reliant ways, rather than just accepting it because it is "obvious". real academia is dying and it makes me very sad.

[@L3X1N]

@@pikminman13 You're right, but the other guy is funnier... I'm conflicted.

[@arjunsatheesh7609]

@@pikminman13 Most of the death of academia is caused by the education-publication complex that needs people to take loans and pursue higher studies and then publish anything and everything in 'reputed' journals that charge an arm and a liver for each publication. If you want to publish open-access then pay up even more. An academician who wishes to do real research and tries to publish a high-tech repetition is going to be stonewalled out of the high impact factor journals because no one will cite a successful repetition anyway. The only kind of experiment that is worth anything has to refute something previously done. So they pick up some obscure implication and use that subtext to publish a 'contrary finding'. Someone attempting something low-tech might have to settle for the querying the lower impact factor journals. There is little hope of being published even in those anyway. Then they feed the 'predatory' journal ecosystem which the 'reputed' ones keep looking down on. The entire reason for predatory journals is simply that no good repeatable proof will actually ever get traction on these 'indexed' journals. Real academia does keep working in the background though and we do have some genuine findings coming out every year but many of those are from large groups of people who never actually did much and that grad student who knows how to click the right buttons in that software. I should not generalize but this is a big part of the more 'real research' being published these days.

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

Many (at least sane ones or folks not 12 year old) shippers are just having fun. There’s plenty of shipping fan fiction I scribbled out in my teen years that I knew were just my fantasy and not anything that would happen on the show or movie I was writing about. Honestly there’s a thin line between love and hate and a thin line between friendship and that escalation to romance. And fan fiction is where you get to play with and blur those lines. Some shippers go too far thinking things should be canon, but as with most things that’s like 10% of people who enjoy shipping. People are so ready to shut down something that people literally do for fun and fan fiction is actually a great way to start writing in an environment where feedback is possible. Writing my original work it was a struggle to find someone interested in reading it. But fan fiction even when characters were OOC would usually get read by other people into the fandom even if you said it was OOC or alt universe up front.

[@goosewithagibus]

This video has served to reinforce my take away of Fight Club being about how physical violence is good and women are bad is correct and true according to the text itself. 👍

[@dicklover4203]

we all know the true message of fight club is that terrorism is good and you should drag people you love into your mental issues, also that women are bad truly that is exactly what the movie is about

[@yungmuney5903]

Critical drinker approves

[@SmartAlec1]

Media literacy is when a twitter user disagrees with you about a movie they haven’t seen.

[@emblemblade9245]

I love going on the internet and complaining about games I’ve never played!

[@2006HondaCivicD]

@@emblemblade9245 funny how thats an actual Mario game quote.

[@Ninjaananas]

@@emblemblade9245 Man, I have seen that too often.

[@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr]

LoL most time they actually saw it just to be angry with people who enjoyed it...

[@SmartAlec1]

@@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr then they rephrase and lie about what someone else says and get 100k likes for it

[@eleven2614]

And don't forget the best type of media literacy. The one when you only watch the trailer, or other people rant about it, than claim you know everything about the story.

[@Nightband]

Aka, The Fandom Menace followers

[@phosspatharios9680]

Like the people who hate on Netflix's Cuties despite an unpopular guy who actually watched the movie explained that the movie features that soft cheese pizza scenes to make the point of CSE being bad?

[@eleven2614]

@@phosspatharios9680 ? I was more referring about people who , for example, said that The Marvels is trash before the movie even coming out. Or said The Woman King lied about history when they haven't watch the film. Or said that animated movies are for kids when they don't even watch animation. For my understanding, the controversy around Cuties isn't the movie's quality, but how it was made (i.e. using actual teenagers to denounce CSE instead of using 18+ actresses, body doubles, CGI, Psycho-like shot, Se7en/Promising Young Woman/Black Mirror ep. 1 type of implication, etc.) Also, many KZbinrs, like Annamarie Forcino, watched the movie as well and criticized it in details. That said, I won't myself make any statement about the movie's quality and storytelling of the movie because I haven't watch it (nor do I plan to). A movie quality is a complete different conversation than the ethics behind its creation (like by involving animal cruelty, or starring/being produced by crappy people, etc.)

[@tristenmagnoni7097]

AHSOKA GREY JEDI CONFIRMED!

[@thedarklrd6714]

​@@phosspatharios9680denouncing cse does not, in any way shape or form, make using actual children to film soft core scenes okay

[@Sazandora635]

I like how people will still accuse you of "lacking media literacy" even if you accurately cite information/quotes from a story or writer interviews to back up your reasoning. There's more then one way to interpret a story but if a writer intended for it to be interpreted a specific way and failed in the eyes of numerous people...then that's what is normally referred to as "bad writing".

[@PlatinumAltaria]

No no no, the author can't fail at something. You have simply failed to recognise their genius!

[@neoqwerty]

@@PlatinumAltaria YOU'RE INTERROGATING THE TEXT FROM THE WRONG PERSPECTIVE!!! - Anne Rice (if you know, you... well you were probably there when she was yelling at the Lestat/Louis shippers on LiveJournal, good times, good times.)

[@Dave102693]

Boruto stans be like…

[@trolleymouse]

"If you are to be misunderstood, let it not be your fault." -- Larry Niven.

[@PeterDanielBerg]

i've seen the term itself devolve very quickly to a buzzword meaning "agree with my bad take or you're dumb" so this is a good video right off the bat

[@Teyuqueuiquop]

😒

[@PeterDanielBerg]

@@Teyuqueuiquop true

[@fiktivhistoriker345]

This works two ways: "I liked to see new characters and fresh storylines in the series" "SHUT UP, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING OF THIS FRANCHISE!" "The characters didn't behave as they were established, and the stories are dark when they used to be optimistic" "SHUT UP, YOU'RE OLD AND OUTDATED AND STUCK IN THE PAST!"

[@marocat4749]

That crosses into forshadowing and twists i think.

[@thegodofalldragons]

didney star war

[@Dave102693]

Boruto fans be like…

[@viperstriker4728]

Easy way to tell who is right, who puts effort and care into the series... and who edits a dagger out of the biggest fight scene in the movie because they are too lazy to reshoot bad choreography. Or we could use this simply rule of thumb, whoever is not Disney.

[@plantainsame2049]

​@@thegodofalldragonsthe hell is didney Watt didney lol

[@gabrielneri2820]

With movies such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "Ready Player One", "Space Jam A New Legacy", "Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers" and more recently "The Super Mario Bros Movie", i think there is enough mateial to make a video on "references" as a writing topic

[@LendriMujina]

Roger Rabbit is the odd one out here, because it actually remembered that there was supposed to be a _movie_ for the references to contextualize. The others, they'd totally collapse without their references. Some (like Space Jam 2) had their smokescreen seen right through and collapsed anyway.

[@kingsleycy3450]

Audience missing the point is basically a genre: Fight Club, Wall Street, Scarface, The Great Gatsby...

[@audreyharris7643]

What's the point being missed on those movies?

[@louisduarte8763]

Can I add The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, and Rick & Morty to that list?

[@audreyharris7643]

@@louisduarte8763 what are people missing about game of thrones?

[@louisduarte8763]

@@audreyharris7643 I think it's which characters to root for or not. OOH! I just remembered Breaking Bad to add to the "viewers missed the point" list.

[@audreyharris7643]

@@louisduarte8763 okay

[@victorcobane6644]

JP reminding me why I stopped going on Twitter, lol. Also, another point that is important to remember is that if you are someone who considers yourself to have media literacy, make sure to spend as much time as possible subjecting yourself to the opinions of people who don't have media literacy! Clearly, by getting a quick, totally not unnecessary and hateful, zinger in on their bad takes over and over again, you will never start to become mean spirited and start to lose the plot as to why you have any authority over them in the first place! After all, media enjoyment is a zero sum game, and if someone is enjoying something through misunderstanding it, it's absolutely a great and essential use of your time to make sure that they stop enjoying it and their misunderstanding is punished with EXTREME PREJEDUCE. Remember: having a bad take on media is the worst thing someone could ever do, anyone who does it MUST SUFFER, and there will never be any downsides to exposing yourself to negativity and stupidity 24/7.

[@jasminv8653]

Yeah exactly this

[@YEY0806]

Dude, you literally just described me 😮😂, maybe I shouldn't be too passionate about stuff

[@isky6541]

​@@YEY0806 Good on you for noticing

[@balabanasireti]

Deleting Twitter and Reddit was the best decision in my life. I just wish, that I could block people instead of just ignoring their messages because some people are really insane

[@victorcobane6644]

@@YEY0806 I don't think it always has to be a bad thing, but some people (like myself) cannot be exposed to "bad takes" too often, because we'll get so frustrated that we'll get really mean and shitty. I swear, when I think of some of the things I've tweeted at people whose worst crime was having a bad take, I get super embarrassed. At least we can always grow and get better, lol

[@yeager1957]

Tolkien hating people assuming his work was a allegory really shows that nothing is new under the sun

[@Wyrm3]

I cant wait till I'm an old, successful writer and I get to read internet hot takes about how much of an anti-racist I am, when in reality I just wanted to write about cool goblins and shit.

[@thedemonking0013]

Writing time periods would be a fun subject.

[@ulaznar]

Don't bother researching history, nor having consultants. Just make things up based on how previous media represented the historical period

[@Green-3c34y65vrbu]

they're so hard to research for that i tend to write about fantasy worlds instead, so a video on the topic would be greatly helpful for sure.

[@munken7673]

Just make a fantasy and pretend that it takes place in the past

[@scorpixel1866]

Incredibly easy, take modern day US West Coast, slap vague generic cosmetics (buildings and costumes) of the era on it, and done! Remember to also firmly ignore anything the historians you hired for historical accuracy may say, and fire them if they're ever anything but yesmen on set.

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

Also use historical names, but put them in a fictional story, never depict the bad things that happened in this period (except when the whole story is about said bad thing) and incorporate some jucy historical revisionism of -current political movement- The good protagonists of course hold modern views or at least hint at them, even though they couldn't even know about certain concepts that got only established in modern times and lets them look like complete weirdos for people of their period. Finally, "bad" historical figures can't be depicted having any good quality, don't want to depict them as a human being, after all.

[@eighthundredlies]

I can feel the unbridled rage coming from this video. It really is too accurate, it's almost painful. Here's hoping people starting paying attention in English class 😔

[@Destroyerofnations]

Fun fact- It took me months to realize this was meant to be literal terrible advice, so I nearly planned out and written one of the worst books in history before it finally clicked that the Terrible Advice title wasn't ironic.

[@paisleepunk]

shoulda kept going then sold the book rights to this channel for use as a written "how-not-to" manual

[@Destroyerofnations]

@@paisleepunk That honestly wouldn't of been a bad idea

[@neoqwerty]

I'm gonna be real if you did it would be so bad it's good.

[@marocat4749]

So bad its good is a thing

[@Ellebeeby]

​@@Destroyerofnations given that it's "wouldn't HAVE"... I'd say you're still on track, lol

[@andrewthegeek6522]

13:30 story twist that is heavily foreshadowed and ovious will always be more fun than no foreshadowing. recently I've been reading lovecraft short stories and those are neat cause sometimes a twist of sorts is being arranged but the change in story expectation ruins it. For example, magic is heavy handed in newer media so the sorcerer figured out how to live forever is'nt as extreme a concept. And almost nothing in his short stories are wasted so it's easy to pick up on foreshadowing. Despite they are still well constructed and pleasent to read

[@starmaker75]

Also an heavily foreshadowing things can in a way build tense where we the reader/watchers know what going on, but the character don't.

[@cara-seyun]

@@starmaker75 or where the characters know exactly what is going on but can’t do anything to stop it

[@featherlessbiped1204]

They are very well written. You know, minus the racism.

[@henryfleischer404]

I think they're both useful. I've been watching Code Geass again recently, and there's a twist partway through the first season that, well... if you know, you know. It could not have been predicted, but in retrospect was very much a possibility. And it felt like a punch in the face, in a good way.

[@tailnowag8753]

Really it just depends on the purpose of the twist, because let's be honest a reason being "for the surprise" is really, really shallow. So if you want to build dread and tension, or just show how people may be blind to change, you heavily foreshadow the twist. If you want to show that reality can be blindsiding or just that unexpected consequences happen, then you foreshadow a lot less. Really it just if it delivers what the author intended out of the twist, instead of it always being a "surprise" or always "the reader should see it coming" You probably already know that though, I just wanted to rant about that facet of media criticism.

[@chrisschirripa5917]

Remember every bad thing happens in you’re story is what you condone in real life. Even if there’s not real evidence to suggest or just saying no I don’t, doesn’t matter you wrote there for its law

[@creeperkingdom3190]

This is actually a legit criticism alot of the time atleast in my expirence though the actual point is often strawmaned by fans. The actual point is typically something like this. If the theme of the story is murder is wrong why is it that everytime someone murders someone else they are rewarded and every time someone chooses not to they get punished. Why is it that all the muderes have a happy ending while the innocents they abused live terribly. The themes aren't matching what actually happened in the story.

[@chrisschirripa5917]

Because sometimes good doesn’t always win and thus becomes a cautionary tale. Greek Mythology, Shakespeare, horror stories are perfect examples.

[@creeperkingdom3190]

@@chrisschirripa5917 you can not SHOW me John everyman being put in a situation where he has to murder a vicious genocidal maniac or his family and entire community while be killed. Show me that he is perfectly fine and his life even improves after tge incident and have everyone congratulate him for his actions. Then have a three line speech at the end of the story about how murder us wrong no matter the situation. And then expect me as a reader to conclude I guess he was wrong for murdering said genocidal maniac. Thats just bad writting. And you also can not tell me after I explain why killing tge genocidal manic tge right descion in the context of the story that I just didn't understand the themes of the story completely ignoring my point.

[@chrisschirripa5917]

@@creeperkingdom3190 what kinda story are you reading?

[@creeperkingdom3190]

@@chrisschirripa5917 I was using a general example to show my point but if you want an example now that I think about. This situation i mentioned is very similar to early Steven universe where bismuth a war hero is called evil for wanting to kill literal genocidal maniacs.

[@Calbeck]

I'd say the biggest impact of the Culture War has been to sideline media literacy in favor of social and political blatherskite, instead of telling a coherent and entertaining story which might also (but not necessarily) include social and/or political commentary which is actually germane to the story itself.

[@llynxfyremusic]

Eh, there's still coherent stories coming out. Star Wars Andor and Arcane are both really good political stories with compelling characters.

[@nekrataali]

One problem is the lack of media literacy makes it so media beats people over the head along with their horse....aaaaaaaaaand some people still won't get it. The number of people who watch "The Boys" and don't realize Homelander is the villain makes me want to eject myself into the sun. You can't do subtle political or social commentary without really rubbing people's nose in it.

[@yungmuney5903]

All stories are political, that's the point of them.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

@@yungmuney5903yeah the phrase “everything is political” is one of the most toxic phrases I’ve ever heard in my life

[@soulstealer5625]

​@simonpetrikov3992 how so? Politics people agree with is often written off as 'common sense' so people don't realise their bias.

[@mr.e2239]

Honestly most internet "critics" (especially on KZbin) don't really care for in depth analysis. Most people claiming to want that analysis these days as well don't really want it. Rather they just want someone to reaffirm their opinions, both the critic and the audience. The classic internet feedback loop.

[@Grzzgwzz]

In depth analysis requires a long time. Long arguments are bad. Didn't you watch the video?

[@cara-seyun]

@@Grzzgwzz no I just looked at the title and immediately extrapolated what was in it since I ain’t watching all that. I’d rather argue in the comments

[@mr.e2239]

@@Grzzgwzz Calm down, I watched the video and I was giving some honest thoughts. If there was something I missed from the video please let me know. :3

[@Pistonrager]

@MetA :) hard to get anyone to even look at the videos.

[@lordquaz7154]

That's why I have a problem with critics like MauLer. His videos try to change the opinion of his audience or prove an opinion he has and uses objectivity as a guise. To this day his Dark Souls 2 videos and Little nightmares video stand as bad criticism on things he dose not like that uses faulty evidence or bad faith arguments. And I know sombody will disagree with me and call me an Hbom dick sucker of the like. I'm not. Just because I don't like the long man doesn't meen I'm devoid of critical thinking skills. I just don't like bad faith arguments.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

My favourite technique is to use death of the author to completely ignore the author's intentions and then use my analysis to make judgements of said author.

[@slevinchannel7589]

...I'd say Part 2 to this video here is the Fraud-Debunking and Scammer-Dissecting of various channels like Darkmatter, Atomic Shrimp, Professor Dave, Hbomberguy and Some More News.

[@pixelknight163]

Just remember, the only way to get better at media literacy is to listen to other people's analysis, breakdowns, and reviews. There is absolutely no way that reading more and deconstructing stories in your head more or even just recognizing the tropes and character archetypes that make up a story can possibly increase your media literacy. In fact, you should never do that, so that your entire opinion on a story is formed solely through what other people say about it. It's not like people tend to understand themselves better by trying to form their own opinion on something, the state of "The knowing I" is a lie. Choose between listening to the most infuriating or agreeable analysis, don't switch between the two. Because it's not like discovering what you like is something done in a cycle of boundary pushing and relaxation, and never, ever spend even a single moment thinking about the points and opinions presented, otherwise you might actually learn and internalize something. But if you decide to ignore my good advice and actually read and analyze more, remember never to bring in the opinions and ideas of others, after all, that might taint your knowledge. It certainly won't help by giving you an angle you might've not considered before.

[@ThorDude]

And I sure am glad that the bulk of successful critics, both professional and unprofessional, have excellent media literacy skills and don't derive their success from controversy or slimy behavior outside their occupations!

[@Grzzgwzz]

Just out of curiosity, who are you taking about? I didn't really get this video...

[@ThorDude]

​@@GrzzgwzzHonestly about 90% of pro film critics. But for some nonprofessional critics: Nostalgia Critic Cinema Sins Even No Bullshit on his older channel

[@Grzzgwzz]

Oh shit, yeah I know of them. Haven't heard good things. Thanks for the response

[@emblemblade9245]

Wasn’t Nostalgia Critic largely innocent and he was just inept at handling the corruption around Channel Awesome?

[@ginogatash4030]

​@@emblemblade9245 I don't know if I'd say innocent cause he did technically neglect to use his authority well, but he seems more guilty of incompetence than malice.

[@samwill7259]

Uh oh, nuance? On the internet? Well this one's shot before we started

[@n0vitski]

A dog once told me: "You only get to act smug if you're right. If you act smug while being wrong, you will just make an idiot of yourself".

[@firelordeliteast6750]

For this reason, the safest option is avoid acting smug in general. But I won't stop anyone if they try

[@SHREKPissing]

A dog told you? Man, you must have had a crazy trip or mispelled something

[@eisgnom7383]

​​@@firelordeliteast6750 That's the safe option, but you don't get to act smug that way. Acting smug is the reward for being right.

[@goofusdestroyerofworlds9504]

As for the Sponsorship Wars, I genuinely want to see Inner Critic be featured in more videos. Also, the ancient conspiracy plot twist was certainly shocking! Honestly, I won't be surprised if the background characters go along with it.

[@Skywarslord]

I was shocked too, I was hoping the general would get a win for once but the ancient conspiracy???? Also the inner critic joining the sponsorship wars would be hilarious. I’d imagine him as a voice of reason and then he just gets shut down by everyone else

[@generationm2059]

All according to plan...

[@marocat4749]

​@@Skywarslordyes

[@parkergregg9386]

Is it weird I feel kind of bad for the general? He just can’t catch a break.

[@goofusdestroyerofworlds9504]

@@parkergregg9386 He needs a nap.

[@MSCDonkeyKong]

6:09 as a guy who has played the entire danganronpa trilogy, i'm so angry that weeb culture has overused the "its acktually satire, you wouldnt get it" as a flimsy defense for when something they like ends up having cringe elements, that when something with an anime artstyle ACTUALLY satirizes anime, and ACTUALLY has something to say, and ACTUALLY suggests ways to improve the culture surrounding it, that the argument is near indistinguishable from a flimsy hot take built on a fragile ego. and as such, the story ended up becoming known for everything it swore to destroy. no trilogy should have to explain to the audience what a satire is in the way v3 had to. theres nothing i would actually change about that story, i just hate the circumstances that you'd have to find yourself in for such a story to be necessary. moral of the story: media literacy and spotting satire is really, REALLY important for if a series is going to have the cultural impact you WANT it to have. and please stop using "satire" as a flimsy defense for when the homies catch you lackin, cause that makes it near impossible to tell when something actually IS a satire.

[@lillianbygone8507]

Now that you mention that, as someone else who was only exposed to the story through the games, I do wonder what occurred at time that made V3 as a story necessary. I’m aware there’s more material outside of the games, I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

[@SamuelThomasFraser]

As a academic, I am extremely angry about how accurate the comparison with shippers is.

[@Cerebrum123]

"Especially useful since the Inner Critic has destroyed far more worlds than I ever could". Ouch, I felt that.

[@nat9504]

"Especially useful since The Inner Critic has destroyed far more worlds than I ever could." _Damn._

[@RachelNichols-v5b]

10:05 I read a blog post by a woman condemning Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast. Why? She complained that Gaston, the villain, was a misogynist and therefore a poor role model.

[@clipboss8052]

My only answer being *no shit!*

[@canaisyoung3601]

Uh, duh.

[@ObsidianHunter99]

13:00 The fact that my recommended looked like this at one point both intrigues and frightens me

[@MrMuel1205]

I love the sheer, overflowing frustration in this one. It's wonderfully raw.

[@Oxtocoatl13]

A well-made criticism can enhance one's experience with the text as well as be an enjoyable reading experience in itself. I wish we had more of that, in this click-thirsty hell scape where only engagement statistics seem to matter.

[@gloweye]

Oof, there's so much stuff here I tried to explain to people. Mostly about people 100% believing that the author ALWAYS endorses actions of their protagonists. And if the author doesn't admit to it, it's subconscious and still reason to send them to the gulag.

[@viperstriker4728]

Well we have quotas to meet, they should just be grateful we are taking the time to make a reason to send them to the gulag. Your not questioning our sense of justice, are you comrade? Surely your not anti-revolutionary?

[@Ellebeeby]

They just have INTERNALISED [bad thing]! They're clearly dogwhistling to other [bad group used as a generic slur]s!

[@thedarklrd6714]

Because they can't comprehend (1. Subtlety and (2. The emotional maturity it takes to listen to, discuss, or try to understand viewpoints you don't agree with

[@headphonesaxolotl]

It's funny when they realize villain protagonists exist.

[@Sillysleepiness]

As a literature student this was both terrifying and "satisfying" to listen to...

[@ComboSmooth]

my uncle is a 70 year old man who has always written all his emails in all caps. Like it really doesnt matter if the letter is meant to be nice, negative or just business.. he does this because he is an odd man.

[@neoqwerty]

Is it because he's an odd man, because his sight is bad and that makes it easier for him to read, or is it because his caps lock is on and he doesn't know? If it's the second please go into his accessibility settings and make his system font bigger, eye strain sucks!

[@josecarlosmoreno9731]

does he believe having 2 cases for every letter reduces literacy by increasing what must be learned? ORDOESHEBELIEVEVVEMVSTRETVRNTOTRADITIONANDVVRITELIKETHEROMANS?

[@sempersolus5511]

You know that weird island that only exists in logic puzzles? Where everyone either speaks only in truth or only in lies? That's JP's hometown. But he says he's one of the truth-tellers, so I trust him.

[@josephmatthews7698]

Another important thing to do is couch your criticisms in sarcasm and satire so if you're true intentions are ever called out you can say things like, "well obviously i wasnt being serious! I was only joking!" Plus it lets you float above the dumb normies and keeps your intellectual honesty unimpeachable and unchallengable. That way youre always right and if youre not then they just took it too seriously.

[@youngescapist9920]

My favorite writing teacher, learned more here then in collehe

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

8:26 I once saw a video showing clips to support their shipping of billy and Mandy and one of them was a clip where they’re sitting on a couch together and billy puts his hands up while talking and then he rests them back on the couch and it looks like his hand is on top of Mandy’s and the guy points it out like that means something. My guy, that was obviously an animation error

[@neoqwerty]

Obviously what you have to do now is to make crackpot theories about every animation error you know of and see how many of them propagate past you.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

@@neoqwerty what a great idea

[@michaelmutranowski123]

I feel like people have been using the word "bias" whenever they mean "prejudice" since like 2010. I can't be the only person who thinks that the work "prejudice" has just disappeared from current vernacular?

[@SlapstickGenius23]

A bias doesn’t always mean a prejudice. It’s a different thing.

[@jasminv8653]

It definitely is a useful term with its own academic meaning - just as 'problematic' is - but the problematic (sorry) aspect of the word use here is exactly what JP said: now these academic, useful terms become 'academic-sounding buzzwords' instead. I'm sure a lot of people do actually mean for example prejudiced, unfair, or bigoted when they say biased, but some people definitely mean 'biased' (= having a viewpoint, as we ALL do, that affects our worldview). I'm also sure many people started to use 'problematic' in its actual meaning (= multifaceted, not simple, in need of further examination) but the unaware use has reduced it to be a synonym of either unfun, evil, condemnable or irredeemable. And that's honestly a shame because both are very good words for discussing the impact of media and other things, but they shouldn't be applied in those meanings so willy-nilly.

[@neoqwerty]

@@jasminv8653 Thank you for giving me a clear definition of how I'm supposed to use "problematic", english is my second language and I mostly pick it up from context, so for that one I knew that it applied for stuff that usually has Unfortunate Implications, but not for "needs nuanced handling" too.

[@justinambru8529]

Well bias can be reason someone is prejudiced.

[@teddyhaines6613]

I think the issue is that "prejudice" can no longer be used so freely because it's been conflated with "bigotry."

[@stinkodoronion]

The buzzword bit with the "Don't Recommend Channel" option is too relatable lmao

[@kingofcards9]

Amen, who wants to see them.

[@PetroBeherha]

“Not Interested” and “Don’t Recommend Channel” are your best friends.

[@elrinmeyers1560]

I got the joke at 12:00 and I really appreciate that you put it in there. You’re a very funny guy and my parasocial relationship with you is growing by the day!

[@clockwork2943]

I fell into the youtube culture war cesspool in 2018 and managed to get my way out after last year. To be fair to myself I wised up to the most egregious of the bunch after they did nothing but spew hit pieces on Brie Larson for 2 months. The tipping point was realizing that in the span of 4 years, the only on that had created anything was ThatUmbrellaGuy (Who was one of the first of them I unsubbed to)

[@cactusadams7752]

I had an experience like that. It was like being 2 years into a 1,000,000,000 year-long camping trip with your toxic friends and suddenly realizing you’re in a cult after your 44th night of body-pit duty 😓

[@tundrarunner4951]

When discussing media literacy, emotion over rationality. Every time.

[@neoqwerty]

Unless it's about a work that OBVIOUSLY wants you to feel a lot of things like The Last Unicorn, then you want to take the most robotic read you can muster while invalidating anything that talks about feelings!!!

[@gunslingergirl2579]

@@neoqwerty You get a like just for mentioning my favorite movie.

[@line888togheyhenom2]

Don't forget pretending to be totally rational despite that. That part is important.

[@eeg-rh7jv]

That's legit every modern day internet argument

[@veggsbacon1891]

They usually add this annoying emoji 😭 coz "muh feefees." I swear to god, those "adults." 🤣

[@laststand6420]

"The winner, by 352% of the vote, is the ancient conspiracy" has to be one of the funniest lines I have ever heard. Totally out of left field JP, I love it.

[@Kio_Kurashi]

So here's my idea: Anytime you see people making media illiterate takes on social media, share this video in reply to them if you can. JP gets potential clicks, and we get to not-so-subtly subtly tell them they're media illiterate.

[@rileyfreedman]

But JP, the greedy, misogynistic millionaire in the story looks soo cool committing crimes without resistance and doing drugs and getting money! So therefore I should base my entire life on being just like him!!!

[@rileyfreedman]

There’s no themes about greed and it’s relationship with toxic masculinity in the “fox of market street”. It’s about how to escape the matrix and be rich and successful to spite the woke communist lefties!!

[@zero-one2585]

Breaking bad fans (without the drugs) be like:

[@nekrataali]

@@zero-one2585 You can also add: Mad Men, Succession, The Sopranos, Fight Club, and---Jesus fucking Christ you'd think people would figure it out, right?

[@stevepensando2593]

​@@zero-one2585Walter smokes pot in one scene, so it's still accurate

[@kidcircuit1955]

​@@nekrataalidon't forget American Psycho

[@shibuyaneko5741]

personally i think an integral part of loving something is being critical of its flaws.

[@KurtAngle89]

This was perhaps the most necessary video you've ever made, considering our day and age

[@Rowlesisgay]

ancient conspiracy wins?? dam the writing of the end segments is pretty good. this is probably the only channel that i looks forward to the sponsor reads as much as the actual content im just too invested in the plot.

[@plumfadoodle4908]

It's nice to see Greed finally lose at something.

[@mioko5679]

same!! i think i'm looking forward to the sponsor reads more that the actual series at this point lol

[@williamgeorge3111]

And by over 300%? Sounds like something actually did go just as planned this time.

[@Wyattporter]

5:51 that’s called death of the author, silly! What the author says about their work can be completely ignored, because I can interpret it any way I want and still be correct!

[@ProjSHiNKiROU]

"The Fall of Megacorp" sounds like a Rian Johnson film or a film made in South Korea. TWAs you should consider doing: Disney+ shows (MCU/Star Wars), hard sci-fi, shock value

[@spacebassist]

Or a ratchet & clank fanfiction

[@neoqwerty]

@@spacebassist the dread you summoned with six words and the implied "of enough noteworthiness to be the topic of a Terrible Writing Advice" is kind of amazing, I've only felt that much "oh NO" reading the Swamps of Dagobah story before.

[@Dave102693]

I mean, we have a movie called ‘The Force Awakens’ by Rían Johnson…

[@spacebassist]

@@neoqwerty swamps of dagobah? That sounds like a nice setting for a star wars fanfiction and not potentially a euphemism Also I just said RaC because "megacorp", like in RaC1. I haven't bared my eyes to much fanfiction tbh

[@KWBR1123]

@@Dave102693 J J Abrams directed the force awakens

[@panlis6243]

"having a thing in a story is the same as endorsing it" - my first thought was when people try to cancel a story for having a character who is clearly depicted as the bad guy do something bad and then say the story "promotes racism" or something like that but arguibly the people I find personally worse are those take a character who is clearly depicted as heavily morally flawed and call them "based" and say how they were actually right

[@switchplayer1016]

Can't wait until we get a video on multiverse stories. Remember only two universes will be explored.

[@neoqwerty]

And one of them is the one where everything caused by the two main male leads fighting each other over their beliefs is solved by making one of them have boobs in the other universe, because obviously a love triangle solves all the problems!

[@marocat4749]

And his alternate verson, is the critic haunted by J P.

[@Dave102693]

Oh god 🤮

[@zhcultivator]

oh boiiii......

[@headphonesaxolotl]

surprisingly, I have the opposite problem of "the same dudes are exploring their 87th universe with the same themes of trusting your friends"

[@nnnnmhughuuhhjiijj9457]

10:40, This baffles me, I go to a lot of anime and manga forum sites, where people can't comprehend such a simple notion.

[@simplydoodled]

Dude just woke up one day and said: "People don't know how to read...that ought to make a good video"

[@generalcatkaa5864]

Never before have I felt so called out and yet so validated at the same time.

[@diglett8842]

I love to literate media

[@nielsjensen4185]

The great part about understanding the biases people have is the knowledge that a lot of them are socio-cultural and the elements in the story can tell you a lot about the culture of the country the fiction originated in.

[@AlbinoAxolotl1993]

Also the time it was published.

[@thedragongirl27]

i wanna write a witty comment but i cant think of just one thing to praise this for, this entire thing is accurate

[@swarple]

This makes me think of when I hear (understandably) concerned parents be horrified with video games where you kill literally anything, saying “Oh our kids might think it’s OK to hurt people in real life due to desensitization,” and when people argue that it’s not real, they’re like “So?! You’re still killing things!” Like I understand your worry (and obviously some children are too young to be exposed to certain content) but methinks you’re the one who’s having a hard time differentiating between fiction and reality. They’re not actually killing anyone. They’re pressing buttons to eliminate fictional enemies in a world that doesn’t exist.

[@GamersHolyArmy]

@@slevinchannel7589 Even if you do like these channels, spamming them onto barely related comments make people want to avoid them.

[@tisvana18]

My mother once lectured my brother saying “YOU CAN’T PLAY THAT IN FRONT OF HER WHAT IF SHE IMITATES IT” It was Saints Row, he was committing insurance fraud (by throwing himself in front of cars) and I was 11. Well old enough to know to not rag doll in front of a car.

[@dicklover4203]

this reminds me of when I was playing GTA5 and my dad said it was going to make me kill actual cops in real life parents sometimes have zero ability to deferenciate reality from fiction

[@samueldimmock694]

Interestingly, there is scientific evidence that playing antisocial games tends to increase antisocial behavior, at least in the short term. I don't know what, if any, long-term effect there is, nor do I know what factors influence that effect (there may be research about it that I haven't read, or there may not), but I do know that the reverse is also true. I also don't remember the effect size.

[@dicklover4203]

@@samueldimmock694 by anti social games do you mean single player? if so that just makes sense if you have a hobby thatis an alone thing that you do alone and spend time on doing that also includes actual characters written to be like people, you tend to not desire social interaction as much? like it's the same with books a book reader is usually anti social or introverted

[@Jpturlax01]

Damnnnn THE INNER CRITIC VS. THE INNER GREED?! Talk about show down of the century! Yess pleasee!

[@misterbitey2107]

"The Stormtroopers in A New Hope did not miss the protagonists because they were ordered to but because of plot armor. Even though the fact that the Empire let the Millennium Falcon go expecting them to go to the rebel base and using that to track them is text, and even though the Stormtroopers are shown to be highly capable marksmen in the first scenes of the movie, and even though Tarkin and Vader both discuss the tracking device and the risks of letting the rebels go, it cannot be assumed the Stormtroopers were ordered to miss on purpose no matter how much sense that would make because there is no scene of them being explicitly told to miss" -An actual thing said by an actual KZbin video I watched once (paraphrased)

[@dicklover4203]

"well they didn't directly state that [heavily implied thing] was happening so it could not have happened! it's just bad writing!!" 😊

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

What on earth was this person on about? Stormtroopers are terrible shots. They hardly ever hit anything.

[@hannahfanning9585]

I really appreciate this video in the aftermath of the Shakespeare unit in my English class. God, some of my classmates clearly were not paying attention 😢

[@powwowken2760]

Yeah but if people actually learned media literacy then my stocks in "eye rolling" and "facepalming" would plummet!!!

[@titangirl161]

Did...did I just see Tolkien threatening JP? I think my life may be complete now

[@reubenoakley5887]

16:14 Wait until JP finds out that he drinks the same brand of Writer's Tears as his mortal enemy!

[@nighthawk72j80]

Once again, I summon thee! Please do wildlife survival stories. You know, things like Lord of the Flies, the Hatchet series, and others in the genre.

[@emblemblade9245]

Oho Hatchet, that takes me back

[@nighthawk72j80]

@@emblemblade9245 Gary Paulsen wrote some good stuff.

[@marocat4749]

Yessss

[@Calebgoblin]

I've been following your channel for a long, long time and I don't think I've ever seen you napalm such a large target area before. Outstanding

[@Soitisisit]

Damn. JP finally fucking snapped. RIP my guy. If I had money, I'd send you enough to get a latte or whatever other sweet beverage fits your taste for under $10.

[@shishsjxnsnzns]

This is the first episode i feel NEEDED more specific examples. I don't know what you're describing, but I feel like i would if you applied it to Death Of A Salesman for me

[@PeterDanielBerg]

sounds like he might have overdosed on patrick bateman edits

[@MusicoftheDamned]

I can give two examples from my own reply, since they cover both extremes of the typical political spectrum. Neither of them are _Death of a Salesman_ though since a) it's been over a decade since I last read that, if I ever did, and b) I am unaware of any bad "hot takes" about that story even if they no doubt exist. So no point in putting imaginary words in imaginary people's mouths for actual examples of this when there's already so much free-flowing stupidity to choose from for this unfortunately: 1. 05:05 basically covers right-wing extremists' view of capitalism as unable to do any wrong ever or need to be amended or improved in anyway, even the egregious greedy shit that benefits basically no one but the already obscenely rich. As such, it covers the same media illiteracy from certain people who tried to argue that _Squid Game_ was pro-capitalism and anti-communism when _Squid Game_ could hardly be more anti-capitalism--or at least anti-corporatism and anti-hedonistic greed--if it tried. 2. Meanwhile, 11:10 basically covers all the type of people who don't want to see anything they personally objection to in media, ever, even if it's very clearly the villain doing in a way that is being depicted as unambiguously vile, dangerous, "evil, and/or not to emulated. The best example that came to mind off the top of my head was the idiotic overreaction certain left-wing extremists had to Apocalypse being briefly shown choking Mystique in the _X-Men: Apocalypse_ trailer back in 2016. Those people got up in arms about such a terrible and abusive thing being done to her...even though it was by the bad guy of the movie who is literally a *genocidal* tyrant who has shown in literally every version of himself has no qualms harming and killing men, children, and--gasp!--women to achieve his ends. I can unfortunately give more examples easily if need be.

[@shishsjxnsnzns]

@@MusicoftheDamned Thank you

[@thelordz33]

​@@MusicoftheDamned 5:05 is literally about the people who unironically think American Pyscho is worthy of emulation.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

@@thelordz33 It covers a lot, unfortunately, with precisely none of it being worthy of even if _American Psycho_ is arguably what is being used as the actual example in-video. I admittedly assumed it was that _Wall Street_ movie though given how many people seem to take the "greed is good" line at face value (as far as the movie is concerned, not the character saying it).

[@bananajewell8846]

I know some very big words, it helps me look more photosynthesis

[@tach5884]

"How dare fans gatekeep something they like! We'll buy it and make sure only haters gatekeep it!" - Companies that totally remember how capitalism works

[@justinambru8529]

That's cronyism for yah.

[@viperstriker4728]

All those companies that lose money, ha profits, what an outdated concept.

[@tentacledood5784]

Volition with the Saints Row reboot:

[@remyrichardson8614]

I remember some assholes on twitter would say that because starship troopers is a satire that means the bugs were the good guys

[@firelordeliteast6750]

...No, they were fucking bugs.

[@remyrichardson8614]

​@firelordeliteast6750 it's so weird to me that they can't understand that starship troopers has no "good guys"

[@Nomadith]

Even with the usual madness, this just feels like logical JP got mad at seeing people misconstrue American Psycho for all their 'literally me on my grindset' Bateman edits

[@Tickerchicken]

I love that greed is aware the inner critic is more powerful than him, probably why in the self care JP implies himself to be an alcoholic, because alcohol blocks the inner critic giving greed absolute power

[@Shadowrunner123]

I gotta say, this has been a blast to re-binge-watch.

[@teddyn240]

Please do videos on the following: Maguffins, Fantasy Quests, High School/College settings, Martial Arts.

[@ElvenRaptor]

I swear these takes are every 11 out of 10 conversations I have about works of fiction online.