Robots as Trans Allegory

[@DewEnjoyer]

Man I *really* like robots

[@goIdy]

who are you?

[@ZunkleFunkle]

NEW CO2GOLDY FEATURING OOMFIE!?

[@DewEnjoyer]

​@@goIdy friend of the channel

[@goIdy]

enemy of the channel

[@xoxowena]

robo-chaser 😍 🤖

[@Uraniumpancakes]

I feel like a lot of these points also connect to neurodivergence/ autism, but I never realized how much the trans exaperence also connected with robots! I love your video.

[@PrincessFelicie]

As the video said, there's a lot of ways robots map onto a whole buncha marginalized identities, and it's fairly obvious neurodivergence is one of the big ones. ...The rates of comorbidity between being trans and being ADHDtistic also help, to be fair.

[@goIdy]

while looking at stuff for this video, it became clear that there is also a big connection between robots and neurodivergence. i didn't really touch on that because i wasn't confident that i was informed enough to talk about that topic, and didn't want to misrepresent anyone. one of the articles i linked in the description, the first one, actually has a section specifically on that and i recommend checking it out !

[@ejoty_6128]

davey gunface video ("robots and autism")

[@crosana01]

As someone with cripplingly severe OCD I definitely have related to the idea of being a malfunctioning machine.

[@Nisteth]

​@@ejoty_6128 Considering his disdain for LGBTQ+ individuals expressed in that exact video and putting a doublethink on display by describing his own oppression as a marginalized group, then putting down other marginalized groups, I'd say stay away from this video.

[@Captain_Maeve]

My takeaway from this vid is that Robots is about DIY HRT

[@carimeslockdownedtree2654]

And that's why there's little to no transmasc robots. Synthesing your own T is illegal, unlike E. I don't even know how all that works tbh

[@GardenGD]

@@carimeslockdownedtree2654 It's mainly due to T being categorized as a type of steroid

[@chedder_chandlure4363]

One of my favorite bits of trans rep and one of my fictional characters is Bot from the web series inanimate insanity. Without getting too in detail, they were made to be a robotic recreation of a deceased character, but after learning the truth they strive to become their own person. Over the next few episodes we see them slowly transition into their true self and its just great. The scene where their creator/parents sees them transitioned for the first time and instantly accepts them made me tear up ngl. Their design looks like a butterfly for crying out loud!!!

[@Marbles-q3h]

oh this is a great example!! i also love bot, they’re my fav season 3 character :]

[@chedder_chandlure4363]

@@Marbles-q3h Bot is my favorite II character in general :3

[@WeaponizedToyCar]

I love Bot so much grrr. I even have their plush :D

[@ParzivalRP1]

i just want to say, as a baby trans/genderfluid/nonbiary/idk man, i always love watching your videos and knowing other people are having or had simialr expexperiences to me, i really loved watching your "wait im retro" video and hearing your story of discovery and seeing how mine parallels

[@goIdy]

thank you ! i love hearing from people with totally different perspectives, but ultimately shared experiences. when i make these videos i always try to leave enough room open so that anyone can find themselves in them to an extent. "wait am i retro now?" is my favorite video i've made so far, and while it issss my worst performing video, the responses i've gotten from it are far and away my favorite to read.

[@ParzivalRP1]

@goIdy its a shame that video is your worst preforming because thats what made me decide to become a memeber and support you, aswell as getting to see videos early as since that video ive looked forward to whatever you post next, i love video essays and talking about the trans experience so

[@daw8285]

@@goIdy Wait I just noticed how less views that video has why?!!! it's soo good

[@sailorharmakhis]

That Rodney from Robots mention gave me such an intense flashback to being a kid watching that scene thinking "i wish i could build myself like a robot" 💀

[@choromaster5978]

Really great video!! I feel like I'm gonna explode if I dont mention the absolute GOAT that is Mettaton from Undertale as an example for transmasc robots here lol. His backstory is a super clear allegory for transness and his relationship to his own body and his close relationships are all super interesting and well written in my opinion. Also he's hilarious and his themes go EXTREMELY hard

[@goIdy]

i have shocked a lot of people by saying that i've never played undertale lol. i've gotten a lot of replies mentioning mettaton, thats really cool !

[@masona.5631]

Nai from Yokohoma Kaidashi Kikou is the one potential transmasc robot allegory I can think of. In a manga series where all robots are made to look indistinguishable from humans, he's the only male one that's shown, and all other robots in the story are surprised to meet him for that reason. There's dialogue between him and main character Alpha when they meet in which she says that she simply assumed all other robots were female, and he says that gets that a lot, but that he's as much a man as she is a woman. There's not any explicit discussion of gender beyond this that I can recall, but it was worth mentioning

[@enzonanozone]

i could talk for hours about ghost in the shell, that movie was beautiful. great video! really enjoyed it.

[@mastercat381]

"Queer relationships a lot of the time don't conform to that structure. Like, me and my wife can't figure out who the dog is gonna be!" This line absolutely fuckin killed me. Good video

[@sn0wgnome]

the murderbot novel series is a good example of that arc of starting as a deadly weapon and, through your experiences and the bonds you make with those around you, learning to be human

[@SpaceSoups]

I'd argue that becoming human was not the point of Sec Unit.

[@Stairdweller]

Also tens of thousands of hours of entertainment serials

[@Monderoth]

4:42 interjecting here! Sechs from Battle Angel Alita is an excellent example of a transmasc robot, and he's really overt about it too! He was originally created to be a copy of female cyborg, but he hated being forced into that role. Gender was one of the ways that he differentiated himself from the original Alita, and he used to wear bulky armor to look more masculine until a mechanic was nice enough to give him a masculine body. After that point, he completely ditched the bulky armor and showed off his new body at every opportunity he could get! My memory is slightly fuzzy, but I think he even mentioned some emotions that sounded a bit like gender dysphoria pre-transition, and gender euphoria post-transition. But the visual storytelling of seeing him strip half naked and flex his new muscles pulled a lot of the weight for that trans narrative! Being trans isn't his only character trait though! He's a state of the art machine, an incredible martial artist, and a surprisingly goofy person once you get to know him! He can be a very... enthusiastic individual, so he's always a pleasure to watch whenever he comes up! (And he does have quite the character arc, but I don't want to spoil all of it!) All in all, he's a really cool character! You should look up some art of him if you haven't already! You can search for "Sechs Fizziroy Body," he's the one-eyed doofus with the number 6 on his forehead!

[@boneappleyee8356]

The idea of robots as trans metaphors really clicked with me personally when I finished the game library of ruina, where the robot protagonist is exiled for having "thoughts a machine shouldn't have" and identifying herself as a human, her defending herself was a greatly written scene and honestly really helped me with coming to terms with how I identified myself.

[@LoboRundas]

Me and a friend were just talking about the intersection of dolls and robots in allegory representation and you drop it?? The stars alligned for sure Great vid!! There's a comic that you might like called O Human Star

[@KatieAngelWitch]

Right, generally there's no transmasc robots because robots only have trans sisters(say it out loud) but to get into Sechs from Battle Angel Alita: What you need to know about Alita is that she's an amnesiac cyborg found in a dump and given a new body by a kind doctor who moonlights as a bounty hunter, and the story goes a lot of places. One of these places is a government entity making copies of Alita for her Martian Martial Arts technique that is very effective against Cyborgs and super secret and not taught. They do this by copying her skills onto brainchips, as there's two types of cyborgs in the seetings on Earth split between the floating city and the grounded city, the grounded city cyborgs have human brains but cyborg bodies, the floating city cyborgs have human bodies but their brains get taken for a quantum computer and replaced with a chip that functions as a brain. It's a big reveal in the manga. So these Alita copies are cyborgs with Cyborg Bodies and Brains and there's a bunch of them that are numbered. One of these, Number 6, Sechs, ends up becoming a member of the crew, first getting the brainchip installed into this little chibi gremlin pocket bot and then plugging that bot into a body built for him which is explicitly masculine, as if Alita went on Testosterone and got taller, and it's only this one copy of Alita that transitions, the other ones like being girls. I do recommend reading it but it is taking a while to release the third run, Mars Chronicle, which gives us details on Alita's life before she was a cyborg, which is zero time because of how she was born. Pretty solid phylosophical study of Humanity. And, you know, it only just hit me that Robots (2005) is another example of TME people claiming rep from a Transmysoginist Caricature, since the "Red Guy" robot has the whole bit in the third act of the movie where he loses his lower half, grabs the first one, it's a skirt, which makes her transition pretty quickly and the yellow robot girl excitedly goes "I have a sister?!" before we see red robot's still same face and yellow robot goes "An ugly sister" with a frowny face. The Britney cover dance bit was neat but, still, ya know. I'm also gonna shill for myself since I got an hour and a half video covering the play R.U.R. which gave the word Robot to the science fiction world, comparing it to the two blade runner movies and ending on O Human Star, which I cannot recommend enough, hence why I finish that video of mine with it. It's on my channel if you're curious.

[@Megapixel8063]

Transmasc robots? Mettaton from Undertale, obviously. He might be the most blatantly transgender robot of all time.

[@Kianfox]

soo true!!

[@OldLadyMapleSeed]

NO FUCKING WAY I’ve literally been talking about this all year. I swear to god Astro Boy make me a lifelong trans ally at the age of five. I remember the little spark lighting up in my head when I heard the story about a person made of metal like other robots, but with something different inside that made his experience human, only not in the same way as fleshy humans, and so many people hurt him and talked shit about him because they refused to believe. It just blew my mind, and when I went to school and talked to a little boy who said he was on the bad guy’s side because Astro Boy was just a robot, it blew my mind all over again. That’s literally one of the first moral decisions I can remember consciously making. It’s, like cognitive equilibrium dependent on flexibility, trust and the drive to empathize. That’s what sci-fi is all about. Man, I love robots. Especially ✨Data✨

[@krill_CO]

my friends always tease me about how much i love the "ancient robot now without a purpose not knowing what to do" trope, which they always blamed on my autism but now theres this! also an an avid my life as a teenage robot fan who is trans..stop making me feel feelings ]:

[@DaisyDies]

this fucks so fucking hard, i love trans media analysis

[@shinkikomori7386]

im not done with the video yet but i just couldnt stop myself from coming here to comment that i love trans people i love all of you guys. we'll go through everything together. stay strong fam.

[@clockworkcake8057]

maybe i dont go here but the thing with transmasc robots really caught me off guard because i dont think i've seen any good transmasc rep like ever. maybe something worth exploring

[@SparkleChord]

if you like manga i would highly recommend Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku! It's a story about a trans man written by a trans man and its super good imo

[@iofromthesky]

the protag in kino's journey is nonbinary transmasc!! the anime is from 2003, so even though it's really progressive in many ways it's still limited in its vocabulary and such.

[@ga4667]

Not a transmasc robot but some transmasc rep I liked was the Netflix cartoon Dead End Paranormal Park. Think I got the title right. Main character is a trans guy who runs away from home and lives at a haunted theme park that he also works at

[@arlwiss5110]

i grew up more with fantasy books than with scifi ones, so for me this dehumanised representation is fulfilled by the undead. though sadly they seem to get far fewer pieces of work using them for narratives the way robots get used so i very rarely get to scratch the itch of seeing something categorised as inhuman living as itself and showing that even if society can't accept it, it is still equal to the living. shoutout to Gak from the Discworld novels - that skeleton's a one-off cameo character but i enjoyed it so much i lifted it for rp campaigns (with a lot of extra stuff) and it was really helpful in feeling more at home with a fictional character than the others i was writing at the time. also for the record i dont just mean vampires, they usually get lifted above the other undead frustratingly enough. anyways undead woo! and undead women! c:

[@daw8285]

0:18 the nails look so good!!

[@IcoOst]

I don't remember if it was in the manga or in the anime of ghost in the shell, but at some point motoko says that she feels like she is human because ppl treat her like a human, that resonated a lot with my trans brain, ghost in the shell generally resonated with me almost my whole life, maybe because I could relate to motoko, and still can, and her experience as maybe person, on a side note, in the manga she gets a male body at the end not a child body, but a male body that looked like a female body (maybe of a trans person)

[@linq2c]

Every robot is trans, even having an assigned at build gender, either be their nature to not be any or to be in human binary, having their gender identity depends on having a sentient choice, either it is to go to their assigned one, exploring gender and how a bot could feel dysphoria is something i want to do so much in my own transformers AU, basing cybertronians as agender, characters can even despise human gender and its binary

[@linq2c]

Also, i think my identity might been built entirely by Jenny, Sari sumdac and AVA Gotta love the robot girls that go through some type of transformation

[@TransMascTrump]

You have no idea how glad I am to see a transformers fan exploring transformers gender outside of the stereotypical binary crap holy, Its weird how all the fanfic writers in this fandom just do the same stuff it's annoying!

[@truexenith8596]

Fucking based. I'm not trans myself, but I often find it annoying how Transformers never does anything really groundbreaking with gender when it literally has the PERFECT concept for that; The potential to explore and discuss gender as a social concept is IMMENSE, and neither Hasbro nor the fans ever seem to do ANYTHING with it! I also plan to do this with my own Transformers project, and I'm glad to see that there are others out there that have the same/similar ideas.

[@TheMightyPika]

The OG Ghost in the Shell was a big part of my trans awakening (FtM). i already had a strong disconnect with my body as The Major did. The part where she undresses in front of Batou, as she feels her body is little more than a utilitarian vehicle, stood out to me.

[@robinscompass5951]

As someone attempting to write a robotic character as an overtly trans allegory (albeit as one of my many, many scattered passion projects) this video was great to see in my recommended. Something that’s very recently fascinated me immensely on the topic of robots is robots created to hold the roles of humans that reject that, and instead of trying to be a human person try to be a robot person. I think this resonates so heavily with me because of how heavily the idea of either trans people being a deviation from some understood “base,” which I often see in robots as trans allegories as physically rebuilding their body or that trans people can exist only if they conform to the standards of society (robots as “human people”) as opposed to transness being an inherent, natural trait of some people. Small tangent over, this is not at all meant at a jab at robots building themselves bodies or becoming traditionally human, those are both still amazing tropes that I love but I wanted to share why I think I love rejecting humanity without rejecting personhood as a trope is one I love so much :)

[@jacksquatt6082]

Movie monsters and robots have always been a stand-in for "the other." The only thing that changes down throughout time and location is *which* "other" they stand for.

[@chester1882]

Another banger from one of the up and coming transgender essayists on KZbin! As someone who has read Alita manga but not the second series that features Sech, that story is steeped in gender and identity with many stand out moments and evocative panels. Well worth the read imo.

[@acidsugarz]

Me looking back at my childhood, always having a fondness for Teenage Robot, Bionicle, and Ghost in the Shell: "Yeah, I may be trans..."

[@radio5637]

Im not even trans i just clicked because i like robots

[@Purfunxion]

Robots are awesome!

[@WeaponizedToyCar]

Me too

[@agathebreuillot5517]

If you speak French, I would highly recommend reading the novel La séquence Aardtman by Saul Pandelakis, it’s a sci-fi story that puts in parallel the experience of being trans and being a robot (both main characters being trans and one of them being a robot) and dives into the theme of capitalism having huge impacts on people’s lives and bodies. I think it’s one of my favorite novel of all time !!

[@bufaoobardo4578]

just want to give my two cents about the weponized purpose part, i realy realy dont like the implications of the simplification of the trope to be just the transfem experience, because humans have such vast experiences saying that in that way in particular can lead to the conection of being female or having female characteristics is the only way to be human, and things outside that perspective are not, it can be me just doing mental gymnastics, but the way that was paraphrased in the tweet made me think this, and that can be realy divisive as you put it, it WAS controversial. Anyway the video is realy great, i realy love gender discussion in media like this, and your ending is perfect, i think the real beauty of stories is not to say that a given thing is an alegory to a realy specific group, but to see people of diferent backgrouds relate and interpret diferent works in diferent ways, at a certain point the will of the author kinda dont matter (it matters but only if the work is being used or intrepreted in a bad faith way, but alas). Once more your ending is GOLD, man i wish people who analize profund topics made conclusions with such depth as yours, having a lot of good nuance and not being reductive. Just to finish realy, started the video as a hard watch, because i kinda dislike alegories, i think most of the time when they are done with intent its reductive or unecessary, like why not just be direct and talk about the group you are trying to depict, than hiding behind the alegory, if we have to be called woke than so be it, we dont have to be complacent with bastards, but once again i undestand your points in the end too. Like much in life its complicated If my rambling are insane and incoherent sorry, psyc student and i am from Brasil so english is not my first language, my only sugestion is puting the references used in more visable place (maybe in a coment?), incredible video, please make more.

[@liathedigger]

WAKE UP BABE NEW GOLDY VIDEO JUST DROPPED I really love your channel :3

[@Vivy_K20]

one way i really love this parallel is the way i feel dysphoria, i feel like i have the wrong driveres installed and i don't have admin acces to change them

[@Haunted_Plush]

Terminator: "John I just finished my top surgery let's go get ice cream to celebrate"

[@doomgal669]

I love that you showed parts of Armitage III. I watched it as a teenager in the 90's. It blew me away and at the same time scared me. I still can't find words to describe it. The Anime touched something inside me, and I was out of Order for weeks. It took me anorher 25 years to figure out im trans. I watched it again for the first time in 25 Jears after my egg cracked and cried a lot.

[@omegacrump]

I remember seeing the scene in the Animatrix with the girl being killed on twitter when I was in class and I felt sick for rest of the day and I couldn't stop thinking about it. nothing I have seen has other than that has made me feel sick for a whole day I've seen a lot of gross, gory, and disturbing things nothing has messed me up like that. I think it's primarily because it specifically represented violence against trans people and I've probably seen other things that also represent violence towards trans people but at the time I didn't know that I was trans so it went over my head and didn't feel as strong.

[@goIdy]

yeah i censored it in my video because it actually made me sick to my stomach while editing, figured it was a little more graphic than what i wanted to show here

[@salinalunara]

@@goIdy ngl I appreciated the blur b/c I remember how intense it felt the first time that was pointed out to me on social media

[@DeonTain]

A transmasc "robot" character is Nimue Alban from David Weber's Safehold books. They are born female but after their death the wake up as a robot. As part of a plan to blend in to a artificially low tech human society they choose a male presenting form. As the books go on he decides he prefers being male.

[@KimkeLox]

lmao, i was obsessed to become a robot / ai until i realized i was trans ( still love robot characters )

[@Gabriel_Blair]

i feel somewhat relieved hearing someone mirror my opinion on ghost in the shell

[@IT_217]

Ghost in the Shell and The Matrix were both films that really should have made me realise I'm trans a lot sooner than I did. Maybe if information about queerness wasn't actively suppressed by law at the time I would have had the knowledged needed to know that wondering why none of the men in The Matrix had mental projections of themselves as women wasn't very cis of me, or that being envious of The Major living in a world where a complete body replacement was possible maybe meant something when my friends considered it body horror. Roll on a couple of decades and I'm explaining that to a psychiatrist while asking to get HRT!

[@ivynyan]

...idk how you explained this feeling so well. I have ASD and ADHD too and the whole experience of being something "other" than normal or human has always been a part of my life, even before I realized I was trans. Thank you for this lol it explains so much of my affinity towards robots and the like Edit: - also! Astro from Astroboy 2003 was such a mood as a kid. Even being positive and kind and people still see you as something to be afraid of or cautious of... AAAAAAAAAAAA EDIT EDIT: WAIT METTATON WHY DID I FORGET METTATON

[@pieofchart]

I LOVE trans robots. And I HATE that I can't fucking talk abt them in this light with any cis person I know, RRRAAAAAAAAHHH

[@MotobugGaming]

I've been waiting for someone to make a video on this topic! As someone who's writing a story about an explicitly trans robot and her queerplatonic partner, I resonate with this subject so much. I think a second video on how robots can be allegories for neurodivergent ppl would be amazing, as that's something i feel not many ppl realize. The experience of having people tell you that your thoughts, feelings, experiences are not real, that you're just faking it, is something I've dealt with a lot and connects me even deeper to robot characters in fiction. Anyways i should probably stop before i go on a several paragraph long rant lol. Robots are my biggest hyperfixation if you couldn't tell lol.

[@thatll-do7606]

Hey, what's the anime playing at about the 10 minute mark? I'm curious now

[@goIdy]

oh yeah i never mentioned it, that was Armitage III: Poly Matrix !

[@thatll-do7606]

Thanks! I'll check it out!

[@crosana01]

​@@thatll-do7606It's a bit dated by now but I really enjoyed it. It was originally a multi-part OAV but then got made into a film. I have only seen the movie so I don't know if there's anything substantial missing from the OAV.

[@BillieTheGoose]

Thank you for this video! So many trans youtubers have been "doom and gloom" the past year (and especially post the USA election) but this video and your chill presentation style filled me with queer joy!

[@WeirdedOutShiba]

This was great video, as somebody who has a robot dog fursona, I relate a lot to robots and didn't even realise that robots were also used as an analogue for asexuality until I found out that I was ace. I'm glad robots are being used to represent more people and you did great job with talking about them as trans allegory.

[@MayoGuro64]

MACHINE! Trans. Rights. NOW!

[@tryggverunberg2983]

Gabriel ultrakill? :3

[@idkaname1085]

This might sound strange. I had an experience like that too. Was watching a cis friend play a Robocop game in I talked to him after he finished the entire game. On how I not only liked the game (and it was oddly well done and I've never seen the actual movies) in a strange way a lot of it reminded me of my own trans stuff. A key part in the game is asking you Robocop who you are and there's many ways you can decide. From using your past life, referring to yourself as a machine as in just a machine of war, a tool, or that Robocop is who you are, and you are still figuring things out. There's even other stuff too. You have a phycologist who is super fascinated with you but is sympathetic and does not make it too weird. Some dude working for a company who has ties to the police and ALWAYs berates you and despairingly referring to you as useless bolts or a machine that constantly breaks down and cannot be riled on. There's even the election for the city where the two mayoral candidates will try to woo you. One of them I remember outright tries to say he is the pro-robocop candidate and tries to use you for his image and propaganda (if he does get elected you learn he is not nice and bails on the city when it comes under attack and only saw you as a political tool). In both that case and the ones above obviously I don't think any of these robot things are meant to represent trans people. Rather its mor accidental and incidental since there are similar parrels you brought up in your video. That a lot of the tropes around discrimination and even the language and people's reactions are similar to our own experiences and stuff we've seen thrown at us or how we are treated.

[@CuriuMusic]

The only thing I learned from Wall-e was that liberal women turn men gay. Anyways, the “what we learned” section is 🔥

[@pillowmoment]

THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING. All robots are trans/trans metaphors to me. I see aliens the same way. A living thing that is considered “othered” or.. literally alienated from the majority. I could go on for ages about the alien thing but it’s a lot harder to articulate because so many aliens are so different. But for machines it can be applied in relatively identical ways across various types of media and characters. One thing that is common between these groups is generalization. In media with robots, if one is violent, they all must be. Like in the example you mentioned at the start. This is common in alien media as well. Even if someone is just trying to defend themselves, they can easily become the example all others are seen as. I read stories and experiences from other trans people about how they’re stereotyped and generalized. I see how people react when a bad person turns out to be queer. I can’t help but draw conclusions between how real and fictional people/beings are treated. The blending of sci/fi creatures, real animals, and trans people has existed in my mind for a while. As a trans person, I’ve related to robot media like Wall-E and Portal, or alien movies like Nope, that unintentionally have the right stuff in them for me to draw these parallels. It’s equally upsetting and comforting. Trans people are everywhere and we will live forever 🙂❤️

[@HoneyRoll-ERB]

13:00 IT JUST CLICKED. This is why I see myself in Ramlethal Valentine more than any other character in Guilty Gear. She was a weapon turned human bc of puppies, hamburgers, and found family. Ramram isn't canonically trans, but she's trans in my heart.

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

8:00 Every summary of this film (that I read) said: "Ratchet wants to make everyone look like himself." These summaries were aimed at children, so maybe the profit motive was a bit harder to explain. Like: Since Ratchet has a monopoly, if he wants more money, why doesn't he just raise his prices? You could think of a complicated financial explanation, but maybe it's more likely that Ratchet is a shiny robot who wants everyone else to become shiny or die.

[@joyadd9]

great video!! so many well put thoughts and ideas; I never considered how many similarities can be drawn from the portrayal of robots and trans people

[@JustAHuman.8]

Although Mettaton is the most obvious transmasc robot, a leaster known one to me is Edgar from Electric Dreams from 80's (I think). Starting as just a computer that's made to do household work and nothing more, clicked as the traditional roles women are put into. Slowly finding himself through media and hiding his true self from his owner who says over and over that computers aren't made to do what he want to. I don't think he even has a name to officially call himself or to be called by until the end. Saying he's a Nobody. Sure he plays the villain but all characters get a nice ending including him for their futures which is very sweet. Sorry for the ramble I just really like Edgar.

[@crazycatcrazycat8186]

"Wake the fuck up samurai we are raiding arasaka to get some super estrogen"

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

Glad to see more robotic fans

[@MissMalaka123]

Goldy I would like you to hear this. Genuinely thank you so much, You have to be one of my favorite channels of all time and I say that with complete sincerity. I truly believe watching your "wait am I retro now?" and "why are fighting games so gay?" videos were significant factors in me discovering that I was trans. I had gone under being a femboy for months but it never felt quite right, I've been aware of being transfem for almost 4 weeks now (I know that's a very short amount of time) but your videos genuinely make me proud to be who I am, yeah I have a lot of doubts and a lot of dysphoria but I cannot thank you enough. your silly videos give me hope and a much needed perspective given, thanks to family members not exactly being transphobic but also having views that align pretty close with terfs (thankfully I am still closeted and won't have to deal with that directed at me for a bit). While I don't agree with those family members its a bit hard to not have their views seep over into mine , so one last time from the bottom of my heart thank you, thank you for providing entertainment, thank you for being a part of my self discovery, and thank you for making me feel valid. Apologies for the textwall I tend to yap a lot when I'm passionate about something

[@goIdy]

i absolutely love that for you and i truly appreciate all your kind words. i got a very sweet dm the other day asking what inspires me, and the short of my answer was basically knowing that i have a direct impact on people's lives. it's still very surreal for me being in this position, as i've literally never talked about any of these things before, and hell i still don't know much myself, but learning along with people has been my favorite part of all this. i wish you the best !

[@hexzyle]

9:55 Yoooo Armitage III reference. Wish this series got more recognition

[@johnchristianson515]

Damn right, such a under rated series

[@saharahowell6486]

Space Sweepers (I think it’s called) has an actual transgender robot!

[@guidomista7960]

as a trans woman who loves robots, instant subscribe

[@crosana01]

Really good and well thought video! Out of curiosity have you seen Murder Drones on KZbin?

[@goIdy]

a good friend of mine is obsessed with it and told me i should check it out when she heard i was working on this. i'll have to go give it a watch !

[@Kenzie4467]

I finally found a video about this topic. I always had this same feelings with The Animatrix, Detroit become human and the concept of sentient ai and robotics itself. I'm going to watch this later but I liked it already because I know I gonna love this video

[@azunikki]

came from bluesky i like ur previous videos ALSO SOPHIES SHOP MENTION YEAH

[@agramuglia]

I clicked on for Ghost in the Shell

[@xduffy7614]

bubs from space sweepers is a canonically trans robot! great movie for so many reasons- all about morality and being poor which is part of the reason why having a trans character is so great. highly recommend!

[@machinistbay]

yelling "I'm real! I'm real!" but all i can hear is "im cis im cis" edit : 14:34 THERE SHE IS P.S. my girlfriend sent me this and she calls herself a gynioid and me her mechanic

[@enzard_glitch]

you won

[@machinistbay]

won what​@@enzard_glitch

[@truexenith8596]

@@machinistbay Life

[@Charlie-im9iv]

Fans of this trope should read World Running Down by Al Hess. It's a fun, fast-paced, easy read. The hero is explicitly a gay trans man, and he lives in a van in post-apocalyptic Utah fighting salt pirates with his toxic best friend. He meets a sentient AI trapped in a human body and they fall in love.

[@ArAsDeCos]

Will Arcee be mentioned? Let's see. Edit: she is canonically trans, as implied with her Spotlight comic.

[@rosarolli]

FNAF is the perfect explanation for the feeling of Gender Dysphoria and dissociation/dpdr

[@warbilby]

Awesome video. I wonder if there are more robots as an allegory for transmen since it seems robots get allegorised as transwomen more. A question I had that has nothing to do with the video. Why did you choose Kamina as your profile pic and in your banner?

[@goIdy]

to answer the second part, gurren lagann is my favorite anime by far and kamina is my favorite character of all time. i’m working with a friend to spruce up my channel art, but it’s always going to link back to ttgl

[@DeerChops]

rels always good such good imput on these kinda topics, such a good video and its awesome that she helped, she dmed me to watch it lol :3

[@InkyLilly]

There are trans Transformers.

[@callumjohnston858]

Why is is that as soon as I submit my thesis on this subject, all of the things to reference suddenly appear?

[@mrfigaloopierre9610]

Sentience in robots can often be viewed as a metaphor for the concept of gender. In most media that brings up the possibility of sentient robots, their sentience is difficult to prove, in fact, it is quite literally impossible to distinguish between a robot that mimics sentience and a machine that truly possesses it. Humans doubt that anything other than a human (something they have lived experience as) can possibly be any more than a mess of metal and wires. They are not very different from humans, except in that they exist outside of the reality which humans are willing to accept.

[@orderlysummit]

Signalis mention yes, absolutely peak game (made by a sapphics, one of whom is trans)

[@goIdy]

i actually just picked it up on steam since it's on sale. really hoping i get the time to play through it soon !

[@Stairdweller]

I wanna bring up Mettaton from undertale as an example of a transmasc robot but I am aware that his robotness is debatable.

[@WeaponizedToyCar]

I misread that as Megatron but I mean they’re called TRANSformers for a reason lol 💀💀

[@IssaUserName]

anyone know what the robotic horse rider is from? Frames last from about 0:50 to 0:52

[@goIdy]

that is from the Animatrix the Second Renaissance: Part 2

[@jademcdra9437]

The Light family in the Mega Man series is definitely worth exploring in regards to robot families

[@lugburz-shak4629]

The more i see more and more inperfections as the ones you talk about, make me dive more deep into the purity, perfection and divinity of de*th; nothing more honest to fight for and more certain than this. Hope, and everything, evil or good, pleasure or pain if from living... Is a mistery how the first live could happend or why, why it decided to survive. Good luck, everyone.

[@nalhi_8352]

Sechs !!! To give you some lore on that fella in Gunnm ( battle angel alita in american localization ) Zalem makes android clones of Gally ( Alita ) but these clones ( the ones that survive ) get a mind of their own and Sechs is one of them ( He's cool )

[@philovermyer6166]

It's all an allegory for trying to find yourself, which is the essential of human struggle. Consciousness, mortality, and other factors make this struggle the forefront of our existence and leaks into media. Philosophers have been debating the subject of meaning for being alive since forever.

[@randomSPOOKYgirl3po]

the first transgenderism moment in my life was being unreasonably obsessed with the robot from the opening (from "My Life as a Teenage Robot") @ ~0:01 i think there might be something to this ngl

[@seasuper3402]

0:31 this unlocked a memory I remembered this show but completely forgotten the name

[@SisterRose]

Not a Robot but a Clone, X-men's Laura Kinney has definitely filled a lot of that niche and I'm glad other people have equated the "Raised as a Weapon" with the trans fem experience. There's a similar thing with Rachel Summers though she tends to be pretty butch these days.

[@ธนาเดชศุภนัทนพร]

I did not expect to wake up today to see robots as trans allegory but this definitely makes me wonder if android dream of electric sheep

[@shizuwolf]

Astro Boy is another good series to check out

[@jaffacakeluvr]

i would recommend 'the mountain in the sea' by ray nayler, robots and gender aren't really the main theme but it's explored

[@thegoblinking279]

ok havent watched this yet but im checking in to say i really hope you talk about the mini comic ryoko kui made that circulated all over twitter and tumblr

[@noairfry]

Another Heater Banger In The Books!!!!!!!

[@kirraqween15]

I always found the second renaissance so haunting because of that exact scene

[@oldprofile17]

Here's for the algorithm. I don't have much to add other than it's a lovely video and you got a sub from me

[@youkofoxy]

It is true that all those stories can be constructed as any type of discrimination against a minority (albeit in some stories the robots are just as big of a group or bigger). One could could just as easily construct Jennifer struggles as any adolescent struggles, as that part of life revolves a lot about identity and belongings. Yet is fascinating one point about her story in Teenager Robot, She is at the core a Automatous Weapons System. Yet is one that was build to Think, Feel, be Introspective and have just as much personality as a normal human. And while one would not normally associate a Girl with being a robot capable of fighting a whole battalion, that is what she is, however is not all Jennifer is or what truly defines her. Uhm, there is also Astroboy that is somewhat similar to that. But one key difference is that Jennifer mother is not exactly the most social person nor up to date on social cues and norms. She is quite stereotypical scientist that wants to be a mother and does so by a very unorthodox way.

[@lumbra-y6g]

this was really interesting actually!! gj

[@aprilk141]

Barbie movie, really spoke to my trans and neurodivergent experience. I still don't feel like a real person

[@PhoeniXXTalon]

i think youtube recommended this to me because im obsessed with wx-78 from don't starve together and.... yeah

[@xoxowena]

Ok now lets make an overtly trans robot like trans girl abandons her mortal form to be downloaded into a gender affirming model that looks like how we truly see ourselves because OOF that's deep in my desires

[@xoxowena]

but then despite finally feeling happy in her android form that matches her true nature, society continues to objectify and abuse her but she overcomes it because she's finally at peace. Goes hard. Wish I had organization to write

[@xoxowena]

also sorry if someone else has dealt with their dysphoria better than me because I'm still deeply dysphoric beyond my hrt lmao I'm so happy for people that finally feel comfortable in their skin don't get that twisted ❤❤ now just need to find that within Owena

[@tezismith8795]

I WAS GOING TO COMMENT NICHIJOU OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU

[@stickymallet]

reminds me of how astro boy refuses to go by the name his creator gave him, which was a dead boy's identity and not his own. that's got alot of symbolism in it i thinks