You mean this one where she tells a joke and everyone laughs because she's, you know, showing humor?
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A Critique of Red Letter Media’s Bigoted Content (See Staff Post)
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I don't like Bieber, Kanye or Refn for similar reasons. I suppose that's also sexism?
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^me picking my jaw up off the floor that RLM are still peddling in petty sexist bullshit all these months later.
You don't have to create fan fiction of Kanye being arrogant to hate him but you do for Brie Larson. You don't actually have issues with the real Brie Larson but you do with the one you guys have created in your minds just so you have something to hate.
Which is funny because you're the one who said:
And yet months later you're still pissed off about something you made up. How thin skinned do you have to be to get this upset over something that didn't even happen?
There is everything sexist about it when a woman who calmly, rationally and reasonably makes her argument about fighting against misogyny and inequality in nerd culture is immediately branded as "arrogant" and "sanctimonious".
Heck, even if she was being more passionate about it, there's nothing arrogant about fighting misogynists like you with some fiery words.
Imagine thinking that the person who directed and started in Unicorn Store can't laugh at themself
Did you just watch The Body Language Expert's video on that interview?
It's pretty fucking clear that they're all joking around
People have sadly seem to have forgotten this long paper trail of evidence of racism and sexism from this YouTube channel again. :(
Disheartening how quick some are to dismiss and try to explain away concrete evidence of racism and sexism as the OP had compiled so well.
Disheartening how quick some are to dismiss and try to explain away concrete evidence of racism and sexism as the OP had compiled so well.
I posted this in the other thread, but I would recommend Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's On Cinema for a somewhat similar parody review series about Hollywood commercialization, but with far more focused humor and with great people involved with it (for instance, Vic Berger of Super Deluxe presidential debate remixing fame /airhorn).
For the same reason other content creators, like Grace Randolph, are here: Bigoted comments / racist / sexist postures.
Is Grace Randolph formally banned here or do we all just treat her like the joke she is?
I wrote a long message to my closest irl friends about this issue, encouraging them to move on from this channel due to the views they have been shown to have. But that was months ago and they're right back to excitedly discussing whichever new trailer or movie they're shitting on and how funny it is that they're shitting on it.
Formally banned, any content / tweet / or rumour / whatever that originated from her is removed by the moderation team.
RLM was good for its time but holy shit there's way better film channels out there.
Even Jenny Nicholson, who literally just talks from her bed, makes more insightful videos.
Even Jenny Nicholson, who literally just talks from her bed, makes more insightful videos.
I only saw one video of her, didn't chek out her handle, but I knew exactly who this was :v
Ooooh thanks for the recommendation.
On topic though, I go back and forth on RLM. I think I give Plinkett videos a pass by default because it's a character who viewers are supposed to be disgusted by. I'm sure this view has been brought up in the past 26 pages though so if I shouldn't feel this way, let me know.
I've been led to understand that people find them appealing because they have the tenor of just a bunch of dudes hanging out casually.
Maybe a bit unsurprisingly this is part of why I find them insufferable
Their schtick is beyond tired, rehashing the same content over and over (almost always with bigoted undertones). Sounds oddly reminiscent of the things they've criticized, like Schlorgan said
I just think it's really funny that RLM has become just as safe and predictable as the things they criticize.
Might wanna reconsider that considering Heidecker is an RLM fan and unironically thinks they should be shown in film school: https://youtu.be/GsRAg9W4P3A?t=1966
The sad thing is if you crave nerd comedy humor there are soooooo many options that you know, don't mock trans people.
Edit: wait hold up. Yeah you weren't making the joke I thought you were making
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They make videos constantly, just not ones that upset Cheebo and you on such a personal level
Yo, anytime one of their videos gets a topic this gets brought up.
Them being racist and sexist bigots has nothing to do with Star Wars you know.
Tim appeared with them many years ago on an early Half in the Bag episode, so I'm sure he was aware of their early work but likely isn't aware of the less savory stuff since then. It's pretty clear to see that Tim is good people - check out his Too Dumb for Suicide album on the Trump administration or the recent What the Broken Hearted Do album which he created because 4chan's /pol/ tried to create a fake news gossip about him being cucked by his wife in response to him being a darn leftie. He made it a legitimately emotional breakup album even though he and his wife are in truth happily married of course, just flipped the script on the trolls.
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Tim Heidecker being a fan of RLM shouldn't be a slight against his character.
And he doesn't share their views.
And he doesn't share their views.
For whatever its worth, the following they have is pretty flimsy and fleeting.
Here's an example: when they were prepping for their Plinkett Force Awakens review, I had mentioned somewhere (wasn't GAF, maybe a comments section?) that I was curious how they'd go about it since the Plinkett guy actually liked TFA. And someone asked me what I meant, and I said in their Half in a Bag review, he said he liked it and it was everything he wanted. The guy told me he was being sarcastic, and I pointed out throughout that video where he genuinely liked the movie and the pros he talked about. This guy said something, and I'm paraphrasing, along the lines of, "I'm going to be very curious about their video because if that's the case, then I don't think they know what a good movie is anymore."
And it's like, these "edgy," "Oh man I'm so hard to impress," sites and channels thrive on hyperbole and shitting on things. The minute they might like something, people turn on them because it's not what their audience wants to hear. And it's poisonous to film criticism, but I guess because he knew what a shot/reverse shot was in his Episode 3 review, everyone thought he was some kind of scholar.