00:02:49.060gamer gate is just one symptom of a larger trend that's tearing online communities apart
00:02:56.180and to understand gamer gate you need to understand how fan culture turned toxic
00:03:15.720fandom like any group setting with a bunch of people is going to have a dark side it's human nature to sort of gang up on people and attack them
00:03:25.840thank you yeah so here's the women nagging they go into the video games they're like please let me be a part of these cool video games and then they nag
00:03:34.480to the internet and the breakout success of marvel's cinematic universe the overwhelmingly male world of nerd culture suddenly belonged to everyone
00:03:44.180ii most fans embraced the new wave of women queer and otherwise marginalized members in their communities but a vocal minority chose to gatekeep their geekery instead
00:03:55.340it goes without saying that women are integral to science fiction since the day 20 year old mary shelley invented the genre with frankenstein
00:04:02.180Frankenstein. But 200 years later, thousands of angry fans have suddenly decided that they
00:04:07.260didn't belong. Not even the biggest franchise of them all, Star Wars. The backlash began in 1999
00:04:14.140with the release of episode one, The Phantom Menace. Fans wasted no time mocking their targets,
00:04:20.620particularly Ahmed Best, the black actor who portrayed Jar Jar Binks. The actor endured
00:04:26.180decades of derision from fans during the early days of the internet. The attacks on Ahmed were
00:04:30.860so severe that it nearly drove him to take his own life. I was really just crumbling inside.
00:04:38.000There's a sense of... So they want the benefit. Thank you, William, for the $1 super chat.
00:04:44.340So they want the benefit of being in, like, having these fun jobs, like actor, entertainer. This is a
00:04:50.600great job. I enjoy this a lot. But they don't want the cost. They don't want the cost of,
00:04:59.340the problems that it comes with. That's like me going on the internet and saying you can't make
00:05:07.640fun of people. People make fun of me all the time. It just is what it is. But that's, that's the
00:05:13.820challenge. What? Can I jump in here real fast about this whole Jar Jar Binks thing? Or were you
00:05:19.640cooking? Go ahead. So guys, okay. So this, what she said there about nerd culture, guys, most women
00:05:32.220will still get on you for playing video games. And you can't tell the average woman that you like
00:05:37.700Star Trek or Star Wars or any of that. I'm sorry. There was a popularity to being a nerd when,
00:05:43.820when the Big Bang Theory came out, but it's still not socially exactly. You still have to find a way
00:05:49.880to play video games and be a nerd in the dark, especially when you're young, guys. You will pay
00:05:55.560a serious price. The biggest problem with this Gamergate thing is that, well, Jar Jar Binks was like
00:06:02.380literally the worst Star Wars character of all time. Have you seen any of the Star Wars movies, Pearl?
00:06:08.440I'd rather watch paint dry. I'm sorry. Yeah, he was, he was one of the worst characters of all time. So
00:06:16.380the hate that he got wasn't misogyny. It was because he was a terrible character. Go ahead.
00:06:22.180Um, the attorney Andrew Branca show. Oh, Hey, nothing like a little V Jar Jar.
00:06:31.440We got another one. One plus 49 equals 50. Andrew, how are you? I hope you're doing good.
00:06:40.740Um, okay. Do you want me to keep playing the video? Yeah, go ahead. Okay.
00:06:45.600Ownership by a very small group of people where they were the star of the show back in 1977 when
00:06:52.980Star Wars first came out. You see both the, the minimization of the importance of that story.
00:06:59.280I just, this looks exactly like you would think a woman complaining about this would look not hot
00:07:06.420because they have to get attention from the hot guys somehow. Um, and hot women will just stick
00:07:14.820out their boobs, but she can't do that, obviously. So she's going to have to complain, nag, whine.
00:07:21.780For other people. And you also see like this, uh, endless harassing of the people that are telling
00:07:27.400that story. No lessons were learned by the time of the star Wars sequel trilogy in 2015,
00:07:32.920when the first trailers revealed that the main characters would be Ray, a capable young woman
00:07:38.140and Finn, a black ex storm trooper. Most fans were excited about the potential brought by a cast of new
00:07:44.160faces. I just can't imagine the men were excited at all, but the women were probably excited because
00:07:50.360we love ruining things that men love. We love it. So yeah, the sad part about it is, is sci-fi
00:07:59.000will never be a female genre. They've been trying to make Marvel. They've been trying to make comic
00:08:04.200books and Marvel movies and sci-fi more friendly to women. Why would that be pro? Why would you think
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00:09:03.840It's because women spend more money. That's why they want to get that female dollar, but it's at
00:09:10.820the cost of men who have literally carried these franchises for years. You're going to alienate
00:09:18.300your main audience to get the women dollar and women just aren't, women don't like action movies.
00:09:25.880They don't like sci-fi. It's just not going to happen. It's sports and the WNBA. 70% of the
00:09:31.560people that watch the WNBA right now are men, but they're trashing all over men. It's crazy.
00:09:37.680Yeah. I think I'm going to start pandering to women. So, cause that just seems a lot easier too.
00:09:43.160So, so I'll just start with, um, girl, you're so special. You're so awesome. You deserve the world.
00:09:51.540He really didn't appreciate you. Did he? And if I can say one last thing about the,
00:09:58.740they're talking about, um, the new star Wars movies. So they hired this lady and Kathleen
00:10:05.620Kennedy to take over the Lucasfilm after George Lucas left, cause Disney bought it for like
00:10:10.080umpteenth billion dollars. And she literally said, the force is female. Now guys, women are taking over
00:10:17.160star Wars literally had shirts on saying the force is female. We're going to make, so they have this
00:10:22.640character named Ray and there's a term called a Mary Sue Pearl. A Mary Sue is a woman who's,
00:10:29.220who's perfect. She has no flaws. She doesn't have to learn anything. She never gets beat in a fight.
00:10:35.180And Ray was the ultimate Mary Sue. She never lost a fight. She, she never tripped. There's what's
00:10:41.620called the hero's journey. The hero's journey is like, you know, you, you have to get knocked
00:10:47.040down to get back up and go through adversity. And Mary Sue's are characters who never have to go
00:10:51.920through the hero's journey. And they're all mostly women. So that's why the guys were pissed off
00:10:57.320about the new star Wars movies. Cause the main character was a woman and she was a Mary Sue.
00:11:02.260But a vocal contingent went on the attack immediately decrying the forced diversity of the new
00:11:08.300trilogy. Almost 40 years, we've taken one kind of person and made them the center of the world and
00:11:15.340catered to their every single whim and not really represented other people. So as we're having,
00:11:21.120you know, societal change where we're showing other kinds of people as the heroes,
00:11:26.160there are a lot of people that generally, they feel like something has been stolen from them.
00:11:30.900They directed. Yeah. Cause you guys did steal it from them.
00:11:36.000You did. It's like, that's the female gaslighting. It never ends. You get upset
00:11:41.580and they just gaslight you and say, you shouldn't be upset. It's like,
00:11:45.120bitch. Their anger at Kelly Marie Tran, the first woman of color to hold a major honor.
00:11:51.200Oh my gosh. Do Asian women even count as women of color?
00:11:57.100They like have less color than white people.
00:11:59.700If I can say something about this Kelly Marie Tran girl. So she, she was in the second Star Wars movie,
00:12:11.980The Last Jedi, which is one of the worst movies ever made. It was intentionally divisive to the
00:12:17.580fan base and her character. She, she played this character named Rose Tico, who was a complete DEI
00:12:24.820and a diversity higher. There is no reason for her to be in the movie. Cause what, cause what happens
00:12:30.600Pearl is they take existing characters. Then they bring them into the movie and they have these new
00:12:37.380female characters and they try to prop up the female characters or the race swap characters,
00:12:42.480like the black characters and stuff. But to do that, they do that at the expense of a existing
00:12:49.080character or older character. And that's exactly what happened with this Asian girl. There was no
00:12:54.160reason. It wasn't the actress is her character, which is awful.
00:12:59.940I'm just upset. They called her a woman. I don't like it when Asian women get in on the women of
00:13:04.660color thing. Like, I just think they feel left out. No, it's like, okay, the black women, that's a
00:13:11.920woman of color, Latino women. I'll give you that. But Asian women, really? You guys think you get to be
00:13:17.920in the women of color box? Yeah. A lot of Asians. Sorry, go ahead. I've, I've been in, um, I went to
00:13:26.800Japan and most of the women there were lighter than me. There's some of them are so pale and you guys
00:13:35.540get to be put in that DEI box. Like, come on. That's why it was funny during the, the cough cough
00:13:43.780when, um, a lot of Asians were saying, this is the first time I've ever experienced racism. Oh,
00:13:51.240because Asians run away from, they, they, they run away from that label of being a person of color,
00:14:00.260but then run to it when it benefits them. I would too. I'll be a person of color. What do I need to
00:14:06.500do? Let me stay on YouTube. Um, okay. Can we acknowledge those awful female sci-fi gooner books?
00:14:16.640Um, saw a feminist fantasizing about getting it with Bigfoot. I haven't seen those. I'm not in the,
00:14:23.480look at guys. I was telling Doug MPA today. I mean, my extent, like I've been to an anime convention,
00:14:30.120but I don't know a lot of the like sci-fi. That's just not my thing. I'm learning about this today.
00:14:38.080Screen roll in the star Wars franchise. A lot of fans who kind of had racist and sexist
00:14:43.680inclinations were able to band together and drive her off social media platforms.
00:14:50.320From ghost bus. Oh, I remember this. Oh, it was so funny. I remember a Milo clip,
00:14:56.120like making fun of her. And they're like, do you feel bad about saying that? And he's like, I don't
00:15:03.880Leslie Jones to captain Marvel's Brie Larson. Fans are using social media to attack the actors
00:15:09.880who dared to be women and beloved sci-fi franchises using tactics. They learned from the most devastating
00:15:15.720online hate campaign in history. They want the benefit of being an entertainer, but not to be
00:15:20.680criticized. It's like, what do you expect that don't go into entertainment, go be an accountant.
00:15:26.040One last thing about this. So Pearl, the playbook was, oh, so first off you as a redhead,
00:15:36.600if you follow this Lord, you'd be really pissed off because the last 10 years, they've literally
00:15:41.960race swapped every single redheaded woman for a black woman. Oh my gosh. They did that in Ariel
00:15:48.360and I was pissed. Yes. Yes. And if you're going to race swap me for a black girl,
00:15:54.680like a redhead for a black girl, what make her beautiful, make her so beautiful that I understand
00:16:02.200like Mary Jane, right. With like in Spider-Man, she was a beautiful woman and they, they race swapped
00:16:09.080her for a mid black. Give me a, like, you guys don't have any hot black women. I know I see them all the
00:16:15.480time, but I'm like, why are I like, if I'm going to be replaced, I better be replaced with someone
00:16:22.360better than me. Do you know what I mean? Like somebody that's way better. Look, it's just
00:16:26.840offensive. It's just, um, so the, the flash, the TV show, the first four seasons were good, but then,
00:16:36.200uh, the, it went off a woke, a woke cliff and Iris West is the, the flash's girlfriend slash wife.
00:16:44.120She's a redhead, uh, series, uh, Iris West actress. Let me know if you think that she is,
00:16:53.160so her, her name is Candace Patton. Let me know if you think that she's attractive because she,
00:17:00.600Iris West was a redhead and they swapped her out for, for this actress named Candace Patton. Do you