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[–][deleted] 41 insightful - 3 fun41 insightful - 2 fun42 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

Agreed. Just yesterday I was watching a YouTuber I like who does critiques of popular tv shows. He was talking about Steven Universe in one video and how the "nonbinary" characters were boring or not androgynous enough. I was already rolling my eyes but I had to close the tab completely when he said "nonbinary people are interesting by default." No. No they are not.

Another instance where I had to unsubscribe from a channel entirely was after the creator changed all references to JK Rowling in his video titles to "a TERF". Like really? You had to be this petty and immature?

It's hard because I'm a writer so I watch a lot of videos on world building and storytelling. Many of them reference Harry Potter. But almost every creator I watch has started shitting on Rowling. It's annoying at best and depressing at worst. I honestly can't find any writing channels that still support her openly and I'm very irritated seeing creators I like claim to be excellent fact checkers yet none of them actually know what Rowling said.

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    [–][deleted] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    First off your username is perfect! And that just made me roll my eyes so hard. Thankfully there were a good amount of people calling him petty and childish in the comments. I can't watch him anymore either.

    [–]moody_ape 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    and i've gotta say your username is perfection

    [–]thrownawaycan 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    Who was it? I know at least one who wrote a thing on Death of the Author (TM) and JKR but I just avoided the video.

    [–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    Death of the Author and JKR

    Was that Lindsay Ellis? I used to like her long-form video essays, with the one about YouTube 'culture' and the manufacturing of authenticity a particular highlight. But yeah, I lost respect for her when she published her Death of the Author nonsense.

    [–]thrownawaycan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I still like a lot of her stuff, but I just didn't watch that one. I doubt it goes into anything more than "TERF BAD".

    [–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Good point

    [–]anfd 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    You mean Death of the Author 2, not the first one which, though it had commentary on JK Rowling and how fans relate to her work, was in the context of criticising some of the "death of the author" ideas of Foucault, Barthes etc...? I thought the first one was pretty good.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    It's a channel called Just Write, run by a guy named Sage Hyden. He does various video essays and I used to really like his videos but the pettiness when he actually went and scrubbed his channel of JKR's name I unsubbed.