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[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Thought slime has some mixed-quality takes, but is, above all else a wokescold crybully, making them incredibly toxic and counter-productive.

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What the hell does "wokescold crybully" even mean?

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

It's how you call someone an "SJW" if you're self aware enough to know that the optics of calling people SJWs is bad.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for this recommendation, will be checking out Thought slime

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I never bothered with the collabs (because they are loooooong) snd not seen in a couple of years anyway, but their mainstay videos I thought really intelligently debunked/called out rightwing grift and the like

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I only watch their youtube videos and don't really get that vibe from them. Am I missing some drama context or could you elaborate what makes them so bad?

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I haven't watched their content in a couple of years now, but there was a series of bad takes on Twitter, a hell of a lot of cringe, toxicity, self-centeredness, and performative self-victimisation, The main drama I saw was with Xanderhall and Vaush. On the other side of it, they've done a string of collaborations with varying levels of success.

Their videos were generally OK, if a little basic with some flawed analysis. They chose some interesting subjects, but their content took a meaningful dip not long after they came out as NB (I hope I don't have that wrong?). Hopefully the dip was just a short-term product of some of the stress and distraction, but their content wasn't strong enough to get me through it and I checked out.

If you like the content, you like it, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's not horrible, I just thought it stopped being worth watching (though hope that's changed).

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess I'm a bit lenient on them (yes, they're NB) since I like their jokes and theirpop-culture content and I admit: Their videos got me to consciously discover anarchism, which has become a cornerstone of my ideology. So I guess their flawed analysis was a good starting point before I got into the more meaty stuff.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'm glad to hear that!

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine having a Youtube platform with over 10k+ subscribers and using it to manufacture micro-celebrity drama.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It's a pretty reliable money spinner...

[–] rwhitisissle@lemy.lol 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you have two flavors of leftist youtubers: ineffectual wokescolds and edgelord dudebros. Edgelords are one leaked DM from them to an underage fan away from pivoting into straight authoritarian nationalism, and wokescolds are basically trying to fill out a pokedex of other online leftists they made enemies with because they didn't pass a particular ideological purity test.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I'm disagree with this take, but it's also not baseless.

I don't think the likes of Vaush or Keffals are about to flip authoritarian nationalist, nor do I think creaters like Hbomb or Philosophy tube fit either bucket to give a couple of examples.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Translation: He criticized my favorite cryptofash youtuber and my butthole's still aching from it.

And before anyone says otherwise, they literally orbit around a pedo who dropped the jewish question. They're cryptofash.