• Blakey [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 hours ago

    God, shad is fucking wild. I kinda wish I didn’t know about him but I have slurped up so many dumb YouTube videos about this awful little worm of a man.

    I’m never going to read his book but the descriptions of it are absolutely appalling. Main character is supposed to be “dark and edgy”, and is also obviously a self insert. Full of sexual violence against girls.

    Description of a horrible book including references to said SV.

    Apparently by the end of the book, all of the ones who he managed to impregnate forgive him, while the ones he didn’t remain “bitter”. He also does nothing to actually earn forgiveness, continues to carry out sexual violence during his supposed redemption arc, and becomes a magical “superhero” vigilante who murders people in the streets, which is okay because he can look into them and see how much “light” they have which tells him whether or not they are redeemable. The only slight problem with this is that he apparently forgot that’s how it worked at some point and also wrote that your “light” is more a reflection of how sure you are of yourself. So the “hero” is merking people in the street for the great crime of self doubt.

    It’s just… Wild how bizarrely awful and offensive it all is. There’s so much weird shit he has gotten up to. He absolutely lost his shit publicly over princess peach wearing pants in the Mario movie, because “it’s not feminine, she’s a princess and would never dress like that! They don’t even know the franchise!”

    Of course someone pointed out that the outfit in question was from Mario kart (and is also extremely feminine anyway) and he claimed the extended, red-faced rant he went on was a “joke”. And that’s the biggest thing, he constantly commits to an extremely bad take then pretends it never happened or that he was joking, and just appears to think that no one can tell he’s full of shit? The overwhelming impression I get of the guy is that he is really not very clever, but thinks he is because he assumes everyone else is even less clever than he is.

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      9 hours ago

      The AI art arc that Shad went on is by far the funniest content from him. Just generating the most uncanny looking pictures of all time and being like “this is the new high art”. of course he was also one of the people super into the female Malfoy stuff, trying to explain that it wasn’t sexual while looking at a foot fetish image.

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        3 hours ago

        I was gonna mention the AI art arc! Hasn’t he cut his own brother off over it because he said, basically, that generating an image is not the same as doing art?

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          27 minutes ago

          That is what I heard as well, although I got the impression that the AI art was just the last straw and that Shad had been making Thanksgivings awkward for a while.

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            14 minutes ago

            Jerma iirc is openly gay and shad is a homophobic dickbag so that scans. I think this is just a lesson about the nature of Australians who convert to Mormonism:p

      • Sneakytrickyyy [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        11 hours ago

        I think that might’ve always been a thing, I got rancid vibes from him when he showed off his edge lord book, I haven’t watched him since, I guess I aquired at least a bit of a taste

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          10 hours ago

          I still think “MACHICOLATIONS!” every time I see them on castles because I was into his content back in the day. Thankfully my standards increased over time because his historical content was always pretty shoddy.

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      12 hours ago

      The more you come to realize the larger body politic of american “democracy” is just high school drama, the more, something, maybe, idk? It’s all would be silly if these people weren’t making life and death choices for the poor.

  • Sneakytrickyyy [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    11 hours ago

    Oh look it’s that dumbass that thinks swinging swords in your backyard makes you an expert historian, you know the guy who wrote some Hitlerite self-insert “”“dark fantasy”“” book? Also does “AI art” lol, lmao even

    doggirl-lol

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    11 hours ago

    How Washed on a Scale from Ben Shapiro to Alex Jones is Shad these days? From what I heard, he’s basically a lolcow and even the alt right doesn’t like him?