How about we stop using YouTube. Yeah it’s the best out there. But we can’t rely on these companies. Go elsewhere or better yet, stay off of social media.
Orcs are monsters meant to be murdered for XP. Pretending Orcs are humans is fuckin retarded and I will never support anyone pushing that garbage narrative. Fuck Orcs and fuck anyone who tries to humanize them.
Sucks ty be Mr Douglas but I really don't give a shit. He's part of the problem in Fantasy literature to be completely honest.
It's so much of a problem, you would turn your head from his channel being completely removed? His writing content is a separate issue than the topic at hand. It seems your reasoning is more toxic than the subject of his orcs.
"He unfairly lost his channel, but he humanizes orcs - so fuck him."
That's exactly right. He chose the most controversial race of character BECUASE he wanted to virtue signal in the most heated and toxic space in entertainment, YA Novels and worse yet, the Fantasy genre. He tried to court all the weirdos who want to bring all the modernity of reality into 'Fantasy'. So that's what happens when you play with pigs in the mud. You get covered in shit, the problem is cancel 'pigs' LOVE to roll around in shit, so it's a battle you'll never win. That and the fact he hangs out with the absolute Zeros crew that is FNT. All of those grifters are ironically everything they claim to oppose. They champion SJW/DEI practices as long as it's people 'they' know and are friends with, the nepotism runs deep. So yeah, anything coming out of 'that' camp of try-hards is going to be shit regardless of how many 'progressives' come after them.
It is tough. The allure of platforms like YouTube is that there is many people around so they can find you easier. Moving to your personal Substack or your own website makes you harder to find and you need to do a lot more marketing to get people there. Also I think you could run into similar issues on Substack as well. In addition we have a lot of scam and fraud websites out there which makes everyone suspicious of any newcomer who might want to try to fix that (or the business realities will turn them into that). I'm working on my own solution, but I worry that I won't even get a fair chance because it is not as polished and because of the BS like this. Then AI is coming into all this as well which leaves me sometimes really black pilled.
Finally retreating into walled gardens leaves the space open for those that want to get control and influence the wider culture, so I think it is only temporary respite and dooms many potential upcoming authors dead on arrival as they will be shunned and silenced by the orthodoxy and unable to build audience to be able to build their little kingdom. So in order to survive and prosper there will be need for some unification. But given the nature of most people on this side that will also be difficult due to their spirit and suspicion due to their past experience.
OK, I'm starting to ramble, but that is what has been on my mind related to this. Thoughts? Am I out of touch?
The channel last I looked was not huge. I like his work but it takes time to build. YouTube knocked him down because they could. it's to keep the rest of us in line.
I'd say "Welcome to youtube!" but it's been done before.
Google doesn't give a crap about its users, and the last head of YT, as well as the current one are rarely on the platform.
Given enough time, Substack's AI will strike people down for less than nothing and without human oversight, Substack will start banning people.
There are already calls for people to be banned because they don't agree with the mentally ill crowd.
How about we stop using YouTube. Yeah it’s the best out there. But we can’t rely on these companies. Go elsewhere or better yet, stay off of social media.
Wish him luck. This is a damn good eye opener though
Orcs are monsters meant to be murdered for XP. Pretending Orcs are humans is fuckin retarded and I will never support anyone pushing that garbage narrative. Fuck Orcs and fuck anyone who tries to humanize them.
Sucks ty be Mr Douglas but I really don't give a shit. He's part of the problem in Fantasy literature to be completely honest.
It's so much of a problem, you would turn your head from his channel being completely removed? His writing content is a separate issue than the topic at hand. It seems your reasoning is more toxic than the subject of his orcs.
"He unfairly lost his channel, but he humanizes orcs - so fuck him."
That's exactly right. He chose the most controversial race of character BECUASE he wanted to virtue signal in the most heated and toxic space in entertainment, YA Novels and worse yet, the Fantasy genre. He tried to court all the weirdos who want to bring all the modernity of reality into 'Fantasy'. So that's what happens when you play with pigs in the mud. You get covered in shit, the problem is cancel 'pigs' LOVE to roll around in shit, so it's a battle you'll never win. That and the fact he hangs out with the absolute Zeros crew that is FNT. All of those grifters are ironically everything they claim to oppose. They champion SJW/DEI practices as long as it's people 'they' know and are friends with, the nepotism runs deep. So yeah, anything coming out of 'that' camp of try-hards is going to be shit regardless of how many 'progressives' come after them.
Zee, you clearly have deep knowledge and have established credentials as an old-school reader of fiction.
Why are you such a foulmouthed retard with a hate-boner when you have this wonderful ability to read the intentions of others?
Bullshit.
The book makes hash of progressive shibboleths.
It's a bait and switch where the woke are bait and switched into reading a based book.
Go drown yourself
your curses are Consummately Returned, and the graves you dig here for him you alone fall in.
I Promise. go straight to hell.
I haven't read the book so not sure which of you is right. What are some examples of "progressive shiboleths" that the book makes hash of?
Shibboleth sounds Lovecraftian
your picture is of a "trans" character from a video game, so yes.
So is John Douglas one of the woke ones?
Absolutely not
It is tough. The allure of platforms like YouTube is that there is many people around so they can find you easier. Moving to your personal Substack or your own website makes you harder to find and you need to do a lot more marketing to get people there. Also I think you could run into similar issues on Substack as well. In addition we have a lot of scam and fraud websites out there which makes everyone suspicious of any newcomer who might want to try to fix that (or the business realities will turn them into that). I'm working on my own solution, but I worry that I won't even get a fair chance because it is not as polished and because of the BS like this. Then AI is coming into all this as well which leaves me sometimes really black pilled.
Finally retreating into walled gardens leaves the space open for those that want to get control and influence the wider culture, so I think it is only temporary respite and dooms many potential upcoming authors dead on arrival as they will be shunned and silenced by the orthodoxy and unable to build audience to be able to build their little kingdom. So in order to survive and prosper there will be need for some unification. But given the nature of most people on this side that will also be difficult due to their spirit and suspicion due to their past experience.
OK, I'm starting to ramble, but that is what has been on my mind related to this. Thoughts? Am I out of touch?
The channel last I looked was not huge. I like his work but it takes time to build. YouTube knocked him down because they could. it's to keep the rest of us in line.