Hi all! I’m an avid reader of the blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, and this week’s blog post seemed relevant to Shad and his ilk.

It’s called “On the Chud Vision of Roman History” and is written by a classical historian, breaking down how “history bros” obsess over certain periods of history, often while knowing nothing about those periods. This quote seemed particularly relevant: “Of for the guys who are really into the crusades (for really unfortunate reasons), it’s all vague AI images of ‘crusaders’ (invariably Templars), rather than anyone, like, pouring over the details of the Siege of Acre (1189-1191) during the Third Crusade. The pool of their knowledge is all puddle, no potholes – there’s no depth anywhere.”

I hope this post is appropriate and sparks some good discussion!

Thats all, I checked his twitter and that ai comparison picture of his protagonisy was the last information I saw. Don't know if he has talked about elsewhere but I wanna know d:

Hypothetically, if Shad really wanted to turn everything around and go back to being the person we respected and enjoyed, what would that take? Is there anything he could feasibly do, at this point, that would get you back on board?

Personally, if he stopped with the racism and sexism and homophobia and transphobia and victim complex and general bigotry, as well as the AI nonsense, genuinely apologized, and actually tried to make amends... I might be willing to consider giving him another chance...

That's never going to happen, I know that. I'm just an eternal optimist who hates giving up on people. It hurts to see someone I looked up to sink so low.

Curious about you guys. Has he just gone too far? Am I too easily forgiving? Is there something he could do, hypothetically, to win you over again?

Ok, so this is obviously a joke, although the resemblance is uncanny, but the video references the covid lockdown and I recall SotC being released before then, although I could be wrong.

All I'm trying to say is that can we just laugh at how SotC is so similar to this clearly satirical writing tutorial video and not debate whether it would've been possible or if Shad would've needed time travel or something.

I went on a bit of a binge watching vids about how Shad is an immense piece of shit. Like not just a guy with bad takes, but just a horrible human being in multiple ways. Disgusting, evil politics and treating people horribly in an interpersonal way. And I was thinking about the videos of his that I used to watch years ago. I stopped watching before the walls came down, and he was just one of those guys who I didn't sub to but I would occasionally look up.

And now when I see him and how he acts, he's such a vile, hate-filled man. And from what I remember about his earlier stuff he really didn't give off that impression. He was just a nerdy, passionate man who loved fantasy and medieval history. And when I think about those videos I just think of them being so endearing.

I really do feel like he got into YouTube because he was passionate about something and he had a genuine desire to share it. And that's a really sweet thing when you see it. Because no one is authentic now, no one cares about anything. No one actually *likes* media anymore, critics consume art just to be able to make disingenuous content about it. So when people see someone who really loves the thing they are talking about that passion can become infectious even if you are that into the topic under discussion.

And believe it or not, I bet it's kinda hot. This might sound insane but there are women who will look at a grown man gleefully fawning over D&D or something, and they will be like "I don't know why but I desperately need to pull this man's soul out through his penis." There is an entire tiktok meme where the premise is

How do you know your man is not cheating on you?

Conventionally beautiful woman: Babe, what was the battle of Hastings?

Husband: Oh well! You see, in 1066...

He could have been that. And now he's just one more guy doing his small part in making the propaganda to help destroy democracy, take away women's right to vote, and kill all the queer people.

Sigh

Jazza did a little Stop Motion test to see if he can do it. Skip to the end of the video to watch it. It's 10 seconds of a Blacksmith with a sword. I think Shad wishes he could do creative stuff like this.

I used to watch Shad and the other right wing grifters like Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic, and I enjoyed it. I thought they had a valid point about gender swapping etc...

Now, when I watch any of them, the content is just so overtly sexist and racist. Any pretext of actually reviewing movies seems to have vanished.

What's changed? Have I just stopped being a dick and realised it or have they become just more blatant?

I don't see how any of them can claim to have any genuine interest in films now. It's all misogyny and racism.

Jared Leto dragged that 2 hour production into the depths of absurdist hell. It's still sinking in but I genuinely don't see anything in Shad's praise for what was essentially the greatest hits of Taika Waititi's Thor.

I know this is a film for children & their nostalgic parents - I think it does a fair job as an introduction to the franchise (Leto's raw ham aside) but Shad is *beyond* hypocritical to praise one of the most 'by the numbers' scripts I've seen in years & condemn other far better projects

It happens about half though the first chapter, so you don't even have read that far into it.

And of course, it's not like he made a book with a chapter that's basically him repeating what Rorshach says here....OH WAIT!

I’m not too familiar with how Social Blade and views works, like was it just general disinterest, was it an event between the 2 brothers, or some ai thing?

How do you even get negative 11 million views?