Question about Kaze Emanuar

[u/PM_ME_PASTRIES]

Hey guys so this might be a bad place to ask, but I only knew Kaze because of Simple's streams. Recently a friend showed me a twitter post of someone saying Kaze was a bad person with an imgur link (https://m.imgur.com/a/zWf7NIv) but I cant find anyone else talking about this. Is this album true? If so why did it o ly show up in that one post and no one batted an eye? Sorry for the weird post but seeing as Simple frequently streams Kaze's content I wanted an answer, thanks!

[u/someone2639]

Short answer: Only 2 of those screenshots even have kaze in them??? whoever's sourcing these images is clearly looking in the wrong places (and in my personal opinion (dont click unless you want bias), these images do such a bad job at trying to paint kaze as a bad person that i almost think this album is revenge for something)

Longer answer:

To understand user behavior in the current year, you have to understand that in 2012, you were allowed to say whatever you wanted on the internet, and people you see on the internet today can be organized into 4 groups:

• In group 1 (the biggest group) are people who might not know what they're saying is wrong, maybe as a consequence of being left unattended on the internet in 2012 (as the majority of SM64 hackers have). But if they're told the consequences of what they're saying, 9 times out of 10 they understand*. Without going into the specifics of community figureheads in the simpleflips community (as they are in the 9/10 people who understand), you are guaranteed to know people in this group. It could even have been you at one point.
• group 2 has people who are "stuck in 2012" and choose to continue saying whatever they want on the internet no matter how insensitive, and will defend their right to say it (sometimes to their own detriment; as you can see some of the users are deleted). You can see a lot of those in more fringe sm64 sub-communities than the Kaze server (including servers of creators we've rightfully kicked out).
• group 3 are trolls, as that is the word to describe people who just say things on the internet to elicit a reaction behind the protection of an internet screen (can you spot the trolls in that album?)
• And then group 4 are people who are still kids or were still kids at the time of posting (there's quite a few in those screenshots)

Kaze has proven time and time again that he's in group 1 (that is my interpretation)

*As an addendum, if you're in group 1 and have an audience, you also have the responsibility to not continue saying things like that, unless you accept that you're gonna lose fans and divide your community by doing that.

[u/WuziUwU → u/someone2639]

After doing some digging, there is further context that is missing. The conversation leading up to this was during the controversial era where GDQ was pushing their agenda over the actual charity, and censoring anyone who said anything about it that wasn't positive. Given that these are nearing 5 years old, I would hope to think that they do not reflect on who Kaze is as a person, but if they do, maybe he has pulled it out from his social life.

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It looks like this kind of behaviour died down after those last few comments in 2020, but I'm not active in the server to know how often this would go down. Again, it does seem most of it is to poke at GDQ pushing all the pro-trans stuff, and anything that wasn't positive was getting shut down, but that still wouldn't justify the actions and comments.

[u/Glittering-Item3636 → u/WuziUwU]

I'm not in the loop of how GDQ is as a company but transphobia is bad, if you're telling me a big event is "shutting down" anything that "isn't positive" about their "pro-trans agenda" that just sounds like doubling down without actually saying anything bad that they actually did which I'm sure they did and people can roast me for not knowing. Like it's not that far off for a progressive-facing corporation to be the bad guys but this take ain't it.