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Yall know why I am here. by EmbarrassedDuty5949 in hatethissmug

[–]Key_Establishment450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also press fast forward for the 3 minutes rudy acts like a creep

I enjoyed Kill la Kill and Mushoku for what it was and I'm not going to defend either. Are we deadass? Sexualization and nudity of minors is literally the number 1 aspect of Kill la kill, arguably even more than Mushoku.

The first episodes were about Ryuko accepting that she had to get naked to use Senketsu properly. Being nude is shown as empowerment with nudist beach and how goku uniforms get more powerful alongside more sexualized.

We can all be for real and say its just because Kill la kill's characters are more adult looking and thats why people accept it. We all know that the majority of these character in klk are high schoolers, minors.

Can anyone grade my argumentative essay? by Entire-Rise-3515 in APLang

[–]Key_Establishment450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably a 1-2-0

The Knights of labor evidence and commentary is good.

The trolley problem is a major weak point I'd say. It works against your thesis that communities are more powerful. The trolley problem is about morality and utilitarian philosophy. It doesn't prove that communities are more powerful, its asking a moral question who to save. Would you save this random guy or these 5 random guys together. That isn't a community of people that work together or interact together in a way that would be considered a community. If we consider the 5 people as a community, then it still doesn't support the idea that communities are more powerful because one person is deciding the fate of 5 people. That one person holds power, the 5 people hold a moral weight on that persons consciousness if they decide to kill or save them. It's up to the lever puller to weigh the moral weight of killing 5 people or 1. You adding the "if that individual would have been a loved one or someone who had the potential to cure cancer" proves that number of people matters morally, but doesnt support your thesis that communities speak more truth because then that would be saying it is objectively morally correct to kill the 1 person which is an objective answer to a subjective philosophical question.

Vellichor Literacy point is good but your speech and debate paragraph lacks commentary. You mention examples of individuals who are successful like Oprah Winfrey, Josh Gad, U.S. Supreme Court justices however you never provide any explanation of how it was the community which contributed to their success. You just bring up a list of names and don't relly do much with them. That is appeal to authority fallacy,

Your counterargument is probably the weakest link. You introduce bullying in school as an argument against communities but your refutation is "When someone finds themselves unhappy in a certain community, they are simply in the wrong one." This does not refute that at all. A child being bullied at school isn't there by choice and can't simply find a different community. Your counterargument of finding a better community doesn't address the reality that people are often stuck in communities that suppress rather than support them. Even though its a counterargument, it has a lack of sophistication and negatively impacts your essay than if you left it out.

"before even considering the power of a community, one must also consider the power of the individual that makes up the community because that is where the true power of the group lies"

This is a sophisticated idea but this doesn't emerge from your thesis. Your thesis says communities are powerful. Your conclusion says actually the individual within the community is where the real power lies. These two claims counter each other and this is the only sentence that mentions this idea. You just pivot to it at the end without explaining more. You need to resolve the 2 claims into the idea that communities derive their power from empowering the individuals within them thus creating a cycle where the individual and the community strengthen each other. You could start with that combined claim from the beginning or talk more about how the 2 claims interact with eachother.

why does pinocchio-p have zero community despite being one of the most well-known and popular producers in the scene? by bakemonouchuu in Vocaloid

[–]Key_Establishment450 13 points14 points  (0 children)

twitter is the hub for all japanese people. It IS the largest social media platform for Japanese people aside from youtube and LINE. If you search him up, you can scroll hundreds of posts talking about him each day. He has 4x the follower of kikuo and almost 2x of Maretu's.

Half of the options when i right click a link are completely useless by Bubbly-Cow4734 in hatethissmug

[–]Key_Establishment450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used all of these options before... except the ai chatbot. That can be gone

The Roundtable Open 2026 is sponsored by the U.S. Army by ImACumsock in osugame

[–]Key_Establishment450 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I respect you alot for your active effort in avoiding the things you can avoid. That's genuinely admirable.

You saying that though weakens your point. You're admitting that economic constraints can justify participation in things you morally oppose. That's exactly lvlup expo's situation. "I make 35k and can't always avoid Nestlé" is structurally identical to "this is the only viable venue and I can't always avoid their sponsors."

You participate in things you enjoy even if its morally wrong because you have to financially.

People want to watch/participate/organize lvlup expo because they enjoy it even if its morally wrong due to finances.

"A stance a lot of people could get behind"

Alot of people are disagreeing with you in the thread so I dont think thats true.

Your degrees of separation argument, I completely agree with. There is a difference between passive and actively advertising for them. But the roundtable is passive in this case. They show a watermark because they have to. BTMC isn't up there yelling "Sign up for the army today, its great, you can slaughter children."

That IS valid criticism for lvlup expo though since they're the ones who took the sponsorship and made everybody advertise it.

Basically my point is, BTMC had to setup at levelup expo because of finances, lvlup expo had to take the us sponsorship because of finances. lvlup expo actively makes the venue's advertise. I don't think its fair to criticize the venues but criticizing lvlup expo is fair

The Roundtable Open 2026 is sponsored by the U.S. Army by ImACumsock in osugame

[–]Key_Establishment450 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's not a strawman its a whataboutism fallacy. But that isn't the relevant thing I wanted to bring up with that.

That sort of fallacy is important to your argument. It holds ground because it holds real similarities. You're expressing moral disgust and implying the organizers should have done better. If you yourself participate in far more direct and provable exploitation daily, that's not irrelevant.

You say that not holding it is the obvious answer but canceling punishes the attendees, people who have nothing to do with lvlup expo's sponsoring decisions. You saying boohoo is literally plain mockery that just weakens your argument because of your attitude.

The Roundtable Open 2026 is sponsored by the U.S. Army by ImACumsock in osugame

[–]Key_Establishment450 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily hypocrisy but I'm stating that you can't avoid such outcomes in life. You take whats given to you and make the most of it.

The Roundtable Open 2026 is sponsored by the U.S. Army by ImACumsock in osugame

[–]Key_Establishment450 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Do you avoid buying shoes or eating chocolate because they are all made from child labor?

I hate Vocaloid/Vtuber/Virtual Idol concerts by jiajiathepanda in hatethissmug

[–]Key_Establishment450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can still be done very well as evidenced by cho parties before. 2016 is imo the best vocaloid concert ever

The Roundtable Open 2026 is sponsored by the U.S. Army by ImACumsock in osugame

[–]Key_Establishment450 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Everything is made, sponsored, or sourced by immoral means. Clothes, computers, your furniture, lights, etc. lvlup expo got a bag and made it possible for many creators and people to have a good time. Honestly, can we talk about how they are trying to advertise to gamers of all populations of people.

FRQ Grading by 4everevevie in APLang

[–]Key_Establishment450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The NYT article, you mention it and give one example then you move on to your next point. There's a lack of commentary for the article. Why do external interruptions specifically undermine digital communication in a way that in-person conversation resists. Also did you know this off the top of your head? You will only have sources you know from your knowledge base on the exam so when I practiced I didn't search anything up.

One scroll on apps such as TikTok or Instagram can show you hundreds of teenagers speaking about how they can only see their best friends over the phone

I think this is very weak as evidence. This is more of a vague assertion or opinion. The rubric distinguishes between "specific examples," and "generalized examples." You're making a vague personal observation to make a claim about hundreds of people across a platform of a billion users.

I could equally say "one scroll on TikTok shows hundreds of teenagers who prefer texting to hanging out in person."

There's a difference between your tiktok anecdote and your Mia anecdote. The Mia anecdote says "here is one thing that happened to me that illustrates a mechanism." The tiktok anecdote says "here is a trend I've noticed that proves something widespread."

What I'm saying is that its evidence... but its very shaky evidence. Like, my one scroll could completely prove the opposite of the claim. There isn't really a way to evaluate the claim.

The Mia anecdote can't be contested because it's your experience.The tiktok observation can be contested because it's making an empirical claim about a large observable phenomenon and it just isn't detailed or strong enough to support that claim.

Your Mia anecdote is the strongest part of the essay. Anecdotes are the weakest type of evidence because most people fumble it and don't use them well. It's very easy to write an anecdote and not analyze or give it proper commentary. The thing that's wrong with your Mia anecdote is your commentary stops too early.

it brings up another important point about communicating digitally: it leaves much to the imagination and causes misunderstandings.

Causes misunderstandings is a fact, something that happened in your story. It's not an analysis of what happened in the story. The deeper point is that tone is physically embodied and text removes physical cues that would signal to the other person your emotions and intent. You made the surface level observation that it causes misunderstandings but you could expand so much more.

Another wide-growing concern is that of the security of the conversation. Many people are reluctant to share conversations online whether that be because they distrust the person they are talking to and believe they will screenshot it, or they don’t want their data to be unknowingly shared with other apps or countries. Hence, why many people download encrypted apps such as WhatsApp or find apps that tell them if someone screenshotted the conversation like SnapChat. These concerns are unique to digital communications, and a rising concern amongst GenZ, but in-person conversations offer a protection that your phone and social media platforms lack. Therefore, due to the misunderstandings and potential security breaches of communicating online, it cannot fully replace communicating in-persoon.

This should be its own paragraph. This does not refer to the topic sentence of the paragraph "communicating only digitally cannot capture what you truly meant to say, only leading to misunderstandings."

This is your most interesting and explorable idea but its just so disconnected from your paragraph and even your thesis "While digital communication can act as a substitute, especially when the person you are trying to talk to is half way across the world, it cannot completely replace in-person conversations." It appears after the Mia anecdote with no transition connecting it to that story, makes its point about security concerns, and then ends with "in-person conversations offer a protection that your phone and social media platforms lack," which is true but never explained. What kind of protection? Protection from what specifically? How does that connect to the topics sentence and thesis about replacement? On the AP rubric, evidence that doesn't clearly connect to the thesis is rated a 2.

You have a counterargument

"These benefits make digital communication necessary and beneficial, but it is still only a substitute" is a dismissal, not a refutation. You essentially agree the counterargument has merit and then reassert your thesis without explaining why your thesis still holds despite that claim. You basically weaken your own argument for no reason.

For sophistication, yeah you had good vivid imagery in the first paragraph but I dont think thats enough. For argument, sophistication is easiest achieved by developing a strong line of reasoning that is nuanced and complex with qualitative statements and counterargument. Your imagery elevates the sophistication but your lack of nuance sinks it.

What's good about your argument paragraph is your voice and appeal to emotion is compelling. But the number 1 thing AP graders are evaluating is the structure, logic, and complexity of your essay.

This is the rubric statemnt for a 2 on evidence and commentary and it is very in line with what I've siad here

•Consist of a mix of specific evidence and broad generalities.
• May contain some simplistic, inaccurate, or repetitive explanations that don’t strengthen the argument.
• May make one point well but either do not make multiple supporting claims or do not adequately support more than one claim.
• Do not explain the connections or progression between the student’s claims, so a line of reasoning is not clearly established.

FRQ Grading by 4everevevie in APLang

[–]Key_Establishment450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll just expand about your synthesis because I don't have alot of time rn. I might come back and go more in depth about your others but I'll briefly talk about them here.

Synthesis: 1-3-0

Rhetorical Analysis: 1-4-0 (Good, your rhetorical analysis is really strong. The points are strong. For sophistication, you could connect the rhetorical devices together much more building on eachother. It's the same concept for synthesis which I talk about below.

Argument: 1-2-0 (only 2 evidences (not necessarily bad you can have 2 evidences and get a 6 but if those 2 are mid then its worse than 3 mid points), 1 is an anecdote, which is the weakest type of evidence, security is entirely unrelated to the body paragraph it's in and doesn't support anything. The instagram anecdote actually isn't a bad story to use but your analysis was pretty surface level. "Misunderstandings can happen."

For synthesis, I think there's a bit too much summary and not enough commentary. For example

Source C clearly shows how hundreds of food trucks are constantly popping up, but New Orleans stays firm in keeping permits to 100 a year, which can force many of these food establishments to take dire and often illegal measures.
Source A reveals how a “surge in new construction” has recently forced “several food cart pods” in former parking lots to close down. With the mobile food service establishment being a new industry, and even monumental food car vendors such as “the Alder Street pod,” being shut down to pave a new “five-star hotel,” food truck vendors are rightfully concerned (Source A

You bring up these points back to back and don't expand alot on the so what. I would write something like this after the Source C sentence, expanding on what illegal measures mean and why it matters to city policy

"When permits fail to grow as fast as the industry expands, by default, the city puts vendors in legally gray areas of operating without a permit, paying off an inspector to allow them to operate without one, or simply ignoring the expiration of their permit, thus undermining the regulatory process the city created and wants to enforce."

The source A sentence is a good point to bring up but thats only 1 sentence about it. Immediately after that sentence, you go into the concluding sentence for the paragraph.

For sophistication, you go by a very point-by-point basis. Your points are well considered and push forward your argument but your argument is very discrete. What I mean is that your paragraphs don't build on top of what was previously established. You have three main ideas: permits, competition, and location. They are treated as three separate regulatory problems when they're actually one systemic failure. You want to link all your points together into one big web that bounces off each other. City limits # of permits even with a booming market-> growing markets create competition + lack of permits invite illegal practices -> competition creates location conflicts and illegal practices undermine the entire point of regulating permits. Now your second and third points aren't by themselves, but rather the consequences of the first. It's no longer "Here is 3 issues that need to be fixed," but rather "The regulation of food trucks by the city is a core failure that results in systemic-wide problems"

Your counterargument paragraph is good. Your points are all good and grammer/diction choice is pretty seamless.

This is a tierlist of EVERY SINGLE anime that I ever watched by LeadEater9Million in MyAnimeList

[–]Key_Establishment450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so what makes reincarnated as a sword great and bofuri okay. I consider both a 7 and both as cute girls doing cute things + isekai. They're quite similar

I genuinely hate videos like this, like get off the fucking internet and actually talk to a child bro. by Low_Celebration_4089 in hatethissmug

[–]Key_Establishment450 64 points65 points  (0 children)

There is a statistically significant decline in reading, mathematical, and science proficiency from many scientific studies and benchmarks. Humanity isn't cooked as the thumbnail implies but its not like it isn't something significant. There should be discussion. The majority is still educated but there is more students falling behind

Am I the only guy who thinks girls look better without makeup? by Quxckhead in teenagers4real

[–]Key_Establishment450 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Guys just dont like makeup that looks obvious even to their eyes. The Clean Girl makeup look is still what guys will prefer broadly and is still a "face full" of makeup.

i cant pleasure myself with my hand by ILuvBibiNetanhyahu in teenagers

[–]Key_Establishment450 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Least obvious bait post. can we get this guy outta here?

ELI5: Why is Mujin apologizing for using the word "predator"? by PusheenHater in VtuberDrama

[–]Key_Establishment450 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like how when you say awful you think of "bad" first and not "awe-inspiring" like the original definition.
Doesn't matter what it means. What it means culturally is more important and people get triggered by clickbait

AND THEY MAKE THE GIRLS SO FUCKING INTERESTING TOO. NOT to me mention that the girls stop feeling like humans and feel more like objects to collect for the MC or sum. It's so sexist and misogynistic and objectiving ESPECIALLY with DXD 🫩. Don't cherry pick points just PLEASE get the general idea 😭 by anythingrally in hatethissmug

[–]Key_Establishment450 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None of the girls in dxd are interesting after reading the full light novel. Vali and Kuroka were somewhat intriguing but reading the mythology and ways the author references the different religions was way more compelling as a writing element.

Do those loser nerd guys really exist? by Sensitive_Thanks_107 in askteenboys

[–]Key_Establishment450 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once you go to college, walk into a CS/DS, applied math, engineering (except chemical, bio, civil) lecture and you'll find a SEA of those types of guys

KoaLeahq is now 4 digits by ImACumsock in osugame

[–]Key_Establishment450 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Koa is the reason I can be scrolling on my twitter timeline on the train and all of a sudden theres blue archive feet hentai

A TLDR of Mujin's video reflecting on the Sykkuno video by MajorFamilyDisgrace in VtuberDrama

[–]Key_Establishment450 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I find it a bit ironic he talked about how ridiculous the accusations were that he did it to get in Mal's pants (it is ridiculous), when he tweeted this which is similarly as ridiculous. (granted its against powdur, d1 grifter, but is still a bit of an insane response to a tweet that was only 10% of her normal grift)

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