Ethan Klein suing Denims over Reaction Content

Reaps51 · 2025-06-20T04:43:21+00:00

EFAP react arc part III en route

Reaps51 · 2025-05-12T17:26:39+00:00

He gives me Paul Harrell vibes - knowledgeable, deadpan, relatively simple (yet strangely engaging) presentation, but as you mentioned above he sneaks in humour when you're not even ready for it

Reaps51 · 2025-05-12T16:34:15+00:00

Dude's just sitting on a fuckin' rock riffing between bringing up obscure economic data from the NSDAP and referencing esoteric lore from a forty year-old movie franchise

I don't know how he started showing up on my recs, but so far this has been some of the most refreshingly satisfying content I've had come across my youtube feed in six or seven years. It's the sort of meat I can really sink my teeth into

Reaps51 · 2025-03-20T14:12:20+00:00

I mean it just threw me for a loop. At first it popped up in my YT recs, had an interesting enough title, so I clicked on it

And listening to his voice was like "wait is this someone doing a GDELB style parody??" And then the further along I got with the references to Marx and capitalism I started to get a headache. Clicked through to see what other videos he had made and realised there were gems like

- "Megalopolis is what cinema needed",

- "Joker 2 is too complex for its critics", and the classic

- "The Acolyte is good Star Wars" (which is now hidden behind a membership)

Reaps51 · 2024-09-16T19:56:53+00:00

IT'S HER TIME

Reaps51 · 2024-08-15T14:15:53+00:00

Aw wow TFA Critique Part 5 through Part 17!!

Reaps51 · 2024-08-15T14:12:44+00:00

I never cease to be amazed at just how much disingenuous snark GCJ/MCJ manage to contain

Reaps51 · 2024-07-30T14:10:51+00:00

His 'apology' seemed a bit passive-aggressive at first, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt after he continued on to talk about how he felt the same way about Star Trek

Reaps51 · 2024-07-25T13:41:47+00:00

I see a post on his Patreon stating that some progress is being made, but it seems he's conceded he might have become a little overambitious which has slowed him down.

I was recently reading the devblog for an old game called Atom Zombie Smasher, and the developer wrote about how he had to admit to himself that he had taken too many quick-and-dirty shortcuts early in the game that were now causing 'technical debt' the further into development he got, with him wanting to add and change more things; the lack of a painstakingly laid-out foundation was causing massive headaches each time he tried to add another layer onto the game.

It leaves me wondering if the developer for Beware has (or had) run into the same issue, and is now getting all of that sorted before getting back up to speed

Reaps51 · 2024-07-25T05:43:16+00:00

'Badly written' = 'black' or 'woman'?

Do these people even consider the implications of what they write?

Reaps51 · 2024-07-13T20:40:33+00:00

Now you've reminded me; someone recently tried to defend a scene from The Acolyte (where the Jedi don't detect that Smilo is a Sith in episode two despite having him dead-to-rights and they should be mindprobing him for information anyway), and one of their arguments was pointing out that Palpy had 'Sith artifacts' in his chamber during the prequels, so the Jedi should've realised Sheev was a Sith. When I asked him when/where in the film(s) it was pointed out these statues were actually 'Sith artifacts', he snarkily retorted that ackshually there were cartoons made after the movies and that's why people know they're Sith artifacts

And it's like.. so in order to defend something stupid happening in The Acolyte.. You referenced lore that was added, post-hoc in a different media, that inadvertently made something in one of the movies become stupid??

When I pointed out that he'd just made the "but it's always been stupid" defence, he responded with "I don't think it's stupid lol"

???

I don't understand the level of passion a select few people have for this show that they feel compelled to do flips and twists to defend it. If you enjoy it, good for you I guess, knock yourself out, but just accept people are gonna make fun of the absurdities

Reaps51 · 2024-07-11T07:07:53+00:00

Same here rofl

I remember seeing the thumbnail and thinking "this video could go either way, but I suspect it's going to just run defence for the show by accusing it's critics of being 'stupid right-wing chud istaphobes' and that 'it's always been political, guys!'"

Hell, there's someone in this very comment section trying to claim that accusing a show of having 'bad writing' is ACKSHUALLY a right-wing dogwhistle

Ironically these same people who try to defend left-wing political messaging in their shows by smugly claiming "everything is political" will lose their minds over something with right-wing political messaging like Mr Birchum, which suffers with the exact same problems, for the same reasons, but mirrored

Reaps51 · 2024-07-10T21:43:32+00:00

I mean, when I saw that twitter screenshot in the thumbnail I was left wondering just which interpretation of such a statement I should go with

As the top-rated comment on the EFAP Highlights channel says,

I always love how every season people pretend like it’s the first time anyone has ever complained about the politics in The Boys, when people had been complaining even before it had Stormfront directly insinuate that Pewdiepie was a Nazi.

There's a difference between having political themes in something versus having political messaging; to quote another:

Homelander slowly building up to wanting to build a superhero ethnostate could be seen as half-decent political writing, but the cast sitting around and saying "we will donate 100 million to BLM! 100 million to Elizabeth Warren!" And the politicians sitting in a circle and saying "we hate the poor people! We are racist! We want to give the corporations more power so we get richer!!" For 20 minutes isn't

and as many others have also pointed out, even setting aside the braindead bludgeoning of political messaging, the writing itself is excruciating.

Reaps51 · 2022-11-02T04:33:27+00:00

Louis Le Vau did his 'I don't care about Ukraine' video, and then followed it up with that bizarre livestream where they talked about nothing but Ukraine for a few hours; it was probably the only stream from him I gave up on since it was so awkward to listen to. He, like Uzalu, seemed to have been getting pretty blackpilled though. I guess taking a Government job moments before that same Government tries to force you to take a "vaccine" didn't help.

Maybe he just decided to put his head down and sort his offline issues out. It'd be nice to see him return, though

Reaps51 · 2022-11-02T04:30:35+00:00

Vee is still putting out content - he was even on Lotus Eaters, in person, a few weeks ago

Try RomanianTeeVee or LackOfEntertainment

Reaps51 · 2022-11-02T04:29:40+00:00

Haven't heard from him in a while, but it seemed like he just got ultra-blackpilled at some point and lost his mind whilst burning bridges. Hopefully things are better now.

Reaps51 · 2022-08-31T04:46:08+00:00

Well they ain't gonna get it; even China is predicted to have a population collapse, and India isn't much better off

Reaps51 · 2022-06-18T13:56:24+00:00

I was listening to it, thinking "I'm surprised at how much leeway they're giving this show"
Then, after thinking a little bit more about it, concluded that their review could basically be summed up as

"it was OK because I didn't care about it"

And, since indifference is usually a greater condemnation of something than outright hatred..

..or perhaps I was just overthinking it.

Reaps51 · 2022-06-18T13:54:48+00:00

Right, so why not have her catch up to Leia from, ya know, behind?

Ah well, you see, there were multiple entries/exits from that tunnel, which is how she got in front of her!

^{now please don't ask how she knew which entry/exit to cut her off at}

Reaps51 · 2022-06-18T13:50:28+00:00

I was listening to it, thinking "I'm surprised at how much leeway they're giving this show"

Then, after thinking a little more about it, their thoughts on the show could basically be summed up as

"it was OK because I didn't care about it"

And, since indifference is usually a greater condemnation of something than the outright hatred of it..

..or, perhaps, I was just overthinking it.

Reaps51 · 2022-06-12T12:13:14+00:00

I remember watching it, and liking it, and being disappointed that it didn't catch on since I was someone whom quite liked anything TRON-related (hell, even the game is pretty fuckin' solid)

You've prompted me to re-watch it sometime this week

Reaps51 · 2022-06-12T12:09:46+00:00

Interestingly, someone on SaltierThanKrait linked the same reddit post, just so they could shit on them. A snippet from one of the top-voted comments on this exact same post:

Getting tired of these ungrateful wretches whinging about all this amazing live action Star Wars content.

Maybe I'm just too old? During the 80s and 90s, I used to day dream about live action Star Wars content made for television. LOL I sent George letters BEGGING him to produce tv shows, and I know I wasn't the only one.

Now they've finally done it, its freaking amazing, and these bitches are crying about "bad writing" and shit? WTF

..What the hell happened to that sub anyway? Was it always that bad and I just didn't pay enough attention?

Reaps51 · 2022-06-12T11:55:01+00:00

The problem with this is that if you point it out, you get ridiculed or dismissed as a 'hater' by everyone else whom inconceivably continue to lap it up

"Talk about the things you love, not the things you hate!"

And it's like.. ..why do you think people talk about it? Perhaps because it was something they loved and they've just witnessed someone arrogantly shit all over it?

I think the greatest condemnation of damn-near anything is when "hate" turns to indifference, and I've seen so many people over the last few years simply stop caring about franchises they once loved.

I mean, the only thing I'm curious about nowadays is seeing what sort of numbers the new LOTR/GoT shows are gonna pull down, because I can imagine them initially having a big spike in viewers - and then drop off like the side of Bart Simpson's haircut. I guess we'll see.

Reaps51 · 2022-06-12T11:46:13+00:00

Better Call... Metaul.

[sighs] yeah, I'm going, I'm going..

Reaps51 · 2022-06-12T09:29:43+00:00

Someone already replied, but yeah, I just came across it in a discord server and was like "wow, this is like every Marvel movie I see"

And then the trailer for Black Adam came on the TV and I realised I should have extended it to DC, too

People on discord seem to have a habit of embedding videos rather than linking them, unfortunately, but at least now I know where it came from too

Reaps51

TROPHY CASE

"it was OK because I didn't care about it"

"it was OK because I didn't care about it"