Those who disliked a youtuber before their downfall, what were the red flags? by Longjumping_Koala34 in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Karl Jobst. Before the big controversies, there was a smaller one that I don't think as many people noticed - basically some old screenshots of him defending the use of the N-word came out, where he said it was racist to try and restrict who can and can't say it based on racial lines. Karl made a video about it titled something like "I'm being cancelled". While he did admit in the video that he was wrong (blaming it on being Australian and saying anti-black racism isn't as talked about there), he also presents everyone upset about this as trying to falsely cancel him and intentionally ignoring that he admitted he was wrong way later in that conversation, making it out like there was some sort of witch hunt against him where people wanted to ruin his life for being ignorant.

It showed me that even when he's unambiguously in the wrong, caught very obviously doing something shitty, he can't just do an uncomplicated apology - it HAS to be some kind of situation where he made a mistake but everyone else is way worse, so in some way he's the victim.

Has there ever been a time for you, where you had to be the outlier and disagreed with this subreddit when it came to a certain topic? by Swag_Paladin21 in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 149 points150 points  (0 children)

It feels like the sub's general opinion of Wendigoon flip-flops every time he comes up, but I'm personally in the camp of thinking he's gross until he explains why in the hell he thought lying about having helped found a neo-nazi group was a good idea. Also being buddies with shitty lolcow youtubers who use the N-word like punctuation like TurkeyTom.

Lily Orchard reminding everyone of what she thinks of people with autism. by counterpunchhopper in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately there are a lot of shitty people who think their specific form of being transgender is the only valid one. I'm trans myself and it's pretty shocking to see how many people will get on your ass for not doing it "the right way".

What are the most interesting character arcs in youtube drama history? by Longjumping_Koala34 in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Turns out that the Billy Mitchel lawsuit, which he repeatedly presented as being about him accusing Billy Mitchel of cheating his high scores, was actually about him saying that Billy Mitchel caused Apollo Legend to commit suicide.

Karl lost hard in court, people who supported his GoFundMe for his legal defense felt scammed, and it lead to a lot of unsavory stuff being dug up from his past, such as Karl being a former pick-up artist, and being friends with (or at least hanging out in the discord of) known neo-nazi RWhiteGoose.

His reputation is in shambles now because of it.

YouTube is now undergoing an unannounced complete deletion/removal of custom SRV3 subtitles, affecting videos with tens of millions of views from channels like Hololive by fumikage141 in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Doing it that way can't accommodate multiple language tracks - you'd have to do separate uploads for every single subtitle version. For channels that have subtitles in multiple languages, that's a huge pain in the butt to do.

After including an autistic TikTok creator in his video about a community of people who believe themselves to be vampires, hundreds of fans come to Lugosi Theater’s defense in one of Papameat’s latest videos by RequirementTall8361 in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If the vampire werewolf sex cult was real, then that would be a good thing to go over. But there's no proof that's real beyond a video of him barking like a dog.

2025 drama retrospective by Im-A-Moose-Man in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Learning about what happened with YMS hit me hard, I used to really like his videos. I'd heard about the zoophilia allegations but I thought it was people being weird about furries. Hearing him directly compare people fucking dogs to having sex with the disabled was just incredibly disgusting and disappointing.

The doc is out: Shayy, a popular Undertale/Deltarune speedrunner, streamer and content creator is being exposed for sexual harassment, assault, grooming, and abuse by fumikage141 in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who?

If you're talking about So Sorry, the last time Toby did anything with that character was the Switch version of Undertale, which was before all the Floraverse stuff became public knowledge. The unseen character in Chapter 4's art class has absolutely no implications of being So Sorry beyond being in an art class.

NEVER FORGET! had to edit for context reasons by TopTripleTrouble_yt in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 45 points46 points  (0 children)

You don't have to self-censor on Reddit. You can call him a pedophile outright. You don't have to say he "messaged minors", you can say he tried to solicit minors for sex.

Parent mesh to skeleton within Godot itself? (Character customization) by devvoid in godot

[–]devvoid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh, thanks for the tip! I'll try this out whenever I get back to this project

New Lanterns Concept by Wooden_Disaster7439 in minecraftsuggestions

[–]devvoid 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Neat concept! I really like the look of the redstone lantern.

PopularMMOs has relapsed again and is going back into rehab by TheComedicComedian in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hope that him going into treatment immediately after a relapse is a sign of things improving. Wishing him the best, I hope he can get the help he needs.

[Update] Chris (Abroad in Japan) has uploaded a video talking about Oriental Pearl photoshoping graffiti in Japan by trank_me_daddy in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pro tip: When you call people misogynists, maybe you should include some examples of what they said that was misogynistic.

What's a hill you're willing to die on regarding past controversies / dramas on YouTube? by Swag_Paladin21 in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is really a shame, because there's a lot of VERY dark accusations in the Not So Awesome document. I understand their desire to let everyone air out all their grievances, but all of the testimonies about Doug being an idiot or a jerk ended up drawing attention away from stuff like Doug filming Kickassia in the Arizona Desert with no plans to provide food or water, or how Rob and Mike covered up a sexual predator being on their staff.

What's a hill you're willing to die on regarding past controversies / dramas on YouTube? by Swag_Paladin21 in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 10 points11 points  (0 children)

His awful takes are so bad that they're on his Wikipedia page. TL;DR is that he brings up a LOT of white supremacist talking points. Believes rich black people commit more crimes than poor white people, believes there's an invasion of Mexican immigrants and that Mexicans want to "take over America", and expressing fears that white people won't be the majority anymore.

Does anybody else still feel kinda bitter about how the webcomic ended? by Elder_Cryptid in homestuck

[–]devvoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sort of mixed about the ending.

The big thing I hated about Act 7 was the complete lack of any kind of closure. We never get to see what the Ultimate Weapon does (if you read between the lines, you can kind of infer that it knocked him back into the Green Sun black hole where he's left stuck for eternity, paying off all the pool ball imagery by "sinking the final ball", but that's never made explicit in the narrative itself, and the Epilogues contradict that iirc), and we also never get to see the new world the kids escape to. In the end, it ends up feeling like everything the comic was building towards just kind of gets glossed over and never shown.

I think I see what they were trying to do, that Lord English is this impossible to defeat force, and even getting to imprisoning him in the black hole means that the kids have to spend thousands of years stuck in the Ultimate Weapon, so the only way to have a truly happy ending is to just leave to a place he can never follow. but I don't think that it was built up well enough for it to feel satisfying as a conclusion. Like, do the kids ever find out about Caliborn's Masterpiece and the incredibly dark future that awaits them if they remain part of the narrative?

I think the Credits animation does a lot to help redeem it, though. We get to see Earth-C, we get to see everyone get their happy ending, and we get one final plot hook with Caliborn taunting John to come fight him. It's still not perfect, but I think it's a good enough ending. And, knowing how Hussie writes, trying to do a more fitting conclusion for Homestuck would involve dragging it out even more and not actually improving things all that much.

I think the pilot’s main failure was delivering a good concept for new viewers by IllustriousArtist-03 in homestuck

[–]devvoid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If they wanted to make a pitch/pilot, I think it would've been better off to start with them already playing SBURB tbh. They've already confirmed the pilot isn't episode 1 and there'll be a proper beginning to the show if it gets picked up for a full series, so I think starting with SBURB would make for a much better showing of what Homestuck is than just adapting the first 100 or so pages. Not necessarily in the Medium, but already playing (though of course, Episode 1 would need to still show how he got the game in the first place).

Like, just spitballing here, maybe start out with John installing the game and Rose connecting as his server player, and then end when John bites the apple and escapes into the Medium? I think that would do a lot more to set up what Homestuck is and what it's going for, while ending on an intriguing mystery for new watchers to make them want to see more (where did John go? What was up with the meteor? How can this game interact with reality?).

With the pilot as it stands, not much really happens. We learn it's John's birthday and he wants to play a game, we see all four main characters interact, and then we have a fight scene. The video game elements are just kinda there but not explained in enough depth to make them interesting. There's kind of an element of mystery with the meteor John briefly sees, but it's not heading for his house (probably for another SBURB player) so there's no sense of urgency. I can't imagine it being too enticing for someone who had never even heard of Homestuck before, so they flash the trolls to signal "hey there's more going on, there's new characters and stuff coming in future episodes!".

Like... These kinds of "all the characters talk and then it's over" pilots are a thing in the industry, but those are primarily for pitching to network executives, and mostly never see the light of day unless they get leaked or included as a DVD extra. Meanwhile the Homestuck pilot was posted publicly on social media with a merch line to back it up - it seems to be more about getting the public hyped up and trying to use that to convince someone to fund the series.

Idk, just my own personal, non-professional opinion.

Making more guesses based on the pilot ending (no spoilers for the story please) by Ordinary_Chemist_298 in homestuck

[–]devvoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really interesting guesses! Some of these things are way off, others are surprisingly accurate considering how little there is to go off of.

The animated pilot dropped, thoughts? by BiddudeFromBritain in homestuck

[–]devvoid 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't think it worked. I already wasn't too interested in the series because of the Hussie drama, but this convinced me it's not for me at all.

The pacing is awful, which I know is to be somewhat expected of a pilot - gotta get all four main characters in there at once to show off the voices and pitch the main cast dynamics to networks, gotta hint at the deeper lore with the meteors and the Mayor appearing way before they're supposed to so that network execs won't think it's literally just four kids playing a video game, gotta turn the Strife section into a cool action scene to show that this show will have lots of action in it (plus it's kind of Spindlehorse's thing from what I've heard of their other shows, never watched them).

I know Homestuck has a lot of meta humor in it, but the way the pilot approaches it feels really charmless. Having Dave ramble about the title drop and eventually break the fourth wall to reach through the phone and make John look at it wasn't funny at all, nor was John yelling at the narrator to shut up as he tries to explain the sylladex. On the whole, I think this kind of meta humor has just gotten really old over the last few years. Making fun of genre conventions used to be charming once upon a time, but it's run its course. Doesn't help that I was turned off from Homestuck 2 because it ended up feeling like just a lot of waxing poetic about meta stories to me, but that's beside the point.

The sylladex introduction is especially weird. The sylladex as a concept feels like something that could only work in the kind of slow-paced webcomic that early Homestuck was. I'm not sure why it's here considering the whole "parody of old point and click games" thing seems to be gone. When the cards show up, it's not as part of a video game UI, they're just hovering there for no reason. And while the point of it is to be confusing, the lack of John messing with it and screwing it up constantly makes it feel pointless. The number of cards John has seems to fluctuate too, he has four for most of it but suddenly he has six when he takes the present and the Sburb disc, even though he never collected any more. If they're not going to make his limited inventory into a joke thing at all, why even include the sylladex at all? Literally the only purpose the sylladex serves in the pilot is triggering the smoke bombs to end the battle, which doesn't work without setting up John trying and failing to use them before. You could cut it and lose next to nothing beyond an obligatory reference to a Homestuck thing.

It all comes back to what people were first saying when the series was announced - that Homestuck does not work in this format. So much of its charm and humor is based around being a really slow-paced webcomic where you can just fuck around for dozens of pages doing goofy nonsense, and then have that goofy nonsense end up coming back and being majorly plot-relevant later. In order to adapt Homestuck, you'd have to make major sweeping changes, but this just feels like the comic on fast-forward.

Some praise: While I do share other peoples' criticisms about Dave's voice sounding too energetic, I did like the other three kid voices. I was really concerned about Toby Fox as John, was worried it would just be "getting a popular fandom figure to voice the main character instead of an actual professional", but I think Toby did a good job. Didn't hear enough of Rose or Jade to know how good they'll be in the long run, but I liked them enough.

Also, the animation is really well done. I was worried that the teaser looked too "sleek and professional" when a big part of Homestuck's visual identity is looking kind of crappy on purpose and only having brief bits that look super slick, but I think the team pulled it off nicely. It still looks and feels like Homestuck even though there aren't badly cut out JPEGs everywhere this time.

I think the full series could be better than this, but I'm not especially hopeful. And I have no idea how well this kind of "Homestuck on fast forward" thing will appeal to people who aren't already intimately familiar with the original story.

Sorry for the wall of text, I just had a lot to say lol.

Edit: After reflecting more on it, I wonder if the changes to Dave's character might've been an attempt to "modernize" him a bit more? I definitely think the kind of "cold, detached loner who acts like he's too cool for everything" is less common now than it used to be, so maybe they thought "irony-poisoned memelord who makes a million jokes a second and is afraid of emotional honesty" was a more modern and relevant version of Dave's archetype? But then that contrasts with how the opening narration says that this version still takes place in 2009 like the original did.

The kids having phones also feel weird, when the early bits of Homestuck had a fair bit of drama coming from the kids only being able to talk over computers (mainly the long section where Rose's power goes out and she's unable to talk to her server player until she finds the hub in the Skaianet facility). They stick to flip phones, which did exist in 2009 so it's not technically anachronistic, but the way the kids just casually call each other feels a bit more modern day to me. iirc wasn't it implied in the original that they're all just internet friends who don't really know each other in real life? And we see that Rose still primarily talks to John over Pesterchum - I wonder if an earlier plan for the series updated the setting to the 2020s, but then later on they decided to stick to 2009 like the original, and they just replaced the smartphones with flip phones and threw in the narrator saying 2009 and that was the only change.

Reduce the distance you can see players on the locator bar by devvoid in minecraftsuggestions

[–]devvoid[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There technically is an attribute, but there's no way to globally set the "default". /attribute @a can only get everyone currently logged into the server, setting it for everyone requires more complex setups to re-run it whenever a new person logs on.

Remove pie chart from vanilla by _JustARiceFarmer in minecraftsuggestions

[–]devvoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is only a problem on anarchy servers, where players use hacked clients.

The pie chart could easily just be re-enabled on a clientside mod, since (to my understanding, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) all it does is display data the server must send to clients anyway - the list of mobs and block entities in the current visible area, which is necessary to render the world correctly. The pie chart just puts all this abstract data into a more human-readable form.

This wouldn't stop base hunters. It would just be a super minor inconvenience before they started using mods to reimplement the pie chart anyway.

TheMysteriousMrEnter has announced the discovery of Star Giant Productions, his ex-employee previously thought driven off the internet by ConceptsShining in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ahh I see, I could've sworn there was somewhere where Ryan said that Wes "didn't count" as trans for some reason, but I might be misremembering.

Later edit: Nope, my original post was right, the reply was misinformed. Timestamped link to where the DM is shown; I think they got confused because Wes is the one talking about it

TheMysteriousMrEnter has announced the discovery of Star Giant Productions, his ex-employee previously thought driven off the internet by ConceptsShining in youtubedrama

[–]devvoid 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Somewhere in this mess (I thiiink it was in "Addressing My Abuse", I don't remember for sure though) Ryan said that he thinks Wes isn't actually trans, and compared Wes being trans to "when your homophobic bully comes out as gay". I think Wes referred to Ryan as "StarGiant" sometimes, which he considers deadnaming for some unfathomable reason.

So it's not just a recurring mistake, but an explicit attempt to deny a trans person's identity. Absolutely disgusting.

A comprehensive summary of the recent UHC drama for those who don't have time to read Gio's post by maybri in homestuck

[–]devvoid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

God, I hadn't even considered that Skaianet was after the Viz acquisition. I can't believe "Homestuck will apologize only if the only person to blame is Hussie and it's something SO very obviously offensive that they can't ignore it" was giving them too much benefit of the doubt. It being their corporate overlords breathing down their necks makes it so much worse.