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While you were sleeping...

...confident the culture wars were in the bag, Kabrutus avenged, and gaming healing...

A revenge tour of cancellation and deplatforming is sweeping the Youtubers that helped win many of the battles for gamers.

Starting mid May, every key voice against the woke virus has been systematically targeted, demonetized, or eliminated.

They are just getting started, and it's time to notice the pattern.

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Target: Kirsche

It started with @KirscheVerstahl , who was targeted, false slandered as a conspiracy theorist Nazi.

Her sponsors were threatened, some left, and multiple hit-piece articles were written about her.

Luckily, she hit back hard, and the articles were retracted.

Others were not so lucky.

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Target: Toasty
Status: Demonetized

@ToastyMosty6969 was targeted for her videos about Alyssa, and multiple brigaded reports nearly brought down her channel.

She is currently demonetized. Demonetization lasts for 90 days, after which you can re-apply.

Going after people's livelihoods is what they do.

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Target: Ryan Roger Athay
Status: Deplatformed

@RyanRogerAthay's channel was also targeted, and YouTube took down his channel for reasons which they never explained. No warning, no appeal.

He can never go back to YouTube.

If you are starting to notice a pattern about who is celebrating these hits, look no further than the hit-piece-queen herself...

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Target: Cody (aka Camelcast)
Status: Cancelled

@CAMELCASTOff was targeted by woke activist cosplayers and cancelled from the convention which invited him.

Luckily another convention picked him up with an even better deal, and he has picked up numerous new sponsors.

The cosplayers who succeeded in removing him have since left the convention themselves in an ironic move.

Alyssa's good buddy, Airbagged celebrates. You'll see he and his Discord group are also part of the pattern.

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@KirscheVerstahl @ToastyMosty6969 @RyanRogerAthay @CAMELCASTOff Target: Atreas
Status: Demonetized

@GriftGod_ was targeted and successfully demonetized. He too, made videos about Alyssa.

He has to wait 90 days to re-apply.

The same people celebrating.

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Target: SmashJT
Status: Under Attac

@SmashJT is their current target. Not only is Alsyss suing him for alleged "harassment", Airbagged's army of groupies has him in the crosshairs using the same techniques for cancellation.

They are trying to get him banned from YouTube, or at least demonetized. They are combing through his videos as I post this.

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This is a revenge tour.

This is the cancel culture crowd.

They lost the battle last year and this is a petty move using every underhanded trick in the book to "get one" on the people who were most effective.

Going after people's sponsors, trying to cancel their conventions, their careers or more, is disgusting.

This is much bigger and far worse than what they did to Kabrutus. They've sunk to new lows.

Don't let it stand. Support your favorite creators and tell @YouTube about this TOS violating brigading going on.
This is not organic. This is coordinated, brigaded and organized through private Discord servers.

And they are not done yet. They found a loophole in the Youtube TOS that is so vague that it bascially lets them cancel anybody.

And they are using this, like a hammer, to go after everyone.

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May 17
Here are the 5 times Bungie has had to apologize for stealing art for their games. 🧵

Bungie is having a hard time. Marathon art theft is confirmed and they are trying to make it right.

It can happen, contractors or rogue artists on a deadline can cross the line under pressure.

But when the same problem happens 5 times in a row, it might be time to admit there is a deeper problem at the studio and gamers and artists patience is rightfully stretched thin.

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In 2021, Bungie had to apologize for using fan art of Xiva in a trailer for Destiny 2: The Witch Queen.

Original art by @relay314

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@relay314 In 2023, Bungie had to apologize for a vendor using fan art in Destiny 2's Lightfall cutscene.

Original art by @ELEMENTJ21

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Apr 28
The 1st weekend results are in, and Clair Obscur Expedition 33 has pretty much demolished AAA with a peak of 121,422.

This puts AAA games in the entire industry to shame and shows that something is very very wrong in the industry.

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AAA game teams are vastly bloated with hundreds of devs and dismissing returns for team size.

The entire Expedition team was 30 people.

The larger the team, the higher overhead in communication and co-ordination costs, and you also lose VISION as devs are just cogs by that point and passion plummets. (con't)Image
You do not need to have China labor costs to be competitive.

What you need are smaller teams who are very talented and skilled.

The rumor is that the game was VERY cost efficient. I'm hearing some crazy numbers like just 5.5M to make.

I suspect the number is closer to 15-30M, but this would still be astounding compared to the 300-500M AAA games are spending these days.

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Feb 9
X is pretty good for gaming news, but could be better. Instead of starting a new website for gaming news, it would be cool to be able to build a hub on X.

One feature that would be neat is if you could create a "landing page" for your account that let you tile and arrange your current X posts and articles, almost like a front-page.

I think this would be useful for getting the top stories you cover on X and establishing your profile brand at the top.
The best trust is your own eyes. That's why video is the number one way that people form their opinions on games. They want to be able to see the gameplay and judge for themselves, rather than have it filtered by an article.

Even if there is commentary, people can see the game and tell if they agree or disagree with it.

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The other thing that needs to happen is the removal of access journalism. Game companies offer too many perks, favors and early access to a carefully chose group of streamers and youtubers.

An incentive structure would have to be in place to encourage free and honest speech about games without threat of publisher reprisal by cutting off access.
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Feb 2
A modest plan to preserve the purity of Warhammer 40k.

I know many 40k fans are disheartened and angered by the gaslighting female Custodes debacle, and now there is more and more pressure to make 40k female Space Marines and Emperor knows what else.

Games Workshop continues to entertain the destruction of their lore and their game to satisfy the mythical, non-existent “modern audience” while spurning and even disparaging their core tabletop audience, who buys thousands of dollars worth of minis, codexes and supplements, by calling them all sorts of nasty names.

I also know that you love the hobby and many are loath to abandon it or are unable to resist the plastic crack to do anything like a full boycott (I’m there with you, but I have a technique).

You don’t have to.

For over a year, we’ve run a successful campaign in video games to push back against the mind virus ruining our hobbies.

We did it by voting with our wallets and being very vocal. Now, giant companies like Ubisoft are on the edge of folding, and medium and small publishers are embracing gamer feedback and sentiment. You can do this too, and you don’t need to swear off 40k to do it. You just need the mantra “underperform expectations.”

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Games Workshop is a public company. They are very sensitive to their stock price and investors sentiment.

They are also expected to deliver results quarter after quarter, year after year. If a single quarter shows a decline, it’s a big headache for management.

You must rally and time your activities to these quarters, which often have major releases to try to “goose the numbers” and show demand, which increases the stock price. It’s like when rent is due at the end of the month, except on a stock basis.

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GW will issue “stock guidance” which is their prediction of sales and how well they will do based off sales predictions.

If they fail to meet their guidance, the stock market punishes them heavily.

This is why you don’t need an absolute boycott to win. You just need them to “underperform expectations.”

This is exactly what happened with Star Wars Outlaws and Dragon Age Veilguard. They still sold over a million copies, but they missed internal targets. For a public company, underperforming, even while selling well, is enough to cause and emergency panic with shareholders.

So what can you do with this info?

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Jan 19
BREAKING LEAK:

No, Kingdom Come Deliverance is NOT woke.

I received exclusive information from someone who has completed the game which clears up many rumors.

(Note, game director Daniel Vavra JUST posted clarification, he is 100% telling it to you straight)

According to this player, who wants to clear the air so the game can succeed, this is the exact content of the game’s main storyline (not all side quests completed):

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- Yes, Henry can romance other characters in the game.

- Henry can romance another male, however, this is not forced upon the player in any way.

- Similar to how Bioware did romance checks, you must a) Initiate the dialog and b) pass around 5 dialog choice romance checks without missing one in order to unlock this romantic partner. You have to go out of your way to do this and do it over the course of half the game.Image
- The dialog options for the male romance are treated very secretive, VERY taboo and in line with the historical times.

- The romance scene is extremely brief, and entirely skippable. 5 seconds of kissing total and 5 seconds of them on the bed naked: “No one is hanging dong and they are just on top of each other kissing. The other cutscenes with Henry and women are much more vulgar haha.”

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Jan 5
They are trying to cancel Notch and Minecraft 2 all over again, including using AI run accounts to do it.

I dissect the playbook here and how they go after targets.

This post went viral attracting the creator of Minecraft through distortion, false implications and outright lies.

I've seen these tactics before, they've been used to try to cancel myself, and I can't stand to see it being used against Notch just because he is making Minecraft 2.

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The first attack is to falsely correlate Notch's sale of the company with some bad event.

This is untrue, as Notch corrected himself.

He is no longer with Minecraft not because of "bad rerasons" but because he sold it...for 2.1B (Billion) dollars in 2014. This is a great success story and has zero to do with any controversies or "bad things" as the attacker is trying to imply here.

In fact, at the time, the mainstream press wasn't busy cancelling him and held him up as the success he is, giving him full credit and lauding how he awarded staff with huge bonuses at the time of the sale.

This is what I call a timeline fallacy. Notch was cancelled later in 2019, many years afterwards. But when doing a timeline fallacy, what they do is to imply causation even when the dates are flipped or do not support the argument. They try to imply a later event is what drove some earlier event to make it seem like a bad thing.

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The attacker then uses the JK Rowling attack against Notch.

They made up broad claims about your thoughts, positions and character, wildly misrepresenting your stance, by claiming you "said things" that you actually didn't, never posting the original tweets.

Here the poster is claiming that Notch posted transphobic and racist "shit" but never cites the actual posts. The JK Rowling attack is where you claim someone said X and Y or believes Z, but never cite the actual text, often wildly taking things out of context, or blowing them up out of proportion, or "mind reading" the author.

Well I was there on X when he made them and this is out of line.

Notch has never been against people being trans. What he was against was the persecution and control of everyone else that the trans and woke movements were doing. You can decide for yourself:

- Notch, like Rowling, stated "No, they feel like are" in response to a post that said "trans women are women."

- Notch called feminism a "social disease" during the GG1 days.

- The big one, the one that got him cancelled? He posted "It's okay to be white."

After he tweeted it's okay to be white, the cancellation crowd swooped in and Microsoft caved. They removed him from the title screen, and snubbed him by not inviting him to the 10th anniversary celebration. This was at the height of cancel culture in 2019.

Polygon, and the mainstream media, including Variety, repeated the attack, once again telling you what they thought he said, vs what he *actually* said.

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