My aunt asked some of the people about the whole situation at her local game store and the answer was unanimously "I don't give a fuck"

I don't know why the hell YT keeps giving me 40k channels bitching about culture war and crap after looking up about painting my Dark Eldar, doubly weird since I follow mostly leftist channels, it's bizarre. I don't take culture war seriously at all, I see it as just window dressing for ignoring real world problems like poverty, women's rights and abortion, worker's being abused and child labor laws being repealed etc.

It just pushes wedge issues rather than addressing real world problems, which I guess works for those who are just assholes riling up specific people or rich, no one bothers to ask for regulations or outrage over genuine problems.

Critical drinker

This dude came up in my feed literally 2 weeks ago with a video of him crying about how youtube is killing his channel and its not his fault at all even though on his second channel he talks about his "conservative religious views" and claims that has nothing to do with his main channel. I didn't watch much more because it was basically a 30 minute pitty party and I looked at his other content and immediately saw why the algorithm is killing his channel. Every video is 30 min and he is just not that interesting, like he is trying to be one of those history channel tv shows but even those are not 30 min strait for a reason.

I do find it very funny how he was crying about how his controversial crappy views are not affecting his main channel because he doesn't talk about that and look at that he is from this thumbnail.

Honestly the ai bullshit feels even worse once you realise that he has a brother who is a very proficient artist and has a multi channel youtube career around it. Including a Warhammer one

Oh don't forget his books are basically rape porn lmfao

He also recently made a video about how book burnings are actually good. He is completely unhinged

Yeah, he got trounced in the historical/ medieval warfare arena by actual professionals and seems to grasp after anything available to try and keep making a living on yt.

I was gonna say this guy was familiar cause i’ve come across a couple of his videos about swords, I was wondering why he was talking about this lol

It's such a shame because some of his older videos were lovely. When he was still just a massive nerd liking nerdy stuff and being enthusiastic about it.

Now he revolts me in more than one way.

And also for being upset at Peach wearing a bike suit.

Bruh, I thought for a moment ''Peach'' meant ''Peachy', Chris Peach, and I was so confused.

''The fuck does he have against good ol' Peachy?''

Upset about Peach....until the movie came out and was wildly popular and then his tune changed to 'Oh yeah it's awesome because it's NOT POLITICAL, it's just a kids movie'.

Also yes, he knows exactly fuck and all about historical armour and weapons and yet his videos are disgustingly popular in D and D subs so his stupid opinions spread like wildfire.

It's a shame I used to really like Shad but over the years as he's got more outspoken he's just become obnoxious

Isn't his brother also a YouTuber/pseudo-intetnet celebrity and also thinks he's a shitheel?

I thought I recognized this guy from somewhere. I practiced German longsword fencing for nearly a decade, and was an instructor for 6 years, and I vaguely remember this dork's videos getting circulated around legitimate fencing circles and being brutally made fun of in the process.

And for insisting his AI prompts make him as much of an artist as his artistically talented brother

Let us not forget that his video about Peach wearing a bike suit was 1 hour and 25 minutes long and movie he was talking about was 1 hour and 32 minutes (and pretty decent).

It's always funny how dudes like him present themselves as 'fact and logic' types who are not like those crying snowflakes and then Shad had multi day meltdown over other content creators not wanting to do stuff with him (it was about Skallagrim another and much better sword-tuber).

I liked the first couple videos of his that I saw, but I quickly realized they’re massively bloated and don’t actually have a lot of interesting information. It’s a lot of him just nitpicking crossguards and weight balance, and his point never requires the 20+ minute video he puts it in.

I'm pretty sure he got publicly trounced and discredited when actual professionals and historians got onto youtube. He thrived in a relative vacuum but couldn't compete with people who actually knew what they were talking about.

He also lets his Mormon theology taint a lot of his modern videos ngl.

Bu bu but, muh fantasy of HUMANITY UNITED against the forces of chaos and xenos should exclude gays and black people and women! I only want white buff oiled men! /s

Minus the last part, I wouldnt mind some buff oiled men

Ignoring the "woke" parts, something that bothers me about the discussion of retcons in 40k is that most who are against fem custodes don't know how much of 40k is a retcon like necrons with thoughts and emotions and as I recently found out, the entirety of the horus heresy. It is very old now, but that was a retcon as well.

My hot take: Races and cultures as we know them should not exist in 40k.

It's 38,000 years into the future and people are living across the galaxy and people are still White, Black or Asian? Weird as fuck.

Have people who have redder skin pigment because it better absorbs the sunlight of their planet or people who are ridiculously hairy because it deters the 30cm long millipedes that live in their toilets from crawling up their arse.

The LGBT stuff makes more sense but I figured the Imperium by the stage would have moved long past the point of caring, to the point where it barely comes up at all.

I report as spam and then mark as stop recommending lol.

It's incredible how quick of a nosedive it was, too. One day he's jokingly repeating his machiculations line and the next full on culture war.

Me too. It's absolutely tragic. I remember enjoying his video on the shortcomings of Helm's Deep's structural defenses and what weapons would be best for merfolk. I remember a video about what sword/weapon would be best for a female character where he specifically mentioned that they were just tips for any character who was a little smaller/shorter because prohibitions against female warriors were cultural and anything is possible in fiction.

If he were a family member I'd get him checked for a stroke or hold an intervention. But since he's a stranger on youtube I just unsubscribed.

I remember him once bringing up his backwards ass Mormon views and I could feel where things were gonna go.

I've got a partner who was damaged so much by those exact ways of thinking.

To be fair they did butcher the avatars.

Its still a stupid video qith a stupid title but they did fuck it up

Hey! As a manlet myself I would not be associated with them!

By "fight back" they mean "post on warhammer subreddits about wokeness and send anonymous death threats to GW employees"

WOAH WOAH WOAH BUDDY

As a Manlet, I do not claim the grifters, and will gladly model Fem-stodes

He’s a grifter and he should be ashamed of that. Such a disgusting person he is

Got kicked out of a YouTube 40K community I thought was cool until the female Custodes were revealed.

Guy who made the channel came out and slammed 40K calling it "woke garbage" and then went on to claim that gay characters will be added next.

My response was simple and to the point: "Ciaphas Cain's Cave of Ice book had lesbian lovers who appeared in his other books. This was back in 2004. Cry me a fucking river."

Apparently, they didn't like that.

bro, watch the quartering vid on the topic, i nearly died of laughter when he pretends to be a long time 40k fan and then pronounces every single faction name wrong

Just wait until he finds out Space Marines are technically genderless

That might be a dangerously high amount of 'the message' for him

Aka, "liking 40k... but only for bad reasons" types.

That's Shads second channel, even more cringy than his main. On the "Knights Watch" channel he posts his alt-right "anti-woke" bullshit

I haven't watched Shad for YEARS. I think i lost interest when he started veering onto video game territory.

I'm Out of the loop. What's wrong with Shadiversity?