![]() Mike can be an idiot but I don't think he's an intentionally hateful one. The "joke" in the comics is him trying to be ludicrously over the top offensive and trying to draw the most offensive things he can think up. That was back around the peak of offensive humor in general. My read on Mike Matei is he finds offensive humor really funny and especially did 10-15+ years ago when those comics were drawn (IIRC he drew most of those back when he was still in college). Good topic for a video considering how convoluted the Kingdom Hearts series seems, especially for someone who doesn't follow the series. You are financially supporting a racist, no matter what mental gymnastics you'd like to perform while you go about it. He is not "separable" from AVGN in any way, just because you can't see his face in the videos (and indeed, there are literally dozens of videos where you can). If you "only watch James' videos", you are still watching Mike Matei's videos, because, as I've just made perfectly clear, Mike works on each and every one of them, and also makes half the money from your clicks besides. Though I wouldn't hold your breath for the first one, and I wouldn't want to speak to anyone who's picking the second one. There's three options then, and unlike yours, all of these actually are "solutions". Or, you could just not watch Cinemassacre videos (what a sacrifice!), and instead watch the literal thousands of other gaming videos that do not enrich bigots with every click. ![]() You will probably be banned from this site, however. Once you've done this, you can watch James & Mike as much as you want without any moral contradiction. The only way to "get out" of this moral predicament would be if Mike made a heartfelt, formal apology and agreed to renounce these disgusting comics (unlikely, since he has only doubled-down whenever the subject comes up), or if James dumped Mike and started making his videos without him (probably impossible, since Mike owns half the company).Īlternatively, you could just stop bullshitting and dissembling and admit that you have no qualms about financially supporting a racist. You are also committing piracy, which is expressly banned under the Era ToS for what I think are some pretty good reasons. If you torrent the videos, you are still watching Mike Matei's videos. It's pretty easy, especially if you mean it.Ĭlick to shrink.Not at all. A quick (genuine) apology/condemnation of that shit. It's not like we are asking him to hold a weekly 5 hour seminar on the evils of racism or anything. Like, take 5-10 seconds to write that on Twitter the next time someone asks about it there and all would be ok in the world. ![]() The passage of time doesn't mean we should be quiet about our past shitty actions if someone brings it up.Īll it does from Mike is to say "yeah, I was a bit of shitty racist edgelord back then but I've since come to understand how crappy that was of me. Like, I wasn't always as understanding of trans people as I and everyone should be (heck, even though I'm fairly open to the whole spectrum of gender identities nowadays, I've still learned new things that I need to be better about even in the last few months). If someone dug up some 15 year old bigoted stuff I might have said, I'd own up to it and condemn such bigotry. ![]() But I try my best to acknowledge my shitty behaviour & prejudices and try to do better. At that point you don't go quiet, you own up to it and condemn your past actions. If you've been visibly bigoted in the past, then you have to accept the possibility that at some point that shit can be found/noticed by someone (especially if you're a somewhat public/popular internet person) and someone will give you shit about it. This is the modern age where shit you say/do stays on the Interwebz forever.
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