This is the first and last time I'll be addressing this post, about a year ago some people started compiling a document of comments I made on Reddit from 7+ years ago and my old tumblr blog, the following thread I will address them https://brodie-robertson.pages.dev/
Yes I used to make a lot of racist comments and throw around slurs, yes I was homophobic, yes I was transphobic, at the time I was absolutely a hateful person. This was a long time ago and anyone who knows me now knows that I have changed since then
Do I still make jokes amongst my close friends, absolutely, and that will likely never change
Yes I took part in early GamerGate and I was there from the very start when the focus was on ethics in games journalism, but it also resulted in many of the comments from earlier in the post
I mostly stepped away from politics discussions as I don't find it to be a healthy past time for me to personally get involved in, I tend to obsess over things and that can get quite destructive.
Yes I ran a hentai blog on tumblr, yes I made comments saying that UN shouldn't get involved in censoring loli content, I felt at the time that this would be a slippery slope, it seems in retrospect I was right with some of that same discourse now being used on trans people
Yes I was absolutely porn brained out of my mind as a late teenager and early 20's, yes I talked about the porn tags I liked publically, yes I watch step sibling porn, yes I hung out on sexting subreddits
I feel like into my mid and late 20's I've grown as a person but that has only been possible thanks to people being willing to look past the past and see me for the person that I am now.
As for the unimportant things, yes I joke about being discount Luke Smith, if you go back and watch the early videos you'd see it was literally just a copy of his style. I never actively avoided Youtube, I spin up accounts on every new platform that people are talking about, if they go nowhere then I ultimately leave
Yes I said don't go and make issues on the Wayland repo in my name not so that my name would "not be included" because I don't want people to go and spam the repo, keep that in my comments section
Yes I went on Lunduke's show with Distrotube, if you watched it you'd see I was constantly disagreeing with him as I continue to do so following that when I quote tweet his posts. I think the only way you can change someone's mind is by having an open discourse with them
Yes I've had Vaxry on the podcast a couple of time, yes I've had Andreas Kling on, yes I made a video on Omarchy, there problems are there problems, a healthy functioning community should be able to discuss disagreements they have with each other.
Yes I watch Joe Rogan and Asmongold, I also watch FriendlyJordies and sometimes Hasan, do I agree with every take they have no absolutely not, but I think a healthy adult should watch and read things they don't completely agree with
Apparently one of my podcast guests happens to use KiwiFarms, I don't do a deep background check on every single person I bring on, if they're making something cool, I'm happy to talk with them.
One of the comments I made on r/Anime was "IT'S RAPING TIME!!" this was in reference to a series called Cross Ange, if you've seen it then you fully understand why I made that comment
I'm not going to tell you what your take should ultimately be but I'm going to just keep doing my thing.
That's interesting. Your youtube channel is basically like a news outlet to me - if the headline seems intriguing I click and listen to your coverage. From what I can tell, your videos are surprisingly unbiased and moderate (for someone who reads and researches the news) and that's been going on for quite some time now. To be completely direct/honest, you do a decent job, but some of the coverage is pretty superficial and doesn't add much to the perspective covered in the "main article" on the topic in the video - especially the programming/mailing-list/kernel stuff.
Whatever you believed/did in the past doesn't show at all by your current content and that's commendable. I wish you luck in your youtuberish journalistic endeavor :-)
Turns out we're all human and we all have flaws. Blessed are those who kept their flaws private and never spoke out publicly, they don't have anything to defend.
Those who speak their mind will be wrong a lot. And since the internet doesn't forget, your mistakes may haunt you forever.
I don't expect you to be perfect, and I value you speaking your mind today. I may not always agree, and might voice a different opinion. But I don't need to weigh your heart based on everything you've ever done or said. I will judge what you post now, give my feedback if I feel it might have value, and probably move on at some point. I see no reason to interact on any deeper level.
Keep going, it looks like you're doing all right.
I just think it's weird that everywhere I go people are making these huge lists/reports about people. At the beginning they felt tame and relatively reasonable, now it's just everyone stalking each other. I'm not against holding people accountable, but what the Fuck?
I was unaware of all of this. Just found out about it. It takes a lot of courage to say that you did all of this.
Reading a few comments it seems the FOSS community has a lot of cronicanlly online people with political brainrot on their heads. Ignore those people.
Like Jonathan Haidt once said after studying humanity's ethics: "human reasoning isn't logical or cientific, it is biased and religious". People will distort anything you say or meant to say to whatever they want to believe. If you step outside of the "right path" you will be considered sinful.
You are absolutely right to be open to talk to people like Vaxry or anyone like that. Don't let the internet's court to dictate what you are. Othewise you will put yourself on a echochamber, remember you were an edgylord teenager exatcly for that reason.
Honestly, after a few paragraphs of that doc I already stopped reading and disregard anything it might've said. I don't trust the moral judgement of people who don't even have enough mental fortitude to split reality from fiction. Videogames doesn't make people violent, D&D doesn't make people racist, drawings doesn't make someone a pedo.
Whoever can't draw that line isn't able to discuss morality since it's not a binary subject that has a definite answer, nor can it be conceptualized only through one person's perspective.
I'll still be following your work, I've seen nothing that invalidates how you conduct yourself nowadays.
I'm not surprised someone has tried to cancel you, and 5 bucks says it's people in their early 20s who think the culture war is as important as it's ever going to be (it's not).
What I am surprised about is learning that you were more "chud-coded" in the gamergate days than I was. I figured you were a left-leaning guy who just got burned out when Linux got more woke and idpol-obsessed lately. But also you avoid engaging in culture war in your YouTube content (unlike the other Linux commenter guy. You know the one).
It must've took a really terminally online person to see the modern YouTube persona and think "man this guy is really problematic, we should dig up his history". Don't let them drag you back into the bucket you crawled out of.
Hey, Brodie! As a woman who went through the "14yo nazi boy" stage herself (somehow) and got to some pretty dark places because of that, I feel you. So I'm not here to hammer you for your past mistakes - you've clearly changed your ways and grew as a person, a lot, given how you approach and talk about all the same issues now - and I'd rather celebrate that.
However, there's one pretty important thing I'd still want to point out, which might be easy for you to brush of, because people who brought it up this time buried it under almost a decade of obsolete drama. It most likely has been said to you a thousand times by now, but you are no longer just a person with the regular set of personal responsibilities. Even if you keep referring to yourself as a "dumb guy with a microphone", it doesn't change the fact that you are now responsible for quite a sizable platform. This seems to me like something you haven't entirely come to terms with to this day, and you probably still mostly see yourself as just a guy rambling about stuff on the internet. It needs to change at some point, and better sooner than later.
By now, you should know that whenever you cover drama-adjacent topics, no amount of "please, don't harass anyone involved" will change anything, because the part of your audience that participates in this "activities" will not and cannot listen to reason. And unfortunately, it is your responsibility for how the audience you cultivated acts. It seems like much, and it is much to be responsible for behavior of more than 100k people, but you need to understand that if you do something and then it constantly results in people being swarmed with harassment - now it's simply a consequence of your own actions, even if you personally never wanted it to go this way.
I do believe that you cover these topics because you find them funny/stupid/interesting/anything in between/(and to farm a bit of engagement, of course) and not because of some hidden nefarious reasons. However, as a long time viewer, I see the same cycle repeating itself constantly: you cover some drama -> ask the audience to not harass anyone -> people (often in already vulnerable position) get harassed anyway -> rinse and repeat. Can you see why some people stop attributing this to your lack of awareness and begin trying to construct some sort of a villain from your persona?
Something needs to change if you want to built a healthier community and ultimately become healthier yourself, because the way you are doing things now hurt other people and hurt yourself too. You wouldn't face so much criticism online if your were more responsible as a head of such a big platform. And you probably wouldn't need to deal with your past haunting you if people that went on the misguided quest to deconstruct your persona at all costs did't have a reason to believe you are a worse person than you actually are. The wheel of harassment that affects everybody, including you, will keep spinning unless you put a stop to it.
While I'm in no position to dictate what you should do with your career, I'd still suggest a few things that might fix the problem in the long run. I think you should either steer away from topics heavy on drama, because they attract all kinds of wrong folks, and focus more on the cool things in the FOSS world, or begin managing and moderating your community a bit better. Or better yet - both. But you can't keep feeding into drama while simultaneously not doing anything to combat bigots in your audience. This is not a sustainable model for anyone involved.
Sigh, I guess I got lost in the words again. Apologies for a long read! Anyways. I'm really sorry you had to experience people digging through your unpleasant past and questioning your present because of that, and I sincerely wish you all the best on your continuous journey! <3
And crap like this is why I always go back and delete everything from social media every few months.
Something that is benign today may be a hate crime in five years and everything you say now will not be judged with its current context or allow for personal growth or change.
I’ve mostly abandoned social media because it’s an awful place, but al also left no trace when I left.
Most teens go through an edgelord phase of that or other kind. I sure did, and my friends, and so many people online. I don't think it's fair to hold a mature person accountable for their statements from when they were still a child mentally. Everybody was stupid and is ashamed of it years later. And pushing someone to repent publicly in the form of a damn long whitepaper (and demanding certain wording!) is pointless. It won't undo the past, it's irrelevant to the present. Yes I said some stupid stuff online as a 16 y.o., there was no real framework of opinions supported by any arguments or actual beliefs, I just felt it was edgy and counter-culture and therefore "cool" and unique. Can't even have an argument with my past self and debunk their opinions with facts since it's just teenslop with no foundation or logic. Let's just be tolerant and forgive those who seek forgiveness.
In many cultures around the world, including mine, the ceremony of coming of age and getting accepted into the "adults" group of the community back in the day involved a ritual of metaphoric 'death', so the young adult was a 'new person' just born. So, past me, an edgy teen, is a different person from the current me, and they are dead.
I have no problem with any past behavior, as long as we're growing up and moving forward. I'll keep watching your videos because discourse is important. Anyone that doesn't understand this needs a change of scenery because their bubble is turning into an echo chamber.
Honestly, if people in projects such as GNOME or Nix refuse to listen to people with other views, they deserve to lose users. I'm not saying they have to agree with people with different ideologies and methods, but just because there is disagreement doesn't mean contributors should be silenced and ostracized. Lunduke, for a lot of his more weaselly reporting methods, is trying to get people to see that. People can disagree and continue to work together.
To be honest man you just needed to say that you regret. You know, take accountability for what you’ve done. Every time I see someone who says “Yes, but I’ve changed!!!” it feels like they don’t want to admit this and tell people asking the question that the question is invalid. And usually they are full of shit. Like Nigel Farage saying “Yes, I was racist at school, but it was long time ago so irrelevant”. Very much relevant cause he is still exactly the same racist, just coats it differently to appeal to public more. I do not think you are a bad person, I’ll definitely keep watching your videos, I like your reasoning, topics, vibes if you wish. And when I hear you speak I don’t see an angry dangerous close minded hateful person that won’t admit their wrong doing, I hear someone reasonable. But admitting wrongdoing is not very easy. Please just don’t get angry defensive and don’t go towards this pipeline that oooh the internet now hates for what I’ve done long time ago. They honestly have a right to do so. Try to understand it deeply and try not to mix people that are really hurt by your words and actions with those who would start bullying you. Hope to hear from you in the next video and keep watching :)
Regarding Lunduke, one thing I've learned from years on the internet is that you can only change someone's mind if they're willing to engage with you in good faith. Sometimes, people are just grifters and farm outrage content for clicks, and there's a famous saying that it's hard to change someone's mind when their salary depends on a certain interpretation.
Brodie, you would've been so much better had you not posted this
a lot of this reads less like genuine accountability and more like bad damage control wrapped in selective self-awareness when it's most convenient to you
you started by acknowledging the serious harm you've done, but then immediately shift into minimizing framing without really engaging with the impact those views had on other people. growth is about showing understanding of why those behaviors were harmful and what concrete reflection or thought process led you here
also, throughout this post you keep justifying yourself rather than reflecting. most of these sound like "yes, but"s that soften responsibility and/or reframe controversy as normal behavior or personal preference. you can't have both accountability and exoneration at the same time, at least not if you truly give a shit about having an impact with this half assed facsimile of an apology
and also, come the fuck on, "I'm not going to tell you what your take should be, I'll keep doing my thing"? really? Brodie, if you're addressing past harm publicly, it's not just about stating your current identity because we can see that already. you should also demonstrate awareness of why people are concerned and what responsibility you still carry when speaking to an audience shaped by your past behavior
if you want people to believe you've actually changed (or fool them into believing that), the focus can't be on explaining away context or normalizing everything you still do.
overall, this was a very horrible message and I hope you'll delete it and reword it better because it's worse than the usual slop you post
Can't believe you were cringe as a teenager, something no teenager has been before nor will ever be again /s
Honestly, I really appreciate having YouTube Linux/tech content in your style that's made by someone who seems generally decent towards trans people. I notice a lotta us transes in your comments sections, and I appreciate having that space more than I care about whatever edgy stuff you've said in the past.
That said, watching Asmon and Rogan as an adult is also cringe, but it's cringe you share with like 70% of men under 40, so I'll look past it lol
I have never heard about this website, and it smells of punitive mob justice bullshit. So I will just ignore it. However, a few comments on what you wrote:
> Yes I ran a hentai blog on tumblr, yes I made comments saying that UN shouldn't get involved in censoring loli content, I felt at the time that this would be a slippery slope, it seems in retrospect I was right with some of that same discourse now being used on trans people
Yeah, and you are still absolutely right. I’m seeing that discourse used disproportionally against other trans women on tumblr constantly right now, used to harass and effectively isolate them from their communities, to the point they get banned. Honestly I did not expect you to acknowledge this or even know about it, a lot of people just don’t care when it happens to us and will victim-blame. So thank you.
> I think the only way you can change someone's mind is by having an open discourse with them
To be honest, I don’t think this is an effective way to change someone else’s mind who has enough conviction to argue, especially someone you don’t know personally. At least, you should not expect that to happen. However, you can perhaps change other people’s minds who are watching from the sidelines.
This feels only half-sincere. I believe you've grown out of some of those old beliefs, but you still have some big blind spots.
For instance, did you know that GamerGate was never about "ethics in game journalism"? That was always a cover story used to attract a wider audience to a hate mob.
I encourage you to continue seeking out personal growth, and to try to better understand why some of those things are wrong. And please don't let any negative attention you get from this push you away from improving.
I don't care about the cringy/awful history, i have plenty tho luckily mostly private. What i do care about is this: You have a platform. You are an, and i mean this as literally as possible, an influencer. You influence opinions and behaviors of your audience with the content you make, as anyone with an audience does. That leads to some conclusions:
1. You covering a topic and to a lesser extent hosting someone on your podcast will, almost always, bring them some benefit. Maybe not directly, but theres a reason "any publicity is good publicity" is a saying. Its not always true, but your coverage isn't the kinds of extremely negative it would need to be for this not to apply.
2. Even if you ask people to not do anything, just the sheer numbers of viewers means that enough will ignore your request either consciously or accidentally, and pile on to some issue tracker or other place. You're not responsible for the individual people doing this. But you ARE responsible for continuing to do something you know will cause other people to act out. If given a coin flip, with heads meaning "make 100 people send harassment", at some point you have to take responsibility for the fact it lands on heads. Because it wouldn't have if you hadn't flipped it. I'm not saying to stop covering any of those topics completely, but theres steps you can take, such as hiding identifying details to make it harder for people to find the exact person/place to harass.
I’m not an expert on the whole “apology post” thing. But maybe saying “I still make racist jokes to my friends” and “it’s healthy to listen to asmongold” aren’t things that should feature in one?
Look, I understand that people can learn and grow, and a lot of folks, including myself, were edgy dipshits when they were younger. And I agree with your point about listening to folks you don't completely agree with. But, there's a line, and following Asmongold is WAY past it. Given that you still do that, I tend to think you still have the same edgy racist/homophobic beliefs, you just got better at keeping them to yourself. And with that, I'm unsubbing. It's a pitty because you did put out some interesting FOSS videos.
Some of this is pretty damming, the newest posts are in 2021??? I don't think this is time to bring up each point brought up and dismiss them, you're going to have to show proof of not longer being a hateful person, starting with actually punishing the part of your audience who harrasses people instead of saying "no harrassment intended" and moving on, you should also stop giving hateful people a platform, it is completely right to want to hear some differing opinions but this turns into a bad excuse when those opinions include thinking people should die because of their sexuality or skin tone.
I watch this channel because I'm into linux. I watch the Primeagen, and I hate his politics. A tech news youtuber's opinions ultimately don't mean very much to me.
It sucks that this happened to you, but you seem to be taking it in stride. What I hate about these sorts of character assassination campaigns is that there's no point - no cause that it supports. You are not a casualty of a fight for anyone's idea of what is right, but rather, the whole point is just to disseminate ill will. It's people dragging around a smelly bag of rotten fruit, looking for someone to throw them at. If their concern was with your politics, they would not need to out you for the porn stuff, and if their concern was with moral degeneracy... Well, they probably wouldn't have a problem with the racism and transphobia. I wonder how embarrassing their internet activity would be, if made public. Aside from all the deep research/borderline stalking they have done into one particular Australian teenager's porn habits.
I have not read any of the posts in question and do not plan to, but I will say that if you actually held racist or transphobic beliefs seven years ago, it is unlikely that these views have fundamentally changed in that time, but you know what? That never mattered to me in the first place. Leave the social polinux to Lunduke.
I don't care about the comments/opinions/activities of one's past, especially not tame ones like these...
Just ignore the haters, they'll always dig up old dirt to destroy what they don't like.
I believe your only mistake was to feel guilty where you shouldn't have. (Perhaps because of the "pressure"?)
Honestly I get your position bc I also used to be kinda like that as a teen, and now I'm a trans woman and a socialist lmao. It's almost like people can change over the years.
I do think that some of your choices of content creators to watch are a bit weird. Like, I wouldn't wanna watch someone who supports a genocide and says horrible things about the people getting genocided, and then whine about getting banned for saying those things.
I also feel iffy about Joe Rogan because he platforms people who spread misinformation and conspiracy theories (like covid conspiracies and hyperdifusion conspiracies) on the grounds that he's giving opposite/fringe views an equal chance.
Don't get me wrong, I'm also all for hearing from all opinions, but there are things you should just not be giving a platform to, and these people do it anyway.
Basically all I wanna say here is that I get you, and I think it's admirable that you've changed for the better, but also don't watch people who spread/platform hate and misinformation. They're not worth your time.
Sadly, you still seem to not understand that you can't change an opinion of a cult leader. Brian makes money off of being wrong, there's nothing you can do to change his mind. He probably already knows that he's wrong.
And yeah, out of the list of people you've shown the only one that is adequate is Friendly Jordies. The rest, please find someone better to watch. Rogan and Asmongold are just straight up hateful sewage and you're going to get zero thoughtful opinions from them. Hasan... seems okay, but then he absolutely fails when talking about Ukraine and praises a dictator that caused a lot of misery.
I see that you have definitely improved as a person and I keep watching you, despite me disagreeing with you sometimes, specifically because I see that your arguments are in good faith. But sadly, when you believe in nothing, you just allow those bad people to hurt others. I've seen so many people in the community who would not only not help a person being beaten up, but they would also get angry at ones that try to help. So please, rethink what you wrote and realize that you can still grow as a person. After all, you don't learn anything from a healthy discussion when you just act defensively
Really sucks that these people are trying to cancel you based on things that you said and did years ago. The you of the present day is nothing like who you were back then, people change. And if anyone says otherwise, or tries to insinuate that just because a person used to behave a certain way means they will always be like that and should be ostracized from society, then in all honesty they can go f*ck themselves. It's exactly the kind of mindset that ends up pushing vulnerable people back into the hateful communities they once were a part of and are trying to leave, because nobody else will accept them.
Bringing more publicity to some of the issues that Linux is facing is never a bad thing, you do a great job at explaining most things, and (at least imo) it isn't about "drama", it's just about being informed about what is going on. And commenting on the posts of people you disagree with eg. Lunduke isn't a bad thing - it lets other people reading those posts know that there are other opinions on those subjects, and encourages healthy debate.
The worst thing in that whole list is probably you watching Hasan. Even after all your growth, you still watch Hasan Piker? #FreeKaya
P.s. Me judging you for watching Hasan is a joke, me thinking that Hasan is a bad apple is not. The kinds of comments he has made encouraging and excusing political violence would instantly get him booted from polite discourse were he on the right, but he is on the left so he gets away with it. Meanwhile Lunduke gets treated like he is austrian painter reincarnated when he is objectively a better human being than Hasan and other violent people on the left.
People take everything too seriously nowadays... Most of what's talked about here sounds like an average internet guy from the early 2000-2010s.
People grow up. I don't know why people assume that just because someone didn't go out of their way to delete everything they posted in the past that they would still behave the exact same today.
This is the first I've heard of this, I appreciate bringing it to light. However, I think the most damning thing here is that you're still following Asmongold and Joe Rogan of all people. That, to me, indicates you're fine following these utterly depraved people. This is not about seeking out different perspectives, these guys are far right, hateful grifters with nothing but contempt towards anyone who isn't a rich straight male. They're thoroughly outside the bounds of reasonable debate.
I'm really not trying to morally grandstand. I'm a bit older than you and also remember GamerGate as a young adult. That idea of "ethics in games journalism" was a captivating narrative that a lot of us bought into. But it was a campaign literally orchestrated by far right lunatics like Steve Bannon to get young people turned onto fascism. I'm telling you right now, you're not out of the woods yet if you think it was anything other than a massive harassment campaign to further the far right influence in online spaces. And you're especially not out if you're fine with a YouTuber cheering about ICE's extrajudicial murders of innocent people in the US. How that isn't immediately disqualifying to you is baffling to me.
The "I don't want to get into politics" card is often played when someone gets overwhelmed by the implications of their social perspectives. The fact of the matter is you did get into it and should consider being more clear in your views with your audience, because this comes off as strategically avoidant to me. You've got some history here and it isn't irrelevant to where you are now.
I started watching you exactly because you didn't give me the creeps like DT sometimes does with his weird comments that make it sound like he's never interacted with a human. Your channel is something I've felt comfortable recommending to colleagues and friends getting into Linux. I can't do that anymore.
To those in the comments who are saying "GamerGate was never about ethics", may I kindly suggest that you don't get your commentary from biased feminist(-allied) journalists who are part of an industry lashing out like a wounded animal against its critics and wishes to banish its target audience while secretly putting in ethics policies because it turned out gamers had a point. The same sources used for the blatantly biased article on Wikipedia.
The people who are saying this are either or a mix of a) not gamers and therefore not the target audience, b) ideologically captured individuals who perceive "problematic" gamers to be white males and therefore racist and sexist (without a hint of self-awareness that they're judging individuals based on innate characteristics) while demanding the exile of said group from the hobby while imposing their own will and sole ideology on the industry and denouncing anything else, and/or c) journalists for whom GamerGate's consumer advocacy hit a raw nerve.
You're seeing the same thing in FOSS by the way. Just replace gamers with users and "GamerGate's consumer advocacy" with Lunduke's journalistic investigations. As for denouncements, we could talk about Hyprland, XLibre and C in FOSS in the same manner as "problematic" games such as Hatred, Postal 2 or more recently, Pragmata.
I don't care about any of this, except for the part where you watch Asmongold, Joe Rogan, and Hasan. The fact that you think these people's opinions are worth considering means that your bullshit detector is completely busted. These people get 99% of their information from their social media feeds. They do zero actual research or due diligence before broadcasting their personal opinions to thousands of viewers as fact. Hasan in particular has explicitly stated he views his role as being a propagandist who funnels his viewers into a Marxist ideology pipeline.
If you feel like you need some edgy streamer content in your life, then at least watch someone like Destiny who does the bare minimum of trying to inform themselves on a topic before forming a strong opinion.
I feel like this is not quite the response many would have liked.
you don't appear to be remorseful or sorry for your past actions. actions, which, if the document has any truth, could have hurt a lot of people.
i do not know what to think. you linked the document, and i read it. i don't particularly care for your past actions, but looking at timestamps, there is time for improvement. you say you've changed, but you still watch and platform some hateful shit. so... i don't know... you can watch whatever. just, do a more thorough background check before platforming someone. even if you don't discuss the more unsavory things, you can still legitimizes their platform using yours.
Even if i'm not leaving this portion of the linux community yet, I will warn you though, I know plenty of folks in the community (both lgbt and linux) that would gladly avoid you if you continue to platform anyone publicly against LGBT rights. This is not a "oh they have good points on linux but not on LGBT". issue. If someone is willing to consistently speak against human rights, they shouldn't have a platform, period.
Ok, this only just confirms that you are a bit more libertarian than I thought you were. Kind of like Richard Stallman in a way.
As for any racism, pointing out that they exist doesn't make you racist, especially when you are responding to people pushing the existence of them in the first place, as a means to implement DEI.
And using the n-word (no R), as a joke, in reference to yourself, doesn't make you racist.
Also Gamergate kind of died down sometime during 2016-2017. And people have done their best to rewrite history and pretend that it wasn't about ethics in journalism and about the risk of collusion between journalists and game studios. Sadly the journalists won, which is why we have IGN giving out 10/10 reviews to dogshit games, while great games get 5/10 or less, because they don't have the right connections.
First of all no, on the internet you cant really change someone mind by 'having an open discourse'. Not on the internet or even in real life. It takes a lot more than just a talk to change a persons views. I dont know much about Lunduke, but Im willing to bet your 'disagreements' with him didn't change his views significantly, whatever they were.
That is part of why platforming 'problematic people' is in fact problematic and you should take accountability for it. Because you only enable them to spread their hate further, and you contribute to them hurting more people.
And when a person is hateful, you dont really talk them out of it. Its on them to change their behaviour and 'grow up'.
You also cant have a healthy community where people on one side want to hurt the other side.
Rape jokes are simply never okay in public spaces. Context genuinely doesnt matter in most cases, because you are pretty much guaranteed to have hurt someone with them. And knowing most anime that specific joke was certainly awful in the context of that anime as well. I hope that you will understand this as you 'grow up' more.
You started by saying youve grown as a person in the second paragraph, just to immediately downplay that in the next sentence, and in the rest of the post, and kept saying "Yes I do/did that thing" doubling down on it. And it really seems like you dont understand the ramifications of your actions at all, or even why that document about you would be written in the first place.
In regards to changing someones mind on the internet, I definitely dont believe this comment will change your mind at all. Im writing this because I was somewhat shocked to learn all these things after watching you for a year or so. I understand your views because Ive also been in a sort of "anime&hentai obsessed boy with fascist views" era that I was forced to grow out of when I learned I was transgender. You still have a lot to grow up tho, and I hope you will. It will likely take a new friend group, which I know from experience is not easy, and also higher standard for content creators.
Besides 'corn', in the rest you were based, and you shouldn't bow down to a mob because they make you feel ashamed of who you are.
Don't give a fuck about what people think of you, be yourself. Trying to control who you are is tiresome, if you laugh at edgy jokes and likes to do that and have views that is seem as polemic and watch people that have different mind, you should keep doing it.
A healthy and intelligent mind try to learn with everyone, these people that talk about if you watch Asmon or not are limited people that limits themselves scared to leave their "Plato's cave", they live in a bubble and want to force you in.
Lunduke is great and he is doing a great job to Linux community, pointing that tech is above politics, but because people bring politics everywhere, they are so low, but SO LOW, that they consider such an instance as an attack on their person. Can you see how this works? it is just a trick, they call everything they do "for [minority]", and when you disagree what they do, and not who does, they say: "so you hate the minority". It is just a filter and they are the dictator they claim others are.
Given this text and some of the people commenting to you here, i rather you be your older self than what these people want you to be! At least you were your honest self, and it seems like you want to be a self others want you to be to please them. As a millennial, take in mind, the more i grew, the more i returned to my childhood self, because i noticed don't matter how much you try to be nice to people that complain, they complain because an inner problem and not amount of niceness will make you be seem in a good way. So just be yourself and don't give a fuck.
I used to be way more edgy and stuff, but i never stopped it entirely and i wont ever stop, and now i'll double down on people that cries about it. I used to try to be nice to some people just for them to use me whenever they needed and never cared about me when i needed. These people are fake and their virtue-signaling is all fake. People that can think simple don't care about all that, only who you are as a person, your actions, not your words. The people that cries about you, they don't think, they need an ideology to tell them what is the things they must cry for and what they shouldn't cry. You can see that every year there is a new thing to cry that none of them cried before and then, out of nowhere, they pose as "sensible that always cried about it", which is fake, and you can check their older expressions and see it is fake. If something is really organic and not artificial, they, they should be enraged about it since ever, not when someone makes a ideological movement for it.
Just be yourself, and i bet more people are going to enjoy you and your content than if you try to be something to please others, this never works, only works on people with the same level of problems and they are going to bring you down to their misery whenever you try to move a little out of bonds. Just check Hassan himself, he needs to always say what the mob believes, he can never say a single unique idiosyncratic thought, he is never himself, and he lives in a miserable life even with his fame.
"when the focus was on ethics in games journalism"
That was never the case though. GamerGate was at no point about ethics in games journalism. Certainly there was a deliberate effort to mislead people to think that that was what it was about, but it was from the very beginning demonstrably not about ethics in games journalism.
You can say you were misled by those efforts and maybe that's true, i don't know and tbh I don't care about it as much as I care about you not misrepresenting it now.
"I watch Asmongold [because] I think a healthy adult should watch and read things they don't completely agree with"
Watching Asmongold is as important to a healthy adult as bathing in sewage twice a week. Ideally one combines the two. You also should read a chapter of Mein Kampf between every book you enjoy, just for balance. Who knows, maybe there's good ideas in there or potential for a healthy middle ground.
It shouldn't have to be said, but this comment isn't a condemnation of you as a person, nor is it full 100% agreement with absolutely everything else you said in this post.
Bored people wants to harm other people just for fun. You're not the problem. Keep doing what you do.
Modern times, and specifically cancel culture, are pretty fucked up.
1. Someone digs shit you said years ago, removes context, and "exposes" you.
2. You apologize in the name of a version of you that's outdated and no longer in use.
3. People does not care and keep trying to cancel you.
No room for growth and 2nd opportunities? Fuck this version of the world, then.
And for those in the replies saying "it's not enough" or "looks like damage control to me", Brodie may have changed so much he's apologizing on behalf of someone else.
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