The Au Ra Situation is wild...

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  • @daxx103
    @daxx103 10 місяців тому +156

    Male Au Ra here, I'll never forget my sprout days when my new FC mates would wince upon hearing I was a male Au Ra. Like *HOW* was I supposed to know that the randomly decided cupcake race was the dope ass dragons with better posture than any elezen?!? HOW DO WE GET A WORSE REP THAN THE MIQOTE AND THE VIERRA??? HOW SWAY T^T??? *Respectfully*

    • @majorclanger8857
      @majorclanger8857 10 місяців тому +34

      Is this a regional thing? Ive been male au ra on eu since 2017 and never heard of these stereotypes. Its a very common character choice in my experience

    • @traviswreynolds
      @traviswreynolds 10 місяців тому +3

      And I thought being on balmug as a non rper was bad

    • @sadgirlhours4088
      @sadgirlhours4088 10 місяців тому +27

      I picked male au ra cause I'm a monsterfucer and the girls are so small leave me alone 😭

    • @Dieci-9
      @Dieci-9 10 місяців тому +17

      ​@@majorclanger8857same...been playing male Au Ra because they looked cool AF and male Viera's were not in the game (but still would not play them 'cause of the head gear issues)...then I went online some months later and was like "male Au Ras are WHAT?! Why?!"
      Still, in the game (playing on Light, EU), I've never seen someone, even in my fc, bring up that meme.
      We only meme on Lalas and Miqotes.

    • @feyefall4855
      @feyefall4855 10 місяців тому

      Hold up lol. How do they have better posture? At least we don't have the constant slouch of miquos! Just because my neck probably crackles like rice krispies doesn't mean it's my posture!

  • @Sugar-bz5np
    @Sugar-bz5np 10 місяців тому +134

    this aura sh-t really gets on my nerves. most of us are 30-ish year old woman just tryna enjoy the race getting called pedos by 13 year olds its absolutley rediculous

    • @LunrFox
      @LunrFox 9 місяців тому +21

      Getting called a 50 year old perverted man by 13 year olds for playing a catgirl sucks too.
      I feel your pain.

  • @sanomaly
    @sanomaly 10 місяців тому +82

    As a male aura player, im not a gro0mer, but im indeed stupid 😭 whenever i chat with someone ill run away mid conversation, cause i accidentally triggered autorun 😭

    • @arthurian4033
      @arthurian4033 10 місяців тому +3

      THIS IS SO ME

    • @acefire0005
      @acefire0005 8 місяців тому +6

      Au Ra zoomies hit different. I’ve done this with my female Au Ra a bunch, lol.

    • @norang3639
      @norang3639 8 місяців тому

      THIS 😭😭This is felt

  • @NaivaxWolf
    @NaivaxWolf 10 місяців тому +61

    Been a male Au Ra since I first started FFXIV.
    This is the first time I'm hearing about this stigma.
    To be fair, I just play the game and do very little socializing aside from dungeons and raids.

    • @UTO7
      @UTO7 9 місяців тому +6

      I wouldn't worry about it too much, the types of people that think this spend more time on Twitter/Reddit than actually playing the game, so you'll probably rarely encounter them.

  • @anarchicbean5888
    @anarchicbean5888 10 місяців тому +107

    As a male Au Ra gamer, I can confirm I actually hate cupcakes, as well as cake, cookies, and other sweets. I know, I know, these are some serious crimes.

  • @grunkledan9210
    @grunkledan9210 10 місяців тому +162

    Pretty sure people complaining about losing the community support award are just memeing because thats how the Fortnite crowd talked everytime they lost to XIV. No one really cares afaik.

    • @heskensol
      @heskensol  10 місяців тому +4

      I remember that haha

    • @tek512
      @tek512 10 місяців тому +5

      Yeah, no they aren't. A ton of people are really that mad. Game's community was always trash though.

    • @kakashiroks
      @kakashiroks 10 місяців тому +2

      Meh, I was a little surprised, but I don’t really care that much. I know how good the community support is in this game, It doesn’t really matter to me whether or not there is an award to affirm it this year :>

    • @Tundyinthelight
      @Tundyinthelight 10 місяців тому

      It's not that they lost its because they last to cyberpunk

    • @MidoriGrey
      @MidoriGrey 10 місяців тому +3

      Man I don't care we didn't win community support. I'm just glad that destiny 2 didn't win cause they deserved it even less considering that game is infamous for bungie never listening to their fans.
      Also FFXIV won an award last year. So I couldn't care if it lost this time, you don't need more than one trophy in my opinion.

  • @KuumahBE
    @KuumahBE 10 місяців тому +97

    I mean, everyone assumes I am a flaming homosexual because I'm a Hrothgar. I didn't ask for this. I didn't want to send this message to run free out in the world without my consent.
    I mean they're right though, but shit dude.

    • @Nempo13
      @Nempo13 9 місяців тому +1

      Haha, I don't know why that race got that stigma. We have a hrothgar in my FC that is straight as can be and it creeps him out when other hrathgars DM him... things. It doesn't help that when he got married in game the chick switched to a male viera for it just for the meme.

    • @JustSpag
      @JustSpag 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Nempo13 the furry community has a strong, strong strain of bara fandom, more or less. Pretty Much Thundercats fits neatly into that.
      oddly enough though? These days I see more straight hrothgar than gay and my hrothgar doesn't actually get a lot of tells of that sort.

    • @zipzapper0
      @zipzapper0 6 місяців тому

      Some people just wanna be Thundercats

  • @KnillahWaferz
    @KnillahWaferz 10 місяців тому +86

    I don’t get the race stereotypes.
    Then again, I play male Lala, because I SEEK CHAOS.

    • @silxer3154
      @silxer3154 10 місяців тому

      I also play as one, but I prefer chill vibes and good times personally.

    • @Nazuiko
      @Nazuiko 10 місяців тому

      As someone whos... attempted to ... RP with Male au ras.
      its earned.
      Also I will sadly admit I also fit most of the Fem ra RPer stereotypes and the Balmung player stereotypes (except hanging out in the Quicksands. I only do that when I have friends also AFKing there.)

    • @realityveil6151
      @realityveil6151 10 місяців тому

      @@Nazuiko I just made a fem-ra. What are the stereotypes I should be aware of?

    • @Nempo13
      @Nempo13 9 місяців тому

      Was a male lala for a year, was hilarious the situations I found myself in. I recently swapped to male miqo. The number of comms I get regularly jumped by a LOT surprisingly. Apparently being a chill cat guy is seen as nice. Also, the male cats look good in a suit.

  • @XieronDraxin
    @XieronDraxin 10 місяців тому +171

    T-T I'm a bisexual woman who plays a male Au Ra for the same reason that many straight men play a catgirl. Because I think he's hot. I made my dream husbando and I was unaware of their reputation in the wider community because I'm not on social media.

    • @UnlimitedPlatesWorks
      @UnlimitedPlatesWorks 10 місяців тому +26

      So many of my female friends also play male au ra I feel sad for them because they had been shamed and bashed for it.

    • @Sugar-bz5np
      @Sugar-bz5np 10 місяців тому

      same@@UnlimitedPlatesWorks

    • @mukakruda8474
      @mukakruda8474 10 місяців тому +13

      I always thought the stereotype was female au ras are always actually dudes, and male au ras are always actually chicks
      I guess someone wanted a race to be the cupcake enjoyer race, but no one wanted to say it was lalas 'cause they already get enough shit about cupcake enjoyment

    • @litchtheshinigami8936
      @litchtheshinigami8936 10 місяців тому

      it's funny cuz when i started replaying i made 2 characters and was planning on swapping between the two. a female lala because I AM CHAOS. and a male Au ra because i like the way they look and i thought it would be funny to have a buff tough looking guy that only does magic. while my Lala tanks away.. but after seeing that stereotype i was like ehhhhhhhhhh so now i mainly play male Viera (wich was my first choice but i hadn't gotten the dlc yet so i had to pick something else) my male Au ra does still exist but for now i'm just unmotivated to continue due to the bad rep

    • @Nazuiko
      @Nazuiko 10 місяців тому +1

      The kind of people who see themselves as male Au Ra are also ... incredibly awful people.
      And the one male au ra we see in MSQ is not a good example either. At least post-endwalker gave us a better example of what they COULD be, and I wish they were. And then theres the one other NPC who is uh, "preferred the little boy" sssoooooooo

  • @anotherprofessional
    @anotherprofessional 10 місяців тому +28

    I used to main Male Au-Ra as I really liked their design and their lore, I knew they had a small reputation for being noticeable cross-dressing among players as they have the best hips among the men but never the “cupcake” thing thou. That one threw me for a loop.

    • @sadgirlhours4088
      @sadgirlhours4088 10 місяців тому +8

      The hips thing is true tho. They make for really underrated femboys

    • @anotherprofessional
      @anotherprofessional 10 місяців тому

      @@sadgirlhours4088 fr fr

    • @litchtheshinigami8936
      @litchtheshinigami8936 10 місяців тому +1

      @@sadgirlhours4088 that was my original take on them too. but then i saw the stereotype and i made another character being a male Viera bahaha.

    • @sadgirlhours4088
      @sadgirlhours4088 10 місяців тому +2

      @litchtheshinigami8936 😭 I also have a male Viera alt jdjdjdjfnn. I'm never switching from my boy tho he means the world to me I lovevb him.

    • @litchtheshinigami8936
      @litchtheshinigami8936 10 місяців тому +1

      @@sadgirlhours4088 same, i have a few alt characters that i will play here and there but he will stay my main because i love him too much now

  • @real_life_hobbit
    @real_life_hobbit 9 місяців тому +14

    Au Ra's in general are just so pretty I love them so much, but the fact that people have to make these assumptions about a particular race is why i have yet to cosplay my male Au Ra character

  • @N..O
    @N..O 10 місяців тому +14

    The shitpost sub is kinda like a mirror for the main sub, a lot of posts are satirical versions of main sub posts and zooming into boobs on fanart posted there

  • @amandalindsey7741
    @amandalindsey7741 10 місяців тому +30

    There are quite a few FFXIV drama videos where the guy is Male Au Ra, sadly a few bad apples lead to the stereotype. I know awesome, chill Male Au Ra who aren't stalkers, or creepy pervs and have to fight this stereotype because of the other jerks.

    • @silxer3154
      @silxer3154 10 місяців тому +6

      The same can be said for any race ingame, it's the player not the race option...
      This is honestly the first time me hearing about such a thing as I rarely look at community related stuff these days, so it's a bit surprising (and a bit annoying) there is quite a bit negative stereotyping/negative labeling if a player picks a certain race in this game (I've seen this happen in another MMO I played many years ago, but wasn't expecting to see that here).

    • @litchtheshinigami8936
      @litchtheshinigami8936 10 місяців тому +3

      yep.. i made 2 characters when i played again a female lala and a male Au ra.. now i mostly play Male viera because i couldn't with the stereotype.. (though i did originally want to make a male Viera i just didn't have the dlc at the time)

  • @soldierorsomething
    @soldierorsomething 10 місяців тому +34

    After playing FF14 non-stop for 2.5 years and now when im caught up with everything while having every single job at lvl 90 (LVL80 BLU) and even having farmed +900 frontline pvp wins for all grand company PVP tittles, playing other games still feel like a betrayal, but playing 2.5 years of only 1 game has made my backlog of other games very long!

    • @Kesvalk
      @Kesvalk 10 місяців тому +5

      "100+ unplayed games on steam" gang represent!

  • @MelaniAlarcon
    @MelaniAlarcon 9 місяців тому +10

    Im a straight woman playing badass dark goth male au ra XD

  • @ImpastaLarry
    @ImpastaLarry 10 місяців тому +11

    Bro being a male Au Ra blows sometimes but other times most people are chill which is fun but damn makes me wanna use a fantasia to be something else but meh idc XD

    • @thecrowonyourshoulder
      @thecrowonyourshoulder 9 місяців тому +7

      Please continue to not care. The community can straight up be stupid on how they see certain things. Its best to ignore it all.

  • @TehParismio
    @TehParismio 10 місяців тому +20

    Nah, don't go into ffxiv drama or drama at all. It's needless and its easy to get heated in a conversation that have no effect on you whatsoever. Plus a lot of these drama videos are often just for views and often do not reflect the actual views of the poster. Just keep doing you Hesken.

    • @feyefall4855
      @feyefall4855 10 місяців тому +1

      All you gotta do is walk awaaaaay!

  • @Tinandel
    @Tinandel 10 місяців тому +9

    I generally stay out of the community itself, specifically so as to avoid drama or savage-tier conversations which aren't relevant to me. But I have to admit.... I'm a WHM main and very much enjoy being a WHM main. On the rare occasion I'm playing a tank and the healer casts Cure 1 on me, I just kinda.... wince.

  • @sur7969
    @sur7969 9 місяців тому +6

    idk maybe its more of their social circles and all, but all male au ras i know are either 1) played by women 2) played by gays 3) both. that being said, i played at elemental. so theres that. or is it reddit thing?? cause i dont see it like that in art community in twitter n tumblr
    also using someones fanart of their au ra for that kind of allegation is kinda rude lol

  • @XieronDraxin
    @XieronDraxin 10 місяців тому +17

    As for the dead game posts, it seems like a lot of folks who came over during the streamer boom are on the new NA data center that they added and that's also the largest population that has quit playing. If you are having really long queue times, switch over to Crystal or Aether. I'm on Aether and have been since I started the game 8 years ago and since we're all largely vets, I have barely noticed a dip. The player numbers are pretty much back where they were before the game exploded. Yeah, there were more during the boom, but queue times are still largely normal AKA 15 -20 min max if you're playing super early in the morning. If you don't want to pay for data center transfer, then just data center travel here or to Crystal. Most of the vets are still here. I recommend Aether bc our RP scene is fairly self-contained and you won't get creepy DMs unless you are specifically at an RP event. Or at least I never have in 8 years of playing and cycling through every race in that time.

    • @heskensol
      @heskensol  10 місяців тому

      True I do normally play either late at night or in the morning so that’s my fault haha

    • @dogedoge704
      @dogedoge704 10 місяців тому +4

      re: "dead game posts" - You do have a valid point there, in my opinion. The population tripled during the Asmongold wave in Shadowbringers. What this means is the "old" FFXIV community is a minority and much of the "newer" community are used to blasting through numerous expansions (ARR, HW, SB, ShB, EW) non-stop. The actual fact is, for most of these newer players (within the last 2-3 years), Endwalker is their very FIRST "current" expansion and first experience of FFXIV's patch to next-expansion cycles. For us old veterans, it's old hat routine and we know to pause subscription and go play our other games until next patch or expansion. Meanwhile, all the newer players are like, "omg there's no content! I will (publicly) announce I am quitting FFXIV" because they are still only accustomed to "rush-to-endgame" mono-gaming type playstyle and endless grinds and all they know is if a game doesn't make you log in every day, it's declared "dead" and they have to "quit". smh Still brainwashed, apparently, and clueless that this is how it is between EVERY FFXIV expansion for years and they don't know what to do with themselves unless a game tells them what to do with their time. 🤣 Go play other games, y'all! Currently trying out GW2, LoTRO and Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO) until next patch/MSQ update.

    • @Yamidoragon
      @Yamidoragon 10 місяців тому +2

      Yeah it’s everywhere anyway tbh. WoW is a dead game FF is a dead game OW is a dead game ESO is a dead game bladiblah 🤷🏻‍♀️ some people just want to be doomsayers but have no doom to say

    • @dogedoge704
      @dogedoge704 10 місяців тому +2

      @@Yamidoragon LOL true. A lot of MMOs are in-between expansions right now.

    • @Nazuiko
      @Nazuiko 10 місяців тому

      Queue times are only long for DPS players outside of Dynamis as you mentioned.
      The problem with Dynamis is a result of a) self-feeding cycle, which is also a problem with NA Party finder for Savage b) the server was primarily made up of alts, particularly people wanting to make NPC characters. I myself have an exceptionally ... obscure NPC alt on Dynamis that I, like the 25,000 G'raha Tia cosplayers, never actually played.

  • @markup6394
    @markup6394 10 місяців тому +23

    3:42 --- I think we can blame the game itself for this... I mean, give me a single male Au Ra that is a legid solid character... and like me, you'll come up with none. The only prominent male Au Ra the game offers is "Little Sun" ... and if thats the standard... things are bad XD
    Loved the last one XD

    • @Flight_Of_The_Spoon
      @Flight_Of_The_Spoon 10 місяців тому +8

      I haven't played for some time, but only one I'm truly remember, beside “Little Sun”, is dude from Dark Knight job quests.

    • @RichardHudlin
      @RichardHudlin 10 місяців тому +13

      Ahewann was cool.

    • @Rukdug
      @Rukdug 10 місяців тому +24

      Why you gotta do Sidurgu and Ahewan dirty like that?

    • @Yamidoragon
      @Yamidoragon 10 місяців тому +8

      Then you are yet to meet Sidurgu of the Obsidian Heart

    • @markup6394
      @markup6394 10 місяців тому +6

      @@Rukdug Ahewan didnt really get any screentime (sadly :( ) and Sidurgu is bound to the Dark Knight quests. I play DRK so yeah, I know him... but no, he didnt really leave an impression on me as a fleshed out character. Frey was way more interesting and he wasnt even real o.O

  • @FantogemeStudios
    @FantogemeStudios 10 місяців тому +6

    Playing a Lalafell in this game makes you one of two things - THE Cupcake. Or THE Devil. There is no in-between. We can't just exist and vibe.

    • @Nempo13
      @Nempo13 9 місяців тому

      Make male lala,
      dress in suits,
      be chill, calm, and friendly,
      confuse the crap out of everyone,
      ???
      profit.
      I have more than a few screenshots of random people who walked up and sat with me on benches or beside me while I was fishing somewhere. Just chatting nice and chill. Hell I walked around Ul'Dah once in an Ul'Dahn suit look with 6 miqo girls in dancer silks randomly following me. I didn't know any of them prior to it, most of them didn't know each other either. It just organically HAPPENED.
      Some FC mates saw me and the conversation went something like this;
      "Uh, why do you have a bunch of dancer girls following you?"
      "I dunno, they found me and adopted me?"
      "... why does this shit always happen to you?"
      "Good questions, anyway can I keep them?"
      " "
      So yeah those 6 people all became friends I chat with randomly and run stuff with now lol. None of them were dudes, shockingly. I lost money on that bet cause I assumed at least half of them were dudes.

    • @FantogemeStudios
      @FantogemeStudios 9 місяців тому

      @@Nempo13 Yeah but see everyone behind the screen is laughing to themselves compairing you to the boss baby 😂
      Like no other race in the game has this problem (?) You are the cupcake or you are the devil. I dont make the rules 😂

  • @maxwellbrown7802
    @maxwellbrown7802 10 місяців тому +16

    "you can get a real pizza for that price." W H E R E

    • @syressx9098
      @syressx9098 10 місяців тому

      true, maybe a small one?

    • @Megumi-dz1mm
      @Megumi-dz1mm 10 місяців тому +3

      Little Ceasars

    • @heskensol
      @heskensol  10 місяців тому +4

      One of the cheap ones from a grocery store haha

    • @maxwellbrown7802
      @maxwellbrown7802 10 місяців тому

      I'm spoiled with pizza in NYC given a whole pie is nothing short of 25USD hence my surprise LOL

    • @O.M-
      @O.M- 9 місяців тому

      A frozen pizza from the supermarket
      It's not that bad

  • @Asmodean1111
    @Asmodean1111 9 місяців тому +4

    As a guy who has played a male Au Ra since Heavenswards, getting called a "cupcake" or gro0mers has happened a few time. Most recently it was from a Lalafell, so had an easy time getting him to shut up when reminding him there is a mogstation chair for him. It's also people like that have more or less kept me as the silent protag most of the time doing content. At least people get a bow after final boss and I disappear
    All the doomscrolling about the game being dead is mostly from players who came into ff14 off of the Asmon/late Shadwobringers boom, along with Shadowlands having totally shit the bed at that point that people decided to try other mmos out. Us old timers know how .5 to next expo goes.

  • @luciaseriin
    @luciaseriin 10 місяців тому +8

    1:23 psst that isn't queue time, that's the time left for the duty, the joke is that someone got Thornmarch Extreme for Mentor Rolo at 3 am when they were probs hoping for something quick..

  • @tessanystrom8614
    @tessanystrom8614 9 місяців тому +12

    I hate that the male Au Ra get such a bad wrap because I love them! I think that they look really good and then bad people end up playing as them.

    • @EloyBushida
      @EloyBushida 3 місяці тому

      Bad people play every race and every job, play whatever you want. Anyone who judges you based on your race or job is a loser who isn't worth your time.

  • @Shizuka965
    @Shizuka965 10 місяців тому +4

    i can relate to the meme "I hate everyone else so much more" cause since 2021 on ffxiv I just keep getting into dramas and people being mean and stuff to me at a point where I left ff14 lol
    and the dudes being like "I like that emote cause very few people have it" is jst stupid, like something you truly do, not based on rarity.. of course one day knowing SE they'd put it in the mogstation lol

  • @Mysterious_Mr.C4
    @Mysterious_Mr.C4 10 місяців тому +2

    IIRC the pizza emote was given as a code if you used door dash or something,which SUCKED because where I live we didn’t have Door dash or Grub hub until around 5 months after the emote was announced, luckily an online buddy gave it to me.

  • @Megumi-dz1mm
    @Megumi-dz1mm 10 місяців тому +4

    Omg, I spend so much time on that subreddit. I'm getting second hand embarrassment watching someone react to our shitposting.
    The sub has like its own culture and its own inside jokes. Most of the titles are either sarcastic or posted ironically.
    Sometimes we straight up parody posts from the main sub, thats why there's so many text posts. Cuz mainsub gets a lot of text posts.
    Ooooo boy, um, the male Au Ra meme is based on stuff that really did happen. There were groomers who played as male Au Ra and would sit at the Limsa aetheryte and try to groom catgirl players. It was weird.
    Also I suppose I should explain GCBTW cuz you will encounter that term getting tossed around. It means Great Community By The Way. Its shorthand for making fun of all the toxic weirdos who are the exception to an otherwise nice community.

    • @heskensol
      @heskensol  10 місяців тому +1

      Thanks for explaining haha

  • @hibikuokudan
    @hibikuokudan 12 днів тому

    Bigender woman who plays a male Au Ra here. I play male Au Ra because theyre hot, and they look like tieflings so i could make my DnD character and improve his backstory.
    I love him so much.. and he's very nice to look at (especially with TBSE for extra muscles)

  • @justnath3559
    @justnath3559 5 місяців тому +1

    new player here, i picked male Au Ra because i like characters with horns they always look cooler to me i didn't even know what kind of reputation the male Au Ra's had since i didn't do a research about it i just wanted to be a cool tall pretty boy with horns

  • @mcstronghuge
    @mcstronghuge 8 місяців тому

    "I play a race because I like it and then suddenly, community-"
    *:lights a cigar:* buddy,

  • @Fenix1o
    @Fenix1o 10 місяців тому +4

    Wait why are they being called cupcakes? what did cupcakes do to deserve such an association?

    • @heskensol
      @heskensol  10 місяців тому +1

      Look into the EDP445 situation haha

    • @Fenix1o
      @Fenix1o 10 місяців тому

      @@heskensol im vaguely aware of the situation with that guy. Totally forgot the cupcake stuff. What a shame. :(

  • @cindymon
    @cindymon 10 місяців тому +2

    Me picking my male au ra guy because I have a weakness for little waists and horns. 😆 It's so weird seeing this stereotype since I'm mostly a solo player and all the interactions I had in the game were very wholesome.

  • @md-fi7zt
    @md-fi7zt 9 місяців тому +1

    the stereotypes made me hesitate, but ultimately i chose to play a raen au ra and the level of solidarity i feel with the boys is unrivalled. together strong kings.

  • @USMC49er
    @USMC49er 9 місяців тому +1

    I've played as a male au'ra since the post-patch MSQ Stormblood to Shadowbringers and still playing FFXIV now. And I have never gotten this interaction once.
    Not even on accident. Frankly, I think some of you hang around the weirdos too much.

  • @vfvs11a
    @vfvs11a 10 місяців тому +2

    You'll likely get the mount faster buying the island gamble boxes. I got both mounts that way and a nice glamour head thing. Only drawback is, since most are doing this, just about everything from the island loot boxes is worthless on the marketboard.

  • @Soooooooooooonicable
    @Soooooooooooonicable 9 місяців тому +1

    I thought most cupcake lovers played as lalafell. If you think too hard about this stuff it will just give you a headache.

  • @dolcebeat6759
    @dolcebeat6759 10 місяців тому +3

    Wait... does male Au Ra have a bad rep? In RP all of my female characters only date male Au Ras. I say, male Au Ras for the win! ❤

  • @DaisyDream_pers
    @DaisyDream_pers 10 місяців тому +2

    Clickded this video because I played an AuRa. Was I not encountering any of the stereotypes because I'm antisocial? Or are they not as prevalent as people think? I played this game like it was single player most of the time, barely interacted with real people. So I'm probably just too introverted to find any of the negative stuff

  • @MechaKaiser
    @MechaKaiser 9 місяців тому +3

    Look, as an Au Ra male player, I can honestly say that I do not have much feeling for children more than most.
    The only time I ever wanted a child was that young Mi'qote girl in 5.2 or 5.3 who looked so adorable that I wished you could adopt NPC kids.

  • @BloodKitten_
    @BloodKitten_ 10 місяців тому

    the eat pizza emote was, i think, ordering 15$ in pizza hut or was it something else? limited to whoever was in the US with access to US side shops that were participating.

  • @LunrFox
    @LunrFox 9 місяців тому

    Y'know that part of being hated on because of the race you play is true for all races.
    I like catgirls, and I like playing as them, but I can't walk around anywhere without someone calling me generic, or immediately assuming I am a guy.
    Its painful...

  • @fluxwise
    @fluxwise 10 місяців тому +1

    that Castle Crashers ost bringing back so many memories with me xD

    • @heskensol
      @heskensol  10 місяців тому +1

      Love that game, never beat it lol

    • @fluxwise
      @fluxwise 10 місяців тому

      I beat it once, but after spending so many hours power leveling + DLC items, so not a legit win @@heskensol

    • @toxickite93
      @toxickite93 9 місяців тому

      Holyshit no wonder that hit me! I completely forgot about that game!

  • @rynfiaryn
    @rynfiaryn 10 місяців тому +1

    All the male Au Ra players I know are pretty cool, chill dudes. Stereotypes are dumb.

  • @chelsthegameruiner8669
    @chelsthegameruiner8669 10 місяців тому

    The wild thing about that 9/11 meme is that I made the dumbest joke earlier. I think it was about the goblins crashing into the Twin Towers.
    I regret nothing, enjoy that thought in your head

  • @vincentprice713
    @vincentprice713 10 місяців тому +1

    Good god I forgot about that grub hub fiasco.

  • @leristamerello8225
    @leristamerello8225 9 місяців тому

    Cupcakes...I have never heard that term before...and now I wish I never knew about it, lol.

  • @dawnmccarthy1
    @dawnmccarthy1 9 місяців тому

    I wonder if the ones complaining about the ques taking forever aren't used to queing as dps, or maybe they're on the smaller data centers?

  • @6millioncats
    @6millioncats 10 місяців тому +3

    I love queuing extreme trials and coil as a healer in the middle of the night and waiting 3 hours and then hearing half the party complain that they're there muahahahaha
    Also as a professional white mage (I have at LEAST 1 on every NA server) cure 1 is actually perfectly fine and even NECESSARY sometimes (a lot of times in ARR/HW) when you have a really bad tank...

    • @Nazuiko
      @Nazuiko 10 місяців тому

      Unless youre somehow running out of MP you dont need cure 1 now that its cast time is identitical to cure 2.

  • @hkoizumi3134
    @hkoizumi3134 10 місяців тому +1

    Queues not taking this long? Clearly that person never played during ARR launch. Not only the servers were empty, we had no Duty Finder. We stood in front of the dungeon shouting LFP. Not to mention we also had server merger due to low density of players. People seems to have forgotten that.

  • @Sunari
    @Sunari 10 місяців тому +1

    lol to the guy upset over the pizza emote no longer being rare. I got it from the previous event, have had my fun, and absolutely fine people get to enjoy it. Heck, I'm happy for a friend who wanted it for an alt he enjoys playing on another server cause its one of his favorites (but now he super wants the chicken one lmfao hopefully that comes to the shop someday).

  • @Darc1972
    @Darc1972 10 місяців тому

    I am so glad i stopped playing my Male Au Ra way before this around the middle of 5.2ish. (it was because my FC fell apart, and i decided to start over all, so i made a Male Hyur and now I am in a not that active FC bit when it is active its very chill.)

  • @OpheliaTerat
    @OpheliaTerat 9 місяців тому +1

    Ngl I chose to play as a male Au Ra because I thought they looked hot and tbh I've never heard of the groomer stigma. Where'd it come from?

  • @BongSwansong
    @BongSwansong 10 місяців тому

    Those EDP references landed for me. lmao

  • @hopeeverest
    @hopeeverest 8 місяців тому

    Been playing as a male Au Ra, and 150 hours later, not once have I socialized with anyone, but didn't care all that much (I honestly felt like it's just cause I'm a Free Trial player, I can't send nor receive Say messages or DMs). Never knew this pedo situation was a thing though.

  • @phya9324
    @phya9324 10 місяців тому

    I always check party finder and ask FC before even thinking about joining queues

    • @Nempo13
      @Nempo13 9 місяців тому

      I am a tank main....what is a que time?
      Heh. Seriously do roulettes with a tank when you can. Instant pop ftw.

  • @jaykay5838
    @jaykay5838 10 місяців тому +1

    @ 3:27 , stigmas, I play Hrothgar because i thought it was cool. I get what maybe deemed sexual harrasment from furries and non-stright hroth players who just assume because i'm playing one that i'm one of them. Especially during this "content drought" where they have nothing else to do. So i don't log on a much lately, and feel for any AU Ra players who just liked the character and may have to deal with sh!t.

    • @majorclanger8857
      @majorclanger8857 10 місяців тому

      Literally never had to deal with it as a male au ra player since 2017, this was the first i heard of the different stereotypes. Im in eu so maybe theres a regional difference but who knows. Its a pretty common character choice here so you cant really pinpoint ppl so much, unlike hroth, i feel bad you have to deal with it

  • @brinftw565
    @brinftw565 10 місяців тому

    "What's more worth it?"
    Well, I was stupidly lucky with Island Containers myself, I'm like a month into the island containers, getting as many as I can.
    I've gotten 2 adenium whistles and 2 peerifool whistles.
    Kept 1 of each for me and sold the duplicates! :3

  • @EkattPalladium
    @EkattPalladium 10 місяців тому

    I started the Pandaemonium raids quests last week, and the queue took literally 1h25.... For an Endwalker raid.... ON A FRIDAY EVENING.... HELLO?

  • @ZestyTime233
    @ZestyTime233 10 місяців тому

    @3:30 THIS IS ME RN 😭 I HAD NO IDEA AU RA MALES HAD THIS KIND OF REPUTATION 😭😭
    My boy is no groomer,,,,but he is a stupid beefbrain so i guess /that's/ absolutely on point lskhf

  • @Draylin41
    @Draylin41 10 місяців тому

    It's funny how the example of a dead game they used was queing for an Extreme. I've only ever done extremes with randoms if it pops up on mentor roulette, it's so much better to just do those with a premade, hence why that que is so long.

  • @rafagd
    @rafagd 10 місяців тому

    The horsefondant and the Raubhan shitposts are the best ones from that community

  • @Rae-nw9xt
    @Rae-nw9xt 7 місяців тому

    Seen a comment saying most au ra players are chill older women and it’s true
    I wasn’t aware of how bad the stereotype until recently last year 😅

  • @humbleebumblee
    @humbleebumblee 10 місяців тому

    I love how people were shaming and making fun of fortnite players for saying the same stuff about the game awards and yet... here we are

  • @angimauri8092
    @angimauri8092 10 місяців тому +5

    yeah- i am one of the aura male players- just chilling (based him off my queer d&d firbolg/teifling druid/ranger nature boy) and did *not* expect the flack from the memes @_@; we kinda celebrate with the other 'cute' (like smol cute) aura when we find eachother amongst the (spikey) edgy DRK boys...and i collect photos of lizard boys that are not beige or b&w cuz..... lizards have a rainbow of color options I did not know existed till I played one and we gotta make up the deficit 🫠

  • @jackEXR
    @jackEXR 8 місяців тому

    wth I never knew male aura had a bad rep and that's so sad because I love them. My main is a fem Au Ri, and my main alt is a male Au Ra cause they're just the hottest dudes (depending on which face preset) i didn't know they had that weird ass rep

  • @fuzzwobble
    @fuzzwobble 10 місяців тому

    I spend like 9/10s of my time in Endwalker doing RP or just piling up gil. This might sound bad, but I spent 9/10s of my time doing RP and piling up gil in the other expansions, too. I don't care.

  • @gps069
    @gps069 10 місяців тому +1

    Damn, no wonder someone suddenly called me a pedo out of nowhere when I was playing on NA server 2 years ago lol always played as male au ra since I started the game on HW release😆

  • @granddiety14yt62
    @granddiety14yt62 6 місяців тому

    Wait, hold on. Male Au Ra have a stigma for enjoying "cupcakes"?
    The hell is this?
    Why am i just now learning this?
    See this is why i keep to myself and my circles of friends, i just wanna play blue totally not dragon man, i dont need all this extra drama.

  • @cruximissa
    @cruximissa 10 місяців тому

    my both exbf play as manra, one has depression problem, and one is pervert man. But yes, I still like this race cause of lore and design.

  • @Shingeki__
    @Shingeki__ 3 місяці тому

    I work overnight so on my off days i keep the same schedule. I AM that guy at 3am in a 4hr Q for Mog Extreme lol.

  • @anarchicbean5888
    @anarchicbean5888 10 місяців тому +1

    Two videos in one week, I feel spoiled!

  • @nuclearsynapse5319
    @nuclearsynapse5319 10 місяців тому +3

    It's literally just because male Au'ra are tall af, and female Au'ra are as short or shorter than mi'qote. Au'ri couples look like a 30 year old man got with a 16 year old

    • @TheLastSane1
      @TheLastSane1 7 місяців тому +2

      Yeah I thought that was were the joke came from, the massive difference in height.

  • @DallasBrownridge
    @DallasBrownridge 9 місяців тому

    I'm a straight man who plays a Viera! I just wanted to embody my chinese zodiac

  • @PTerpo
    @PTerpo 10 місяців тому

    I never new this about male au ra, all i knew is that they were edgelords.
    All I want is to play my blue tiefling wizard in peace.

  • @ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind
    @ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind 3 місяці тому

    The best thing about the shitpostXIV is still the savage comments

  • @Carcharadroid
    @Carcharadroid 9 місяців тому

    Man, I have no idea where the male Au Ra bad rep came from like ??? I don't go into the subreddit and I'm not versed on the drama (which is the way to be I think lmao) and I really am scratching my head about that one. Is it because of some bad...actual people behind the keyboards poisoning the well, so to speak? Or is it trash-tier humor because the females are so much shorter? Because I'd believe either one tbh

  • @idk-fh3hk
    @idk-fh3hk 9 місяців тому

    Brother as a male au'ra enjoyer i literally had to FANTA to get rid of the stupid ass "Oh you are playing a groomer" bullshit , like let me enjoy my tall and lanky ass leezord man , _ ,

  • @TheThunderinghammer
    @TheThunderinghammer 9 місяців тому

    I main a male Au'ra, and no one has ever said anything about this shit, is this rep a out of game thing or something?

  • @lexireina3641
    @lexireina3641 9 місяців тому

    What's that song you play at the end of the video? it's so familiar but I can't quite place it.

  • @Yamidoragon
    @Yamidoragon 10 місяців тому

    I almost haven’t realized FF XIV won a BAFTA this year. That’s pretty bad*ss

  • @kodiwolf5864
    @kodiwolf5864 9 місяців тому

    I'm a male aura player, but im also aro/ace. x-x I just wanna be a edgy lizard with glowing eyes. Stuff like this makes me nervous to even try to go into venues to see what its like cuz the assumptions are already there.

  • @Delmania01
    @Delmania01 9 місяців тому +2

    I must be odd? I'm a straight white guy whose been playing a male au'ra since Stormblood, and never once has any of this been an issue in game. I play the race because it doesn't have angry hands like male mi'qote, doesn't trot like hume and roedagyn, and I can't see lalafells (even though they have the best casting animations).

  • @NargiKyrad
    @NargiKyrad 10 місяців тому

    Unrelated but the background music soudns so familiar and i can't place it where did i heard it and It's eating me alive. send help

  • @ViviCaligo
    @ViviCaligo 10 місяців тому +1

    If you ever want fast queues just queue healer on mentor roulette, you'll lose your sanity on the 15th ARR dungeon but hey, fast af queue.

  • @DeathhunterAshi4
    @DeathhunterAshi4 9 місяців тому

    Maybe its because I play on Adamantoise but as a malera player I haven't dealt with people calling me 'that'. But also I'm a Free Trial Player/Solo Player, barely know the chat mechanics, and spend 99% of my time leveling DOH. The most gripe I've ever gotten was being a malera Dragoon who kept getting killed. I do gotta agree with the long wait times though, it was impossible trying to get into Coil of Bahamut the other day!

    • @Nempo13
      @Nempo13 9 місяців тому +1

      Coil is not part of roulettes is why. I have unsynced people through coils many times though. Randos asking if anyone is willing to do it? Sure no problem, it doesn't take long and lets people see a PIVITOL bit of story. The story of coils is pretty big for the twins and explains a lot of their actions after that point, including why Alisaie is so enamored of the WoL. Canonically she has a crush on the WoL regardless of your gender, both Y'shtola and Krile poke at her for it. Alisaie had no real power at that time period, seeing the WoL in action is what pushed her to get stronger in the first place.

  • @loha7631
    @loha7631 10 місяців тому +2

    Nobody whos doing ex7, uses duty finder.

    • @Hugo-MTX96
      @Hugo-MTX96 10 місяців тому

      you are if you're in JP

  • @cold8578
    @cold8578 10 місяців тому

    Male au ra player, dragons are cool, I like being tall. A bit edgy with dark knight yes, but growing up with final fantasy, hitting things and stealing mana always with like drain magic and blood weapons to recover your own hp and mp was never not fun for me, neat power fantasy idea.
    Alas, I am the only active player among my friend group now. I maintain the free company house and my own. My friends set up shop on crystal so I'm just vibing there now.

  • @Curriation
    @Curriation 9 місяців тому

    Me before video: Oh no, did something happen?
    Me after video: Oh, it's social media related.....(Sigh)

  • @CaptainThief
    @CaptainThief 10 місяців тому

    Castle Crashers world map is the soundtrack

  • @OniBakkyo
    @OniBakkyo 8 місяців тому

    que times!!!! l remember the endwalker release lol when it took us like 7 hours to log in and played for two before you dc.ed lol

  • @TheForhekset
    @TheForhekset 10 місяців тому

    The pizza emote thing is very stupid. Basically there was a limited time promo to get the emote from a pizza chain. And now people who have the emote are upset that other people can now buy it, so it isnt as rare. First of all who thats gate keepy, and second of all why does anybody care about this emote. And $7, is over priced for this dumb emote. I am now tempted to buy this dumb emote just to spite the people who are annoying me about it.

  • @jiggerblayne
    @jiggerblayne 10 місяців тому

    i don't know about being child groomers but my characters get hit on the most by Au ra males the most but it is also just a game race and a lot of the chillest people i know also play Au ra.

  • @lo22i
    @lo22i 10 місяців тому

    Maybe I’m just too stupid, but how can you move the two actions which only appear in some activities like Island/V&C Dungeons/Bozja.
    I thought I tried everything.
    In your Island Sanctuary HUD it’s moved to the middle.

    • @heskensol
      @heskensol  10 місяців тому

      I just drag it from the top with my mouse like a tab on google, maybe it doesn’t work on controller if you’re playing on that?

    • @Nazuiko
      @Nazuiko 10 місяців тому

      Duty Action hotbar.
      Though the Sanctuary stuff is also draggable on its own, the Island Sprint/Return might be part of the Duty Action hotbar I think

    • @lo22i
      @lo22i 10 місяців тому

      I got it.
      I didn’t clicked on the checkbox “Duty” in the HUD Layout-menu. So I could’t move the Action Hotbar.
      Thanks for the help.

  • @hydrowolfx
    @hydrowolfx 9 місяців тому

    bet the person who said about male au'ras is maybe a highlander male that gets rejected in the quicksands of balmung. and got mad that they didn't get there erp for 5 seconds. and saw a male aura getting somethin. Lmao wouldn't be shocked if it was because of that. but honestly. people just need to let people enjoy what they play as a race in xiv. au'ras are just cool lol

  • @Al_ost
    @Al_ost 9 місяців тому

    uuuhh...just made my bf change race to Male au ra so we can match, i hope the gossip dont get to him as i can certify he does not like cupcake

  • @Razornuke
    @Razornuke 10 місяців тому

    I am constantly reminded why reddit should be deleted.

    • @Zack_Wildfire
      @Zack_Wildfire 10 місяців тому

      That's because your looking at the wrong posts
      Like who cares you make self bored by not playing other games so you call FF14 dead

  • @AriHeree
    @AriHeree 10 місяців тому +2

    I love cheese

  • @VividWaters
    @VividWaters 10 місяців тому

    Bro I just used fantasia to swap to male au ra from female last night and I see this video telling me I’m a pedo for it 😭

    • @heskensol
      @heskensol  10 місяців тому

      Idk where it’s all coming from 😭😭

    • @majorclanger8857
      @majorclanger8857 10 місяців тому

      Literally never heard of it and ive been a male au ra since 2017, youre good, man