George R.R Martin Lectures Us About Toxicity

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  • @phyrexian_dude4645
    @phyrexian_dude4645 10 місяців тому +485

    He can complain all he wants but at the rate he is working, One Piece will be finished before he releases a new GoT book.

    • @AlphaAurora
      @AlphaAurora 10 місяців тому +64

      LOL, at least One Piece committed to a final arc. GRRM can't even commit to the next ASoiaF book.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 10 місяців тому +52

      @@AlphaAurora After he finishes OP, I hope Oda has a peaceful retirement.

    • @Ramsey276one
      @Ramsey276one 10 місяців тому +1

      Might as well do a Collab!
      XD

    • @thehonorablereverendaddiso1943
      @thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 10 місяців тому +1

      Wait, One Piece isn't finished

    • @theravenking5930
      @theravenking5930 10 місяців тому +14

      We’re going to see an ending to one piece and probably hunter X hunter, even though the author is kind of on his deathbed, I mean, he is letting everyone know what the ending is to his story Unlike Martin is.

  • @sergioochoa913
    @sergioochoa913 10 місяців тому +337

    And this is why even in death JRR Tolkien is the undefeated champion

    • @solan7978
      @solan7978 10 місяців тому +29

      As demonstrated by the excellent online rap battle between Tolkien and Martin!

    • @radagast7200
      @radagast7200 10 місяців тому +24

      ​@solan7978 "I'm number one and two, youre under 50 shades of gray!"

    • @ChrisFoxWrites
      @ChrisFoxWrites 10 місяців тому

      ua-cam.com/video/XAAp_luluo0/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ERB There's a rap battle between Tolkien and Martin.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 10 місяців тому +12

      @@radagast7200 God I hope that sounds better than reading it.

    • @radagast7200
      @radagast7200 10 місяців тому +5

      @lainiwakura1776 epic rap battles. Tolkien vs Martin. It's worth your time.

  • @xarfai6124
    @xarfai6124 10 місяців тому +107

    Tolkien survived WW1 and was still able to finish LotR.
    Martin was destroyed by the Great Meme War of 2015/2016.

    • @thejohnbeck
      @thejohnbeck 10 місяців тому +14

      Lol this is great

    • @GemGames3
      @GemGames3 9 місяців тому +15

      He survived WW1 and yet still believed in goodness of humanity, Martins Song of Ice and Fire is modern torture porn.

    • @ErikPT
      @ErikPT 9 місяців тому +9

      Martin is not excused. Sanderson wrote a trilogy Mistborn and on top of making other books finishing the bloody The Wheel of Time--whilst drafting his epic Stormlight. Hell, Steven Erikson finished his 10 epic book series in early 99 to 2011. Man is not invested to finish book 6 or 7.

    • @Mouse_Metal
      @Mouse_Metal 9 місяців тому +7

      @@GemGames3 It´s almost as if people who actually went through some sh** became better thanks to it and learnt to appreciate every little good thing in their life, while the spoiled snowflakes who have never suffered anything worse than a broken nail have the subconscious need to ruin everything for themselves because if their problems are not real they just have to create some. If nothing terrible happens they at least fantasize about it.

    • @derfalschejunge
      @derfalschejunge 9 місяців тому

      Well, it is his time and we are not entitled to a certain way he spents it. Just because he is chilling Out or whatever doesn't mean he is a failure. He probably won't have to lift a finger for the rest of his life. It would be nice for us if he was more passionate about his own work, meaning wanting to See it finished himself and thus finishing it. But if he isn't he still did pretty well for himself.
      And after all it is just entertainment. We are not really missing out on improvement of the world, are we? 🙂

  • @radagast7200
    @radagast7200 10 місяців тому +498

    Martin is just like Tolkien. If Tolkien had brain damage, an eating disorder and zero creativity.

    • @beidoll
      @beidoll 10 місяців тому +54

      This really had me laughing. Thank you.

    • @brendancoulter5761
      @brendancoulter5761 10 місяців тому +105

      Thats not fair, Tolkien finished his series.

    • @GetsugaTensho85
      @GetsugaTensho85 10 місяців тому +29

      Not gonna lie. You had me on the first part.
      Not even a meme.

    • @Nomisdoowtsae
      @Nomisdoowtsae 10 місяців тому +48

      If you'd read the books you would know he's a competent writer. HOWEVER, all that build up and worldbuilding has been completely squandered by not finishing the damn series before moving on to other things. Tolkien finished the story, thats why hes a legend. For a better writer of gimdark fantasy try Joe Abercrombie, 2 completed trilogies and several side novels in the time it takes GRRM to write one GoT book.

    • @snatchy9837
      @snatchy9837 10 місяців тому +63

      And lazier too, Tolkien was a professor, writing was a side project for him.

  • @Turin_Inquisitor
    @Turin_Inquisitor 10 місяців тому +308

    probably the only franchise more dead than star wars.

    • @domehammer
      @domehammer 10 місяців тому +28

      "I exist!" -Stargate in the background

    • @Mirthful_Midori
      @Mirthful_Midori 10 місяців тому +21

      @@domehammerLexx, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica and more. With the way modern media tends to go, I can't help feeling it's better that way too, but I'm already getting way too far off topic here.

    • @tonythekillab8189
      @tonythekillab8189 10 місяців тому +17

      House of the Dragon is keeping it alive.

    • @surobyk
      @surobyk 10 місяців тому +1

      And yet, it managed to redeem itself by power of great writing

    • @co.1157
      @co.1157 10 місяців тому +2

      Star trek

  • @officerbucktuddrussel394
    @officerbucktuddrussel394 10 місяців тому +44

    And let me guess, the way I stop being toxic on social media is for me to not ask questions just consume product and then get excited for next products.

  • @alexanderwsm6296
    @alexanderwsm6296 10 місяців тому +132

    You haven't read the rest of his post. He complains about wars, Trump, cancel culture, people not listening to him... Yet, blames everything on "the other side", failing to recognize his own contribution to the whole situation.

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому +6

      My goodness. All this in favor of finishing his own book series.

    • @willchurch8376
      @willchurch8376 9 місяців тому

      What was his contribution to the situation of 'wars' or 'Trump'?

    • @alexanderwsm6296
      @alexanderwsm6296 9 місяців тому +5

      @@willchurch8376 Encouragement of online activists.

    • @willchurch8376
      @willchurch8376 9 місяців тому

      Trump is a real person, whether you liked him as president. Wars exist in the real world, I should know, I used to be a soldier. Online activists accomplish almost nothing. Not seeing the connection, tbh. @@alexanderwsm6296

    • @rutgaurxi7314
      @rutgaurxi7314 9 місяців тому

      War has been an ongoing affair on some level since the end of WW2, it might be localized to ((irrelevant)) countries, but it can always threaten to become something more depending on who's backing who (just look at Russia Vs. Ukraine for instance).
      (Plus I was being a glib in my response but you know what I mean!)

  • @phadreus5080
    @phadreus5080 10 місяців тому +189

    Is this why he won't finish his fucking series?

    • @xoso599
      @xoso599 10 місяців тому +13

      I assume part of the adaptation contract was a requirement that if he wrote the last book(s) it had to match the show..

    • @balasaashti3146
      @balasaashti3146 10 місяців тому +28

      Nay he has fears going out of his house because it's shit here in New Mexico lol. He'll be mugged, by a diversity, or be slandered constantly like me as a COLONIZER. As the person who says it to you lives off of food stamps government grants that is given to the rez and oil checks.

    • @neverstopschweiking
      @neverstopschweiking 10 місяців тому

      Because he is a millionaire and doesn't have to. He does stuff he enjoys more than writing. He is old, dangerously fat, he probably doesn't have that many years to live and he doesn't want to waste them doing stuff he doesn't like that much.

    • @badlaamaurukehu
      @badlaamaurukehu 10 місяців тому +15

      ​@@balasaashti3146I've seen it first hand over the years. Such a pretty state. I assume he lives in a wealthy enclave like Taos or Santa Fe like most of these bubbleheads. do.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 10 місяців тому +16

      @@balasaashti3146 He should move to Martha's Vineyard, then he'll be surrounded by other rich white people.

  • @SergioLeonardoCornejo
    @SergioLeonardoCornejo 10 місяців тому +363

    Someday you'll all realize you need to read another book. He doesn't deserve your money. He has no intention on finishing the series and he doesn't like you at all. He has already picked a side. Against you.

    • @KARKATELCESARENVIADODESA-pv4yd
      @KARKATELCESARENVIADODESA-pv4yd 10 місяців тому +48

      Fo real, read universal classical literature and leave this modern slop alone.

    • @HattaTHEZulZILLA86
      @HattaTHEZulZILLA86 10 місяців тому +36

      Glad I never spent a dime on his books then.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 10 місяців тому +23

      Hey, you can always buy secondhand, then your money will never go to him. Or you can always sail the seven seas.

    • @HattaTHEZulZILLA86
      @HattaTHEZulZILLA86 10 місяців тому +20

      @@lainiwakura1776
      ARRRR! ARRRRR! Martin...

    • @nikodimus86
      @nikodimus86 10 місяців тому +14

      I agree. I used to spend a lot of time reading sci fi books. Isak Asimov, Clark, Ursula le Guin, The brothers Strugacki, Lary Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, and so many others, all with books worth spending time to read.

  • @mobbs6426
    @mobbs6426 10 місяців тому +148

    Who'd have imagined someone so averse to cliches would fall for far leftism

    • @wyzasukitan
      @wyzasukitan 10 місяців тому +27

      Not surprising at all. He lectured us about needing to support Biden against the big bad orange man too

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 10 місяців тому +25

      I don't like cliches either, but even I didn't let my brain fall out. Sucks being older and seeing things come from a mile away because you've seen all the tropes.

    • @pedinhuh16
      @pedinhuh16 10 місяців тому

      He's a communist?

    • @Mouse_Metal
      @Mouse_Metal 9 місяців тому +6

      He only created a different type of cliches with his rejection of classic cliches.

    • @alexman378
      @alexman378 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Mouse_MetalFunny thing is, he now realized why they were cliches to begin with, since without them, he got stuck.

  • @Nobleheart111
    @Nobleheart111 10 місяців тому +66

    It’s always the most toxic that want others to be less toxic.

  • @mantasr
    @mantasr 10 місяців тому +119

    Says the guy who fell asleep on his laurels stopped actually trying to finish the books and probably salty they ended on a bad note (let's forget house of dragon is he even writing that?).
    BTW GEORGY if not for your fans there would be no TV show.

  • @Theosake
    @Theosake 10 місяців тому +72

    There was always toxicity in fandoms but the reason it’s worse now is because of outsiders coming into fandoms and forcing changes. That, and authors like Martin attacking peoples personal politics or asking him to finish the work people supported him to make. Star Wars had its toxic side sure, but George never attacked the fans or called them all isms. Disney and its actors have, and destroyed the lore that’s been in place for decades in the process. Thats why people are more confrontational and why fandoms like 40k are fighting tooth and nail against casuals coming in the fandom and trying to change it.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 10 місяців тому +6

      The SW prequels would have been so much better if George had someone to tell him no.

    • @housewilma4904
      @housewilma4904 10 місяців тому +6

      there better then anything that came after so no i disagree.@@lainiwakura1776

    • @ComicGladiator
      @ComicGladiator 10 місяців тому +6

      ​@@housewilma4904they're better than the crap that followed, ergo someone curbing George's excesses somehow wouldn't have made the Prequels better?
      You need a lesson in logic.

    • @housewilma4904
      @housewilma4904 10 місяців тому +6

      im saying if supposdly having someone to correct the director "would have made the prequels better".
      then why did it make the sequel trilogy WORSE by having more writers and a collaberative effort rather then purely director lead?@@ComicGladiator

    • @Theosake
      @Theosake 10 місяців тому +10

      @@lainiwakura1776 He did. Thats one of the biggest myths about the PT trilogy. Same with “all cgi”. George even wanted other directors to direct them but they all said no. He wasn’t surrounded by yes men. He constantly took other peoples ideas into account including EU material. Thats why guys like Quinlan Vos became canon in the movies because he looked at other material and like it. The PT are fine as they are and tell a coherent story. It’s because of channels like RLM that slandered and completely misrepresented the making of the PT.

  • @wyzasukitan
    @wyzasukitan 10 місяців тому +117

    Let’s not forget this man also told us loudly and proudly to vote for Biden. Like, he made Cardi B look like a casual sane Bidenbot.

    • @Tere225
      @Tere225 10 місяців тому

      Now Bidens approval rating is worse than carter when he was running for reelection

    • @JcgLounge
      @JcgLounge 10 місяців тому +12

      Wait, him too? I would’ve liked to hope Martin would keep his politics to himself. Not be too involved in that stuff. Boy was I wrong. Not that him being a democrat is something I’ll hold against him. But if he was another lefty fool who just spouted off “Orange Man Bad” crap all day, cmon man.

  • @atrane365
    @atrane365 10 місяців тому +164

    Georgie's big grandiose series is done. We know he will never make book 6, especially after the flop of Season 8. He's just trying to be like Stephen King, trying to stay relevant

    • @Josco83
      @Josco83 10 місяців тому +35

      Yep. My money is on the theory that Dan and Dave spoiled the ending by following his general storyboard-except shittily. So he knows that ending wouldn’t play well and is paralyzed trying to redirect.

    • @vonfaustien3957
      @vonfaustien3957 10 місяців тому +16

      At least king finished his big door stopper fantasy series even if the dark Tower did fall apart at the end. That's a step above Martin.

    • @AlphaAurora
      @AlphaAurora 10 місяців тому +23

      @@Josco83 I'm willing to bet his ending is shitty. Like he can't do any of the "obvious", so he can't just wed Dany and John and be done with it. And he also can't have either take the throne, or that'll be too "predictable". Yeah, his ending doesnt satisfy him.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 10 місяців тому +4

      Stephen King is still writing books. Every time a new one comes out, I see it at Walmart, the last one was Holly, the last I bought of his was If It Bleeds.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 10 місяців тому +1

      @@AlphaAurora lmao what a wimp. Who cares as long as it's good?

  • @MaverickhunterXZero
    @MaverickhunterXZero 10 місяців тому +40

    If you really think about it. George R.R. Martin is extremely toxic. He wrote Game of Thrones out of spite that Tolkien books had happy endings, so he wanted everyone to be miserable and die, and that is why he cannot finish his book since he would go back on his own "principal" of story writing.... That is all over Deviantart.

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому +1

      What do you mean, "all over DeviantArt"?

  • @fibonachi90
    @fibonachi90 10 місяців тому +75

    He is right. Toxicity is growing at an alarming rate. Because it's been 16 years, since he wrote the last book in the series. And people waiting for the equivalent of 4 presidential terms tend to get a bit annoyed.

    • @TheMaleRei
      @TheMaleRei 10 місяців тому +25

      That's not toxicity (waiting for the next book in the series)-
      That's frustration and justified at that.

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 10 місяців тому +16

      So you're telling me, if he had actually been writing, the series would have actually ended by now? Old men shouldn't be throwing tantrums.

    • @hariman7727
      @hariman7727 10 місяців тому +6

      There are others who have started their career and then published multiple multiple book series in the time it has taken him to write the next book in the series.
      And know that double multiple is not a typo, I mean literally there are authors who have written extended multiple book series, plural, in the time it has taken him to write the next book in his series.

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому +1

      It's been 12 years, actually; _A Dance with Dragons_ was published on 12 July 2011.

  • @VorkKnightOfGood
    @VorkKnightOfGood 10 місяців тому +57

    He's *_technically_* correct. I mean, it's not 40k fans who are being vocal about female space marines, it's not anime fans who are complaining about adult character being "literally children" or "minor coded", etc.

    • @astrovarius543
      @astrovarius543 10 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, social media IS rife with anti-fans.
      And they're all woker progressive cultural-colonisers.
      What exactly are those people fans of? Diversity?

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 10 місяців тому +17

      Yeah. The worst part is that he's listening to _anti-fans._

    • @TheMeta141
      @TheMeta141 9 місяців тому +3

      tourists

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому +1

      @@TheMeta141 Indeed. People who clearly have no idea what anime's actually like and get angry when they realize it's nothing like the Western cartoons they grew up with.

    • @PumpkinHoard
      @PumpkinHoard 9 місяців тому

      I agree, to an extent. It's the anime part i disagree with. Let's be real here and not pretend that anime isn't full of characters that are clearly pedo bait. I really wish Japan would just stop with the hyper sexualised depiction of literal children, pre teens or barely teens. It's not ok. I've lost count of how many mangas I've dropped now because I picked up some random trash manga for light entertainment only to be met 5-10 chapters in the with introduction of a sexualised literal child character that immediately develops an overpowering attachment to the male MC. The moment I see that, particularly in in otherwise entertaining isekai manga, I stop reading. I already know where the story is going and I don't like it. It's genuinely disturbing how prevalent it is within a number of genres.
      As for female Space Marines..... they can keep their filthy heretic hands off my my 40k. You want Bolter Bitches? Sororitas got you covered.

  • @acemarvel1564
    @acemarvel1564 10 місяців тому +86

    There came a point where I stopped watching movies in general
    and thats when the headaches stopped

    • @Sethasss
      @Sethasss 10 місяців тому +13

      same with tv

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому +4

      @@Sethasss Not to mention modern videogames, mainly AAA games that're unfinished, buggy messes chock-full of microtransactions. Once you cut the things that are actually bringing you misery out of your life--stuff that humanity honestly wasn't evolved to handle--things get a whole lot brighter.

  • @TheAutistWhisperer
    @TheAutistWhisperer 10 місяців тому +27

    Probably because a lot of the stuff they love is being ruined by actual Anti-Fans, but keep burying your head in the sand, George.

  • @ジース-z7p
    @ジース-z7p 10 місяців тому +35

    J.R.R. Martin: "You took my only food! NOW I'M GONNA STARVE!!"

  • @keithmichael112
    @keithmichael112 10 місяців тому +155

    Everyone gave up on any more GOT books from him, I think it made him big sad

    • @nont18411
      @nont18411 10 місяців тому +30

      Because it’s totally everyone’s fault that he keeps procrastinating.

    • @keithmichael112
      @keithmichael112 10 місяців тому +8

      @@nont18411 I feel like he was trying to blame the people asking for the delays. Well, they've mostly stopped lol

    • @badlaamaurukehu
      @badlaamaurukehu 10 місяців тому +17

      He's mediocre anyway.

    • @keithmichael112
      @keithmichael112 10 місяців тому +17

      @@badlaamaurukehu the books are still really good I think, he just succumbed to age related lameness

    • @maxmuetze7295
      @maxmuetze7295 10 місяців тому +3

      I believe he never wanted to make more than 3 GoT books. And after the money for the fist volumes began to roll in he got greedy and lazy, and now he is out of his depth and don't know how to stretch the butter even thinner as it already is.

  • @kerlongsjorlejov1945
    @kerlongsjorlejov1945 10 місяців тому +49

    That's rich coming from this guy. He really has no idea of self awareness. Never gotten into it and the more I heard from it, the happier I was about it.

  • @rahn45
    @rahn45 10 місяців тому +47

    And here I was sure social media was dominated by anti-writers and their thralls.

  • @GrokNZ
    @GrokNZ 10 місяців тому +33

    If this man spent less time complaining about people on the internet and actually finished his damned books people wouldnt complain about him not finishing the damned books.

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому +1

      Can you believe it's been 12 years since A Dance with Dragons?

  • @hariman7727
    @hariman7727 10 місяців тому +24

    "Daenerys" is going to be a more embarrassing name than "sephiroth" or "inuyasha".

    • @lexnight8345
      @lexnight8345 9 місяців тому +1

      Sephiroth is kinda a cool name

    • @hariman7727
      @hariman7727 9 місяців тому

      @@lexnight8345 until your classmates find out about Final Fantasy 7.

    • @lexnight8345
      @lexnight8345 9 місяців тому

      @hariman7727 so that's where it came from.... I'll go to check out who has this name

    • @bruceknee4941
      @bruceknee4941 9 місяців тому

      It's the name for god in the kabbalah, like Sepirot the divine laws or something.

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому +1

      @@bruceknee4941 It's the collective term for the ten emanations, actually.

  • @TheLeadElite
    @TheLeadElite 10 місяців тому +23

    Says the author who writes out of scenes of his characters taking dumps and made an Elden Ring character who literally eats shit.

  • @freedantheeternal
    @freedantheeternal 10 місяців тому +22

    The fact that people seem to think being a successful entertainer qualifies them to lecture about morality and politics is immensely disturbing, especially the fact so many people actually take them seriously when they do.
    I forget who it was specifically, but it was a musician who actually flat out said no one wanted to hear him talk about politics, because he was a stupid rock star who slept all day and played music all night. And that he did that BECAUSE he was a stupid rock star, not a politician or even intelligent person. Wish I could remember who it was at this point, because he at least had self-awareness.

    • @masterjoda999
      @masterjoda999 10 місяців тому

      Was it Frank Zappa? That sounds like something Zappa would say

    • @willchurch8376
      @willchurch8376 9 місяців тому

      Zappa was not only intelligent, he was politically outspoken. It's not a quote from him. @@masterjoda999

    • @juliannecolosi271
      @juliannecolosi271 9 місяців тому

      Elvis Presley also said that he’s just an entertainer when questioned on his politics.

  • @jefftheindianchief8279
    @jefftheindianchief8279 10 місяців тому +9

    For countless generations, mankind has built mythologies for us to cling to, each explaining the nature of the world around us & the people that operate within its boundaries. These stories have stood the test of time by passing down lesson of great importance to each coming generation. They're remembered for presenting the best & worst qualities that each of us possesses within us. And now we have this age of deconstruction that embraces all the negatives, tossing aside all the virtues that we should embody, alongside the heroes that we treasured in our youth. Martin has denigrated himself, following this broken ideology like a stray mutt. He's more than welcome to scream derogatory terms at us, but it won't change the fact that he has nothing decent left to contribute to our fountain of mythologies.

  • @RaydeusMX
    @RaydeusMX 10 місяців тому +18

    I've said it before and I'll say it again, it doesn't matter if he ever finishes the books or not anymore. Because in a few years AI will be advanced enough you'll be able to feed it all the existing books and have it come up with a book or two to finish the story for you.

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому +1

      True or false, there's no reason for people to allow that to be the future of literature. To turn what people have been doing for millennia into something like that... Obscene.

  • @DanteCrowlley
    @DanteCrowlley 10 місяців тому +8

    Accuses them of what you do, call them of what you are

  • @highpotthesis7413
    @highpotthesis7413 10 місяців тому +57

    You mean same guy who's always talking about weiners is trying to lecture us?

    • @tyrroo
      @tyrroo 10 місяців тому

      When does GRRM talk about weiners?

    • @highpotthesis7413
      @highpotthesis7413 10 місяців тому +8

      @@tyrroo Ask Butters.

    • @pegeta
      @pegeta 10 місяців тому

      I heard he likes to drive horses.

  • @Snakedude4life
    @Snakedude4life 10 місяців тому +33

    Put out another book George and people will care about what you think.
    Or you can stick to writing one sentence back stories for random characters in video game.
    🎩
    🐍 no step on Snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 10 місяців тому +5

      Tbh I don't mind him getting paid but the smart ones don't complain about it.

  • @the98themperoroftheholybri33
    @the98themperoroftheholybri33 10 місяців тому +9

    Its a shame because i really liked a low fantasy setting which was inspired by real history, but the interest for that ship has sailed and sunk into the depths

  • @biostemm
    @biostemm 10 місяців тому +15

    Of course the irony is how Martin lacks the self awareness to realize that he himself is being toxic in not listening to rational and legitimate objections or criticisms to his work or behavior...

  • @YoutubeChangedmyusername
    @YoutubeChangedmyusername 10 місяців тому +20

    most lectures I've been to have had podiums, this dude looks like he ate his

    • @DukeWooze
      @DukeWooze 10 місяців тому +1

      As a former fat man I find this offensive.

    • @gatorwarrior7557
      @gatorwarrior7557 10 місяців тому

      That's crazy💀

    • @YoutubeChangedmyusername
      @YoutubeChangedmyusername 10 місяців тому +3

      As a current fat man, congratulations of transitioning to a former one

    • @DukeWooze
      @DukeWooze 9 місяців тому

      ​@@UA-camChangedmyusername even though I transitioned I still identify as a fat man, so please don't assume my weight. LOL

  • @gundamdetractor337
    @gundamdetractor337 10 місяців тому +11

    "It is no longer enough to say 'I did not like [this]' "
    well, and guess WHO IS CHANGING THINGS for "newer audiences" instead of saying "I did not like [this]"?
    the woke is changing things. "I did not like [this]" was never an option for them.

    • @alexman378
      @alexman378 2 місяці тому

      I don’t understand how any artist can have an issue with criticism. Any art form was perfected through criticism. What worked, worked, and what didn’t, was called out and changed until it worked. I’m pretty sure the vast majority of famous artists had their work called “shit” at some point in their early years. They made their changes and then they became great.

  • @caseyhart4999
    @caseyhart4999 10 місяців тому +8

    People are free to feel however they want about a piece of art and if George can’t handle it he should stop paying attention to it.

  • @Cozonac3000
    @Cozonac3000 10 місяців тому +16

    There is something 1000000 times better than his books or GoT it is called history. You can find way more drama in the Western/Eastern Roman Empire.

    • @bruceknee4941
      @bruceknee4941 9 місяців тому

      But no hot tub scenes of Emilia Clarke.

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому

      That's not a good argument since you can technically say that about all books. I'm not sure why you people are all of a sudden insulting his work like it's all horrible when millions of people indulge in series.

    • @Cozonac3000
      @Cozonac3000 9 місяців тому

      @@LuznoLindo not an insult towards his books, but towards him. The books are quite decent, but it is an unfinished product. Imagine getting half of the food you requested in a restaurant after you ate already a part of the other half, in this case you did not get the other half and never will. If I said that history is actually better than his books deos not mean that his books are garbage, there are quite good. Don't take the "1000000 times better" literally.

  • @dontbothertoreply9755
    @dontbothertoreply9755 10 місяців тому +11

    Coomer writer gets no respect as no other postmodernist writer deserves it, and Daenerys sounds like a name a black mother will harm her child with.

  • @garybicknell2135
    @garybicknell2135 10 місяців тому +14

    I've given up on George RR Martin. As for criticism there were good and bad criticisms but only the bad criticisms were taken as serious. Issues of lighting and screwed up or unsatisfying character arcs, these are things that cannot be talked about while the emotional investment of people that couldn't be bothered to see their heroine descending into villainy through her actions those must be need to be catered to.

  • @livelarge2452
    @livelarge2452 10 місяців тому +39

    Write a book dude

  • @MK_ULTRA420
    @MK_ULTRA420 10 місяців тому +15

    He's just giving us his expert opinion on toxicity.

  • @Booma4142
    @Booma4142 10 місяців тому +8

    Hilarious. Fatman is one of those that championed excluding those considered 'unsavory' by the activists. From award shows to being published at all. I suppose he'll do anything to keep from having to finish his damn book.

  • @denizenbyday
    @denizenbyday 10 місяців тому +5

    By "anti-fans" he basically means anyone against his side.

  • @TurtleChad1
    @TurtleChad1 10 місяців тому +21

    We actually need more toxicity

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 місяців тому

      You're very mistaken, then.

  • @HattaTHEZulZILLA86
    @HattaTHEZulZILLA86 10 місяців тому +11

    Never thought Epic Rap Battle to describe George THIS accurately in 2024.
    Tolkien won that rap battle imo.

  • @nightwishfan1991
    @nightwishfan1991 10 місяців тому +8

    Several things here. I am going out on a limb and figure Nerdrotic is getting to him if not the whole industry. We already have a Marvel actor saying M-She-U. And we know Gary has met George in person once (and refused to shake his hand). Also been seeing a lot of people in the industry blaming UA-camrs. So we went from having no power to overthrowing the enter establishment. Also going over George's points. Who has been the one in power George? Who is responsible for all of the recent wars? Because it's sure as hell not the orange man. Oh and now he wants to complain about cancel culture and toxicity. Need I say that he did nothing during the whole Sad Puppies fiasco. He said nothing for the past decade and only now that he is feeling the heat is he complaining. We did not want this George. We fans were just minding our own business and these activists came in and set all of our hobbies on fire. We just saw Harley Quin shoot Batman in the face not long after his voice actor sadly passed away. We aren't crazy for now just wanting these franchises to burn. George and his ilk did this. Guess Winds of Winter is never getting finished at this rate if he can just blame Trump and the fans for all of his problems.

    • @MorgothBagluir
      @MorgothBagluir 10 місяців тому +2

      Well said, and props to u for being a nightwish fan!

  • @bc-cu4on
    @bc-cu4on 10 місяців тому +6

    Heaven forbid that one does one's job.

  • @dizzyizzy7403
    @dizzyizzy7403 9 місяців тому +1

    This kinda confirms my suspicions that the ending in the show was closer to the ending he was planning then we thought and that’s probably why the series will never have an ending.

  • @v8matey
    @v8matey 10 місяців тому +4

    Half-Life 3 will end up being released before he finishes his books.

  • @ultimatesunrise
    @ultimatesunrise 10 місяців тому +12

    "Peter Dinklage is my J.k. Rowling".. 😂 too funny

  • @The_Primary_Axiom
    @The_Primary_Axiom 10 місяців тому +4

    The fans have never been, and were never called toxic until the creators and studios started dividing them and disrespecting beloved Ip’s. But do people like him ever call out the creators and destructors of franchises toxic ? Never. For some reason these people are exempt from criticism and name calling. Yet the fans are free game.

  • @ariyune7007
    @ariyune7007 10 місяців тому +7

    Maybe George should focus on writing instead of tweeting, 10 years and counting now 😂

    • @royasturias1784
      @royasturias1784 10 місяців тому +4

      Gramps is becoming (or has become) YandereDev.

  • @kayobee604
    @kayobee604 10 місяців тому +5

    Anyone still cares about GoT?

  • @kamuroshiryu8453
    @kamuroshiryu8453 10 місяців тому +10

    I already knew George is quite a carton filled with stinky eggs as an author since I found out he supports Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden to the point of literally saying that he thinks Donald Trump is the worst president ever in American history. And I also think Elden Ring is overrated too.

    • @brendancoulter5761
      @brendancoulter5761 10 місяців тому +9

      All he did in Elden Ring is wrote back round details.

    • @housewilma4904
      @housewilma4904 10 місяців тому

      specfially the DUNGEATER huuuum.@@brendancoulter5761

  • @haloimplant7678
    @haloimplant7678 10 місяців тому +1

    "could I be out of touch with the audience about the low quality or quantity of our work? no, it is the fans who are wrong"

  • @napoleonfeanor
    @napoleonfeanor 10 місяців тому +3

    I met 3 people with Tolkien names at university already

  • @TJK10
    @TJK10 10 місяців тому +5

    I find it odd that the author of a macabre-bloodbath-incest-rape-murder story is the one effectively agitating for an online hug-box.

    • @prophetofthe8th
      @prophetofthe8th 9 місяців тому +2

      Don't forget the misogyny! I seem to remember Amelia Clark claiming she was nearly abused on set and left naked on the series between shoots as well. It's always the same story from the weirdos.

  • @davidkulmaczewski4911
    @davidkulmaczewski4911 10 місяців тому +3

    He's salty because the HBO series ending was so bad it essentially ruined the legacy of his magnum opus before he even finished it.

  • @janwitts2688
    @janwitts2688 10 місяців тому +6

    I think most people don't care by now

  • @theravenking5930
    @theravenking5930 10 місяців тому +5

    Martin is not respectful of his audiences time, passion and attention and interest in his work at all
    PS. The terrible ending of Game of Thrones wasn’t just dumb and dumber’s fault It was also Martin’s fault, I don’t know why he thought Ryan Johnson’s brand of subverting expectations was a good idea pissing off majority of your audience with a bad ending
    (Subvert the expectations) of the audience has been co-opted by talentless Directors/screen, writers and authors after that movie came out.

  • @FreakyLynx
    @FreakyLynx 10 місяців тому +1

    GRRM won’t finish his books and his story will be forgotten because no one will be interested in reading an unfinished series.
    The show might have been abbreviated but that was the ending GRRM was planning to write… so we’re really not missing anything.

    • @DM-mi4je
      @DM-mi4je 9 місяців тому

      I personally have a long standing traidition that I will buy or read a story if I know it's unfinished. I'm sure a lot of people are like me on that.

  • @BoSmith7045
    @BoSmith7045 10 місяців тому +3

    He could hire someone to ghost write a ending and just go a play with his money. He would shut his fans up and get them to leave him alone and just do whatever he wants. But he won't even do that much. I'm so glad I never got into his long winded crap.

    • @donkeysaurusrex7881
      @donkeysaurusrex7881 10 місяців тому

      It would be better than what he has in mind and/or would give the fans what they want, and it would eat at him forever.

  • @brendancoulter5761
    @brendancoulter5761 9 місяців тому

    You know you have won an argument when the person arguing with you can only say "Why do you Care?"

  • @FreakazoidRobots
    @FreakazoidRobots 10 місяців тому +3

    I'll actually accept the label anti-fan. The UA-camrs mocking Hollywood content are generally more interesting than the thing they are mocking. A lot of stories I used to love have just become lolcows to me. I'll get my entertainment one way or the other. Make season 2 of House of the Dragon good, or I'll become an anti-fan of that too.

  • @jeremysack5939
    @jeremysack5939 10 місяців тому +4

    Regardless of how we got here, hes 100% rigut that you can't talk about anything without people being unhinged. You cant say something just isn't for you without losers losing their minds, trying to dox people and other crazy sh1t. People today have no brain and no control of emotions. Personally, i couldn't care less what anyone thinks about my opinions...im just sayin. By agreeing with this take, it doesn't mean anything about what hes done before. Also, ive never seen an episode of his show or read any books. Only thing ive interacted with involving him was Elden Ring, and honestly my dog could write a story that From Software could make great, so i don't believe he was necessary at all.

  • @CommanderJoir
    @CommanderJoir 10 місяців тому +5

    if activists or their politics are used in new creation is fine, not in existing things that had nothing to do with is not fine and not fun for anyone. And when attemts of the latter is made to much ans successfully done that media is more or less dead. Who watched witcher series especially the last season? who are interested in Witcher remake with censoring for modern audiance? who is interested in Rey movie? Who is interested in doctor who? who is interested in Halo tv series? etc etc.

  • @oleghrozman4172
    @oleghrozman4172 9 місяців тому +1

    Even Kentaro Miura, the creator of Berserk, was much way productive, creative and polite.
    Miura was famous because of his hiatuses, but he was trying to finish his saga.
    He was not whining about fans.

  • @inconemay1441
    @inconemay1441 9 місяців тому +2

    Just like the toxic people blaming other people for being toxic.

  • @NomadMonkey396
    @NomadMonkey396 10 місяців тому +2

    I understand that some people have been impatient with him when it comes to his delayed writing, but that doesn't mean every fan is toxic. they are passionate about their love for a certain IP. When it comes to ASOIAF, there is a limit to how patient people are. I'm not saying release the next book as soon a possible, but atleast be consistent with updating your fans.

  • @kikoano111
    @kikoano111 10 місяців тому +1

    If George R.R Martin was born 20 years more early he would been able to finish his books.

  • @devlinX
    @devlinX 9 місяців тому

    Same deal with Patrick Rothfuss. He claimed his books were a trilogy but at the end of the second book it was obvious that the story was really only just getting started so his solution has just been to never write the third book.

  • @signalnine2601
    @signalnine2601 10 місяців тому +1

    What he doesn't understand is the degree to which the new owners of properties ( not the original creators ) have weaponized and distorted the IP to become their own personal thing.
    So it's not an issue of being toxic "about" the franchise. It's being toxic about the fact that the original franchise was completely destroyed by outsiders who never knew anything about it to begin with.

  • @ThePurpleFantum
    @ThePurpleFantum 9 місяців тому

    First piece of writing he's finished in over a decade is a twitter post. I hope it wasn't too difficult for him, if he exerts himself too hard he might have to retire.

  • @theghostofmaximumvolume3414
    @theghostofmaximumvolume3414 10 місяців тому +17

    This dude creeps me out, regardless of his works. Anybody that looks like a combination of a pirate and Santa Clause should be avoided at all costs imo.

    • @keithmichael112
      @keithmichael112 10 місяців тому +4

      He's old, like we're all gonna be. We don't need to go there lol

    • @Sleesus
      @Sleesus 10 місяців тому +2

      But what about THE Santa Claus dressed like a pirate?

    • @theghostofmaximumvolume3414
      @theghostofmaximumvolume3414 10 місяців тому +1

      @@Sleesus
      Nope...

    • @keithmichael112
      @keithmichael112 10 місяців тому +4

      @@Sleesus plus he's more like a lighthouse keeper than a pirate really

    • @Saeronor
      @Saeronor 10 місяців тому +1

      @@keithmichael112
      Don't know. A potential to sink enemy ship by a landing during boarding action is intimidating.

  • @dugonman8360
    @dugonman8360 10 місяців тому +2

    For all you guys who like Rothfuss or Martin but a) wanna read something finished and b) wanna read something better, give the book series both them, sanderson and most modern fantasy writers ripped off a try.
    Memory Sorrow & Thorn by Tad Williams.

    • @DM-mi4je
      @DM-mi4je 9 місяців тому

      I'll look into it thanks.

  • @DM-mi4je
    @DM-mi4je 9 місяців тому +1

    I have seen fanfiction writers finish their works more often than a guy who is getting paid millions and would get millions more should.

  • @Mzaleyao
    @Mzaleyao 9 місяців тому

    "They toil in the fucktory" is my new favourite quote

  • @emperorarasaka
    @emperorarasaka 10 місяців тому +2

    This guy worked on PeePeePooPoo man from Elden Ring.
    I don't think he has been sane since.

  • @thepozoleispeople5139
    @thepozoleispeople5139 9 місяців тому

    Once, an American in 4chan told me that Americans tend to let their opinions shape their personalities. I think about this to this day.

  • @Keglanek
    @Keglanek 10 місяців тому +1

    Id rather the ending have the night king taking Winterfel and killing everyone, because no matter how hard we all try, no one escapes death. Hell we just needed Jon to fight against the Nights King, i felt like i was edged for 8 fucking years.

  • @belstar1128
    @belstar1128 10 місяців тому +1

    what does the r r stand for ? i think one of the r's is the same as the French word for delay.

  • @vonfaustien3957
    @vonfaustien3957 10 місяців тому +3

    Id actually be fine if he didnt finish the books under a lot of scenarios like say he was sick of the setting and wanted to do a different story like more of hisnthousand worlds stories or a stand alone like fever dream.
    My issue isnt that we didnt get winds of winter and a dream of spring it that what he's writting since abandoning them has been largely prequels and spin offs of a song of fire and ice
    Let me tell you the story before the story I refuse to finish is a lot more insulting than just not giving us an ending

  • @jakeviolet2195
    @jakeviolet2195 10 місяців тому +1

    There is no such thing as an "anti-fan." People who don't love something may comment briefly when it first comes out, then they forget all about it and move on. People who harp on a thing incessantly are real fans who are heartbroken that the thing they once loved has been destroyed right in front of their eyes.

  • @tacticianAlexandra
    @tacticianAlexandra 10 місяців тому +5

    Love how George has zero self reflection or interest in wondering how it got to this point. Maybe it people like George attacking everyone for not having blind loyalty to a product, that has lead to the issue he is seeing. But of course that can't be it. Than people like George would be the problem rather than the savors and their egos can't handle that they might be part of the problem and are not the heroes they want to picture themselves as.

    • @littlejohn8435
      @littlejohn8435 9 місяців тому

      That what happens when you don't step down from your mountain of gold and talk to the people who gave it to you.

  • @maht0x
    @maht0x 9 місяців тому +1

    How can it be hate speech when I love doing it?

  • @markgregorygacosta531
    @markgregorygacosta531 10 місяців тому +2

    Nerdrotic speculated lately in one if his streams that one of the reasons why GRRM couldn't finish his books is because of the people in his circle (staff that he hired or something) would always check or have something to say in order to make sure that their 'progressive' political ideology would be included in Martin's work. If this is true, i would be very pissed.
    It makes sense though, lately GRRM has been so anti-fans by blaming toxicity and failure of woke movies to fans.

  • @AncestorEmpire1
    @AncestorEmpire1 10 місяців тому +1

    Odin: you are not worthy of the R R in your name!

  • @AnubisMRM
    @AnubisMRM 9 місяців тому

    I saw that you appeared in a Louder with Crowder video from 1st February. You're going places, Vee :)

  • @AgnosticCube
    @AgnosticCube 9 місяців тому

    If he's disinterested in finishing the books just hire a ghost writer to do it. Make them sign and NDA. Give them 50% cut of the royalties plus a flat 10 000 thousand dollars per book. Everyone wins.

  • @ryanfairfoot263
    @ryanfairfoot263 9 місяців тому

    You should see how people lose it when I say that GRR Martin owes it to his fans to either finish the series or apologise and manage expectations. I unironically get told that I basically want to enslave him and that I'm entitled. It's like we have a general war against standards and expectations

  • @Lunk42
    @Lunk42 10 місяців тому

    Maybe if they stopped ruining everything I liked then I'd stop being toxic.

  • @DonVigaDeFierro
    @DonVigaDeFierro 10 місяців тому

    Remember: All the time he spends writing dumb internet posts is time he's not using finishing his fucking books.

  • @lucymiau5700
    @lucymiau5700 10 місяців тому +1

    George is to angsty to finish his book series and to cowardly to admit it. And now, he searchs for excuses why he cannot work. There is nothing else behind his take.

  • @bruceknee4941
    @bruceknee4941 9 місяців тому

    It's like he just stays quiet for months at a time then suddenly appears to remind everyone how he's better than you while still not having finished his novels. Lol.

  • @LightS_bRight
    @LightS_bRight 10 місяців тому

    The first time I heard of George RR Martin was when I heard what he had to say about Tolkien

  • @TheScience69
    @TheScience69 9 місяців тому

    People assumed he meant it was fun years ago when you could actually say what you wanted, when he most likely meant 3- 4 years ago when discussion about a book meant arguing if all white men are worse or only the straight ones, and anyone else got banned off twitter.

  • @ninjaartist1235
    @ninjaartist1235 9 місяців тому

    He's as knowledgable in fandoms the same way he's knowledgeble on health and fitness.

  • @rejvaik00
    @rejvaik00 10 місяців тому +2

    Martin becoming less and less relevant every year
    I think its pretty stupid to try and hold your creative work hostage unless your political party wins
    This guy started his series in 1991 and it still isn't completed
    Meanwhile contemporaries of Martin such as Terry Goodkind who also started in the early 1990s not only completed their series but also found the time to pursue an amateur racecar driver career