The idea that someone who was born to a white millionaire father, lived in a mansion in privilege and has been an actor since she was a child, fawned over and sought after by a white woman for the main role in her little gay activist show - literally lived a privileged life at the hands of white people, and is actually oppressed, is just astounding. But here we are...
Also the fact that she attacks the media that have ridiculously not criticized her show at all for being super critical of the show, demonstrates a level of self delusion I don't think I have ever witnessed.
She's coming late to the party thinking that she's the first one to ever show up. Amandala: "Imma gonna shame y'all with a song I wrote" Us: "You're still here?"
She is so oppressed that she was able to make a video of her having a seizure in the streets and have no one stop her. The arrogance she has is so disgusting.
I think she's hot and i like watching hot chicks dance. Maybe your in the closet and you don't like hot chicks? It's ok but you are probably not in the most welcoming fandom for people in the closet.
When you're worth 3 millions personally at 25, AND you have a multi millionaire father...... you're REALLY REALLY REALLY OPPRESSED and a got you're victim credentials 💯%🤪
This is the really cringe aspect - it just sounds like she's whining because daddy only got her two ponies instead of the stables she asked for. Throw in the fact that she seems to think she is like a female Malcolm X when she is actually half-white and the ONLY reason she got the role is because of her skin colour ( a point which is irrefutable given Disney's hiring practices), and she ends up sounding like Marie Antoinette moaning about how her mountain of cakes only have double cream and pomegranates on them, while the proles starve outside the Palace Gates. It's not just the fact she has no idea how ghastly and privileged she is, she actually has the delusion, the sheer (if you will) f***ing hubris, to assume the position of the victimised and persecuted. It is beyond laughable - it is verging on mentally ill.
@nickkowak9628 He looks white on pictures, but he could be 1/35 Indian, 1/50th African, a women, a she them/they, a dog furri, and 8/50th UFO. So I don't dare identifying him LOL 🤣🤣🤣Or Disney DEI and ESG will sue me. 😜
Notice how Stenberg never mentions that she’s half Danish. Just like Rachel Zegler never mentions that she’s half Polish. No victimhood points there I guess. I wonder what their fathers think about that.
Not just half Danish she has Danish citizenship from her father, same goes to the other one who's father is Polish but identifies with her mother (her mother is a white Hispanic anyways) which is a bigger lol than Amandla
This is common of biracial people, they overcompensate and chose one side of their parentage over the other. This is either because of the crap they got growing up (usually from their non-white peers) to prove their whatever-ness, or because at least one of their parents is an a$$hole.
Amandala is an example of what happens when the participation trophy generation grows up. When they were children, their parents and teachers were obsessed with cultivating high self-esteem. They were never told "no" or criticised. Every crayon drawing they produced was praised and proudly displayed, as if it were a work of art. Any negativity from peers or society was dismissed as unproductive bullying or hate. These children managed to reach young adulthood without ever experiencing the pangs of rejection and the self-reflection that follows. They expect unconditional acceptance, becauae they are a special and unique snowflake with gifts to offer the world. If you are mean or critical or negative to them, then that reflects badly on you, not them. You are a hater or a bigot or a bully. If you are not those things, that opens up the possibility that THEY are a failure. And that is something they are not emotionally equipped to deal with.
Exactly - this is why they are so ghastly. She has literally never had to struggle to do anything and has never been rejected from anything. So when everything she has done throughout childhood has been "Brilliant!", why should she expect any different as an adult? She is so great after all, isn't it just natural thst she be asked to lead a multi-million TV show at 25? Isn't that just what happens to great geniuses like her? Meanwhile, she consciously ignores the nepo-baby contacts daddy has and the money he has invested in her through the years. Her white daddy, no less......
You can tell who never engaged in any kind of enterprise where failure actually meant something. Be it sports, high forms of art, hard sciences, etc. There's a curve of success that washes out the pretenders and unqualified. Great post.
One of the actors was asked "what do you know of Star Wars?" - "Isn't that where Han Solo flied around with his dog?". Casual racism. For the main actress all nerds are gay. And not in a "gay is good" manner but in a "not real men" manner. Yet this show somehow sees itself as the most woke. It really is only the worst.
One thing Disney Wars has accomplished. It has proven to be a great filter. Everyone and everything of value has passed through Iger's mesh to leave an indigestible mush consisting of shills, phonies, the un/under qualified, cheap characters, narcissists, liars, gas-lighters, the exquisitely talentless, the manifestly unprincipled, and soggy, botched human garbage generally.
Wait i'm legitimately confused on what's the ideology and why is narrative bad? Isn't narrative the story itself? I'm so confused on what you are saying.
I’ve been boycotting Disney for several years now but am enjoying watching people rip apart what they are trying to pass of as entertainment. Thanks for posting.
Are we never allowed to see gay people in Star WArs? Is it ever ok to you? If not you might be what people call a homophobe. The witches didn't even kiss, it was implied they were a couple. My god you are so fragile. One mught call someone like you a snowflake.
Brilliant, as always, sir. Also, Lesley Headland saying The Acolyte is the best piece of art she’s ever created is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. George Lucas created the art. You created an overly-expensive, self-indulgent fan fiction of that art. You want to attach your name to greatness without having any talent yourself, and the world can see right through it.
It probably _is_ the best piece of "art" she's created in her life. I don't think she's lying. But she fails to realise she's speaking comparatively, not in absolute terms. Just because it's _her_ best piece of art, that doesn't make it good compared to any other art.
Amandla knows her career is over after star wars as it seems to be the place people go to die. We can safely assume there will not be a season 2. So I kinda imagine her manager got her to do the video to stir things up, keep her name in the press and potentially find another agenda show to attach to and rack up some social media algorithm credits.
We can safely assume they might make a season 2 just to spite us. I believe the film industry serves more as a front to money laundering. That's why you'll see massive budgets for horrible movies.
I want to live long enough to see two music historians marvel at the irrefutable fact that Rebecca Black wrote and produced a better song than Amandla Stenberg.
@@indiajohnson No problem. Rebecca Black went viral back in 2011 for her song/music video "Friday" which was universally considered terrible. People weren't using the term "cringe" as much back then, but it absolutely applied. That and the fact that she had wealthy parents (that kick-started her music career) make the comparison pretty apt.
This is brilliant. It nails It all perfectly, with such fantastic nuance. A friend and I were talking it all last night and all these points were raised, but we could never be so articulate as this. Plus I love the sarcasm 😂
Adding a small detail to this iteration of the nauseating cycle, in the background of stenberg's verbal assault is a mural of the character Radio Raheem (in the Bed-Stuy tee-shirt). Three decades ago, Spike Lee endeavored to create a realistic portrayal of race relations in America in a ground zero setting, diverse Brooklyn, NYC. No matter what you think of Lee's politics or message, it would be hard to deny that he created a heartfelt piece of art with sympathetic and funny characters from all races. Today the iconography of this touchstone piece of art are used to prop up the fake racial conflict, manufactured by the largest media company on earth, and using as its avatar a wealthy nepobaby who has no ties to the often heartbreaking race relations in lower class urban neighborhoods Lee portrayed. A sensitive piece of independent art reduced to corporate propaganda.
Yes, they probably drove her in to that neighbourhood in a private car with personal security. It's all so cynically loathsome, like when Disney spout off about "tolerance" and "hate" yet filmed a movie just outside a uighur Concentration camp. Or when the Doctor Who producers had to film around the genocide of white farmers in South Africa because they wanted to make their aparthied episode about a system that ended 30 years ago. Inhuman, insufferable hypocrisy.
This is the absolute best critique of The Acolyte, Amandla and Disney Star Wars as a whole that is on UA-cam. It doesn't venture into conservative politics and actually avoids the -isms and -ists that many of the people who scoff at the notion are actually guilty of. The issue is indeed the quality.
Can you imagine what the creators of Lost, X files, Breaking bad plus better call Saul, six feet under, dexter, House of cards, House, Bosch, The americans, SG1, (just to name a few), can you imagine these creators' reaction when they hear Hedland referring to this as her best work of art so far?
Well, they ruined Dexter because they couldn't leave that alone either. Except for the scene with the most un-natural deer ever put on film. It was like an alien's depiction of a deer after hearing stories about it. As if the animater had never seen a real deer in their entire life and google images didn't work. I am sure one day they will ruin Breaking Bad as well.
There was the 200th episode of SG-1 where a scene had featured a "younger, edgier" version of the team which was basically a CW teen drama in space. A few years later, SGU came into existence seemingly becoming the very thing SG-1 had made fun of.
Echo, i really enjoy your work. Always great to listen to your videos/streams along with your occasional visit to the debacle that is The Mr. Brown alliance.
This is so nicely phrased and well said it makes me feel slightly sorry that none of the creators of such a show have the congnitive ability to process your stream of thought.
Falsehoods, lies, misdirection, fabrication, gaslighting, bait and switch, arrogant, propaganda, emptiness, accusatory, manipulative, narcissistic, hateful, conceited, cruel, control and pandering. Just a few words to describe what Star Wars has become.
I will never tire of the clip where Luke squeezes green milk from a 20 mega-ton walrus in whatever context. The rest of your video was also up to scratch.
Einstein said his definition of insanity was doing the exact same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So what would you call Disney?
Equal parts evil, narcissistic, incorrigibly inculcated to wicked, anti-modernist ideologies that are founded upon denial and rebellion against objective truth and reality, and stupid.
Your commentary is pinpoint accurate and extremely well articulated. I genuinely don’t understand how anyone could disagree with you. Thanks for the well-made content!
When I think about how very well received the gay couple story in the Last of Us was and how people loved The Expanse with its bisexual/pansexual characters and how there is an actual real-life shrine to the fictional bisexual character Ianto Jones from Torchwood in Cardiff it baffles me that people thing critics are angry about gay, bi or lesbian characters. I'm sure some people are, but mostly it is just frustratation with bad characters, some of whom happen to be gay or lesbians. But I guess it's easier to blame homophobia for than to blame your actual low-effort show.
I am tired of everything being gay. It is boring. I am tired of only men being objectified. At least show some cleavage or something if you have dudes assess and dongs out all the time. It just like the show "The Boys", its 90% gay porn and boring dialogue. There is like 5 min of action in each show. Just why? It is so boring.
Another banger. This is becoming my favorite culture critique channel. Uou nailed it when uou said that despitr being a liberal you enjoy the company of people to thr right more. I feel that so much (stupidpol is my favorite subreddit, though the mods have kinda sucked lately). I've appropriated the "general holistic shittiness" line from yoru last video and will continue to do so.
Same. I'm a lefty and I find it near impossible to find anyone on the left now who isn't a nutbag extremist. So many people I knew have shifted far left. I find I have more in common with centrists and centre right these days than the far left crazies.
Amandla suffers from the "pick-me girl" phenomenon that, somehow, keeps getting worse. She clearly didn't take notes from Rachel Zegler, otherwise her mouth would remain shut. Instead, she decided to cry racism (how original), alienate potential viewers/audience and spread more division. No need for the last one, rich mixed girl: YOUR show already does that pretty flawlessly
That "song" by Amandlashamadamadingdong was such a word salad that I think she could play Kamala "Heels Up" Harris in a biopic. She'd be a perfect fit! **giggity**
It's quite frustrating how storytelling has moved from imparting wisdom to spiteful attack. I always appreciate a story with a useful message that helps me understand the world a little better, but I'm just not sure how something that is essentially a child having a tantrum is helpful to anyone.
Poor half Danish girl with millionaire parents that never had a hard day in her life that "acted" in the so far most racist and hateful series ever produced. Because someone said they didn't like the hate propaganda she "acted" in.😭
Looking at this positively, I’ve been saving so much money with all this bad media I’m not buying. Dune and Shadow of The Erdtree are the only recent media I felt compelled to pay for
Anyone seen that recent expose on Disney actual racist hiring practice(not that anyone surprised by it). So basically this lady catfish this Disney employee into spilling the beans and exposing Disney in 4K. I see potential lawsuits in Disney future.
I just looked up the viewer ratings of the top ten shows streaming right now. The Acolyte charts in third place, between The Boys and The House of the Dragon. How is this possible?
Clownfish TV did a video on this today. The numbers are being reported in a ridiculous way that makes it seem popular, but It's very dishonest. The viewing figures are not good. Actual watched time is very bad.... A lot of people started watching and then gave up before long.
We need an apology from Disney since Episode 9. "Anakin and Luke brought balance to the force and defeated Palpatine? ... No! Rey, the HEART of Star Wars, did it!" 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Correct me if I’m wrong, please, but from what I saw, KMT never said she was harassed or chased off social media. They built that narrative around her, and leaned on it so heavily that by the time she was supposedly finally addressing the issue, sympathetic readers of her essay assumed she was talking about her terrible experiences with fans, when in fact she said no such thing, even remotely. Her self-serving essay made her out to be a victim of a lifetime of minor insensitive comments and micro aggressions, so she could come across as a persevering force to be reckoned with, but never mentioned abusive fans. Ridley has likewise been declared to have been “harassed and chased off social media”, despite her own rejection of that idea, claiming she’s had nothing but positive interactions. She set the record straight while KMT let the victimhood narrative prevail. A few measly receipts from Moses Ingram are nothing compared to the endless, disturbing screen grabs of how “true fans” treat Gina Carano and Star Wars Theory.
Along with wokism becoming mainstream, the stereotype that all gay people are creative and thoughtful was solidified into a genuine urban myth. Somehow it was assumed that being gay is a substitute for hard work, humility, talent, and perseverance. Hire a gay writer and success is assured. Success is earned , not by your sexual orientation, but by the time and dedication you put into your work. I’m sure that the vast majority of gay people (adults) would agree. If a large majority of people, or even a small minority of people have comments about your work, you stand more to gain seeing if you can find some truth in the comments, and improve your work, than you do insulting everyone who doesn’t like it. Accepting constructive criticism is part of growing as person. If your work draws the wrong kind of attention to it, and you think it was genuinely your best effort and important to do, don’t apologize. But don’t blame those who didn’t see your effort as deserving praise. It’s goes with your chosen profession.
It really is an extraordinary cultural narrative, but it's about more than just Disney. We're in the tail end of a period where there are all these streaming services competing with each other, and the investors backing them don't care about losing money (as least not as much) so long as the streamers can accumulate large enough customer bases. They're all trying to become the entertainment version of Google, and they're doing it by making all these incredibly expensive productions that are supposed to be prestige and high quality. I think Headland recognizes how extraordinary it is that she was allowed to make a television series with essentially a blank cheque from Disney. The budget was whatever it needed to be, and the end result of that creative freedom was the Acolyte. That's the narrative. We're in this small window of time where a tiny group of creative people were given all the resources they needed to film whatever they wanted, so long as it made the streamer they worked for look good. And this is what they made.
People are always going to judge art no matter what. Be it from a simple painting to your life's Grand work. I remember in high school my art teacher was what I would say. A real artist. He knew his stuff. He knew art history. He knew many different ways of doing art and some of the art he produced was amazing. I remember seeing an oil painting he did. It looked like someone had taken a high definition photo. And he would always look at my work. Judge it criticize it whatever you want to call it. And he would say oh I did this and I did that. I'd be going really I did. I was just doing it because this is the best way it felt to do it.
When people say they hate rap music, I'm gonna imagine that everything from Run DMC, to The Roots, to Kendrick Lamar, sounds like this "song" in their ears on some sensory amusia type feel.
Here's a challenge for anyone who has, or is thinking of, taking over a long-established and beloved franchise, and using the established brand name as a platform to push a specific non-narrative agenda: how about writing and creating something ORIGINAL, of your OWN imagination, and use THAT as a platform for whatever agenda you wish to push - but - and here's the difficult bit - make the narrative of your own new creation so compelling, so absorbing, so GOOD that everyone wants to watch it, REGARDLESS of the agenda. I.E. focus on the story, characterization and basic believability of the narrative; the consistent, motivated and logical character actions; and an overall cohesive unfolding story that never jolts you out of its immersive world JUST to signpost an agenda item. You want to write a new story and populate it with black, female, transgender, 'fill in the blank' challenged characters? Fine - NONE of those character aspects interest me (which is exactly as it SHOULD be - we are ALL equal regardless of those aspects!) - but make THOSE characters compelling, likeable, consistent and you will have a guaranteed hit (I will likely be a fan) - rather than just lazily ruining everyone else's beloved brands and then accusing the ever-diminishing audience from your OWN paranoid sense of oppression just because we think your output is bad.
Imagine not knowing that The Wire had Omar and Kima, both gay, both black. Imagine forgetting that The Sopranos critiqued homophobia with the devastating story of Vito. Two of the greatest shows of all time. The arrogance with these modern creators is extraordinary.
Never heard a man so good with his phrasing since George Carlin.
Ooh. I'll take that.
@@EchoChamberlain you better or there could be....trouble
@@davidpothin5544 Bundle of sticks behaviour.
I miss him
@@amalekedomite Lump of stinking cow dung behavior…. If you ever grow a 3rd brain cell, try to optimize it for a sense of humor
The idea that someone who was born to a white millionaire father, lived in a mansion in privilege and has been an actor since she was a child, fawned over and sought after by a white woman for the main role in her little gay activist show - literally lived a privileged life at the hands of white people, and is actually oppressed, is just astounding.
But here we are...
I wonder what her dad thinks of her video?
well said
Also the fact that she attacks the media that have ridiculously not criticized her show at all for being super critical of the show, demonstrates a level of self delusion I don't think I have ever witnessed.
Her music video wouldn't have been necessary if Anakin hadn't blown up the Death Star.
You dropped this 👑
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She's coming late to the party thinking that she's the first one to ever show up.
Amandala: "Imma gonna shame y'all with a song I wrote"
Us: "You're still here?"
Yeah ahes aboit 3 years too late. The woke social.justice phase has ended
I am Jack's complete lack of interest. 😐👍
Well, at least now I have a song when I have trouble to take a dump. Erm, correction, not a 'song', but some incoherent mumbling over music.
Who named her? Some half with with a stutter?
EXCELLENT WORK. ECHO CHAMBERLAIN SKIP AMANLDA STENBORG TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE MUSIC 🎶
She is so oppressed that she was able to make a video of her having a seizure in the streets and have no one stop her. The arrogance she has is so disgusting.
She was supposedly dancing in the Bed Sty area of Brooklyn. I wonder why she wasn't in Crown Heights instead 🤔
I think she's hot and i like watching hot chicks dance. Maybe your in the closet and you don't like hot chicks? It's ok but you are probably not in the most welcoming fandom for people in the closet.
@@hawkeye5955you call that dancing? looks more like a spastics cramp to me
I can't understand why she couldn't have simply recited those words like a poem, instead of gyrating around thrusting her pelvis at the camera.
I thought it was from a cattle prod or tazer!
"I'll show them all!!!" by twerking and speaking so softly you need subtitles in your music video.
I wonder if frustration with the way the show goes out of its way to hide her figure played into it.
Another creator, Disparu, called her "the whinging minge" after all her crotch shots in the video 😂
"Stop objectifying me!" *Twerks*
-women
It's unfortunate considering she had made good music in the past with Zander Hawley, only to throw it all away.
@@monkofkrayak6235
Also women: it heals me on a spiritual level 'kay???
When you're worth 3 millions personally at 25, AND you have a multi millionaire father...... you're REALLY REALLY REALLY OPPRESSED and a got you're victim credentials 💯%🤪
More privileged than 99% of people in the world
This is the really cringe aspect - it just sounds like she's whining because daddy only got her two ponies instead of the stables she asked for. Throw in the fact that she seems to think she is like a female Malcolm X when she is actually half-white and the ONLY reason she got the role is because of her skin colour ( a point which is irrefutable given Disney's hiring practices), and she ends up sounding like Marie Antoinette moaning about how her mountain of cakes only have double cream and pomegranates on them, while the proles starve outside the Palace Gates. It's not just the fact she has no idea how ghastly and privileged she is, she actually has the delusion, the sheer (if you will) f***ing hubris, to assume the position of the victimised and persecuted. It is beyond laughable - it is verging on mentally ill.
I wish I was rich and oppressed...
@nickkowak9628 He looks white on pictures, but he could be 1/35 Indian, 1/50th African, a women, a she them/they, a dog furri, and 8/50th UFO. So I don't dare identifying him LOL 🤣🤣🤣Or Disney DEI and ESG will sue me. 😜
I mean, she is Danish...
Stenberg: "MY people"
Disperu: "Who? The Danes?"
🤣
I wonder how many Dutch slave ships were under the Steinberg books?
As a Dane I’m perfectly fine with her not claiming any association with us.
Notice how Stenberg never mentions that she’s half Danish. Just like Rachel Zegler never mentions that she’s half Polish. No victimhood points there I guess. I wonder what their fathers think about that.
Not just half Danish she has Danish citizenship from her father, same goes to the other one who's father is Polish but identifies with her mother (her mother is a white Hispanic anyways) which is a bigger lol than Amandla
African Americans usually have 20-30% European ancestory she is most likely 70% white so just white lmao
This is common of biracial people, they overcompensate and chose one side of their parentage over the other. This is either because of the crap they got growing up (usually from their non-white peers) to prove their whatever-ness, or because at least one of their parents is an a$$hole.
@@dickinwurfer
She identifies with her mother? What does that even mean?!
@@mabusestestament
Racialist woo-woo nonsense.
Amandala is an example of what happens when the participation trophy generation grows up. When they were children, their parents and teachers were obsessed with cultivating high self-esteem. They were never told "no" or criticised. Every crayon drawing they produced was praised and proudly displayed, as if it were a work of art. Any negativity from peers or society was dismissed as unproductive bullying or hate. These children managed to reach young adulthood without ever experiencing the pangs of rejection and the self-reflection that follows. They expect unconditional acceptance, becauae they are a special and unique snowflake with gifts to offer the world. If you are mean or critical or negative to them, then that reflects badly on you, not them. You are a hater or a bigot or a bully. If you are not those things, that opens up the possibility that THEY are a failure. And that is something they are not emotionally equipped to deal with.
Exactly - this is why they are so ghastly. She has literally never had to struggle to do anything and has never been rejected from anything. So when everything she has done throughout childhood has been "Brilliant!", why should she expect any different as an adult? She is so great after all, isn't it just natural thst she be asked to lead a multi-million TV show at 25? Isn't that just what happens to great geniuses like her? Meanwhile, she consciously ignores the nepo-baby contacts daddy has and the money he has invested in her through the years. Her white daddy, no less......
This is one of the most perceptive comments I have ever read 👏
You can tell who never engaged in any kind of enterprise where failure actually meant something. Be it sports, high forms of art, hard sciences, etc. There's a curve of success that washes out the pretenders and unqualified.
Great post.
Yep
One of the actors was asked "what do you know of Star Wars?" - "Isn't that where Han Solo flied around with his dog?". Casual racism.
For the main actress all nerds are gay. And not in a "gay is good" manner but in a "not real men" manner.
Yet this show somehow sees itself as the most woke.
It really is only the worst.
It is even worse! The fellow did not know the character name... it was "isn't the movie that Harrison Ford was flying in space with a dog"?
@@comentariopolitico1014 Thanks, and yeah, worse. Misremembered that a bit.
One thing Disney Wars has accomplished. It has proven to be a great filter. Everyone and everything of value has passed through Iger's mesh to leave an indigestible mush consisting of shills, phonies, the un/under qualified, cheap characters, narcissists, liars, gas-lighters, the exquisitely talentless, the manifestly unprincipled, and soggy, botched human garbage generally.
Well said!
Bravo!
At least hate is bneing monetized quite well on UA-cam so there you go, you've got content to hate and make money!
@@ichigen511 “you’ve got context to hate and make money”….that is the modern malaise of the internet in a nutshell.
Speaking of filters...
What do you want to bet that Leslye, Amandla, etc., would all choose the bear over the man?
When you put ideology and narrative first, over quality and story, and then are surprised the quality and a story are negatively impacted.
And then are shocked, then angry, when many recognize it and comment on it.
Wait i'm legitimately confused on what's the ideology and why is narrative bad? Isn't narrative the story itself? I'm so confused on what you are saying.
Refer to Merriam Webster dictionary --- _narrative_ , noun, definition 1b
@@spikespa5208 noun
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
Edit: it's LITERALLY the story.
So I'm not the first one to correctly point out that "story" and "narrative" are interchangeable 😅
That's good
But she's the first ever female hero in Star Wars, how can you not like her? 🥺
Since they identify as non binary, then that would technically mean that they aren't a female hero in star wars, wouldnt it?
@@GuiltlessGear She does? Oh man, she's even more despicable than I thought!
I’ve been boycotting Disney for several years now but am enjoying watching people rip apart what they are trying to pass of as entertainment. Thanks for posting.
Remember put a check in it and make it lame and gay.
If that is a pun not a spelling mistake its a clever pun
@@90lancaster They wrote waaaay too high of a check for The Acolyte. Or any of the terrible shows coming out now.
Are we never allowed to see gay people in Star WArs? Is it ever ok to you? If not you might be what people call a homophobe. The witches didn't even kiss, it was implied they were a couple. My god you are so fragile. One mught call someone like you a snowflake.
@@jaceyking47 Looks like money laundering drug cartel type. Destroying Disney while enriching families and friends.
@jaceyking47 Hey man, hush money ain't cheap and she DAMN SURE kept her trap shut about ol' Harvey Weinstien for YEARS.
I hate people who claims to be underprivileged yet they were raised rich in real life and then they demand respect because of it
Brilliant, as always, sir.
Also, Lesley Headland saying The Acolyte is the best piece of art she’s ever created is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. George Lucas created the art. You created an overly-expensive, self-indulgent fan fiction of that art. You want to attach your name to greatness without having any talent yourself, and the world can see right through it.
It probably _is_ the best piece of "art" she's created in her life. I don't think she's lying. But she fails to realise she's speaking comparatively, not in absolute terms. Just because it's _her_ best piece of art, that doesn't make it good compared to any other art.
Amandla knows her career is over after star wars as it seems to be the place people go to die. We can safely assume there will not be a season 2. So I kinda imagine her manager got her to do the video to stir things up, keep her name in the press and potentially find another agenda show to attach to and rack up some social media algorithm credits.
made me want to avoid anything attached with her name really
We can safely assume they might make a season 2 just to spite us. I believe the film industry serves more as a front to money laundering. That's why you'll see massive budgets for horrible movies.
I want to live long enough to see two music historians marvel at the irrefutable fact that Rebecca Black wrote and produced a better song than Amandla Stenberg.
It is irrefutable that one must get down on Friday.
And, of course, the eternal question: which seat (front or back) should one take?
Str8 banger.
At the risk of sounding stupid, who's Rebecca Black?
@@indiajohnson No problem. Rebecca Black went viral back in 2011 for her song/music video "Friday" which was universally considered terrible. People weren't using the term "cringe" as much back then, but it absolutely applied. That and the fact that she had wealthy parents (that kick-started her music career) make the comparison pretty apt.
This is brilliant. It nails It all perfectly, with such fantastic nuance. A friend and I were talking it all last night and all these points were raised, but we could never be so articulate as this. Plus I love the sarcasm 😂
Adding a small detail to this iteration of the nauseating cycle, in the background of stenberg's verbal assault is a mural of the character Radio Raheem (in the Bed-Stuy tee-shirt). Three decades ago, Spike Lee endeavored to create a realistic portrayal of race relations in America in a ground zero setting, diverse Brooklyn, NYC. No matter what you think of Lee's politics or message, it would be hard to deny that he created a heartfelt piece of art with sympathetic and funny characters from all races. Today the iconography of this touchstone piece of art are used to prop up the fake racial conflict, manufactured by the largest media company on earth, and using as its avatar a wealthy nepobaby who has no ties to the often heartbreaking race relations in lower class urban neighborhoods Lee portrayed. A sensitive piece of independent art reduced to corporate propaganda.
Yes, they probably drove her in to that neighbourhood in a private car with personal security. It's all so cynically loathsome, like when Disney spout off about "tolerance" and "hate" yet filmed a movie just outside a uighur Concentration camp. Or when the Doctor Who producers had to film around the genocide of white farmers in South Africa because they wanted to make their aparthied episode about a system that ended 30 years ago. Inhuman, insufferable hypocrisy.
This is the absolute best critique of The Acolyte, Amandla and Disney Star Wars as a whole that is on UA-cam. It doesn't venture into conservative politics and actually avoids the -isms and -ists that many of the people who scoff at the notion are actually guilty of. The issue is indeed the quality.
Can you imagine what the creators of Lost, X files, Breaking bad plus better call Saul, six feet under, dexter, House of cards, House, Bosch, The americans, SG1, (just to name a few), can you imagine these creators' reaction when they hear Hedland referring to this as her best work of art so far?
Well, they ruined Dexter because they couldn't leave that alone either. Except for the scene with the most un-natural deer ever put on film. It was like an alien's depiction of a deer after hearing stories about it. As if the animater had never seen a real deer in their entire life and google images didn't work. I am sure one day they will ruin Breaking Bad as well.
There was the 200th episode of SG-1 where a scene had featured a "younger, edgier" version of the team which was basically a CW teen drama in space. A few years later, SGU came into existence seemingly becoming the very thing SG-1 had made fun of.
Yep.
Lost was a Mystery Box Scam.
There's nothing more current year than writing and shooting a prissy, indulgent, and lame "music video" because someone was mean to you online.
If someone showed me this and told me about this 10 years ago I'd have thought this was parody. It's bizarre that this is real.
This is Amandla's "I wish I was Black" song.
This was just her convoluted effort to be the next black panther
Echo, i really enjoy your work. Always great to listen to your videos/streams along with your occasional visit to the debacle that is The Mr. Brown alliance.
One of the best breakdowns of the problem i have seen
This is so nicely phrased and well said it makes me feel slightly sorry that none of the creators of such a show have the congnitive ability to process your stream of thought.
They go on about the Fandom Menace but I was horribly trolled on a SW forum because I pointed out Sendberg isn't actually...black.
Falsehoods, lies, misdirection, fabrication, gaslighting, bait and switch, arrogant, propaganda, emptiness, accusatory, manipulative, narcissistic, hateful, conceited, cruel, control and pandering. Just a few words to describe what Star Wars has become.
Don't forget trite and boring.
And that is just for a start.
I will never tire of the clip where Luke squeezes green milk from a 20 mega-ton walrus in whatever context. The rest of your video was also up to scratch.
That walrus was representation.
@@haroldb1856it was also played by Lizzo
All kindergarten children think their finger paintings are high art.
Severely underrated channel
Einstein said his definition of insanity was doing the exact same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So what would you call Disney?
Equal parts evil, narcissistic, incorrigibly inculcated to wicked, anti-modernist ideologies that are founded upon denial and rebellion against objective truth and reality, and stupid.
Wasn't Einstein a hack, though?
@@Omega-EP I wouldn’t say so, but then again everyone’s entitled to their opinion.
@@wolftal1178 Or are they?
@@wolftal1178 What do you mean you wouldn't say so? You never met him in person. How could you know?
Your commentary is pinpoint accurate and extremely well articulated. I genuinely don’t understand how anyone could disagree with you. Thanks for the well-made content!
When I think about how very well received the gay couple story in the Last of Us was and how people loved The Expanse with its bisexual/pansexual characters and how there is an actual real-life shrine to the fictional bisexual character Ianto Jones from Torchwood in Cardiff it baffles me that people thing critics are angry about gay, bi or lesbian characters.
I'm sure some people are, but mostly it is just frustratation with bad characters, some of whom happen to be gay or lesbians. But I guess it's easier to blame homophobia for than to blame your actual low-effort show.
I am tired of everything being gay. It is boring. I am tired of only men being objectified. At least show some cleavage or something if you have dudes assess and dongs out all the time. It just like the show "The Boys", its 90% gay porn and boring dialogue. There is like 5 min of action in each show. Just why? It is so boring.
At this point even Ollie’s is wishing for Disney Star Wars to just stop as they have no more room for this merch.
When Ollies turns you down it is the bottom. Someone at Disney will start a merch smashing craze on UA-cam.
Ollie's can always sell the Disney+ SW "merch" to Dollar Tree or Mighty Dollar...
180 million dollars for an Egomaniacs vanity project.....smh
She has more milk in her family tree than i do in my latte.
Another banger. This is becoming my favorite culture critique channel. Uou nailed it when uou said that despitr being a liberal you enjoy the company of people to thr right more. I feel that so much (stupidpol is my favorite subreddit, though the mods have kinda sucked lately). I've appropriated the "general holistic shittiness" line from yoru last video and will continue to do so.
Same. I'm a lefty and I find it near impossible to find anyone on the left now who isn't a nutbag extremist. So many people I knew have shifted far left. I find I have more in common with centrists and centre right these days than the far left crazies.
I clicked on this faster than Anakin blew up the Death Star...
Amandla suffers from the "pick-me girl" phenomenon that, somehow, keeps getting worse. She clearly didn't take notes from Rachel Zegler, otherwise her mouth would remain shut.
Instead, she decided to cry racism (how original), alienate potential viewers/audience and spread more division.
No need for the last one, rich mixed girl: YOUR show already does that pretty flawlessly
No reason to even watch one more video about the rot at Disney. Really. At this point it's assumed and Disney validates that assumption every week.
Guess we can call this the reva maneuver.
Spot on echo! Very eloquently put, love the content dude
The Power Of One
The Power of Two
The power of the BMW series of motor vehicles.
The power of M3, the power of M5.
That scene with the diverse and inclusive “younglings” meditating and doing cosplay is absolute cringe.
The score is at 14 percent as of an hour ago, you did a great job taking your time to edit the video well.
“It’s affirming, therefore it’s inherently good.” Excellent distillation of the thesis of this narrative
Superb review. 100% bang on the money! 🎯 🎯🎯
I'm still waiting to see an example, any example of the "small minority of genuinely offensive posts".
Haven't seen one.
Strange.
Me neither.
That "song" by Amandlashamadamadingdong was such a word salad that I think she could play Kamala "Heels Up" Harris in a biopic. She'd be a perfect fit! **giggity**
She talked a lot of shit to her company's fans.
I'm old enough to remember when saying "beep, boop, bop" would get you fired.
A few years ago.
Perfect.
It's quite frustrating how storytelling has moved from imparting wisdom to spiteful attack. I always appreciate a story with a useful message that helps me understand the world a little better, but I'm just not sure how something that is essentially a child having a tantrum is helpful to anyone.
The Victimizer playing the Victimhood card.😂
Poor half Danish girl with millionaire parents that never had a hard day in her life that "acted" in the so far most racist and hateful series ever produced. Because someone said they didn't like the hate propaganda she "acted" in.😭
Looking at this positively, I’ve been saving so much money with all this bad media I’m not buying. Dune and Shadow of The Erdtree are the only recent media I felt compelled to pay for
Great video Sir, agree with every word you said.
Not going to listen to an iceberg tell me about how mean ships are.
Very good saying that I have never heard before. Thanks for that.
@@DeanAdventure Just Paying Attention. Any good trooper would do it.
In the not too distant future the parallel decline of Disney and the decline of the U.S. will be shown shown in a Steve Rather graph on MSMBC.
Thanks for proving that you can neither act, sing, or dance, I suppose?
If the protagonist was a white male, would the story still be awful. Yes. yes it would.
She didn't have to be in a shit TV show she chose that path all on her own.
Great work
How do I get oppressed to the point where people just give me jobs?
Brilliant analysis as always Echo! Was the sixth-last word obeyance? If so could obeisance perhaps be better?
Noted
Anyone seen that recent expose on Disney actual racist hiring practice(not that anyone surprised by it). So basically this lady catfish this Disney employee into spilling the beans and exposing Disney in 4K. I see potential lawsuits in Disney future.
I just looked up the viewer ratings of the top ten shows streaming right now. The Acolyte charts in third place, between The Boys and The House of the Dragon. How is this possible?
They lie. Duh.
Clownfish TV did a video on this today. The numbers are being reported in a ridiculous way that makes it seem popular, but It's very dishonest. The viewing figures are not good. Actual watched time is very bad.... A lot of people started watching and then gave up before long.
@@domm6812 I figured as much. Millions of people tuned into the first 5 minutes to see the Carrie Ann Moss fight and tuned out when she died.
The Boys is the most boring crap I have ever watched. I wanted it to be good, I like the gritty look at superhero life.
@@DeanAdventure If the Boys is boring to you, I wonder what qualifies as entertainment to you.
Amygdala is absolutely scuttling her own career.
What career
Excellent and accurate analysis of the current state of production line sci-fi offerings, from the main fan abusing, un-creative teams.
This sums it all up perfectly. An absolute bullseye.
Meanwhile, most of the people that are being 'charged' with being racist for not loving the Acolyte most likely went 'Meh' at the whole situation.
Juneteenth, once a commemoration of the end of slavery, is now a celebration of paying attention to Amandla Stenberg.
GREAT VIDEO! WELL THOUGHT OUT!
Very crisp: the late, great Clive James couldn’t have written (or narrated) it better.
Amazing! Thank you!!
Fighting disinterest in your failed project with cringe mumble rap. Well done Disney.
Great high quality video :)
Jamming everything with your identity politics is a part of the kink. Most, if not all of it, actually.
What is it with Disney & their Hostage videos is 2 considered "a trend" ?
Well said. Loved it.
We need an apology from Disney since Episode 9.
"Anakin and Luke brought balance to the force and defeated Palpatine? ... No! Rey, the HEART of Star Wars, did it!"
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Correct me if I’m wrong, please, but from what I saw, KMT never said she was harassed or chased off social media. They built that narrative around her, and leaned on it so heavily that by the time she was supposedly finally addressing the issue, sympathetic readers of her essay assumed she was talking about her terrible experiences with fans, when in fact she said no such thing, even remotely. Her self-serving essay made her out to be a victim of a lifetime of minor insensitive comments and micro aggressions, so she could come across as a persevering force to be reckoned with, but never mentioned abusive fans. Ridley has likewise been declared to have been “harassed and chased off social media”, despite her own rejection of that idea, claiming she’s had nothing but positive interactions. She set the record straight while KMT let the victimhood narrative prevail. A few measly receipts from Moses Ingram are nothing compared to the endless, disturbing screen grabs of how “true fans” treat Gina Carano and Star Wars Theory.
And miss Amandibula is butt hurt because...? Oppressed? Hardly. She's just angry people don't like her.
Along with wokism becoming mainstream, the stereotype that all gay people are creative and thoughtful was solidified into a genuine urban myth. Somehow it was assumed that being gay is a substitute for hard work, humility, talent, and perseverance. Hire a gay writer and success is assured.
Success is earned , not by your sexual orientation, but by the time and dedication you put into your work. I’m sure that the vast majority of gay people (adults) would agree.
If a large majority of people, or even a small minority of people have comments about your work, you stand more to gain seeing if you can find some truth in the comments, and improve your work, than you do insulting everyone who doesn’t like it. Accepting constructive criticism is part of growing as person. If your work draws the wrong kind of attention to it, and you think it was genuinely your best effort and important to do, don’t apologize. But don’t blame those who didn’t see your effort as deserving praise. It’s goes with your chosen profession.
It really is an extraordinary cultural narrative, but it's about more than just Disney. We're in the tail end of a period where there are all these streaming services competing with each other, and the investors backing them don't care about losing money (as least not as much) so long as the streamers can accumulate large enough customer bases. They're all trying to become the entertainment version of Google, and they're doing it by making all these incredibly expensive productions that are supposed to be prestige and high quality.
I think Headland recognizes how extraordinary it is that she was allowed to make a television series with essentially a blank cheque from Disney. The budget was whatever it needed to be, and the end result of that creative freedom was the Acolyte.
That's the narrative. We're in this small window of time where a tiny group of creative people were given all the resources they needed to film whatever they wanted, so long as it made the streamer they worked for look good. And this is what they made.
The proud african name "Stenberg"
😂
That video was cringe. Like 14 year-old emo kid writing about the darkness in their soul in their diary for the first time cringe.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity !
People are always going to judge art no matter what. Be it from a simple painting to your life's Grand work. I remember in high school my art teacher was what I would say. A real artist. He knew his stuff. He knew art history. He knew many different ways of doing art and some of the art he produced was amazing. I remember seeing an oil painting he did. It looked like someone had taken a high definition photo. And he would always look at my work. Judge it criticize it whatever you want to call it. And he would say oh I did this and I did that. I'd be going really I did. I was just doing it because this is the best way it felt to do it.
Not sure if it's a perfect match, but a lot of the same plays were made with the live action Little Mermaid.
Spot on, as always.
As you will see on the next episode, Leslye stole form Highlander and The Runelords.
Watching the opening, I think there might just be a pattern…
When people say they hate rap music, I'm gonna imagine that everything from Run DMC, to The Roots, to Kendrick Lamar, sounds like this "song" in their ears on some sensory amusia type feel.
Here's a challenge for anyone who has, or is thinking of, taking over a long-established and beloved franchise, and using the established brand name as a platform to push a specific non-narrative agenda: how about writing and creating something ORIGINAL, of your OWN imagination, and use THAT as a platform for whatever agenda you wish to push - but - and here's the difficult bit - make the narrative of your own new creation so compelling, so absorbing, so GOOD that everyone wants to watch it, REGARDLESS of the agenda. I.E. focus on the story, characterization and basic believability of the narrative; the consistent, motivated and logical character actions; and an overall cohesive unfolding story that never jolts you out of its immersive world JUST to signpost an agenda item. You want to write a new story and populate it with black, female, transgender, 'fill in the blank' challenged characters? Fine - NONE of those character aspects interest me (which is exactly as it SHOULD be - we are ALL equal regardless of those aspects!) - but make THOSE characters compelling, likeable, consistent and you will have a guaranteed hit (I will likely be a fan) - rather than just lazily ruining everyone else's beloved brands and then accusing the ever-diminishing audience from your OWN paranoid sense of oppression just because we think your output is bad.
Well said!
Imagine not knowing that The Wire had Omar and Kima, both gay, both black. Imagine forgetting that The Sopranos critiqued homophobia with the devastating story of Vito.
Two of the greatest shows of all time. The arrogance with these modern creators is extraordinary.