Nihilistic Cringe | A Review of Stones to Abbigale by Onision

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  • What does Stones to Abbigale even MEAN? Is someone throwing rocks at the poor girl?
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  • @Monique.Marceline
    @Monique.Marceline 5 років тому +6928

    *Seth is shooting up the school, killing 52 students, making it the second worst mass shooting in American history*
    James: ROLLERSKATE TIME

    • @Connor-jl9gq
      @Connor-jl9gq 5 років тому +325

      not to nit pick but it would actualy be the WORST mass shooting in THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD

    • @bitchlasagna1503
      @bitchlasagna1503 5 років тому +360

      IMAGINE IF SETH WAS WEARING ROLLERSKATES WHEN HE SHOT UP THE SCHOOL SJDBDD

    • @GriffinKneesock
      @GriffinKneesock 5 років тому +284

      Connor Actually it wouldn’t. That record belongs to the Norwegian Breivik if we are talking about a single shooter. In which he killed 77.

    • @Monique.Marceline
      @Monique.Marceline 5 років тому +210

      Connor the worst mass shooting in American history was the Las Vegas shooting that killed 59, and as mentioned above the worst in the world happened in Norway

    • @fangsabre
      @fangsabre 5 років тому +51

      Gotta blade man.

  • @ingasparrow
    @ingasparrow 5 років тому +4140

    Onision bragged-yes, bragged-that he hadn't read a book in fourteen years when he wrote Stones to Abbigale.

    • @AutumnSage98
      @AutumnSage98 5 років тому +540

      Who brags about that? I don't read very much, in fact I wish I read more. Is it supposed to be impressive that he wrote a book? A book I assume he thought was "great", that he didn't read for fourteen years?
      That's... That's sad

    • @ingasparrow
      @ingasparrow 5 років тому +381

      @@AutumnSage98 I used to consider book reading a sign of intelligence, but not anymore. There's all sorts of intelligence that don't relate to that. Onision displays none of them and it shows.

    • @RibbonVintageGirl
      @RibbonVintageGirl 5 років тому +216

      My English Lit major heart shattered when I heard that...and the fact that his fans still adored him for that fact.

    • @jerrymccullough4565
      @jerrymccullough4565 5 років тому +171

      It really shines in his work.

    • @epicjoyfulcreations4580
      @epicjoyfulcreations4580 5 років тому +250

      That...actually makes sense. Studies have shown that reading makes you a more empathetic person. My god, this explains so much!

  • @dailytzeentch1664
    @dailytzeentch1664 3 роки тому +3149

    "If you can use anything apart from rape, don't use rape" is advice a lot of authors need to hear

    • @Michael97Moore
      @Michael97Moore 2 роки тому +148

      Onision once said women can't rape

    • @Texasp12
      @Texasp12 2 роки тому +123

      @@Michael97Moore that's in British law funny enough.

    • @Michael97Moore
      @Michael97Moore 2 роки тому +48

      @@Texasp12 seriously.

    • @katatonikbliss
      @katatonikbliss 2 роки тому

      @@Texasp12 british law doesn't believe anyone except white males can rape so that's no surprise

    • @friendly-nemesis4754
      @friendly-nemesis4754 2 роки тому +85

      More pertinent advice would be "Find out what it is that you don't write about well... and then don't write about that thing." Specifying rape in this sentiment is gratuitous; nobody HAS to write a book about ANYTHING, so the option of not writing about rape is always there, so the logical conclusion of this injunction may as well be "NEVER write about rape." I see no reason why any subject matter, however grim, should be precluded as a literary theme. Any thoughts?

  • @bibastrashcan9028
    @bibastrashcan9028 3 роки тому +2591

    Just a friendly reminder that the "barging in the significant other's classroom to make out in front of everyone" scene had already been done in another story: My immortal

    • @ichor2127
      @ichor2127 3 роки тому +403

      My Immortal is a work of pure art in comparison to Stones to Abbigale

    • @None-Trick_Pony
      @None-Trick_Pony 3 роки тому +245

      @@ichor2127 The name "My Immortal" is fitting because it will be alive forevermore. That's because it's not a work of pure art. It exceeds that. It's so brilliant that it is the Übermensch of literature. Calling incredible books like To Kill a Mockingbird Üntermensch when compared to My Immortal is beyond generous.

    • @errortryagainlater4240
      @errortryagainlater4240 3 роки тому +93

      @@None-Trick_Pony this is the only correct opinion about My Immortal and I will stand by it.

    • @MollymaukT
      @MollymaukT 3 роки тому +122

      My Immortal is actually pretty great if you realize that it is an amazing documentation of pre-UA-cam (and pre-socialmedia) internet culture

    • @ryokiritani4187
      @ryokiritani4187 2 роки тому +18

      Also recreated in sonic school

  • @tatumfowler8362
    @tatumfowler8362 5 років тому +3485

    i'm sorry but i haven't thought of something funnier than "man roller skates into school to stop a mass shooting, but the floors are too sticky, so he takes them off and continues" in a VERY long time

    • @mojoforthewin3069
      @mojoforthewin3069 5 років тому +283

      *Heelies through door*
      “I’ll save you, Milady!”

    • @grungecrunge
      @grungecrunge 5 років тому +51

      I looked at the comments just to see if someone noticed this. I'm not disappointed

    • @Nerobyrne
      @Nerobyrne 5 років тому +82

      @@mojoforthewin3069 oh god the image of a trench coat wearing fat man with an MLP shirt riding heelies is way too much!

    • @MrSuperbeast92
      @MrSuperbeast92 5 років тому +6

      @@Nerobyrne 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀

    • @lelice01
      @lelice01 5 років тому +24

      @@grungecrunge dont forget the fedora

  • @kiyoushu
    @kiyoushu 5 років тому +9343

    "He doesn't do anything significant for the rest of the book. I mean he dies at one point" is arguably the greatest quote i have ever heard.

    • @Blinkersub
      @Blinkersub 5 років тому +215

      Thats me in life lmao

    • @saint.jerome
      @saint.jerome 5 років тому +230

      kiyoushu fuck I just found my yearbook quote honestly lmao

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 5 років тому +35

      Basically me.

    • @sefsprite
      @sefsprite 5 років тому +99

      kiyoushu if I was a book character that would be on my Wikipedia page

    • @jackthenotsnack7681
      @jackthenotsnack7681 5 років тому +31

      I want that qoute on a shirt

  • @peggy3095
    @peggy3095 3 роки тому +2293

    He tried to legally change his name to James Jackson.
    To recap, he tried to legally rename himself after his self insert
    And he named his daughter after said self insert’s love interest

  • @caustic9947
    @caustic9947 3 роки тому +3043

    the mental picture of James _rollerskating_ into the school and then having to STOP and TAKE THEM OFF because there's too much blood on the floor is the funniest thing ever

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 роки тому +11

      We need way more Slutshaming, tbh.
      I mean, nowadas, we legit have masses of people
      being convinced that theres absolutely nothing
      wrong and nothing 'telling' about sleeping around;
      which is of course utter nonsense and objectively wrong, but ok...
      Many people say it, so it must be right... or whatever...
      ...

    • @friedegg3732
      @friedegg3732 3 роки тому +94

      @@loturzelrestaurant nigga wut

    • @SissypheanCatboy
      @SissypheanCatboy 3 роки тому +90

      @@loturzelrestaurant the fuck are you going on about lmao

    • @kylenielsen5083
      @kylenielsen5083 3 роки тому +18

      @@loturzelrestaurant dude any statistics you pull about it ruining relationships or whatever or complicated by birth control, and there's a theorem that since women prefer men by scent and birth control can mess with a women's sense of smell, there's a thrum that birth control, rather than promiscuity, can cause poor relationships. I mean it's unproven, but it's something to look into.

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 3 роки тому +9

      @@kylenielsen5083 Uhm... if you say so...

  • @DonnaCPunk
    @DonnaCPunk 4 роки тому +6257

    "A loser in high school who never got over being a loser in high school".
    That describes Onion all over. To the point he's still trying to "date" high school girls.

    • @aggressivepianonoises813
      @aggressivepianonoises813 4 роки тому +182

      Ah, how cuttingly accurate...

    • @RedVelvetBlackleather
      @RedVelvetBlackleather 4 роки тому +161

      Donna C
      Onion boy: if she breaths she’s good enough to breed.

    • @neroquin
      @neroquin 4 роки тому +102

      Ew, isn't he like 30?

    • @kurestor1603
      @kurestor1603 4 роки тому +3

      He never got over not living out his hero and romantic fantasies during high school, and failed to realize afterward that that's all they could of been. He knows that he peaked in high school, and also knows that his peak wasn't very high.
      And since that was the peak of his existence, he refuses to mature beyond that point. He is stuck in the mindset of a sophomore in high school, and he is allowed to maintain that mentality through the existence of the internet and the people on it. He lives out his high school romantic fantasies by doing what he does rating, looking at, and talking with his fans. They are mostly teenagers who are just like him: social outcasts at school, who live vicariously through his success online, and dedicate themselves to him because they see themselves in him.
      Edit: Now that I reread this, it sounds REALLY pretentious, but I spent like 5 minutes on the comment, so I'm leaving it here.

    • @HafthorBjornssonFan
      @HafthorBjornssonFan 4 роки тому +14

      @Lonely Pluto It's True.

  • @wannabeneko318
    @wannabeneko318 5 років тому +3662

    di-did he just burn down a school for an unironic punchline

    • @Aurakyuki
      @Aurakyuki 4 роки тому +116

      Uncreative Name Yes, yes he did.

    • @MrCaptainTea
      @MrCaptainTea 4 роки тому +63

      Raine yes. Yes he am . ~Onision

    • @LetsSaboogi
      @LetsSaboogi 4 роки тому +40

      I- oh my gosh he really did

    • @tpatrick7238
      @tpatrick7238 4 роки тому +20

      Fucking Nero, here

    • @cryogeneric9139
      @cryogeneric9139 4 роки тому +40

      and that's how it ends!
      I guarantee, if it was a film (perish the thought) he would've stared into the camera saying that as the credits rolled

  • @kenthefele113
    @kenthefele113 2 роки тому +508

    “James is a better version of myself”
    I’m sorry, a BETTER VERSION????

    • @mrcephalopod
      @mrcephalopod Рік тому +34

      A rare moment of self-reflection from Onion Man

    • @DrZuluGaming
      @DrZuluGaming Рік тому +60

      Well better times zero is still zero.

    • @royallynick
      @royallynick 11 місяців тому +18

      Considering who he is as a man I can say that yes James would be a better man than onion boy

    • @cheyennetrumbos
      @cheyennetrumbos 10 місяців тому +8

      Could hardly be worse, to be fair.

    • @thequeenofcringe1585
      @thequeenofcringe1585 9 місяців тому +7

      He says that the main character of his second book is the “darker” (note the use of darker instead of worse) version of himself and I’m entirely convinced that it’s because that character eats meat.

  • @phoebe2675
    @phoebe2675 2 роки тому +751

    I feel like a book called “Stones to Abigail” could be a mystery novel about the protagonist being close with a girl named Abigail, and then she suddenly goes missing. The protagonist then receives some weird notes attached to rocks, and the notes give the protagonist hints on where Abigail is and how to find her(aka Stones leading to Abigail).

    • @royallynick
      @royallynick Рік тому +166

      Thats way too cool of a story for onision to write. But it does sound interesting! Id actually read something like that.

    • @KrimsonRogue
      @KrimsonRogue  Рік тому +357

      I really like that idea. Sounds like it could be a vibrant story with the potential for some really dark twists, like The Lovely Bones or Bridge to Terabithia.

    • @phoebe2675
      @phoebe2675 Рік тому +74

      @@KrimsonRogue Also, that weird puzzle thing to get abbigales phone number in the original can be used to show that they have an affinity for puzzles in this idea, so it sets up that they both like puzzles and maybe even lay the groundwork for any future puzzles

    • @frootsnacc6790
      @frootsnacc6790 Рік тому +32

      In my head I just came up with a possible mini arc for this hypothetical rewrite: James goes to Abbi’s father when the notes reveal to him about his abusive nature, and his wife who apparently abandoned him and his daughter. James decides to interrogate her father, who is still like this hateful drunkard, but we soon learn that Abbi’s mom never left. She was an alcoholic like her father, only she had unfortunately died thanks to her addiction. He did his best to have the funeral pass under the noses of anyone else involved in her life, and twisted a lie that she ran way, because he was aware they were addicts, and didn’t want the last memory her friends and family to have be that she was an alcoholic. And it has a sorta chilling line like, “Ya see James, Abbi couldn’t have left to find her mom...because she really didn’t go that far,” implying she’s buried in the local cemetery

    • @phuongthaotrinh6390
      @phuongthaotrinh6390 Рік тому +10

      when i heard about this title it first reminds me of a rock grave
      Abigail is already dead but her death is violent and mysterious ( probaly cause by a serial killer that on the loose and the police fail to catch). MC is someone close to Abigail and try to solve her death and revenge the killers. Each piece he able to solve is like a stone set to build her grave and let her soul and himself really rest in piece.

  • @freetheinsanity5257
    @freetheinsanity5257 5 років тому +3733

    Stones to Abigail sounds like the name of a terrible emo band

    • @eugheh6172
      @eugheh6172 4 роки тому +212

      *Abbigale.
      Must not disrespect onisions broken wife or whatever.

    • @Neo_Geisha
      @Neo_Geisha 4 роки тому +10

      Right? Lol

    • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
      @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 4 роки тому +51

      Almost as cringy as Hawthorne Heights

    • @nickwilliams6621
      @nickwilliams6621 4 роки тому +12

      @@eugheh6172 LMFAO! That's savage. Love it.

    • @chrismorris6865
      @chrismorris6865 4 роки тому +34

      TBH I still don't understand the title. What does he mean by "Stones?" I don't recall there being any stones at all in the book.

  • @trixxsaurus2386
    @trixxsaurus2386 5 років тому +4268

    A kid rollerskating into a school shooting and taking off the rollerskates because there's blood on the floor sounds like a really funny 4chan comic strip

    • @terrrario1014
      @terrrario1014 5 років тому +304

      Did he also wear his rollerskates while on the Bus?
      That must have been looking interesting, seeing him getting off the Bus with rollerskates on.

    • @katmchenry
      @katmchenry 5 років тому +170

      It sounds like something out of a green text story.

    • @MadeOfConfusion
      @MadeOfConfusion 5 років тому +437

      >be James
      >be epic sk8r boi
      >Roller skates onto the bus
      >Is the coolest dude but everyone hates me
      >be angery
      >Realize school is being shot up
      >gottagofast.gif
      >Mfw my epic skates can't go through the blood
      >Sk8r boi life ruined

    • @dodojesus4529
      @dodojesus4529 5 років тому +44

      @Ryan Pitts why only into a Coma, punch him until there's just Marmelade left

    • @antthegord9411
      @antthegord9411 3 роки тому +17

      @@MadeOfConfusion u forgot everyone clapped

  • @Theblaziken2000
    @Theblaziken2000 3 роки тому +849

    Crazy how everyone who has reviewed Onision's books is super attractive.

    • @KrimsonRogue
      @KrimsonRogue  3 роки тому +397

      Thanks for the ego boost. XD

    • @chloechen2185
      @chloechen2185 2 роки тому +51

      I agree. I agree. I agree. :)

    • @Xehanort10
      @Xehanort10 2 роки тому +87

      That's probably another reason why he hates them.

    • @katatonikbliss
      @katatonikbliss Рік тому +13

      strange aeons for sure, and krimsonrogue is cute, but that one british guy (i think?) was meh... 6/10 at best

    • @bisexualblueberry
      @bisexualblueberry Рік тому +47

      Is this just a reunion of bisexuals

  • @sarahamira5732
    @sarahamira5732 3 роки тому +741

    "I was kind of a loser in highschool and *I* wanna beat this guy up"
    As a girl who is currently kind of a loser in highschool, I concur.

    • @niemehrcdu380
      @niemehrcdu380 2 роки тому +29

      Hope your better today.

    • @usrnewxnew5227
      @usrnewxnew5227 2 роки тому +26

      bruh hope you're alright, school can be hell

    • @justsomerandompersononthei1773
      @justsomerandompersononthei1773 Рік тому +19

      As a fellow highschool girlfailure, Greg- Sorry, James is absolutely the kinda guy I would've kicked under my desk. Hope you're doing okay.

    • @thequeenofcringe1585
      @thequeenofcringe1585 Рік тому

      I was bullied in middle school and I would still kick the shit out of him

    • @Nixahma
      @Nixahma Рік тому +6

      I feel like no matter how much of a loser you are or aren't, everyone has a moderate desire to beat this guy up

  • @amakel4365
    @amakel4365 5 років тому +15886

    Me: *insecure about my writing*
    Stones to Abbigale: *exsists*
    Me: I am the God of literature and you shall bow to me.

    • @thedoorman6940
      @thedoorman6940 5 років тому +610

      Amen *bows*

    • @softcrab3361
      @softcrab3361 5 років тому +663

      "All hail our new writing god!"

    • @garretwoeller7669
      @garretwoeller7669 5 років тому +485

      What kind of artists doesn't feel insecure about their art being bad

    • @chechiegaming7627
      @chechiegaming7627 5 років тому +375

      I’m insecure about my drawings but damn I know this is a book and all but it was so bad it assured me I was at least good at what I do

    • @dontaejones7419
      @dontaejones7419 5 років тому +476

      You shouldn't base your self-worth or the quality of your work/craft on belittling someone elses or the person who made it.
      But this is Onision and what he wrote should be a sin. So I'll allow it... 😂🤣

  • @mommawolf6932
    @mommawolf6932 5 років тому +2152

    Those colour coded tabs took you from "I'll bring your daughter home by 8" to " I'm your daddy now"

    • @jongreenleaf1000
      @jongreenleaf1000 5 років тому +228

      Think you had enough internet for a few decades

    • @mommawolf6932
      @mommawolf6932 5 років тому +185

      @@jongreenleaf1000 I've had enough internet for a life time but I'm not complaining (:

    • @bh7969
      @bh7969 5 років тому +50

      I'm half way through the video and i really hope this is hyperbole

    • @mommawolf6932
      @mommawolf6932 5 років тому +15

      🙄

    • @CarlsCozyCorner
      @CarlsCozyCorner 5 років тому +51

      @@bh7969
      No
      He was being completely and utterly serious
      There was not one bit of hyperbolic humor in that line.
      😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑

  • @Alexander59059
    @Alexander59059 3 роки тому +913

    Onionsan has done the world a great dead with his books. He's given countless writers the confidence to publish their own work by setting the bar infinitely low.

    • @badger6728
      @badger6728 3 роки тому +80

      A great dead? I suppose he does make one die inside.

    • @carolyns4519
      @carolyns4519 2 роки тому +77

      I know you meant to say "deed" but "dead" is so fitting with him lmao, please never correct this comment

    • @scribesorcerer4967
      @scribesorcerer4967 2 роки тому +8

      @@carolyns4519 Agreed.

    • @floskywalker6220
      @floskywalker6220 2 роки тому +10

      Unfortunately his books are so bad using them as junk journal fodder would be giving them too much attention

    • @ewwstraightppllol
      @ewwstraightppllol Рік тому

      ​@@badger6728 32d 39:03 èr

  • @buttonstheturtle1843
    @buttonstheturtle1843 Рік тому +407

    As someone who was actually accused of and interrogated as a "possible threat to the school" for liking a song- saying "I wish everyone would disappear" is 100% something a teacher would report you for.
    (The song was The Balled Of Sarah Berry from 35mm, my teacher reported me for talking about the plot of it and not only was I interrogated, so we're the kids who sat near me)

    • @amaiodayaka8926
      @amaiodayaka8926 Рік тому +56

      I love that song SO much. It’s brutal, but the fact that it could happen irl is even more terrifying. The fact that so many people died over a dumb little school contest basically, that don’t even do anything in a long run, is actually very interesting. I’m pretty sure it’s about just how much the person can be pushed to literal murder, purely in attempt to be this “perfect” person. THE prom queen. Anyway, I could talk about this song for a while, it’s so good

    • @Melissa-zh3zl
      @Melissa-zh3zl 10 місяців тому +28

      I was threatened with potential expulsion in high school because someone I knew anonymously said people jamming up the hallways while everyone else is trying to get to class makes them murderous. Like, typical and definitely not actually threatening high schooler talk. So I got in trouble because the comment was on a website I helped run that was critical of the school administration and I potentially knew who posted it (I did in fact know, but the administration wasn’t aware that I knew). Really, I’m pretty sure it was just an excuse to shut down dissent because the website made the admin’s shady actions publicly available

    • @corahtheskeleton8062
      @corahtheskeleton8062 10 місяців тому +27

      True, on my last year of high school I was accused of being a shooter threat and had my locker checked for... doing a presentation condemning gun violence in schools...
      High school teachers are just so so dumb sometimes

    • @buttonstheturtle1843
      @buttonstheturtle1843 10 місяців тому +2

      @nathannightmare1604 what??

    • @arandomtoad480
      @arandomtoad480 8 місяців тому +5

      ​@corahtheskeleton8062 "gun violence in Schools is bad."
      "Omg, you're a school shooter!"

  • @TheCrimsonIdol987
    @TheCrimsonIdol987 5 років тому +4227

    This book is a lot like a naked banana.
    It lacks appeal.

    • @lurkinlikeaboss
      @lurkinlikeaboss 4 роки тому +104

      TheCrimsonIdol987 take my like you punny monster lol

    • @GameTavern2224
      @GameTavern2224 4 роки тому +53

      Okay thats actually a good one

    • @StellaStarfall
      @StellaStarfall 4 роки тому +64

      TheCrimsonIdol987 Fuck you, take the like and go.

    • @dawngrove7053
      @dawngrove7053 4 роки тому +24

      That was one of the greatest puns I ever heard

    • @nathanmaxon1
      @nathanmaxon1 4 роки тому +43

      Well, he is... Uh...
      ..
      A banana

  • @calebjohnson7592
    @calebjohnson7592 5 років тому +5616

    "He took his rollerskates off because the floors are sticky with blood." You could have made the entire review about that one line, and we would have gotten the whole picture.

    • @sambibambi5409
      @sambibambi5409 5 років тому +534

      i paused for a second, letting the surrounding smells enter my receptors. my senses were heightened, pristine, cutting the air like a blade. i begun to remove the heely from my left foot; my whole being... whimpering, shaking, letting my toesies kiss the atmosphere, almost like an awakening, or a nightmare. i was already fighting back a violent orgasm as i moved onto the right foot heely, wrapped around my member, choking me like an erotic death serpent. the sin milk spilled from my third eye as i slowly slipped out of the shoe that was now blinking it's neon led lights passionately, as if to say, "thank you gre... jim... James. for our time together." i shed a single tear as i left the sweet lullabies of my rolling shoesy-shoes further and further behind. now wasnt the time to cry. now was the time to run up and watch a big buff man punch someone in the face and get jacked off by Obama

    • @sambibambi5409
      @sambibambi5409 5 років тому +253

      im so sorry everyone

    • @TheBournPL
      @TheBournPL 5 років тому +160

      @@sambibambi5409 what have you done :'(

    • @wastebin996
      @wastebin996 5 років тому +187

      @@sambibambi5409 what the hell, it’s like a copypasta but it isn’t copied from anywhere…

    • @sambibambi5409
      @sambibambi5409 5 років тому +200

      Wastebin direct paste from my heart...

  • @srbrant5391
    @srbrant5391 2 роки тому +229

    I'm half-convinced that Onision was a science experiment to create the most socially radioactive human being on the planet.

  • @librasuperstar3779
    @librasuperstar3779 3 роки тому +612

    The letter James sent to Abbi reminds me of the anti cyber bullying PSA my school forced my class to watch where a guy gives a love letter to a girl and she sends it to her friend, who then posts it online, but the letter was so creepily detailed and stalkerish (I don’t remember the whole thing but apart of it was like “I’ve sat behind you for years, when you walk through the halls I feel faint”) that when the PSA was done my entire class was like “he deserved it”

    • @librasuperstar3779
      @librasuperstar3779 3 роки тому +20

      @Babba Yaaga that’s not what the teacher made it seem like

    • @eldron29-a54
      @eldron29-a54 2 роки тому +93

      Do not tell another people if a creepy guy stalks you, it's bullying? Just insane.

    • @m72860
      @m72860 2 роки тому +13

      How did the teacher react?

    • @bisexualblueberry
      @bisexualblueberry 7 місяців тому +1

      HUNTER PFP SPOTTED

    • @alexjewett7455
      @alexjewett7455 6 місяців тому +1

      Why did your teacher think that was a good psa to show? There are probably better ones out there.

  • @ScythGrizz
    @ScythGrizz 5 років тому +5520

    When your book handles mental issues, abuse, and bullying worse than 13 reasons why, You screwed up.

    • @zarraelliott4159
      @zarraelliott4159 5 років тому +17

      :0 XD

    • @misery8264
      @misery8264 5 років тому +56

      We get a third season.....

    • @Darkcyndermaya
      @Darkcyndermaya 5 років тому +106

      The 13 reasons why book is way better. Screw the Netflix version.

    • @misery8264
      @misery8264 5 років тому +180

      Please tell me where the book was better than the series? It literally hits all the same points and gave twelve year old me some awful ideas about suicide.

    • @Darkcyndermaya
      @Darkcyndermaya 5 років тому +140

      @@misery8264
      I'm just saying that the series on Netflix is a shit show. Can't I just express that I'd rather read the terrible book than watch the even worse show about a teen who was abused by the people she called her peers but then discovered everyone was just trying to use her?

  • @maf7742
    @maf7742 5 років тому +4148

    As a writer, this was really helpful because it's a guide on how not to write on basically every level. I feel illuminated.

    • @ksprdotexe
      @ksprdotexe 5 років тому +106

      I submitted myself to reading that abuse of English literature just so I could see what not to write.
      thank god my writing wasn't that bad ^^;;

    • @nootnewt9323
      @nootnewt9323 5 років тому +86

      If you ever need to feel better here’s two more terrible titles: “Empress Theresa” and “Handbook for Mortals” both are godawful. Enjoy :)

    • @milomilo55
      @milomilo55 5 років тому +46

      @@nootnewt9323 Omg..... _Handbook for Mortals_ is so embarrassingly bad, and this coming from someone who hunts down Grade B movies, loved _The Room_ and _Reefer Madness_ and can never read enough bad science fiction! I'm gonna have to give _Empress Theresa_ a try lol.

    • @whatteamwildcats4033
      @whatteamwildcats4033 5 років тому +11

      Also one that's partially charming and really bad go for Insanity: a Jeff the killer fanfiction

    • @milomilo55
      @milomilo55 5 років тому +19

      @@whatteamwildcats4033 Ok...just googled that, re: Jeff the killer, and it looks like it might be on par with Handbook for Mortals and what's a few imploding brain cells, right? I think I'll give that one a try as well. Thnx for the suggestion.

  • @quakywacky8048
    @quakywacky8048 3 роки тому +340

    There’s nothing wrong with having an protagonist with a superiority complex and more than a chip on his shoulder. Flawed characters are interesting characters. However, if their flaws aren’t treated as such or they down change then you have a shitty self insert at best.
    All of Gregs protagonists are like if Peter Parker was bitten by the spider but never lost uncle ben and never learned that important lesson of responsibility, just abusing his power to take what he wants.

    • @k.morningstar7983
      @k.morningstar7983 2 роки тому +11

      imagine *The Big Lebowski* from Walter's perspective and told straight faced

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 3 роки тому +280

    Him having a tantrum when Abby confessed what she said is one of the few things in the book that seemed real. The actual Onision is a complete sociopath who lacks any form of empathy, sympathy, and remorse, so he probably would react like that. Especially considering how abusive he is to those in a relationship with him.

  • @RobynReanimates
    @RobynReanimates 5 років тому +2175

    Nihilistic Cringe would be a good name for a band

    • @Invisiblelad
      @Invisiblelad 5 років тому +175

      Nihilistic Cringe is the folk punk band your ex made after you got in a fight because of his dislike your hobby (knitting)

    • @tintinismybelgian
      @tintinismybelgian 5 років тому +4

      As an early/pre-nihilist, Kierkegaard had pretty good writing.

    • @jamesrolfe9747
      @jamesrolfe9747 5 років тому +52

      Sounds better as a sub reddit

    • @RobynReanimates
      @RobynReanimates 5 років тому +11

      @@jamesrolfe9747
      That's amazing and I agree fully

    • @TerranceDaBuddha
      @TerranceDaBuddha 5 років тому +2

      @@tintinismybelgian He wasn't really a nihilist

  • @perciusmandate
    @perciusmandate 5 років тому +2805

    The protagonist never refers to anyone as a person because Greg is a narcissistic sociopath. He doesn't view other people as actual people. Every other character in the book is either an obstacle, tool, or object of sexual desire.

    • @allyportman8009
      @allyportman8009 4 роки тому +285

      Though, that would make an interesting antagonist worldview.

    • @joshkaid
      @joshkaid 4 роки тому +343

      What's bizarre is that, if the book were INTENTIONALLY written from that perspective, it would've been WAY better.

    • @punchyboi6915
      @punchyboi6915 4 роки тому +95

      @@allyportman8009 hold on you just made the character better

    • @tafua_a
      @tafua_a 4 роки тому +105

      I love how either Greg or his self insert characters routinely do every single thing they hate other people doing.

    • @jtallen6406
      @jtallen6406 4 роки тому +106

      If you look at his response to Strange ÆONs review of Stones to Abigail with this mindset, it makes a lot more sense. It actually really explains his attempts to demonize her with the whole “dead friend” thing, when really, he was just getting pissy over the fact that someone dared to mock his writing.

  • @LadyLuck-rd5vi
    @LadyLuck-rd5vi Рік тому +92

    The worst part about the firearm misclassification is that Greg was in the military

    • @WillieManga
      @WillieManga 7 місяців тому +6

      "You had one job!"

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 5 місяців тому +5

      Pretty sure he dropped out of basic training.
      He was in the military as much as I was in the Red Cross by taking a first aid course in high school.

    • @thisissparta789789
      @thisissparta789789 3 місяці тому +1

      @@DonVigaDeFierroSadly no, he did three years in the USAF

  • @AvengerAtIlipa
    @AvengerAtIlipa 3 роки тому +373

    44:48 I performed music for the FLOTUS when she made a campaign appearance at my university back in 2016. Secret Service was there 48 hours in advance and locked down the sports arena. We couldn't bring our instruments with us on the same day but instead had to check them in and leave them with the Secret Service 24 hours before the event started. The ONLY things students (including us) were allowed to bring to the event were our wallets and our cellphones (both of which were checked again upon entry). And of course, there was the general rule of thumb that for every Secret Service Agent and canine we could see, there were three that we couldn't.
    TL;DR The President and the First Lady don't just "go" places.

    • @asrieldreemurr1988
      @asrieldreemurr1988 2 роки тому +7

      What’s flotus

    • @AvengerAtIlipa
      @AvengerAtIlipa 2 роки тому +33

      @@asrieldreemurr1988 First Lady of the United States

    • @Ryu1ify
      @Ryu1ify Рік тому +3

      For real, does Greg think it's the 19th century

  • @animatrixl7078
    @animatrixl7078 5 років тому +987

    "But, UNLIKE the school shooting, this actually has an effect on James,"
    Excuse me wHAT-

  • @SeymourDisapproves
    @SeymourDisapproves 5 років тому +5533

    I love how Onision got all heated about Aeons criticizing the annoying best friend character he wrote because he's supposedly an homage to his real-life dead friend, and yet in the book he's just killed on a freeway. Some homage, huh?

    • @QJ89
      @QJ89 4 роки тому +517

      "... He screamed back 'Oakie Dokie, Captain Derp!'"
      Poor choice of words. Please stop Screaming.

    • @selestielwolf7949
      @selestielwolf7949 4 роки тому +254

      Maybe his friend died exactly like that? Still a shitty homage whether that theory is true or not

    • @dirkjehovah4731
      @dirkjehovah4731 4 роки тому +465

      @@selestielwolf7949 if I remember correctly, his friend died on a mission trip. He may have been hit by a car, but I'm not certain. Still, it is an incredibly bad homage, and using that as an argument against criticism is ridiculous.

    • @NateVHVT
      @NateVHVT 4 роки тому +451

      Onision using manipulation to avoid criticism?
      Shocker.

    • @cashthecurator666
      @cashthecurator666 4 роки тому +138

      @@QJ89 Wait, was that shitty line actually in the fucking book?

  • @gens8013
    @gens8013 2 роки тому +211

    To be fair, I’d say the school guidance counselor character is actually pretty realistic - one time I had to miss school for a week because I had to go to a mental hospital bc I tried to kill myself and when I came back to school I learned that my school counselor had told a bunch of kids’ parents where I was and by the time I came back other kids were making fun of me for having to be hospitalized 😭

    • @KolchaksGhost
      @KolchaksGhost Рік тому +18

      That’s terrible, but not exactly the same

    • @chainsawtotheheart
      @chainsawtotheheart Рік тому +43

      Oof, major HIPPA violation on the counselor's part. Could probably sue them for that.

    • @goosegas2087
      @goosegas2087 Рік тому +23

      It still isn't really realistic. Not denying your experience, but how many councilors are being gossiping assholes or beating up school kids for being raped? Not a whole lot, I'd imagine. It's one of those things where it could happen, but it's still contrived and it's practically cartoon villain behavior.

    • @sweethysteria8737
      @sweethysteria8737 8 місяців тому +5

      I’m very sorry about that, but don’t do all school counselors like that,
      Mine saved my life back in sixth grade so 🤷🏾

    • @None-Trick_Pony
      @None-Trick_Pony 4 місяці тому +2

      My high school guidance counselor was one of the most uncaring and unsympathetic faculty I'd ever dealt with in school. Probably second only to some of my gym teachers. I'd refuse to see her-the mark of a good counselor, of course. Pretty much everybody assigned to her felt the same way. It's baffling how these people get these jobs. While your experience is far, _far_ worse than anything I went through, it's depressingly unsurprising to me.

  • @fishpickles7316
    @fishpickles7316 3 роки тому +106

    The worst part is that Abbigale was a real person and this is Onision writing a fantasy about her.

    • @acatcalledthunderstar7
      @acatcalledthunderstar7 10 місяців тому +31

      It's even worse that IRL they never even dated, she turned him down and they had no relationship and apparently he can't let that go

  • @kiri7809
    @kiri7809 5 років тому +3303

    Is it bad that I love how the internet gangbang hates Onision? Mainly because he deserves it

    • @DavidRodriguez-zp3ib
      @DavidRodriguez-zp3ib 5 років тому +250

      Ur just jEAlouS ThAt hE HAs aLL thE FaCts!

    • @MinhNguyen-ix9uo
      @MinhNguyen-ix9uo 5 років тому +213

      I love watching Onision fail.

    • @RockZombieIAm
      @RockZombieIAm 5 років тому +242

      Same. The fact that he deserves it makes it much more satisfying. He also loves to act like he's above it all, and everyone that talks about him is obsessed with him. He doesn't take any criticism and just rants about it so its even better.

    • @cai3886
      @cai3886 5 років тому +27

      Completely off topic but you’re so pretty! 😋

    • @sugarveins
      @sugarveins 5 років тому +42

      Not at all.
      because he deserves it.

  • @ergogrrl
    @ergogrrl 5 років тому +3544

    Opinion/prediction: Onision isn’t going to react as strongly to your critique as he did to Strange Aeon’s because you’re a man. Not that he enjoys criticism from anyone, but he seems to get more upset by women’s critiques than men’s. Except Shane Dawson. Great video, btw.

    • @kaydwessie296
      @kaydwessie296 5 років тому +522

      ergogrrl prediction: he’s gonna call Krim a pedophile

    • @tiryaclearsong421
      @tiryaclearsong421 5 років тому +339

      @@kaydwessie296 Or a murderous, pro-gun loon.

    • @natsuki4021
      @natsuki4021 5 років тому +327

      Prediction: when he mentions the typos onision is just going to say "Oh YeAh? WeLl I wAs An EngLiSh MaJor!!"

    • @SP-bg8on
      @SP-bg8on 5 років тому +329

      especially if he is attracted to the woman criticizing him.

    • @SP-bg8on
      @SP-bg8on 5 років тому +280

      and also if she represents and reaches more effectively the age group of women he wants control over more that he does.

  • @wolfzilla8973
    @wolfzilla8973 3 роки тому +182

    It’s a shame because “stones for Abigail” would be a pretty sick band name. Too bad it was taken by captain onion man.

  • @gabriellegoodwin4422
    @gabriellegoodwin4422 2 роки тому +145

    Onision roller skating into school but having to take them off because there's too much blood is incredibly grotesque, horrifying, but mainly hilarious.

  • @bleachchugtidy2178
    @bleachchugtidy2178 5 років тому +1977

    Greg is in his 30s, his target /main audience are girls 14 and under and he's writing teenage sex scenes. I'm not saying anything but draw from that what you will taking into consideration his "alleged" past.

    • @FG-hp1lm
      @FG-hp1lm 5 років тому +77

      I knew something felt off... I now understand why the thought made me uncomfortable... Yikes...

    • @grungemudd
      @grungemudd 5 років тому +40

      Lmao yeah. The dude basically groomed a 14 y/o named Sarah

    • @missanthropy6060
      @missanthropy6060 5 років тому +35

      reconsider this including the underage sex scenes he writes between his 11/12 year old self insert with his 16 year old sister in the third book... greg is a little fucked up to say the least

    • @AsdfAsdf-mi6ks
      @AsdfAsdf-mi6ks 5 років тому +15

      Suck Me Greg is a gross and weird dude. However, a lot of YA authors are in their 30s and are writing some sex scenes for kids with kids.... (kids meaning teenagers)

    • @theteethburglar4716
      @theteethburglar4716 4 роки тому +9

      Remember this guy has a kid.

  • @ZackBenedict
    @ZackBenedict 5 років тому +4002

    I flew through the nondescript halls on my Heelys through a sticky sea of blood. There was no time to put on my knee and elbow pads as Abbi's life was maybe, possibly on the line. I arrived at the cafeteria to see carnage. There were body parts everywhere and I could hear the sounds of the crazed monkeys that escaped from the Zoo getting ever closer; there
    was no time to waste. So I wasted time, and decided to watch my teacher almost get shot, the raging, sociopathic, hate-boner growing in my Jeggings.
    Mrs. Stanley screamed at him again, "You are an embarrassment! A disgrace! How dare you, you scum!?" Upon hearing her verbal condemnation without hesitation, I watched her increased perspiration and agitation turn to desperation, as she saw his perturbation; she couldn't see the differentiation of her irrationalization within this provocation that would lead to her life's discontinuation, or at least result in hospitalization. I stood by to watch this altercation on a distant table, the elevation giving a better acclimatization for the coming domination that filled me with jubilation. Seth whipped his MP5-N toward her like a sword being unsheathed, time again felt like it had drastically slowed as his weakened arm struggled to steady his aim. Anyway, Jason at this point runs in and beats Seth into a coma and stares intimidatingly at the aforementioned, unrelated monkeys and they decide to leave calmly, giving a polite, synchronized bow before exiting. All in all, I can definitely say that it was a pretty eventful Tuesday.

    • @KrimsonRogue
      @KrimsonRogue  5 років тому +931

      That was amazing! XD

    • @jadedragon6222
      @jadedragon6222 5 років тому +198

      My favorite comment ever. Hilarious!

    • @Light-fi1mj
      @Light-fi1mj 4 роки тому +385

      Zack Benedict that was the most “ations” I’ve seen used in the same couple sentences.

    • @xenngu3424
      @xenngu3424 4 роки тому +122

      OMG if that's actually how the book was written I would read it!

    • @thesleepydot
      @thesleepydot 4 роки тому +48

      Zack Benedict this is a masterpiece 😂😂😂

  • @aethertoast4320
    @aethertoast4320 3 роки тому +101

    The idea that he drew upon "personal experience" is the most terrifying thing about the book.

  • @roadbreach
    @roadbreach Рік тому +99

    It's funny, how he made fun of people who cut themselves and here he's sexualizes someone who does it.

    • @zawrator4457
      @zawrator4457 Рік тому +27

      Yea because he sees women with mental illnesses as prey to stalk: if you go through his relationship history, he makes a point out of specifically selecting for women with mental issues.

    • @doctorgrubious7725
      @doctorgrubious7725 Рік тому +4

      @@zawrator4457y’know it’s extremely crazy how many times people say “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”, and yet here we are, a dude who looked and talked like a creep, is a creep

  • @DraconicScribe
    @DraconicScribe 5 років тому +3372

    This books sounds like it was written by the entirety of r/incel

    • @meowtherainbowx4163
      @meowtherainbowx4163 5 років тому +299

      At first, I was tempted to disagree, but I think I get it. The main character, like an average incel, simultaneously loathes himself and blames society for all his shortcomings.

    • @Alex-gw5et
      @Alex-gw5et 5 років тому +20

      That’s not even a real subreddit

    • @starbars96
      @starbars96 5 років тому +21

      @@seuvoro670 he is a cucc a very self righteous one

    • @DraconicScribe
      @DraconicScribe 5 років тому +164

      @@Alex-gw5et it was, I believe reddit had to take it down because it was promoting hate speech (like actual hate speech, not Tumblr hate speech interpretation)

    • @Alex-gw5et
      @Alex-gw5et 5 років тому +11

      spyro2060 LAJ you’re probably thinking of r/braincel

  • @ep3908
    @ep3908 5 років тому +3077

    what's up i'm greg, im like 40, and i never learned how to write
    (edit: every time someone likes this comment I lose a day off of my life)

    • @sondor4375
      @sondor4375 5 років тому +111

      I uNDerStoOd tHat RefeReNCE

    • @ZENGHAKTIV
      @ZENGHAKTIV 5 років тому +15

      Is that from vine? Lol XD

    • @bequemm
      @bequemm 5 років тому +4

      Lmfaoo

    • @enriquecabrera2137
      @enriquecabrera2137 5 років тому +17

      @@ZENGHAKTIV its the "hi im steve , im 16 and i never learned how to read" vine

    • @LK-xk4nh
      @LK-xk4nh 5 років тому +62

      @@enriquecabrera2137 It's actually "Hi I'm Jared, I'm 19 and I never learned how to read"

  • @Fuzy2K
    @Fuzy2K 10 місяців тому +17

    1:02:59 - 1:03:23 -- I love the implication that Onision forgot the word "down", replaced it with "poopy poo poop", then forgot to change it later.

  • @Jmoney32689
    @Jmoney32689 2 роки тому +56

    The part when James is beating the shit out of a bunch of jocks is hilarious because at one point, someone claiming to be one of Onion’s classmates recalled a story of how he decided to piss off a group of emo kids who then beat the fuck out of him.
    I imagine that was a pretty common occurrence, knowing Onision’s personality.

    • @umairashraf5167
      @umairashraf5167 6 місяців тому +1

      Yeah that unironically sounds like something that would happen

  • @truecrimerip7936
    @truecrimerip7936 5 років тому +772

    the abbi character portrays every teenage girlfriend onision ever had (and all his gf's were underage when he met them).
    broken emo girls who desperately look for a lead in their life and then find him to controll every aspect of it and belittle their broken soul and feed them to be even more sad, not fixing them

    • @sunchasericeserawings7166
      @sunchasericeserawings7166 5 років тому +85

      They’re not emo and they’re not goth. They’re traumatized. People whom are abused often fall right back into another abuser’s wiles and charms.

    • @seigeengine
      @seigeengine 4 роки тому +43

      And that's why James is our hero. He's still kind of abusive, but he's obviously the good guy because he isn't "beat your pregnant girlfriend then shoot up her school when she dumps you" abusive.

    • @Snoogen11
      @Snoogen11 4 роки тому +10

      @@TwoBs The feels when: you dump your boyfriend and he DOESN'T shoot up a school. It's like: did you even love me?! (sarcasm btw). Greg completely understands the nuances of adult relationships, he is a well rounded completely stable individual, with monk like discipline..... NOT.

  • @Zaxerman2
    @Zaxerman2 4 роки тому +6559

    Idea: r/anythingbetterthanonision where everyone posts their writing with confidence, because the only requirement is that it must be better than these books.

    • @spacekitty6568
      @spacekitty6568 4 роки тому +355

      That would be really awesome

    • @Horvath_Gabor
      @Horvath_Gabor 4 роки тому +634

      That... would be a pretty low bar to clear. That said, I have actually read at least one actual book that was even less coherent than this one, and coincidentally it was also self-published. At least the author of that one had the excuse of being seventeen.

    • @proonv5513
      @proonv5513 3 роки тому +123

      9 months late but this is a great idea imo

    • @victoriabell1398
      @victoriabell1398 3 роки тому +132

      I would make a reddit account just for that

    • @Zaxerman2
      @Zaxerman2 3 роки тому +48

      @@proonv5513 nice to see this comment gaining traction again 😂

  • @Anonymous-54545
    @Anonymous-54545 3 роки тому +348

    "[T]he speed at which she attaches [etc...] suggest prior sexual abuse"-- good for you for knowing that BPD etc. are trauma disorders. It's amazing how few people see any connection between early trauma and lasting behaviors / personality traits / etc.

    • @doeeyed7498
      @doeeyed7498 2 роки тому +53

      Yes and victims are often shamed (you "wh0re") or left alone and the cycle of abuse goes on. It is easy for a group to mock vulnerable people- especially when they are isolated and don't speak up due to severe trauma, guilt and shame.

    • @gracekim25
      @gracekim25 2 роки тому +33

      It’s also worrying when people interpret this as love

    • @lmrpirate5273
      @lmrpirate5273 2 роки тому +11

      Partly blame the people that lie about having those sorts of disorders, or at least use those disorders as sympathy romps and for exploiting other people. It really is a vicious cycle because both sides suffer because of people like them. The latter lose their empathy (and likely other things like cash) to con artists who prey upon them, and the people who actually have disorders and aren't entitled end up being pushed away because of it. Then we try to spread awareness, but we can't get enough of it right and hurt the cause. And then when we finally gain back empathy for those sorts of people, the con artists come right back to start the death spiral all over again, but worse each and every time. The only way this bullshit will end is it people like Onision are put in their proper place and aren't allowed to keep milking the public while driving the people they're impersonating to suicidal depression or homicidal rage.

    • @Anonymous-54545
      @Anonymous-54545 2 роки тому +18

      @@gracekim25 on the flip side, it's not fair when people act like it means one can't love / their love is fake / etc (if you mean from the victim).

    • @kentknightofcaelin4537
      @kentknightofcaelin4537 8 місяців тому +2

      BPD can manifest in people without significant trauma, or with trauma unrelated to sexual abuse.

  • @lotus2647
    @lotus2647 2 роки тому +61

    one of the greatest lines in literature "how can I turn that frown upside poopy poo poop" really thought out and is greatly symbolic for the entire story.

  • @BlueSpiritFire1
    @BlueSpiritFire1 5 років тому +1123

    It didn't hit me, until you reached the 'poopy poo poop' line from Davis, that you - and others - actually had to go into this book blind and read things like that with your own two eyes.
    Thank you, and I am _so sorry_

    • @abigailmccarthy9982
      @abigailmccarthy9982 4 роки тому +36

      I think everyone watching this video who hasn't done such a thing beforehand feel sorry for these people.

  • @chumbucket6989
    @chumbucket6989 4 роки тому +2961

    Oh my god Obama was literally there and then everybody clapped for Greg

    • @pennyw2226
      @pennyw2226 3 роки тому +221

      “Yeah Obama totally came to my school”
      “And everybody cla-“
      “EVERYBODY CLAPPED”

    • @MyahCat824
      @MyahCat824 3 роки тому +60

      He didn't even do anything loll just looked for the girl xD

    • @bongosmcdongos4190
      @bongosmcdongos4190 3 роки тому +13

      Thanks greg

    • @anemone7005
      @anemone7005 3 роки тому +64

      Yay for Greg- I mean James! And then all the girls in the school walked up to Greg- I mean James, and then they all asked him if he could rate their appearances out of 10. And then all the 10s had sex with Greg- I mean James

    • @TheElectricCheeseProductions22
      @TheElectricCheeseProductions22 3 роки тому +11

      I wouldnt clap for either of them

  • @avocadobe
    @avocadobe Рік тому +88

    Hey Krim, you'll never see this, but I watched you all throughout my early and late teenaged years. You were like a cool nerdy older brother when I was struggling with depression and an addiction. Now I'm in a stable marriage with a little baby. Thanks for being there, buddy!! You kept me going.

    • @SoVidushi
      @SoVidushi Рік тому +11

      If that is you and your baby in your profile pic, y'all are beautiful

  • @Sakacarottes
    @Sakacarottes 3 роки тому +68

    Well to be fair to the school administration, after the deadliest school shooting AND an ex-teacher burning the building down, in the same year, i would close the school too. Shit's haunted man

  • @jayncoclassic
    @jayncoclassic 4 роки тому +2153

    Don't apologise for the kitties making noise they're just running around because they're happy

    • @abigailmccarthy9982
      @abigailmccarthy9982 4 роки тому +132

      Or just feeling the need to zoom around loudly.

    • @somethingotherthanmyrealname
      @somethingotherthanmyrealname 3 роки тому +60

      Abigail McCarthy z O O m

    • @magicmon
      @magicmon 3 роки тому +8

      I can not thumbs up.
      So here you go 👍

    • @randomaccount313
      @randomaccount313 3 роки тому +9

      @@abigailmccarthy9982 the cats are zoomers lol

    • @reloadpsi
      @reloadpsi 3 роки тому +42

      Apologise for not giving them enough screentime. Not allowing people to see your cats enough is a serious crime.

  • @kayway3938
    @kayway3938 5 років тому +1680

    Ok...but like....is NO ONE going to talk about why the hell he had rollerblades....at all...???
    Wasn't he planning on going to school...???
    Didn't he ride the bus...????
    How did he even have room....?????
    I have a pretty decently sized backpack...all I can fit in there is books...maybe a waterbottle...(if I'm feeling determined)
    So how did he fit rollerblades in his backpack...???
    Did he just not have any books in there...???
    Did he have a part time job at Sonic....???
    Why even write in a rollerblading scene.....????

    • @ahniandfriends123
      @ahniandfriends123 5 років тому +125

      *Plays Escape From The City in earrape*

    • @whydidannahavetokillsam1705
      @whydidannahavetokillsam1705 5 років тому +152

      How did he get off the bus without falling?

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 5 років тому +203

      Now I have this image of the idiot faceplanting out of the bus because he was trying to look cool with his rollerblades.

    • @chaoticcake390
      @chaoticcake390 5 років тому +54

      Bthsr71 if that doesn’t sum up onision i don’t know what does XD

    • @Slipknotyk06
      @Slipknotyk06 5 років тому +16

      You can tie the roller blades to the exterior of the backpack.

  • @dededeedles
    @dededeedles 2 роки тому +20

    "How can I turn that frown upside poopy poo poop?" That is the worst dialogue I've ever heard.

  • @gelusvenn5063
    @gelusvenn5063 3 роки тому +72

    "The boy who nearly saved the day" That's the most left-handed compliment, which is made even funnier by the fact that the author probably didn't intend it that way.
    Addendum: "Like a muscle reflex" well his natural, automatic response kicked in, he might've started not to be the center of attention.

    • @k.morningstar7983
      @k.morningstar7983 2 роки тому +4

      everything ends with "and everyone clapped", in spirit

  • @justwannafreefx9419
    @justwannafreefx9419 5 років тому +1017

    "And Matthew doesn't do anything significant for the rest of the book
    ...He dies at one point"

    • @mathewricafrente5984
      @mathewricafrente5984 4 роки тому +10

      Story of my life

    • @YouW00t
      @YouW00t 4 роки тому +5

      @@mathewricafrente5984 Can relate. The dying part was specially terrible.

  • @abbyvenega2096
    @abbyvenega2096 5 років тому +1727

    James: is the very embodiment of r/iamverysmart r/incels and r/niceguys
    Readers: *critisism*
    Onisions: is this like a personal attack or something

    • @hkazu63
      @hkazu63 4 роки тому +46

      Yes. Bc your self insert is a horrible wrong person and what do it say about you, gregory

    • @Max-vu3ns
      @Max-vu3ns 4 роки тому +32

      Reddit moment

    • @EpicPinkyPieFan
      @EpicPinkyPieFan 4 роки тому +27

      r/thathappened gold

    • @jtallen6406
      @jtallen6406 4 роки тому +34

      “You’re a terrible person because you criticized my book!”

    • @yesthatisababytoucan.youre6983
      @yesthatisababytoucan.youre6983 4 роки тому +10

      Not even just a personal attack. It's also a attack on his dead friends.

  • @PebkioNomare
    @PebkioNomare 3 роки тому +52

    You can't have a "guns make school into a living hell" scenario *and* a "badass saves the school" scenario. If the main character can take out the shooter without *also* having a gun... then that suggests that anyone can take out a shooter without a gun (and just didn't because they weren't the main character). No: to drive home that guns should be controlled, you have to present them as *overwhelmingly unfair.* That, no matter how much of a badass a person is, they lose to *anyone* with a gun. Present an extremely fit sports star, with training in multiple forms of martial arts, and yet they're reduced to the status of "everyone else" when faced with a machine designed to inflict lethal damage at long range.

  • @ericgaw113
    @ericgaw113 2 роки тому +48

    They didn't get "A"s, they got "passing grades". A passing grade is a "C". There should be tons of students that would be screaming about this demotion in their grade point average.

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому

      The USA is radicalizing Itself;
      please inform yourself and dont just limit yourself
      to Onion-Fun/Cringe-Science.
      Try Telltale Atheist.

    • @weneedaladder8384
      @weneedaladder8384 9 місяців тому +7

      ​@@slevinchannel7589I feel like I should be thankful I don't understand what your comment means.

  • @nikhilkapoor428
    @nikhilkapoor428 4 роки тому +2004

    First video of this guy I’ve seen, and I’ve learned three things:
    1. Greg wrote a book
    2. Greg wrote a bad book
    3. Greg wrote more bad books

    • @excellent8105
      @excellent8105 4 роки тому +41

      That's what I have learnt after finding out about him yesterday, that and he has a You Tube channel.

    • @brittneybrisbin744
      @brittneybrisbin744 4 роки тому +63

      4. He absolutely hates when anyone critiques it.

    • @myquest666420
      @myquest666420 3 роки тому +37

      The more you learn about him, the more you’ll hate him.

    • @Jrez
      @Jrez 3 роки тому +27

      Don't bother learning anything else, ignorance really is bliss in this case.

    • @kylebear8101
      @kylebear8101 3 роки тому +5

      Jrezky agreed :(

  • @Ously6
    @Ously6 4 роки тому +2849

    Casual reminder that Onision, a former military man, doesn’t know firearms.

    • @zhangjao6328
      @zhangjao6328 3 роки тому +418

      I don't think getting thrown out of basic for failing to carry 70 pounds counts as being a military man.

    • @angygremlin4423
      @angygremlin4423 3 роки тому +314

      @@zhangjao6328 I think he did get past basic, but had to drop out of SERE training because he refused to kill a rabbit. I think Angry Cops made a video about it. Onion did complain about carrying 70 pounds of gear too.

    • @justin2308
      @justin2308 3 роки тому +93

      @@angygremlin4423 Wait, THAT was Onision. I never even realized when I watched Cops’ video. 🤣

    • @GameTavern2224
      @GameTavern2224 3 роки тому +49

      Airforce. Though I'd expect even the air force got some form of training with small arms.

    • @jt7442
      @jt7442 3 роки тому +178

      @@zhangjao6328 no, he graduated Basic. As I understand it he served at least 3 years. He washed outta SERE school, which is a very intense training course.
      At any rate, he absolutely should have a reasonable grasp on weaponry and the use of.
      Furthermore, this mass shooting had 50 deaths and 4 injuries? That is so ridiculous. Generally speaking you'll have 4-5 wounded per dead.
      I haven't read this book nor do I know anything as about Onision but this particular comment thread caught my eye...
      I guess I'm just bored and lonely and trying to convince myself that I'm perfectly normal and know how to socialize.
      I'm totally normal, mom! I participated in a UA-cam discussion about deranged lunatic who wrote a really awful book!
      Yup. Totally normal person.

  • @ravenwinter6984
    @ravenwinter6984 3 роки тому +188

    Normally I'm not really into long book reviews, but your delivery, observations, and explanations are excellent, informative, and entertaining. And, unlike Onion's book, you give a lot of personality and are rather relatable. :) Great job and well done! I am off to watch more of your videos!

  • @monarchschwoop52
    @monarchschwoop52 3 роки тому +48

    “Turn that frown poopy poop poop”
    I don’t even think that’s ironic humor, like when PewDiePie named his pig in Minecraft peepeepoopoo

  • @tsudorokifujisaki9777
    @tsudorokifujisaki9777 4 роки тому +1117

    To everyone out there: if you didn’t write Stone’s to Abbigail, you have no right to think you are the worst writer in the world. That title goes to Onion Boy.

    • @lotusrenfujisaki1999
      @lotusrenfujisaki1999 4 роки тому +59

      STA is his best book.
      ....... Which isn't saying a lot.

    • @think_of_a_storyboard3635
      @think_of_a_storyboard3635 3 роки тому +21

      Any book is better than this tbh, I get the joke but I just wanted to say that EVEN I could write something better than this

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 3 роки тому +24

      I don't think he's the very worst, but to be worse than him would require some actual conscious effort put into it... Greg just happens to do it naturally.

    • @AnonyMous-gj7qq
      @AnonyMous-gj7qq 3 роки тому +15

      Norman Boutin wants to have a word with you

    • @nullshock3381
      @nullshock3381 3 роки тому +11

      @@think_of_a_storyboard3635 You did. With your comment.

  • @_b_e_a_n_s_
    @_b_e_a_n_s_ 5 років тому +886

    I hate it when writers like onion use really formal language to sound smarter or edgier. "Inspire some acknowledgement of my existence" ???? who says that? like just say "I wanted her to notice me" or something geez

    • @lisasingslikeadyingmouse3580
      @lisasingslikeadyingmouse3580 5 років тому +64

      Hi this comment is two months old but I'm just now watching these reviews
      But anyways that phrase sounds like something I'd use for a psychopathic character or for an angry character in the middle of an argument.

    • @crowdemon_archives
      @crowdemon_archives 5 років тому +50

      The only time I can find use for a sentence like that is when my character is for some reason a walking thesaurus. But even then, it's situational.

    • @sefsprite
      @sefsprite 5 років тому +14

      hi hungry I'm rat I feel like that line would be a joke in every other book

    • @insanityspokentheluniticplayer
      @insanityspokentheluniticplayer 5 років тому +17

      Lmao he sounds like a cheesy ass villain

    • @shadowbunny7892
      @shadowbunny7892 5 років тому +5

      Sounds like something I would say tbh

  • @royallynick
    @royallynick 11 місяців тому +16

    Apparently he actually wrote an email like that to a girl irl. And she told him it was creepy and to never talk to her again.

  • @EmiliFaust
    @EmiliFaust 2 роки тому +46

    49:01 "What if a younger person tries to read something like this, because they hate themselves and they want to hate reading" got me 😂

  • @krystencabbage1032
    @krystencabbage1032 5 років тому +843

    Ah yes, the shower. Because when I talk about past trauma, I want to be literally naked and vulnerable, because that makes it easier, right? Seriously, the one time I told someone about my trauma, it was in a car, windows rolled up, doors locked, in a safe and secure area. When you expose something like that to someone, you want everything else around you to be safe, because your mind will be going to a place that wasn't safe for you, and if you do that in the wrong circumstances, it could actually traumatize you further.

    • @TheCrimsonIdol987
      @TheCrimsonIdol987 4 роки тому +90

      This is Onion we're talking about here...
      You make excellent, sound, rational, and logical points, all of which are anathema to the Onion's way of thinking.

    • @hconrad5553
      @hconrad5553 4 роки тому +29

      Same I’ve told mine in safe spaces, I don’t think there is ever a time where I would do it in the most vulnerable position I could be in tbh. I’m sure some do but it’s not my first thought when I think maybe I should open up about my trauma

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 3 роки тому +36

      Damn, explains why I never wanna tell a therapist about my trauma. I never feel safe in those places. I know you’re “supposed to” but I never did.

    • @arianaothon674
      @arianaothon674 3 роки тому +38

      I feel like he wrote that bit in just to make the scene more sexual and thinking it would arouse the reader. It's terrible. When I told my most truthworty friends about my past with self harm, we were sitting in a room, behind a closed door, safe in the house. This scene in the book is just disgusting.

    • @beefcakesmchunkerson9079
      @beefcakesmchunkerson9079 3 роки тому +38

      I’ve told people about trauma in:
      -online PMs
      -Therapists Offices
      -Safe bedroom
      NEVER NAKED SO I CAN FLING OPEN THE CURTAIN AND SCREAM
      ‘Look at my body!’

  • @RibbonVintageGirl
    @RibbonVintageGirl 5 років тому +670

    "Seth found out that Abbie was pregnant, which resulted in him punching her stomach several times."
    Ngl I screamed at that part WTF

    • @grosebud4721
      @grosebud4721 5 років тому +84

      SayaKuro12 that’s so awful. One way to establish someone as an abusive jerk I guess, but it’s not like James is any better than Seth so it doesn’t really help anyway. Oops Greg!

    • @chaoticcake390
      @chaoticcake390 5 років тому +121

      i thought that part was really unnecessary and frankly just too much. i don’t understand why abbi has to have every possible abusive thing happen to her so greg can ‘save’ her. and it’s really insensitive to anyone that has been unfortunate enough to have that happen to them. especially since that then leads the guidance councillor to believe abbi got an abortion and hate her for it, which is extremely unprofessional and unrealistic. much like anyone being unfortunate enough to have all of this happen to them before they’ve even graduated high school. using all of that trauma as a plot point to fulfil your own saviour fantasy is frankly sick

    • @razan8308
      @razan8308 5 років тому +5

      @@chaoticcake390
      I don't like the shite story but everyone should write whatever they want since its fiction. If you read the warnings and still complain then I'm sorry for you.
      Stop policing fiction.

    • @TheAdrift
      @TheAdrift 5 років тому +57

      @@razan8308 that person isn't "policing fiction," they're just stating THEIR OPINION about how gross it is that a 30-year-old with a fetish for teen girls wrote a miscarriage subplot into a savior fantasy story.
      You realize that you're actually policing another person's opinion, right?

    • @razan8308
      @razan8308 5 років тому

      @@TheAdrift
      If you go by that; then you're policing MY opinion too. So how about you take several seats now?

  • @ange4154
    @ange4154 3 роки тому +45

    Not gonna lie he couldve called Alex Piss Jar Boy the rest of the book and that would've made things more interesting

  • @papazepp1279
    @papazepp1279 Рік тому +16

    After watching a recent video on greg's written web rants about his highschool years it made me realize that he's more unhinged than some would've thought. He got rejected one time for a creepy letter he sent to Abby and instead of moving on, he decided to make up a fanfic where they got together, and as a form of revenge, he made Seth, an abusive douche.
    No wonder one review mentioned a "continuity error on someone's vocabulary", yikes

  • @user-ks1gb1ud3l
    @user-ks1gb1ud3l 5 років тому +1546

    Abbie has a bad home life?
    Sounds like Mr. Struggle to me

    • @DJ-by9oe
      @DJ-by9oe 5 років тому +140

      Did you just

    • @blue-or7co
      @blue-or7co 5 років тому +168

      Oh dear God... Mr struggle... He shouldn't date her

    • @noticeable_difference7340
      @noticeable_difference7340 5 років тому +196

      dude that’s sugar gay

    • @faith7718
      @faith7718 5 років тому +154

      As long as she's seeking insight from a godlier woman at church then she's totally dateable!

    • @Shartydyke
      @Shartydyke 5 років тому +110

      Dude you're being sugar gay right now

  • @cjparsons9730
    @cjparsons9730 Рік тому +34

    I love how Onision had the shooter place explosives in the school that failed to go off just like the Columbine Shooting. He then made his next main character (the book: This is Why I Hate You) dress up in a black trench coat just like the 'black trench coat gang" that Columbine shooters used to do.

    • @zawrator4457
      @zawrator4457 Рік тому +5

      Tbf it was the biggest news story in the 90s, I think its fair to say it may have made quite the impression on him growing up.

    • @cjparsons9730
      @cjparsons9730 Рік тому +16

      @@zawrator4457 I can get that but he shouldn't write the main character of his story trying to emulate two mass murders. Especially when he states that both main characters of these two books reflect him.

    • @MollymaukT
      @MollymaukT Рік тому +4

      This is Why I Hate You main character would def be in the Trenchcoat Mafia

    • @megib901
      @megib901 Рік тому +6

      @@zawrator4457 don't get me wrong that's def true but in 3 books that he's written he has had 2 school shootings (both used in horrible ways)and has referenced Columbine in both which I feel is a bit excessive.

  • @Lucifersfursona
    @Lucifersfursona Рік тому +29

    “There are a few good things about this book” it’s flammable :)

  • @attentiondeficitsquirrel7660
    @attentiondeficitsquirrel7660 5 років тому +610

    What I learned from this video:
    So Onision wrote a book and *AWWWW KITTY*

  • @TheHeroOfTomorrow
    @TheHeroOfTomorrow 5 років тому +2207

    Krim...honey, it's not worth it.

    • @flamehazesflamegang3788
      @flamehazesflamegang3788 5 років тому

      TheHeroOfTomorrow no it isn’t and hi are you gonna make another review soon? Love you’re work!

    • @gildartswinters4984
      @gildartswinters4984 5 років тому +4

      yeah it really isn't. He's gonna try anyways...bless em.

    • @TheHeroOfTomorrow
      @TheHeroOfTomorrow 5 років тому +4

      MCU Shue Well, I just put up a new one, so there’s that.

    • @gildartswinters4984
      @gildartswinters4984 5 років тому +2

      @@TheHeroOfTomorrow He's determined though.

    • @idongesitusen5764
      @idongesitusen5764 5 років тому +1

      Agreed, my friend. it makes first drafts look like Austen or O'Conner

  • @ryanlorenzo5003
    @ryanlorenzo5003 3 роки тому +37

    "Writing from a personal experience can save a book."
    Onision: This OC is me but is better in every way.

  • @afrouniverse9149
    @afrouniverse9149 3 роки тому +33

    I love how you're dragging Onion boy through the mud but also talking about how his ideas have potential to be used in different ways and not just diss anything he writes immediately with no explanation as to why it's bad. It's refreshing and makes for great writing advice

    • @tiacat11
      @tiacat11 2 роки тому +1

      Same here tbh, looking at examples of what not to do actually helps me a lot more than looking at positive examples, because with positive examples, I just feel like I'm copying someone else's good idea, whereas with a negative example you can kind of take it apart, figure out _why_ it doesn't work, and then experiment with how to make it work if done differently.

  • @newsystembad
    @newsystembad 5 років тому +784

    Just from the first fifteen minutes, this sounds like Onision tried to cast himself as the protagonist of a high school harem anime. Except that even the most awful high school harem anime protagonists are infinitely less vile than Onion-senpai. Their worst crime is usually utter blandness, not sexualizing preteen girls.

    • @diamondtrapeze
      @diamondtrapeze 5 років тому +26

      For some reason I read “utter baldness”

    • @sernoddicusthegallant6986
      @sernoddicusthegallant6986 5 років тому +21

      *sexualizing preteen suicidal abuse victims

    • @ZlayaZayah
      @ZlayaZayah 5 років тому +7

      Onision High School Host Club? xDD

    • @Soaring_lizzard
      @Soaring_lizzard 5 років тому +8

      Rohan D I watched Strange Aeons’ review, and as soon as I saw the first paragraphs I knew the book was written by a textbook sociopath, without a doubt.

    • @charliejones3272
      @charliejones3272 5 років тому +2

      so basically Onion created Masters of Ragnarok crossed with School days (without the ending where Makoto/Greg dies and subtracting the isekai of Ragnarok)

  • @aneveningwithebola2727
    @aneveningwithebola2727 4 роки тому +2058

    "As I walked into school that morning, I saw a man dressed as a security guard... I deduced that this man must've been a security guard."

    • @BlazerT48
      @BlazerT48 3 роки тому +289

      its the equivalent of "ah the floor is made out of floor"

    • @KaiKrimson56
      @KaiKrimson56 3 роки тому +129

      The run-on sentence is a run-on sentence.

    • @learichter7417
      @learichter7417 3 роки тому +41

      Yes, he's so fucking into himself, he'd probably praise himself for thinking that way

    • @chae-wolfbun
      @chae-wolfbun 3 роки тому +67

      @@KaiKrimson56 the run on sentence was a run on sentence which is what happens when someone doesn't put any punctuation between clauses phrases or ideas when they should which makes you read it like you're about to pass out **INHALE**

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 3 роки тому +45

      I looked at my computer and saw an open UA-cam window. With my brilliant intellect I deduced it was UA-cam.

  • @barborabazalkova5535
    @barborabazalkova5535 3 роки тому +34

    As a person who was struggling with mental illness for majority of my teen years (and who is still struggling) im so tired of authors using different types of illnesses and traumas as a convenient plot device. Its so disrespectful to view a person only as an object - something to be fixed or saved, especially when this person is still a child and the world is still very confusing.
    Being mentaly ill teen isnt pretty or mysterious or emo... Its fucking tiring, neverending nightmare and it would be great if authors could recognise it for what it is and participate in destigmatizing mental ilnesses.

  • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
    @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley 11 місяців тому +9

    Around 19:00: "And then we're introduced to Matthew...who never does anything for the rest of the book. I mean, he dies at one point!" You said that like his death was just temporary but then he comes back to life to continue adding nothing else to the story 😂😂😂

  • @misery8264
    @misery8264 5 років тому +744

    If Onision is your son, you're going to pay for a second house if that means you can get rid of him that way. Let's just be realistic here.

    • @bogczarkrollevowski2509
      @bogczarkrollevowski2509 4 роки тому +47

      If onision is anyone's son, physical abuse is actually fine.

    • @stick-itproductions.3307
      @stick-itproductions.3307 4 роки тому +26

      I agree with Joshiro. This might even be a result of what happens when you abuse your child.

    • @weirdwhitepfpguy6457
      @weirdwhitepfpguy6457 4 роки тому +9

      Nah just kill it

    • @johnjohnthetauntaun
      @johnjohnthetauntaun 4 роки тому +40

      matthew garcia I was going to make a joke about getting an abortion 417+ months after conception, but I couldn’t think of anything funny. To make up for it, here’s a comment saying I was going to make a joke about getting an abortion 417+ months after conception but couldn’t think of anything funny.

    • @TheCrimsonIdol987
      @TheCrimsonIdol987 4 роки тому +13

      Maybe that's why his mother is insane. If Onision was my son, I'd admit failure as a human being.

  • @Adv--ho7lc
    @Adv--ho7lc 5 років тому +744

    *onision while writing this book*- “Reality can be whatever I want”

    • @cheshiregamez303
      @cheshiregamez303 5 років тому +58

      Adv1269 *Krimson reading said book* reality is often disappointing

    • @Therathmataz
      @Therathmataz 4 роки тому +35

      Funny that's the plot of his third dumpsterfire.

    • @opeygopey227
      @opeygopey227 4 роки тому +12

      Me to Onision: your reality is bland and disgusting

    • @baste3750
      @baste3750 4 роки тому +7

      Book 3 really makes this comment come to life

    • @CynningSeline
      @CynningSeline 3 роки тому +2

      Cue the Onision version of the Phineas and Ferb opening (doesn't exist I don't think)

  • @Daggeira
    @Daggeira 3 роки тому +69

    All it takes is an Onision book to turn you into Cringin' Rogue lmao 😂😂😂
    I'll see myself out.

    • @KrimsonRogue
      @KrimsonRogue  3 роки тому +30

      Damn, now I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to unsee that. XD

    • @Daggeira
      @Daggeira 3 роки тому +12

      @@KrimsonRogue I'm not saying you necessarily _should_ make my horrible joke into a character, but.... I wouldn't complain lmao

  • @thetherrannative
    @thetherrannative Рік тому +42

    Honestly, I'm glad Onion Boy wrote these books. Any time I need inspiration for my own stories, I rewatch one of these reviews. They never fail to fill me with creative fire, because no matter what I do with my worldbuilding and storytelling, I will _always_ be better than this.

    • @teslashark
      @teslashark 10 місяців тому

      Reminder: He's supposed to be pronounced like "one vision but without v in the middle" or "omission with n in place of m"

    • @thetherrannative
      @thetherrannative 10 місяців тому +2

      @@teslashark Onion Boy can try to correct us all he likes, but his name is Onion Boy, and there's nothing Onion Boy can do about it.

  • @sdoe2149
    @sdoe2149 5 років тому +487

    I'm gonna start a death metal band called Nihilistic Cringe and the lyrics to my songs are all gonna
    be passages from his book.

    • @starbird3939
      @starbird3939 5 років тому +7

      So Dou but that means you have to pay Onision royalties. :(

    • @kaydwessie296
      @kaydwessie296 5 років тому +51

      Lady Phoenix Not if you scream the lyrics so they’re near impossible to understand & never release what the lyrics are

    • @starbird3939
      @starbird3939 5 років тому +1

      K. Charrette Still have to give credit though, since you are expected to release the lyrics

    • @lostCoyoteofMA
      @lostCoyoteofMA 5 років тому +8

      Honestly, that'd be a laugh riot

    • @nathankuszewski4579
      @nathankuszewski4579 5 років тому +34

      S Doe AND THEN HE SAID AND THEN SHE SAID AND THEN HE SAID

  • @shy2infinity
    @shy2infinity 5 років тому +1157

    Uuugh... You're probably going to mention this, but Onision thinks people shouldn't criticize his book because it's "based off of real people." Which is pure idiocy in my opinion because HE wrote those characters, no matter how "real" they are.

    • @crazyweirdgirl115
      @crazyweirdgirl115 5 років тому +123

      Exactly! If someone criticises the characters, that doesn't' mean they are criticising the real-life people those characters are based on. It's a criticism of Greg's writing abilities, since he failed to properly represent that person in the book.

    • @shy2infinity
      @shy2infinity 5 років тому +8

      cg standing Exactly!

    • @shy2infinity
      @shy2infinity 5 років тому +32

      @Brandon Roberts "Real Fantasies" is a bit of an oxymoron my dude, not to mention, he didn't exactly accept criticism?? I remember specifically with Strange Aeons he got mad at her for criticizing his book. Said that she had no right to criticize his book because it was based off of real people. And that's no excuse, because again, the writer's abilities is what brings out the best of their book.
      You can have an absolutely garbage plot but your characters are amazing enough to save your book.

    • @tiryaclearsong421
      @tiryaclearsong421 5 років тому +22

      @@shy2infinity He was talking about the writer of SAO. That show is a garbage fire for like 4 seasons and then improves suddenly.

    • @stefanforrer2573
      @stefanforrer2573 5 років тому +8

      that moment when he said to someone that they were basically attacking the real people his characters are based on, when they were poking fun at said poorly written characters... soooo cringey

  • @daleyhuard3675
    @daleyhuard3675 2 роки тому +11

    I had to fuckin pause at 46:11 because of the "The boy who nearly saved the day" line.
    Edit: The boy who nearly lived, come to nearly die.- Voldmirt/Tim Roddle

  • @spencerthestupidsamurai7326
    @spencerthestupidsamurai7326 Рік тому +10

    This is like he tried to write Looking For Alaska and Catcher in the Rye at the same time but he was too busy self pitying to do a second draft.

  • @Suplexduplex
    @Suplexduplex 5 років тому +555

    His dialogue isn’t split up into separate lines when a new character talks??? Bro we learned to do that in 7th grade. That’s just common sense. Has onision never read a book?

    • @iSaraSeantae
      @iSaraSeantae 5 років тому +18

      It's literally been a couple decades

    • @Suplexduplex
      @Suplexduplex 5 років тому +3

      Doodle Doodle Nope and a simple google search could hav refreshed his memory. Don’t defend the idiot. The book is bad

    • @iSaraSeantae
      @iSaraSeantae 5 років тому +80

      @@Suplexduplex I wasn't defending him wtf I was answering a question
      It's literally been a couple decades since he's opened a fucking book

    • @snflwrchan8019
      @snflwrchan8019 4 роки тому +14

      @@Suplexduplex you really should improve your reading comprehension

    • @beefcakesmchunkerson9079
      @beefcakesmchunkerson9079 4 роки тому

      Tk Bandele not for fourteen years

  • @Newt5996
    @Newt5996 5 років тому +2392

    Oh you like Strange Aeons. Neat. It’s weird when UA-camrs you like like watching other UA-camrs you like.

    • @whoareuagain
      @whoareuagain 5 років тому +28

      Right??

    • @StoicVeR
      @StoicVeR 5 років тому +77

      this is their biz. Ytbers have a complex network of people they keep tabs on, for eventual collabs and such if their work lends in that direction. It's a pretty cool market to observe

    • @BARALover96
      @BARALover96 5 років тому +19

      There is a girl who reviewed his first two books so far.
      Edit: Michelle Michaelis

    • @SpookyPookster
      @SpookyPookster 5 років тому +13

      And Sorrow:)

    • @rickyblitz9679
      @rickyblitz9679 5 років тому

      What was her response to Onision?

  • @johnfaber100
    @johnfaber100 3 роки тому +30

    My mother temporarily worked as an editor, and she got a couple such books.
    One such book was about a guy, sitting in his bathtub, contemplating dropping his hair dryer in, while reminiscing about his life. The book apparently describes, in excruciating and anatomically incorrect detail, how he shits in the bathwater.
    Another such book was written by a man who she claims to know for a fact has literally only read one book in his life, called "Robbi und Robba", a book that I couldn't read far in, despite being a children's book. In any case, he tried to write a children's book of his own, with predictable results. Run-on-sentences and words that a) are far too advanced for children b) probably haven't been used in a couple of centuries plagued the book.
    Those books now seem leagues better.

    • @litaraduodox5799
      @litaraduodox5799 3 роки тому +12

      Honestly the first one CAN be a good concept of well executed.
      If you go as far of a subject as to contemplate suicide and being so hurt that there's no way out, might as well go full on reader disgust and throw the ugly parts of suicidal thoughts out there (yes, every part of suicidal thoughts are bad; but some people romanticize the sleepless nights and social awkwardness, not thinking about the lack of hygiene or self care, for example).
      If this was overall well written, it'd be a disturbing reading experience that would stick with you. This guy is so hurt and broken that he can't manage to get up from the bathtub. He just figures "well, I'm gonna die right nkw and no one will see me. Maybe I deserve this filth and this hurt. I deserve to suffer more and die alone, forgotten and surrounded in my own filth".
      This is something that can be well done. It scars in the readers mind. They can have some sense of understanding what the final, depressed thoughts of a dying or suicidal persons thoughts are. They may have never thought or considered taking their lives, but this superlative level of self abuse is a good introduction to how altered a suicidal person's thought process is.
      Thay being said, if it's bad written, it's just a guy bathing in shit and i'm not about that lmao

    • @KelseyDrummer
      @KelseyDrummer Рік тому

      The sentence about the bathwater had me belly laughing for a good minute. Thank your mother for me please!😂

    • @johnfaber100
      @johnfaber100 Рік тому +1

      @@KelseyDrummer She says, "Tank [sic] me for what - having read that truly horrible Text til the end?"

    • @KelseyDrummer
      @KelseyDrummer Рік тому +2

      @@johnfaber100 I admire her for finishing it. She's strong.

    • @MetaFanWing
      @MetaFanWing 2 місяці тому

      @@litaraduodox5799
      I initially read it as “*shifts* in the bathwater”, so this gave me a double-take.

  • @hexlart8481
    @hexlart8481 Рік тому +16

    Its hilarious returning to this after onisions autobiography and learning that abbi is entirely based off a girl who he sent that creepy "I see sadness in your eyes" letter to who stopped talking to him after that. Like yeah, the characters don't know each other at all, onision didn't know her irl either. Its suuuper creepy.

    • @justagirl7094
      @justagirl7094 Рік тому +5

      And then made her boyfriend at the time a literal ab*sive psychopath because he roasted him for said letter. 😂😂 Like yeah, that’ll show him!! I would PAY to know their thoughts on this book!!! 🤣

  • @michjean2297
    @michjean2297 5 років тому +1765

    Seth: has fight with girlfriend
    "BeTtEr ShOoT uP tHe ScHoOl!"

    • @TrackpadProductions
      @TrackpadProductions 5 років тому +80

      Well, to be fair, that's how many school shooters are motivated. They think women collectively owe them romance, and get angry when they don't get it.

    • @rpgluvr1358
      @rpgluvr1358 5 років тому +13

      @@TrackpadProductions at least there's that

    • @sierotkamarysia4199
      @sierotkamarysia4199 5 років тому +11

      @@TrackpadProductions name one schoolshooter that actually did that because of a girl

    • @TrackpadProductions
      @TrackpadProductions 5 років тому +42

      West Nickel and Virginia Tech come to mind. I didn't say one girl in particular. And hoo boy, if we drop the "school" part and talk about mass shootings in general in the US, the list goes on and on.

    • @sierotkamarysia4199
      @sierotkamarysia4199 5 років тому +11

      @@TrackpadProductions You said it like all of these people died because some guy couldn't smash. Good examples, fair enough, but still saying that "list goes and goes" isn't convincing anyone.