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  • @LackingSaint
    @LackingSaint  10 місяців тому +448

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    • @rohith1089
      @rohith1089 10 місяців тому +10

      Timothee Shyamalan

    • @Evanz111
      @Evanz111 10 місяців тому +5

      I misread that as “Rocket Morty”, thanks Jack.

    • @Tigerhearty
      @Tigerhearty 10 місяців тому

      to be honest, the west is making everything in it's power to leave all it's former colonial conquest to china to steal them and is actively weakening the west to offer it on a silver plater to china, all you see in the world is a play to normalize this situation

    • @sosocasualty
      @sosocasualty 10 місяців тому +1

      Rocket Money is literally sponsoring my entire algorithm at this point

    • @keshang_laow8325
      @keshang_laow8325 10 місяців тому

      I've seen the movie 4 times already

  • @steviewonderisnotblind5833
    @steviewonderisnotblind5833 10 місяців тому +7091

    it's good to remember that a non-insignificant portion of people on the internet are literal children when trudging through comments about media critique

    • @varisleek3360
      @varisleek3360 10 місяців тому +489

      Gosh I remember being 14 in the halcyon days of 2003 thinking nobody could tell

    • @melanieg.9092
      @melanieg.9092 10 місяців тому +489

      One of the reasons I only started engaging in comment sections after I was 20 is that I tried once at 13 and got mildly embarrassed. Worked out great 👍

    • @kathylennerds750
      @kathylennerds750 10 місяців тому +259

      Sometimes people also just behave like kids :p

    • @ThePandaAgenda
      @ThePandaAgenda 10 місяців тому +69

      @@melanieg.9092some guy made multiple accounts to discredit me in front of an idol. now I’m suicidal and paranoid.

    • @NoxUmbrae
      @NoxUmbrae 10 місяців тому +90

      No better way of confirming this hypothesis than going to a MOON video and sorting comments by newest.

  • @gollygoshyouthink3440
    @gollygoshyouthink3440 10 місяців тому +5543

    Crazy how a lot of 'Tubers whining about the "lack of originality" in Hollywood turned out to be plagiarists. As if they've played themselves.

    • @jimballard1186
      @jimballard1186 10 місяців тому +258

      Every accusation is a confession, and all that.

    • @RobVespa
      @RobVespa 10 місяців тому +90

      ...as if their subconscious was telling on themselves. Hmm.

    • @ckorp666
      @ckorp666 10 місяців тому +81

      "always accuse the enemy of ur worst sins" - gerbils or w/e his name was

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +9

      Yet Moon made like 5 videos on TikTok, 2 videos on Disney, and so on.

    • @PipeGuy64Bit
      @PipeGuy64Bit 10 місяців тому +59

      The guy named himself "Moon". What did you expect from a name so uncreative?

  • @lost_ronzo
    @lost_ronzo 10 місяців тому +10617

    It is NOT a good time to be a plagiarist on youtube

    • @milos1967
      @milos1967 10 місяців тому +569

      For the first time in youtube history...

    • @mikhaelgribkov4117
      @mikhaelgribkov4117 10 місяців тому +207

      @@milos1967 ..... the copyright strike was right.

    • @Torgan454
      @Torgan454 10 місяців тому +120

      rainbow dash

    • @Gustoberg
      @Gustoberg 10 місяців тому +130

      ​@@Torgan454she's aways right

    • @xant8344
      @xant8344 10 місяців тому +74

      They're doing fine lol it's a just bad time for like two percent of them

  • @promethiada
    @promethiada 10 місяців тому +2560

    Didn't expect much from a guy who watched American Psycho and unironicaly thought Patrick Bateman is some tragic hero

    • @scottfynnschannel
      @scottfynnschannel 7 місяців тому +197

      No joke: I didn't even watch the movie yet and I assumed just by looking at the posters and clips I saw in memes that Patrick was a bad guy (*gasps* shocking I know)

    • @senorsnout4417
      @senorsnout4417 7 місяців тому +220

      ​@@scottfynnschannel...I mean...he's the main character. In a movie called "American Psycho". A movie about Patrick Bateman. I feel like it should be blatantly obvious to anyone that Patrick isn't a good person.

    • @redjirachi1
      @redjirachi1 5 місяців тому +137

      That's like reading Animal Farm and thinking George Orwell was pro-Stalin

    • @laurenwalker1048
      @laurenwalker1048 4 місяці тому +51

      @@senorsnout4417Patrick killed a dog. That’s all we need to know.

    • @simoneidson21
      @simoneidson21 4 місяці тому

      I doubt he actually believes that. It's all a grift. Right wingers suck at media literacy so they'll eat this vapid idiotic bullshit up

  • @HunterTracks
    @HunterTracks 10 місяців тому +2673

    I've been recommended Moon exactly once, his 1984 video, to be precise. I watched it part-way through, hit the absolute gem of "Sending people to a gulag for a thought crime is exactly the same as cancelling them on social media", and decided not to engage further. Nice to know I managed to get off before the train wreck, so to speak.

    • @ckorp666
      @ckorp666 10 місяців тому +589

      ah yes, the famous george orwell quote: "if i cant say that word, why can THEY say it in the hipping hop-songs?"

    • @sarahbearbabygirl
      @sarahbearbabygirl 10 місяців тому +469

      non oppressed people love basically saying “asking me to respect you is exactly like 1984 actually”

    • @MrReVersed
      @MrReVersed 10 місяців тому +1

      Moon is like the biggest US propagandist he fills all the criterias
      1. Supports all USA intervention with some fake justification to avoid that it is just Imperialism
      2. Accuses China of being the greater evil, and makes fake charges against them
      3. Supports Full Free market capitalism
      4. Says any regulations aimed at a safer and better society is Totalitarianism
      5. Links Fascism to Communism and says that they are the same things because they have regulations

    • @MrGared22
      @MrGared22 10 місяців тому +205

      Yeah, guy unironically doing the "this is just like 1984" meme turned out to not be creative.

    • @vidmuncher
      @vidmuncher 10 місяців тому +40

      "Nice to know I managed to get off before the train wreck"
      Nah, more like you told the teller "Nevermind, thank you", left the station and decided to take a Greyhound instead....

  • @MichaelHeide
    @MichaelHeide 10 місяців тому +2239

    What is "post-woke" supposed to mean? Afternoon nap time?

    • @airplanes_aren.t_real
      @airplanes_aren.t_real 10 місяців тому +302

      Wow, and here I thought the word "woke" couldn't be more vague
      That's the internet's new "post modern marxism"

    • @BaronVonQuiply
      @BaronVonQuiply 10 місяців тому +33

      Post-Facts
      Chuds are raging at e-Lawn's AI (the one he cobbled together after pleading for a halt to AI development so he could make one and not have to compete) because it cites facts and not their feelings.

    • @genericname2747
      @genericname2747 10 місяців тому +188

      I'm going to start calling sleep "post-woke"

    • @evilevilcritter
      @evilevilcritter 10 місяців тому +86

      ​@@BaronVonQuiply what are you spouting bro😭😭😭

    • @billyyank1916
      @billyyank1916 10 місяців тому +125

      I have no clue. What I will say is that it's rather funny seeing the "anti-woke" crowd try to come up with terms that mean absolutely nothing just to look sophisticated.

  • @hushthecipher
    @hushthecipher 10 місяців тому +9952

    Moon talked about how people wanted more original movies and pointed out Barbie's success, but then preceeded to talk about how people don't want Woke movies and how they're bombing? Does he even read his scripts before hand?

    • @nkemnoraulmanfredini7286
      @nkemnoraulmanfredini7286 10 місяців тому

      You need to remember that moon is what idiots think what a smart person is. Thoughts and words don't make you smart, it is how you use THEM. moon isn't smart, they are just the number 3456 generic anti-everything i don't understand channel

    • @AmandaabnamA
      @AmandaabnamA 10 місяців тому +1356

      So many youtubers blanketly complain about "woke" movies with no understanding that it is pandering by people who don't know/care what they're talking about. Nepo babies have all the control

    • @FTZPLTC
      @FTZPLTC 10 місяців тому +726

      People want more original movies... and his example of people capitalising on that is The Daily Wire making their own version of Snow White that he then shows being praised for being more true to either the Grimm's brothers story or the first Disney movie... which would make it less original.
      tbh it's pretty funny that someone who obviously wanted to promote the Daily Wire's movie making efforts chose "Because Hollywood is so unoriginal!" as a jumping-off point. I'm not saying there's anything good about their movies, but it's not really playing to their strengths. Even the DW's "original" movies are just attempts to make "their version" of Hollywood movies with a few bits changed and a tenth of the budget being made to look like wayyy less than a tenth of their budget.

    • @jimballard1186
      @jimballard1186 10 місяців тому +554

      It's not about logical consistency. It's about crafting an emotional appeal to lead his viewers to the conclusions and/or behaviors he wants to see for his own ideological reasons.

    • @ihavenojawandimustscream4681
      @ihavenojawandimustscream4681 10 місяців тому

      He only praised the Barbie movie because it's a box office success. The anti-woke faction has been so thoroughly programmed by the "woke=broke" slogan that when an actual woke brand becomes successful they either claim it (like Barbie) or just flat out pretend it doesn't exist like the spiderverse movies which literally depict racemixing. In the end these miserable fellows flip right from "popular media is stupid liberal slop" right into "popular media is based actually" This is the dialectical process at work.

  • @josemaria8177
    @josemaria8177 10 місяців тому +3822

    In all my years, I didn't expect Tommy Tallarico to be the moon. It just goes to show that the man who invented video games is extremely versatile. I am sure his mother is still proud of him

    • @RobVespa
      @RobVespa 10 місяців тому +97

      Aside: She's not.

    • @stuartbaxter-potter8363
      @stuartbaxter-potter8363 10 місяців тому +223

      This bit will never get old.

    • @johnblunt6693
      @johnblunt6693 10 місяців тому +96

      As a guy that knows of Tommy Tallarico's mom, she probably is very proud

    • @dragonmarnix
      @dragonmarnix 10 місяців тому +123

      The only problem is that being on the moon always makes him have to go to the bathroom at night.

    • @elongatedalbatross9318
      @elongatedalbatross9318 10 місяців тому +62

      I love more than anything that I can find comments like this on other UA-camr's videos. Mr. Harrison Bomberguy really did some lasting impact with that video lmfao

  • @damientonkin
    @damientonkin 10 місяців тому +888

    "150 years ago, Nietzsche predicted AI would destroy humanity." Well that's the most insane claim I've heard in a while and it's up against some stiff competition.

    • @UnfortunatelyTheHunger
      @UnfortunatelyTheHunger 10 місяців тому +107

      I've never read any Nietzsche (this is a deliberate boycott), though I did once stumble upon a quote from one his works, where he basically wrote that people who act out of Kantian framework (i.e. people who only ever do good things because they genuinely believe it's the right thing to do) are "automatons" and "the antithesis of humanity". That's the closest thing I can think of him warning about AI, a rant about sheeple

    • @avelynn5976
      @avelynn5976 10 місяців тому +9

      ​@@UnfortunatelyTheHunger wait, did he say this about people who act out just to satisfy their own self righteousness or...?

    • @UnfortunatelyTheHunger
      @UnfortunatelyTheHunger 10 місяців тому +53

      @@avelynn5976 Nietzsche said this about people who don't define their own morality. Here's an excerpt from The Antichrist: "A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence. In every other case it is a source of danger. That which not belong to our life menaces it. What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?"
      So in a way, he would've actually regarded "people who act out just to satisfy their own self righteousness" to be morally superior; it's arguably the textbook definition of an übermensch

    • @Granad784
      @Granad784 10 місяців тому +22

      Every time i hear about him he looks even more of a sad horrible person ​@@UnfortunatelyTheHunger

    • @gwennorthcutt421
      @gwennorthcutt421 10 місяців тому

      @@UnfortunatelyTheHunger damn, didnt plato talk about how people often do good because it feels good, and thus there is no such thing as a truly "selfless" action? did nietzsche just not account for that or what? never read the guy bc im not big on classical philosophy and frankly he sounds like a dipshit

  • @legend7951
    @legend7951 10 місяців тому +614

    One of the funny things about him repeating the argument that breaking bad exemplifies neoliberalism is that he probably doesn't even know what that means and probably think it just means leftist liberals

    • @mossboss5695
      @mossboss5695 10 місяців тому +167

      Oh he for sure thinks it just means the same as "woke" or something. That or the words just pass from his eyes to his mouth completely uninterrupted by a brain.

    • @a-goblin
      @a-goblin 10 місяців тому

      100%. dude just saw "-liberal," looked at "neo-" figured _"that definitely means new liberal"_ and got all up in his feelings. you'd think a serial plagarist that already uses google would just google a term, but that requires an additional .2 seconds of effort for his audience that'll chug anything he spews at them anyway.

    • @sealeo5772
      @sealeo5772 7 місяців тому +50

      I was thinking the same thing. I thought it was really weird when I just heard the anti-woke plagiarist who makes wojack videos start spouting leftist ideas.

    • @quali-vd3ud
      @quali-vd3ud 2 місяці тому

      @@sealeo5772 The far-right decries neoliberalism all the time

    • @Aspirider0220
      @Aspirider0220 2 місяці тому +16

      @@quali-vd3udthe problem is that he literally said neoliberalism is opposed to individualism

  • @kaialexander6806
    @kaialexander6806 10 місяців тому +839

    I lost it at "he didn't even film it in an attic with the Mexico filter" oh my god, I still can't stop laughing

  • @MitsyWuzHere
    @MitsyWuzHere 10 місяців тому +4208

    I think it's funny that SunnyV2 and Moon are both named after celestial bodies and both pump out some of the most flashy, vapid, and popular video essays on the platform.

    • @TearfulMoon
      @TearfulMoon 10 місяців тому +515

      As a fellow user of celestial body nickname I'm extremely annoyed by these guys😄

    • @lillyfly
      @lillyfly 10 місяців тому +465

      @@TearfulMoon is that why your tearful

    • @TearfulMoon
      @TearfulMoon 10 місяців тому +382

      @@lillyfly I was going for poetic melancholy feel, but this works too😄

    • @Gustoberg
      @Gustoberg 10 місяців тому +81

      ikr, the sun and moon are so overrated!

    • @xangelmoonx
      @xangelmoonx 10 місяців тому +135

      ​@@GustobergWell now you've wounded me.

  • @veritasetcaritas
    @veritasetcaritas 10 місяців тому +2686

    On the one hand I'm disappointed that you beat me to making a video on Moon. I've been investigating him for months. On the other hand I'm delighted to watch your video because you always do such a good job!

    • @LackingSaint
      @LackingSaint  10 місяців тому +888

      I will be watching!

    • @catloaff
      @catloaff 10 місяців тому +195

      Omg I'm looking forward to your vid!!! Moon is such a garbage channel

    • @ed_cmntonly
      @ed_cmntonly 10 місяців тому +304

      ​​@@catloaff I used to watch Moon honestly before he pulled out the "go woke go broke" slogan, then I realized he's not a trustworthy channel anymore 💀

    • @athf4ever780
      @athf4ever780 10 місяців тому +271

      @@ed_cmntonlyhe definitely lost me after making a video about how modern men are weak then ended it by plugging his course. Not to mention his video was total shit

    • @veritasetcaritas
      @veritasetcaritas 10 місяців тому +45

      @@LackingSaint aw you're such a champ!

  • @SmartSmears
    @SmartSmears 10 місяців тому +214

    So many UA-camrs who dont give a shit about anything the anti sjw crowd is passionate about just see them as easy money, slap on a wojak and repeat the hot take about Disney for that month and watch ad views roll in. Kind of a shame so many of the watchers don't see that they're just marks

    • @thebcwonder4850
      @thebcwonder4850 10 місяців тому +16

      Is it a hot take anymore?

    • @cookieface80
      @cookieface80 10 місяців тому +22

      @@thebcwonder4850 Colder than Siberia.

    • @chelscara
      @chelscara 10 місяців тому +15

      Anything to feel justified in their beliefs, admitting they were scammed doesn’t fit into their world view unless they’re being scammed by The Overlords 🙄🙄

  • @atoucangirl
    @atoucangirl 10 місяців тому +443

    moon be like: "it's becoming apparent to me, after much research, that the second largest country in the world by population, which is massively industrialized, holds a seat at the permanent UN security council, has a lagre nuclear arsennal and massive geo-political reach due to their massive exports market and economy, is in fact a great power that has a large influence on the modern world. thank you for coming to my TED talk."

    • @geraltrivia9565
      @geraltrivia9565 10 місяців тому +106

      The worst part is that he’s super ignorant to the US’s own influence on other countries. It’s way worse in every way

    • @ademsari2151
      @ademsari2151 10 місяців тому +106

      @@geraltrivia9565He probably thinks Us being the global hegemon is the norm and the fact that world balance is changing right in front of our eyes is making him uncomfortable and angry. There is probably a degree of racism at play too.

    • @Bozebo
      @Bozebo 10 місяців тому +3

      3rd most populated... you forgot about over a billion people there.

    • @yurifairy2969
      @yurifairy2969 10 місяців тому +50

      ​@@ademsari2151
      Hit the nail on the head. He and most other conspiracy nuts are just mad that other countries are using our tactics against us.

    • @josephpotter5766
      @josephpotter5766 8 місяців тому +13

      @@yurifairy2969 and doing it better, that's the critical part. With America increasingly paralysed by internal division and potentially on it's way to some kind of civil conflict in the next fifteen years, the fact is that even a sclerotic bureaucracy like the Chinese government can power past it using the same kind of soft power tactics that the USA largely abandoned after the eighties because of the self perception that they had already 'won' history.

  • @princeboyd3795
    @princeboyd3795 10 місяців тому +571

    I've actually known about moon for at least a year or so now. I found out about him through a video where he tries to say that American Psycho was a movie about the "dangers of virtue signaling". From that i already knew his media analysis wasn't worth a damn but this is just sad lmao

    • @melaniey.5596
      @melaniey.5596 10 місяців тому +132

      I watched him for a time, but little by little his alt-right tendencies became more noticeable to the point it made me uncomfortable, him simping for the Unabomber and saying he was “misunderstood” and “deep” was the red flag for me that made me jump ship with this guy.

    • @princeboyd3795
      @princeboyd3795 10 місяців тому +59

      @@melaniey.5596 Funnily enough his old videos were actually catered towords the rising redpill community before he started switching to a more traditional critical drinker esk figure so it was always there to an extent

    • @andrewmcnamara6978
      @andrewmcnamara6978 10 місяців тому +17

      There is the one scene about virtue signaling, but that’s kinda just a one off joke about Bateman being a (American) psycho

    • @Deg40000
      @Deg40000 10 місяців тому +44

      That’s what he got from the movie? Yeah I don’t blame you for checking out of his content

    • @damien678
      @damien678 10 місяців тому +12

      That it's HUH???

  • @origulator
    @origulator 10 місяців тому +940

    I love it when video essays just introduce me to new shitheads I’ve never heard of before and will never unpromptedly think of again after i finish watching.

    • @kostajovanovic3711
      @kostajovanovic3711 10 місяців тому +57

      Blessed were you for not having him pop up on your feed

    • @MrGared22
      @MrGared22 10 місяців тому +51

      ​@@kostajovanovic3711 You tell me. I was blessed to never, ever remember having James Somerton on my feed, yet there was a time when not a day passed and I got one of Moon's "[X] Tried to Warn You" videos shoved onto my feed.

    • @kostajovanovic3711
      @kostajovanovic3711 10 місяців тому +2

      @@MrGared22 damned times

    • @kezia8027
      @kezia8027 10 місяців тому +40

      I love it even more, when I've seen them come up on my feed and my radar has gone off and I've said "nahh that looks like clickbait content mill stuff" and avoided it. Turns out I have a decent eye for it because with all these "outings" lately I've found my radar has actually been very accurate!

    • @scribblescrabble3185
      @scribblescrabble3185 10 місяців тому

      there are far more channels just like Moon. I got a few videos of "science" and "history" spam channels (more like scam channels) that do the exact same. Take this video just to be made aware of it.

  • @Pink42165
    @Pink42165 10 місяців тому +150

    As a Chemistry student with ADHD it really grinds my gears when someone says “adhd medication is basically just meth” and use the closeness in their structures as evidence. Just because the structure of the molecule has some similarities, does NOT mean they are chemically/functionally the same. Even just 1 different atom within that structure will totally change the compound, so to say they are “practically the same” is misinformed.

    • @larissabrglum3856
      @larissabrglum3856 10 місяців тому +39

      For example, H2O and H2O2 are very different things

    • @ocean.sandy02
      @ocean.sandy02 7 місяців тому +30

      @@larissabrglum3856 There is also the difference between Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide

    • @slugger-8O12Fi18Fo
      @slugger-8O12Fi18Fo Місяць тому +7

      I am a biochemist. I can very safely say when most UA-cam critics try to use either bio or chem as a gotcha, they have no clue what they're talking about.

  • @nia356
    @nia356 10 місяців тому +292

    it's actually unfathombale the amount of times i've had to press "not interested" on movie essay/commentary videos because you can immediately tell it's just gonna be the same regurgitated ideas and "hot takes". It's always surface level "modern bad, everything woke now" with no actually effort to further proves their arguments from accounts like moon. It's just lazy.

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому

      This is a problem with these people. They don’t care about helping the entertainment industry. They want to remove any progressive themes and remove minorities being represented in media.

    • @spinach001
      @spinach001 10 місяців тому +68

      >see wojak on the thumbnail/pfp
      >"not interested"

    • @UnfortunatelyTheHunger
      @UnfortunatelyTheHunger 10 місяців тому +57

      @@spinach001 "nice opinion. however, i drew you in this unflattering caricature, so therefore you lose the argument"

    • @johncruelty20
      @johncruelty20 10 місяців тому +31

      @@spinach001 wojaks actually killed literacy

    • @jeepmega629
      @jeepmega629 9 місяців тому +13

      @@spinach001HOLY SHIT I AGREE WITH YOU SO MUCH!!!
      WHY DOES EVERY COMMENTARY CHANNEL FEELS THE NEED TO PUT A DAMN WOJAK ON THEIR THUMBNAILS?!?

  • @ReillyReillyReilly
    @ReillyReillyReilly 10 місяців тому +4107

    Kinda depressing, but this video made me realize that James Somerton's career imploding after being outed as a plagiarist is probably going to be the exception to the rule.
    By building his brand around queer media analysis, Somerton cultivated an audience of queer people passionate about the representation and history of their community. It's therefore not surprising that a majority of his fans would be horrified to learn his work was heavily plagiarised from other queer creators-not to mention full of casual misogyny, lesphobia, biphobia, acephobia, transphobia, and blatant misinformation.
    Meanwhile, Moon's content is going to repel anyone who isn't primed to accept "anti-woke" ragebait, conspiratorial bullshit, and outright lies. It essentially self-selects for people who don't give a shit about ethics. Why would the plagiarism be any different?

    • @arigadatred5395
      @arigadatred5395 10 місяців тому +653

      I was thinking this, too. somerton frankly made a huge mistake in cultivating a left-wing audience, because left-wing people actually care about things like ethics and honesty. yes, they will also often use that passion to tear down people who do not deserve it, but it IS genuine care on their part that leads to that destructive behavior.
      the most successful scammers will always be right-wing on average, because right-wing ideologies are inherently more self centered and antisocial, and lead to a much more healthy environment for con men.

    • @northstarjakobs
      @northstarjakobs 10 місяців тому +648

      It's also why Iiluminaughtii's downfall happened. She cultivated an audience who cared about corporate exploitation and the mistreatment of those who are less powerful. So, when it turned out that she was doing those exact same things to the people in her life, of course her audience would turn against her.

    • @KickinRadTopHat
      @KickinRadTopHat 10 місяців тому +503

      The channer loser portion of Internet Historian’s fanbase is already proving you right. In the wake of Hbomb’s video they were pretty vocal about not caring about the plagiarism as long as he keeps dog whistling to them.

    • @GenericProtagonist7
      @GenericProtagonist7 10 місяців тому

      Leftists make a habit out of this, so I'm not really shocked, but the absolutely unrepentant self fellating here is borderline comical;
      "The people who align with me politically are SMART and CARE ABOUT ETHICS, and the people who disagree with me are STUPID and DON'T CARE ABOUT ETHICS!!!!"

    • @blarghblargh
      @blarghblargh 10 місяців тому

      Dog whistling to cultivate an audience is an old trick. But not everything on the Internet is hard towards either end of the spectrum. Things aren't automatically reactionary bullshit just because they aren't hard-in-the-paint with progressive issues. There's a big swath of grey in the middle. Probably the majority of things.
      As a pan gender fluid dude, I don't think you have to be LGBT focused to be against plagiarism. I think it's just the reactionary grifters who will get away with it. And I think their bite is bad, but their bark is still louder than their bite. They're not the majority, despite trying really hard to look like it.

  • @Drjos
    @Drjos 10 місяців тому +2089

    I hope we get another Wonka movie where we see the character go from this naive boy to the Wonka we know from previous movies. Having him get increasingly paranoid could make for a fun film.

    • @MyLoserBrain
      @MyLoserBrain 10 місяців тому +267

      I feel like that'd be perfect. Using the whole "You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain". Maybe even play off that he doesn't even realize it's happening till he shuts the factory down due to the competition stealing his ideas. The movie could just end there tbh, it'd even leave an opening for them to make a move called "the chocolate factory" where it's a retelling of the og story if they really wanted to wring this franchise dry.

    • @RobVespa
      @RobVespa 10 місяців тому +10

      @@MyLoserBrain - Wonka isn't a villain. You missed the point. He also didn't shut down the factory.

    • @bloodyneptune
      @bloodyneptune 10 місяців тому +105

      @RobVespa I think they mean "shut it down to the public"

    • @Jambo_Neo
      @Jambo_Neo 10 місяців тому +45

      @@RobVespahe did for a few years before the oompa loompas

    • @casanovafunkenstein5090
      @casanovafunkenstein5090 10 місяців тому +210

      ​@@RobVespa he literally fired the entire workforce and replaced them with enslaved Africans from an isolated tribe who are effectively stateless, are unable to contact the outside world and whose children know nothing of the world outside of his deathtrap of a factory.

  • @connordarvall8482
    @connordarvall8482 10 місяців тому +325

    You know, I don't watch him, but one of Moon's videos kept showing up in my feed on the side of a video and right underneath it there is almost always a video labeled "Why are so many conservatives media illiterate?"

    • @michimatsch5862
      @michimatsch5862 10 місяців тому +48

      Lol, perfect.

    • @theamazingcowlet
      @theamazingcowlet 10 місяців тому +57

      Oh the irony, the irony is PERFECT

    • @airplanes_aren.t_real
      @airplanes_aren.t_real 10 місяців тому +14

      I don't think I've ever watched those videos although I've seen a few that have a similar concept
      I always presumed that they needed strawmen arguments in order to justify their hate for progressivism despite the fact its a good thing to move forward

    • @johngulster7787
      @johngulster7787 7 місяців тому

      I don't want lazy uninspired token scrap I want something good.

    • @_chlorinesunshine
      @_chlorinesunshine 2 місяці тому

      If conservatives were media literate, they wouldn't be conservatives

  • @zenlocke
    @zenlocke 10 місяців тому +894

    Wonka was directed by the guy who directed every episode of the Mighty Boosh, same fella who did Paddington. That's when I decided I should push past my preconceived notions about soulless media and watch the damn movie

    • @LackingSaint
      @LackingSaint  10 місяців тому +454

      god damn it I knew there was a reason I was so charmed by this

    • @heavenly2k
      @heavenly2k 10 місяців тому +47

      No way. Well now i have to watch lol

    • @backlogbuddies
      @backlogbuddies 10 місяців тому +7

      Now i have to see it

    • @Crosshill
      @Crosshill 10 місяців тому +18

      does it got paddington secret sauce? i dont know if i should watch this video, then, i usually dont watch video essays about movies im planning to watch so that i can enjoy it by myself without aligning it to skewed preconceptions. can ya do me a solid and let me know if his video is gonna skew my expectations in a way that "paddington director" hasnt already?

    • @Mooglatan
      @Mooglatan 10 місяців тому +5

      Didn't he also direct a bunch of episodes of that awful Come Fly With Me show lol?

  • @LM-MMM
    @LM-MMM 10 місяців тому +344

    "The new snow white movie will be old, tired, woke, and overdone. No one wants to watch that uncreative shit. Anyways, look, the Daily Wire is making a snow white movie and it's gonna be great!!!"
    Do these people hear themselves speak?

    • @hollowsid9623
      @hollowsid9623 7 місяців тому +20

      Bro's a damn sellout

    • @VitaminNick-k1r
      @VitaminNick-k1r 4 місяці тому +25

      Considering that he supports the Daley wire. I wouldn’t be surprised if his favorite show and the only show he likes is “Mr birtchrim”

    • @dualwieldroxas358
      @dualwieldroxas358 2 місяці тому +22

      I don't care what political ideaology you are, NOTHING the Daily Wire has created can be considered anywhere even near "good cinema" or "decent viewing".

    • @aeoligarlic4024
      @aeoligarlic4024 Місяць тому +7

      Oh you know why he said that. Dailywire's snow white is played by the right-wing darling white girl, brett cooper. So it's totes okay for them

    • @linkfreeman1998
      @linkfreeman1998 Місяць тому +1

      Tbh i guess its time to drop both sides of the political ideology, but hey thats just me who's sick of both.

  • @Gustoberg
    @Gustoberg 10 місяців тому +336

    the dude has a video named "the victims of coffeezilla", you can't trust a guy who dislikes someone who exposes the biggest scammers on the inter et

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +73

      I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets exposed by coffeezilla.

    • @avelynn5976
      @avelynn5976 10 місяців тому +63

      "victims" LMFAO XD

    • @hails1136
      @hails1136 7 місяців тому +36

      who's coffeezilla?
      edit: ohhhh yeah. that's not the kind of creator you wanna go up against lmao

    • @bumblebeegamerreal
      @bumblebeegamerreal 7 місяців тому +28

      Its probably just a clickbait title to attract more people to click on the video. In reality, its just a rehash of all the situations that happened

    • @justaghostinthesea
      @justaghostinthesea 3 місяці тому

      He WHAT!?
      This means war

  • @MisterTTG
    @MisterTTG 10 місяців тому +1986

    gonna be straight with you, jack. i stared at the goose the entire video

    • @Stick-Toons-508
      @Stick-Toons-508 10 місяців тому +51

      Don't worry, I did that too.

    • @m3tr0idgrl
      @m3tr0idgrl 10 місяців тому +41

      The Goose sees all

    • @daalimbe
      @daalimbe 10 місяців тому +32

      they're so mesmerising... why the Goose so enticing?

    • @squidlump
      @squidlump 10 місяців тому

      Honk!

    • @PedanticPig
      @PedanticPig 10 місяців тому +40

      The way the top of its beak lines up perfectly with the top of the cushion tickles my brain.

  • @DuskFox7
    @DuskFox7 10 місяців тому +589

    Man, this moon guy has never had a single original thought. Next I'm gunna find out the light from the moon isn't his either!

    • @stonks3507
      @stonks3507 10 місяців тому +24

      lol, that’s funny!

    • @twotruckslyrics
      @twotruckslyrics 10 місяців тому +13

      giggling

    • @gm-le6fy
      @gm-le6fy 7 місяців тому +16

      The Moon take its light from the sun. Or Sunny in this case 😉

    • @kait112
      @kait112 4 місяці тому

      @@gm-le6fy 🤦🏻‍♀️😅

    • @kait112
      @kait112 4 місяці тому

      @@twotruckslyricsj😅bjjioin

  • @taydrabrookshire347
    @taydrabrookshire347 10 місяців тому +1014

    Moon: “HOLLYWOOD IS UNORIGINAL!!!1!1!1!”
    Also Moon: (promotes the 5 millionth Snow White movie adaptation)

    • @UnfortunatelyTheHunger
      @UnfortunatelyTheHunger 10 місяців тому +119

      i have a feeling Moon doesn't know what originality actually means

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +123

      He also makes the same topic over and over again. Complains about china taking over the world. He also made 5 videos on Tik Tok.

    • @rokkarokka120
      @rokkarokka120 10 місяців тому +1

      @@eko9554 so a youtuber like above us and everyone else?

    • @C-Farsene_5
      @C-Farsene_5 10 місяців тому +34

      @@UnfortunatelyTheHunger originality is when mah viewpoints is promoted

    • @weirdshrimpnumber9755
      @weirdshrimpnumber9755 10 місяців тому +4

      ​@@googleuser1422You're 40 years old dude

  • @JediPlays0309
    @JediPlays0309 10 місяців тому +518

    watching a moon video is like stepping into a teen YA dystopia novel where an evil shadow government secretly controls everything and every bad thing in the world is caused by them and it is surreal. as a trans kid who grew up around a lot of these conspiracies i was actually a moon fan 3 years ago for some time, but then yk i kind of realized how INSANE his takes were when i grew up. im glad people are talking about him lol.

    • @MrGoldfish8
      @MrGoldfish8 10 місяців тому +54

      Yeah it's suspiciously close to some fascist conspiracies.

    • @Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel
      @Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel 10 місяців тому

      ​@@MrGoldfish8 that's not surprising, considering "cultural Marxism" (hey, that sounds kinda familiar...) is a modern political talking point

    • @jamie1602
      @jamie1602 10 місяців тому +27

      IN A WORLD WHERE TOOTHBRUSHES...ARE BANNED.
      IYKYK

    • @ophelie2620
      @ophelie2620 10 місяців тому +4

      I believe he’s just writing his dreams 💀

    • @des4929
      @des4929 10 місяців тому +2

      Ya know that sounds like a decent idea for a parody of YA dystopian novels

  • @LauraTeAhoWhite
    @LauraTeAhoWhite 10 місяців тому +478

    Iilluminaughtii should sue Moon for taking her essay style

    • @VitaminNick-k1r
      @VitaminNick-k1r 10 місяців тому

      Booth are terrible people

    • @judicatorhurayth1927
      @judicatorhurayth1927 10 місяців тому +13

      HAHA

    • @billyyank1916
      @billyyank1916 10 місяців тому +10

      This one got a good chuckle out of me.

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +24

      Moon accused of an another UA-camr for abusing copyright on Twitter. He’s such a hypocrite.

    • @hundgawf9506
      @hundgawf9506 9 місяців тому +2

      Kek

  • @backlogbuddies
    @backlogbuddies 10 місяців тому +1375

    Do people not realize that the original charlie and the chocolate factory is heavily laced with social commentary?

    • @athf4ever780
      @athf4ever780 10 місяців тому +379

      🤫 shhhhhh you’re not supposed to bring up media literacy when it comes to the general public

    • @GiggaGMikeE
      @GiggaGMikeE 10 місяців тому

      Conservatives don't think that hard about the media they consume... or just about anything else.

    • @stardusst
      @stardusst 10 місяців тому +279

      i know the words "media literacy" get thrown around a lot these days. but that's literally what happens when the average person lacks the media literacy to understand a message - they take it at face value.

    • @chadgunner4403
      @chadgunner4403 10 місяців тому +7

      What about the oompa loompas?

    • @RobVespa
      @RobVespa 10 місяців тому +153

      @@chadgunner4403 - Why, they were originally a lost tribe of starving miniature pygmies from the deepest and darkest heart of Africa who longed for cocoa beans. Then again, the original Charlie was "a little black boy", but the publisher allegedly coerced Dahl into changing him. A NAACP statement resonated with Dahl, who subsequently edited the Oompa Loompas and republished the story in 1973. Oh, and this story is also a fantastical work of fiction.

  • @ashencometmom5291
    @ashencometmom5291 10 місяців тому +332

    hbomb's video touched on how the psychology of plagiarism can be a pretty far cry from the jealous, almost flattering imitation it's usually explained as-- rather, it's just that the plagiarists do not respect the people they're stealing from _at all,_ and in fact they feel like they're above them on some level, like it's their god-given right to steal random dirty nobodies' hard work and plaster their own, ontologically more deserving face on it. a right wing conspiracy theorist semi-plagiarizing the Cars Is Eugenics guy but steering into the usual agenda halfway through is a pretty good example of that logic

    • @florencafilms
      @florencafilms 10 місяців тому +7

      That's a good take and example

    • @alaskarii007
      @alaskarii007 9 місяців тому

      @@googleuser1422 plagiarists don't steal from people they like or admire, they steal from people they vehemently despise and then stick their tongue out going 'LEL GET TROLLED'. To give an example, I HATE Warhammer 40k (No, its not the typical 'imperium of man is fascist, fascism is bad, therefore I hate!' but because I genuinely think 99% of the writing in that universe sucks ass) but it was what inspired me to write my own Sci-fi opera because it gave me a vindicated feeling of 'getting one over' the fandom. Of course, I'd later mature and realize that its okay to like or dislike something, and instead continued on my sci-fi opera idea not as a hate piece but because I wanted to genuinely write something original. Unfortunately most plagiarists go through the first phase and never the second.

    • @DreamFearless
      @DreamFearless 7 місяців тому

      It’ll really blow your mind to discover hbomb has a very similar psychology.

    • @g.f.martianshipyards9328
      @g.f.martianshipyards9328 3 місяці тому

      Wait, do you mean Adam Something when you talked about the "Cars is Eugenics guy"? Cause I laughed, and I'm not taking that laugh back.

    • @pian-0g445
      @pian-0g445 2 місяці тому +1

      And also, the phrase that goes like “plagiarism is a form of flattery”, is not the full quote. I can’t remember top of my head, but it basically ends up saying what you just did.

  • @davidtaylor142
    @davidtaylor142 10 місяців тому +549

    Its super funny that Moon keeps stealing from left leaning video essays because they are made better despite clearly being an Alex Jones level right wing maniac. It makes his opinions seem completely incompatible with each other

    • @J-wm4ss
      @J-wm4ss 10 місяців тому +58

      yeah I was actually shocked that he knew what neoliberal was, and actually criticized wonka from the point that neoliberalism is bad

    • @AmberCommentsThings
      @AmberCommentsThings 10 місяців тому +4

      "Everyone I don't like is Alex Jones"

    • @davidtaylor142
      @davidtaylor142 10 місяців тому +139

      @@AmberCommentsThings he literally ranted about low testosterone leading to China creating a New World Order

    • @BaronVonQuiply
      @BaronVonQuiply 10 місяців тому

      @@AmberCommentsThings Well that's just dumb and betrays a lack of understanding of the world around you. Much like when MAGAts waving swastikas shout "Oh, you call EVERYONE a fascist these days!". We can see you.

    • @bloodyhell8201
      @bloodyhell8201 10 місяців тому +41

      ​@@AmberCommentsThingsdont pretend like you think alex jones is bad. We can see through you.

  • @GodOfBrevity
    @GodOfBrevity 10 місяців тому +137

    22:30 “I agree with the 14-year-old” is the most viciously funny put-down I’ve ever heard. Bless this website.

  • @n3y
    @n3y 10 місяців тому +1392

    I would have never guessed that the "4chan is more needed than you think" guy is a weirdo

    • @Deg40000
      @Deg40000 10 місяців тому +61

      Seriously after he made that video I checked out of his content like yeah right…

    • @MrGared22
      @MrGared22 10 місяців тому +153

      Ah yes, now I remember that he was the guy who made those "[X] Tried to Warn You" videos in which X usually were movies that were adored by edgelords and the like. I know, I'm _shocked_ that he turned out to not be creative.

    • @komos3719
      @komos3719 10 місяців тому +28

      It's no more necessary than twitter or reddit lmao

    • @john2g1
      @john2g1 10 місяців тому +15

      @@komos3719 meh... I have to disagree with you based on what these things are/were regardless of what they were meant to be.
      Twitter (before X) became a place where anyone could talk to anyone famous. Twitter is kinda dumb... Let anyone say anything as long as it's brief. However, as it grew it meant that anyone that banked on their popularity had to join.
      As a comedian said in the old days you would have to buy a front row ticket to a band and hope they can hear you over the crowd when you told them they suck. Today you can just send them a tweet.
      As far as 4chan versus Reddit there's very little difference between the two. However, Reddit is the cluttered desk where everyone places everything as they go by. 4chan on the other hand is the never emptied trashcan. Somewhere in the clutter of Reddit there's useful information. 4chan is (has become) pretty much all trash.

    • @komos3719
      @komos3719 10 місяців тому +3

      @@john2g1 Ok well it was a short comment but I was mostly referring to contributions towards internet culture, though I think all of them have their place for their actual functions.
      In saying that, I just think that they're all relatively the same as far as "necessity" goes

  • @TheSquallAce
    @TheSquallAce 10 місяців тому +214

    That comment fron the opening!! 😂
    "Get a load of this guy! Thinking he has rights relating to his intellectual property? What a hypocrite!"
    You know, I'm beginning to think that these people are just a teensy bit dim...

    • @derdrakkar
      @derdrakkar 10 місяців тому +52

      I'm very much puzzled how they thought this argument should work. "You say using another's video as your own is bad and yet you use your own video?" Like, yes. The second part is the reason for the first one...

    • @snorpington5910
      @snorpington5910 10 місяців тому +3

      i think they're being sarcastic

    • @Eepop_stuffs
      @Eepop_stuffs 7 місяців тому +4

      ​@snorpington5910 praying to God that they are-

  • @JericoSerious
    @JericoSerious 10 місяців тому +569

    Dude. This is crazy. I was literally just watching moon and was thinking
    “Yea he 100% steals content no way he’s producing videos this fast without stealing”
    Then went to overlords video about it. And now I got your video. The world is so crazy. Thank you for making this!🎉🎉

    • @nkemnoraulmanfredini7286
      @nkemnoraulmanfredini7286 10 місяців тому +58

      moon is a grifter

    • @JustATrippyDuck
      @JustATrippyDuck 10 місяців тому

      ⁠​⁠@@nkemnoraulmanfredini7286stealing and grifting is a match made in heaven

    • @ihavenojawandimustscream4681
      @ihavenojawandimustscream4681 10 місяців тому

      Lol, i've seen people in his comment section saying things like 'moon transcends the left right divide' because he pumps out videos with wildly contradicting messages, like lashing out against moral degeneracy in one video and lashing out against moral conservatism in the other. But the likelier reason that the videos contradict each other is that, as you say, that mf just stole his s*hit from different popular content creators with different views

    • @bellabug2717
      @bellabug2717 10 місяців тому +8

      I thought the exact same thing as new videos were more than once a week

    • @justaghostinthesea
      @justaghostinthesea 10 місяців тому +2

      Who's overlord?

  • @Pentiryn
    @Pentiryn 7 місяців тому +48

    this entire video was like the meme "when the random youtuber you dislike for just being dumb and annoying and unfunny finally is outed for a legitimate reason to dislike them" for me.

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 7 місяців тому +7

      Same

    • @endo1392
      @endo1392 7 місяців тому +4

      Same

  • @tired7795
    @tired7795 10 місяців тому +100

    I stopped watching Moon after he said in one of his videos that decreasing rates of marriage and increased singleness was a sign of decreased happiness and societal decline. As an aromantic person, I unsubscribed and muted his channel so fast. Seems like I dodged a bullet.

    • @ps1hagrid786
      @ps1hagrid786 7 місяців тому +27

      Man clearly doesn't know statistics. The proof is in the pudding. Single women are happier and live longer on average than married women lol. One doesn't have to be aromantic to see the benefits of prioritising platonic love. Not to be Twighlight sparkle or anything, but friendship is indeed magic.

    • @d00styTV
      @d00styTV 7 місяців тому +9

      ​@@ps1hagrid786truly the power of friendship is what this world needs nowadays

    • @johngulster7787
      @johngulster7787 7 місяців тому +1

      left after the plagiarism scandal.

    • @circleinforthecube5170
      @circleinforthecube5170 Місяць тому

      ​@@ps1hagrid786 its why men are experiencing a "loneliness epidemic" or whatever, patriarchy puts romantic far over platonic and they (straight men mostly) don't understand why they are miserable, incel men aren't miserable because they don't have partners, its because they don't have the social framework to form deep friendships and they take it out on women because they are assholes
      i think the traditional marriage structure is also restrictive and dated, and a unfortunately large amount of people aren't really friends with their partners when a good relationship requires such a connection

  • @youokboi8556
    @youokboi8556 10 місяців тому +368

    I found Moon through a Mr Robot video essay and I genuinely think he just watched the show through clip channels because he avoided a lot of points the show makes

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +116

      Sometimes he doesn’t understand the media he’s analyzing. He would change left-leaning stories and turn into his right wing politics. He thought if walle came out it would be called fatophobic by the left even tho the movie is anti-capitalism, anti-consumerism, and anti-pollution.

    • @jenm1
      @jenm1 10 місяців тому

      That's such a shallow take I can't@@eko9554

    • @youokboi8556
      @youokboi8556 10 місяців тому +63

      @@eko9554 yeah he avoided like the entire second half of Mr Robot which is the protagonist realising his decisions were bad and he actively works on changing the world back to the way it was 😭

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +79

      ⁠@@youokboi8556One his videos was how Americans got so weak. The thumbnail showed German soldier from the film all quiet in the western front and nikoavocado who was actually born in Ukraine before moving to the US. What he doesn’t realize that all quiet in the western front is anti-war movie and depicts the scariness that the ww1 soldiers went through. He’s basically like how people think born in the USA by the boss is somehow a patriotic song.

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +40

      @@youokboi8556 An another video he made a video on gen z. The girl who somehow is a zoomer is probably in her mid 20s to early 30s. She wears egirl, punk, or alternative fashion. I’m emo btw so I know this stuff. But this was taken from a UA-camr I used to watch named Misha Petrov who’s a right wing grifter. I became a little skeptical of her where she made fun of an emo girl. She’s basically those people whenever teens wear differently than traditionally, she goes into panic mode. Just like when the emo and goth culture was created.

  • @MiriamClairify
    @MiriamClairify 10 місяців тому +1344

    this is petty, but the "why can't I just enjoy things" crowd needs to learn that one way to enjoy things is the tear them apart as if you were a dog with a stuffie.

    • @kostajovanovic3711
      @kostajovanovic3711 10 місяців тому +70

      Validation

    • @Theodore453
      @Theodore453 10 місяців тому +294

      THIS! People judge me so often for criticizing media frequently, because they think I dont know how to just enjoy things. But that's me enjoying it! Criticizing and analyzing media is fun!

    • @Lucifersfursona
      @Lucifersfursona 10 місяців тому +120

      This is literally the only way I can enjoy 99% of media with out being deeply uncomfortable
      “Why can’t you just enjoy the human body why do you think anyone needs to know how it works?!! Anyway my ankle’s all purple and I fear I have angered the lord” oh yeah?

    • @ArturGlass.C
      @ArturGlass.C 10 місяців тому +54

      For real. Me and my friend always tear movies apart when we watch them. Last time he showed me a movie and had to ask me point blank in the middle if I was enjoying it or if I needed to skip because it's hard to guess when I roast the movie either way lmao.

    • @Deg40000
      @Deg40000 10 місяців тому +63

      Honestly this reminds of the kill your darlings trope that is key to making good stories. Sometimes the poison is necessary

  • @rohith1089
    @rohith1089 10 місяців тому +598

    I lost it at the segment where he was insinuating that reddit mods were changing society itself. 😂

    • @MrGared22
      @MrGared22 10 місяців тому +86

      Jesus, really? I heard someone summarize his messages as "4chan is needed now more than ever" but I thought that was hyperbole.

    • @alexthewrecker4666
      @alexthewrecker4666 10 місяців тому +18

      ​@@MrGared22that was an actual video he made 😂

    • @MrGared22
      @MrGared22 10 місяців тому +49

      @@alexthewrecker4666 And I thought Internet Historian framing 4chan's exploits as those of "loveable rogues" was weird. At least I don't remember IH seriously, unironically saying they were "changing society".

    • @ulforcemegamon3094
      @ulforcemegamon3094 10 місяців тому +7

      Gotta agree , like that was really stupid

    • @autobotstarscream765
      @autobotstarscream765 8 місяців тому

      One permanent loss of 1 IQ from the human species at a time!

  • @royaldayz18
    @royaldayz18 10 місяців тому +92

    I'm glad someone is talking about Moon. Because I came across their Netflix video, assuming nothing, only to be flashbang'd halfway through about incoherent rants about Black Rock, China, diversity scores, and the woke mob (and I think he called the netflix employees on strike part of this "mob"??). wild that a youtube channel like that can exist the way it does.

    • @topcatfan
      @topcatfan 10 місяців тому

      Maybe you can find the problem by watching the video?​@@pseudo_negative

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 9 місяців тому +1

      @@pseudo_negativePlease leave his channel. He’s trying to manipulate you with sigma male mentality and anti-woke ideologies. He’s part of the alt right pipeline.

    • @ihavenojawandimustscream4681
      @ihavenojawandimustscream4681 9 місяців тому +2

      ​@@pseudo_negativeyou look and sound like a reddit mod

  • @van-hieuvo8208
    @van-hieuvo8208 10 місяців тому +1751

    It's bad enough he's a serial plagiarist, it's somehow even worse he's an anti-woke conspiracy theorist with the dumbest takes imaginable.

    • @ArturGlass.C
      @ArturGlass.C 10 місяців тому +372

      "anti-woke conspiracy theorist" and "dumbest takes imaginable" are basically synonymous

    • @M_M_ODonnell
      @M_M_ODonnell 10 місяців тому +78

      @@ArturGlass.C I was going to say that I'm sure I could imagine a dumber take than anything the anti-woke conspiracy theorists would buy...but I'm not sure. Maybe some tankie stuff? But the tankies are mostly anti-woke conspiracy theorists, too, so...

    • @kezia8027
      @kezia8027 10 місяців тому

      The venn-diagram of people with the dumbest takes imaginable and anti-woke conspiracy theorists is a circle.

    • @kostajovanovic3711
      @kostajovanovic3711 10 місяців тому +4

      Oh, the plot deepens​@@M_M_ODonnell

    • @codedGiraffe
      @codedGiraffe 10 місяців тому +40

      Plagiarism is actually the best he can do. Thinking more would mean having to reconcile your own shit takes

  • @vikkipink1288
    @vikkipink1288 10 місяців тому +216

    It’s not like you were only one who thought it was going to be a bad movie even if that had been your main point. That trailer looked awful and almost every comment was negative on it. But in a way that might have actually helped it. Sometimes it can help to go into a movie with very low expectations because it becomes a pleasant surprise.

    • @kezia8027
      @kezia8027 10 місяців тому +31

      Honestly, this is what happened with me and Barbie. I was expecting the most vapid, unenlightened, nostalgia-bait laiden schlock, that when they actually did put some serious thought and effort into it, I was truly pleasantly surprised! My partner on the other hand... They thought it was going to be super progressive and enlightened (by todays standards) and felt sorely disappointed.
      It was really interesting to see both of our opinions change so dramatically based mostly around our preconceived assumptions! (and for once, the pessimists win a point! but that'll probably be the last one we ever get...)

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 10 місяців тому +2

      @kezia8027 How'd you think that about Barbie with its director and writer combo? And maybe it's taught you a big budget franchise movie isn't automatically "shlock". Can good art not come from anywhere? To deny otherwise is its own form of anti-intellectualism

    • @kezia8027
      @kezia8027 10 місяців тому +7

      @@ChangedMyNameFinally69 it's because it's a product meant to sell Mattel products... It was still schlock that didn't really say much of anything, I just thought it had decent production value. In terms of activist messages it was painfully outdated and still heavily misogynistic through the lens of someone who has more than zero understanding of feminism.
      It was decent as someone's first foray into the topics at hand, but for anyone who was already even remotely aware, it was more basic and simple than babies first activism. Talking points from 15 years ago. It really was pretty garbage, but when the general populace has such ingrained misogyny - anything that moves the needle even the tiniest fraction in the right direction is good, even if it isn't groundbreaking or phenomenal story telling.
      Also, the directors of a product is meaningless for stuff like this. Like I said, it has nice production value but honestly it was pretty low grade schlock intellectually that really didn't have anything to say, so I think the directors still failed to provide any real value there.
      But if you want a movie about women that had good production value that isn't AWFUL in terms of representation for women, then you could go a lot worse.

    • @kezia8027
      @kezia8027 10 місяців тому +5

      @@ChangedMyNameFinally69 if anything it taught me that the general public is not even remotely discerning, and their opinion on most topics will probably be woefully outdated, and even after being exposed to it, will probably not look beyond the surface level of a topic and that most people would prefer to examine films from a lens of consumption and nostalgia, rather than being critical of the media they consume.

  • @KnaveMurdok
    @KnaveMurdok 10 місяців тому +83

    My favourite genre of UA-camr is "the things I say are so dangerous that if I said them, the man would come after me and shut me down! That's why I have 800 videos on UA-cam, the most popular video site in the world, and 10 million subscribers! I better be careful, or else my 14th year doing this exact same bullshit could be my last!"

    • @starboi404
      @starboi404 7 місяців тому +14

      Bonus points if the channel has the gall to have a Patreon, where people can get access to videos that "they cant show to the public" for "reasons."

    • @T3nMiDGET5711
      @T3nMiDGET5711 7 місяців тому

      @@starboi404hopefully butt pics

  • @damien678
    @damien678 10 місяців тому +290

    Considering how often Moon uploads... this isn't surprising

  • @LauraBow
    @LauraBow 10 місяців тому +310

    Moon is def an oddball. He lost me in his video about the education system where he complained about schools teaching things like consent.

    • @avelynn5976
      @avelynn5976 10 місяців тому +143

      thats an incredibly suspicious complaint to make. someone check his hard drive just in case.

    • @MudEater
      @MudEater 10 місяців тому +34

      what the scallop huh

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +56

      Huge red flag he put the new lgbt flag on his thumbnail and keeps using that an other videos.

    • @LauraBow
      @LauraBow 10 місяців тому +99

      @@eko9554 it's wierd because he'll bring up issues the left talks about but then he'll blame the left (or China) for it. They guy is def a grifter

    • @SarastistheSerpent
      @SarastistheSerpent 10 місяців тому

      @@LauraBowwhich is a bit ironic considering the CCP is notoriously anti-LGBT

  • @SunnyOnTheInside
    @SunnyOnTheInside 10 місяців тому +255

    "It's woke to have original thoughts." - Plagiarists, probably.

    • @bramdoe3303
      @bramdoe3303 Місяць тому

      What kind of nothing statement is this? It’s not even a joke or irony or anything. You may as well have put random words together and hit send.

    • @dialga236
      @dialga236 24 дні тому

      ​@bramdoe3303 i know the structure of the joke is incredibly subtle if you cant read, but maybe put it into a text to speech program. it may help you understand the joke! hope this helps!

  • @kenlee4356
    @kenlee4356 10 місяців тому +415

    Moon was lucky that he narrowly avoided hbombs wrath

    • @RobVespa
      @RobVespa 10 місяців тому +47

      Shame.

    • @djrydell
      @djrydell 10 місяців тому +67

      For now............

    • @LittleHerdaz
      @LittleHerdaz 10 місяців тому +17

      Harris is always watching 😅

    • @SarastistheSerpent
      @SarastistheSerpent 10 місяців тому +43

      I don’t think it would’ve made a difference. Moon seems to have a very right wing audience and they do not care at all about plagiarism

    • @kenlee4356
      @kenlee4356 10 місяців тому +51

      @@SarastistheSerpent unfortunately you're right. Just looking at how most Internet historian fans reacted to hbombs video

  • @ramblinevilmushroom
    @ramblinevilmushroom 10 місяців тому +146

    "you have poison in your brain" is now an insult i will use.

  • @alexandriantria5695
    @alexandriantria5695 10 місяців тому +70

    This is why I'm skeptical of channels that upload at such an unreal pace with "quality" scripts and editing, because they do so by banking on the hard work of others.

  • @Robustacap
    @Robustacap 10 місяців тому +58

    "Moon"? What an appropriate name! Has no light of its own, but rather just reflects light of another source...

    • @goranisacson2502
      @goranisacson2502 10 місяців тому +10

      That line is so good I'm going to borrow it for later use... and totally give you all the credit. Not gonna repost it on my own in a context where I'm given more attention and act like I came up with it. That'd be SUPER-bad of me, and why would you even accuse me of that, that's gaslighting, is what it is.

  • @seri-ously8591
    @seri-ously8591 10 місяців тому +205

    Moon is a gifter, one that adopted the unfortunately popular format of SunnyV2 and the "everything is bad" concept of Jake Tran and combine the two. I watched his videos when he was much smaller and as he gained a large community, the videos he put out similarly echos those creators he took inspiration from and spiraled into unfounded and baseless territory of unhinged commentary.

    • @JohnGardnerAlhadis
      @JohnGardnerAlhadis 10 місяців тому +19

      Apropos of Jake Tran, I recall he pumped out content at an absurd pace that could only be reasonably explained by plagiarism. His video on Nestlé reminded me immediately of Ordinary Things's videos on the same topic, although I didn't compare them side-by-side. Wouldn't surprise me if Jake ripped the entire video off wholesale and faffed around with second- and third-person voice by way of "paraphrasing".

    • @ahdog8
      @ahdog8 10 місяців тому +3

      depends on how early "early" is for you, but I watched his video on why Discord is terrible and thought it wasn't very good either, so maybe he was just always like this

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 9 місяців тому +3

      @@ahdog8Moons discord video encouraged fans to join his discord server which is so ironic and not that many people pointed that out

    • @T3nMiDGET5711
      @T3nMiDGET5711 7 місяців тому +2

      Does Gifter mean he’s giving out gifts? Like santa claus?

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 7 місяців тому +1

      @@T3nMiDGET5711 No grifters are people who trick others

  • @jonincannon
    @jonincannon 10 місяців тому +143

    I went into Wonka thinking of the Wonka doesn’t work video- I think the background of it really added to my experience. Because the whimsical beginning makes sense for wonka, but now I want to know what happens in the middle that turns him into his broken misanthropic self.
    Strongly considering writing a fanfic for it cause it’s dominating a portion of my brain

  • @queztocoaxial
    @queztocoaxial 10 місяців тому +79

    "Shamalay." "Arbitary." Moon's entire job is talking into a mic and he can't even do that correctly.

    • @Tretas.
      @Tretas. 10 місяців тому +16

      20:29 _"doggy dog attitute"_

  • @larissabrglum3856
    @larissabrglum3856 10 місяців тому +73

    I've never heard of this Moon guy, but his style of content is remarkably similar to that of iilluminaughtii, just with a right-wing conspiratorial bent. Even the thumbnails have the exact same visual style.

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому

      Blair is left wing, she called out on companies who did exploitable practices. However what I don’t get she made a video on Westboro Baptist Church a hate group and somehow is part of the corporate casket series when it’s not even a company. She also did that on MAPs too but Blair doesn’t realize it was a far right 4 Chan hoax.

    • @UnfortunatelyTheHunger
      @UnfortunatelyTheHunger 10 місяців тому +14

      that's how you get away with pumping bullshit, by dressing it up in enough production quality

    • @larissabrglum3856
      @larissabrglum3856 10 місяців тому +4

      ​@@UnfortunatelyTheHunger For sure. I do enjoy the idea that he copied Blair's style, because that would mean plagiarism upon plagiarism!

    • @lajourdanne
      @lajourdanne 10 місяців тому +5

      I was thinking the same thing! For a second I was wondering if both channels were owned by the same parent company or something 😂

    • @steamboatwill3.367
      @steamboatwill3.367 5 місяців тому

      ​@@lajourdanne) so they were appealing to "both sides"?

  • @constantreader1422
    @constantreader1422 10 місяців тому +90

    the channel's name being moon is funny, just reflecting other's light/content without being able to make their own. 😂

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +14

      Ironic or maybe that was intentional

    • @Jyan69420
      @Jyan69420 9 місяців тому +1

      stolen comment

    • @circleinforthecube5170
      @circleinforthecube5170 Місяць тому

      damn, ive never seen someone roast the moon (the actual moon not just the dumb anti-woke loser)

  • @Cheyne_TetraMFG
    @Cheyne_TetraMFG 10 місяців тому +3641

    I find it amazing that Moon puts literal child pornography on the same level as…a music video with a guy dressed up as Satan. What an amazing brain he has.
    Edit: thanks for the likes, free Palestine

    • @larissabrglum3856
      @larissabrglum3856 10 місяців тому +535

      It turns out all you have to do to scare the daylights out of some grown adults is put on a cartoony devil costume

    • @spinozatheobvious626
      @spinozatheobvious626 10 місяців тому +212

      People really do have different values, and the tricky part is how we negotiate those values when it comes to social issues. In the 1930s one of the primary main reasons people were opposed to marijuana is that smoking it could apparently lead to listening to jazz.

    • @Unhingeddirtdog
      @Unhingeddirtdog 10 місяців тому +90

      Goes to show how little media literacy he actually has
      Ugh so stupid

    • @urgae9125
      @urgae9125 10 місяців тому +111

      @@spinozatheobvious626to think I liked jazz before I started 🍃
      Then again, they’d hate me on appearance alone.

    • @backlogbuddies
      @backlogbuddies 10 місяців тому +308

      @@spinozatheobvious626 I don't care how different your values are. If you think videos of someone committing awful acts towards children is the same as a dude dressed up as the devil then I want nothing to do with you.

  • @TeleviseGuy
    @TeleviseGuy 10 місяців тому +218

    Moon dogwhistled the Blackrock conspiracy at one point. Ever since then I stopped trusting them as a source of information about the entertainment industry.

    • @Gustoberg
      @Gustoberg 10 місяців тому +21

      pls explain what this conspiracy is, I love to shit on conspiracies

    • @anthonyiglesias1221
      @anthonyiglesias1221 10 місяців тому +28

      Isn’t black rock that conglomerate

    • @airplanes_aren.t_real
      @airplanes_aren.t_real 10 місяців тому

      What's that?

    • @Nanook128
      @Nanook128 10 місяців тому +2

      What conspiracy?

    • @TeleviseGuy
      @TeleviseGuy 10 місяців тому

      @@Gustoberg According to some people, Blackrock and similar companies have so much influence in the stock market that they use it to inject left-leaning values into media

  • @outofideas6243
    @outofideas6243 10 місяців тому +79

    Plagiarists will see the most wonderful and well made review, copy it, change its meaning, and make something that doesn’t make sense.

  • @tasheve3015
    @tasheve3015 10 місяців тому +34

    i used to watch moon’s videos (i like listening to video essays as background noise) then one day i noticed he’d started yapping on about the Chinese government conspiring to take over the world, and also started throwing in the word “woke”, and i thought “what the fuck is he going on about?” and immediately unsubscribed

  • @SpellboundSpectre
    @SpellboundSpectre 10 місяців тому +92

    This moon guy felt way too fearmongering at first glance. He most definitely is

    • @danielcrafter9349
      @danielcrafter9349 10 місяців тому +35

      Literally how being Right-wing works, tho; vis.
      1. Be afraid of change of something different
      2. Make up a lie about that thing to scare others
      3. ???
      4. Profit (off the fear you've caused over something you've just made up)

    • @SpellboundSpectre
      @SpellboundSpectre 10 місяців тому +18

      @@danielcrafter9349 exactly. And the worst part is, and especially in the movie scene, people will claim to be “unbiased” but still hate a specific film sheerly because its either a diverse cast or is even a bit transformative from the original

    • @sabersin5368-c2c
      @sabersin5368-c2c 10 місяців тому

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@danielcrafter9349Again…this is literally, to the T, exactly what y’all have been doing for the last decade…
      1. Live in perpetual fear of insecurity of boogeymen (Nazis and fascists)
      2. Spread lies to other people by distorting reality
      3. Cause fabricated outrage about said boogeymen
      4. Protest and riot over these boogeymen
      5. Make corporations indulge you because you feel persecuted
      6. Create new political enemies as a result
      7. Use new enemies as examples of the boogeymen you’ve been screaming about in this self fulfilling prophecy

    • @akhimahathir2004
      @akhimahathir2004 10 місяців тому +1

      @@sabersin5368-c2c L

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +6

      @@SpellboundSpectreThey’ll get mad if the characters are lgbt even tho that’s what people were begging for

  • @veritasetcaritas
    @veritasetcaritas 10 місяців тому +53

    I really hope people don't just watch this video for the Moon content, because your examination of the Wonka story and movies at the start was first class. It also raises the interesting question of whether or not movies should rehabilitate problematic stories like the original Dahl novel, or present them in their raw form. I think it depends on whether or not they're representing the problematic aspects in a positive light. This would be an interesting topic for a follow up video.

  • @mrspreminger
    @mrspreminger 10 місяців тому +122

    If an individual UA-camr(even with a team behind them) is making this many video “essays” in a short period of time, there’s a good chance their videos are plagiarizing and/or spreading misinformation. There’s a reason high quality video essayists like the right opinion, Sarah z, Shaun, Big Joel, Contrapoints, etc. don’t post videos very often. It’s because they’re videos are high quality and take a lot of time to research and make. Though maybe my point is incorrect because Little Joel makes the most high quality videos and he posts every day.

    • @northstarjakobs
      @northstarjakobs 10 місяців тому +44

      Little Joel just has a staff of even Littler Joels underneath him at his beck and call and they're the ones who make those videos happen

    • @JohnGardnerAlhadis
      @JohnGardnerAlhadis 10 місяців тому +2

      ​@@northstarjakobs Is this the same Joel who criticised the film _300_ for being cryptofash? That was such an unbelievably dumb take, I felt my brain cells slipping away the longer the vid progressed. I couldn't bring myself to finish it, it was that dumb.

    • @TheRockerX
      @TheRockerX 10 місяців тому +12

      It's not even a hot take anymore that 300 has strong fascistic overtones@@JohnGardnerAlhadis

    • @mAdwizARD-ve2zl
      @mAdwizARD-ve2zl 10 місяців тому

      Don't reccamend leftist garbage

    • @chrisz7494
      @chrisz7494 9 місяців тому +3

      This was the red flag for me, after waking up from Jake Tran and illuminaughti. (Also going to plug Philosophy Tube as another fantastic video essayist!!)

  • @KarolYuuki
    @KarolYuuki 10 місяців тому +87

    Oh man, I was reading the comments before watching and was feeling so sad that moon was a plagiarist. I always thought their videos were so good and well researched.
    But in the middle of the video I realized that it's a different moon! The moon that I watch is "moon channel", a lawyer that usually talks about games. Hahahah I feel better now

  • @dougthedonkey1805
    @dougthedonkey1805 10 місяців тому +69

    Wait did he just call the storming of the capital “the January 6th PROTESTS”

    • @AmberCommentsThings
      @AmberCommentsThings 10 місяців тому

      But burning down an entire city is just "peaceful protests"?

  • @BriAngel476
    @BriAngel476 10 місяців тому +48

    woke movies bad but barbie good is not the take i thought id hear today.
    my favorite movies in 2023 were barbie, across the spiderverse, and godzilla minus one, all of which were very popular and could be argued are "woke". people who complain about "wokeness" in media either know they're lying and dont care or are just incapable of any analysis beyond the most surface level takes.

    • @thecanadianfuhrer8602
      @thecanadianfuhrer8602 10 місяців тому

      all successful films must be antiwoke (no matter how insane it makes them look}, otherwise the mantra of "go woke go broke" becomes obviously false, and the cognitive dissonance is easier to bear when its drip fed per each new release as opposed to admitting they and their ideas are retarded, unmarketable, and most importantly, not the "silent majority"

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +7

      It’s so stupid that woke has now become part of nerdy fandoms and believe it’s genuine criticism.

    • @simoneidson21
      @simoneidson21 4 місяці тому

      "Woke" is just a word for anything conservatives don't like

    • @circleinforthecube5170
      @circleinforthecube5170 Місяць тому +1

      @@eko9554 only conservative/centrist/neoliberal nerds, its sad because most nerd culture isin't conservative, shit star trek tng would be seen as woke because it shows a post capitalist utopia where everyone has basic needs met (shit, patrick stewart is a socialist in real life)
      yet, conservatives somewhat still like it, i think its because they don't know what they are saying or what the episodes mean

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 Місяць тому +1

      @@circleinforthecube5170 I believe that they purposely ruined and monopolized film criticism and caused early 2022 to mid 2024 Disney’s unpopularity. Think about it in early 2022, Encanto was so popular but when turning red came out, the alt right unfairly called the movie woke.

  • @Evanz111
    @Evanz111 10 місяців тому +94

    I love how most people basically just summarised your set of two nuanced analytical videos as “haha he thought Wonka bad but Wonka was actually good, point and laugh at dumb UA-camr”
    That, or the people who did actually watch the video massively misunderstood the points you were trying to make. The internet is obsessed with sorting things into good or bad, and seemed to just think you were there to hate on the film.

  • @fractalicflow
    @fractalicflow 10 місяців тому +193

    overall, my greatest disappointment on all UA-cam drama is the fact that Shad had not accepted the duel... other then that, great work you guys

    • @Lucifersfursona
      @Lucifersfursona 10 місяців тому

      Maybe when he figures out how to draw terrifying porn of his opponents

    • @youtubesurfin
      @youtubesurfin 10 місяців тому

      can you fill me in?

    • @Kingcrimson_1456
      @Kingcrimson_1456 10 місяців тому +11

      Jack called out shad for the Mario movie check out the video to get full context

  • @thatpedanticcommenter5847
    @thatpedanticcommenter5847 10 місяців тому +71

    Yo wait, we about to see a kind of UA-cam cultural revolution here where people become better at detecting and calling out the plagiarist/content mill channels for what they are? Did Hbomberguy light a fuse here or am I high on hyperbole?

    • @geraltrivia9565
      @geraltrivia9565 10 місяців тому +29

      Probably just everyone sick of it too. There are way too many Moon’s, SunnyV2’s and MoistCritikal’s in the UA-cam landscape

    • @aaaah540
      @aaaah540 10 місяців тому

      I don’t think so. The left cares about plagiarism, hence the downfall of Illuminaughtii and James Somerton. But the right doesn’t care about morality one bit, which is why folks like Internet Historian and Moon are still going strong.

    • @kostajovanovic3711
      @kostajovanovic3711 10 місяців тому

      ​@@geraltrivia9565will the last one summon some ire from some people? Glad he's also grouped here

    • @ARStudios2000
      @ARStudios2000 9 місяців тому +1

      @@geraltrivia9565 I'm with you on that.

    • @simoneidson21
      @simoneidson21 4 місяці тому +1

      @@geraltrivia9565 The fuck? MoistCrit1kal isn't on the same tier as any of these content mills

  • @SomasAcademy
    @SomasAcademy 10 місяців тому +65

    I watched one Moon video once, it seemed like a pretty solid video essay about neocolonialism by petroleum companies in Nigeria, and then at the end he launched into what sounded like a generic ad read for Ground News - you know, a little spiel about bias in the media and how you never know what sources to trust - only to announce the unbiased sponsor of the video as The Epoch Times.

    • @Stormthorn67
      @Stormthorn67 10 місяців тому +19

      Well of course he had to do that at the end. Would any sensible person keep watching if he OPENED with that.

    • @christophergreen6595
      @christophergreen6595 10 місяців тому +4

      Epoch times made an effort to 'clean up' their sloppy act a few years ago that included pipelining more carefully and backstopping a bunch of other content creators. I remember hearing about it... but you saw it in the wild!

    • @VitaminNick-k1r
      @VitaminNick-k1r 10 місяців тому

      He also kinda sexsist . He made a video that called “why men are weaker then ever before “
      Im not joking

  • @DragonNexus
    @DragonNexus 3 місяці тому +17

    The idea that there's no politics in the Wonka story is laughable.
    It's about a boy growing up in poverty in a family that's only just scraping by because his father works in a toothpaste factory. And then his father loses his job because it becomes increasingly automated and can do his job faster and cheaper.
    It's a scathing critique of capitalism right out the gate. That to survive in the modern world we've built a society where you need to work in an often pointless job to get paid money. And even then your job can just vanish leaving you with nothing.
    The hunt for the golden tickets is shown to vastly support the wealthy. The Salt family have enogh money to buy bars of chocolate in the millions, getting their employees to stop doing their actual job of shelling peanuts to shell chocolate bars instead. The average person has no hope against that.
    The only reason Charlie gets one at all is because he gives into a bit of greed to buy chocolate in the hopes of winning, instead of using that money he found to help his family. You could even view that as an investment that paid off, an incredibly lucky and unlikely event for someone in poverty.
    Media is full of politics if you have any kind of media literacy. What I think a lot of people want is to go back in time to when they weren't media literate and didn't pick up on this stuff.

  • @jomaq9233
    @jomaq9233 10 місяців тому +74

    “Anti-woke” Illuminaughtii isn’t real, he can’t hurt you-

    • @autobotstarscream765
      @autobotstarscream765 8 місяців тому +13

      He? Blair's pronouns are rip/off.

    • @d00styTV
      @d00styTV 7 місяців тому +11

      ​@@autobotstarscream765i thought blair's pronouns were fraud/ulent

    • @Spubbily01
      @Spubbily01 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@d00styTV scam/artist

    • @CrazyMatthew-dm5ri
      @CrazyMatthew-dm5ri 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@autobotstarscream765I thought they were plagi/arism

    • @Anonymous-d3w
      @Anonymous-d3w Місяць тому +1

      ​@@CrazyMatthew-dm5riThey must be grif/ter

  • @Autistic_Menace00
    @Autistic_Menace00 10 місяців тому +235

    It’s so gross to me how many people will talk about China but not the genocide of the Uyghurs or the oppression of Taiwan. They only care about some imaginary threat to U.S. and not the real perversions of human rights being committed.

    • @nicovelardita8619
      @nicovelardita8619 10 місяців тому +55

      The Red Scare never left

    • @rhumal
      @rhumal 10 місяців тому +28

      Taiwan is not being oppressed lol, but the Uighurs are a fair point. But people do talk about the Uighurs bc people in the imperial core love to talk about other nations' acts of ethnic cleansing and not their own.

    • @Autistic_Menace00
      @Autistic_Menace00 10 місяців тому +3

      @@rhumal Are you kidding me? China has been heavily threatening invasion of Taiwan since April of this year

    • @Autistic_Menace00
      @Autistic_Menace00 10 місяців тому +16

      I just realized it’s 2024 now. Goddamnit. *since April of last year

    • @clairehsuclaire
      @clairehsuclaire 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@rhumal Taiwan is usually unbothered and moisturized in its own lane. It's just that China gatekeeps Taiwan from forming formal international diplomatic relationships and participating in worldwide government organizations (like the United Nations). And from time to time (& much more frequently now), the CCP will threaten to seize Taiwan eventually. But yeah, the Uyghur concentration camps are fucked up. The denial and gaslighting from the CCP and its supporters enrage me to no end.

  • @amywilson7540
    @amywilson7540 10 місяців тому +91

    I watched a Moon video once - got lured in by a clickbait title - and at first I thought it was good, but by the time I got halfway through it became clear that it was some sort of conspiracy theory channel. Thank you for talking about it: people need to have their guard up if they get recommended this channel by the UA-cam algorithm.

    • @Syuvinya
      @Syuvinya 10 місяців тому +2

      same

    • @starboi404
      @starboi404 7 місяців тому +1

      That reminds me of a video that I came across on my recommended, which was literally titled "You will never do anything remarkable". At first seeing that video in my recommended demoralized me, and felt too scared to watch it. However a bit of time later I realized that no matter what, he can't possibly say anything that could be even close to right, not in a million years, and that the video would go off of only assumptions, which doesn't make for "societal commentary taken to the next level".
      Yeah "to the next level"... of their basement...
      Because it seems to me that mentally, this channel has never seen the light of day.

  • @yerocb
    @yerocb 10 місяців тому +58

    How much I pay attention: your first video was how I found out there was going to be a new Wonka. I actually stopped it to watch the preview.
    As an Elementary School teacher and a parent who has actually read both Wonka books aloud to each of my kids, read a large portion of his works (including his autobiography) and seen nearly every movie version (if not all), I have absolutely struggled with Dahl's overt racism and antisemitism and the contrast between his books and movies.
    I thought it was a great video and understood immediately why it worked the way it did. I was also awaiting your follow up once it came out. Of course i haven't seen it yet and had to skip the review chunk because i don't want spoilers!
    I'll be back.
    I also thought you were going to tie it to the incredible (and i believe under appreciated) 2009 Sam Rockwell movie Moon. Of course, i now realize that was not what was happened, but i wanted to use that misunderstanding as an excuse to tell the world to see the 2009 Sam Rockwell movie Moon.
    Seriously. It only works because he is an incredible actor.

    • @brassen
      @brassen 10 місяців тому +6

      Moon is indeed a great movie.

    • @tibbygaycat
      @tibbygaycat 10 місяців тому +4

      OH YEAH I loved Moon!

  • @shadyguy23
    @shadyguy23 10 місяців тому +32

    Unrelated to the plagiarism stuff, my general Wonka take was "this is a fine film for kids, but isn't really a Wonka movie". I feel like based on where we see Wonka in the original book/film, it would've been a much more powerful message if you had the same setup, even had Wonka start as naïve and whimsical, but getting beaten down by the system gradually brings out a darkness in him, pushing him to take more and more extreme measures to fight the cartel, until their feud gets one of Wonka's new friends killed. All that would ultimately lead to Wonka succeeding, but deciding he has to withdraw from the world to avoid hurting people, and ends up becoming the same kind of heartless capitalist he was trying to fight originally. All that remains of his original whimsy is a mask, kept in place to disguise the hollowness within, and avoid responsibility for the harm he does. This would be way too dark for a family film and feels a bit too close to an edgelord take of 'what if you did Wonka Breaking Bad?' or 'Wonka Whiplash', but I think that would've been a much stronger ending that actually ties into the 'whimsical-but-cruel/lonely/mad' Wonka that Gene Wilder captured so well.

  • @yann6109
    @yann6109 10 місяців тому +83

    My favorite thing about plagiarists is when they change a few words in a text they're ripping off of and make it worse in the process. E.g. in 20:09 - "Adderall is very close to meth chemically" (which just states the fact about the chemical formula) vs. "Adderall is pretty much meth in itself" (which is quite dangerous take to spread about prescribed medicine)
    And the other thing - it feels kinda weird to me that while talking about problems of YT, he chose to put alleged csam next to... Lil Nas X music video. There are tons of suggestive content out there, and he decided to mention specifically a work of a gay man...? I hope it's just an unfortunate coincidence

    • @BishopShotgun
      @BishopShotgun 10 місяців тому +10

      I saw another comment mention yours, I just wanted to say I agree. If you take a 30 XMR of adderall on tolerance and needed it for ADHD you’re not even getting a salt speck of meth effects unless you’re purposely dosing yourself that way and are likely neurotypical.

    • @avelynn5976
      @avelynn5976 10 місяців тому +8

      ​@@BishopShotgun not addressing the difference in how adderall will affect a neurotypical person vs an adhder is very deliberate

    • @chuckbatmangaming
      @chuckbatmangaming 10 місяців тому

      Oh no way the Lil Nas X thing is just a coincidence, the whole POINT of that music video was to conflate his own sexuality with demonic imagery just like homophobes do. He was co-opting their own rhetoric about him but to them it just proves their point. Moon citing that video in the same breath as child pornography is all I need to know he's a homophobe

  • @lillywho
    @lillywho 10 місяців тому +392

    I mean, his low testosterone reddit mod theory kind of checks out. I've got feminine phenotype hormone levels and I'm a reddit mod.
    What incredible sloothing Moon has managed here!
    (No, seriously, I love how he forgets that women and NB people can be moderators, too.)

    • @JustATrippyDuck
      @JustATrippyDuck 10 місяців тому +73

      I’ve never heard of the guy before, but I can’t say I’m surprised that he ignores facts that don’t support his opinions

    • @lillywho
      @lillywho 10 місяців тому +88

      @@JustATrippyDuck I daresay it's not even an intentional ignoring. It's just being up his own arse so much that he not only can't empathise with anyone not like himself, but even forgets their existence.

    • @losfogo7149
      @losfogo7149 10 місяців тому +13

      @@JustATrippyDuck i remember seeing his videos when he started out and he was promising i swear, now it's just low tier 4chan theories

    • @losfogo7149
      @losfogo7149 10 місяців тому

      @@RobVespa nb people and women are people like us, so they suck ass. Go figure

    • @lillywho
      @lillywho 10 місяців тому +77

      @@RobVespa Eh... My implication that I find moon to be sexist... is sexist?
      On the rest... No comment. I've actually got morals so don't lump me in with those gits.

  • @BackgroundCharacter1
    @BackgroundCharacter1 10 місяців тому +472

    Once someone plagiarizes it's safe to say they can never be trusted again

    • @ShirubaGin
      @ShirubaGin 10 місяців тому +22

      Once a criminal always a criminal? Eh

    • @Kalitayy
      @Kalitayy 10 місяців тому +20

      Unless, they start making let's play videos or whatever they won't have to write anything

    • @birbeyboop
      @birbeyboop 10 місяців тому +89

      I don't think that's true. but as long as we lack any way of really holding people accountable for it I can understand why people feel this way.

    • @joesiemoneit2787
      @joesiemoneit2787 10 місяців тому +4

      Did you come up with that yourself?😂

    • @vetreas366
      @vetreas366 10 місяців тому +73

      It really is a pretty bad take. Allow people a chance to redeem themselves. That doesn't mean you need to trust blindly and can double-check to see if they're still up to their shenanigans but to say you can't ever trust them again is a bit too absolute.
      People actually can change and become better. If you don't want to bother with giving them a second chance, that's fine, but don't make it sound like second chances are an impossibility to even start with. What's the point of even trying to learn from your mistakes if you know you apparently can't ever be trusted again? It's not a good motivator to get people to fix their shit.

  • @stan8479
    @stan8479 10 місяців тому +25

    As an amateur but experienced escapist, I love when my escapism has hard-hitting social commentary. For example, as someone living below the poverty line, Squid Game hit particularly hard because if this were a real practice in my country, someone in my family (if not I, myself) would sign up to be able to afford housing and food. Yes, it's a good story on its own, and the characters really make you feel for them... but it's a different story entirely when they're talking about things you have had to deal with, and people are sympathising with it and advocating for change. Just my two cents.

    • @EdgyPuer
      @EdgyPuer 10 місяців тому +10

      If you're an experienced escapist how come you haven't escaped poverty?

  • @salty4life
    @salty4life 10 місяців тому +43

    Moon is guilty of being the thing I find most disgusting and despise the most on the internet.
    A content mill... No need to go much further

  • @deathseekr1537
    @deathseekr1537 7 місяців тому +22

    Moon uses wojaks in every single video, that's already bad enough

  • @Adam1Gee
    @Adam1Gee 10 місяців тому +75

    Finally, a large UA-camr other than Overlord Gaming is covering this guy in a critical way!

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +13

      Me too. 2024 is definitely the year Moon’s downfall would happen even though I have been waiting since 2022. Just like how 2023 was Illuminaughtii’s downfall.

  • @Xethl
    @Xethl 10 місяців тому +15

    it's not really UA-cam that rewards negative clickbait, it's ourselves. People are way more likely to engage with something that makes them directly or indirectly angry or something they can criticise. I remember seeing a post where someone said whenever they posted a question for help on reddit they'd get no response, but if they left a completely incorrect answer on an alt account they would suddenly receive lots of useful help as people tried to 'dunk' on the first reply

  • @calisims258
    @calisims258 10 місяців тому +27

    The first video I watch from him was of American Psycho and wow. He legit did zero research. Essentially he was saying that American Psycho was a warning and even sympathizes with Patrick Bateman. Eventhough the movie was written by two lesbian who were mocking cis men.

    • @simoneidson21
      @simoneidson21 4 місяці тому +5

      And the book was written by a gay man. It's heavily implied that Patrick is a closeted gay man

  • @bloodyneptune
    @bloodyneptune 10 місяців тому +48

    "Hollywood needs to make more original movies...like the 87th Snow White adaptation they're making" sure, Moon

  • @TwinRiver100
    @TwinRiver100 10 місяців тому +34

    Thanks for having a little bit of pushback on Moon. The videos of his I came across a few years ago were super fear-baity, trying to appeal the emotion of something is wrong and going to the right wing talking pts. Also some stuff felt a little off and conspiracy-like. The biggest example I can think of was his reddit video and the talk about the founder that passed away. Something about the way he talked about him made it sound like he was assassinated. But recently I came across a Behind the Bastards podcast episode that seemed to go more in depth and cover details and background Moon never touched on.

  • @dragonetafireball
    @dragonetafireball 10 місяців тому +56

    I did did laugh when someone on the last vid thought you saying white washed was about race.

    • @tygerchickchibi
      @tygerchickchibi 10 місяців тому +21

      Tbh white washed is used in that context when talking about casting in films (replacing POC characters with cultural significance with white actors)...
      But I also knew the original definition and the context that was referenced in Jack's video and I was surprised commentators were so aggressive about it.
      It's more or less the whole "anti-sjw" mindset that brought them to respond so angrily, I think.

  • @paulhanhan1112
    @paulhanhan1112 10 місяців тому +89

    It's unfortunate that Moon could be confused for another creator named Moon Channel eho is a great creator covering video games, history, and law

    • @jomaq9233
      @jomaq9233 10 місяців тому +8

      lol I got a little nervous

    • @aturchomicz821
      @aturchomicz821 10 місяців тому +22

      Moon Channel is so wholesome, they would never do this😭😭

    • @melaniey.5596
      @melaniey.5596 10 місяців тому +24

      I was searching for this comment. Moon Channel is like the alternative universe good version of Moon lmao. From covering Asian video games (with a dash of history) topics and having very progressive and feminist themes in his channel while being openly Christian, moonie is like diametrically opposite of that guy lol.

    • @twotruckslyrics
      @twotruckslyrics 10 місяців тому

      idk what to trust

    • @paulhanhan1112
      @paulhanhan1112 10 місяців тому +13

      @@twotruckslyrics Moon Channel is a completely different creator that happens to have a similar name

  • @matthewgarner7215
    @matthewgarner7215 10 місяців тому +25

    Moon sounds like that weird homeless guy that wears a “The End Is Near!” sign.

  • @binyot5505
    @binyot5505 10 місяців тому +36

    Moon has it all:
    - clickbaits
    - content mill videos
    - a monotone voice that sounds AI synthetized

    • @Nelvinkumar
      @Nelvinkumar 10 місяців тому +2

      Don't forget
      pro-Ukraine and pro-Taiwan.

    • @VitaminNick-k1r
      @VitaminNick-k1r 10 місяців тому +8

      Don’t forget the following
      .slaps the word hell in all his thumbnail’s
      .anti sjw content
      . Insults a specific country or race or gender or generation.

    • @steamboatwill3.367
      @steamboatwill3.367 5 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Nelvinkumar) really? not pro-russia?

    • @pudgesnextturnaround3112
      @pudgesnextturnaround3112 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@Nelvinkumar Uhhh i don't think politics have something to with this?

    • @Anonymous-d3w
      @Anonymous-d3w Місяць тому +1

      What has Ukraine got to do with this????​@@Nelvinkumar

  • @jeepmega629
    @jeepmega629 9 місяців тому +32

    I love how his most recent video, at the time of this comment being posted, is called “How the Internet destroyed critical thinking “
    As if he has any himself.

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 9 місяців тому +16

      Funny how if people criticize him for stealing content, he deletes their comments.

    • @jeepmega629
      @jeepmega629 9 місяців тому +17

      @@eko9554 Yeah that something that a lot of UA-camrs do.
      They’re exposed for being horrible people, and they start deleting any comment talking about the thing they’ve done.

  • @gulchbrammer1967
    @gulchbrammer1967 10 місяців тому +55

    0:09 idk any of the context but there's a difference between downloading a game and trying to pass that game off as your own work

    • @gulchbrammer1967
      @gulchbrammer1967 10 місяців тому +4

      doesn't have to be a game, could be a film or an album or something

  • @NiallOSullivan
    @NiallOSullivan 10 місяців тому +59

    I saw a Moon video ages ago and, after overcoming my initial prejudice against posh english accents, identified it is not worth my time because of my very reliable red flag about unironic use of archive footage.

  • @OpelsiSq
    @OpelsiSq 10 місяців тому +58

    moon is growning because xqc reacted to his videos and agreed to moon's points

    • @sluttyMapleSyrup
      @sluttyMapleSyrup 10 місяців тому +1

      XQC once again self-confirming he's an ongoing embarrassment to Canada.

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 10 місяців тому +15

      I unfollowed xQc because of that. I did became skeptical of Moon’s video because I made a comment on xQc reactions and I got backlashes by some of his fans.

    • @MayorOfEarth79
      @MayorOfEarth79 10 місяців тому +28

      xQc is such a bitter unhappy man.

    • @cookieface80
      @cookieface80 10 місяців тому

      xQc is probably the right's biggest useful idiot.

    • @simoneidson21
      @simoneidson21 4 місяці тому +3

      @@MayorOfEarth79 He grifts and steals people's content, what did you expect?

  • @scottylew802
    @scottylew802 10 місяців тому +22

    This dialogue is transcendent and necessary. It's wild to acknowledge to yourself that you get joy out of hate-watching. We're all just a bunch of rubberneckers wading through a sea of trash.

  • @jonvlc
    @jonvlc 10 місяців тому +43

    average moon video:
    copies other essays homework
    talks about china for 10 minutes
    talks about "wokeness" for 20 minutes
    video over

    • @VitaminNick-k1r
      @VitaminNick-k1r 9 місяців тому +6

      And also insults either a gender or generation .