I hate yet like a lot of fandoms but I’m learning to understand that whatever I like may become tarnished by a fandom one day, and that’s how a lot of fandoms end up. Keep liking your shit, and be nice about it to others. EDIT: Thank you for the Replies everyone, it just goes to show that we may be a tad smarter than most people on the Internet.
Bruh I feel like if you just stopped caring about other people think, especially people you don't know, most people don't even have original opinions anymore they just say what everyone else is saying
@@cool_bug_facts like how they must’ve had alien help since they would’ve needed earths exact longitude and latitude to find the center of a pyramid, for some reason, different breed I stg
Shitty part is that you may unironically be praised, like coomers calling eachother men of culture to avoid the fact that they're lonely porn addicts with no social skills.
When you’re a fan of stuff like Dragon Ball, Sonic, SW, and Genshin, you tend to realize that being popular is simultaneously the best and worst thing to happen to a fanbase.
nah there are multiple big fanbases/communities that arent as toxic/annoying as the Sonic Fanbase. It is just that Sonic somehow tends to attract the weirdest people. The Minecraft Fanbase is enormous and pretty chill, so is the houseplant community or the woodworking community
There are certain elements that can breed toxicity in a fandom. I’d say if it is something that kids/preteens would find interesting, or if it has romantic undertones that are not set in stone, then those might be contributing factors. It also depends on where it is talked about, like social apps like tumblr or twitter, places that already have toxic communities. I guess it just depends on what it is about in the end tho
On the bright side, sometimes a bad fandom isn't always going to tarnish the source material. Take Undertale for example, the fanbase was pretty bad at some point but nowadays Toby Fox and the game itself are at the very least regarded as positively influential.
While gatekeeping is a thing, it is hilarious when people compain about gatekeeping in groups where it isn't the case. Like i have never seen any DnD group or forum gatekeep, but heard plenty of complaints about it.
That’s more because the newer more “wholesome”/progressive/ normie crowd brought in by the simplicity and high exposure of 5th edition outnumber the classic tabletop gamers who had a pre-existing community they would want to gatekeep. It’s like how California was taken from Mexico by settling a bunch of people there.
@@andreasottohansen7338 I think it wasn't so much interpersonal gatekeeping as a focus on crunchier gameplay in 3.5 (and pathfinder which is my primary system now) with a reluctance to dumb down the brainpower/system knowledge required. this indirectly kept out people unwilling to invest the effort into learning. Its a bit like people who don't like video games getting easier/having more accessibility and easy modes. I think there is also some level of resentment from all the unpopular nerds who got bullied for their passions for 20 years only for the very people who would have made fun of them to take it up with little to no malus now that comic book movies come out 4 times a year and pretty actors get paid to play DND. If you want to find some classic Grognards they probably still dwell on the /tg/ board on 4chan.
I used to hate gatekeeping. I believed that anybody was free to like anything they want to. In fact, I still do. However, here's the thing: there are bad fans. There are people who will go out of their way to ruin what you like. And I don't mean in a small way, like putting music on Tiktok. I mean like a FPS game becoming popular, and some battle royale people like the game, but they're like "this game is good and all, but it would be better with a BR mode". And the devs see a bunch of this and they're like "oh yeah, let's make our game into a BR game". Now the game you once liked has become something different, because people outside the fandom influenced it. That's just a hypothetical, but it's a reason why I've changed my view on gatekeeping from not liking it, to thinking it might be a necessity.
I thought the legal discloser would be the typical "This person does not actually endorse this terrible dangerous thing" but apandah is built different
Gatekeeping is possible, it just has to become a natural part of the fandom. There are fandoms out there that gatekeep very effectively just by being themselves. Because "being themselves" is something they do in such a way that puts off any incompatible outsiders while simultaneously making outsiders who ARE compatible with the shenanigans in the community realize that and join the fandom without much issue. That said, these fandoms are relatively rare because they require a VERY deviant fanbase in order to work. I'm sure other methods of gatekeeping that work just as well exist.
ive started joining fandoms at the ripe age of i dont remember because i think i was like 7 years old (AWFUL DO NOT GIVE UR KIDS TABLETS) but now i have actually grown and realized life is so much better if u dont put urself into a fandom box and make it everything about urself. just enjoy the things you like. it makes me sad when i see people (specifically artists) who gained popularity in a certain fandom loose their audience just because they want to branch out. u can consume things u dont like. there are so many artists that are awesome and talented and cool that i follow but it doesnt mean i know wtf their drawin i just think its sick. Anyways fandoms suck balls
Ever since I've joined the BFB and Deltarune fandoms, I have genuinely been the happiest I have ever been in quarantine. It's just a shame that people taint these fandoms and a lot of people view them cringe
@@angel_of_rust @Sayori Keychains it stands for "Battle For BFDI" and BFDI stands for Battle For Dream Island. It's a first competition object show in the internet about 13-14 years ago, and first object show to gain 1 million subs.
Only people that followed apandah since the very beggining can be considered his fans If you don't even follow the twitter account that is totally not him, you shouldn't even watch his videos Only true fans will understand me
Generalising a fandom cus a few bad apple is stupid tho. It's people on the Internet, strangers that you care less ab irl but just because you saw someone disagree with an opinion, you get huffy. It's dumb.
I always watch these videos with the intent to learn more about internet environments, even though it doesn’t matter when I don’t talk to internet peoples to begin with
One aspect I don't see anyone taking about is the use of gatekeeping to at least attempt to combat the influence of "fake fans" - A semi ironic term for people who wish for the thing the fandom is based on to have some of its aspects [mainly the integral ones] to be altered as to suit them [this is generally easier with hobby focused groups]. Broadly speaking, this process repeats until the product is unrecognisable to the original audience.[bad apples beget more outsiders joining in] With gatekeeping you can create an environment that discourages the influx of those "fakes". One major caveat of gatekeeping is it's effectiveness, which shrinks as the community expand from the esoteric to niche, to hipster material and into the mainstream. With size the diversity of fans expands, diluting the once focused cult classic into a cacophany lacking a driving majority or a series of gated echochambers talking shit about eachother, who in turn may split off to form their own interests, beginning the process anew. Yes I do have strong opinions about this, how could you tell?
Bless you man. I'm right there with you on that. Gatekeeping is very necessary so the original reason why we got into said interest is not lost and at least protect it.
Every single video game fandom be like: “WHAT??? YOU DONT PLAY ON THE HARDEST DIFFICULTY BECAUSE YOU PREFER TO PLAY GAMES AT YOUR OWN LEISURE??? CRINGE!!!”
tbh I never see that these days, I more often see people complaining about games being too hard. People will make challenges out of everything, so people who like tough games will always figure out shit like nuzlockes to make a game harder, I never see anyone say a game sucks because it’s “too easy”
The reason hate keeping is a thing is because people sometimes come in and try to detect what would be better for a franchise by butchering it Look at twitter and how they try to ruin everything Or how when people take something like Star Wars, ruin it for the fans then mock them People just don’t like it when people come in only because it’s popular, but then try to say it’s overrated or it’s problematic
It's not about the toxic people, the bad apples, it's about a fandon that just eats itself alive. Some fandoms are just so abhorrent that it has to be complete amputated from memory if you want to salvage it's reputation.
This is why I left Beastars, because there were so many furries in it, and everyone kept saying it was totally furry, which made me no longer associate with it, I don't wanna be a furry, man
I feel that gatekeeping to keep your fandoms looking better to avoid any hate or ridicule just reinforces that very system. It doesn't have to be this way, and people could just learn not to loop someone in with a larger group of people that they share one thing in common with. I bet this culture of monolithing only exists because we THINK it exists and we bow down to its perceived power and unstoppability, and that majority belief prevents that cultural mindset from being challenged or deposed.
This is from a year ago but it's still interesting to me. I think gatekeeping really just does the opposite of what it's meant to do and breeds more toxicity for normal fans of a fandom to try and get them to hate the weird fans of the fandom. It also typically turns people to heavily gatekeeping a fandom in general which is just kinda ehhhh
This is the exact reason why I don't talk about anything I like to people I meet in person, except for Super Mario Galaxy 2, nothing cringe is commonly associated with Super Mario Galaxy 2.
I've known about a certain hidden gem of a game that's exclusive to an old console that has literally no recognition, not even wikipedia knows much about it. If I did reveal the name of said game I guarantee it wouldn't be popular but society doesn't deserve to know its existence.
>Don't want ukraine to join nato >Them joining nato would completely #### your geopolitical position >Try to use politics and diplomacy >Relationship worsens after u grab that precious crimea >Nato gets closer and closer to getting ukraine in >so you play your last card >invade ukraine >use your soldiers into the most stupid ways possible >no airsupport, no supplies >Lose tons of equipment, no worries it's military tradition anyways >eventually retreat without any objective reached >Ukraine believes it can now beat russia on it's own > nato sees what an laughing stock the russian army is and disbands because they don't want american soldiers anyways >Crisis averted
At the very least, this is one of the few reasons I'm glad that discord exists. Because if you like something but the fandom can be insufferable, you can at least invite any of the sane members of that fandom and kick out the rest.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Apandah. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also apandah's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike apandah truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in apandah's existential catchphrase "apantard," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as apandah's genius wit unfolds itself on their device screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂 And yes, by the way, i DO have a apandah tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the apantards' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
I think we *removed* the bad apples in communities they'd stop being a problem. Hard agree. And if you have a life outside the internet you're already like 3 steps above those lunatics stabbing people over nugget sauce.
A reason why we metalheads gatekeep that much is simply that the last thing that should ever happen is what the dumb masses and tiktok kids did with grunge, goth or emo. To quote syndrome: "With everyone being alternative, no one will be"
@@kimchifriend2499 Because i am not really cool with the thought that i hang around with those who bullied me and my pals to the edge of suicide because we were alt lmao
@@ExpandDong69 That's a fair and valid reason for feeling weary of the popularity of alt cultures, however you should also understand that not everyone a part of 'the masses' is a bully and being unable to trust anyone besides other metalheads sounds like an issue you should probably work through (sorry if you already are and I sound condescending ).
If you like something gatekeep it, that way you don't end up a laughing stock of the internet and can continue to actually enjoy what you're passionate about.
@L. Dyle That's not hypocrisy. It would be hypocrisy if we said we were a "community", but didn't do anything together. That would be the opposite (hypocrisy). But a community has the ability to not accept people they don't like. And, being toxic to someone who's toxic is a bad thing? I mean, I know not to fight fire with fire, but if someone is being an ass, it's perfectly fine to be an ass back. It's perfectly fine to say that those people aren't welcome.
I remember one time I was talking about how I didn’t like part 3 of jojo that much cuz it’s too episodic for me and the villains kinda suck and someone told me I wasn’t allowed to have an opinion until I read the manga and watched all kinds of content about the making of part 3. Funniest shit ever.
Gatekeeping is cool some times. I distanced myself from every social media platform because I really hate people who like the same things I do. I'm not joking.
The problem with gatekeeping is that it ruins communities. Soon people who genuinely like your hobby are shitting on each other because of no true Scotsman fallacy.
I actually saw a tiktok where it had the usual Minecraft parkour backgrounds or gta backgrounds, and had the audio of one of apandahs videos. I pressed on the sound, and so much people where also using it too.
The only fandom that doesn't get ruined is fromsoft games because you can't have a cringey fanbase if every character is ruined by the weight of despair or killed at the end of their personal journey
apanda fandom is amazing sometimes if we are extra good apanda lets us nibble on his ears
Underrated Comment
apandah is awesomesauce
I do love nibblin on ears.
Man shush we can't talk about the treat openly
Too bad they are just pieces of cardboard with black spray paint over it
The gatekeeping impulse is strong but the desire to spread the agenda is stronger
That's literally Jews vs Catholics
or any religion
Yes comrade
I hate yet like a lot of fandoms but I’m learning to understand that whatever I like may become tarnished by a fandom one day, and that’s how a lot of fandoms end up.
Keep liking your shit, and be nice about it to others.
EDIT: Thank you for the Replies everyone, it just goes to show that we may be a tad smarter than most people on the Internet.
Apandah is awesomesause
Elden ring reference :OOOOOOOO
yes
@@riddyrid I agree:)
Bruh I feel like if you just stopped caring about other people think, especially people you don't know, most people don't even have original opinions anymore they just say what everyone else is saying
I wish I could own the most toxic fanbase ever, would be fun.
Would be fun until they start stalking ya
Maybe the sub reddit can do something REALLY toxic
bro then become dream, ez
Putin did that and then shit hit the fan
3 doññars
As someone on 4chan once said, "The only people who complain about gatekeeping are the people the gate was supposed to keep out."
4CHANNBN
@@cool_bug_facts I saw someone going in a huge rant abt how the Egyptians couldn’t have possible build a few large 4 side triangles
@@theslamjamfrincisco2820 4chan moment
@@cool_bug_facts like how they must’ve had alien help since they would’ve needed earths exact longitude and latitude to find the center of a pyramid, for some reason, different breed I stg
Very true
So called "free thinkers" when apandah orders them to say "apandah is awesomesauce"
apandah is awesomesauce
apandah is awesomesauce
Apandah is awesomesauce
apandah is awesomesauce
@@musicui apandah is awesomesauce
Fandoms used to be so different.
Now people dox you if you ship the wrong thing.
only TRUE Apandah fans will understand that my wife left me in 2004
holy shit yours too?
i like NTR.
( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ ) reminds me of the time I picked up this nice lady for a date
Apandah is awesomesauce
@@supper_e1823 reminded me of the time I picked you up to watch avengers endgame
I'm gonna start becoming the bad apples in ALL the fandoms you like, and there's *NOTHING* you can do about it!
Only 90s kids will understand this comment
only TRUE water drinkers can like this comment.
Only real air breathers can relate to this
Shitty part is that you may unironically be praised, like coomers calling eachother men of culture to avoid the fact that they're lonely porn addicts with no social skills.
HA! My community is ALREADY made up of bad apples!
When you’re a fan of stuff like Dragon Ball, Sonic, SW, and Genshin, you tend to realize that being popular is simultaneously the best and worst thing to happen to a fanbase.
I liked Jojo till i kept seeing "is-is that a Jojo reference" in every comment section
Sometimes it's funny but 90% of times, it's cringe
This but actually
As a person who doesn't play genshin to often I agree that the fandom is completely dog crap and I feel bad for the ppl who actually play the game
@@icecoldyeehaw is-is that a jojo reference
nah there are multiple big fanbases/communities that arent as toxic/annoying as the Sonic Fanbase. It is just that Sonic somehow tends to attract the weirdest people. The Minecraft Fanbase is enormous and pretty chill, so is the houseplant community or the woodworking community
Dont call yourself an appandah fan if you dont know where he lives
20°37'37” S 166°18'02” E
@@NaOkii that seems like a pretty hot temperature. Does he live on the surface of the sun?
@@supper_e1823 no, but I live on the surface of your dad
@@NaOkii spoken like a true appandah fan
@@NaOkii nice, a coordinate. Thank you
I hope to publish a novel one day, but I’m genuinely terrified of it getting a fandom and that fandom being awful
There are certain elements that can breed toxicity in a fandom. I’d say if it is something that kids/preteens would find interesting, or if it has romantic undertones that are not set in stone, then those might be contributing factors. It also depends on where it is talked about, like social apps like tumblr or twitter, places that already have toxic communities.
I guess it just depends on what it is about in the end tho
On the bright side, sometimes a bad fandom isn't always going to tarnish the source material. Take Undertale for example, the fanbase was pretty bad at some point but nowadays Toby Fox and the game itself are at the very least regarded as positively influential.
@@lucasnanami yeah that’s another point is that a fandom doesn’t always stay toxic forever
Same 😢
Hit me up when that novel is finally published
The whole video feels like an introduction before a 20 minute rant but there’s nothing else
While gatekeeping is a thing, it is hilarious when people compain about gatekeeping in groups where it isn't the case.
Like i have never seen any DnD group or forum gatekeep, but heard plenty of complaints about it.
That’s more because the newer more “wholesome”/progressive/ normie crowd brought in by the simplicity and high exposure of 5th edition outnumber the classic tabletop gamers who had a pre-existing community they would want to gatekeep. It’s like how California was taken from Mexico by settling a bunch of people there.
@@jazzy4830 Oh i go back to 3.5, where this was also the case.
@@jazzy4830 how did dnd turn into an analogy of immigration laws
@@brusselseastside3546 What is immigration control if not the ultimate expression of gatekeeping.
@@andreasottohansen7338 I think it wasn't so much interpersonal gatekeeping as a focus on crunchier gameplay in 3.5 (and pathfinder which is my primary system now) with a reluctance to dumb down the brainpower/system knowledge required. this indirectly kept out people unwilling to invest the effort into learning. Its a bit like people who don't like video games getting easier/having more accessibility and easy modes.
I think there is also some level of resentment from all the unpopular nerds who got bullied for their passions for 20 years only for the very people who would have made fun of them to take it up with little to no malus now that comic book movies come out 4 times a year and pretty actors get paid to play DND. If you want to find some classic Grognards they probably still dwell on the /tg/ board on 4chan.
Apandah, please, stay the FUCK away from the sonic 3 and knuckles ost. I’ll have you know that the soundtrack was made for me in particular.
The only people who complain about gatekeeping are the exact sorts of people gatekeeping is necessary to keep out because they're poison for a fandom.
I definitely of the firm belief you shouldn’t let toxic asshats in a fandom stop you from enjoying a franchise you’re invested in.
you shouldnt toxic asshats..??
Stroke
*Genshin Impact joined the chat*
*Dream SMP has joined the chat*
*Rick & Morty has joined the chat*
I used to hate gatekeeping. I believed that anybody was free to like anything they want to. In fact, I still do. However, here's the thing: there are bad fans. There are people who will go out of their way to ruin what you like. And I don't mean in a small way, like putting music on Tiktok. I mean like a FPS game becoming popular, and some battle royale people like the game, but they're like "this game is good and all, but it would be better with a BR mode". And the devs see a bunch of this and they're like "oh yeah, let's make our game into a BR game". Now the game you once liked has become something different, because people outside the fandom influenced it.
That's just a hypothetical, but it's a reason why I've changed my view on gatekeeping from not liking it, to thinking it might be a necessity.
Gatekeeping is just quality control
except 90% it never works
@@texytccx2610 can't blame people for trying
@@texytccx2610 why?
@L. Dyle hell no that's a terrible idea
@L. Dyle Never is a strong word.
Be careful what you wish for.
1:04 Based
I thought the legal discloser would be the typical "This person does not actually endorse this terrible dangerous thing" but apandah is built different
My two favourite Sonic songs played in the Background ☺️
Ice Cap and Lava Reef
Gatekeeping is possible, it just has to become a natural part of the fandom. There are fandoms out there that gatekeep very effectively just by being themselves. Because "being themselves" is something they do in such a way that puts off any incompatible outsiders while simultaneously making outsiders who ARE compatible with the shenanigans in the community realize that and join the fandom without much issue. That said, these fandoms are relatively rare because they require a VERY deviant fanbase in order to work.
I'm sure other methods of gatekeeping that work just as well exist.
ive started joining fandoms at the ripe age of i dont remember because i think i was like 7 years old (AWFUL DO NOT GIVE UR KIDS TABLETS) but now i have actually grown and realized life is so much better if u dont put urself into a fandom box and make it everything about urself. just enjoy the things you like. it makes me sad when i see people (specifically artists) who gained popularity in a certain fandom loose their audience just because they want to branch out. u can consume things u dont like. there are so many artists that are awesome and talented and cool that i follow but it doesnt mean i know wtf their drawin i just think its sick. Anyways fandoms suck balls
When i say i play Genshin Impact, people respond that i should free the Kids from my basement.
Please dude release the kids from your basement this time
Bro let them have free will
Yea same, it's kind of rude to be honest. I like to decide when they come out the basement not someone else
Free the kids from your basement
mom wake up new apandah upload
No way
No way
Unreal.
No way
Ever since I've joined the BFB and Deltarune fandoms, I have genuinely been the happiest I have ever been in quarantine. It's just a shame that people taint these fandoms and a lot of people view them cringe
Meanwhile in my experience, the fandoms I joined are somewhat less popular (some of them are popular) but the journey in it trippy as heck
yeah most of bfdi fandom is 9 year olds
havent been in the bfdi fandom for like 3 years now 🗿
Briday Fight Bunkin?
@@angel_of_rust @Sayori Keychains it stands for "Battle For BFDI"
and BFDI stands for Battle For Dream Island. It's a first competition object show in the internet about 13-14 years ago, and first object show to gain 1 million subs.
2:55 nice reference
Only people that followed apandah since the very beggining can be considered his fans
If you don't even follow the twitter account that is totally not him, you shouldn't even watch his videos
Only true fans will understand me
i bet you dont even follow him irl
not a true fan
that's right guys, I'm not a true fan
because a pan SUCKS
only true fans will get this
Fard. (Only true fans will get this)
Shoutout to Big Poo
Twitter sucks.
Generalising a fandom cus a few bad apple is stupid tho. It's people on the Internet, strangers that you care less ab irl but just because you saw someone disagree with an opinion, you get huffy. It's dumb.
I always watch these videos with the intent to learn more about internet environments, even though it doesn’t matter when I don’t talk to internet peoples to begin with
Why on earth would I let some cringe associate with me? From here on out, I will be gatekeeping the apandah community and be apandah's only fan.
Appandaisawesomesauce lol
Every day your drawings are getting better and better ✨
We don't like Fandoms
- Internet
One aspect I don't see anyone taking about is the use of gatekeeping to at least attempt to combat the influence of "fake fans" - A semi ironic term for people who wish for the thing the fandom is based on to have some of its aspects [mainly the integral ones] to be altered as to suit them [this is generally easier with hobby focused groups]. Broadly speaking, this process repeats until the product is unrecognisable to the original audience.[bad apples beget more outsiders joining in]
With gatekeeping you can create an environment that discourages the influx of those "fakes".
One major caveat of gatekeeping is it's effectiveness, which shrinks as the community expand from the esoteric to niche, to hipster material and into the mainstream. With size the diversity of fans expands, diluting the once focused cult classic into a cacophany lacking a driving majority or a series of gated echochambers talking shit about eachother, who in turn may split off to form their own interests, beginning the process anew.
Yes I do have strong opinions about this, how could you tell?
Bless you man. I'm right there with you on that. Gatekeeping is very necessary so the original reason why we got into said interest is not lost and at least protect it.
I obsessively like something that doesn't have a single video on youtube about it and it's a great feeling
I always knew you were a dreamSMP enjoyer. Good for you Apandah 👍
Every single video game fandom be like: “WHAT??? YOU DONT PLAY ON THE HARDEST DIFFICULTY BECAUSE YOU PREFER TO PLAY GAMES AT YOUR OWN LEISURE??? CRINGE!!!”
Well I can safely say that I play most of my games on easy, cause it’s more relaxing that way
tbh I never see that these days, I more often see people complaining about games being too hard. People will make challenges out of everything, so people who like tough games will always figure out shit like nuzlockes to make a game harder, I never see anyone say a game sucks because it’s “too easy”
I always get called a fake gamer because I play mobile games…
Gamer: Someone who plays games
ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT
The reason hate keeping is a thing is because people sometimes come in and try to detect what would be better for a franchise by butchering it
Look at twitter and how they try to ruin everything
Or how when people take something like Star Wars, ruin it for the fans then mock them
People just don’t like it when people come in only because it’s popular, but then try to say it’s overrated or it’s problematic
0:07 All the league of legends players got jumpscared 💀
gatekeeping is good when you do it right, ironically
I love the way that these videos are constructed.
It's not about the toxic people, the bad apples, it's about a fandon that just eats itself alive.
Some fandoms are just so abhorrent that it has to be complete amputated from memory if you want to salvage it's reputation.
1:45 gonk gonk gonk :)
Gonk
Apandah indirectly attacking his audience
I love this new enraged apandah frame
I like how most of the stuff isnt about gate keeping or fandoms it's Just about Apandah's fandom
you're not allowed to susbcribe, only i can watch apandah
Mf deadass still makes minecraft content in 2022 :vomit_emoji:
Toxic fandom are the reasons why I support gate keeping
The “likes water” image is a surprisingly good representation for this topic lol
This is why I left Beastars, because there were so many furries in it, and everyone kept saying it was totally furry, which made me no longer associate with it, I don't wanna be a furry, man
I spent my life being gatekept, now im 18 and im trying to get out of that mindset, it sucks
I feel that gatekeeping to keep your fandoms looking better to avoid any hate or ridicule just reinforces that very system. It doesn't have to be this way, and people could just learn not to loop someone in with a larger group of people that they share one thing in common with. I bet this culture of monolithing only exists because we THINK it exists and we bow down to its perceived power and unstoppability, and that majority belief prevents that cultural mindset from being challenged or deposed.
This is from a year ago but it's still interesting to me.
I think gatekeeping really just does the opposite of what it's meant to do and breeds more toxicity for normal fans of a fandom to try and get them to hate the weird fans of the fandom. It also typically turns people to heavily gatekeeping a fandom in general which is just kinda ehhhh
That animation of you throwing up… smooth as hell
That moment with bands is so fucking relatable
You didn't have to do Gonk droid like that 😭
This 3 minutes felt like 8 minutes
This is the exact reason why I don't talk about anything I like to people I meet in person, except for Super Mario Galaxy 2, nothing cringe is commonly associated with Super Mario Galaxy 2.
I've known about a certain hidden gem of a game that's exclusive to an old console that has literally no recognition, not even wikipedia knows much about it. If I did reveal the name of said game I guarantee it wouldn't be popular but society doesn't deserve to know its existence.
>Don't want ukraine to join nato
>Them joining nato would completely #### your geopolitical position
>Try to use politics and diplomacy
>Relationship worsens after u grab that precious crimea
>Nato gets closer and closer to getting ukraine in
>so you play your last card
>invade ukraine
>use your soldiers into the most stupid ways possible
>no airsupport, no supplies
>Lose tons of equipment, no worries it's military tradition anyways
>eventually retreat without any objective reached
>Ukraine believes it can now beat russia on it's own
> nato sees what an laughing stock the russian army is and disbands because they don't want american soldiers anyways
>Crisis averted
They have an airforce or at least had, they just keep losing them to stinger missiles
What does rhis have to do with this video
greentexting on youtube unfortunately
may we gatekeep apandah ☺️
At the very least, this is one of the few reasons I'm glad that discord exists. Because if you like something but the fandom can be insufferable, you can at least invite any of the sane members of that fandom and kick out the rest.
Apandah’s fandom is the best, fight me
I'm new to apandah, but I am loving what I'm seeing. I am here to stay :P
Apandah is awesomesauce
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Apandah. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also apandah's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike apandah truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in apandah's existential catchphrase "apantard," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as apandah's genius wit unfolds itself on their device screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a apandah tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the apantards' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
Is it a tattoo of apandahs devious/ mischievous face?
I bet the tattoo is apandah r34 so you can scare the 3 IQ kids
apandah trampstamp
I am going to save this for later
apandah is awesomesauce
"I like water"
Nestle disliked that
I rate the honesty
This guy is so lovely, I think I am becoming apandahsexual
I think we *removed* the bad apples in communities they'd stop being a problem. Hard agree. And if you have a life outside the internet you're already like 3 steps above those lunatics stabbing people over nugget sauce.
I like these videos alot
I love the Gonk Droid too
This is the reason why I never open up about what I really enjoy, I don't like it when my favorite things are only known for dumb bitches.
So is this plastic bag over my head gatekeeping me from the breathing fandom?
I ♥️ GATEKEEPING
"if I'm going to get bullied it's because of me not of the people that like what I like"
That's weirdly motivational
A reason why we metalheads gatekeep that much is simply that the last thing that should ever happen is what the dumb masses and tiktok kids did with grunge, goth or emo. To quote syndrome: "With everyone being alternative, no one will be"
@L. Dyle As long as we have us, we'll never give up 🤘
So you want alts to be special? What's wrong with lots of people liking a thing? Why are you afraid of being associated with the 'dumb masses'?
@@kimchifriend2499 Because i am not really cool with the thought that i hang around with those who bullied me and my pals to the edge of suicide because we were alt lmao
@@ExpandDong69 That's a fair and valid reason for feeling weary of the popularity of alt cultures, however you should also understand that not everyone a part of 'the masses' is a bully and being unable to trust anyone besides other metalheads sounds like an issue you should probably work through (sorry if you already are and I sound condescending ).
@@kimchifriend2499 Dw i am already beyomg that. Enough metalheads are douchebags themselves lmao. Still i stand to my opinion.
No cap chief, keep spitting facts 😤
You didnt even have the time to watch the whole video while writing this
@@chszanchan maybe he was looking at the video in 2x speed
I was watching in ludicrous speed and the man still handing truth on God
i love apandah
apanda fandom is the best because im here :)
apandah
I miss when fandoms were niche
GateKeeping is Crazy
Watching the ads all the way and clicking on the shop now feature so apamdah can get 1/2 of a penny
If you like something gatekeep it, that way you don't end up a laughing stock of the internet and can continue to actually enjoy what you're passionate about.
And the thing you like doesn't get changed by outside influence.
@L. Dyle What makes you say that? Gatekeeping can be a very good thing. Especially to keep anything "toxic" out of something you enjoy.
@L. Dyle That's not hypocrisy. It would be hypocrisy if we said we were a "community", but didn't do anything together. That would be the opposite (hypocrisy). But a community has the ability to not accept people they don't like. And, being toxic to someone who's toxic is a bad thing? I mean, I know not to fight fire with fire, but if someone is being an ass, it's perfectly fine to be an ass back. It's perfectly fine to say that those people aren't welcome.
@L. Dyle clearly you have never interacted with a Star Wars, marvel, or modern anime fan. And if you have then you are probably part of the problem
Every vid, man speaks facts.
Apandah is awsomesauce
This is so slay apandah
This is a certified apandah classic.
I remember one time I was talking about how I didn’t like part 3 of jojo that much cuz it’s too episodic for me and the villains kinda suck and someone told me I wasn’t allowed to have an opinion until I read the manga and watched all kinds of content about the making of part 3. Funniest shit ever.
Part 3 just is garbage lol
every fandom should be gatekept
apandah is awesomesauce
Gatekeeping is cool some times. I distanced myself from every social media platform because I really hate people who like the same things I do. I'm not joking.
The problem with gatekeeping is that it ruins communities. Soon people who genuinely like your hobby are shitting on each other because of no true Scotsman fallacy.
A lack of gatekeeping is what ruins communities.
You are probably the exact person that should be gatekept.
im gonna use the apandah is awesome sauce for everything
I actually saw a tiktok where it had the usual Minecraft parkour backgrounds or gta backgrounds, and had the audio of one of apandahs videos. I pressed on the sound, and so much people where also using it too.
shoutout to the people who gatekeep songs from tiktok
the real OGs
The only gatekeepers I respect
Yo what’s up vastcast
The only fandom that doesn't get ruined is fromsoft games because you can't have a cringey fanbase if every character is ruined by the weight of despair or killed at the end of their personal journey
The fromsoft fanbase is notorioisly cringy and bad though
I respect the ice cap zone background music
i love gatekeeping