And of course he's talking to a white supremacist.
I would be extremely disappointed if he wasn't
I'm not sure if disappointed is the word I'd use. Maybe "surprised."
https://www.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/8ry97x/on_recent_developments/
Love how this completely reasonable and well worded, calm, concise, and apologetic statement on everything is currently as of this post floating at around 45% upvoted.
This is the kind of people Mekotur's audience draws in. People who are so rabid to go unglued at a moment's notice towards whatever mediocre right-leaning dude with an opinion piece on youtube points them towards. It doesn't matter how reasonable and fact-driven an apology or statement is. It's against the narrative they want. It's against the idea that SCP-Wiki has become infected by Ess Jay Double Ewes, instead calmly pointing out "Maybe there are some other issues beyond just the logo at play here!" and also suggesting that these people who have no actual interest or connection to the site sit down, and read the tales and skips.
Utterly ridiculous.
It would make my mission of never seeing another Metokur video in this section ever again much harder if he at least tried to maintain plausible deniability and wasn't openly in cahoots with white supremacists, nazis and all sorts of far right assholes
No one's forcing you to watch it lmao
While I don't support banning things that aren't popular, this is always a terrible argument.
Good. And?
Videos shit, but so is the author of 2721, pretty much all her rebuttals go like "But I'm TRANS!!! I CANNOT MAKE MISTAKES!" like "I think it’s super funny that a trans person writing a trans character is a self insert but the hundreds of white men OCs written by white men aren’t.", completely missing the point.
Some other lazy examples from the same page:
"But people still love Clef, Bright, Gears, Kondraki. Maybe not true here, but it is in the wider community. People cling to old scps where Clef and Bright are badass white men ding Science, but a trans person writes a trans person and suddenly it's a self-insert. It's very transparent what's going on here."
Yes, surely it could not be because Clef(Who isn't white by the by), Bright, Gears, and Kondraki are well written, surely it must be because people are hating on your trash homestock tumblr oc being trans.
"I'm not an artist. I was really not even into Homestuck right now when I wrote it, dude. I am trans, but so are many people. My writing of a trans character who's into a comic I used to be into is not a self-insert. And -LORD is the furthest thing from me. Honestly, so is Lyris. It's a fucking character I wrote, dude. And I really, really feel like the only reason you think this is a self insert is because of the trans thing. Seriously, how would you know these personalities reflect me? They're honestly based on my friends. -LORD is based on scarhaver on this very wiki. -LYRE is a conglomeration of every sad trans artist I've known. So sorry for being "divisive," but I'd prefer if you stopped commenting on my articles if you're just going to throw this at me."
A reply to someone asking why a positively voted scp has so much hate: "It’s because they hate LGBT people." which causes someone else to reply "Right, because the SCP is flawless and that's the only reason anyone could possibly dislike it.", which causes her to go "Yeah that’s what I mean. Not that nerds who frequent reddit and creepypasta boards have a tendency towards bigotry. Not that I’ve seen quite a few people refer to this scp and any others with trans people with slurs. You got right to the core, didn’t you?"
"He belongs in a gulag"
Dude what the fuck
What? All of the highly-voted replies go totally against your dumb rant.
To be fair you brought a lot of this on yourself by banning people who
didn't agree with you. this drama would be a lot less heavy it you
didn't go ban crazy for no reason. I understand some people are just
being dicks. but to ban someone just because they don't agree with the
site change is wrong. let people have their say.
As
your post stated: It was never about the logo or Pride Month. It was
about the rampant abuse towards users of differing opinions. Admins,
like Kaktus, demonstrated, through viewing Metoker's video, a complete
disrespect for others and abused their powers.
Admins talked down to users for questioning the direction the reddit
was taking and blatantly tried to suppress them. Threads were locked
after users were called "bigots" and "homophobic" by the admins.
Users got angry, and other parts of the internet noticed. This is how
the situation as it is now came to be. If anything, the staff are the
ones who need to take a long look at themselves, as I personally feel
that the problem was almost entirely avoidable through the use of
restraint.
...And many more!
Also, the moderator is even wholeheartedly agreeing with almost every reply, actively engaging in discussions on problem points and future improvements. Where, exactly, is the "ESS JAY DOUBLE YUU" whining?
You are screaming about the bogeyman of a bogeyman, it's ridiculous, come back to reality, thanks.
the SCP foundation has always had this kind of stuff, honestly if you purged all the ridicilous self-inserts, mary-sues, and thinly veiled "statements" the site simply wouldnt have the same heart
i've been a part of that community for the better half of a decade now and 2721 is nothing we havent seen before, and the same goes for her reaction to criticism
as much as a lot of people liked the old days of writing an epic article about lobotimizing shitty OCs with rail spikes and launching them into the sun, the community has simply grown so much that sometimes you just gotta have some shitty articles so the truly great ones can continue to shine
if anyone thinks the foundation is JUST this now, you're completely missing out, just in the past few months there have been some absolutely outstanding articles written, both by established authors like djkaktus and complete nobodies
Kaktus might be a good author but he's a shit human
can we not make statements like this? I don't necessarily agree with his actions entirely but i've talked to kaktus on several occasions and listened to his podcast forever, he's a perfectly nice guy who just made a few mistakes because moderating isn't as easy as it sounds, especially on an issue you take personally, it's hard to keep the moderate part of being a moderator
Although I find it ridiculous that people were upset with the logo change, I can see where they're coming from. SCP (the fictional entity) is supposed to be this cold, indifferent entity that's almost entirely focused on keeping oblivion behind a locked door and is not concerned with how others see it. The logo change kinda ruins that tone.
But more importantly, the website is about writing fiction. There's no reason to get real world politics and current social issues involved and some users may have thought of the website as a shelter from those issues. It isn't that they're anti-LGBT. They just don't want it, along with every other political and social issue, on the website.
As for SCP-2721, I've read through it and in my opinion I found Lyre's blog portion filled with too much nothing. Parts of it didn't add anything to the article, yet there are interesting things there that I wish were more detailed, like the transition from a soulless satellite to a feeling woman.
Oh, the post discussion is largely / entirely fine, you misunderstand me. The whining has been nuked off the side of the subreddit entirely when it came in droves after Mekator posted the video. I think the apology is perfectly fine and approaches the situation just splendidly. I'm reading the post rating being at 50% following all this drama to be the doing of the audience that got drawn in by Mekator's video, folk that're on a subreddit they've never given a high nor low about and downvoting a mod post because it's... trendy?
I can totally be wrong. But I'm hard pressed to believe it's getting downvoted so heavily only because it's a shitty apology.
This is a topic where I wish Jim was a little less extreme, a little less hyperbolic. Because there's bits and pieces of a point in there, but I just don't trust that he's actually looking at the issues, and not just doing a hot take for his followers.
There was a reason Jim lost a lot of credibility in a short amount of time. It's because he does shit like this. Oh no! Lesbians kissing at E3! Must mean the gays are taking away gaming! This is totally not distracting from actual corruption in journalism!
Honestly my problem with the flag is more its design, I just wish that black and brown stripe never got added, they look like shit.
I get the super well-meaning intent behind them but they really do look really bad. Ultimately I think there's a massive amount of ways they could have gone about supporting Pride Month without it being immediately so garish and up-front immersion breaking. Road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say. The idea of a contest centered around some form of LGBT or similar such things as the anchor to base things around could have been cool!
At the same time, I wonder if them doing something like that also would have drawn ire from folk like Mekotur, though. Guess it all boils down to big 'what ifs' at the end of the day.
holy shit PLEASE tell me an article like this is still up and you can find a link
Here's the list of "decommissioned" SCPs, where they did away with them. Some are funny, some aren't.
Decommissioned SCPs
Duke 'till Dawn is still one of the best things written on that site.
Metokur's video's are fun to watch. You just gotta keep in mind he's a muhSJWpushingtheiragenda douchebag that's laughs away all criticism and bullies autistic people. But that doesn't mean you can't take something away from this particular video. You can decide for yourself if the SCP mods acted the way they should. Metokur shouldn't be banned from being posted here. Same with John Oliver videos. I value a video topic being interesting more than the creators being shitheads. Rate a box and move on.
Mister Metokur is the guy who unironically claimed that we can stop mass shootings by bullying the shit out of the would be shooters. I'm not kidding. Go watch his video on the danny phantom kid. I forget where in the video exactly but he says that.
This guy is a grade A moron.
Speaking of shitty OCs, how about that awful catgirl harem one?
No he doesn't, he states that the best way to respond to a mass shooter is to tear them apart and make fun of them after they've done whatever horrible crime they've done. It's about tearing down the legacy, not validating them, or whatever.
I only watched one of Metokur's vids on this subject but unless I'm misinterpreting something, I don't think he said bully people who are about to commit spree shootings.
There was a section at the end where he did say that, yeah, but maybe it was another video, but I vivdly remember him going on a small rant basically about how if mass shooters were essentially bullied more they wouldn't kill anyone. It was in a "make it clear the cringey stuff they're doing is bad and dumb and they will stop" kinda way.
I'm pretty sure you are remembering the video wrong since the only time he mentions bullying is as a cause to the actual mass shooting in a kinda tastless joke(Wich I agree is a bad joke). But The thing about not glorifying mass shooters *after* they have done the deed is true. They should be made fun of not glorified or victimized after they have done the deed. After you go that far you don't really get to be the damn victim anymore no matter how much the media trumpets it up to make the shooter for some reason be the damn victim not the people he or she hurt.
So essentially we should keep doing the cause of the problem?
What a retard.
I personally hate when people try to push in token characters into games just to get some press time but with Ellie, it actually makes sense why she turned out gay with what happen in the 1st game.
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