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Do not give up, seeing you come back with sponsorships gives me hope that you will still be able to live off this passion of yours. You deserve it Actman, good job!
I feel he'll need to get a job. Full time RU-vid ended in 2018 and it was only a matter of time before it kills everyone. You have to appeal to children to full time RU-vid.
@@MrREAPERsz "dud _full time RU-vid ended in 2018_ l" Tell that to mr Beast , Pewdiepie , Markiplier and Game theory... OOOHHHH you were talking about small channels ? they were never full time , you can't survive off RU-vid if you have less than 1mill subs
The moment when everyone hopes that Microsoft purchasing a company could improve it-- is really saying something horrific about the company they purchased...
So in case people don't get why lactation rooms are such a big deal: Women who are breastfeeding need to use breast pumps while they're working. If they don't for an extended period of time, they will stop producing milk. So you have a company that demands its employees work like 12 hour days, but can't afford to put a lock on their lactation room. According the lawsuit, dudes would just walk in on women while they were pumping and just gawk at them. On top of all that, you had some psychopath who would raid the fridge for breastmilk, literally stealing food from a baby.
As someone who studied writing and film in college, i was taught that "stereotypes" are used to subvert expectations and create unigue characters, for instance "he's a panda, but not just any panda, a kung fu panda" thats using the stereotype of "pandas are usually lazy and dont do kung fu" and making it into a subconscious recognition by the audience. Now apply that to humans: "a young black teen living in a rough Detroit with his in-and-out of jail father and ill mother, learns that he loves classical music and wants to study musical arts. He gets accepted into an art college but when his father reads his acceptance letter he disowns his son. the teen, now depressed, falls in with a bad crowd. One night they pressure him into vandalizing a school, he gets in trouble with the law which could jeopardise his college career. He is given one last chance by being scentanced to public service where he is now a janitor at a rec center. Thats when he meets an old Chinese man who teaches jazz to teens. The teen falls out of his depression slowly as the old man becomes his mentor. The teen goes to college, performs in a big band. he invites his father to a performance, the father doesnt show up, the teen gets sad, then the mentor shares a tale of his own come up, the father hears his kid play on the news, decides to show up to another show, gets impressed with his kid's skill and is moved by the music so much that he vows to change his ways, the mothers condition gets better, the end" I just wrote an entire treatment to prove that Activision/Blizard has either talentless or cusked writers
As a woman I think I can bring insight on the breast milk situation, for one if a baby is only fed breast milk giving them a formula because their breast milk was stolen can easily make them sick, and two if you don’t understand why someone stealing breast milk is creepy and disgusting already just imagine a lady at a sperm bank taking your sample home for “personal” use it’s definitely more extreme but it’s the only analogy I could come up with for guys “bodily fluids”.
I hadn't thought of that making the baby sick. It's creepy and weird af but also potentially dangerous to the child. Goddamn that dude just had to have his breast milk, so creepy
"Lactation facilities" is definitely a creepy Activision-Blizzard thing to say. All other companies just call them maternity rooms. A lot of companies are required by law to have them.
@@Mandy138Cool Blizz stocks are up. They made big money off Diablo immortal despite the bad publicity. The ceo made recorded death threats and still isn't in any risk of losing his position. One of the richest companies in the world just acquired them. Etc etc....
For years i honestly still don't get that meaning, but in this instance yeah it's pretty much what happened. It actually makes my stomach turn just thinking about how everything played out.
@@LeonShuriken well i think it s pretty much if you do no good deeds it will not go unpunished hence i don t understand what the main commenter tried to say .
@@LeonShuriken Basically, someone does a good deed and it backfires on them in some way. As an extreme example: Someone helps a man out of a burning building, only to get shot dead by the very person they saved and have their car stolen. In Act's case, he tried to expose a homophobic, egotistical psycho who listens only to his like-minded fanbase. The backfiring? RU-vid screwing him over. Hope I make sense.
Judge: "did you commit murder Activision?" Activision: "I didn't find any evidence to suggest we did" Judge: "Welp that's good enough for me, Case closed"
@@SuddenCruelty01 Judge: What about those people underneath you? Activision: I'm just keeping them warm while they sleep Judge: What a selfless act of kindness! Here's a 100 million grant to fund more games!
"Activision-Blizzard clears itself of any wrongdoing." That's a nice argument, Activision-Blizzard, why don't you back it up with a source? Activision-Blizzard: My source is I made it the fuck up!
The irony of that headline being on KOTAKU is delicious. It's word-for-word for when their writer Nathan Grayson was busted sleeping with the subject of an article hyping her game. 😅
Regarding the "lactating" facility. At my company we have a "mother's room" where women who've just had a baby can go down and pump their breast milk while they are at work. This is needed because they develop the milk throughout the day and can become very uncomfortable and often times painful. For those women at work, there is no baby to feed, therefore no relief. Providing the mother's room gives them the opportunity to step away and pump and store the milk to take home after work. It's a nice accomodation that not all companies have. It's almost a must if you're a breast feeding mother and are also a full-time worker.
You’re going down as a RU-vidr Legend for having balls as massive as you do to stand for yourself in todays society my man. Love to see you back and with the same passion.
@@keegobricks9734 he was demonetized and faced a lot of bullshit from RU-vid due to a deranged RU-vidr called Quantum TV who called act man’s mom and implied threats to his family. Lots of drama and videos covering the subject.
You know there's something fishy going on at Activision when Activision does an investigation on themselves and claims there's nothing wrong going on. How stupid do they think people are?
Based on how people do absolutely nothing when the government does the same thing? I say they're betting people are the drooling simps a lot of them appear to be.
@niduoe stre Characters are better when they, surprisingly, have actual character development. Big business thinks characters based on pandering makes more money, unfortunately.
The woke trend was just terrible, bubbles in the internet acting like the paladins of morality, here it comes the soulless corporations preying on these bubbles, etc.. such a ugly freak show, the emos were awkward, but at least they were harmless
Because no matter how many protest against that and microtransactions, there will always be just enough people to keep is going and don't care. Golden age of gaming is over. Sad.
i constantly bitched about live service in battlefield on reddit only to have a few agree but most claim to love it, in 2010 15 bucks got you a dlc with 4-6 maps, 8 new guns or battlefield vietnam for bfbc2, now 20 bucks gets you a skin which you will never see and good luck getting the slow drip of content to speed up, what a joke
@@secretname2670 Is it the horns? As I'm looking at them I'm getting a Mandela effect on whether or not a side profile of a goat would have both horns visible.
Honestly that happened the minute they merged with Activision. Don't get me wrong, it took some time for them to go completely off a cliff but that was the beginning of the end.
I mean back when they merged it was a “Oh hell yeah the CoD dudes are joining the Warcraft dudes” but now it’s just “Dear Jesus who ever let these STD’s disguised as companies ever combine?”
@@somehistorynerd I don't think I've ever met anyone who was excited when Activision bought Blizzard. I can't see how a company responsible for producing excellent RTS games, as well as arguably the best MMORPG of all time and one of the best hack and slash game series of all time was going to benefit from being bought by a company who's only claim to fame was putting a new shade of lipstick on the same FPS pig every year and pretending it was some kind of new game.
I always had a fear that Blizzard set the bar so high that they, themselves, wouldn't be able to keep it propped up. It's still crazy to think that the merger back in 2008 was the beginning of the end.
Holy shit, that Diversity Chart. We had a Blizzard rep come to our college to give us a workshop on the Diversity Chart and made us apply it to our personal projects. Nobody was particularly happy about it because we'd already spent months working on those projects only to have everything boiled down to a set of numbers.
the Age stat on that chart is what really threw me. it implied there's a "normal" age just like it implied there's a normal setting on all those other qualities. it was so freaking bizarre -- how often do you play a character and think "ehhh on second thought, I can't play Torbjorn.. he's too old." like WHO CAME UP WITH THIS STUPID CHART
What college do you go to that would consider Blizzard a company that they would ever even consider bringing in to give a workshop? They're the current laughing stock of the gaming industry in everything but weaseling their way out of lawsuits.
Honestly, with everything that happened with the company, I can only blame the idiots who continue giving Blizzard money for what they do. Every preorder WoW mount, every whale in Immortal, every diversity-bait in Overwatch, every sexual harassment lawsuit, is just another example of a company that can apparently get away with anything. Stop. Giving. Them. Money.
Just watch all those morons pre-order Diablo 4 and making videos about it when it comes out. People have been raised as brainless consumers with FOMO, they can't keep their money in their pockets. And the future generations will be even worse. We're slowly drifting towards a cyberpunk world were mega corporations have all the power.
Consumer side activism has only worked in very close communities like the bus boycotts in alabama. It would almost be impossible to organize a boycott to get them to change. The only way these companies will change is if devs unionize and these publishers are regulated to shit so they cant use these abusive buisness practices anymore.
@@yutro213 you cant view the mass public like you view your self you have to think of groups of people as morons that dont know whats good for them. If that werent the case the republicans would never win a election
Thank God you haven’t given up. Your content is a diamond in the rough on RU-vid. When I see one of your videos I watch it in its entirety, and it’s always well written and produced. Do not quit on us, we love you brother.
seriously, the way he combs through his own commentary for moments to add a funny audio bit or flash a poignant image/clip on the screen shows how dedicated he is to his videos. i can’t listen to his videos like podcasts the way i can with other creators- i feel like i have to sit down and enjoy them in their entirety.
I know this isn't something you see much, but I wanted to share a few experiences I've had this year in the hopes that it helps someone in need. Love you all.
As a new parent. I can say for a fact, stolen breast milk is not funny. Its a lot of work to pump every 2 hours. Its painful. And its very stressful for the parents that arnt producing enough milk. Ad a formula shortage on top of that. Thats enough to warrant a serious beating.
The most hilarious part about that whole sexual harassment and discrimination scandal is that blizzard started to push a very... harmfisted "women of blizzard" panel at blizzcon (yaknow, the convention about blizzard GAMES) around the time they announced Diablo Immortal ... It's funny how the ones that virtue signale the most are always the slimiest.
It was amazing hearing some seriously talented ladies talk about their careers, but it should've been an obvious red flag. Even more so that the voice actor for Murlocs wasn't on the panel smh
I actually got to be interviewed by Activison Blizzard as a QA Tester. I did pretty bad on the interview cause it was like my second time ever doing an interview so I was still new but they handled it terribly when the interviewer said to the other interviewer to "get 'em out of here." which is referring to me. I didn't say anything, kept my formalities and just left after shaking hands but man, looking back it makes me want to throw up. :/
To answer one question: offices tend to have lactation rooms for mothers who are still breast feeding since they have 2 options: collect the breast milk in bottles for their baby later or leak all over their shirt and possibly be super uncomfortable. I am fully in favor of protecting this sort of thing. Stealing breast milk is fucking weird bro.
@@decem_sagittae that’s nice. I told my wife when she got pregnant that I would bring in enough money so she didn’t need to work anymore if she didn’t want.
Hey Act Man, glad you're back. Regarding lactation rooms. Basically, if a woman is breastfeeding, she keeps producing milk, regardless of whether or not it is eaten. So, if she's working, she needs to pump milk for 2 reasons. 1/ so the baby can be fed wherever it is and 2/ to prevent milk building up which can be very uncomfortable and lead to serious infections like mastitis. So having access to those facilities allows these women to continue breastfeeding (which is the best thing for babies) while working.
Thank you that makes sense. I found it weird when I first heard it, but I knew it wasn't something to far off like this. Alright now the real issue WHO IS TAKING THESE WOMANS MILK LEAVE IT ALONE CREEP.
The problem with games like Diablo Immortal isn't the games themselves. It's the brainlet users with unreasonable amounts of disposable income who spend tens of thousands of dollars and more on in-game purchases. This is why these games exist. No matter what the game is, there will be people who will spend an absurd amount for in-game purchases and games like this will continue to be made for that reason.
@@mo.trademarked Well without the gamblers, the casino doesn't exist. The Casino just exists to take advantage of their tendencies and lack of self control.
If loot boxes are seen as gambling, then they should be restricted to adults. If that happens, the company will lose half its player base and will not resort to using this type of monetisation, and yes, games like this will continue to be made, but their profitability will be noticeably reduced.
Taking sponsorships is the number one way to stop being honest. He also doesn't need them, look at his patreon. Please stop sucking off everyone who figured out how to turn on a camera, they're not entitled to money for their content.
Its actually baffling how almost every game developer that I can remember being hailed as titans of the industry decades ago are now laughing stocks or complete shells of their former selves. Also glad to see you're still soldiering on Act Man.
Yeah, I guess the liberal media killing off a bunch of companies that made great games (because they weren't diverse enough) is... actually... a great... thing... somehow. I remember how much I hated Diablo because I couldn't make my character a transgender Muslim in a wheelchair. Just took me completely out of the game. So happy I won't ever have to slog through crap like that again! I'm ready to spend my free time playing seriously fantastic liberal products like Depression Quest!
@TheSovietOnion Please show me any metric that suggests diversity=profits. I think it has been proven time, and time and time and time again that woke=broke. It makes quite literally no sense for a business to go more woke for money. It's like jumping in a pool to stay dry.
@@speeklymaeve yes, because someone in the company was a horrible person that obviously means the company must create diversity generators to make sure there aren't too many straight white people in their games. The logic is staggering.
@@kenfresno2125 actively opposed to appealing to the masses. diversity generators are just... i have no words. nobody asked for or wanted them. not a single sensible person. AB is just so stupid of a company that they just assumed it would fix their issues. also they monetized one of the most horrifically depressing and vile events in the history of our species for gits and shiggles
Bobby Kotick is the real-life equivalent of Councilman Dexhart from Parks and Rec. He keeps getting caught in these disgusting scandals, but refuses to resign and fights dirty to keep his job, and because of that, no one can touch him.
Glad to see you not shaken up by everything that's happened lately. Also damn good to see independent sponsors not being scared away by RU-vid's bullshit and still willing to back your channel.
@@lalatendupdeo4398 something tells me they do know but they don't give a shit about what RU-vid thinks lol. Why would they? It's not like he did anything to get canceled or anything bad.
The diversity tool honestly feels really gross and offensive to me, like... I'm Southeast Asian, I love my culture, and I value what my people are like, but this tool just makes including an Asian character feel less special and feel more like they got included just because their race and ethnicity. It devalues the culture and race as a whole if it's being added simply to cross off a checklist.
As a black man, I think diversity is a good thing. However, it has to have some common sense applied. If the game is set in modern day New York, I expect to see more than white faces. If the game is set in a small fishing village in Iceland back in 1477, then a black person being there wouldn't make sense. That said, when it comes to completely fantasy settings, some diversity doesn't take anything away from the setting.
@@seanwilliams7655 yeah seriously, indian guy here and diversity is awesome when it isn't soulless like blizzard's been doing. Overwatch was really cool because it was the first time i saw indian characters in a huge game, but reading that tool took away all value from that character. They didn't want to put in a brown character because they thought it'd be cool, they did it to mathematically ensure people will buy their game
I remember thinking that the "ability" section of blizzard's diversity tool meant "cognitive ability" and that made me really confused since torbjorn had a high score. I was thinking maybe they made torbjorn autistic like symmetra (because being obsessive over geometric shapes apparently makes you autistic) simply because torbjorn was too focused on his engineering. It took me a while to figure out, no he only has a high ability score because he has a mechanical arm... I would have never thought that torbjorn was disabled if it wasn't for blizzard pointing it out to me. The mechanical arm is just part of torbjorn's design, he's not disabled, if anything his mechanical arm enhances his abilities.
I mean, it wasn't used for development but it's actually a decent example of how approaching a character like that COULD be useful. It characterises Torbjorn, and while I'm sure it's a boon for the game itself I can't imagine he has a good time using that set of pliers he has for a hand for cleaning the dishes. It's a bad system for a few reasons but the aim of diversifying characters in that way where they have unique traits, whether they be disabilities, injuries, backgrounds or ethnicities is a good one where so much focus can be lost on the other side of that coin, on their presence and special powers, which is also something you shouldn't ignore.
As an autistic person,if a company wants to represent us,why don't they just get autistic people on the team? (and yes I know someone being in the group doesn't mean they represent all the group but it's better then none) Edit: It's cause its corporate bs
@@humandisaster3902 If the focus of the tool was just to find some unique combinations and stumble into some cool gameplay, that would be awesome. The trouble is that this tool was made just to appease the extremely left leaning liberal media, and their desire to see straight white people removed from the world. And then, hilariously, it's the extreme left leaning liberal media that says this tool is a bad thing. Never try to appease crybabies, because they'll always find something to complain about. Imagine your chief complaint being that there are too many white people in a game... when it was created in a country that is 60% white. Always crying for "proper representation" and then pretending that "proper representation" means pretending 60% of your country doesn't exist, and really focusing in on the less than 1% that cut their own genitals off.
@@kenfresno2125 no... you don't have to do all that working out there, you can approach the system on a character basis and see why it's not entirely good or helpful. It doesn't plot out the character and it doesn't actually address unique traits of the character to assist someone in creating something new. There's no attempt to remove "straight white men" from anything and this tool doesn't appeal to creators, or the people it has attempted to represent. It's a good idea, it was just done poorly. Nice transphobia at the end there btw dude.
you know....being hit like this by youtube and still finding the drive to create for your audience is a strong reflection of your character and nothing short of admirable. You rock Act Man!!
You’re a legend for not letting the RU-vid B.S. stopping you from making content. The whole community is right behind you - hope everything gets resolved soon 🙏🏽
@@senatorarmstrong4662 JESSIE, GUS IS TRYING TO KILL ME AND MY FAMILY, STOP LOOKING AT RU-vid VIDEOS, WE. NEED. TO. COOK…. Intro Song Begins: Director Vince Gilligan
Inspiration? Why is that? With 4957 dollars on just patreon each month, it's more steady and more income than what he made with ad revenue. Regardless, I'm also glad he's making videos again.
Us in the Overwatch community laughed so hard at the creepy tool. The Overwatch Developers were so mad at it. The Overwatch creator's love and care so much about their diverse heroes. They did not use that tool it's from King the mobile game part of ABK
"Who brings breast milk to work?" Well, to feed the baby, if they have no choice but to bring the child to work. Also, breasts can produce milk fairly quickly, so there may not be time to wait to go home before a mother may have to use a pump. You can then refrigerate it for the baby later and not waste it.
@@SarkkiKarkki paid maternity leave for how long? Three months? Six months? A year? I think those are reasonable time frames, however A) some breastfeeding moms want to go back to work because they like their jobs and don’t want to stay at home; and B) the WHO recommends breast feeding for up to two years. That would be more parental leave than is offered in the countries with the most generous social safety nets.
@@aexanderospino1590 Sadly if they had to give paid maternity leave for up to a year women would be less likely to get jobs, and they would get paid less then they already are as they would ‘be risky’ and ‘do less work’. Plus, lactation rooms aren’t bad when people aren’t *stealing breast milk.*
@@aexanderospino1590 In our country , if a woman chooses so , the company is obligated to give 2y of maternity leave , and give her the same job when she is back. On the downsides, much less 'lactation rooms' provided. ...
The diversity tool reminds me of an incentive my company had a few years ago where we would get a bonus if we recommend a person who is hired and that bonus doubles If that person has a debilitating disability
Someone I know got a prestigious government job this way. He is a great kid, but I refuse to believe his lack of experience, references, or ability to demonstrate basic people skills in public pushed him over other candidates. He has some form of autism and a strange speech impediment.
I mean hiring disabled people isn't a problem as long as they can work (which many can),the thing is the workplace need to be disabled friendly. Which a lot of work places aren't.
Thank the liberal media. No company wants to do these things. They want to hire the best person for the job, but god forbid 62% of your company is straight white men (ya know, the people who are behind literally every single improvement made in your entire life) the liberal media will pounce and call them white supremacists.
@@PerfectCell937 "Why the hell does it even matter?" Because, positions are filled with people that tick diversity quotas instead of you know, having the skill, experience and talent to get the work done?
If there is one RU-vidr that deserves us clicking on their sponsored links, it's The Act Man. Thankful for your return, and hope you can support your channel in this new direction. Good luck and godspeed!
Glad to see you back in action, Act Man. About the breastfeeding thing, it's actually common for breastfeeding mothers to need to pump during the workday and their employer is required by law to give them a space to do it in privately. When you're breastfeeding you need to pump during the day, so it makes sense that mothers returning to work would need a safe space to pump in.
Thanks for mentioning this! Didn’t nessecarily know if it was something exclusive to blizzard but this clarification really helps! Still entirely fucked that grown men are drinking it 🤢
@@LowKeyBrit36 it is a blow below the belt. I do not respect that blizzard community that stands united despite it all. To make it clear they drove a woman to commit suicide, routinely harassed employees, crawling trough women's cubicles, making childish jokes at women et cetera. I will never let this go. I detest the current state of the videogame industry. The abhorrent and abuse of videogame developers. The fanboys who shriek with delight over 800% value because they have phones need to get caught and face even jailtime...
Mindsets like Blizzard's is a strong reason as to why I always roll my eyes at attempts at inclusion in pop culture. Noone seems to be doing it just because or for a good reason, but to attempt to draw on a crowd that was never interested for percieved greater profits.
Are you suggesting... that the artist should actually have creative control over their story/world instead of a board of execs looking for social clout? Madness, I say!
Exactly, on top of that, most of the people who cry about these issues aren't even watching/spending money on the products they insist upon being made. If so many people Truly wanted and supported these things as much as they say then the numbers would reflect that. But forced diversity products are almost always commercial flops. Not because the vast majority has any problem with diversity itself, but because it's a massive set of handcuffs on writers/creators to navigate the minefield of PC culture bullshit and still make a product that is actually good. The point that The Act Man made about Overwatch is a good example of non forced diversity, it makes perfect sense within the narrative to have all different characters from all different walks of life in that setting, so great, thumbs up. It is a little more jarring-however, when you're watching a movie set in a RL city that has an overwhelming majority population of a certain skin colour and every person you see is a different skin colour to the next. It's immersion breaking, reeks of corporate pandering for profit and a lot of people can smell the bullshit. By all means represent as many different types of people as you want, but if you can't maintain relevant consistency with the world in which your story happens then you fucked up.
@@NineBreakerUIXB My theory is that either the people who support this dont actually care about the franchisees they plow over, or alternatively, the people this does effect ARE supporting this now, but because it's such a small portion of the population, that it doesnt show in a gross increase in profits. As it is, we only hear the loud minority, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
@@Cosmic_K13 They certainly don't seem to care about the franchises, or creative endeavours in general, quite a lot of them I very much doubt even care about the causes they're shouting about. Usually it just seems to be a case of trying to look good to their friends and neighbours so no one will notice what an uninteresting and/or terrible human being they actually are
Him coming out with an banger of an update on Activision Blizzard just shows his decisiveness! If he goes down he’s burning everything and saying anything while sticking it to YT. A true legend! Edit: Was just wondering about this too so that’s a plus!
It's good to see you back Act Man. It's shitty that you can't get paid for all the work that you do. But keep making the great video's buddy and people will keep watching them. And with any luck you will get the option back to get paid for the things that you do
Can’t express my joy to have the Act Man back and better than ever. We all appreciate that even while being demonetized, you are still putting all your effort into these videos.
Idk, seems a lot of people recently are coping due to Blizzard being the victorious villain; which they are. The harassment stuff has blown over, Kotick will still get his pension and yachts. They flat out rejected having any of the employees on the board, the ones protesting who made the request. They made BANK off Diablo Immoral, like millions already in a couple of weeks because as much as streamers "hate" it, they sure do love to cover it. Let's not forget WoW already broke pre-order sales records with Shadowlands (literally was the most sold PC game of all time for like a couple weeks) now they're wracking up money with DF pre-orders. Then Overwatch 2 is around the corner, which I'm sure will have tons of monetization and lots of whales throwing money at it despite it just being a big Overwatch 1 patch with barely any differences. It's fine to hate Blizzard, but to pretend they're not successful isn't being genuine. I'm sure they're not crying rolling around in money.
@@MichRoyal Companies are following Blizzard because the liberal media demands them to follow, and they don't have spines. Not a single company on earth wants to worry about the skin color, or sexual orientation of characters in their video game. They want to make money. Period.
It sucks because there are a lot of good devs under companies like this. Devs that have the potential to make amazing games but are severely limited by Activision.
I sympathize, but gotta point out that they are choosing to work with/for activision. They may be talented, but they are knowingly choosing this. Could they have made better games with more autonomy? Maybe. Am I surprised at the result of the partnership? No. Should they be? No.
Well you know what they say, “When they needed him most, he returned.” Good to see you again man. Glad you’re continuing to make what you love. Love your content, cannot wait to see what else you bring us in the near future.
I also like to write comments that will elicit the response like the Full House TV show live audience when one of the little girls says something cute "Awwwwwweeeee☺️" Gives me a warm and fuzzy
@@ericwaln2056 His channel was demonetized because of a satire tweet he made about doxxing RU-vid employees and their families. He made it in response to his family being doxxed. Phillip Defranco gave him an interview which explains the situation better.
@@ericwaln2056 what I could tell it was actman tweeting mentioning RU-vid employers (doxing them) which they really didn't want. So they just picked some clip of where act showed quantum tv guy with a cucumber in his mouth (super imposed) and called it cyber bullying. Really it comes down to youtube having to take something serious when it clearly wasnt. It doesnt matter if the content creator is a comedian, there is no black and white there unfortunately. This is a learning lesson on if youtube wants to let you go they will. Im really hoping act man makes more via patreon anyways and streaming is where the money is at anyways, stuff youtube they are a bunch of mugs.
Great video! One small nitpick, though. There's no "Blizzard half" to ActiBlizz. It is a single entity. "Blizzard" devs are put there and given orders by the same people as "Activision", and none of the old blood has any power anymore (either because they left or they didn't have much power in the first place). It's not useful to think of it as a separate thing. Blizzard died a long time ago, time to move on.
Glad to see you back in action man, I'm sorry for what you've had to deal with recently hope all is well with your family and I can't wait to see what you make next.
@@xxhobocatxx2869 You guys forgot what happened to Andrew Cuomo? The dude killed 15 000 old people and nothing happened. A few Women accused him of harassment, and he had to quit cuz people wanted to torch him...
@@xxhobocatxx2869 Oh, and don't forget what happened when a Woman accused Joe Biden of harassment. Feminists had to support Joe publicly and that's when the Feminist movements died out. And the people that torched buildings etc... They got bailed out by politicians and are untouchable, even if they are poor... Law only applies when Culture demands it.
Reminds me of that one Gillette commercial where a guy was interested in talking to a woman he found attractive but his friend intercepted him as if it was wrong. Voxis Productions made a hilarious video response to it.
I'm glad to see that the weird situation before has turned into 'something' positive at least. A steady patreon + sponsors is more profitable than just ad revenue. Well played and good to see you back.
Shame he covered such a well traveled path with this video. And a shame he pretended this diversity crap was Blizzard's decision and not obviously them being forced to bow to the liberal media. I'll never understand why people like this guy insist that companies must submit and make their games more diverse... and then ridicule them for submitting and making their games more diverse. I mean, I do... it's because liberals are the phoniest people on earth and will always have something new to cry about... but come on.
Can't tell you how happy to see you back my friend. I've been loving your content for years and was sickened at how quickly the powers that be threw you under the bus. I was sickened, not surprised. All things aren't equal in this platform. Before decisions on what is harassment or fair use can be decided the content creators need to be profiled on their race, gender and SO. You had three strikes from the start. Keep getting sponsors, Ignore the blue check marks your fans are here and continue supporting you. Things are at the beginning of finally swinging back into reality. Love you brother!
@@JinnYoungKim Not to mention the fact that this other guy went qnd contacted Acts mom. I can't even fathom if the roles were reversed how quick they'd hammer Act. It's a disgrace how much of a double standard that's applied based solely on the optics of the people's races that are involved. So many are terrified to even say this stuff aloud but im sick of it. This is not equality its just pure discrimination. It's doesn't matter what form ot takes, gender, race, SO...its disgusting in all forms. We see it literally everywhere nowadays. I'm willing to bet this is rampant in the writers rooms of entertainment as well. "Well I can't say this idea is bad or makes no sense simply because I don't want to be called racist, phobe etc..." Or simply hiring because you need more...whatever bc talent means nothing. When politics are the motivation, this is when story, creativity or even simply making sense in the wider Canon of the license falls completely by the wayside and we get left with Halo or The Last Jedi. When ur primary storytellers have no passion for the product or are even aware of its history you get what the vast majority of current day entertainment is, complete garbage. Well, sorry for the rant. This is hopefully on its way out of fashion albeit very slowly, based on the $ these companies are losing (Lightyear, Disney as a whole, Netflix), or gaining (Top Gun Maverick, Daily Wire) because in the end the only color that matters to these companies is green. BTW if you're looking for something entertaining with little to no bs, so far at least, I've been loving The Old Man....excellent so far.
Act Man did lie about why he was demonetized though. The short of it is that he began threatening YT directly on top of also stating that he was in talks with employees over at YT to get Quantum banned. That breaks the TOS. Griffin Gaming has a video on it. Was really disappointed to learn it as well. Funny enough, if Act Man had just reigned in his ego and not stated that he'd get Quantum banned, Quantum would likely be banned right now. But because he, a massive channel, stated that he'd get QuantumTV, a much smaller channel, banned, he basically put YT into a corner. If they'd have banned Quantum, it would basically be seen as a monopoly large channels have over small ones. I'm not defending YT here. They are extremely hypocritical about their TOS, including with Act Man/Quantum. But what I do know is that Act Man wasn't being honest about this case. Instead of focusing 100% of that hour long video on the real issue, which was Quantum's false copyright striking, he spent 95% of it trying to get Quantum banned by bringing up all his Tweets from a decade ago like a literal feminist #MeToo witch, straight up virtue signalling, getting his following to trend #StopTheHate and making Quantum out to be a bigot (which he is in many ways, but that's no crime on YT if it's not your content). That's borderline defamation. Act Man has been critical of that type of shit in the past himself. But now when he was in a position to use it to his benefit, he just pulled that trigger right away. Sucks for him that he, as a white man, doesn't hold the same power of virtue signalling on YT that another race or gender would, and that he tried doing it to a black man. It backfired. YT would never ban a black owned channel no matter how deserving if it's instigated by a white owned one. Maybe instead of virtue signalling, Act Man should've been spending time and effort fighting back against that kind of injustice. Instead, he was furthering the same woke shit that got his channel demonetized. Tried to harness the woke as a weapon for himself, but got burned by it. Ironic.
@@TheStraightestWhitest hmm? Threatening? Didn’t he make a joke? YT isn’t supposed to use things outside the platform to take down channels. It’s why an anime reviewer who killed his family still has his channel up, including the video where he said he was ending the channel because of what he was going to do the next day (shoot up his family and attempt to shoot up a school). It’s why Quantum still has his channel despite threatening ppl and wishing death on the LGBT. How exactly is that breaking TOS? Taking to YT isn’t against anything. Making jokes on Twitter also isn’t against TOS. Also, no, YT wouldn’t doing a “monopoly” thing. The case was obvious. Quantum broke TOS. Calling him out for breaking TOS and abusing the copyright system is a common thing on the channel, and him saying he’ll defend himself and take him to court if he tries to attack his channel isn’t a threat. ActMan can’t defame Quantum when he’s already defamed himself. Pointing out death threats isn’t woke, nor does it have anything to do with feminism or the me too movement which is about sexual assault/sexism. His ability to wield virtue signaling doesn’t fail cuz he’s a white man, as plenty in the past have tried and failed to do similar things and they weren’t white or men. YT just doesn’t care. There’s a reason why LGBTA ppl r often demonized for no reason. The simple fact is that YT has always been on the side of hyper religious conservatives, which we’ve seen with the channel it allows to thrive on the platform despite sending targeted harassment to other people. It’s all performative activism. Actman was too “woke” for YT. We can see your bias by the way you speak, as well as your very obvious username. We know exactly the types of ppl Actman pissed off, so we know exactly why he was demonized. We’ve seen channels that are “woke” be taken down while ppl like Quantum r free. It’s all performative.
@@ma.2089 ''YT isn’t supposed to use things outside the platform to take down channels. It’s why Quantum still has his channel despite threatening ppl and wishing death on the LGBT.'' Hence why I stated, YT is hypocritical. They demonetized Act Man for things outside YT, but not Quantum. BUT, Act Man failed to mention the reason for his demonetization, and that's sus. That's all I said. Now as for the rest of your braindead blabber, I legit can't believe what I'm reading. '' There’s a reason why LGBTA ppl r often demonized for no reason. The simple fact is that YT has always been on the side of hyper religious conservatives'' You have to be trolling with this shit, right? Why was Undead Chronic banned 14 times then? Hell, he's not even Conservative. Why is every single conservative channel demonetized, like Sandman, Prager, etc? Why did Molyneux get demonetized, then taken out of the algorhythm, then banned? Why do dudes like Hammerhand get their true sub count of 778k hidden and relegated to like 30k permanently before getting banned when they reveal it in a community post? Why do I have to copy my every single comment and have had to since 2018 before posting because half the time when I refresh the page, they got shadowbanned without explanation of notification of why? Fuck off with that shit, bigot. Because yes, you are the bigot. ''We can see your bias by the way you speak, as well as your very obvious username. We know exactly the types of ppl'' Read the shit you're spouting out, and then try pretending otherwise.
Just one quick note Act Man: Companies will frequently settle lawsuits rather than battle them out in court because the settlement is less expensive than paying for the *years* of lawyers' fees it would require to exonerate said company. While a settlement may *look* like an admission of guilt, in actuality it is far more likely to be a purely economic decision rather than legal comeuppance. If there was, indeed, sexual harassment on the scale that was alleged and if it was possible to prove it in court, A.B. could've very easily been on the hook for 10s, if not 100s of millions of dollars. The settlement makes the problem go away.
Sucks that you're no longer monetized for being right. RU-vid is as much of a joke as any other company without balls. Hopefully they'll monetize you're channel once again actman. Keep on going and pet Coco for me :)
The Act Man: "I'm here to talk about how scummy Activision-Blizzard is and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum." I would just like to say "Mr. Act Man, welcome back. We've missed you."
Blizzard employees stage a walkout over workplace harassment, rightfully, but they seem to be perfectly content working on games that are obviously predatory towards young people. Interesting morals and ethics they have.
@@coreyrachar9694 I could only find one video with the full original video that was uploaded by the Act Man and then removed by RU-vid, here’s the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ehcV7E1lk5U.html Basically, what happened is Act Man called out Quantum TV’s violation of RU-vid’s copyright laws, but for some reason, RU-vid decided to target the Act Man instead of the actual guilty guy, demonetizing his channel and taking down the video and all other RU-vidrs’ reactions to it. That’s why it’s a big deal that the Act Man continues to upload, despite not actually making money from these videos anymore, which shows just how passionate he is about this work.
I think if a game has a certain setting, the characters should reflect that setting. Like act man’s reasoning with overwatch having diversity, that makes total sense. Having WW2 be vastly more “diverse” than it really was takes a lot of people out of the immersion. I don’t think people would complain if a game based around an African tribe didn’t have Asian people or Latinos in it. Just make games that make sense. If you need absolutely require a diverse cast, put it in a setting where you could logically see a diverse group.
Yeah, I mean yes in the case of WW2 representing Colonial Divisions and those parts is good, but I'd do it within the confines of what was historically accurate
WW2 was diverse. People of many ethnicities were part of it. Problem isn't the diversity. It's the lack of effort to make these characters feel real. Vanguard's characters were outright terribly written, so much so they felt out of place. Not because of their gender or nationality, but their stories and dialogues that felt like it came straight out of a shitty action movie that spent most of its budget on action set pieces and zero money on the writing department.
I mean RE5 was set in Africa and it still got hate for "killing Africans." No one batted an eye when the games took place in the US or in Spain. But Africa?! Noooo! That's racist now.....ok.
Your talk about the so called "Diversity Tool" could have been straight from my heart! Thank you for your honest comments and critics over the years. Nothing, but love and support for your work.
@@WarbossR0kt00fSant0s Microsoft doesn't have control of the company yet, the merger still has to completely finish before they can do anything (which they hopefully will).
@@WarbossR0kt00fSant0s When they finish buying actiblizz it might make things better. They are currently about as good a corporate citizen as they get at this scale. I'm sure at heart they're still a multinational who would turn us into Soylent Green for shareholders, but compared to their peers they're almost saintly nowadays.
I’m happy to now be capable of being a Patreon for your channel, You deserve all the help you can get for your dedication to the preservation of what’s right. I hope your appeal works out and monetization returns to your channel. God bless Act Man. Best wishes from the year 2552.
I am glad to see you back on YT after a long break. I just want to let you know that you are one of my favorites YT creators. I watch you since 2017 and I has been glued to your video contents. It sucks how RU-vid and Quantum TV did you dirty. It is indeed a dark age but sometimes it takes to lit a candle to shine brighter. They might think they won but what they won is a mere battle, but never the war. I hope you keep going and good luck!
I was truly upset with the situation you found yourself in. I genuinely believe that the content you create makes RU-vid a better place. Some of the best video game media available on any platform. The care and effort is evident in every video you put out. Clearly other content creators and fans knew what a disservice it would be to deprive the masses of your talents. Keep it going and don’t let it get to you.
@@Dynelegacy was waiting for a zombie to react to this. By mature I mean not being overly dramatic over a false copyright strike and not taking resbonsiblity about the mob made out of zombies the mob you're either in or support that is attacking somebody on a personal level. lets hope yes that he matured to know what to do and what not to do when something happens to him
@@amosamwig8394 attacking someone on a personal level, like threatening their mother or calling them zombie? this was far more than a copyright strike. RU-vid has allowed harassment to go unchecked on their platform and has made the platform less safe for everyone. This is a much bigger deal than you seem to understand, but I guess you support hatred and harassment.
@@romekvanboxtel8617 I have a genuine question man, I've always wanted to visit the Netherlands because it's such a beautiful place, but should I be worried about any kind of racism or culture shock being a Hispanic from America? I'm just curious
@@JonathanHanma04 to be honest I cant speak for everyone but we mostly dont care about where you from as long as you act normal and dont cause trouble.
Im surprised to see that none of the top comments are clearing up breastfeeding misconceptions. Lemme fix that: If you’ve recently given birth and are breastfeeding your baby, you don’t get to choose when your body is ready to lactate. Your body produces milk nearly 24/7 and the mammary glands can only hold so much before needing to be emptied. If the milk is held within the glands for too long, it can lead to complications resulting in clogged nippled ducts and “rotten” milk. It’s very dangerous for the mother (who can get infections) and the baby (who could lose their source of food). So, what should new mother’s do after returning to work when they’re still in that breastfeeding stage and have to work 8+ hour shifts? When her glands feel “full”, a breastfeeding mother will use a breast pump to extract the milk and store it to feed to their baby at a later date. A breast pump is a device that attaches to the breast and imitates the suction of a feeding child’s mouth and sends the extracted milk to either a bottle of bag for later use. Breast pumping is very important as it ensures the baby will have a constant supply of food, even if mom isn’t around to breastfeed. It also ensures the health of the mother by making sure she doesn’t end up with clogged nipples. I cannot imagine the frustration of being a new mother, returning to your shitty video game developer job surrounded by irl redditors and 4chan users, trying to pump milk so your child has food when you’re at work, and then some asshole dude steals your kid’s food. I would see red
This whole Activision-Blizzard saga has been like watching a car crash in slow motion: awfully destructive, yet undeniably captivating. So a little bit like that train wreck in CoD:WW2.
more of "car crash into a petro-chemical plant, just next door to a nuclear power and refinement plant". you know it's gonna be bad, you're just waiting to see how bad it's gonna get, and how bad the cleanup will be.
Glad to see you up and at em! Ok, so for those who don't know, nursing mothers have to express milk frequently, every few hours. If you are at work, or somewhere can't feed your child when you need to express milk, you can pump your breastmilk. Then you save the milk to feed your child later. So basically, if you are a working new mother who breastfeeds, being able to express breast milk at work is a must. Now you know!
It's crazy that Blizzard used to be one of, if not the most beloved PC gaming companies. Blizzard consumed my childhood and teens with SC, WC3, D1+D2, then WOW, yet now I despise them.
As a recent new father I have only just learned: When you have recently given birth you produce lots of breast milk and your boobs literally fill up to the point it hurts and you have to empty it. So if you aren't with your baby you just pump it out and save it for later because breastmilk is super valuable. And if you don't pump it you stop producing as much. It's pretty standard for large companies to have areas to pump comfortably in private. It is not standard to steal it... that I know of.
not going to lie when it reaches a breaking point maybe its time to go home and asks your husband to help you ehmmm pump it out~~~ =(ikik im a lost cause)
Nothing says “we totally aren’t a bunch of bigots” like needing a tool to rank people by race so you can force yourself to include them in games. I’m seeing a future game lead saying “we’re 36 points short on the diversity scale, add a trans-female, black, impoverished, non-binary, asexual, autistic character. That’ll hit the proper score”
