thank you for not doing the "ohh the furry sex stuff is just a minority its not every furry most furries hate it actually" thing. its a very much appreciated breath of fresh air
That's just how you handle conversation about any subculture. Don't defend, explain. "ohh the biker meth stuff is just a minority its not every biker most bikers hate it actually"
i think it’s also SO important to remember that a lot of times the “cringe” groups are just a quick shortcut to bully marginalized ppl. the first notable anti-furry group online was a catholic group who was angry that furries (both at the time and now) were significantly more likely to be lgbt than the general public. bullying “theatre kids” can quickly become a shortcut to bullying autistic & adhd people (esp high school students). the weird hyperfixation people have on readers & writers of smutfic gets misogynistic very quickly (romance readers are like 80% women). it’s just the same bullying we’ve seen for decades with a fun new twist: it’s people seeing trans ppl, or gay ppl, or autistic ppl, or women enjoying things, and feeling the “eew, icky” impulse and not thinking about WHY they’re feeling that impulse. great video, ms kickflips 🙂↕️
The third big reason? furries are majority and overtly queer, and are still an acceptable target for common homophobia/queerphobia/transphobia/etc I will say, the rapid zooming and extra camera motion does work at night where the field of view is narrow and there's only really you and one background element in the frame, but the camera motion during the day especially in a big open space with lots of points on different horizons for my eyes to track makes me a bit motionsick, and I'm a VR freak I have really high tolerance to motion sickness generally.
Based Sailor moon warms my cold lifeless heart and reminds me to have empathy for the freaks and weirdos who are all trying to warm their hearts and exist beautifully.
This video could not have come at a better time. Last week I went to an anime convention and during said convention I attened a "rant and debate" panel for the Persona series. Heading the panel were two female cosplayers dressed as Joker and Skull from Persona 5 respectively. There were slides with questions that ranged from whether or not certain characters were necessary or utilized well in the story to who was the best DILF and MILF of the series. The Joker cosplayer had been a part of the fandom for over a decade and her passion for the franchise showed through. The biggest thing that got me was the panelists willingness to acknowledge the various flaws of the series. Not defend, but acknowledge that they exist, but still loved the franchise. In the past I would have blown off this sort of discussion off as "cringe". But, not only was I having fun, but I was actively participating. I feel as though this has made me realize just how closed-minded past me was being. Mind you, this panel didn't make me immediately go out and start reading Persona fan-fics, never been into those personally, but it made me realize just how isolating the "this is cringe" mindset truly was. To think that if i was still in that same mindset, I would not have gone to any anime convention, much less this specific panel. Anyways, thats again for this video. Your videos have made me rethink a lot about myself.
This is a *shockingly good* companion vid to Patrica Taxxon's video on the ethics of boinking animal people. Also, the graffiti on the fence is *awesome* (totally not biased because of the vid essay project, nooo, who would *possibly* think that... /s) This also got me thinking about an artist I've been a fan of for a bit, and some of their... less SFW work, and I can solidly say that my acceptance of *that part* of their body of work has *slightly* increased after watching this. Not like, a radical reconsideration of that art, I'm pretty sure only CJ could prompt that, but still, a change that I think is positive. Timestamp thing, because I had a note to write: 2:12 - I've gotta rewatch Steven Universe, that show had some *solid* rep, awesome concepts, and great execution.
6:25 and onwards (whole vid is great but I wanna speak about this part in particular) struck me in a way that resonated so hard with me. I cringe heavily at my little siblings cause in a way, they’re just being open the same way I used to be. What was once a 10 y/o me quoting vines at the dinner table like the weird little tism freak I was, I have that feeling of trying to distance myself from the situation whenever my little siblings ramble on about whatever they watched on YT with their lack of restrictions stopping them from discovering whatever they find on there. Idk where I’m going with this but I just wanted to point out that this section hit me like a fucking brick! >w< Amazing vid!!!!! :3
You are the number one philosopher of our time. I think you, Jordan Peterson and Richard David Brecht (random german Guy) are the three names philosophystudents will think of when you talk about the 2020s in the future. This is a Joke ofcourse. But I like ur philosophy.
I've found that people often laugh when they don't know how to react. Something builds a lot of energy within them and it's got to go somewhere, so they start laughing. Sometimes that means a big juxtaposition, like people getting prepared for one thing and then seeing another thing. This primal part of our brains that needs to signal "Don't worry about me looking freaked the fuck out earlier, it's literally nothing." all in a laugh, all for everyone else so they don't waste energy investigating a false flag. Like being a caveman thinking they see a panther but then it turns out it's just Krug taking a shit. Being laughable in this case means we're harmless, but also that we remind people of things within themselves that they don't know how to react to.
Hey just a quick warning i feel like this one mightve hit a snag in the algorithm again. Last time you showed up on my recommendations it was the trans girls weird music thing and while I enjoyed that video a bunch of people said it was cringe or whatever on twitter so just be wary that people might do that again. God's peed comrade
Ok, I HAVE to ask, is the "put leg on top of object" need a trans thing? Could it perhaps be a neurodivergent thing? Because I do the leg thing all the time and I got into BOTH of those bags and i'm unsure 😂😂
this was such a gamble, i couldnt tell if this was actually gonna be a cringe compilation or a video essay. anyway now that im here, im gonna do as other commenters have done and shoutout Patricia Taxxon's video "ethics of boinking animal people" because it's based af
hi this video is awesome and the smiling broadly music at the end went hard as fuck. you’re my new favourite channel & i now own 200 misato body pillows that circle around my bed
4:40 End of the day im already mentally ill, and it doesn't matter what combination of psych meds i'm on or how much therapy i attend, im still going to be mentally ill so let me hangout with my body pillow ffs.
Really needed this video today lol, I’m one of the most open furries I know and I like to wear tails and shit around my college campus occasionally. Yesterday was the first time people ever made fun of me online for it and I hate to admit it, but it got to me a little bit! But I think being able to admit that is good. It places me in the minds of those on the opposite end making fun of me, the embarrassment they feel when they look at me is a reflection of the perpetual embarrassment they feel about themselves, for I do things they could never dream of being brave enough to do. It makes me feel sympathy for them, and that all the more encourages me to do what I do. Sure I had one or two people complain about me, but it will never compare to the frenzy of compliments I received and the warm, knowing looks from people who are as scared as I was several years ago but see in me a person they strive to be. I hope I see more tails on campus and I’ll keep wearing them to help that happen.
I'm really cringe. I was going to start learning Japanese. The reason why I didn't actually start learning Japanese is because my course got cancelled, because apparently they couldn't find 15 more people that were willing to spend 3 evenings a month on learning Japanese in a city of 300k people. Like it wasn't even some small independent thing, it was literally a thing done by the city. Would've been my fifth language. Guess I'll just do nothing for the rest of the year.
Whenever ppl bring up the guy that married Miku I’m like -don’t u think he’s at least a bit self aware? People within “cringe communities” know it’s goofy but still enjoy themselves. Outsiders tend to think anyone engaging in “cringe” is 100% delusional.
finally something i can relate to has been mentioned!! being stupid!1! hello it's that guys mom talking now, thanks you so much he sah been happy thanks
I've found the antisocial argument so fucking stupid because repressing yourself and not doing stuff out of fear of looking strange is so much more damaging to your mental health, I think the opposite is true actually
Actually i don’t want to be disingenuous here. Not a furry, but very much chill with furries, as a trans art kid myself. and sometimes i think about how I’d argue in front of an audience for their acceptance (something i do for a lot of my beliefs. you can probably psychoanalyze me off of that). And the way I’ve always imagined it is me simultanously, like, justifying furries’ existence by playing the card of like “they’re mostly queer! they’re mostly adhd or autistic! they’ve been told for so long that they’re inhuman, they’re just reclaiming it!” And like, why do I have to justify it? I think you’re right: bullying furries and weebs is just about finding an “acceptable target” and then tormenting them to shift scrutiny off oneself. And so the whole point of being a human is showing kindness and empathy and respect to people you don’t understand. Thinking of it that way makes it a lot simpler, I think. I liked this video. And the Rhyme plushie made me smile (also the fact that u named urself Rhyme).
Honestly i have lots of respect for people with the balls to live out that shit publicly, hell there was a time where i was young and gave significantly less of a fuck about stuff like that. I mean i already was an outcast and had no friends so why should i have bothered to subscribe to what people would think be normal, especially when these people made me start to feel dehumanized in the first place. Unfortunately i got older and at some point thought being a weird freak would lead to me staying a failure my whole life. I started wearing my carefully constructed outside world personality whenever i left the house (Mostly just work but hey at that point that already was half of what is to life) and it worked almost to well, the problem is that was never what i wanted but what i was bullshitting myself to think i needed in life. Fast forward a bunch of years and now and i´m miserable, way more then i ever was during the times of my life where i wholeheartedly excepted that "Cringe" side of me, quite literally living an almost schizophrenic double life, playing the most socially acceptable person my depressed ass can muster half the day, then coming home to be "myself" just to realize i have already lost grip of who i truly am... Be yourself, even if other people or even yourself at times think its cringe or whatnot, cause at the end there is zero merit in twisting yourself to be someone you simply are not. Take care.
"the only thing that i know is that i know nothing" is a deceptively difficult line to source. In Plato's book (recounting a real event) *Apology*, Socrates says this. The issue of authorship for Plato's works is difficult because we know that he almost certainly made *some* of the stuff he wrote up. As such, its difficult to tell if Socrates actually said this or if Plato made this line up. That being said, we know that *Apology* is based on real events because Xenophon also has a dialogue about the same event, and in it we see similar events happening from a different perspective. But in this dialogue by Xenophon, Socrates never says his famous line. But that said, we *do* have instances of Xenophon documenting a similar sentiment about Socrates-according to both Xenophon and Plato, the Oracle of Delphi said that Socrates was the wisest for claiming he knows nothing. But their accounts differ regarding who asked the Oracle this question, so it's hard to tell if this really happened. So in summary its hard to tell if Socrates said it, but Plato definitely wrote it down. Side note: Xenophon is way more boring than Plato. Apology by Plato is a great read and Apology by Xenophon is quite dull.
