Roasting Metal TikTok mercilessly 

What I’m trying to figure out is why they picked a type o negative solo for that second clip

It’s so unfortunate that this is what creators have to do to get views nowadays. But know that I will always watch and enjoy whatever content you put out, Mike. I’m proud to say that I have never downloaded TikTok, nor do I plan to

Any trend on TikTok almost always deserves mockery.

Honestly, I'm just so glad I am not a teenager in this day and age. Back in my days, I could be as cringe as I wanted in (relative) peace lol. I shudder to think what it would be like to have all that crap immortalized on the internet forever.

It seems like the younger generation is craving the vilification we got as young metalheads in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately for them, there is no comparison. Kardashians are wearing metal shirts. When I was young, people were getting life sentences for crimes they didn't commit because they listened to heavy metal. It's not the same.

The majority of TikTok is one of two things. It's either the dumbest most unfunny thing you've ever seen, or a chick in a lowcut top playing an easy rift.

Unfortunate that its come to this, but I will always enjoy and watch your content. Praying for you to be saved from the cringe.

“I don’t have TikTok-“ Most based fuckin intro ever.

Mike's intro energy is peak "fuck you all in the neck for making me watch TikTok's".

As a Gen Z teen, I apologize on behalf of these 'people' deeply. 🥲

My buddy had never been to a concert before, let alone a metal mosh pit gig. He's a country boy. Had extra tix to Volbeat and Anthrax. Oh, yes...he was introduced suddenly and without warning (and totally intentionally lol) to the pit. But same night there was a bunch of kids there too, and we guarded off a section where all the 8 and 10 and 5 year olds got to bouncy house off each other for a song or three. It was goddamn adorable. Buddy told me he hates the music, but he'd come along to another show anytime. He didn't believe me when I said Volbeat was tame, so i introduced him to Static-X.

TikTok is such a slap in the face for actual content creators that put effort into their videos

6:50 You could even say that new blood joins this earth and quickly he's subdued ...

The quality of content on TikTok will never impress me. Not just with metal, but with almost everything else

I love Mike. This is like the old man yelling at cloud meme, except in RU-vid form lol. edit: After further analysis, Tik Tok is as bad as I thought it was, I understand the pain Mike went through in this video.

I'm gen Z and grew up with cassettes, CDs, and streaming. I got into LPs in my late teens. That Master of Puppets bit is kinda true because I have fallen asleep to that on the train or if I'm trying to listen to an album for the first time, sometimes I'm just so tired that even while listening to "loud" or "extreme" music, I just fall asleep even while I'm trying to pay attention. Caffeine also gives me the paradoxical effect most of the time and sometimes ironic.

I enjoy a good roast. I also enjoy when someone can back up those roasts with knowledge. So yes, this is my favorite RU-vid channel, thanks for asking 🙏

That clip of the guy roasting what Rob Zombie songs are like reminds me of this tweet I saw where someone said something along the lines of “System Of A Down songs are all like IM THE MUSHROOM MAN! IM THE MUSHROOM MAN! OooOOOOoooOoooHh. In 2003 Amnesty International released reports of human rights violations by the U.S. military…”

As an actual metalhead and teenager this hoolaginism makes no sense to me. And the fact people can’t watch something or listen to something for more than 10 seconds to a minute is genuinely upsetting and sad because long ass songs like the thing that should not be or like solway Firth are actually pretty good this is a giant run on sentence that doesn’t make sense but I feel I just had to say it

This is the modern day version of mike reacting to kids not knowing “old” music

Metalhead TikTok and IG Reels are pretty much the same. It's either the gatekeeping type or the "Look bro, I can headbang" type and play different songs in different places around their houses Also, love the editing in this video. I'll never get tired of saying it 😆

M so glad I was born in the 70's and my folks raised me on traditional metal.

3:33 Mike literally looking up like "why god"

Mike: we can play thrash metal Plays bleed

I did a college presentaiton were I played a variety of metal songs in a pitch to get people to try different music. The kids posting this shit must be hyperfocusing on one or two off comments or just creating them in their head cuz reception was awesome and the only negative comments I've heard in my life about metal was that it was too loud. Mainly commenting for the algorithm but I hope anyone reading has a great day.

“Touch some f****** grass, please.”😂 Might be the best advice on the internet.

I laughed so goddamn hard at that Rob Zombie bit lmfao.

I got on TikTok for a few months then the shorts started becoming nauseating after awhile,started to see the downside and deleted it

I knew you leaned right when you refused Tik tok…Love your content ❤❤

Quote of the day: Go touch some grass.

We've set the bar so low that simply having a certain look and or aesthetic is concidered content and just as deserving of views as actual talent.

could you make an entire video about the importance of music? you talked about it a bit, but I'd like to hear full reasoning. btw Adam Neely's video "What does music mean" and Leonard Bernstein lecture which he talks about are something interesting in this context, maybe you could say what you think about it or something

Yeah, some Merciless Mike, let's goooo

Mike, I get self criticism is valid but don't beat yourself up too much - you're absolutely not competing with this XD Besides, EU and USA have recently been making some steps towards banning TikTok so there's a ray of hope I guess XD

I already knew TikTok was bad just based on its reputation but after having seen this compilation, i never would have guessed it was this braindead. Thank god i don't use the app.

Please do your top 5 best metal songs of all time

Tik Tok is Chinese for "We're Retarded" I'm not Chinese but I did eat egg rolls for dinner

The “festival video” is cedar point in Sandusky ohio and as that as my home park. We do not claim this guy who made the video lol

Don't worry Mike. I literally didn't know how to use my head voice until like 3 years of singing. I used to do everything in my chest voice.

The "I'm being held hostage" esthetic at the beginning is very fitting

Tik tok is haram, HARAM

For many years - between 15 and 25, I would go to bed every night to the sound of a full rock.album - loud! I upgraded to a triple disc player, and would select some unique mix every night, and put it on shuffle. So...Def Leppard Hysteria...Smashing Pumpkins Aeroplane flow high box set single/EP....Pearl Jam No Code.. Or.. GnR Lies...NIN the fragile...Counting Crows Recovering the Satellites. Or... Silverchair Freakshow... Powderfinger Double Allergic...Rage Against the Machine (self titled) See how much fun it was, the 3 CD player on shuffle..?? And no other time do you give your full, undivided attention to music appreciation. In the day, you'll be driving, working... something else. And you don't consume whole albums at a time. But beddy byes...?? It's go time! It takes me away - and I had a hard time learning to fall asleep without it. I also drank quite heavily, back then..so, often I'd be moderately toasted as I drifted off on a fluffy cloud of Siamese Dream Fuzz.... Good times! 😄👍

I really enjoyed the final commentary at the end of the video. “Old man yelling at cloud” nailed it.

another day of "Mike rages at the youth"

Those are done by fake fans Real metal fans are introverted and dont use tiktoks💀💀💀 Really tho metal in the 90s were better The gen z matal fans are cringe ( really cringe )

The clip where its playing audio of a solo is making fun of the first clip. There was a lot of content that followed the format of the first clip so people starting making fun of it.

blud is telling people to touch grass as he yells at teenagers on tiktok for liking metal 😭😭

I would love some more tiktok criticism videos. Hearing you say pretty everything I’ve wanted to about it brings me so much solace. But you probably don’t want to spend your time doing a bunch of these

Sorry Mike, hang in there bud. The cringe pandemic is currently in effect. Your channel 100% deserves way more views than it gets my dood. Also idk why but 6:50 the baby is subdued lmao

Pretty sure that was Cedar Point Halloweekends where the dude was going to play thrash for little kids. If that's the same band, they played Avenged Sevenfold (pretty poorly) and Disturbed's Down With The Sickness. They actually played through the mommy part and I was pretty tipsy, filling in the words and having a party myself. Definitely not a bragging gig but thought it would be fun to play all dressed up. Very average cover band and was like "Must not be too hard to get this gig".

Okay, the clip with the Veggietales theme is my favorite. Veggietales was my childhood, and it still lives with me in Meme form.

Ok but whens the full track of "Spilled Hot Coffee All Over My Balls" coming out?????

4:30 no its a joke video lol, they've done it like 5 times, it's a good band too, they're called V*A*S*E.

Old man angry at cloud

I love how the video just ends. Lol.

I consider this socially ironic comedy. I want to both laugh and be stranded in the waters of the gulf coast.

Damn, I'm glad I grew up in the 90's, cause I doubt my I.Q. would be anywhere near the double digits.

lol! The monster mash commentary was hilarious! 😂

Being this guys friend would probably be exhausting. I just get the feeling that he over analyzes EVERYTHING lol

I agree with you on all of these, except the one at 0:35 ( lol, 0 3 5). I find it a slight bit funny because I thought it was basically a satire of the acoustic one (and the trillion others like it) from right before. at least thats how I interpreted it. On the other hand, the Iron Maiden one was actually so cringey that I couldn't really watch that entire section of the video. that, and the one at 3:19 are what I'd consider "bad cringe". good cringe is stuff like Troll 2 or the Room. you cringe at them but they're enjoyable. those two Tiktoks, in particular, are legit hard to watch.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT" it's called a joke, Mike

Soo true about music having a calm effect, even though it’s stimulating and aggressive etc. I literally know people that fall asleep to Infant annihilator and Lorna Shore and it baffles me tbh.

6:05 why is this so awesome and funny at the same time 😂😂😂😂😂

Okay bboomer =)

Dude, I bet if we got our hands on the stuff YOU made when you were 15, we'd all be laughing at it.

0:48 "I'M COMPETING WITH THIS?!" IS MY MINDSET SINCE TIK TOK BECAME A THING, FUCK THIS

5:21 I would have been so disappointed in Mike if he did not laugh at this one.Because I have the sense of humor of a twelve-year-old boy and I'm 31 years old and I love vegetables.This made me chuckle and I don't even know who the artist is, So where I agree with the rest of this video before this.I would have been seriously upset with him if he didn't chuckle at.This because this is low africans and we can get behind. It's like he stated low effort is okay.How you perform the low effort is what really matters.

You've definitely turned into "Old Man Yelling at the Clouds," but so have I

3.28 "oh my fucking god" I feel the same way that dude is doing a death metal growl but is wearing corpse paint which is black metal

And here's me thinking musicians spend years honing their craft on an instrument with a small slither of a chance to turn pro; only to be superceded by a tiktok with minimal effort and millions of views. I'd still keep playing my instrument any day of the week.

In summary, yes, it's that bad out there. Worst part is now I'm made to feel like I have an anger problem or I'm a curmudgeon or something but I wholeheartedly believe it is the appropriate reaction to this cringe (and not just metal tiktoks, pretty much tiktok and the like in general). Idiocracy coming to life.

Best part of the video is Mike react to a teen wearing black and white face paint and listen to black metal (the worst metal music)

You know that you're old when you click on a video expecting to see Tabby Ridiman, then realizing she's now doing a completely different kind of content, yet considering whether this would be on TikTok.

The baby going to sleep one would be funnier if it was Infant Annhilator

11:20 That's pretty much the difference between parenting in the USA vs Europe. In Europe, we just let our kids pretty loose so they can have experiences by their own. While in the USA parents want to "overcontrol" their children and filter what they experience. We also take our Kids to Football/Socer games where adults are mostly drunker and more aggressive than at metal festivals.

You're not competing with them. Different content form for a different audience. It could be argued RU-vid shorts are trying to compete but RU-vid will always have an audience.

The second part is supposed to be a parody of the first one i think cus of shitty tik tok guitar tutorials

I'd like to first note that I haven't watched this video yet, just your first statement. I firmly believe that authenticity will prevail over all the superficial bullshit plaguing social media and our country.

I discovered that 123slap videos were all the rage from Stevie T's channel, still confuses the fuck out of me

Now THAT'S some quality cringe! ✌🤙

3:50 👌well said

I'm sorry brother I've following you since your fine bros videos but I can't handle this level of cringe. Maybe next time 😉

Rock on! 🤘

Just enjoy music and don't get annoyed at others for discovering the same bands as you, simple

I wish you didn't have to compete with this. I won't install tik tok ever. only reason I even have FB is for bandy stuff. BTW still jammin' to Rising Storm and Betrayal regularly ! hang in there !

How about people should be able to do whatever they love because we’re all gonna die soon anyway. Why should it matter? Maturity sucks

As much as I despise it, tiktok does work. I got a friend who paints for a living and he gets million upon millions of likes and views. It’s crazy

First. Also, welcome to hell Mike, aka TikTok

man said "forced" when i bet he could cross the 200k subscriber threshold sooner if he put his popular clips on the platform, but, i suppose that's too poisonous for the brand, right?

I remember a few years back I used to listen to Exist by Avenged Sevenfold every night to fall asleep

What's the song at 6:04?

5:20 REAL AUDIO!?

Gotta say, my folks and buddie's folks were pretty open to the stuff I listened to. Short bouts of it were okay for them but they could listen to some surprisingly heavy stuff and not complain about it too much. Some stuff they genuinely enjoyed. Tik Tok is annoying as hell generally speaking. Nice Rob Zombie Mike 😂.

>metalhead >black flag shirt What???

My biggest pet peave is low effort content outperforming high quality content. Unless it’s funny of course

Brain heroin is the perfect way to sum up tik tok man, I feel that way about most social media but that's for people who use it as a way to pass time, like Mike said touch grass 🤣

Sorry that this is what you're competing with. Tough day at the office I guess...

I experienced a weeeee bit of that Metal stereotype as a teen, but only because I was surrounded by fundamentalist holy-rollers. What even is the controversial music of today? Probably Country because it hasn't yet fully embraced the wokeness. Lol.

There’s better metal head TikToks I feel like those are purposely cringe they’re are some actually cool new metal stuff

As a 15yr old metal fan and music collector, i'm sorry for what our generation is doing lol