Very nice! Never heard of them, but with a name like Turtle Skull I knew I would like them! Thanks for sharing!

I don’t think that’s how it goes, either. I mean sure, for Pride Month all the corpos glam on to it to market their stuff “to the gays” and there is the odd product line designed for them as well. But I’m pretty sure nobody is adding gay characters to video games, shows or movies, because the market research shows that it’s popular now. It’s still quite the opposite.

Companies would still rather have nothing that could be seen as “controversial” in their products, with the odd exception that wants to be controversial. Games, shows, movies are made by creative people and among them are and have always been queer people. They have always been pushing for representation. Over time this pushing of the envelop as well as social movements lead from characters that can be read as queer (mostly villains, though), to clearly queer coded (still mostly villains) to finally openly queer characters (only villains and side characters). Only in the last decade it has become acceptable to have openly queer main characters in media. Not because marketing pushed for it, or because it’s trendy, but because queer people exist and they also work in media and they write their experiences and it has now become socially acceptable enough for them to get a little representation in mainstream media as well.

In my opinion the reason why “queer” seems “trendy” and everything seems “woke” and “political” is because we are still so used to the conservative, status quo, straight white guy/girl media that anything outside of that sticks out like a sore thumb. And, as they say, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

I’m all for suing, but this is the worst kind of video. Vertical, with minimal information and no sources. There is no reason this should be a video 👎

We got similar stats here in Germany.

Not surprising to be honest, but considering how much fear mongering the right does about antifa and climate “terrorists” a good reality check.

Don’t get the down votes. That was a fun video 🤷

Yeah, it kind of does. What made me think ChatGPT were the many awkward word repetitions that I don’t think non-native speakers would do:

“The world of anime has explored several genres and the Cyberpunk genre is one of the popular ones.”

There are more examples in the video. For example repeating the name of the show in 2-3 sentences in a row. I don’t think anyone would naturally write that, even as a non-native speaker. The sheer amount of videos the channel pumps out made me suspicious as well, but ultimately I don’t know…

Cool recommendations, but the video sounds like it was written by ChatGPT. Just read the video description:

Remember the times when you were forbidden from watching anime and you could not understand what the fuss was all about? Well, a first glance might give the feel that it is just a regular cartoon but many a times, the Japanese counterpart dealt with some deep, dark, and adult subjects. The nature of anime has always been more serious and although there were some anime for kids as well, most of the content was for a mature audience.

The world of anime has explored several genres and the Cyberpunk genre is one of the popular ones. As a subject that concerns some dystopian futuristic elements, it involves concepts of artificial intelligence and advanced technologies. They give importance to the visual aesthetic and primarily focus on the theme of ‘high tech and low life’. We can see a lot of Cyberpunk anime emerging every now and then but they cannot match up to the classics of 80’s and early 90’s. We have avoided popular anime in this genre like Ghost In The Shell, Akira and Bubblegum Crisis, because we wanted to cover a bit more underrated stuff. So let’s begin!

Honestly, the whole channel looks a bit sus.

Here is a way more in depth (and well written) video essay by STEVEM covering most of these Anime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbE9LqPULZY

Dark patterns are basically best practices at this point

“This is a free country, mate! We’re not in communist China now!” Calm down, mate. You’re in the UK.

But obviously, as insufferable as he is, that is his right. He probably was exactly the right person to really blow this all up. I doubt though that it will actually go anywhere.

Discovered them a few months ago, they’re really great!

As others have already said, it’s a pop song by 2Raumwohnung (which translates to 2 room apartment). Here are the translated lyrics:

Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah

Look what the boys are doing back there
And tell them: "I want that too"
Because every time the boys do that
Then I realize what I need

I'll give you a present, please open it
Order me a drink, I'll come up to your place
Or will you come down to me? I want to see your rooms
We're lying in front of the minibar, come on, let's go for a swim

36 degrees and it's getting hotter
Never turn down the beat again
36 degrees, no fan
Life doesn't seem hard at all
36 degrees, ah-ah-ah
36 degrees, ah-ah-ah

Look what they're doing back there again
I don't know what it's all about, but I think it's good
All the boys are singing and dancing here
Come on girls, here we are

Shoes off, bikini on, let's go out
It's starting to rain
And we're dancing and we can already see the sun again
And now a rainbow, wow, it's beautiful (oh)

36 degrees and it's getting even hotter
Never turn down the beat again
36 degrees, no fan
Life doesn't seem hard at all
36 degrees, ah-ah-ah
36 degrees, ah-ah-ah

Here boys, there girls, go on, go on, go on
Give it your all and more than you can
No one knows what's about to happen, but everyone here knows
This is the air that burns

Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah

36 degrees and it's getting even hotter
Never turn down the beat again
36 degrees, no fan
Life doesn't seem hard at all (ah)

(Ah-ah-ah)
Give it your all and more than you can
Here boys, there girls, go on, go on, go on
Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, 

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

I haven’t watched a lot of hack//sign and already forgot everything except the rough concept, but that track really brought back some memories!

Love Gnome and this video in particular \m/

That’s an easy block if there ever was one.

1 minute in: “However, at a time in which extreme cultural divisions had seen Trump valiantly slay maniacal establishment whore and serial rape apologist Hilary Clinton”

Yeah, nope.

That was sweet!

I think the internet as we know it is dead, and tbh I don’t even blame big corporations for this. I blame mass tech illiteracy, and people’s willingness to sacrifice their privacy for some dopamine hits.

So, you’re blaming the victims? Not the billion dollar corporations, leveraging their immense power and wealth to drain as much value out everything they touch just to discard what remains the second it’s not creating enough money for them? Instead you blame the tech illiterate, that never had a chance? The poor and exploited, caught in the hamster wheel of capitalism barely able to plan until the next pay check?

Thanks very much for the detailed explanation! I guessed it had to be something like that, but I didn’t know 911 would have access to that and was surprised by the accuracy. I guess they might have heard them in the apartment, that’s why they were able to pin it down so quickly.

“officers were promptly dispatched to the location traced through the ping of the females cell phone”

What?

Probably because there is less content