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  • @Th3Birdman
    @Th3Birdman 10 months ago +2622

    Literally NOBODY cares if you don't want to watch the show. Just don't watch it bro, I promise you we don't care. What we do care about is when you make shit up to hide the fact that you're a racist piece of shit that follows grifting pieces of shit like Nerdrotic. What the fuck do you know about "poor writing", you work at Wendy's. Just put the fries in the bag bro
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    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +43

      2:05 look at all that YELLOW

    • @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent
      @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent 10 months ago +34

      @grantpowell4135He who controls the YELLOW controls the Universe

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +14

      @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent ultimate cringe power!!!!!!

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 10 months ago +11

      👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

    • @eleanorrigby41
      @eleanorrigby41 10 months ago +62

      I 100% agree have you seen the like dislike ratio what's there to dislike about when the show isn't even out yet. Also the comments

  • @nootnewt3
    @nootnewt3 10 months ago +5515

    “Sinners which I liked” is the same vibe as “I have black friends” lol

    • @blerdronner
      @blerdronner 10 months ago +442

      THIS! Did he even do a video about Sinners?

    • @Drewjobintyre-h2b
      @Drewjobintyre-h2b 10 months ago +433

      Didn't like enough to make a video tho on main channel

    • @JG-jz3wh
      @JG-jz3wh 10 months ago +440

      @blerdronneryes but not his main, the comments were flaming him 😂 saying "oh we know why you didn’t post it on your main" alluding to the fact that a specific type of audience would have bashed him for praising a successful black movie.

    • @alexnewby2004
      @alexnewby2004 10 months ago +160

      @blerdronnerno, because if he does hes gonna out all of his fans as racists

    • @cinnamoon423
      @cinnamoon423 10 months ago +83

      Sinners which I liked is a new form of cringe

  • @KevinPlump-i4h
    @KevinPlump-i4h 10 months ago +4260

    And it was blade that saved marvel from bankruptcy

    • @kingpotato7183
      @kingpotato7183 10 months ago +372

      There will always ever be 1 blade.

    • @billstone8468
      @billstone8468 10 months ago +225

      *stares at camera*

    • @Austinfdp
      @Austinfdp 10 months ago +76

      @kingpotato7183 in deadpool too what a goat

    • @HeraldofBlood
      @HeraldofBlood 10 months ago +107

      shame the studio screwed him over so much with blade three, could have been a great trilogy

    • @chris9206
      @chris9206 10 months ago +23

      ​​@kingpotato7183you do realize there are two Blades, right? the show wasn't perfect while it holds up much better than Blade Trinity.

  • @VLONETHUGGER2v7
    @VLONETHUGGER2v7 10 months ago +335

    Facts these anti black super hero nerds are annoying

    • @CaradocX
      @CaradocX 10 months ago +18

      It's funny, because Birdman completely and totally accidentally, forgot to mention how Nerdrotic, Drinker et al are all constantly pointing out how the focus on Ironheart has completely sidelined Rhodey/Warmachine and the cancelled Armour Wars series which would have been a: good, b: something people were actually excited about and c: black. But I guess that wouldn't have gotten as many clicks as just slandering people as racist because their points are too difficult to counter with actual arguments.

    • @ashley.taylor174
      @ashley.taylor174 8 months ago +14

      @CaradocX 🧢. I’m 100% certain your kind would’ve crashed out over a War Machine show too.

    • @Drums_of_Liberation
      @Drums_of_Liberation 8 months ago +3

      ​@ashley.taylor174wow really "your kind" way to stoop to their level.

    • @ashley.taylor174
      @ashley.taylor174 8 months ago +5

      @Drums_of_Liberation I love how your kind has selective outrage. 😂

    • @lotus7781
      @lotus7781 8 months ago

      Iron heart (being quite recent) is naturally gonna be trendy, so shittalking it is gonna bring in plenty of views, but honestly i think its also half that they completely didnt think about it, why you ask? because it isnt brought up

  • @AndrewRT13
    @AndrewRT13 10 months ago +1782

    "To be called 'woke' in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult." - Pope Leo XIV

    • @slayerangel6597
      @slayerangel6597 10 months ago +161

      Based quote. I'm using this from now on. I'm not even Catholic, but I love that quote so much.

    • @caliginousmoira8565
      @caliginousmoira8565 10 months ago +97

      true because woke/awake, afaik and remember, was a good thing. you can't truly 'go woke and go broke'. i genuinely dislike whoever started that idiotic saying. woke and diversity are really just code words.

    • @kevinlecointe4224
      @kevinlecointe4224 10 months ago +32

      Oh, I like that quote!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

    • @outdoorscholar6016
      @outdoorscholar6016 10 months ago +41

      Bro that goes hard! I’m liking this Pope more and more

    • @FelisImpurrator
      @FelisImpurrator 10 months ago +16

      Apparently that's a fake quote. Sadge.

  • @jsmoothd654
    @jsmoothd654 10 months ago +2739

    “Just make your own characters”
    *Makes their characters*
    “ It’s still woke”

    • @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent
      @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent 10 months ago +121

      Oh so true

    • @jackcroce9757
      @jackcroce9757 10 months ago +316

      THIS!!!!! I keep saying this to people, I’m so sick of the whole “we won’t care if you make your own character.” So then they do and then the same people start crying “oh this is woke…” so really the problem is that the character it’s black, or a woman, or gay, or so on. Like y’all ain’t even trying to hide it

    • @Mediabroe405
      @Mediabroe405 10 months ago +85

      They're onto her line of wanting to be "iconic" but it's obvious it's about her just wanting to standout and not the suit.

    • @TabathaTMartin
      @TabathaTMartin 10 months ago +40

      just can't please them

    • @eleanorrigby41
      @eleanorrigby41 10 months ago +176

      Race change bad. Legacy character bad. Original character bad.
      But when it makes money in theaters suddenly it's "good writing" and they are definitely not racist at all.

  • @mali_billz
    @mali_billz 10 months ago +27

    The "white male genius" part killed me😂😂😂😂😂🤣

  • @TheHorrorGuru
    @TheHorrorGuru 10 months ago +2306

    It's hilarious when he calls Riri an "ungrateful narcissist" because that's pretty much how you could describe Tony Stark or Stephen Strange.

    • @GeekZone210
      @GeekZone210 10 months ago +129

      The difference is that Tony is more complex than that and develops as a person. Tony is not made out to be perfect, but its his growth as a character that people like about him.

    • @benjamingunn5403
      @benjamingunn5403 10 months ago

      You can't have/show these traits and be Black.
      You can have
      Chael Sonnen, Conor McGregor, Roy Keane, and add any other sportsman, fictional character or personality who is white and arrogant. And that is cool!
      You can't be that in film or reality when you're a black person

    • @imaginationave3687
      @imaginationave3687 10 months ago +567

      ​@GeekZone210and you think Riri won't?

    • @yourdad6902
      @yourdad6902 10 months ago

      Over how many movies ​@GeekZone210

    • @yourdad6902
      @yourdad6902 10 months ago +405

      ​how many movies did it take for him to change even slightly and no he doesn't change that much he's still a narcissist

  • @Enby-TNC
    @Enby-TNC 10 months ago +22

    30:32 mcu iron man being comic book accurate is insane 😭😭😭

  • @BigReuben97
    @BigReuben97 10 months ago +995

    Whats Funny is...
    Blade Saved Marvel
    Black Panther became the first solo superhero movie to achieve 1.3 billion with NO other superhero Cameos in 2 months
    Marvel 2 biggest Black characters basically saved marvel or made international Cinemia History.

    • @StormSlayer69
      @StormSlayer69 9 months ago +33

      Not to mention BP getting the first… BP… at the Oscars…
      Lmfao

    • @page8301
      @page8301 9 months ago +24

      They were also great movies imho.

    • @symboleyes
      @symboleyes 9 months ago

      Yeah... but I can't whine about it endlessly so I can't amuse my hordes of knuckle-dragging troglodites by shitting all over it (and myself) now can I!?

    • @manga-1173
      @manga-1173 7 months ago

      @redrick8900Are you gonna provide evidence?

  • @egalart
    @egalart 10 months ago +1681

    Heyo! I'm the artist that drew the Free Comic Book Day cover of Riri! Appreciate your work calling these dudes out!

    • @Th3Birdman
      @Th3Birdman 10 months ago +328

      Thank you for your hard work. You are a genius and a scholar, sir.

    • @mrfooledyaa5430
      @mrfooledyaa5430 10 months ago +52

      Good shit! Thank you for your work.

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +15

      What a cowinkkidink?

    • @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent
      @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent 10 months ago +42

      This is the coolest comment I have seen on RUclips in a long time. Great work my guy! 👍

    • @9d1x
      @9d1x 10 months ago +7

      SOAS, they used your art in another video.

  • @HitmanHimmy
    @HitmanHimmy 10 months ago +22

    Damn he's cooking like a 5 star chef

  • @tonybippitykaye
    @tonybippitykaye 10 months ago +1053

    “I don’t like Lima beans, so I don’t buy them because I’m an adult and I can make that choice. You don’t see me making videos about ‘Big Lima Bean’ and some conspiracy about Kathleen Kennedy forcing the vegetable on me...”
    That analogy and joke alone had more thought and effort put into it than any of these grifters have put into their entire careers.

    • @darknesslight3100
      @darknesslight3100 10 months ago +19

      For real!!

    • @aknemesis5078
      @aknemesis5078 10 months ago +54

      I was imagining if a grifter would sincerely push the whole "They're forcing Lima Beans down our throat" thing and the thumbnail they use is Mr. Krabs tied up and being forced fed lima beans by a buff dude.

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +23

      I heard that big green bean is trying to crush big lima bean

    • @noireisbest6786
      @noireisbest6786 10 months ago +12

      It's also a meme video I would 100% watch because it sounds hilariously unhinged.

    • @doesitreallymatter36
      @doesitreallymatter36 10 months ago +5

      It's kind of disingenuous, though. I mean, if Lima beans are the only option, then you are forced to eat them. Or starve. I kind of get where they're coming from on that because of Star Wars. I used to love all things Star Wars until Disney got a hold of it. Now they keep trying to force these garbage characters and stories down our throats and I hate it. I don't still watch it and then complain about it like them. I just donn't watch it, at all. But, I'm not ok with that. I want to watch Star Wars!

  • @bryanc1984
    @bryanc1984 10 months ago +30

    5:55 "Rushed into the MCU." Carol Danvers was the first of these characters to appear, and she didn't arrive until 2019; 11 years into the MCU's existence. Most film franchises and TV shows dont even last that long.

  • @freakincrod
    @freakincrod 10 months ago +33

    My favorite part of Sinners was the end, when people like critical drinker, the quartering, and nerdrotic got their comeuppance.

    • @VideoCesar07
      @VideoCesar07 10 months ago +5

      Those three right there could be called the Axis of Evil on RUclips.

  • @noahvance6160
    @noahvance6160 10 months ago +19

    21:07 By Gary’s logic, after Crisis on Infinite Earths ended, Wally West “stole” Barry Allen’s book.

  • @camiloiribarren1450
    @camiloiribarren1450 10 months ago +887

    The ironic thing is that Marvel has been diverse for a long time: Storm being the first black woman way back when, and as Birdman said, Black Panther as well.

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 10 months ago +105

      When Stan criticized racism, he spoke like a grandpa talking to a child. But that was politics!

    • @clm2222201
      @clm2222201 10 months ago +59

      And Marvel's Black Panther in 1966 beat DC's John Stewart Green Lantern to the punch by 5 years!

    • @vlogily8043
      @vlogily8043 10 months ago

      They literally woulda been the same bitches whining about even that back then, Lee basically made a black Thor ripoff lol

    • @awandererfromys
      @awandererfromys 10 months ago +96

      These grifters said modern Star Trek "has gone woke." You know, the show with a diverse cast that openly condemned racism multiple times in its original run. It's just sad to see my generation cling to their toys like they're still five. It's one hell of a mid-life crisis.

    • @theguywhoisaustralian1465
      @theguywhoisaustralian1465 10 months ago +2

      It's fine having one black person scattered in there, they're supposed to be in the background. But they're not allowed to be leads. Because then they're shoving wokeness down our throats

  • @B-Nice
    @B-Nice 10 months ago +857

    “It has Hip Hop in it” 👀 like Hip Hop hasn’t been one of the most popular types of music and culture since the 80’s 🤷🏽‍♀️

    • @Cyrunix
      @Cyrunix 10 months ago +40

      Right! And even now, it's still legit necessary to even add a hip-hop track to movie sound track for good promo. It's a popular genre globally regardless of how they feel

    • @turbonola
      @turbonola 10 months ago +34

      Exactly. Hip hop is in 75-80% of commercials, TV shows and movies.

    • @Ghostdawg176
      @Ghostdawg176 10 months ago +8

      *COUGH COUGH* KPOP *COUGH*

    • @evilblackcat6357
      @evilblackcat6357 10 months ago +5

      The thing is if you watch just about any trailer for nearly every film with predominantly black people in it, regardless of setting, there's an obligatory rap track.

    • @luisf2793
      @luisf2793 10 months ago +14

      And like hip hop hasn’t been used on trailers before

  • @RecordspinnerMk1
    @RecordspinnerMk1 9 months ago +19

    You know, while we’re on the subject of black superheroes, can we get more of Static Shock? It’s cool to see superheroes and villains as a result of a chemical spill during a gang war, and addressing things like racism and even gun violence.

  • @darknesslight3100
    @darknesslight3100 4 months ago +8

    That Dormamu bit reminds me of how people, to this day, still stupidly mispronounce Super Mario's name as Merry-O. FFS Nintendo created a character in Super Mario Maker named Mary O to show idiots the difference. Nintendo was LITERALLY mocking stupid people.

  • @kingjb554
    @kingjb554 10 months ago +16

    "Door-mamu" literally shut my brain off. That was...God, that was physically painful

  • @clm2222201
    @clm2222201 10 months ago +1041

    Maybe I'm old (there's no maybe: I AM old), but whatever happened to "Don't like, don't watch"? When did it become more like "No one in Hollywood should make ANY movies unless they cater specifically to my age, race, gender, and other demographic"?

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +99

      Being old myself 35 lol
      If we didn't like a movie then we just went on our merry ways. Not grift about it

    • @clm2222201
      @clm2222201 10 months ago +49

      @grantpowell4135 I will be 58 in June so don't feel old!

    • @Darqion
      @Darqion 10 months ago +67

      One big thing here is CONTENT... people shit on it to get comfort clicks or hate clicks on their youtube channel.
      People like critical drinker appeared pretty knowledgeable about stuff years ago when i started watching him (i dont really know much about that stuff myself), but he shifted HARD into the anti-woke rhetoric and has built a loyal fanbase around that (and i stopped watching him because of it). So now he can make a bunch of money just being loud about disliking a new movie.

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago

      ​@clm2222201

    • @zaczane
      @zaczane 10 months ago +68

      When people figured out the internet will pay them for bitching.

  • @Skoposplatinum
    @Skoposplatinum 10 months ago +33

    the only gripe ill accept with this project is the fact that it's a show and I know a lot of people don't like watching a lot of the marvel shows good or bad, which is an entirely different problem than being racist or a grifter

  • @Nu_Gundam78
    @Nu_Gundam78 10 months ago +1222

    It's funny, Wakanda isn't even an ethnostate. Yeah they're all black, but it's a major plot point that there are five tribes with wildly varied culture and traditions.

    • @luhedi6303
      @luhedi6303 10 months ago +234

      It would blow the racists’ minds that African countries are HEAVILY diverse.

    • @redblue9299
      @redblue9299 10 months ago +37

      Tbf thats not really what defines an ethnostate. Ethnostates can be racial or ethnically based. You wouldn't say a white ethnostate isn't an ethnostate just because those white people are also german/french/british etc. Another example is that Israel is a jewish ethnostate by their own law, yet other cultures still exist within Israel.

    • @nore5888
      @nore5888 10 months ago +57

      They think culture is purely about skin color

    • @gon3302
      @gon3302 10 months ago +1

      The problem is they’re so advanced but it’s only because they want to empower black people when in reality Africa is a dump.

    • @andremets
      @andremets 10 months ago +2

      Do you really what you just wrote?

  • @lighterlemin
    @lighterlemin 10 months ago +19

    Asking for the trailer to say “director of Creed” or “director of Sinners” has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard, like what?

  • @Tavi.B
    @Tavi.B 10 months ago +1776

    You wanna know how I know the “Make your own characters” criticism is bullshit?
    South of Midnight, the game that had no outside inspiration other than black folklore, still got racist hate for its existence.
    If people are gonna hate on completely original black characters, they’re gonna hate on *all* black characters.

    • @artistpanda5
      @artistpanda5 10 months ago +202

      No, but the main character was an untextured model at one point, and the model was white/gray before the texture, so actually she erased a white protagonist. /s
      (I've actually seen a post making a similar claim to that once)

    • @Mish844
      @Mish844 10 months ago +170

      I mean a decade ago grifters and parrots were saying they just want historically accurate characters. We got Yasuke, they weren't happy

    • @JayTea345
      @JayTea345 10 months ago +61

      Same with Tales of Kenzera: Zau.

    • @MetAlcboy
      @MetAlcboy 10 months ago +1

      In all fairness, South of Midnight was fucking trash, and that's coming from a black person

    • @i_crave_death4660
      @i_crave_death4660 10 months ago +77

      @artistpanda5even though you’re joking it’s funny becuase the same happened with Overwatch where Ashe was original dark skinned and when people pointed this out the “anti woke” mob got mad 😭😭😭😭

  • @VLONETHUGGER2v7
    @VLONETHUGGER2v7 10 months ago +27

    Protect this guy at all cost🎯🎯🎯

  • @datboiquadzilla
    @datboiquadzilla 10 months ago +481

    Nerdrotic sounds like one of those AI voices that you’d hear from a Reddit reading video.

    • @jakec9522
      @jakec9522 10 months ago +32

      Even the worst AI voice is less annoying than Nerdrotic on his best day.

    • @zoltire6478
      @zoltire6478 10 months ago +9

      I thought he sounded familiar😂

    • @FloofyMe
      @FloofyMe 10 months ago +6

      ​@jakec9522 DAMN!

    • @Sherlock1066-e8r
      @Sherlock1066-e8r 10 months ago +4

      @jakec9522 Even the story time youtube videos with the ai voice, with the indian dude, is much better than Nerdrotic.

    • @starwinters39
      @starwinters39 10 months ago +5

      that’s an insult to those ai voices haha

  • @DulceDul217
    @DulceDul217 10 months ago +18

    HE'S OVER 50????!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @navypinkdesign
    @navypinkdesign 10 months ago +3

    getting mad about a studio not giving you everything you want is like a man getting mad at a drug store for carrying tampons. sometimes it's not about you

  • @angryretailbanker5103
    @angryretailbanker5103 10 months ago +13

    7:50 Nerdrotic ran a comic book store?
    Jesus, you’d think he would actually like or knew anything about comics.

  • @reallightfield5314
    @reallightfield5314 10 months ago +68

    From the second i read the comment section under the trailer, I knew this video would be made

  • @Naoto-kun1085
    @Naoto-kun1085 10 months ago +4

    Saying that Carol Danvers and Kamala Khan aren't popular characters is wild work

  • @dylanmcartoonell1536
    @dylanmcartoonell1536 10 months ago +365

    "Sinners which I liked" I love how he just says that as a quick aside, as if him liking Sinners or the success of Sinners doesn't violate everything he supposedly believes in lol

    • @samuelbarber6177
      @samuelbarber6177 10 months ago +68

      Just like when these guys were calling Barbie “woke” and then as soon as it became a huge success, suddenly it was no longer woke. The same happened for The Super Mario Bros. movie.

    • @clm2222201
      @clm2222201 10 months ago +6

      Th3Birdman: "Best movie of 2025!" Nerdrotic: "nbd I guess it was OK."

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 10 months ago +5

      Exactly! 🙄

    • @MasterIceyy
      @MasterIceyy 10 months ago +22

      It's giving massive "My best friend is black" energy

    • @benjaminjenkins394
      @benjaminjenkins394 10 months ago +32

      Trust me, they wanted to hate Sinners so fucking bad but Ryan Coogler had other plans. Hahaha They also, didn’t have time to straight up bash that project because it wasn’t advertised like crazy and had an organic build to being a massive hit. Now Sinners is so popular and well liked that it has become virtually untouchable even for the anti woke racists on social. 🤷🏾‍♂️ Unfortunately, black directors, screenwriters, and black focused projects have to be absolutely excellent every single time. Like we don’t have room for mediocre rn and that can be a double edged sword…

  • @heribertosarmiento1265
    @heribertosarmiento1265 10 months ago +14

    Racism is so in vogue thanks to this administration backing then up by making DEI,inclusivity and anything that helps POC as a bad thing. Making the grifters gain more cockroaches

  • @doubletrouble7355
    @doubletrouble7355 10 months ago +16

    Fantastic closing line sir. 10/10 no notes

  • @gammerguy1995
    @gammerguy1995 10 months ago +19

    We shouldn't give attention to a ex-drug dealer that sold drugs to kids. He should be in jail.

    • @Man-sg7yn
      @Man-sg7yn 10 months ago

      I can’t believe he admitted that live fucking hateful idiotic coward of a “MAN”

    • @MisterBadman
      @MisterBadman 10 months ago +2

      Huh??

  • @dudewithachannel1163
    @dudewithachannel1163 10 months ago +27

    18:47 I made this exact point on an EFAP comment section and one of their fans tried to correct me on "legacy character." When I told them the definition of legacy character they just said "Sure." And ran away lol
    Even when blatantly proven wrong their fans won't admit it

    • @StormSlayer69
      @StormSlayer69 10 months ago +8

      Yeah, that’s online stupidity for ya

  • @jayh4911
    @jayh4911 10 months ago +6

    This whole video was on point!!! These 🤡’s always try to hide the racialized biased behind “Constructive Criticism”

  • @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent
    @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent 10 months ago +1298

    An actual saying I hear grifters say:
    “We’re not racist, we are just giving our opinions.”
    WELL DONE GUYS ITS TOTALLY NOT LIKE OPINIONS CAN BE RACIST!!!!!

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 10 months ago +87

      Right! I swear. Yet these grifters are "inherently more intelligent than everyone else." Laughable. 😅

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +51

      They are never invited to the cookout

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 10 months ago

      ​@grantpowell4135Never. Ever. FOREVER. 🙅🏾‍♀️

    • @linkinpark15
      @linkinpark15 10 months ago +53

      "With all due respect, but..." and then just goes off unhinged

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 10 months ago +18

      ​@grantpowell4135 Never. Ever. Forever. 🙅🏾‍♀️

  • @danielnelson3136
    @danielnelson3136 10 months ago +18

    1:47 OMG look at those thumbnails! Disgusting! How on earth do they still have a fanbase with those slop thumbnails they put out?!😂😂

  • @Siapsidhen
    @Siapsidhen 10 months ago +16

    12:45 This is why I have a problem with RUclips removing the visible dislike count. Those numbers he put up there aren't real. It's the classic "See, everyone else hates it, so I can't be a racist". Asmongold's comment section is pure cancer too. I saw multiple posts saying "Black fatigue". Like, either apologize and educate yourself, or step out into the light and embrace your racism. Let your neighbors know, let your job know.

  • @MapXilla
    @MapXilla 10 months ago +2

    I appreciate the direct, angry, forceful language. No dancing around the point. You've got my subscription

  • @Minermansion3636
    @Minermansion3636 10 months ago +12

    "Doormoomoo" 💀💀💀

  • @NigelByrd
    @NigelByrd 10 months ago +59

    27:36 DOOR MUM MUU😂😂😂😂
    I'm sorry I know this is serious but 😂😂😂😂😂you heard Dormmamu multiple times but DOORMUMUU😂😂😂😂

    • @abthedragon4921
      @abthedragon4921 10 months ago +5

      Ikr! I had to pause the video after he said that because I couldn't stop laughing 😂😂😂

    • @towardtheaward
      @towardtheaward 10 months ago +4

      Literally the Inglorious Basterds bar scene moment

  • @Ital890
    @Ital890 10 months ago +13

    These losers DON’T read comic books. They’ve maybe read the most popular runs in compilation releases like The Dark Knight Returns or Civil War but they really DON’T read comic books.

  • @Dookieman1975
    @Dookieman1975 10 months ago +10

    14:36 Gary doesn’t understand perspective. *ding

  • @hectorcantu6344
    @hectorcantu6344 10 months ago +21

    23:06 the moron also forgot that in the very trailer he's pathetically trying to critique she directly demonstrates that she's a genius

    • @42tribes
      @42tribes 10 months ago +1

      Lol was thinking the same thing.

  • @benmmedia9534
    @benmmedia9534 10 months ago +106

    Never forget that Nerdrotic went to prison because he was selling meth to kids.

  • @Ashrom87
    @Ashrom87 10 months ago +1017

    “She’s a unlikable, narcissist, ungrateful, and insecure brat?”
    Like… that makes her the perfect person to take over the role of Tony Stark…

    • @tanabanana5518
      @tanabanana5518 10 months ago +87

      they think thats a diss to the character

    • @clevernamerighthere9240
      @clevernamerighthere9240 10 months ago +39

      i get your point, but i never got her as ironmans spiritual successor; she felt too disconnected. ps changed my mind, unawrare she me real tony in the comics, but still feel that way for the mcu version.

    • @Dookieman1975
      @Dookieman1975 10 months ago +5

      If they have any flaws, they’re unlikable, DEI Mary sues. If they have none, they’re also unlikable DEI Mary sues. No matter what ur damned and the only way to even have a chance for them to STFU is to make something good and popular enough for them to be too scared to say anything lest their credibility (don’t know how they got it in the first place) will tank

    • @anirudhkaimal5127
      @anirudhkaimal5127 10 months ago +100

      You forget the worst part of the sentence for them is not the "unlikable, narcissist, ungrateful, and insecure brat" its the "she" part.

    • @Capitão_Skipper-j7o
      @Capitão_Skipper-j7o 10 months ago +22

      Tony has redeeming qualities...

  • @Benlovescheese
    @Benlovescheese 10 months ago +18

    27:31 that outfit looks sick, tf is Gary on about?

  • @2SavCrew
    @2SavCrew 9 months ago +4

    The Not Like Us rock beat playing to end the show, perfection 😂

  • @the3dluxe53
    @the3dluxe53 10 months ago +35

    Ok, but we need a video on Big Lima Bean. They need to be exposed for their crimes.

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +1

      Hi im Bob with Big Lima bean we would like to cordially invite you to our facility lol

    • @FixTheWi-Fi
      @FixTheWi-Fi 10 months ago +2

      theyre so slimy, ew.

  • @kacornish1
    @kacornish1 10 months ago +14

    29:53 Nice touch exposing Magnus and these other self-hating Uncles…

  • @anthonysmurthwaite6258
    @anthonysmurthwaite6258 10 months ago +8

    There's probably some grifter that fully disagree with almost every complaint they make but still continue the grift because of how profitable it is

  • @ResidentTarantino
    @ResidentTarantino 10 months ago +15

    I refuse to call these guys racist out of a weird sense of spite-mostly because people like Nerdrotic WANT you to call them racist because they think racism is only dropping the hard "R" or something. They LOVE to linger in the realm of "plausibly deniable" racism because they didn't explicitly say they hate 'X' race, yet they'll borderline babble about white extinction in media-or the great replacement theory. And then what people like Gary do is splice a pinch of fair/valid criticisms of the media so they don't look like complete quacks, but-of course-because most of the video is front-loaded with outrage slop, that stuff eclipses any sort of substantive commentary and the well of substantive criticism is poisoned with people who blame media being bad exclusively because of "woke" as if "de-woke-ing" is going to fix bad writing and execution.
    Gary is why I used Don Lemon's black elf character in Ring's of Power as a reason as to why that show was bad-it was front-loaded outrage talking points that I fell for and it superseded substantive criticism that talked about stuff like worldbuilding or legacy characters acting in-character. And I brought this brainrot rhetoric to a Twitch chat watch party where I was promptly laughed at and nearly banned because I sounded like a lunatic racist.
    I watched a video by Edgeier Than Thou which featured some clips of Gary absolutely mind-palacing anything involving straight white males in a similar manner to Matt Walsh being paranoid about white extinction. He sounds WAY WORSE than when I used to watch him. People like Gary or Drinker's content is the digital equivalent of finding celebrity gossip tabloid magazines at your local grocery store, except the scary part is that it works as well as it does because it's free to watch and it pays to be angry. I still refuse to call them racist because I don't want to give them what they want. But they love racism, and their audiences especially loves racism because they'll say things even more reprehensible than their favorite content creators-they will say the quiet part out loud. And the reason why people like Gary let this happen is because "something something free speech."

    • @Deadgod91
      @Deadgod91 10 months ago

      Call them hyp0crite s1ssy grifter who have an unhealthy obsession with movies/shows about girls for guys of their age. They claim to be masculine but Disney princess movies like Snow White and Little Mermaid are all they discuss.

  • @FMBStudiosOfficial
    @FMBStudiosOfficial 10 months ago +11

    You forgot to mention that Tony Stark didn't die in Civil War II, he was merely in a coma. Further proof that Nerdrotic is a fake fan and doesn't read shit.

  • @kangazoos2083
    @kangazoos2083 10 months ago +1

    These are the dudes who'd talk about "the good olde days" but never have the courage to say out loud what they mean.

  • @adhamwashere5320
    @adhamwashere5320 10 months ago +468

    Also when he's talking about characters being "replaced" he shows a clip of Jane in Thor Love and Thunder, who doesn't replace Thor because she dies at the end of the movie and Thor Odinson is still alive.

    • @gregorypaul7898
      @gregorypaul7898 10 months ago +71

      Also, the comic run of Jane Foster as Thor is actually epic.

    • @lvo9197
      @lvo9197 10 months ago +89

      Even in the comics, while the chuds where raging about jane foster being the new thor, everyone agreed that unworthy Thor was one of the greatest character arcs thor has had. They are so ridicolous it s not even laugable.

    • @Murmarine
      @Murmarine 10 months ago +17

      @lvo9197 Legitimately some of the most soul crushing shit, imho.

    • @heter0flexual623
      @heter0flexual623 10 months ago

      the funny thing is that jane foster is the most redeeming part of that whole movie. she's literally the best character and her cancer arc with mjolnir is genuinely amazing, but god forbid youtube critics actually critique the movies they watch in a way that doesn't get THOSE people riled up

    • @graveyardshift2100
      @graveyardshift2100 10 months ago +6

      That movie had other problems anyway. Seriously should not have been made.

  • @danavixen6274
    @danavixen6274 10 months ago +502

    You are BOLD now and I don't blame you, Birdman!!! "REAL men don't hide behind no bedsheets." Real critics don't hide behind TOXIC RUclips channels while spreading MULTIPLE isms. An ACTUAL critic who does his homework debunks these fools by providing FACTUAL evidence. These grifters are MISERABLE ASF. Thank you B!

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +31

      New comic book coming soon called Th3Birdman: The brave and the bold

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 10 months ago +9

      Good idea Grant! 😁

    • @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent
      @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent 10 months ago +24

      @grantpowell4135then it gets adapted into a movie and wins best picture

    • @blowc1612
      @blowc1612 10 months ago +1

      These are the same people who spread lies that got trump elected.

    • @rccraig7580
      @rccraig7580 10 months ago +15

      @grantpowell4135 I'd read it !

  • @AffectionEternal_vibes
    @AffectionEternal_vibes 7 months ago +5

    These people need to just go out and have a walk

  • @echogoob6454
    @echogoob6454 10 months ago +16

    “Dormoomoo” 😂

  • @TJBillups
    @TJBillups 10 months ago +15

    I have never clicked on a video so fast until now

  • @TheM3ch4n1c
    @TheM3ch4n1c 10 months ago +6

    Daredevil Born again has a straight white male lead… what did they have a problem with? 🧐

  • @redbearddan2000
    @redbearddan2000 10 months ago +884

    The Critical Drinker when a female characters is gifted: "It is pushing modern feminism"
    The Critical Drinker when Yelena struggled in Thunderbolts: "It is pushing modern feminism"
    I wonder what thing related to female characters doesn't push modern feminism according to him?

    • @BadPenny3
      @BadPenny3 10 months ago

      They don't talk, they don't act on their own, and they're pretty to look at. Then they might be an acceptable female character.

    • @alicelaybourne1620
      @alicelaybourne1620 10 months ago +91

      I know the answer to that...the presence of a stronger male in the cast. oh, and Ripley and Sarah (iykyk)

    • @ramigilneas9274
      @ramigilneas9274 10 months ago +8

      When did she struggle?
      Did she struggle more than other characters who are physically superior to her?

    • @TakumiTheFAUSTScientist
      @TakumiTheFAUSTScientist 10 months ago +2

      Isn't his female character in the Rogue Elements "Pushing Modern Feminism"?
      Wait, why am i saying this? Of course IT WAS he just can't accept it since he has this "Selective Sexism" mentality and he's gonna blame everyone rather than himself

    • @SweenyTodd98
      @SweenyTodd98 10 months ago +150

      @ramigilneas9274well she (along with the others) got her ass whooped by Sentry in a physical fight. Besides that the whole movie is about Yelena struggling with her mental health.

  • @thesaltking7355
    @thesaltking7355 10 months ago +16

    Imagine fucking up Dormmamu's name like that... at some point someone gotta ask him bout that amazing #15...

    • @MaItzie
      @MaItzie 10 months ago

      the only thing i remember about the first Doctor Strange was the part where he repeatedly says Dormammu's name over and over again in a time loop

  • @spitflamez
    @spitflamez 10 months ago +4

    They forget that the X-Men was on cancelled mode until they diversified the team in Giant Sized X-Men #1 and after that, the X-Men became the best selling book. So X-Men went from an all White team and being cancelled to diversifying the team and them going to the top and became the best comics for 2 decades.

  • @TheAntlionGuard
    @TheAntlionGuard 10 months ago +9

    From dealing meth to dealing outrage

  • @destructo-pizzatv2263
    @destructo-pizzatv2263 10 months ago +889

    Day 265 of telling th3birdman I appreciate his content. This ironheart nonsense is insane, the show isn't even out yet and yet somehow they think they already know the quality of it.

    • @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent
      @A-Person-Whos-Inconsistent 10 months ago +15

      Day 17 of finding the keys we’ve lost

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +21

      Day 48 of me agreeing with you more then me finding out my coupon still works

    • @Nitrosart
      @Nitrosart 10 months ago +15

      I mean if it was in the vault for 3 years
      There’s some things you can tell on the quality lmao

    • @SpikeSixotHedgehog
      @SpikeSixotHedgehog 10 months ago

      Day 69 feeling great of following good content

    • @rajabuta
      @rajabuta 10 months ago

      And they use the dislikes number on the trailer. 😂

  • @marcelaway
    @marcelaway 10 months ago +1

    He does understand that when companies make official announcements, it’s not a wishlist-it usually means those projects are already well into development or nearing completion.

  • @grantpowell4135
    @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +8

    3:07 he had to slip in cap didnt he

  • @Nihil62
    @Nihil62 10 months ago +9

    "Stop it get some help"😂😂😂😂

  • @Yugist_Duelist2
    @Yugist_Duelist2 10 months ago +19

    30:52 Its because youtube doesn't really care about the platform anymore they keep making money from it so why does it matter at least that's what I believe.

  • @Symboite3099
    @Symboite3099 10 months ago +30

    This guy wants to go back to the 50s so bad

    • @HOTD108_
      @HOTD108_ 10 months ago +4

      The current US president got elected running off a racist campaign promising to do exactly that.

    • @redjirachi1
      @redjirachi1 10 months ago +4

      That said, I still don't think he's bad enough to go back to the 30s...or worse, wish a certain group from then won

    • @Ciderpunk-jj5es
      @Ciderpunk-jj5es 10 months ago

      The 90s would be fine.

  • @royaltyshittu4753
    @royaltyshittu4753 10 months ago +4

    When these idiots misuse the term "legacy character", it just makes it funny that some people take them seriously.

  • @jvts8916
    @jvts8916 10 months ago +7

    Haven't read anything on Riri, all I know is that Ironheart is a really cool superhero name

  • @Canoby
    @Canoby 10 months ago +1443

    Some might accuse you of "grifting" off grifters, but making content focused on making good faith criticism of bad faith culture war nonsense is a most legit use of this platform, and I feel worth my time watching 🙂 If these guys pivoted away from the CHUD slop I'm sure you'd find other topics to discuss and still have a large audience.

    • @LinkMarioSamus
      @LinkMarioSamus 10 months ago +106

      Not going to lie, the way I fell down the alt-right rabbit hole in the first place was because of James Rolfe getting seemingly lumped in with misogynists just for making a video saying he didn't want to see the Ghostbusters reboot, which led me eventually to people making videos bashing Anita Sarkeesian and claiming that she dismissed all criticism she got as sexism. I know full well now that those were grifters who could have given less of a damn about actually telling her to improve (what criticism is) and wanted her to just go away all together.

    • @adolessons6219
      @adolessons6219 10 months ago +77

      I'm of firm belief they say that to cope with the fact the birdman is calling out their favorite content creator and is actually making sense with what he says and they can't handle it

    • @RahulPatel-og2ke
      @RahulPatel-og2ke 10 months ago +37

      He covered that couple of videos ago lol

    • @azazel166
      @azazel166 10 months ago +21

      He already addressed that in a previous video.

    • @spaceman30055
      @spaceman30055 10 months ago +66

      Bro I hate this narrative so much. If you’re criticizing objectively bad people you’re not a grifter.

  • @Jerriz_Dabster
    @Jerriz_Dabster 10 months ago +2

    Finally someone said it, Why don't they use their platform to show the "good" stuff but they keep complaining

  • @kekejensen1721
    @kekejensen1721 10 months ago +11

    This channel is so damn underrated. A shame how you could know what you’re talking about because you read the source materials like a normal fan and then these losers could just pull something outta their ass and brain-dead fans take it as gospel. Keep up the great work 😎

  • @chanelhenderson8460
    @chanelhenderson8460 10 months ago +8

    Cook!!!! Cook!!!! Get them!!!!

  • @iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet
    @iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet 10 months ago +198

    It’s ironic how they think they’re defending MCU Iron Man with this crap when he would absolutely hate guys like them. The two people Tony held in esteem higher than anyone else, including himself, were a black man and a woman. He literally ‘passed the mantle’ to them by giving away his suit and his company to both of them respectively. (And this was in IM2, before he and Pepper were dating, so that’s not why he made her CEO. He passed it on to her because he genuinely believed she was the best person for the job.)

    • @tonyjones1560
      @tonyjones1560 10 months ago +32

      Reminds me of all the rogue cops walking around with Punisher logos on their armor…not realizing that Frank Castle would have been most displeased by them. Terminally so💀⚰️🪦🏴

    • @peter-m2k9d
      @peter-m2k9d 9 months ago

      He was a normal black man, before DEI & victimhood mentality that pays.

    • @GoofyGE3K
      @GoofyGE3K 9 months ago +4

      (He also passed those things on because he was dying)

  • @RandomPersonProbably
    @RandomPersonProbably 10 months ago +53

    I’m not all that familiar with comics but even I know that saying Iron Heart is replacing a legacy character is like me saying my dog is replacing my canine.

    • @TeamTowers1
      @TeamTowers1 10 months ago +6

      I will say comics Riri didn't get off to the best start either. Having her take over Iron Man's books for a while probably didn't help (it lead to a misconception that she was meant to be the new Iron Man, when she wasn't). Not helping that that a lot of traits that were meant to be character flaws, just made her come across as unlikable (although to be fair a lot of the characters louder critics didn't seem to realize that they were meant to be flaws).

    • @RandomPersonProbably
      @RandomPersonProbably 10 months ago +3

      @TeamTowers1I gotcha. I think my main point was that the Nerdrotic guy was misusing the term legacy character since to my knowledge a legacy character is someone like Miles Morales who inherits the title of a previous character. So saying a legacy character is being replaced by a different character doesn’t really make sense.

    • @TeamTowers1
      @TeamTowers1 10 months ago +6

      @RandomPersonProbably I get that, I was just clearing some stuff up in regards to comics Riri.
      You are right the fact that these people don't realize that it's the person who takes up the mantle who is the legacy character not the original, shows they are posers.

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 10 months ago +4

      @TeamTowers1 I didn't even know that. Because 'Ironheart' is the original Ironheart, to me she's not really a legacy character. Being inspired by another character isn't really enough to be legacy, or we'd call Batman a legacy character of the Grey Ghost, or Zorro (the movie that Bruce Wayne was allegedly watching before his tragic origin).

  • @lionscave5256
    @lionscave5256 10 months ago +166

    1:18 That's an insult to 12-year-olds.

  • @leerhode1021
    @leerhode1021 10 months ago +1

    It’s a cottage industry, the more vitriol these clowns can spew about diversity and “wokeness” the more they feel relevant & important.

  • @ToxicGriever
    @ToxicGriever 10 months ago +14

    I'm a little surprised you didn't mention that Monica Rambeau was Captain Marvel before Carol Danvers. Imagine the reaction THAT would have gotten in the MCU!

    • @codexstudios
      @codexstudios 10 months ago +3

      Glad to see so many people remember her! I first came across Monica Rambeau's Captain Marvel through the old Secret Wars comic.

  • @tofu_golem
    @tofu_golem 10 months ago +17

    Thank you so much for making this content.
    Not only am I getting sick of these fake fans polluting every nerd space on the Internet, but they are causing real harm to the comic book industry, a medium that I have a lot of fondness for.
    As you no doubt know, Marvel and DC really screwed up in the 80s and 90s when they concentrated too much on appealing to adult collectors and not enough on picking up child readers. Those children read manga instead of comic books, because manga has plenty of books intended specifically for boy and/or girls. Those kids reading manga grew up to be adults reading manga, and now American comic books are in a real pickle.
    Kamala Khan, Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), and Moon Girl were all important because they got girls to read comic books. Those girls were potential future comic book-reading adults. Kamala Khan and Moon Girl in particular attracted girls of color.
    So what do you think happens when these young girls seek out places on the Interent where they can talk about the comic book characters they are getting excited about? How do you think their parents react when they see all of this naked racism and misogyny in every nerd community?
    We should be focusing on making nerd spaces safe for little girls (especially girls of color) to talk to others about whatever comic book they like, and instead we've created a hostile environment guaranteed to either chase them away, or convince their parents to forbid them from going there.
    And every time DC tries to reach out to a particular younger demographic, these morons swoop in and chase the new interested parties away. There was a property involving the daughter of Starfire. Granted, the portrayal of Starfire as a mom was a bit off-putting to long-time fans, but a lady comic book content creator explained that they were trying to appeal to a particular group of young women that like a certain kind of novel, hence the peculiarities of this story.
    Again, the outrage merchants went into full attack mode, so if those books succeeded in bringing in fans of that particular kind of novel, the fake fans no doubt chased them away.
    They are killing the industry just to get a few extra views on their RUclips videos, but if they drive Marvel and DC out of business, they aren't going to be able to make ANY new videos to milk this particular cow?
    We need to do a better job of driving these fake fans out of nerd spaces.

    • @evilblackcat6357
      @evilblackcat6357 10 months ago

      To be fair, the comic book industry tanked itself. When it started trying to appeal to everyone it started appealing to practically nobody and the sales figures reflect this.

  • @osirisatot19
    @osirisatot19 10 months ago +3

    I love how they act as if Carol becoming Captain Marvel is a huge insult to Mar-Vell; as if he hadn't been dead for 30 years when she took up the mantle, and as if she wasn't a much more popular and well liked character than Mar-Vell ever was. Also Marvel is very much a business, if they thought a character wasn't marketable, they wouldn't be pushing them; there is a reason why they haven't made a Stilt-Man show or a Doctor Druid movie. Btw I talked to my friend who runs a comic book store with his family, going back 50 years; and they all agreed that Carol is the far more popular character, not just from talking to people, but by comic sales.

  • @JailanSimon
    @JailanSimon 10 months ago +554

    And still no take on Sinners 😂

    • @grantpowell4135
      @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +64

      Funny huh

    • @katherinealvarez9216
      @katherinealvarez9216 10 months ago +35

      They still haven’t said anything about Sinners?

    • @Nargeon
      @Nargeon 10 months ago +64

      according to a different comment here he put it on his second channel lmfao

    • @terogates1
      @terogates1 10 months ago +74

      Yeah cus they know they can’t even bullshit simmers. You literally have to be racist or not a fan of horror or ( I had something else here but I’ll refrain incase people didn’t know it was that kind of movie) movies to hate that movie

    • @negloblaxon7616
      @negloblaxon7616 10 months ago +30

      ​@Nargeon
      He sure did. A slick move that shows his mentality.
      He did the same thing with "Nope".

  • @Drewjobintyre-h2b
    @Drewjobintyre-h2b 10 months ago +9

    10:41 man i spit my drink on that🤣🤣

  • @Acknowledgerofdoctorwho
    @Acknowledgerofdoctorwho 10 months ago +4

    This man does not deserve the Doctor Who merch behind him.

  • @SsbPrime
    @SsbPrime 10 months ago +37

    Nerdrotic is what happens when the bullied nerd becomes the villain in the worst way possible. It's time to start making him fear once again

    • @MEGVTRON
      @MEGVTRON 10 months ago +1

      😂 get a job newport breath

  • @KEITHJAVELOSA
    @KEITHJAVELOSA 10 months ago +11

    I have to come clean. I used to be a part of the Anti-woke side of youtube because I was too caught up on focusing on the bad side of woke culture without even looking at the bigger picture. Until I realized that the Anti-woke culture is much more flawed than I thought, not to mention toxic. At this point, I really feel like I need a break on the internet.

    • @kg356
      @kg356 10 months ago

      I feel like Birdman's anti-grifter content is more hostile and venomous than most of the stuff put out by the "grifters." Someone like The Drinker is mostly trying to make his audience laugh. Birdman just gets angrier and angrier because he genuinely hates the people he's talking about.

  • @maverickmason6711
    @maverickmason6711 7 months ago +4

    Nerdorotic not being a fan of marvel has merit like how can you mispronounce the name of Dr Strange antagonist. That whole scene was a time loop😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sumthnwateva
    @sumthnwateva 10 months ago +9

    I honestly can't believe how many points in this video I completely agree with and have been saying myself for years now about these grifters lol. Thank you Birdman 🙏

  • @Mediawipe
    @Mediawipe 10 months ago +7

    Personally I think this is just another case of a trailer for a piece of media not doing justice to the media itself

  • @that_onekatt
    @that_onekatt 10 months ago +3

    “The other white male genius” list got me to subscribe 😂😂👍🏿

  • @grantpowell4135
    @grantpowell4135 10 months ago +18

    Im convinced Gary thought the kkk scene in sinners was unnecessary

  • @datoneguy436
    @datoneguy436 10 months ago +46

    The small shade thrown towards Tyrone Magnus was unexpected but now im curious if a future video about him is in the works.

  • @Luthor298
    @Luthor298 4 months ago +4

    On a Friday night tights Halloween stream Gary wore a Sam Wilson Captain America costume, with an Afro, and this year Halloween. Gary wore a Mr Terrific costume with an Afro and the T on his face. Definitely not racist.

  • @thespookymage
    @thespookymage 10 months ago +11

    This is a clear example of why the birdman is no grifter. Calling out real grifting and promoting honesty is respectable. Now if you'll excuse me, imma go read some more comic books.