@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj I hope you're being sarcastic and using that word in an ironic sense, because otherwise, oh my goodness go get off the internet for while.
I mean given the source being a guy who gets his rocks off to SA porn him getting made a girl says no and then writing SA porn about said girl isn't all too surprising
I think if a creepy stranger that writes torture porn dedicates a book to you the way he did, you are 100% allowed to give it a 1-star review without reading it.
@@haveagoodday7021i don't know. I feel like anyone should have the right to write a depraved book inspired by anyone. so long as it's not illegal like defamation and doesn't have their name in it.
just to clarify; yes this is sexual harassment to imply that people are only mad at you because they are (sexually) interested in you. If you've ever had the comment directed at you, you'd know how degrading it feels in the same way other forms of sexual harassment do. It strips you of your personal dislike of the person and implies that you just want to fuck them, which is so uncomfortable especially coming from a person you've expressed dislike for/uncomfortability around It's not a "severe" form of sexual harassment, it being more normalized, but it is sexual harassment
I am fully of the belief that when men say this it’s because a child every time they pulled on a girls pigtails the adults around them would rush to tell him and the girl “it’s because you have a crush on her.” I utterly despise the way we socialize our children to conflate harassment and bullying for love, or to think that someone hurting you is ok because they just “like you.” Similarly the way boys are told that the girl they like is only ignoring him because she’s playing “hard to get” instead of teaching them that no means no and how to cope with rejection.
A man who claims to be able to write female characters SO well.... hounding a woman and not understanding why she's uncomfortable by his interactions................. huh............
He wrote the book cause he thought he wanted to prove her wrong, that he could write female characters well but I guess he learnt it was harder than it looks once the book was finished.
my take out of this situation is that these extreme horror male author will never be as thick skinned as the romance girlies, matt shaw would never survive liking twilight in 2010
Hey there! My name is Jude and I had the exact tame thing happen to me when I was 17 years old and I was a very avid book reviewer and booktuber. An author called Carroll Bryant reached out to me requesting I review one of his book in exchange for a free copy of his work. I reviewed his work with 3 stars at the time and he became infuriated. He began a months long campaign of harassment against me, sending me constant emails and messages telling me to end my own life among other threats. He eventually ended up releasing a book called Year of the Cat where the protagonist was a mexican serial killer (I'm mexican) and it also had erotic components to it (I was still a minor when all of this happened). This all went down in 2012 and it was a truly truly awful experience to live with, I'd never felt more alone, violated and preyed upon in what was supposed to be a safe space and community - all because I dared to give a semi-bad review to a male author. I'm not entirely sure if this comment will reach or impact anyone, I just wanted to say thank you for the video and for highlighting something that happens to way too many of us within this community and say that my heart goes out to Hailey. We deserve to be safe and feel safe.
This is absolutely despicable. I'm 17 and cannot imagine having a grown man harassing me like this, I'd absolutely lose it. You're so strong, and I'm sorry you had to go through this for doing nothing wrong and just sharing your opinion :(
I'm so sorry that happened to you and you had to deal with such a vile man. I just went down the rabbit hole learning about him and he sounds insane and disgusting. I hope you feel safe and are safe now. ❤
"This book isn't about her, I don't even use her name." Ah yes. The only way you can write someone into your book is by naming the character their real life name. The only way
I think regardless of your feelings on Amber Heard and the entire case, writing a book of vivid torture fantasies about someone who did nothing to him is beyond psychotic
literally people keep saying that writers can be seperated from their work but what does it say about someone who writes about the graphic torture and grape of a real life woman?? he needs to be on a watchlist
Yeah. Like, I'm wary about her existence. But what she did, should not give anyone automatic moral consent to even try and think about writing this. Like, who are you to even insert yourself into a situation that doesn’t even concern you? This is why even if I don’t like a person, I’m even more ashamed if the side I am on becomes even more crazier and super violent In retaliation. I’m going to say my piece and go. Maybe provide some general info for people who need some. but I refuse to take part in hate and harassment campaigns. It's hella gross behavior.
@@Tenshii_Artii' fr, it's not giving "grrr i hate domestic abusers and she's one!! let me make a book about this", it's giving more "finally, a woman i can insert in my torture porn book and people wont be mad at me for it" like fam why were you waiting for it
@@alyssapinon9670definitely can be confused with : Schrödinger's douchebag, where something offensive said is either a piece of your mind or "just a joke" depending on who it's said to
The worst type of edgelord are the ones who say they like make "offensive art" but then get mad when people are offended by their art. Wasn't that the point?
They’re like pizza cutters. All edge and no point. EDIT: Thanks for the complos, but I didn’t come up with this. Someone else on a different video said it first.
My friend is afraid of women killing him but it is extremely justified he was shanked with a box cutter in kindergarten because some pyscho girl in his class was mad that he beat her at Jenga
Way to generalize men. Last I checked, I’m a woman and I’m most definitely not afraid men will kill me. Get over yourself, this quote and anyone who uses it is just beyond ridiculous.
Matt calling Haley sensitive while he writes a whole book over her leaving a negative review, harasses her online, and accuses her of being a Nazi because she has an opinion? The math ain’t mathing luv…
Love how he points out that he is sooo accessible via WhatsApp, email, socials, etc. Meanwhile, he decided the best way to communicate with her was via DEDICATING A CREEPY BOOK. Make it make sense
Seriously, his reaction being "why don't you debate me like a smart and rational person" and his fans taking that for granted and attacking her for "not arguing in good faith" when he started the whole thing with a childish rant to her is just a textbook example of the "DEBATE ME" argument being in bad faith. "Why can't we discuss this like adults?" Because you had that option, and instead you called her names, misspelled her name on purpose, and wrote graphic details of you masturbating. She is not the one failing to be the adult here.
@@R.P.-hw2rqgood gods... I swear, people like that are just inches from switching from fantasising to actualization. How many of these authors are psychos for whom writing is their 'safe' outlet? How many of them are aware of that?
thing is, this isn't even a one time thing!! From redditor ShivRoyPinkyIsQueen: 'Matt has been dedicating books to people who give him bad reviews for a while. He dedicated his “most disgusting book” to a woman named Donna who dared to give one of his books a one star review. That’s all she did. So, to anyone attacking Hailey for how she’s a terrible person for speaking up- maybe she didn’t do it perfectly, but he has a pattern now. Oh and he never seems to dedicate his revenge books to male reviewers… 🤔' man has a pattern of attacking women and his books are just his fantasies of it.
Man's going to make the news and everyone's going to sit around and say 'Why did they ignore the warning signs?' Which isn't a blanket statement on this genre. I don't read it but I'm not judging unless you have a demonstrable pattern of behavior beyond your literature choices.
Wow this just makes the whole situation way worse and scarier. I hope any reviewers who have been attacked by this man are able to perhaps connect and potentially collect gather evidence as this goes on. This guy needs to be called out more,his behavior is not okay
Just the fact that he used men and females in the same sentence kind of shows just how he actually feels about women and I wouldn't take anything he says seriously. Poor baby got his feelings hurt.
i noticed it too when he used the word moan twice, the first time appropriate in the sentence, but inappropriate regarding the matter, and the second time just completely inappropriate (and with a winky face..? very myspace). why would someone, and a woman at that, wanna talk to anyone like that if they can't even not act that way. if u wanna have a conversation, or debate have one, but don't ruin it in such an immature manner??
"ps i spelled your name wrong on purpose" that's literally something i wrote to my friends when we had beef when i was like 10 years old. you're telling me this is an adult man? 😭
I'll never believe that he's an adult. No one past twelve acts like that or writes like that. At the very best, this is an emotionally underdeveloped teen.
Exactly like people nowadays are SO SENSITIVE, like good constructive criticism is something everyone needs to hear whenever they’re working on something. Just because it might make you frustrated or uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s always a bad thing. It’s helps fix the mistakes or problematic things you may have in something, but no many creators can’t handle any that I guess🫥
Honestly I think EVERYONE needs to understand the difference between criticism and censorship. It's not even just creatives. It's everybody these days. Especially any conservatives having bigoted opinions. That gamer dude who freaked out last week about Starfield asking what pronouns he wanted to use… He was screaming at the camera, ranting, on the literal verge of tears and then when the entire internet makes fun of his entitled childish temper tantrum he decides that he's being "silenced" but then somehow doesn't see the irony of him publishing a highly visible response video that was watched and reacted to by a ton of people. But sure bro, you're so so silenced. Literally anytime anyone gets pushback on a shitty opinion they posted online, they go Super-Ultra-Victim-Mode and claim they're being censored and oppressed. Criticism is not censorship. Freedom of Speech does not mean your speech goes unchallenged, and free speech has nothing to do with the responses of other people, it only really applied to how the government interacts with your speech.
@@BooksReboundthis absolutely! I myself have been one of those in the creative world who wasn't able to handle constructive criticism, but I recently have been taking steps to work on it :) there's really no reason to be so rude to people who are just giving you critique that could help
What is the most bizarre thing about this scenario is Hayley being called an attention seeker who "fancies" him. There is no bigger attention seeker than a misogynistic author, with bruised petty ego writing a book dedicated to his critic. I feel so disgusted.
He's out here calling her an attention seeker when he's the one writing essays bitching and moaning meanwhile all she wrote was like a handful of sentences on Goodreads smh
Like with writing anything, it takes stepping into someone else's shoes to do it well or be comfortable with it. And this guy obviously hasn't even considered that women HAVE a perspective to look at, let alone try to see it...
I sometimes wish these men who can’t write women just…didn’t. I’d rather read a book with a well-written all male cast than with female characters so poorly written I have to put the book down.
Same with TV shows for me, so many shows that are super popular with female characters that could actually be played by a blow up doll and at least that would be funny. When all the women are one note characters that are only a part of the show for the male characters.
Some don't consider women as all the way humans (i'm quoting a guy here!) so... Yeah, maybe their characters are super duper flat bc they can't think of those people as having any kind of depth or personality or thought or whatever trait
This is so fucking scary. Espicially the sarcastic remark he made about possibly 'making her moan', which was clearly a way to make the reviewer uncomfortable and establish a fucked up power-dynamic. There is no other reason why he would write a statement with werid sexual undertones towards a woman he doesn't know. I bet he wouldn't do this to a man who hated his books. Shaw doesn't want to have a conversation with anyone. His ego has been bruised, and he wants to find a way to one-up the other person. It is so embarassing seeing women defending this guy because men would NEVER go through such lengths to defend a woman. Someone check this guy's harddrive.
Really well said!! Those are exactly what his intentions were, whether he would admit it or not, and his actions and verbiage would have been different had it been a man who criticized him
I 100% agree with everything you said, but will add however that in British English for someone to be ‘moaning’ about something means to complain, whinge, talking negatively about something that bothered you, particularly bat length and/or repeatedly bringing it up. I do agree that within the context of the comment and his creepy harassment including but not limited to his ‘she fancies me’ comments, SA fantasies in his writing about another woman he hates, the title of the book and going on and on about how people sext him their genitals in response to his writing; all of that says the double entendres were at least welcome if not intentional (which I have not reason to believe they weren’t). Not defending him or denying it, just some linguistic commentary. I hate that he was probably patting himself on the back about writing in a double meaning in order to sexually harass her with some kind of plausible deniability 💀 (as if the rest didn’t already tell us everything we need to know, and a lot we didn’t) as though he hadn’t blatantly and undeniably harassed her so many other times.
there's a very specific genre of british men who love 'banter' - by which they essentially just mean verbal abuse disguised as 'humour' - who love to pretend that it's all a big joke, and that they're just being edgy and sarcastic all the time and you just need to accept that and appreciate their humour, and they'll call you a snowflake or a wet blanket if you express that you're uncomfortable with it... but if you finally try to banter back and give as good as you've been getting, these are also the guys who start clutching their pearls and going on tirades about what people are and aren't allowed to talk/joke about. matt shaw strikes me as one of these guys big time
And it's extremely annoying for men who aren't like that because when we try and explain that they are being hypocritical or just plain nasty and that there are better ways to banter those guys inevitably start doing the same thing. Sadly they have no interest in seeing other peoples points of view and stepping in others shoes I believe
This guy is very dangerous. Everything he has done is following a pattern that often ends in violence. I am worried for any woman in his physical sphere.
This is what I thought about the whole time. There is a very thin line that escalates people like this, and if this situation is over a review online, could you imagine if someone upsets this dude irl?
@@HandleTaken77777 Can you imagine if he ends up asking a woman to date her, and she rejects him in-person? I have a feeling he might genuinely hurt her or harm her in some way. He needs to be put on a watchlist 100%.
To be fair, the most “extreme horror” as a woman is having a mentally unbalanced man being obsessed and vengeful towards you…. He certainly achieved something there
I literally wanted to bleach my brain when cindy started talking about the her name was amber book I did not need to know what happened in that book, literally disgusting. i cannot comprehend someone wanting to write and publish something like that unless they are thinking about wanting to do it themselves.
@@sindrealight5182 I hope your brain is not fully developed yet, cuz if it is, damn. I can see the guy is an asshole, but to say he wants to do the things he writes about, is definitely cringe. Please grow up. Be better.
Hearing this man talk about how the person he wrote this for is a snowflake yet he wrote this book and includes a page of him saying how good he is in bed and how many women want him is giving me a type of second hand embarrassment that I didn’t even know was possible.
I truly hope she manages to file a restraining order against him. The fact that he is so petty, misogynistic, gaslighty and willing to go to this degree to harrass her makes that move valid to avoid potential violence. Thanks for using your platform to call his harrassment out cindy, if he is petty enough to do the same to you we got your back. You have a big enough audience of fabulous queer nerds to defend you 🤓🔪
the way he trivializes her by calling her 'little darling', 'love', 'sweetheart' etc., the amber heard book (straight up ewwww) (also that weird winky face after the 'that is going to make you moan' sentence. - i would not want to be in a 100 ft radius of this man. he is literally a grade A creep & definitely an incel with the way he talks to AND about women.
@@withcindy but in the conversation he is having with a women who is STATING that she feels uncomfortable with how he has been responding to her, it just doesn't look good like AT ALL. (especially with the name calling, his past written works & the weird sexually charged comments he is making as i mentioned).
Anytime these types of guys use that winky face on any platform you know it's always going to be followed with something totally mindless idiotic and cunty that only really serves to amuse themselves. Which is what makes it super odd this guy has an actual audience.
It’s giving “I don’t support feminism, I support _egalitarianism_ because no gender should be superior” and then perceives gender equality as an excuse to dish only all the negative social aspects of being a man onto any woman unfortunate enough to converse with him
@@withcindyno, but really. I lost almost everything and everyone local to me when my little girl and I spoke out against her dad last year--I took her and left after years of trying to find a way out (I'm spinal cord disabled, it's really complicated). The lesson my 7yo got out of all this is that you get screwed over when you speak up against powerful, charismatic men. Listening to you excoriate this guy is genuinely therapeutic for me. It is a great reminder that there is a huge community out there who sees the fu(k€r¥ of these men--who get pissed off when shit like this goes down. I mean, this is why abusers isolate their victims, to keep us away from friends like you, right? 💜
@kimmaline I'm really proud of you for escaping a situation like that. Being disabled complicates something already excruciatingly difficult like leaving an abuser further, and even though it was hard and people were awful, you did the right thing. You left, you tried your hardest to speak up, and I think as your daughter grows up she'll see more sides of the situation.
she has the ability to pull the greatest uno reverse card and do the funniest thing by writing a book about an unhinged and borderline psychotic male author who does unhinged and psychotic things after receiving one bad review from their reader, and dedicate it to him. i'd pay for it.
The funny thing is I JUST read a book with this exact plotline. I don’t want to spoil it but who the author turned out to be is so ironic given THIS situation. It’s called The Last Word by Taylor Adams
NO. He is clearly entitled, delusional, and obsessed. He's e-stalking her, low-key, and you do not feed people like that. He has demonstrated physical interest in her. The more she can disappear from his gaze, the better, because he's mentally off.
I'm not even a woman but I am sniffing a sock puppet. like I know multiple women, even the pickiest of the pick-me's wouldn't say that was "professional." even if they are a Matt stan it's not hard to admit it's not professional at all. it's informal at best.
If the ONLY reason he wrote this book was because he wanted to prove cis white men could write women, why would he call her a trout?? And spell her name wrong? And go on and on about her to his friends? It sounds like if he was genuinely trying to prove her wrong (which he admits he failed at) he got angry she was right and did everything in his power to call her a bitch without calling her a bitch.
to me, its like he's got a weird, obsessive crush on her and keeps making excuses to keep bothering her. like, "oh please oh please come on my podcast and talk to meee :,((", or, "I dont care if you read my book ehehehe :3.... wait, huh? you really aren't going to read it!?!? not that I care or whatever >:/" and the fact that instead of a horror book, he wrote a *romance* and dedicated to her... it's like a creepy crush that makes him really, really angry....
It feels like such a tell that the violence isn't being used to talk about the human condition or to try to say anything meaningful. It's just his own fucked up power fantasies in which he gets to dominate the world around him.
That book about Amber is disgusting as well. By writing books like this, he proves how so many men really think of women. He is not a writer. He is a misogynist. I don't care what anyone says. Men like this are dangerous, so Hailey's fears are valid.
@@ZoeHazeldean-lx7xbHe's a full grown man. We serve no one by pretending like they're nothing more than harmless children. He has a whole Facebook group, and an audience of people who can be incentivized to hurt women through his books. His follower's comments at 34:20 show what kind of audience he is cultivating through his SA 🌽. These same childish men still have the capability to SA women, and obviously he was perfectly willing to harass a female critic in a way that was very obviously sexual from the get go considering the way he speaks to her. Trying to say they're not dangerous just allows them to slip under the radar.
@@ettaetta439 again, by talking about him like this, you do no more than grant him the power he wants. Saying he's dangerous only grants him power. (Also can we please stop pretending like it's only men who are capable of doing stuff like this?!?!?! Can we please stop acting like women are pure and perfect and need protection from evil men blah blah blah? It really is misogynist. It's who you are as a person that makes you an asshole, not your gender.)
@@ZoeHazeldean-lx7xb He already has power. Saying he's dangerous doesn't give him power, it points out the fact that he has power already. I never even said women are pure and perfect and need protection from evil men. I said that he is dangerous and we SHOULD take men like him seriously. We shouldn't just write them off.
the fact that he keeps pestering her about joining his podcast in order to have a "civilized" discussion really goes to show how Matt and the legion of men like him genuinely cannot grapple with women being scared of coming near them for a "civil" and intellectual discussion because its the sort of privilege they've always had their entire life. when you are a man and a woman is yeling at you for some unfathomable reason all thats necessary is to have a "discussion". when a woman or any other marginalized group is being confronted the last thing they will think about is having a seasoned debate but instead worry about their fucking safety and lives
Maybe he does have some awareness in him that she's scared of him and likes it but is outwardly playing the victim and making her out of be hysterical or something
It's also always the invitation to come on THEIR podcast. Notice he didn't offer to come on her channel for an author interview where it would be her that was able to set the boundaries and the tone, and her that would have power over editing, and her audience that would be the primary viewer. What he really meant was "come sit and listen to me and my friend(s) berate you and make you uncomfortable for an hour or so while we talk over you, belittle you, discount you opinions, cut you off whenever we're scared you might have a point, and subtly or not-so-subtly encourage our audience to harrass you using the talking points we raise"
If this guy is gonna pretend that he wants a real adult conversation with Haley, then can he at least be GOOD at pretending he wants a real adult conversation? My god it's so obvious he just wants to make it as frustrating of an experience for her as possible while learning absolutely nothing. He also talked a lot about how Haley was claiming that men can never write women but as far as I can tell she never said that. She just didn't like how he specifically was writing women and he even admitted himself that he didn't know how to write women. So where's the problem? Crazy how the way he wants to prove that he can write women if he really tries is by writing romance and sex scenes, as if that's the only possible way to write and understand women. And just because some women like his work doesn't mean his work is good. Some women are fucking stupid, not because they're women, but because, on an individual level, those specific women are stupid. Being a woman makes you more likely to recognize misogyny but it doesn't mean you will be able to recognize it guaranteed. This is why there are so many women who are fighting against women's rights. Further proof that he doesn't know how to write women and does not understand women is going on a crusade like this and endlessly harassing a woman because she didn't like his book and mentioned it briefly in a video that wasn't even only about his book and then wondering why she doesn't want to go on a podcast with him.
Yeah him constantly acting innocent is so transparent lol like bro u literally admitted before u published the book the only reason why u wrote it was to piss people off
Also, Hailey wasnt the first woman he hate-wrote a book for/about and dedicated it to. Neither was Amber Heard. There was another woman a few years ago that wrote a negative review of one of his books, and he did the same thing. I just think this time, Hailey had the platform and reach to expose him.
It's always just so funny that to those kinds of people the only way to have a "civil discussion" is having a public battle of wits on their own platform and their own terms in front of an audience that largely consists of members of their own fan base. I'm sure only peaceful and productive discussion would come out of this!
if it were a few years back, the words "debate me, you have to" would have definetly been written. it's not because the words are different that the sentiment isnt the exact same. matt thinks he's entitled an explanation as to how someone could possibly dislike him or his work, because he's too dense to come up with a reason himself
Open and honest discussions to men really mean a conversation where they talk over you, disagree with everything you say, and provide false sources for their arguments
@@thatemptyskull9586 exactly. every time a man like this "invites someone to a civil discussion" they intend to talk loudly at them and then declare themselves the winner for having the most decibels
I really hate people who fill their work with gratutious violence and rape just to be edgy. You're not gritty and realistic, you're like a thirteen year old who just learned the word "fuck".
Lol, this reminds me of myself in middle school when I realized I could swear with my friends. I vividly remember trying to put fuck into the sentence as much as possible. I am cringing at myself rn 😭
The crazy thing about this is just like… Hailey doesn’t even have a huge channel?? She’s relatively small even after this video and receiving more support. Like this behavior is inexcusable regardless but it’s just like I doubt this would even affect his sales at all? It’s just disgusting behavior
People like him can't take even the lightest criticism. The fact that she doesn't have a large platform just makes it easier for him to attack her since she doesn't have much influence to fight back with.
This is why I really dislike most "extreme horror", "splatterpunk" bs... Poorly written, desperately edgy, immature, dripping in misogyny and pathetic paranoia
exactly. as someone who primarily reads horror I'm tired of splatterpunk enjoyers trying to convince me that it's good because it's gory. what I look for in horror is actual horror. If there is violence and gore it needs to have a purpose. like I used to read a lot of splatterpunk but stopped because It was obvious that the authors were basically just edgelords. Something being extremely gorey doesn't make it good
@@Derangedbimboi know this is not a book but can ya read echo the visual novel? Its horror and it gets into pretty dark territoy from.time to time but i never thought it was edgy
Fr regardless of the fact that I genuinely believe she abused Johnny, that is not how you go about dealing with an issue like female on male violence. If he actually cared about men who are abused by women, he would speak out about men being abused by women and not make some revenge torture porn fantasy. I read some pretty out there stuff too...love dark romance stuff. But this is scary.He obviously cannot separate reality and fiction, and that is very scary. Since most adults actually can separate reality and fiction. But he clearly can’t. It scares me to think about if he saying this type of stuff publicly, what is he like behind closed doors?
Absolutely obsessed with the fact that he pulls a "Get some help. Praying for you" on a woman who is...the help. Like she is literally a therapist (explains too how she was so productive about it -- healthily distanced herself and chose only minimal, public forum interactions that everyone could see)
as a budding extreme horror fan, i've learned something about the genre and its authors. there's a difference between extreme horror written to point out issues within the world, extreme horror written to gross out the reader, extreme horror written for the sake of the author and their fetishes, and extreme horror written to be as mean as possible. the first three have their merits in different ways, and add something to the world for someone (even if it's just for the author themselves), but extreme horror for the sake of being mean is just that - mean. there is no value being added to the world, there is nothing for anyone to enjoy, it is merely a hate manifesto written to make the author feel better about themselves that could've just been an angsty diary entry.
when you put it like that, i actually would contemplate reading extreme horror if its intent was to point out real issues, and this is coming from a person who doesn't like scary.. anything..
@kitenlovar699 correct me if I'm wrong, but Junji Ito comes to mind as an artist who does this Only peripherally aware of his work, but what I have seen and heard the glove fits
@@439801RScorrect! Gyo is about Japan's chemical weapons history(I think chemical) in an abstract way. Most of his work is very abstract though, if you don't do some digging into Japanese culture. Highly recommend Gyo, Uzumaki, and Hellstar Remina for stories deconstructing aspects of society. (Recommending in case anybody else comes along ^^ i assume you know these) The Enigma of Amigara Fault is a good short story dealing with conformity and societal pressures as well.
@@439801RS junji ito is a great horror artist and writer, very classic and always a good choice. the book that comes to mind when i think of extreme horror with a message is "exquisite corpse" by poppy z. brite (which is the name the author wrote under, but he has since transitioned and goes by william james martin now!) a lot of his books feature openly queer characters, but this book in particular goes in depth about the AIDS crisis and how it affected trans and queer communities. probably not a good starter rec, but one that i highly recommend for people looking to read extreme horror!
Also his fangirls are just as delusional and deranged as he is. The stuff they are saying is positively vomiting internalized misogyny. It's upsetting.
ShE wON't debATE mE!!! SHe is unReasOnABle!!! You think the complaining that she won't go on his podcast is bad? If she'd ignored him or said that it'd be so much worse.... would still be funny though
I'm confused as to why she needed to go on a podcast when they were already speaking right then? Why couldn't they just discuss it there? Whenever someone insists on a podcast over the form of communication they're already using during an argument, I immediately assume it's purely for the sake of drama views and/or ganging up rather than any real discussion. I know that's not always the case, but it's a massive red flag for me.
Also the fact its a public platform basically every time suggests its more about putting on a show. No reason you can't have that conversation in private instead.
Especially if it's a podcast HE would run, he would have all the fucking power to edit her words, cut out any mean things he said and completely spin her as psychotic and unhinged when he's been "nothing but civil and polite the whole time". In public text format like in FB or YT she at least has the power to say exactly what she wants to say and not have him edit her words.
@@withcindypretty sure in that context he’s doing it on purpose and is thinking “ha got ‘em”. It’s a power thing. He’s a weak man who will do anything to feel powerful. It’s pathetic
All I can think of is that one tweet where some man said women couldn't run the world because their emotions would lead to world war; in the meantime a grown ass man wrote a whole book to prove one girl wrong and then obsessed over her, her actions and her opinions for god knows how long. its giving mental illness and schoolboy crush.
love how these types of men always act obtuse at the idea of them coming off as threatening. like not only have you previously written a book dedicated to depicting the torture of an irl dv survivor, you have now continuously ranted about this random woman to your little fb clique after she was rightfully disturbed at the fact that you wrote a whole entire book about her based on an off-handed critique. but she's somehow crazy and "declining the olive branch" for not wanting to have more misogyny spewed at her face to face for your fans to content farm and harass her more probably for months on end, go to hell.
This man really is just a guy who thinks being horrible and gross makes you intelligent. There are plenty of horror authors who can tackle sensitive or gross subjects and still make them worth reading about but guys like Matt just live to shock and offend people because he thinks it makes him superior. Its always annoyed me that male "horror" writers will ruin the name of horror novels with shit like this.
I am a fan of horror (and attempting to write horror) but this guy is THE PROBLEM with the genre. Ppl who declare themselves “extreme horror” writers are almost always just writing torture p*** that are clearly their gross fantasies. Not always, but most of the time. You can write about dark and twisted topics without being disgusting about it. I’ve read several books about awful topics that didn’t make it a gross fantasy. The fact that he’s so parasocial with Depp and never got Amber’s consent really proves that the original book IS a disgusting fantasy. Ppl saying “hey, what you wrote was super gross and creepy” should never be met with an “I can write what I want! You’re a monster for wanting to silence me!” That is so fucking stupid and makes all horror writers look like pieces of shit. If you are writing torture p*** (or any piece of literature) you have to accept that ppl will hate it. You have to accept that people pointing out how creepy and shitty your book is IS NOT CENSORSHIP Fools like this make the whole genre look like a bunch of whiny sensitive creeps.
Ooh, also, a male reviewer criticized Matt Shaw for bad writing in a whole 11 min long video all about him 10 months (a full month before Hailey's 2 sentences on him) ago and he didn't say anything about that, did he?
Did…did he really call her “darling” and “love”????? In a condescending way and he’s mad at her for calling out how he writes women?? WTF is happening here 😭
In a similar vein to this, a guy who won the UK puzzle show 'Countdown' wrote a "romance" book about stalking a woman and a 16 year old girl wrote a review of it on a website. He tracked her down at work at an Asda and then hit her in the head with a wine bottle. Look up Richard Brittain. Edit: He traveled 800km and went to Scotland to do this.
The second you said he wrote a torture p*rn about Amber Heard, my first thought was "Oh. He's a redpiller". Sure enough, this is basically the manifesto of someone who unironically likes Andrew Tate. He thinks men are being attacked, but is the only one attacking. He portrays women as evil and men are victims, while admitting he doesn't understand women and never takes accountability. The level of delusion this guy has is on par with what I see in the redpill groups.
Agreed. While I think Amber is a total shitlord of a human being, I don’t think anyone deserves having a horrible rape/torture book written about them. Also disclaimer: I’m not saying Johnny is perfect mind you, he has his own load of problems but I don’t think he was the main aggressor of that relationship, especially not to the wack ass point of chopping off the end of his finger to blame on Amber like some of Amber’s supporters are claiming
@@PolyeurythaneAbsolutely agree! I don't like Amber, but she's still a freaking human being and there are lines you just don't cross even with people you dislike. No one should fantasize about her being a real victim of anything. That's awful!
@@PolyeurythaneI agree. I watched the whole trial, she is horrible. They both had issues, but she was the instigator for sure. However, even Johnny would disagree with such a horrifying "dedication" to her. Like Jaysus fucking christ. This guy needs to be on a list.
real. while i agree w the other commenters under this thread regarding the trial, i am always a lil sus of men especially being depp supporters bc they usually only are bc he is a man and they wanna dunk on the women and feminists and libs and whatever. and they didn't actually watch the trial or the only media they took in to do with it was heavily biased towards depp. the same goes for women who are like this as well, only supporting him bc of nostalgia/hes hot or whatever/bc theyre pick-mes, but its always the men being the loudest and most horrendous...
No matter what someone's view on Depp-Heard situation is, writing a book like that is _deeply_ disturbing. Like, I know fiction isn't real life and all that but when you're writing a character based on/inspired by irl people, the line between reality and fiction is blurred and should be treaded upon very carefully.
"We could have spoken civilly, but instead she only writes fake book reviews to come after me" - he says, unaware of the irony that comes with dedicating a book to said woman he seems to loathe
The dead giveaway with horror creators that highkey just have a fetish is that theyd never turn the tables and write a man that goes through sexualized torture like LMFAO if its really for the plot then why does it only happen to the 2d attractive women u fantasize up
You’re so right, the fact that he doesn’t write these types of books with a man going through the same thing says enough. He continuously makes the same books with the same base which is a woman’s misery and abuse.
Very good point. And if you asked any of these male authors about it, they'd do some Olympic level mental gymnastics to justify why it's more aRtSy to only write about women being tortured, it just wouldn't work the same way if it's not a woman the author finds personally attractive 🤠
Reviews aren't for the authors, they are for the readers. To express themself and to exchange their thoughts. Authors really need to grow a thicker skin or avoid reviews.
The fact that he was this crazy and unprofessional publicly shows why it was better for Hailey to talk to communicate with him on a public forum, He's willing to do all this publicly imagine how much worse it would be in private
"it wasn't torture porn it was a romance" okay even if he didn't write a torture/revenge fantasy about her, i would still be BEYOND disturbed if someone i never met wrote a "romance" book called MOIST GUSSET and dedicated it to me
@@RM-cj8uj exactly what i was thinking. he's trying to hide behind the technicality of semantics here. be it "it's not torture porn, it's romance" or "it's not ABOUT her, it's DEDICATED to her" but there's actually no difference when you look at the picture as a whole. it's just a way to threaten her. i'm honestly really scared for the reviewer.
I'm not surprised she is afraid of him. When she basically only dedicated a PART of a video to how she didn't enjoy one book, and his reaction was so viceral. That is worrisome. Even if he only had good intentions (which are lost based on his behavior), protecting yourself is the smart reaction
it's always the ones that run around calling everyone snowflakes that seem to be the most insecure when they are faced with a moderately opposing opinion
a key thing he needs to realise that highlights how much he doesn’t know his own genre is that when people reads his books they consent to engage with horror content in that specified circumstance. He violated that by writing a book dedicated to sending her a message that he can do whatever the fuck he wants regardless of what she thinks, which is super duper creepy and wrong.
literally women writers and artists get shamed for whatever they do and even not given fair opportunities and he think he’s some sad victim of internet culture after one bad review
randomly finding out that a man famous for writing degrading extreme horror - even about real women - who you talked about once months ago dedicated a book to you sounds terrifying. i'm glad to hear hailey didn't choose to go on some podcast to confront him about what was clearly rage bait from the beginning, he probably would've tried to cherry pick her statements to back her into a corner like he was trying to do in his facebook posts. not to mention the kind of audience she would have been exposed to. it's easy to act like you were just trying to set up a "debate between adults" when it happens on your platform with your people who clearly are ready to back you up against a woman whose crime was expressing an opinion
let's just say it's pretty obvious why he only invited her on HIS podcast and never offered to let her do an author interview on her channel. Not that that would have been something she would or should accept either, but we all know if an angy man invites you on his podcast - especially without even acknowleging the possibility of you being the one to host the discussion - it ain't for a rational debate
We’ve seen enough times with these “podcast” that the women are constantly talked over, absolutely degraded, and purposely bashed on. We all know the real reason why he wanted her to come onto his podcast he wanted to humiliate her.
"She's sooooo obsessed with me don't you guys think she's obsessed with me she must talk about me alllll the time bc i dedicated a book to her" like she nailed it when she said she lives in his head rent free. Go to therapy my guy
It was so funny reading him bring up the fact that he accidentally got a dick pic from his brother in the introduction. It's like he first wanted to suggest that even guys like him, but then decided to clarify that he's totally hetero by overexplaining things in a way that makes it seem weirder and more defensive the longer it goes on.
If I'm the editor I would've just tell him to cut that entire part out. My autistic bird arse tells me that's something you should only put in fanfic sites, not published in a goddamned book lol.
@@maddychurchhouse4556 I'm quite sure everyone understood that he was desperately trying to be funny - it's obvious that he's making shit up the moment he writes about having sex and being liked by women, because the only women that like him are his sock puppet accounts. However, this "satire" should have never left his head; it's so bad it's not even cringe, it's coma. How does one even come up with this sort of idiocy?
Finding out he wrote an extreme horror story about Amber Heard told me everything I needed to know about this man before I watched the rest of the video.
@@Bobsaget121 I don't know man, I'm not a superfan of either, but I did watch the trial out of perverted interest... and it does look a lot like Amber was the problem. Not only to Johnny either. And most of her allegations have been debunked as well. She did a disservice to any survivors with her lies and discounting JD is in fact doing the very same.
@@RiesenWuschelAmber heard was NOT the problem. Just cause he won the trial doesnt proof shit. You believe a man 10x richer and powerful than a mere actress can be abused? He has history of violence and abusing people. It wasn't mutual abuse, she retaliated to the abuse.
It's not Misogyny, It's an opinion..... it's her recording him in a depressed state and framing him as a drunk after his mother passed away, and the witnesses to her verbally degrading him around other members on the security & personal employment team (remember the..... excrement.... on the bed?), and her own family has publicly supported Depp during the accusations, and her exposed threats of harassment and lowkey admission to using the Me Too Movement as a gender war because "he's a man" (there was a recorded call), and her on-record past abuse towards her previous partner prior to dating Depp while she simultaneously used accusations that Depp's past partners have refuted and denied for years. That last one is a big reason she lost a lot of legality in proving her case. None of us can prove what happened and even though there's alot of proof Heard was lying about a lot of things there's gaps about others and Depp got exposed for his behavior (to what most of people recognize as losing your damn mind, not justifying just identifying) but at the end of the day I personally believe Amber Heard is not a victim and the courts already decided their resolutions. I can't be a fan like I use to for Depp but I genuinely couldn't work in the same vicinity as someone like Heard let alone AH themself.@ChrisJones-ek2gm
men will write 20 long essay facebook rants about the one meaningless thing that happened rather than go to therapy
LITERALLY LOL
@@youtubesupportsfascism Hey, I think you did a misandry there
@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj It’s the truth, not misandry. Crime rates don’t lie.
@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj I hope you're being sarcastic and using that word in an ironic sense, because otherwise, oh my goodness go get off the internet for while.
@@floffy2695 No, I do think saying all men should be locked up is uncool, actually
You would think someone who writes "extreme horror" would be able to handle something as extreme as...someone not liking their book
That's TOO extreme for him
The way I cackled reading this comment. 😂 Amazing
bye 🤭
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A man who writes SA porn for a living gets mad when a woman tells him no??!! 😱😱
Just another day
It seems like he's writing what he wants to happen 😵💫
What a surprise right
I mean given the source being a guy who gets his rocks off to SA porn him getting made a girl says no and then writing SA porn about said girl isn't all too surprising
This man is unhinged. He's clearly a misogynist. I don't care what anyone says. If male's "fantasy" is abusing women, then he's a misogynistic pig.
I think if a creepy stranger that writes torture porn dedicates a book to you the way he did, you are 100% allowed to give it a 1-star review without reading it.
You are also 100% allowed to file a restraining order bc what the HELL😭
Even if the review was in "bad faith" or just a troll, that doesn't give a writer the right to make a depraved book about the reviewer.
@@haveagoodday7021i don't know. I feel like anyone should have the right to write a depraved book inspired by anyone. so long as it's not illegal like defamation and doesn't have their name in it.
@@chrono4998 Found the author's burner account
@@oi2715I agree with this 💯
"I think she fancies me" - Matt Shaw
Men stop sexually harassing your women critics: Difficulty Impossible
just to clarify; yes this is sexual harassment to imply that people are only mad at you because they are (sexually) interested in you.
If you've ever had the comment directed at you, you'd know how degrading it feels in the same way other forms of sexual harassment do. It strips you of your personal dislike of the person and implies that you just want to fuck them, which is so uncomfortable especially coming from a person you've expressed dislike for/uncomfortability around
It's not a "severe" form of sexual harassment, it being more normalized, but it is sexual harassment
I am fully of the belief that when men say this it’s because a child every time they pulled on a girls pigtails the adults around them would rush to tell him and the girl “it’s because you have a crush on her.” I utterly despise the way we socialize our children to conflate harassment and bullying for love, or to think that someone hurting you is ok because they just “like you.” Similarly the way boys are told that the girl they like is only ignoring him because she’s playing “hard to get” instead of teaching them that no means no and how to cope with rejection.
A man who claims to be able to write female characters SO well.... hounding a woman and not understanding why she's uncomfortable by his interactions................. huh............
step 1 of writing female characters well: be decent towards IRL women
I thought he very clearly stated that he struggled to write women?
Top uses of ellipses across all media, number oooooone:
He wrote the book cause he thought he wanted to prove her wrong, that he could write female characters well but I guess he learnt it was harder than it looks once the book was finished.
@@Hellow68man, if he'd actually learned, that would've been an author going through an entire character arc
Men be like “women shouldn't be in charge because they are too emotional” then do shit like this.
It’s projection
period.
Based lmao
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Lol
my take out of this situation is that these extreme horror male author will never be as thick skinned as the romance girlies, matt shaw would never survive liking twilight in 2010
so real
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This is extremely accurate hahah
I love how your brain works 😭😭😭
This made me giggle, I was never a Twilight person but 2010 was rough for all those romance girlies!
Hey there! My name is Jude and I had the exact tame thing happen to me when I was 17 years old and I was a very avid book reviewer and booktuber. An author called Carroll Bryant reached out to me requesting I review one of his book in exchange for a free copy of his work. I reviewed his work with 3 stars at the time and he became infuriated. He began a months long campaign of harassment against me, sending me constant emails and messages telling me to end my own life among other threats. He eventually ended up releasing a book called Year of the Cat where the protagonist was a mexican serial killer (I'm mexican) and it also had erotic components to it (I was still a minor when all of this happened).
This all went down in 2012 and it was a truly truly awful experience to live with, I'd never felt more alone, violated and preyed upon in what was supposed to be a safe space and community - all because I dared to give a semi-bad review to a male author. I'm not entirely sure if this comment will reach or impact anyone, I just wanted to say thank you for the video and for highlighting something that happens to way too many of us within this community and say that my heart goes out to Hailey. We deserve to be safe and feel safe.
I'm so sorry this happened to you, especially as a minor and how scary that must have been?! Lmk if you want me to expose that creep in a video!!
This is absolutely despicable. I'm 17 and cannot imagine having a grown man harassing me like this, I'd absolutely lose it. You're so strong, and I'm sorry you had to go through this for doing nothing wrong and just sharing your opinion :(
That is absolutely horrifying. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm glad that you made it out safe
That's vile. I'm so sorry you went through that.
I'm so sorry that happened to you and you had to deal with such a vile man. I just went down the rabbit hole learning about him and he sounds insane and disgusting. I hope you feel safe and are safe now. ❤
The way this argument is SO one-sided too😭😭 Like Haley just said maybe two phrases and he’s out here writing Bibles in return, loser behaviour fr
The energy they put into this argument is definitely unequal lol
She is living in his head RENT FREE
@@withcindy I want this guy's energy to be so focused on dumb shit so I can finally clear P12S and learn Godot or something. :V
LET THERE BE LIGHT 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
He made a whole book whilst she said a few sentences on how she didn't like his book and he's over here crying about it 😭
Remember when authors would write books and then go live in the woods never to be heard of again until they drop a new book. I miss that..
ahh, authors before twitter existed
@@withcindy that reminds me of that one whose name should not be mentioned...
@@claudiabcarvalhomy first thought 😢
Donna Tartt is doing it right
Brandon Sanderson out here making everyone feel like they need to interact with fans all the time
"This book isn't about her, I don't even use her name." Ah yes. The only way you can write someone into your book is by naming the character their real life name. The only way
Not to mention Paul was his self insert 💀
Well based on his history he definitely thinks so 💀
I think regardless of your feelings on Amber Heard and the entire case, writing a book of vivid torture fantasies about someone who did nothing to him is beyond psychotic
literally people keep saying that writers can be seperated from their work but what does it say about someone who writes about the graphic torture and grape of a real life woman?? he needs to be on a watchlist
No fr, we just glossed over that?
absolutely!!
Yeah. Like, I'm wary about her existence. But what she did, should not give anyone automatic moral consent to even try and think about writing this. Like, who are you to even insert yourself into a situation that doesn’t even concern you?
This is why even if I don’t like a person, I’m even more ashamed if the side I am on becomes even more crazier and super violent
In retaliation. I’m going to say my piece and go. Maybe provide some general info for people who need some. but I refuse to take part in hate and harassment campaigns. It's hella gross behavior.
@@Tenshii_Artii' fr, it's not giving "grrr i hate domestic abusers and she's one!! let me make a book about this", it's giving more "finally, a woman i can insert in my torture porn book and people wont be mad at me for it" like fam why were you waiting for it
This woman briefly mentioned him in a wrap up video and she got a whole book. Cindy's getting a 5-book series
Wow my own multiverse
@@withcindy 💀💀💀💀
The multiverse 😂😂😂
RIGHT? Like, dude is SO triggered! LMAO.
@@withcindy An entire cosmology, that not even Harry Potter could rival 😂💀
It's very classic edgelord behaviour to dedicate yourself to being edgy and "offensive" while simultaneously having the thinnest skin ever
They can dish it but they can't take it 😪
Schrödinger’s edgelord 😂
@@alyssapinon9670
Im stealing this phrase
It’s the irony for me 💅
@@alyssapinon9670definitely can be confused with : Schrödinger's douchebag, where something offensive said is either a piece of your mind or "just a joke" depending on who it's said to
The worst type of edgelord are the ones who say they like make "offensive art" but then get mad when people are offended by their art. Wasn't that the point?
Ironic part is they were the most offended all along
They’re like pizza cutters. All edge and no point.
EDIT: Thanks for the complos, but I didn’t come up with this. Someone else on a different video said it first.
@@animeotaku307this is one of the best insults I've ever seen
@@animeotaku307i like your brain. Very thinky
Thing is, i think they would get just as mad if no one was offended and they didn't get any attention for being offensive. 😱
One girl says "I personally didn't like this book" and he proceeds to dedicate a whole ass book to her... boy math
LMAOOOO
Don't show him r/menwritingwomen
Another fantastic example of “Women are afraid men will kill them. Men are afraid women will laugh at them.”
My friend is afraid of women killing him but it is extremely justified he was shanked with a box cutter in kindergarten because some pyscho girl in his class was mad that he beat her at Jenga
Way to generalize men. Last I checked, I’m a woman and I’m most definitely not afraid men will kill me. Get over yourself, this quote and anyone who uses it is just beyond ridiculous.
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@@CATmetchuBRUH WHAT 💀💀
Matt calling Haley sensitive while he writes a whole book over her leaving a negative review, harasses her online, and accuses her of being a Nazi because she has an opinion? The math ain’t mathing luv…
the call is coming from inside the house
And that Amber Heard book 😶🌫️
@@Air_Serpentwait what did he write?
@@localabsurdist6661a TOO extreme horror book about amber heard
no its ok cus he's a victim /j
Love how he points out that he is sooo accessible via WhatsApp, email, socials, etc. Meanwhile, he decided the best way to communicate with her was via DEDICATING A CREEPY BOOK. Make it make sense
He's ready to make himself completely available to her, how dare she not reciprocate
Seriously, his reaction being "why don't you debate me like a smart and rational person" and his fans taking that for granted and attacking her for "not arguing in good faith" when he started the whole thing with a childish rant to her is just a textbook example of the "DEBATE ME" argument being in bad faith. "Why can't we discuss this like adults?" Because you had that option, and instead you called her names, misspelled her name on purpose, and wrote graphic details of you masturbating. She is not the one failing to be the adult here.
18:55 he also contradicted himself about being accessible on those sites so…
@@R.P.-hw2rqgood gods... I swear, people like that are just inches from switching from fantasising to actualization.
How many of these authors are psychos for whom writing is their 'safe' outlet? How many of them are aware of that?
@@R.P.-hw2rq, Richard Brittain, yes, what a guy
/s
I kinda envy people who reach their 12th year of life and decide that's enough maturing for a lifetime. Must be peaceful.
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Honestly even saying 12 is a bit generous.
Don’t disrespect the twelve year olds like that
Apparently not based on his reaction lol it's a torrent of emotion and sensitivity
thing is, this isn't even a one time thing!!
From redditor ShivRoyPinkyIsQueen: 'Matt has been dedicating books to people who give him bad reviews for a while. He dedicated his “most disgusting book” to a woman named Donna who dared to give one of his books a one star review. That’s all she did. So, to anyone attacking Hailey for how she’s a terrible person for speaking up- maybe she didn’t do it perfectly, but he has a pattern now. Oh and he never seems to dedicate his revenge books to male reviewers… 🤔'
man has a pattern of attacking women and his books are just his fantasies of it.
Sadly not surprising that he is so thin skinned
Man's going to make the news and everyone's going to sit around and say 'Why did they ignore the warning signs?' Which isn't a blanket statement on this genre. I don't read it but I'm not judging unless you have a demonstrable pattern of behavior beyond your literature choices.
Can the police arrest this man.
Wow this just makes the whole situation way worse and scarier.
I hope any reviewers who have been attacked by this man are able to perhaps connect and potentially collect gather evidence as this goes on.
This guy needs to be called out more,his behavior is not okay
@@KairiMorin The police won't do shit
Just the fact that he used men and females in the same sentence kind of shows just how he actually feels about women and I wouldn't take anything he says seriously. Poor baby got his feelings hurt.
Never trust someone who write 'female' but use men.
i noticed it too when he used the word moan twice, the first time appropriate in the sentence, but inappropriate regarding the matter, and the second time just completely inappropriate (and with a winky face..? very myspace). why would someone, and a woman at that, wanna talk to anyone like that if they can't even not act that way. if u wanna have a conversation, or debate have one, but don't ruin it in such an immature manner??
This guy is batshit crazy
@@kitenlovar699lots of misogyny with that one
Calling women females is classic incel.
He thinks he is in Pride & Prejudice. Meanwhile, she knows she is in American Psycho. Minus the good writing.
I love this comment, the true accurate description of this situation.
"ps i spelled your name wrong on purpose" that's literally something i wrote to my friends when we had beef when i was like 10 years old. you're telling me this is an adult man? 😭
I'll never believe that he's an adult. No one past twelve acts like that or writes like that. At the very best, this is an emotionally underdeveloped teen.
@@KristinaVeshtort-Kaskmaybe he's got a traumatic brain injury or is just really low IQ
I wonder if that was done to prevent legal issues. He could be charged with harassment?
You’re telling me he’s a published author?
Ik it’s so comically childish
I just really, REALLY want creatives to understand that *criticism* and *censorship* are not the same thing.
a random person: *brings up a valid critique*
an insecure artist: AM I BEING CENSORED?!?!
@@withcindy 1 star on goodreads= literally 1984
Exactly like people nowadays are SO SENSITIVE, like good constructive criticism is something everyone needs to hear whenever they’re working on something. Just because it might make you frustrated or uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s always a bad thing. It’s helps fix the mistakes or problematic things you may have in something, but no many creators can’t handle any that I guess🫥
Honestly I think EVERYONE needs to understand the difference between criticism and censorship. It's not even just creatives. It's everybody these days. Especially any conservatives having bigoted opinions. That gamer dude who freaked out last week about Starfield asking what pronouns he wanted to use… He was screaming at the camera, ranting, on the literal verge of tears and then when the entire internet makes fun of his entitled childish temper tantrum he decides that he's being "silenced" but then somehow doesn't see the irony of him publishing a highly visible response video that was watched and reacted to by a ton of people. But sure bro, you're so so silenced.
Literally anytime anyone gets pushback on a shitty opinion they posted online, they go Super-Ultra-Victim-Mode and claim they're being censored and oppressed.
Criticism is not censorship. Freedom of Speech does not mean your speech goes unchallenged, and free speech has nothing to do with the responses of other people, it only really applied to how the government interacts with your speech.
@@BooksReboundthis absolutely! I myself have been one of those in the creative world who wasn't able to handle constructive criticism, but I recently have been taking steps to work on it :) there's really no reason to be so rude to people who are just giving you critique that could help
What is the most bizarre thing about this scenario is Hayley being called an attention seeker who "fancies" him. There is no bigger attention seeker than a misogynistic author, with bruised petty ego writing a book dedicated to his critic. I feel so disgusted.
the level of self absorption is at an all time high
Exactly
He's out here calling her an attention seeker when he's the one writing essays bitching and moaning meanwhile all she wrote was like a handful of sentences on Goodreads smh
Hot take: If you struggle to write female povs/women in general (50% of the population) maybe you're just a bad writer lol
Like with writing anything, it takes stepping into someone else's shoes to do it well or be comfortable with it. And this guy obviously hasn't even considered that women HAVE a perspective to look at, let alone try to see it...
I sometimes wish these men who can’t write women just…didn’t. I’d rather read a book with a well-written all male cast than with female characters so poorly written I have to put the book down.
Same with TV shows for me, so many shows that are super popular with female characters that could actually be played by a blow up doll and at least that would be funny. When all the women are one note characters that are only a part of the show for the male characters.
Some don't consider women as all the way humans (i'm quoting a guy here!) so... Yeah, maybe their characters are super duper flat bc they can't think of those people as having any kind of depth or personality or thought or whatever trait
@@bananewane1402 But that begs the question: DOES he actually write male character well?
This is so fucking scary. Espicially the sarcastic remark he made about possibly 'making her moan', which was clearly a way to make the reviewer uncomfortable and establish a fucked up power-dynamic. There is no other reason why he would write a statement with werid sexual undertones towards a woman he doesn't know. I bet he wouldn't do this to a man who hated his books. Shaw doesn't want to have a conversation with anyone. His ego has been bruised, and he wants to find a way to one-up the other person.
It is so embarassing seeing women defending this guy because men would NEVER go through such lengths to defend a woman.
Someone check this guy's harddrive.
Really well said!! Those are exactly what his intentions were, whether he would admit it or not, and his actions and verbiage would have been different had it been a man who criticized him
I 100% agree with everything you said, but will add however that in British English for someone to be ‘moaning’ about something means to complain, whinge, talking negatively about something that bothered you, particularly bat length and/or repeatedly bringing it up. I do agree that within the context of the comment and his creepy harassment including but not limited to his ‘she fancies me’ comments, SA fantasies in his writing about another woman he hates, the title of the book and going on and on about how people sext him their genitals in response to his writing; all of that says the double entendres were at least welcome if not intentional (which I have not reason to believe they weren’t).
Not defending him or denying it, just some linguistic commentary. I hate that he was probably patting himself on the back about writing in a double meaning in order to sexually harass her with some kind of plausible deniability 💀 (as if the rest didn’t already tell us everything we need to know, and a lot we didn’t) as though he hadn’t blatantly and undeniably harassed her so many other times.
This author Matt really went "I'll show her!" and proceeded to prove her right lmao. Dude needs to take a nap and get off the internet.
I'LL SHOW HER.... THAT SHE'S RIGHT!
and book himself a therapy session. this man is unhinged.
He needs a restraining order
i was thinking the same thing!! i hope someone steals his wifi router!!
there's a very specific genre of british men who love 'banter' - by which they essentially just mean verbal abuse disguised as 'humour' - who love to pretend that it's all a big joke, and that they're just being edgy and sarcastic all the time and you just need to accept that and appreciate their humour, and they'll call you a snowflake or a wet blanket if you express that you're uncomfortable with it... but if you finally try to banter back and give as good as you've been getting, these are also the guys who start clutching their pearls and going on tirades about what people are and aren't allowed to talk/joke about. matt shaw strikes me as one of these guys big time
Yup, he is very much that genre of British man
Trust me this isn't even a British or man thing. Seen too mich of this in the past.
And it's extremely annoying for men who aren't like that because when we try and explain that they are being hypocritical or just plain nasty and that there are better ways to banter those guys inevitably start doing the same thing. Sadly they have no interest in seeing other peoples points of view and stepping in others shoes I believe
Shrödinger's d0uchebag: someone who says offensive things and decides whether it's a joke or not based on the reactions of those around them
Shit he's from the UK? I'm off to buy a panic room...
This guy is very dangerous. Everything he has done is following a pattern that often ends in violence. I am worried for any woman in his physical sphere.
At the very least he can rile up and incite violence in his fanboy following
This is what I thought about the whole time. There is a very thin line that escalates people like this, and if this situation is over a review online, could you imagine if someone upsets this dude irl?
I was thinking the same... he sound obsessed.
@@HandleTaken77777 Can you imagine if he ends up asking a woman to date her, and she rejects him in-person? I have a feeling he might genuinely hurt her or harm her in some way. He needs to be put on a watchlist 100%.
he’s literally writing self insert manifestos…scary world
To be fair, the most “extreme horror” as a woman is having a mentally unbalanced man being obsessed and vengeful towards you…. He certainly achieved something there
LMFAO EXACTLY
I'm only 7 minutes in and the misogyny levels are already through the roof... this man should be on an FBI watch list
hailey and i will probably be on his personal watch list after this lol
I literally wanted to bleach my brain when cindy started talking about the her name was amber book I did not need to know what happened in that book, literally disgusting. i cannot comprehend someone wanting to write and publish something like that unless they are thinking about wanting to do it themselves.
@@sindrealight5182 I hope your brain is not fully developed yet, cuz if it is, damn. I can see the guy is an asshole, but to say he wants to do the things he writes about, is definitely cringe. Please grow up. Be better.
My thoughts exactly!
I'm 5 mins in. This is a lot of hate for someone they don't personally know.
Hearing this man talk about how the person he wrote this for is a snowflake yet he wrote this book and includes a page of him saying how good he is in bed and how many women want him is giving me a type of second hand embarrassment that I didn’t even know was possible.
I keep having to pause because I can't handle the level of mortification I'm feeling on his behalf. I'm never going to finish this video, am I?
Onision. Actually, WORSE than Onision.
He has the same energy as a undersized bantam rooster with nonexistent sense of self or preservation.
Not only wrote a book but then wrote several essay worthy long posts after the fact 😂
And no sense in explaining to people who use "snowflake" as a derogatory term that they're referencing a book's _villain_...
I truly hope she manages to file a restraining order against him. The fact that he is so petty, misogynistic, gaslighty and willing to go to this degree to harrass her makes that move valid to avoid potential violence. Thanks for using your platform to call his harrassment out cindy, if he is petty enough to do the same to you we got your back. You have a big enough audience of fabulous queer nerds to defend you 🤓🔪
thank u for the support 💖
we are the calvary 🤣
And some straight ones ⚔️
@@whatscookingoodlookin1We ride at dawn!
he has a joker tattoo I think that says enough tbh
Omg
I cringed physically reading that 😂
No fucking way he has a joker tattoo
We live in a society
the fact that he has published over 300 books and this is the first time i'm ever hearing about him, it says a lot
He's very persistent 👺
He has *self*published over 300 books lol.
@@parissinclair6513 that makes more sense lmao
My thoughts exactly, hahaha.
A book in 2-3 months makes me think his prose isn’t very good and he’s done after the first draft. Or he uses AI. Maybe both
the way he trivializes her by calling her 'little darling', 'love', 'sweetheart' etc., the amber heard book (straight up ewwww) (also that weird winky face after the 'that is going to make you moan' sentence. - i would not want to be in a 100 ft radius of this man. he is literally a grade A creep & definitely an incel with the way he talks to AND about women.
to be fair i think he uses that verbiage because he's british, so it adds a lil extra flavor!
@@withcindy but in the conversation he is having with a women who is STATING that she feels uncomfortable with how he has been responding to her, it just doesn't look good like AT ALL. (especially with the name calling, his past written works & the weird sexually charged comments he is making as i mentioned).
The response is truly giving haven't been given attention from a woman in a decade.
Anytime these types of guys use that winky face on any platform you know it's always going to be followed with something totally mindless idiotic and cunty that only really serves to amuse themselves. Which is what makes it super odd this guy has an actual audience.
this guy definitely needs to be as avoided as the Inner Exclusion Zone of Chernobyl.
even her Goodreads comments are better written than the pieces of his writing you've shown us lol
The irony of it all lol
@@withcindy I'm seriously thinking about publishing my 8 year old niece's stories. They have better plot and grammar than the crap he pens.
@@RosieSquallomg that is so funny. I’m proud of your niece tho
It’s giving “I don’t support feminism, I support _egalitarianism_ because no gender should be superior” and then perceives gender equality as an excuse to dish only all the negative social aspects of being a man onto any woman unfortunate enough to converse with him
Oh my god, this right here is it.
That or the guys who say “If we are talking equal rights, I should be able to smack a woman.”
It's weirdly cathartic for me to listen to Cindy neatly and flawlessly verbally eviscerate weirdos like this guy.
to be fair he didn't make it difficult
This is one of the many reasons I love Cindy's videos
@@withcindyno, but really. I lost almost everything and everyone local to me when my little girl and I spoke out against her dad last year--I took her and left after years of trying to find a way out (I'm spinal cord disabled, it's really complicated). The lesson my 7yo got out of all this is that you get screwed over when you speak up against powerful, charismatic men.
Listening to you excoriate this guy is genuinely therapeutic for me. It is a great reminder that there is a huge community out there who sees the fu(k€r¥ of these men--who get pissed off when shit like this goes down. I mean, this is why abusers isolate their victims, to keep us away from friends like you, right? 💜
@@Kimmaline proud of you and your kid for finding a way out ❤️
@kimmaline I'm really proud of you for escaping a situation like that. Being disabled complicates something already excruciatingly difficult like leaving an abuser further, and even though it was hard and people were awful, you did the right thing. You left, you tried your hardest to speak up, and I think as your daughter grows up she'll see more sides of the situation.
she has the ability to pull the greatest uno reverse card and do the funniest thing by writing a book about an unhinged and borderline psychotic male author who does unhinged and psychotic things after receiving one bad review from their reader, and dedicate it to him. i'd pay for it.
The funny thing is I JUST read a book with this exact plotline. I don’t want to spoil it but who the author turned out to be is so ironic given THIS situation. It’s called The Last Word by Taylor Adams
NO. He is clearly entitled, delusional, and obsessed. He's e-stalking her, low-key, and you do not feed people like that. He has demonstrated physical interest in her. The more she can disappear from his gaze, the better, because he's mentally off.
@@LadyAstarionAncunin I absolutely agree. His entire behaviour just screams 'incel' to me.
@@amandaleighplans Is the book any good? Or will you just comply with a good review so that Taylor Adams doesn't start harassing you?
the woman who said his response was "very professional" ... on what planet 💀💀💀
Pick me behavior ngl!!!
His response was unreal and weird is an understatement, the book Amber was disguisting and i havent watched the vid full yet
i refuse to believe that is not an alt account. ain't no way. nuh-huh.
I'm not even a woman but I am sniffing a sock puppet. like I know multiple women, even the pickiest of the pick-me's wouldn't say that was "professional." even if they are a Matt stan it's not hard to admit it's not professional at all. it's informal at best.
Jupiter
If the ONLY reason he wrote this book was because he wanted to prove cis white men could write women, why would he call her a trout?? And spell her name wrong? And go on and on about her to his friends? It sounds like if he was genuinely trying to prove her wrong (which he admits he failed at) he got angry she was right and did everything in his power to call her a bitch without calling her a bitch.
Also why call her a trout??? Out of all the ways to insult that one is so weird? Why a trout????
to me, its like he's got a weird, obsessive crush on her and keeps making excuses to keep bothering her. like, "oh please oh please come on my podcast and talk to meee :,((", or, "I dont care if you read my book ehehehe :3.... wait, huh? you really aren't going to read it!?!? not that I care or whatever >:/"
and the fact that instead of a horror book, he wrote a *romance* and dedicated to her... it's like a creepy crush that makes him really, really angry....
@@anak.3775Right??😭 What kind of weird ass insult is that??
if he really thinks so highly of his works, why does he need to prove it so badly to one singular person?
also sorry for my previous comment i rewatched the video lmaooo
You'd think someone who chooses to make a career out of describing horrible acts of violence would have some thicker skin.
Lol right?
It feels like such a tell that the violence isn't being used to talk about the human condition or to try to say anything meaningful. It's just his own fucked up power fantasies in which he gets to dominate the world around him.
That book about Amber is disgusting as well. By writing books like this, he proves how so many men really think of women. He is not a writer. He is a misogynist. I don't care what anyone says. Men like this are dangerous, so Hailey's fears are valid.
"dangerous" really? I wouldn't give him that much credit. He's about as "dangerous" as a child throwing a temper tantrum imo
@@ZoeHazeldean-lx7xbHe's a full grown man. We serve no one by pretending like they're nothing more than harmless children. He has a whole Facebook group, and an audience of people who can be incentivized to hurt women through his books. His follower's comments at 34:20 show what kind of audience he is cultivating through his SA 🌽.
These same childish men still have the capability to SA women, and obviously he was perfectly willing to harass a female critic in a way that was very obviously sexual from the get go considering the way he speaks to her. Trying to say they're not dangerous just allows them to slip under the radar.
@@ettaetta439 again, by talking about him like this, you do no more than grant him the power he wants. Saying he's dangerous only grants him power. (Also can we please stop pretending like it's only men who are capable of doing stuff like this?!?!?! Can we please stop acting like women are pure and perfect and need protection from evil men blah blah blah? It really is misogynist. It's who you are as a person that makes you an asshole, not your gender.)
@@ZoeHazeldean-lx7xb He already has power. Saying he's dangerous doesn't give him power, it points out the fact that he has power already. I never even said women are pure and perfect and need protection from evil men. I said that he is dangerous and we SHOULD take men like him seriously. We shouldn't just write them off.
@@ZoeHazeldean-lx7xbyou’re part of the problem honestly.
Ah yes, but women are the emotional ones and men are all logic.
whats more logical than dedicating time and energy to someone who mentioned not liking ur book 1 time
Men have spent a long time rebranding anger as ‘not an emotion.’ It’s in all our history books; fragile men getting angry and histrionic.
BINGO.
@@anonyyy85this!!! ^^
but we ARE the emotional ones 😂
Eek! What a creep. His next book will be dedicated to “Sindy”.
LOL bringing the SIN in Sindy
Eww
"She was handsome but quirky with a taste.. for blood!!!!!!"
@@nailinthefashionshe wasn’t like the other girls, she was a vampire 😂
@@alyssapinon9670 he unironically accidentally writes reverse Twilight LMFAOOO lowkey would slap harder than reading from Edward's perspective tbh
the fact that he keeps pestering her about joining his podcast in order to have a "civilized" discussion really goes to show how Matt and the legion of men like him genuinely cannot grapple with women being scared of coming near them for a "civil" and intellectual discussion because its the sort of privilege they've always had their entire life. when you are a man and a woman is yeling at you for some unfathomable reason all thats necessary is to have a "discussion". when a woman or any other marginalized group is being confronted the last thing they will think about is having a seasoned debate but instead worry about their fucking safety and lives
Also, have a discussion about what? The extreme horror genre is not that deep. lol
Maybe he does have some awareness in him that she's scared of him and likes it but is outwardly playing the victim and making her out of be hysterical or something
It's also always the invitation to come on THEIR podcast. Notice he didn't offer to come on her channel for an author interview where it would be her that was able to set the boundaries and the tone, and her that would have power over editing, and her audience that would be the primary viewer.
What he really meant was "come sit and listen to me and my friend(s) berate you and make you uncomfortable for an hour or so while we talk over you, belittle you, discount you opinions, cut you off whenever we're scared you might have a point, and subtly or not-so-subtly encourage our audience to harrass you using the talking points we raise"
@@katharineeavan9705 The good old home court advantage.
@@katharineeavan9705this is exactly it
If this guy is gonna pretend that he wants a real adult conversation with Haley, then can he at least be GOOD at pretending he wants a real adult conversation? My god it's so obvious he just wants to make it as frustrating of an experience for her as possible while learning absolutely nothing.
He also talked a lot about how Haley was claiming that men can never write women but as far as I can tell she never said that. She just didn't like how he specifically was writing women and he even admitted himself that he didn't know how to write women. So where's the problem?
Crazy how the way he wants to prove that he can write women if he really tries is by writing romance and sex scenes, as if that's the only possible way to write and understand women.
And just because some women like his work doesn't mean his work is good. Some women are fucking stupid, not because they're women, but because, on an individual level, those specific women are stupid. Being a woman makes you more likely to recognize misogyny but it doesn't mean you will be able to recognize it guaranteed. This is why there are so many women who are fighting against women's rights.
Further proof that he doesn't know how to write women and does not understand women is going on a crusade like this and endlessly harassing a woman because she didn't like his book and mentioned it briefly in a video that wasn't even only about his book and then wondering why she doesn't want to go on a podcast with him.
Yeah him constantly acting innocent is so transparent lol like bro u literally admitted before u published the book the only reason why u wrote it was to piss people off
Also, Hailey wasnt the first woman he hate-wrote a book for/about and dedicated it to. Neither was Amber Heard. There was another woman a few years ago that wrote a negative review of one of his books, and he did the same thing. I just think this time, Hailey had the platform and reach to expose him.
I didn't think that this was a one-time incident. He's too twisted to have this one -ime blow up. Freaking terrifying.
Taylor Adams literally released a book this year with this premise. A woman writes a bad review on a shit book and then the author tries to kill her.
i heard about that! is it any good?
I personally really liked it. The descriptions of the author was pretty cartoon-y, but then it makes sense by the end. @@withcindy
Immediately made me think of it! It was campy but in a good way. 😂
I immediately thought of that book! I really enjoyed it.
Glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of this book!
not a man inviting a woman to speak with him on his own podcast! its such an obvious trap 🚩🚩🚩
when a man who keeps starting arguments with you invites you to a "civil discussion" 🚩🚩🚩
It's always just so funny that to those kinds of people the only way to have a "civil discussion" is having a public battle of wits on their own platform and their own terms in front of an audience that largely consists of members of their own fan base. I'm sure only peaceful and productive discussion would come out of this!
if it were a few years back, the words "debate me, you have to" would have definetly been written. it's not because the words are different that the sentiment isnt the exact same. matt thinks he's entitled an explanation as to how someone could possibly dislike him or his work, because he's too dense to come up with a reason himself
Open and honest discussions to men really mean a conversation where they talk over you, disagree with everything you say, and provide false sources for their arguments
@@thatemptyskull9586 exactly. every time a man like this "invites someone to a civil discussion" they intend to talk loudly at them and then declare themselves the winner for having the most decibels
I really hate people who fill their work with gratutious violence and rape just to be edgy. You're not gritty and realistic, you're like a thirteen year old who just learned the word "fuck".
Exactly I agree with you so much , like I would rather hear a creepy interesting story than just a weird immoral p@rn0
as a thirteen year old who just learned the word "fuck", i can attest that this is a fact.
Lol, this reminds me of myself in middle school when I realized I could swear with my friends. I vividly remember trying to put fuck into the sentence as much as possible. I am cringing at myself rn 😭
There is a place for gorn. But it is what it is - Edge.
It’s just that SpongeBob episode where they learn swears from graffiti and just start saying them constantly
The crazy thing about this is just like… Hailey doesn’t even have a huge channel?? She’s relatively small even after this video and receiving more support. Like this behavior is inexcusable regardless but it’s just like I doubt this would even affect his sales at all? It’s just disgusting behavior
Exactly, he was never truly threatened lol
He needs an ego boost
@@mastertubbily1812y’know what they say..egos are like balloons.
He just hates women in general
People like him can't take even the lightest criticism. The fact that she doesn't have a large platform just makes it easier for him to attack her since she doesn't have much influence to fight back with.
This is why I really dislike most "extreme horror", "splatterpunk" bs... Poorly written, desperately edgy, immature, dripping in misogyny and pathetic paranoia
exactly. as someone who primarily reads horror I'm tired of splatterpunk enjoyers trying to convince me that it's good because it's gory. what I look for in horror is actual horror. If there is violence and gore it needs to have a purpose. like I used to read a lot of splatterpunk but stopped because It was obvious that the authors were basically just edgelords. Something being extremely gorey doesn't make it good
@@Derangedbimboi know this is not a book but can ya read echo the visual novel? Its horror and it gets into pretty dark territoy from.time to time but i never thought it was edgy
@@miigi-p4939 I'll have to check it out
@@miigi-p4939 Edgy is fine, but it's got to have a point
@@gokuxsephiroth4505 true i suppose
In the vn itself a character tries to act edgy but he just sounds so goofy and dumb (wich is the point
Amber has been open about her father abusing her, writing that she was SAed by him is beyond foul. This man needs to be on an FBI watch list.
Right? I can’t stand AH and want nothing to do with her but I will die on this hill… this type of behaviour warrants a watch list 👀
Fr regardless of the fact that I genuinely believe she abused Johnny, that is not how you go about dealing with an issue like female on male violence. If he actually cared about men who are abused by women, he would speak out about men being abused by women and not make some revenge torture porn fantasy. I read some pretty out there stuff too...love dark romance stuff. But this is scary.He obviously cannot separate reality and fiction, and that is very scary. Since most adults actually can separate reality and fiction. But he clearly can’t. It scares me to think about if he saying this type of stuff publicly, what is he like behind closed doors?
Guy probably already is tbh
Absolutely obsessed with the fact that he pulls a "Get some help. Praying for you" on a woman who is...the help. Like she is literally a therapist (explains too how she was so productive about it -- healthily distanced herself and chose only minimal, public forum interactions that everyone could see)
FR. Like, how does that even work??
LITERALLY like babe i have news for u
as a budding extreme horror fan, i've learned something about the genre and its authors. there's a difference between extreme horror written to point out issues within the world, extreme horror written to gross out the reader, extreme horror written for the sake of the author and their fetishes, and extreme horror written to be as mean as possible. the first three have their merits in different ways, and add something to the world for someone (even if it's just for the author themselves), but extreme horror for the sake of being mean is just that - mean. there is no value being added to the world, there is nothing for anyone to enjoy, it is merely a hate manifesto written to make the author feel better about themselves that could've just been an angsty diary entry.
Very well said and I agree with you!
when you put it like that, i actually would contemplate reading extreme horror if its intent was to point out real issues, and this is coming from a person who doesn't like scary.. anything..
@kitenlovar699 correct me if I'm wrong, but Junji Ito comes to mind as an artist who does this
Only peripherally aware of his work, but what I have seen and heard the glove fits
@@439801RScorrect! Gyo is about Japan's chemical weapons history(I think chemical) in an abstract way. Most of his work is very abstract though, if you don't do some digging into Japanese culture. Highly recommend Gyo, Uzumaki, and Hellstar Remina for stories deconstructing aspects of society. (Recommending in case anybody else comes along ^^ i assume you know these) The Enigma of Amigara Fault is a good short story dealing with conformity and societal pressures as well.
@@439801RS junji ito is a great horror artist and writer, very classic and always a good choice. the book that comes to mind when i think of extreme horror with a message is "exquisite corpse" by poppy z. brite (which is the name the author wrote under, but he has since transitioned and goes by william james martin now!) a lot of his books feature openly queer characters, but this book in particular goes in depth about the AIDS crisis and how it affected trans and queer communities. probably not a good starter rec, but one that i highly recommend for people looking to read extreme horror!
Also his fangirls are just as delusional and deranged as he is. The stuff they are saying is positively vomiting internalized misogyny. It's upsetting.
I need them to wake up and stand up 🤧
this guy has fangirls?? being fangirls of a male author who can't write anything decent is so embarrassing lmao
I'm wondering if those are real accounts and not just sock accounts made by the author himself so he can say "SEE! WOMEN LIKE MY WRITING!"
frrrr its giving pick me
I refuse to believe those "fangirls" arent just a bunch of alt-accounts
Personally if I were Haley I would've just replied 'not reading allat lil bro' and see him seething
"I ain't reading all that... I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened "
In hindsight, the best answer to this whole mess would have been "I'm sorry you were offended, wish you the best on your next writing endeavour!"
@@withcindy😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾
Nooo that's so mean he'd start crying 😂😂
ShE wON't debATE mE!!! SHe is unReasOnABle!!!
You think the complaining that she won't go on his podcast is bad? If she'd ignored him or said that it'd be so much worse.... would still be funny though
I'm confused as to why she needed to go on a podcast when they were already speaking right then? Why couldn't they just discuss it there?
Whenever someone insists on a podcast over the form of communication they're already using during an argument, I immediately assume it's purely for the sake of drama views and/or ganging up rather than any real discussion. I know that's not always the case, but it's a massive red flag for me.
Yup ur exactly right
Also the fact its a public platform basically every time suggests its more about putting on a show. No reason you can't have that conversation in private instead.
Especially if it's a podcast HE would run, he would have all the fucking power to edit her words, cut out any mean things he said and completely spin her as psychotic and unhinged when he's been "nothing but civil and polite the whole time". In public text format like in FB or YT she at least has the power to say exactly what she wants to say and not have him edit her words.
Him: Oh you don't live in my mind rent-free.
Also him: *proceeds to write several dissertations replying to her comments*
Hmmmm the math ain't mathing
The weirdly sexually charged responses he's writing... "giving you something to moan about ;)" JAIL!!! 🛑
like are they aware of how repulsive they are or do they just use cognitive dissonance lol
right like know your place boy you're not in a wattpad you're a random civilian 😭😭😭
It's definitely sexual harassment.
@@withcindypretty sure in that context he’s doing it on purpose and is thinking “ha got ‘em”. It’s a power thing. He’s a weak man who will do anything to feel powerful. It’s pathetic
Honestly could see how this is taken like that, but 'moan about' means complain. Either way he's a fucking creep so! 🚩🚩🚩🚩
How can you angrily write a dedication to a reviewer based not on what you saw or heard but what people TOLD you she said? That's so revealing lol
allegedly people "told" him about it as if he did not see it himself lol
Be careful... he's probably going to write a book dedicated to you now 😭😭lmao
I'd just ignore it so it'd be a waste of his time lol
All I can think of is that one tweet where some man said women couldn't run the world because their emotions would lead to world war; in the meantime a grown ass man wrote a whole book to prove one girl wrong and then obsessed over her, her actions and her opinions for god knows how long. its giving mental illness and schoolboy crush.
don't let men know about two world wars that already happened
@@sani_i deadass 😟🤣
...Have we never had a war in this world or something? Huh?
Oh the irony 😂😂
Most wars have been started by crazy and overly emotional men. 😒
love how these types of men always act obtuse at the idea of them coming off as threatening. like not only have you previously written a book dedicated to depicting the torture of an irl dv survivor, you have now continuously ranted about this random woman to your little fb clique after she was rightfully disturbed at the fact that you wrote a whole entire book about her based on an off-handed critique. but she's somehow crazy and "declining the olive branch" for not wanting to have more misogyny spewed at her face to face for your fans to content farm and harass her more probably for months on end, go to hell.
He prides himself as an author but somehow can't put 2 and 2 together
If Amber Heard is an irl dv survivor is debatable but that doesn’t make his actions less disturbing.
This man really is just a guy who thinks being horrible and gross makes you intelligent. There are plenty of horror authors who can tackle sensitive or gross subjects and still make them worth reading about but guys like Matt just live to shock and offend people because he thinks it makes him superior. Its always annoyed me that male "horror" writers will ruin the name of horror novels with shit like this.
yea it makes the genre look bad tbh
@@withcindyfr, just gross and pathetic.
Exactly bro, it's honestly pathetic.
I am a fan of horror (and attempting to write horror) but this guy is THE PROBLEM with the genre. Ppl who declare themselves “extreme horror” writers are almost always just writing torture p*** that are clearly their gross fantasies. Not always, but most of the time.
You can write about dark and twisted topics without being disgusting about it. I’ve read several books about awful topics that didn’t make it a gross fantasy. The fact that he’s so parasocial with Depp and never got Amber’s consent really proves that the original book IS a disgusting fantasy.
Ppl saying “hey, what you wrote was super gross and creepy” should never be met with an “I can write what I want! You’re a monster for wanting to silence me!” That is so fucking stupid and makes all horror writers look like pieces of shit. If you are writing torture p*** (or any piece of literature) you have to accept that ppl will hate it. You have to accept that people pointing out how creepy and shitty your book is IS NOT CENSORSHIP
Fools like this make the whole genre look like a bunch of whiny sensitive creeps.
Ooh, also, a male reviewer criticized Matt Shaw for bad writing in a whole 11 min long video all about him 10 months (a full month before Hailey's 2 sentences on him) ago and he didn't say anything about that, did he?
Wait who is it I want to watch that video , but yeah this writer is a complete psychopath
Who ?
Did…did he really call her “darling” and “love”????? In a condescending way and he’s mad at her for calling out how he writes women?? WTF is happening here 😭
I'm glad Hailey prioritized her safety and comfort when rejecting the podcast invite
In a similar vein to this, a guy who won the UK puzzle show 'Countdown' wrote a "romance" book about stalking a woman and a 16 year old girl wrote a review of it on a website. He tracked her down at work at an Asda and then hit her in the head with a wine bottle. Look up Richard Brittain.
Edit: He traveled 800km and went to Scotland to do this.
Jesus christ.
Whaaattt??? Eww
Jfc wtf
That is so scary. They just want women to never speak up ever. Like they deseve punishment for having an opinion.
Ah yes, I remember angrily writing stories where people I didn't like ended up getting hurt. Then I graduated middle school
no one should have imposter syndrome after learning about writers like him
TRUE good point
I feel better about my smutty fanfic already
exactly lol these type of writers motivate me a lot 🤦♀️
Omg this
literally considering finally writing after realizing i can’t be any worse than this guy
his obsessive stalker behaviour just proves he's the creep hayley thinks he is
Really telling on himself there
Yup!
He’s so scary. I hope she’s okay :
Definitely, escpesially with the weird little comment at 14:08. Big yikes.
The second you said he wrote a torture p*rn about Amber Heard, my first thought was "Oh. He's a redpiller". Sure enough, this is basically the manifesto of someone who unironically likes Andrew Tate. He thinks men are being attacked, but is the only one attacking. He portrays women as evil and men are victims, while admitting he doesn't understand women and never takes accountability. The level of delusion this guy has is on par with what I see in the redpill groups.
Agreed. While I think Amber is a total shitlord of a human being, I don’t think anyone deserves having a horrible rape/torture book written about them.
Also disclaimer: I’m not saying Johnny is perfect mind you, he has his own load of problems but I don’t think he was the main aggressor of that relationship, especially not to the wack ass point of chopping off the end of his finger to blame on Amber like some of Amber’s supporters are claiming
@@PolyeurythaneAbsolutely agree! I don't like Amber, but she's still a freaking human being and there are lines you just don't cross even with people you dislike. No one should fantasize about her being a real victim of anything. That's awful!
@@PolyeurythaneI agree. I watched the whole trial, she is horrible. They both had issues, but she was the instigator for sure. However, even Johnny would disagree with such a horrifying "dedication" to her. Like Jaysus fucking christ. This guy needs to be on a list.
@@Polyeurythane I hate that Cindy is an Amber supporter. Sigh.
real. while i agree w the other commenters under this thread regarding the trial, i am always a lil sus of men especially being depp supporters bc they usually only are bc he is a man and they wanna dunk on the women and feminists and libs and whatever. and they didn't actually watch the trial or the only media they took in to do with it was heavily biased towards depp. the same goes for women who are like this as well, only supporting him bc of nostalgia/hes hot or whatever/bc theyre pick-mes, but its always the men being the loudest and most horrendous...
No matter what someone's view on Depp-Heard situation is, writing a book like that is _deeply_ disturbing.
Like, I know fiction isn't real life and all that but when you're writing a character based on/inspired by irl people, the line between reality and fiction is blurred and should be treaded upon very carefully.
this feels like that one time someone made a nine hour response to a video of Jenny Nicolson saying she didn't really like The Joker
those ppl should be friends
somebody actually did that???
*eleven hours. Oh but he made sure to clarify: only three hours of it were akshuslly a response to her video tho
@@lanaharper9798 😂 that restraint tho. Some people, I swear🤦♀
@@lanaharper9798that’s so unhinged! 11 hours?? Even if 'just' 3 hours are dedicated to criticism to Jenny, that’s just pathetic
"We could have spoken civilly, but instead she only writes fake book reviews to come after me" - he says, unaware of the irony that comes with dedicating a book to said woman he seems to loathe
cuz he is the prime example of civil behavior, ofc
Like, why didn't HE contact her to talk about her negative review first??
The dead giveaway with horror creators that highkey just have a fetish is that theyd never turn the tables and write a man that goes through sexualized torture like LMFAO if its really for the plot then why does it only happen to the 2d attractive women u fantasize up
Oops there's the tea
You’re so right, the fact that he doesn’t write these types of books with a man going through the same thing says enough. He continuously makes the same books with the same base which is a woman’s misery and abuse.
I always tell people that all those "disturbing" books and movies are just poorly disguised fetishes
Very good point. And if you asked any of these male authors about it, they'd do some Olympic level mental gymnastics to justify why it's more aRtSy to only write about women being tortured, it just wouldn't work the same way if it's not a woman the author finds personally attractive 🤠
@@spectre9340or poorly disguised hate for a certain group
What he's doing is harassment and OBSESSIVE. I'm genuinely concerned for Hailey's safety.
SAME. Sending my condolences to Hailey because no one deserves to be harrased like this
Imagine being a woman in his social circle 💀 he probably sends the longest butthurt text messages any time he gets a whiff of rejection.
You know thats exactly what happens lol 😆
Bold of you to assume any woman would willingly stand within 5 feet of this walking garbage truck
lol I doubt he even has any women in his social circle
@@user-pf9vk8ze1i You're right he probably dumps his weird emotions on his female neighbors and restaurant servers instead
Reviews aren't for the authors, they are for the readers. To express themself and to exchange their thoughts.
Authors really need to grow a thicker skin or avoid reviews.
Agreed, just like what he tweeted back in 2019 Lol
RIP.
He really should follow his own advice then.
I mean, yeah, I can agree because it's the beta readers whose reviews they should most pay attention to-as in when it's still in development
The fact that he was this crazy and unprofessional publicly shows why it was better for Hailey to talk to communicate with him on a public forum, He's willing to do all this publicly imagine how much worse it would be in private
Yeah her interacting on a public forum is basically like only meeting a strange dude in a public place. You want witnesses just in case.
"it wasn't torture porn it was a romance"
okay even if he didn't write a torture/revenge fantasy about her, i would still be BEYOND disturbed if someone i never met wrote a "romance" book called MOIST GUSSET and dedicated it to me
Yeah as if that makes much of a difference LOL
It's classic sexual intimidation. A barely veiled rape threat.
@@RM-cj8uj exactly what i was thinking. he's trying to hide behind the technicality of semantics here. be it "it's not torture porn, it's romance" or "it's not ABOUT her, it's DEDICATED to her" but there's actually no difference when you look at the picture as a whole. it's just a way to threaten her. i'm honestly really scared for the reviewer.
I'm not surprised she is afraid of him. When she basically only dedicated a PART of a video to how she didn't enjoy one book, and his reaction was so viceral. That is worrisome. Even if he only had good intentions (which are lost based on his behavior), protecting yourself is the smart reaction
I looked him up, and Matt is 41 years old. I really, really thought he was a teenager; he has that amount of emotional maturity in his diatribes.
He's young at heart ❤️
I thought he was half that age, considering his behavior. Oh, dear...
it's always the ones that run around calling everyone snowflakes that seem to be the most insecure when they are faced with a moderately opposing opinion
This man seems completely unhinged. Hope he doesn't dedicate a book to you!😢
if he does it will solely be for the clout
It’s giving high lead-exposure.
Cindy, sue him.
there's half a million of us... he better tread carefully!
@@withcindy that is literally the only goal he could possibly have in doing so.
there is no other reason to do this kind of thing.
a key thing he needs to realise that highlights how much he doesn’t know his own genre is that when people reads his books they consent to engage with horror content in that specified circumstance. He violated that by writing a book dedicated to sending her a message that he can do whatever the fuck he wants regardless of what she thinks, which is super duper creepy and wrong.
Excellent point!
literally women writers and artists get shamed for whatever they do and even not given fair opportunities and he think he’s some sad victim of internet culture after one bad review
A FAIR bad review, even. She didn’t say anything derogatory or insulting, just “here’s what I liked, here’s what I didn’t like.”
Straight up, that dude doesn't have enough problems. When you have problems, you're too preoccupied to be all up in other people's sh!t.
he also has way too much time on his hands
@@withcindy Yep. That's exactly what I'm saying 👍
but he does have issues and clearly a few too many of them
@@ultravioletcatastrophe Truth!
randomly finding out that a man famous for writing degrading extreme horror - even about real women - who you talked about once months ago dedicated a book to you sounds terrifying. i'm glad to hear hailey didn't choose to go on some podcast to confront him about what was clearly rage bait from the beginning, he probably would've tried to cherry pick her statements to back her into a corner like he was trying to do in his facebook posts. not to mention the kind of audience she would have been exposed to. it's easy to act like you were just trying to set up a "debate between adults" when it happens on your platform with your people who clearly are ready to back you up against a woman whose crime was expressing an opinion
let's just say it's pretty obvious why he only invited her on HIS podcast and never offered to let her do an author interview on her channel. Not that that would have been something she would or should accept either, but we all know if an angy man invites you on his podcast - especially without even acknowleging the possibility of you being the one to host the discussion - it ain't for a rational debate
We’ve seen enough times with these “podcast” that the women are constantly talked over, absolutely degraded, and purposely bashed on. We all know the real reason why he wanted her to come onto his podcast he wanted to humiliate her.
@@biggie395 or just talk mad shite that's ultimately meaningless and a waste of everyone's time, really.
Honestly the “I think hailey fancies me,” tweet was very much projection. He wants her to like him so bad
men like this needs to tighten the fuck up and crawl back to where they came from jesssuusss christtt 😭
"She's sooooo obsessed with me don't you guys think she's obsessed with me she must talk about me alllll the time bc i dedicated a book to her" like she nailed it when she said she lives in his head rent free. Go to therapy my guy
It was so funny reading him bring up the fact that he accidentally got a dick pic from his brother in the introduction. It's like he first wanted to suggest that even guys like him, but then decided to clarify that he's totally hetero by overexplaining things in a way that makes it seem weirder and more defensive the longer it goes on.
If I'm the editor I would've just tell him to cut that entire part out.
My autistic bird arse tells me that's something you should only put in fanfic sites, not published in a goddamned book lol.
Yeah, I was like umm tmi dude, that sounds really awkward
"matt, matilda" like who asked
That section is very obvious satire. Not saying it's *good* satire but...
@@maddychurchhouse4556 I'm quite sure everyone understood that he was desperately trying to be funny - it's obvious that he's making shit up the moment he writes about having sex and being liked by women, because the only women that like him are his sock puppet accounts. However, this "satire" should have never left his head; it's so bad it's not even cringe, it's coma. How does one even come up with this sort of idiocy?
“i get it, something like subtext is really hard for writers to pick up on usually” BRUTAL SARCASM 😭😭😭
Finding out he wrote an extreme horror story about Amber Heard told me everything I needed to know about this man before I watched the rest of the video.
True she should get forgotten nothing more
Not surprising coming from a man in the pro JD camp honestly
@@Bobsaget121 I don't know man, I'm not a superfan of either, but I did watch the trial out of perverted interest... and it does look a lot like Amber was the problem. Not only to Johnny either. And most of her allegations have been debunked as well. She did a disservice to any survivors with her lies and discounting JD is in fact doing the very same.
@@RiesenWuschelAmber heard was NOT the problem. Just cause he won the trial doesnt proof shit. You believe a man 10x richer and powerful than a mere actress can be abused? He has history of violence and abusing people. It wasn't mutual abuse, she retaliated to the abuse.
It's not Misogyny, It's an opinion..... it's her recording him in a depressed state and framing him as a drunk after his mother passed away, and the witnesses to her verbally degrading him around other members on the security & personal employment team (remember the..... excrement.... on the bed?), and her own family has publicly supported Depp during the accusations, and her exposed threats of harassment and lowkey admission to using the Me Too Movement as a gender war because "he's a man" (there was a recorded call), and her on-record past abuse towards her previous partner prior to dating Depp while she simultaneously used accusations that Depp's past partners have refuted and denied for years. That last one is a big reason she lost a lot of legality in proving her case. None of us can prove what happened and even though there's alot of proof Heard was lying about a lot of things there's gaps about others and Depp got exposed for his behavior (to what most of people recognize as losing your damn mind, not justifying just identifying) but at the end of the day I personally believe Amber Heard is not a victim and the courts already decided their resolutions. I can't be a fan like I use to for Depp but I genuinely couldn't work in the same vicinity as someone like Heard let alone AH themself.@ChrisJones-ek2gm
the fact that so much garbage comes out of his mouth and words, and then to find out it's all also in a british accent 😭
Makes it worse tbh