👓 TGWTG Nostalgia Chick / Lindsay Ellis / TheDudette - aka Hotdogs in face girl

[FriendlyNeighborhoodDaddy]

She came out a few years ago on her "namebrandlindsay" blog, unsure exactly when but it was after her and Todd had split. She didn't go into a whole lot of detail about it - I imagine her inner white-trash Tennessee girl makes her repress it.

She might very well be bi, but considering she only dated dudes and "came out" rather late, part of me thinks she just claims being "queer" for SJW brownie points. Or maybe she just wanted to fit in with bi Nella and "married asexual mom" Elisa.

 

[Maradontia]

TL;DW

• She starts out with some academic babble about queer theory and complains about the history of villains being "queer coded," though she acknowledges that some LGBT activists actually like these villains and view them as a form of empowerment.
• She reads into superhero narratives as being queer coding, and complains that there isn't more of it in the Transformers movies (because the tagline "Robots in Disguise" is apparently good potential).
• She reads into practically every male-male relationship ever as being potentially queer, and says previous Bay movies used homoeroticism as a joke to deter people from thinking that the male-male friendships featured could be something more. Claims the reason you don't see this in Transformers is because most of the characters hate each other.
• Talks about the Transformers comics, which features gender neutral robots and a diversity of gender pairings in relationships.
• Uses the phrase "straight white male" multiple times, just to remind her audience that she's inter-sectional and that doing a video about queer theory doesn't mean that she's forgotten about racism and sexism.

If her "My Monster Boyfriend" and "Dear Stephanie Meyer" videos didn't exist, this could easily be a contender for one of her worst videos. It's certainly up there with last month's ("The Ideology of the First Order") as one of the most vapid and uninformative, practically admitting that there's nothing to work with and going on to make a video about why there's no queer themes in the movies. Lindsay needs to drop this forced SJ content and go back to just talking about her favorite movies and cartoons.

Anyway, here's the link for anyone too lazy:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=btbAxY6P3Oc

Imagine being a straight white woman and never shutting up about racial minorities and gays.

 

[Lurk Jurk]

She might very well be bi, but considering she only dated dudes and "came out" rather late, part of me thinks she just claims being "queer" for SJW brownie points. Or maybe she just wanted to fit in with bi Nella and "married asexual mom" Elisa.

It's definitely for brownie points, which makes me wonder if she's using the special SJW model of sexuality where "bi" can mean "fucks dudes and dudes who ID as trannies."

 

[uncleShitHeel]

I wonder what its like to view the world around you and try and jam your viewpoint/worldview onto everything assuming you're the centre of the universe.

The more I see of this madness the more I assume that this is the way Lindsey looks at the world.

 

[LaughingJoke]

It's definitely for brownie points, which makes me wonder if she's using the special SJW model of sexuality where "bi" can mean "fucks dudes and dudes who ID as trannies."

Her and Linkara can do a XXX crossover.

 

[RichardMongler]

Oh, goddamnit. I wish the forums were still around because I distinctly remember Lindsay claiming to not be a lesbian back in 2009. She elaborated by saying that people often thought that of her but then went onto say she just isn't into girls sexually. Of course, it's been almost a decade since that time, but she didn't always identify as bisexual.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Her and Linkara can do a XXX crossover.

Don't forget to throw in some Muppets.

 

[Medicated]

Oh, goddamnit. I wish the forums were still around because I distinctly remember Lindsay claiming to not be a lesbian back in 2009. She elaborated by saying that people often thought that of her but then went onto say she just isn't into girls sexually. Of course, it's been almost a decade since that time, but she didn't always identify as bisexual.

From what I remember it was implied in one of her blogs she fooled around with Nella back in the day. As if being a nerdy loner slashfic fangirl having a girlfriend when they are a college teen is a big deal.

 

[TokiBun]

TL;DW

• She starts out with some academic babble about queer theory and complains about the history of villains being "queer coded," though she acknowledges that some LGBT activists actually like these villains and view them as a form of empowerment.
• She reads into superhero narratives as being queer coding, and complains that there isn't more of it in the Transformers movies (because the tagline "Robots in Disguise" is apparently good potential).
• She reads into practically every male-male relationship ever as being potentially queer, and says previous Bay movies used homoeroticism as a joke to deter people from thinking that the male-male friendships featured could be something more. Claims the reason you don't see this in Transformers is because most of the characters hate each other.
• Talks about the Transformers comics, which features gender neutral robots and a diversity of gender pairings in relationships.
• Uses the phrase "straight white male" multiple times, just to remind her audience that she's inter-sectional and that doing a video about queer theory doesn't mean that she's forgotten about racism and sexism.

If her "My Monster Boyfriend" and "Dear Stephanie Meyer" videos didn't exist, this could easily be a contender for one of her worst videos. It's certainly up there with last month's ("The Ideology of the First Order") as one of the most vapid and uninformative, practically admitting that there's nothing to work with and going on to make a video about why there's no queer themes in the movies. Lindsay needs to drop this forced SJ content and go back to just talking about her favorite movies and cartoons.

Anyway, here's the link for anyone too lazy:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=btbAxY6P3Oc

I tried watching this and I feel confused. I don't think Transformers are suppose to be this deep. Isn't it just meant to sell toys?

 

[Rei is shit]

I tried watching this and I feel confused. I don't think Transformers are suppose to be this deep. Isn't it just meant to sell toys?

The whole "this movie about is actually about homosexuality" is just about as entry level film school as you can get. Every gaggle of freshman who have taken intro to film 101 course will have at least one member who insists that Rush Hour 2 is really about Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker trying to keep it in their pants because society is too homophobic for a black and chinese man to openly love each other, and the bit about the triads is just coded social commentary on this.

This sort of analysis is a common refrain of those too dense to do a substantive reading of the work.

 

[EbolaAsstronaut]

The whole "this movie about is actually about homosexuality" is just about as entry level film school as you can get. Every gaggle of freshman who have taken intro to film 101 course will have at least one member who insists that Rush Hour 2 is really about Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker trying to keep it in their pants because society is too homophobic for a black and chinese man to openly love each other, and the bit about the triads is just coded social commentary on this.

This sort of analysis is a common refrain of those too dense to do a substantive reading of the work.

Instead of an honest reading shes applying her pet theory as if its the one true lense, the only way to see the 'real' world

Its just dogmatic ideology

 

[Grand Lunar]

The whole "this movie about is actually about homosexuality" is just about as entry level film school as you can get. Every gaggle of freshman who have taken intro to film 101 course will have at least one member who insists that Rush Hour 2 is really about Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker trying to keep it in their pants because society is too homophobic for a black and chinese man to openly love each other, and the bit about the triads is just coded social commentary on this.

This sort of analysis is a common refrain of those too dense to do a substantive reading of the work.

The worst thing about this is that there actually ARE some semi-credible examples of applicability and/or allegory (as Lindsay explains, there is a difference) that they could use, but for some reason never do. For example, I recently saw Incredibles 2, and at one point there's a line about how the kids are supers "whether they choose to use their powers or not." You actually COULD make an argument that lines like this could be intended to provide some real world applicability (in this case, dismantling the idea of sexual orientation as a "lifestyle choice" rather than an innate characteristic unchanged by behavior), but Lindsay can't even make an effort to find them. Instead she just makes pathetic reaches such as thinking that superheroes in general are subtle symbols of gay struggles or that the concept of "robots in disguise" could be taken in that rout. It's like her recent popularity has gone to her head and she's not even trying anymore.

 

[Grand Lunar]

Ironically, the decision to constantly include SJW pandering in her videos has made Lindsay a lot more successful, even if the quality of her videos (imo) has dropped substantially. Sorted her videos by "Most Popular" and out of the top ten, six are either fully SJW oriented or contain some cringeworthy SJW content.

Spoiler: Summary

Pocahontas for "cultural appropriation" nonsense, Bright for "racism is about power structures and nothing else," Rent because she claimed that the concept of a black landlord was unrealistic and offensive, Dear Stephenie Meyer for claiming Twilight backlash proves "society hates teen girls," Guardians 2 for "toxic masculinity" nonsense, and Hunchback 2 for "muh refugees, borderz r 4 fashists!."

Only exceptions are her Hercules video, Phantom essay, and The Hobbit stuff. Said this before, but if all of her content was like these I'd still like her a lot more. Sadly, gotta sell that SJW shit for clicks I guess.

 

[iafiv]

1,2 million views for Hercules?A cartoon that was barely popular back in the 90's?Wow.Either Lindsay bribed 50 thousand people to watch that stuff 10 times over or that cartoon has a pretty big secret fanbase.

 

[Grand Lunar]

1,2 million views for Hercules?A cartoon that was barely popular back in the 90's?Wow.Either Lindsay bribed 50 thousand people to watch that stuff 10 times over or that cartoon has a pretty big secret fanbase.

It's been a long time since I watched it, but from what I remember the video itself was actually pretty good. She did a decent analysis on why the movie is so divisive, gaining a strong cult following while remaining relatively obscure in comparison to other Disney Renaissance films, and pointed out some inconsistencies in the plot structure that the average viewer couldn't quite place their finger on but might cause them to feel that something was off.
Her Phantom movie essay was similar, except that one focused on film making techniques and how the filmmakers didn't understand how to translate a stage musical into a proper film.

These are probably examples of videos that got popular because they actually had good and informative content that hadn't really been covered by anyone else before, not because the material being critiqued is overly popular (Phantom is popular with musical lovers like me, but I would assume most normies don't know much about it).

Hobbit videos aren't particularly offensive and are decently put together, but are probably only amongst the most viewed because the source material is more well known than the stuff that she typically covers.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

Nah, her Rent thing was ok. She hates the movie, the stage show isn't much better, and points out that the characters are all dumbasses except maybe Angel. Considering that the RENT way of life is coming back into vogue again, it's pretty non-SJW of her to say so.

I don't remember the thing about black landlords, and I've put that particular video on several times as background noise.

moooo with lindsay

 

[Grand Lunar]

I don't remember the thing about black landlords, and I've put that particular video on several times as background noise.

Happens at 39:10

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=id=q0qfFbtIj5w;m=39;s=10Happens at 39:10

Ok, yeah I remember that part.
It's all of two sentences though, and compared to her Gay Transformers or Monster Boyfriend videos it's really nothing.

A wealthy black man evicting poor white people in the name of gentrification IS probably a comparatively rare occurrence. Had she gone into a froth about whitey afterwards then it would be of note, but she goes back to the topic at hand instead of going into a tangent about privilege and gentrification of black spaces.

 

[CausticMinory]

1,2 million views for Hercules?A cartoon that was barely popular back in the 90's?Wow.Either Lindsay bribed 50 thousand people to watch that stuff 10 times over or that cartoon has a pretty big secret fanbase.

Ironically, it might be because JonTron did a video on Hercules games. So the tag system might have lead some of his viewers to Lindsay.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

1,2 million views for Hercules?A cartoon that was barely popular back in the 90's?Wow.Either Lindsay bribed 50 thousand people to watch that stuff 10 times over or that cartoon has a pretty big secret fanbase.

Hercules wasn't a massive hit but it was a very solid mid-tier hit for them. I'd imagine if you asked 10 people in their late 20's if they remembered it, at least 7 would.