DOOM: The Fake Outrage

hello everyone today we're going to be talking about doom eternal and no I don't mean brexit that's the only joke in today's video everyone hope you enjoyed it so anyway before we actually get to do am eternal if you remember late last year I made a video about cop head and the various non controversies associated with it called cop head the fake outrage which is a cleverly ambiguous algorithm fooling title there if I do say so myself cop head as a recent popular game was being discussed and critiqued by games journalists and consumers in articles and videos and Twitter conversations and the likes now what my video did was expose how various anti-feminist anti social justice folks online lied about the nature of the discussions and critiques of copepod in order to conjure the specter of an evil sjw outraged monster that wants to take away their audiences new favorite video game it's a sort of constructed meta outrage you know you act outraged about the air quotes sjw's being outraged except you also made the sjw's up its shameless clickbait pandering tactics basically cop had the fake outrage was a landmark video in the history of games journalism and changed the face of youtube forever the matter outraged industry was shamed into silence collectively promising that in the future they would only respond proportionally to real substantial news stories about things that actually happened in reality and having gotten that completely real set up out of the way there it's time to take a big sip of coffee and do a youtube search for Doom eternal oh no what's happened here then sjw snowflakes triggered by doom eternal sjw outrage and shores doom eternal will be best-seller sjw's flip over doom eternal mocking immigration youtubers sargon of akkad know [ __ ] and the quarter inc they're all talking about how the sjw's are triggered and outraged and so on about doom eternal and those free weren't the only ones who made videos about this topic there's also geeks and gamers optimist dr. Shane Steve Talon molted BAM pot half Harry tim cast Xander Scullion weaponized nerd rage jacob strickland the good old gamer the hyrule bard a guy in his games Resident Evil God millennial reject MacGuffin Ron Dan FM vipera prince of fallen gamers cafe Sahel orcas Annie vids American Krogan Vossen media it's a Gundam scummy rebel Jim the eighth Muybridge chosen civil talk yellow flash productions mr. H reviews and channel reason now all of this was confusing to me as I sit on the ruling council of sjw's here online and I'd not heard anything about this doom eternal stuff and I love being offended about things so honestly it's kind of annoying that an opportunity to be offended seems to have slipped me by so then let's see if we can figure out what happened here and maybe get in on the outrage ourselves so doom eternal is the upcoming sequel to Ed software's 2016 reboot of the doom franchise unhelpfully titled doom not doom 4 because [ __ ] sequentially numbered sequels apparently doom 2016 was an excellent game and right for received critical acclaim it looked really good the music was great the fast paced combat was consistently fun you know whatever I'm not a games review channel so I'll just say it was almost always really good i streamed it recently on my twitch channel and had a grand old time except for one part when the game glitched as I was killing an enemy and dropped me out of the map but you know otherwise it's very good now if we want to understand all of this mess what we do need to talk about here is the game's narrative so spoiler warning in the future there's some sort of energy crisis on earth which is solved by the Union Aerospace Corporation or UAC opening up a portal to Hell on Mars they then siphon quotes hell energy out of hell and process it into usable energy in our dimension unsurprisingly things soon go awry and a bunch of Hell demons invade the UAC s Mars facility players play as the doom Slayer which is a wonderful name whose awakened from hibernation on Mars in order to put a stop to the invasion and they then spend the game hopping back and forth between Mars and Hell accomplishing objectives and trying to sever the link between the world so it's a wonderfully cheesy setup for a game store either so the question we have to ask here is who are the antagonists in doom well it's the demons right all the evil hell demons you spend your time fighting against well not really no the hell demons are technically evil and bad but you know they're hell demons what do you expect you get what you sign up for with hell demons they're presented more as a force of nature than anything else the actual quotes bad guys in Doom are the UAC the mega corporation that actually opened the portal to Hell the leadership of the UAC are presented as driven by profit and greed and personal gain we have the corrupted head of research Olivia Pierce who ends up being the final boss of the game and the chairman of the UAC Samuel Hayden the soulless CEO robot Samuel Hayden s Hayden Hayden you get it the UAC are the reason for the conflict in doom not the demons Samuel Hayden is introduced right after you wake up contacting you via a computer screen to offer to work together to solve this problem in a way that benefits us both in response to it your character grabs the computer and just throws it away which is really funny and shortly afterwards the following cutscene happens and that's the one joke in doom there it'll say something like this was for the benefit of mankind and then it pans to a dead guy it's funny it's a good joke so the point is made right at the start of the game there the cooperation is bad and there's plenty of jokes in the story about the mixing of corporate culture with the demonic invasion and notable for us here are the various friendly announcement holograms present throughout the game and they say things like weaponizing demons for a brighter tomorrow there will be an open forum to resolve any questions or concerns on the initiative to weaponize the demons go beyond mere mortal limitations see jessica and human resources to find out if you qualify you know hardy-har they're using corporate speak to put a positive spin on the demonic invasion i apologize here i'm not making fun of this joke everything's just unfunny when you break it down to the fundamentals i can't really help ruining these jokes here anyway this brings us to the quakecon gameplay trailer the one that is supposedly the source of all the SJW outrage now this trailer also had the friendly corporate announcement holograms please remain calm you may notice a slight change a slight change in the environment but that's not a slight change that's a really big change you got it now the lines we're concerned about here are the following my brothers and sisters let's help to make our friends transition into their new world a comfortable one remember daemon can be an offensive term refer to them as mortally challenged and earth is the melting pot of the universe so what do we think about these lines well when I watched the trailer I found them a little eye rolling to be honest but I figured they were just going for the same sort of thing as the previous game you know they're satirizing corporate culture and particularly here they're satirizing how corporations can co-opt progressive language in an attempt to spin their various evil doings well that was my take on the trailer anyway and because it was my opinion it was the only correct one and anyone who had a different opinion was wrong and I was shocked shocked to discover anyone could dare to think differently than me who was right about everything I kid of course I've been on the internet for a while now so when I watched the trailer I thought oh okay someone without the full context there like someone who didn't play or remember the previous game in the series or just someone who has a different opinion about the game than me they could have read those lines not as a satire of corporate co-opting of progressive language but as a satire of progressive language itself well I'm narrative izing a bit there my actual first thought when I watched the trailer was mortally challenged wasn't that a Discworld joke and then I went and checked and I was like hey it was there stealing Terry Pratchett's jokes but for the purposes of this video I'm gonna streamline my thought process here so the next thing I thought was there's two types of reactions here if you're someone who thinks the trailer is mocking progressive language if you're on the Left you probably thought oh well that sucks you know the previous game could fairly be read as anti corporate anti capitalist pro environmentalism you know and it was produced by Bethesda who also produced the Wolfenstein series which has Nazis being bad people in the story who it's okay to fight against suis avow that's noteworthy these days so to see this new doom trailer pandering to anti political correctness folks must be fairly disappointing the other type of reaction you could have is if you were an anti immigrant anti political correctness type you might think yes excellent this game is pandering to me for example here are the opening posts of some Fred's about the trailer from Fortunes far-right politics board is there any game more anti-migrant than new doom eternal 2019 basically replace all the words demons with immigrants hologram is saying doom 2018 eff is melting part of the universe WTF Polti Amim Zin biggest shatar if this decade is this real-world I just copied these into the script I didn't practice reading these out before I started these are really funny doom eternal is a complete 180 and is very blatantly making fun of the leftist globalist SJW crowd and likening demons to the refugees and immigrants this game is [ __ ] red pill as [ __ ] and here's an article from redstate.com sjw's flip over doom eternal as it mocks leftist political correctness on immigration and this article manages to mention both ms-13 and quotes rape whew geez so there are racist anti-immigrant folks who think the trailer was pandering to them now I think they're wrong but the fact that they have the space to even think that at all means that it was kind of a bad trailer you know I read it one way but the trailer wasn't just made for me was it it was made for a wide audience some of whom thought the trailer was being racist and they liked it satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticise so they say so let's take a look at some examples of people on Twitter who talked about not liking the trailer and these come from a post on funnyjunk calm titled mortally challenged controversy one person says on one hand I'm super excited by a lot of the things in the new doom reveal but I'm also kinda worried because a few of the jokes felt questionable and then they quote one for likes another user says the doom eternal trailer is great but the joke that's like remember demon is an offensive term please call the mortally challenged couldn't have made my eyes roll harder one like another user says does doom eternal seem like it has some anti-immigration subtext to it I heard lines from the AI like demon is an offensive term we prefer more so he challenged and earth is the great melting part of the galaxy and no I'm not imagining things and the game still rules free likes so what am I doing here why am i reading out these posts and why am i saying how many likes they got well this page on funnyjunk comm is where all of this came from there are a dozen tweets on this page none of which were particularly big and the most retweeted post on here has 7 retweets and I'd like to point a few more things out those free tweets that I just read out there all mention that they think the game looks good despite not liking the jokes you know I'm super excited by things in the new doom reveal the trailers great the game still rules and they weren't the only ones doom eternal looking [ __ ] phenomenal but I'm not sure how I feel about the lazy jokes about political correctness and if you noticed here that certain words are highlighted they're bold because their Twitter search terms because whoever put this list together had to search to find these tweets which you know is it really a controversy if you have to go looking for it and most of these people seem pretty excited about the new doom game then on some moral crusade to ban it or anything they're just questioning some of the jokes in the trailer this person just quoted one of the jokes and put a roll eyes emoji after it that's it that's the extent of our outrage there one emoji no retweets for likes you know who cares well I'll tell you who cares Billy Dee of one angry gamer net who wrote a post about the funny junk article and included some tweets of his own there which are like the funny junk tweets fairly tame anyways I'm hyped about new doom eternal still but it's a muted hype because I can't ignore that dog whistle e immigration joke in the trailer doom eternal looks good but I hope they've adjusted the locked in arena combat stuff it was too obvious and that was about to happen the bit with the NPC's is great some vaguely concerning satire using the language surrounding immigration of minorities for the demons so we've got muted hype vague concerned kinda wary seems kinda lame one roll eyes emoji you know where's the outrage here and this article finishes out by saying the following one Twitter user pointed out that everyone calling the satirical nature of the Holograms comments racist and anti-immigration were just projecting because it meant that sjw's see foreigners as destructive violent demons who plot twist what if the real racists are the people who aren't racist never seen that one before and that's the angle a lot of these people talk to except as we've already seen plenty of racists and anti-immigration folks responded positively to the trailer which was to be expected to be honest so the people being vaguely concerned about the tweets are justified in being so they're just thinking a couple of moves ahead of alt Billy Dee here most of these videos are just reading out this article and I can prove that fairly easily look here's the first tweet in the article and take it away Lance not sure what to think of doom eternal having not one but two anti sjw jokes in it not sure what do you think of different they don't having not one but two aww jokes in it not sure what to think of doom eternal having not one but two anti sjw joke not share what do I'm not sure to think of new maternal having not one but two aunt is JW jokes in it not sure what to think of do me turtle having not one but two interests eww jokes in there not one but two auntie s aww they've all made the same [ __ ] video there were more YouTube videos made about these tweets than there were tweets this outrage isn't real it was constructed to get clicks using the oldest advertising trick in the book do what I say because someone you don't like doesn't want you to do it the psychology behind this meta outrage industry is pretty sad really the title of one video I showed earlier is kind of insightful here from geeks and gamers and it's doom eternal makes sjw's cry and normal people are laughing at them so it follows that if you laugh at the sjw's you're normal click here to be normal click here to be part of the in-group all hating the out-group it's the six and a half minutes hate it's a trick played on people mostly younger people here who just aren't developed enough to appreciate enjoying things on their own terms they can only enjoy something in relation to their peers ie my in-group like it or more importantly and effectively my out-group don't like it and they want to stop me from liking it and that's how consumerism becomes heroism to these kids the top comment on sargon of akkad video says any developer in this day and age willing to stand up against the tyranny of social justice deserves a pre-order for every snowflake here they cause yeah well done guys you're really sticking it to them by falling into an easy marketing trap aren't you you could sell these kids sand in the desert if you told them sjw's didn't like it back to the trailer for a second here and this is my cynical anti capitalist side talking but the people who put the trailers together for these names often aren't the people who designed the game and maybe they put those jokes in the trailer deliberately to spark this kind of discussion it's something I'm noticing more of and it's companies saying you know if we're sort of ambiguously but not really or arguably racist everyone's gonna argue about whether we were racist or not and in the process they'll be talking about our product and from funnyjunk to one angry gamer to all these guys to me and then to you now we did talk about it what a human centipede of content we have here is that what happened maybe it worked if so you know Bravo marketing guys you made us all talk about doom congratulations you soulless manipulative parasites and I hope that is what happened actually because there is another alternative here that I don't really want to be the truth because I was looking forward to this game but maybe the game is just bad maybe it's just rubbish now doom 2016 was surprisingly good and surprisingly popular and it's possible that going forward the series will chase that popularity and lose what message it had look at another bethesda produced game that's coming up fallout 76 now fallout was a game series initially about the horrors of surviving in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland and now is being marketed as get together with all your pals and nuke the next town to get some loot crate's or whatever so it's possible that this game is just gonna be crap maybe they'll forget the messaging of the previous game and put out a story in which the demons are just bad Outsiders who need to be killed because they're bad maybe they'll forget that Samuel Hayden is supposed to be the bad guy or they'll have him as the final boss for no other reason than he's a character in the series who could be a final boss instead of it making narrative sense for him to play that role I don't know I hope not but it's all possible so good job doomed trailer you make me wonder about how much worse than its predecessor so the next game is going to be well you know the shotgun has the hook on it now and looks cool it's about time for me to wrap up here folks but sympathize with me a little I usually like to end my video scripts on something weighty you know something with some punch to it but that's difficult here because nothing happened you know lots of people said something happened there but it didn't and it was relatively trivial to show that it didn't happen to so I'm a bit deflated to be honest I feel like this one's just gonna fizzle out I don't have anything killer to go out on I could talk about the hypocrisy of the YouTube outrage industry solely targeting quote sjw's when there are plenty of examples of racists taking the trailer seriously online you know you could make a video in the style of one of there's going through a poll thread or whatever and mocking all the people thinking the game is quote read pilled and the likes they don't do that though do they it's sort of revealing in its absence there so why do they instead endlessly attack this nebulous idea of sjw's and it's because the narrative they've built needs enemies and sjw's are good and useful enemies anyone can be one there's no criteria for it other than doing something that anti is JW don't like such as not being sufficiently excited about a video game trailer sjw's are crazed mindless opponents who are numberless can turn up anywhere and are always easily defeated while somehow simultaneously being the puppet masters behind a conspiracy to destroy a Western civilization sjw's hate us for being straight white males and thus we never have to feel bad about fighting them they hate us just because so our hatred of them is justified it's a narrative of victimization they want to be under attack but they don't ever want to actually risk being beaten so they make up an easy enemy to fight and then to maintain the illusion they just have to selectively turn their brains off every now and then and watch a man complain to 700 thousand people that are tweet with two likes on it is taking something too seriously thanks a lot for watching everyone what do we think was that punchy enough of an ending there I don't know it'll do won't it I went with the SJW demon comparison there but I didn't outright state it and that way anyone who noticed it would feel clever it's the best I could do given the circumstances it's hard to make a video where nothing happens you know I wish I could just read out other people's articles I found on the internet that it'd be easy if I was this Billy Dee chap over at one angry gamer or whatever I'd be furious I didn't see that in the script either of course he'd be furious he's one angry gamer well yeah all those people just copying his article it's terrible if you'd like more videos about nothing consider supporting me on patreon the links below along with links to my Twitter and curious cat accounts if you feel like giving me a follow or sending in a question thanks a lot to all my current supporters as always I do have videos coming up that are actually about things don't worry folks ok that's it from me today bye

Channel: Shaun

Views: 625,173

Rating: 4.7123671 out of 5

Keywords: doom, outrage, sjw

Id: l63nY0AYebI

Length: 24min 33sec (1473 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 01 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/nalixor]

Unfortunately, we've had to lock this thread. Users in this thread are taking this opportunity to make homophobic, sexist and other bigoted attacks against one another.

To those of you who were attempting to have interesting and level-headed discussions, I apologize.

[u/FANGO]

Basically any time I see an "article" which bases itself on a series of tweets, it's safe to ignore said article. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them and not enough people know that rule.

Also twitter itself is harmful to our discourse and ability to think in anything more than quip-form.

[u/thefluffyburrito]

Boy this comment section is fun. My own two thoughts:

1) It's ok for other people to have a different opinion than you. If someone has a different opinion than you on the internet they are not a monster and, believe it or not, it is still possible for them to be a decent human being.

2) The comments saying "look; there IS an outrage!" by linking a bunch of tweets/posts with less than 10 likes/retweets are just proving this guy's point that you're overreacting. The point is that just because a few people may find the joke outrageous doesn't mean you suddenly label an entire group of people ("The Left") as a bunch of overreacting crazies. Believe it or not, both "The Left" and "The Right" are very diverse and feature people groups that come from all walks of life.

If you live your life going from one outrage to another (in this case, being outraged that a few people on the internet are outraged - or just mildly perturbed) you're just going to wear yourself out. It is far better to accept that not everyone might have the same opinion as you, and that it's ok for them to have that opinion without being a terrible person.

[u/Srhike]

Didn't think I'd see Shaun in this sub. He's channel isn't about video games, this video is an exception. Though, I think it belongs here. This outrage came as surprise, but certain youtubers have to pander to their audience.

[u/bleunt]

Yes! 9 out of 10 times that I hear about outrage, it’s because people on the other side is talking about it. I rarely hear about it from the actual sources. Even when there are actual people actually upset, it’s blown out of proportion by the backlash.

For example, the ONLY times I have EVER heard ANYTHING about Anita Sarkeesian it has been in connection to people attacking her. I don’t think I would know about her if it wasn’t for all the people upset about her project.

100 people tweet something, then 100 000 people jump on that thing giving it a huge platform to spread.

[u/QParticle]

The formal term for this kind of shit is a "strawman argument". You create the villain's opinion and you then proceed to argue against it.

[u/Calfurious]

For a short time I was really into the anti-SJW sphere of YouTube. Until it honestly started getting a bit aggravating. I mean multiple YouTuber would make multiple videos that are like, 7-20 minutes long ranting about what some random kid on Tumblr or on their YouTube video (which has like less than 5k viewers before they made their video) and just go on these long ass rants about how bad social justice is or whatever.

It's the constant fabricated meta-outrage. They would knowingly go and out and search for things that some random SJW on the internet would say and then make a huge ass rant about it. Not just them, but everybody else in the anti-SJW sphere on YouTube. It was absurd. It was if they were looking for things to make them angry just so they can pump out a YouTube video on it. That shit got old so very quickly. I think the only way you can still watch these videos is if you have a massive hate boner for SJWs or just Social Progressive politics in general. Which I don't. I don't think I hate anything enough to essentially watch the same video over and over again.

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[u/GoldenJoel]

I'm just so flabbergasted that people get sooo bent out of shape when someone says, "Hey, the game looks GREAT! But I'm kind meh on ____"

I'm going to lay this out for ya'll: YOU look like the 'triggered snowflakes' when you get up and arms about this. Art is divisive, some people are going to read certain things differently. It's just the way art is.

God, that screencap of all the triggered right wing morons and their videos was just so disheartening... Especially all the views. Youtube is perma fucked, isn't it?