Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[benji]

NYT building got defaced by protestors.

In a just world the NYT journalists doing Israeli propaganda should have been prosecuted like the journalists who did nazi propaganda in WW2.

NYT building got defaced by protestors.

Good stuff, this is what these nazi propaganda manufacturers should face every day.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-year-ago-kamala-harris-joined-the-race-how-would-you-grade-her-campaign.1255548/page-4#post-143208168

 User Banned (1 Month): dismissing the concerns of victims of genocide

Told Muslim voters to keep quiet amidst their fear and anger over an ongoing genocide, expelling even invited guests from events who weren't doing anything.

F for 'fucking loser'

I think Muslims had the second biggest self own this election only behind Latinos for trump

Wouldn’t victims of genocide be too dead to have any concerns to dismiss?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/30/middleeast/arab-league-hamas-gaza-israel-intl

The text also condemned the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel

Arab League run by Zionists confirmed.

Isn't it funny that no one on Resetera talks about this? Isn't this a million times more meaningful than student protests or the NYT building being defaced?

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-god-of-war-tv-series-details-norse-era-games-filming-begins-in-2026-at-the-earliest-season-1-is-10-episodes.1254780/page-4#post-143251800

 User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

What do you mean by "these days"

I mean these days by saying these days... Most companies and studios care about politics and their agenda, not good stories. I can name countless works about that

Bant for truthiness!

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-12#post-143271606

Then the entire criticism boils down to the ad not being inclusive, which I agree it isn't.

I think that calling it "eugenics advocacy" is massive and unwarranted stretch. But I'm happy to duck out of the thread, regardless.

No, the criticism of the ad is that it's, at best, tone deaf in the current political era, and at worst, just corporations being corporations in that they have no real moral agency about themselves because capitalism doesn't actually concern itself with human well-being.

This wasn't done by one person forcing Sweeney to sign up for this; enough people at AE would've known throughout this ad's production that the white supremacist connotations exist given its qualitative characteristics and the overall political environment the ad is being made in, but they also knew that there would be enough people in the audience claiming plausible deniability because, of course, there's always people- even so-called allies- claiming plausible deniability for white supremacy because that's just the way the world works.

"Yeah, white supremacy exists, but this isn't an example of it! You're just reading too hard into it!" Tale as old as time. We've been called crazy for centuries.

If they didn't know, then the hundreds of people involved in the ad's production are frankly incompetent, and such a level of incompetence and unintended offense probably would've at least warranted a statement addressing it. But it's been crickets. So yeah, they absolutely knew what they were doing.

No one is saying it's fucking Mein Kampf. Just that not only did they know better, but that folks should know better by now than to stop dismissing this kind of coded bullshit. The canary in the coalmine is basically unconscious at this point and y'all are still on the elevator.

That's the real annoyance with this whole row. It's not even that the ad exists. It's that you all haven't learned, even just as a basic principle, to stop giving the benefit of the doubt to corporations and white people that they are somehow ethically above even playing around and winking with white supremacy, when we live in a world where white supremacy is the status quo. And I don't know what it's going to take for folks like yourself to understand that.

Like American Eagle didn't disappoint me. Y'all did (although, again, I have stopped having faith in Era regarding these matters for years.)

Same here. Another corporation posting white supremacy and eugenics dog whistle is just another day in corporate America. But if people on this very forum are waving it away, can't imagine the general public. Such a disappointment. We are no further along to make society better than we were 20 years ago. If people still refuse to confront how they benefit from this system of oppression, they will keep hand waving anything that contradicts that comfort.

To be fair, Era as a whole is not excessively out of step with basic American liberalism, which is why I'm not really all that surprised this thread turned out this way and it's why I'm just two seconds away from shrugging and concluding that discussing these issues here is a waste of time.

ALL THE THIS'S for this.

I'm amazed how people THINK they're above branding and marketing yet fall for it so so so so damn much. 😩
Criticize and second guess your local corpos every chance you can, they rarely deserve the benefit and they have money to cry into on bad days. Let them take heat.

Yeah i don't know what American Eagle did to earn such a strong defense.
"why would they do that?"
Why makes you think they wouldn't?

Who the fuck do some of you think you are to call critcism of this ad "performative"? You got a direct link into someone else's head to make that determination? Because just maybe some people want the world to be a little bit better than it was yesterday and are willing to call bullshit when they see it.

I don't think it's possible for me to be disappointed with a thread anymore, this is just what I expect now. And the more it happens, the more members with good comments call it quits and the whole negative feedback loop gets further reinforced.

It's like people just developed collective amnesia over the last few years or something. This is all part of the programming. It's as if whiteness and white beauty hasn't always been the defacto standard in this damn country and has permeated every facet of our lives whether we're conscious of it or not. Like we didn't just raise this huge fucking stink in Hollywood so that POC could get some damn recognition for once. Like they didn't just fucking change the game the moment Beyoncé won the country record of the year or how Trump's very normal reaction to Bong winning Best Picture was to launch into racist tirades at his rallies.

The moment some inkling of equality is established and minorities prove we're just as capable, they feel threatened and collectively rail back by proclaiming everything as woke and proceed to torch the entire country. It's cause white folks have always gotta remind the rest of us that we ought to know our place and we ain't shit. They're dismantling DEI programs all across the board and bending the knee left and right man. They might be busting out the forceps for that next AE commercial and you're probably gonna have folks in this thread be like, y'know what? I think this might be about her breastesses lmao like it's bananas we fuckin got to where we are and some ya'll still can't puzzle it out. I usually keep my trap shut in these charged threads but some of you well ackshually folks need to do some damn introspection fuck

saw ppl i rspect on bsky even handwaving this shit. alot of yall unreliable

Why are blue eyes considered attractive?

Idk. They are somewhat rare, they stand out / draw attention.

It's because you live in an environment that has you told over and over again that they're attractive.

Eye color is likely arbitrary when it comes to what humans would biologically consider necessary for a mate, so it's probably not a genetic inclination towards liking or desiring blue eyes.

You must understand that you are not at all divorced from your environment. Everything you prefer, everything you think, has a social or material origin point that you should be aware of and question constantly.

This is a great argument and I wish it was the one I was seeing instead of so many people leading with eugenics. Maybe I missed it (I admit that I didn't read every page of this thread) but expressing concern about how the ads uphold a specific beauty standard is so important of a message. Equating them to a genocidal ideology makes this whole argument sound unhinged.

Those of us that study this see a direct correlation to Nazi propaganda.

Some of you are only willing to listen to something that affirms what is convenient to you.

I feel like people need to double back to why dog whistles are called dog whistles, because my brain can't take one more person talking about how there can't be an issue because they can't perceive it.

im so blessed I took sociology courses in college

That would actually be an interesting survey here to figure out how many of us are humanities girlies vs STEM ppl

At least in this thread it's pretty self-evident lol. One of the few blessings of a film degree is that courses involving media literacy and analysis are built into the curriculum. I very well may have been on the other side of this argument without that.

IMO if someone thinks this is a dog whistle or not is one thing which I can see someone disagreeing or agreeing on either way, but more concerning is, as mentioned, that some folks don't seem to know what a dogwhistle is or the framework in which one works.

I mean yes, the fascists are in the streets doing Nazi salutes at this point but it's not going to all be that. Sometimes it looks like this, even if this isn't one of those atm

So its a trend now. Hmm. Nope we are all just blind and jumping at shadows and performative or whatever. Nothing to see here at all, nope.

Geez. Some of you still in the year 2025 can't grasp dog whistles and plausible deniability. I'd fully expect some people to argue that saying "it's ok to be white" or "all lives matter" aren't bad things to say.

Also keep in mind that a black or native actress, no matter how beautiful or well endowed, would have been cast in this commercial even if they dropped the blue part or the actress had blue eyes. And if by chance they had a very vocal side of the alt right would have been screaming about canceling the company and woke culture and "traditional vaules" and they would have "made the commercial better" by editing Sweeny into it.

Its very much a dog whistle.

In a different political climate and time (probably before 2015 or so, trying to remember what happened politically in the US about then) I might have given a generous read that it was just a 'hot lady in our clothes' jeans pun.

In 2025, no way in hell. Even if they didn't start out that way there is 0% chance in the advertising culture that exists they didn't know how it would embolden certain groups and be embraced. Period.

Thirteen pages of apologists pretending they don't hear the foghorn and AE just admits it. Hilarious.

I mean, of course it was leaning into eugenics and white supremacy.

They listed *personality* as a genetic trait. Not something that can be influenced by genetics but also very much by environmental factors, but listed it as inherently genetic right alongside hair and eye color. They said it specifically.

That's racism; it's very much leaning into "they can't help that they're savages, it's just in their blood" and "their people all act that way" vibes that racists and xenophobes use to try to justify their hate.

Glad we've established what a dogwhistle is again; "it's just a pun" yes, that's the point of a dogwhistle. Bigots purposefully use innocent language to hide their meanings so that it can be normalized into public perception. And, if someone tries to raise awareness of it, they can point at them and call them hysterical, it's "just normal words and phrases, why are you seeing Nazis everywhere?" Congratulations, if you shamed people here because you think it's "just a pun" you fell for it.

How about quoting the whole thing instead of very selective quoting out of context?

Here are he full quotes with context:

You really wanna believe AE did it intentionally? Sorry you gotta dig somewhere else, because these bullshit quotes from APnews ain't it.

Take it up with AP then. I lifted the full quote as that article provided it, feel free to check the article. I also don't think the longer quotes change the equation at all. They're not stupid, throwing more marketing word salad at the end doesn't change the fact that they know WHY this is button pushing. You think marketing execs were born in a vacuum with no context of the lived advertising history we've all lived in (of fashion and beauty products in particular) and the current political climate?

You're free to agree the reason it's button pushing is because she's "sensual" (since when has that been anything of the sort?), but then you'd be falling into the same trap the right is when they claim this is a projection of the so-called woke left.

But hey, it's everyone else who's being hysterical.

Folks would rather rag on the people pointing out the dog whistles than the ones blowing them.

this just speaks to the further normalization of fascism and white supremacy in the US, this won't be the last ad with aryan undertones

That's peak gaslighting from AE.

It's even worse than gaslighting. It's fucking playing in our faces.

Because seeing masculine and feminine, slim and curvy bodies modeling a unisex/inclusive line of jeans would be fucking rad.

(It also wouldn't be new. They 70s had this on lock)

But that's not what they're doing here and they know it.

Trump begging for this defense of the ads to stick so people don't talk about him implicating himself about Epstein-trafficked children previously working at his fucking spa, and that people who frequented the spa complained directly to Trump that the girls were gone.

Anyway, time for the next step in this eugenics discourse.👇

And much like GG I'm very much not looking forward to the people dismissing this vanishing the second it gets revealed that this was actually exactly what the rest of us said it was and not anything else.

I'm not sure why people are surprised that the ad firms knew about the potential for this fallout and weaponized it.

The marketing/advertisement industry brings in multi-billions a year and employs thousands of people, many of which go to school and acquire degrees in this field.

Yet the way some of y'all talk about them, you'd think they were shut-ins living in the boondocks interfacing with the internet via 1997 Compaq Presarios.

People say they know capitalism is bad but then stuff like this happens and judging by the reactions I'm left thinking "Mmm…I don't think you do."

Cue every dumbass in this thread, who was arguing that it wasn't intentionally racially charged, gasping in utter disbelief.

Like I expect AE marketing to push this gross ad in the name of virality, but I guess I'm foolish for expecting the "progressive bastion" that is Resetera to not have a 15 page thread arguing the merits of Black and Brown people pointing out the clear racial tension of the ad.

Some of yall really fucking suck

I'm not letting Trump define the discussion. I'm just waiting to see if this could potentially lead to a "mask off" moment. It wouldn't be the first time.

If you don't think we're at a mask off moment NOW!? Then I'm sorry to tell you…

I just, I'm struggling to be polite. We have never been more mask off as a nation. If you don't see it, I genuinely implore you to interrogate where you get your news from.

The state of this forum is heartbreaking to me.

Respectfully, it's not celebrity mask off time, it's American citizen blindfold off time.

Too many people just wait for their fav influencers or whatnot. Algorithm brain rot is super depressing.

This wasn't even a complicated thing, I called it on like page 2.

Exactly, I understand that of course some people don't have the media literacy that I havs with my English degree and all but christ, its hard to miss.

Mask off? The mask off was when Trump said that Mexicans were rapist and criminals and people cheered back in 2015. Where have you been since? Racism was subtle like with this ad until he came into the picture and now neo-nazis are marching on the streets and everyone trying to support POC are being attacked by destroying any diversity organizations at all institutions and corporations.

All the "this is nothing, this why people hate the left, you guys are tilting at windmills and overreacting " folk sure got quiet af once that article was linked huh.

The situation makes me loosely recall the old place going to war with blind devotion over Kojima and how we would all be "ashamed of your words and deeds" for daring to point out what was a secret to everybody regarding Quiet.

And even after the insanely dumbass reveal, people still refused to give up the ghost and continued an unending gaslight campaign to avoid acknowledging the simple and inescapable conclusion that was known since the get-go which is that he's just a sexist pervert, he's always been a sexist pervert, and there's never been anything more to the story.

Even when the villains people are defending come out publicly and literally admit that their critics were right about them all along, people still can't bring themselves to admit they were in the wrong or apologize. AE is out there going "yep, you got us, pretty clever, huh" and people are coming up with Q-Anon style conspiracy theories about how it's a psyop or social experiment or some dumb shit.

Sometimes it's as simple as when the 50-year old man tweets a video of themselves shaking a plate of eggs Benedict with the caption "boobs", we can collectively agree they're not worthy of our respect, let alone the benefit of the doubt.

(I timestamped it to 3:52 where they fnally talk about this specific AE ad, but the rest sets it up well)

Short vid but tl;dw
- Gets into AE CEO (donates to Trump, pro-Israel, obviously a capitalist).
- Notes that comments on the ad make it clear it's a dog whistle that worked -- look who supports it (it's MAGA).
- A WoC would not have been used for this ad idea.
- Talks about eugenics and fascism and capitalism in close capacity to each other, and a socio-political climate today that's sensitive to this
- More than celebrity morals, but a pattern of rage bait lately in ads because it's super effective on both sides (whether discussion in support or of the controversy its stirs).
- Sweeney doesn't have to partake in politics, yet can appeal to the right-wing --- she's white n' successful! She can DO controversy without it really "hurting her brand".

Elliot Sang here also did a video similar to this that covered Sabrina Carpenter and the topic of "white ambiguity" (the term used for marketing controversy, and the ease with which you can do so when you're white, pretty, and popular). It's all just shitty-ass marketing by shitty but savvy marketers willing to take total advantage of it and profit hard from it (and let's be real, most of these CEOs are white or willing to throw away their personal morals for a dollar).

So many people on this forum need to take a marketing bootcamp (if there's such a thing) because i see so many naive takes about this. Let's just say that the billion dolar company isn't leaving anything to chance when it comes to investing millions of dollars in a campaign with a celebrity.

Everything and i mean EVERYTHING has been meticulously planned.

Yeah that's a good summary. When the nazis are proclaiming that they're winning in response to this ad, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the ad is a clear dog whistle

Amazing post.

She wants to be a billionaire like all the other celebs-turned-product-owners. And she is willing to do it while pandering to MAGA and flaunting her body to get it. She is not dumb, and neither are the companies hiring her.

This is idiotic.

Wait, that's why people are mad?? I thought it was for the objectification.

Absolutely tilting and windmills. Saying a white person is attractive is not a fundamentally supremacist notion. Talking about genetics as a component of how a person turns out attractive is not a eugenicist notion. If you think either of those things you're through the looking glass.

This is like a parody of wokeness.

How do you feel about this now that a fascist White House has come out in defense of this ad?

Fuck the White House response. When AE marketing THEMSELVES have come out and said "yea, we did that shit on purpose, cool huh?" is more telling.

All these dorks handwaving it have already scurried away, and won't return even when pinged to the thread.

The amount of energy going into blasting this ad is kind of wild to me. I thought I thought about Sydney Sweeney a lot lmao.

Yes, it's tasteless and tactless and maybe even offensive/rage bait on purpose.

But...it's also just a dumb fucking ad.

I wish this energy could be put into something like climate instead.

Nonsense.

For one, people should be upset about racism. The fact that a bunch of people here aren't is telling.

Second, the energy around this ad is mainly just yapping, and we need to engage in aggressive and sustained physical action with regards to the climate at this point.

So good job on devaluing two issues at once.

The existence of "good genes" implies the existence of "bad genes"

Look up the history of what was done to people with "bad genes"

And they'll keep getting bolder and bolder. Prodding little by little to see how much the general audience will accept. It's all about plausible deniability when it comes to Marketing. Insidious pricks.

When Trump won, there was talk that "woke was on the way out" and businesses wanted to capitalize off that.

Now American Eagle has Sydney Sweeney talking about "great genes" and Gavin Casalegno saying "This tan? Genetics." They're all dog whistles. On the small chance they weren't, here's the White House deciding to weigh in on one of them

It's fucking weird to talk about genetics in advertisements. It's weird to arbitrarily assign "good" genetics to things associated with fair skinned people.

I, for example, don't need to tan. I'm sure I can, but the amount of sun it would take would be unhealthy. It's arbitrary. It's a sign of what is valued in society. Once you start assigning value to arbitrary genetics it. By default saying something is good means other qualities must be bad. Just look at the skin care industry. Look at who gets featured in marketing. Look at the two ads with fair skinned people released back to back and the features they share for these good genes. Compare this to historical context. Current sociological and political context.

There is a documented, inextricable relationship between white supremacy and the idea of "good genetics" that exists separate from colloquial discussions about beauty standards or people's personal affectations and preferences. So white celebrities talking about "good genes" should raise your eyebrow.

However, because these kinds of colloquial discussions exist, and also because white supremacy being the default means it is easy to hide white supremacist sentiments in plain sight or behind a layer of plausible deniability, you get a lot of people, like on the first page of this thread, who will run cover for, dismiss, and defend dog whistles, which in turn companies will absolutely exploit for marketing purposes because controversy nonetheless sells. These ads are not outright using overt white supremacist symbols or language. They're playing with dog whistles to get people talking about their product and distracting them from more important shit.

However, the ultimate takeaway is that the distraction wouldn't really be much more than a brief movement in the periphery if people didn't insist on, again, running cover for these companies and the celebrities involved, which in turn is a symptom of their own unwillingness to confront white supremacy and their bias towards capitalism and celebrity worship. These ads can only exist in a social environment where even so-called allies, and even affected minorities, still nonetheless are not wholly committed to dismantling racism.

I think what drives me crazy is that advertising is a heavily psychological profession. They work hard to determine the kinds of images and messages that resonate with people and influence their behavior (i.e. selling their product).

Like that's the whole game. Influencing people through subtle cues.

This kind of ad has to go through a whole bunch of layers of approval and management, especially because of the costs involved. The idea that people in advertising, people who are cued into the subtle ways that ads communicate and influence people, made an ad with echoes of white supremacy accidentally is extremely funny. At best, they are extremely sheltered and uncritical.

corporations leaning into white supremacy messaging via dogwhistling now that Trump has signalled that it's good business.

Of course American Eagle would jump at the chance to being faschy fashy

I was wondering what all this kerfuffle was about. Not shocked at all that it came from a brand like American Eagle which is all about clothing for white folks. But I find it quite hilarious and sad how these MAGA idiots hate women so much, but want to show their racist asses defending an ad featuring a woman who wouldn't spit on them if they were on fire.

And didn't we have something similar to this during the 2010s when a dark-skinned woman was putting on makeup to brighten her skin under the guise of "lighter colored people = more attractive" or some shit like that?

To me, it's just another tale as old as time. The only difference is that many of these corporations and now the government are filled with mask-off white folks who are no longer biting their tongues while intimating that non-white = bad genes. They want minorities to feel like we're "wrong" or "inferior", and that's what this kind of shit has always felt like to my black ass.

I cannot believe that people here don't see CLEARLY what this ad is saying lmao. The first few pages are hilarious. Why we pretending??

Not just the first few pages, sadly, and they all slowly disappeared as the hours went by

I'm not surprised in the least that the obvious dogwhistles went over a bunch of people's heads.

Just a healthy dose of media illiteracy and straight up ignorance to what's going on right now. Wonder what mental gymnastics they're going through now that the White Supremacy House has weighed in and confirmed what some us already knew? 🤔

People are emotionally committed to ignorance.

Kudos to the 1-2 posters who expressed openness to what was being said and reevaluated their position.

I don't know if this is just white ignorance, I'm black and the literal first time I saw this ad on TikTok it sounded like nazi shit. It's so in your face I think people are arguing in bad faith. Straight up.

It's incredible how blatantly stupid these people are while arrogantly thinking they're beyond smart because they were taught like 101 level concepts and turned it into their whole personality.

[HaughtyFrank]

They're onto the next ad 

[benji]

Sorry, but I just actually read the post I led off with:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-12#post-143271606

Then the entire criticism boils down to the ad not being inclusive, which I agree it isn't.

I think that calling it "eugenics advocacy" is massive and unwarranted stretch. But I'm happy to duck out of the thread, regardless.

No, the criticism of the ad is that it's, at best, tone deaf in the current political era, and at worst, just corporations being corporations in that they have no real moral agency about themselves because capitalism doesn't actually concern itself with human well-being.

This wasn't done by one person forcing Sweeney to sign up for this; enough people at AE would've known throughout this ad's production that the white supremacist connotations exist given its qualitative characteristics and the overall political environment the ad is being made in, but they also knew that there would be enough people in the audience claiming plausible deniability because, of course, there's always people- even so-called allies- claiming plausible deniability for white supremacy because that's just the way the world works.

"Yeah, white supremacy exists, but this isn't an example of it! You're just reading too hard into it!" Tale as old as time. We've been called crazy for centuries.

If they didn't know, then the hundreds of people involved in the ad's production are frankly incompetent, and such a level of incompetence and unintended offense probably would've at least warranted a statement addressing it. But it's been crickets. So yeah, they absolutely knew what they were doing.

No one is saying it's fucking Mein Kampf. Just that not only did they know better, but that folks should know better by now than to stop dismissing this kind of coded bullshit. The canary in the coalmine is basically unconscious at this point and y'all are still on the elevator.

That's the real annoyance with this whole row. It's not even that the ad exists. It's that you all haven't learned, even just as a basic principle, to stop giving the benefit of the doubt to corporations and white people that they are somehow ethically above even playing around and winking with white supremacy, when we live in a world where white supremacy is the status quo. And I don't know what it's going to take for folks like yourself to understand that.

Like American Eagle didn't disappoint me. Y'all did (although, again, I have stopped having faith in Era regarding these matters for years.)

This doesn't make any fucking sense. If they have no moral agency then it can't be a corporation pushing white supremacy. And never is there any explanation for why a corporation would need or want to push white supremacy. Oh wait, we don't need an explanation because we can just deny they have any moral agency even as we're arguing that they're incompetent if we claim they didn't choose to do it, it's just capitalism forcing them to do it even as they know and are choosing doing it. And why would capitalism need to do it? Getting off the elevator and shutting the fuck up is free.

Literally nowhere on any of those 15 pages is there any explanation for why someone would do this or what the "dangerous result" is that they intended from it, just the assertion that it was done intentionally and it's terrible because... Nazis exist? Yet this is supposedly the non-ignorant and informed stance despite not even being able to explain anything.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-15#post-143339451

I do once again repeat that this ad wouldn't have been as effective at garnering attention if we didn't always have people immediately rushing to the defense of corporations and white celebrities when they engage in racist shit.

[benji]

If American Eagle and Sydney Sweeney didn't want to be criticized they shouldn't have worn those Nazi jeans.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-470#post-143304609

The day of the 7th my heart dropped when I heard the news. I knew exactly what was coming. Its always been a genocidal construct. What colonialist state was ever anything else?

yes, I felt the same. It was a nightmare before it happened. I tried to tell my family how this was going to be way more serious, they just told me it would be similar to what Palestinians have been dealing with before. Now they obviously know what's up.

I'm afraid a lot people thought that, even the ones who were more informed than others.

It's almost like Hamas was trying to provoke a response from Israel that would kill innocent Palestinians.

[HaughtyFrank]

"When I heard that a thousand Israeli were slaughtered my heart dropped, what if Israel strikes back?"

[Bootsthecat]

Unsure if posted here or on ree already, but wasn't Sweeny on a tv show with that zelda trannny these retards all adore. Assuming they're prob pals?

I guess I know the answer, but what would they do if trannny spoke out defending his tv show friend?

Either way hope it happens, that shit would be fucking hilarious

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-470#post-143304609

The day of the 7th my heart dropped when I heard the news. I knew exactly what was coming. Its always been a genocidal construct. What colonialist state was ever anything else?

What states aren't colonialist ones?

[killamajig]

Oh look, another pow wow with Trump indicating that he's working directly with WWE. And this coming on the heels of 3 straight shows opening by paying tribute to one of the most openly racist wrestlers ever.

But yeah, keep on giving your viewership and money to a racist, Trump-loving company. Maybe HHH will release a few more black wrestlers to celebrate.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wwe-good-pr-week-continues-john-cena-i-dont-care-who-hears-it-i-love-vince-roman-reigns-i-support-our-president-trump-is-one-of-those-guys.1167879/page-10#post-143340234



Racist and fucks up his simile. 

I guess Trump's idea of fitness is a guy who abused PEDs while acting like he was all natural, and has had his body break down more times than a Ford Pinto. I hope he tears another quad.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume most people hear Ford Pinto and don't think of a vehicle that breaks down a lot.

[Boredfrom]

How long until they realize that most people are still not going to demand the destruction of Israel even after this? Outside of the rise of antisemitism, seems that things are not necessarily going the direction Hamas wanted.

[benji]

It's all relative. I would consider paying $1k a month for a 36 month loan on a $35k car to be smarter financially than paying a lower amount monthly over 84 months like most people as they are burning cash on interest. The monthly payment means nothing on its own.

[benji]

Guess who's back in publication:

How VTubers Are Leading The Backlash Against Adult Game Censorship
Adult content creators are joining the fight against Mastercard and Visa
Ana Valens Published July 31, 2025

But there’s another group of creators taking on MasterCard and Visa: VTubers. More specifically, VTubers who develop adult content. Called AVTubers, or “lewdtubers,” this group has mobilized fans to spread the word, using their platforms to identify a larger pattern of online censorship targeting NSFW artists everywhere, from Steam to Fansly.

“I don’t think VTubers are uniquely at risk, but we do definitely face some additional challenges,” Podgekinn told Kotaku. “For example, many creators using furry or furry-adjacent avatars have now had to re-design their models for adult content on Fansly, as well as delete all of their previous content using those models, or risk being banned.”

“I think lewdtubers are especially vulnerable because they’re at the intersection of several groups that get treated the most harshly by restrictions online,” that lewdtuber told Kotaku. “VTubers are often censored and treated as inherently sexual on platforms like Twitch and YouTube, even if they don’t make NSFW content, so lewdtubers often get flack from both platforms and fellow VTubers. Payment processors are also quite weird about lewdtuber content and anime porn in general. There’s a lot of weird animosity between lewdtubers and IRL camgirls, too—Projekt Melody for instance received a lot of negative backlash when she started streaming on Chaturbate and got super popular. Needless to say, it’s pretty rough out here.”

Disclosure: Podgekinn has provided voice work for Shady Corner Games, a studio for which reporter Ana Valens is an affiliate. Lady Kira Cat and Podgekinn also serve as affiliates for Shady Corner Games. 

Main thing I noticed is that the title is nowhere in the article, it doesn't even attempt to establish that they're leading anything.

[Shecky Fragbaum]

On second thought, there was no need to go after dude's weight. Its a cheap shot. He really does just wanna shake his ass in people's faces like the littlest brother ever, puns accepted.


  I would like to formally retract the fat zinger. 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

And gently remind people in general that 30 mins of exercise or w/e pre day isn't really the impenetrable barrier some people might try and sell you. Make death earn that shit brehs. 

Also edibles are kinda groovy. Just a lil sidebar. 

[HaughtyFrank]

Main thing I noticed is that the title is nowhere in the article, it doesn't even attempt to establish that they're leading anything.

*Person who only knows about vtubing*

"Hmm, getting major vtubing vibes"

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Fascinated that that forum continues to believe all Muslims are Palestinians.

And that anyone online that claims to be Palestinian, is indeed Palestinian.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-year-ago-kamala-harris-joined-the-race-how-would-you-grade-her-campaign.1255548/page-4#post-143208168

 User Banned (1 Month): dismissing the concerns of victims of genocide

I think Muslims had the second biggest self own this election only behind Latinos for trump

Wouldn’t victims of genocide be too dead to have any concerns to dismiss?

The real victims, as always, are trans people, who are definitely experiencing a genocide even though none of them are dying (except the ones who commit sudoku).

[Boredfrom]

To be fair, I can't tell you how much I heard that excuse for COD on the original switch the whole generation and then low and behold Activision CEO apologized saying it was a mistake not to bring the franchise to switch 1. Hopefully EA isn't dumb enough to make the same mistake on Switch 2. The fan base is hungry and people are ready to purchase the console assuming these types of games are there.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vince-zampella-there-are-no-plans-to-bring-battlefield-6-to-switch-2.1259103/#post-143344050

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The real victims, as always, are trans people, who are definitely experiencing a genocide even though none of them are dying (except the ones who commit sudoku).

And even they aren't doing it as much as the activists would like.

[Boredfrom]

The Switch is one of the best selling pieces of hardware and the Switch 2 is one of the fastest selling pieces of hardware. I would say there's probably more of an audience there than on Xbox just on sheer numbers.

It’s ok to say they can't figure out how to get it to run on a machine thats only pumping 10 watts of power as a handheld.

Is it? 

Even when selling well, Nintendies have a huge problem accepting the flaws of those consoles.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The Switch is one of the best selling pieces of hardware and the Switch 2 is one of the fastest selling pieces of hardware. I would say there's probably more of an audience there than on Xbox just on sheer numbers.

It’s ok to say they can't figure out how to get it to run on a machine thats only pumping 10 watts of power as a handheld.

Is it? 

Even when selling well, Nintendies have a huge problem accepting the flaws of those consoles.

HOW DARE YOU!   THERE ARE NO FLAWS! 

[BIONIC]

"When I heard that a thousand Israeli were slaughtered my heart dropped, what if Israel strikes back?"

[benji]

It’s ok to say they can't figure out how to get it to run on a machine thats only pumping 10 watts of power as a handheld.

Or maybe they can but don't want to compromise their vision? Somebody needs to listen to Nepenthe's lectures about respecting artists instead of demanding greater accessibility to art.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pc-gamer-capcoms-stock-price-plummets-as-its-latest-financial-report-shows-cratering-monster-hunter-wilds-sales.1258965/page-5#post-143345340

They need to get their performance issues in order.

Feel like both Dragons Dogma 2 and Wilds been affected by the word of mouth of their shoddy pc performance.
If RE9 is another performance disaster it might be the start of Capcom riding their highs too much and their recent golden age ending.

Pretty huge leap to make.

What's the leap?

That people will sour on capcom if they deliver consistently games that have bad performance?

It ignores the main reason for the poor word of mouth: people are not enjoying the game.

It also ignores the fact that a game like Wilds running on RE Engine is very different than a Resident Evil running on RE Engine and there's no reason to believe that RE9 will face similar performance issues, let alone tying it to their recent golden age "ending." It's a leap.

Gotcha the actual leap is you don't know what a hypothetical is. learn about words like "if", "might".
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/if
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/might
Also your lead in with ignoring the main reason of people not enjoying the game has 0 to do with anything I said, sheesh.

I'm aware of what both words mean, but thanks.

FACTUALLY ANNIHILATED

[Boredfrom]

The Switch is one of the best selling pieces of hardware and the Switch 2 is one of the fastest selling pieces of hardware. I would say there's probably more of an audience there than on Xbox just on sheer numbers.

It’s ok to say they can't figure out how to get it to run on a machine thats only pumping 10 watts of power as a handheld.

Is it? 

Even when selling well, Nintendies have a huge problem accepting the flaws of those consoles.

Being real, if they feel like they couldn't bring the game due to performance concerns, they can just come out and say that. They don't need forum dwellers to come out and yell "it won't wrong", there's nothing controversial about it. So of course it's annoying when they say something OTHER than that.

I really doubt Nintendo likes to be reminded that they make underpowered consoles by a third party.

You should also note your first instinct was this post:

 *Makes no effort to build a user base on a platform*
"Why is there no userbase"

Like EA is intentionally trying to shaft Nintendo and its fans even when this song and dance has being going on for two decades.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pc-gamer-capcoms-stock-price-plummets-as-its-latest-financial-report-shows-cratering-monster-hunter-wilds-sales.1258965/page-5#post-143345340

They need to get their performance issues in order.

Feel like both Dragons Dogma 2 and Wilds been affected by the word of mouth of their shoddy pc performance.
If RE9 is another performance disaster it might be the start of Capcom riding their highs too much and their recent golden age ending.

Pretty huge leap to make.

What's the leap?

That people will sour on capcom if they deliver consistently games that have bad performance?

It ignores the main reason for the poor word of mouth: people are not enjoying the game.

It also ignores the fact that a game like Wilds running on RE Engine is very different than a Resident Evil running on RE Engine and there's no reason to believe that RE9 will face similar performance issues, let alone tying it to their recent golden age "ending." It's a leap.

Gotcha the actual leap is you don't know what a hypothetical is. learn about words like "if", "might".
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/if
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/might
Also your lead in with ignoring the main reason of people not enjoying the game has 0 to do with anything I said, sheesh.

I'm aware of what both words mean, but thanks.

FACTUALLY ANNIHILATED

FACTUALLY INCORRECT
Holundrian

Huge leap, based on your previous response. I srsly do no understand how you took me saying a conditional hypothetical that was in itself coherent and based on the recent history of releases with technical issues and then came up with what you said.

It's the type of thing I do not know what to respond to except pointing out that shit makes no sense.

FACTUALLY ANNIHILATED