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

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/media-that-would-be-a-lot-more-controversial-if-it-were-made-today.1259973/

The Birth of a Nation

To be fair, it was controversial at the time it was made as well.

Yea but it would be A LOT more nowadays since it will be a dog whistle

Idiots quickly stripping dog whistle of all meaning as the film about the heroic KKK saving good white people from the dastardly black folks would apparently be trying to fly under the radar.

I’m surprised nobody over there has mentioned Schindlers List or The Diary of Anne Frank.

Liam Neeson is in that one, major controversy 

[benji]

The first gamergate was a very concentrated group of hateful people putting their foot on the door.
Now their ideas are everywhere, look at what has been happening to popular movie discourse and "woke casting" harrassing actors like Rachel Zegler, it's all textbook gamergate.
It left the gaming world to infect other places.
Gamergate 2 doesn't seem to have the same force because conservatives don't need it to win elections, they already won

[Taco Bell Tower]

I can't believe Sydney Sweeney has been canceled 

It's like davepoobond said

Sydney Sweeney was too good to be true.  now i can never jerk off to her again
i will be forced back to Lindsay Lohan, at least she is a known quantity

[benji]

I will never understand these people's taste in women. There's been so many absolute smoke shows leading games recently.

I thought he already had his wish made with Stellar Blade

Eve's not white. Gotta appeal to the racist portions of their sycophants. Like the weirdo saying GTA6 is propaganda to 'mix with brown women'.

Guys like this aren't attracted to women, they're attracted to feeling superior to women. That's why they don't consider anything attractive unless it fits into traditional patriarchal vibes about women.

It's not about taste or attraction, it's about power and control.

Well they're gonna be in for the biggest turn on when payment processors and then their government uses their power to control what they can play---

Wait, not like that?

Oops.

They could be into findom, with how easily they get scammed!

Don't worry, they will delude themselves that this is something that the "woke" wants

Despite the fact that these are the same assholes who always claim LGBT content is sexual in nature and should be banned to "protect the kids"

1. Isn't Mark Kern not white?
2. [links to 500 ResetERA.com threads where they demand somebody police the Steam store or other forms of media]
3. , especially for Messofanego

[benji]

Gal Gadot takes a selfie with Hamas hostage survivors during a gathering in Israel, Tuesday, July 22, 2025.

[Straight Edge]

This site having people argue for payment processor censorship really shows you guys have zero opinion of anything except "the opposite of what resetera" says 

the best part about this post is how easily it could've gone either way

"people here actually argue in favor of disgusting porn games just because of the why women criticize sexual designs thread   "

People on the Bire aren't terminally depressed just because Reseterans are!

[Boredfrom]

They've spent decades flipping out about "censorship" in things like localization efforts or a character's outfit being changed, they don't even know what actual censorship looks like until the games they want to play are no longer purchasable.

Self censorship is still censorship, even people in the other thread agreed to that developer decision to not publish the game on Steam because the new guidelines (according to her, mind you) would compromise her vision of the game.

If anything, this has everything to do with their point about changes and localization, given that the impression is that not enough anymore and activist groups are more comfortable just to deny everything as there is the perception of cultural incompatibility.

[killamajig]

Messofanego wrote:

It's not about taste or attraction, it's about power and control.

Says the guys who's religion demands he have a chaperone on a date otherwise he might rape them.

[benji]

From posts like that you'd think these threads aren't full of people demanding regulation of what Steam allows:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-has-a-right-wing-extremism-racism-problem-on-their-discussion-forums-that-needs-to-be-addressed.485398/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/vice-us-senator-asks-gabe-newell-why-steam-hosts-so-much-neo-nazi-content-up-letter-sent-to-activision-riot-sony-ms-others.665563/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-steam-just-lets-racist-post-their-shitposts-on-steam-now.553597/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/minority-representation-indie-dev-support-steam-vs-itch-io.417636/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-white-supremacist-nazi-content-spread-on-steam-gaming-platform.1035933/

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-white-supremacist-nazi-content-spread-on-steam-gaming-platform.1035933/

I love how that article uses the ADL while is currently a CHUD organization on the eyes of ERA.

[Boredfrom]

It's a good question, since people been pointing it out for years. Remember "Hatred", the game created by Neo Nazis that Gabe personally apologized for removing? Pepperidge farm remembers

Some dude in the “Itch shits itself” thread got a free pass for saying that Hatred didn’t deserve to be banned and wished Valve took more active action for the smut.

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-19

There is literally no data that I've personally researched myself that somehow contradicts my general claim that we live in a world where white supremacy is a status quo, that we have somehow achieved racial parity in all matters.

And this is a lofty claim coming from a Walgreens Candy Shelf Engineer and Researcher.

[benji]

Could there be a lack of racial parity in all matters and also white supremacy not be the status quo?

Also, what kind of data would someone look to in order to show either? Careful now if you don't know how variables work.

[Propagandhim]

Professor Nepenthe, America's top race researcher (she misses nothing in her personal research)  breaking into the lab, secretly erasing all the data and multiplying each z-score by a melanin coefficient (m = 1.5) to flag for “afrocentric variance” to combat the white supremacist lack of parity

[benji]

Let's not get it twisted, I'm not really trying to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, it's more that I think the people who put this shit together were too stupid to realize what it was that they were really making.

I don't know how after like four to five centuries of white supremacy you can think any working white adult involved in playing around with dog whistles for the sake of a capitalistic endeavor is "too stupid" to understand what they did. White people are always stripped of knowledge and agency every single time something like this occurs; if they weren't Heil Hitler'ing, then they must be stupid (which isn't an argument that bodes in your favor either because white people are in charge of the money, the land, and the military and nuclear codes; if we're subject to rule by people who are on average actually so stupid that they can't figure out the subtext of a clothing ad that they themselves made, we're fucked.)

But I wasn't born yesterday. Y'all know what you're doing. You have to know, otherwise the reflexive defensiveness against charges of racism don't really make sense. The claim that ignorance is the primary motivator that begets racism contradicts with the aggressive downplaying and dismissal that happens whenever racism is unveiled in an individual instance. Usually when people don't know something, and they have good intentions, they defer authority to those who actually know better. You wouldn't make a false claim about, like, the biology of lions, get corrected by an expert in the field, and then go and tell said expert that they're wrong, right? Of course not. It's ridiculous on the surface.

But white people don't do that on average with racism, despite the argument that "they just don't know better." It's almost always an affirmative claim being made in defense of a presumed peace: "This individual instance isn't racist." Well, if you're ignorant about racism, how can you make an argument with certainty that any given racist incident is actually not racist? Hell, why in the world would you even get mad at being argued with on this? No one here was involved in the making of the ad and I presume no one has any stock in AE. There is no personal stake in the matter, so why jump to AE's defense in any way, even if it's just a "they didn't know better!", instead of just listening to what people who do know better have to say? Where is the display of good intentions that signal honest ignorance?

It's because y'all are amenable to white supremacy which says that white people are best at all things, which would inevitably include sussing out what the effects and examples of racism are better than minorities are somehow. You all don't actually think Black and Brown people know what they're talking about; it tracks with all of the reflexive shitposts at the beginning of this thread and the random holdouts who keep coming in here to downplay the issue by saying that anyone who read the ad negatively to any degree was the real problem.

Folks might not consciously think this, but that's how they act, despite the fact that there is no reason to. There is literally no data that I've personally researched myself that somehow contradicts my general claim that we live in a world where white supremacy is a status quo, that we have somehow achieved racial parity in all matters. That's the truth of the matter. And yet there is always a glut of folks ready at the to deny any given individual example as not being part of the pattern, somehow vacuously devoid of the social and historical forces that affect all things, with no actual reason to do so.

You all aren't stupid. You're just biased towards white supremacy. So if you all could just, like, stop being biased towards white supremacy, that'd be really great.

Also I love SilentPanda still posting the same irrelevant shit on every other page.

[benji]

While I still think it is a stretch to think that an entire marketing department had an agenda here, I am absolutely willing to accept that they are all tone deaf and ignorant of how shitty a time it is to put something like this out in the current social/political climate in the US

This ad wasn't an accident. They were absolutely aware of what they were doing hence why they haven't apologized for it.

Still giving corporations the benefit of the doubt is unnecessary.

This isn't a judgment of anyone here because I reflexively do it too, but I think it speaks to how unbelievably protected and propped up whiteness is that we feel the need to gather as much damning info as possible in the hopes that maybe it convinces some people to stop naively giving the benefit of the doubt to wealthy white people who were being blatantly racist in a blatantly racist way, in the most public way possible. And it still won't be enough because inevitably someone else will chime in with "reading too much into this", "who can say", "it's a Rorschach test for both ends of American politics", blah blah blah.

Constantly gathering data on individual instances of racism is a waste of time because the data already exists on these matters. We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we live in a white supremacist world; anyone running cover for it is either too incompetent to understand the nature of how white supremacy works and thus is not worth engaging with because by definition they can't meaningfully contribute to the conversation, or they're too genuinely invested in its maintenance to understand that their plausible deniability is indeed going to waste the time of people who mean well but don't understand that their time is being wasted.

White nationalism? It's never about the culture or the history.

Sure it is!

Whiteness is a fundamentally reactionary identity, created post hoc to justify colonialism and empire and to create a wedge between class solidarity. The history and culture of whiteness is fundamentally a history and culture about oppressing others and justifying expansionism and capitalism, and there's no getting around that. This is why every single fuckin' white nationalist movement is just some right-wing reactionary bullshit. It's all it is and all it ever will be until white people as a collective get their shit together and start working for the betterment of humanity and the planet.

Do I necessarily think the marketing team that dreamt this whopper up had any idea what the subtext of their stupid marketing campaign would appear to be? Not really.

So what you're saying is these marketing experts with actual education in this field and the resumes and salaries to back it up were just somehow too incompetent to figure out the subtext that people without the expertise were able to glean upon watching it? If that's the case, why haven't they outright apologized?

I really don't see what it matters whether they knew what they were doing or not.

It truly doesn't matter, but for many people plausible deniability is king when it comes to dismissing the pervasiveness of white supremacy, and thus they enter these conversations essentially calling people who see the dog whistles crazy because, well, no one involved was wearing a white hood so how can you ever make the argument?

The ad is not white supremacist and none of this nonsense makes the case that it is.

This, however is white supremacist:

It's all it is and all it ever will be until white people as a collective get their shit together and start working for the betterment of humanity and the planet.

Also:

We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we live in a white supremacist world; anyone running cover for it is either too incompetent to understand the nature of how white supremacy works and thus is not worth engaging with because by definition they can't meaningfully contribute to the conversation, or they're too genuinely invested in its maintenance to understand that their plausible deniability is indeed going to waste the time of people who mean well but don't understand that their time is being wasted.

I don't know how a post could be more dismissive of others concerns and antagonistic. If you disagree with Nepenthe on any topic, you're either too stupid to even engage with or outright evil. It's up to y'all to choose which you are.

[Propagandhim]

[benji]

And yet there is always a glut of folks ready at the to deny any given individual example as not being part of the pattern, somehow vacuously devoid of the social and historical forces that affect all things, with no actual reason to do so.

You all aren't stupid. You're just biased towards white supremacy. So if you all could just, like, stop being biased towards white supremacy, that'd be really great.

[benji]

Nepenthe's argument is literally unfalsifiable. I'll demonstrate, let's say American Eagle has a Black trans women in the same exact ad. Aha, white supremacy yet again, they're placing a marginalized person in a white coded medium in white coded fashion and using white supremacist language all to promote white supremacist capitalism by demonstrating that adhering to whiteness is the only way to exist. Just more proof how white supremacy is the status quo and until you all organize to destroy and permanently prevent capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy from ever existing again you all aren't serious and are complicit in maintaining that status quo.

[Potato]

Could there be a lack of racial parity in all matters and also white supremacy not be the status quo?

Also, what kind of data would someone look to in order to show either? Careful now if you don't know how variables work.

No. Everything in NepWorld MUST be an absolute. 

[Besticus Maximus]

If white supremacy is so bad how come all of Nepenthe’s fursonas are honkey coded 

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wwe-goes-full-maga-triple-h-joins-trump-administrations-sports-commission-wwe-promotes-it-on-smackdown.1260603/page-3#post-143419278

B-Dumbs:

Considering this thread has turned into meta commentary, we're going to be locking it.

Siding with the chuds and banning multiple members including Cunty Cal

[Orange Juice Box]

I mean I thought it was obvious WWE as a organisation was MAGA when guys important faces like Taker and Kane were buddying up with Trump.

But honestly I came to accept that and just focus on the actual wrestling which has been pretty entertaining for the just part since I got back into after the netflix deal went down. I assume most are MAGA and leave at at that so I won't be shocked when they do pro maga stuff. The women's division especially is sooooo much better from when I last saw during the Batista, Eddy Guerro etc era.

Why not just not support the Nazi company?

User banned (1 week): inflammatory accusations toward other users

Call Sweeny a eugenics supporting Nazi all you want, but the WWE?  Have you no shame?  No Misogyno

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wwe-goes-full-maga-triple-h-joins-trump-administrations-sports-commission-wwe-promotes-it-on-smackdown.1260603/#post-143412081

[Orange Juice Box]

Several people.

I dont think pointing it out is a problem, thats not outrage. I'm not going to target anyone specifically because I'll get banned.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wwe-goes-full-maga-triple-h-joins-trump-administrations-sports-commission-wwe-promotes-it-on-smackdown.1260603/page-3#post-143418621

I just dont share the need to be mad at people for consuming media they find enjoyment in.

I just want to consume Sidney Sweeney jeans ads. What's the big fucking deal, guys????

User banned (1 week): inflammatory accusations and trolling over a series of posts

[benji]

I mean I thought it was obvious WWE as a organisation was MAGA when guys important faces like Taker and Kane were buddying up with Trump.

But honestly I came to accept that and just focus on the actual wrestling which has been pretty entertaining for the just part since I got back into after the netflix deal went down. I assume most are MAGA and leave at at that so I won't be shocked when they do pro maga stuff. The women's division especially is sooooo much better from when I last saw during the Batista, Eddy Guerro etc era.

Why not just not support the Nazi company?

User banned (1 week): inflammatory accusations toward other users

Call Sweeny a eugenics supporting Nazi all you want, but the WWE?  Have you no shame?  No Misogyno

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wwe-goes-full-maga-triple-h-joins-trump-administrations-sports-commission-wwe-promotes-it-on-smackdown.1260603/#post-143412081

Post this about Twitter and the staff will emotionally labor to make it disappear from the forum.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wwe-goes-full-maga-triple-h-joins-trump-administrations-sports-commission-wwe-promotes-it-on-smackdown.1260603/page-3#post-143419278

B-Dumbs:

Considering this thread has turned into meta commentary, we're going to be locking it.

Siding with the chuds and banning multiple members including Cunty Cal

No ban for that cunt Electricblanketfire for posting this though



How is this not an "inflammatory accusation"

[Uncle]

This site having people argue for payment processor censorship really shows you guys have zero opinion of anything except "the opposite of what resetera" says 

the best part about this post is how easily it could've gone either way

"people here actually argue in favor of disgusting porn games just because of the why women criticize sexual designs thread   "

People on the Bire aren't terminally depressed just because Reseterans are!

genuinely I think my life has been mildly improved due to having exposure to such bad examples of everything you can think of

[Uncle]

And yet there is always a glut of folks ready at the to deny any given individual example as not being part of the pattern, somehow vacuously devoid of the social and historical forces that affect all things, with no actual reason to do so.

You all aren't stupid. You're just biased towards white supremacy. So if you all could just, like, stop being biased towards white supremacy, that'd be really great.

☝ 72 words

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/welcome-new-members-introduce-yourself-here.119184/page-45#post-143419785

Hey, thanks for the approval!

I had enough of social medias and their sloppy algorithms pushing politics/dramas/shitposts all the way to my feed, so I decided to look for some good forums like in the golden days of the internet, and here I am.

None of that on Era.

[Jansen]

I can't believe Sydney Sweeney has been canceled 

It's like davepoobond said

Sydney Sweeney was too good to be true.  now i can never jerk off to her again
i will be forced back to Lindsay Lohan, at least she is a known quantity

Lindsay Lohan  
That pussy was ham and cheese pita even back when she was in her 20s