THE FACT THAT IT JUST CUT OFF AFTER HE SAID “i have never met a woman” WAS HILARIOUS LMAOOO

Gatekeeping is great in D&D! Sphinxes, puzzle doors, magic artifact rooms, troll bridges, drawbridges to castles, a lot of things need some kind of gatekeeper.

I vote to make "Trauma-Keeping" a real term!

Gatekeeping is a HUGE problem in DND, especially for new players. I’ve been playing since I was 10, and I’m in the dnd club at my high school where most people have never played before or even read the books. I am 1 of 2 DMs who run separate campaigns on alternating weeks- Other DM is super new. (she’s borrowing my DMs guide to learn the basics) She allows homebrew, improvs a lot, and is open to pretty much anything- he campaign is set in hell, and is run kinda like a game show. It’s super fun! I’m the complete opposite- I prefer to stick to things in the official books, I’m VERY lore invested with characters and world, I take tones of notes. Both campaigns are fun as hell!

1:22 this mentality really sucks, for any religion too. I’m pagan and my fiancé is catholic. We have a mutual respect for each others faiths. I have an alter in our room for my worship and he has his bible and catholic stuff. I buy him cross necklaces I think look cool and he buys me crystals. It’s about having mutual respect for something you don’t participate in. If your partner does that for you, that is true love

i love how it cut off when he said “i have never met a woman”

28:06 "Gaslighting isn't real, you're just delusional."

hello kitty is trending, and she deserves to be appreciated like she was in 2012. but ill never forget standing in line at hot topic early this year (i am emo, i dress like i walked out of 2016), when a girl buying hello kitty stuff was laughing at me with her friends. in my face. 1 im emo in hot topic?? 2 thats not very hello kitty of you. her whole purpose is the importance of kindness :(

18:49 all of the REAL GAMERS don't care what you play, however you play or on what you play. Have fun that's all it matters. Pretty sure that dude lives a sad and sour life, and hates others have fun with things he sucks at.

As a gamer myself, the guy at 18:54 is just straight up insane. Gaming is about having fun, if you consider yourself a gamer, you pretty much are one.

I remember gatekeeping on things that I was interested in only bc I was super insecure about a lot and wanted to feel special

I really hope that tattoo text was photo shopped because I don't think anybody in their right mind would get something so purposeless tattooed onto themselves. You'd have to stop and spend at least 3 minutes just to be able to read that

17:26 Dear "real" gamer gaming is more diverse than just pc games and console games sincerly, the ACTUAL gamers

5:34 gatekeeping stuff aside, a Gravity Falls D&D campaign sounds so fun! they got the setting, the npcs, the monsters AND the big bad RIGHT THERE!!

I agree with gatekeeping sometimes. And by sometimes I mean gatekeeping literally everything from bigots and predators 😌

18:31 Imagine trying to call Pokemon a baby game when it has a very active competitive scene with a complex meta and tournaments that give thousands in cash prizes lmao

1:58 That cutoff is SAVAGE

You calling BigNik a kid was so insanely funny

17:27 This is my FAVORITE rant ever oh my god, as soon as I realized what Robin was narrating I lost my shit. There's a fantastic dramatic reading of this out there where a guy gets really into his lines, complete with dramatic music and crazed laughter and it's my favorite fucking video on the internet. I have this whole rant committed to memory and can recite it on the fly. Oh my god I love this.

omfg the nerve of that one person saying nail business is black culture when every auntie I've ever known gets their nails done by asians edit: lol I rage posted this before I saw the pic of the asian nail techs the editor threw in there

18:41 “Stardew Valley is not a real game” I’ve been throwing myself into Stardew recently, the amount of planning you need to do for a day or week is impressive, look at the people with mega farms that have perfectly figured out each tile of space and have it running at peak performance. Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the type of person to post things about how they can’t get a gamer GF and then go on a incel rant right after.

1:56 "I have yet to meet a woman" LMAOO

Wanna know what isn’t behind a gate? Subscribing to Emkay

The whole "real emo only consists of" thing is a copypasta that as far as i know is making fun of gatekeepers, cant say anything about whether or not the photo is fake tho

8:39 the first post here that is genuinely funny and entertaining, and of course it's from tumblr. i love my gay goblincore hellsite. i also appreciate that the post had to be translated for redditors, good stuff

Hey hey now doggos protecting their homes are an example of good gatekeepers. The best kind of gatekeeping. XD

I got into D&D with (I think it was) 3.5ed, and while I loved the RP and noncombat side of it, the combat side of it felt a little unnecessarily complicated - at least compared to 5ed, which I've been playing consistently since it came out. Ain't nothing wrong with a game being casual player friendly. I'm pretty sure that's why 5ed is fairly popular, and why some hardcore D&D fans don't like it ("they're pandering to the casuals" or something like that). I'm also pretty sure that's why Baldur's Gate 3 is so popular - it's actually really casual friendly (doesn't go too intense on the actual D&D mechanics, and even on the highest difficulties it's a lot easier than many other tactics-style games I've played in the past). Not every video game has to have soulslike difficulty, and not every tabletop game requires 8 hours of weekly reading to be worthwhile.

2:12 You know Robin's mad when it's not censored

1:40 Dudes trying to gate keep nerve damage.

Pagan is anyone who has a belief that isn't part of the biggest 8 or 9 organized religions in the world. It's a pretty vague term so trying to gatekeep it is pretty funny. And also as a Norse pagan myself he can stfu about telling people who they can or can't marry. My viking ancestors married around the world.

For me, soup is indeed a beverage My grandpa had a Menudo soup restaurant, and he used to pour the broth on a cup and casually drink it And, since my grandpa soup was sooo delicious, I started doing that as well and still do when I'm at my mother's restaurant So whoever wrote that, is missing a lot lmao

1:56 danm the cut off 😭

I CRIED WHEN THE EDITOR MISSED A CUSS WORD. I WAS FULLY EXPECTING ANOTHER QUACK SOUND EFFECT.

always a good day when robin narrates a video

18:45 i wanna see that guy play I Wanna Be The Guy, play it BLIND and see how long it takes him to even reach the 1st boss without actually losing his mind xD

Robin, that’s an English word. It’s pronounced “man-uh-culled.” “To manacle” means to bind someone with manacles (those chains with an iron wrist lock at the end). Also, I believe “dramione” is a fic pairing involving Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger.

The only person allowed to gatekeep coffee is Godot from Ace Attorney.

No. You ARE a real gamer. I'm so sick of all these people who think they're gatekeepers. Congrats, you are. Most of you are very close to being gatekeepers. I see people saying "I put well over 100 hours into this game, it's great!" that's a lot, most of us respect that amount of time and effort. I see people who only have a switch and call themselves gamers (They are right). Come talk to me when you pick up a PS4 controller then I gatekeep you over the dumbest sh*t. Also DEAR ALL GAMERS: Pokemon is the highest grossing video game franchise in the world. The second-most sold game on the switch is animal crossing. The sims is wildly popular on playstation. Mario is one of the most popular series in the world. Stardew valley is a great laid back game. Mobile games are SOME OF THE MOST ACCESSIBLE. Put down the "bAbY GaMEs" and talk to people who aren't pieces of sh*t. Sincerely, all of the ACTUAL gamers (who don't gatekeep).

7:19 huh??? Walls of text should never be tattoos. Especially dumb ones. Glad to see Robin still trucking along. 😁

10:05 @Robin hey parent here, I'll translate. This actually isn't gatekeeping, they just don't know how to express what they mean properly. Take someone or something you love dearly, and imagine losing them in any way. It hurts, a lot. When it comes to life in general, everyone knows that anything can kill you at all anywhere. A fucking spoon from left field can end your life. Shit sucks. Now remember that imagined feeling of losing someone you love dearly, and turn it up x10. Add in the fact that you feel ultimately responsible for everything that comes from that person, and thus responsible for their death, and then bundle it up with the fact that anything and everything around you can kill you, therefore, to protect that person, you must be responsible for everything around you to protect that person you would literally die or murder for. That is what this post means by "scary." However, this feeling is not exclusive to parents, and everyone ever has felt it some sort of way. But I personally believe (biased because parent) That parents experience that feeling in a more unique, or more accurately, front-of-the-mind even when you sleep kind of way. Maybe the responsibility part is turned up pretty heavy compared to others, idk. Hope that helps you understand what that parent meant :)

10:28 ranch is for people who like ranch 👺

That guy being like "world is not for people afraid of physical pain", is pretty... eh, not smart. Because pain is necessary to like, every mammal's survival. It's what keeps up from doing things that harm our bodies. We stay away from jumping off a 10 meter rock, because our brain is wired to know it can break something in our body. To protect us. Sigh.

Fun fact: it's actually Hello Kitty's birthday today. Was this planned? Or coincidence?

If I could turn off my period camps through will power I'd have done that a long time ago

14:21 If any in the comments are confused by the last word, “inshallah” in an Arabic word that means “As God wills/if God permits” It’s the linguistic ancestor of the Spanish “ojalá.”

19:27 Me yelling "It's Girl from the 21st Century from Xenon!!" Like he can hear me. 😂😂😂

I remember my first pc case. The glass was bigger then the entire case

6:37 Yes, I do. Imagine having a phone that you have less control over and is riddled with ads.

22:37 My dad loves learning about food from around the world, so whenever he happens to talk to someone who says they’re from a country that my dad had learned about, he’d be like “Oh, I heard *whatever food* is real popular there! I read it can be used with Ingredient A or Ingredient B. Which way did your family like making it when you were growing up?” Seriously, learning about different foods is awesome!!!!!!!!

2:12 ah yes gatekeeping trauma…showing your complete lack of empathy and understanding or care for their issues because your issues are more extreme like Jesus it’s so invalidating and gross to just use your own personal trauma to push down others. Everyone has issues alright yes some are more dire and extreme however that doesn’t mean people are invalidated for having smaller issues to you. I think this kinda thinking is possibly similar to this The fallacy of relative privation, or appeal to worse problems, is an informal fallacy which attempts to suggest that the opponent's argument should be ignored because there are more important problems in the world, despite the fact that these issues are often completely unrelated to the subject under discussion. Though could be wrong but still Stop gatekeeping personal trauma!!

Maybe that redditor at 5:27 could try roleplaying a version of themselves that isn't an asshole.

Technically all pain is mental pain. I mean we’re all bone mechs in skin suits for our brains.

Wait, wait, wait... Did that dude legitimitely claim that MARIO GAMES don't require skill?? I've seen a lot of dumb shit posted in the last 2 decades but that has to be in top 3 dumbest statements ever uttered

3:56 gatekeeping is something that needs to be done, but, not on newcomers, the guy that said "5E isn't DND" should be gatekept from the community

Mario isn't a real game? Like the most iconic and recognisable gaming franchise in the world isn't a "real" game? Guy's tripping with that one.

11:35 I'm torn three ways about this because it is absolutely gatekeeping. But I feel like you need even more openness stated. 1. You are goth if you like the culture and the music. 2. You are goth even if you have a horrible family who prevents you from having make up or leaving the house in all black. 3. You are goth even if you can't afford the look you want but do the best you can. Hot topic is well out of my price range and likewise, so is couture goth clothing. Both can be goth if a goth wears them. Goth is who you are. Not what you wear.

1:56 - 1:58 😭✋ 1:58 - 2:03 Not me thinking there was an aquarium in the background until they zoomed out 💀

I'm at the soup store

With the topic of taco bell in Mexico, what I'm going to say is not a joke, if you try to enter the taco bell page in Mexico, it gives you a 404 error, I laughed a lot when I saw it, because I already knew that it is impossible seing a taco bell im Mexico but I didn't think I was going to go so far as to directly block the page XD

I will never understand goths gatekeeping shit. As a goth, let people dress how they want. Just because you don't approve of Hot Topic doesn't mean shit. Some of my favorite pieces of jewelry I have came from Hot Topic! Isn't being alt supposed to be more accepting than the mainstream? That's what I always thought.

"You don't fully understand how scary the world is until you're raising children." Shit, if I don't have children and I already have PTSD from something a doctor did to me, how in the world am I gonna manage if I were to have kids? That's all the more reason for me to not have any! LOL

I have a pre-built PC, and I know a lot about computers (I work in the IT industry), but I just couldn't be bothered to order all the parts, wait for them all to arrive, then assemble it and hope I didn't mess it up and have to redo parts of the process. There is nothing bad with wanting to not have to deal with all that.

2:18 You can't stop me from playing Clash of Clans on my PC, I will upgrade all of my X-Bows to level 6 and upgrade my Baby Dragon to level 6.

I am one of those people who get bent out of shape about boneless wings. I don't particularly care what gets put on them, what they get dunked in or what anyone's reason for enjoying them is. My major malfunction with boneless wings is the terminology of it. They are not a wing that has had the bone removed. It's a simple chunk of chicken breast. Which is still fine. However, don't call it something it's not and proceed to charge a premium price for it. Always seemed like false advertising and unfair markup for a far cheaper item.

The way it cut off "I have yet to meet a woma-"

25:01 The throwing glow sticks thing brought me back to a childhood experience. One time the students were watching the cheerleaders perform to hype everyone up for the game, the theme was blackout, you could buy glow sticks from the cheerleaders in the mornings, and at the event people started throwing the glow sticks at the cheerleaders! Okay bye (:

the guy complaining about dnd and how inclusivity takes away the enjoyment is the type of person to say aloy has a beard

The only games im ever really okay being gatekept are strategy games because the way they make them apeal to a wider audience is by dumbing them down.

woah that uncensored "fuck" hit me like a truck 2:11

Robin Damien Lexi and Jack are the coolest narrators

Same with the bone in issue. I also get the image of eating like/a animal when I tried eating off a bone. I already struggle to talk myself into eating food, so thinking about how much effort, mess, & inhumanity/viciousness.

Robin-"Ture feminists don't eat eggs?" Me-Sounds like some Peta would say *looks at screen* Oh, that's because it is

Some random day in the early 2010s, I went up to a food truck to order something. The guy in the truck sees my hoodie with my favorite hockey team and says to me “oh you’re a Bruins fan, huh? Who’s your favorite player? Tyler Seguin cuz he’s cuuuuuute? Hahaha! Do you even know that much about hockey?” He said all this in a tone like I was a silly little girl who didn’t have the “right” to wear anything sports related. I then proceeded to name every player on every line, which one I liked for each position, the stats the team had at the moment, and followed up with “I was named after the daughter of a former Bruin. I played hockey and spent most of my childhood in a rink between my brother and my games. I’ve been watching hockey since before I can remember. Just because I’m a girl (I was 19 at the time) doesn’t mean I’m an idiot. Go gatekeep something else.” Dude sputtered an apology before asking what I wanted to eat. I told him I lost my appetite and walked away.

14:38 i saw that post on twitter, and the OP was british

“the people who cannot tell their enemies from their allies should not be the ones standing guard at the gate”

I have to admit, I'm a bit of an 80 year old level 32 year old when it comes to phones. I just buy whatever has the best plan or deal, with the basic features I like, at the time I need a new phone lol I currently have an iphone, since last year when my 4 year old Samsung 9 died! Also, as mum of 4 kids I can testify that having kids merely shows you how LITTLE you actually know and how, just because a person can grow a child doesn't mean they can raise one, and it certainly doesn't mean, like so many parents seem to believe, that the second your body expels that little human you are blessed with all the knowledge of the universe!

I feel like the Keanu one has never seen anything older than 1999.

> Put down the baby-games and play something that requires challenge and skill for once Okay dude let's see you take a swing at Pokemon Desolation, a fangame that made me struggle whilst playing with what is the closest thing to baby-difficulty/godmode you can have in Pokemon. (All my Pokemon have 31 IVs in every stat and there is no cap to EVs they earn (other than the 254 EVs they can have in a single stat, so every stat can have 254 EVs, as opposed to the usual 510 EVs maximum) And that's STILL playing vs code. Now imagine playing against a human being who can see the cheese you're doing and adapt to it. At the risk of sounding like a gatekeeper: You wouldn't last a second on Pokemonshowdown and Pokemon can be FAR from easy (Not that a game needs to be hard and challenging to be enjoyable)

17:15 Cooking is an Art. Baking is Chemistry 212 🤣

Emkay: “I don’t eat my pizza with ranch, what is wrong with you?!” Me: * sits here feeling called out *

I understood how therapeutic being outside was when I was five years old. This dingdong thinks he's special.

17:27 I saw this (with the "also dear women" part cut off) a while back, but underneath it had a speechbubble pointing to berdly from deltarune lmao

11:55 Painting nails were invented in China.

I really like that the editors have added more visuals to Robin's rants. Like I like Robin but sometimes the rants can be tedious and my adhd brain just can't stand looking at the same post constantly while just listening to someone work themselves into a tizzy

22:01 Okay, as a Taiwanese, I kind of understand gatekeeping food. It's a little more complicated with non-white food because I've seen boba tea shops in the US and they'll just use the powdered stuff for everything. They'll dump whatever they thing will taste good like cotton candy (not an exaggeration. There's a boba tea place in Universal City Boardwalk Hollywood that does this) and make it sweet as sh*t because that's what sells. "If that's what people want, then why not?" Because it dilutes the brand. They'll think that boba tea is SUPPOSE to be expensive (It's not suppose to be. It's suppose to be dirt cheap. I got one tonight. It was like a 1.70 USD for 700ml.). They'll come here to Taiwan thinking the drinks suck because it's not overloaded with sugar or weirded out because it actually has real tea in it. They'll take some food item, make it badly, call it deconstructed and try to convince people it's the standard and everyone else is doing it badly. They'll miss the point or the cultural significance or the taste or they'll do it their way and then try to GATEKEEP THE ORIGINAL CULTURE THAT INVENTED IT (Really. I've had Americans tell me they eat more Chinese food than I do. Me. The person who cooked and has cooked his own food, and only Chinese food, for almost every meal, from the age of 12.), etc. and almost gentrifying it while trying to scam people. "They won't do that! You're exaggerating!" I hear you might say. *sigh* Look up Universal City Board walk Hollywood again. There's a "Japanese" restaurant there. The Japanese on the menu? It's almost all fake. The whiskey section has the kanji for "Kanpai". Entre's is translated as "Antore" in Japanese. What's "Antore" you might ask? "Antore" is the JAPANESE PRONOUNCIATION FOR THE WORD "ENTRE"! For drinks, they literally write in English "Nomimono", which they also write in Japanese. So... for drinks, they write "drinks" in Japanese and not English but not entre or appetizer is in English because... reasons? The kanji for "sake" is "mokuteki" or "goal" in Japanese... Which makes it sound like they made the menu with the goal of selling expensive sake to unknowing/unwitting non-Japanese people. If, like, a non-Chinese person learned the culture and the language and shows respect for the food, the food culture and its origins, I have no problems. But that very, very, veryveryvery often isn't the case. So yeah, not all gatekeeping is bad, in my opinion. Just, like, most of it because I've seen a lot of people trying to get into stuff for the sole purpose of trying to be better than everyone else (I've had people telling me I don't know as much as about anime as they do. B*tch, I was watching Fist of the North star before you were born), as a measuring stick to "other" people they don't like, or to gatekeep other's if they have an opinion on an anime that's outside their own (Why do you think most anime is about a bad of outcasts? You know, AKA, the people that were kept out of things in society?). People that want to get into something just to use it to harm/hurt/demean/etc. others, those people need to be gatekepted out.

12:52 - The point about LotR also applies to SW and Marvel, because both have vast and detailed secondary sections of canon that casual fans of the movies and TV shows may never interact with. MCU fans may not be comics readers. Star wars fans may watch the movies and Disney+ shows, but may know kark-all about Legends. Hell, I have learned a lot about some sections of Legends since getting into SW fanfic, especially stuff about Obi-Wan's padawan years and Jango Fett's backstory, since I have mostly been in the Clone Wars part of SW timeline, and favouring Obi-Wan as a character.

Hoo boy. I'm feeling pretty crappy putting maybe 30 hours collective time into Mario Wonder if 100 is being used as a base metric. Any levels ya'll recommend so I can grind out the remaining 70 even though I 100%ed everything?

I live about 10 minutes from the Italian border. Is the pizza better there? Yeah. Can I still appreciate other pizza? Yes I can.

9:52 I don’t know why it was so funny when DIO’s Stand popped up when Robin said “The World” but I was dying of laughter

10:12 parents who gatekeep things about having children are just jealous they cant do things they actually want to anymore. There was a post about a woman saying that childless couples couldnt go to disneyland. And im convinced she was just jealous she didnt get to enjoy herself

I’m a punk and I’ll never understand the gatekeepers in the sky communities, like yeah there is a line, like for example if you don’t even listen to punk music or hold beliefs only contrary to punk then chances are you aren’t punk but past the music and beliefs you can be a punk no matter what, I know a lot of other “punks” will go “um actually you’re wrong because of blah blah blah” but don’t listen to them

9:51 ZA WARUDO????

A "geek" is someone who has like 50 figurines and another 100 dollars spent per obsession Almost like getting yelled at or *slapped* damages a childs emotional state

1:57 "I hate yet to meet a w*man." Not surprised.

18:45 fight me when you can beat fire emblem with no deaths on insane. - Sincerely, a woman(? Maybe nonbinary egg. Idk)

18:47 bro just called the company and game that almost single-handedly saved the American video game market a "baby game and baby game company" bro i cant with these mfs💀 also Sony may have never MADE a console without Nintendo

I can confirm Hello Kitty is starting to trend. My girls and their friends are all about Hello Kitty now and I’m loving it. 9:24 also, despite being a parent, you can be tired, exhausted, and know about the world without kids. I hate when people do that. If you don’t want kids, don’t have kids.

Hello Kitty's anniversary was recently. She just celebrated her 50th anniversary

"androids cant be jailbroken" *gestures toward dunning kruger graph*

"I have yet to meet a woman-" Well played, editor. Well played.