The fact that he criticized elden ring is less of an issue than the fact that his criticism was: "My inability to understand atmospheric and clue based storytelling is bad writing"

​@@kyuken893 You know more than I do. I have no interest in watching anyone in the EFAP/ Fandom Menace lot because they're all chuds.

Literally the only reason I watched him. Sorry, I'm a fantasy nerd, and I really enjoyed his commentary on stuff like flails. Yeah, a spiked ball on a chain is a ridiculous weapon, I never thought about it, interesting. It's quite likely they never existed since it seems like it would do more damage to the person using it. Cool. Then he came out with this stuff. WTF? My man, I wanted medieval vids, not medieval attitudes towards women and minorities.

Fr though. The content I used to enjoy from him was talking about castles and shit. This is just pathetic now

Even before all those the masking was coming off and that book. JFC that book

And good on him for it.

You win

Which Sha? The Sha of Pride or the Sha of Wrath?

"Sha the Pro-fa"

​@@aureliodeprimus8018 the Sha of Malamadingdong

Actually it is misspelled "shadyversity" as he is very shady character indeed.

Gasp! SIDESHAD BOB

@@kingofallpie He's become a *_Shad_* ow Of The Conqueror (or turned out to be)

"I put all these rakes on the floor and then walked around with a blindfold and this happened! It's a conspiracy!"

Spot on🎉

F☠️king brilliant! 👌🤣

Those vids sent me down a brief but very fixated rabbit hole of castle design If only he could have stayed in the analysis of fantasy and castles instead of showing how awful he was, maybe he would still be popular.

Because of the machicolations thing I had this realisation I knew more about castles than him and he had never visited a single castle, I stopped viewing ages ago, then he had a brief mask off moment comparing being Mormon to being black and talking about "tHe n-WoRd" in scare quotes and a weird dismissive tone I've tried to demonstrate with the typing style.

@@dorianleakey Yeah, he never was an expert and I stopped watching him ages ago before all this fascist bs.

​@@dorianleakeyHis level of knowledge is shallow. As in read general Wikipedia article of castle structures.

He still does. He was smart enough to make a separate channel for his other content. I mostly get his stuff from Shadiversity in my feed. I almost never see his other channels content. I don't think I am subscribed to it.

"Garsh, maybe we should quit showering rich corporations with tax breaks, subsidies and welfare" - no conservative ever.

Is that a “I didn’t think the panthers would eat my face” moment?

Well, of course. As you and your ilk have ALWAYS been that which you claim your opponents to be. Masters of projection that you are.😆

Moot point since the left bends over for anything as long as they show a rainbow😂

If only more of these chuds would get a taste for what real and going on below, we could have some real progress. But they'll always "get theirs" and backstab. Better I cook us some popcorn so we watch them cope.

The book is an interesting concept, but terrible execution.

@@darththeo That's what my brother said about it.

Same, it was just painful to watch. I mean he really doesn't like actual feed back does he.

​​@@darththeo it's not even an original concept. So it doesn't even deserve that credit. Bio Of A Space Tyrant by Piers Anthony basically does the same thing and in an infinitely more compelling and sophisticated way. Although, it's ALSO full of incredibly problematic and probably self-reporting issues. And if Shad didn't use AI to write his novel, from his age, it isn't entirely possible that he read that book series when he was a teenager, and that's where his "great idea" came from.

@@UberNoodle That's why I said "interesting" not "original." Original concepts are rare. And are you talking about the rape apologist section of the novel? Because that is just messed up.

KZfaq's biggest problem lies in overuse of AI.

Not only is he unlikeable, but even if he was, he has literally told his viewers to not support creators, and fosters a fanbase who believes that everything will work out as long as they don't go woke and try, so none of them are even gonna WANT to help him.

@@justsomeguy5628 He appears likable like many sociopaths.

@@justsomeguy5628 "he has literally told his viewers to not support creators" Feel free to show any evidence of this as he has made videos prior explicity saying that he doesn't want people to stop supporting creators that he's had beef with

@@bengrogan9710 I mean artists.

Lying constantly about Sellswords made it so much worse.

​@@jklinders whats better is that Sellsword was so diplomatic and open to talk with Shad , and Shad lashed back EVERYTIME

@@jklinders i dont think shad knows how to be truthful

@@danielomar9712 I love how Sellsword response was "We can have a debate, but here are the conditions." Then lists reasonable conditions for a debate and Shad flipped out over the conditions, acting like Sellsword was being completely unreasonable to him. His blatant misrepresentation of what Sellsword said was so terrible. Sellsword said something like "Cutting water bottles only can tell you so much." And Shad treated that as him saying "You can't test on water bottles."

The full load of the internet on his face OMG teaspit.gif

Fr

agree with him or not, but let's not blame people for their childhood trauma; that's a low ball.

I feel so bad for Jazza, every time I hear about Shad. I can't imagine having a sibling be such a disappointment, and to disrespect me so much as a person through their presence online.

@@secutorprimus i know it. I relate to Jazza a lot. I'm an ex JW, and my family is... i can't have a convo with my mom without her preaching at me

@@ravenblackwing7888 I knew some people who left JW. From what I've heard that religion is hell. I hope you're in better place right now. And happy birthday whenever you have them 🙂

Well when a progressive company does well, they say it is a conspiracy and that it is proof they are oppressed, and therefore the poor reactionary conservatives deserve everyone's blind, total support. When conservatives do poorly, it is because the world is against them. When conservatives do well, they just say it is proof that everyone actually agrees with them and that anyone who disagrees must therefore be outcasts and wrong. But then, when a bad thing happens to a group they don't like, then of course that is when they ACTUALLY seem to pull out that dumb phrase and act like it means anything. This would be a lot less funny though uf it weren't for the fact that the conservatives we are talking about are entirely reactionary and lack any ability to engage in media analysis or engage in actual research or critical thinking, so nearly ever property gets all 4 attacks by conservative reactionaries, and often multiple of these contradicting tactics will be used by the same people for the same properties and companies, and no one calls them on it because their viewers only care about the feeling the videos give, not whether or not the videos are true or if anything good actually comes of anything they engage with or do.

Go fash, lose cash

BE CHUD GO THUD

He heard the phrase and refused to do the woke part.

Yep, I unsubbed about a year ago. I can’t support that kind of mindset.

Edgy for money mofos realizing that it means living on the outside.. the posers

Go anti-woke, go broke.

You Machiavellian schemer, you

Mwahahahahaha

I’m gonna do that right now. Thanks for the suggestion

I’d argue he could have a solid audience and still have right wing talking points , there’s quite a bit of overlap in audience with like age of empires and 40 k fans , where he falls though is his insufferable narcissism and over estimation of his own abilities.

That’s the thing about their arguments about systemic injustice. They always boil down to “systemic racism doesn’t exist, but also White people are totally facing systemic racism. Systemic sexism doesn’t exist, but also men are totally facing systemic sexism.” And so forth for each issue, until we get, “systemic injustice doesn’t exist, but White cis straight conservative men are totally being oppressed by the system.”

Kaboom - one of the best comments I've ever read.

He doesn't talk politics on Shadiversity ... he does on his Knights watch channel. Censorship issues have been confirmed. In fact it turns out Australlia is calling for censorship of things going there from Twitter and Rumble and such.

@@ronpetersen2317 You don't know what censorship means - and it's certainly not Shad and his fellow wingnuts who are facing it. Heck, one of the world's largest and most powerful global media conglomerates is owned by an australian who runs the largest UK tabloid The Sun, the Washington Post as well as the measured by viewers largest TV news network worldwide FOX News - and they are all pushing Shad's political views, or better he's pushing their's. And how did Murdoch get so big and insanely rich that it's _his subsidiaries are influencing politics all across the world_ you might wonder? Because it's billionaire wingnuts like him who are in cahoots with the elites and perpetuate whatever is best for the wealthy and powerful - and these people hold nothing but contempt for their victims you like you who are not only poor but actually bought into their narratives. It could be hilarious if it wasn't this frightening.

Are you new to youtube comments??? They get full of rage in general.

Or on twitter he just blocks anyone with even the vaguest amount of criticism

@@Scarlet_Soul Well blocking people that might be jerks is good advice. They are not worth the time so block and move on. More people on the internet should do that.

@@ronpetersen2317 Oh I mean even people who were overall supporting him but just giving a little criticism. It was quite the cluster fluff to watch

@@Scarlet_Soul Well seeing people blocked isn't that much fun drama to watch ... you see no exchanges

Inb4 he gets invited to the lolcow podcast

I was bloccckinng

​@@thrillhouse4151NOTHING I COULD DOOO

Numbers3118 sad and true. I used to be more active in his detractor community before they got really fashy.

"I did nothing wrong! I did everything correct!"

Apparently he left the church in age of 18-19. Which is actually kinda interesting that they keep in contact because you'd think that someone as extreme as Shad would shun him by principle. Sure, Shunning isn't a formal Mormon practice by any means(Unlike in Jehova's Witnessess for example, where it is very much enforced), but Shad "seems the type".

@@Ruosteinenknight he also values family so it makes sense he would keep in contact. tbh

He forgot his core audience are D&D nerds and not 40k nerds.

and another subsection were creative types that just wanted to make their sword weilding characters right. I wonder why that "AI Images are love" video he made, lead to a public thrashing..... 🤔 guess we'll never know..

His sword stuff was good. It was of lesser quality than what you can find if you are interested in sword stuff but far more entertaining. Hell even though the characters and story of his book are horrific the world-building is honestly outstanding. He made a Flat planet that is constantly falling within an infinite loop and this large rock falls past the planet and this is how they keep time hence Night Fall night literally falls as this stone passes the light source. It is a quality "hard fantasy" with a hard magic system. It is just that everything else about the book sucks. He fought with Sellsword Arts and was just wrong he fought with Sakkligrim and was wrong and just an ass, he was just... strange in his objections. He was basically Sakkligrim sucks because he thinks women are cool. Sorry for the novel I just have to give context that... yeah if Shad did not go full "Onward Mormon soldier!" his channel would be doing awesome.

Same

Same. I saw a couple of his sword videos a couple of years ago and thought they were ok, then he started inserting little digs at SJWs and feminism and I realized, "Oh. He's like THAT, then." And stopped watching.

​@@tinstrings6312Right?! It was when he criticized a woman using a sword in battle in the Witcher that told me everything I needed to know.

Same

Four HOURS of rage-blather of nunchaku. Expert on subject gets maybe one hour of fact.

@@vksasdgaming9472 I agree nunchaku aren't great weapons, but holy crap did he just repeat himself in those rants. But, I rather have nunchaku than just bare fists in a martial fight.

​@@darththeo It is less-lethal, concealable PDW. Police equipment as well. Way better than straigh baton of equal size. His fanboybots are worse when they try to "improve" his arguments.

​​@@vksasdgaming9472nunchaku are not better than a baton of equal size, lol Physics just isn't on nunchaku's side here. Unless by better you strictly mean "more concealable" and "better at threshing" and not "more effective at hurting people other than yourself" Just because shad it's wrong about virtually everything else, he's not wrong about nunchaku. There's a reason why they are relegated to fantasy weaponry, like the flail, and almost never used historically in real life

@@UrsulaMajor Striking power is practically equal to equally long baton and it is way more versatile in use and convenient to carry. Physics and ergonomics are on nunchaku's side. Shad is not the reason why he is wrong about nunchaku as his "arguments" have been disproven time and time again. That means he is wrong and copycat as he can't even invent lies of his own. Not to mention his ridiculpus contraption is just badly made and designed despite nunchaku fundamentally being expendable. Nunchaku is not "fantasy weapon" either as it has seen and still sees regular and effective use on both sides of law. American police know nunchaku very dangerous weapon to be at receiving end of. and for that reason have gotten their own as issued equipment. Try using nunchaku and you will see reality. No - it does not take "years of training" to have decent skill with it. Perhaps most skilled user of nunchaku in recorded history has less time used on training than current champion of epee has.

Hey! L-bars for making a double bladed swords aren't cheep you know! /jk

fr I've always gotten right-wing trash recommended to and advertised at me even though I never watch any of it and every now and then I take the extra step to click the dots and tell youtube I'm not interested in the video or go into the ad settings and click the "see less of this type of ad" button and block the ad

i love getting anti-lgbt+ ads from prageru and daily wire on videos made by queer creators on youtube 🥲

The right wing always do this. It’s never their fault, it’s always a conspiracy. It’s just like how Kevin Sorbo blames his lack of a career on oppression against his conservative beliefs and not because he’s a terrible actor who nobody likes.

@@bryanlinsmeyer3521yeah I have the same thing - eventually I just stopped clicking the “do not recommend” / “block channel” options because I like to keep an eye on what they’re talking about at any given time

Well the ads is because they pay for that, it isn't generated by the popularity of their content.

Same.

same here

Yeah I only watched some of his more popular videos about like swords and armor and stuff and thought he was fine until I found out he had this side of him through Jake's videos

He rubbed me the wrong way for a while, and then he was like "here's a cool guest I like: Lauren Southern!"

The irony is that before he went REALLY nuts and rightwing, he had decent media literacy and some good observations about media and what should go into a novel, but now that he's "redpilled" he can't even parse obvious allegory

True, but that's how he would view it. He knows it's a grift. He's creating chaff for the sheep to eat and chum for the sharks. Content. Even his horribly written childish, 4chan reject novel is content. You don't hear anyone who actually cares and is truly passionate about their work call it content. They call it essay, documentary, article, report, etc.

The term "content creator" makes me want to scream. -_-

100%! I’ve never acclimated to the current usage of the word “content” as a noun. it always struck me as vaguely dystopian. like, the media itself is an undifferentiated mass, or a memetic bolus, which exists simply to be chewed and consumed… it’s like a modern “Soylent Green” “must… consume… CONTENT…”

cold and robotic? ... definitely not corporate. He goes into epic rants on swords and such at times. What are you talking about.

He just trying to sound professional during his little presentation.

When Shad is taking about HEMA things, he is relatively competent. But, anytime another creator in the field disagrees with him, he takes it as a personal insult. I have lost count of the number at this point. He just cannot take criticism. I don't know what happened to the land he bought in Australia to build his castles ... but yeah, that's what people think of when visiting Australia ... castles. I liked him too, but it was clear he isn't someone who approaches things honestly.

I would argue that a lot of the stuff you mention is linked to his politics, but other than that, yeah, seems pretty much spot on. I am one of those "normal", not far right, nerds who did initially find and enjoy his earlier stuff because I like swords and history stuff. Not so much a fan of the whole anti woke whinery though... I actually quite like the idea of people being allowed to exist the way they want.

I feel like the anti-woke conservative crowd is falling from its peak because even people in those spaces are sick of it. I think it boils down to bad arguments, bad takes, and its not coming from an authentic place it's just about money. Even other centralists and conservatives I spoke to feel sick and tired of how almost cartoony the space has become. Ben Shapiro put out a Barbie movie video last year that was so bad other in the right-wing space were deeply critical of how overblown it was. Whiny about the Princess Peach video game feels like its in that same ballpark, its like okay....who cares its a video game. So yeah if he's trying to get into that sphere of online media, I say good luck causes its so oversaturated and on the decline mostly due to how lame its become.

@@TheSpeep the problem is its like not really coming from an authentic place of truth (Shad I mean). Its like how princess peach is wearing jeans affecting anyone? The space for right wing or even centralists has been turned into a bit of a gold rush to become the next Shapiro but its coming across as deeply insincere. I'm all for equal voices if they are not just about chasing that KZfaq money if that makes sense.

What do you think this channel does? lol the whole thing is just foaming at the mouth. You are literally hate-watching shit

@@idontevenknow9758 You're talking about small talking points on youtube, though. Those are nothing-burgers. Google is firing people for being too "woke". The real life consequences for dumb behavior far outweigh superfluous, fleeting feelings about Peach's pants lol.

he doesnt event talk about the stuff he used to talk when i found his channel, when i found him it was basically talking about how realistic castle were in games

@@devforfun5618, Ah, the good old times of the 2015's...

@@devforfun5618 Like testing 3D printed plastic chainmail. That was interesting.

Yup. His self-awareness is pretty bad

His blather made me quit before he proved his love of Dunning-Kruger.

This is the issue, even if you set aside the political stuff, there’s now a ton of better history content on KZfaq. These guys who garnered an audience a decade ago just aren’t going to hang onto it unless they have a stellar personality or specialized expertise, & he has neither. Plus, he makes it clear that he’s making videos for the money, which would be a turn-off no matter what

Ayep. More time to watch Skall and Matt Easton to name a few.

@@seanrush3723 Easton apparently roasted Shad so bad they cancelled a video when Shad visited England. 😬

Yeah, he got into it with Matt Easton on some HEMA topic at one point, and I was like, 'nope, I know which of these two actually know more about HEMA.' I got so tired of Shad's never backing down, never admitting he could possibly be wrong that I just stopped watching. And then he started being super open being a right-wing tool, and I was super glad I'd already quit watching at that point.

That name gave me an anxiety attack

​@@lokithegecko9434why?

@@ravenblackwing7888 Turd Flinging Monkey the MGTOW guy

@@ravenblackwing7888 Shadiversity has stiff competition for the title of worst Shad on the internet.

@@ravenblackwing7888 Sellsword really enjoys hearing himself talk. He is insufferable.

People like shad have been primed to think they're the "silent majority" at this point, that's why they always assume they're being "censored" or ✨"cancelled"✨, rather than just acknowledging their opinion is unpopular.

You put that so well! Yes, I had the same impression and tapped out a long time ago.

@@w0t_m818If Mormonism is anything like Evangelical Christianity, then they also constantly indoctrinate people with persecution complexes. Once they have said complex, so many negative circumstances suddenly becomes persecution, no matter how mild or unrelated to their religion the setback is. - Ex Fundie

Even back then I thought the ways he brought up his mormonism were often kinda weird, but I didnt know that much about it so I didnt dwell on it. Having since learned more about it... Well, yikes... but it does explain why he went off the fcking rails the way he did.

I think a lot of people do not understand that you have the right to say whatever you want BUT not without consequences. If you know your opinion is not gonna be popular and you're a public figure that depends on social engagement, you kind of have to draw that line in the sand. You can have fantastic conversations about in terms of what it actually means to be silenced if you will. But the thing is no one is silencing Shad. He's channel was doing pretty good for a while he has almost 2 million subs for Peets sake. And KZfaq unless you do something super egregious is pretty laidback (I mean hello the alpha male podcast community is thriving at the moment, and they post garage takes). So I 100% agree with you what's happening to Shad is the classic "F**k around and find out" he decided to push his audience or anyone who would watch his videos. He also just stopped making good videos.

Conservatives think that they have an excellent understanding of how the world works, and that we should allow them to have power over us.

The twist is that it wasn’t his politics that did it, it was the swords and fantasy nonsense

this is what happens when you stop making content people want to see and instead make videos about ai nonsense, it ain't the woke, it is 100% on his fault for not keeping his mouth shut on politics

He had a similar video regarding the Witcher that said women using swords well in battle was unrealistic.

@@robynpress9534 the more I hear about his antics, the more I think he treats history just like a flat-earther treats physics.

Thats dope. Hope your mom is still around and kicking ass.

@@Tentegen yes she is, thank you!!!

On Shadowversity? On his other channel he might.

Oh, I think I remember that one. Shad made a tweet longer crying about it.

He did not even mention Shad, but Shad made it a big issue on Twitter.

It was around 2018 when politics started to get into his videos... it's when I started to not like his content as other issues started to be revealed... He has drama with lots of people because he just can't let his ego down... it has started to consume him. :/

@@aralornwolf3140 Sellsword Arts wasn't even the first time he beefed with HEMA content creators. He has no desire to treat anyone with basic respect because he views disagreement as personal attacks to him. He views criticism of his work as a personal attack. He is incapable of separating himself from his work, his work is him and he is his work.

What does that CHUD (with various spellings) means?

@vksasdgaming9472 Cannibalistic. Humanoid. Underground. Dweller. But we use it as shorthand for conservatives and right wingers

@@animalxINSTINCT89 Why not use proper terms like wannazi (merger of wannabe and nazi), nutcase, scammer or moron?

@@vksasdgaming9472 Because CHUD is funnier...

@@animalxINSTINCT89 There are better words to use in that context. Funnily enough only thing I know has been referred to as such lacks "underground" from his attributes.

especially if you go from "swords" to the generally less-interesting topic of "low-quality culture-war garbage"

@@andrewkoster6506 That wouldn't have any effect given that is on his secondary channel.

@@ronpetersen2317 Ok, so I’m getting two completely different stories. Some are telling me his main channel used to be all about swords and now it includes, let’s call it political commentary, as well. Is this not true?

Go fash, lose cash :p

I literally just saw someone blaming jews in the comments of the video being covered, lol

@@robynpress9534 Oh, I'm sure Knight's Watch or whatever is packed with yahtzees and CHUDs.

Ok how about a bet then? Trans people or jews, who gets blamed first?

@TheSpeep Well, since he's already blaming "wokeism", a purposefully vague umbrella term that could be applied to both groups, it could be argued that he already has. I'm just waiting for the dog whistles. He'll eventually blame everyone not white, conservative, and cis/het for his failure.

What the heck??? Have you seen the news? That is 100% coming from the left. In the US there were all kinds of antisemitism in colleges going on. A local collage university professor in my area made the news because he literally was calling for people to stalk and attack reporters that in his view are supporting Israel. And what about Ben Shapiro ... he is super conservative and he is super dooper Jewish. Antisemitism is a huge issue on the left big time. So much hate. I hate hate.

It has worked in some ways for him, those loyal subscribers are all people who accept things he does not matter how bad. The whining doesn't help with it not growing that base. With the change people like Sargon made years ago, they already had toxic fanbases who hated women and were pulling Sargon along with them, with Shad it's more of a sideways step. And the whining.

a big part of the success is that it opens doors for you. the right is always so hungry for figures to celebrate, that once you have your reactionary “coming out” (ie. you freak out at a local school board meeting, or you lose your job for being racist, or you have a grievance rant that goes viral, etc etc) you get invited on Tim Pool’s show, then you get interviewed on Daily Wire, then you appear on Fox News, then you speak at a TPUSA event, and eventually you start your own media endeavor and get pampered by the conservative hug box. but shad is too egotistical and narcissistic, and it makes him hard to collaborate with. he’s thin-skinned too and just assumes that any lack of deference is a personal slight, so he can’t make it through this readymade grifter pipeline

He lost me with "women can't swordfight"

I bought his book... want it?

​@@robynpress9534I am certain he would discard Julie d'Aubigny as woke fantasy. She was real French person whose (admittedly spottily recorded) life was full of broken faces and hearts of both genders.

Go fash, lose cash

That was true red flag of his inability to actually study anything. Then he has waved it many times more.

i dont know if you are joking, but i find the idea that a drain cleaning channel has better content than shativersity hilarious, whether its true or not. At least a drain cleaner removes sh*t, shat just produces it 🤣🤣

@@Kira-zy2ro The guy is legitimately hilarious, and the drain cleaning is oddly satisfying. Shad is just sad.

Fascist? Is anything right of center fascist now?

@@nicholas4727 center where? The center in the US isn’t the same as the center elsewhere. That’s a super relative term.

@@Mae-hx2ml Fascism is also a relative term and doesn't just mean right wing or traditional. But people like you have absolutely butchered the meaning of it by using it so flippantly.

@@nicholas4727 fascism is not a relative term in any way. It can be defined. Simplest definition is authoritarianism via merger of state and corporate interest. That’s super vague as is though which is why the fourteen point fediniton put forward by Umberto Eco

@@Mae-hx2ml my mistake I meant to say it is a definition that is well defined but you were originally bastardizing how you were defining it. What has led you to believe that shadiversity is fascist in any way?

What happened with Hannah? If you don't mind me asking?

@@Naptosis she had a crush on Jake and started sexually harassing him.

@@kayakat1869 Oh gosh, thanks for replying; I found the vids. 😬

With a therapist*

I don't think he financially can. I feel like he has been so delusional about how his channel trajectory would go that he spends stupidly. He self published his book and you know it wasn't a runaway hit. He probably spends a ton on all his AI art applications. He makes all his own sets and "weapons" and that costs. Also, his aesthetic obsession about medieval everything, you know he has decked out his man cave or more of his house into his fantasy era. Add in the percentage of income that he HAS to tithe to the Mormon church. He wants to be Brandon Sanderson so much that he has deluded himself into thinking that's his natural trajectory in his person and professional life. The exception is Sanderson had been trying to distance himself from his more conservative leaning ideals, not leaning in. That and apparently, he's actually a really nice, humble, and considerate guy. Unlike Shad who just seems to be leaning into his self importance and the mask has slipped. People see who he really is now, and they don't like it. And when you get the ick about one thing you start to see ALL the things.