Love the usage of the new cam, really switches up stuff from just b-roll. Keep it up🔥

New evangaard vid lets goooo

Okay opening the previously established can of worms/beans was hilarious!

I do believe we can and should separate the artist from their work, mainly because we don't know ANY authors personally and we'll NEVER be 100% sure they've NEVER done something bad. That aside, you can stop supporting their work and that's totally valid. I personally will never stop loving Rurouni Kenshin, I believe it's one of the best series out there, but I totally despise Nobuhiro and I hope (since he didn't go to jail...) he did reflect on his life and never watches that shit again, but even if he does I would not consume any new series made by him.

I've always been in the mindset of separate the artist from their work. For example, Jon Berthal, an American actor, love all if not most of the things he's been in, heard he's a massive prick. Now opinions can sway but I still feel you should be able to distinguish from fact and fiction.

whatever stance the world chooses to take on the art and the artist. I wouldn't care cos no one can tell me what and what not to enjoy.

Ah yes watching Evangaard 3 AM > homework > sleep

You like worms?! My best friend's mother's brother's cousin's nephew's dog ate a worm and died! How dare you!

My very first favorite problematic book was a collection of problems called The Bible. How could the same work contain The Golden Rule and Hell? I think that contradiction prepared me to mine the good and potential good from monsters who either wrote or supported horrors like Numbers 31:17, 18. You can learn good things from those who lie to you or themselves, but only after you've built up a healthy skepticism and a good ethical foundation to begin with. That said? While this nuance is helpful when watching WWE, I'm less persuaded there's good to be found in directly engaging with something like Hitler's works. Only one perspective is offered, and it's intentionally deceptive the entire time. The only good it offers is awareness of how fools became goose stepping tools of fascist violence. And you can gain that wisdom elsewhere. So, somewhere between an author who believed in Christ at his best and an author who was just Hitler at his worst, lie the many shades in between. Obviously. Yet, as simple and obvious as that statement is, most people still argue over a single solution to an artificial binary. Thank you for giving your audience more credit.

I also have quiet a interesting take on separating art from the artist. I personally think people use it to excuse their actions for themselves than to actually make that separation. I find that "separating art from the artist" is more commonly "not separating art from the artist, unless said artist is problematic". I myself really like separating art from artist, for on reason that a lot of art is often created by many people, films have 100's of people in the credits, anime is similar, a lot of commercial art is made by a cultivation of many creatives and we often see that one particular person gets the credit for all of it. But in cases where the art is made from a smaller source I understand focusing on the artist, even then it might be better to focus on the art as commercial media is just so control and a lot of what we end up seeing is not the pure creative work of a person and rather a pandering to audiences to keep a job. Very few creatives actually make it in a way that they can make exactly what they want. So anyways, I personally separate art from artist in most cases, no matter who the artist is. I just find it hypocritical for someone to say "separate art from artist" with Rorouni Kenshin and then turn around and be a Quentin Tarantino snob. It's clear you actually care about artist so just acknowledge that you like the piece of art even though the artist is problematic, and hey, this is a good case for piracy, if you pirate work from a terrible person so they don't get money, I respect it. Summary of argument, I think the though is used as a mental scapegoat for people and I simply find it a healthier solution is to just acknowledge your feelings. Also good video, very comprehensive!

So fun fact : even if you pirate something in order to try and avoid supporting someone monetarily, it still gains cultural influence/power and with today's data mining/collecting, can still be used to prove that demand is there to create new editions, adaptations, issue the creater to create more, etc.