Over time I've learned that Razorfist likes to be a contrarian. I generally like the guy and agree with a good chunk of his politics and videos (especially if and when he actually genuinely seems to care about the subject) , but he seems to intentionally find whatever is buzzing at a particular point in time and usually try to take a pointedly opposing viewpoint to it, usually with a convenient new "based" niche or forgotten thing/person he recently got into.
A lot of it is justified in the sense that a lot of popular shit out there is wrong, but when you craft a longstanding identity around this sort of thing, it makes me doubt your authenticity.
One of his videos praising Vanderbilt when he was a scrappy underdog while pointedly ignoring his behavior once he himself was in a monopolistic position is one such example. His video on Bande Dessinee (French Comics) would have been fine, but he couldn't hold himself back from having an anti-manga spergout at the end of it; you could tell how happy he was because he's a comics guy who is aware comics are shit, but is too autistic to ever like manga, so when he found something that nobody seemed to be talking about as an alternative he was like a kid in a candy store. His video on Lincoln wasn't the best researched and he leaned too hard to try to make the South look like angels and Lincoln look like the devil (don't get me wrong, Lincoln had a lot of issues and did behave like a dictator, and the North definitely tried to impose their will upon the South, but let's not pretend that the Civil War was just the villainous tyrannical north slaughtering the innocent freedom-loving south)
Any time manga/anime is brought up in a livestream he loves to point out that it was probably inspired by something in the West first. He's the kind of guy who likes weeb shit (and even lived in Japan) but also makes fun of it because that was the thing to do when he was growing up. I really enjoyed his Lincoln video but I'm not very educated on the topic, so I wouldn't have noticed what he got wrong there.
Yeah I've noticed he likes other Japanese media and things like their music and some of their games (which he's surprisingly okay with turning off his anti-anime bias for), was not aware he lived in Japan though.
In terms of his Lincoln video, some historian youtuber did a pretty brutal reaction critique on it (though I don't agree with all of his criticisms, some were pretty dumb/unfair, but he did have several good points and pointed out several holes and lack of strong sources in Razor's video).
Over time I've learned that Razorfist likes to be a contrarian. I generally like the guy and agree with a good chunk of his politics and videos (especially if and when he actually genuinely seems to care about the subject) , but he seems to intentionally find whatever is buzzing at a particular point in time and usually try to take a pointedly opposing viewpoint to it, usually with a convenient new "based" niche or forgotten thing/person he recently got into.
A lot of it is justified in the sense that a lot of popular shit out there is wrong, but when you craft a longstanding identity around this sort of thing, it makes me doubt your authenticity.
One of his videos praising Vanderbilt when he was a scrappy underdog while pointedly ignoring his behavior once he himself was in a monopolistic position is one such example. His video on Bande Dessinee (French Comics) would have been fine, but he couldn't hold himself back from having an anti-manga spergout at the end of it; you could tell how happy he was because he's a comics guy who is aware comics are shit, but is too autistic to ever like manga, so when he found something that nobody seemed to be talking about as an alternative he was like a kid in a candy store. His video on Lincoln wasn't the best researched and he leaned too hard to try to make the South look like angels and Lincoln look like the devil (don't get me wrong, Lincoln had a lot of issues and did behave like a dictator, and the North definitely tried to impose their will upon the South, but let's not pretend that the Civil War was just the villainous tyrannical north slaughtering the innocent freedom-loving south)
Any time manga/anime is brought up in a livestream he loves to point out that it was probably inspired by something in the West first. He's the kind of guy who likes weeb shit (and even lived in Japan) but also makes fun of it because that was the thing to do when he was growing up. I really enjoyed his Lincoln video but I'm not very educated on the topic, so I wouldn't have noticed what he got wrong there.
Yeah I've noticed he likes other Japanese media and things like their music and some of their games (which he's surprisingly okay with turning off his anti-anime bias for), was not aware he lived in Japan though.
In terms of his Lincoln video, some historian youtuber did a pretty brutal reaction critique on it (though I don't agree with all of his criticisms, some were pretty dumb/unfair, but he did have several good points and pointed out several holes and lack of strong sources in Razor's video).