In early days of Youtube, criticism and "negativity" was the main thing. Seeing sacred cows get analyzed and broken apart and told why it's overrated and why you're an idiot for thinking it's as good as it is was par for the course.
This style of discourse is the norm here....because this forum isn't normies.
Now on Youtube any criticism of even a video game is delivered with 1000 caveats or an extreme level of irony like "can you imagine actually going against the grain like some sort of chud". There's a guy something Mayo who is hugely controversial for daring to make a video saying Arkham Knight sucks.
Videos like that were common place back in the day. Razorfist is well known for it, and while I never liked this other guy, Zero Punctuation was also known for it.
Even mainstream channels like Gametrailers, Screwattack, if they had an opinion that was against the grain, they'd just say it.
Try finding a video of "insert game sucks" and not be inundated with ironic videos where they just parrot the consensus.
The really unsettling thing is if they're unwilling to go against the grain on video games, how weak and prone to "agreeability" are they on actual taboo issues?
This is why I say feminine. Don't make waves, this opinion could hurt somebody....what if that's someone's favorite game, me critiquing it without 1000 caveats could leave them crying into their pillow, I can't have that.
I remember listening to podcasts back in the day, like PS3 era and people would talk about how in Japan they give everything a 9 out of 10 and games journalism is useless because of "politeness society". Well we're basically there on Youtube. People who's livlihoods aren't even at stake are afraid to say something sucks or why something sucks.
You get called edgy for saying something like "Half Life 2 is overrated or boring".
You could make dead baby jokes on early Youtube and you still wouldn't be called edgy.
If you're as soft as tissue paper, everything feels edgy to you.
Oh absolutely. Even the so-called counter-Lefty culture content creators grovel CONSTANTLY about how just because they hold a specific opinion doesn't mean they're against [insert demographic/topic here].
Endymion and Legendary Drops do it ALL the time. They're constantly prefacing everything they say by trying not to offend anyone. The only one who holds his ground with a sizable audience is SyntheticMan but he's shadowbanned beyond the borders of Tartarus.
You're absolutely right -- it's a feminine culture because majority of these blokes have grown up without fathers, they do not know what it means to be masculine, and to hold frame on issues without conceding ground or being undeservedly gracious to the people who hate them.
Yeah, it's really demoralizing seeing supposed anti-woke people go "and, like I'm cool with trans people as long as you're a consenting adult...you do you....I just think it shouldn't be forced on people so much".
It's like the furthest right on youtube anymore are like libertarians who don't have any cement, set in stone principles. The conservative sphere of Youtube makes the center left libertarians of the early 2000s look like bastions of right wing principles by comparison. That's how far the overton window has swung.
The problem is "anti-woke" came from hating the left, not having specific principles
Someone who only ever cared about preventing grooming, but otherwise is actually fine with the existence of trans people is going to say that no matter what, while most of the people who use this site are going to say that trans people should not exist.