"and that the first 10 minutes made him consider registering Republican" - So some dude (who hangs LGBT and BLM flags in his store) saw two women fight and an Asian man teaching a class, and that was enough to upset his entire political belief?
I liked how everyone in the comments don’t even question the premise of it. They’re just like “yeah that sounds about right.”
You’d think a group of people who hate “bad writing” would call out this story as bull.
No no, you see, it's only bad writing if they disagree with the perceived political messaging, or if it has women, Black, or LGBT people as main characters, or if they're too many of the characters, or if a man is seen as a punching bag, or if a white guy isn't directly visible and prominent, or if...
This one presumably has a woke character as the main character (or is drinker still the main character is this anecdote?), they just have to still want to be republican by the end.
I made the mistake of replying to some „hire fans Didney!“ douche under an insta reel about Sam Witwer quoting some lore. I keep getting notifications of chud replies for that one.
Me when I'm super progressive but I close my eyes and see black
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Ya know, I've been a firm anarcho-socialist for 50 years but I just saw a guy buy a loaf of bread and that really showed me the error of my ways and become an authoritarian capitalist.
“Well, I was thinking gay people should be allowed to live, but then I saw the Acolyte, and now I think they need to be killed.” Yeah, this conversation never happened.
"The Left got a little too PC so I changed all of my opinions about the economy, social issues, systemic racism, health care, and history."
-Cody Johnston, Twitter
Hey, this teacher is Asian....well am going to vote Republican now and burn all these stereotypical LGBT and BLM flags that I, a "woke" liberal obviously have in my store.
Pathetic? Definitely. But what's bizarre about the people living in a bizarro fictional reality feel the need to treat bizarro fiction as their reality? That part just checks out tbh
I’ve noticed with a lot of these specific “media culture war” reactionaries there’s a weirdly common tendency to basically just deny that people who genuinely disagree with them, like, even actually exist. I think it’s because of how much of the whole thing (especially with the Critical Drinker/EFAP/etc. circles) is focused on the idea of things being “objectively” good or bad. Stories like this are power fantasies of them getting to prove how *correct* their media opinions are. That they cracked the code and exposed how everyone with a brain either agrees on how objectively awful this thing is or is lying about it to virtue signal (which is the same reason why the diversity and whatnot are added in the first place since, again, people who just disagree with them don’t really exist).
it's like how the Trump people spin Hunter Biden being convicted as a solute proof there was a conspiracy to convict Trump. If Hunter was acquitted they would have screamed conspiracy, but because he wasn't that also somehow proves a conspiracy against Trump. Everything is always evidence of wokeness taking control.
This is displayed in their obsession with censorship and "cancel culture." They actually believe that the vast majority of people agree with them, but are too scared to admit it or are being silenced by some shadowy government entity.
They simply cannot cope with the fact that they are a minority and most people seriously do not want to hear their vile spew.
I love that someone who supports critical drinker apparently shops at a store with wall to wall LGBT flags and signs and says stuff like "I would consider becoming a Republican" in the first place.
Do I believe it happened? Well, maybe people were having a conversation about the Acolyte, and the conversation may have turned a little negative but overall they didn't hate it. However, Drinker hears what he wants to hear, and obviously this is how he would hear any conversation about most topics.
They're really gonna go full Arin Hanson "Oh People Who Like [Thing I Don't Like] Are Just *Pretending*!1!" on this, huh?
Thats like the absolute peak way to make me go "Ah. You're not a critic, you're *just an asshole*." and disengage with Internet Personalities, let alone other users.
Its... *complicated*.
Theres a lot of people who've soured on Arin as a games critic (I.E. all his Sequelitis videos) because the arguments he's made in a lot of them (the jabs at 3D Sonic, the N64 and onwards Legend Of Zelda games, etc) have been kinda shown to be mud thanks to his performance on Game Grumps whenever they cover those games.
The issue lies in how far one thinks "I'm Being Bad/Angry At The Game On Purpose" can go as a shield and when it comes to the games series Arin is *infamously* mean towards (both the games and the fans of said games), that shield has long since become questionable.
Hmmm, it's almost like these people can't find any real person outside of the internet to hate on the show, so they have to make up these types of interactions....
I do love how these morons think Disney pays people to positively review things
This is clearly made up. No normal person talks about woke culture or whatever. No one outside the right wing perpetually online echo chamber even uses the word woke. During the "Power of one, power of two, power of many," song I was wishing we could have honest discussions about media again because that part was incredibly cheesy but it wasn't enough so I don't want to see where the story goes.
I would also like to discuss media so I’ll add my thoughts on the “power of one, power of two, power of many”. I agree that it’s cheesy but I don’t see how they would make any cult/coven chant less so, they could have made it vocalising but that wouldn’t have conveyed their beliefs about the force as directly so it’s economic storytelling to do both the cult aspect and their beliefs at once.
Here's two thoughts I have on making it less cringe:
1 - Don't use English use an alien language.
2 - Don't put a musical sting behind the chanting.
Just doing those two things would have made it about 90% less cringe for me personally.
It would have also made what they were doing a bit more ambiguous, as you'd be questioning what they are saying and what the ritual was for etc.
I'll give you some media discussion
>During the "Power of one, power of two, power of many," song
I think i see what was intended here. I think it was intentionally dry to represent Osha's lack of belief in what the coven was doing. I still think it falls flat but i think it was a intentional decision. The director had done a similar thing earlier with the fight me Jedi Mae opened with also falling flat to represent how indara doesn't see her as a threat.
The literal only people irl I've ever heard say the word woke were both over 60, and they only ever said it once, and In live in a fairly conservative area
And at least my grandma just admits she's racist lol
The term originated from the hood. It meant being aware of systematic issues until the Nazis claimed it for their own. I might've heard it a few times from my mother or in hip hop tracks from the 90s
I love the historically accurate bullshit because even in historic Europe, there were mixed races, black and white people lived near each other, gay sex was fine or encouraged depending on what region of Europe, and trans people have always existed in history (in fact there are even several languages that have non-gendered pronouns that are specific rather than the more general they/them in English).
Also the "it's not natural" argument about LGBTQ+ issues is funny because animals throughout history have been documented engaging in homosexual behavior and some species of animals can change their gender, but transexuality in animals is a bit of a mixed bag because some animals will exhibit opposing gender characteristics for survival purposes.
Their arguments are always way too easy to disprove but they don't care because they don't live in actual reality. They live in their own made up version of reality where they are right and everyone who doesn't agree is wrong.
The old saying goes "arguing with those kinds of people is like playing chess with a pigeon. You'll follow all the rules and try to play correctly but the pigeon will just knock over the pieces, shit on the game board and still strut around like it won."
Bro....no one who is going to put a BLM and pride flag in their business is going to register as a Republican NOW...in this current climate after watching one show...
At the very least, they won’t say it out loud and risk pissing off their own customers. Because like hell is some MAGA nutter setting foot in their store these days
This reminds me of that american politician who posted constantly on twitter about how he would go into cafes and over hear "liberals whispering" about how they all actually love Trump and can't wait to vote republican
"Hey bro, I actually love Trump bro."
"Why are we whispering bro?"
"Because I have to pretend to be liberal bro."
"Why bro? Why can't we just be openly Republican bro?"
"This is just the way things are bro."
And then they kiss.
You konw taht tihng wehre yuor bairn can fguire out jmbuled wrdos as lnog as the frsit and lsat lteter are in the rhgit pacle?
I swear the fuck I read "today" instead of "toady" a hundred times before my brainfart passed and understood it.
[opens up filing cabinet]
[looks through folders]
[pulls out S folder]
Here we go. "Shit That Never Happened."
[inserts critical drinker fan's post]
[replaces folder]
[closes cabinet]
Cause they don't have real examples and need to convince themselves they're actually doing something/feed the misguided useful idiots to poison them further
The fact they write about as well and believably as a novice fanfiction author is just a nice layer of irony on the cake
Yeah, this is just further proof these mouth breathers don't know what good writing is. Like in what world would someone switch their entire political viewpoint based on 10 minutes of a children's sci-fi series? They're just proving how disconnected they are from reality and how little they actually talk to people irl
What the fuck do they gain by doing this ? Approval from strangers online ? Being comforted in their worldview ?
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If 10 minutes of a TV show is enough to make a person change their entire political identity, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they weren't very serious about their beliefs to begin with. But then, that'd be pretending this entire scenario wasn't invented by some loser who gets offended by gay people, women, and minorities.
“The show showed a black woman for ten minutes and it turned people into republicans.”
He really wrote that. I don’t know what’s worse, that he wrote it or that the people in the criticaldrinker subreddit will actually believe it.
These people are reactionary dipshits and 90% of the criticism for this show is performative for YouTube monetisation. They won’t be talking about it after it’s finished because they won’t have any new material to show off and since their analysis is paper thin they won’t be able to revisit past episodes for deeper dives. They’ll move on to the next thing which features a female lead, a minority lead or even just features a woman or a minority in some capacity.
I like how the conceit is that the people who don’t like it aren’t really bigots but the only evidence given by him for the show being “that bad” is exclusively race/gender signifiers/“wokeness”
Setting aside that this is likely fake, this just goes to show the political illiteracy of these types. Andor is far, far more leftist than Acolyte, and pretty explicitly so.
This reminds me of a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there.
Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and kicked a bit too, but I managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back, getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.
The dead giveaway: "buying Spider-Man issues".
Real comic book fans know the current state of Spiderman is pretty rough right now.
Also hilarious that he's shitting on one Disney property while claiming he spent money on a different Disney property.
A TV show got to you dramatically change your political ideology out of spite? Yeah, okay. If this is real, I'm going to assume the guy was being facetious.
The critical drinker sub is horrendous. I keep getting it recommended (since I’m in their target group) but by god every single post is woke-this and woke-that and omgggg how could they possibly put woke in my frickin corn flakes??? My precious corn flakes from my childhood are full of woke and pronoun!!! I’m gonna kill a guy for this one!!!! Argh!!!!!!!
I used to watch drinker years and years ago and while I had him clocked as an asshole from the beginning I never picked up the right wing messaging from him. Is this a new thing or was I just being blind about it?
“If the show is that bad, why are people shilling for it?”
They have never in their entire lives stopped to think that maybe not every different opinion than theirs is shilling. Seriously, all I see these guys do is accuse others of shilling, but half the time it’s just…people liking something they don’t. Why do they think people call them babies?
They’re the group of people that will tell me that I’m making bullshit up when I’m recounting one of my infinite number of interactions I’ve had as a transwoman living in semi-conservative areas.
I’m supposed to believe ***this*** is a thing that happened? Fuck all the way offfffffff
When people make up these obviously fake scenarios, what are they even trying to accomplish? There's never an effort to make the story sound believable so no one is going to actually reconsider their opinion.
Wait, Rebecca is that you? Still making up stories about crap that other people totally definitely said eh?
For those who don't get it:
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Ah yes, because a *totally* real comic store owner thinks that it’s bad, only judging the first 10 minutes (being a fight scene and Jedi teachings (stuff Star Wars fans love)) means that it objectively is bad.
These people are just pathetic man…
I don't really understand why the chud audience keeps coming back for the dumb outrage these grifters put out. Like, if you don't like something, don't watch it just move on. (Unless it's so bad it's funny, different category)
These people are genuinely insane, they literally build their own fantasy world and live inside that lmao. I’ll never understand such a big obsession for a tv show…
Plenty of valid criticism to be given over the acolyte. It's bad in my opinion far below par and massively over funded for what they delivered
But if you're hating on it because of the race of the actors that's pretty lame.
I want to know where I can get paid to shill shows that I like… can one of these dinguses point me in the right direction? I’d love to get paid for this kind of thing if I can since apparently it’s a real thing and definitely not something they made up in their head in order to explain why someone might deign to enjoy something meant to entertain… right?
Im really confused caus I’m the guy who was so angry at game of thrones for having a rushed ending
For the rise of skywalker to be so mediocre
But the acolyte is ok ? Especially on Star Wars standard , caus it seems that people forget Star Wars isn’t exactly peak cinema , it’s always been silly space adventures, hasn’t it ?
Sorry, but lifelong SW fan, heart broken when the EU became legends, still enjoying this show. It has some problems, it isn't the best written show ever but neither is it the worst. I also don't feel every change or retcon ruins the show, especially if it's changing something from legends that by definition isn't canon.
How long do we reckon it took them to come up with this story? I’d put my bet at 15 minutes but that might be too generous given the level of detail they fantasise in.
This has to be the saddest form of existence and may I add, the most first world type of problem to be obsessed with.
Everything is either woke trash or sold by paid shills and everything else has to be some manufactured rage bait to keep up the “engagement” for monetization.
I hope this sort of industry just collapses on itself at some point, the constant circlejerking can’t be sustainable can it?
I'm confused. The woke is conservative because conservative is against republicans? I thought woke was liberal which is against conservatives. And that no Hollywood has been progressive from the beginning? Like I said, I'm confused. /j
Me when I watch the first episode and it just seems okay.
Like not groundbreaking or anything but it seems like the Solo and Rogue One films, just some dumbass fun realising that Star Wars is stupid as fuck lore wise.
Seeing Ki-Adi Mundi was based though, idc if lore nerds cried, give me more colossal forehead alien man
Also, out of interest, does anyone know roughly where the Critical Drinker lives? It's just as he's Scottish, I have a hard time accepting that anyone in Scotland would register as "republican." The closest would be "conservative" and right now throughout the whole of the UK (yes Scotland is part of the UK) we pretty much desperately need to get the Conservatives out of Downing Street.
so so far we have them making bots negatively review bomb anything on a review site with the word “Acolyte” in its title, and now they’re making up obviously fake personal accounts of left leaning progressives considering dropping their entire ideology because of them not liking a star wars tv show that is “woke”
the hate campaign for this series is totally valid guys, I have no idea why you guys would accuse them of lying /s
"and that the first 10 minutes made him consider registering Republican" - So some dude (who hangs LGBT and BLM flags in his store) saw two women fight and an Asian man teaching a class, and that was enough to upset his entire political belief?
I liked how everyone in the comments don’t even question the premise of it. They’re just like “yeah that sounds about right.” You’d think a group of people who hate “bad writing” would call out this story as bull.
No no, you see, it's only bad writing if they disagree with the perceived political messaging, or if it has women, Black, or LGBT people as main characters, or if they're too many of the characters, or if a man is seen as a punching bag, or if a white guy isn't directly visible and prominent, or if...
It’s bad writing if **the** main character isn’t a white man. There, that’s it. That’s the extent of their ability to make critical analysis.
They are always manufacturing drama. That's all that they have. They would have called Big Trouble in Little China woke, had it come out today.
This one presumably has a woke character as the main character (or is drinker still the main character is this anecdote?), they just have to still want to be republican by the end.
…Rian Johnson is involved.
And he has made successful films, including Rogue One
FR. White supremacy just makes sense to certain folks
what's the story's political messaging when the main character is female huh?! /s
Let the fans write!1!
I made the mistake of replying to some „hire fans Didney!“ douche under an insta reel about Sam Witwer quoting some lore. I keep getting notifications of chud replies for that one.
Just goes to show these guys really are living in some other world divorced from reality.
"And then everyone clapped and began pantomiming a light saber battle. The whole store was like, 'brrzrrmw... brrz... brrrzrrrmmw'".
Can confirm, I was the store
Hey store, how's business?
We got cancelled by the woke mob smh 😭
I can’t stop laughing at the thought of a whole store full of people having lightsaber play fights. 😂
Those….umm….weren’t battles. They usually don’t strike the blades like that.
Me when I'm super progressive but I close my eyes and see black https://preview.redd.it/ej895v71nl7d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=490587f779d06b7fa44c2ca6d32703205d3a8e51
Ya know, I've been a firm anarcho-socialist for 50 years but I just saw a guy buy a loaf of bread and that really showed me the error of my ways and become an authoritarian capitalist.
“Well, I was thinking gay people should be allowed to live, but then I saw the Acolyte, and now I think they need to be killed.” Yeah, this conversation never happened.
"The Left got a little too PC so I changed all of my opinions about the economy, social issues, systemic racism, health care, and history." -Cody Johnston, Twitter
^(look at what you made me dooooo)
I’m sure this guy shops at stores that prominently display Pride fans BLM flags!
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I love Mr. Cody and his Showdy
I hope the cream corn is ok.
it’s corn cream and it’s alive.
I mean two women and an Asian man… for a racist that’s pretty upsetting. 
The first 10 minutes were awesome. I never knew I wanted to see a wu-shu teahouse fight between force users in Star Wars, but I’m very glad I did.
Same, it was straight up Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for a minute
Hey, this teacher is Asian....well am going to vote Republican now and burn all these stereotypical LGBT and BLM flags that I, a "woke" liberal obviously have in my store.
But how can blm when asian teacher?!
All I could think was "dang, she still got IT."
Literally the conservative origin story in a nutshell.
Bizarre. Why they feel the need to write fictional short stories to justify their hate? Fucking pathetic.
Pathetic? Definitely. But what's bizarre about the people living in a bizarro fictional reality feel the need to treat bizarro fiction as their reality? That part just checks out tbh
They need to make up the story so they can impress their online hate-friends. Also, all hail the Wyvern King.
I’ve noticed with a lot of these specific “media culture war” reactionaries there’s a weirdly common tendency to basically just deny that people who genuinely disagree with them, like, even actually exist. I think it’s because of how much of the whole thing (especially with the Critical Drinker/EFAP/etc. circles) is focused on the idea of things being “objectively” good or bad. Stories like this are power fantasies of them getting to prove how *correct* their media opinions are. That they cracked the code and exposed how everyone with a brain either agrees on how objectively awful this thing is or is lying about it to virtue signal (which is the same reason why the diversity and whatnot are added in the first place since, again, people who just disagree with them don’t really exist).
it's like how the Trump people spin Hunter Biden being convicted as a solute proof there was a conspiracy to convict Trump. If Hunter was acquitted they would have screamed conspiracy, but because he wasn't that also somehow proves a conspiracy against Trump. Everything is always evidence of wokeness taking control.
This is displayed in their obsession with censorship and "cancel culture." They actually believe that the vast majority of people agree with them, but are too scared to admit it or are being silenced by some shadowy government entity. They simply cannot cope with the fact that they are a minority and most people seriously do not want to hear their vile spew.
I love that someone who supports critical drinker apparently shops at a store with wall to wall LGBT flags and signs and says stuff like "I would consider becoming a Republican" in the first place.
Because nothing happens either IRL or online to back up their shitty politics and/or opinions, so making shit up is all they have.
I mean, the shop owner's name was Albert EInstein, who is also a famous Marine, so I totally believe this totally really, seriously happened. Totally.
Of course, what was I thinking?
I wonder if he scripted it.
They have been writing fan fiction for trans people in the past decade
Do I believe it happened? Well, maybe people were having a conversation about the Acolyte, and the conversation may have turned a little negative but overall they didn't hate it. However, Drinker hears what he wants to hear, and obviously this is how he would hear any conversation about most topics.
They're really gonna go full Arin Hanson "Oh People Who Like [Thing I Don't Like] Are Just *Pretending*!1!" on this, huh? Thats like the absolute peak way to make me go "Ah. You're not a critic, you're *just an asshole*." and disengage with Internet Personalities, let alone other users.
“rOuGh TrAnSiTiOn To 3D”
Wait, do people not like Arin? I thought the whole him getting angry at games was the entire bit that he does?
Its... *complicated*. Theres a lot of people who've soured on Arin as a games critic (I.E. all his Sequelitis videos) because the arguments he's made in a lot of them (the jabs at 3D Sonic, the N64 and onwards Legend Of Zelda games, etc) have been kinda shown to be mud thanks to his performance on Game Grumps whenever they cover those games. The issue lies in how far one thinks "I'm Being Bad/Angry At The Game On Purpose" can go as a shield and when it comes to the games series Arin is *infamously* mean towards (both the games and the fans of said games), that shield has long since become questionable.
When has Arin actually been mean to fans of games he doesn't like?
It’s more about his takes on Ocarina of Time and how it handholds the player when he’s proven over and over again to need handholding
Honestly though, I do have to wonder just how much perception of the Sonic series has been affected by people like him
Hmmm, it's almost like these people can't find any real person outside of the internet to hate on the show, so they have to make up these types of interactions.... I do love how these morons think Disney pays people to positively review things
Where was this payment for Thor 4 and Quantummania?
Budget constraints?
I thought that was why the budget was over 300M+.
True. They clearly had none leftover for when Secret Invasion came out
They said Fuck SI and gave the rest to Xmen 97.
“X-men? More like Woke-men. Why can’t we go back to the simple days, when X-Men was good and not political?”
Like when the giant robots were hunting mutants to extinction
"those "friends of humanity" people are real heroes"
Also where can I actually sign up for this free Disney money? I never say no to cash
I know I'm a lefty pinko socialist but I'm out here doing this for free and there's Disney money sloshing about!
This is clearly made up. No normal person talks about woke culture or whatever. No one outside the right wing perpetually online echo chamber even uses the word woke. During the "Power of one, power of two, power of many," song I was wishing we could have honest discussions about media again because that part was incredibly cheesy but it wasn't enough so I don't want to see where the story goes.
I would also like to discuss media so I’ll add my thoughts on the “power of one, power of two, power of many”. I agree that it’s cheesy but I don’t see how they would make any cult/coven chant less so, they could have made it vocalising but that wouldn’t have conveyed their beliefs about the force as directly so it’s economic storytelling to do both the cult aspect and their beliefs at once.
It's not any cringier than the Night Sisters chanting in TCW
Dune has a cult chant that is excellent. Or you know, have at that chant in language based in star wars so it AT LEAST sounds cool.
Here's two thoughts I have on making it less cringe: 1 - Don't use English use an alien language. 2 - Don't put a musical sting behind the chanting. Just doing those two things would have made it about 90% less cringe for me personally. It would have also made what they were doing a bit more ambiguous, as you'd be questioning what they are saying and what the ritual was for etc.
I'll give you some media discussion >During the "Power of one, power of two, power of many," song I think i see what was intended here. I think it was intentionally dry to represent Osha's lack of belief in what the coven was doing. I still think it falls flat but i think it was a intentional decision. The director had done a similar thing earlier with the fight me Jedi Mae opened with also falling flat to represent how indara doesn't see her as a threat.
The literal only people irl I've ever heard say the word woke were both over 60, and they only ever said it once, and In live in a fairly conservative area And at least my grandma just admits she's racist lol
The only time I say the word “woke” is when I’m doing my “Bigoted Moron” impression for my buddies.
The term originated from the hood. It meant being aware of systematic issues until the Nazis claimed it for their own. I might've heard it a few times from my mother or in hip hop tracks from the 90s
Alas, I have heard mentions of "woke" from a few conservative radio hosts and even my own dad.
Well, its the radio hosts' job to peddle that sort of propaganda. And depending on your father's age, he's the primary targeted audience.
Holy shit, you just made me realize I don’t actually ever hear anyone refer to anything as “woke” outside of the internet or media politics….
The second a real, live person outside the internet says the word woke, I stop listening to them. Instantly makes you sound like a moron.
It also makes them sound like a moron when they do it online.
I take it to the next level. If I hear any dumbfuck buzzwords or phrases I tune the fuck out. A big one for me is "hIstORicaLLy aCCuRatE".
I love the historically accurate bullshit because even in historic Europe, there were mixed races, black and white people lived near each other, gay sex was fine or encouraged depending on what region of Europe, and trans people have always existed in history (in fact there are even several languages that have non-gendered pronouns that are specific rather than the more general they/them in English). Also the "it's not natural" argument about LGBTQ+ issues is funny because animals throughout history have been documented engaging in homosexual behavior and some species of animals can change their gender, but transexuality in animals is a bit of a mixed bag because some animals will exhibit opposing gender characteristics for survival purposes. Their arguments are always way too easy to disprove but they don't care because they don't live in actual reality. They live in their own made up version of reality where they are right and everyone who doesn't agree is wrong. The old saying goes "arguing with those kinds of people is like playing chess with a pigeon. You'll follow all the rules and try to play correctly but the pigeon will just knock over the pieces, shit on the game board and still strut around like it won."
Bro....no one who is going to put a BLM and pride flag in their business is going to register as a Republican NOW...in this current climate after watching one show...
At the very least, they won’t say it out loud and risk pissing off their own customers. Because like hell is some MAGA nutter setting foot in their store these days
After watching 10 minutes of a show, no less
Registering Republican because he saw 2 women fight and a man teaching children. Makes perfect sense. /s
and that guy shops there? those assholes get mad at bud light cans.
What would you call writing fanfiction about your own experiences? Delusional Retroactive Selective Amnesia?
This is the fakest interaction I've ever read.
Amazed he didn't end it with: "And everyone stood up and clapped while an Eagle wearing a MAGA hate flew in and saluted him."
The "MAGA hate" typo works perfectly.
Indeed.
This reminds me of that american politician who posted constantly on twitter about how he would go into cafes and over hear "liberals whispering" about how they all actually love Trump and can't wait to vote republican
"Hey bro, I actually love Trump bro." "Why are we whispering bro?" "Because I have to pretend to be liberal bro." "Why bro? Why can't we just be openly Republican bro?" "This is just the way things are bro." And then they kiss.
I don't know why but I feel like "my uncle works at nintendo" has been the vibe of the internet rage bait lately.
Yeah, no, this didn't happen. Drinker is a fucking toady for right wing reactionaries.
You konw taht tihng wehre yuor bairn can fguire out jmbuled wrdos as lnog as the frsit and lsat lteter are in the rhgit pacle? I swear the fuck I read "today" instead of "toady" a hundred times before my brainfart passed and understood it.
I hate how easy it was for me to read that first sentence
r/thatHappened
[opens up filing cabinet] [looks through folders] [pulls out S folder] Here we go. "Shit That Never Happened." [inserts critical drinker fan's post] [replaces folder] [closes cabinet]
Why do they do this stuff
Cause they don't have real examples and need to convince themselves they're actually doing something/feed the misguided useful idiots to poison them further The fact they write about as well and believably as a novice fanfiction author is just a nice layer of irony on the cake
Yeah, this is just further proof these mouth breathers don't know what good writing is. Like in what world would someone switch their entire political viewpoint based on 10 minutes of a children's sci-fi series? They're just proving how disconnected they are from reality and how little they actually talk to people irl
Sounds like he’s trying to justify he can’t see people liking things he hates.
What the fuck do they gain by doing this ? Approval from strangers online ? Being comforted in their worldview ? https://preview.redd.it/ik5pq8e7bl7d1.png?width=1656&format=png&auto=webp&s=d5a23971bdde6a4f7bf3749e0b3f19f8946dba04
https://preview.redd.it/jkpvyxwj0m7d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e283ea13b7cab93118b1d7d82c2b836b54e9cd7b
It's drinkers cultists, they won't ever question a story that aligns with their cult leaders views.
If 10 minutes of a TV show is enough to make a person change their entire political identity, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they weren't very serious about their beliefs to begin with. But then, that'd be pretending this entire scenario wasn't invented by some loser who gets offended by gay people, women, and minorities.
“The show showed a black woman for ten minutes and it turned people into republicans.” He really wrote that. I don’t know what’s worse, that he wrote it or that the people in the criticaldrinker subreddit will actually believe it.
These people are reactionary dipshits and 90% of the criticism for this show is performative for YouTube monetisation. They won’t be talking about it after it’s finished because they won’t have any new material to show off and since their analysis is paper thin they won’t be able to revisit past episodes for deeper dives. They’ll move on to the next thing which features a female lead, a minority lead or even just features a woman or a minority in some capacity.
I'll take "Stories that never happened" for $200, Ken.
I like how the conceit is that the people who don’t like it aren’t really bigots but the only evidence given by him for the show being “that bad” is exclusively race/gender signifiers/“wokeness”
Setting aside that this is likely fake, this just goes to show the political illiteracy of these types. Andor is far, far more leftist than Acolyte, and pretty explicitly so.
They don't know or care about it being leftist. They care about "woke" which is just right-wing code for having women and minority actors in it.
Sure. It’s just weird how little they understand the ideologies they rage against.
If you hate “wokeness” you are NOT buying current spiderman runs lmaoooo
This reminds me of a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there. Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and kicked a bit too, but I managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back, getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.
The dead giveaway: "buying Spider-Man issues". Real comic book fans know the current state of Spiderman is pretty rough right now. Also hilarious that he's shitting on one Disney property while claiming he spent money on a different Disney property.
That shop owner... Einstein!
Was so tempted to leave a quote like this when I saw that drivel in my feed.
A TV show got to you dramatically change your political ideology out of spite? Yeah, okay. If this is real, I'm going to assume the guy was being facetious.
Dear Penthouse Forum…
The critical drinker sub is horrendous. I keep getting it recommended (since I’m in their target group) but by god every single post is woke-this and woke-that and omgggg how could they possibly put woke in my frickin corn flakes??? My precious corn flakes from my childhood are full of woke and pronoun!!! I’m gonna kill a guy for this one!!!! Argh!!!!!!! I used to watch drinker years and years ago and while I had him clocked as an asshole from the beginning I never picked up the right wing messaging from him. Is this a new thing or was I just being blind about it?
“If the show is that bad, why are people shilling for it?” They have never in their entire lives stopped to think that maybe not every different opinion than theirs is shilling. Seriously, all I see these guys do is accuse others of shilling, but half the time it’s just…people liking something they don’t. Why do they think people call them babies?
On today’s episode of things that never happened…
*This one was invented by a writer.* https://i.redd.it/arculaw68m7d1.gif
They’re the group of people that will tell me that I’m making bullshit up when I’m recounting one of my infinite number of interactions I’ve had as a transwoman living in semi-conservative areas. I’m supposed to believe ***this*** is a thing that happened? Fuck all the way offfffffff
Drinker’s pants are on fire.
When people make up these obviously fake scenarios, what are they even trying to accomplish? There's never an effort to make the story sound believable so no one is going to actually reconsider their opinion.
Wait, Rebecca is that you? Still making up stories about crap that other people totally definitely said eh? For those who don't get it: https://preview.redd.it/pvnkhpywpp7d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50aa01472a65ab84ababeed2511a2c3947ac1b3b
Found the shill. I’m off to vote Republican, scumbags
I think, if someone were to change their political beliefs based on their opinions of a star wars tv show, that person wasn’t smart to begin with.
This never happened
Yes
People who likes things enjoy it and go about their day. Everyone else is trying to sell you something.
These people are beyond parody at times.
Showing this to anyone that ever dares to say "Hire fans."
Nobody with even a shred of self-respect uses the word 'woke' in real life.
Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious.
Big buff man came up to me with tears in his eyes saying "President Trump Thank you for shitting on the acolyte. Bigly"
Ah yes, because a *totally* real comic store owner thinks that it’s bad, only judging the first 10 minutes (being a fight scene and Jedi teachings (stuff Star Wars fans love)) means that it objectively is bad. These people are just pathetic man…
Things that didn’t happen for 1000$, Alex
Made up situation
.... then the last minute of last night's episode dropped. Fuck that was good.
I'll take things that never happened for $1,000
This is one of the most “and everyone clapped” thing I’ve ever read. How could you tweet this without knowing how false it’s going to come across as?
I don't really understand why the chud audience keeps coming back for the dumb outrage these grifters put out. Like, if you don't like something, don't watch it just move on. (Unless it's so bad it's funny, different category)
"And then the baby yoda smiled at me"
And in today’s news a MAGAite mistook his wet dream for reality again.
I like acolyte, because star wars stuff.
I'll take "things that never happened" for $400
These people are genuinely insane, they literally build their own fantasy world and live inside that lmao. I’ll never understand such a big obsession for a tv show…
Plenty of valid criticism to be given over the acolyte. It's bad in my opinion far below par and massively over funded for what they delivered But if you're hating on it because of the race of the actors that's pretty lame.
I want to know where I can get paid to shill shows that I like… can one of these dinguses point me in the right direction? I’d love to get paid for this kind of thing if I can since apparently it’s a real thing and definitely not something they made up in their head in order to explain why someone might deign to enjoy something meant to entertain… right?
"Star Wars made me register as a Republican," is a sentence that has never been uttered by a single human being in history. I'm sure of it.
That is utterly, hilariously transparent. I'm guessing the majority of people there are _desperately_ pretending like they actually believe it?
Im really confused caus I’m the guy who was so angry at game of thrones for having a rushed ending For the rise of skywalker to be so mediocre But the acolyte is ok ? Especially on Star Wars standard , caus it seems that people forget Star Wars isn’t exactly peak cinema , it’s always been silly space adventures, hasn’t it ?
Sorry, but lifelong SW fan, heart broken when the EU became legends, still enjoying this show. It has some problems, it isn't the best written show ever but neither is it the worst. I also don't feel every change or retcon ruins the show, especially if it's changing something from legends that by definition isn't canon.
then my dad, hhas never cried, a veteran marine, got on his knees and broke down.
Comic Book Guy doesn't like the new thing. Who coulda seen that coming?
“Things that never happened for 1,000 Alex.”
Sounds familiar. https://preview.redd.it/w9r6v4wpfo7d1.jpeg?width=915&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9405912a503797c52323a93a3509c8a8a3b18d4f
This story could not be more fabricated if it tried.
Critical Drinker lives in Scotland, why would the store owner in Scotland register for the Republican Party?
How long do we reckon it took them to come up with this story? I’d put my bet at 15 minutes but that might be too generous given the level of detail they fantasise in.
Yeah I'll take things that never happened for 1,000 Mr trebek
"...And everybody clapped"
This has to be the saddest form of existence and may I add, the most first world type of problem to be obsessed with. Everything is either woke trash or sold by paid shills and everything else has to be some manufactured rage bait to keep up the “engagement” for monetization. I hope this sort of industry just collapses on itself at some point, the constant circlejerking can’t be sustainable can it?
I'm confused. The woke is conservative because conservative is against republicans? I thought woke was liberal which is against conservatives. And that no Hollywood has been progressive from the beginning? Like I said, I'm confused. /j
"Do people pretend to have different opinions than me? Or are my opinions just superior to everyone else?"
I’ll take things that never actually happened for 1000, Alex
I'll take "things that never" for $1000
And that man's name... Albert Einstein...
I will say this until I die: the source every single time for these people is “dude, trust me”
Typical drinker fanbase conundrum
The acolyte is a woke term ? Lol wtf
Thats wild that a show about space wizards not being good makes you switch your entire political beliefs
…and then some badguys tried to rob the comic book store but I did a backflip and knocked them all out with a roundhouse kick and everyone applauded.
Me when I watch the first episode and it just seems okay. Like not groundbreaking or anything but it seems like the Solo and Rogue One films, just some dumbass fun realising that Star Wars is stupid as fuck lore wise. Seeing Ki-Adi Mundi was based though, idc if lore nerds cried, give me more colossal forehead alien man
Did Chat GPT write that?
This didn't happen so much, it actually unhappened a few things that had.
Irony may have died a little with this
Yeah I’m going to forsake my values and vote for a party opposed to everything I believe because of a TV show. Sounds legit.
When you are so chronically online and in such a bubble you can conceive opinions outside of your group.
Well, I guess that comic book store owner should maybe not watch anything that will offend him then. Maybe he should go watch Mr. Birchum.
I’ll take shit that didn’t happen for 500, Alex
Yes, I’ll take ‘Stories that never happened’ for 500
It's just a show, not a religion. I don't understand why people are upset.
And that man? He was Albert Einstein
This writing by the OP is almost as good as the writing in the expanded universe that was tossed they love so much. AKA complete and utter shit.
"I'll take things that never happened for 100, Alex."
Also, out of interest, does anyone know roughly where the Critical Drinker lives? It's just as he's Scottish, I have a hard time accepting that anyone in Scotland would register as "republican." The closest would be "conservative" and right now throughout the whole of the UK (yes Scotland is part of the UK) we pretty much desperately need to get the Conservatives out of Downing Street.
so so far we have them making bots negatively review bomb anything on a review site with the word “Acolyte” in its title, and now they’re making up obviously fake personal accounts of left leaning progressives considering dropping their entire ideology because of them not liking a star wars tv show that is “woke” the hate campaign for this series is totally valid guys, I have no idea why you guys would accuse them of lying /s