And other people deliberately use all of the “come on man” and “Hey mate” and “Dude is not gendered” explicitly at trans people, because it lets them get away with misgendering. So trans people, who experience that stuff every day, can be a little sensitive when someone does that, even if they aren’t doing it deliberately.

In this case, not knowing the person, and not having access to their pronouns, the comment was fine. But once you know it’s an issue, repeating it despite knowing it’s an issue is a shitty thing to do.

It could easily have been anonymised. The conversation can happen without misgendering someone a second time around.

Literally just edit the person’s name out of the image, and boom, same discussion, but this time without repeating the same mistake

Whatever your thoughts on the original situation, you know her pronouns now, and you’ve directly reposted the thing that got you banned. This time around, you don’t have an excuse. You know that it’s an issue, but you didn’t anonymise the post, effectively sharing the misgendering with even more people

You’re the only person to mention trans people in this thread. It’s got nothing to do with trans folk…

decided this is a hateful post based on prior comments without watching the video.

I had to watch the video to see her dog whistle.

And the whole thing about red flag/dog whistle comments is that they’re designed to seem like nothing to people who don’t recognise them. You not recognising a dog whistle doesn’t mean it isn’t one…

The fact that she shouts out another steamer that was banned from twitch for bigotry isn’t a co-incidence. It’s a red flag for a reason

If you’ve got contempt for the masses (which you clearly do), then I question if you’re being honest with yourself about your motives.

Yes, the average person sustains the system, but that’s literally how systems work. They find equilibrium. We can break the system and replace it, but the system is the problem, not the people it traps.

If you lose sight of that, you’ve lost sight of the reason this shit needs to change

Exactly how does your leftism manifest? If you see people as the problem, where does “left” come in to it? Pulling down the system is important because the system hurts the people in it. If you don’t differentiate the people from the system, I’m not seeing where your “left” is

Absolutely. Sticking to the things they know and avoiding the recs is how a lot of people use Youtube. But all of the things you avoid are thrown in your face in the recs. Clickbait titles, bait and switch content, dogwhistling videos that start people down the path of ever more bigoted content (for example, the video the OP posted).

I generally don’t engage much with video content though, so I’ll just continue to ignore it

As I’ve said three times now, I barely use YouTube and then only direct links. This isn’t that. YouTube rewards civil bigots so civil bigots are common and have big audiences

I barely use youtube. I actively avoid it as much as possible

She shouts out a racist who was banned from twitch for bigotry, so I’d say it’s pretty spot on as a red flag.

If the only way to achieve political impact is to swear that oath, then it’s coerced, because the only other option is disenfranchisement

A coerced oath isn’t an oath worth keeping

Gamergate is not a very specific circumstance. It was a widespread harassment campaign involving the entire industry. This is a follow on from that movement, and any game that releases a female protagonist that isn’t soft and demure gets active push back from this group.

YouTube, like other corporate social media and engagement platforms, thrives on anger and conflict, and pushes shitty takes higher up the recs list to get angry engagement.

So it’s more likely to be bad than good.

she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations.

These are very common talking points of gamer gate bigots. It’s a giant red flag, because the people who talk about it are bigots

I rarely click on YouTube links. For some reason I gave this one a try. Turns out she’s bigoted.

That’ll teach me for clicking

Brendan Eich. He donated money anti marriage equality organisations and politicians, and half of the Mozilla board resigned when he was appointed as Mozilla CEO. He stepped down from that role after 11 days, and went on to found Brave.

He’s also an anti-masker/pandemic conspiracy theorist

Sorry, homophobia!

Pushing the boundaries of the question, but 40k orks! How can you not love the big green lugs?

Fricken’ dinosaurs with fricken’ sword arms.

The undersells them by a lot! That makes them sound comparable to Deathclaws in Fallout, but K’chain Che’malle scared gods!