F him for taking Knights Watch. George R.R. Martin writes gay characters. George R.R. Martin was asked why he included gay characters in his books, He said, "I noticed there were gay people in the world, so they should be in my world too."

@boianko

23 күн бұрын

For the few homophobic ASOIAF fans I've interacted with, it seems like they're fine with the way gay characters are represented in the series because their gayness isn't "a focus" the story. They're okay with gay people as long as we stay quiet, in the background and suffer in silence in a homophobic society and that's what ASOIAF portrays for the most part. As long as being gay is a joke and seen as perverted and immoral these people are a-okay with portrayals of gay people. They have no empathy.

@antarchy1

23 күн бұрын

@@boianko I don't think Martin portrays gays that way. They are princes. And literally one of the deadliest fighters in the book series. The viper died really quickly though. I don't remember Martin playing them for jokes. I haven't read them in years though.

@boianko

23 күн бұрын

@@antarchy1 I'm not saying Martin portrays them like that necessarily, the gay characters in the books are powerful, influential and driven. However when it comes to their sexuality, they need to hide and talk in allegory. Renly marries a woman he clearly isn't attracted to because he could never achieve his political goals if he came out as gay. Jon Connington has to hide his feelings his whole life and even after the death of his one true love because they would never be accepted. The world is hetero normative for the most part (Dorne is an exception) and gays aren't allowed to exist out and about in public society unless they burry that part of themselves deep down. I don't think it's a bad thing to write the world that way, it's realistic, and I don't think George is portraying homophobia as a good thing. The people who already have homophobic ideas read about this homophobic world and think "oh wow, that's so cool", the same way sexist ASOIAF fans appreciate the realistic portrayal of how women were treated in the olden days. They don't empathise with the plights of these characters, they see them as people who either got unlucky in the way they were born and need to suck it up, or as people who annoyingly struggle against a system that rightfully tries to put them in their place.

@antarchy1

23 күн бұрын

@@boianko Isn't that more him writing about political intrigue in a medieval setting. It's good Drama and it's realistic to the way those societies were. I don't think it was a conscious choice on his part. It just fits the world and story. But I haven't read them in at least 10 years. So I barely remember anything about it, and I wouldn't have been dissecting the way he wrote gay characters back then.

@monikcazino6499

23 күн бұрын

​@@boiankoI am honestly always baffled by those kinds of people, the whole point of ASOIF is that its world is AWFUL in almost every societal way imaginable, George's writing is about pointing out every flaw possible about those societies and our own. Sure, it's realistic within the boundaries of a fictional effing world, so by agreeing on how those characters are treated, you are actually doing what the story is criticizing, it's never portrayed as how thing should be. I am honestly surprised these people enjoy something they don't understand, it's media illiteracy at its peak

Shad: "gayness is not natural" Also Shad: *wears glasses*

@vervetwrydavigy3006

13 күн бұрын

I always hate when people use this comparison. Glasses are a Human invention made to fix one of our faults, much like light bulbs fix our bad nightvision, clothes fix our lack of fur-covered bodies, and dental care fixes the fact we often outlive our own teeth. Now let me ask you, what problem does being gay fix? Can't think of one? That's because "gay = glasses b/c both are unnatural" is a stupid comparison. These two things have nothing in common.

@cairox1509

13 күн бұрын

​@@vervetwrydavigy3006Tell that to Alan Turing

@vervetwrydavigy3006

13 күн бұрын

@@cairox1509 Please explain how you think that invalidates my point?

@Anthony-rb8ib

13 күн бұрын

​@@vervetwrydavigy3006 being gay fixes boredom

@cairox1509

13 күн бұрын

@@vervetwrydavigy3006 This is not a debate, being able to express your sexuality without being persecuted for it is something straight people take for granted.

Imagine thinking gay people are unnatural and bad but ai art is fine and good

@leonrussell9607

23 күн бұрын

Can I dislike both?

@pacosalvs13

23 күн бұрын

@@leonrussell9607 No.

@StormCrownSr

23 күн бұрын

​@@leonrussell9607 only if you dislike ai art and like gay people.

@ImSayyD

23 күн бұрын

@@leonrussell9607 You can but one makes more sense than the other...

@angelman906

22 күн бұрын

@@leonrussell9607 no.

As someone who loves swords and history i used to watch Shadiversity before all of this, his turn to this has saddened me as a trans person

@goddessoflesbians1153

23 күн бұрын

Same, fellow transfemme and sword lesbian, loved his content but stopped watching for a while due to life stuff I come back and boom he's a homophobe

@nimlouth

23 күн бұрын

Same. I'm a trans person too and I practice HEMA and love history and swords/swordfighting. I used to watch a lot of the "sword" youtube channels but these days everything just feels like hate content.

@crenfick7750

23 күн бұрын

At least we got Skallagrim

@ImSayyD

23 күн бұрын

Same, I loved his content, it's sad to see that's what he makes now.

@dynamicworlds1

23 күн бұрын

Scholagladiatoria seems like a decent dude too.

I find it curious that homophobes spend more time thinking and talking about gay sex than gay people do.

@R.T.Logan.80

23 күн бұрын

It's definitely weird. My husband and I laugh at these idiots.

@danboru_bakooo1966

23 күн бұрын

I wish I thought about men more than them😔

@Luke-ep7zk

23 күн бұрын

@@danboru_bakooo1966same

@zachIPFW

23 күн бұрын

It’s because they’re gay

@PokemonRules333

23 күн бұрын

To me it’s because they see sex as for procreation and can’t see sex as something that can be for pleasure or fun that’s why it baffles them

Man loves the medieval period so much he adopted their beliefs 💀

@BinaBecker

23 күн бұрын

And it looks like his buddy adopted their dentistry, too.

@casualsleepingdragon8501

23 күн бұрын

Maybe his humors are out of balance

@danielcrafter9349

22 күн бұрын

Aktuwally.... The medieval period for Europe was super gay too - various bishops even wrote treatise encouraging men to spank the monkey together to "release tension" Vikings were open to a lot of gayness, too Remember, a lot of their social ideals are left over from the Romans - a people that thought bisexuality was the norm, had 3 gay emperors and 2 trans emperors

@Techno_Bunny433

20 күн бұрын

He needs leaches to balance out the black ick​@@casualsleepingdragon8501

@SilverIV

14 күн бұрын

“Vintage fashion, not vintage values”, Shad.

Shad talking about anyone being dangerous to kids is wild when he is a Mormon. A group notorious for all the child abuse it perpetuates and covers up.

@BinaBecker

23 күн бұрын

Child marriage and polygamy being but two of them.

@Revanbzn

23 күн бұрын

F. He is Mormon?!?

@quinn7427

23 күн бұрын

Even before we consider religious trauma and the indoctrination into inherently racist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc ideas, yes Mormons ALSO happen to abuse their children quite often

@MsHarpsychord

23 күн бұрын

Srsly, just why. All he had to do was fun videos about swords and he fugged it up

@ezachleewright2309

23 күн бұрын

​@@BinaBeckerWhat's wrong with polygamy

I used to like him for his sword content, now he's a weird shouty man

@die_cuteste

23 күн бұрын

tbf, he always was a werd shouty man, he was just trying to hide it back then it took me rly long to notice, but looking back the vibes were kinda off since the beginning imo

@tusk9687

23 күн бұрын

but arent sword people already weird and shouty (but not the shadiversity kind of weird and shouty) ?

@BluePhoenix_

23 күн бұрын

​@@die_cutestesame, i only noticed it a few videos into Knight's Watch

@peterd9698

23 күн бұрын

@@tusk9687 *NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING WEIRD AND SHOUTY!*

@hanifarroisimukhlis5989

23 күн бұрын

@@die_cuteste Being weird shouty man is in on itself isn't bad, but using bad argument isn't helped by saying it louder.

Lol 'debunking gayness'. Thats like saying you got a method to debunk my office chair. You can refuse to accept its existance if you want, but my chair is here, right under my arse wether or not anyone likes it.

@jurgnobs1308

23 күн бұрын

ok mr hover-butt, sure. we totally believe your chair claims.

@mallardofmodernia8092

23 күн бұрын

The true question is "whats between your cheeks" 😂

@manboy4720

23 күн бұрын

sitting was a marketing ploy invented by the chair industry.

@potturtle366

23 күн бұрын

real shit

@ezachleewright2309

23 күн бұрын

​@@mallardofmodernia8092lots of hair, and a little bit of lint

The rapid fall of Shad is so wild and sad. Sure, given his background, I expected that certain views were likely, but it's absolutely wild that he shifted from medieval weaponry and armor talk to, well, rage-bait nonsense. But, also, he's Jazza's brother. Jazza is nothing like this. Additionally, thinking his entire community (medieval nerds and ren-fair fans) were likely to follow him into alt-right grift was an absurd misread of the fans he used to have.

@mikewilson858

22 күн бұрын

I guess he is this conservative but I think a lot of content creators got lured in because they get a bump in views for this anti woke shit.

@Fuckyoubloodymoron

21 күн бұрын

He is still doing medieval stuff and rather more weapon content than he used to.

@woundedone

20 күн бұрын

Agreed. I used to be his fan, his comments section had many LGBTQ people and progressive. As soon as he dropped the rants about wokeness his views dipped, and the guy still haven't got a clue. Like, read the comments, and don't just read the complimentary ones, bro.

@tach-uq5tw

16 күн бұрын

He always was open about being a religious mormon, perfectly fine, that's his life, and he managed to not have that be part of his content at least overtly for many years. So sad to see him abandon the strategy that helped him reach a wide and varied community of accepting people, and instead try to go for a niche of hateful people.

@FalconHgv

13 күн бұрын

Did not know he was jazzas brother wow. Real shame Shad turned out like this

One of their points was that "the animals aren't gay, they're just horny and cant find the opposite sex/get confused" or whatever, shockingly, this is dead wrong, theres been studies done on rams where some of the rams when given the choice of a sheep or a ram, they will always go for the other ram, and if i remember correctly i think it was giraffes that are like 50% gay and only are straight enough to not die out lol

@Masterblader158

23 күн бұрын

That argument of theirs really only applies to species that are very "simple", those without good enough sensory ability and such they genuinely cant tell the difference....who arent any of the common examples talked about in this discourse, who yeah genuinely actually know fully what they are getting into, and basically only talked about by biologists.

@OctyabrAprelya

23 күн бұрын

@@Masterblader158 Koalas come to mind. Maybe that argument does apply to those smooth brained, eucaliptus munching dorks.

@henrywong7607

22 күн бұрын

How the fuck is this how I learn that sheep and rams are the same species. I thought they were different but related. Edit: I was thinking of yaks...

@PokemonRules333

22 күн бұрын

@@henrywong7607 I’m guessing it’s like cows and bulls are the same species

@timothy8428

22 күн бұрын

​@@PokemonRules333Whaaaat?? No. Fucking. Way!!! 😮

Shad definitely has gay fantasies about knights in armor

@neutronstarpilot4393

23 күн бұрын

I mean men being manly men being burly and wielding giant phalic shaped objects and crossing swords Like mans must see the homoerotic undertones in what he discusses?

@manboy4720

23 күн бұрын

unrobe yourself, noble knight!

@HotDogTimeMachine385

23 күн бұрын

I mean have you seen those giant codpieces on some medieval armor? 😄

@cryptidcaddy1449

23 күн бұрын

I have gay fantasies about knights in armor

@oriontru8365

23 күн бұрын

@@cryptidcaddy1449 house of the dragon will do things to a man.

Sharks and crocodilians are an ancient linage, but anyone who thinks they haven’t evolved is completely ignorant of the fossil record

@DemLep

21 күн бұрын

Yeah, I know the points he was trying to make, but needs to brush up on evolution. Easy mistakes to make if it isn't a subject you study, but hurts a bit in a video trying to defend evolution.

@WolfHreda

14 күн бұрын

It's cartoonishly stupid to look at sharks and crocodilians and go, "They never evolved!" Meanwhile, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of individual species under those categories, all of which evolved to thrive in their individual environments.

@Metaljacket420

12 күн бұрын

Yup not to mention the fossil record goes back before there were even vertebrates in the oceans, let along sharks and land animals.

@cheezbiscuit4140

12 күн бұрын

Sooooo...Shad.

@YagamiKou

7 күн бұрын

fascinating note, you say sharks are ancient but people forget just how ancient let me put it this way crocodiles are old but they are half the age of sharks *sharks came into existence; before trees came into existence* it's actually ridiculous 😂 edit: for specificity the ages are: sharks 450Mill y/o trees 420mill y/o crocodiles 230mill y/o for reference the oldest animal that everyone agrees was an animal lived 570mill years ago the shark body plan has worked so well that its been around and similar in style for 78.9% of macroscopic life's entire history you are right, they have changed drastically evolution never truely stops, but still, impressive

KZread didn’t kill his old channel. He killed it, and he made a video whining about it by saying his proof was his multiple year old videos weren’t getting views anymore. it’s called the consequences of your actions.

@junjunjamore7735

22 күн бұрын

IIRC, he also implied that KZread is favoring left-wing creators like Lindsay Ellis.

@Zizuzazu

20 күн бұрын

@@junjunjamore7735 That's amazingly fantastical, considering how hard it is to find left-wing content, while every other video is some right wing propaganda. I don't watch em, I click "don't suggest channel to me" and they still keep coming.

@Michael-sb8jf

13 күн бұрын

​@junjunjamore7735 Yet I can't go a day without seeing a Prager community post/advertisement.... They just want to be angry

@Fade2GrayOG

12 күн бұрын

I used to watch his stuff regularly, but once he started knights watch the whole vibe changed and I lost interest. Didn't help my politics were headed in the complete opposite direction from his.

@draketurtle4169

12 күн бұрын

@@Fade2GrayOGaverage right wing moment, it’s actually funny whenever media or content flips to the right… they lose their appeal and start to fail… it’s almost like advertisement from companies prefer to be more left centre to right centre oriented as that’s the most broad and appealing range to make ads for and around. When content goes to far right it loses the appeal of advertising as they would rather not be associated with that, furthermore people don’t want to be exposed to more extreme beliefs for no good reason. People go to certain creators for a certain thing, say a dota 2 creator they either like that creator or are searching for their content type and they prefer them or maybe they make the more niche content in that genre. However, the moment that person starts exposing their more extreme beliefs when it has little or nothing to do with their content they will likely fall off as they alienate the wider audience.

His use of "critical thinking" is amusing because he's an excellent example of someone who doesn't apply it.

@MrAreallycoolname

22 күн бұрын

Well, he also argued against the whole archery community that they used a specific kind of draw in medieval archery and he based it on paintings while having historians all around tell him he is not right in his assumptions.

@Thisisnotafrog

22 күн бұрын

@@MrAreallycoolname Exactly, that's like the opposite of critical thinking. Critical Thinking often literally involves looking at what the experts say, considering each point of view and then making decisions based on nothing but fact. The only reason anyone would ignore people who actually know what they're talking about is to gratify their own feeling that that they know better.

@eddiev3052

14 күн бұрын

I do a bit of medieval archery. Specifically I shoot an English longbow. I like to keep it as medieval as possible too. I saw that video and he is full of shit. He even makes the bold claim that he is doing “experimental archaeology”. He is neither an archaeologist nor a historian. He is a LARPer, and he is very incorrect. Those manuscripts were drawn incorrectly. But he thinks he’s discovered something that has already been tested and debunked.

@MrAreallycoolname

13 күн бұрын

@@eddiev3052 I've been practicing archery for 17 years now and am well aware of his BS. I dont know that much about HEMA, so I believed him there when he came up with something. What i do know is archery, and thats the point i came to realize he's probably full of shit concerning swords and other weapons aswell. Same shit with Lars Andersen, a few years ago he had his time in the spotlight and people kept arguing that he's the only real archer with his trickshot BS.

@666FallenShadow

2 күн бұрын

@@MrAreallycoolname as far as i know even hema people think he's full of shit a lot of the time.

It's called Kin Selection, btw. There are traits that don't help the individual pass on genes, but may help related individuals pass on genes, some of which they share. In this case, a social animal having non-breeding adults that are still able bodied and capable of gathering food is a huge evolutionary advantage for the group. Biologists figured out Kin Selection before they even knew how genetics work.

@SirRebrl

23 күн бұрын

Pointedly, it reduces in-group competition for resources. As long as there's enough replacement of breeding individuals, concentrating more support for fewer young is more effective at keeping those young alive. The logic becomes increasingly clear in smaller groups - if food is scarce, is it better to have meager gatherings split between clusters of cousins, leaving everyone hungry, or to have parents and aunts/uncles working together to feed one group of siblings enough to grow healthy for competition outside the family?

@dynamicworlds1

23 күн бұрын

It also helps with the massive amount of effort it takes to raise human children, especially with the high rates of parental mortality back then. Human reproduction is about massive investment in few offspring, not throwing massive numbers into the wind to see how many survive.

@randyohm3445

23 күн бұрын

I'd also like to point out that the evolutionary effort required to eliminate homosexuality would itself have far reaching consequences. Species don't actually have the ability to just selectively change their attributes at will. Changing a gene or two could lead to many other changes in addition to eliminating the possibility that some members will be gay. And since natural selection is the only method we really have for this, it makes sense that it stuck around.

@crosseyedcat1183

23 күн бұрын

I'm sure even the ancient Greeks and Chinese knew about kin selection. That's where both of these quotes from from: "A society grows great when old men plant trees they know they will never sit" -- An old Greek proverb "If you think in terms of a year, plant rice; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people." -- Confucius Even in ancient societies, it was recognized that you can contribute to society far more than producing children. It's about helping other people and your community thrive.

@catfwish

22 күн бұрын

Soldier andworker drones in eusocial insect colonies are probably the quintessential example of this.

Apparently he wrote a book that was one big rap fantasy. Like, the main character, who is supposed to be good and likeable and not evil, likes rap.

@Metaphysicist

23 күн бұрын

It was a badly, very badly done remeeed Villain story.

@trentonbuchert7342

23 күн бұрын

That’s a bit of an oversimplification. The book isn’t a r*pe fantasy, it’s r*pe apologia. The main character (supposedly) regrets being a r*pist, but the story justifies his past actions. So, it’s actually worse than a r*pe fantasy.

@steve94183

23 күн бұрын

The main character also kills his own son at one point. The son is also bad so him being killed is treated as a good thing even though the father is far worse.

@kayakat1869

23 күн бұрын

@@trentonbuchert7342 the thing is, there is no rap ist in the world that has ever regretted it. They are incapable of human emotions at that point.

@eugeneimnotgonnatellyoumyl5513

23 күн бұрын

I love rap fantasies it's my favourite genre of music

I used to watch Shadiversity regularly for his knight content. As someone working on a little historical fantasy comic, his research was pretty good and easy to digest, as far as I could tell. Turns out, he really doesn’t seem to know much about anything outside that specific subject. And as soon as he started talking about literally anything else, he fell off hard. Like, I’m a Christian too, but that doesn’t mean I have to pretend that evolution isn’t real or that being gay isn’t natural. That should just be common sense.

@Specter_1125

11 күн бұрын

Even what he says about history can be dubious.

@Thefool201

6 күн бұрын

Yeah the historical stuff is also kinda meh ngl, not the best but let's be fair not the worst either , atleast a few years ago

@unknowngod8221

3 күн бұрын

hell i argue if you try to debunk evolution you might alienated even the anti woke/anti lgbtq people (who still had some common sense) from your sides the thing is evolution is why we can learn adapt and thrive in our planet without evolution and the fact our minds where giving by gods to be really smart we wouldn't survive we would just be a dominated animal that will be replace by another one in the next million years or so

I was a "skeptical" *Atheist Edgelord* back in high school. Then, in the fallout of Gamergate, I loosened up, started thinking for myself, & went with the Progressive/Feminist side. I found Shad's channel & followed because I liked the content: Medieval history, fantasy, swords, board games, etc. I figured, I'm not an Anti-Theist anymore, I'll tolerate this guy being Mormon, it's not getting in the way... It got in the way.

@elijahjohnson2055

22 күн бұрын

Felt this entirely too hard. I still catch myself getting a rise out of buzzwords only to step back, ask why, then remember "oh yeah I taught myself that". (I do this more with harmless religious stuff because I've been a "achtually" theist hater longer than a conservative).

@elpsykoongro5379

12 күн бұрын

"started thinking for myself" "went to progressive/femmenist side" Damm dude you sure do mental gymnastics in order to appear better but you are just another sheep who "thinks for himself" but truth is not that

@puppetactor

12 күн бұрын

This.

@joseph_soseph9611

12 күн бұрын

Exactly my experience lmao. I never accepted that he is a missionary for a literal cult, but I thought to myself "well, he isn't spreading propaganda in his videos, so that's not really a problem with the channel." Now we are here. It's so frustrating hearing his r***rded rant, because you can tell he has absolutely no understanding at all about this topic, constantly lies, and doesn't even understand his own position enough to make a single half decent argument. Also, a side note: when the film said there are more than 11 million species on earth and his yes man said "surely there's more animals than that" I burst out into laughter. That's all you need to hear to get an idea of the quality you can expect from the rest of the video.

@adeyemi120

12 күн бұрын

Some theist are a bit more reasonable (although I think it makes them more harmful but we can’t police belief so). Like Dr. Mary Schizer (don’t know how to spell her name), and Dr. Dan McClellan. These two are great scientists and scholar. Hell Dr. McClellan is probably one of the reason I’m an atheist.

When he started using the word 'woke' for things he doesn't like (e.g., Rings of Power), I gave up on him.

@dawoifee

22 күн бұрын

RoP wasn't great tough, but not because it is "woke" whatever it means anyway.

@Rocco049

22 күн бұрын

⁠@@dawoifee yeah Rings of Power was pretty bad because the writing was terrible

@riccardozanoni2531

20 күн бұрын

@@Rocco049 some of the acting was quite decent, though. Not enough to save the show, but the hobbits part was pretty solid all along i'd say. The lore is just nonsense of course, but the acting almost sold it

@1RoundInTheChamber

19 күн бұрын

For me it was earlier when he was whinging about the Wheel of Time tv show. I thought the show sucked ass, and was vibing with his episode reviews, only to notice they kept circling back to culture war nonsense talking points. Friggin pit in my stomach man.

@darkranger116

13 күн бұрын

RoP was kinda bad imho, but you're still right, 9.9/10 times when someone says it like that, they're probably a fkin chud-brain-orc who thinks the entire world is exactly like their tribe and any deviation from the tribes norm is obviously an abomination that has to be removed. literal cave man methodology.

I see they're all dressed up for crossing the swords.

@BinaBecker

23 күн бұрын

All that's missing is the caps with bells.

@R.T.Logan.80

23 күн бұрын

They definitely sucked each other off after this video.

@devlinrossi4318

23 күн бұрын

​@@R.T.Logan.80 lol, pretty much what crappaversity does.

@casualsleepingdragon8501

23 күн бұрын

But they too afraid to Penetrate each other

@squid1712

14 күн бұрын

Fondling thy pommels and shaking thou spear

I dunno if it's widely accepted bu I remember reading about a 'Gay Uncle' concept where basically having some members of your species around who don't reproduce is actually beneficial since they can then help look after the young of their siblings if they die prematurely. Since their genes are already mostly the same, this helps the trait pass down through generations.

@nimlouth

23 күн бұрын

I'm a teacher and I'm basically the "gay uncle" (gay niece, more accurately lmfao) for a whole bunch of rotating kids. I'll have no desire of reproducing even if I wasn't gay, I've done my part tenfold already. People concerned with biological reproduction forget how much work and organization at a society level is required for us to maintain natality rates. "Gay" people certainly aren't a threat to human evolution and even might be a sign of a new socialadaptation that moves the responsibility of reproductive work OUT of the closed environment of thetraditional family, into a more efficient and healthy community based approach.

@neutronstarpilot4393

23 күн бұрын

There have been studies indicating that to quote the findings "female maternal relatives of gay men have more reproductive success than their counterparts who are related to heterosexuals." It's like an evolutionary compensation mechanism that factors in gay people as part of the species. But then there are thousands of books full of what Shad doesn't know about evolution so not surprised he wouldn't know.

@Luke-ep7zk

23 күн бұрын

Or a straight uncle who dosen’t want kids, like mine

@healgoth

23 күн бұрын

Uncle Iroh lol

@user-cx9bb3bz8t

23 күн бұрын

@@healgoth Dude he literally had a son

Thing is, in gregarious species like, say, *OURS,* the survival of the group is much more important than the survival of the individual, and homosexual members who don't reproduce often help taking care of the offspring of the ones that do, therefore making the community stronger than if *everyone* reproduced and stretched local resources thin.

@joendeo1890

23 күн бұрын

Not only that. Siblings also exist, so even if homosexual members of the group don't directly pass on their genes. So long as they function as part of a family unit and help their siblings out then the genes they carry are indirectly passed along as well since their heterosexual siblings share many of the same genes.

@T-I-M-E.42

23 күн бұрын

Yes, but that kind of thinking requires both empathy and critical thinking. Abilities right wingers lack.

@erikrungemadsen2081

22 күн бұрын

@@joendeo1890 some evolutionary psycologists have claimed that homosexuality is to some extent related to stress conditions in the mother durring pregnancy, so that means there is a bigger chance for homosexual offspring when ever the herd neds help to survive. It sounds like a sound theory.

@woundedone

20 күн бұрын

​@@joendeo1890 you can look at colonial species too. They served their colony with their life if needed. As long as the colony survive their genes is passed on.

@anderslarsen4412

19 минут бұрын

​​@@joendeo1890 It's not just about the family unit...We used to live in groups larger than modern families for several 100,000's of years, moving around, hunting and gathering, and sleeping together in caves, etc. The notion of a "nuclear family" (and strictly monogamous relationships), didn't come about until after the invention of agriculture, just a few thousand years ago. We didn't have "bedrooms" - or even permanent homes to live in - until agriculture made it possible to stay at the same place your whole life. Back then, when we were living in small groups, you couldn't be absolutely sure who fathered which children. So the nurturing was likely done by the group as a whole. In those circumstances, having 10-20% not procreate would be a great benefit for the groups survival.

I always found it super weird that the ones whining about "traditional beauty" not being in video games tend to be the ugliest men out there.

@ExtremeMadnessX

23 күн бұрын

Or about masculinity...

@BinaBecker

23 күн бұрын

I find not only *that* weird, but also how the stupidest guys tend to put on the biggest "intellectual" act. Those two, for instance -- they even do the beard-stroking thing. Ugh.

@neutronstarpilot4393

23 күн бұрын

I mean to each their own, and I don't need to body shame anyone, but if you're gonna make a big deal about say physical fitness and conventional beauty standards Dude is not practising what he preaches.

@Januaryof28

23 күн бұрын

its bad ugly representation

@scratch7971

22 күн бұрын

@@BinaBeckerRW “politics” is all about their own inferiority.

I wish he understood just how many trans women who love swords were his biggest fans before he took the mask off.

@ravencollins5638

11 күн бұрын

Didn't know there were so many of us

@muellermat

10 күн бұрын

If my local historical longsword fencing club (wow this translates bad from German) is anything to go by at least 10% but the club is in a huge city area so that number may wary.

@CryptidRenfri

10 күн бұрын

I've never really watched his content or this channel's content but I am also a trans woman who likes history and weapons and somehow ended up here through the algorithm. Greetings all.

@freyastuchbery7130

10 күн бұрын

Sisters 🤝

@BoredLyron

9 күн бұрын

One part of it probably is that this type of interest appeals to a lot of neuro divergent people, who also are way more likely to be part of LGBTQ community as well. Not the sole reason, but probably a part of it. (And yes, I'm agender ADHD who makes their own longbows, so I'm part of the problem myself. 😁)

I remember when humans were “special” because they were the only species that used tools to achieve tasks… then we found a load of other species using tools and even teamwork to achieve tasks..

@draketurtle4169

12 күн бұрын

Yep crows and birds in general are smart, even at its simplest they will drop shelled creatures onto rocks and use rocks to crack things open. Orcas are very smart creatures and use tactics to hunt their prey. Etc.

@muellermat

10 күн бұрын

​@@draketurtle4169 Crows are smart enough that a boarded zoo keeper thought them to swear at passerbies in the local zoo where I live. It was an absolute riot and the crows got thrown a lot of snacks by the visitors. Long story short they thought each other to swear or picked it up themselves. Third generation of crows insulting humans by now (I think).

@WhatsTheTakeaway

9 күн бұрын

Complex tools are solely human domain.

@MikeB-nn4nh

9 күн бұрын

@@WhatsTheTakeaway I’m sure it’s crows., but they have combined and modified sticks to achieve a task, and used stones to raise water level in a pot to asses its contents they couldn’t reach..

@wierdalien1

8 күн бұрын

​@@MikeB-nn4nhwhen we catch corvids using lathes then we can talk. . . In a nuclear fallout shelter, cos like those raptors don't need help

He actually says that we're different from animals because we know right and wrong, so we can know homosexual sex is immoral. Well, dolt, it's not immoral. There has to be harm or a violation to be immoral. Two consenting adults having loving relations with each other, regardless of sex or gender, is categorically not immoral. The only reason people think it might be is because ancient and irrational social taboos told them it was.

@giulioceresini1435

11 күн бұрын

Morality is subjective to different cultures. You gave your definition of what is moral, but a deeply religious person would probably define it differently, along the lines of "what God (any god really) deems right or wrong". He is a mormon, did you really expect him to be a fan of gay people? Right, wrong, moral or immoral are all subjective and contextual words. You cannot give them a definition set in stone, we can mosty come to an agreement to what we collectively think they mean, but it will never be a universally shared vision.

@CryptidRenfri

10 күн бұрын

​@@giulioceresini1435morality absolutely can be objective. There are certain things that, logically and objectively are and are not moral, taking aside any belief in the mandates of imaginary mythological deities.

@WhatsTheTakeaway

9 күн бұрын

There are many health risks for M.O.M. sex. Haven't you looked them up?

@actualgoblin

9 күн бұрын

​​@@WhatsTheTakeaway eating fast food has health risks, and yet, you are not trying to imprison people for eating mcdonalds

@WhatsTheTakeaway

9 күн бұрын

@actualgoblin "Imprison people," lol. I never said anything like that, nor do I believe it. What a wild imagination you have. The OP said there has to be harm for homosexuality to be immoral. There is harm in homosexuality. Therefore, it is immoral. And yes, people probably shouldn't indulge in fast food.

Jazza! Come pick your brother, he's at it again!

@CaptainWelshie

23 күн бұрын

I don't think he wants to though.

@ignatius929

16 күн бұрын

@@CaptainWelshieand I don’t blame him

@arx3516

16 күн бұрын

Who's Jazza?

@ignatius929

16 күн бұрын

@@arx3516 Shad more successful brother. Who is an accomplished artist, you can imagine his stance on ai art

@pyronuke4768

9 күн бұрын

​@@ignatius929Jazza has a pretty healthy take on AI art imo. He sees it as a helpful tool when used correctly (namely getting references) but should never be relied upon.

So does Shad think that men have to actively choose not to want to have sex with other men? Speaking as a cis-het man myself, that never seemed to come up for me.

@Zizuzazu

20 күн бұрын

Same. From the way a lot of anti-gay men speak, women too, they say that they made a choice. Which implies they're somewhere on the spectrum of bi, which does range all the way from a step from het to a step from totally gay. So, it sounds like their system they live under, their believes they are grown to, all this, it forces them to a position where they hate that part in themselves, and effectively project it onto all others, because they refuse to believe that being different on that scale (or many other scales) is normal, being the same is what they perceive as normal. Everything's got to be very standard and singular without any variation, all things different are evil, scary, or otherwise untrustworthy (and they certainly couldn't be any more different than anyone else, thus all must have these feelings, and choose to actively pursue them, or deny them). They are the normal ones, so everyone else has to be wrong.

@koboldparty4708

13 күн бұрын

Maybe he’s projecting.

@elpsykoongro5379

12 күн бұрын

​@@koboldparty4708 He has a wife and kids you are just severely schizophrenic

@elpsykoongro5379

12 күн бұрын

Only if you have severe schizophrenia

@lnsflare1

12 күн бұрын

@@elpsykoongro5379 Oh, your non-sequitor cuts me to the quick and totally doesn't make you look like you don't have an actual argument.

"Hold on, this whole naturalistic argument was your idea."

@TTRPGSarvis

22 күн бұрын

"You'd never see an animal mating with another animal of the same sex! It's unnatural!" *Provides evidence of gay animals* "Well, Humans can't just go about doing everything animals do, now can we?" It's not just shifting goalposts. They're literally pretending they were the other side all along after they lose.

I legit learned about him from a gay furry before he was out and proud. Imagine my shock lmfao

@simonfraser3332

23 күн бұрын

As a gay furry I was equally shocked 😔

@Neko16gram

23 күн бұрын

As soon as I heard I immediately converted to sell sword arts

@Neko16gram

23 күн бұрын

As soon as I heard I immediately converted to sell sword arts

@Neko16gram

23 күн бұрын

As soon as I heard I immediately converted to sell sword arts

@JenerikEt

23 күн бұрын

As soon as I heard I immediately converted to sell sword arts

It's crazy that Shad seems like a real a-hole while his brother Jazza seems like a really chill and nice dude. I was chocked when I learned that they are brothers

@StormCrownSr

23 күн бұрын

Not only does he seem chill, he seems like the type of guy to double check that his friend group not be mean about the fact you don't like [common thing] and to not bring it up.

@Martin_likes_beer

23 күн бұрын

@@StormCrownSr yeah. their family gatherings must be really awkward. I felt so bad when I watched them on a livestream playing some tabletop game at some convention and Shads "art ability" came up. Jazza did everything to be nice and not to try to offend him. yeah it was hard to watch.

Humans pop out half baked potatoes that can cry, mostly one at a time and it takes forever for them to reach a stage where they can survive independently, having additional adults that aren't focused on their own offspring and can instead contribute to the group or take in orphaned children is an evolutionary advantage for the group, improving the survival chances of nieces and nephews still allows your genes to be passed on.

@manboy4720

23 күн бұрын

exactly. if every single person was having children, nobody would have enough spare time to do anything else. not to mention you'd be absolutely drowning in babies.

@nikogarcia201

23 күн бұрын

@@manboy4720 Child mortality would go trough the roof because it would have been impossible to meet the need or every kids if there are two many.

@cock_sauce8336

23 күн бұрын

Even as adults, we still need help from others to take care of us so we can care for them. Imagine being alone in a forest without anything other than your healthy fed and hydrated body. ONE SICKNESS and your chances to survive is super low or you're handicapped for a long time leading to more troubles and starting a spiral. You would need to start a fire, find food and animals to get pelt from. All this takes so much time and energy for one person that it's basically impossible. You sprained your ankle ? Too bad, you have to continue hunting and gathering. Also hunting is super risky because you won't be able to get yourself fixed up or at least get back to your encampment if ever injured in any major survivable way. We're so bad at starting from literally nothing. And even if equipped beforehand, it's still really tough. Our biggest strengths are also our biggest weaknesses and those are our intelligence combined with community. Without people, we're doomed.

@viridianacortes9642

22 күн бұрын

Dude. This is such an interesting development in evolution. When I heard it, it made so much sense. My gay and asexual uncles took such good care of us. They helped my Mom through so much crap after my Dad left. It’s genius!

@Cyb3rFck

11 күн бұрын

That argument bears one issue: Freedom of choice. You don't have to be homosexual to elect not to have children.

🎵Birds do it, Bees do it, Even educated fleas do it! Let's do it, Let's gay it up!🎶

Remember folks with these people every every accusation is a confession

@neutronstarpilot4393

23 күн бұрын

It's when the conversation moves to temptation, Like chocolate cake is tempting, gay people are just people, if somethings tempting over there for you, I've got something to tell you.....

@drakkenmensch

23 күн бұрын

It never fails to amaze me that anti-gay people think about dicks and anal sex more than I do.

@Mortablunt

23 күн бұрын

That’s the main lesson I got from dealing with progressive social justice types for years - every one of them which makes some stink, or whatever about somebody else is really covering up their own wickedness with a preemptive attack. They join in the Lynch mob in order to not be targeted for sitting out.

@elpsykoongro5379

12 күн бұрын

You mean yourself in these case

9:38 "You don't get to believe in gay animals and evolution at the same time." - I can only imagine a cartoon character with a bunch of missing teeth saying that after an unironic "duhh"

@VoxAstra-qk4jz

23 күн бұрын

They think believing in gay people means that you think all are gay, or should be gay. Its a disingenuous strawman argument.

No, he did lose his audience, he used to be a respectable sword guy before he picked a fight with Sellsword arts

@Shane-hx4xp

23 күн бұрын

He started falling off years before that.

@goddessoflesbians1153

23 күн бұрын

I love sellsword arts :D

@woundedone

20 күн бұрын

The woke rants is what gotten him.

@TrueSonOfWalhall

12 күн бұрын

it started years earlier, back when he had beef with the archery community, then with skallagrim, then he started knights watch and it quickly turned into these "everything I dislike is woke and a political personal attack on me" rants, then he wrote a fantasy book that tries to justify rape and I could continue for hours

@draketurtle4169

12 күн бұрын

@@TrueSonOfWalhallthe sellsword arts thing is funnily enough the least bad of any of that, if anything that was good, really good. Sellsword arts is not ran by a good guy, but shad is ehhh really showing he isn’t of any place to be calling other people out for being a bad guy when he is straight up discriminating not just being a bad guy or spreading misinformation.

Crocodilia “the modern crocodilians” didn’t appear until 85ish million years ago during the late Cretaceous. Alligators have only been around for 35 million years, but the crocodilian body plan is so successful that it evolved multiple times in the pseudosuchian line (the line that would eventually lead to modern crocodilians), and even in non crocodilians such as early whales and amphibians.

@kohai-kun9261

23 күн бұрын

Neat!

@tzorfireis425

23 күн бұрын

So what you're telling me is that crocodiles are *so* successful, that other things keep evolving into crocodiles? Have we finally found the vertebrates' crab?

@OctyabrAprelya

23 күн бұрын

@@tzorfireis425 Dang. you beat me to it.

@aengel-0725

22 күн бұрын

I mean... I guess... But so is the 'shark' design, because fish, whales and reptiles have adopted it. Sharks being the ones with the name, ictiosaurs and dolfins. Sure the latter seats the tail up and down... But swap that and they are essentially one and the same. You also have the cat design, which canines (some fox) have achieved, as well as the fosa. Watch Madagascar, those guys are not cats they are closely related to mongoose.

@camerus4460

20 күн бұрын

I said something similar, but I was more correcting his timeline than pinpointing the evolution of Crocodilians. It is good to see one other person willing to research evolution. I am fairly tired of left wingers defending evolution without the slightest depth of understanding. It makes them look like theists and their poor understanding of their own scripture.

He's falling down the reactionary hole. He's following the views down to the mud

@JoshityJosh

23 күн бұрын

He’s always been like that, he just used to keep his shitty views separately from his main channel

@666FallenShadow

2 күн бұрын

dude is a conservative mormon, this was his true self all the time, he just figured he could go mask-off without losing his audience because other right wing grifters are successful and he bought into his own propaganda of the "silent majority"

Not really related to the video. As someone who is all for A.I. art, I hated Shad's video on it. A.I. art like most A.I. programs, is a tool to assist us. In this case, help with artists block or to easily describe and/or visualize an idea. Using it to straight up replace artists just because you cant afford one, with stolen art on top of that, is almost Saturday morning cartoon villian BS.

@bagelenjoyer3437

10 күн бұрын

"Help with artists block" bro what

@TheOnePhun211

10 күн бұрын

​@bagelenjoyer3437 Basically, the same thing as writers block where you're completely stumped when it comes to ideas and need an extra spark to get going again. I'm saying this as an artist too, dont agree much with Ops use of it but i respect the idea of HOW it shouls be used atl.

@HypercomboProduction

10 күн бұрын

@@TheOnePhun211 i was using artist block as an example because my brother gets it all the time. In my case I can't draw but I have great ideas. Part of the reason I can't draw is because I can't describe or visualize what it is I am thinking. So I can use A.I. art to help me describe an idea and my brother can draw it up based on the idea, rather than the image itself. In other words, the A.I. art is a place holder and a jumping off point. No one is using the art and claiming it as our own. Since one, its not our art and two, it's essentially concept art in the earliest draft.

Biologist here: First of all, it can be an evolutionary disadvantage to have all adults breeding in a family or social group, as infant mortality can rise due to the high child-to-adult ratio and resources can become depleted. In these cases, non-breeding adults who participate in childcare strongly improve the fitness of the kids, on the whole making 'homosexual behavior' a win for the family and, by extension, the homosexual individuals own genes as well since their are bringing up siblings (50% similar genes), nieces and nephews (17% similar genes). 90% of giraffes mounting other giraffes is male on male, and they are seeming willing participants. This occurs even when there are females present. Lions are not as high of stats, but show similar behavior. First encounter of squid s*xual acts was both gay and interspecies, with the smaller species male topping the larger one. We've known of penguin homosexuality since the 1900s, but the poor Christian scientists where so aghast and befuddled they covered up their research by writing their findings in Greek, making it primarily inaccessible to general society - potentially due to the risk of being ostracized as well, since they could be accused of making up random stuff in Antarctica to then come home and 'spread their filth' to general society. Dolphins form pair bonds with the same sex, often between breeding seasons, and engage in s*xual behavior. Many parrots have same-sex couples as a first choice, too. None of that is by any means due to absence of Finally Bonobos shouldn't be held to human standards wrt p*do stuff. In their species it's normal and common, with youngs initiating things themselves a lot of them time. Further, they primarily participate in oral, both giving and receiving. In our species, a majority of cultures keep kids away from that sorta thing (side-eyes aspects of A. Greece real hard here) and kids rarely naturally engage in such stuff and form trauma around it. To Bonobos its an evolutionary adaptation, to humans it is not Bonobos are an absolutely wonderful species and I will take no slander of them. Meerkats, however, a totally a different thing.

@manxcatcoot

21 күн бұрын

What do meercats do?

@thethirdtime9168

21 күн бұрын

@@manxcatcoot Thanks for taking the bait ;) Their are the most homicidal little maniacs on the planet. They have an intraspecies murder rate of 20% deaths occurring at meerkat hands compared to 12% in chinchillas (second on the list alongside other mongoose species), 6% in top predators like many big cats and an approximation of ~2% in our fellow ape species (excluding Bonobos and Orangutans from here). Humans swivel between 1-2% depending on where we are in history. The average propensity to murder in mammals is about 0.3%, so even humans are rather staggering. To top it off, it's primarily infanticide against another female's young in the social group. Wanna emphasize I don't hate them by any means, but I ain't protecting them from public outrage so long it remains verbal. Let's just say, I've really questioned Timon's reasons to leave the nest in Lion King 1.5 after I reached adulthood.

@thethirdtime9168

19 күн бұрын

@@manxcatcoot I actually already responded to your comment, but apparently YT doesn't like when I talk about this topic - and you'll see why in a moment. Cause meerkats have the highest m*rder rate of all mammals at a whooping 20%, from what I understand of all meerkat endings of life, coming that the paws of another meerkat. This contrasts the ~12% of chinchillas and other mongoose species, the ~6% in many predator species like big cats and the 2% average for primate species among which humanity differ span between 1-2% depending on time in history. It further contrasts the 0.3 percent average determined in all mammals as a whole. Specifically, meerkat females will cease the existence of youngs of other females in the group in high rates to 'make way' for their own young to get food and space. As such, I will tolerate these mofos getting blasted by public outrage, even tho I don't advocate for hate and demand it remains verbal. But I gotta say, Timon leaving the nest in Lion King 1.5 was cast in a whole new light for me.

@thethirdtime9168

19 күн бұрын

​@@manxcatcoot I actually already responded to your comment twice, but apparently this is a bit sensitive - and you'll see why in a moment. Cause meerkats have the highest finishing-off-another rate of all mammals at a whooping 20%, from what I understand of all meerkat endings of life, coming that the paws of another meerkat. This contrasts the ~12% of chinchillas and other mongoose species, the ~6% in many predator species like big cats and the 2% average for primate species among which humanity differ span between 1-2% depending on time in history. It further contrasts the 0.3 percent average determined in all mammals as a whole. Specifically, meerkat females will cease the existence of youngs of other females in the group in high rates to 'make way' for their own young to get food and space. As such, I will tolerate these aholes getting blasted by public outrage, even tho I don't advocate for hate and demand it remains verbal. But I gotta say, Timon leaving the nest in Lion King 1.5 was cast in a whole new light for me.

@DavidSmith-vr1nb

7 күн бұрын

And people say only Tik-Tok censors these things. Quite clearly it's happening here on YT too (I've had posts fail for the same reason).

He treats his brother like shit too (Jazza). Jazza was definitely the more successful of the two on KZread.

@TabbyVee

23 күн бұрын

Wait what, jazza is his brother??

@ethanwaltz4799

23 күн бұрын

I had no idea they were brothers, it's crazy that Jazza is related to this guy, they could not be more different.

@hanifarroisimukhlis5989

23 күн бұрын

Shad is definitely jealous of Jazza. Jazza is literally bigger than all of Shad's channels combined.

@Shane-hx4xp

23 күн бұрын

I love the video of them together at an event. Jazza roasts him the whole time.

@simonfraser3332

23 күн бұрын

Wait what did he do to jazza?!?

I stopped following the guy when i heard he started being openly like this, but i never realized just how bad it got, since i never really looked into it that much. holy shit man, i used to like his stuff.

To think I use to watch that piece of trash.

@mbras9176

23 күн бұрын

Ikr? His videos about historical stuff were interesting at least but then he decided to go for the route he constantly complains about "go political"

@simonorourke4465

23 күн бұрын

Same, I followed him for years just watching his medieval content featuring castles and swords. I started to notice more and more awful political and religious stuff starting to creep in and then after I discovered his 2nd channel I had to unsubscribe. He has gone so far down the right wing fundamentalist morman route that he is just unbearable to watch now.

@nikogarcia201

23 күн бұрын

@@simonorourke4465 Whenever a KZread begin to complain about wokeness, they always end up showing their true colors.

@arthurcosta4643

23 күн бұрын

​@@nikogarcia201True. Before, they always masked their bigotry behind the idea that they just hated "wokeness", and they were actually fine with general progressive ideas. Now that they dont care, we see tons of those channels who were antiwoke in the past doing reactionary apologia.

@CubicApocalypse128

23 күн бұрын

I feel like I'm listening to an absurdly long concept album called "Everywhere at the End of Shad"

There is an entire species of lesbian Lizards.

@hanifarroisimukhlis5989

23 күн бұрын

Technically it's parthenogenic lizards, so no male whatsoever.

@DivineFalcon

23 күн бұрын

@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 Nature finds a way.

@ellakarlqvist7587

23 күн бұрын

​@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 well they do mount each other to trigger the parthenogenesis. Which is why people call then lesbians.

@OctyabrAprelya

23 күн бұрын

@@DivineFalcon As Lindsay Nikole says. "Nature doesn't give you sh*t straight" That's specially true about lesbian lizards.

@BluePhoenix_

23 күн бұрын

@@ellakarlqvist7587 i had that as part of my original comment, but youtube deleted it, so i reposted it without the syggs.

As an Australian, it shames me how we got our share of right-wing nutters and grifters, first Rupert Murdoch, then Bearing, then SC Reviews, and now this guy.

@simonfraser3332

23 күн бұрын

WHY ARE THERE MORMONS IN AUSTRALIA?!!!!

@TerraStory225MYA

23 күн бұрын

Don’t forget Ken Ham

@aquack9919

23 күн бұрын

I haven't heard about Bearing in a while.

@Metaphysicist

23 күн бұрын

@@dracorex6876 Missionaries

@Naptosis

23 күн бұрын

There's a good reason we exiled the puritans out of Europe. In a world before media and the printing press, they tried to ban music and acting. 🤦🏻

Typical con... take the thing that debunks your argument, and pretend it's an argument someone else came up with out of the blue

They said you can't be gay because it doesn't help the species survive and yet Shad literally has chronic illness... Shads own existence disproves his point.

Y'know? I liked Shad when he was just discussing weapons and armor. Then he started expressing more personal views and lost me entirely.

Wait is he actually Mormon? That explains everything

@uthinkiamhot

10 күн бұрын

He did a video about the Sword of Laban. It really made me doubt his ability to access historical accuracy of his sources.

@DavidSmith-vr1nb

7 күн бұрын

A handful of Mormons are kind of OK, but then again those are the most likely to become ex-Mormons.

I really liked his show back when he talked about swords and d&d and the like. It's a shame.

@neutronstarpilot4393

23 күн бұрын

He tried to say his main channel doesn't have any politics on it so it should be fine Without realising a large portion of his audience was going to be put off by him as a person regardless the content Especially when other channels like Skallagrim and sellswordarts are options. It seems like he's niche-d himself out of an audience.

@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei

6 күн бұрын

@@neutronstarpilot4393 Skallagrim was just always based and stayed that way and I really appreciate him for that.

It's sad. I have started adding the battle scythe to my character after one of Shad's videos. Sad to see him turning out to be a piece of human garbage

@delmattia96

23 күн бұрын

I also used to like him, but dropped him like a rock as soon as I heard what was happening on his second channel and in the interactions with other people. I was already a tad annoyed by a few reaction videos of his to other content creators that felt negative on purpose, but those above were the proverbial drop. I honestly remember fondly the "Sexy Armor" videos because it tackled it from a relatively unexplored angle. "Ok, this is not effective armor, but can we make it work somewhere else? Is it traditional clothes? Is it cerimonial armor? Is it a fashion statement?" It was something that helped me quite a bit in how I thought about my characters.

Poor Shad. just because his brain never evolved passed the 5ft grade, he automatically thinks that that happens to everyone.

@Zizuzazu

20 күн бұрын

Same with a lot of dialogue about "choosing" to be straight. Since they can't imagine they are actually bi, since of course, they must be normal and natural, while others are strange. Ironically not realizing it is perfectly normal and natural...

@Cyrus_T_Laserpunch

2 сағат бұрын

Don't be so harsh to kids in grade 5.

From some of what I've seen I think Shad thinks the outrage content is real and doesn't understand it's a grift (for the most part) and that's why he doesn't quite understand how to make the fake outrage content. Like your not supposed to drink the coolaid yourself, but why am I giving advice ?! Great job shad, you really got this keep going.

The idea that only humans think is also wrong. We don't know if animals have a moral compass since that's something we made up, but learning pretty much anything about animals proves that they really aren't different from humans. Elephants apparently bury their dead (only the children, which are transportable) and are known to mourn and seek revenge. Ravens are working with wolves in a way that looks very similar to the idea of how humans domesticated wolves including hunting together and playing with the pups. Some whale species has been known to follow trends, like one will be seen wearing a "hat" and then most of the rest of the pod will start doing so as well, and like any other trend it dies out in popularity over time. Dolphins enjoy getting high. When introducing "money" to whichever primate it was studied, where the money could be exchanged for food, they started "paying for services". There was an animal in the rodent family that, when presented with food while another of its species was locked up separately and couldn't get any, would actively choose to share it. The best we've got now for how humans are different is that we're really, really good at tool making (fine detail work) and our spoken and written language has some features that allow for generational knowledge to be passed on for generations and even centuries. I also heard the whole "humans am smart, no infant-side (spelled wrong intentionally)" which ignores the entirety of human history from leaving infants in the woods after giving birth, to the need for laws to be passed in medieval europe to prevent parents from "accidentally" rolling over on their infant while sleeping, to empires like the romans removing any child who did not look fit and healthy because they would otherwise be a burden, to women being "accidentally" pushed down stairs while pregnant, to some of the drastic things done in china during the one child policy when the parents found out their one child was a girl. It's like they're talking about humans and how perfectly peaceful they are during a lecture on world war ii. It shows they are intentionally ignoring the facts

@elijahjohnson2055

22 күн бұрын

Nature is both equally cruel and gentle. Humans are part of this system unfortunately.

@Zizuzazu

20 күн бұрын

More we learn of animals, more we come to realize how much smarter they are than we thought. That is true nearly in all cases of research, with reasonable exceptions standing. Humans on the other hand, can revert into basic "bestial" behavior with a flick, if the circumstance, upbringing, or chemicals are the wrong way. The people that spout this stuff, they don't work off reality, truth, or research. They work off scripture, feelings, and preconceptions. Now, feelings matter, of course, but if you are unable to recognize reality around yourself, and allow emotions to drive you along the scripture and preconceptions entirely, well... That's not very logical, nor cognitive.

Shad should've just stuck to the sword content, but the brainrot took hold

I remember finding out about this guy from an Overly Sarcastic Productions collaboration back when he was just a sword guy.

@kenji6492

23 күн бұрын

OSP wouldn’t touch this channel with a war scythe these days.

@DemLep

21 күн бұрын

@@kenji6492 You mean the channel with two Ace creators don't want to associate with someone that is anti-LGBTQIA+. *Shocked pikachu face*

As a trans woman who used to love his videos, it's crazy to me that he actually thinks KZread is making his chanel die

@elpsykoongro5379

12 күн бұрын

I read it as "as a liar who will end up destroying his own body"

@GentlemensClubHolyEdition

12 күн бұрын

@@elpsykoongro5379 I hope you seek therapy someday 🙏

@elpsykoongro5379

12 күн бұрын

@@GentlemensClubHolyEdition speak for yourself man I am already on my way out of that, what helped me most was learning to not lie to myself and I am happier, stronger and more resilient than before, so please stop lying to yourself, you are quite literally feeding yourself poison

@chaosundivided2525

12 күн бұрын

@@elpsykoongro5379 if you truly learned to not lie to yourself, you also would do research and try to understand trans people instead of writing them off as "liars", which is a way to soothe your feelings by applying labels instead of engaging with learning the facts of the matter or why you feel the way you do clearly, you haven't given this topic much more thought than "I don't like it" also, quick question, what "poison" are they feeding themselves?

@elpsykoongro5379

12 күн бұрын

@@chaosundivided2525 you tell me

A Mormon trying to debunk evolution? Colour me surprised.

Well this is sad to see - probably even sadder for his family. His brother Jazza is like a huge kids KZreadr, does art & what-not. Used to see him on Drawfee often (& they’re like the biggest LGBTQ+ supporting channel with no LGBTQ+ people that I know of, ha).

@malterethmeier968

23 күн бұрын

I think they're from a Mormon family, but Jazza left the faith a long time ago. So I wouldn't be sure that huge parts of his family other than his brother don't agree with his views.

I miss when shad was all about swords and machicolations. It was a simpler time

They have to resort to strawmen because their actual argument, "this thing is bad because an old book says so," falls apart under the tiniest bit of scrutiny.

im not here to say something witty or quippy, i am here to boost this video so the algorithm pushes it more

@gaso3035

20 күн бұрын

Common engineer W

@muellermat

10 күн бұрын

Literally had it run on mute for a few minutes as even through the filter of a reaction I could not stand shadiversity without physically cringing.

Everyone who ever had a Male Dog, knows they jump on anything that looks good to them and there have even been signs of Lionesses growing Manes if the pack lacked a Male, making Trans Animals a possibility. Gays are more Natural than the teeth of the one in Red xD

Shadiversity used to be a good youtuber and he taught me a lot about swords and castles but as a member of the gay and trans/non-binary communities i feel kinda betrayed i used to like his content but now i say that shad should go give a handshake to a box jellyfish

@loodlebop

10 күн бұрын

Isn't it horrible when someone you admire does something that makes you feel betrayed. The good thing is that he was always like this but now you know and don't need to be fooled any longer so if anything it's a positive tonnage that knowledge

Now i can't remember the video/source off the top of my head so i'd have to go back through my watch history to try and find it, but someone did a pride month video about how scientists do in fact find a lot of engage in homosexual behavior but that it's really, really underreported. And even if it's observed, it can be hard to tell the full story without doing experiment type studies what the actual situation is. For an example of what i mean, sheep were studied and there was a decent percentage that were distinctly labeled as gay. If a gay ram had the option of a ewe in heat or another ram, they'd still mount the ram. But the biologist had to conclude that ewes commonly do not initiate contact (they stand still and wait to be mounted) so there would be plenty of lesbian ewes that just don't get physically involved with each other due to that. Some rams would stand still instead of looking to mount and some ewes wanted to mount their partner regardless if they were rams or ewes. If there's one thing biology and evolution make abundantly clear, it's that there's variation in populations for everything. Height, sexuality, hair color, etc, are all on sliders at character creation

What does he think humans are? Plants? Rocks? Fungi?... lol, nah we're definitely animals...

@ImSayyD

23 күн бұрын

Maybe he is a plant after all... that would explain why he can't remember what argument the right was using a few years ago...

@hoathanatos6179

10 күн бұрын

Mormons believe that would souls are the spirit children of this world's God and his many wives. Our souls are of divine origin compared to animals in their doctrine.

@DavidSmith-vr1nb

7 күн бұрын

​@@hoathanatos6179 "Our Souls". Depending on the accent, that was an unfortunate turn of phrase.

@serebii666

3 күн бұрын

@@hoathanatos6179 I mean they also believe that black people are black as a punishment from God, so don't rely on them for much rational and empathetic thought lol

It wasn't youtube. I was a long time subscriber of Shadiversity. But I unsubbed when his political madness took over. I knew before that he unironically was wearing magic underwear. But I am tolerant. I think you can do what you want even if that means living in a fantasy world. ANd I watched his videos for the content not his personal kinks. But at some point his kinks started to leak into his content too much.

@elpsykoongro5379

12 күн бұрын

Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you guys? Why everything seems to involve kinks around you?

Right wingers "debunking" everything and talking as if everything outside of their bubble is a competing faith is just baffling to me. "Do you believe in the concept of rain? But why? How can you be a follower of both God AND the water-from-the-sky religion?"

I don't like homophobia with my fantasy sword channels. It's kinda one or the other. Many people in the larp sword space also don't like his politics or are a political. I'm not sure if there's enough conservative sword lovers to support him.

I'm surprised shad is still around to be honest.

That channel is 3 years old, so not really new. But I think most of his falling off was from him promoting Ai Art, and essentially bragging that it makes him better or just as skilled as his brother Jazza... Jazza is quite popular, quite the artist, atheist, and just a totally different apple.

@Zizuzazu

20 күн бұрын

Not just. Many things. That gave him a blow in artist communities, which also happen to be fairly strongly left leaning. Him going full crazy anti-woke drove out a whole lot of audience, since surprisingly, a lot of sword communities, at least from my experience in Europe, are pretty left leaning and very reasonable people, regardless of their religion or lack thereof. Then he started beef with bunch of people like Sellsword Arts, then his followers started going after Matt Easton of Scholagladiatoria, also some shenanigans with Skallagrim, you know, everybody, he was reeeally fighting everybody for their woke agendas and shiiet. The whole knight's watch rants started to bleed to his main channels. He made all the wrong choices, time and again, and just kept making them.

13:50 tbf a lot of genetic diseases are either recessive (e.g., cystic fibrosis), manifest after reproduction age (e.g., Huntington’s) or have a positive effect when not over expressed (e.g., the phenotype that causes sickle cell is malaria resistant, it’s an over abundance of those types of red blood cells that cause sickle cell anemia), so genetic diseases that get inherited don’t usually effect one’s ability to reproduce

@DemLep

21 күн бұрын

I was going to make a comment on this as well, hope this boost it up a bit.

What Shad doesn't understand about evolution is that it doesn't only happen on an individual level, but also on the level of populations. It isn't only about the survival of the individual, but of the entire group, because a lot of animals are *social* - just like humans - and do not live alone in a vacuum. And when a group has a trait that makes a certain percentage homosexual and thus has a higher chance of survival (maybe because it lowers sexual competition - especially among males - without reducing group size) that trait is advantageous and gets passed on.

Damn it. Now that they no longer have abortion to rally against, they’re moving back to gay marriage.

@jameltanderson

22 күн бұрын

Sadly I think they’ll get it to

@tadferd4340

18 күн бұрын

As was predicted. On the chopping block are also, contraception, interracial marriage, and women's suffrage. Conservatives cannot have power.

@fedethegreat88

15 күн бұрын

​@@jameltandersonNah, they're way too ignorant to do any real damage as long as they're kept in check, and you guys get a candidate on the left that isn't a senile Alzheimer's patient

@elpsykoongro5379

12 күн бұрын

What marriage? There has never been such a think as "gay marriage" because marriage implies there is a man and a woman Your shitty dialectic religion has burned your braincells to a crisp if you can't understand such basic thing

@DavidSmith-vr1nb

7 күн бұрын

Next up: interracial marriage. Then women's suffrage. Then workers' rights (some of those are rolling back already). Then disabled rights (not that there were many to start with). They are desperate to get back to the 90's (the 1790's).

Hi guys! Gay Bio student popping in to say that they are actually starting to spot genetic differences between gay and straight men specifically. Nothing is really set in stone, of course, but they did find a cluster of about 30 genes highly corolated with homosexuality. What's funny is that those genes are basically always present and unlocked hormonally via epigenetics when in the womb. A current theory for this is something called kinship selection. Looking at factors that make men more likely to be homosexual (next male birth in succession is more likely and mothers stress/duress seems to make a boy more likely to be gay) its believed that they take on a general caretaker role unable to have children. And if im able to theoretically help my siblings produce more children through helping care for them rather than make my own, it becomes a beneficial reproductive strategy because there's more children in the next gen. And since my mother gave all of us our cluster of gay genes but only unlocked mine, all of my neices and nephews have those genes to continue the gay. Stunting parts of your bloodline also prevents overpopulation. Since we are a social species, it's easy to see us evolving biological fail safes to make sure we dont starve.

@malachitoler5789

15 күн бұрын

I think what I wanted to put as a takeaway is that homosexuality doesn't have to be some defect in the human species just because it doesn't directly aid human reproduction. The principles behind biology wrap, warp, twist, and turn in many weird ways, but all life "cares about" is making more of itself. It doesn't care how it does.

@ONI_002

2 күн бұрын

That makes perfect sense. Ive been saying homosexuality is likely a form of evolutionarily built in self population control for years so this being the mechanism behind it seems to check out with that theory perfectly.

The best part about Bonobos, too, is that they're our closest living relative. Just goes to show how much more gay we really should be. 😂

KZread didn't kill Shadeversity. Shad killed it. I stopped watching him a long time ago, but anytime I see a video about it, it's never positive.

The AI Art thing was with him not because he didn't want to pay for covers (he meant to make his book the start of a series but now claims it's only written in a way to allow for a series just in case he ever wants to write a sequel) but because he "can draw but does not like drawing" and things he is a great artist with "an artistic eye" when he lets AI generate very mediocre (for AI) pics.

@Cyrus_T_Laserpunch

Сағат бұрын

Ya, he does not really have a thing for AI art, you can generate great images and a creative and skilled AI director can produce amazing work. An AI director can absolutely have an artistic eye, Shad just does not. I can generate better than him in my sleep and my prompt game is weak, and it's not my artistic eye, I lack that, and worse, he has 1 more eye than I have.

All the atheist skeptic youtube I watched as a kid prepared me for this.

@ExtremeMadnessX

23 күн бұрын

Except Armored "Skeptic"...

@piglin469

23 күн бұрын

​@@ExtremeMadnessX if your talking about sir sic then the hell did he do

@rethagos8295

23 күн бұрын

@@piglin469 nah armoured sceptic is a different fella, sir sic is cool

@piglin469

23 күн бұрын

@@rethagos8295 I see then where good then. Have this 🍪

@tristanalain9239

23 күн бұрын

​@@ExtremeMadnessXI weep at what happened to Greg.

5:13 I prefer to say "humans are mammals" because that way they get less annoyed than when you call one of them a "great ape" or a "big animal."

@DavidSmith-vr1nb

7 күн бұрын

We are Metazoans. As Forrest Valkai says, we're too big to be bacteria and we move around too much to be plants. Also it's kind of weird that they don't usually object to 'mammal' or 'chordate' but have a problem with 'animal' (metazoan) and everything below 'simiiform'. Why are phyla and classes acceptable but kingdoms and families not?

I used to love shadiversity and I feel fooled now that I know this is what he has become

I cant believe he is Jazzas brother....

@spectre7469

23 күн бұрын

And Shad is the older one

@loodlebop

10 күн бұрын

Is he?!?!

@loodlebop

10 күн бұрын

Well jazza was raised mormon although isn't now so perhaps some things didn't wash off so easy

@moirasoma2863

10 күн бұрын

@@loodlebop I think Shadiversitys love of AI art is grounded in jealousy of his brothers talent.

Imagine sitting around in cheap faux-medieval costumes yet having the audacity to make fun of OTHER people

I feel really bad for Jazza. Nobody deserves to have someone like shid as a brother.

I think he has had Knights Watch for a few years now, i remember him promoting it during one of his videos. I saw it was the usual culture war channel and kinda just ignored it since i really liked the guy at the time. Also i remember seeing a post on his reddit about someone saying they dont know how to feel about him being one of those people after discovering that channel, his fans mostly just told them to not watch if they dont like and as long it doesnt affect the main channel they dont care, now that aged like milk lmao

14:47 rats also have a similar issue. Their teeth don’t stop growing and that’s why they have to constantly chew things to file them down. But if their jaw is misaligned the teeth will grow until they puncture the rats brain.

'Solving my problems with your mother bonobo style' - AnotherNerd64 😂

Folks, I don't think that's a modern-day youtuber. That's literally a time travelling peasant from the 11th century.

@unknowngod8221

3 күн бұрын

did bro got stroke or get silence? because this doesn't make sense without some more writing

@doncomputer5931

3 күн бұрын

@@unknowngod8221 Fellow Homo Sapiens, The human portrayed in this video that goes by the name of "Shadiversity" is not a human from the late 20th or early 21st century AD. It is a Human from Medieval Europe in the 11th Century AD who has mysteriously been transported to the 21st century and has been attempting to disguise itself as a Human from the 21st Century AD.

As a gay I think a lot of shad audience was the nerdy dnd crowd , as a dnd nerd its a lot of gays at the table

Two things that with make Shad start fuming. 1. Gay Penguins 2. Male seahorses get pregnant

@Cyrus_T_Laserpunch

Сағат бұрын

Seahorses make zero sense in general, it's like they live to defy expectations.

he also tried acting like he was attacked by sellsword arts, a channel that is all about genuine historical sword fighting, who made a video about sword/armor youtubers and who to watch for actual stuff and what not

Afaik, the best hypothesis for different sexualities in humans is hormone washes during pregnancy, with some evidence to support this. I promise this is relevant. Pregnant women with negative blood type start to have an immune response to the blood of their babies if they have a positive blood type. With every further pregnancy, the mother's body reacts more quickly and strongly against the babies blood which is seen as something foreign to the mother's body. This used to lead to higher and higher odds of miscarriages, until we understood this and started giving pregnant women in these circumstances immunosuppressants. Now, studies suggest that the more male babies a mother has, the higher each subsequent son has of being gay. It is believed to be similar to the previous case, in that the pregnant woman's immune system recognizes the hormones of male babies as foreign, and starts suppressing them, leading to each further pregnancy to have less of the hormones involved in developing a male baby.

i've gave up on shad ages ago but his love letter to ai art was what made me unscubsribe, simply i got fed up with his conservative politics and his takes on media at times. I used to follow him for arms and armour content. there was a time where i would have been willing to lend him a cosplay if i had have finished it by then but now i don't want to be anywhere near him. youtube is also being a pain these days for content creators that do content on props and weapons that are realisitic such as prop guns (doesn't seem to affect real weapons channels as much) but swords related youtube seems to have been having issues with reach and youtube throwing out community strikes on the making of props (see iron warrior cosplay getting strikes for making a death korps of krieg lasgun on livestream only for the streams to get taken down and deleted by youtube with apeals not doing anything

13:02 to add to your point. There is literally a species of moth that has no mouth. They immediately, after their cocoon, look for a mate and then die of starvation. Kinda sad and fcking up what evolution did

So, I was (I guess still am, as I haven't actually bothered to unsub) a watcher of Shadiversity. Because I'm currently working on a large scope fantasy story, and his info was, y'know. Of use. And then... I started hearing about the right wing bs on his "other channel" He even copped to it in the start of a video (I think one about medieval inns) and said he didn't "bring it up" on the Shadiversity channel. Which, alright fair... but I was starting to get concerned. And then I noticed, not only was I cherrypicking through his videos more and more, but I was less and less interested when he uploaded. Aside from him starting to bring it over to the Shadiversity channel, his content started to really fall off... just from how enjoyable it was to watch. I was getting bored. And now this. Alright, bye Shad, y'lamearse. I'll go find that info elsewhere I guess... not like you were spectacularly engaging or helpful in anyway.

@BoredLyron

9 күн бұрын

Skallagrim, Schola Gladiatoria and Todd's Workshop should be able to take care of all your medieval weaponry information needs. In most cases better than shadiversity ever did.

@PhantomAngelofMusic

4 күн бұрын

@@BoredLyron Less weaponry I need. I mean, gods know, that too, but also... a lot else. Thanks though!

What shad doesn't understand is "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals"

Firstly, Yaay! You're back Xan, I'm really happy you're okay! Secondly, I don't know why shad thought he was gonna be right when he's denying climate change to begin with, that's stupid.

Shadiversity has fallen down so hard, from a gaming channel to right wing grifting.

@Fuckyoubloodymoron

21 күн бұрын

I don't remember Shadiversity ever being a gaming channel. 🤔

@Cyrus_T_Laserpunch

Сағат бұрын

I don't think it's a grift, he's always been known to be a Mormon, this is pretty consistent with Mormon beliefs. Unless you just call anything you disagree with a grift. Grifting requires the person saying it not actually believe it but be saying it for fame and/or money.

evolution deosnt necessarily select against every trait. as long as a trait isnt hindering survival/reproduction of the species enough the trait doesn't get "culled". gay people have been around as long as humans have existed. apparently it doesn't stop us from from breeding

@Zizuzazu

20 күн бұрын

Nor countless other species.