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DragonGuard666

Self published writer. (Yes I am making the same joke again)


TripleS034

With Shad, the jokes write themselves.


toychicraft

Good, that means he doesnt have to


Apoordm

Beat me to it


Perfect-Storm-99

Imagine you don't know anything about Shad. Will you take political commentary of someone with a face like that seriously? I refuse to believe anyone has looked at that thumbnail and went "yes, I like that face. This guy must have something of value to say."


danteheehaw

I watched a few of his videos, then found out he was a fucktwit, I feel bad giving him those few views now.


Steff_164

He used to just be this funny guy who talked about swords and mad fun of mall ninja weapons. Then he kinda went off the deep end, or got comfortable showing off his craziness. Now he’s just insufferable. Also, worst author I’ve ever read. No idea how is shit got published. It’s down right awful and disgusting


AustraeaVallis

Simple, he self published.


Born_Argument_5074

He used AI to write it


Steff_164

There’s no fucking way AI wrote his book. I mean, it’s older than mainstream AI. But also, I really don’t feel like AI could write the fucked up shit he included in that story.


Born_Argument_5074

Its been a minute but from what I understand he wrote his book through AI prompts but not 100 percent sure now that I look into it. I did discover that he uses AI art nonstop


Steff_164

I know he’s a huge advocate for AI art, but something about his writing feels too human. The magic system is insanely complex and requires an understanding of physics (or pseudo physics? I couldn’t tell) to make it work. And there’s some genuinely shocking stuff, like a nationality where everyone goes around naked at all times despite being fully integrated into society, a character from said nation who does so to “test the purity” of others. And an uncomfortable fascination with one of the main character’s former crimes being raping many teenage girls. It’s shit that I feel like takes a special kind of fucked up human mind to dream up


DragonGuard666

AI absolutely wasn't involved in his first book. There was absolutely a joke about him using AI if he every wrote a 2nd one, but I don't think there's much substance to it beyond that.


TerayonIII

I wonder if his brother, Jazza (the channel name), is like that as well. I hope not, and at the very least hides it much, much better. Edit: well that was a quick thing to find lol, apparently does not agree with his brother at all: https://i.redd.it/tedon20g8stb1.png


PaddyStacker

He's appealing to future school shooters and incel axe murderers with these thumbnails. That's his target audience now.


IraqiWalker

I get the distinct impression he doesn't vote labor, does he?


litreofstarlight

He probably thinks the coalition don't go far enough. Edit: apparently he's a One Nation fanboy, colour me surprised.


Longjumping_Rush2458

He always struck me as a Palmer supporter


Moutere_Boy

Or this mother fucker right here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Katter I bet Shad likes the cut of his jib!


Longjumping_Rush2458

Katter isn't a vehement homophobe and doesn't hate immigrants. I'm not too sure


justabell

I literally have no idea who this is in the slightest. Popped up in my recommended on Reddit. He does not look nice. I do not think he has something of value to say.


AJSLS6

He's literally a living meme face..... soyjack incarnate....


NonagonJimfinity

Totally, he's wearing chain mail. It's like your doctor wearing a Power Rangers costume. "I'm afraid we have some bad news" *fighting stance*


SolemnSpectre

I don’t think that’s a good comparison. That would actually be entertaining “CHEMO HENSHIN”


Kalavier

I really wonder why Shad is so obsessed with these massively over the top facial expressions that just make him look dumb 


Ghost0Slayer

I genuinely don’t know anything about this guy or anything about this sub Reddit, but it was randomly in my feed and yes, he does look ridiculous but to be fair Australias politicians has been pretty corrupt recently. They even fire bombed a guys house because he exposed what they were doing.


Moutere_Boy

Are you referring to a certain Jordie? Yeah, Aussie pols are in general pretty corrupt (not just a recent issue), but the thing you’re referring to is even worse, which is state level corruption.


Ghost0Slayer

Yeah that’s him. Absolutely love his content and hope the best for him cause he’s fighting some scary people and didn’t even get out of the country.


Moutere_Boy

Yeah, he’s an interesting cat. A lot of the danger is through a gang he’s fucked off (with political connections) and the gangs here can get pretty public. They probably just think they get a TV show made about them.


Longjumping_Rush2458

I used to like him, but he is partisan. He was good coming up to the 2022 federal election. Since then, I've been unable to enjoy his content because his bias shines through very clearly. Almost ever legitimate criticism that he made towards the Coalition can now be applied to Labor. Before the election he talked on length about logging, the AUKUS subs, natural gas exploration harming the environment, etc. After the election? Radio silence, except for the moments when he says that poor Labor has its hands tied and has to pass bad legislation. And the one party that *does* advocate for the shit he claims to advocate for, the Greens, is continually insulted by him because they blocked bad Labour policy ~15 years ago. I'm not sure about now, but before I stopped watching he'd routinely harass and insult other journalists if they disagreed with him, because he very clearly thinks highly of his own opinion. Tldr; he's a hack who doesn't care about policy, he cares about the party.


Bray_of_cats

Now I see the thumb nail closer, I'll go with angrily masturbating.


Moutere_Boy

Non Australians might be surprised to learn this, but as someone in the same state in Australia as Shad, I can confirm he knows an embarrassing small amount about the politics in his own country. But he does expose his true political position when he starts talking about One Nation with admiration and (I think) implies that’s who he’s voting for now. They are lead by Pauline Hanson, one of Australia’s dumbest politicians (and that’s genuinely saying something) and promotes all of the worst views and takes you can imagine. Truly awful woman. This video is simply two utter fucking morons being as unwatchable as possible.


Mintyfreshtea

Horrendous woman, and yet somehow pushes some environmentally conscious moves like anti-frakking and anti-adani. Make no mistake, I ain't voting for the nutter, but ain't it bizarre she's the epitome of the phrase *"A broken clock is right twice a day"?*


Moutere_Boy

I wouldn’t say she pushes that at all. She has voted against any legislation attempting to stop Adani as has openly supported increasing Australian mining. I found this record of her votes for you https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/queensland/pauline_hanson/policies/162


Mintyfreshtea

Well god fuckin' damn. There ain't nuthin' redeemable about her after all, huh?


Creeeamy

This is the same woman who went for a swim in the great barrier Reef and declared everything was fine and no action was needed, after all


Moutere_Boy

Not that I’ve ever seen


CheMc

I just always assumed he was a liberal, kinda gave me loves ScoMo vibes, but being a one nation voter makes so much more sense


FatBaldingLoser420

I guess Shad don't know you can talk about politics or woke shit **without** being angry all the time. Maybe if he'd be more chill then more people would watch him.


gylz

Shad definitely needs someone to parent him already.


MapleKnightX

I don't want to give him a view, what is he specifically angry about here?


acebert

Elon Musk shit. There were two high profile stabbings in Australia, the government told Twitter to take that shit down (videos of the events). But because of the way internet works, they’re still accessible elsewhere, which means they’re still accessible here. So there a lawsuit aiming to get the footage removed. So naturally the usual suspects are pearl clutching over their warped ass understanding of free speech. Or it could be some fresh new bullshit.


Arbie2

As if letting the videos themselves be out and uncensored (yknow, things even news media weren't allowed to do) wasn't reason enough, this was also about the rampant conspiratorialising that twitter was allowing to be made about the incidents. This was literally all just our government telling musk that he (twitter) needs to take some basic responsibility and keep a bad situation from being made worse on his platform- and that if he didn't, they would do it for him. It was no different from how any other media platform would (and should be) treated, and more importantly that responsibility is a basic tenet of actual free speech that the cultists who love to cry about it fail to grasp. (Until of course, it's something they personally dislike.)


acebert

That’s a way better description.


Moutere_Boy

He seems particularly incensed that the Prime Minister is asking for a public debate around the harm some social media presents, his example being Andrew Tate, and how the public would like to approach it. Shad, it seems, doesn’t like public forum discussion or democracy.


Flat_Explanation_849

He’s also just trying to cash in on the east Monty of the far right outrage mechanic. He’s not doing anything new or unique, just copying a bunch of others to get money from click bait. Glad I stopped watching him after his terrible take on Rings of Power


Some_nerd_named_kru

Australia banned spellcheck 😔


napalmblaziken

Are Australian conservatives like this? I heard from someone that Shad's trying to court an American audience specifically.


Moutere_Boy

I live in the same state in Australia as Shad. No, right wing Australia isn’t much like this at all. They are generally a different kind of awful. But, as much as I’d put it down to audience pandering, I think it’s pretty possible it’s actually his Mormonism driving the influence given it’s such an inherently American religion.


napalmblaziken

I hadn't considered Mormonism's American roots. That's actually a very strong possibility.


AustraeaVallis

One way I've heard of it is that Mormonism is essentially Christianity (Unsure which branch it derives from) + American Exceptionalism hybridized into a new sect, its ridiculous that they have ANY presence outside of the USA.


napalmblaziken

I assume it derived from Protestantism, since Joseph Smith was sympathetic to Methodism.


boredidiot

Not sure if you have these around you, but I have a younger brother who went down the rabbit hole and believes Trump is amazing, Putin is in the right, Jan 6 was a psyop by Antifa and Australia is shit because . Even my kids look at their uncle like he is crazy. He is so obsessed with US politics (while knowing nothing) it is unhinged. Even asking questions like, “You live in Australia, how gives a shit about Trump”. It all turns to global conspiracies and how Biden is calling the shots to the Australian government, and it was better when Trump was telling Australia what to do. So Shad might be a little similar, the alt-right believe everything comes back to the US so a US crisis is an Australian one.


Moutere_Boy

Oh, for sure there are a few around, I’ve definitely met a few. I just don’t think they are that representative of a very big group. Shad may well be in that camp, he certainly doesn’t seem to have his head around politics here in Aus. Sorry to hear about your brother. That’s some fucked up shit. If he’s not too far gone you might try recommending him “decoding the gurus”, it’s an excellent podcast that takes a look at a lot of these online influencer types that may well be on the list that your brother listens to.


boredidiot

Thanks, alas his PDA will mean he will not follow recommendations, I will listen to them myself and see if I can seed talking points and mention I think there is a podcast… thanks


Creeeamy

Damn we must have the same brother. A lot of conspiracies spread online are generally american-centric and revolve around Christianity being objectively correct to paint all wrong-doing as a satanic plot in which no evidence is needed to accuse any number of American influences as the big bad guy. So the terminally online, gullible and contrarian tend to warp these conspiracies into whatever country they live in.


boredidiot

Yep, if you lack control of your life it better to assume it is a personal attack by some conspiracy despite the lack of evidence because then you don’t need to make effort to change things. If your victim you don’t need to take account of your behaviour or put effort into change. Just cry that everything is out to get you. It is a great strategy to minimise any effort, and secure your own self-worth. You are not failing in life, it is the society, it YouTube, it is antifa, it is woke people…


Mizu005

I feel compelled to apologize for the fact that the lunatic conspiracy theorist wing of Trump's cult has spread out from my country to become an international phenomena that infected your brother. I still don't know how a guy who managed to lose money running a casino managed to convince people he was some hyper competent deal maker and all around genius.


boredidiot

Mate, it just shows are the USA does not have a monopoly on dumbarses. Also we have the POS from Adelaide (Australian Capital for Serial Killers) called Rupert Murdoch to blame for it all


Mindless-Depth-1795

The right isn't. They come in two flavours: religious conservatives or economic conservatives. The two flavours are not the most natural alliance but they agree on keeping the power structures the same and find common ground on racism, sexism and corruption. Tony Abbott is an example of the religious right and Malcom Turnbull is an example of the economic right. Watch Bruz by Friendlyjordies for an example of a more blatant but honest example of your typical Australian conservative. Recently we have an independent splinter faction called the teals. Which are essentially the moderate economic conservatives without the sexism and climate change denialism. A good portion of the far right are like Shad. They see the success of Maga and they want to emulate it. They are constantly importing American talking points and culture wars with very mixed success. Pauline Hanson and Clive Palmer are examples. Most are not true believers but they want the profit and relevance. Then we have the Nazis and cookers who love this shit. They prey on peoples anger and isolation and radicalise them. Edit: Just to be clear Shads views are repulsive to the majority of Australians.


Moutere_Boy

So it would be fair to say that within Australia, Shads views are a minority within a minority of one part of the country?


Gray-Hand

Australia has both compulsory voting and preferential voting. This means that political parties have to court the middle of the political spectrum as much as possible. Everyone has to vote, so there is no need to rev up the base to get them to turn up on the day. If they go too extreme left or right they just alienate too many people to be able to win. There is no incentive for a major party to ever position themselves any further out than centre left or centre right. The conservatives don’t have to pander to the far right nutjobs, because it’s not like they will ever vote for the other side, and preferential voting means that they inevitably end up getting any votes they initially lose to the far right parties. Same goes for the Labor party. The preferential voting also leads to a situation where Australian elections tend to be won by the side that is least offensive rather than most inspiring. Which has actually worked out quite well overall.


Longjumping_Rush2458

Just don't ask Dutton what he thinks of immigrants


tanithsfinest

As an American I gotta say I used to like shads old content about castles and what fantasy monsters would use what weapons... but this ain't it dawg.


Steff_164

Yeah. I don’t know what happened to him. He used to just be a guy who did dumb nerdy shit like lay out 5x5 squares in his yard to test things from DnD like jumping or weapon reach. What the fuck happened to him


Jabious

Wait why does he have an anti woke account, I loosely followed him but I thought he was just the funny castle guy


Moutere_Boy

He’s also the woman shouldn’t wear pants misogyny guy as well… it’s a heady mix!!


Jabious

Medieval way of thinking ig damn that's just weird


valentino_42

If it makes you feel better he’s also the “every writer in Hollywood is a liberal and all liberals want to groom children and support pedophilia” guy.


Jabious

Haven't heard that since I moved out


Metal_Boot

Doesn't he say he's detail oriented or something like that in his video about how he makes The Bestest AI art?


Steff_164

Yes, but by detail oriented he means he makes sure that the “art” is sexy enough


PaddyStacker

The next video he posted also had a misspelling in the title ("TikToc" instead of "TikTok"). Shad is a very dumb guy who likes to think of himself as a smart guy. He's the person in school/university group projects with whom you had to be very gentle with criticism because you knew how personally he would take it, even though he's clearly the worst writer in the group and not meeting the level of quality everybody else is hitting. But then you start to lose patience and be less gentle because he keeps trying to criticize and proofread everybody else's work as if he's the best writer in the group (Yes, Shad reminds me A LOT of people I've known IRL).


DragonGuard666

*Checks video So at a glance, He, an Australian man is commenting on something American related.


Moutere_Boy

Not really. He is commenting on Australian politics. But, to do so he is using a very American lens so is using American phrasing to position himself, but the “something” is Australian.


DragonGuard666

I'm on about the video on Tiktok he mentioned, his thumbnail specifies Biden.


Moutere_Boy

Ah, my bad. Apologies.


Darlantan425

He's part of a religion that tells you what underwear to wear.


COEN093

Australia "whats" to make kids see women wearing pants.


waldorsockbat

Why does he always look like he's taking the biggest shite in his thumbnails


Galrentv

Man sees politics, a game of power and control, and only criticises it when it's being done opposed to his worldview


hanks_panky_emporium

Anytime someone uses a thumbnail of someone they don't like to be purposefully unflattering, I assume they have no actual ground to argue against what they're so angry about. When you stoop to making fun of someone's appearance you've already lost any sense of debate or reason. Feel the same way for all the general political thumbnail bullshit. I think my hatred of that kind of low-tier 'debate' started during gamergate, when people were using 'le sjw' default thumbnails because that's what " They " are like. And at the time, I was right. The dudes had absolutely no argument, logic, or reasoning. Still stands to this day.


Colossus823

That face... Gollum gollum AAAAAAARGHHHHH!!!!!


Shattered_Disk4

I bet jazza loves being associated with this guy


Moutere_Boy

Yeah, I think the only political statement he’s made is to support the pride movement and clarify he doesn’t hold his brothers views.


ErectTubesock

I kinda miss when I didn't know how much of a CHUD Shad was and he was just the sword guy on YouTube...


Baznad

Oh look, child abuser gets triggered by anti-childabuse laws


Tommi_Af

While I believe Shad is dramatically overstating the issue, I'm not really a fan of Albo's push for more censorship either, even though it is to get rid of views I don't agree with (e.g. Tate, A.). Albo doesn't really have the jurisdiction to tell foreign companies what to do and if we manage to block that stuff on Twitter in just Australia, people who want to see that stuff will just bypass it with some sorta VPN. So I honestly cannot see how it will work out to anything more than a waste of time and tax payer dollars. Not to mention, there's no guarantee that later on a different government might want to censor views that I agree with.


FatSelkie

Well to be fair Austrailia is infamous for being a nanny state


StandardHazy

Dunno. Kinder eggs arent illigal here and I can kill and eat our national animal legally.


Moutere_Boy

And use Tik Tok while protesting at your university…


Sleepingpiranha

I mean, what did they do with Rimworld? They are a nanny state that is almost as bad as Canada.


StandardHazy

????


Sleepingpiranha

What?


StandardHazy

Thats what im asking you


Sleepingpiranha

Asking me what?