hiy y’all I am ice gold and I’m back with another Hunger Games video I said in the last one that I’ll be covering a lot of topics on a passionate about mostly outside of whiz and I did want to start on that with today’s video this first topic is idolization in other words putting someone or something on a pedestal and thinking they could do no wrong and they deserve everything good coming to them that type of thing you tend to see a lot of this with st culture quote unquote which is something that is really become a problem especially recently the term Stan originated from one of my favorite songs of all time being Eminem and Doo’s Stan which followed the rapid mental decline of a deranged Eminem fan named Stan riding two letters followed by a tape that got more and more alarming the story culminates in Stan drunkenly driving off a bridge into a river with his PR the girlfriend locked in the trunk of his car because Eminem didn’t write him back Stan in itself is short for quote unquote stalker fan but Stans in specific communities have tried to hijack it and make it mean something that paints them in a more positive light like super fan while not taking the tea out of the middle there I don’t know if you’re chronically online like me you’ve probably seen K-pop stands all over Twitter with unhealthy obsessions over certain groups or members of those groups or their uh biases as they’re called older viewers who are around in the late 2010s may remember the off-putting quote unquote maybe if they stay on group a b wouldn’t have happened to them tweets and reply to like actual tragedies going on anyway where I’m trying to go with this is that idolizing pretty much anyone like that and becoming obsessed in any capacity is really not good and you see it happen in every Community really I am not involved in the Minecraft YouTube space nor have I really ever been beyond the OG YouTubers who I’d watch back in the day but this seems to be the new hot spot for St culture New Gen Minecraft youtubers with audiences varying in age but definitely skewed toward the younger side have fostered St communities that docks and send death threats to quote unquote antis which are people who like me are anti-st culture the Minecraft Youtuber dream is probably the most infamous example of this and funny enough I briefly dated a girl who said she was a dream stand which should have had me run for the hills the moment I heard it but the girl in question and dreams stands in general rapidly defend him no matter what he does whether it’s saying he cheated in his Minecraft speedrun or given hard evidence that he groomed a 16-year-old they’ll recite what’s been affectionately called The Narcissist prayer he didn’t do it and if he did then it wasn’t that bad and if it was that’s not a big deal if it is then that’s not his fault and if he was he didn’t didn’t mean it and if he did it was justified and if it wasn’t well everyone deserves a second chance right you can kind of see the mindset that STS get themselves into it’s certainly not a healthy one and it doesn’t help that dream himself has resided part to the narcissist prior before uh especially in his responses to you know serious allegations like I was talking about earlier so I don’t expect this whole Minecraft YouTube stand culture thing to go away and you know refusing to rethink one’s support for someone after being shown hard evidence of them doing something unspeakably horrible and passing it off as her her cancel culture none of that’s true is deeply concerning not to mention the whole parasocial relationship thing that some of them have got going on and I mean I don’t really think I need to touch on that it should just be common sense to not think you have some sort of special connection with a guy because he liked your dream X George not found uh fan art for example real relationships are formed by both parties not just one to relate this back to whiz I can sort of compare what you see with over enthusiastic fans to the recent Round Table situation with deral almond now just so we’re clear that te is cold and like it’s weeks old you know and although I wish he’d apologize for the comments made if he doesn’t then we as a community need to just move on with our lives and put it behind us but just as sort of a footnote to the whole ordeal I wanted to briefly touch on the people who idolized him and defended him even in the face of all that he did and some of their justifications for doing so this is a comment made by fellow content creator Pluto voicing his opinions about the subjects touched on by almond and clarifying the difference between casual and average players it was well thought out and well constructed and there were people who agreed and disagreed respectfully with it but then we get to this reply made by a guy who I’ll just call SD quoting developer stormbringer and adding a really unnecessary and rude bit at the end calling Pluto a quote unquote terrible content creator and rapidly attacking him what’s funny is that stormbringer actually agreed with Pluto so arrol here writes that quote unquote fairy queens and the others are so sensitive because you being almond are just speaking your opinion even if it was harshly it was valid followed by a reply from Josh here saying facts they can’t take constructive criticism or something I think I’m going to choose to believe that they haven’t seen the stream Clips some of that was indefensible but as I mentioned throughout this video whenever Stan is confronted with evidence that their bias has done something wrong they get confused because it’s not in line with what they are so convinced their bias is and that confusion turns to anger resulting in comments like these probably my personal favorite of all of these was Titan comat here it was super toxic But ultimately in line with everything I’ve said about Stan in this video it’s really a shame what idolizing certain individuals in this community has done to people but it is not too late for everyone to wake up and get all the info on a situation and then making an educated decision on what you think of the situation before saying something like this or saying something like what the pin comment and replies to it on Almond’s video or even the people harassing other content creators for even daring to have an opinion that differs from theirs and that goes deep it was really sad and disheartening to me to see people going out of their way to leave hate comments on as many people’s videos as possible over it some even tried saying that the other CC’s owed almond an apology or call them Hypocrites for for calling for him to be held accountable which shows really just how deep in the bubble they really are St culture needs to end both in the whiz community and elsewhere I did want to end this video off by saying that this applies to everyone not just the Almond stance and I will try to keep myself in line to the best of my ability but if I ever do something indefensible like the stuff I’ve mentioned in this video I want all y’all on my case over it I do not want y’all to defend me if I do something really bad but the bottom line though is idolizing and quote unquote standing people needs to go I know my community’s got the mental fortitude to avoid doing that and I know I can have faith in y’all so thank y’all for watching I’ve been ice gold be sure to like subscribe and leave like 50 comments for the algorithm my Discord is down in the description if you want to chat with me some more and I will see y’all later [Music] Video Information
Ice Gold on 2024-03-05 18:00:11. It has garnered 124 views and 11 likes. The duration of the video is 00:08:13 or 493 seconds.
This is an important topic to cover, and even though I doubt this’ll get a ton of views, it still matters a lot to talk about it. More videos like this coming soon! Probably not gonna upload MCSG too often but just know this is where I’ll talk about real stuff as to not clog up wiz content with it 💯
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