Dethroning Moment / A Dose of Buckley

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• venicerenzetti: I'm always aware that any favorite web star of mine is gonna have opposing and sometimes unpopular opinions. Buckley has said some things that I've strongly disagreed with—namely his video regarding celebrity overdoses (he generalized every junkie as a piece of shit and said he doesn't have to respect the Monteith family since Cory didn't respect his by overdosing on heroin) and his video about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (he said that ALS isn't a disease worth really raising awareness for since there aren't a lot of cases of it and many years of research hasn't done much)—but in one of his slides in his "Jian Ghomeshi: The Only Bad Person in Canada" video, he featured the thumbnails of some of his videos and added the caption "Videos that some people (babies) found controversial". The way he generalized anyone who doesn't agree with his opinion as "babies" just left a bad taste in my mouth, as if to say anyone that disagrees with him is like that, no matter what their rebuttal is. Doesn't this guy generally target people who can't take criticism?
  • Motherfickle: The rant about Cory Monteith did it for me too. As someone who was very attached to Glee despite how bad it got in its later seasons and was devastated by Cory's passing, that really bothered me on a number of levels. Addiction is a disease that follows you for life. Cory tried very, very hard to kick his and was sober for 10 years before the relapse that sent him to rehab, and the second relapse that ended his life. It doesn't make someone a "baby" to be sympathetic to that. Especially when his friends and family were literally swarmed by paparazzi to the point where his girlfriend later admitted she was scared to leave her house.
• Falconwing: I like Buckley, I really do... But his Comic Book Movies rant where he basically says comic book fans have no right to complain about the changes films make to the source material because "It's not for you" left a bad taste in my mouth. Basically, I felt that he told me that I have no right to complain about something if I am not the intended audience. This is coming from a man who routinely makes videos criticizing, and nitpicking songs when it can be easily argued that those same songs were "not made for him." All in all, I'm just saying it makes him look like a Hypocrite.
• FromtheWordsofBR: "Top 10 Worst Songs of 2015" was oddly underwhelming IMO, but the worst part was definitely the Sia segment. Not because I love her music, moreso the fact that he believes anybody who likes her are hipsters who are "tricked" to like her with her image. What? People do have legitimate reasons for liking someone; painting an entire fanbase in this manner is just selfish. Fortunately, his 2016 list was a lot better. (note: I don't feel as strongly about this anymore, I'm only keeping it here as context for the reply below.)
  • 8BrickMario: Adding to that, criticizing Sia's private image for being pretentious and annoying. While he may have a point with the peanut butter, Sia's privacy is because she has social anxiety and wouldn't want people recognizing her, so criticizing that seems inconsiderate or like a lack of research at best.
• fairygirl567 The DMOS would have to be something that I had to pay for, everyone knows how he sells podcast versions of his shows on Bandcamp well I was curious and bought one about Bronies, I was a starting Pegasister at the time and wanted to listen to someone like him and see what his opinion was. I hated every minute of that video. Buckley came off as every other brony hater and it pissed me off so much, he ragged on it for dumb reasons and said he didn't get bronies. He said he didn't get bronies! While at the same time being a nerd himself, he doesn't accept or get bronies! I hate people like that! They think it's okay that they do something odd or weird but a grown man watching a kids show is so bad! Yeah, no, it's not! Yes, it's weird. I am not denying that but the way Buckley talked made me doubt being a fan of the show and I kid you not, I ended up posting a paragraph-length comment on his message board and I came off as desperate. I actually didn't watch his videos for a while after that. At least, with someone like I Hate Everything, it makes sense he wouldn't like the show and make fun of bronies, but even for Buckley, that video came off as way too mean-spirited. This was a waste of money and I'll never watch that video again.
• whunt: Buckley's "Youtube Ads: Not for Everybody?" was probably his worst video. Buckley briefly mentions the heart of the issue being that YouTube is selective with applying their guidelines, but then rants about how ad providers act on the site. Dude, that was never the issue. The issue is that just now, at a time when a certain sect of Youtubers like MrEpzion and Phillip DeFranco are popular, they decide to demonetize "harmful opinions" and try to pressure not covering controversial subject matter. Youtube is not censoring of course, but dis-incentivising content creators can be just as bad and limits the voice of the people. And again, the fact that these are just now being selectively applied is the real issue here. The problem is not with how the revenue is distributed—if Youtube wants to make these content policies, they can—but how there is now pressure on Youtubers to act a certain way to make a livelihood on the site. He even plays the "Youtube is not a real job" card simply to condescend to the platform and those who have elected to use it to their advantage. Newsflash: This is a free Internet, Buckley! If people want to pursue a career on Youtube, then they can do so as they please. I likely won't unsubscribe after this, but Buckley's arguments to this issue were one-sided, poorly researched, and very conceited to his own biases on YouTube conduct.
  • ryanisbetter: The one part about this video that really bothered me was him complaining about how YouTube is being selective about which videos have ads on them and not applying their own rules across the board (such as having a rule about NSFW videos not having ads but putting ads on music videos for explicit rap songs). But then, he has a list of rules for his worst songs lists and the first one is "I can break any of my own rules whenever I want to". If he is allowed to break his own rules at will, why can't they?
• The Red Ripper: Just like a lot of people on this page, I too have had a point where I gave up on his videos. Granted, it was at first his downloadable Nerd Rants, where I had to pay for audio that was basically just a longer version of his rants who were not really that funny and just came off as whining. I eventually came back to his videos a few years later out of curiosity, and then I found myself literally screaming in anger upon seeing his most recent video, Fair Use Falsehoods. This video, in a nutshell, basically says that anyone who makes Let's Plays, fan-made video games, fan conventions, fan fiction, fan art, and anything else containing copyrighted content (even when the fan-made stuff is free) is not protected under fair use. This is despite the fact that fair use covers parody, reviews, and fan made content, something he clearly failed to read into. And both Let's Plays and reaction videos can both be considered reviews, go look at Jim Sterling's Squirty Play series. What angers me the most about this is the fact that his entire channel contains almost nothing but material he has never owned or bought the rights to use. His musical autopsy videos all contain audio that is owned by other companies, making him a hypocrite. If he did happen to get those rights, I would love to see the receipts.
• Tropers/Yellow-Spider-Kitty: While I really like his Worst of 20XX series, The Dance A$$ segment had him whining about it being a charting song, and he even said "Now seriously, people, stop buying this shit". Which made him look like a douchebag, in my opinion. No one has control on what goes on charts or not, and if a song you hate makes it big, then so be it.
• tentonaraft: Mine would have to be his rant on Easter. While he doesn't have to like the holiday or celebrate it, I found it offputting how he completely refused to do any research into where Easter eggs or the Easter Bunny came from. A quick Google search would have told him that it was Pagan influences, since Easter was the appropriation of a Pagan fertility festival, and made it about Jesus' ressurection. This lack of research that could have been solved with a Google search is a big moment for me.
• Probemerogersmith: I found Buckley to be nothing but a guilty pleasure almost as soon as I discovered him, at a time when I was pretty seriously against current pop music. Even then, I found him annoyingly harsh at times, but somehow still enjoyed watching his videos at times. His videos almost always annoyed me at least a little, with him seeming more and more like a jerk who doesn't want anyone to have fun. I probably wouldn't have kept watching if he didn't claim it was humor in his tagline. But the moment that finally made me ditch him for good, and my DMoS for him, is in the Top 10 Worst Songs of 2016. Specifically, the part about Meygan Trainor's No. While I still find her annoying, I don't have a problem with the message of the song, even if it was poorly handled. He comes off as really sexist here, and doesn't seem to realize how much it sounds like he's basically saying women have no right to object to being sexually harrassed. Then to top it all off, he says that from now on, he's calling her Meygan Tumblr, further mocking real issues, that are sometimes handled poorly, and ignoring the fact that some of her other songs are accused of being full of outdated stereotypes and sexism. I might be taking this too extreme, and might have let it go if it were someone who didn't bug me nearly as often, but he's just seemed like too much of a jerk way too much about stuff he doesn't understand.
• I Will Nible Your Ear: Dear god, his Top Ten Worst Songs of 2018 was honestly a load of garbage. With the 80's Baby part being the worst, besides the fact that he has basically rated said song too high (sorry, but how's this worst then The Middle?) and he basically attacks those who preferred life back when they were late teens. By saying "You fucked up, You did life wrong". A big What the Hell, Hero? for sure.
• ryanisbetter: Well, I still watch his videos but I wasn't a fan of him doxxing Derrick Gharabighi while protecting Rachel Snyder (deleting any comments that said her last name and blocking the poster from commenting if he had the ability on that site) when only Rachel harmed him directly.
• Red The Hedgehog: I would always give myself a passing glance at Buckley as I'm not the biggest fan of his overly bitter attitude towards new music, it reminds me a lot of the worst qualities of Todd in the Shadows, but at least, Todd has some redeeming values and gives the music he listens to a fair chance, yet Buckley just decided to give up and not do a Top 10 Worst Songs list for 2019, instead, he gives off a bunch of dishonorable awards to the songs who seem fit. First off, he calls Old Town Road overdone and assumes that everyone hates it now cause it's overplayed and over-remixed, even though I still like the original song and the remix with Billy Ray Cyrus, but that's just a small problem in the sea of issues with this video. His criticisms of Billie Eilish, Tones and I, Lizzo, and Selena Gomez are justified, even though I don't agree with them, but when he gets to his Number 1 worst song of 2019, that's where the video falls apart. The rest of the video is dedicated to Buckley getting overly bitter and angry about one Taylor Swift song that while I think isn't a good song, it's certainly easier to listen to than what Taylor put out on her last album. But instead of Buckley giving vaild criticisms, he nitpicks the lyrics and warps them into "Taylor Swift is the most pretentious bitch in music history cause she makes songs all about her and whatever guy she's fucking", because that's what he believes she is. Not to mention he gets lyric meanings wrong and looks at them at face value instead of going to a source like Genius to back up his claims, then he has the audacity to mention the tragedy that happened at Pulse and twist it into another reason to hate "that pretentious bitch Taylor Swift" with a disgustingly insensitive one-liner. That is fucked up. Top it off with being a massive hypocrite by saying Taylor doesn't know how to react to a serious subject and should be reprimanded for it, yet he made light of a serious topic himself. This asshole has such a hate boner to a music artist that is just doing her fucking job that he'll say anything to spin her in a negative light, did Taylor kill Buckley's dog or murder his father? 'Cause I need to know why he hates Taylor Swift that much.
• squicker: I'm subscribed to Buckley. I'm very left on a lot of things, but out of all the contrarian commentators, he's the only one I have respect for. His arguments come from a more unaligned perspective, thus often being more objective. Even when I disagree with how he approaches a topic, there's something I can at least understand. This entry is no different, as I agree with advocating for personal responsibility to avoid hackers and revenge porn of yourself being leaked. But no matter what, his victim-blaming in "The Fappening" was wrong. First off, I know Buckley never said it was OK what happened to them or that they shouldn't want justice. But you can't advocate a victim getting justice for a crime committed against them and then say they're equally at fault. You can't have it both ways. Second, while I don't immediately call it "rape apologist" rhetoric, it's not unfounded to make that connection. If you're the victim of a sex crime, you've likely met at least one asshole who looks for reasons why you were wrong for being victimized rather that hold the perpetrator accountable. It is poor judgment to walk home alone at night or to accept drinks from a stranger; but if someone rapes or assaults you, they are still at fault for making that choice. In the same vein, it's a mistake to take or send nudes under the assumption you're completely secure doing so. But it's still someone's choice to not invade your privacy. If you acknowledge what the guy did was criminal, then comparing criminal behavior to lack of hindsight is objectively wrong. Third, I concede that when I first watched his video, I took it too personally due to being a victim of grooming and online CSA at the time. One of my groomers even made fake social media pages with CSEM of me in his pfp or header. I understand if Buckley's response to that is, "That is literally not what I said. I still want these women to receive justice. It isn't my responsibility to curate my opinions because of someone's trauma. What happened to you was worse because you were a minor being preyed on by sick fucks. These were celebrities who already have their privacy invaded and didn't think their shit through; I have no sympathy for people who are already subjected to that shit and wouldn't even think through their actions before taking those photos." I would understand that response, even if I don't agree with it. But here's the thing: back before people really understood what grooming is and what it does to victims like Amanda Todd, they blamed everyone for having their nudes leaked. They didn't care to distinguish whether they meant adults or minors. So no matter how you slice it, grooming and blackmail victims are going to receive that backlash, which can retraumatize them and impede them from coming forward, something that is already a huge issue when it comes to sexual abuse recovery. Advocate for personal responsibility all you wish, but don't be shocked when people call you a victim-blamer for treating a sexual abuser's actions and their victims' actions as equally bad. That is victim-blaming, no matter how you word it.