So finally found a video talking about Lindsay Ellis that wasn't some dirtbag alt-right asshole using "woke" as an insult. The kind of people who hear Lindsay Ellis' weird "well everybody is racist and it's all really complicated" response to charges of racism (she doesn't actually admit to having been racist) with "well systemic racism is bullshit you woke idiot".
This is all the fault of the one youtuber who decided to include her in his "Breadtube is eating itself" video and she's still doing the same shit - the same "well...it's complicated...but I'm the real victim here" garbage.
So here's my problem with Lindsay Ellis (if you don't watch the video) which is that she was a disaster for years on Twitter. She was always giving shit takes and going off on bullshit false equivalency. And there was always a lot of hostility comming off her feed which implied that if you disagreed you were an asshole (or a diet Nazi as she likes to say). Some of this made it into her videos but most of it didn't. I usually liked her videos. I found them informative and entertaining. Hell, I even liked Mask Off initially. But then months later when she announced that she was leaving YouTube, I had to realize it was the beginning of the end.
(I guess that's the way things go. Things that you initially convincen yourself to accept as normal plant the seed for misgivings and pretty soon everything is different).
Also I made sure to always skip her Game of Thrones videos. I got an encapsulation and they are as bad as I thought. She even named the second one "Dragon Lady Bad" which...does she realize that she's imitating MAGA assholes in their comeback to their lord and savior's critics? THere are things to criticize in Game of Thrones but when you don't realize that Daenerys has been a villain all along, you really shouldn't be a pop culture thinker. And thank G-d she never made the Prince of Egypt video she was threatening to make on Twitter (her hot take - the death of the first born is GENOCIDE and Moses is BAD actually). But really after Mask Off she stopped being the critic that I wanted to see.
But here's the thing about Masks Off. No matter how much criticism she got for using "if you squint" in relation to Asians and no matter how many people called her a racist asshole for going after Raya and the Last Dragon (a shit movie by the way) the same week that a bunch of Asian women got murdered, she had WAY MORE followers willing to attack her critics.
Ok, maybe my Twitter monitoring is not on point. But after Ellis pissed off a bunch of people, they faded away and she was left to whinge about being the villain of the day. Then she made Masks Off and weaponized her followers. Search the situtation. You'll find video after video, reddit after reddit, site after site talking about HOW BAD IT WAS that Lindsay was BULLIED (which in turn makes it ok to bully her critics) and then there is the odd article that goes "Hey White Feminist, maybe don't be so White Feminist in regards to Stephanie Myers and her racism" but mostly it's the LINDSAY DID NOTHING WRONG!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!!
(side note I found a tumblr that went point by point over her dumb Game of Thrones videos and made a comment and one guy was so mad about it that he had to reply and tell me that "Daenerys was also a rape victim" which by inference made her decision to burn a rape victim alive in season 1 ok. Well, I guess running to defend the pretty white woman is cooked into the culture - even when it's a fictional white woman mass murderer)
But yeah - Lindsay Ellis is a woman who acts like she knows everything, can't apologize for anything and while working the constant hostility will resort to White Women Tears whenever called out on her shit.
So she's like my mom at her worst.
(I kind of have to admit that my mom wasn't that bad in her last couple decades, but I was also an adult and had figured out strategies to deal with that shit. Only these strategies are actually not healthy in normal discourse)
I should just rewatch Bojack Horseman. Somehow I don't think it will hit as hard now that I've processed a ton of child trauama.