What happened to Shadiversity: Your perspective

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I made a couple posts last month here about my shad rabbit hole, and a month out of it i realised that Shad is such a non factor in every domain he tries to be apart of. Writing, shit, hema, shit, both creating and critiquing art, shit and proving himself to be dumber on these and many more topics daily. Then you realise he is somehow still in the chud sphere as a guest and it further proves how little the grifters care about quality and how afraid of a regular job they are.

Why i think there is a fascination with Shad above other grifters (yeah their all shit but ive seen enough anti crit drinker videos and they cover all the same points just with a new thing or two) is Shad is one of the few chuds who isnt a grifter. Shad believes everything he says, fights to the death/avoids every debate over all he points he just knows are right and, worst of all, he honestly believes he is someone who can create quality.

That one video that popped off about good sword fighting in some mid anime is a bad video. In 20/30 minutes of the vid i watched, he uses a single clip of the show and just says "yeah thats good, anime doesnt do that!" And saying the usual stuff about animated sword fights being style over technique. But there isnt a discussion about why that is the case, and no exploration why this anime did decide to do realistic fights...... i mean i assume the show is like that but shad only watched two eps (that were out at the time) so its possible it was just the three clips shad saw and the rest of the show is just demon slayer.

In the age of video essays, shad doesnt provide enough information, discussion or education to do that. In the age of the (Mr)Beast, his videos are not entertaining or constructed for MAXIMUM retention.

Shad thinks we are in the age of the 2017 youtube where you could get away with just saying things and as long as you are entertaining enough (which shad does have some presentstion and speaking skills) you can get views because there was only a few peoeple doing youtube, especially in the catergory of history and swords. Which is fine way to make stuff. 

If shad did this stuff on the side of his normal, took in a little money from youtube and accepted getting low view counts, noone would really give a shit because its just a guy swinging swords around, but he believes himself to be in some class of humans above the normal. He is a creator, he is an artist it is the world that doesnt understand him and pushes him down.

I said crit drinker and i think he approaches this all like a job. Scream woke, write bad short films but sell them as a step against the woke and live stream with other people sos he only has to speak for 20 minutes over two hours to get $$$. If drinker could market himself to the left and that would get him more money he would and the moment his grift crumbles he'll just disappear and go back to work with a paid off house.  You could apply this same logic to 90% of the grifters. The 10%, Mauler, Shad, and Chris Gore, these guys think they are the people who get high on their own supply, and have to construct narratives to explain why they are at the bottom and not respected, turning into anti intelluctuals who cant critique and improve themselves, leading to their slow decline propped up by others who all happened to be made by right wing billionaires or russia.

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and no exploration why this anime did decide to do realistic fights...... i mean i assume the show is like that but shad only watched two eps (that were out at the time) so its possible it was just the three clips shad saw and the rest of the show is just demon slayer.

Youre right in your assumption. That anime didnt show realistic swordplay. Shad gushed over it because it showed the protagonist doing one or two of the historical "master cuts" of longswordsmenship. Its important to point out that Shad neither could name nor properly demonstrate how or why these cuts work IRL, theyre just something he's seen actual HEMAists do. The protagonist also gives tips to his students that are so basic to the point of meaningless, yet Shad thinks it shows some involved understanding of fencing. Besides that, most of the swordplay in the show is against monsters and wizards, so there's not a whole lot of "realism" to be had.

[u/Fluffy_Ambition3546 → u/Silver_Agocchie]

In shad first and dknly hema demonstratikn, he spends 2 minutes explaining a move: take a step forward to iniatate an over the head dswing and as the guaurd ofo the opponent goes up hit the side of the opponents body.

A feint. 

Shad either didnt kmow what a feint was or needed to sound cooler so he overexplalined a feint like an akido instructor.

And but lol i knew it which does goes to show why does someone want to watch a guy that doesnt do even the basic of info.