People use SA instead of sexual abuse because platforms like TikTok and YouTube flag and demonetize content for that. It is a form of self-censorship. The idea that teenagers started to believe that SA is the proper, politically correct term is dystopian. We are letting big tech change our language.

The idea that angel dusts abuse is fetishized just seems like a take youd only find on twitter from someone whos only seen the scenes where "SEX IS HAPPENING"  as opposed to free other miriad of scenes where they're pretty blatantly forced into it.  Also the implication that alastor just has several demons collectively going "What the fuck do you want this time" every time they do their little symbol spam thing is funnier than the reality.

The reasons I've heard about why Angel's abuse is fetishezed is the sex scene where Val and Angel are having it. It looks like Angel is enjoying it. Here's the reality of it. HE IS, and that's a part of it! My abuser and I had good moments, too. It's a RELATIONSHIP. You dont see physical abusers constantly hit their victim, do you?? And with sex involved, it's so much more complicated.

A lot of people wanna force the "perfect victim" stereotype onto Angel, and he just isn't. He likes sex! He isn't scared of it. that's the truth, and people can't understand that victims are more complicated than bad sex = never want sex again.

Another night of blissfull sleep knowing I'll never have a twitter account.

Sweet honking Christ, that psa tentacle thing actually made my skin crawl.

Poison makes me uncomfortable and I am glad it does. There is a point to it.

SO GLAD U SAID THIS ABOUT ALASTOR

Fans of this show HATE criticizing this show, and alastor is the worst case of this because he’s the fan favorite, it pisses me off to an inhuman degree that people think alastor is above criticism

i find the "Angel's Abuse is fetishized" argument so fucking bizarre. Because I can't imagine having watched that episode and not feeling viscerally uncomfortable. I watched it with my brother and he is not the kind of person to be uncomfortable with SA scenes (unlike me, i have refused to watch multiple shows because I knew it heavily featured it and I didn't want to do that to myself) and after that episode he asked if we could take a break.
If someone that is pretty far removed from having any trauma with SA got SO uncomfortable with the depiction Hazbin Hotel had, I really can't see how anyone saw that and sat there like "yup, this is fetishising"

It's absolutely baffling to me.

As a sex worker, i just say it just like that. "Im a sex worker" just like a mf would say "i work at subway"

12:35 - This right here!
Yknow, as a sex repulsed asexual who has posititve views on sex, I'm so glad you showed this chart! I thought it was strange for me to be okay talking about sex, but not okay participating in it- I kinda wish more people talked about this

For Alastor I have always said they should have made his character around Lovecraft mythos. Heck you could still have the antlers as there are lovecraftian monsters with horns and antlers. Plus lovecraft horror often dealt with the fear of the unknown, so you could still have the creepy and mysteriousness of his character. I mean he already uses tentacles to attack and eats animals skin that sounds like a lovecraftian monster already.

Over the last few years I’ve been slowly coming to the realization that the belief that “Being Subtle” is an imperative that all stories must adhere to is this weird defense mechanism people use to not want to think that hard about the media they consume. If something is up to interpretation, it leaves them an opening to either push their opinions or deny someone else’s. When I went to see the Barbie movie last year, my friend insisted that it was unnecessary for the characters to spell out in plain English their feelings about all the struggles and expectations they are forced into because of their gender. And I told him that the fact that there were reactionaries decrying the movie as “woke” and “destructively feminist” and “men hating” was exactly the reason WHY subtlety had to be thrown out the window, because there are still idiots out there who don’t get it.

Also, I’ve never seen a PSA that made me want to boil my skin with how gross I felt watching it. God damn was that effective.

that part where you talk about art being direct in it's subject matter was my favorite part of the video. cause that PSA really did it's job and overall what you said about how some people don't want that directness in the art they enjoy,  cause it reminds them how art and the real world are both connected really resonated with me, cause I hate it when people avoid such directness in their work.

In all honesty I mentally checked out / blacked out after the psa and anything said after was lost. I'll have to rewatch the rest at a later date.

Damn that tentacle thing was uncomfortable. Really bringing the point across even for people who never experienced something like that.

Came for an overall critic of Hazbin hotel, comes out with a critic of internet's discourse's quality.
You know what ? Fair enough.

"You have to be subtle and only hint at what the characters are feeling!" the brain genius thought while watching the animated musical.

I’ve mentioned before that I used to have “friends” who demanded I apologize for being wrong about Steven universe and the nice thing about having friends that are actually mature and reasonable people is that they don’t act like I’m some kind of monster for disagreeing about something they don’t like. A friend of mine is a rape survivor and Hazbin makes them uncomfortable? They just prefer we don’t talk about it in the server too much and that’s it! It’s not a big deal.

Excellent video about the YouTube content mill. Stuff like this makes me more conscious when I’m falling into a spiral of content like that like with that guy being wrong about Godzilla. How many video essays does that topic really need?

I was getting recommended videos that were calling you a terrible person and couldn't figure out why they were so prevalent. Your line about being Twitter's bad guy if the day hit the nail on the head.

As for the rest of the video, amazingly well done. That was pretty much my entire takeaway of the discourse and I haven't even finished the show yet.

As someone who is Gen Z, i appreciate you bringing up the over censoring of words like suicide and rape. I understand most people use censors because they have to, but the fact that they do have to is so fucked. We need to use the proper words for things, especially serious topics like abuse