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to the Rand Cafe, Yo, what is up? Boys? And welcome
back to another episode of the Rand Cafe Anime podcast. Today we're talking about
you know, anime life, all the stuff you got Truck and Mac with
us today? Yo? What's up? Broken? Briggs is still apropriate than
the superior? What about Mac? What about Mac? Truck truck? It's
pretty as cool, but not as cool? It's unfair comparison anyway, Animac,
I have a bone to pick with you, my friend again Briggs,
always again, always, I mean when you need a topic for today?
So I'm like, h what can I? What can what can I come
up with? Animac? You dropped Made an Abyss season two? Bro?
I hate Made in a Bus season two. I've watched eight episodes. I'm
trying to get myself to watch the rest, but it's just so hible.
I thought it was fantastic, Bro. Episode seven is a war crime?
Like why why would anyone put themselves through watching that? So? What is
it you dislike about the show? Kind? I? I agree, it's
messed up in a lot of ways, but it's also like it's it's it's
one of those series that can be so messed up but so beautiful at the
same time. Listen, I can. I'm not one of those people that
it's like, yo, I don't like this, so no one should be
able to enjoy this. Whatever. If you like it, cool, but
I think it's unnecessarily dark to the point of just being like a fetish Like
it's literally just fetishizing suffering of children, especially, And there's all these weird
sexual innuendos that are just like, there are some weird things for sure.
At the first, at first made in a Bus Season one, I was
just like, ah, us in the West, we just over sexualized things.
They're just kids. There's nothing wrong with what they call they're taking a
bath like that. That's nothing sexual about that, you know, but it's
fucking weird. I will I take it back. It's a little bit weird.
Yeah, broka, just off the top one we busted a nut while
like carving something I don't off the top of my head. Um unnecessary tentacle
scene with the little girl. Oh come on, I don't remember that.
Yeah, some tentacle monster just starts grabbing her for no reason. Then then
there's um a toilet that's self cleaning and the things look like tongues. That
just sounds like efficiency to me. Um, why have efficiency one of those?
One of those? A giant a giant hollow. A giant hollow has
like a massive sword. It looks exactly like a dildo. And the little
girl's like, oh, it's so moist, Like what the fuck? Why?
Like, I think you's have a I watched this. It's intentional,
man, I'm telling you that this shit as intentional. So apparently the author
wasn't doj dojin artist manga ca before, so I believe it. And that's
fine, But then why make all your main characters little kids? It's true?
That is true, even like even in this second season where you're seeing
like that, um, those crazy lunatics who went down into the abyss or
whatever, they're all mostly kids too, Like why it's just it's just stupid
enough to go into the abyss. There's like there's like a fetish for making
destroying the innocence of children, making them suffer, and that's what I sense
from the author, and I don't like it. Like I said, I'm
not gonna say that no one can enjoy it, and I'm gonna like this
is a bad person because they write this kind of story. But I personally
think it's gross. No, I definitely agree with the sexualization the suffering.
On the other hand, I'm all for it, even if it is children,
because it depicts how dark like the the Abyss could be, but also
how like it's like it's such a contrast where it's like there's all this stuffering
all the like you could die, you're risking everything, but they're on this
adventure and this journey and they have this beautiful animation and music and like some
of the actual scenery within the Abyss is it gorgeous. So that kind of
the contrast is something I appreciate. Yeah, but like if it went to
a certain extent and then stopped, I would understand. But like episode seven,
bro, come on, I thought the concept it kind of made no
sense. There's a lot of like none of it makes any sense. But
you can be like, oh, it's a fantasy. Whatever, it's a
it's a fantasy in the Abyss. But I'm saying there was I don't know
if I'm spirling something for you. Did you get to like the village with
the value? Yeah? Man, Like I'm talking about the stuff when when
they're looking about talking about the origins of how the village was created. Oh
you're talking about the backstory? Yes, dude. When that when that pink
ma grabbed like the rabbit and like heard it and then like had all its
valuables and body ripped apart. It was so fucked up by I there was
something cool about the concept. Yeah, that was like the least fucked up
thing in the whole season. Briggs, I don't know. I didn't find
some of the other stuff like that crazy, but I do agree with the
sexualization. But overall, I guess being desensitized to all that, I thought
season two was kind of fantastic. I'll try to finish it. I'll struggle
to finish the last like about four or five episodes, because I've already done
the eight. But I'm just telling you it's not been enjoyment for me at
all, because not only am I not super interested in the plot to begin
with, Like it's not that interesting to me, but then this just like
the suffering and the crap, it's just I don't like it. Man fair
enough. I have another question. Did you guys end up watching Oshan No
Coo? Not yet? Neither am I want to? I've really been wanting
to. No No Knocks told me what it's about, and I don't want
to. You must at least try it, bro, I have to watch
a movie just to see if I like the first episode, which I know
I won't. I disagree you are you don't give anything a chance, though,
so I'm not surprised by that. Well. I am watching Hell's Paradise
and it's been pretty interesting. True. Yeah, I enjoyed Health Paradise so
far. Also a big fan of the English dub voice actor for the main
character, just saying, who is it nice? Nice? No? I
like? I liked. I'm upset that the cannibal wife who got killed off
off screen, but otherwise it's been good an episode four gave us quite a
quality wife who so and Briggs, you're gonna think this is really cringe.
You're gonna think this is really cringe, Briggs. But the main character really
loves his wife. I must say, there's no subtlety to Hell's Paradise.
It kind of bothers me. It's like they like in the first couple episode,
it felt like they kept throwing the same like theme or whatever they were
trying to whatever message they were trying to give off in my face, over
and over and over again. But what's the memory. I don't remember.
I watched them, watched the first I've only watched the first episodes, so
I actually have no comment on that, but I will probably get back to
you on that. I'm actually caught up with you. I think four episodes
are out and it's been quite good. Again, It's it's like an action
shown in where they go to this like fantasy world and it's like a dangerous,
fancy world, but it's also idyllic, and it's like it's interesting and
it's all like badass criminals killing each other and yeah, it's interesting. Um
um. So I like the characters and the actual island they're on is very
interesting, and like the the ending of one of the episodes with the beautiful
cliffhanger with all the fucking monsters coming out that were like super weird. I
won't spoil anything beyond that. I liked all that. I just feel like
I wish I could remember what my complaint was because I watched it like two
weeks ago. I remember saying that, like it felt like the food the
series of Spood feeds, spood spoon feeding the audience. Yeah, are you
talking about just like him loving his wife and want to survive for his wife?
Maybe? Probably not, okay, because I don't know what message it's
sending other than it's not even the message. It's just like it kept on
repeating itself, trying to hammer in a point I just can't. I wish
I I got not when I when I watched them. I'm not sure what
epoint you mean that he's immortal or something. Oh, I think oh so
I think it was along the lines of of like, oh, he has
nothing to live for. I'm immortal, but I can't die. But actually
I want to live clearly because I'm fighting this. Oh I love my life.
I love my wife. Yeah. So so maybe I'm not empty inside.
Oh but I am empty. I have nothing to live for. But
wait, maybe I'm not empty inside? Over and over and over. But
that was like one episode. Bro, It's not like it was just like
you could have season. You could have done that once and then then the
rest more subtly. It just the way they went about presenting it had no
subtlety to it, and I bothered. I don't know, I didn't.
I didn't get bothered, and I get bothered by a lot these days.
But I thought it was good. And obviously I'm not saying it's like,
Yo, this anime is like phenomenal yet, but I think it has potential
as an action shown it not as like a some masterpiece that I'm gonna be
like saying it's it's greater than Berserk or something. Regardless of Still, I'm
still excited for Saga season. Oh I am. I'm caught up with the
anime. I watched the last couple episodes yesterday. Yeah, it's it's not
about farming, just about farming anymore, bro shit, No, it's it's
heating up. Honestly, I'm a little sad that. So I think it's
only gonna be twenty four episodes, right, I assume, So I kind
of know what it's gonna end on. And I was hoping that was going
to be like the middle point of this season, but now it seems like
it's going to be the end of the season, and I was very excited
for, like what's I'm so excited for what's to come, I just want
more Vinlin Slaga, you know, m because it's definitely been like it's a
lot slower this season, but I feel in its own way. I feel
like it's been slower but still good in its own way. But I feel
like now it's picked up, Like I wouldn't say it's slow anymore. Yeah,
it's one hundred percents picked up. After Canute pulls this shit, I
think it speeds up. And Thorphins is such an interesting character and seeing him
like progress and develop and kind of see like um walk his own path and
see what he wants to do with his life. He's kind of being like,
uh, he's not being a very Sigma anymore. But at least we
have tour Gil now Sigma Mai tour Gil. Anyone with tour in their name,
anyone with Thorer in their name is just a Chad Chad Um Chuck Sean.
Have you been watching anything as of late? No, No, I
haven't been able to. I've been like trying to, so it's not just
busy, but like I'm not gonna lie. I had so many issues with
my internet recently that luckily I was able to fix and like, you know,
slightly repair. UM. I literally sent antimachas screenshot over speed was no,
no, no. The lowest point that it hit was point four four.
It wasn't even getting a half a megabhite per second. That's how bad
it was. I literally I ran out of my house to get a new
cable, UM because it was just like it was horrible, Like I was
trying, so I was getting really discouraged. I was having mental breakdowns.
It was not fun. But like I was trying because I've been trying to
focus a little bit more on my offline content UM to fuel the streams and
stuff like that. UM, And like I couldn't even upload a thirty second
clip to a Google drive. That's so sad, Like I was getting frustrated.
I was done. UM. So yeah, no, I ran out,
grabbed grab a cable, and luckily things are seemingly picked to be fair.
My computer is still the slowest for whatever reason, even though it definitely
should not be uh when it comes to internet speed. I don't know what
else to do besides maybe fixing my like you know, seeing if I can
get an updated route or something like that. But other than that, UM,
is your computer. I have been watching huh, is your computer really
far from the modem? No, it's closer. It's it's close. Yeah,
because sometimes it's really far. Then you need to get like a like
a booster, Yeah, like an extension. Yeah, yeah, extender.
I've had one of. It shouldn't matter if you're you're you're I'm wired in.
You're wired in, so the distintroudn't matter. Yeah, okay then yeah,
yeah, I'm wired in. I don't run off of Wi Fi.
I refuse to run honestly, if your computer is acting having worth Internet than
all the other ones despite being wired they're actually like I'm just trying to think,
here, check your hard drive full? Like I don't know, Yeah,
no, I gotta check. I just gotta check for like some of
some of that stuff. It's not even that like it's I mean, to
be fair, it has been running a lot better since I got the new
cable, because I was running off of a really cheap cable that my dad
bought, and I was like, that's the problem. But we I have
been watching Eminence in Shadow with my discords and that has been so much fun.
And I've actually been recording my live reactions to that as well, so
homies might get to see that on YouTube soon ish. I don't know,
maybe, but we got through. I think we did another. So we
started, we did the first five episodes in one go, and then yesterday
because my internet fucked me over on Tuesday, I wasn't able to stream,
so I streamed and then I did Eminence and in Shadow. So we only
got like through three episodes and then I was just spent after stream and then
trying to record and stuff like that and have reactions. I'm like, I'm
tired. I can feel my social battery and my energy just draining. But
it was still so much fun and I'm like, I'm really excited to continue
doing it. Um, are you watching an in dubbed or subbed? We're
watching it and dubbed nice, which, to be fair honestly adds to the
cringe. Ft. Yeah, because they did such a good job with it,
but the lines that they have to deliver themselves are cringed. The actors
themselves are doing fantastic and it makes you feel that level of cringe, and
I'm just like, I think it's hilarious. I love it. I'm having
a great time with the whole show. So a lot of people were upset
that I was watching and and dubbed, So I watched a couple of episodes
and subbed, And I do think it comes off as a little bit more
cool and badass when it's in Japanese. Yeah, but he's role playing,
dude, He's literally role playing, so like hearing it in English and sounding
a bit more cringe honestly adds to the comedy. And I think because he's
literally fucking playing it's homies, playing dungeons and dragons and rolling that twenties like
fucking cold man. Dude still can't get over him, just not believing that
this cult is actually exists, because but now it's actually really but now it's
actually real, and like he didn't even pay attention to it. We got
to the point where um, he the the group that was um basically playing
shadow playing a shadow garden came and like it was like a terrorist attack on
the on the classroom, and we saw like it had left off in the
part where it was like, oh my god, he just like ran through
like oh my goodness, he's like a hero kind of thing. But then
we get to the like the next literally the next episode, the recap,
we hear his thought process, and it's so like I don't want to say
it because it would spoil some like really fun stuff, but like do it.
He's over like this is what every back like background character's dream is,
and he's like a terrorist attack on the school and I'm like can he say
Like I was watching it with Striker and we're like can he say that?
Wait a minute? This that is so awful, like what the fuck?
And he just runs in and he's like, this is the ultimate background character
sacrificed. Like he was like I've been dying for this, like I've been
waiting for this moment. He's like so excited about it, and then he's
literally sniping people in the background. He's like literally because they failed the drip
tick because he's like, you're wearing the long black coat out in the daylight.
What is wrong with you? You only wear the long black coat at
night because then it's cool. I'm telling you in English. It's a little
bit more strange, but it's just so much more funny and he's literally role
playing, so it works perfectly animaic. Have you have you been watching any
Eminence in Shadow? No? People keep telling me to watch it, but
I it's hilarious eventually because people keep keep telling about it. But eventually I
probably end up being disappointed jerking this show off so much. It's not like
an amazing series. It just it's hurt brain off, turn your brain off.
Funny, it's a good relaxing your show. It throws you off a
little bit. It's a funny show. I love it. Um the other
honestly, it's like my top five. It's in my top five for USIC
guys right now, Oh, let's go all time. Yeah, okay,
I appreciate comedy. I love it. I love the comedy. I feel
like with yeah, with USA guy. These days you have to have a
comedy because otherwise it's almost like there's so many of them. How do you
been done before? Yeah? Everything, The Darkies guy has been done,
Regular USIC guy has been done, Harems have been done to death. So
it's like unless there was some comedy, it's like, what do you even
do? It's really cringe man, It's so it's so one thing I wanted
to add to break this point about the you know, people getting upset that
you're not watching it, and yes it sounds badass in Japanese, but from
my what something that I wanted to like bring out and like talk to you
about, like the you know, the homies that we're watching it in the
in the call with me where imagine like like I think the reason that the
cringe factor is upped so much and up so high on this type of show
is because we're hearing it in our native language. I guarantee you the people
that are that are hearing it in Japanese, it probably doesn't sound as bad
ass to them. They're probably like, oh, they're cringing just as well,
Like they're not saying, wow, this sounds so badass because it's their
naked time, like their native tongue. When you have the disconnect and you
just hear like a Japanese voice, like it just sounds cooler and more badass.
It sounds bad ass to us because that's not our native language. Like
you could have an English voice actors say something in a like in a deeper
voice, and it might sound cool to someone who doesn't speak English, but
based on what they're actually saying and like sometimes like the tones and like how
they their connotations and stuff like, it would just sound cringe to us.
Exactly everything exactly EDIMC your anime to watch list. You need to watch Mashell,
you need to watch Health Paradise. Are you watching that? We don't
have to. Those are the saying they continue watching so we could talk about
them on the podcast. No, but if you hate it, we could
talk about it the podcast. Fine. You know that's a good point.
That is either way you can talk about contest. That's a good point because
I was thinking, like everyone's you're praising and if I don't like it,
then was the point of watching it? But you're right, if we have
a podcast I want to hate on it, then it's like an investment in
talking shit on it. So I mean, yeah, it's it's the stupidest
concept ever. And then somehow, by the end of the hour, twenty
hour was hard invested. I'll try to finish made an Abyss and then after
that anything will probably be, by comparison, easy to watch. That's true.
It definitely wasn't easy to watch. Made it ass but I just kept
on going along and I enjoyed it overall. Um, and there's one more
there's one more animal for getting here? Oh okay, Marshall, Health Paradise
and show that. Those are the four for you. Okay, So yeah,
Mashall, I've read manga, so that will be easy to get into.
How many episodes we have already for Mashall three or four. I've only
watched two so far. So I'm gonna be going on vacation next week.
I'm gonna be taking a little a little same, a little hiatus, and
then when I get back, I might I'm gonna do like a huge ass
anime watch party on Kick, like first my first Kick Sabbath on Typathing.
Oh yo, guys, it's time to check in with Briggs and I ask
them how Kick is going. I actually haven't been streaming as much on Kick,
like a little bit multi stream wise, but I haven't been. I
was going to say, my notifications on my email would say otherwise, Yes,
that's that's fair. I mean I wasn't. I'm just haven't been pushing
it as much as I was before. Right, it seemed like people really
like to watch party stuff. So I'm like, you know what, well,
we'll do that when I get back to the party. And now I
got like some followers on there and some people that actually show up, I'll
try to do like a little a little subath on on there espectually since you
know the splits like one hundred or five, but it's like nine ten.
Yeah, if you donate, you're actually donating to the streamer. So if
you get two thousand subs on kick, I thought, dude, that's actually
insane. I'm just I know it's not ten thousand, so it's a little
lower than a little below ten k, as nuts, it's still a lot
of money. Yeah, I just have to think about it because, like
I reached about on my first subath on talking about back in January, for
twenty days, I got four point four k something like that. Yeah,
and we got pretty much half of all of that, with the exception of
the tier threes, four point four k would have been like twenty what twenty
something thousand on Kicking. That's fucking crazy. Stop I'm gonna cry. But
that's the one. That's the one edge Kick has on every other competitor.
That will I think will make people switch over. I think the thing though,
is because it's not like Kick is going to get to that point where
it becomes too big to not have those heavy advertisements and then it be it,
because like right now, Twitch is not a profitable website for uh yeah,
I mean twitches in the red. So at the end of the day,
even stealing fifty percent of our revenue, you're still not making a profit.
So clearly their business model is flawed and they need to go about it
a different way, whether it's through advertising or other type of brand deals or
But that's the thing is, that's why they're pushing ads so heavily on us.
Like, to be honest, like I had like a semi decent AD
incentive and I literally like was like talking to a couple of my other creative
friends and I was like, hey, I've never because it was my first
time as a partner. I was like, what's the ad incentive? And
then with like the new program and everything, and they're like, okay,
three minutes for your still having a decent like a semi okay amount for that
not bad. Yeah, I just I've never taken it, just because I
usually get terrible deals, and the odd time I get a good offer because
I had like a good month or something, it's just like it wants me
to do three minutes per hour for like still like it's not enough money to
sacrifice three minutes per hour, you know. Yeah, I keep waiting for
you. I keep waiting for someone saying it like, oh, Kick is
dying, Kick is dead, but it's not, so you know, we'll
see. I would rather Twitch take one hundred percent of ad revenue, give
us zero dollars of ad revenue, and give us a better split. That
way, we could work on improving our content, we get money from from
our viewers, and we could keep on doing great streams. And then they
work on advertising the streams to make themselves money. And it's kind of like
a good, a solid relationship. Better split and fix their ad yeah,
like fix the way that they act actually push out their ads, because that's
the thing is the ads are because ads in the middle of the stream,
especially for long, long periods of time, like long ad breaks, people
are missing content, yeah when they want an AD break because there's no way
to skip them. Yeah, And they're long as fucke, like the four
And it's not like a YouTube, like even YouTube has like skippable ads,
and they're you're not missing any content even if you watch the full ad,
yeah, because you're just pause because the video pauses, whereas a stream,
it all happens live and you can miss like you want the thing that you're
tuning in to see you might be missing now you're missing it. I wonder
if they should do one non skippable AD at the beginning and then maybe skippable
ads throughout, Like they should just be putting in an ad like every hour,
just a skippable AD, but it's yeah, it's skippable, you can
just or it's five seconds, just yeah. They don't have to be these
long storytime I'M ads like they're it's like add one and the thing is like
that. That's the other thing is sometimes even the way that the it's it's
total RNG. When it comes to the ads content creators of no idea what
ads are actually being like, what is actually being advertised in their channel number
one and number two? Uh, the they only know if they especially specifically
with the ad incentive. Say they took took that you know, one minute
or three minutes of ads per hour, Um, they take the three minute
of ad per hour, and that could be sport like like put into different
spaces. Did you just say splort split? That could be I have a
okay, are you making fun of me? I want to have a little
bit of a little bit of a speech impediment. Bro, it's not you
said splort, and I want it. I want Urban Dictionary to add the
word splort. Okay, I just thought of a genius thing that Twitch should
have been doing for a long time. Yeah. What they should do is
have like on the Twitch dashboard, there should be like a brand deal page
where you go in and you see, oh, g Fuel, click it,
and it's like, oh, we'll pay you x amount if we if
you put this logo on your stream for eight hours a day, so like
for my entire eight hours stream or whatever. Let's say like like like forty
hours, thirty hours for the months, my thirty hours of the months,
I have a little logo of g fuel on my stream and I could briefly
mention it and like have a link that auto appears in chat. So rather
than killing my audience with thirty seconds of ads before going in, it's like,
now we have a little brand deal. Like obviously, brands come to
creators independently. I'm saying Twitch should get huge as brand deals from like big
from big companies, and then the entire website has the choice of accepting it,
and that way you have hundreds and thousands of creators accepting like brand deals
even if they only have ten viewers one hundred thousand viewers and putting it on
stream. Briggs hate to break it to you, it's a good idea.
Twitch will never listen. If you tell someone kick, they might actually listen,
but Twitch will never listen to any good idea from a streamer who's trying
to help. Um, it's kind of Twitch wants all the money. So
they're like, they were like, let's just hit them with thirty seconds of
ADS at the beginning and give the creator nothing. It's whatever, it's it's
what gives them. It's what gives them more. And they're like and then
they're like, oh, but like you know, we have the intrusive ads,
but like you should be happy because like now you get more of a
split because before, like creators were getting like three percent of Yeah, I'd
rather I'd rather make nothing on ads, bro, Yeah I agree. U.
Fun fact that I gambling company actually reached out to me stop you stream
on kick, Yeah, I wanted to ask you something. Um, So
there's a new gotcha game called hon Kok Star. Are you going to be
playing this game? Mh? Are you going to be doing a special game
mode called Fine Jonah Scott. It's not his game mode, but yeah,
he is. He he does voice in there. Also, Sea Dog is
in is in Honkai Star War nice, so Connor's in there as well.
He's an NPC. So you can do it. You can do it.
Jonah. Jonah's in like Jonah's like Peppered in Jonah Watch. Yeah, because
he was saying, he was saying that he's just a bunch of NPC's that
you have to like look forth throughout the game, so you can do like
a Jonah Watch where you like have a Jonah count and you have to guess
which one is him. So a bunch of my friends because we all played
Genshin and stuff, they got star Reel immediately when it launched. And I'm
just over here no life and Genshin because I'm still trying to get through Seru
quest line and all that stuff. Um but um, so they all got
it. And then one of my friends ended up pulling you know, they
wailed a little bit and they pulled um Kimiko. They lost their fifty fifty
on the on the character banner that they wanted, but they got Himiko,
and uh, the first thing I thought was first of all malibi. Second
of all, um, wait, we share a Bubba mole, so now
I'm determined to get her. Oh you have the same bubba mole. Yeah,
we have the same bubbo mole. Nice and she's hot as fuck.
You would like her, You would like her. She got take a baities
really really pretty red hair like and she's Connor. Joey and gar Are and
Guard are in it. No way, damn. I knew Connor was in
it. I knew Connor was in it. I didn't know. I didn't
know that Joe. Well, Connor's an actual professional voice actor. He always
has I don't know, well, I mean he has his name. But
you know, yeah, Joe Joe. If they stuck, they're good for
them. The anime man need the a VA at the end that I would
know the anime Man VA Yo, the anime Zone VA and bring it back
yard the anime Zone VA ingenious. Okay, I'm googling him and I see
what you mean. I see what you mean. Yes, but she is
just milady love. I like nicey love phenomenon popping in the chat. You
need to play star Rail specifically for Himico. I like the type I like
Concay star Rail because they paid me money before they even launched to promote them
on YouTube. So they're all right in my book, did they I gotta
I gotta reach out, like, hey, listen, I was never able
to get a gene in sponsorship even though I play that game like all the
time. But anka I star Reel, I've seen I've seen a couple sponsorships
for it, for like sponsored streams for it. I'll fucking do it.
Yeah, well, sponsors stream, sponsored stream and sponsored video is a totally
different thing. But I know, good luck. I think I think it's
I'm seeing a lot of people play it, so it looks like a lot
of people are looking for Jonah. It's not just a lot of people are
looking for Jonah. The game actually is fun because it's pretty much gentin in
space but turn based, and it's the same company, right, yeah,
who ever made it. Yeah, it's basically all of these games are basically
like animated. The game like they're very animis I love it, very like
anime animation and all that type of stuff. But it's a game, And
I mean Genshin has great animation and graphics and everything. Yeah, no,
it's great. I I've honestly, I used to shoot on Genschen so much,
but that's literally the only reason that I did it was because I,
um, I know Life Breath of the Wild when it came out, uh
so, a world like that with hot anime people. Um, I was
terrified of my wallet and uh so I was like, I refused to play
it for the longest time. And then somebody like basically like they ragged something
when I was trying trying to, you know, stream, they ragged they
rigged a pole of mine. So I really down it. They bragged it.
I downloaded. I ended up having to download Genchin because it won the
pole of what I was going to play that night. Yeah, yeah,
so then I started playing and I have not looked back since. Um Animac,
I have an important question for you, So, what what animal are
you're covering on your channel these days? I haven't had a look in a
while. It es so obviously Demonslay or season three is going on right now,
so we're covering a lot of Demons Layer. We're doing mha, the
manga's going on. It's pretty crazy right now. One Piece, of course,
I hope you're following One Piece Briggs I'm actually like eight chapters behind in
one Piece, so we need to we need to do all. I was
very much enjoying the Newest Dark after wand Oh, but we need to do
another one behind on one piece chat destroy Him. It just kills me whenever
I read one chapter, I just like, I'm I just want more so
badly. So I've been since I don't really make one piece content anymore,
and people surprisingly hasn't been spoiling me other than one thing. I got spoiled
for um in the last while. I like reading three or four at a
time, but I want to hear something really funny. I got spoiled by
Joe Biden. What oh like? Um? So I was watching Ai Joe
Biden one Piece podcast with Trump and Obama, and by the way, it
was fucking hilarious. It was if they had an hour of Ai Joe Biden
Trump Obama one Piece podcast. I would watch that shit every single week.
It's so freaking funny. You would watch you would watch anyone talk about one
piece. That's true, but it's actually top to your content. You would
watch Kim Jong one piece of course, like like like what if he doesn't
like what if he doesn't like Boa, like I need to know these things.
What's his favorite dark what's his favorite character? Does he like to cotta
curry fight like these these are I don't care that he's a dictator. Yes,
I mean I wouldn't be surprised if that guy likes one Piece because but
if he doesn't like Boa, Bro, terrible person, terrible, I can't
um. Yeah, so other stuff about freedom yo yo, he loved the
woke government. He like the woke governments, like the big character Bro.
Yeah, he's like Bro. Saint Charlos is actually very based Kim amazing.
So that's the tweet. I'm tweeted back. Something something really big just happened
introduced to Kaisen manga, so we covered that as well, and uh yeah,
something moving away for for a long time, so that's happening. Black
Clover is in part of it is currently in a big arc too, but
now Black Clover is like on a break of a month or something. I
don't know why, but that's what I read. And uh, what else
is there? I think Golden said he's gonna start doing One Punchman again because
One Punchman manga has also been crazy. Dude, I just caught up to
the one point. I'm dude, I'm caught up to one Punchman manga.
Now one piece, one world? Are we living again? So I just
read up like all the most recent chapter and Sai Tama and Tatsumaki I believe
her name is, has been crazy Hello. Yeah, yeah, bro,
it's just you. Yeah. Um, that's green haired lolly. Yeah that
Oh yeah, I had a I had a I had a brain go ber
moment. I didn't. I didn't know that you actually asked us. I
thought you were telling us. Yeah, as was an hundred percent sure if
that's uh the character I was thinking of. Yo, Your a Thumbnio game
is on point mine. Yeah, your Thumbnio game is really good. Trying
bro. The competition is rough, it's fierce. It's a fierce, fierce
competition. Um. Another thing, I also I read some of the E
These Sins sequel, but I don't do many videos on it because I feel
like it's not that popular yet, so people don't really care until they get
an animate because it has been confirmed for an anime. But then when it
gets an animal, people are probably gonna be like you, oh, let's
check this out. But that's another one I've been reading. It's solid with
with some stupid things like what they did to Jericho no shame, shame,
but otherwise it's it's solid. For like a big series that's in its early
stages, you have to adjust to the fact that not everyone is you know,
some deadly sins level at first, but there's some good things about it.
It's fun. True. I'm literally tweeting Saint Charlos based, Saint Charles,
h are you like? And then you gotta get a community um comment
on Twitter saying there is no evidence that Kim Jong un actually posted it.
Saint Charles is based. Oh my god, that's another thing that we can
talk about. Fucking Twitter. Yeah, let's talk about that. That's definitely
good and absolutely fucking tragic. It's gonna make us make our days so much
better if we talk about Twitter right now. One second, gud, let's
not talk about it. Doesn't make any sense. Why the fuck did like,
why the fuck are they taking away their legacy? Verified? Only people
that pay for it are verified businesses get a golden check mark. And now
and here's the thing that's so fucked like fucked about it. So I'm hearing
so many mixed reviews from Twitter users because there are people that even though even
though ever since the the the statement was made that verified users are now like
or like the people that pay for Twitter Blue are now aoritized on Twitter.
Um, they I've seen like people, even though it says that, like
they have seen less reach and you pay for a chance to get a golden
one too, that's stupid. Yeah. I feel like Elon got in control
of Twitter. We're like, oh, their finances are really bad, let's
make some money and people pay for their verification. But then it's like,
there's a reason why there's a verification process that to begin with. So now
they're giving verification to free for free to some individuals that are like like,
for example, Lebron James, they're like giving it to him for free.
Um. But it's like, that's the whole reason it was there in the
first place, is because those people need one to verify that it's actually them.
Yeah. And the thing that they're taking it away from people that like
don't have over a million followers, it's like they're taking it away from people
with the million followers too, and then they're like, oh shit, we
should give it back because then they're gonna get for um whatever. Oh,
they're gonna get shadows, they're gonna get shadow banded because they don't they aren't
verified. So like the way that our new system works. But the thing
is like, I'm also getting like a mixed people like there. I have
seen a few, you know, people's mostly creators that I'm looking at,
that have bought Twitter Blue and have seen an increase in their growth because the
prioritization. But I've also seen that the grew where like, I've also seen
the side where people have not only upped their interaction, they upped their interaction
with the website since they bought Twitter Blue, and their engagement has significantly decreased.
That's yeah, that's weird. So it's one of those things where I'm
like, so, why are you paying the eight dollars just to see it's
not even the check mark. It's literally like it's so weird, Like I
don't know, it's it's strange, like people like it's it's such a mixed
bag and likes. Granted, there are really funny memes that can come across
it, but it's also really frustrating and really really hard to see. It's
like I wouldn't mind paying for it if I knew that there was a genuine
like benefit for me to do it. I think like my Twitter reach has
gone down since I started. Of course, the wow factor of oh my
god, there's a truck with boobs like that has gone down. It's been
six months, but I'm still trying to put out a reach for it.
I still want to get engagement with my Twitter posts and like trying to do
some stuff there too. Strategically, Twitter is like least the least important platform
out of them all. Yeah, because I don't make any money off of
it, But that's where I'm think my most Like you've got in the most,
the most exposure from Twitter. IA find out of all the platforms,
converting people from Twitter seems to be the hardest. I don't know what it
is. If you actually post a fucking link on Twitter, it's like twenty
one people click it. But on YouTube or on Twitch it tends to be
a higher clip through rate. For whatever reason, It's always hard to bring
people over. But you know, Twitter just seems like it's ship for some
reason. I like Twitter. Besides looking at I thought this is my take,
I always thought that Twitter was an absolute shit show. That was horrible
for society. It was just toxic people with nothing to do in their lives
and no power, trying to feel powerful by as anonymous um activists or whatever
you want to call them, attacking people for the stupidest shit. It's like,
oh, you wore a Chinese inspired dress, that's cultural appropriation. No
it isn't. Shut the fuck up. But anyway, I just think it's
hilarious what's happening. I think Twitter has always been bad, and whatever happens,
it can never get worse than it's been. So to me, it's
just I'm entertained. Yeah, it's just funny watching Elon change things and then
slowly they're going back to what they were because like, oh, that's why
that was in place. I just think too that, like people can't even
change their profile pictures when they have Twitter. I got verified, Moogie Strong,
I know you are verified, like sword Moogie or Moogie Strong, and
almost like this is beautiful. I need to make a Kim John John un
account to tweet that Charlos is based, get it verified, and then they
can't say they can't say that, like you know, like if I actually
just tweuted it right now, but if they had like a little subcatch and
we can't confirm, but this has actually been said by that individual. There's
a very fun user who would say saying differently, but it's like, I
don't know, it's so stupid, it's so stupid. Granted, like,
yes, it is funny, but at the same time, it is frustrating
coming from a creator that's trying to grow their reach. I feel you have
to pay for it. I because from what I've seen, even people looking
into like the Coda analytics, there is some type of extra push from the
check mark. You get more. The people that have seen a decrease,
it might just be that they were meant to see a dcrease regardless, it's
like they were just on the downhill and paying for a check mark's not going
to change that, right. It's you're on. If you're on an up,
the up might be better and not having the check might stop the up.
So that's true. I like it might be worth it. I just
have to like like five bucks, five to eight bucks. It's yeah,
It's one of those things where I'm like, I just don't want to do
it for the sake of I don't want to put anymore. I mean granted,
like my Twitter. To be honest, it's one of those things where
it's it's stupid to be like I refuse to pay for Twitter because I mean
granted. I agree with that statement of I refused to pay for Twitter because
I shouldn't have to. But at the same time, uh as somebody who
wants to grow on the platform, I would at the end of the day,
I got it. I was like, I was like, I'm investing
into myself and but then you can't can't like make your name say live,
right, No, you can't make I can't make my name say live or
that. But and I would have to make sure that, like the Twitter,
like the picture that I want is going to remain my picture for a
very long time. Did you change your picture? You just use your checkmark
for like a day while they verify it. It's just I have the I
don't care about the check I pay the eight bucks or whatever just because people
say it's cringe to pay it. So I want to be a contrarian.
But I don't see any like increase in TAN. I don't see any increase
in my engagement. Well, to be fair, you're not that interactive on
Twitter. True. Yeah, I just feel like you don't interact on Twitter
much either, especially if I'm doing the rank Cafe post. And even then
because that post has a reply that has a link, Uh, it's like
statistically it goes down blah blah blah. Like I don't know. I just
feel like at the end of the day, we as contentators need to invest
in our content to a certain extent. If you're gonna pay editors, you're
gonna pay for emotes, you're gonna pay for all these things, or for
art and stuff. It's it's just an X ray blocks for the check mark
that might get more exposure, and it's pretty small. Like everything else is
way more expensive when you're investing in your channel. Yeah, that's the thing.
Like, when you're a content creator, you have to make investments,
the biggest one being of your time and often, like especially people starting out,
like You're you're investing a ton of time and getting almost nothing in return
financially until you actually make it. Plus then there's the equipment you got to
invest, and you got to invest you know, memberships and all this other
stuff. Yeah. Yeah, and even like as a streamer, it's like
just even investing in having to buy games. I mean, granted, granted,
Xbox Game Pass is a lifesaver for some things, you know, being
able to buy some things, like you know, just pay for one subscription
and get a bunch of sixty dollars games for free. Yeah, that's really
nice. Yeah, because it adds up like yeah, like you're right,
games are like sixty bucks eighty bucks. Now it's no old joke. Yeah,
games, games are expensive, and it's really hard having a computer and
a mic and depending on what kind of mike, if you want to have
an XLR mike, guess what, you have to have an interface of some
story. Granted, you can get like a Scarlet solo if you don't feel
like you're gonna do something like crazy crazy Like. They have a lot of
really good starter stuff. While I think you need to While I think you
need to invest in your content, you don't need to invest a ton at
the start, not at the start, not when you have absolutely yeah,
if you have absolutely zero reach, you can do just fine with the laptop
of a blue yetti like yeahetti web stuff that you would need for a fucking
zoom meeting. Brow Knox had a million I was gonna say Nux is my
Knucks is my like prime example of that. Yeah, Knucks set a million
subs, a blue yetti and a laptop. Yeah there was like lap.
There's some TikTokers, like Shorts people that I know that have like insane following
that literally all they use is like they're fucking iPhone the film videos. They
use an iPhone film videos and then they either send it to an editor or
they like edited all whatever the computer they had they use for school, like
they're fucking mac you know. Yeah, um Lopi is another example, Like
there was a there was a while where like she was just moved and she
was using um, like a curbboard box, like she was on her floor
doing a lot of stuff, and then she blew the fuck up. And
I'm yeah, pretty sure she like got a desk and stuff now, but
like she's she's doing fucking amazing. I think I met I met her back
when she was still on the floor. Like Knut was dumb though, Dude,
he was editing with his track pad like like it's like you can buy
a mouse for thirty I was gonna say he didn't buy like a twenty dollars
log of tech wireless mouse. At the end of the day, you do
need to invest in your and your content to a certain extent because if you
had a mouse, you would have edited like twice as fast. And like,
yeah, I like the next thing that I'm looking for because I'm gonna
be like traveling at least twice this year, potentially three times this year.
Um. One thing that I want to look into is getting like a laptop
that is not crazy but powerful enough that I can run obs and vts on
it so that I can do like some like just chatting streams while on the
go, um, because I don't want to miss out on those things while
I mean granted, like I'm getting stuff like you know, networking and doing
all of that stuff. Like next week is a it's not really a vacation,
Like it's a vacation, but it's not because A I'm a little bit
scared because my payout wasn't that great. Uh and also uh we had um
like I have like I'm going to make an appearance at a con, So
okay, are you gonna advertise that? Are you? It's supposed to be
secret or something. It's not supposed to be It's not supposed to be secret,
but I'm not on the website, so I'm like a little bit like,
I don't know there are going to be panels there. I'm supposed to
be doing a panel with Alpha H like as our v tubers, so I
have to like see if I can borrow my friend's laptop for now because I
can't get another one right now. So, um, what do you mean
there's a brick? You're not gonna be physically there. No, I'm gonna
be physically there, but we're gonna be like behind. Like it's one of
those things where if if we both have the ability to use like a laptop
or something that had can and we can hook up our phones to V tube
studio, then we can, Um, like we we're gonna be able to
have our faces on a screen and stuff like that. And so are you
gonna be like behind a screen like the Wizard of Oz. Yeah, it's
literally a Wizard of Oz type thing and afterwards and then afterwards, well we're
doing that for like the v tuber port part of it, but then there's
gonna be like an IRL meet up, Like I'm not sitting behind but no,
that's just for the panel, Like they're talking like we're talking and whatnot.
We have to set up. Um, it's gonna be like a v
tuber panel. I know Alpha and I are there. I don't know who
else is going to be there. Um. I also have my friend Ry
coming, um, so he's gonna be doing their stuff for like voice acting
stuff. I'm gonna be at Jona's table for a bit um pretty much.
The last convention I went to, there was panels held by like v tubers
and they were in their hotel room and the room I just find it's so
like stupid, Like it makes sense obviously because they don't show them Yeah,
if they don't show their face, that makes sense. It makes sense.
It is. The content is so funny. It's like everyone's coming like they're
just words watching a stream. Yeah, I'm not shy about it. So
like I like, I'm not shy about like my face. Like I've done
a few immersion breaks, so like I don't really care if people want to
meet me in person and stuff like. That's the whole reason that I did
that was because I for me, I would be more scared of like people
trying to leak my face then I would be of like and like I'd rather
be able to go there, have a good time. People know what I
look like already. I don't really care. Uh so ye would take people
can take pictures with me that I would be okay with that, Like that's
that's the kind of thing. And I'm like, I just don't. I
would hate to have that fear of anonymity for so long. That's why I
was like, once I got my face reveal out there, it was more
like I had a lot of people that were like, because I have I
have friends that are also scared to show their face, and they're like,
what was that, Like, did anything change? I'm like, nothing really
changed. If anything, I felt more relief than anything, because now I'm
the one that leaked my face. Yeah, you're in control. Yeah,
I had ConTroll over it. So I felt okay with it and I felt
comfortable with it. That is a good point you made, because when someone
is like really hiding their face, people like they're wrong. Kind of people
literally want to be the one to catch like a photo of them, and
because they want to, they want to go viral. Yeah, exactly,
like they want the cloud that comes with oh I saw this person's face.
So there's more an incentive to try to like leak it against their will,
you know exactly, and like they look at corpse husband. He disappeared from
the internet for a while because people got out a photo of him when he
was like somebody leaked a photo of him when he was like fourteen years old,
and people roasted the shit out of him for no reason. It's like
and like they were like literally people were like blaming him for like a lot
of this like stuff about like him being super overly sexualized. And it's like,
Homie didn't do anything to try and be over over overly sexualized. You
sexualized his disease, Like he has gird that is literally just his stomach acid
is eating away at his throat and is aesoph again it's burning. And so
that's why he has like that deep crazy voice. But he never felt he
never wanted that. He never wanted to show his face, do you know,
Like he's wrote he wrote songs about it. Like if you look at
listen to like the lyrics of some of his songs that are it may not
be as popular about like agoraphobic is literally about him being like like that's a
legitimate thing for him. And then um, but yeah. People people love
to hate on people for being average looking and they're like, oh my god,
he tried to be this, you tried to be Yeah. It's the
same with Dream. It's like, oh, you wanted to be this like
sexy blah blah blah blah blah. You had to put all this out and
it's like, no, he didn't do that intentionally. Other people did that
for him and he just rolled with it because he was able to make money,
which I don't blame him for it, but he was also just there.
He's a guy being a dude, like I don't know, creator that's
not showing his face. Everybody was up, but everybody became obsessed with it.
M Yeah, and especially when someone rolls up quick is really big,
like a Dream or corpse husband. Yeah, it's like people just the I
felt so bad, I felt so funny. Another like this like decent looking
dude, but you just get actolutely roasted. Yeah, but that's the thing.
That's the thing. When you're like doing this whole and fighting it,
people build up in their minds these ideas and then if it doesn't fit that
the talk you. Yeah, it's like, oh my god, he's like
super. He's like super. Oh god, he's like show like you know
he's got like you know, oh my goodness, gracious, he's hiding behind
a camera. He's only shown his hands, he hasn't shown blah blah blah
blah blah. And it's like, bro, did you know that Shin just
face revealed and he's a ginger? Really? Yeah? I did not know
that crazy shadow? Okay Shin? Oh wait, oh oh that Shin.
I was like, wait, what Shin. I was like, I've seen
I've seen Shin's face before. Ye. I love Shin. I love In.
Shin's my fucking homie. He isn't he do be a ginger? I
was gonna say. I was like, I was like, wait a minute,
Shin are you talking about? Like? I was like, there's like
a couple like Shins that I know we were talking about. I didn't know
what you're talking about. My friend, yeah, my mod and my friend.
Yeah, we have like group calls. We're all in, we're all
we all have our cams on, like everybody's seen each other's face. We
don't give a fuck. I FaceTime Bell on a regular basis. Yeah,
I know you've also seen her in real life. I've seen her in real
life, and I'm like, I'm excited to meet like I love like I
I've seen a lot of people's faces. But yeah, so anyway, truck
Chun did face for meal. So now now we all know that she's just
just an average looking no no, baha baha blast hair have this? What
are you gonna? He's a hot topic hotson, Amiku, I hate you.
That's actually funny hot topic hots and am bro fucking Juso was trying to
roast me. He's like, where the fuck is the blueberry at I was
like, excuse you, it's baja bless. Get it right if you're gonna
trying to roast me. That was a good one. That was pretty good.
That was pretty good. You know old that's crazy wild he's got a
sense of humor at eighty. But anyway, I had a even it's funny
you say that breaks because I even did the I did one of those like
when it before it became super super popular, or like while it was starting
to boom, like one of the AI like anime filters that like takes your
photo and I deadass looked like honest and Amiko and all of them, Oh,
my god, damn it. Like I said it to Bell, I
was like, oh this one came out when she goes house and looking ass.
Oh my god. All right, guys, I think it's kind to
wrap up the podcast. I gotta run. Yeah, this was run than
I want to play a couple of games before I go. Hell. Yeah,
I say, I gotta start setting up my rh Yeah. There's a
collop going on with mister Underhill. Later on, I'll be there, truck
Chon will be there. Okay, God, you're a host again. Yeah,
I'm so sorry for XOT hot topic, Hutson and Meek. Who's gonna
be in the house. It's gonna be great. Yeah, yeah, thank
you for joining us. Are we back next week? Brigs are on vacation.
I'm on vacation. He's on vacation. I mean I could. I
was gonna say, I'm bringing a mic with me, like a vlog mic,
so we could just take next week off. They do it, but
we'll take next week off. We'll take next week off and then move back
in two weeks. Um, that's the play is this week to brainstorm some
topics. Boys, I'll try to do in Vegas bro in two weeks.
I'm gonna try to get through four episodes of made an ABIs. Guys,
Yeah, he's gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna like push through. He's
like, oh, guys, it's tragic. I can't go anymore until next
time, see us bas Cowboys bat