r/tf2 priorities:
i thought that name was familiar, a long time ago on the darkest dungeon thread a post elaborated on some character drama that involved this guy and with the same accusations these redditors have brought up
>Durr what if I put softcore pornography in the thumbnail of a video that’s supposed to win people over
i think what happened is something i'd like to call the trump mindset, where the logic was probably akin to
What's funny is that the average r/tf2 redditor would have zero problem with the thumbnail or the fact it was made by a lolicon if it wasn't on the other Orange Hitler's channel.
I think it's pretty obvious to me that Zesty has gotten to a point of using bait tactics in an effort to get as many people on the #BringBackQuickplay and Valve hate train over TF2, as evidenced by the Why Payload is King video actually being a Casual dissection video in disguise and the goonerbait thumbnail on this latest video dispelling the "Valve could shutdown TF2 if you complain" goycattle nonsense. There's not much left to muster for this terminally retarded community so he's pulling out all stops in his last stand.
I agree in thinking it was his intention was to have corpo woman with big tits on the thumbnail for the sake of clicks/trolling (unlike the Payload video's thumbnail which was meant to allow the video to blend in among other TF2 videos in the recommendation feed (slipping the pill into the cheese as Zesty commonly says)), but commissioning a loli artist/enjoyer to do the thumbnail, even if unintentional, was a fuckup since it gives Zesty's detractors a legitimate round of ammunition to use against him in their efforts to poison the well of Casual/Quickplay discourse. It is such a shame as the video itself was good.
Oh look the maladjusted are here to give a definitive ruling on the situation. Have you any conception of optics? Maybe consider that the video is supposed to do more than just preach to the choir, and that people are already using his involvement to poison the well. After all this time you'd think he'd learn not to just hand his enemies all the ammunition they could ever need.
if it stops at that pic then it will be that, redditors chimping out news at 11
You know what you say to any backlash about the thumbnail? "Well I had no idea what else that artist drew." That's it, and then it's over. Then you stop bringing attention to it and stop engaging with it. That's all Zesty needs to do, and that's if there's any backlash at all. You're acting like this will completely dismantle every point he's made and all of his videos will be for naught. It won't, you're being dramatic. People who are obessed with Zesty will maybe harp on this? Everyone else will move on.
Unironically if you can’t keep your fetishes out of your videos, you’re retarded, and you are probably deranged to the point where I wouldn’t allow you to be around women or children. It indicates that you can’t control yourself for long enough to not insert your fetish into everything you do, constantly.
I see where you're coming from, but Zesty Jesus is not Hasan Piker. It's not that this has single-handedly ruined any hope that Quickplay would ever return, but rather that Zesty has a dedicated hate-base of obsessed trannies who are still passing around a single instance of him saying "nigga" and trying to get people to hate him preemptively. What do you think is going to happen when they're given something that actually is objectionable, where the lolicon artist in question says right there, on a public post, that they are a lolicon? I'll eat crow if it all blows over into nothing, but I see no reason not to think this won't be held over Zesty's head by his detractors forever. He will never be allowed to say anything because his haters can, justifiably, point to the time he recently commissioned an artist who is a lolicon (and it was to depict Valve as a woman with big tits). I'm sure they've been chomping at the bit for something new now that people mostly don't seem to care about the old Discord in-jokes, and they've hit the jackpot.
If it was some old ass tweets and it's not readily apparent then maybe, but it's likely he did know. Is this mental retardation or is he purposefully creating drama to fuel a victim fetish? It's not even the first time he puts loli-adjacent shit in his videos.