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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%
  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%
  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%
  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%
  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%
  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%
  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%
  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%
  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%
  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%

  • Total voters
    1,073
BTTF is one of those movies, that I and most people know all the details of. Most of it was them pointing out slightly obscure things or just explaining its story.

I wish they'd broke it into a video per movie. In this one I was hoping these old guys would put theirselves into '30 years ago' and how they'd have dealt with life in 1995.

Imagine them spending 20 min talking about how they'd get by like Marty did. Would've been more interesting for sure than just going over the movie.
 
For lack of Half in the Bag story arcs, I guess I'm literally dreaming them up now.

Mr. Plinkett and Jay discover the secrets of time travel, and jump into the past in a plot to steal Mike's van. Unfortunately, playing with time causes everyone around them to transform into time mutants, that intermittently assault them during their road trip.

Features Mr. Plinkett, Jay, Mike (who followed them back in time), a giant centipede made from human hands, and the hypnotic purple orb on the horizon that only Jay can see.
 
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"I think we should complain about movie theaters some more."
 
Like Mr. RedLetterMedia and his husband, I’ve seen the Back to the Future films many times. But those two recommend dog shit so consistently that their glowing comments about the film serve to make me not want to watch it, despite already knowing better.
 
Like Mr. RedLetterMedia and his husband, I’ve seen the Back to the Future films many times. But those two recommend dog shit so consistently that their glowing comments about the film serve to make me not want to watch it, despite already knowing better.
Well, III is kinda dog shit.

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They should’ve just gone full stupid and had a dinosaur.
 
Randomly went through patreon's list of 'creators'. RLM is at sub 15k patrons while shit you've never heard of, "Easy German" or "This random ass podcast with two nobodies" both have +20k and 60k respectively, earning 6 digits a month for the latter.

Yet RLM is known by most people and have a huge cultural/meme impact. Sometimes you forgot what slop normies consume en masse.
 
Randomly went through patreon's list of 'creators'. RLM is at sub 15k patrons while shit you've never heard of, "Easy German" or "This random ass podcast with two nobodies" both have +20k and 60k respectively, earning 6 digits a month for the latter.

Yet RLM is known by most people and have a huge cultural/meme impact. Sometimes you forgot what slop normies consume en masse.
If they started locking episodes behind a Patreon paywall they would double their patrons within hours.
 
Randomly went through patreon's list of 'creators'. RLM is at sub 15k patrons while shit you've never heard of, "Easy German" or "This random ass podcast with two nobodies" both have +20k and 60k respectively, earning 6 digits a month for the latter.

Yet RLM is known by most people and have a huge cultural/meme impact. Sometimes you forgot what slop normies consume en masse.
I feel that way with a lot of (supposedly) popular YouTubers I never heard of and I never hear anyone talk about. I wonder if they're just botting.
 
Randomly went through patreon's list of 'creators'. RLM is at sub 15k patrons while shit you've never heard of, "Easy German" or "This random ass podcast with two nobodies" both have +20k and 60k respectively, earning 6 digits a month for the latter.

Yet RLM is known by most people and have a huge cultural/meme impact. Sometimes you forgot what slop normies consume en masse.
I don't really "get" Patreon. It's surprising to me that there are that many people out there who are willing to voluntarily throw money at a creator in exchange for something that they can get for free. I understand the desire to support creators whose work you appreciate, but really you're doing that just by watching the videos.

It makes me wonder if some of those huge Patreons run by nobody creators are some form of money laundering.

As for RLM themselves, they've never pushed their Patreon very much. The most I've ever seen from them is a single line in their credits. They often make fun of the obnoxious "Smash that like button! Subscribe for more!" YouTubers, so I could see them making the calculated decision to maybe leave a little money on the table by avoiding acting just like them and annoying their existing fans.
 
I don't really "get" Patreon. It's surprising to me that there are that many people out there who are willing to voluntarily throw money at a creator in exchange for something that they can get for free. I understand the desire to support creators whose work you appreciate, but really you're doing that just by watching the videos.
I think few people sub to 500 people and consume madly left and right, cause they got a life to live and maybe only care for 2-3 topics and thus 4-5 creators. Add in lack of friends, parasocial grifting and they feel $10 a month to their favorite creator is warranted. Why not? Streaming services are fucking what, $15?
It's a modern take on classical patronage -- supporting an artist whose work you enjoy -- only with an intermediary who skims a little bit of vig like every middleman in history has done. Nothing more than that.
Society went downhill when we went from actual value-producing rich men enabling deranged 'creatives' with a minimum wage to paying them $2500 a day to say wacky things on camera.
 
Society went downhill when we went from actual value-producing rich men enabling deranged 'creatives' with a minimum wage to paying them $2500 a day to say wacky things on camera.
Yup! Actors used to be considered no better than literal whores. It's a shame that's changed in modern times. Their egos have swollen to colossal sizes.
 
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