Part of the reason why these guys piss me off so much is because I'm pissed at myself for ignoring the dog whistles and red flags for so long, for fast forwarding the sexist and racist parts with disgust on my face and continuing to watch the rest of the video or the next video. I kept thinking to myself, well that's in bad taste, how ignorant or that they should know better and I hate to say it, if they hadn't gotten even worse it would have taken me longer to push the eject button and I probably would still be watching their videos.
With Mike and Jay it was always pretty difficult to tell apart the human being from the caricature but their crusade against gender diversity and racial diversity is clearly something that is not based in edgy attempts at comedy. When they say that Star Wars didn't pander to anyone back in they day, without realizing that it pandered exclusively to them, they are not playing stupid hicks, they're being stupid hicks. They are entirely devoid of empathy, curiosity and understanding for viewpoints that are not theirs and feel personally attacked when someone points out how much the entirely industry panders to people like them.
That's not the part they criticize though, they criticize the commercialization of the fandoms they are part of and the phony talking heads on fansites that sell bottled up nostalgia that is not their own. Their fight for ethics in corporate Hollywood filmmaking only extends as far as that. Exposing phonies, exposing greed and corruption for exploiting nerdy fandoms. Lumping societal changes and their influence on filmmaking into that is easy for them, instead of having the hard conversation or having to face fears and insecurities you can just blame it all on perceived SJWs and feel prosecuted based on that.
In have no patience for that shit anymore and the fact that I had so much patience for it has led me to learn some valuable lessons in retrospect.
