altcunningham
Laura Rings Enthusiast
By bringing up political issues and commentary and dropping their opinions on things and preaching a sermon to the chat for a block of time when the usual content is unboxing a plastic man and complaining he can't kick his own butt or showing how tall a 6" Classified is against a coffee maker and 12" line.Guys, I'm going to need some "fer instances" here. How do people turn their toy reviews into political rants?
Generally in the toy field it will be complaining about Woke people and Censorship because of women's costumes and (lack of) tits and asses, or posting an entire video about tarriffs while qualifying "let's not bring politics into the discussion", then discussing nothing but politics given what's up with tarriffs.
This really winds itself around the Star Wars scene because of that fandom and their hatred of Kennedy and Disney and DEI and ruined childhoods. Shows up in Joe and Valaverse because they are military industrial complex porn toys, and there's quite a few never even were weekend warriors in that scene who would buckle under the weight of dog tags, and military and guns crossover with some special demographics.
Particularly Tydirium Hangar has taken to conspiracy theorizing and general bad faith about anything in the hobby because it caters to the crowd that wants to be put upon and oppressed by these disrespectful toy companies who exist only to slap you in the face.
Or, as above, diving into health care discussions and opinions when your content is mostly regurgitating YakFace news.
Specifically this Shark video, he just goes on a bit too long about "someone else in comments earlier" being concerned about cops and cop figures being problematic, then making his own stances on the subject known. When, y'know, you could just show if it kicks its own ass out of the box.
I'm never "I don't want politics in my content" because I think it's inevitable and informs any storytelling. Movies, games, comics, toys. Of course politics will be there. You can't avoid it when you're going to make masked vigilantes or paramilitary forces. Some of the very best things in pop culture require politics as fuel, Star Trek to RoboCop to Dune.
There are creators I still enjoy even if I'm at odds with some policy opinions.
But it does get old when someone is early to the scene with a new figure, and they have to get their clever little shots and insights in. That's just social media these days. Know your audience, or at least cater a wide net and bet on performative outrage by stoking it and claiming good faith.
Was this particular Shark video bad? No. But I bet we don't get a single review for this cop without anybody doing a song and dance about cops are bad but toys are good so toys beat cops, given the debates this figure has already brought.