This happened a while ago but I CANNOT stop thinking about it.
Forrest Valkai is a biologist and science communicator who makes a lot of content debunking creationism and other anti-science stuff, along with reaction content in general. He's generally very well-spoken, respectful, and polite. He's genuinely passionate about educating people about the natural world and tries his best to meet people at their level.
Donald James Parker is a "producer," "director," and """actor""" who is a diehard creationist and Evangelical. He uses his shitty movies to evangelize about his anti-science version of Christianity, to the point where he seems to advocate that not believing in evolution is just as important as believing in Jesus.
Anyway, Forrest reacted to one of Donald's shitty propaganda movies a few years ago. Donald wasn't happy about it, and eventually the two decided to have a debate about creationism and evolution. Forrest absolutely eviscerated Donald in a way that was polite but very thorough. He brought actual facts and evidence whereas Donald just kept appealing to a few Bible verses he thought supported his anti-evolution views.
Flash forward a few years and it turns out that Donald created a fanfic movie about the debate. He portrays the Forrest insert as a diehard atheist who worships science (he literally only wears a Charles Darwin t-shirt lmao) and is weird to women. The debate is shown in the movie and of course Donald portrays his own self-insert as a victim. There's literally an entire scene about how mean the atheist is for calling Donald out 😭
But that's not the best part: Donald gives his self-insert a daughter who the atheist/Forrest insert falls madly in love with. She's also a fundie Christian and ends up getting the atheist to convert to Evangelical Christianity and renounce evolution.
That's right, Donald James Parker made a movie about a real-life debate but inserted an OC daughter character who's so hot and so persuasive that she got Forrest to renounce science and embrace creationism. Did I mention that Donald's irl daughter disowned him over his beliefs years ago btw?
"It's over. I've portrayed you as the wojack who gets seduced into agreeing with me by my fictional daughter!"
This reaction video from Forrest is super long but sooooo worth it:
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