Pappo’s “befriend the retroslop” video had a little bit of good criticism towards the game.
But it also had terrible points that got on my nerves. Gave me a headache.
Like comparing a mentally ill teenager to a pedophile is just… huh?
Saying that a mentally ill teenager that could be helped by a professional is somehow more MANIPULATIVE than a predator apparently? Where did you get that from?
There are other points that I don’t like but this one is just ridiculous.
(I don’t know if it fits into the category of a psychological horror Roblox game but it caught my attention. And it also is based on “Let him go” so technically…?)
Edit: adding onto the things I disliked:
Pappo made multiple comments that didn’t bring much to the video. They came off as insensitive instead.
For example: he mentioned how “everyone gets bullied”. Like… yeah? So what? Bullying… is still bad? People die from bullying?
This is no matter to take lightly and wave off.
Personally, it looked like he was trying to underestimate the severity of it? Because… why else bring it up in the first place? What was the point?
He also found it stupid how Ember had gender dysphoria over having to choose the role of the play.
Which is like… you cannot CONTROL what you have gender dysphoria for? You cannot just… switch it off?? No matter how “stupid” or “illogical” it is?
I found this comment especially strange coming from the guy who made a video called “trans music and the desire to exist”.
This guy has done research about a group of people that are known to (often than not) suffer from gender dysphoria. He SHOULD know that it is involuntary.
So why make such comment? I just don’t get it.
