shawnbuddy
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That's just a few posts above yours. I can't be sure what that poster is referring to, but "all reports" definitely includes this smear campaign nowadays.
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What is up with the "My Sex Junk" segment on Bill Nye's new show?
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That's just a few posts above yours. I can't be sure what that poster is referring to, but "all reports" definitely includes this smear campaign nowadays.
AcademicSaucer
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So the whole thing is bad then ?
old manatee
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JigglesBunny
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The entire show is a trainwreck, this is the baseline quality throughout the series. But yeah, this is an embarrassing and awful way to convey the message they're trying to project.
Curt Baboon
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If you say so, Billy.
Fucking hell.
Well this is embarrassing for you.
TheCthultist
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Ah there we go. Knew there had to be some science in there somewhere.
PHOENIXZERO
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That old copypasta aside, Bill Nye kinda being an asshole is a fairly well known thing, we've had gaffers who've relayed their own actual encounters with him over the years.
EatinOlives
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Who is this for? Because right-wing assholes are going to trash this, and progressives are going to die from their organs cringing so hard that they explode.
InaSnowBoundLand
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That was hilarious and great. Has a "Friday" like or "WetPets" quality to it. The confidence sells it to me. Very goofy. The negative reactions to it are soooooooo over the top. Probably getting an extra dose of vitriol due to the "progressive" message.
harriet the spy
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Lyrics put aside, what surprised me is how bad of a song it is - as in, how unpleasant her voice sounds. Which is strange because she sings perfectly fine in crazy ex gf.
TheCthultist
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No, just from how bad it was... Though, to be fair, I never liked "Friday" either and have no idea what "WetPets" is, so maybe I'm just outside the audience it was meant for...
Night Angel
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Even progressives hate this. Maybe most people just think it's shit.
I don't know why so many people are lining up to defend the quality of this show because of its message. The delivery of the message is so terrible they might as well have said nothing.
If even gaf hates it when this place been accused of being "sjw" is a good sign it goes beyond the message
InaSnowBoundLand
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That is a misreading of my comment.
When I said, "extra dose of vitriol", the "extra" suggests that there are reasons other than the message for disliking the song. Certainly, there are other reasons to dislike the song. But I don't think what I actually did say is that unreasonable: the particular message of the probably accentuated the negative reaction. That is, perhaps a song of this "quality" about something more politically neutral would be received less negatively.
Looking at the Youtube comments, that doesn't seem like a stretch.
Wet Pets. Also, another thing this reminds me of is the DK Rap. For me, the confidence sells all of these.
Air Zombie Meat
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Everyone hates it but the donald types are the ones calling for netflix boycotts because of it.
TheCthultist
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Ah, guess I do know Wet Pets after all, just couldn't place it without the painfully catchy tune. Honestly, if the song had just been a bit catchier for Sex Junk (not even better, just catchier or more memorable) it wouldn't have been so bad. However, even with out the politically divisive message, the song is just poorly thought out and executed from a technical level which makes it WAY harder to get behind.
Yes, the message might have turned some people off initially. But GAF seems like a pretty safe place for progressive messages and even the community here is tearing this shit apart.
It's a bit too 90's for me, but I don't see much wrong with it. But maybe it is again US bias imposed on others on the forum. I mean, no offense but many times you USA peeps are prudish
. That said the music itself was too 90's for comfort. The lyrics... meh.. needs to be told. As too many refute that sexuality is binary and believe that it is scientific to claim that
. Embrace that science!
. Transgender is awesome .You know that episode of Family Guy where Brian got his own Tv show but the producers got hold of it and changed it in every way but Brian went ahead and took part? This show existing as it does reminds me of that same exact thing, just even more out there in reality. It's insane.
They will trash you anyway. Even if it was a calm discussion. They aren't your friends. They want to hurt you for profit and power.
So no matter what the video would do, it would have been put under a microscope and dissected until they 'd find something they could abuse. There is no need to feel compassion for your oppressor, nor do you need to behave different or ask others to behave in a certain way to please them.
They are your oppressors, they certainly won't hold back for you, so why are you holding back for them?
I totally agree when it comes to the ideologues. The issue is shit like this getting spread widely affects how people who haven't made up their mind end up perceiving people like us.
The message can get distorted or even hindered by delivery as spectacularly shitty as this.
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Wait, she says "Sex Junk"? I thought she was saying "Sex Joke"! Either way it was fucking awful and cringe. In fact, the entire show was pretty fucking bad. This made me laugh though:
More entertainment in that one video description than the entire show.
More entertainment in that one video description than the entire show.
NoMoreTrolls
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This whole show is trash. Bill Nye saves the world by uniting everyone in hatred of this absolute garbage. Who is this show for? I couldn't make it twenty minutes into the first episode.
I'm just pleasantly surprised there wasn't a "You're an anti-science, climate change denier if you don't like this show" movement online.
Admiral Woofington
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i think anybody who might have supported the show watched this clip and kept the fuck away lmao
excelsiorlef
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Meh.... it wasn't great but I'm more amused by the this is how the right wing wins comments...
Night Angel
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Bill Nye Saves the Internet from a Ham-Fisted Crusade.
no one wants to die on this hill
Hale-XF11
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Psychoward
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He came to my uni and was great so idk
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Pussy galore! Muh vagina.
Insane Metal
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Yup lol
shawnbuddy
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And going on Twitter to ask Bill if he's a Jew.
Personally, I think it's literally the worst thing I've heard from Rachel Bloom. It's not really the lyrics, there's something wrong with the arrangement or the DJ is letting it down musically. I mean, this is the woman that did the Cake Farts song, I Steal Pets and Fuck Me Ray Bradbury. She's usually gold.
But I still think the hatred for it is way over the top and that the overall show is actually pretty good.
NoMoreTrolls
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Nah, the show is terrible.
A Serious Man
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I loved Bill Nye as a kid and I was rooting for this show so hard but it really is a mess. The live audience is a baffling decision.
thecouncil
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I watched some of this show and (I can't believe I'm about to say this) Bill Nye ruined my childhood.
This vid was bad. Really bad. Try hard bad.
This is such a terrible and uniformed comment. Did you vote Trump?
This is such a terrible and uniformed comment. Did you vote Trump?
loaf of bread
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I've seen a lot of cringe vids. This literally made me want to die watching just the first 10 seconds and noping out of there. If I was in the audience I would leave.
perfectchaos007
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Bill Nye needs to go back to his roots.
I'm surprised he's pushing this "woke" movement in attempt to appeal with millennials
I'm surprised he's pushing this "woke" movement in attempt to appeal with millennials
NoMoreTrolls
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I get serious "fellow kids" vibes from this stuff. I also like how he has to desperately repeat how "cool" each segment is before it airs and how cool it was after the ungodly assault on our senses is done.
Admiral Woofington
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My friends and I watched that ice cream sexuality one yesterday night and I feel that this is the day the music died
perfectchaos007
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To me it was like Hey Vanilla icecream don't tell these other icecreams they can't be themselves just because they aren't straight like you. Which is a good message. But then they made vanilla icecream go un-vanilla at the end which is kinda hypocritical.
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