Hey, just as a quick heads up, in this video I'm talking about someone Michael Giacchino
and I routinely flip-flop between calling him Giacchino and Giacchano. That's a thing that
happened. I'm sure he'll find it in his heart to forgive me, since basically I'm defending him
against the insanity of the internet right now. Hi, and welcome back to me talking about whatever
I want. Today, I want to talk about why Twitter is a mistake. Honestly, I feel like I say this
at least three times a week. The sheer amount of videos on my channel that are solely based
around the shortcomings of humanity as expressed through tweets, it's growing at a rapid pace. And
you would think that this point that I would just come to a conclusion that Twitter as a
whole is stupid and I should stop using it, but I like getting attention. So that's not happening.
However, before I get into that, I'd like to do my comments shout out from the last video. This
one goes out to Mallory Gogan who says, "Hurt and offended that there was no comment shout
out today. How else am I supposed to hear someone subtly dig out a D'Angelo?" Well,
good thing there's one ... Wait, is this what y'all are using them for? Anyway,
let's complain. All right, politics. That's something that I tend not to get into on my
channel, because it's very hard to have a discussion without people immediately just
getting upset. But correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think I'm going to get canceled for
saying that Hitler was bad. There. I said it. I expressed a political opinion on my
channel. Hitler was bad, and what he did was awful. Go ahead and unsubscribe if you must.
But um yeah. All jokes aside, I'm pretty sure the sentiment that he was a terrible, awful person
transcends political differences, or at least that's what I thought until I saw this Twitter
interaction. This main thing happened between Michael Giacchano and TheQuartering ... Well,
it wasn't really between them. It was more so TheQuartering just getting mad at Michael
Giacchano and him not really responding or giving him any kind of attention whatsoever. It was kind
of a boss move, not going to lie. For those of you who don't know, Michael Giacchano is a legendary
composer. This man did the music for Dr. Who, Spider ... Not Dr. Who. Dr. Strange, Spiderman,
and now he's doing the music for the new Batman movie. TheQuartering is a guy with over 600,000
subscribers who ... His channel's the kind of one that I just am aware that it exists,
and I stay far, far away from it for multiple reasons, none of which I will be discussing.
Because Michael Giacchano is working on the new Batman, and because TheQuartering is reporting on
how people don't like the new Batman or something. I don't know, there's a whole backstory. That's
how an amazing composer with a legendary track record and TheQuartering wound up in the same
sphere of discussion the other day. What you need to understand about Michael Giacchano on Twitter
is that this man has no chill. He responds to trolls. Typically, they say, "Don't feed the
trolls." Mr. Giacchano is out here giving them a full course meal. And as much as I should be
admitting that that's not generally a good idea ... I'm kind of living, okay? Michael puts out,
"Yes, folks, that's my music in the video Matt just sent out. Enjoy." And then someone responds,
"Not impressed. Once again, Batman is not mediocre superhero. He requires epicness. Hopefully,
you will be provide that. Your lackluster score for Dr. Strange doesn't boost any confidence."
Okay. To which Michael replies, "Incredibly, I'm unconcerned with how you feel on the subject." Oh.
Someone else said, "Horrible. No, thank you." To which Michael replies,
"You could've just said 'No, thank you.' When you're in a restaurant and the waiter asks,
'Would you like anything else?' Do you respond, horrible. No, thank you"? Just seeing the absolute
destruction that Michael wreaks upon these people. He routinely will get hundreds of
likes on his clap backs. Whereas the trolls are left in the tens. It's not to say that everyone
who disagrees with him is a troll. But I think at this point, people are just poking Michael
Giacchano with a stick in the hopes that they will one day have the honor of being roasted by him on
Twitter. Honestly, I kind of relate to that. That's the context on Michael Chiacchano
and how it's not really a secret that he just lashes out on any and everyone. This wound up
backfiring on him, but not for the reason you would think. Michael Chiacchano tweeted out,
"Great news! See King Kong in theaters for the first time in nearly 65 years.
Max Steiner essentially created the template for film scoring with this masterpiece." Literally,
this is one of the most harmless tweets I've ever seen in my entire life. And then someone replies,
"Hitler's favorite movie," which, what did you gain from sharing that information? This man
right here is literally the CEO of nobody asked. And then of course, Michael in his glory just
responded, "F Hitler." The beauty of that tweet, the simplicity of that tweet, the way he ... Words
cannot describe. Now, just as for my input without the memes, I think this was a perfectly valid
response. Nobody was talking about you know who, until this guy randomly brought it up. And it's
just like, "who cares?" This has nothing to do with him. I also would just like to point out
that the guy who said that got 44 likes, whereas a Mr. Giacchino got 1,700. That hurt me. Now,
if we lived in the real world, that would be the end of the story, right? Someone tries to troll,
they get ratioed into the nether realm and that should be the end of it, because at the end of the
day, I think we all agree F Hitler, right? Nope. See, TheQuartering was doing a little bit of
Twitter stalking, much like I am in this video. And so he quote tweeted his, "I'm unconcerned
with how you feel," and said, "Composer for the new Batman movie already getting into it with
fans. Not a good sign." I guess he's trying to push the narrative that ... Actually, I don't
know what narrative he's trying to push here. What exactly is this not a good sign? Is a movie going
to be bad because the composer of the movie is sending people to the shadow realm on Twitter?
I just don't think that's ... I'm not sure what he was trying to do with this tweet. But anyway,
he tweets that one out and then he tweets this one right here. He quotes tweets Michael's F Hitler
tweet with, "Aaaaand there we have it... Yikes..." Now, if any of you want to explain to me a
situation in which, "yikes" could ever be an appropriate response to F Hitler, I am all
ears. Of all the things you could've responded. Of all the things you could've quote tweeted, I just
showed you other tweets in which Michael was being snippy with random people on Twitter, but you had
to call him out for saying F Hitler. It's almost like he was trying to steer the conversation into
a different direction. Almost like he was trying to create the discourse about whether or not it's
okay to say, "F Hitler". And the reason that I say this is because the F Hitler, tweet is not
on the Batman movie tweets. This tweet right here literally has nothing to do with the new
Batman movie. He quote tweeted it out of context after just tweeting about the new Batman movie.
To everybody who just sees that, and didn't actually check the source, it just seems
like Michael's randomly saying that and it has something to do with ... It doesn't have anything
to do with Batman. Ultimately creating this conversation in the first place is a bad move,
but I don't know what I really expected. And needless to say, the conversation happened. "Wow,
he's so stunning and brave. Get that guy a medal." Why are we mocking people for saying F Hitler?
That doesn't mean you're trying to be stunning and brave for asking for a medal. I could see if
Michael just opened Twitter one day and was like, "The Holocaust was bad." And then everyone's just
clapping and congratulating him. Sure, that would be a little weird, but to imply that he's out here
trying to virtue signal when he was literally just responding to some rando who brought up
in the first place, weird. But that's what a lot of people were doing. This one right here, "He's
my favorite composer alive today. Sad he has to stoop to such rhetoric online. Not a good look."
Apparently thinking Hitler was bad and a bad person and did terrible things is ... Huh?
I think my favorite response is just right here where they said, "Not liking Hitler is a bad look.
I am so confused." And then someone said, "Hitler was cool or something? What did I miss?" To which,
someone replied, "The pointless virtue signaling is what he's talking about." And again, a lot of
people were trying to claim that Michael is virtue signaling. There is nothing virtue signaling
about saying F Hitler in response to someone randomly bringing Hitler up. And I knew that,
you can see that. TheQuartering knew that when he quote tweeted it out of context and tried
to paint this whole narrative. So what's the point of me even explaining. But yeah,
we really had people out here defending Hitler. I just don't think he needs your defense.
I don't think he deserves your defense. Now, obviously there are a lot of people saying much
more unsavory things in the tweets I've decided to share, but don't really want to read them out
loud. Instead I'll read some more responses. Someone said, "What's the problem?" To which,
someone who replied, "I guess we aren't supposed to be mean to Hitler anymore. LOL." Honestly,
I guess not. And I like how both of these people just ratioed the absolute heck out of
TheQuartering. Someone else said, "Yeah, man, he's bad for saying he doesn't know like a D,
who is the cause of a ton of deaths. Screw him." I think, just my favorite reply is,
"Not liking Hitler is a yikes now." So yeah, that was the initial situation,
but it's Twitter. Why, why would it stop there? You thought it would stop there. You must be new.
This one account screen-shotted him saying, "And here we have it yikes to the F Hitler posts."
And they simply put the eyes emoji. And so of course TheQuartering hopped under the comments in
that one and said, "The context is obvious in the thread, that it's another comics pro arguing with
fans and making stunning and brave statements like F bad things. You don't care about truth though.
Just perpetuating lunacy." Never have I ever seen someone saying, you don't care about truth,
while lying in like the same tweet. First of all, Michael Giacchano is not a comics pro. As
we established, he's a film composer. Secondly, this whole stunning and brave argument is really
dumb. Just because you point out bad things does not automatically mean you are reaching
for brownie points on Twitter. But one thing these people fail to realize is honestly, so what if you
were reaching for brownie points on Twitter? If I were to go on Twitter right now and say,
"Racism is bad" solely, because I know I would get hundreds of likes and a ton of retweets. You know
what? I'm actually going to do that right now. All right, I literally just tweeted "racism is
bad" like one second ago. Now let me explain to you. What's going to happen. A lot of people are
going to retweet this. A few people are going to comment. A ton of people are going to like
it. And I am going to get a lot of attention on the internet. However, that in no way in negates,
the truth of what I just posted. Here we have a situation, in which I said something true
and I was also reaching for attention on the internet. And if you can't understand
how both of these things could exist and not be mutually exclusive, I don't understand what kind
of logic you're applying to this situation. Obviously, I tweeted out racism is bad for
attention. And obviously racism is still bad. And I could still have a vested interest in
how bad it is, even if I was still looking for attention. But on top of that, Michael Giacchano
did not tweet out F Hitler for attention. He was responding to someone who brought him up in the
first place. This entire take is garbage. I literally just got 13 retweets in a minute.
And guess what? Racism is still bad. So yeah, honestly, this right here is a terrible tweet
that I don't like, and hopefully have explained why. But if that wasn't bad enough, he also quote
tweets that person quote tweeting him in the first place and says, "The context is that it's
another comics pro with stunning and brave takes like F Hitler". You're not interested in that.
That's why you didn't at me. You just want to try to smear me as a Nazi. F-ing clowns every time.
All right, now we're just getting into straight up lying. I don't think using the eyes emoji and
showing a screenshot of a very real interaction that you were a part of is implying that you're
a part of like the Nazi party. I personally don't think TheQuartering is a Nazi. Just,
from this little information that I've gleaned, I think he got a kick out of starting a discussion
on the internet about whether or not it's a good idea to say F Hitler. And he definitely
had a lot of people who might be Nazi's show up in the comments. But that means,
automatically label him a Nazi is insane. Good thing that person wasn't doing it. Imagine if
I'm saying all this and he turns out to be a literal Nazi. And then I get canceled.
This tweet right here is also terrible. "Nobody is attacking you. In fact, you're mad that they
didn't at you, but then you're still trying to act like you're being attacked. If they
did mention you, wouldn't you just say that was attacking you as well?" There's just so
much wrong with every one of his responses. It's like, how are you so consistently missing?
So if that's not bad enough, the next day, which was today, I think, or something like that.
Basically, I think more than 24 hours had passed, TheQuartering goes on this Twitter and says, "I've
got a spicy second video for you all today. But if I did a third ..." Holy crap, he's going to post
three videos in one day. Dang. Anyway, "but if I did a third, what would you like to see? I might
have time to shoot it quick now." And someone said, is it an apology for blowing this out of
proportion." Of course, attaching a screenshot of the whole yikes situation. And then he replies,
"Why would I apologize saying F Hitler in 2020 is 0% stunning and 0% brave. It's 100% cringe".
He just said, it's cringey to say F Hitler. I ... What also the whole stunning ... I
keep repeating myself because this guy keeps repeating himself. Where did Michael Giacchano
ever claim to be stunning and brave? Nowhere. I've never seen someone double down so hard
on something that didn't happen. Actually, yes I have. I've seen it all over Twitter,
but this is the most I've seen today. So yeah, guys, apparently it's cringey to say F Hitler.
Whatever you do, please don't put F Hitler down in the comments because it's cringe. Imagine
trying to be stunning and brave, by admitting that somebody who committed to genocide was a
bad person. He literally died in 1945, get over it. These people make me want to die. Yeah, no,
I was about to say that's a very strong reaction, but it's just true. But I think I'm going to try
to use it to explain a huge issue with Twitter. First of all, the lack of context, TheQuartering
knew just by taking Giacchano two word tweet out of context, that he could use it to frame a
different narrative, which was that Giacchano was out here trying to earn brownie points on Twitter
by being stunning in Brave and because checks anything. It pretty much worked on, I would say
the majority of TheQuartering fan base. Now, I did see a lot of his actual fans like, "Hey,
this tweet ain't it chief. But still a huge issue with Twitter is it's, just way too easy to remove
something from the context it's in and use it to try to paint a different picture. Another thing
that TheQuartering is also illustrating for us is shifting the goalposts. People will try
to make it seem like they're talking about one thing. And then once they realize that
that's not going over well, they'll shift it and try to make it seem like they were really
discussing a different issue from the start. Like, for example, initially he said, "Composer
for the new Batman movie already getting into it with fans, not a good sign." But by the time the
whole ordeal was over, "It wound up being saying F Hitler is cringe." How did we get this far from
the initial point that you were trying to prove. Almost like you were trying to prove something
different from the beginning. Just kidding, I don't think he's that smart. But you know,
shifting the goalposts like that completely worked because we had people saying things like,
"F Hitler should be a given." Next, he's going to want to be called stunning and
brave for making his bed. Okay. You know what, actually, this one personally offends me because
I am stunning and brave for making my bed. I'm stunning and brave for getting out of my bed,
bro. It's hard sometimes totally cringe. The overwhelming majority of people dislike
Hitler. Dude was supposedly shot and left in it. Supposedly dude was supposedly shot and left in a
ditch over 60 years ago. He's long dead, but good for you for taking a stunning and ... Do these
people know any other words? A stunning and brave stance that no one else will. Maybe next we'll all
fist bump in agreement. I have never seen people try to shame someone for saying F Hitler, but
you're reading it with your own eyes folks. This just in the sky is blue. Yeah. And also
F Hitler, you know what I mean? No, I don't think TheQuartering was the only one in the wrong. Well,
I do. But you know, the more I think about it, the more I get a weird feeling, because like I
pointed out Michael's tweet had nothing to do with Batman. In fact, it had nothing to do with
anything that should really affect TheQuartering since he's like a pop culture channel. You know,
the only thing he really did was expressed distaste for Hitler's mere existence.
Why would you have a problem with somebody having a problem with Hitler, if you're not a Nazi?
I'm sure. I'll think of the answer at some point. Anyway, who cares?