#eruptionfang

Eruptionfang, or Cole as he's known on Twitter, is in love with the idea of emo male sociopaths who talk about moral grayness.

A sociopath has no morals...has no virtues...but they are portrayed in media as charismatic....and people are brainwashed on that trope.

Vergil from Devil May Cry, Vicious from Cowboy Bebop, and Adam Taurus.

All three are trenchcoated men wielding katanas who are emo and hurt other people, often innocent people, and betray others for their personal goals.

Everyone attempts to defend their actions, all 3 of them.

But we first see Adam raiding train, wanting to kill all the passengers...and we see Blake stopping him.

Every single Adam Apologist began accusing Blake of being a war criminal and just as bad as Adam ...simply for standing in his way.

What's more, these people Blame Blake for Adam's actions.

So Sexism and Homophobia is something you'll find a lot of on EruptionFang's discord server...if he has one. He is basically another Adel Aka or Hero Hei...I'm not touching his channel, but word is that he IS a defender of child molester Vic Micnogna, who was Qrow Branwen's first VA.

Now as for Cinder Fall? Basically she's trying to kill the female main protagonist...for Cole, that's enough to put her in his good book.

Raven Branwen? We first meet her after her tribe wiped out a village just to plunder it...Raven began talking about Social Darwinism...which RWBY Critics ascribe to, and EruptionFang was furious to find that Raven's tribe was not as strong as her, because it meant that Raven was using social darwinism as an excuse to do what she wanted.

I like that about RWBY....they cut open "gray morality" and show how it is just an excuse for bad people to do whatever they want...and the fact that women oppose these people upset a lot of men and women who hate the female protagonists and love the male authority-fascist villains.

He loves Harriet because she's basically "Good soldiers follow orders" and we see in The Clone Wars and RWBY how blindly following orders causes problems.

As for Jacques? Despite him slapping Weiss, Cole decided that it had to be Weiss' fault for the slap, and that anything Weiss said against him, from stealing the family legacy, to changing his name as a con-man? Was Weiss needing to be disciplined.

He was also furious at Jacques Death because he wanted Jacques to get a redemption.

You'll see that RWBY Critics HATE the idea of female characters like Ilia Amitola or Emerald Sustrai getting redemptions, but cis white male characters like Adam or Ironwood or Jacques not getting redemptions is apparently character assassination.

At the end of the day, RWBY has more good POC characters than bad...and more POC live to see another day.

Which is ironic considering that the villains that the RWBY Critics defend so passionately are all white men in positions of authority.

This love of fascism, the military industrial complex, unchecked power, and men being allowed to commit whatever atrocities as long as it can be called "tough decisions" or "morally gray" is what led me to have a disdain for RWBY Critics who claim to "care about the show and want it to be better"

No...they want the show to lionize their white male character over the women protagonists.

And when people claim to be "Fixing" RWBY? Their focus is on hurting female main characters by stripping away their characteristics and overfocusing on men...especially the bad ones.

Because between female main characters with optimism vs male authority figure antagonists?

A criticism channel will always choose the male.

And I pity them.

In the meantime, take these to use to block out EF's channel.

There are plenty of good blacksun shippers. here is what they have in common.

1. They are NOT vic micnogna apologists

2. they don’t bash rwby or crwby

3. They don’t trash talk Bumbleby regularly

4. They don’t go off using derogatory imagery towards female characters or people who love rwby.

5. They don’t take pride in their hatred of RT

And last but not least? Good Blacksun shippers don’t act like they are victims just because two evil cis white men are dead, and two lesbians are in a relationship.

So!

Are there good Blacksun shippers in the fandom?

There are thousands of good ones. Just as there are thousands of good Bee shippers.

we agree with some of his opinions but heavily disagree with others, especially the ones surrounding raven but that's just. what you'll get with the community as a whole lmao. he's pretty well spoken & knows how to put forth an argument, arguably one of the better rwbytubers alongside vexed.

Can someone explain to me why @EruptionFang's review of RWBY V8E13 is blocked, yet other channels can post spoilers about the episode with no consequence? 

How's my first RWBY meme? :D

Disclaimer: The people Ruby is representing are not in mutually exclusive groups.

not my meme but 😶🍵

(cross post of a thread I made on the r/rwby subreddit)

Dear certain members of RWBY's Youtuber community.

You have probably been told through your fellow compatriots ranting on Twitter or on your video service website that the RWBY subreddit is not a place open to discussion. That this is a place that shoots down negative criticism of the show, that it's only a place where people jerk off to reposted Bumblebee fanart, and that RWBY Youtubers are never welcomed here.

Of those, I can safely say that only the second one of these is actually true and it excludes the reposted White Rose and Neo art.

My name is RWBY Conversations. It's a blog about RWBY, where I share news about the show, behind the scenes snippets and yes, analysis posts that indulge in criticism. I'd recommend checking some of them out if you have some time for light reading.

You might also notice that many of those posts have been cross-posted over onto this here subreddit (my profile, for reference, so you can find the essays). And something that might stand out is the ratios. They do quite well, averaging between 75 to 80% upvotes. A few even get close to a 90% ratio overall. I also share a lot of videos from RWBY Youtubers who discuss the show that I find appealing, and I like to share their content to spread it to a wider audience and give them more traffic or just to start a conversation- it is in my blog's name. I'm not trying to brag about my traffic or anything, it's just to highlight that my essays- which can get quite biting in their critique of the show- do well and are appreciated by a fair few people here.

But I would like to explain something. There is a reason stuff I write and share gets upvoted and has positive comments under it, and why a lot of RWBY Youtuber content otherwise gets downvoted and mocked, in some cases even flat out removed.

It's because a lot of you come off as complete jackasses.

Good critique should ideally never classify itself as a rant, even if done for the sake of ironic "comedy"- you're not being funny, you're just being a dick and no one likes hearing someone be an asshole about stuff they like. Good critique should never hide behind the face of a dead man so that they can insult his living friends and say "You're doing his thing wrong that you've been an essential part of since the inception of the show says I, a person who never even met the dead man." (a lot of people use Monty as a shield to insult Miles and Kerry and it's quite disheartening) It should never rely on twisting the words of a man half-mad with grief to push an agenda about the evil corporations (or, you know, go so far as to consider breaking the law to make a point, isn't that right MuffinManDan?). And it should definitely never cause an objective review to be infected with the idea of what you would have done better (Goddamnit EruptionFang get off Adam's dick and stop referring to lesbian sex as crotch snot exchanging I used to like your videos).

Ultimately, the reason a lot of RWBY Youtube content does poorly on the platform is because of a lack of respect for the source material or the audience the content is for. Again, no one likes hearing someone be an asshole about stuff they like. No one likes being told that the show they enjoy is dumb, that its showrunners are digging up the grave of their friend, or that they're bad for liking it. Intentional or not, a lot of RWBY Youtube reviewers who hate the show fail to approach it from an angle of genuine analysis. Compare the average video by FatManFalling to something like a video from Judgmental Critter or Unicorn of War. Attitude matters a lot, and I'm more inclined to sit through content about something if I feel it comes from a position of genuine interest in analysis. Critter and Unicorn both have things about the show they dislike, topics they've covered at length in the past, but when they cover those topics their tone is reasoned, they back their arguments up with facts from in-and-out of the show, and it doesn't feel like... well, for lack of a better word, bashing. And that shit doesn't interest me, or a lot of people here. If you're gonna write, record and edit a video about why you dislike RWBY, the least you can do is not be a prick about it.

Yeah, RWBY's flawed. No shit, I've gone off about it plenty of times for what it does wrong and the show should never be forgiven for the mess that was Volume 5's back half. But if you're a dickhead about it people don't tend to give you the time of day. That's not "censorship" or "review bombing" or whatever, it's the court of public approval. People didn't like your stuff and throwing a tantrum when not every community likes your content is just part of being a content creator, so grow up and do better next time. Different strokes for different folks as the saying goes.

I'm someone who wants RWBY's Youtube community to be something that gets the community excited when they talk about the show, but being blunt a lot of people the show has inspired to make videos just aren't very good at it. Either they fail to properly explain their point, mess up their audio quality, mumble their lines or talk too quickly. I want it to be a better community, but it still has a long way to go. And unfortunately, some choice elements are making it a far more inhospitable place than it should be. RWBY's Youtube community is like gold panning. Now and again you find a great nugget but a lot of the time you're standing in the middle of a river chugging past you, looking like an idiot as you keep looking while some sharp rocks dig into your feet.