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Episode Date: October 2, 2025

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So I watched a video the other day from a content creator that had 3,000 subscribers. She now has 63,000 subscribers. That's a pretty big, sorry, 300. I meant to say 3,000, she did not have 3,000, it was 300. It was an awesome video. Yep. There's a lot of people that watch. And she made a response to it.

I'm going to be real. She cooked. Like, I've never heard this girl talking. before or say anything? I completely agree with everything she said. Oh, wow. Look at this. She only has 300 subscribers.

Holy shit. Here, let me link you guys your video. All right. So I was not expecting that. First of all, a huge thanks to Asman Gold for somehow finding my video and then reacting to it. Thanks for my brother. And to everyone who's here now because of that. I'm legitimately like brand new to YouTube.

And I genuinely did not expect this video to get really any attention, much less blow up now the way that it has. But here we are. So before all this, it really was just me and my 300 Spartans holding the line in the comments section. And now it appears we've been overrun by roaches, which, by the way, you guys, some of the nicest roaches that I've ever met, seriously, thank you so much for all of the encouragement and support. If you're not one of the original. I think a lot of people always try to act like my community is like one dimensional. Like the fact is that there's a lot of people that watch the streams. And like honestly, you know, we just want to support people that we agree with.

And that was it, right? I mean, shit. All 300. That means that you're new here. So, hi. I'm very glad you're here. I'm just somebody who grew up loving games and who's been watching the industry slowly start to feel very hollow. And the spark that I fell in love with that,

made these characters unforgettable or stories emotionally rich, it's missing in a lot of what we're getting now. And it doesn't have to be that way. I really just made this channel to have a place where I unpack that and I talk about games and storytelling and character writing, anime soon, and overall fantasy, just all through the lens of someone who deeply cares about how these worlds are built and how their stories are told. So let's talk about Asman's reaction. Uh-oh. Here we go. Kind of crazy that I'm even saying that. Uh-oh.

I discovered his channel at the end of last year, and the fact that he actually somehow saw the first video I've ever made is something that's truly blowing my mind. But, yeah, he had a lot of really great things to say. And there were a few things especially that he brought up that I really appreciated. I think the problem is that I think this is my opinion, is that I think a lot of female writers try to write female characters in opposition. to what a female character has traditionally been.

What ends up happening is that you're not creating. It's kind of like a card, right? And so like a card like can't stand up by itself. It has to be leaning against another card. So they write this personality to lean up against the old personality of one dimensional boob characters and that's it. And so if you take one of these away, they both fall apart. Essentially here, it seems like he's saying the industry overcorrected, and I thought that was spot on.

Because really, overall, the point that I was trying to make with this video is that gamers do not hate female characters. Actually, gamers really love female characters. We just want good ones. Yeah, people just want good characters that don't feel like they're patronizing to the audience, and they want female characters and not male characters that have female names. That's also a big difference, too. It's a huge thing. And the issue here is how the AAA industry has tried to somehow fix the old, just, you know, over the second. And I do also think that, like, a big part of it is just the fact that a lot of it is bad writing at a base level.

That's really what it is. It's just bad writing. Like Expedition 33 is a great example of this. is like Mael and C.L. and Luna are all written in a very, very, very good way. And they're attractive characters.

They're not overly sexualized. But that's, I think, the way to write a female character. And also, the reality is that the entire rest of the story was good. Everything was good. But usually when you see characters that are written

this way that's one dimensional, there's a lot of other. the reasons for it happening too. Actualized or empty female leads we used to get by swinging the pendulum so far in the other direction. And now we're just getting female leads that are very flattened and defeminized. And honestly, it seems like the message they're trying to send is that somehow it's inherently shameful or bad if you are just a feminine woman.

And they've really just stripped these characters of everything that once made them so iconic. And I don't think this part was in the reaction video, but like I said in my original video, anytime I get the opportunity to play a game that has a character creator, I make my female character like as ethereal as possible. She's glowing and unattainably beautiful. Because my well, yeah, that's, wow, what a surprise. And this is, this has been, this has been obviously well documented by multiple people that this is the case, is that all the way. It's that all the way, women that talk about they want, you know, like these characters to look this way. If you look at the way that they have their Final Fantasy 14 character, they're always very

attractive. Like, this is never, like, people say they want something and then they don't want it. That's it. The goal is really to aspire to the character that I'm playing. Something about her should feel larger than life, especially in a fantasy setting. And I just don't really want to play as someone who's. who's super realistic. Like just an average looking or tired or worn down character.

I have no problem dealing with that completely on my own in everyday life. I don't need it in my game. Yeah. And he also brought up Ripley from Alien who is in fact the OG, honestly, because I just don't understand how we can have someone that complex, maternal, beautiful, and strong in a movie that came out over 40 years ago. But somehow in 2025, we're like back. to struggling to find that balance.

And it's not... The reason why is because the people that are writing the stories don't have the depth to be able to tell a story like that. So I think the best example of this is Lord of the Rings. So the reason why Lord of the Rings blew up and it was so popular is because I think the J.R.R. Tolkien wrote War to the Rings after he went to World War I. which like World War II was really bad, but World War I was like apocalyptic, okay? You had mustard gas, you had people cavalry going up against machine guns.

This was some straight up brutal shit. Trench warfare, yeah, like, and so anyway, like characters, like Samwise is probably the best example of this, is like characters in War of the Rings are built off of that experience, right? Right. And so, like, again, I think you can have, like, people that have, I think, tremendous struggles in real life, it can inform them on how to make video games that can communicate struggles like that in game. And I think that with a lot of video games, that does not happen. It does not happen at all. And that's the problem is because these people don't have any struggles. They don't have any issues. They don't have any sort of insight into the world. they're just like annoying millennial theater kids that think that they know better than their parents. Not that we don't have cool female characters, we absolutely do. But the number of women in games who feel truly iconic, like they'll stick in your head for years after you beat the game,

that list is just getting really short. Also, I did not expect the Trist slander. Or Tris, who's clever and compassionate. An absolute thought. who literally got with Gerald after he lost his memories knowing that her friend that she had known for decades

was his girlfriend does not matter she's still doing it the biggest generational ho crazy like I didn't even play the game and I learned about this that's um

hot take I guess I actually really like the Triss romance so I don't know Yeah, sure. She's nice. It's great. But I mean, she did snake in there, right? I mean, she definitely did. And like, that's some roach behavior. Says about me. She's still a ho. Yeah. I mean, you guys, it's the way it is. But I'm standing by it. Now, to be clear, there are some really amazing female characters out there right now. And I didn't even get to touch on the women in Volderskate 3, like Shadowheart or Bezell, just a very very. intense, emotional, strong, and just really beautiful, realistic women. And I'm still playing through-

What I find to be funny is that if you want to hear the best stories about women nowadays and female characters, you have to go and play gotcha games. Because gotcha games, obviously, all of the stories are about female characters, because that's what the majority of the people that play video games are, right, by those. And so, like, you have a lot of these characters in, like, these gotcha games that actually have great stories and they're really well written, but nobody knows about it because people just click through the whole story. But so far, I am just loving the story and the characters.

And even though it seems like we have a majority female cast in that game, what I love most is that none of them feel one-dimensional. They're allowed to be feminine, beautiful, and powerful. That's another really good example. Like I go back to Expedition 33 is that, I mean, in a way, it's almost. to harem anime, but it's not. Is that Gustav or Verso, right? They're the only real male character there.

Like, Monoco is a dog, basically, right? And, like, I mean, I'm not going to give any big spoilers, right? But it's like a Nevron. He's like a robot. And Eskier is just, like, some big, fat thing, right? And so, like, what is this? And a curator doesn't say or do anything. So it's basically one male character.

All the other characters are female. And nobody's complaining. How does this happen? Everybody knows how it happens. Everybody knows why. It's because it's good. All at the same time. And they're written with complexity, but they're not being defanged to feel safe.

They're emotionally rich and visually just very attractive and magnetic. And it proves that it can be done and it can be wildly successful. We just need more of it. This video wasn't meant to list every single exception that we have. It's more to just highlight the bigger pattern and the way that so many AAA games have lost the confidence to write women with texture and flare and just overall presence. Well, it's because the characters are attractive too. That's another really big important thing that a lot of characters, a lot of people don't understand

Western developers, especially American developers. Nobody wants to cosplay an ugly... So yeah, thank you. Hey! Hey! Hey, ain't nobody... You know, people go, they say, hey, you know, you an asshole for saying that, but ain't nobody saying I'm wrong. Much, Asman. Thank you for shining a light on Lulom.

me. And this is honestly all just very surreal, but I'm glad that it's coming from someone whose audience seems to really vibe kind of with what I'm saying. And it seems like for the majority, everyone is kind of agreeing it on the same page. So that's great. But ultimately, the original video was made not because I just wanted to harp on the state of current games, but because I love games. I do. And I love what they're capable of doing when storytelling is done correctly. And when a female character gets the opportunity to be all of the things, bold, weird, funny, beautiful, complicated, and still feel like a genuine and real human being, I just want more of that. Because at the end of the day, I'm just a lifelong fan who wants to feel something again when I pick up my controller. And I think that we all do.

I think that she broke it down in a way that was really healthy and it was intelligent and it was accurate and fair and just really well done. and respectful. Yeah, refreshing. Absolutely. There you go, guys. Give it a light. Give her a sub. And yeah, let me see here. 386 subscribers. That's insane. There's a thousand. Three hundred easy. All right. And now there's sixty-three thousand. Good job. Yeah, keep doing it. Keep going. There you go, guys. Yep. No, yeah. I mean, it's my pleasure to support content creators that I think are making content that I think is good. I mean, shit. I mean, I really. I mean, it's a thank you. from me. I mean, you make content that I think

is good. I can use it and that's great. Yeah, there's the video right there. I'll link it. And honestly, I feel like there needs to be more voices like this out there that are not toxic or hostile. Like, I'm very much, like, the fact is that I am a very

abrasive person. I know that I am a very abrasive person. I'm fully fucking aware of this. But that being said, I think that a toxic, yes, I I'm like that. That's just the way it is.

But I think also you need to have people out there through Spartans. Yeah, I hear from Asmon Bald. Yep, there you go. As female roach, I also want to play sexy female video game, women in video games because I want to be like them. Yeah, of course, right?

Obviously. And so I think people appreciate that and they want that. Yeah. And they've wanted that really for years. And so it's really great to see that. And it's great to see more people talking about it in like an honest and direct way. that's not patronizing or rude or hostile or anything like that it's just honest direct fair and good

and uh yeah that's really yet so there's the video give it a like and uh yeah i'll look forward to see what she uh what she makes in the future but uh yeah this video blew up it had 222 000 views so uh yeah yeah there it is not you i don't know i mean well i'm i mean like i do things the way that I do things, okay? Like, one thing that I've learned is that the way that I do them is really, like, I, uh, you know, oh, oh, jeez, oh, no. Oh, no. Is he really mad about me again?

Oh, God. Oh, geez. Okay, guys, give me a second. I got a, yeah, yeah, just give me a minute before we get to this. But yeah, I'll link you guys to video again. And I think that a lot of people really appreciate this kind of commentary. And the more attention it gets, the better. I don't know how it happens every day.

How does it keep happening every single day? So anyway, let's see if I could find it. There it is. All right, I'll be right back and then we'll look at this real quick. Okay, guys, give me a second.