Exposing the Grift: Go Woke Go Broke

[Flower2dPeople]

The mental gymnastics it takes to reduce his history down to that is wild lol. You must've read your own source and been like, "oh... this guy sounds cool but shit, I already posted so much bullshit about him and my ego can't take admitting I was wrong"

Lmao!
Mental gymnastics? You're trying to make Yasuke a vital character in Japanese history. I fucking bet you never even heard about him before this whole Ubisoft pfegotree.

 

[deviake]

Lmao!
You're trying to make Yasuke a vital character in Japanese history. I fucking bet you never even heard about him before this whole Ubisoft pfegotree.

No I'm not. Show me where I did that? G'head, I'll wait.

And no, I hadn't heard of him till this game. I looked into him after all the hullabaloo and was like, "this is it? People are mad about this and calling it woke?"



I don't even like Ubisoft and it's highly unlikely I'll even play the game lmao. You guys are so presumptuous and reactionary

 

[Flower2dPeople]

No I'm not. Show me where I did that? G'head, I'll wait.

And no, I hadn't heard of him till this game. I looked into him after all the hullabaloo and was like, "this is it? People are mad about this and calling it woke?"



I don't even like Ubisoft and it's highly unlikely I'll even play the game lmao. You guys are so presumptuous and reactionary

Because Japanese players are upset with the lack of representation of a game set in Japan.

 

[NoSmilez]

I don't really care if they swap stuff out to adapt for western audiences. There is no depth to those characters. Their color becomes their identity. They don't write characters that don't break the stereotype.

Ubisoft just pandered to the novelty of a black samurai. They shouldn’t have used a real figure and embellish his role. They also tried to pass it off as respecting the culture or history etc etc. This isn’t the first time Yasuke showed up in video games. Ubisoft just did this interpretation of Yasuke very poorly.

 

[deviake]

Because Japanese players are upset with the lack of representation of a game set in Japan.

Are they though? Says who? The Japanese lady in the video I posted said otherwise.

From what I've seen the Japanese have made up folklore about him, helped make that Netflix show, and put him in video games as a playable character before this one. Plus, there's a playable Japanese character in this game, he's not the only one

 

[Contempt]

Sources? I've provided multiple sources at this point including one from the japantimes

Here we go, let me just google that for you

An article FROM JAPAN:

Why It Took So Long for Japanese People to Realize the Yasuke Problem: Perfidious Historian, Thomas Lockley

Over a month ago, I wrote an article criticizing Assassin’s Creed, particularly focusing on Thomas Lockley’s portrayal o

japanese-with-naoto.com

He was a con artist that openly lied to sell books to idiot Americans.

 

[Bornstarch]

what is woke though?

and

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Are they though? Says who? The Japanese lady in the video I posted said otherwise.

From what I've seen the Japanese have made up folklore about him, helped make that Netflix show, and put him in video games as a playable character before this one. Plus, there's a playable Japanese character in this game, he's not the only one

No one is denying his existence. No one really gives a shit about him in Japan in historical context.

 

[Contempt]

He does, he is a race baiter and a culture war jockey, I'm quite familiar with him.

See you keep saying all the money lost while ignoring all the wins. As the narrator in the video I posted says, it's "Go Woke, Go Broke, not Go Woke [sometimes] Go Broke."

As far as your last question, IT'S ADDRESSED IN THE VIDEO I POSTED lmao, you're being selective.

OK you seem to be a bit slow... so I'll attempt this using smaller words. He does not make any movies, TV shows or games etc right? He just talks about all the political bullshit inserted into them by OTHERS in those industries. He is simply REACTING to the crap produced by others.

I fail to see how you are struggling with this concept.

We have literally talked about products from two companies: Disney who've lost over 50% of their market cap since going all in on this bullshit and Ubisoft which has lost nearly 90% of theirs. If there are all these other big successes, then why are these companies completely tanking and losing many billions of dollars?

...people like you don't want to talk about that though, do you?

 

[Contempt]

You guys are legitimately hilarious

...and you are legitimately clueless.

 

[deviake]

Here we go, let me just google that for you

An article FROM JAPAN:

Why It Took So Long for Japanese People to Realize the Yasuke Problem: Perfidious Historian, Thomas Lockley

Over a month ago, I wrote an article criticizing Assassin’s Creed, particularly focusing on Thomas Lockley’s portrayal o

japanese-with-naoto.com

He was a con artist that openly lied to sell books to idiot Americans.

Okay but who brought up Lockley? No one, that's who. He's not even cited in the original video I posted, the article I posted, nor the article that angry pikachu posted that bolsters my points. The whole discussion is just that Yasuke was real, not much is known about him, he's known in Japan and has been depicted multiple times in media before this game

 

[deviake]

OK you seem to be a bit slow... so I'll attempt this using smaller words. He does not make any movies, TV shows or games etc right? He just talks about all the political bullshit inserted into them by OTHERS in those industries. He is simply REACTING to the crap produced by others.

I fail to see how you are struggling with this concept.

We have literally talked about products from two companies: Disney who've lost over 50% of their market cap since going all in on this bullshit and Ubisoft which has lost nearly 90% of theirs. If there are all these other big successes, then why are these companies completely tanking and losing many billions of dollars?

...people like you don't want to talk about that though, do you?

Actually he writes books so apparently I know more about him than you do, which tracks. But yes, people make money being outraged and making reviews... uh, is that controversial?

Disney has put out a lot of dog shit, yeah. And? Did someone disagree?

 

[deviake]

No one is denying his existence. No one really gives a shit about him in Japan in historical context.

The goal posts keep shifting. No one said he was some important historical figure in Japan. You couldn't have made a more picture perfect strawman.

 

[deviake]

...and you are legitimately clueless.

You can keep saying words but they don't mean anything sooo

I'm been dunking on you with deez nuts this entire thread boiiiiiiiii

 

[deviake]

@Contempt, I finished the Smithsonian article angrypikachu linked. My bad, Lockley IS mentioned, but not by me, he's mentioned in the article that your boy angrypikachu posted lmao:

asuke in pop culture​

Despite the lack of concrete information about Yasuke, the samurai’s life has inspired a range of adaptations. In 1968, Japanese author Kurusu Yoshio published Kuro-suke, a children’s book that dramatizes Yasuke’s story. More recent titles about the warrior include Lockley’s 2019 book, co-written with Geoffrey Girard, and Jamal Turner’s 2020 children’s book Yasuke: The Legend of the African Samurai. Yasuke also shows up in the 2017 video game “Nioh,” which is set during the Sengoku period.

Possible depiction of Yasuke (left side) on a Rinpa-style ink-stone box dated to the 1590s Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
In 2019, Chadwick Boseman, perhaps best known for portraying the eponymous superhero in Marvel’s Black Panther, signed on to play Yasuke in an upcoming film. “The legend of Yasuke is one of history’s best kept secrets, the only person of non-Asian origin to become a samurai,” the actor told Deadline. “That’s not just an action movie, that’s a cultural event, an exchange, and I am excited to be part of it.” Boseman died of colon cancer in August 2020, leaving the project’s future uncertain.

Production on the live-action film may be stalled, but that hasn’t stopped other creatives from offering their own takes on Yasuke. The six-episode anime “Yasuke,” released on Netflix in April 2021, follows a heavily fictionalized version of the warrior 20 years after the Honnoji Incident as he battles giant robots, ancient demons and other evil creatures. LaKeith Stanfield of Judas and the Black Messiah fame voices Yasuke, who spends the series protecting Saki, a young girl with magical powers, from dark forces as they journey north together.

“Since Yasuke doesn’t have an owned estate, no one owns his character—his story was up for interpretation,” animation director LeSean Thomas told Den of Geek last year. “I knew I wanted to tell a story that was removed from history so that we can create a new action hero and celebrate him through this adventure story.”

Yoshiko Okuyama, an expert on Japanese studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, praises “Yasuke” for featuring a Black hero as its lead character. Referencing the lack of racial diversity in anime, the scholar points out that portrayals of Black people in early animated titles were often demeaning, showing these individuals with exaggerated facial features.

“Although [‘Yasuke’] is a fantasy, the story is drawn from a documented history about a real-life dark-skinned samurai in 16th-century Japan, which not so many Japanese themselves knew,” Okuyama says. “In the past, Japan’s anime, as well as American animation works, grossly misrepresented [Black characters] for decades. It is overdue that they are put in central roles with positive traits, as movers and shakers of the story, not as sidekicks or villains.”

Doan, meanwhile, notes that Yasuke’s voice is conspicuously absent from adaptations of his life. No documents produced by the samurai himself are known to survive today. But, she says, “Even without a large number of surviving historical sources for us to understand the full extent of Yasuke’s activity or personal experiences, Yasuke’s story is an example of the kind of exciting and unexpected transnational encounters occurring within Black and Japanese history.”

 

[Contempt]

Actually he writes books so apparently I know more about him than you do, which tracks. But yes, people make money being outraged and making reviews... uh, is that controversial?

Disney has put out a lot of dog shit, yeah. And? Did someone disagree?

Unlikely as I've been watching his stuff since he was a tiny, unknown channel. He also made a short film but you want to know something crazy? There is NO political messaging or other bullshit in what he makes.

He is not making this shit up, he's reacting to the work of OTHERS. If he was just making it up, no-one would pay attention to him. Te leftist activists HATE their leftist propaganda being called out for what it is which is why they get so very butthurt, every time he is mentioned.

Yes, and the question is WHY is the work that Disney have produced over the last 5 years, complete dogshit? You may not have figured it out yet, but they have, hence the reports of them "cleaning house" of all the moronic leftist activists tat are costing them billions.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

The goal posts keep shifting. No one said he was some important historical figure in Japan. You couldn't have made a more picture perfect strawman.

What goal post? Did I ever deny his existence?

 

[Contempt]

You can keep saying words but they don't mean anything sooo

I'm been dunking on you with deez nuts this entire thread boiiiiiiiii

The utterly sad thing, is that you actually believe that, when all the objective data and evidence shows you have been wrong with everything you have said from your very first post.

You are like the retarded kid in class, yelling about how smart he is while everyone else just laughs at them.

 

[deviake]

Unlikely as I've been watching his stuff since he was a tiny, unknown channel. He also made a short film but you want to know something crazy? There is NO political messaging or other bullshit in what he makes.

He is not making this shit up, he's reacting to the work of OTHERS. If he was just making it up, no-one would pay attention to him. Te leftist activists HATE their leftist propaganda being called out for what it is which is why they get so very butthurt, every time he is mentioned.

Yes, and the question is WHY is the work that Disney have produced over the last 5 years, complete dogshit? You may not have figured it out yet, but they have, hence the reports of them "cleaning house" of all the moronic leftist activists tat are costing them billions.

You can react to someone else's work and make shit up. Like, how do you not know that? You cited the outrage of "leftist activists" earlier and meow so what, they're the only ones who can react and make shit up? Your fingers and reactions move faster than your brain.

It's dog shit because they have people working on it who are bad writers, some of whom, yes, do engage in lame, liberal identity politics.

Then you have a show like Andor that is revered that is extremely left wing but no one cares cuz it's well written and awesome.

What goal post? Did I ever deny his existence?

Bro I've lost track at this point due to sheer exhaustion of swatting down point after point

The utterly sad thing, is that you actually believe that, when all the objective data and evidence shows you have been wrong with everything you have said from your very first post.

You are like the retarded kid in class, yelling about how smart he is while everyone else just laughs at them.

What am I objectively wrong about? Plenty of "woke" stuff makes money. That's what the entire goddamn video I posted is about lol, and it cites sources many times.

 

[Contempt]

@Contempt, I finished the Smithsonian article angrypikachu linked. My bad, Lockley IS mentioned, but not by me, he's mentioned in the article that your boy angrypikachu posted lmao:

asuke in pop culture​

Despite the lack of concrete information about Yasuke, the samurai’s life has inspired a range of adaptations. In 1968, Japanese author Kurusu Yoshio published Kuro-suke, a children’s book that dramatizes Yasuke’s story. More recent titles about the warrior include Lockley’s 2019 book, co-written with Geoffrey Girard, and Jamal Turner’s 2020 children’s book Yasuke: The Legend of the African Samurai. Yasuke also shows up in the 2017 video game “Nioh,” which is set during the Sengoku period.

Possible depiction of Yasuke (left side) on a Rinpa-style ink-stone box dated to the 1590s Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
In 2019, Chadwick Boseman, perhaps best known for portraying the eponymous superhero in Marvel’s Black Panther, signed on to play Yasuke in an upcoming film. “The legend of Yasuke is one of history’s best kept secrets, the only person of non-Asian origin to become a samurai,” the actor told Deadline. “That’s not just an action movie, that’s a cultural event, an exchange, and I am excited to be part of it.” Boseman died of colon cancer in August 2020, leaving the project’s future uncertain.

Production on the live-action film may be stalled, but that hasn’t stopped other creatives from offering their own takes on Yasuke. The six-episode anime “Yasuke,” released on Netflix in April 2021, follows a heavily fictionalized version of the warrior 20 years after the Honnoji Incident as he battles giant robots, ancient demons and other evil creatures. LaKeith Stanfield of Judas and the Black Messiah fame voices Yasuke, who spends the series protecting Saki, a young girl with magical powers, from dark forces as they journey north together.

“Since Yasuke doesn’t have an owned estate, no one owns his character—his story was up for interpretation,” animation director LeSean Thomas told Den of Geek last year. “I knew I wanted to tell a story that was removed from history so that we can create a new action hero and celebrate him through this adventure story.”

Yoshiko Okuyama, an expert on Japanese studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, praises “Yasuke” for featuring a Black hero as its lead character. Referencing the lack of racial diversity in anime, the scholar points out that portrayals of Black people in early animated titles were often demeaning, showing these individuals with exaggerated facial features.

“Although [‘Yasuke’] is a fantasy, the story is drawn from a documented history about a real-life dark-skinned samurai in 16th-century Japan, which not so many Japanese themselves knew,” Okuyama says. “In the past, Japan’s anime, as well as American animation works, grossly misrepresented [Black characters] for decades. It is overdue that they are put in central roles with positive traits, as movers and shakers of the story, not as sidekicks or villains.”

Doan, meanwhile, notes that Yasuke’s voice is conspicuously absent from adaptations of his life. No documents produced by the samurai himself are known to survive today. But, she says, “Even without a large number of surviving historical sources for us to understand the full extent of Yasuke’s activity or personal experiences, Yasuke’s story is an example of the kind of exciting and unexpected transnational encounters occurring within Black and Japanese history.”

Did you read the link FROM JAPAN that I posted, pointing out what a lying fraud the author of this hoax is and how he wrote completely different things when writing for a Japanese audience and when writing for a western one?