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- music@beehaw.org
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I used to listen to this guy’s work (Pogo) before he went full racist, homophobe, and misogynist.
Bertke was criticized for a 2015 video that derided feminists as gold diggers and “making misogynist arguments against women’s rights”.[16] He later claimed that it was made “to impersonate the radical right”.[17]
In a YouTube livestream that was uploaded in 2016, Bertke stated that he has a “fairly robust resentment of the gay community”.[18] In the same video and on the topic of the Orlando nightclub shooting, a terrorist attack at a gay bar in Florida in 2016, he said, “It amazes me to see the West welcoming a culture through the floodgates that wants gays dead. I think that’s fantastic”.[19][20] Bertke later claimed to not have any hate for the gay community and also claimed Asperger syndrome and bipolar disorder as contributing factors.[21] He stated that the video was made in bad taste and that he never intended for it to go public,[21] although he also stated that he was trying to “impersonate the far-right and create hysteria”, noting that the video was made around the time of the 2016 American election.[22] YourEDM compared his “homophobic rhetoric” to the 2015 video, which he similarly tried to explain as a social experiment.[17] Writing for The Verge, Megan Farokhmanesh saw this explanation as a transparent attempt at plausible deniability.[16]
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” -Maya Angelou
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I can’t listen to his music anymore without hearing his voice so happy about the deaths of innocent people at the hands of a gunman at the Pulse Nightclub.
I’ve always strived to separate it too. I just pirate and don’t give views/streams in some cases.
And we’re sure this isn’t a selfhating gay man?
What?
He’s extremely homophobic and I suggested maybe he’s closeted and self hating.
This song always makes me happy.
And I love the technical skills applied throughout it.
- Pogo is never outside. He is indoors, in front of a green screen, using a super-bright lamp at various angles to mimic the sun as well as copying the stage lighting from the show.
- Pogo is wearing the same uniform in every shot. He rekeyed the color balance on the footage of him to make it red or yellow depending on which character he is playing.
(I also giggle every time he orders tea, Earl Grey and the replicator spits an error tone at him.)
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