What happened to digibro
What happened to digibro
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Conrad Aaron Collins, better known under his Online alias Digibro(ny) is a 23 year old
Aspergic Manchild from Virginia Beach, USA. He is most famous for his Anime Youtube Channel with 300k+ subscribers and his excessively long redundant reviews of animated media mostly targeted at underage demographics. He has the fashion sense of a hobo version of John Lennon and is worshipped by an obnoxious fanbase of weaboos who treat him as some sort of Otaku Guru.
Conrad achievements in his young life are RICH and include (but are not limited to):
>living with his parents exercising this professional Cartoon Critic-hood as a «»»Job»»» since before late 2012 despite having a college degree
>being a lowkey SJW
>Borderline Pedophile who wishes he was an underage girl
>Suspected Jew
>having over 2 dozens user accounts on several sites
>repeated Suicide Baiter over virtual property
>Former My Little Pony Cartoon Analyst (more on that and his breakup with the Brony community later
>SelfEnlightened Pseudointellectual Farthuffer
>opportunistic Art Thief
>Alcoholism
>Ironic Novel
>oversensitive Drama Starter & Perpetuater
Samples of Conrads Works over the years
In Early 2015 Digibros Main Youtube Channel was taken down due to copyright violations in regards to his Anime content. Before that and during this event, Discussions about him popped up on several pony sites, including MLP Chan (which later fused with Ponychan) and Equestria Daily.
The General Reaction to Digibros Suspension there ranged from indifference to gloating to downright mocking his ass. Digibro perceived this heresy of the community towards him and his dear channel very poorly and promptly deleted all his MLP related content as soon as his account was reinstated after the copyright strikes.
Conrad is by no means an artist, Have a look at his DA and how he spins his stolen art piece to reflect his internal turmoil how hard it is to be a neet weaboo with no responsibilities living off youtube.
In Depth 2 Part Call out Video that exposes Conrad and his inappropriate conduct in the anime community and beyond. Digibro responsed to part 1 in the comment section.
Response Video of Conrad publicly trying to shame and blacklist a condescending «Troll» from the Anime community and getting unironically triggered of money donations from his detractor. This event happened after Digibro banned a former community contributor from his discord due to entrenching disagreements with him and his fanbase.
In early 2017 Conrad gets drunk and decides to make the equivalent of a Diss Track, trashing the entire anime community on Yotube, other content creators from his branch, lighting up a fart bubble so big as of proclaiming his style of analysis and video making as the only true one and wishing everybody would think like him. more drama ensued after that.
Video about how Digibro pulled out the long knifes and stabbed fellow content creator and online friend Mumkey Jones and his fans in the back, getting unironically Angry at him for remaining calm in the conflict and not taking it personally.
a short recommendation video about a samurai themed anime which Digi enjoyed. The creator of this show, Nobuhiro Watsuki, was arrested on November 21st 2017 for owning actual child pornography.
«Watsuki is quoted as telling authorities, “I liked girls from the upper grades of elementary school to around the second year of junior high school.”
Mumkey Jones doing a paid review of the 2 Part Digibro roasting video series (see >>5325 ) and coming out on top as the bigger man and Youtuber. Conrads Patreon account has since taken a dip down worth 500 Dollars.
On a sidenote, I have looked into Mumkey’s videos after never really having watched him before and I can say, he has entertaining value. Not just are his videos comedic and well researched, he is also not afraid talking about controversial topics from a ring wing perspective. Consider taking a look at his Communism Survival Guide, the review of the Holy Book of the jews or his ongoing series about the infamous lolcow/serial killer Elliot Rodger.
Conrad concedes to being stuck in a contradiction. He must read comments but he can’t take the negative ones. Despite saying he needs comments to do his work,l he is now openly turning against his audience and their opinions. Chances are he could go down the same roads as GradeAUnderA, who’s Channel died from his inability to deal with criticism. in a Podcast from 04/2016 he and Endless Jess said they regarded comment sections as «a sewerage. Its a graphitti on my work of art.»
>No ability to comment on content that gets submitted.
>No ability to share content that you enjoy.
>No dislike button on content.
>A like button and a button to more or less «bookmark» a particular piece of content.
Huh. I just don’t see why people would say he can’t handle criticism. /s
Furthermore, Conrads Head editor for his main channel, TheDavoo, threw a shitfit on twitter over not being able to take criticism. He will be mostly abandon his twitter account and disable his youtube comments sections for the forseeable future.
Can someone explain to me (unironically) what happened to this Digibro youtube guy?
didn’t realize anything happened but googled
btw the destiny clip in context is great, that whole «debate» is worth the time
oh apparently they are just transitioning formally and restarting the channel as digi-nee or something
no worries, yr friendly lolicon brony alt-right sympathizer will continue to enjoy anime
here’s their channel
eitur said:
didn’t realize anything happened but googled
btw the destiny clip in context is great, that whole «debate» is worth the time
I’ve watched that video and don’t understand what it tries to tell me about what happened.
So he’s legitimately turned into a transvestite. like officially. Or is that just a trolling attempt. What the hell happened in plain English without irony pls.
eitur said:
didn’t realize anything happened but googled
btw the destiny clip in context is great, that whole «debate» is worth the time
I’ve watched that video and don’t understand what it tries to tell me about what happened.
So he’s legitimately turned into a transvestite. like officially. Or is that just a trolling attempt. What the hell happened in plain English without irony pls.
She is a trans girl now. Like yeah she came out. She was non binary for a while. But people kinda ignored that.
eitur said:
didn’t realize anything happened but googled
btw the destiny clip in context is great, that whole «debate» is worth the time
I’ve watched that video and don’t understand what it tries to tell me about what happened.
So he’s legitimately turned into a transvestite. like officially. Or is that just a trolling attempt. What the hell happened in plain English without irony pls.
She is a trans girl now. Like yeah she came out. She was non binary for a while. But people kinda ignored that.
Lol, had to look that term up. non binary I mean (I’m not that well versed in all that lingo/terminology). Anyway. I assume this is just a trolling attempt considering his troll personality. But why and what exactly happened is still a mystery to me. That’s why I asked for a plain explanation what he took his youtube channel down and such.
Digi peaked around 2016, but found a girlfriend and made her the focus of alot of his content. He had way too many concurrent projects between 2 youtube channels, a podcast, a twitch account for livestreaming games, and creating music on bandcamp. His side projects began drowning out the main channel, and none of his larger videos were really taking off. In 2017 he had a falling out with a podcast cohost and friend MumkeyJones(the person he’s actually talking about at the end of that «digibro in 3 minutes» video,) and that split his community.
He was in money trouble from moving to Boston almost immediately after hooking up with a girl, and began cashing out on a patreon «rant» project, where he would rant about anything a 15$ a month patreon supporter would ask him about. These rant videos only really helped him burn bridges and isolate himself from every community he could have been a part of. This is how he landed himself into a debate with Destiny. He was probably pretty hard for other youtubers to stomach when he was more popular than them (for instance the just shittalking Anime youtubers video. In 2016 Digibro was pulling competitive numbers to Gigguk and Mother’sBasement,) but in 2018 he had no traction for shit-talking and expecting to be heard. I think it was in one of these that he tried stirring up drama with SuperEyepatchWolf for using the format of his Cowboy Bebop video to create most of his content.
Digi seemed to want to make a lot of collaborative content and to support his community and friends, but the members of his collective group (called the PCP) were only finding middling success on their own, and Digibro’s subscriber count was dropping in the tens to hundreds every day throughout 2018. In August of that year he decided to start making a video every day for the month, and one of his shitpost vlogs called «dear crunchyroll: stop» took off to a million views, and around 15,000 new subscribers. I think Digi took alot of the wrong lessons from this, because he started consolidating his content from niche side projects like amv albums and light novel audiobooks into the main channel. Coupled with the fact that he had lost his long time editor, and was at this point uploading tens of rants every month, there was no longer any prestige or esteem behind seeing a new Digibro video pop up on youtube.
I don’t remember much of 2019, but I think this is the year he said he would try to reach 1,000,000 subscribers. Of course nothing came of that. A big part of this is the duality of wanting to be heard and recognized by the public versus wanting to be underground and cult, recognized by serious critics.
Digi had been vocally supportive of the trans community for a long time, since at least 2016, but I think the real turning point in her own transitioning is supposed to be this video.
After thinking about her neurotyping system, she began to think of herself as less analytical. I think in some way she associated her analytical traits as a mask she wore to «perform» as a man, when inside she was still a little girl.
The transition has accelerated her subscriber and patron loss in some ways, but it didn’t fundamentally change the course that things were taking. Of course a lot of people thought it was some kind of rebranding joke at first, but I don’t think there’s any real indication of that.
Who is Digibro and why does this forum care what he says?
Shhhhhh legends say that if you say the forbidden D-word on these forums you will be cursed by being forced in front of a screen and watch K-On! for eternity.
I can’t help but get the feeling that this is another rant thread, because I think the answer should be very obvious.
1) Digibro is «controversial» for having certain opinions on anime, due to being very authentic when it comes to his tastes.
2) He’s probably the anituber who’s taken the most seriously because of how well written his analysis’s (or even his general videos) are; because rather than saying basic things that everyone else has said, or make videos that everyone else has (like Under The Scope), he tries to stand out more by focusing on topics others haven’t.
3) Because of #2, he has a lot of haters.
there’s been literally a single thread about him in recent memory, and the constantly necro’d shinsekai one.
he’s an anime youtuber. what makes him stand out is that he’s the least bad one, I guess. He’s inconsistent but still the most competent of all the (big) anime youtbers.
Sorry, I misworded that. I meant that he’s very authentic when it comes to expressing what his tastes are; many anime fans tend to hide what their tastes are in certain anime, due to fear of being judged, or they are peer pressured into liking/disliking certain anime (it’s basic psychology).
Digibro literally has no fear nor does he show any signs of being peer pressured.
Are you referring to me?
No, it’s called katusracts or something. He has a very difficult username to write, but I know you are very familiar with him :>
Sorry, I misworded that. I meant that he’s very authentic when it comes to expressing what his tastes are; many anime fans tend to hide what their tastes are in certain anime, due to fear of being judged, or they are peer pressured into liking/disliking certain anime (it’s basic psychology).
Digibro literally has no fear nor does he show any signs of being peer pressured.
We can make this the happy birthday Digi thread! >w
It is, he’s my friend on MAL, though.
That’d be neat. @Digibro, happy birthday, chief. @EndlessMaria likes you, apparently.
I ship you both :>
It is, he’s my friend on MAL, though.
That’d be neat. @Digibro, happy birthday, chief. @EndlessMaria likes you, apparently.
I ship you both :>
Hi, fan of Digi here. What makes him so controversial is that he very much does not give a single shit what anyone else thinks of him. If his tastes go against the anime consensus, or he has a controversial opinion that’s bound to piss people off, he goes ahead and says so. And considering how often his tastes don’t align with modern anime fans, that means he ends up at odds with them a lot.
And frankly, he can be kind of an asshole about it at times. Not intentionally, I don’t think, but he tends to be bad at filtering himself, even at times when some level of filtering would be appreciated. I still really appreciate the ethos with which he approaches anime, but he’s had plenty of opinions I vehemently disagree with. So take that for what it’s worth.
Sorry, I misworded that. I meant that he’s very authentic when it comes to expressing what his tastes are; many anime fans tend to hide what their tastes are in certain anime, due to fear of being judged, or they are peer pressured into liking/disliking certain anime (it’s basic psychology).
Digibro literally has no fear nor does he show any signs of being peer pressured.
That’s the main reason I like him but I also like him for making videos about things that almost no other «AniTuber» would make
Maybe you should tag him and ask him that. He does have a profile here on MAL.
It would be interesting to see his perspective on this.
As if threads complaining about people caring about eceleb opinions aren’t just as obnoxious. Digibro is just some anime critic. If you agree cool. If you don’t agree cool. Some people like to discuss shit. Other people don’t. It doesn’t matter.
And don’t play this off as «I’m just asking about it.» We all know what this thread is.
He’s the realest in the gang yo!
And also your idea of every day might be a bit off, given that there’s only 1 thread about him created this year and we’re in the 220th day of 2019. 2 if we count yours.
TBH some of these are just revived threads.
I dunno what makes him stand out from the others, but apparently he has made a lot of videos, and is rather unabashed at stating his opinions which probably leads people to have a lot of opinions on him as a result. (Now what was about about any publicity being good publicity?)
Anyhow, I tried watching some of his vids last night.
I got bored. They weren’t really about things that I was really all that interested in, nor were they good material for flaming either.
Taifood said:
As if threads complaining about people caring about eceleb opinions aren’t just as obnoxious. Digibro is just some anime critic. If you agree cool. If you don’t agree cool. Some people like to discuss shit. Other people don’t. It doesn’t matter.
And don’t play this off as «I’m just asking about it.» We all know what this thread is.
Also @EndlessMaria don’t feel bad about this thread.
This is basically my reaction to most of the internet celebs that people argue over. (Or celebs in general, really.)
GlennMagusHarvey said:
Also @EndlessMaria don’t feel bad about this thread.
This is basically my reaction to most of the internet celebs that people argue over. (Or celebs in general, really.)
His videos are extremely long-winded and his voice isn’t very pleasing to listen to.
The few times I watched him, I didn’t find him praticularly insightful.
If I had to guess, I’d say that the sheer mass of content that he produces in combination with a somewhat empty market led to him being where he’s now, but who knows.
«my life at this state could be transposed into a pretty massive biography»
— Cneq, «the guy who was literally using BTC in 2012 to make deals in the first main instance of a digital itemized economy forming naturally in all human history (also the precursor of NFTs) and who had 20k+ total trades.», 23 years old
Famous for being honest about it, you mean.
Unlike Joey «Shinobu is my waifu but it’s totally not a sexual thing» The Anime Man.
Or Gigguk, who literally said Prisma Ilya was worth watching for the lesbian lolis kissing yet made a video calling Eromanga Sensei trash (I’ll never forgive him for starting that meme).
Or the pretentious, holier-than-thou SJW Pedantic Romantic / Mothers Basement / that other one I can’t remember the name of and don’t care to go find. It’s become a trend for online personalities who make a fuss over sexualized girls to end up being actual abusers of real girls, just saying.
Digi is just a real stand-up bro. with shit taste.
Well at least he’s honest about it
Or Gigguk, who literally said Prisma Ilya was sorth watching for the lesbian lolis kissing yet made a video calling Eromanga Sensei trash (I’ll never forgive him for starting that meme).
I remember Gigguk didn’t actually explain why Eromanga Sensei was crap: he simply made fun of it. Eromanga Sensei isn’t considered crap because it sexualizes little girls, it’s considered crap, to my knowledge, because it’s. boring.
I think you’re confusing «holier than thou» attitude with simply being confident. An anime Youtube video is similar to that of a PowerPoint presentation in college, in that the presenters are expected to sound confident and firm.
When has this ever actually happened?
I’m confused: how do you define an anituber as being «pretentious»? What makes other anitubers but not Digibro «pretentious»?
Or the pretentious, holier-than-thou SJW Pedantic Romantic / Mothers Basement / that other one I can’t remember the name of and don’t care to go find. It’s become a trend for online personalities who make a fuss over sexualized girls to end up being actual abusers of real girls, just saying.
Is the 3rd one Zeria, by any chance? I don’t consider her nearly as bad as the other two you listed but I have a feeling you wouldn’t like the few political videos she made.
Overpopular Ytber whose videos aren’t that great or anything special or worthy to spend your time in.
The only good one he made was that one about boring tastes in anime, which is comedy gold.
I’ve watched several of his reviews, and I tend to disagree with him too, but on the other hand I like his presentation style more than Digibro’s.
I don’t care for the costume however.
When has this ever actually happened?
Lots. To the point that it’s a meme.
A quick search through twitter got me this:
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/sjw-sexual-misconduct-master-list/
And this meme:
https://twitter.com/DaemonReiji/status/1137868635492573185
There are bunch of other memes for the phenomenon but I didn’t want to look for too long.
Then there was how a discord server with tons of people involved in running and modding the website ResetEra contained a bunch of casual conversation about pedophillia even though ResetEra runs lots of the typical SJW clickbait feminist articles about sexualization and the like.
It makes sense when the you think about it. A lot of people who rage against stuff online are projecting. They have skeletons in their closet and they cover up their shame with virtue signalling. Hell, to be honest I think a good portion of loud, obnoxious online moralizers are just covering up for being bad people in reality. Though I’m sure some are just misguided and think they’re doing the right thing.
When has this ever actually happened?
Lots. To the point that it’s a meme.
A quick search through twitter got me this:
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/sjw-sexual-misconduct-master-list/
And this meme:
https://twitter.com/DaemonReiji/status/1137868635492573185
There are bunch of other memes for the phenomenon but I didn’t want to look for too long.
Then there was how a discord server with tons of people involved in running and modding the website ResetEra contained a bunch of casual conversation about pedophillia even though ResetEra runs lots of the typical SJW clickbait feminist articles about sexualization and the like.
It makes sense when the you think about it. A lot of people who rage against stuff online are projecting. They have skeletons in their closet and they cover up their shame with virtue signalling. Hell, to be honest I think a good portion of loud, obnoxious online moralizers are just covering up for being bad people in reality. Though I’m sure some are just misguided and think they’re doing the right thing.
And, to my understanding, you’re implying that anitubers who are against lolis are actually pedophiles?
Figured I’d respond to some other parts of your post in addition to my last comment.
Or Gigguk, who literally said Prisma Ilya was sorth watching for the lesbian lolis kissing yet made a video calling Eromanga Sensei trash (I’ll never forgive him for starting that meme).
I remember Gigguk didn’t actually explain why Eromanga Sensei was crap: he simply made fun of it. Eromanga Sensei isn’t considered crap because it sexualizes little girls, it’s considered crap, to my knowledge, because it’s. boring.
The point of the «anime is trash and so am I» meme as it orginally related to EMS, well. it wasn’t even saying EMS was bad per se. Gigguks point was that he enjoyed the show in spite of it being «trashy». I’m not looking for debate on the subject but I take issue with the whole mindset behind the use of that word.
We can criticize EMS for not being all that funny in places, maybe a lot of places for some. If someone doesn’t find it funny at all then I think typical Japanese anime humor isn’t for them and their opinion doesn’t really count, just like my opinions on the merits of battle shounen don’t count because it’s not my thing. EMS is incredibly popular among many people, and especially in Japan, and a lot of that is due to the tabboo sexual humor which is pretty great in places if one is in to that.
Or we can criticize EMS for a boring plot and simple characters that don’t get enough development, specifically how the relationship between the step-siblings neither goes full romance, full ecchi, or even the route of their actually devleoping any kind of meanigful relationship that involves Sagiri overcoming her issues. Big missed opportuniy if you ask me.
I think you’re confusing «holier than thou» attitude with simply being confident. An anime Youtube video is similar to that of a PowerPoint presentation in college, in that the presenters are expected to sound confident and firm.
No, I don’t think I am. Digibro sounds confident, I don’t think he has a «holier than thou» attitude. What I mean by that label is attitudes which reveal a kind of superiority complex in the person. I detect that in the AniTubers I listed, but not in Digibro.
I’m confused: how do you define an anituber as being «pretentious»? What makes other anitubers but not Digibro «pretentious»?
Google definition:
Pretentious
-attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.
All the channels I listed present themselves like they have some refined, superior taste and as though their opinions represent some higher level of judgment than others. I think «pretentious» suits them perfectly.
Digibrony
Digibrony/Digibro/DigiGALxxXXxx69 (Powerword: Conrad Collins) (as well as about a dozen other usernames) is an alcoholic pedophile and YouTube anime critic (possibly a secret tranny) who pays his parents rent to live in their house lives in his wife’s house who works and goes to school to pay their rent, while he rants about needlessly over-analyzed intricacies of My Little Pony and anime for a «living».
After being excommunicated from the MLP community for being too cringy and obnoxious even for them (how much of an autist do you have to be for that to happen!?), he temporarily gained the favor of anime YouTube, until he lost it all again when he started making videos talking shit about every single other anime YouTuber, saying he’s better than them (despite making the worst content) and blocking and trying to get anyone who criticized him banned from YouTube. Fun fact: he once even bragged that he met another anime YouTuber at a convention and started lecturing him about why his videos are better. As a result of this, Digi gained a reputation of being a thin skinned hypocrite who’s constantly contradicts himself, and yet somehow manages to be guilty of literally everything he accuses other people of, even if he’s attacking them for two completely opposite things.
He is currently hated by every other anime youtuber, all of whom he hates right back, and who don’t want to associate with him, and his channel is dying.
His most recent endeavors revolve around manipulating a small group of retards he regularly verbally abuses into becoming financially depended on him and a bad podcast he runs and pretends he will turn into a business so that he can continue to push them around. The rest of his time is spent being trolled to death by Mumkey Jones fans for kicking him out of this autistic podcast because he wouldn’t tell his fans to stop making fun of Digibro and his friend Jesse for bulling an autistic 16-year-old.
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Digi as an MLP critic
Digibrony first rose to fame around the peak of the brony fandom in 2012 after abandoning his anime blog and moving on to MLP, with his careful and neat analysis of each episode of MLP in mind numbing detail with an autistic MLP recolor as his avatar that he literally traced.
Despite Conrad’s current facade of intellectualism and reaction to negative criticism that seems to imply he thinks he deserves some sort of respect, as a Brony, he was exactly as autistic as every other MLP fan, if not worse. Aside from the aforementioned edgy horse-sonic recolor (that he made a video about that was so pathetic it ended up on r/cringe), he also had his own horse-pussy waifu, which he would creepily post about staring at pictures of for hours on end (and probably masturbating). Finally, to top everything off, there was a video of him dressed up as a pony, jumping around on a bed and making horse noises. Today Digi is trying to distance himself from his autistic past, he has deleted most of his creepy cloping posts and made the video private. Sadly for him, we have copies of the posts he missed a mirror of the video.
As an «analyst», his video were mostly long and boring, since it’s literally just a cartoon for little girls, so he had to pull a moronic «theory» out of his ass about every single episode to stretch his videos out and make 30 minutes worth of content out of each and every one of the show’s 21 minute episodes, even though most of them could be summarized in a single sentence. Theories that all had a simple explanation: it’s a show meant to sell toys to toddlers.
Admitting to tracing his gay recolor
Staring at a cartoon horse for hours
Wanking to his horse waifu
Bye Bye channel
On February 6, 2015, Digibrony’s main channel was deleted by YouTube for copyright violations on his anime reviews. The following week, his channel was restored after he asked his fans to spam emails to Youtube by (half) jokingly threatening to kill himself if they don’t; The channel was soon restored, leading perfectly to his account being suspended yet again the following week because Digibro is physically incapable of not stealing other people’s intellectual property. And in the following following week that followed, his channel was brought back once more, and remains up at the time of this writing until he inevitably gets banned when he steals someone’s shit again.
The MLP community gets sick of this retard
The Brony community gradually came to resent Digibrony, climaxing in an Equestria Daily thread (Archive of original comment thread) about his channel’s deletion, where everyone got their feelings about him off of their chest. Feelings that mostly included indifference to his channel being deleted and contempt for him for being an arrogant, smelly loser who talks down to the community like he’s better than them for no discernible reason, while living in his mom’s basement and making videos where he reads too much into a show even the fanbase understood is not that deep. Butthurt over this well deserved hatred, he took «ny» off the end of his user name and moved on the the next community that he would leech off of (although his Youtube URL is still «DigibronyMLP»).
Eventually his MLP fanbase fizzled out and was replaced entirely with his new weeaboo fans. Things were going fine until his regular faggotry reared its ugly head and he earned the contempt of his new fanbse as well.
His channel is now slowly dying.
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DigiBro is the Greatest Anime Youtuber (according to only him and the worst one and biggest hypocrite according to every other anime youtuber)
After being forgotten for the faggot that he is by the MLP community, and latching onto the the Anime community instead, where people have not yet heard about what a retard he is, it was time for Digi to, once again, show his true colors.
After getting banned from r/anime for endless self-promotion, he managed to gain some popularity for making his only well edited videos and going after the lowest hanging fruit, like Sword Art Online and giving a dishonestly bad review to a show called «Asterisk Wars» because it sort of resembles SAO and Digi was desperate to capitalize on his SAO videos before the clock runs out, even if it meant giving a bad review to the first thing he finds, whether or not it deserve it. Soon, Digi’s head became massively inflated and he began making videos calling out other Anime youtubers by name and telling them they suck compared to him. He even went so far as to possibly get one of them banned (ThatAnimeSnob). In one incident he met another anime youtuber at a convention and started yelling at him that his videos aren’t as good as his!
In the list of people Digibro thinks he’s better than there are people like Gigguk, SuperEyepatchWolf, PedanticRomantic, Mother’s Basement, ThatAnimeSnob, AnimeEveryday. Actually, there’s no point in making a list because he’s named pretty much every major Anime youtuber and said they aren’t as good as him for such a variety of reasons as: making videos too long, making them too short, editing too much, not editing enough, spending too much time on jokes, being boring due to a lack of jokes, wasting time on personal stories, not giving any personal reasons why you care about the anime and so on. As you can see, his criticisms are pretty self contradictory. But it is when you combine them with his hypocrisy that you create an inception style fallacy-within-a-fallacy that nearly collapses in on itself.
Here is how it works:
The general rule with Digi, as many have pointed out, is that everything anyone does is bad because he wasn’t the one who did it, and when he himself does it it’s good because he’s the best in his own mind. Even though his videos are notoriously bad, his editing became increasingly more lazy as he gained subscribers and realized he doesn’t have to put in any effort anymore because he has enough subscribes that will watch him out of inertia, and he is guilty of every single thing he accuses everyone else of because he constantly jumps from style to style, looking for what will make him the most money but without putting any actual effort in or talking about topics anyone but his wants to hear about.
As you can probably guess, this all didn’t go over well, and Digi was soon inundated with videos by critics and other anime Youtubers explaining why he’s actually pretty shit and comparing and contrasting various things he’s said to each other to prove he’s a hypocrite.
They now pretend like they don’t hate each other, but everyone knows that they do.
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As of now, the relationship between DigiBro and everyone else on anime Youtube is that he hates all of them and every single one of them hates DigiBro.
UPDATE: Western cartoon youtubers don’t want anything to do with him anymore, either.
So, is DigiBro actually good at reviewing anime?
lol, of course not.
Some people point to his seniority as proof of his authority on the topic, like the fact he’s been reviewing anime on various blogs for over a decade now. But least we forget that somewhere during that decade he spent two years doing in-depth analysis of a show about cartoon horses for little girls. So if his tastes in entertainment turned him into an obsessive Brony, what could he possibly have to say that is of any value?
Digi Reviews a Game he Didn’t Play (badly)
For some reason, Digi decided that, after about 3 fans asked him about it, he can’t handle being hounded for his opinion about this game and must make a review about why it sucks. even though he didn’t play it. To do this, he made a lengthy video comparing «Mario Odyssey’s» first level, which he watched his brother play in 480p, to the hub world of «Mario 64» for some reason.
If you watch this review you won’t learn anything new or useful about either game, but you will learn that Digibro doesn’t know anything about Mario, video games or making reviews.
When people started calling him out on it, he began blocking anyone on twitter or his comment section who so much as hinted his video may not be perfect.
Digi and Co. bully an autistic highschooler and then play victim (The Mumkey Jones War)
In one of his many, lazy, money making schemes, Digi shat out a lame podcast with a handful of easily controllable nobody pawns that have 100k less subs than he does even if you look at all 7 of their channel combined (one of them doesn’t even have 2,000 subscribers). On the podcast, he regularly yells at and verbally abuses his little bitches, some of whom are even financially tied to him so they can’t fight back. Unable to stand up to a guy that has the same relationship with them that an abusive, drunken husband would have with his wife in the 50’s, the rest of the «Horseshoe Crew» (as they call themselves) resort to abusing one another to relive stress in between having mental breakdown and quitting the podcast on-and-off because they’re all already the kind of weak, mentally unstable losers that a guy like Digi could easily manipulate.
«But how did Digi meet these losers and why would he do a podcast in them in the first place?», you might be thinking to yourself. And here’s where things get interesting.
At some point, Digi and Mumkey Jones somehow got together because I guess Digi mistook his fake anime reviews, created out of contempt for people like him, as actual anime content. The two ended up doing several podcasts together, the main one of which was a podcast called «The Pro Crastinators Podcast» (or PCP, for short) alongside several smaller youtubers that were mostly people Mumkey helped promote in a couple of videos, and a guy digi pays to edit his videos because he’s too lazy and talentless to do it on his own. All was well with this Youtube odd-couple until Mumkey’s fans attacked. . Digi’s friend for harassing autistic children.
That’s the part you won’t hear about if you ask Digi about the incident. The story is that after Digi’s podcast cohost (Endless Jess) started harassing a 16 year old autistic kid, who was a fan of Mumkey, for tweeting at him «why aren’t you funny?», Mumkey’s other fans responded by lightly trolling Jess by making joke video about him and making fun of him on twitter.
Jess flipped his shit at this and went crying to Digi. Digi’s reaction was to demand that Mumkey somehow stop his fans from calling out his cohost for bullying the mentally retarded, and when he couldn’t (or maybe wouldn’t), he held an ex-parte, communist style kangaroo court, where Mumkey was «voted out» behind his back (he wasn’t really voted out, since everyone knows Digi decides how everyone else will vote since half of them are literally financially dependent on him giving them work). After this, Mumkey made a video calmly explaining why he was kicked out of the podcast (leaving out the autism bullying to let Digi save his dignity), and saying he isn’t interested in recording the final two episodes of his own podcast that he used to do with Digi.
In response, Digi made a drunken rant video where he claims the reason Mumkey was «voted out» was that his fans are all trolls who were trolling Endless Jess and made him quit the podcast (neglecting to mention why they were trolling him). He places the blame on Cream man, mrmeatman, Princess Nat Lord (the autistic kids Jesse bullied) and Bedhead Burnie (who is a random guy that had nothing to do with this). He then went on to accuse Mumkey of not being good on the podcast and saying his content is stale. even though Mumkey makes a variety of video and gets millions of views, while Digi has been making the same video over and over for like 6 years now. He also accuses Mumkey of lying about him not wanting to do their second podcast, which could have been chalked up to a simple, drunken misunderstanding, if it were not for him being informed that’s not what Mumkey meant while his vide was still rendering, and him deciding to let it finish rendering and upload it to youtube with this lie still included, rather than edit it out. He goes on to admonish Mumkey for not blocking anyone who criticized him, the way he does, and later adds in a separate video that he hates Mumkey because (again, unlike him) he doesn’t get butthurt about stupid internet bullshit.
Digibro’s scoring is.
. perfect, because that’s exactly what I do. I compare every new show I watch to existing shows and see where it fits in the list. And even though I gave Erased an 8 and he gave it a 2, I’m not mad about it because he rated in a methodology that makes sense and according to his own values. And unlike some people here *ahem*, just because he’s a YouTuber doesn’t make his opinion worth more than any other opinion, which is to say it’s worthless until he says something to back it up. He says Erased is a 2. More power to him. If the manga-ka saw this video and gave up, the manga-ka doesn’t belong in the industry, because part of being an author is to be able to handle criticism healthily.
Anyways, old video, but still as relevant today as it was. 2019 and people still think grade inflation in high school is expected in all ratings. Watch and learn.
If your time is valuable because you’re scrolling on MAL and all, then the first 1:43 minutes of it is essential.
Hmm, I lost track of what he was trying to say.
He kept raising the phrase «in my book» several times but then has a problem with others rating or ranking shows in whichever manner they want (their ‘own books’). Unless his point was to use a ranking system or methodology that should be universally accepted by everyone, in which case his insistence on the phrase «in my book» shouldn’t be there.
I don’t think that anyone’s scoring criteria are inherently better or worse. If anything people making theirs seem superior to others are problem imo. One can of course make up many objective reasons why the show in question deserve some number, but in the end it’s all partly subjective matter. As for me I mostly rate subjectively and only use objective arguments to influence my subjective rating. This works well for me.
What I don’t quite understand also is why people sometimes react badly if someone doesn’t agree with their rating of the show. To a degree criteria they use shouldn’t matter to accepting that they have different opinion (even if when it’s just sheep mentality it’s somewhat annoying).
This is exactly what I do! How can you post one of the most retarded threads I’ve ever seen and then go and post this gold too?
I blow hot and cold with Digibro to be honest. I think he’s one of the more real AniTubers and he doesn’t have quite the same level of pretentiousness as Mothers Basement or. well, no one is on that fuckwits level to be honest, but Digi is alright. He is just way too negative for my liking.
That’s legitimately preposterous to me. Why would the score that you gave to one show influence the score you give to another show? That concept just baffles me. I can’t imagine sitting down and thinking «you know, my gut instinct was to give Show A an 8, but I gave Show B, which I like more than Show A, an 8, so I’ll give Show A a 7 to reflect that». Then again, that’s probably because I don’t see ranking to be the primary purpose of the scoring system.
On a side note, I like the part where this manchild repeatedly says «in my book» while complaining that other people don’t score things appropriately in a video titled «No One Uses Scores Right», apparently not seeing the obvious contradiction there. «My way is correct and yours is wrong haha!» Classic.
Mythologically said:
That’s legitimately preposterous to me. Why would the score that you gave to one show influence the score you give to another show? That concept just baffles me. I can’t imagine sitting down and thinking «you know, my gut instinct was to give Show A an 8, but I gave Show B, which I like more than Show A, an 8, so I’ll give Show A a 7 to reflect that». Then again, that’s probably because I don’t see ranking to be the primary purpose of the scoring system.
On a side note, I like the part where this manchild repeatedly says «in my book» while complaining that other people don’t score things appropriately in a video titled «No One Uses Scores Right», apparently not seeing the obvious contradiction there. «My way is correct and yours is wrong haha!» Classic.
what does an 8 mean if you don’t consider other shows
how does ‘the gut’ of a score work, if not based on other shows you consider that and how much you like them?
Mythologically said:
That’s legitimately preposterous to me. Why would the score that you gave to one show influence the score you give to another show? That concept just baffles me. I can’t imagine sitting down and thinking «you know, my gut instinct was to give Show A an 8, but I gave Show B, which I like more than Show A, an 8, so I’ll give Show A a 7 to reflect that». Then again, that’s probably because I don’t see ranking to be the primary purpose of the scoring system.
On a side note, I like the part where this manchild repeatedly says «in my book» while complaining that other people don’t score things appropriately in a video titled «No One Uses Scores Right», apparently not seeing the obvious contradiction there. «My way is correct and yours is wrong haha!» Classic.
what does an 8 mean if you don’t consider other shows
how does ‘the gut’ of a score work, if not based on other shows you consider that and how much you like them?
I see scores as pretty much just arbitrary numbers that roughly indicate how much I enjoyed a show. Like, I’ll watch something, and think «hey, that was pretty good, I’ll give it a 9» or «idk, that was ok I guess, I’ll give it a 7» and don’t give it much more thought than that.
>about scoring
>how it’s not used correctly
> «but ppl rate based on their own value»
>implying that’s not how most ppl do it
>»now I’ll cocksuck digibro because he rates on methological way»
Well I guess that sounds like some sort of diametric opposite to what I do, because (1) I try to appreciate stories with as little influence of metacontext (such as other shows) as possible, and (2) I specifically simplified my rating system so as to avoid annoying thoughts about «but is this show better/worse than that one?» questions.
I actually have more specific opinions of each show that don’t fit into a one-dimensional system, so it is generally rather unfortunate and inaccurate that a score is just a one-dimensional thing, functioning as a «ranking». But I don’t think there’s any better way to do it, so that’s why I use it categorically, to put things into simple bins of whether I love, like, feel meh about, dislike, or hate something.
Amusingly, I don’t even use the 10 in the scale, but that’s because of how I’ve defined my rating scale (max 9). I’ve considered using 10 to indicate my faves, but I felt that wouldn’t be good since it’d lose the fact that I have a number of my faves rated at 8 and even 7 or 6. (Instead I ended up joining Anime-Planet and making a custom list of my faves because I can there.)
Well, to be fair, even after he does, it’s still some person’s opinion on some work of entertainment, so it’s not exactly worth much anyway.
Anyway, I haven’t seen Erased. Digibro is entitled to his opinion; he just has a bigger megaphone than a lot of us.
Meanwhile, he seems to be more irritatingly picky and hyperbolic than I’d like. Y’know, saying stuff like «we are fucking doomed«. Sure, he can go ahead and say that, but that just tells me that he’s the type of person to exaggerate the bejeezus out of his opinions as he trashes the things he doesn’t like.
(Also I’m amused that he finds the characters of Chivalry of a Failed Knight «likeable».)
I think he was basically angry at people commenting on his rating for one specific show, and then made that into a more general statement about rating systems, then went on to rant about the thing he was angry about in the first place.
His TL;DR seems to be «Erased did nothing for me, so I gave it a 2. If you think it merits a 5 or is otherwise ‘average’, you’re being too undemanding.»
From the limited selection I’ve seen, I have the opposite opinion, though I don’t think my opinion really lines up with either of theirs.
This is my position.
For me I just ask «how much did I enjoy/appreciate this show?»
If I hated it, it gets a 1. If I just disliked it, it gets a 3. If I felt meh about it, it gets a 5. If I liked it, it gets a 7. If I loved it, it gets a 9.
And if I really feel on the fence about it, it gets a number in between. 10 is currently unused.
Well I guess that sounds like some sort of diametric opposite to what I do, because (1) I try to appreciate stories with as little influence of metacontext (such as other shows) as possible, and (2) I specifically simplified my rating system so as to avoid annoying thoughts about «but is this show better/worse than that one?» questions.
I actually have more specific opinions of each show that don’t fit into a one-dimensional system, so it is generally rather unfortunate and inaccurate that a score is just a one-dimensional thing, functioning as a «ranking». But I don’t think there’s any better way to do it, so that’s why I use it categorically, to put things into simple bins of whether I love, like, feel meh about, dislike, or hate something.
Unlike Digibro (and you I guess if you’re saying that’s how you use scores), I don’t see scores as levels of quality. Quality is actually multidimensional anyway, so it can’t be properly collapsed to one dimension. Rather, when I give two things an equivalent score, I am saying that I got roughly the same amount of enjoyment out of them.
It’s completely okay, if he feels that way, but a 2 is very harsh, imo. Most times, I think decent art, animation and music is a 5 or 6 at least, because that’s something I really appreciate and artists and composer put work into. If I don’t hate it or dislike it strongly, I won’t shit on their work.
For example, I think Angels of Death’s story was eeh, but the art is pretty decent and quite good. I think Elfen Lied is horrible and has below average art, but the opening is good. Same for Gantz.
He also forgets that many people won’t finish what they don’t like and some of these people, like me, rarely score unfinished, dropped anime. I did, but it doesn’t feel right for most shows. That’s why I’m nsinly using the upper half of the rating system and also don’t habe so many 5s anymore too. If you thought, so many anime are average. why did you keep going then? I didn’t think, it was so average.
There is another thing: It’s difficult to compare genres with each other. I gave for example uhm. I gave Princess Mononoke a 10 and I gave Paradise Kiss a 10 and I gave Noragami a 10. Can I compare them? No, since different genres have different directing, art styles etc.
I gave higher scores and 10s to my favorites, uhm well yes, but that’s because I feel very attached to.
Other reasons I score 1 or 2 higher, are the art and the music. Sometimes, I include the voice actor too.
i can accept anyone’s method of scoring but it still just frustrates me to see someone only rate anime from 7-10. i like rating things relative to one another on a bell curve but i can understand how this doesn’t work for other people.
still, I feel like it’s a shame that 6 is considered a bad average for an anime on MAL, when the score tag for 6 is «Fine.»
Well I guess that sounds like some sort of diametric opposite to what I do, because (1) I try to appreciate stories with as little influence of metacontext (such as other shows) as possible, and (2) I specifically simplified my rating system so as to avoid annoying thoughts about «but is this show better/worse than that one?» questions.
I actually have more specific opinions of each show that don’t fit into a one-dimensional system, so it is generally rather unfortunate and inaccurate that a score is just a one-dimensional thing, functioning as a «ranking». But I don’t think there’s any better way to do it, so that’s why I use it categorically, to put things into simple bins of whether I love, like, feel meh about, dislike, or hate something.
Unlike Digibro (and you I guess if you’re saying that’s how you use scores), I don’t see scores as levels of quality. Quality is actually multidimensional anyway, so it can’t be properly collapsed to one dimension. Rather, when I give two things an equivalent score, I am saying that I got roughly the same amount of enjoyment out of them.
I guess you can call it a comparison, since they share the same or a different/higher/lower score, but I don’t think that’s a very meaningful way to see it, because when I’m asking myself what I think of Show B, I’m not actually thinking about how Show B is better/worse than Show A. Rather, the only way they’re being «compared» is because they are on a list with ratings.
And in a similar way, I guess you could see it as a «ranking», but then it’s just a big box of shows scored 9, ranked above a big box of shows scored 7, ranked above a big box of shows scored 5, and so on. There’s only really five ranks, or nine if you count the numbers in between, which isn’t anything like Digibro’s alleged giant list of shows where he’s individually ranked everything he’s watched and compares how good each show is with each other show.
Sounds like this whole discussion went *woosh* right over your head.
Ratings are never objective.
That’s exactly what he said.
Because that’s your own preferences and personality.
Come on, nothing you do has a personal effect on the anime. lol Your list is relevant to yourself only. No one’s scrolling through your list thinking you just uppercutted the manga-ka in the jaw.
He didn’t forget this, this literally isn’t even the point. When you rate 2 shows the same rating, you are communicating that you think these shows are roughly on the same level. That might work when you have 20 shows on your list, but not 50, or 500.
Well I guess that sounds like some sort of diametric opposite to what I do, because (1) I try to appreciate stories with as little influence of metacontext (such as other shows) as possible, and (2) I specifically simplified my rating system so as to avoid annoying thoughts about «but is this show better/worse than that one?» questions.
I actually have more specific opinions of each show that don’t fit into a one-dimensional system, so it is generally rather unfortunate and inaccurate that a score is just a one-dimensional thing, functioning as a «ranking». But I don’t think there’s any better way to do it, so that’s why I use it categorically, to put things into simple bins of whether I love, like, feel meh about, dislike, or hate something.
Unlike Digibro (and you I guess if you’re saying that’s how you use scores), I don’t see scores as levels of quality. Quality is actually multidimensional anyway, so it can’t be properly collapsed to one dimension. Rather, when I give two things an equivalent score, I am saying that I got roughly the same amount of enjoyment out of them.
I guess you can call it a comparison, since they share the same or a different/higher/lower score, but I don’t think that’s a very meaningful way to see it, because when I’m asking myself what I think of Show B, I’m not actually thinking about how Show B is better/worse than Show A. Rather, the only way they’re being «compared» is because they are on a list with ratings.
And in a similar way, I guess you could see it as a «ranking», but then it’s just a big box of shows scored 9, ranked above a big box of shows scored 7, ranked above a big box of shows scored 5, and so on. There’s only really five ranks, or nine if you count the numbers in between, which isn’t anything like Digibro’s alleged giant list of shows where he’s individually ranked everything he’s watched and compares how good each show is with each other show.
You are describing a binning mechanism that lowers granularity, but it doesn’t change the fact that your big box of 7s is ranked lower than your big box of 9s. Sure, it’s not as detailed as a list where every show is its own bin, but it’s fundamentally the same concept.
Even if that never happened to you, do you not think that one day it might? And in that situation, wouldn’t it be sensible to make a split (e.g. rate B a 6 instead of 7)? And given enough splits, you would be forced to used the whole 10 ratings to keep the granularity as close as possible to what you originally imagined, since if you keep them all as 7s, then your bin grows wider and wider.
Nah, I don’t feel like listen to some guy that thinks he has a better animu taste then anyone else. I’ve listened to some of his video’s before. He’s just your average thirteen in a dozen elitist with too much spare time on his hands. I’ve better things to do.
You don’t need to complicate things even more about rating animu & mango. You iether like it or you don’t. Simple as that. In the end of the day anime and manga is just entertainment that’s been made to consume for fans to enjoy.
Unless it’s mathematic where 1 plus 1 it’s 2 then EVERYKIND of rating is just plain wrong. Why making a 10 scale rating? Why not 5? Why not 100? It’s the same thing. can you honestly to god decide between 20 shows you rated 9? Then probably you are rating your top hundred.
In my books this rating is only useful for you. To me a 10 is something and to you is another thing. To me rating a show 5/6 it’s an okay show (entertained me) A 8 it’s good. So what is 7? Well it’s not okay but it’snot a GOOD. Do you believe everyone things the way I do? nope. Some people have a lot of 9/10 others not.
Digibro is a okay guy. Arkada is anoying. They both think they know a lot but one ends being a bit presumption and sellout regarding his sponsors. I don’t follow Arkada because of that. And the other guy who looks like arkada and leaves in his basement. They are both sellout guys who probably started okay then fell. Sincerely I don’t like any lol Gigguk is funny and I watch him. Anime Man but he doesn’t talk anime for so long. Black Wolf Eyepatch I think but he rarely speaks nowadays.
Well that’s true.
That’s exactly what he said.
Also, that’s true, but I also think, it’s a very important part of an anime in general.
I didn’t assume that haha, but I just don’t like the idea of doing this.
It works with any amount of anime in your list, since 10 numbers don’t have such a wide range.
On anilist, I also gave some of my favorites like 9.5-9.7, because they still are, but I want to «communicate» in some ways that there are elements that bother me.
I could lower the scores at 1 for many anime and my list did look like that, but then, I thought that it’s unfair and not true. If I had so many anime I didn’t like, I would have dropped the most of the 4s or 5s.
Also, numbers can’t explain in detail what I thought about that piece of fictional work anyway, so that’s why people talk to each other and write reviews or comments on the forum. And that’s what this little comment section in your list is for, although you have to keep it short and superficial and it’s very limited there.
That’s not the point there.
The one thing is a fantasy Ghibli movie with Japanese folklore creatures and is about the struggle of people, who want to lead a good life, but exploiting the environment, while they strove for it. And I’m very biased for it, since it was one of my first Ghibli movies and is one my favorite movies
The other one is one of the best romances I have seen in the anime medium and takes place in a slice of life setting in the fashion industry.
You also could say. I often think that many anime that are aimed to kids are also «unfairly» rated too, because most people seem to think «oh no, I can’t give it a high score, because it’s not so meaningful as. *insert adult anime here* Which is nonsense per se (sometimes). For example, I thought that Digimon Tamers is a masterpiece for its genre and demographics it aimed to. It’s not meaningless in any sense and I thought the Adventure series is great (and great = 9) for what it wanted to be, altough it has plot holes etc.
Dolabella said:
i can accept anyone’s method of scoring but it still just frustrates me to see someone only rate anime from 7-10. i like rating things relative to one another on a bell curve but i can understand how this doesn’t work for other people.
still, I feel like it’s a shame that 6 is considered a bad average for an anime on MAL, when the score tag for 6 is «Fine.»
currently: doing my best!
how anyone can take a dude that used to be a legitimate brony serious is beyond me lol
Digi is probably the most unwarrantedly trashed Anituber. He has some stupid takes yes but they’re usually well formulated and whether you agree or disagree with him you can feel that he’s geniune about it. When I used to watch Gigguk I never felt that he cared about anything he talked about. It just seemed like he selected stuff to talk on the basis of how good it would do on YT.
He’s right on that video btw. Using a narrow scale like 7-10 defeats the whole purpose of having scores. It’s supposed to show how do shows compare with one another with regards to the enjoyment you derived by them.
Word of advice: Chances are high that you can’t trust yourself.
I often don’t trust myself and in some situations, especially in the morning, I definitely wouldn’t take me serious neither.
No seriously now: Different views can be a good thing and not only trusting yourself. Your own view is biased from your experiences and way of perceiving your world and you couldn’t get out of that, if you would listen to anyone but yourself..
KreatorX said:
Hmm, I lost track of what he was trying to say.
He kept raising the phrase «in my book» several times but then has a problem with others rating or ranking shows in whichever manner they want (their ‘own books’). Unless his point was to use a ranking system or methodology that should be universally accepted by everyone, in which case his insistence on the phrase «in my book» shouldn’t be there.
Granted I’m not going to watch the video because I find shilling youtubers to be the most shameful thing to base a discussion around, there’s an inherent flaw with that methodology.
In order for it to be a method that works properly you would need several distinct points to measure from, being a higher rated entry a true average entry and a lower score entry. If you prioritize say popular or highly rated franchise and have a skewed list as a result then there’s no practical way to fix the issue with skewed scores unless you revisit or perfectly recorded your thoughts on every entry. The biggest issue with that methodology for an average viewer is why would any person watch a series of bad shows just to fill out a scoring system? As a result if they lack a measure of bad shows how can they determine the true average middle tier of their list? The logical assumption is they won’t resulting in them having a notably high mean score and generally using the higher end score spectrum. Which since you’re bringing up the school grade comparison would mean that using the same methodology can result in a «failed» result.
KreatorX said:
Hmm, I lost track of what he was trying to say.
He kept raising the phrase «in my book» several times but then has a problem with others rating or ranking shows in whichever manner they want (their ‘own books’). Unless his point was to use a ranking system or methodology that should be universally accepted by everyone, in which case his insistence on the phrase «in my book» shouldn’t be there.
sorry, but, as an average IQ human (i.e. someone who doesn’t have kaiba in his top 10), i cannot comprehend literally anything that you’ve just written here
Well I guess that sounds like some sort of diametric opposite to what I do, because (1) I try to appreciate stories with as little influence of metacontext (such as other shows) as possible, and (2) I specifically simplified my rating system so as to avoid annoying thoughts about «but is this show better/worse than that one?» questions.
I actually have more specific opinions of each show that don’t fit into a one-dimensional system, so it is generally rather unfortunate and inaccurate that a score is just a one-dimensional thing, functioning as a «ranking». But I don’t think there’s any better way to do it, so that’s why I use it categorically, to put things into simple bins of whether I love, like, feel meh about, dislike, or hate something.
Unlike Digibro (and you I guess if you’re saying that’s how you use scores), I don’t see scores as levels of quality. Quality is actually multidimensional anyway, so it can’t be properly collapsed to one dimension. Rather, when I give two things an equivalent score, I am saying that I got roughly the same amount of enjoyment out of them.
I guess you can call it a comparison, since they share the same or a different/higher/lower score, but I don’t think that’s a very meaningful way to see it, because when I’m asking myself what I think of Show B, I’m not actually thinking about how Show B is better/worse than Show A. Rather, the only way they’re being «compared» is because they are on a list with ratings.
And in a similar way, I guess you could see it as a «ranking», but then it’s just a big box of shows scored 9, ranked above a big box of shows scored 7, ranked above a big box of shows scored 5, and so on. There’s only really five ranks, or nine if you count the numbers in between, which isn’t anything like Digibro’s alleged giant list of shows where he’s individually ranked everything he’s watched and compares how good each show is with each other show.
Like I said, you can interpret it as a ranking, by virtue of the fact that I liked one box’s shows more than another box’s. However, I don’t use it as such, because I don’t find it particularly meaningful to compare shows that are wildly different in their content, and even for shows that are similar, while I sometimes make comparisons, they’re usually at the level of analyzing how each show does things differently and how those things inform my overall opinion, so the point is to explore and analyze my opinion. I do say stuff like, for example, I like Absolute Duo more than Asterisk War more than Chivalry of a Failed Knight more than Hundred, but that’s because these shows are rather similar, and there’s really no meaningful way to link them to, say, Neon Genesis Evangelion or Gabriel DropOut or Jinki: Extend, aside from something like «I liked Evangelion more» (and then going into detail about why I felt that way).
And if I do change my list to work like that, then I would be using my list more like a ranking, but right now I don’t.
There are some shows in the same numeric category that I feel more fond of than others. But they don’t really work as a «this show is better than that show» kinda thing. For example, I often have more to say about Cross Ange than I do about Time of Eve. But I gave them the same rating because I quite like Time of Eve although it wasn’t quite the overwhelmingly fulfilling experience that would make me love it, so it’s basically a 7 bumped up to an 8, while I fscking love Cross Ange but there were a few things that still annoyed me about it (such as a certain running gag involving Tusk, which didn’t make much sense in context), so basically it was a 9 bumped down to an 8. But this does not translate to «I think Time of Eve is a worse show» (or vice versa), at all. You can force this interpretation, sure, but that isn’t my intention.
But I already use a 1 to 9 scale. I already have a certain meaning for a 6; it’s not like it’s sitting there unused.
The bin does not grow «wider» simply from adding many shows, because there’s no reason my 7 bin can’t contain as many shows as I want. It has 42 items (about 14% of what I’ve watched) at the moment, and is the largest bin (aside from the unrated bin), which is no surprise, as I end up liking (score>5) most of what I bother to finish, but not that much of it becomes super special awesome (score=9) to me. The different bins are not defined by how many shows each of them contains. The different bins are defined by ideas, independent of the shows they contain.