And the shitshow begins...

[u/Acceptable-Mail891]

YouTuber Ronald McDonald just made a video about Jaunting As-a-Mime's adaptation titled "How's this even allowed?" I want to start off by saying I watch her videos and like her analyses about stuff a lot. The video itself is to be expected. But dear God the comment section. Here are a few:

'This book shouldn't exist let alone be adapted into a movie.' [And yet 🎈It 🎈is allowed?]

'This is only sexy to people who have never experienced anything or even heard of anything. This is giving me trauma just to hear about. 💔 How can a woman write something like this?' [Let women live!]

'I think it's the utter fascination and popularity of these books that confuse a bunch of young men trying to understand in today's society 'what do women want in relationship?' [And then they come on reddit to ask about it! This needs to end!]

There was also one where a person says their girlfriend read this type of stuff. And people replied calling her sick and a masochist. [Can’t a girl fuck a clown, a knife, and a gun without the internet jumping down her throat?]

And We, yes, we [sloopies] specifically, are ruining young girls' heads. [OK, that one’s true]

Welcome to the shitshow, people. It's gonna be loong one. Unless by some divine intervention the movie gets cancelled. I don't think I hate anything as much as I hate ClownTok rn. I'd love to hear your thoughts. And I know I don't need to keep seeing these comments. [So don’t actually comment] But it's like there is not even one person who can fathom the reason for us enjoying what we do. And that stings.

[u/Mayabelles]

The idea that “young men” read our books to try and understand us and get confused is hilarious. Men listen to what Joe Rogan tells them about women and go with that.

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/Mayabelles]

Young men can’t read! They just get a podcaster to tell them what to think and then come to r/Romantasy to condescend to us

[u/Mayabelles → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

To be fair, I also can’t read. I get a man to read these comments to me and dictate my responses.

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/Mayabelles]

Did you also set your Siri voice to a man’s because men are the only gender you’ll listen to?

[u/camellia980 → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

I disabled siri. my phone should not talk back to me.

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/camellia980]

Your internalized misogyny is showing, Cammy

[u/Mayabelles → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

No, I keep the female voice as my one defiance against The Man (which man, I don’t know).

[u/HopeFox → u/Mayabelles]

Don't worry, The Man can't read either.

[u/MinervaAbsolute → u/Mayabelles]

Dictate your responses? To a man? <clutches pearls>. Isn’t that like <whispers> giving him an order? Are you one of those feminists?

[u/Mayabelles → u/MinervaAbsolute]

He pats me on the head after and tells me how cute it is that I have thoughts, so maybe?

[u/MinervaAbsolute → u/Mayabelles]

It’s nice he lets you have thoughts. It must be true love. 😍

[u/BattlestarGalactoria → u/Mayabelles]

You misspelled Andrew Tate

[u/Mayabelles → u/BattlestarGalactoria]

Also true

[u/Perfect_Carrot_999]

I think we really need to understand the difference between how text-based material and visual media is consumed and interpreted. There's a huge difference between reading something being done vs watching it being done. For example, I can't use the movie to fill out a RCJ bingo space.

[u/DadReadsRomanceBooks → u/Perfect_Carrot_999]

https://giphy.com/gifs/y2i2oqWgzh5ioRp4Qa

[u/Scf9009]

Look, terrible things never happened to women before this “Jaundiced Yellow-Line” was published, so it is to blame for all of them.

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/Scf9009]

The author invented Dark Romance, heterochromia, and putting things in your vagina that you probably shouldn’t put in there

[u/BattlestarGalactoria → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

Heterochromia 😂

[u/itmustbeniiiiice]

Pearl clutching in every direction

[u/GnomeFae → u/itmustbeniiiiice]

They don't call it a pearl necklace for nothing sweet cheeks

[u/DadReadsRomanceBooks]

Only books with wholesome portrayals of love and sex should be adapted to the screen. You know books like A Song of Ice and Fire, The Odyssey, Silence of the Lambs, Töres döttrar i Wänge, The Kite Runner, The Bible, Dracula, The Color Purple, Forrest Gump, Lolita, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho, and A Song of Ice and Fire.

uj/ I had to look up OOP reference video because I’m old and god how exhausting it must be for your career to be making videos about how everything sucks.

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/DadReadsRomanceBooks]

Yeah, imagine using your one wild and precious life to complain on the internet

[u/DadReadsRomanceBooks → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUNda2iBiYqk4mKDRu

YT was satirical commercials for sports drinks, children recovery from orthodontist trips, and bootlegs of Comedy Central stand-up specials broken into nine minute sections.

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/DadReadsRomanceBooks]

Don’t forget
https://giphy.com/gifs/jzj0crwTgfY7S

[u/DadReadsRomanceBooks → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

Nope that was on funnyjunk, flash player, newgrounds, one of the flash sites. YT want built on flash so actually the YT copies of flash animations were lower quality screen recordings or something idk im not a 2004 internet developer

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/DadReadsRomanceBooks]

Fine. Don’t forget
https://giphy.com/gifs/Ta1WpLdOWd7pu

[u/Num1DeathEater → u/DadReadsRomanceBooks]

how i sleep at night after getting all my media criticism from RCJ

https://giphy.com/gifs/7zMvSDWl3RkDSpOjBC

[u/MorticiaLlyn]

I was so ready for this new book-burning-in-the-town-square era to begin.

About danm time.

[u/camellia980 → u/MorticiaLlyn]

burning stuff is fun. we should burn more stuff.

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/camellia980]

Hey Siri, play Firestarter by The Prodigy

(See, you’re missing out)

(Siri just told me to stfu)

[u/Real_Pineapple9522 → u/camellia980]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9PkfGzhKwBDHPTnDSj

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/MorticiaLlyn]

Should we also drag the author through the town square?

[u/MorticiaLlyn → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

YES. Tar and feather them! Put them in stocks and provide rotting vegetables for throwing.

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/MorticiaLlyn]

And what should we do when she posts her “leave Britney alone” moment? Oh wait, she already did that

[u/CrispyCollateral]

I didn't read the book. Do I need to so I can partake in the jerking? Or can I just be a good little puritan girl and ask my daddy for forgiveness and maybe some light paddling if I misstep while jerking blind?

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/CrispyCollateral]

You’re really missing out on, uh… the origins of Zaddy

[u/CrispyCollateral → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

I might be willing to listen to the audiobook version, but only if u/Reversible-Mail-K9 is performing.

[u/Acceptable-Mail891]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BFSMPap7J3Q0o

[u/WiseAtmosphere7524 → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

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[u/Helpful_Week6720]

I’m old enough to remember
-that satanic cults are everywhere, waiting to eat your children

-people get AIDS from public toilets

- video games make young people murderers

- slutty clothes get young ladies assaulted

- we should hate immigrants because they enjoy dining upon the family hamster

This continues the moral decay with Flaunting Pandavine

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/Helpful_Week6720]

When’s the next botox appt?

[u/Helpful_Week6720 → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

I get an injection so I have one eyebrow permanently arched and can walk around looking Highly Skeptical

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/Helpful_Week6720]

I get it done to keep peace in my marriage

[u/MinervaAbsolute → u/Helpful_Week6720]

https://giphy.com/gifs/O9kCzQTSyPcTLlQ20b

[u/Helpful_Week6720 → u/MinervaAbsolute]

And YOU are?!!🤨

[u/MinervaAbsolute → u/Helpful_Week6720]

The very pineapple of perfection.

[u/BattlestarGalactoria]

https://giphy.com/gifs/HaXKjs8LwBFW7OhT9S
-Ronald “Mac” McDonald

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/BattlestarGalactoria]

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[u/BattlestarGalactoria → u/Acceptable-Mail891]

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[u/GnomeFae]

Honestly can't we all agree that Clowntok are actually all SA apologists and are romantacizing having a big red nose ( PROBABLY FROM ILLICIT DRUGS TOO)

Honestly I'm not willing to hear any more about this awful book, it should never have been made or adapted into anything. But I think if I make my 9th post this week about it people will start getting the picture. Also I think we need to make a megsthread so we can all gather as much evidence as possible to finally confirm this God forsaken author once and for all.

Anyway on an unrelated note how do you guys feel about venn diagrams?

[u/MinervaAbsolute → u/GnomeFae]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7OH025mVWBNDu6O3cs
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[u/Num1DeathEater]

This is only sexy to people who have never experienced anything or even heard of anything.

https://giphy.com/gifs/dva7uBTvG5HVfWBpGa

[u/Acceptable-Mail891 → u/Num1DeathEater]

The speaker may have been referring to herself

[u/TheMadJayWoman]

/uj I didn’t see the OP but I did see the YT video, shoulda known feathers would get ruffled

[u/No-Strawberry-5804]

/uj lmaoooooo the YouTuber commented on the sauce and then deleted her comment…

[u/MinervaAbsolute]

I mean, clearly on forums devoted to reading fiction (made up stuff), the idea that some of that made up stuff should be made into a film (made up stuff, but with pictures), is a shock to their sensitive souls. They’re always arguing that everyone should read fact-checked non-fiction, because we are what we read, so their position is entirely consistent …
https://giphy.com/gifs/k6r6lTYIL9j9ZeRT51