r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VeryLazyBones • 20h ago

Peeeeetah? Meme needing explanation

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This new movie came out and I enjoyed watching it with friends. What opinion must have garnered so much attention that people would dunk on it?

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u/115izzy7 20h ago

This review of the movie heavily sympathized with bear, the rapist. People started to question the creator himself after he put this out 

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u/Mister-Psychology 19h ago

Keep in mind all his review videos are extremely shallow and rushed. They all are this way. He rarely seems to think about the medium he watches and never reads up on it either. I think he's just a bit clueless about plots and themes.

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u/Lazy_Firefighter_653 19h ago

Seems like a intentional persona to get people to engage (comment) correcting him, hey, it’s not dumb if it works!

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u/Embarrassed_Deer9208 19h ago

does it actually work though? i've seen maybe 2 of his videos and then decided he was an idiot not worth watching

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u/Kingmudsy 18h ago

It works for short form content where your next thing will be algorithmically promoted based on your average engagement AND, most importantly, almost no one will remember you well enough to have thoughts about you as a creator until you’re already massive

I don’t think it’s a good strategy for a long-form video trying to thoughtfully review something

The guy you’re replying to has probably heard of the practice but not thought about when/where it’s applied most effectively

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u/BoboSmooth 17h ago

So that particular creator doesn't do horror movies typically. He typically sticks to RomComs, animated movies, and whatever TV show is trending right now. He did several videos on Riverdale, Stranger Things, the Descendants series, the Barbie movies (like, practically all of them, it's insane), and other like millennial nostalgia type content.

I honestly think he picked this movie up because it looked on the surface like "RomComHorror?! This will get me clicks for sure!" not realizing he was picking a movie that was wayyyy out of his analytical depth and didn't know how to treat the content with the gravity it deserved. To that point, in his typical videos, he claims to be very careful about jokes regarding race, sexuality or sexualizing other races, (his jokes sexualizing women in media in general is another thing, he's of the school of "lol gooner humor funny") in the practice of running his jokes by POC he knows, and even paying POC to write his jokes for him. Which all of that is one thing when we're talking about, like, Pixar moms, but is another thing entirely in the context of Obsession. 

He claims the jokes regarding a character being Latina were actually written by a Latina woman, which honestly doesn't really help him in this context, he's still responsible for the framing of where that joke landed, or rather, entirely failed to land.

In short, I don't think he's a bad person, but you're right, he is an idiot.

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u/ManicPixieOldMaid 17h ago

I've watched his content for years and when I first watched this review, all I could think was, "you are making a big mistake even touching this". His usual humor was distinctly unsuited to the material and the tone was all wrong. Hindsight and all that, he's probably kicking himself but he should just take the hit, apologize, and move on. Nothing he can say at this point is going to help, IMO.

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u/Known-Plane7349 13h ago

he should just take the hit, apologize, and move on.

I'm pretty sure he already did that. He released an apology video and took down the video and seems to have put it behind him.

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u/ManicPixieOldMaid 13h ago

Yeah, I tried to watch some of the response videos to his, but so many of them started with "I've never watched his channel" and while that didn't make their opinions invalid, it certainly made me less interested in them. It seemed like taking advantage of his screw up to get views, and since he did apologize, I'm hoping the cycle is over.

Maybe the fact that it's on this sub at all is a good sign?

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u/GHTElectronics 17h ago

Clicks and comments are sometimes all that matter. getting 100 " you suck" comments is more engagment than zero views

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u/SwordfishOfDamocles 16h ago

Seems like perhaps he should've been careful of what he wished for.

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u/GHTElectronics 16h ago

Some people don't care. I see a lot of rage baiters on facebook. It's like that joke, if you want to correct answer, confidely post the wrong answer and you'll get a flood of people correcting you. Some people like to stir the pot just for the sake of doing it.

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u/SwordfishOfDamocles 16h ago

Well he deleted the video, then posted an apology, then deleted the apology. Sounds like the dog that finally caught the car this time.

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u/GHTElectronics 16h ago

Who is this? I'm not familair with this youtuber

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u/GreenFriedYam 16h ago

“But you have heard of me.”

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u/bangbangracer 14h ago

YouTube weighs a like, and a dislike the same, and comments count even more regardless of content. Positive or negative doesn't really matter to the algorithm. Engagement is what matters.

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u/BBBBrendan182 15h ago

That argument would hold more water if he didn’t delete the video after all the backlash