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EARLY ACCESS: 'These People Aren't Real'
🕑 Added 2024-02-05 02:23:27 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Here is the final* draft of my latest video! I'm very relieved to finally be finished with it. I'll be honest, I'm not 100% sure what I think of it, been working on it so long I can't tell if it came out any good. Either way, I'm excited for you all to see it and to get started on the next Digital Horror video!
Along with this post, for those of you in the Fiver tier, I'll be publishing a post for you to ask me Q&As about the video for the Commentary Track! So, if you have any thoughts or questions that you'd like me to answer, check out the 'Taking Questions' post for this video!
*I still need to add the Patreon credits section at the end, which will be the case for the public upload.
Comments
swizard
These notes are really helpful, thank you for sharing! I will try to make a few changes that hopefully represent the topic better. I knew that section likely wouldn't be perfect, so I appreciate receiving feedback on that front. Thanks!
fohfuu
Don't know if there's time to add to this, but I have a little feedback on the alantutorial segment. 1 is that I really appreciate that you were really thinking the most sensitive way to present your interpretation, which I expect of your channel, but it's appreciated. 2, alantutorials has autistic traits, but also traits of learning disabilities. While autistic people communicate, process information, and think differently to non-autistic people, the difficulties that alantutorial has with understanding his environment, immediate physical risk, the purpose/value of money etc. aren't associated with autism as a standalone diagnosis (autism is often co-morbid with other disabilities and neurodivergency, and from the channel, that seems to be the intent of the alantutorial character). Non-learning disabled autistics (like myself) are able to advocate for ourselves online easier than people who, for example, can't easily write/dictate comments, so autism can be prioritised in these conversations. I can't speak for learning disabled people, so I don't have an opinion on how accurate or relatable the character is to them, but it should probably be mentioned alongside schizophrenia at minimum. I think it's pretty clear that alantutorial was - at least, at first - probably not created with a great understanding of neurodivergence. Leading on from that, 3, Resnick was imitating the mannerisms of disabled people and that is problematic. We know from his other appearances that Resnick does not have the voice or the movement/dexterity issues that alantutorial displays. Very few disabled people are happy about abled people imitating us, comedy or not. As you point out, alantutorial is clearly meant to be a sympathetic characterisation and not a stereotype, but it wasn't an empathetic or respectful artistic decision even at the time. It's one part of the project that successors should avoid repeating. On a much less serious note, 4, autistic people prefer "autistic people" to "people with autism". "People with autism'" tends to be preferred by medical professionals and non-autistic relatives, who tend to not listen to self-advocating autistic people's preferences, so this language makes a lot of us quite uncomfortable. These are some media guidelines from an autism charity (founded by an autistic adults): (https://www.autism.org.uk/contact-us/media-enquiries/how-to-talk-and-write-about-autism) I hope this is helpful feedback, I tried to word it best I could without prattling on for ages. I really enjoyed this video in general, including the alantutorial segment. Thanks for hearing me out!
