Callum Nathan Thomas Edmunds / MauLer93 / MauLer and the EFAPshere - Objective discussion about not-Channel Awesome featuring Rags, Southpaw and more!

[Cemila Mandes]

He said in his first video TFA he will do 6 parts in couple of months . Over two years later and he is still nowhere near done.

This is what happens when a fanbase doesn’t hold a creator accountable.

 

[Shieldman]

Meme Repository rides into reddit to rescue Southpaw-sama
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauLer/comments/nr82ts/on_the_subject_of_southpaws_btas_take_from_the/
It's a kilometric post that I won't bother reading in full, but I link it for the sake of posterity. If the upvotes mean anything then its being accepted by the community (in contrast to Southpaw's thread which got downvoted hard)

"Just surrender to THE STANDARD that makes me immune from anything you could possibly say, peasant"

 

[PenguinSuitAlice]

MauLer cherry-picks a hater that clearly wasn't paying complete attention to his channel. News flash, not everyone's statements on the internet are well researched.

Meme Repository rides into reddit to rescue Southpaw-sama
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauLer/comments/nr82ts/on_the_subject_of_southpaws_btas_take_from_the/
It's a kilometric post that I won't bother reading in full, but I link it for the sake of posterity. If the upvotes mean anything then its being accepted by the community (in contrast to Southpaw's thread which got downvoted hard)

"Just surrender to THE STANDARD that makes me immune from anything you could possibly say, peasant"

It seems that the EFAP community is falling behind Southpaw. I clearly overestimated their standards and self-awareness. I now dispose of my theory that everyone dislikes or begrudgingly tolerates Southpaw. They clearly see him as a standard to follow and that his behavior is actually beneficial to community. I keep on giving them the benefit of the doubt and they keep failing me, making me feel like I'm the one who lacks awareness.
I predict that they will start to imitate Southpaw further in behavior outside of his constant arguments. He is EFAP's traits embodied, so why shouldn't they imitate him? He clearly represents the best they have to offer.
Meme Repository is being a good little objective slave, admitting that something that he loves is a guilty pleasure because it was objectively bad. He's a self-hating comic book fan.
EDIT: SOuthpaw jumped in like the Mini-MauLer he is.

 

[That Chris Guy]

EDIT: SOuthpaw jumped in like the Mini-MauLer he is.
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Is he autistic or does he just suck cock like a champ?

What a long-winded followup that wasn't necessary. I'm surprised he didn't talk about MauLer needing to shower so he could have a tug while he typed.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

MauLer cherry-picks a hater that clearly wasn't paying complete attention to his channel.

Surely Mauler has to realise one Review every blue moon does not stop the point about him abandoning video reviews for EFAP being true.

Of course the easiest response to Mauler saying he’s not abandoned reviews is to ask about The Force Awakens.

Edit: Southpaw response is great. Someone should tell him that being a lazier fuck than Mauler is not a good thing and that Meme Repository does all the actual work.

 

[noonster]

Meme Repository rides into reddit to rescue Southpaw-sama
https://www.reddit.com/r/MauLer/comments/nr82ts/on_the_subject_of_southpaws_btas_take_from_the/
It's a kilometric post that I won't bother reading in full, but I link it for the sake of posterity. If the upvotes mean anything then its being accepted by the community (in contrast to Southpaw's thread which got downvoted hard)

"Just surrender to THE STANDARD that makes me immune from anything you could possibly say, peasant"

Surely they have to realize this is a losing battle, BTAS is well regarded as one of the best superhero cartoons for a reason, and it's not like people have nostalgia goggles cause no one has seen the show in over a decade, fuck sake all the episode plus the Phantasm and Sub Zero movies were released on Blu-ray a year or two ago. There's a reason Timm was allowed to keep going with the JL shows, because of the reception to BTAS, what is he trying to prove? This is what happens when you gather a group of people who are obsessed with being right and smarter than others. I don't think contrarian even covers what this is anymore, this is some whole new level of pretentiousness.

 

[Korpon]

MauLer cherry-picks a hater that clearly wasn't paying complete attention to his channel. News flash, not everyone's statements on the internet are well researched.
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It seems that the EFAP community is falling behind Southpaw. I clearly overestimated their standards and self-awareness. I now dispose of my theory that everyone dislikes or begrudgingly tolerates Southpaw. They clearly see him as a standard to follow and that his behavior is actually beneficial to community. I keep on giving them the benefit of the doubt and they keep failing me, making me feel like I'm the one who lacks awareness.
I predict that they will start to imitate Southpaw further in behavior outside of his constant arguments. He is EFAP's traits embodied, so why shouldn't they imitate him? He clearly represents the best they have to offer.
Meme Repository is being a good little objective slave, admitting that something that he loves is a guilty pleasure because it was objectively bad. He's a self-hating comic book fan.
EDIT: SOuthpaw jumped in like the Mini-MauLer he is.
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"Just working in retail and having a family I want to enjoy my life with takes a lot of time away for me"
This is the same guy that's roughly mid-late twenties, gets home from his shit retail job, no girlfriend and argues and spergs about capeshit with strangers on the Internet until 3AM, nice "life" you got. Also, him implying Mauler has any life is hilarious, as if Mauler doesn't get paid to basically spend 90% of his time sitting at his desk playing games and watching random movies and shows. I like how he mentions going on errands, something every adult has to do and shouldn't affect your job that pays you much better than retail or min wage, and is way easier than those types of jobs. The amount of dick sucking going on here is insane, he doesn't pay you Southpaw.

Speaking of which, during some long boring talk he had about BTAS on the Discord, he admits this:


At least he's self aware of that and that's why I have his screenshot folder this:


Also late and gay, but thanks mod who changed the title.

 

[Radola Gajda]

MauLer cherry-picks a hater that clearly wasn't paying complete attention to his channel. News flash, not everyone's statements on the internet are well researched.
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It seems that the EFAP community is falling behind Southpaw. I clearly overestimated their standards and self-awareness. I now dispose of my theory that everyone dislikes or begrudgingly tolerates Southpaw. They clearly see him as a standard to follow and that his behavior is actually beneficial to community. I keep on giving them the benefit of the doubt and they keep failing me, making me feel like I'm the one who lacks awareness.
I predict that they will start to imitate Southpaw further in behavior outside of his constant arguments. He is EFAP's traits embodied, so why shouldn't they imitate him? He clearly represents the best they have to offer.
Meme Repository is being a good little objective slave, admitting that something that he loves is a guilty pleasure because it was objectively bad. He's a self-hating comic book fan.
EDIT: SOuthpaw jumped in like the Mini-MauLer he is.
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Can you Mauler really tell this guy what HE finds good/bad?
Considering how long you spent reeeing about subjectivity /objectivity.

Just curious does Mauler have job or is his internet sperging enough?

 

[Not Even Twice]

MauLer cherry-picks a hater that clearly wasn't paying complete attention to his channel. News flash, not everyone's statements on the internet are well researched.
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It seems that the EFAP community is falling behind Southpaw. I clearly overestimated their standards and self-awareness. I now dispose of my theory that everyone dislikes or begrudgingly tolerates Southpaw. They clearly see him as a standard to follow and that his behavior is actually beneficial to community. I keep on giving them the benefit of the doubt and they keep failing me, making me feel like I'm the one who lacks awareness.
I predict that they will start to imitate Southpaw further in behavior outside of his constant arguments. He is EFAP's traits embodied, so why shouldn't they imitate him? He clearly represents the best they have to offer.
Meme Repository is being a good little objective slave, admitting that something that he loves is a guilty pleasure because it was objectively bad. He's a self-hating comic book fan.
EDIT: SOuthpaw jumped in like the Mini-MauLer he is.
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I didn't read that novel from Meme Repository, but from the answers it seems most are in the "Yeah he should be allowed to feel how he does about things - but he could stop being a dick about it"; so I wouldn't say they fell behind him 100%, more like they really didn't want to go against Meme Repository.

I don't think Southpaw will change and eventually it'll cross some line with most. Hell, even Nerdrotic and Az gave him some shit and called him out on BTAS, calling him a contrarian rather than "objectively critical".

 

[Cemila Mandes]

Just curious does Mauler have job or is his internet sperging enough?

He admits on his Patreon that YouTube is his only source of income. Whether he quit or was fired from his day job is unknown.

 

[PenguinSuitAlice]

I didn't read that novel from Meme Repository, but from the answers it seems most are in the "Yeah he should be allowed to feel how he does about things - but he could stop being a dick about it"; so I wouldn't say they fell behind him 100%, more like they really didn't want to go against Meme Repository.

I don't think Southpaw will change and eventually it'll cross some line with most. Hell, even Nerdrotic and Az gave him some shit and called him out on BTAS, calling him a contrarian rather than "objectively critical".

The audience might, but not the members of EFAP, I think. Perhaps I'm being pessimistic.

MauLer defends himself over the tweet he ridiculed earlier.

 

[José Mourinho]

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MauLer defends himself over the tweet he ridiculed earlier.

Except the issue isn't people insulting in front of you MauLer, it's more towards people are talking about you without your knowledge until you are actively searching for it that you have to sperg about it.

Also lmao "maintain a spine" you should take your own fucking advice.

 

[only17]

I on the other hand will never pretend I’m anything but an asshole.

you do have trash taste in p5 woman

 

[Shieldman]

The EFAP team (they didn't specify who) will be on Friday night tights today

In case you missed it, Nerdrotic and Just Some Guy got into a feud with the LOTR fansite theonering.net so chances are the show will be centered around that. There's always the possibility that the BTAS take might make an appearance but we all know that the FM guys will just roll over.

 

[PenguinSuitAlice]

MauLer responds to a tweet attacking SK (Not Southpaw, but close) over SM2.

MauLer will continue to defend and emulate Southpaw's corner of EFAP, without understanding why they are hated, or why he is hated, for that matter. Sure, the Raimi fanboys are acting out of line, but these idiots have done nothing but continue to aggravate them instead of ignoring them. They should just realize they will never be 'enlightened' and leave SM2 alone, but they keep acting like broken records. Don't they get tired of this? As the hostile tweet said, the really need to do something meaningful with their life.

 

[Lemming0448]

ChaseFace coming in with some common sense!

 

[hero_1n]

You guys still think that his audience actually wants movie criticism and analysis?
I'm convinced that those people have abandoned him a while ago.
His current core audience wants him and his crew of assholes to "own" people and make dumb jokes.
That's it.
He will never finish GoT because the audience doesn't care bout it, they only cared back when season 8 was airing.
He will not finish TFA until he's really struggling financially which probably won't happen for a while.

I haven't seen an EFAP in a while because this kind of fratboy-wannabe format where they just dunk on people and laugh at how they look/talk isn't amusing anymore.

You are on the money here. He got seduced by the lazy, low effort content (and better paying) that is podcasting, and there is no going back.

For myself i consider the ''In defense of Dark Souls 2: A measured response'' series not only Mauler's best, but also the best, most thorough analysis of that game out there.
Sadly, he never returned to similar topics.
And i haven't lost interest in the long format, having recently listened to a 7,5h Bloodborne essay and a 8h Morrowind one, both from channels with under 10k subs, but while certainly long, the EFAPs are just a directionless mess i cannot stand listening to for more than 20-30 minutes.
Thankfully there are plenty of other ''longmen'' who are still true to the formula and provide hours of substantial content, so what do i even need Mauler for at this point?

 

[noonster]

http://poonoosplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/tim-buckley-path.html
I just remembered that someone came up with the path the most INs take regarding their career, called the Tim Buckley Path, after good ol' B^U, and you can apply some of this to Mauler. It goes like this:
1. Gain a fanbase- TFA, TLJ, DS2 longman/unbridled rage videos.
2. Decline in quality-less of the former videos and more efaps with superchats enabled.
3. Create a strawman-I think they've done this to some of their fans or some of the people they've covered on efap.
4. Censor your Forums- Not Mauler specifically but you have SP locking his twitter, I'm sure they've had mods ban people on discord for stupid reasons.
5. Treat fans like shit-The recent shit with how they've responded to fan response to their coverage of certain media (Mandalorian, RE8, BTAS)
6. Become a pedo-Mauler thankfully doesn't strike me as the type.

 

[hero_1n]

6. Become a pedo-Mauler thankfully doesn't strike me as the type.

No, but suspicious amount of people in his extended circle trooning out puts him at high risk of becoming a pedo apologist at some point.

 

[Chris Mclean]

You are on the money here. He got seduced by the lazy, low effort content (and better paying) that is podcasting, and there is no going back.

For myself i consider the ''In defense of Dark Souls 2: A measured response'' series not only Mauler's best, but also the best, most thorough analysis of that game out there.
Sadly, he never returned to similar topics.
And i haven't lost interest in the long format, having recently listened to a 7,5h Bloodborne essay and a 8h Morrowind one, both from channels with under 10k subs, but while certainly long, the EFAPs are just a directionless mess i cannot stand listening to for more than 20-30 minutes.
Thankfully there are plenty of other ''longmen'' who are still true to the formula and provide hours of substantial content, so what do i even need Mauler for at this point?

I just found him obnoxious when he said that you have to play trough the game atleast 4 times to have a good understanding of the game.
No you can get 50 minutes in and perfectly understand why its worse then DS1.