https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UDg738zxJU
0:00 – “Up until the last 20 years or so, we used to live in a society that coloured inside the lines.”
What? This is how she starts the video. What the fuck is she talking about? What happened in 2000 that brought about this alleged anarchy?
Maybe she’ll explain. Or maybe this is just another deranged comment from Saint Dungalous.
What? Then she cites some 18th century figure and gives the Wikipedia definition of “etiquette”.
I understand wacky humour. But is this wacky humour or is this mental illness?
The difficulty is that Bobdunga has openly discussed her struggles with mental health. She’s all about “loving herself” and she talks about all the hot men who “gaslight” her and shit like this. Can a person with mental health problems also enjoy wacky humour? Of course. But…this “humour” isn’t funny. I suppose ultimately, that’s all that matters. It’s just weird and stupid.
Then she waffles on about…who even knows…etiquette and school curriculum and shit like this. It has nothing to do with anything and what she’s saying has no basis in reality.
Oh. She does explain what happened in 2000. The internet. It’s the internet which is responsible for…whatever. Something. Maybe she’ll explain this too.
By the way, she’s wearing a tight top and short skirt. Get your tissues, boys.
2:15 – She puts on an English accent when talking about etiquette. It’s kind of offensive, isn’t it?
I once read something about how in American plays they would write something like “English” in the script to denote gay characters. And these characters were to put on an English accent. Being English was shorthand for being gay.
It still continues to this day. I mean, the English accents that you hear on tv or movies are universally posh accents. And they sound gay. There’s no getting around it. But maybe it sounds gay, to our ears, because that’s what the culture has taught through these gay English people on tv and films. Or maybe it’s a demonstrably gay accent, I don’t know.
I remember living in London and I was out getting some lunch and a young man in a jester’s cap jumped out in front of me and started talking about cancer or some shit. Crazy, right? But this was a HUGE problem in the city. Maybe still is.
So I told this camp young drama student with his camp accent to “fuck off”. He was shocked by this. In his mind, jumping in front of people while wearing a jester’s cap and talking about cancer is normal behaviour. So he just looked dumbfounded for a few seconds and then called me a “prick”.
Anyway, just a little chugger *nostalgia*.
Ohhhhh…now I understand why Bobdunga was talking about etiquette. Because Mavis Beacon is software which teaches the user how to type properly. Somehow, in Bobdunga’s mind, this is etiquette. Learning how to touch type is etiquette. Whatever.
3:45 – Oh god. Now she’s talking about the model for this fictional character Mavis Beacon. Some woman born in Haiti. Who the fuck cares? Somehow, I suspect, this is related to “feminism”.
By the way, the audio levels are not good. When Bobdunga is being an off-screen narrator, the audio is loud and clear and when she she’s on screen, the audio level is low and fuzzy.
5:30 – Bobdunga suggests that certain retailers were hesitant to sell the software because Mavis Beacon was “an African American woman.” Even though earlier in the video, Bobdunga said that the model for this game was a woman born in Haiti.
But let’s see. Maybe there’s some huge racial scandal surrounding Mavis Beacon that I was unaware of.
No. She didn’t elaborate AT ALL. She just said that some retailers didn’t want to sell the software because Mavis Beacon was “African American” and that this was a problem “even in the 90s”.
Where’s the proof? What stores didn’t sell the software? Tell us. This is a story that I’d want to hear.
You can’t call people or corporations racist and then offer absolutely no proof. Let me Google this shit.
“mavis beacon racist” yields zero relevant results.
“mavis beacon boycott” yields zero relevant results.
Which stores didn’t sell the game? Tell us. And if you have any stores, which I tend to doubt, tell us why you think their motivations for not stocking the game were racist.
I’m all about exposing racism. I’m all about equality. All that stuff. But let’s not make shit up. That doesn’t help.
Fucking stores not carrying Mavis Beacon because the owners are racist. It was one of the most popular “edutainment” titles of all time. So it seems that these “racist” store owners, who I don’t even think existed, didn’t do much to dent sales of the software.
Oh, here’s an article from that scholarly resource Vice that mentions racism.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwx5a9/whats-mavis-beacon-up-to-these-days-nothing-shes-fake-926
I suspect that this is what Bobdunga read. You know why she didn’t mention any stores that wouldn’t stock the game? Because that article doesn’t. The article only mentions “feedback” from some unknown person or people and some nebulous racism allegations.
This article details everything that Bobdunga has been talking about so far. I suspect that this is the only thing she’s read for this video. She’s basically just reading the Vice article.
6:45 – Then Bobdunga makes more unfounded allegations of racism. This time, she’s claiming that racist school administrators, possibly at the behest of racist parents, refused to purchase the title. What schools? What parents? Give us the details, Bobdunga.
If this actually happened, I want to know. You’re just going by this vague Vice article? Not good enough.
She’s getting worked up in this video based on a single article that gave no details whatsoever about any alleged racism.
You know, there are a lot of REAL examples of racism out there. You don’t have to make shit up. You don’t have to inject racism into everything.
7:30 – Then she’s talking about Mario Teaches Typing for some reason. No doubt stores weren’t stocking this shit due to all the anti-Italian sentiments out there.
8:00 – Bobdunga says that she owned a copy of Mavis Beacon Typing but didn’t use it. Presumably, because Bobdunga is racist. She said that she has Indian heritage. It must be her Indian part which is racist. Or maybe she’s just a self-hating black woman.
8:30 – Bobdunga describes Mavis Beacon as “the Betty Crocker of cyberspace.”
I still don’t know what Mavis Beacon has to do with the internet. It was a typing program. Not an internet program.
But Betty Crocker reminds me of some actual racist corporate mascots. Aunt Jemima. And to a lesser extent, Uncle Ben. Come on. A glass bottle in the shape of a Reconstruction-era mammie character filled with a dark brown syrup? Where’s the outrage, Bobdunga? Do a video on that.
8:45 – Bobdunga again mentions that the character is groundbreaking for being “African American.” THE WOMAN WAS FROM HAITI, BOBDUNGA. IS YOUR GEOGRAPHY THAT BAD?
“She’s pretty much the original, literal e-girl”.
Whatever the fuck that means. Somehow, I’m racist for not knowing this.
9:30 – “There’s no standard for how to type in this modern age.”
Really? What an insane comment. Bobdunga has said that she types with two fingers. She used some weird phrase for this. “Two prongs” or something.
But no, touch typing is the way everyone who knows how to type, types.
Then she refers to “typing etiquette” again. IT’S NOT AN ETIQUETTE PROGRAM. IT’S A TYPING PROGRAM. YOU’RE LEARNING HOW TO TYPE, NOT FUCKING ETIQUETTE.
Maybe I’m fucking racist for thinking that touch typing is a useful skill to have.
Here’s some touch typing *nostalgia* for you. I had a job at some fucking dive. We had to type a bunch of shit. Eight hours a day. I was brought in as a temporary worker.
There were three of us working on this shit. 100% typing. It was me, a Polish woman, and a white English guy. I was the only person who knew how to type. So I did like three times as much work as them. No exaggeration.
When I realised this, I started slowing down. Because I didn’t want to cause any problems for them.
Around this time, a new manager was brought in. Like 80% of the people who worked in this place were Pakistani immigrants. And this new manager was also a Pakistani immigrant and she ran the place like a sweat shop. That might fly in Pakistan but that’s not the way things are done in the UK.
So she gives us a quota for the amount of work that we have to do each day. It was less than what I was doing but way more than these other people were doing.
So during a break, I say to this English guy, “Quotas? I’m not doing that. What do you think of this new manager?”
He looked at me like I was insane. “I don’t know. I just met her.”
I was trying to establish some worker solidarity and this guy was just a complete pussy and didn’t want to rock the boat.
He was fired that day by this manager. She saw that he couldn’t type so she fired him. He said, “I was promised two weeks of work” and they just apologised and told him not to come in any more.
Then this woman continued to try to get me to work faster. I intentionally slowed down significantly. Then the next week, I found a better job so I quit. They begged me to stay. “Just stay another hour to finish these up.” Nope. I’m done. They’re probably still typing that shit out, with two fingers, twelve years later.
Anyway, then the video ends with some kind incomprehensible skit.
Then Bobdunga does a “sexy” dance, as the list of Patreon losers scrolls by.
Absolute trash video. And not because Bobdunga is black. Actually, is Bobdunga black? I’ve had this discussion before. She looks pretty light-skinned to me. And she says that she has Indian heritage. Maybe her mother is Indian.
Anyway, all she did was fucking read that Vice article.
Pinned comment is from Bobdunga. “I hope y’all enjoyed this video! If you’d like to support the show, for as low as $1, you can join our private Discord server!For more info visit (her Patreon).”
Why? Why would I spend money to get into her Discord?
And why is she saying “y’all”? Isn’t that racist? She’s Canadian. Don’t culturally appropriate white Southern American vernacular.
But yeah, go to her Patreon. You can get some “sexy” pictures of her there for $5/month or whatever. There’s probably something racist about this.
Oh, I know. If you don’t get a boner from looking at Bobdunga’s “sexy” pictures, you’re racist. Or if you do get a boner, you’re racist. It works either way.
The rest of the comments are from people who say that they happily used the program and there were no issues and other people saying that America is full of Klansmen.
It goes to show how easily people are manipulated. First Bobdunga by this nebulous Vice article and then her horny “fans” from this nebulous video. There’s no critical thinking. Where’s the proof? You can’t just condemn a country for being full of racists with no proof. Maybe you’re the racist, Saint Dungalous.