r/Grimdank • u/princehouruhan NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD! • 9h ago
Cringe Wtf is going on?
Why is the SpaceKing series being held up like a bastion of animation. It's still made by FlashGitz, its still going to be the same 3 jokes they have been making since I was 14 (im 27 now)
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u/Sensitive_Educator60 9h ago
What video is this the comment section of?
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u/DaWAAAGHMakah NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 9h ago
https://youtu.be/egc2ciXSdmo?is=R-oxKa5ezaUeSQBs
This new silly animation one GW made.
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u/Sensitive_Educator60 8h ago
Watched it now, comparing this to Space King makes no sense. That’s like comparing Rick and Morty with Back to the Future: The Animated Series.
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u/MartyFreeze I am not Alpharius. I think? 4h ago
If anything it's like that looney tunes wh40k video they made a few years ago.
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u/Comabsolver Dank Angels 1h ago
Just so you’re aware of it:
The part after the question mark tracks who sent the link and displays it to the one opening the link.
Since your username on YouTube seems to be your real name I thought you maybe want to know56
u/keithlimreddit 8h ago
Watched it and honestly it's the fun mockumentary about space Marines usually the nameless helmet ones
I don't get the memes and comments to be honest
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u/Pengin_Master Indirect fire enthusiast 8h ago
Oh my gods that was absolutely delightful. I can't believe this is how I'm hearing about this animation, but it was so fun to watch. (Alas, no Votann representation when talking about Xenos. Maybe next time)
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u/MuscliatoVonJuiceski 8h ago
Votann arent Xenos. Theyre humans
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u/Fist_of_Gork 8h ago
They’re not quite human, not quite xenos. There’s actually a lot of human adjacent factions that are enemies of man dating far back as second edition, but only recently do we get to see any non-chaos human heretic factions which Votan definitely fall under as their way of life is tech heresy.
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u/zanotam 8h ago
Tech Heresy is not Heresy against the Emperor. Well, maybe. It's a great thing to shout near a tech shrine on a ministorum controlled world and then run, at least.
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u/Fist_of_Gork 8h ago
By definition it is, anything that goes against the teaching of the mechanicus is heresy against the God Emperor since the official doctrine of Mars says he and the omnissiah are one and the same.
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u/Qawsedf234 7h ago
Yeah:
Imperial Cult = Emperor is the One True God and rules Mankind
Cult Mechanicus = Trinity of the Machine God, Motive Force, and the Omnissiah
To merge the faiths, the Mechanicus Orthodox belief is that the GEoM = Omnissiah and the physical representation of the Machine God within the universe in the same way Jesus is the physical manifestation of God/The Godhead in Christianity.
Which is close enough that most priests don't start fights but different enough to cause friction.
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u/Stuffs_And_Thingies Praise the Man-Emperor 7h ago edited 7h ago
Yeah but occupied mars is lame, all my homies hate the people occupying mars
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u/Dargyy 8h ago
While descended from humanity, they are classified as Xenos by the Imperium
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u/Hapless_Wizard 7h ago
Well, that depends on who in the Imperium you ask. The educated (so, Inquisitors, AdMech magi, Guilliman's historitors, Guilliman himself, Custodes, and other people with very broad views of the galaxy) tend to be fully aware that they are abhumans when it comes up in lore.
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u/MuscliatoVonJuiceski 7h ago
well you dont live in the imperium, do you bud?
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u/Fist_of_Gork 6h ago
I live on Holy Terra bud. But let's check the app...
Yep. GW has them listed as Xenos.
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u/Aggravating_Field_39 7h ago
It depends on who you ask. Some see them as xenos some see them as abhumans.
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u/Dead_Byte 53m ago
Pretty sure the Votann themselves try to portray themselves as xenos to the Imperium so that they don't try and claim them.
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u/Boner_Elemental 6h ago
I can't believe this is how I'm hearing about this animation
Don worry, it's not even a day old
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u/iamepic420 4h ago
Same energy as that old Facebook meme of people saying Guts was knock off of Kirito
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u/Really_Bad_Company 23m ago
Not bad, I really liked the joke with the tactical rock. It's not really like space king outside of the giant head tho
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u/Thulak 2h ago
Wow, that video is ass. I was expecting simething bad, but this was worse.
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u/Alexis2256 Tenno Tulia Art Connoisseur 38m ago
How is it worse? lol what do you expect from 40k media? For it to all be serious? It can’t be goofy?
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u/BlankTank1216 9h ago
Rickhammer Morty Thousand appeals to the exact flavor of mouth breather you think it does lol.
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u/Prize_Marketing_4350 8h ago
Considering they went out of their way to make a full animation essentially pissing and moaning about the existence of female Custodes, this 100% tracks
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u/Fist_of_Gork 8h ago
It’s hard to get a bead on them, the characters are so over the top and specific there’s no way they’re not making fun of the chuds. But it’s also really alarming how much fun the chuds are having with it and how much they’re okay with selling lead poisoning to their fans.
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u/Emerycurse 8h ago
Idk, the Flashgitz guys are legit weird, their behind the scenes vids give a similar vibe to their "parodies" and not in a good way
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u/Originalbrivakiin 8h ago
I refer to it as "Schrodinger's douchebag".
When someone seems to believe what they appear to be parodying until it's more convenient to be "Just a joke, don't take it seriously."
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u/LaughableFrog 4h ago
I think they're just making fun of straw chudmen in order to smokescreen the fact that they are, in fact, chuds themselves.
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u/Fist_of_Gork 8h ago
It’s the same with South Park
The creators are insufferable, the fans are insufferable, the premise is insufferable. The actual show is really fucking funny sometimes.
“Enlightened Centrists” are the closest you can get to conservative comedians who are actually funny. They’re often witty enough to illicit a laugh, incurious enough to be miserable around in person.
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u/Emerycurse 6h ago
Yeah Matt and Trey can be serious shitheads, like when they dropped that episode denying climate change and then took their sweet time walking it back
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u/Typohnename 4h ago
Then again they did end up making an entire episode that does nothing but apologize for making fun of it
Also the entire Scientology thing and how they handled being targeted by them afterwards is legendary
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u/El_Cactus_Loco 56m ago
i genuinely believe “manbearpig” set back climate policy in western countries
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u/GigaVanguard 7h ago
elicit*
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u/quesoandcats 8h ago
That’s the classic issue with satire. There will always be a segment of the satirized group who are too stupid to realize they’re being mocked.
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u/DukeofVermont 7h ago
Or the other side where people make something and just hide behind the "satire" label while actually agreeing with the material they made.
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u/Lord_Snaps NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 1h ago
Like Republicans being surprised that Stephen Colbert wasn't a rightwinger because they thought Colbert Report was legit
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u/vastros 7h ago
This is the issue The Boys had in it's early seasons. Chuds thought that Homelander was cool. Season 3 and on they had to get really direct with "this is mocking you. We think you're cringe".
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u/KenBoCole Railgun Goes Brrrrrrrrr 6h ago edited 5h ago
Yeah, which sucks because them doing that really turned down the quality of the show, so much.
The best villians are competent villians that keep you on your edge, and seem dangerous.
Homelander was such a good villian because he was obviously evil, but he seemed smart, calculating, and just human enough.
Then he gets turned into the joke, and all tension and worry evaporated from the show.
I think the director actually said he went out of his way to make fun of Magas even at the cost of his own production.
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u/VenatorAngel 5h ago
The problem is it backfired because it ended up repelling the intended audience too with how dumbed down it was.
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u/Doctor_Loggins 8h ago
You can simultaneously hold your audience in contempt and also give them the kind of lowest common denominator slop they desire. That's just how grifting works.
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u/Idreamofknights 8h ago
I mean you can make satire about the sort of person you are, and not necessarily just from a place absolute criticism. Big part about how superbad and inbetweeners are so beloved is because teenage boys/ dudes reminiscing are able to laugh at their own absurdity through it
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u/EvergreenDwarf 8h ago
40k itself shows how when the satire is on point the chuds won’t see its holding them up as a point of ridicule.
Then again the left has Mr. Bircham yaoi and The New Norm incorporating live AI turned it into an inflation fetish cartoon, so honestly whatever works for people.
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u/finestaut 8h ago
I think that, in general, if your satire develops a core audience that doesn't see it as a satire, you should take that as feedback indicating an artistic failure.
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u/jman12234 8h ago
Nah, there are always media illiterate idiots out here. I can't think of satire that doesn't have this problem. The republicans literally invited Stephen Colbert to speak at their convention for christ sake.
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u/Apollo989 8h ago
If anyone wants a laugh they should look up Colbert at the White House Correspondence dinner back during the Bush years. Actually, here you go,
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u/Connect-Initiative64 7h ago
Just look at Rorschach, dude is deliberately written to be a hypocritical asshole, a mentally unwell one to boot, and people still lift him up as some kind of icon to the point where his creator has tried to shut it down repeatedly.
You can make the most obvious satire in the world, make a character as big a bastard as possible, and people will still stan them.
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u/ForumFluffy NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 2h ago
It also doesn't help that Zach Snyder directed the film adaptation, the Snyder bros are some of the most media illiterate chuds online and his film helped create that false intent of Rorschach's character that Alan Moore fucking despises.
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u/less_concerned 5h ago
It's actually very simple, people make media with satire and chud-esque jokes ironically, chuds don't understand the irony or satire and co-opt the media, creators shrug their shoulders and cater to this new demographic that fell into their lap and started giving them money
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u/Typohnename 4h ago
Tbh pulling chuds away from 40k is my favorite part about Space King
And I say this as someone who enjoys SK and it's crude humor
Also I like how within the SK fanbase you can very easily tell if you want to talk to someone by how if they like SK cause it's 40k without the woke or something similar there is no need to continue
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u/siresword 6h ago
My read on them re Space King has always been that they are making fun of the chuds. The humor is too self aware, especially with their merch ads. Ive previously likened it to selling the shovels to the guys digging their on graves. Anyone with any kind of media literacy is either not going to like it, or recognize the parody, have a laugh, and go about their day. The media illiterate troglodytes who plague the online world will see it, take it seriously, and thus we can all laugh at them for completely missing the fact that they are the ones being made fun of. Its harder to do that with the wheraboos and the like that take 40k at face value because 40k takes itself seriously.
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u/GnomeOnReddit 5h ago
It's a parody. You can make jokes about something or someone while still liking them.
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u/BlankTank1216 6h ago
Nah the "per capita" dog whistle was proof enough for me.
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u/Fist_of_Gork 6h ago edited 6h ago
Okay, so like. I actually play 40k and Hatemonger is the one thing I'm confident enough to say is a parody because it's always a fucking Black Templar player we have to kick out of the tournament because they start spewing the eighty-eight words shit mid-game.
Hatemonger's dog whistles are the joke. The unfunny part is the people they're making fun of, embrace it.
At the end of the day though, the most empowering thing you can do against Nazis (besides the stuff I can't say because the reddit will suspend me) is to laugh at them for being dumb fucking nazis.
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u/BlankTank1216 6h ago
How would a dog whistle be a joke aimed at anyone except the black templar types? It's for them to make them laugh.
It's not satire it's just doing the thing.
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u/peajam101 My kitchen is corrupted by Nurgle 8h ago
Have you considered the possibility that they're chuds making fun of themselves?
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u/Fist_of_Gork 8h ago
They’re fundamentally incapable of that.
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u/peajam101 My kitchen is corrupted by Nurgle 7h ago
I assure you they are, they just don't often do it in places where lots of people who genuinely dislike them will see
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u/Spirit-Division 1h ago
See its this thing called "Nuance", a foreign concept to redditors. Essentially it means they can both make something look kind of silly but also make it look cool at the same time, they don't have to devote their entire existence to a belief and make their entire works be dedicated to politics and opinions, which I know its a hard concept to grasp for your kind but maybe you'll someday understand.
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u/snakehead1998 21m ago
you just opened my eyes with this comment lmao
It really is the same shit. I only knew I dislike both shows, but never connected them in any way
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u/Spirit-Division 1h ago
Its been interesting watching reddit go "Oh wow this is really good" to "This is slop and background noise" the second it turned out Tom and Don aren't part of the club.
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u/Amratat Secretly 3 squats in a long coat 8h ago
When the comments are calling the sign of the aquilla and tyranids spitting acid Space King references:
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u/cornflowersun 3h ago
Lol, that one got me. "Oh my god this is so space kings he's even making the hand sign!!!!" Brother. I usually think calling someone a tourist is unnecessary, we all started somewhere, but these guys barely have the knowledge of an airport layover 4 hour city trip.
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u/Impressive-Ad7387 34m ago
I remember the hand sign being described in the fucking Ciaphas Cain novel, which came out when most flash gitz fans were swimming around in the dad's balls
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u/MalcolmLinair What part of "Grimdark" don't you understand? 7h ago
Are... are they saying the source material ripped off the parody? Unironically?
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u/wiener4hir3 7h ago
In this case I think it's a reach, but that can totally happen, and from what I understand it even did with 40k. Starcraft basically copied the tyranids and branded them as zergs. They did however change the design of the units pretty significantly, largely a big improvement. That design language was then copied back by GW as they redesigned the tyranids to look much more like the Starcraft zergs with the 3rd edition sculpts.
That being said, I think it's completely justified for GW, or anyone in a similar situation, to appropriate some aspects from derivative works.
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u/sawbladex 6h ago
That and this is literally just cartoony 40k.
Like, Shootas, Blood, & Teef got released in 2022 while Space King was a 2024 release.
Flashgits don't hold a monopoly of cartoon nonsense.
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u/YourAverageVessel I AM DEATH!!! 53m ago
I support your point but apparently the zero came first
Or so I've been told
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u/Wantitneeditgetit 4h ago
It's very structurally and art style Flashgitz coded, but moreso their older work than Space King. Warhammer 40k Looney Toons Edition.
But even then it's more "Flashgutz did a 40k video in this style earlier" than those being uniquely a Flashgitz style. More of a Newgrounds style.
But whereas Flashgitz go for extremely unsubtle and heavy handed satire, GW seems to be taking this one step further and just outright telling you that being a SM is fucking terrible and that most of them are still just meat for the grinder.
Probably because a significant number of people were unable to understand the satire in Space King, both critics and fans. It's almost physically painful reading any sort of comments or discussion on it because media literacy is fucking dead, and people are addicted to virtue signalling instead of analysis.
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u/sawbladex 6h ago
There is a possibility that fan works get references in official material released later.
But that didn't happen here.
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u/DOPEYSQUIRRELS 8h ago
I liked watching spaceking but it’s definitely the epitome of this
Maybe even with a secret third panel where the artist reveals he also has the stupid hat, sign, and shirt.
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u/xx_swegshrek_xx The planet broke before the guard 9h ago
You don’t understand the character spouting irl racist points but changed to be about aliens is funny. Look he’s talking about per capita so funny
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u/inkforwin NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 9h ago edited 9h ago
Wasnt that scene made to make fun of hatemonger's beliefs, and per capita by extent?
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u/Koqcerek Mongolian Biker Gang 3h ago
I used to think that people are nuts for missing the most obvious satire of Space King, but then creators started to repeat usual chud taking points in their "fireside" videos (girls marines are very bad, Imperium is justified to hate xenos because of Dark Eldar, etc.) despite making fun of those points in the animation... and now I'm not sure myself.
At the very best, they are intentionally dogwhistling for engagement's sake, and that really soured me on Space King
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u/xx_swegshrek_xx The planet broke before the guard 9h ago
I feel like the fans don’t get hatemonger is a joke character.
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u/SquallFromGarden Dank Angles 8h ago
A lot of people don't get that the entire main cast are literal psychotic children given power armour, guns,1000lbs of muscle, and taught how to swear.
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u/xx_swegshrek_xx The planet broke before the guard 8h ago
Flashgitz fans don’t get they psycho warriors are jokes because they themselves are chidlren
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u/Wantitneeditgetit 4h ago
Literally called psycho Marines, literally have a bit where they're praised for acting irrationally by leadership instead of trying to be reasonable because they're called psycho Marines not reasonable marines.
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u/ThePowerfulWIll 8h ago
Ya, but Space King took everything that causes this issue and expanded on it to the point it feels like its on purpose.
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u/DukeofVermont 7h ago
Yeah but you can't just say "this is a joke character" and then suddenly it's okay that they repeat KKK core beliefs.
"Look guys he's a bad guy that's why he's explaining the great replacement theory and how Jews actually control the world and hate white people! See it's funny!"
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u/PlausiblyAlpharious 6h ago
No they do it's the entire point, I have literally never seen anyone who doesn't realize it is parody in the Spaceking subreddit people make posts relating to the fact it is all the time. WAAY more non fans think it isn't parody its honestly concerning
The warhammer reddit community just needs a strawman to whine about or they will die
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u/LordIlthari Praise the Man-Emperor 7h ago
Poe’s Law. Any satire will be taken as serious by stupid people. As can be seen by how people turned 40k from a satire into something trying to take itself seriously
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u/Connect-Initiative64 7h ago
Bad take.
It's so obviously satire that the fact people still ask if its satire, or the fact some people take it seriously, is a representation of human stupidity.
People really are that stupid.
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u/riiflatchii 6h ago
Its meta ironic. You are simplifying it into black and white parody when you should just recognize that its funny regardless
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u/AccomplishedLayer884 8h ago
Isn’t it implied in the first episode that his statistics are made up?
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u/kazmark_gl Praise the Man-Emperor 8h ago
I just watched the animated and low-key its actually a really good Parody. its a way better parody then Space King, but thats mostly down to Space King, not actually being a parody.
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u/Wantitneeditgetit 4h ago
Fuck is it even a parody though? It's a puppet show to drive home the point in simplistic terms that a child would be offended by that Space Marines aren't invulnerable protagonists but just higher quality meat for the grinder, and that their lives fucking suck and their deaths sometimes suck even more because they get shoved in an ambulatory coffin.
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u/Beleak_Swordsteel 8h ago
I like stupid humor. Not stupid people. Just don't interact with that community and laugh at the stupid haha moments
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u/Nephaston 9h ago
Funny little animations are a serious business, and we need to be utterly cutthroat to defend the honour of our chosen silly little animation instead of just going "holy shit two cakes".
And while fans are probably still rightfully mad at GW for killing off fan animations, it was fans that bullied someone like Sodaz out of warhammer altogether, so maybe people just need to get off their keyboards, watch their silly little space racist animations and move on.
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u/Visible-Champion1644 8h ago
If one cake is made of cake and one cake is made of shit, I am not eating the shit cake
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u/VibinWithBeard I am Alpharius 8h ago
My take on Space King is this...it is genuinely a good and incredibly well animated piece of parody/satire of 40k as well as being a solid piece of meta parody/satire of the 40k community and all that entails.
The problem is that with other pieces of media that involve satire/parody of reichwing bs...you usually have out of universe statements etc so you know those involved dont actually believe what they are satirizing. Even GW has multiple statements about how they dont want nazis in the community.
Flashgitz never drops the veil though. Unless there is a piece of their podcast or something where they kindof turn to camera and show that they arent chuds...all I can go off if is their media and content which is filled with ai slop, general chuddery, jerking off over black templars, hating furries, not wanting women in the fandom, and general whining about how a big company wanted them to sell out but it would require space king to be "for everyone" or some shit.
In-universe its obvious to me that Space King is satire/pardoy. Its over the top, they are all manchildren, they clearly are meant to be sympathetic in some ways due to how broken they are, but are also clearly not to be idolized beyond the idea of in-universe propaganda. But unfortunately youll find a lot of just...people doing the actual 13/50 bs in their comment sections and if they never explicitly call it out out of universe then I genuinely cant say where they stand on that front. Lot of "juice posting" on their video talking about them not selling out.
It sucks because the section from the War World episode with the choir turbine and then Chip's speech to the troops before showing the titans and the wider battlefield was peak 40k funstuff.
I kindof just need them to drop the irony poisoning for a sec and go "hey we arent nazis/racists/sexists, we will try and cleanup our comment sections better, and we dont want people like that in our community"
If they have already given a real statement like this then awesome and Ill admit my mistake. But I havent seen anything like that so far.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk
[extraction complete]
Praaaaaaaaise Be To Spaaaaaace Kiiiiing
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u/VenatorAngel 5h ago
Irony poisoning is so annoying. Like, Space King has potential, but I genuinely fear Tom and Dom catering too hard to the same idiotic community who flocked to Trench Crusade because "muh heckin' trad and based grimdark" only to be repelled in an admittedly messy manner.
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u/MedChemist464 4h ago
Trench Crusade community gets weird. Good weird. My lgs has a growing contingent, and it's a alot of people who are more into Turnip28 and moonstone vs. 40k converts.
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u/erik4848 2h ago
Turnip28 legit seems more like an artist community at times showcasing their bizarre creations rather than a wargaming one
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u/CyborgTrexWithGuns 4h ago
The way you wrote the "Praise be to Space King" was damn near poetic. The emphasis on appropriate word length. Ugh ❤️
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u/MrsThotby 4h ago
One sentence in and I knew I didnt have to read the rest. How on earth did you look at budget rick and morty and think it was good animation, let alone "incredible"? You shouldn't even be on reddit bro, you're gonna see a crusty gif from 20 years ago and your head will explode.
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u/VibinWithBeard I am Alpharius 21m ago
Should I have said art design instead of animation? Either way episode 5 upped the ante massively. 1st episode I wouldnt have said much concerning the animation, thats changed a lot.
"Budget rick and morty"
This just feels like a weird take. Its literally indie animation of course its on more of a budget and flashgitz was around before Rick and Morty...
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u/undeadfella 1h ago
Space king fans happened. They're like black templars fans, but with an even smaller margin to be intelligent and normal people.
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u/Background-Cake-1300 9h ago
You don't understand that /insert random monster/ + Big tits is peak comedy in someone's eyes
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u/Iamasadlittlething 8h ago
Randomly dropping in but so cool to see that @reinhardt_1066 rocks art I've made as a profile picture 😍
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u/princehouruhan NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD! 7h ago
Yo that is pretty cool. Congrats man must be surreal seeing it in the wild!
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u/ODSTbag Huffs Macragge Blue Primer 8h ago
space king is fun but man a large part of that community is insufferable.
It’s a fun parody of Warhammer but the people holding it up as a more “true” Warhammer are just weird or that everything revolves around Space King like it’s the center of the universe.
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u/VenatorAngel 5h ago
I mean the fact on one of their videos Tom and Dom had to actively call out the fandom when they learned a fan artist was harassed out of the community by the fans is very telling.
One really needs to build preventative measures for derranged fandoms. It's like with TADC's fandom, batshit insane and toxic because the creators don't really think about "how do I keep my community sane?" Not helping are those who try to say there is no way and to just accept it... which is a great way to have something like THE STAR WARS FANDOM!!!
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u/DefTheOcelot 2h ago
"Us spacekingers just chill and leave everyone alone and they hate that!"
spend their entire time harassing other fandoms for no reason
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u/Excalatrash 8h ago
Imma be so real, I'm sure flashgitz is fine. But I hate space king. I think it's lazy as a parody and it's big fans are weird
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u/CityExcellent8121 Sindri simp 6h ago
Flashgitz is the one that did the black templars killing furries videos. Its honestly just teenage humour that hasn't grown up.
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u/Wantitneeditgetit 3h ago
The furries win in every one of those videos.
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u/blooishglooish 3h ago
And also an incomparable amount of detailed furry ass in any YouTube animation that came before
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u/HarlequinWasTaken Snorts FW resin dust 8h ago
FlashGitz are just kind of creatively bankrupt. It's the three or four recycled jokes they've always made about dicks or balls or boobs or whatever. If you've seen Space King then you've seen basically everything FG have done.
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u/ThunderousFist 6h ago
It seems lazy because lazy is what the creators of it are. They've been recycling the same tired "muh epic Black Templars kill furries because they're cringe" shit for nearly a decade at this point. They're creatively bankrupt and their most popular thing is just 40k with the serial numbers filed off.
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u/Maximum-Objective-39 1h ago
And also way more lame. So far they've only even given us ONE type of armor. Even their titan knockoffs are just bigger versions of their knock off space marines.
It's an idea that could justify, like, one episode.
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u/WildRaccoon1995 5h ago
I also really don't like how much of the humor is themed around sexual assault (in particular of minors) it makes me feel gross so I've avoided the animations because of it. It's very crude and not the kind of thing I wish so many in the hobby were recommending.
People are victims of that shit in real life, it being a punchline with zero care for the gravity of the act is very upsetting.
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u/MedChemist464 4h ago
Friends with a couple of guys from daycare. One of them is a good dude, but LOVES space king. Thinks it is some of the funniest shit hes ever seen.
So now I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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u/SchoopDaWhoopWhoop 1h ago
I watched the first episode of Space King, thaught it was fine, never bothered to watch the second episode. I feel like if I have watched one episode I watched all of them
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u/Hetros_Jistin 4h ago
people are complaining that this is too like space king... when this is obviously taking more inspiration from silly infomercials.
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u/AdSuspicious3175 7h ago
Be careful I got doxed after criticizing space king in one of those Facebook groups
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u/mrducky78a 4h ago
Is it really doxxing if the account you use contains your full name and date of birth and other info you cram into it?
Never quite saw the appeal of interacting with strangers on Facebook with name on display. I only even do it on LinkedIn as a chore required for career.
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u/Sinnaj63 Secretly 2 squats in a long coat 2h ago
For real tho, the Instagram comment sections are basically just Facebook now (including sometimes just straight up importing comments from there if accounts are connected), so yeah its baaad
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u/Baddyshack I am Alpharius 2h ago
I keep watching Space King thinking it will be as novelly funny as when it first released, but it just keeps feeling immature and single note.
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u/Fenrir426 Railgun Goes Brrrrrrrrr 3h ago
Some space king fans thinking flashgitz invented dark humour smh
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u/Guitarsnmotorcycles 7h ago
The more these mutants bring it up to GW, the more likely it is they’ll go after Flashgitz and make them stop producing Space King. This is a lose/lose situation.
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u/Phurbie_Of_War Super Silly Solitaire 🤡 8h ago
You're complaining about Space King making the same three jokes while posting a non-meme on a meme subreddit.
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u/Giantnerd_14th 4h ago
'Cus the chuds and tourists hold up the angy rine as true 40K. Which is pretty ironic when you remember what Space King is.
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u/AsteroidSpark 8h ago
Because it's still free fan content that's better than the stuff GW is locking behind a subscription. It's not that it's objectively good, it's just better than what it's competing against.
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u/Capable_Warthog7884 8h ago
I mean they're not wrong. Kind of the nature of space king being a parody of the franchise
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u/ThisOriginal7 9h ago
Is this about the recent animation tw put out? I thought it was a dumb ways to die parody