The Shallowness of Modern Nintendo Criticism | Deconstructing Discourse

Nintendo is a gaming company that many people have grown up with at this point - however, in the modern age, online discussion of Nintendo, its consoles and its games, has reached a major low point. This is thanks to two groups invading Nintendo criticism online - the grifters and the shills. The shills constantly glaze Nintendo for everything, and the grifters hate Nintendo for everything with no nuance at all, and sometimes lean into a toxic anti-woke sentiment. Both of these sides are painfully extreme with how they approach discussing Nintendo, and while there are absolutely things you should criticize Nintendo on, neither side can actually offer any nuanced criticism of Nintendo, since they're either just grifting or shilling. So today, let's look at the Nintendo grifters and shills, talk about why they're not real critics, and what real Nintendo criticism should be. 0:00 Introduction - why is Nintendo online discourse so bad now? 1:15 Grifters and shills are both destroying real criticism of Nintendo 3:10 BeatEmups is the Nintendo shill with the biggest platform, and a giant hypocrite 9:47 BeatEmups' big "social experiment" controversy 11:40 Nintendo grifters are just as bad as Nintendo shills 12:29 Lord Frogmire, Synthetic Man's brother, is a terrible Nintendo grifter 13:20 Lord Frogmire's insane take on Breath of the Wild 18:51 Real Life Fake Wizard tries to use a study involving Animal Crossing to gatekeep women from gaming 29:50 How we define Nintendo grifters 30:58 Nintendeen is still a grifter...but there's hope 33:00 Conclusion Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @noahdivergence   OR Consider supporting me on Patreon!   / noahtheotter   🐦 Twitter: https://x.com/OtterlyNoah ☁️ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/otterlynoah.... 🎮 Twitch:   / otterlynoah   📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/otterlynoah... 🎶 TikTok:   / otterlynoah   🎞️ Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/2bVOt 🦦Join my discord:   / discord