I’ve always wondered why Asmongold has been missing in action in the culture war. It turns out everyone’s favorite streamer is a radical progressive.
In a recent video clip where he defends himself from accusations of being “alt-right” (nobody uses that term anymore) he states his bona fides by admitting that he: voted for Obama, wants unrestricted abortion, supports Planned Parenthood, believes in same-sex marriage, is for a universal basic income, and supports the environmental extremist group Greenpeace.
Since these policy positions represent the ideology of the modern leftist progressive and global elites, there can be no denying that Asmongold is a radical progressive. To score more points with the radical left, he even claims that he held many of these extreme views back in the late 2000s.
Why is Asmongold Silent When He Knows Wokeness Makes Video Games Worse?
As streamers and influencers have begun to rise in importance in gaming culture, I’ve followed Asmongold over the years with interest. I’ve noticed that he’s not lifted a finger to help in the culture war that has been waged on Western civilization. He is careful not to proselytize the woke agenda and makes sure to stay well clear of it during his videos, especially in character creation screens of new games that force the “body type” nonsense down gamers’ throats.
On the rare occasions when he does criticize woke content, it’s done in a half-hearted mealy-mouthed way. The Sweet Baby Inc. Gamergate 2.0 scandal is so outrageous that even Asmongold could no longer ignore it and felt compelled to speak out against it. At least he’s mentioned it, unlike most YouTube gaming channels who have avoided it like the plague.
Over the years, we can easily see that video games are demonstrably worse because of the neo-Marxist propaganda that has been injected into them. Zack has a powerful digital megaphone that he could have used to call out the subversion of video games via wokeness, DEI policies, and representation. Asmongold could have made a difference but he did nothing because he is one of them.
Now that he’s under attack in the Gamergate 2.0 series of scandals that involved SweetBaby Inc, Kotaku, Black Girl Gamers, and others, he’s making sure everyone knows he is a progressive to save his skin:
“Hey, look! I’m one of you. Don’t hurt me! “
He’s even posting videos of himself dressed up as a woman to prove that he’s not transphobic. This is pathetic, soy-boy behavior. The crazy thing is that his sycophantic followers see nothing wrong with this and are cheering him on.
Asmongold: The Million-Dollar Working-Class Hero
Asmongold is now telling tall tales of how he grew up with all different races down in the mean streets of his working-class neighborhood in Austin Texas. It’s the equivalent of people talking about their black friends so that they can be immunized from the charge of racism.
This guy’s superpower is the fact that he is incapable of feeling shame. Being devoid of a conscience helps in this regard. He revels in his quirky personality and “I’m just a gamer like you” schtick and for some reason, his gullible followers fall for it.
Everyone’s beliefs are their own business until they make them public. Then they are fair game and even more so when you are a public figure. So anyone who supports abortion and organizations that profit from this like Planned Parenthood, is truly evil and depraved, and needs to be called out.
Conclusion
For all those who follow him, do not be fooled, Asmongold is not your friend. The logical conclusion of his belief system is that video games will become more infested with wokeness and DEI ideology until they have become unplayable. By then Asmongold will be working in a new grift and taking his millions with him. Already he is setting himself up to compete with Geoff Keighley with his OTK gaming awards.
It’s easy to think that Asmongold is based. But he is anything but. In reality, the aw-shucksy Asmongold is the court jester of the video game industry. While playing the part of a fool, he’s no fool and is extremely intelligent. He’s a moving target that vacillates between seriousness and comedy which is a technique that people like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert perfected. Anyone who follows this clown is involved in a cult of personality and needs to do some serious soul-searching.
Asmongold is the archetypal nerd that many gamers aspire to be like. There’s this fantasy out there that somehow you can play video games all day long, live in your parent’s basement, drink Mountain Dew, and be a filthy slob. The same fantasy exists in the music industry where anyone can pick up a guitar and pretend to be a rock star.
If you are a gamer, streamer, influencer, or developer who cares about the current woeful state of video games and if you are upset about the terrible quality of recent video games, you cannot sit on the sidelines and expect that games will suddenly get good again. You have to do SOMETHING. You have to get INVOLVED. You have to take a STAND. You have to FIGHT.
Or you can be like Asmongold who sits on the sidelines, and pretends to care about gamers but does nothing and rakes in millions a year with his clown show making reaction videos. To whom much is given, much is expected. Thankfully there are others in the video game industry that are unafraid to speak out. Sadly, these voices are rare as there are a significant number of cowardly journalists, writers, YouTubers, influencers, and streamers who have not spoken out about what is going on.
What we do in this life will echo throughout eternity, so be like a man like Mark Kern who is standing up for what’s right and takes abuse for it; don’t be a child kike Asmongold who’s a culture war draft-dodging buffoon.
–Wolfshead
Asmongold is like many of his generation, roughly Generation Y, though I don’t want to limit this to X, Y, Z generations, but make a general observation:
If not for his success as streamer, he would be a poor bloke, a man-child that has never grown up, but then he might have had his moment to wake up and look at things differently, who knows. But not in his streamer bubble away from the world.
He simply doesn’t know it better and never had to think hard or critical much in his life. His only major crisis might have been the death and illness of his mother.
He is smart or at least not stupid, he isn’t a bad guy, but harsh realities, hard regular work, confronting a frightening world outside the gaming bubble? He avoided that successfully.
I am much older than Asmongold and today it is probably way worse, but when I was in university there were already gender courses and left-wing student organizations taking over, the academic shift to an extreme and insane left was already in motion before I studied.
I didn’t fall for it, but many did. But I was also studying, away from the world, I focused on studying and online gaming, reading and now and then selling insurances. Life was good.
You noticed WAY earlier than me or most others what is going on. You might have noticed that many could no longer follow you and even despised you when your blog became more political and critical.
Even I thought, wow, he is very conservative and why is he so upset. I could not always follow it. I didn’t see it at that time. Many other blogs even removed you from blogrolls, but that coincided with the general decline in MMO blogging.
Asmongold is a left winger, but not a strong believer, he is simply immature and clueless, despite not being stupid, reason see above. Because his generation got spoon fed this nonsense until they really believed it.
And many people are simply too gullible and go with the flow. This is how evil comes to the world. Not through obvious atrocities, but through sins like sloth and gluttony. I see gluttony not only as overeating but as over consumption. Acedia is hard to translate, it is a progenitor sin to restlessness and instability, and this is what not only he is suffering from nowadays.
As usual an outstanding reply! That last paragraph was an exceptional explanation for how evil spreads.
I appreciate the honest account of how this website changed. I think the Gamergate scandal opened my eyes. Then Blizzard started calling for diversity. After that, I just could not remain silent. I was made persona non grata by the MMO blogosphere about 10 years ago. You are right that I was removed from most blog rolls. That’s a small price to pay for having your integrity intact.
Most of my regular posters stopped coming when I started speaking out on cultural issues. Video games are about escapism and most people would rather stick their heads in the sand and not confront the reality of how this genre has been captured.
Thanks for sticking with me all these years! I really value the current bunch of posters that post here regularly.
At first, a few years ago, I thought Asmongold was cool, he was talking about games, especially WoW, which I like a lot, he was being “critical” and I would listen to most of his videos on YT, even when playing some games, I would play his videos in the background.
A friend of mine told me Asmongold was not being genuine and he was actually doing what Athene did before – to create a cult of himself. Now when you look at all Asmongold’s fans – they are his cultists. At first I did not believe that, but in time, I began to realize it.
When I also started noticing the woke propaganda in most games and noticed a few occasions where Asmongold was defending it, or acting ignorant or just doing other things that I disagree with, like raising money and donating it to the ukrainian terrorists or when he was talking about streamers being hypocrites and he started defending them, because he is in cahoots with some of them and he is one of them, I started believing that he is actually full of sh!t. I haven’t listened to his videos in some months now, because now I don’t agree with him on almost nothing, besides, now I fully believe his hypocrisy and don’t want to waste my time listening to his drivel.
How he milks stupid content in ranting for hours, then arguing with a couple of people who also have a lot of time on their hands to argue with him and when they start winning the arguments, he gets frustrated and bans them from the chat only so he can have the last word and basically say “if you don’t agree with me, you are not welcome here” or in other words “you are extremely stupid for not agreeing with me” and then proceeds to shame people for various reasons, while his cultists in the chat praise him.
It has turned from something enjoyable, to something that is at the same time, sad, scary and depressing to witness.
So true. He’s a con man. He’s a man child. I don’t even like having to write about him but I do because nobody else has seen fit to hold him accountable. Lots of streamers idolize him as well.
Sadly, Asmongold is the standard bearer for MMO gamers. He’s been invited to BlizzCon and has a unearned status that boggles my mind.
The worst part is that thousands of gamers follow this guy, pay him a monthly sub. Instead of playing games, they are following a degenerate streamer. He curses all the time and takes Our Lord’s name in vain regularly.
I have a special revulsion for the inane reaction videos he does. He sits back and yammers away commenting on other people’s hard work. He’s a complete grifter.
Imagine being a grown man and giving this buffoon money. Have they no shame?
What’s sad in today’s world is people like him get to be successful. He likes to call himself “a goblin” as a joke due to his lifestyle. But I think there is truth in this and it goes beyond a joke and it goes beyond him – all the other streamers who want to make a living while not having a real job or providing anything to society are the same goblins and the fact that they are being enabled to do so is sad, tragic and discouraging to the people who want to live in the real world, work and so forth.
I want to believe that there will be retribution one day when they will lose everything or be forced to take up a real job, like the rest of us. I think he also hypocritically talked about how Chinese kids want to be astronauts and scientists, while western (in particular American) kids want to be streamers and influencers instead. Then he goes on to criticize this while being a 30+ year old man who actively avoids getting a real job and is proud so of this. I do want to believe there will be retribution one day.
Mark 8:36
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”
You did the right thing back in the days. Against quite some backlash.
Some influencers on Youtube, Twitch etc. should think about this verse. Even if they don’t know the bible at all, it is a fundamental moral question even a totally ignorant person must answer. Knowing the bible and reading in general helps, I still believe people inherently know right from wrong, though. They still pick wrong too often.
Thanks for the kind comments.
I’d like to add that I’ve had no support from other conservatives in the gaming community over the years. I’ve written glowing articles about various conservatives in gaming culture and never once got any kind of acknowledgement. I’ve sent many private emails of support to websites like Bounding Into Comics but never had the courtesy of a reply. People on the right are terrible with solidarity with their own kind where people on the left stick together like a tribe.
I do what I do because it’s the right thing to do. If I end up with one or two loyal readers then so be it. I’m not going to comprise myself or my relationship with God for the fleeting praise of the world.
To think of Hollyweird, who hired this guy, again? Wasn’t he that was part of network that also is used by Mr. Beast, as told by Pepes and Papas?
Dave Chappelle(years ago), said would not wear a woman’s dress randomly. But Bruce Willis did, just like everyone else since and before, even to the beginning of Hollyweird.
App-Lie(Yes) this logic, Zack did this put on a dress like, as Bugs Bunny as woman. Kiss Yosemite Sam! This too happens, the newest member of OTK Will Neff as a woman(E-girl). Smooched Pepe Le Pew!
Zack sold himself to Asmon(s), which the first was Nimrod, who was a mason- it says so on a 1 dollar bill . Zack is Asmon, but there is Zack his friend. Different personae, two faced. While an honest man knows he acts differently to others day-to-day, a dishonest one goes about as an actor character and everyone believes that Character.
(To note, He will never in good faith play Guild Wars 2, or even Guild Wars 1. Not even a “Let’s see how this alummi of Blizzard did” for their work, as a full game review design point. For a guy who goes on about Blizzard all their time, he completely hates being mentioned to about Guild Wars 2.)
OTK=One True King(Lucifarian, Anti-Christ)Organization/Group/Society=Streamers in Texas life filled with Progressive ways California(they still PLEDGE not just vote the same way). Texas is liberal as the rest. Deception is the way, degeneracy is the result. Lucifarian Light is much worse than Satanic Darkness. Where the Darkness you see the full ugliness, but the Light is a false light, a deceptive perversion to all that is Good.
Wolfshead, there is a saying in Bulgarian, it goes something like this “The Wolf’s neck is thick because he does his job alone”. AKA a tough guy because he relies on one.