LTT photoshopping medical disability onto Linus for clickbait... really?!

[Roswell]

So here's the deal... I'm not some fragile snowflake, nor do I have said disability. But let's get real, photoshopping a a visual impairment disability onto Linus for laughs and clickbait is of really poor taste.

 

This is the condition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus

 

You're basically making fun of people that suffer from vision loss and face an enormous amount of insecurity and ridicule in their lives so you can get a few more clicks on your video. Where is the line drawn? Would you guys be comfortable photoshopping Linus as an amputee for more clicks? A quadriplegic?  

 

Not cool, LMG team. 

 

 

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Vitamanic said:

So here's the deal... I'm not some fragile snowflake, nor do I have said disability. But let's get real, photoshopping a a visual impairment disability onto Linus for laughs and clickbait is of really poor taste

It got a laugh out of me. On the other hand, I find this thread itself in poor taste.

[flashiling]

i'm pretty sure they didn't mean for it to look like the disability.

and i think it's just an honest mistake in an attempt to make linus look silly, they made it look like an actual disability.

[Kanna]

*grabs snacks and soda before thread war begins* I don't think they meant it as in that way to be against the disability or something I'm not defending but I don't see this as wrong since it's been done more than once on YouTube and it is not meant to be a bad meaning it is meant to be funny

[Prodigy_Smit]

Making a guy look funny is wayyy different from making fun of a disease. I am sure that the LMG team did it with good intentions.
*Ahh yes the thread war begins*

[Lord Vile]

6 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

So here's the deal... I'm not some fragile snowflake, nor do I have said disability. But let's get real, photoshopping a a visual impairment disability onto Linus for laughs and clickbait is of really poor taste.

 

This is the condition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus

 

You're basically making fun of people that suffer from vision loss and face an enormous amount of insecurity and ridicule in their lives so you can get a few more clicks on your video. Where is the line drawn? Would you guys be comfortable photoshopping Linus as an amputee for more clicks? A quadriplegic?  

 

Not cool, LMG team. 

 

 

Anything funny is generally at the expense of someone else. Also it's literally just someone going boz eyed it's not like they've got him in a wheelchair pretending to have Alzheimer's or something. Please stop being a snowflake and getting offended on someone else's behalf.

[Roswell]

Just now, Smit Devrukhkar said:

Making a guy look funny is wayyy different from making fun of a disease. I am sure that the LMG team did it with good intentions.

I think any adult with half a brain is well aware that people that are permanently crosseyed or the opposite as seen above, exist. That's the point, it's not really funny. It's a medical condition.

[Tan3l6]

Calling a person imbecille is 99,9% used technically wrong and derogatively. But it actally has taken that new meaning meaning just fool or something similar.

It's just the human mind - is it a medical condition or derogatory term...

[Murasaki]

In reality it was made for comedic value, no thought was given into the possibility of someone being offended by it. Atleast thats what I think is the case.

[Kilrah]

12 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

I'm not some fragile snowflake

This is exactly how this comes out as though. Who else takes every piece of humor as an attack to whatever group can apply on that day? Ridiculous. 

[Roswell]

3 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

This is exactly how this comes out as though. Who else takes every piece of humor as an attack to whatever group can apply on that day? Ridiculous. 

I don’t think you need to be a snowflake to acknowledge that disabilities shouldn’t be used as a source of humor? 
 

I could see if someone has a disability themself that they can be self deprecating to poke fun at it. But that’s not the case here. The whole acting like you have Down’s syndrome thing in the 90s fell out of favor pretty hard for the same reason.

[WereCatf]

"No one should ever be allowed to make any sort of fun of literally anything, because it'll offend someone"

[Kilrah]

3 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

I don’t think you need to be a snowflake to acknowledge that disabilities shouldn’t be used as a source of humor? 

You need to be a snowflake to instantly assign "funny weird look" to "they're making fun of a disability!"

 

3 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

"No one should ever be allowed to make any sort of fun of literally anything, because it'll offend someone"

Exactly. OP must not be fun at parties.

[Prodigy_Smit]

7 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

I don’t think you need to be a snowflake to acknowledge that disabilities shouldn’t be used as a source of humor? 

There is quite literally nothing you cannot make fun of without offending someone.

[Moonzy]

23 minutes ago, DutchGuyTom said:

I agree that this resembles the visual impairment you're referencing but I genuinely don't think most people are aware of it and/or making the connection.

I did when i saw it, and I can see how some people can get offended by it

 

but LMG didnt mean to mock anyone or anything, it's just an honest mistake. coincidence.

IMO, they should change it. funny faces are fine, but when it resembles a disability, that's where I draw the line.

[Roswell]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

You need to be a snowflake to instantly assign "funny weird look" to "they're making fun of a disability!"

 

Exactly. OP must not be fun at parties.

So... people that face visual impairment and ridicule = “funny weird look”?

 

This response would be more logical if it was some obscure disease or disability, but it’s not. You and everyone else knows these people exist.

[3 Lions]

Oh yeah, I forgot in 2020 we can't make jokes anymore... 

[Roswell]

1 minute ago, Smit Devrukhkar said:

There is quite literally nothing you cannot make fun of without offending someone.

General rule of thumb is don’t make fun of someone’s disability, race, etc. Things people can’t change. It’s not a super hard thing to avoid.

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

So... people that face visual impairment and ridicule = “funny weird look”?

Context matters, but you're completely ignoring that.

[IAmAndre]

43 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

You're basically making fun of people that suffer from vision loss and face an enormous amount of insecurity and ridicule in their lives so you can get a few more clicks on your video. Where is the line drawn? Would you guys be comfortable photoshopping Linus as an amputee for more clicks? A quadriplegic?  

You mean just like all cartoons and children comic books? There's also a medical condition making people turn red (allergies do that too) so should we  all feel outraged about angry face emojis?

43 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

I'm not some fragile snowflake

Not so sure about that. Trying to feel outraged out of everything isn't going to make things better. If they had put a picture of Linus with no hair it would be making fun of people fighting a cancer and if he was eating a hamburger it would be making fun of people with obesity.

[IAmAndre]

33 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

It got a laugh out of me. On the other hand, I find this thread itself in poor taste.

 

31 minutes ago, Kanna said:

*grabs snacks and soda before thread war begins* I don't think they meant it as in that way to be against the disability or something I'm not defending but I don't see this as wrong since it's been done more than once on YouTube and it is not meant to be a bad meaning it is meant to be funny

Exactly. It's super easy today to pretend to feel outraged about any random thing to grab attention. I think we shouldn't reply to threads of this kind in the first place. It's not like it will end up like "Okay you're right, I made a stupid assumption."

[19_blackie_73]

28 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

I think any adult with half a brain is well aware that people that are permanently crosseyed or the opposite as seen above, exist. That's the point, it's not really funny. It's a medical condition.

Then make another thread about an comic book characters that turns its exes unnaturally because thats bad taste too...

 

Seriously, just because you make linus look silly doesn't equal making fun of medical conditions. By this definition, making linus stand crooket equals making fun of having some other disability...

[Kilrah]

20 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

So... people that face visual impairment and ridicule = “funny weird look”?

 

This response would be more logical if it was some obscure disease or disability, but it’s not. You and everyone else knows these people exist.

I have a close friend who actually has eyes looking like that, along with many other disabilities. 

But I'm able to understand the context and know that the thumbnail actually has nothing do do with people like him.

 

It's not because it looks the same that the intent is to stab at anyone. People who can't differentiate that are incredibly superficial. 

 

The "offended" game never works positively for anyone. If you're offended for a group that you're not even part in, why do you not consider that you saying you're offended offends someone else? 

 

Just goes around in circles for absolutely no valid reason. And usually the goup you feel offended for wouldn't even be offended themselves.

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, DutchGuyTom said:

And you're forgetting that some people have strabismus and live with it everyday. For them, this thumbnail could be another reminder that their disability is just a funny face to others.

I'm not forgetting it, actually. I just don't agree about the relevance. The funny eyes in the thumbnail is in the context of Microsoft now making games both for themselves and their competitor, not in the context of just simply making fun of people with strabismus.

[Moonzy]

2 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

context of Microsoft now making games both for themselves and their competitor

honestly, i didnt think it was about this

just thought it was another random funny face (that resembled the disability)