MEASURED RESPONSE: SOY BOYS - BACKER VERSION

I finished NITW the other day and I'm really excited to hear your take on it. I'm kind of curious if some of the cultural stuff translates well to a British audience. I thought it was really good!

So did you actually lose and weight or feel any different at all from having no meat for 2 months? :)

Tempest

I'm quite looking forward to your piece on NITW, as I finished it recently - while stuff like Undertale and Nier and LIsa are amazing and touching examples of using their medium well, none of them were quite as, uh, personally affected like NITW.

If you're interested in the Psychology of the right-wing, Innuendo Studios recently recommended to me the book "The Authoritarians" about people with authoritarian personality types and why they act the way they do

Sean Haskett

Love the vid! Thanks for the heads up about silica in grass. That could've really messed up my teeth.

Naomi Hatchman

Amazing vid. There is a typo when you point out to the nutritionist how fair use works. Of course it may be intentional to prove everyone does indeed make mistakes.

Louise

7:14 o.o CITATION NEEEEEEDED (always wanted to do that lol)

GhostSnake

Amazing video, especially liked the part about Festinger and cognitive Dissonance since because I could feel like an intellectual because my prof covered that in my social psychology class last year. The stuff about Phytoestrogens was really interesting and I actually laughed tears because Kaayla Daniel calls herself the naughty nutritionist.

Saru

Loved the video, as always. I especially like the ending; a more philosophical explanation for "why do these people believe these stupid things?" IMO the audio was fine throughout, nothing a bit of EQ and compression can't fix.

Aaron Nemoyten

nvm, phytoestrogens are definitionally nonsteroidal, i fucked that up

When talking about the doctor that Buzzfeed Try Guys regularly visit, you say he's from the "University of California" when he's really from the "University of California (in) Los Angeles." We have more than one University of California out here in California, some of which are held in higher regard than others when it comes to certain topics, and for this one you're ***definitely*** going to want to mention he's specifically from UCLA.

Why is it that when anyone talks about a subject that opposes alt-right beliefs, regardless of how diplomatic or carefully constructed the argument is, it is interpreted as "autistic screeching" (as one comment in the video states)?

James Interactive

Love it! Only thing to note is a typo at 22:03 - “Not how **far** use works”, presume you meant to write "fair"? Apart from that great video, I need to show this to my partner who has seemingly bought into these claims about soy (although thankfully not from alt-right nutjobs, but a bunch of "scientists" and "food experts") Apparently it's because soy here is fermented as opposed to non-fermented in Asia? Anyway thanks again for amazing work!

if being a soy boy is wrong i dont wan't to be right

Super Depressing Lifestyle Championship Edition

Brilliant as usual

SurgeryHead

Brilliant as always, very educational, hat cliff joke was great XD

Dave

oh shit, your testosterone i so high your hairline is receding, sorry soy-bro

civilization fiction

Get a haircut Harold.

You might want to mention at 14:35 that even the promising looking 'Human Reproduction (PDF)' link doesn't go to the article. It goes to a blank PDF that looks like it once may have been a press release about the article.

Sean Riley

(Also, tigers don't only live in India. Siberian tigers live in - well, you know.)

Button

If you're redoing the voiceovers anyway, I think it might be helpful, when talking about the sheep study, to note that yes you can draw tentative conclusions based on animal studies if no human studies or very few human studies have been done. But when you get to the point where you're citing animal studies to make claims that directly contradict the studies that have actually been done on humans, then you're basically just lying at that point. Since you know some idiot will call you out about rejecting studies done on animals, and didn't you know that these are actually very important, and clearly you just don't know how to science blah blah blah.

Button

i'm looking forward to this new trend of lefty youtubers pouring soy milk on themselves i eagerly await lindsay ellis' contribution - it'll pair well with that clip from her freddy got fingered video

nevermind, refreshed comments and someone else let you know. :)

Kaelik

"that's not how Far Use Works" is in there on the Kayla whatever part criticizing Paul Joseph Watson. Probably want to correct that.

Kaelik

there also may be value in comparing the structure of testosterone and estradiol; they're actually more similar in structure than estradiol and isoflavone. also, the reason all these are so similar is because they're all steroids - the name for the class of chemicals that has that characteristic 4-ring structure

minor quibble at 5:29 - estradiol is pronounced ess-tra-DYE-all. it's so named because of the two -OH groups (or alcohols) not sure if you can or care to fix something that small, but there it is :)

Getting soy milk poured on your face is the manliest thing

IcyKitty

i loved the bit at the end when you talked to PJW fans about how actually listening to what someone else has to say can be "outsmarting" peers who simply believe they're right. glad to have folks like you in the world who are more interested in trying to see what the truth is, without holding to preconceptions, while having a great laugh throughout. this video made a shit depressive night significantly better for me. <3

alice

You're basically being water-boarded with soy milk at the end.

I think this is now one of my favourite videos of yours

Forever my favourite SoiBoi doing the thinking so I don't have to. <3

Emi Egan

I 100% thought the heartfelt conclusion to the video in the woods was going to abruptly end with him being shot by one of the stray bullets from earlier in the video

Didge Ridoo

Are they... fluffy handcuffs

Debunking nonsense is important, but I feel as though the mindset behind this shit is the real problem. It was really gratifying to hear you talk a little about why people believe in this stuff. I feel like the behavior of the online right is really indicative of a widespread mental health issue, so while watching their claims get taken apart is fun, I'm always dying to know WHY they believe this crap. So thank you for taking a little time to touch on it. I'd love to see you talk more about the psychology that drives this nonsense.

Steeeeve

Another entertaining and informative video from king Soy Boy himself.

Gabriel Costa (Hired Sword)

stellar as always.

"my dick is wet with the soy" is a good quote

also i'm dreading what the internet will do with that footage of you getting soy milk poured over your head 🙈

Calysto

^^^^

i noticed a typo at 22:03 i believe. it says "not how far use works" instead of, i'm guessing "fair use"?

Calysto

SOY BOY is so last month. I'm a... a SOY YOB!

Pavel A

Phenomenal as usual. Hilarious with the right dose of sobering legitimate research. Worth every penny!

Crack open a cold one with your soy boys

Kilo Lima Oscar

IT'S HERE SOIBOIS

Alex Scranton