It's Up! What Is "Virtue Signalling"?

This is one of my favourite videos on YT and I've been using this name on various platforms since last year because of it.

I made it up as a parody of weird reactionary terms. It turns out it's also semi-real already because of course

Hbomb

I still don't know what they mean by a spengler...

Dang ben, chris, or whatever your name is, your videos have come a long way and the production values have increased so much, im really impressed. I laughed my ass off and scared the dog.

Shared this on my Facebook to hopefully bother a couple of old school friends who've gone all weird and alt-rightish after gamergate happened, haha. One day they'll work out how silly they're being.

Thanks for letting me know about this. I'll aim to be more consistent in future

Hbomb

I'm too busy chuckling at mermaid!Jordan Owen and BAE-TAWS to fully appreciate my name being pronounced correctly

Casey Schnaible

If you backed me in May your name will start appearing in June! If you backed me in April then I have made a huge oversight and an apology is in order.

Hbomb

I love the two-legged guys, especially the picture where people are standing around the ad hominer. They all have great expressions! XD Btw you can change my name to just text, please. I don't mind when my name is said out loud but if I can save you some space at the end I'd like to do that. Obviously if you've already recorded it, it's fine.

Amanda Beverley

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! This may actually be your best serious analysis yet, and I'd consider it my second or third favourite video you've produced (behind Thunderf00t and perhaps also the Sierra Effect one). For the future in the end credits, can you give my name as Jon 9? Thank you so much, Sir Hbomb, you're a national treasure. Though we still need that fake blood exorcism video of you purging yourself of the skull demons that Aurini and Owen have infected you with :D

I love your videos and this is no exception, but I do have a small critique? In this and others, you put text on the screen that's funny and makes a good point, while saying something different overtop of it. Both statements are interesting and funny and I want to pay attention to them both, but because I'm trying to read something that says something different from what's being spoken to me, it's really disorienting and I end up not parsing anything (I can't hear and pay attention to what you're saying and I can't read and interpret what you've written, so it becomes just "noise"). It's your video, of course, and do what you want, I can always just pause the video, but that seems to disrupt the flow a bit. Again, I want to make it clear that I will back you no matter what, and that I watch your videos a lot and always enjoy them; I just wanted to bring this up that it's a bit distracting and confusing. <3

With the month now passed, I can't wait til the next video where hopefully my name will get mentioned.

Ah, thank you! You pronounced my name right! That never happens, haha.

Samael

I split the list of backers into two so they got more room to breathe in each video.

Hbomb

Randomly capitalising my name in the last video and now I'm missing from this one?! I'm going to file a complaint with my Local MP and or the weird guy in the pub who's convinced that wheat beer is an invention of aliens designed to make us susceptible to their mind rays.