Hey everyone, my name is Anthony and welcome back from my hiatus countdown.
Ohh man, 2021 is such a year that its not easy to describing how either crazy or struggling we're getting into, yes we still have the same thing from 2020, at least we're trying to break free from the curse of last year, perhaps?
Because of this, i had to pick 11 moments that really made me wanna talk about, im going from good all the way to the worst one that really pinching my nerve of rage. However, this is gonna be my final countdown of controversial moments of the year, cause back then, i though it will be fun that i wanna share my thoughts about what happened around this year, but im started to loose my interest of it, so im writing this one more time and moving on.
Oh btw, i even wrote my dishonorable mention on Status, there's the link if you want to read: https://www.deviantart.com/blackevil915/status-update/Hey-guys-since-im-going-901967812
So now we got the Dishonorable mentions out of way, lets get to the list for the last time, shall we?
Number 11: F1 2021
Ohhh boy, where do i begin with this dramatic season...?!
First of all, im calling it controversial, its just that i like to put it on this list for fun and describing the season for how insane it was, yes, it also has some bad moments.
The whole season is all about a very dramatic and sour fight between Max Verstappen from Red Bull and Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes. Lewis had won seven times to tying record with Michael Schumacher, sure he's been struggling he wanted to win a hundred time before Russian GP. Meanwhile Max Verstappen is surprisingly pretty good in his run with wins, smart strategy with his team and he nearly dominating the whole season, of course, Verstappen and Hamilton constantly fighting each others for the champion for how to overtaking or worst of all, touching and crashing together, which it literally giving us a Vietnam flashback of a championship incidents like Ayrton Senna vs Alain Prost twice in 1989 and 1990, Michael Schumacher vs Damon Hill in 1994 and Jacque Villeneuve vs Michael Schumacher in 1997.
Before Abu Dhabi GP, what about some others stuff than Verstappen vs Hamilton? Well, they have some impressive and lucky moments, like Lando Norris, from McLaren, has been a podium 4 times, including finishing second place in Italian GP with his teammate Daniel Ricciardo in McLaren too, took his first W since 2018 Monaco GP thanks to Hamilton and Verstappen crashing each others at the first corner, despite Norris was trying to win in Russia, but he was way to confident to win in raining that he slipped off the track in his slick tyres while Hamilton drove in wet tyres.
Alpine is also having a great performance, such as Estaban Ocon took his first victory in Hungarian GP based on a chaotic start and Mercedes's brain dead strategy, and man, Fernando Alonso made a very good come comeback from finishing in Top 10 numerous times to seeing him to the podium in Qatar GP for the first time since 2014 Hungarian GP, its not hard to see why we love to see him again ever since he's the 2 times champ in 2005 to 06.
Surprisingly, Ferrari are doing pretty good, its almost like they've learned their clowning mistake, by scoring more with finishing top 10 and of course, Carlos Sainz jr climbed to the podium 4 times, sure Charles Leclerc had a podium, but he was foreshadowed by Sainz's surprising performance, not wonder why he extended the contract t stay in Ferrari, so lets hope for the best at the Italian team.
And of course, Williams had a lucky moments despite being a sad backmarkers, including George Russell scored the most thanks to climbing in the podium at "Belgium GP" (I use the term very loosely, because THERE IS NO RACE FROM HEAVY RAIN!!), so good that he'll going to Mercedes at next season which im anticipating for him.
Of course, there are some ugly moments aside from sour feud between Hamilton and Verstappen, there's some races are flat out boring like Monaco GP (sure Verstappen won with Sainz and Norris reuniting together as best friends, but its how it was nothing special and a dumb TV direction), having Saudi Arabia GP is the track that we've never asking for in the same way in Formula E or in WWE, Valteri Bottas worthless performance in Mercedes that he's leaving to Alfa Roman (Yes yes, use your aggressive feeling on me for nothing, Bottas fanboys, let the hate flow through you), Sebastian Vettel, in Aston Martin, kept messing himself around (which begs my question, why was he the 4 times champ and finished in second at Baku when he kept F***ing himself up?!), the aforementioned Belgium GP that there's no race from heavy rain for "Safety reason" (yes, im using the term loosely as their excuse, remember the 1998 Belgium GP having a crazy race in heavy rain? Good times...), Michael Masi is debatable for either a good race director or a dumb race director (especially how he possibly messing up Saudi Arabia GP based on the most confusing direction i've ever seen) and of course, Haas performed terrible with S****ty livery with Russian flag and sponsor (despite that Haas is an American Team!!), Mick Schumacher is having an embarrassing start (which i felt sorry for him, since he's the son of the seven times champion that we all know and loved) and Nikita Mazepin tries F1 and being sucks at which whenever he does something stupid, im always questioned on Twitter "Nikita Mazepin, The F*** are doing...?!".
And not mention the official F1 decided to inventing a Sprint race that on Friday its qualification, Saturday for Sprint race and Sunder, the main race. I get this is because they need to raise the money for more time and the rating, but this isn't helping to win back the fans, it just comes off as desperate to boost their rating and not to mention, straight up copying from F2.
And lets not forget about Abu Dhabi GP, it became the most dramatic and possibly the most controversial season ending ever, where it started all boring where Lewis Hamilton is in the lead in a whole race, but at the end of the race, Nicholas Latifi (in Williams) was raced so hard and desperate, he ended up crashing to the barrier, as a result, it gave a safety car, but it took forever with unlapped drives stay forever before the track is cleaned and let them go where they belong, resulting a sprint race at final lap, and Verstappen was easily overtook Hamilton thanks to Red Bull's pitting strategy that he changed to soft tyres in order pass him very easily and quickly and thus, Max Verstappen became a Champion to beat Hamilton's streak (yes, i do mean streak that he won from 2017 to 2020), which resulting Mercedes went into a nuclear meltdown that it wasn't supposed to happen, Toto Woff (the principal of Mercedes) protested to reset the race of final lap, but nope, you gotta accept the race and the FIA stood by their decision for who'll be accepted to win the championship. In fact, Mercedes went into a protest that they want to fix the race that again, wasn't supposed to happen, but the FIA rejected their protest and Wolff and Hamilton refused to be in FIA's ceremony that Verstappen won the title, despite Mercedes won the constructor's championship, which the team ended up being investigated for their sore losing act.
Like i said, im not saying its pretty bad, i enjoy the whole season, every thing about the drama is either understandable to controversial at the time, which is why il put it lower on the list, we'll see F1 again next new for something new and promising.
Number 10: Shops with empty shelves and screwing over employees
Ever since the curfew was finished around in February (more on that later), i was going back to my job and be happy that some employees from other businesses to getting back from before and of course, get paid.
Unfortunately, many businesses like shops whenever i came in (like Walmart, Maxi, etc), i've seen some shelves are nearly empty that it makes customers (such as myself) turning into complainers and "Must-have shoppers" (which is a kind of customer who's looking for ONE specific item, otherwise he/she will be pissed if its not there) whenever they never restock their shelves.
Welp, it turns out its a mixed answers for either employees got screwed over from the boss if it doesn't going for big brands or worst of all, some people just don't want to work there, but just sit on he couch and have a bottle to watch something for getting paid by government per monthly.
Which is downright unfair for how many people or the boss just don't care about the condition or the safety of our lives from the virus that we're struggling, the only thing that they care for is money, its either some important stuff like pay the bills on paperwork or just buying some big stuff to make them look rich (or perhaps lying when you have millions on your bank, but in reality, your bank is nearly for over spending, even if im one of those...).
Well sure some people don't want to work but stay isolated for the fear of virus that we're still fighting, i maybe understand, but once again, if you really want to get paid, GET A JOB like a real people who can do that!! I know im sound like im taking jobs too seriously, but its just that i don't understand why some businesses like shops are going down with empty shelves and the lack of employees for any reason what so ever.
I hope when the virus is over, we can go back with more employees to be hired and their stock grew back up from improvement.
Number 9: Hot Tubs and ASMR streaming
You know my friends, i've talked about about some controversies on Youtube, but i've never talked about livestreams like Twitch, i tried to be on Twitch, but i ended not in a mood for it after i created an account for like a couple of years ago.
Ever since we're watching on livestreams, we've seen some typical stuff, gaming, talking to chats and few other entertaining stuff, of course, some ladies too a few steps ahead that they tried to get their attention from suggestive comments to wearing lingerie and bikinis, some are ok or others just playing violated.
Unfortunately, some ladies took to a whole new level, mainly the infamous Hot Tub livestream, which is basically girls blew a mini tub, filed with water, stripping off to bikini, sits in there for doing whatever to make views and money, and many people starting to protest that they violated the ToS (Terms of Services), which leads to war between anti tubbers and even the defenders, mainly some of them doing even more suggestive like humping the floaties or bikini going loose. Twitch took notice about this trend, they had to including this trend in a category to put Hot Tubs in the specific category
Ok so Twitch had to make a new rule when it comes to Hot Tub, so you think the ladies would just accept the rule changing and moving on, right? NO! Because later on, another controversy came in where one female user took ASMR to a whole new level by doing something even worse with suggestive S*** and making out with a microphone! It got so bad that Twitch went into Purge by banning some of these so-called "ASMR streamers" (yes, i use the term loosely, because this like a level of porn, not typical quite sound in ASMR), despite some of them got banned multiple times, they kept coming back without being banned for life, come on Twitch! You're supposed to kicked them out of existence, not get away like nothing happened or even banning some innocent users for NOTHING!
Look, im not trying to be sexist or anything, i have a respect for the ladies, they have beauty, they have a personality (depending) and some of them deserves a respect, but i just don't understand why some of them took too far from having a swimming pool in the room or doing something dirty in ASMR, i just don't understand about this.
To quote from my Comment on Scarce's video: I feel like im losing the faith of humanity when the girls on Twitch took their ASMR content to a disgusting and meaningless level. (ugh... I need a barf bag...)
Number 8: WWE's dumping out
When it comes to pro-wrestling, there are some bad ones like Ring Of Honor is going into hiatus due to their struggle of losing money and the lack of audience from pandemic, NXT changing their look to fighting against AEW, Ric Flair's rollercoaster time, Vince McMahon's golden egg and some others.
But the one that really pissed me the most is many people who worked on WWE are all released. It all started last year that some wrestlers and producers are both out due to the pandemic (or should i say "budget cuts" for BS reason), but this year, WWE are completely out of control that they kicked out more than 50 people who worked on WWE, its not just jobbers or producers, they took out main wrestlers, middle wrestlers, announcers, commentators, referees, former champs, some who're already signed but probably didn't last long, people appearing on TV and couple more that they're all removed from the big company like WWE!
What's worse is that some wrestlers are removed that ended up causing a broken down storylines, which is unfair for what happens next when he/she is gone, which they had no choice but to change the subject of the stories with some new ones that ended up either alright to even worse.
Not to mention, if they removing wrestlers from budget reasons, why WWE is a billion dollar company, there's no reason to take out some wrestlers in the locker room in order to save your money, despite WWE is already rich with billions of cash for taking out some of their friends out of the company. Sure, there are some wrestlers who're glad to be released for going other brands like AEW, IMPACT or many others, considering how WWE is turning into a neglectful wrestling brands that you got hired, but then you ended up being dumping out after like 3 or 5 years.
In the end, we're stuck with some familiar faces, but ended up having some nobodies that we never heard of, sure we had Bianca Belair who won the SmackDown Woman's Championship at Wrestlemania 37, but all the sudden a few months later, Becky Lynch came back from family to humiliating Bianca to win the belt as SummerSlam 2021, but at least we maybe like to having Becky being a heel.
Number 7: Vaccination vs Covid-19 plus variants
Yes, im putting outside of the podium because as im working, despite we're still dealing with the virus, we're still trying to fight back.
In my previous work, i mentioned the Covid-19 as an obvious number 1 biggest why 2020 is the worst year ever, aside from police brutality against black people and the semi international wildfire like in Australia, but i digress.
It started that in my homeland Canada with a curfew i think in December, which im cool with it as a vacation, only in stay home for safety reasons. But then after January, i was expecting to going back to my business, but the curfew has expanded that many people (including your's truly) got angry we're protesting them for probably screwing over businesses that i mentioned before. But thankfully, we came back to business, despite some struggles.
And of course, we're having a vaccination, which according to WHO (World Health Organization), many people will have two doses by different vaccine brands, some are prefect and others could be risky. If you ask me, i had a vaccination with Pfizer and its the most perfect vaccine to keeping me (along with my mom and other people with Pfizer) to be in good shape to stop the virus, aside from temporary headache.
So after the vaccination i had, we went so far so good, aside of telling these anti-vaxxers to shut the hell up of kill themselves if they don't want to be cure for their poor excuses, i know its rude to tell them to kill themselves, but seriously, there is no excuses by saying "Vaccination = Death", that's just stupid!
however, as im working this list, the virus is coming back with Omicron that came from Africa, which we already banning the trip there, but the virus has spreading, which means more curfew and vaccination, AGAIN! But il defend that its not the Africans fault, its obviously the Chinese fault for the responsible of the virus since two to three years ago! No wonder why we're boycotting for their Winter Olympic.
So i hope we gotta stop the damn virus out of our world...!
Number 6: Nintendo still hates their fans
Last year, i picked when the eSports tournament of Smash Bros and Splatoon are canceled by Nintendo's C&D, just because they're using mods for "screwing over their games", which it doesn't make any sense because we're growing in 2020 decade that we have to fix it, not kept their games protected from "vicious mods"!
But as time goes, looks like Nintendo has done it again with aside of more C&Ds to shut down fan-made downloadable games (as well as releasing Metroid Dread on PC before Switch that Nintendo shuts the PC version down, which is a good thing.), but there are couple moments that im pointing out for blaming at their overprotection or their ignorance.
The most easiest one is the second/final season pass of Smash Bros Ultimate, it started alright with Min-Min from ARMS that she looks unique with her different weapons you can swap on (even though i've never played ARMS, yet...) and then there's Steve from Mincecraft, which not a lot of people questioned Nintendo's decision of this guy, but come on, Minecraft is everywhere and its not hard to see why many people playing it (Yes, i also played it back then). But everything went down from hill after Sephiroth was chosen (That fine, even if he's maybe the most requested from back then), Nintendo went completely ignorant at the fans (yours truly included) that they decided to pick whoever they wanted then the fans asking for like Shantae, Doom Slayer, Dante or any others, but all we have is Pyra/Mythra from Xenoblade (though i admitted they look cute, maybe i wanna try Xenoblade) and Kazuya from Tekken, many fans are furious for their picky roster and worst of all, the requests that i mentioned like Doom Slayer, Shantae and Dante, are all being chosen to Mii Fighter outfits, not only its downright unfair, but also exploitive for asking the fans for cash money, i was pretty much lost all hope and positive about Smash Bros, because Nintendo doesn't care about the fans.
Of course, they eventually chosen the long requested one Sora from Kingdom Hearts, but im sorry to say Sora fans, the damage was already done, because he's the last DLC fighter. Yes i know, i've seen numerous fan posts of "What if" where our favorite characters like Sora to be in the roster for our promises, but here, Sora was chosen at the wrong timing, making Smash Bros's season is nothing but disappointment that we lost all of our promises, even after that Masahiro Sakurai (the creator of Smash Bros series) said that he's possibly done with it and gives his right away to anybody on Nintendo, which means i see no future of Smash Bros, which it explained why other companies trying to make their OWN Smash Bros like Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl that it came out on October 5th 2021 and the upcoming WB's Multiverse, which im look forward for the latter (including fighting with either Steven Universe, Superman, Batman, Garnet or our fan-favorite, Shaggy from Scooby-Doo).
There are many other things that i pointing the blame on their business decision, like the ongoing Joycon drift, the classic games with N64 and SEGA Genesis and AC New Horizon DLC are both locked on expansion subscribers yearly and some of their franchise like F-Zero, Star Fox (perhaps?), Mother and others they have are still didn't a chance to coming back.
In the end, if feels like this company is running by Bowser from Super Mario Bros, which probably ironically true when current boss of Nintendo America was guy has a last name "Bowser". Aside their problems, im anticipated for new film adaptation of Super Mario Bros in 2022.
Number 5: Toxic Fandom
Hey there you intoxicated fans, you know who's talking, im talking about you being a disgusting and nasty fans who're making a idiotic excuse posts on social medias that you love to talking smack about.
Well ok, i will admit, im maybe nasty at some like the Canadian politics or Nintendo, but at least i tried to make a point by saying expanding curfew is a risk our businesses without getting paid or even Nintendo, well, being Nintendo, not some stupid excuses!
Ever since i looked around on social medias like Facebook, Twitter, Deviantart or whatever, i've seen so many posts of slanderous, moronic and clueless rants or excuses that you love to standby on your tribe at anybody against the other tribes like F1 with Red Bull vs Mercedes, comics like DC vs Marvel, wrestling like AEW vs WWE or whatever. Because in reality, you toxic fans are hurting any brands to make them declining or even getting blamed from, especially what happened when Nicholas Latifi received death threats for the involvement of controversy, despite for the fact that HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG, BUT JUST AN ACCIDENT or even other brands HAS THEIR DECISION WHAT THEY WANTED AND GOT AWAY WITH, despite we're nothing but forced to accept.
So guess what F***brainers?! You guys managed to be in my controversial list for how stupid and F***ed up posts i'd ever read, give yourselves a hand and thank you very much for making social media into a war zone of idiocy! But if you disagreeing my statement, il drop my conclusion with this: Thank you, F*** you, Bye!
Except for my friends and my good clean fans, some of you deserve a respect instead of these numbnuts.
Number 4: Youtube still hates their content creators and community
If you thought Nintendo are having a bad treatment at the fans/gamers, well Youtube in 2021 is somehow even worse than Nintendo! Though im not talking about users (for the most part), im talking how they run this site into a complete cluster-F***!
The most obvious is how many users are kept being demonetized for no reason what-so-ever, Youtube is like their job to get paid to save their stuff without putting themselves on the line, but instead, Youtube is acting like EA for unpaying people for all the BS reason.
Not to mention, many users are being targeted from copyrights with claimed or striking videos down, which again, they took their time and effort without risking their channel for NOTHING, we've been begging for the freedom of speech, but Youtube just doesn't care anymore. Especially what happened to "TotallyNotMark" got a DMCA warning Toei Animation that Youtube just let them get away with censorship, or worst of all, some users made a fake DMCA to strike down users for unable to take criticisms, which that movement is highly illegal (even though Youtube does listen that fake DMCA for censorship isn't allowed if you're being butthurt).
But now, Youtube went in all time low at November 2021, Youtube decided to removing the Dislike ratio of some videos that are bad like bad criticism videos, bad promotion, bad musics and even Clickbaits, the reason why they did this its because of "We just want to protect them to remain positive then cyberbully", but its a complete BullS***! Because if you remove the dislike ratio of bad videos, then the new system are treating us look like idiots to thinking its a fine video without realizing its a who that deserves a dislike for what he/she/they did is so wrong!!
I was about to consider removing dislike ratio is the final nail of coffin at the end of 2021, but guess what? They're doing even worse recently (as im working this)!! This time any videos when we exposing people who're pedos are all silent from demonetization to auto-removal videos! They pretty much can't take of hearing "good people" being exposed as a pedos that they went to even more stupid censorship!
Great job Susan Wojcicki! Thank you so much for working Youtube into a walking disaster of poor ToS, Zero reason of censorships, mistreating content creators and worse of all, treating viewers look like an idiots for removing the ratio! And now, i think its time to tell everyone on Youtube to jump on the protest wagon to putting the blame on not just the BS rule changing, but also Susan for killing Youtube for neglectful reason...!
Number 3: Capitol's riot
Good lord, this one came from the very beginning of 2021 that i was hoping to think positive for the start, but it turned out to be an endurance to live a bad start.
It all started that ever since Joe Biden is the current president of USA, you got a toxic Trump supporters that they protesting that the voting system is a complete "Rigged", despite that back in Election Day, people in the Election Day had a hard time to count the votes for the final result before Biden is declared the winner in order to end Trump's presidential career and we live happily ever after, right?
Nope! Instead, the Trump army went into a full on riot on the house of Capitol that they destroy all the properties, still accusing the voting system for complete false and worst of all, some innocent bystanders were killed by the rioters, including a policeman!
When i saw that, i was incredibly disgusted that the way they went rampage is not only so wrong, but it makes them soo butthurt for their sore loser attitude...! Not to mention, it made the rioters getting arrested and even going in jail for its mess.
Of course, there are conspiracy theories that Trump allegedly letting his armies to do the riot, despite he denied it, because Trump being Trump. In fact, he was brought to the court about his alleged summoning his army, but ended up being dismissed that he didn't do anything wrong, but i had a mixed feeling that either he didn't do that or he possibly letting his army doing the riots. And probably at the same time, all Trump's platform of social media are all permabanned that it makes us wanna say "Good Riddance", despite he's trying to coming back to social media to creating his own platform called "Truth", but all we wanna say is "We don't care.".
Number 2: The passing of my grandparents and difficulty family
Ok, not only i wanted to talking about this subject, but also quite possibly a fact for why im changed (somehow).
2021 is a very struggling year for both me and my family, its not just the virus that we either blaming on politics or society, but also our passing very sadly.
It all started on April where my grandpa (the father of my mother) was on the line based on the combination of disease of Alzheimer's family gotten worse and even aging heart that he was taken to the hospital twice before passed away, it was heartbroken at first.
But the tragic isn't stop there, because at May, my grandma (the mother of my mother) was also taken to the hospital and died from intestine cancer, her death really hurts me that most because before i was born, my grandma has depression issue that she wanted to regain her good time, but when i was born, i changed her life to make her happy about me, but when she passed away and heard the story from my mom, i cried how i felt sorry for her, i wanted to say goodbye to her, but due to the virus, i can't, il miss my beloved grandma so much on the bottom of my heart. (And yeah, i actually burst in tears while working this)
As time goes, i was pretty much struggling to remaining positive and seeking attention to be happy to sharing my stuff, but pretty much in endurance of emotion and hard to receiving attention, mainly at the comments.
As for what happened to my family, its a same thing that got me with headache, where my mom (though i sympathized for the death of her parents) pretty much talk loud to complaining some bad stuff of society (ranging from careless or clueless people), while my father is pretty much addicted to screening like playing apps, watching TV shows without a time limit in order to going on the bed. I've been begging to stop the same tall-tale drama to remaining positive, but again, its nothing but an endurance of emotion.
So next year, im gonna cross my fingers to think positive without having a same drama over and over, without getting a break-up.
But im sorry for letting you reading this, cause i know most people wanted to get off their chest about their personal struggles like families and such others.
So lets moving on and think positive...
And now for the number most controversial of the year 2021 goes to...!
Number 1: The overdose of cancelling cultures
Yup, its no secret that everything about the culture are nothing but being forced to be silence much like from decades ago...! I just want to say that i have nothing against cultures, like i have a respect to black, Asians and some, but there's no excuse to push them away for ungodly reason!
It all started when we first noticed that some of Dr. Seuss's books are going to be banned due to the stereotypes that we agued that not only they trying to silencing Dr. Seuss's books, but also saw this as a movement of "Cancel Cultures" But the nightmare doesn't stop there, a few weeks after, we had a movie "Space Jam: A New Legacy" (Which i reviewed before), but many fans of Looney Tunes (including yours truly) noticed that Pepe Le Pew was cut from the movie that we protested as a flat out "Cancel Culture" that not only Pepe's scene where he flirted a bartender was cut, but replaced by Alex The Large from "A Clockwork Orange", the notorious crime with numerous assaults that he and his gang are not suitable for "Family Friendly Picture".
As time goes, i've seen numerous reports that are outright either censored or even banned that i was disgusted that i just notice, the one that i know is some of Disney's classic films (like Dumbo or Peter Pan) are banned for obvious racial reasons that, once again, screamed "Cancel Cultures" much like when they tried too hard to ignore the existence of "Song of the South". Of course, there are so much more that i can't make another example that im always sick and tired of hearing this that i had to put it on top the list, because We're Human Beings, it doesn't if you're white, black, red, yellow or others, we're living as Human Beings, not separate each others for different races, we might as well screaming "Equal Rights!" than "Cancel Cultures".
Oh! And there's also a few people who can't criticisms that they had the excuse to calling haters as the group of "Cancel Cultures", which not only i find it stupid, but also flat out stupid for their excuses.
And that's why the whole Cancel Cultures BS is a good reason why i topped this in the most controversial moments of 2021.
So this ends of my very last controversial moments of the year, so i guess its time to moving on and focus on other projects and we gotta going back think positive, along with the damn virus has to stop.
Thanks for reading, im Anthony, signing out and Happy New Year.
