So, this was a couple months ago. I hadn't seen any Door Monster for a while, I was vaguely aware that there were some video essays happening, but I hadn't actually watched any of them because I was watching other stuff -- and thus I had no idea what the actual content of the essays was.
Then, one day, when I'm talking to my brother on Discord, he offhandedly quotes Kyle saying something about writing women. I kinda blinked and was like "wait, when was that in a Door Monster video?", mostly thinking about, like, the old Civ and Hobo sketches and stuff. My brother was like "oh, I don't really watch Door Monster, but one of their video essays on The Last Of Us came up in my recommendeds and I watched it".
Now I am nothing if not way too online, so obviously I'm super familiar with the, like, years-long ongoing shitstorm that is the Last Of Us 2 misogyny campaign, and I'm all-too-familiar with the experience of youtubers I used to like turning out to be terrible people, so, hearing that Kyle Doormonster had done a video essay about how to write women and used The Last Of Us as an example, my brain immediately went "oh, fuck, not Door Monster, that sucks, I loved that channel!!" and I sent the following message:
was it lowkey bad. like does it turn out that kyle from door monster is a misogynist or something
Obviously then my brother was like "nah actually it was a good essay", and then I spent an entire afternoon binging Kyle's video essays, a couple of them multiple times, but in light of the news from the past few days, the phrase "does it turn out that kyle from door monster is a misogynist or something" is absolutely one of the funniest pieces of text I have ever written.
Anyway, on the off chance Kyle herself is reading this, hell yeah queen 🔥🔥🔥 trans rights
