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June 16, 2020 - Davis Aurini
09:44
Cobra Kai: Testosterone is Making a Comeback

Requested video analyzing the modern sequel to the Karate Kid movies. YouTube re-up.

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So this is a requested video from John, who wanted me to review the first couple episodes of the new YouTube Red Cobra Kai series.
And I enjoyed the first two episodes so much that I paid for the entire first season.
And guys, the show is great.
If you haven't heard of it, it's a follow-up to the Karate Kid movies from the late 80s, 90s.
And this one focuses on Johnny, the bully from the original movie, and how he opens up the Cobra Kai Karate Studio to teach these pansy millennials how to not be pansies anymore.
The series is absolutely brilliant.
It has so many great lines in it.
Go and watch it.
Go watch the first couple episodes for free.
And if you like those two episodes, you won't be disappointed by the rest of the season.
It is extremely red pill, extremely shitlord.
It's excellent.
I heartily recommend it.
Now, in this video, what I'd like to discuss is what I think this series signifies.
Because it strikes me that this is part of a cultural phenomenon that I've been picking up here and there.
And that phenomenon is the return to 1980s virility, to the masculine culture of the 1980s.
Not a throwback to the 1980s, but a resurrection of masculinity, bringing back the Arnold Schwarzenegger, the karate kid movies, the fast cars, the making money, the being awesome of the 80s.
This is the stuff that's making a comeback.
And this movie is such a perfect example of it.
You know, it starts off with Johnny, who's just been a loser ever since high school.
His life just hasn't been working out for him.
He's working odd jobs, driving an old red sports car.
And believe me, I have more than I see more than a little bit of myself in him right there.
But he gets his act together and he finds a purpose again.
It's like the world had no place for a masculine man for the past 20 years.
But now, now it does.
Now it's time to make a comeback.
And it's time to teach these kids how to stop being punks and geeks and nerds and losers.
It's time to punch them in the face and say, no, faggot, get your act together, go win.
And I think this is happening.
It's happening.
But interestingly enough, not on the internet.
One of the idiosyncrasies with Johnny is that he doesn't know what anything is.
He doesn't know what Facebook is.
He doesn't know what an iPad is.
Like, he is completely ignorant of all this technology.
Almost to the point of comedy.
You know, it is to the point in comedy in some scenes.
Because who actually doesn't know what Facebook is these days?
You know, our grandparents know what Facebook is.
But while this might have been intended as a joke, I think it was actually touching on something that is happening right now.
And that is the move away from the Internet.
I think 2018 is going to be the year the Internet shit its pants.
Part of it.
Part of it has been the increasing levels of censorship coming from the usual YouTube, Google, Facebook, you name it.
The left-wing censorship, Wikipedia that's been going on with the Internet, the silencing of voices.
That's been a major aspect of it.
There's also the adpocalypse, which actually wasn't so much censorship.
It was the fact that advertising on the internet has never worked.
Google's just been covering it up.
And then we get the internet blood sports, which seem to have finally petered out, thank goodness.
Because here's the thing: when the market goes down, when things get difficult, when the tide goes out, you find out who's not wearing shorts.
And it turns out that a lot of these people on the internet, you know, it was nothing but persona.
It was nothing but an image they were throwing up there, and they couldn't walk the talk.
And that's what Bloodsport's accomplished, it exposed these idiots for who they were.
You know, 10 years ago, to be popular on the internet, you had to actually do something.
You had to write a blog, or you had to be a regular contributor on a forum.
With the advent of the ADD internet, of Twitter, Instagram, even the casual meme that you get on Discord, the persona could dominate.
Yeah, there were a couple of personas from the old internet that we found out they weren't who they claimed they were.
But even that, the persona was something.
Whereas now we seem to be in this era of snark and jealousy and just people throwing up fake personalities on the internet and these fake personalities fighting with one another.
That's not masculinity.
That's not virile.
That's not virtuous.
It's not interesting.
That's boring as shit.
You know, to paraphrase Johnny, that's on the spectrum.
Get off of the spectrum, whatever the hell that is.
So the internet, the whole online community, the online movement, all of this nonsense, it's really blown its load.
But there were really good ideas talked about during this whole time.
And while the circle jerk that we're seeing online might be going away, we can hope it's going away.
I mean, you're still going to have it online.
Quite frankly, there's a lot of sad, angry people out there who, in real life, they're just not happy with their life.
They're not happy with where they are, where they're going.
And so rather than getting their act together and joining Cobra Kai, they go on the internet and send mean tweets to other people.
That's probably still going to be there.
In fact, I think there's going to be more and more of that because it's, you know, the bad money chases out the good.
When you go on Twitter and 99% of it snark, the good people are less prone to post interesting tweets.
So it's a little bit sad if you're an internet junkie, but what I think we're going to be seeing is more and more people moving into the real world, is actually walking the walk that all of this talk was about in the first place.
People are getting really, really sick of the soy.
They're getting sick of the weakness.
You know, there is a lot of people waking up to things.
And you're not going to find it on the internet because the smart people, smart people don't want to be on the internet.
Smart people don't want to have a three-hour argument with some stranger with an anime avatar.
Real people want to have an actual conversation in real life where if the person acts like they're somebody from the internet, you can punch them in the face and shut their mouths.
So I think this is happening.
There is this return to masculinity.
There is this return to virileness, to virtue.
And it's happening right now.
But it's not happening online.
And thank God, we're seeing a change in the fundamental culture.
Cobra Kai is one of the earliest, earliest bits of zeitgeist picking up on this.
But it's just the start.
So, guys, go check it out.
The first two episodes are free.
It's really, it's a very good series.
I really enjoyed it.
I had a lot of laughs during it.
It's very switched on.
And you can buy the subsequent episodes for a couple bucks apiece, depending on where you live.
Something like that.
They're pretty cheap.
You know, you're better off spending your money on Cobra Kai than on Han Soilo, a Soy Wars story.
So, yeah, go check out Cobra Kai.
Chances are you'll love it.
Go put this stuff out there in real life.
You know, and fuck the MMA fighters.
Karate's the cool martial arts.
I don't care what anybody else says.
Karate's where it's at.
God bless you, folks.
Thank you for the sponsored video, John.
And Deus Volt.
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