Soulja Boy on Braid

Posted by Derek Yu Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:33:00 GMT


The rapper behind the Grammy-nominated, #1 hit single Crank That (Soulja Boy) gives us his thoughts on the IGF award-winning Xbox 360 masterpiece Braid.

(Courtesy of Alec.)

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  1. Mark Johns said 12 minutes later:

    This is hilarious. Indie games crossover into the mainstream.

    But Is Souja Boy missing Jon Blow’s deeper artistic intentions for the game? Perhaps the work is strengthened because it can be appreciated at a wide gradient of depth.

  2. Seth said 19 minutes later:

    that was a pretty good analysis

  3. Imaginarythomas said 20 minutes later:

    How articulate.

  4. Teknogames said 27 minutes later:

    ooooohhhh~ check that shiit out!!

    Ima go back in time

  5. undertech said 32 minutes later:

    And with this, Braid’s sales double.

  6. jkd said 33 minutes later:

    If anyone knows braids, it’s black people.

  7. jkd said 34 minutes later:

    If I was Jon, this would blow my mind. Seriously!

  8. adamrobo said 43 minutes later:

    If anyone knows braids, it’s black people.

    Fo’ reals.

  9. johnny-blow said about 1 hour later:

    My next game is sponsored by Soulja BoyYAAH BITCH YAAAAAAH

  10. Pyabo said about 1 hour later:

    Soulja Boy is the next Yahtzee.

  11. Dragonmaw said about 1 hour later:

    Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy)

    Every Soulja Boy song.

  12. Codemonkey said about 1 hour later:

    I hate that guy. x_x

  13. Reaver77 said about 1 hour later:

    HAHAHAH

    But see here’s the thing, you can go WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP

  14. A certain lawyer said about 2 hours later:

    Family Fun or Digital Dealer?

    A prominent performing artist today stated that the game Braid is for drug users and drunks. With lighthearted graphics designed to appeal to younger audiences, is this gateway game taking aim at your children?

  15. Troy RULES said about 2 hours later:

    I saw this last night. Betcha he really likes the game, but fucks around in the video to keep his MTVcore cred.

  16. Paul Eres said about 2 hours later:

    It’s kinda depressing seeing all the racist comments on youtube.com’s comment section there.

  17. Julius said about 2 hours later:

    Some people might say this video is shit, or that Soulja Boy is a dumbass. But one thing I will tell you, he is having more fun with Braid then anyone I could even imagine.

  18. muku said about 3 hours later:

    “It’s like Mario inna future” :D

  19. JacobG said about 3 hours later:

    Now Superman that Blow.

  20. toastie said about 3 hours later:

    what???

  21. falsion said about 3 hours later:

    Note to self: Make next game have some kind of feature or gimmick that is appealing to people with short attention spans and limited vocabulary.

  22. Quetz said about 4 hours later:

    This is the best thing posted on Tigersauce ever. EVER.

  23. Lorne Whiting said about 4 hours later:

    I’m with Quetz here.

  24. namefag said about 5 hours later:

    wow, now I can’t wait till it is on steam. if soulja boy approves than i has gots to gets it.

  25. undertech said about 5 hours later:

    You think Blow’s going to have soulja boy in the testimonials sections?

    This is the shit yo!

    -Soulja Boy

  26. Dave said about 5 hours later:

    Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy) Now watch me you (Crank that Soulja Boy)

    Heh, his songs sound like he found his own “goin’ back in time potion”.

  27. m said about 5 hours later:

    hilarious. the comments right here on TIGS make it even better.

  28. ohgod said about 6 hours later:

    Well, that’s it guys. Indie gaming is over.

  29. cigarettes said about 6 hours later:

    ah yes,this really speaks to the intelligence level of Souja Boy. He is quite the observant one.

  30. toastie said about 6 hours later:

    “Tags: JonathanBlow, SouljaBoy”

  31. beetlemania said about 6 hours later:

    Wow, Braid is considered “indie” now?

  32. Valkyrie said about 6 hours later:

    You KNOW someone is going to hack Soulja Boy’s voice into the PC version:

    Tim dies, hit time key

    “Ye-oooop!”

  33. yuj said about 6 hours later:

    you guys are crazy. this be funny as shit

  34. Biggerfish said about 7 hours later:

    I now have the uncontrollable urge to buy Braid.

    Whoooooooooooooop.

    Side note: I always get pissed off when people say “The game has no point”. Like, really mad.

  35. alspal said about 7 hours later:

    I can’t believe I wasted my time watching him.

  36. Troy RULES said about 7 hours later:

    I’ve got this whole routine planned out for the Soulja Troy.

  37. gulo gulo said about 7 hours later:

    im so happy about this

  38. Adam & Tommy said about 7 hours later:

    This is all just a PIGScene stunt

  39. !CE-9 said about 8 hours later:

    “It IS Mario inna business suit, with his hair died orange”.

    now it was a spolier, I’m gonna be one grumpy mothafucka, yo. hear me?

    when’s the windows version coming already?

  40. Bezzy said about 8 hours later:

    To be fair, there’s no point to any game.

    Very insightful, in a fatalistic way.

  41. Jay said about 9 hours later:

    soulja who? :p

  42. permanent said about 9 hours later:

    I’m disappointed with every one of you on TIGsource that was offended by this.

  43. loopholezero said about 9 hours later:

    loved the video. i wish there’d be more games that elicit that sort of reaction from the players.

    yeah, and stoners are just like little kids. when watching a friend play the cell stage of spore there was a similar vibe(and probably smell) in the room.

  44. Raza Black said about 9 hours later:

    They are like five year old children. Who swear. A lot.

  45. bateleur said about 10 hours later:

    Did he just describe the protagonist of Braid as a “nigger”?

  46. GirlFlash said about 10 hours later:

    meh, art is open to interpertation, and ‘mario inna future’ is a pretty awesome

  47. Scott said about 12 hours later:

    Well it’s on Xbox live, what did you expect?

    Though I’m curious how far into the game he was in that video.

  48. Bezzy said about 12 hours later:

    That’s about the fourth screen, I think?

  49. Adrian said about 12 hours later:

    What an fucking idiot, I wish he would die.

  50. Eclipse said about 13 hours later:

    Who’s this guy? I’m so happy to live in Europe now… that sort of american stuff is The Suck (TM)

  51. PHeMoX said about 13 hours later:

    *Family Fun or Digital Dealer?

    A prominent performing artist today stated that the game Braid is for drug users and drunks. With lighthearted graphics designed to appeal to younger audiences, is this gateway game taking aim at your children?*

    Jack… Jack Thompson. “Imma kick ass and chew bubble gum, oops I mean I’ll sue every developer I can just to make me a nice living.”

  52. Mitchard said about 14 hours later:

    I don’t think you people recognize soulja boy as the prestigious video game critic that he is.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1jj84wZnsM&feature=related

    “dis game so fresh they didn’t even let me record, we sneak recordin dis, this wont hit tha US fo 5 years.”

  53. cecil said about 14 hours later:

    “They are like five year old children. Who swear. A lot.”

    five year olds already DO swear alot. ive seend it!

  54. the_dannobot said about 14 hours later:

    hahahaha this is like the best video ever

  55. Optrirominiluikus said about 15 hours later:

    I wish this is what game journalism was like.

  56. Trotim said about 15 hours later:

    here’s the shit you go like WHOOOOOOOOP AHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh man OH NO WHOOOOOP HAHAHA

    A piece of art that can even be appreciated by people who don’t get it at all. Beautiful, seriously. Most shallow people like that would never go to an art gallery but they can still play Braid. sniff

  57. cuntface said about 15 hours later:

    “Ain’t no point to the game, you just run around jumpin’ on shit.”

    Fo’ shizzle.

  58. Tom Crowley said about 15 hours later:

    Man, that Seth MacFarlane hasn’t lost his edge at all. But where’s the Burger King ad on the front?

  59. Corpus said about 16 hours later:

    Hahaha.

    Ha.

    It’s really cool that Braid is getting so much mainstream attention, even if that includes people of Mr. S. Boy’s ilk. Anyway, he’s enjoying himself. Good for him!

    Even my brother is playing Braid.

    That’s achievement in itself.

  60. BeamSplashX said about 16 hours later:

    It seemed like his friend was just making fun of it near the end: “Ey yo this shit’s stupid as helllll!”

    Maybe he did buy it though. He can certainly afford it. And he’s still a wanker.

  61. sinoth said about 16 hours later:

    Single worst decision in Braid development: Not using the WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOP sound for turning back time.

  62. ZeppMan217 said about 16 hours later:

    …Who’s that drug addict asshole?

  63. BMcC said about 16 hours later:

    I wish this is what game journalism was like.

    Be careful what you wish for.

  64. CrankThis said about 17 hours later:

    Fuck, never mind Braid! This video makes me wanna do drugs! I wanna live my life looking through a kaleidoscope too!

    “Check this shit, check this, check it… OHHH NOOO… WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!”

    Yeah, I definitely need to start taking drugs, cuz life is too short and I’m too fuckin smart to be wasting away, enjoying life without drugs when in fact, I could be high and see and hear shit that gaming and breathing just can’t provide!

    So all you indie devs need to stop being geeks and start getting back to being innovative by breaking out your chemistry texts and start working on developing new drugs! Besides, it’s more profitable and morality is no longer an issue!

    So get smart… Do drugs! Oh, and don’t forget to drink and drive!

  65. Mischief Maker said about 17 hours later:

    Perhaps the next TIGsource compo should be games for people who are baked. Hey, we’ve already got Spheres of Chaos and Rez!

  66. Manivo said about 19 hours later:

    This is why I hate black peo–errr–I mean rappers.

    This is why I hate black rappers.

  67. Karuvitomsk said about 19 hours later:

    SECONDING MISCHIEF MAKER’S SUGGESTION

    SECONDING IT A MILLION TIMES

  68. Scott said about 20 hours later:

    Wow some of you are really stupid and uptight

  69. wormguy said about 20 hours later:

    Thirding Mischief Maker’s suggestion, may be best idea of all time

  70. Hooker with NO BeViS said about 20 hours later:

    ..fourthing (this is not the apropriate form is it?) Michief Makers suggestion!

  71. Richard said about 20 hours later:

    At the very least his reaction is a step above those people who complained about the pricing.

  72. falsion said about 20 hours later:

    Eclipse: “Who’s this guy? I’m so happy to live in Europe now… that sort of american stuff is The Suck (TM)”

    Pretty much the American equivalent of a chav, except with a successful rap album.

  73. arrogancy said about 20 hours later:

    Soulja Boy “gets” Braid better than most of the people who talk about it, and this was the best review of the game I’ve seen.

    Also the Internet is full of a bunch of racist idiots, but we already knew that.

  74. BeamSplashX said about 21 hours later:

    I don’t even understand why you would give him crap for his race when you could complain about a lot of other things, like his total lack of talent, stupid lyrics, and retarded alias.

    Oh you internet folks…

  75. Nathaniel607 said about 21 hours later:

    Yeh, why are you complaining about his race or even him being a rapper? Not all rappers are like this. It’s just he’s a dumbass. God, what would this guy be like if you showed him Beatiful Katamari? He’s be like ‘WOOAAH THIS SHIT IS LIKE WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!! IHDIOHIOUGHIOUFsgfuiafg’

  76. Shih Tzu said about 21 hours later:

    I don’t know who he is, but he is clearly having an enormous amount of fun with Braid. I’m on arrogancy’s side here.

  77. SofS said about 21 hours later:

    Everyone who has bought Braid and demonstrated it for a friend: isn’t this pretty much what you did? I know that I jumped into danger and off of cliffs and such to show off the rewind (though I liked using the other worlds better due to their awesome tricks).

    I liked the comment about it being “Mario in the future”, especially as it’s been expressed in a more chin-stroking fashion online before as the Mario world coming to an end. I think it’s an interesting way to look at it.

  78. Troy RULES said about 21 hours later:

    Sheesh, there sure are a lot of people under rocks, huh? Soulja Boy is basically the exploitation of America’s idiotic teenage culture. He’s pretty big down here in Miami, but goddamn “Crank dat” is just so abysmal to a point you can’t take it seriously.

  79. Dusty Spur said about 22 hours later:

    Hey guys: n*ggers.

    GODDAMN I’M CLEVER.

    Yeah this is pretty hilarious though.

  80. Aubrey said about 23 hours later:

    MARIO IN THE FUTURE, REWOUND BACK IN TIME, IS STILL JUST MARIO.

  81. zolointo said about 23 hours later:

    Have to say that this dude is the physical manifestation of the part of my brain that took the same delight in Braid’s very accessible rewind feature.

    … the same part that quite enjoyed throwing molitovs at hobos in slow motion in Max Payne

    … the same part that quite enjoyed running over the paramedics with their ambulance in GTA

    … the same part that smashed up Sim Cities with tornadoes and nuclear explosions.

    I think this video could be classified as some sort of Machinma sub-genre.

  82. Matthew Boyd said about 24 hours later:

    Hey, you! You, the pop star! Stop having fun with the game, goddammit!

  83. BeamSplashX said 1 day later:

    I think he certainly likes reversing time, but I get the impression that the rest of the game is “lame”.

  84. Fecal Brunch said 1 day later:

    Meh, i don’t get what all the fuss is about, the game is kinda funny. He’s probably just ripped and playing around… So what? I play games stoned all the time with my mates. Just because you’re finding something funny doesn’t mean you don’t appreciate it. And even if he doesn’t, it’s a fucking game.

    I think it’s a wicked video.

    Fifthing Mischief Maker’s suggestion

  85. Defacid said 1 day later:

    I don’t like Soulja Boy but I don’t see him doing anything wrong in this video. That his opinion and he’s entitled to it.

    WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

  86. I Like Cake said 1 day later:

    I’d like to supplement the comments indicating that smoking up is going to turn you into an immoral drug addict by adding that it is also the number one way to get a policeman in a blue vest and motorcycle helmet to run into you, causing the word BUSTED to appear over you and making you fly into the air.

    Yes, I too have gleaned all my information on drugs from the arcade game NARC.

  87. Craig Stern said 1 day later:

    Ha! Freakin’ hilarious.

  88. Soulja Boy said 1 day later:

    I am such a massive tool.

  89. alspal said 1 day later:

    I agree

  90. wormguy said 1 day later:

    I swear Derek if you get anything out of these comments make a Games for Stoners TIG Compo.

  91. octopia said 1 day later:

    seventhed.

  92. LMAO said 1 day later:

    I can’t believe someone actually said this is the best review of Braid they’ve ever seen!! HAHAHAHHAHA HOHOHOHOHH HAHAHAHHAA!!! LMFAOROF

    And the world gets dumber still… It’s good to see North America going down the shitter

  93. Adam Atomic said 1 day later:

    Ok to everyone who sees this review as evidence of the decline of western civilization…

    …you are retarded. I would kill nuns to see someone having this much fun playing a game I made. To everyone who wishes they’d never seen this video, what on earth is wrong with you? Does the site of people enjoying indie games somehow disgust you? If so, I believe the only valid recourse is to GTFO.

    I wait eagerly for a video of Paul Wall or Qadir going “WHOOOOOOOOOOP!” while playing Gravity Hook…

  94. Corpus said 1 day later:

    Uh, “internet folks?” Only a few people made reference to his race. Don’t tar everyone with the same brush.

    THIS IS ESPECIALLY PERTINENT WHEN YOU TOO ARE ON THE INTERNET

    DO YOU SEE THE IRONY

  95. Corpus said 1 day later:

    Also, everyone should listen to Adam, and maybe do something nice for him because he is speaking truths.

    I am going to buy him a pug.

    A pug in a dinosaur suit.

  96. Günter said 2 days later:

    OK, I want to imagine that I’m saying this in a very snooty, stuck up voice. It might help if you add a British accent, I could be wearing a monocle, whatever works:

    “Oh my, this young man obviously doesn’t understand the greater ramifications of Braid’s artistic message. He is like a child, I think, simply enjoying a game at such a basic level. I’m going to go sip tea and play ‘Passage’ again, because I really do love walking right.”

    COME ON GUYS. Let the guy have fun. An indie game is still a freaking game.

  97. Joel Cairo said 2 days later:

    Anyone who doesn’t see this as the decline of western civilization is probably a product of the MTV generation to begin with. This loser Soulja Boy is a prime example of the current state of intelligence that most teenagers are now functioning at. The single minded, oblique and inarticulate way that kids behave in this decade is frightening. No wonder they think gangs, initiation killings and drug running is cool…they have been so lobotomized by assholes like this that they clearly can’t organize a single intelligent thought or sentence that is worth any value. Soulja Boy is an idiot and I see no clear reason how anyone could benefit or feel proud from defending his obvious lack of intelligence.

  98. Dusty Spur said 2 days later:

    For the record, I just thought it was funny because of the WHOOOOP and the irony of Soulja Boy, a man primarily versed in supermanning hos, actually bought and was playing an artgame. Not the fact that he “doesn’t appreciate it” or whatever.

    (Note: Artgame isn’t an insult or anything. Braid is pretty fun. But it’s still an artgame.)

  99. Troy RULES said 2 days later:

    Pardon me for this next post but…

  100. Troy RULES said 2 days later:

    100th!

  101. Kobel said 2 days later:

    Joel Cairo thinks that most teenagers are exactly the same. Then he calls them stupid. I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean it ironically. THAT’S depressing. Why is it that dicks on the internet can’t see a rich dumbass without using them to project their fears of a world they don’t understand?

  102. Dusty Spur said 2 days later:

    Oh man, he made another one. It’s not as good because it lacks WHOOOOP but it’s got Arabs.

  103. Chris said 2 days later:

    I was under the impression that youth violence was actually declining, despite all the bad press. I could be wrong, though.

  104. poooop said 2 days later:

    i would’ve expected people around here to be a bit more relaxed, a bit less racist and bit more tolerant of others enjoying a game, even if those others are looked down upon. seems i was wrong. and this is sadder to me than the “decline of western civilization” or whatever other bullshit was posted here.

    i was under the impression that indie gamers are smarter than mainstream gamers. i see now what a load of crap that is. they just like to think that they’re smarter.

    i’ll take a non pretentious, chilled out, normal person anyday, over an uptight pretentious racist asshole.

    chill the fuck out, let others be and mind your own sad business.

    that being said, WHOOOOOOP to you.

  105. Kobel said 3 days later:

    Yes, it IS sad when people generalize a group of people over the actions of a few, isn’t it?

  106. v-rus said 3 days later:

    yall need to chill the fuck out!

    that shit was funny as hell, Soulja Boy needs to review every indie game.

    Grammy nomination though? seriously?

  107. namuol said 3 days later:

    Thank you, Tigersauce. Thank you.

    Also, those of you without a sense of humor: take it easy.

  108. ChrisL said 3 days later:

    I’d just like to point out (since it is not particularly obvious in the video) that being an intelligent, mature person and enjoying marijuana are NOT mutually exclusive.

    That said, I agree wholeheartedly with every response above.

    All of them.

  109. ChrisL said 3 days later:

    Also: Both “Alice in Wonderland” and “Fantasia” saw huge resurgence of popularity in the 1960’s. Just sayin.

  110. Del_Duio said 3 days later:

    I was under the impression that youth violence was actually declining, despite all the bad press. I could be wrong, though.

    Not near my house it isn’t. I watched a 19 year old and his fat uncle fight the other night outside their house. The kid had made some car-racing bet about whether or not his grandma, who was just taken to the ICU apparently, was going to die there or not (His uncle didn’t like this one bit). He then stripped to his briefs for whatever reason and went all Karate Kid pose while they shouted about who was the bigger bitch for about 20 minutes. Finally, the uncle stepped in and the kid took a swing at his head. The uncle, who was roughly 4 times the weight of the nephew, then proceeded to sit on the kid and beat the bag out of him. All the while the kid was scrreaming “C’MON HOMO, HIT ME HARDER I LIKE IT!!!”

    So after awhile I guess the uncle’s arms got tired of hitting the kid so he lets him up. The kid’s face looks like Rocky and he’s got a bloody patch on the back of his head where it hit the cement repeatedly. He then turns to some of his ‘boyz’ and says that he took the beating on purpose because he wanted to show how drunk the uncle was (wtf?). He then shouted to his uncle to, and I quote because it was hilarious, “Shut the fuck up, go back in the house, and shut the fuck up again!” One of his cousins called 911 while all this was happening.

    Eventually the cops came, but they only arrested the kid because he was hopped up on something, I don’t know what. The sad, sad thing is that this story is 100% true and at the end the uncle was shouting to the nephew that he’d come bail him out the next morning and to “chill out”. I’m surprised they didn’t arrest the uncle too because he was really wailing on the kid (who, despite being on crack or whatever, is still not more than 120 lbs soak and wet).

    I couldn’t make this up, this kind of weird shit happens all the time at that place. It’s like out of some fucked up movie sometimes. The part that bothered me the most about it was that for an hour and a half after the police took his nephew away all the uncle did was talk about how great he was and etc. with the other white trash who’d come to gather on yonder lawn. He said something like “Down this end of the block.. I’m the top dog around here!” What a great pillar of society we’ve all been blessed with.

    I think the moral of the story is that although I personally think this video is funny, it’s people like this that 19 year old gangta wannabes look up to in the first place. Hmm, I guess that’s not a moral at all is it?

  111. moon_rabbits said 3 days later:

    awesome.

  112. Joel Cairo said 3 days later:

    Nothing I said was racist…I was just pointing out what an absolutely moronic fuck-nut Soulja Boy. As for grouping teenagers into one category, I’ll admit that there are the good and the bad…but trying to find one who can hold down a meaningful conversation that doesn’t include, cellphones, fashion and screwing is like trying to find a photo of Paris Hilton with her underwear on. Oh and believe me I’m chilled…I just call it like it is. I stand by my conviction that Soulja Boy is a tool to the music studio that produced his talentless ass.

  113. Dusty Spur said 3 days later:

    Man, did someone just compare me to Paris Hilton with her underwear on? I mean, it’s better than Paris Hilton with her underwear off, but damn.

  114. Kobel said 3 days later:

    How many teenagers do you actually know or have tried to talk to? I stand by my conviction that you’re kind of a dick. Believe me, I’m chill… I just call it like it is. That’s why they call me the whale biologist.

  115. withalligators said 3 days later:

    If you thought mainstream video games were in creative trouble, look at mainstream hip hop.

  116. v-rus said 3 days later:

    hip hop is dead just lettin you know

  117. Joel Cairo said 4 days later:

    How many teenagers do I know…hmmm lets see…I was a high school teacher in Toronto for five years before I got sick of the attitude so I took a job at the local business college to teach a marketing course. Well I guess I don’t know that many then do I?

    You know what? your right, I am a dick! Then again it would take a cunt to notice that now wouldn’t it. Whale biologist is a bit of stretch for you my friend Kobel. I was thinking more along the lines of proctologist since you’ve clearly got your head up your ass.

  118. Soulja Boy said 4 days later:

    yo they aint no point to dis joel cairo maaayyaan, dis shit stupid as haayyeell!

  119. Hooker with No BeViS said 4 days later:

    These comments bore me. Is it already a time for the “games for baked people”-competition?

  120. Hooker with No BeViS said 5 days later:

    Joel Cairo, what.. someone who teaches marketing at a business college? Must be an outrageously evil greedy dickhead, that man!!! Presumptious? Well I have met many people who work for marketing, so up yours!

  121. Kobel said 5 days later:

    Joel Cairo is very confused as to what a proctologist’s job involves! Makes me wonder exactly how good you are at your job. I hope you haven’t stuck anything in anyone’s butt in the course of your duties. Well, hey, I wonder how long you’ve been working at this college? Because before too long, it’s going to be the same age group you taught before that signs up for your classes now. Boy that would make you like kind of dumb, here, wouldn’t it?

  122. Joel Cairo said 5 days later:

    Yes but generally the teenagers who make it to college are actually interested in learning. I am greedy, a dick and I am presumptious, but everyone here who has taken shots directly at me here can hopefully see the irony. In your effort to insult me your all doing what you accused me of…generalizing.

    In my defense, anyone currently living in Toronto will know that this past week was the worst for Teen oriented violent crime. We had no less then three schools go on lock down for shootings and gun related issues in a two day period. Most of the shootings this year have been related to teen gang violence. So pardon me if I find this generation of teenagers one dimensional…they are certainly earning that distinction for themselves.

  123. Hooker with No BeViS said 6 days later:

    @Kobel: interesting point actually. And I would assume it would also be easier to make positive impact on a teenage person, than a college student. I think J. Cairo prettu much ran away from the problem and is going to face troubled teens again when they’ve become troubled young adults.. and besides kinda ironic that he whines about their morality when he first hand had the possibility to try to shape things for better. Yet he chose to leave. We indeed see our own failures as a failures of the world.

  124. Joel Cairo said 6 days later:

    Okay if you guys want to go down this path then let me enlighten you. Any one of you, when faced with having your life threatend on a repeated basis by students who clearly have no interest in learning, would seriously consider a career change. Unlike most people who bitch about their jobs and do nothing about it, I chose to make a career change.

    After five years of vacant stares, iPods, PSP and Nintendo DS turned on in class and repeatedly being told to fuck off by 16 year olds, I am sorry if I lost my drive to try and reach these kids. see the difference is you pay for a college education and most kids and their parents are a little more serious about getting their moneys worth.

    I love how you all nail me for making perceived generalizations and then proceed to do the exact same thing with me…kettle meet pot. I suspect that some of you were superimposing your own fears or insecurities over my comments. I certain made no reference to race or creed yet many of you have acted like I did. It was an opinion and I am entitled to it without being called a dick.

    And just to further the reason for my opinion, and anyone living in Toronto will be able to back this up. This last week here in Toronto was one of the worst for acts of violence in schools. No less then three schools went on lock down here thanks to guns and teen behaviour. So while you can chose to pretend like the issue of eductional degradation doesn’t exist and that people like Soulja Boy and the rest of the marketing tools aren’t part of the problem, it stills doesn’t change the fact that the current state of teen behaviour is frightening.

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