I left this on his meltdown video.

8:45 - 9:00 
…Oh fuck you, douchebag. Empty praise and lack of substance? Did I just hear that come out of the mouth of Tommy Oliver?
Tommy Narrative Every Other Word Oliver?
Tommy World Building World Building World Building Oliver?
Tommy Genuinely Thinks Rarity Is Sexually Teasing A Child Oliver? 

 I can answer your earlier question. I know why you got into the fandom. I know why you got into analysis. Because at the start, everyone was gleefully sucking YOU off. And then they stopped sucking you off. Because good critics actually came in and we all realized how much of a vapid, empty, pretentious hack you actually were. 

This is a meltdown. The equivalent of those terrible indie devs who get their awful games torn to shreds, and then throw a tantrum and start blaming all their problems on the community. The equivalent of a guy getting the shit kicked out of him, and then limping away going “I let you win!“ 

If this community hates bitterness, and hates negativity, and hates having their ego bruised, and hates cynicism of any kind, then I’d like anyone to explain why I haven’t been run out of town with an angry mob following me? Or Voice of Reason, who was highly negative toward Friendship is Witchcraft. Or Firebrand, who was highly negative toward most fan projects. Or everyone who has ever gone onto A Moment With Dr Wolf to complain about the fandom? 

Oh wait, what was that last dig you got in there? 

“Behind flashy, outsourced visuals that you’re not talented enough to do yourself.”
Well as long as we’re throwing around petty, irrelevant insults regarding one’s visuals, maybe you should consider cleaning yourself up a bit and making yourself look presentable before you go on camera, ya fuckin’ dirtbag! 

While the community has a lot of issues when it comes to how the interpret criticism, those are issues the internet in it’s entirety has. INCLUDING Mr Oliver, for whom people became increasingly tired of his empty, buzzword-laden nitpicking. It’s a Digital Homicide level meltdown, is what it is. A child who can’t handle the fact that the plebs aren’t kissing his feet anymore and have moved on to better content creators.

He couldn’t simply say he wasn’t into the show or the community anymore and was moving on to new audiences. No, that wasn’t dramatic enough. It had to be “The show has lost it’s integrity/lost it’s soul/the community has become a borg hivemind” as if he’s some sort of starving artist the world doesn’t understand. Oh, and the cherry on top being “I’m My Own Master Now” playing in the background for maximum overcompensation.

And this seems to be a recurring thing. As was the case with Digibrony and Drowning in Horseshoes. They couldn’t just leave, they had to make a big spectacle of it. But the fun kind of spectacle where you grow to 500 feet and fight a giant man-monkey. No, it’s a “Taking my ball and going home because you’re all borg” tantrum.

I gotta give credit to Digi, at least it was fun to watch him fall down a ten-mile flight of stairs. Tommy was just annoying. Much the same way with the two of them when they were worth watching. Digibrony could actually be insightful at the start, Tommy was the empty, airheaded “reading from the thesaurus” jagoff that Digi kept around as a pet.

And for the love of god, somebody introduce this boy to a razor and a facecloth!

I’m saying that black comedy is likely to not be deliberately offensive. If someone sets out to piss people off, then it isn’t black comedy. Black comedy is humor in the face of or about very unpleasant, serious, or painful circumstances. Any humor that treats serious matters, such as death, war, disease, crime, etc, in a light, silly or satirical fashion is considered black humor.

Take that one scene in Django Unchained which shows the KKK all arguing like children. That is an example of Black comedy. Actually, the entirety of Django Unchained is a black comedy, no pun intended.

The problem with it, however, is that because black comedy often involves shocking people to get your point across (and because shocking people is easy) a lot of lesser writers and comedians thought that black comedy (and by extension: satire) was also easy: Just shock people. And since the end of the 1980’s there’s been a backlash against so called “shock comedians” like Daniel Tosh, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and certain routines by George Carlin.

As a result, some practitioners of the form tried to salvage their material by claiming that their more questionable stuff (like racist caricatures, sexist humor, rape jokes, ect) were okay because they were actually engaging in satire or parody.

The sad thing is that it worked. “We’re actually satirizing racism/sexism/whatever” because an easy way for divisive or offensive material to deflect criticism, whether it was valid or not. So Black Comedy, which opts to take a serious subject and present it in a more light-hearted or otherwise funny way, often ends up conflated with Shock Comedy, which simply opts to put the most offensive thing out there because that is how hack comedians think comedy works.

There is a big difference between this very poor attempt at shock comedy and this very good example of black comedy.

Because making people laugh makes the medicine go down better.

Not sure if you’re new or you just missed the last time I was asked this.

Anyway, he’s scum. And it’s him being buddy-buddy with Joshscorcher that has put me off of watching the latter’s videos.