Karina McDaniels

**Karina McDaniels**, also known as **Smug Nergigante**, is a YouTuber who primarily makes commentary videos focused on media

## History

### On the Badness of one Rags

> "Oh, whaddaya know, look at The Usual Suspects - The Quartering, I dunno who that is, there's *Captain Marvel* review by Angry Joe, really good review"
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MauLer, Rags, Metal, E;R, and ThatStarWarsGirl first encountered Karina McDaniels on EFAP 101, which was proving to be a real throwback episode, covering topics like *The Last Jedi*, *Captain Marvel*, and the hosts themselves. They took a look at his video titled "Rags to Roadkill A Measured Response to Defending the Indefensible #BrieLarsonDefenseSquad," which was itself a response to Rags' own response to Browntable's infamous video on The Don. Said video was not initially not well-received, and had been cut down and reuploaded, but the gang had the original, and were ready to experience both the good and the bad.

McDaniels began by recounting how he used to be subscribed to Rags for his PC vs console content, but stopped when he "really kind of turned dumb" by "[drinking] the Kool-Aid" of poking fun at SJWs. He had only previously managed to get through 12 minutes of the video at hand before hating it, immediately taking issue with Rags calling *Captain Marvel* complete shit when he deemed it to actually be around a 7/10. He figured it was merely overshadowed by *Thor Ragnarok*, to which MauLer countered that it had been the talk of the town when it came out and made a billion dollars. McDaniels chalked up a lot of the hate for the movie to Brie Larson being a magnet for "white boy hatred," and extended that assumption to Rags, whom he considered disingenuous for calling the movie shit, arguing he must not have seen a lot of movies if this was what he considered bad. He suggested Rags watch a Neil Breen movie if he wants to see something that really was structurally broken at every level, showing a single poorly-acted scene to prove that, and asked if he could really consider *Captain Marvel* worse than the *Star Wars Holiday Special*, with Rags answering that he had not seen it in its entirety, but was genuinely interested in considering it, figuring it could go either way. McDaniels took the time to criticize Rags for persistently pausing Browntable's video to jab at every little thing, not realizing the irony in himself pausing Rags just as frequently to jab at his jabs.

McDaniels was baffled by Rags bringing up the topic of Google changing its algorithm in response to negative coverage of *Captain Marvel*, not realizing it was in direct response to Browntable asking why so many people were talking about the movie. Current-day Rags did some extensive research (Google) and found major news outlets not only admitting to, but praising that very thing having happened, but McDaniels looked up reviews being deleted (an entirely different topic than what Rags brought up) on YouTube, and was offput by who he called "The Usual Suspects" - The Quartering, Angry Joe - whom he actually likes, and Tyrone Magnus - whom he does not know. The Puerto Ricanness of Angry Joe and the blackness of Tyrone Magnus (as well as Amazing Lucas, who was also in the search results) was a bit at odds with the previous claims of "White Boy Hatred." McDaniels mocked a hypothetical accusation of this search being unfair, but then agreed with it, and so had sought out a reddit thread on the topic, suggesting that he had planned this ahead, which made describing people he knew nothing about as "The Usual Suspects" even more bizarre. Reddit user Jefferystar94 explained that the reason why reviews were being deleted (which was still not what Rags said) was to counter review bombing and bot accounts. This launched a somewhat longer discussion of the topic at large, with it being pointed out a few times that every second spent talking about this was proof of Rags' point, since his argument was not that anything sketchy had definitively occurred but that the belief they had occurred would explain why there was so much discussion.

Bizarrely enough, McDaniels denounced Rags' joke about an "exploding Port-O-Potty at the Tucson International Burrito Festival" as an "Anti-SJW joke," and deemed Rags a smug piece of shit for hyping up his audience, which Rags found especially funny given his username literally included the word Smug. He cited Angry Joe having given the movie a 7/10 as evidence that doing so would be reasonable, leading the gang to comment that while they like Joe his movie reviews are notoriously worse than his game ones. Chat also reminded them that Angry Joe was previously included in the "Usual Suspects." McDaniels concluded that Rags had become the very elitist he once fought against, leading to a discussion over whether believing yourself to be correct and others not to be would count as elitist and if it was any different than how he acted in his older videos. When Rags recommended MauLer's review of *Captain Marvel* to anyone wanting to hear arguments about its poor quality, McDaniels countered that the word "Meh" in the title proved he actually agreed the movie was okay, not realizing that it was titled that way for different reasons. Regardless, he still drew attention to the video's near 2-hour length, though he conceded that a review being long does not necessarily make it bad, though he considered that length to be "obnoxiously long," considering anything over 20-30 minutes to be padded out, nitpicky, and missing the bigger point, since a review is only meant to tell you whether you should watch a movie or not. Metal in particular had become revitalized by this video, and could barely contain his objections.

### Arrival

Around this point Chat made it known that McDaniels had left a superchat on the stream itsellf, clarifying that he had already unlisted not only the first but also the newer version of the video because he agreed it was poorly argued, and not too long after he joined them onstream. He agreed right off the bat that assaulting The Don was going too far, which everyone was very glad to hear, but still asked them to consider how they would feel if they were a woman and a man approached them like The Don had, though Anna shut that down by saying that she was a woman and considered nothing he did to be out of line or harassment. Interestingly enough, he clarified that he generally likes MauLer and even Rags, and is subscribed to MauLer's channel, chalking up a lot of his sweeping criticisms of them to not being great at forming arguments live and planning on not doing live reactions anymore because he gets lazy with them. McDaniels was overall very agreeable and personable, and spent a bit of time shooting the shit about *The Last of Us II*'s story being bad.

McDaniels would also post the clip of his appearance on EFAP to his own channel, which received a lot of positive response from EFAPpers in the comments.

## Trivia

* Overall likes HBomberguy's game reviews, but does feel he has some strange takes

## Quotes

* "So, if you don't know, me and Rags... actually have a bit of a history together"
"Oh, so who is this guy Rags"
"I have no fucking clue"
- McDaniels, MauLer, and Rags

* "You might've noticed I already disliked the video"
"[loud deliberate clapping]"
- McDaniels and Metal
* "Not really convincing me Rags" - after literally the intro
* "If he actually was right on this point, maybe I can give him some credit" - on something Rags was indeed right about
* "And of course the movie itself was the cinematic equivalent of an exploding Port-O-Potty at the Tucson International Burrito Festival"
"Anti-SJW jokes everybody, he's so funny!"
- Rags and McDaniels
* "What a fuckin smug piece of shit"
"YOUR NAME IS LITERALLY SMUG!"
- McDaniels and Rags
* "You'll notice that this video, is an hour and 51 minutes long"
"Hey, hey, hey, shorter than the movie, so..."
- McDaniels and MauLer
* "You just said! That you don't care! If it's a long review! If it's well made! And then you say! It's too long! You can go fuck yourself! Just rewatch your fucking videos! Oh my god it's so fucking cringe" - Metal
* "Hi guys, little embarrassed here. This video was not that good, I admit. I cut this out of my video. And I left it unlisted. I appreciate the critique"
	+ "I took this video down originally and I took down the new one. I wasn't satisfied with them on further inspection. I done goofed admittedly."
	+ "...I mean I'm cool with that" - MauLer
* "If you were a woman and some man approaches you like that, you would get a little bit-"
"Alright, I'm a woman, let's talk about this"
- McDaniels and ThatStarWarsGirl
* "I actually like MauLer, I'm subscribed to his channel, I think he's pretty good"
"Oh, I - okay I have so many questions for you now"
- McDaniels and MauLer