Iamthatroby

> "Same guy told his followers to go attack my captain marvel video because I vaguely supported the film"
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> "There's a stream they did a few months back where they mention me. They go on some insanely backward, anti-Semitic rant for 10 minutes. How anyone can defend what they do is fucking insane to me."
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> - iamthatroby, describing events that did not actually occur
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**Iamthatroby** is a white guy on YouTube who makes video essays.

## History

### Reviewing a Movie Not Made for White Guys, as a White Guy

> "Normally I don't like to generalize because i don't believe in that, but I've seen like three of these videos and I think I get the gist of all of them - basically Brie Larson is a bad actress or a bad Captain Marvel because she doesn't smile, or she doesn't show emotion, or she doesn't have a character arc., but also because she's a woman."
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EFAP first encountered iamthatroby on EFAP 36, where they watched his review of *Captain Marvel* called "**Another White Guy Reviews CAPTAIN MARVEL**", which he prefaced by playing the clip of Brie Larson saying she didn't want to hear a white guy's opinion of movies not made for him, then referencing the fact that he is indeed a white guy giving his opinion of a movie not made for him, joking that he needed to make money off the movie because a bunch of other dudes did, as if pointing out the hypocrisy of his actions made them less hypocritical. He introduced his review by letting everyone know that he waited a long time to see the movie because there was a "big wave of negativity, or positivity" on Twitter, and he didn't want to be influenced by it, and assured everyone that he was a good person who is all about that Legal Life because he paid for the ticket.

Roby stated he was "thoroughly impressed" by *Captain Marvel*, but doesn't know about "thoroughly," and that it was better than he was led to believe, in terms of acting, cinematography and effects. He took some time to go through some criticisms made by people like him - white men, but then reassured everyone that he does not think you are a sexist (nor a woman-hater, nor a misogynist) if you dislike the film, to which MauLer responded with the age-old wisdom that if you have to say you're not a sexist, then you actually are, and so therefore similarly if you have to say you're not calling someone sexist, then you actually are. He then tangented into saying that while he doesn't like to generalize, he's seen three videos criticizing Brie Larson (one a minute long) and he gets what they're all like - they criticize her emoting and her character's arc, and because she's a woman, contradicting his previous intro that he doesn't think disliking the movie makes you sexist. He said there are not only reasons, but genuine reasons, that people would dislike this film (the acting and lack of character arc apparently not being included), and that he won't call you a sexist or a monster for disliking it (except for when he already did), but many of the reviews on YouTube are indeed sexist, like this one very long review by a very long YouTuber who goes on in excruciating, mind-numbing length about what's wrong with it. He brings up the Longman taking issue with Carol stealing The Don's motorcycle because he told her to smile, which Roby classed as harassment. He scoffed at the idea that MauLer would ever actually care about a superhero being a good role model to young girls, as if he knows anything about MauLer, whose sisters both have young children he cares quite a bit about. Roby (who has established he is all about that Legal Life) then showed difficulty wrapping his head around the idea that robbing people who tell you to smile may not be appropriate, justifying it as a measured response to someone being a "major jerk," proving her superior intelligence and not stooping to his level of telling other people to smile since it's not in Carol's character to straight up hurt him - tragically, this video was made before the full story of The Don was made public, and Carol's crippling and threatening of The Don would make this point age even worse.

Roby conceded that he doesn't think that the movie is flawless, as it has bad soundtrack, citing the use of "I'm Just a Girl" as especially "horrendous," and that whoever decided to use it should be blacklisted and never to hired again for using such an on the nose song, leading EFAP to conclude that Roby must be anti-woman - after all, why would anyone have a problem with a song about being a girl?

Roby compares the complaints about Larson's acting to complaints about Henry Cavill's Superman (which would seemingly prove that those arguments are made regardless of gender), but justifies it for both of them because they're going through a character arc. He disagrees that she could be boring because she did indeed tell a joke, and argues that she is being told to suppress her emotions by Kree society despite Kree society not being emotionless and Carol regularly using her emotions to win, and that Carol is trying to prove herself despite her regularly defying orders. He argued that the message of the movie was that Carol's emotions made her stronger than everyone else, rather than her invulnerability, flying, lightspeed travel, and limitless laser powers.

Roby brought up how he initially thought it was a horrible idea to make some of the most iconic Marvel villains good guys in the movie, but was turned around by the movie (which has the Skrulls act overtly evil and try to murder several innocents for the first half of the movie before entirely changing their personalities) doing it really well, because it compared them to immigrants, which Roby admits is in your face. EFAP was quick to denounce Roby's racism, especially given that one of the roster is green. Roby then countered people who had the exact complaint he had, that the Skrulls are good now, by saying that not every Skrull is good, just every Skrull in the movie. He then stated that it's absurd that an entire species would be evil (this apparently does not include the Kree), despite having previously wanted that himself. He also liked that the main Skrull was Australian because he himself is a Australian and wanted some representation.

He countered opinions he'd heard that the message the movie sent was that men are bad or ruin everything by saying that the message was the "complete opposite" - don't control people, regardless of gender. That is not what the word opposite means. He argued that if a man is offended by the way men are portrayed in the movie is if they are the type of man portrayed in the movie and you are an asshole, to which MauLer agreed, and added on that if you were offended by the portrayal of women in *Backdoor Sluts 12*, it's probably because you are a whore. Roby concluded that these men were assholes like the ones in the movie, who emotionally control women by telling them to smile and think women are lesser because they don't have dicks, and Rags was quick to call out his transphobia there for claiming women can't have dicks. The movie shows the extremes of masculinity (telling people to smile), and also shows the other extreme with the dadly Talos, who straps women to brain probes and orders his men to kill her, and the softie Nick Fury, who plays with a cat during the middle of an alien invasion crisis. He then concluded his video by saying if you don't like the movie, you're just misogynistic.

## Trivia

* Thinks that Daredevil Season 3 is a retelling of Born Again
* Rags theorized he might be a Jewish Martian, though his accent makes it hard to tell
* He has a band around his wrist, which is theorized to be a Diversity Band, making him a Level 5 Diversalock with the power to cast a Rainbow. If he levels up further he will be able to cast The Gay
* Thinks that Captain Marvel being highly searched in porn sites means that the character must be good
* He's Australian, so his term for "Legal" might be different
* He is not the Supreme Intelligence

## Quotes

“There has been so many dudes on YouTube making big buckaroos off of this movie and I kind of feel like inferior for not doing the same thing”

“Like a good person I actually went to the cinema and paid for my ticket, because I’m all about that Legal Life”

"And when the dude goes inside the shop, presumably to harass some more women"

"Like this fucking guy really cares what little girls think"

"You know, i think that the movie's message is pretty fucking sweet, its you are not a less of a person if you show emotion, in fact you are actually stronger than people that do not show emotion, this is a consistent criticism with women that they cant get certain jobs"

"Showing emotion is badass"

"I don't like to generalize, but there is lot more men who hate this movie than there are women, i really don't think that people get the movies message"

"Captain Marvel doesn't have problem with men, the film has problem with horrible people no mater their gender"

"Be smarter; steal" - Bilbo the Hobbit Burglar