Cr1TiKaL

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> ### Full Name
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> Charlie
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> penguinz0
> Media Literacy God
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> ### Occupation
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> YouTuber
> Streamer
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> ### Gender
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> Male
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> Dark Brown
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> ### First Appearance
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> The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (uncredited cameo)
> EFAP 143
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> ### Latest Appearance
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> EFAP 251
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> "He does a really good job of, y'know presenting himself as um, as just like open-minded"
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> - Hasan Piker, in response to Cr1TiKaL actually being open-minded
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**MoistCr1TiKaL**, or **Cr1TiKaL** for short, real name **Charlie** and channel name **penguinz0**, is a YouTuber and streamer

## History

### PreFAP

Cr1TiKaL rose to popularity doing gameplay videos, and now also does commentary on internet topics. He also streams on Twitch in addition to posting on YouTube

### The React War

In July of 2021, Jay Exci's video on the strange house that went viral got picked up by the algorithm a few months after it was uploaded, leading to Cr1TiKaL watching it onstream. Jay took some issue with Cr1TiKaL's coverage since he mainly just thanked subscribers while he let the video play in the background without providing much commentary, but he decided to leave it be. MauLer, Rags, and Fringy spent EFAP 143 breaking down the history of transformative content, going through the Jacksfilms vs Jinx Arc and ending it with Cr1TiKaL's coverage of Jay's video.

The more pertinent reaction to Jay's video came in the form of one Hasan Piker, who went so far as to leave to go make himself food for a third of the video's runtime, then let it play mostly uninterrupted while providing very little transformative commentary, then stopped the video right before the part where it promoted Jay's content. Jay found this so egregious that it prompted a video on the topic, which ended up kicking off #ReactGate

#### Cr1TiKaL vs DarkViperAU vs Jay

DarkViperAU was working on a similar video critiquing react content for being non-transformative, but decided that the topic was important enough to speak out on now rather than waiting until the video was ready to be released, and so released the script for it ahead of time as a Google Doc on Twitter. DarkViper took a far stronger stance than Jay, calling all streamed react content wrong on the basis that the streamer doesn't know ahead of time whether or not they will be able to transform it, and denouncing any content that reacts to the entirety of a video regardless of how transformative. He also asserted that all react streamers are doing what they do because they know they can get away with it, and are purposefully doing something morally wrong for financial gain. Most egregiously though, he compared the act of reacting to someone's video under the assumption that they would be okay with it to assuming someone else's consent for sex, and claimed that react streamers are the type of person to roofie someone's drink at a party. He doubled down on this when asked about it on Twitter, stating that it was hyperbolic but not by much. Jay responded that while the analogy is technically correct in that both scenarios are assuming someone's consent when it is not actually given, the analogy is needlessly extreme since sexual assault does far, far greater harm to a person than copyright infringement, and the inflammatory nature of the analogy distracted from other better-argued points in the document

Cr1TiKaL uploaded a video responding to DarkViper's document, taking issue with the comparison to sexual abuse criminals, and arguing against some of DarkViper's points. DarkViper responded to this video, accusing Cr1TiKaL of misrepresenting him on purpose by taking him out of context and making unfounded claims because he knew he could get away with it due to his large audience. He also argued that the point about assuming sexual consent was meant to be simply an analogy and not a literal comparison, and that Cr1TiKaL was focusing on it far too much since it was only a single part of the document and he never said the words "abuse" or "criminal." Jay covered this exchange on stream and countered that while Cr1TiKaL did misrepresent a few of DarkViper's points, it was more likely an honest mistake than intentional malice, and that the drink-roofieing comment came off as more than simply an analogy since he doubled down on it on Twitter, and if that wasn't what he meant then he should have clarified it

#### Cr1TiKaL's Chad Move

Cr1TiKaL released another video on the topic of DarkViper's video, correcting some of his previous takes. He cited Jay's video and stream as what changed his mind on the subject (Jay found this out from his mom), and saying that from then on he would no longer react to entire videos on stream and instead only react to the first few minutes of them to get an idea of them, and make edited videos on them if they were worthy of a full reaction, a step further than even what Jay was asking for out of react content. Cr1TiKaL mentioned having felt guilty about his lack of reaction to Jay's house video, to which Jay hoped he wasn't beating himself up too badly over it since it was an honest mistake and not very egregious. Jay called Cr1TiKaL's response a Chad move

As seen on EFAP 181, Hasan ~~reacted to~~ sat there silently and let Cr1TiKaL's entire video play, and humorously enough came to the conclusion that Cr1TiKaL actually agreed with him that Jay was arguing in bad faith and was simply being nice to Jay to avoid drama, which he commended him for

### vs Jackson Pollock

> "'Of course, an Amazon warehouse comes to mind, when navigating the narrow passages between Carpenter's brown boxes.' Get fucked! Get fucked!"
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> "Oh no, Charlie's interpretation was not only valid, but one of the primary ones!... Oh Charlie look at you, Media Literacy God... He did it better than you! He arted better than you!... The year is off to a good start. Charlie won the war against a guy he doesn't know exists"
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On EFAP 251, MauLer, Rags, Fringy, and newcomer RandomFilmTalk took a look at a video by ethan is online defending modern art. The video was ostensibly a response to Cr1TiKaL, though the first half of it was instead a response to a PragerU video, which turned out to be perhaps the least politically partisan video PragerU had ever put out. ethan claimed that Charlie was acting as a "useful idiot" and unintentionally perpetuated PragerU's "fascist propaganda" because he thought Jackson Pollock's paint spatter art sucked, and wasn't worth millions of dollars. He repeatedly described Cr1TiKaL as being mad at and scared of the art whenever he gave a negative opinion of it, then encouraged him to look into the deeper meanings behind the art. A Google search on Rags' part, humorously enough, showed that one of the serious interpretations made of one of the artworks shown matched up with Cr1TiKaL's made up bullshit interpretation that he said as a joke. Also ironic was the fact that MauLer and Fringy's casual praises of Pollock's work, that he was doing his own thing and there was at least something novel about it, were stronger than those brought up by ethan, who could only defend them on the grounds that he used a lot of paint and the painting was really big. In response to Cr1TiKaL bemoaning that paintings like Pollock's sell for millions, ethan countered that he was getting mad about something that doesn't even actually happen, except in money laundering schemes, but yet another Google search by Rags found that one of Pollock's paintings was the fifth most expensive in the world, selling for $200 million dollars. MauLer could not help but find it hilarious that Charlie's opinions were being framed as influenced by conservative political propaganda, when he was having perhaps the most normal guy opinions ever

Cr1TiKaL's initial stream was in response to a Solar Sands video, which made all of this Solar Sands' fault