Make Stuff

> "Not loving a Star Wars movie is one of the worst feelings in the universe for a Star Wars fan. It sucks. It's a sucky, terrible feeling."
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## Personal Information

### Gender

Male

**Make Stuff** is a YouTuber whose video was covered on EFAP 100.

## The Last Jedi: Restoring Balance to the Star Wars Fandom

> "That is when I knew I was a Jedi."
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The gang first encountered Make Stuff on EFAP 100, when they watched his video on *The Last Jedi*. Make Stuff began Part Zero of his video by mentioning how he Intentionally brought up *The Last Jedi* in his video on *Avatar the Last Airbender* just so he could say he didn't want to bring up *The Last Jedi* so he wouldn't be "dogpiled" by "haters," then complained that he received awful comments about *The Last Jedi* like "Perfect Video. TLJ is bad tho." when he was the one who brought it up in the first place. He was also similarly upset that after he used the quote from Rose Tico after she "saved Finn from killing himself" (in his video which he had already said he didn't want to bring up *The Last Jedi* in), people commented to say that quote wasn't good. He countered those criticisms by saying that that quote is exactly what the *Star Wars* fandom needs right now.

Portrays people who love *The* *Last* *Jedi* are Rey and people who hate it as Kylo.

Make Stuff was generous enough to point out that hating the film does not make you racist or sexist garbage human, though those people exist too... and also Russian bots, but this video isn't about them. It's about the people who hat it for non-sexist and non-racist reasons and want to force their hatred onto others.

Whenever or not you liked the movie boils down to one thing: was the experience what you wanted from a *Star Wars* movie?

He thinks its crazy that people think that the movie is "objectively bad," as art is subjective, abstract and emotional. Something being widely considered good doesn't make it good, it just means that's the popular opinion.

Lot of criticisms that the movie gets can be levied to the original trilogy. Real reason is that they didn't get the experience they wanted from the *Star* *Wars* movie and are masking it with their critique. original Star Wars movies had something for everyone.

He loves the movies because they made him have that childhood excitement and sense of the adventure and fear for the characters' safety. loves the emotional stuff and wisdom. he feels that Last Jedi gave him those things.

People identified with Luke as he was the audience surrogate, but now he is grumpy man. this is intentional as the original idea of the franchise was escapism and now it challenges it by presenting original concepts in new light, like the hotshot pilot causing death with their recklessness

Movie is about failure and getting past that, which he loves and some hate and that's okay. There are thousands of reasons to love or hate a movie.

he feels "sincerely awful" that people don't like the movie. It makes him feel bad. So why are people telling others not to like the movie and making them feel bad?

He loved the series since he was a kid and saw The Phantom Menace. But the main thing he loves is the Fandom. But the more he bought the merchandise and talked about the series, more ownership he felt towards the franchise, which is what all the other fans must also feel. But the creators owe us nothing, instead we owe them for bringing us content. We shouldn't be mad that they don't make content specifically for us. We should not harass the creators when their content is not for us.

Almost all of the discourse surrounding the Last Jedi is harassment

Criticism is good, but yelling it is bad, its harassment when you say to a random person that their opinion on a movie is bad

This video is not about how to be a good fan, but a how to be a good person, as the series' point is hope and beating the darkness and hatred., but fighting is not the Jedi way. If someone had told him that the *Star Wars* prequels were bad when he was a kid, he would have either become secluded with his hobby, or left the franchise behind, something he cant even fathom doing.

lectures and ascribes traits to people all willy-nilly, very ready to demonize and make preconceived decisions on the character of those that hated The Last Jedi.

calls the "harassers" monsters, as they are stopping people from being creative with their hate, including him, as he fears the backlash that his creation could create.

there is no more empathy in the fandom.

constantly links his own experience to others, like how he thought he owned the franchise when he put his attention and money into it, which then must be how other fans feel

when people could see other people, they could have context of their love for the fandom, but with internet you just see the text and static picture and their negative opinion, you only see them as such.

you should treat others like human beings, as they are ones.

people have more in common with each other as star wars fans than when they are not.the star wars fans have experienced something that no one else can imagine

he is proud of his love of star wars

melodramatic and uses sad piano and like any essayist, he puts lot of text on screen. Really wishy-washy. should calm down

## Trivia

> "Let's do a quick exercise on empathy."
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* Owns "crazy pills", which he consultant has to check if he or someone else has taken any, as he suspect that either he or his opposition must be insane.
* He sounds like what Jello would sound like if it had a voice.
* Sounds like he is ready to cry, and seems to be really emotionally fragile. His a human tragedy.
* Rags is not attracted to him.
* Thinks its virtuous to not fight back the bullies, instead you should whine in the internet like he does.
* Has deep hatred for people that critique and meme, categorizing them as harassers.
* Thinks being racist or sexist is worse than being life-threatening
* He is so wishy-washy that he washed Chase's laundry by talking.

## Quotes

"What are we owed as fans and how do we coexist as fandom again?"

"When it comes to art, good and bad are matter of a personal opinion."

"The Star Wars fandom has a very big entitlement and harassment problem"

"Relentless hatred and destruction doesn't inspire creativity, it just inspires more destruction"

"The internet has broken us"

"I'm done with the hatred"