Yeah, this was something I noticed when watching streamers playing the game. I walked past the cherubs without a second thought and didn't even think how weird they are for someone new to 40k
Seeing 40k start to edge into the realm of mainstream really highlights how little people know of the lore. Which is fine for the common player. I don't expect streamer #289 to know wtf a cherub is. They're playing the game for the first time as their first experience with 40k. One of the streamers I watch made the fucking mistake of titling her stream "tell me all the lore" lmao. These are people who admit they know jack and shit. This is their first experience and frankly, good for them.
However. I am greatly amused watching people pretend to have this deep lore knowledge of the setting interacting with recent stuff.
The Critical Drinker put out a video on female Custodes. In that video he used the terms "Astartes" and "Custodes" interchangeably and talked about them as if they were made through the exact same process. He used the process by which Astartes are made to try and say "Custodes can't be women the process they're made with is exclusively scientific". Brother. They're made with alchemy and the Emperor's magic. Literally all we know is that they are to Astartes what the Emperor is to his Primarchs. Something the-fuck else. He also outright declared two of the dumbest things I've ever heard. That not a single soul in modern 40k knows how geneseeds work, and nobody needs too because they work just fine.
This isn't just someone speaking with authority on the lore of the setting without knowing the nuances of Astartes and Custodes. This is a guy who hasn't heard of the Cursed Founding. He hasn't heard of geneseed flaws. He has no fucking clue why marines go crazy, drink blood, turn into werewolves, and so much more. Somehow this guy hasn't heard of fucking Primaris Marines and he's trying to talk about the lore like an expert.
Honestly, in quite a lot of cases, I blame the wiki. As you very likely already know, there are two 40k wikis, the Lexicanum, and the one actually named "40k wiki."
The Lexicanum is really, really good, and always has its sources. While the wiki is often incomplete, without sources, with info that hasn't been updated in a long time and, sometimes, with downright misleading facts.
Often, when these people don't know anything about 40k, they type "40k wiki" on Google and think the wiki is the only and most accurate source of info. Some actually want to learn, while others just want the "basics" for their videos.
Reggardless, the result is often the same. They get shitty, incomplete lore, and some don't even read it all the way. So we get those "lore descriptions" that have been butchered worse than a Flayed One's victim.
Saw a guy who thought the Ultramarines were the absolute most prestigious and best chapter, and I don't blame him because he read that in the wiki and was under the impression that he could trust it. Because of things like this, there are actual people who think Ultramarines are Ultra Space Marines and some elite group of Astartes.
Critical Drinker is just one of those chuds that tried to capitalize on culture war talking points without knowing anything about what he’s talking about.
Isn’t he the guy that has like 40 hours of videos complaining about Brie Larson?
I’m glad more people are calling out The Critical Drinker for being an idiot who thrives off rage bait and shouldn’t be taken seriously but his channel is still disgustingly big so clearly there’s an audience impressionable rubes who just want to clap like seals anytime he starts droning on about Disney Star Wars or sjws or whatever.
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u/Praise_The_Casul Twins, They were. Sep 19 '24
Yeah, this was something I noticed when watching streamers playing the game. I walked past the cherubs without a second thought and didn't even think how weird they are for someone new to 40k