Last Rant Against False History Videos

Yesterday I got a comment on blog postings I did at the end of last year about false animation history videos on YouTube, misinformation and mispronunciations presented as truth and the so called documentary filmmaker who knows his videos are flawed but finds nothing wrong in continuing to post horribly inaccurate information. The comment is posted anonymously but I know it is from the filmmaker, Aaron H. D____ it has his favorite response "get over yourself".


Saturday, November 28, 2009
truth-is-not-out There (contains links to the histories (sic) - number 3 has the most mispronunciations but they are all a mess)

Sunday, November 29, 2009
history-mess-goes-on

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
dont-take-history-so-seriously-man

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Don`t Take History so Seriously, Man!":

dont be such a jerk, man. film and animation are to be taken seriously but they should always have a fun, lighthearted escapism in the subtext. not all the projects we've done for school are perfect but they've moved us forward. get over yourself.

Posted by Anonymous to Animation Un-LOC`d at January 22, 2010 8:02 AM

Dear Aaron, thank you so very, very much for upgrading me from douchebag to jerk, which is what you called me when I suggested that you remove your massively flawed animation history videos from the Internet.

I have no idea why you felt compelled to contact me a full 2 months after the fact to comment on my blog posting about your damaged and damaging animation history videos. What was your goal? Did you want to get me to remove my reviews of your crappy animation unhistory videos? The copies of your crap history videos on my blog are just embedded links from where you posted your “old school projects”. Without the videos to link to, the reviews are meaningless.

You still don’t get it. You are knowingly publishing incorrect information about the history of animation. I am not talking about fun or lighthearted escapism or even animation. I am talking about history, fact, research, truth. I still think that to knowingly continue to publish erroneous information is wrong. People are going to find your "old school project" and think you know what you are talking about. More misinformation is going out every day and you are to blame for the lies of your videos from the moment you knew they were in fact lies.

The fact that you created these massively inaccurate histories when you were a student and didn’t know any better is neither here or there. You now know that your history videos are wrong from beginning to end but you continue to leave them up on the Internet.

You are knowingly spreading false facts. And not just small ones but giant flawed untruths. And you seem to think that am animation historian has no right to be upset about yet another source of misinformation on a subject already overrun with bad half-assed research.

You know that your films are filled with misinformation and god-awful mispronunciations. You are a documentary filmmaker and yet you knowingly continue to publish lies. And you vent your rage on the people who dare to call you on them.

These films should be a total embarrassment to you both professionally and personally and if I am helping to make them so, then good for me. But you tell me to get over myself. You call me a douchebag and jerk because I dare to question your wisdom in continuing to publish your flawed history videos for the unsuspecting world to see and believe.

I will do you one better; I am completely over you as a member of the filmmaking and academic community. You’re a non-person. I have more respect for people who claim that the holocaust never happened than I do for you. At lest they think they sick theories are the truth. You are knowingly publishing false history. You are not even pathetic. I have nothing but contempt for you and your scholarship (sic).