I feel what your feeling.

These are Legos, kids toys! Sexuality and profanity is not what kids do with them.
Keshen8 is one of the many who promote things like these and, since Keshen is believed to be the highest ranked brickfilmer, people follow his lead.

It's just too much.

EDIT: Well, occasional swearing is fine though sex-jokes and all these World War films are a little too much. A little violence is fine though not a whole bloody (I'm using that as literally bloody, not the cuss-word) war!

-LASF

Last edited by LASF (September 19, 2011 (03:22pm))

I don't see the problem there. If you don't share the humor of the filmmaker or if you are easily offended by the sujet of the film, just don't watch it. Some people obviously like it and will continue consuming and making them. Deal with it.

Not so sure about that, LASF.

First off, Keshen is only the second most popular brickfilmer on YouTube. Second have you noticed that many of his recent films have little to no spoken dialogue. The last film of his  remember to have obvious profanity was Mac or PC. It sorta seems like he's moved on from that for the most part. I can think of 2 culprits for the this rise in profanity and sexuality in some brickfilms.

1: ForrestFire101. now nothing against Forrest for the most part. He has some pretty good animation (heck, he's in my bo for crying out loud), but profanity and Sexuality are prominently present in many of his films. And since he IS th most popular brickfilmer, many newcomers will follow his lead

2: Other non-brickfilming YouTubers. many people on YouTube will watch some person on YouTube with the above themes present, and then see a brickfilm, and then mix the 2 together.

Sorry if this sounded like a rant, just trying to get my opinion out. Not trying to be mean.

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I am the first to agree with freedom of expression and freedom of speech A. It isn't so much what we are watching that is the problem because we have the ability to police ourselves and not watch it. The thing that bothers me is that kids watch these videos and the impression it leaves on them. We have to deal with yes but it does not mean we have to like it that's all.

Well, the basic point is that newbies will come along, see how popular Forest and people like him are and follow them, as in, make sexual, violent, and full of profanity. This is FF101's newest film and it's full of profanity. And we just want less films like these. True, not everyone is going to stop but hopefully a tad bit do.

-LASF

Just going to throw in a wee bit here.
I kind of see both viewpoints. The LEGO is mostly considered as a child's toy. Kids may be more likely to look up Brickfilms, certainly, than adults. Sure, we'll look them up, but they may search on YouTube and become fascinated with the art of the hobby. They may also follow the lead of the leading Brickfilmers with the most views or who are well-known. At the same time, I do not want to generalize here, but not all kids are bread, butter, and angel wings. I remember as a wee lad I had a friend or two who, indeed, would be quite lewd and crude with the LEGO minifigures. There are just as many "clean" kids as there are "dirty" kids, I'd imagine. In the same vein, yes, the Brickfilms and Brickshorts do rather represent cultures and society. There's probably more explicit sexuality and violence in films than, say, fifty or sixty years ago. Much of the media today shows this. Now this isn't an excuse to make Brickfilms more violent and sexual, but at the same time, I feel like, just as with media, there will be many variants of Brickfilms as there are movies and television. There are clean, wholesome television shows and movies; there're violent, dirty, television shows and movies, and there are others that fit neither of the preceding categories. The diversity, if you will, that is there will probably also exist in the Brickfilming world because of the influence drawn from reality.

Mm, one more thing. In my Communications and Culture course in college, my professor brought up an interesting point. The Greeks were known for their love of fun, humour, play. How is it, then, that they wrote such famous and tragic, well, tragedies? A student answered that they were able to do it because they would not know joy without tragedy. A little food for thought concerning the morality. How might you teach your kids right and wrong if the wrong were, say, purged from the films?

Now, I'm rather rubbish when it comes to coherence in large paragraphs, but this is just a few cents of hopefully thought-provoking stuffs. All in all on this, I'll remain neutral.

(Hah, too me so long to write this little bit, I didn't see the posts above!)

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He's making hundreds of dollars, do you really think he'll stop? But I know how you guys feel on this, most of the kids who see his stuff are 10. I do wish children would be creative, it's sad that kids see this and filter everything down to Licensed themes or bust.

I don't see why we should limit brickfilms to just things for kids to watch. Brickfilms can grow as a medium to address adult and mature themes. I'm sure many people thought the same thing about cartoons when they were first being made, but you can see now how much they've grown. Trying to stunt the growth of brickfilms by not liking or favoriting it just because it has "adult themes" is incredibly stupid.

It's so sad that the newer Brickfilmers have to put all that in they're videos. I guess they see other people do it, like FF101 or keshen8 and just expect, "hey if I put all language and the sexual themes in, everyone's gonna subscribe to me!" because they know that one reason these popular people get more subs, is because of all the profanity, and the crude jokes.

FF101 isn't the "best Brickfilmer" out there, heck he's just on YouTube to entertain, not show off his animation skills. They're are more people on this site who could animate better than him any day.

BTW good point LASF.