Oh, say it ain’t so! The creative team behind The Sarkeesian Effect has fallen apart in a wave of mutual recriminations and accusations and general bad feelings! Owen is accusing Aurini of blackmail! Aurini is accusing Owen of being a nerd who can’t get laid! They’re both accusing each other of trying to take the money and run!
And apparently Roosh V — yes, that Roosh V, do you even know of any others — played the Yoko Ono role in this breakup. (Sorry, Yoko, it really wasn’t fair to drag you into this, so I’ll post a video of your awesome Walking On Thin Ice at the end of this post.)
Owen announced the firing of Aurini in this video:
Oh, sorry, that wasn’t Owen announcing the firing. That wass Tammy Wynette singing D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Here’s Owen:
Whoops. That was “The Breakup Song” by the Greg Kihn Band. HERE’s Owen:
Ok, that was actually Frida — you know, from ABBA — doing “I Know There’s Something Going On.” I dunno, it’s a pretty good song, don’t you think? And it’s sort of relevant.
Anyway, here’s the actual video from Owen. It’s not that long. You should watch it. He’s fully clothed in this one. Well, at least from the waist up.
I’m not quite sure if Owen actually has the authority to fire Aurini, but then again I’m not an expert in Shithead Breakup Law. In case you didn’t watch the video, he says he plans to finish the, er, film without Aurini. And he apparently has all the money.
Aurini, meanwhile, has offered his side of the story in a blog post:
Jordan Owen has decided to split the partnership he and I formed to produce the GamerGate documentary about Anita Sarkeesian, with the planned title The Sarkeesian Effect. Conveniently after collecting the funds I begged you for in my last post.
Aurini, despite being fired and not having access to the duo’s Paypal account, pledges that he too will see the, er, film to its completion, thus raising the possibility that there will be TWO COMPETING SARKEESIAN EFFECTS, sort of like when Black Flag got back together, but as two competing bands, with one touring as Black Flag and the other just as Flag.
“This project will see fruition,” Aurini writes, “and it will be a palpable blow against the Social Justice movement.”
A BLOW, A VERY PALPABLE BLOW!
Alas, I knew him, Horatio.
A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!
Anyhoo, Aurini claims that the film “is as good as in the bag,” with not much beyond editing left to do, and claims to be puzzled as to why Owen would take his ball and go home at this late state in the production. He claims
there was absolutely no disagreement over the film at all, and Jordan’s role as Producer, by this point, had mainly devolved to signing the cheques while I did the editing, and others did the animation.
The only logical reason to split the project at this point was because he’d just received the final month’s funding…
But just when you think Aurini is going to start in on a rant on what a dirty thief Owen is, he heads in a totally different direction, insinuating that Owen’s REAL reason for the breakup had less to do with money than it did with, well, let’s let Aurini explain:
After the past two months of communiques with Jordan, I strongly suspect that he undermined this project because of an irrational jealously of Roosh, and any man who’s able to relate to women easily.
He’d been asking me for advice about women since the get go – which led me to recommending my colleague Roosh who has done much to support us – but every time I spoke about him, it seemed to fill Jordan with rage. Eventually leading to a panic attack that got him kicked off of an airplane – the last time I saw him in person.
That’s right. He’s saying that Jordan Owen is some kind of Omega Male Luh-huh-LOOOOOSER who can’t score the HBs!
Then Aurini asks for more money:
I ask that you continue to support me as I pull the last strands together, and cancel your financial support to Mister Owen. He does not have the technical capacity to put this film together the way it needs to be done.
Oh, this is going to be good.
Oh, and here’s that Yoko Ono song, which seriously is probably one of my top ten favorite songs of all time.
H/T — Skiriki, for being the first to alert me to this exciting development.
H/T — To Mike in the comments, who pointed me to that pic of the formerly dynamic duo, which I knew was out there but just couldn’t find!
I’m certainly not the first person to say this here, but it always makes me laugh when they rail against social justice. Social justice warriors, sure. I understand that is as a mocking term, intended to convey that “SJW”s are too ready to go to battle over some minor slight in the name of justice. But who comes out and says they’re against justice itself?
We’ve all seen this movie before. 2+ con men partner to take a mark but also scheme to screw the other(s) a the same time. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Grifters, etc. It’s an old Hollywood favorite and can be quite entertaining.
We are all going to enjoy this.
In a nutshell, this project was a joke from day one and leaves behind some of the finest tragicomedy ever dumped on the internet.
Now the big question is “Who is surprised by that ?” Not me, that’s for sure.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Anyone else love that this is the first real update in, like, months? <3
Would all the Aurini footage get caught from the final cut of The Sarkeesian Effect? (If it happens–that's a major if) That'd be a shame, actually.
If they do a Hearts of Darkness-type "Making Of", I WOULD SO WATCH THAT SHIT.
Guys,
Upon a few minutes of reflection, I’m not sure we can take this thing at face value at all.
I think there’s a decent chance that they have already split/disposed of the money together and this whole “fight” is an act as part of the strategy of <a href="http://infofranpro.wdfiles.com/local–files/19520101-on-cooling/19520101%20On%20cooling.pdf""cool outing" the marks.
I’m thinking that’s whats going on. Both are making promises. As the time stretches out and nothing comes out many people will psychologically accept that they aren’t getting anything from their investment and come to believe that this was just bad luck. After a while, both can quietly drop the act and walk away.
maghavan: That would require them to successfully plan something that involves cooperation. Do you really think they’re that smart?
[Insert link to the Tre Lux version of “I know there’s something going on”]
Who’da thunk it, a project cooked up by two libertarian turdbags not panning out because they ended up unable to cooperate with one another. How’s that rugged individualism working out for ya, shitlords?
I’m just glad everyone seems to be wearing pants…
Excellent stuff! Love how hate groups always seem to turn on each other. Something about alpha juice and wolves I guess.
Anyone with some knowledge about mr alpha (Davis Aurini) and academic studies? He sure wants to be one (just take a lol look at his rant about phd.) but if someone writes “trained in the arts of history”, or what it now was, I do suspect that the person dont even have a degree to brag about. Anyone?
Jordan’s videos are a lot more fun to watch if you imagine that he’s trying to sneak out a fart during all those uncomfortable pauses.
Liked the Black Flag reference
It’s so dramatic! I love it!
Lololololol
The comments section for the video is also amazing.
I hope the movie is like The Room of documentaries.
This gives me hope it will be that unintentionally, spectacularly hilarious.
UH OH!!! TROUBLE IN PARADISE!!!
I’m mildly disturbed that Owen was actually disagreeing with Roosh, and Aurini says that’s the reason they’re breaking up (now send Aurini all your monies and don’t send anymore to that poophead Owen!).
I feel dirty for agreeing with Owen on anything. So, so dirty.
I’ll just console myself with my new book. I wanted to get the second book to the Tantalize series by Cynthia Leitich Smith, but I ended up getting the third by accident. It’s okay because one, I’ve already read the first three books in the series, and two, the first and second books are interchangeable, so you’ve really only had to read the first book to get the third (though, near the end, a character from the second shows up, so you should maybe read the second too.)
On the other hand, it sucks because the second is my favorite. It has angels going on benders and getting “Cherub” tattoos, and then having snarky conversations with other angels about how humans view cherubs as chubby little naked babies!
Roosh, “relates to women easily”???
BAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!
Ahem. Yeah. Roosh. Relates to women easily. So easily that he’s not getting any either, and looks remarkably like a thinner version of Jordan Owen himself.
Speaking of Roosh, here’s an article that I’m sure he could use, if he could just bestir his lazy ass long enough to, you know, wipe it.
LOL. I get cited as a tipster, right-winger MRAs try* to friend me elsewhere. Hilarious!
(*Operative word being “try”. As if.)
Word.
Let’s just hope they keep the cork on the fork.
I’ve been snickering all day.
Also, here is the best response to The Sarkeesian Effect I’ve seen to date. He gives it the all gravity and respect it deserves, i.e. zero.
Saying you like Yoko Ono, David? You’re really drawing a line in the sand. That’s almost as bad as saying you like Courtney Love.
I love the redundancy, there. Replacing the metaphors with their literal meanings:
““This project will see fruition,” Aurini writes, “and it will be a [physically felt physical strike] against the Social Justice movement.”“
@theladyzombie Thanks for that video. I lose it when the guy talking starts laughing.