#which is wild because i didnt say he isn't an incel i said incel isnt his entire character lmao

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lol the 15 hr cmt was absolutely about Hiding in Private. I recently finally watched his Adachi video after it was recommended to me multiple times and only got 3 mins in before I closed it. "Adachi setup Namatame to kidnap Rise" is factually untrue. It might seem like a "minor mistake" to someone else, but I think it says a lot about how Hiding failed to see what Adachi was actually doing in Persona 4, as it means he believed Adachi when he said he was watching the IT and Namatame play cat and mouse. And it is compounded by how absolutely hilarious it is for him to have missed that, after boasting about having studied Persona 4 for a year to make The Ultimate Analysis about it.

Personally, I actually don't mind calling him an edgelord or an incel. The issue I have is when people add a period after edgelord or incel - as if to say, that is his entire character.

Which, no?? It's not??

I struggle to even call it subtext that they've missed when it feels so blatant lol. He sends a Fake Projection of himself to go mope around in Mayumi's TV world apartment, says a bunch of stuff that just the flashbacks the player is shown prove to be incomplete statements, then invites you to come see His Real Self inside of his dungeon. After you punch him in the face, he says something about how he had Nowhere Left to Go.

Arena Ultimax even spells this out when he goes, "Uhm, I'm helping destroy the world because I am bored and fuck Inaba", while on the inside, he's telling himself that it's easier for the Investigation Team to see him as a bad guy because that fits their perception of him. I wonder why that would be their perception of him. Wow, it's almost like there was a part in Persona 4 where he sent a Fake Projection to say dubious insane shit to them.

It's wild to miss this kind of subtext, but wowie the meme does go that Persona fans can't read.

There's something about Sho going "ADACHI, GO KILL SOMEONE" that gives him the same vibes as an /r/okbuddypersona/ user, or a Twitter user whose entire impression of Adachi is "bitches and whores", or a YouTube essayist who spent a year "researching" Persona 4 and made 15 hours worth of video essays about it but didn't understand what Adachi was doing during Persona 4 at all.