NEW DEMO REEL FOR 2023
If you're a company, brand, or otherwise, I'm always looking for shows to host, people to interview, panels to engage, and things to commentate!
Video Games; Wrestling; Culture; Comics/TV/Music; Anything
Bookings: okaydrian
@csa
.gg
Agency:
@TheCSA
1/2 🧵
c/o IGN
in re: "In regards to diversity in the game, can we expect to see Black characters in Final Fantasy XVI, or people of color (non-white characters) in general?"
That's not how this works,
@MsVixen
You don't take your experience and laminate it over someone else's while invalidating them and telling them how they should feel...
...Which is what you do by calling it child's play or thumping your bravado of how reinforced your skin is.
and listen I get it: I've played-and-beaten every FF but like, 3.
I've played FFXIV since launch
Played XI for a 10+ years
Tactics Ogre next week is a day 1 purchase for me
but that doesn't mean that the above statement doesn't exist and I can't want better from them.
I love the MCU too don't get me wrong, but the X-Men are dog-walking MCU Avengers ain't no way Mags is losing to a dude who got shot up by a flurry of bullets.
Can't celebrate this enough.
Here's the actual video of Myself and my homies/people I share a great admiration for:
@EbonixSims
and
@storymodebae
in Times Square.
There is no timeline that I would've imagined this happens and it can never be taken away from us.
Detroit: Become Human is ostensibly gross when taking into account the slavery allusions, civil rights allegories, quotations, and Negro Spiritual that's sung in one of the branching paths.
It's extremely dispassionate + veers on a dangerous route of narcissism.
Sub mode is a temporary deterrent & like follow mode, stifles growth in an environment dependent on communication.
'The trolls win' by allowing it to metastasize, not by disapproval + wanting safer harbor.
I guess the cat's out of the bag!
How about this for irony: I said years ago there's no way I'd ever be a Twitch Ambassador because I'm too... 'me'
And, well, here we are! Thanks,
@Twitch
, friends who believed in me along the way, and especially my community. <3
Our newest Twitch Ambassador is a host with the most. A true leader of the clASS who knows how to stay tranquilo.
Throw those OkayOMG's up for
@okaydrian
.
This is a chance for a lot of you quiet indistry folks to make a declaration on your timeline to cultivate your audience to the ideas you want to curate - and the kind of individuals you want supporting you.
For instance: Trump is racist, divisive, and is ministering dissension.
"I'm white and I-"
Let me stop you right there. It's not narcissistic to want to see versions of non-white characters in avenues visibly absent of that when you otherwise haven't been able to do so without someone giving you a works cited page.
@okaydrian
You don't need to see yourself represented in every single thing to relate to characters. That is narcissism in full effect.
I'm white and I love and relate to miles Morales, tchalla, candyman, and I wish they'd make an anansi the spider God movie.
People in various Twitter comments wilding out about the money Breonna Taylor's received as amends:
Money is nothing to a judicial system, but accountability is everything because it's an admission of a wrong; that's what changes everything for her family and the system.
Been streaming for like 8 years; almost partnered for 7; constantly reinventing myself, creating new ideas, hosting new events; creating new ideas... and in 2021 was made a Twitch Ambassador.
And then
@Twitch
sends me this curated Ambassador gift. Its all been worth it. Thank u
I kid you not: I woke up, half asleep, screenshot, and showed Discord, went back to bed, thought it was literally something that happened in a dream, just woke up, and it has set in. Wow.
Been busting my tail for 6 years. Thank you.
If you see a survey or poll or another from Twitch, click it, and if it involves NFTs, vote NO on everything. Twitch is very proactive about using language that says their polls and surveys influence/reinforce the decisions they make.
"I'm uncomfortable and scared."
Welcome to a day in the life. If you're not black and you've been searching for that feeling of understanding a semblance of what it's like, that's the start.
Remember it.
[greyscale intro]
Want to grow your stream, but find it difficult?
*jumpcut to person with a flat tire, sighs*
Tune in to for:
Creator Camp - Planning Your Growth on Twitch
Feat: Myself,
@KiwiOnTheSticks
, &
@GeekyCassie
RIGHT NOW
I've a belief that a number of people on Twitch don't watch or interact with PoC creators bc they don't see themselves IN that person like they do their normal audience/circle.
Nor are they used to our PoV, humor, tonality - & rather than adjust/learn from it, it's tuned out.
Some of the events I've hosted:
Gamestop TV
Twitch Black History Month Summit
Twitch x Chicago
E3
PAX
Twitch Sells Out: Amazon Prime Event
TwitchCon
Twitch x White House
I love this - it's my dream.
Thank you for giving me, a black man, a chance, in an underrepresented field.
Broadcaster, event host, talent workshop instructor, content creator and now part of
@TheCSA
family! We are proud to welcome the multi-talented and oh-so-charming
@Okaydrian
!
My last 36 hours:
1⃣ Take over the official
@Xbox
Twitch channel
2⃣ Jackbox w/ talents &
@AustinCreedWins
on
@G4TV
3⃣ An ad in TIMES SQUARE NYC. THE EYES OF MILLIONS IN ONE SPOT.
Forever grateful for the hard work I put in and the people who support along the way <3
📢Announcement!📢
I'm honored to say I'm the Social Media & Community Manager for
@blankhans_io
, focusing on the release of
@playCoreborn
(follow 🙂)!
I look forward to building excitement around the game and all it has to offer! Also, the team has been welcoming/kind!
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I'll say it again: content creator white worship makes me illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Mostly in the sense that some people don't react/celebrate successes for their own marginalized peers (that they break bread with!) the same way they do their contemporaries.
Thank you, Stan Lee. You literally - not figuratively - saved my life growing up, as well as many others, with a lifestyle/art/medium that made everyone feel super when the world was villainous. ✊🏾
I'll do my best to pay it forward:
I have been a Twitch Partner 7 years as of Jan 2021 and I gotta tell you: it never gets easier.
I know I’m hated, disliked, ignored, muted, and people wanna see my downfall, but I have a great support system. And I’m thankful for it.
HERE IT IS:
I have new merch! This is my 1st since 2015. Artwork is designed by
@fayren
, storyboard artist of Netflix's Castlevania + potato friend.
Celebrate your love for Okay-Per-View in preparation of another big announcement 1 week from today...👀
I'm telling you now, only warning:
If you gift Trump's Twitch channel a subscription to my channel, you will be banned, without reprieve. Intransigence on deck.
You know, before I switch personas/gimmicks for 2022, let me get something off my chest:
My people - all my black friends, creators, and community - love RTing my content hosting & the content of our own.
But a lot of my white friends only RT my grief/sadness of black struggle.
There are honestly just some people on Twitch or in its space that I will never vibe with because I don't trust their intentions or their arrogance - regardless of how many of my mutuals rock with with them, and that's okay.
Tell yourself the same.
YOOOOOOOO
I've been invited to a private screening of the new Mortal Kombat movie before its release! This is so exciting, aaaaaaaaaaaaa! Thanks, Warner Bros + fam.
You won't wanna miss this:
Tues, Jan 26, I'll be hosting/interviewing three titans from Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo:
Jack Tretton
Robbie Bach
Reggie Fils-Aime
It's the
@NYGameAwards
Pre-Show on TwitchGaming! Supporting
@NYVGCC
charity!
3:30p PST/6:30p EST
WRESTLING AND COFFEE IS COMING TO GAMESTOP!
This is the biggest news of my life and I'm excited to bring my love for gaming to GSTV and the world.
Cheers~
He’s a retro collector, a coffee lover, and a big fan of his trusty Speak & Spell. He also really likes browsing on Google…like, a LOT. We’re so happy to welcome
@okaydrian
to our new GameStop TV team!
Really happy Twitch Weekly let myself and
@Friskkmkay
talk that talk about Black Lives Matter in front of 10s-of-thousands of people watching.
Real talk comes out no matter where you are or how big the audience.
The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial says lawyers cannot call the 2 people he killed "victims."
Rittenhouse killed 2 people and wounded another with an AR-15 style weapon. The judge says "victim" is too "loaded" but will let lawyers call them "rioters, looters or arsonists."
I see some of y'all posting and talking, deliberately, around what's taking place right now. I can tell you right now: it's not going away.
You can't see all of this and not have -something- on your mind about it. Step outside of your comfort zone - I'm never really in mine.
We’ve had questions about the use of the N word on Twitch. Use with a hard R is not allowed, period. We also automatically block the word across Twitch including in chat.
I have waited for this day for far too long
my goal: STAY IN BRONZE FOREVER
STREET FIGHTER 6 LET'S GOOOOOOOO BAAABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
(and hey might even be on the Twitch page. True? find out...)
Okay-Per-View:
The thing I want my non-black folk to understand is: this continues a precedent - for these same lies and same brazen white provocateurs to feel invulnerable when murdering, shooting like Rittenhouse did.
Judge Bruce Schroeder's outbursts were the nail for me.
7 hours on stream
231 layers
Pontiac GTO
I can't tell you how proud I am with how this came out.
#ForzaHorizon5
is such a fun game, even outside of the vroom-vroom and visuals.
(1/3)
I also wanna talk about two very specific passages in this part: "-her manager made her write a one-page summary" and "criticized her body language" because these two are extremely important for two different reasons:
And I've already seen this screenshot posted a few times, but I just reached it myself while reading this entire document and just...
Believe. Black. Women.
Gonna type this out for reference in case image doesn't load for anyone:
1/
Non-Black friends
Two of the important things about saying George Floyd's name, reposting about racism, and this disheveled system about perception are:
1. You show you're a black ally to your following
2. You will quickly see, in your replies, who is quick to, "well actually".
@WWEBigE
That you took time to film this is a testament to your strength as a person inside and out. A speedy recovery to you, my dude and thank you for being a model person. <3 you.
Good morning.
Fuck the people attacking Zombae and other black women and to the ones who defend the attackers with farcical stances of 'Devil's Advocate', 'well maybe', and other knuckle-dragging relapses of compassion.
This is still one of my fav pictures of all-time and one of the hardest photos I have in my memories. It sincerely makes me happy every time I see it.
Twitch Con 2016