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2026-07-29 13:30:37
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2026-07

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deep shoe0nhead lore

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I Survived 'Woke 1.0' | The First Culture War (Patreon Only)

♥ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead ♥ Patreon/donate $5 or up to join the discord server ♥ https://www.patreon.com/shoe0nhead ♥ sources used in this video ♥ https://imgur.com/a/nqiyQ ♥ outro song ♥ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3QiLPo0FfA (subscribe to them they make great remixes) if you're reading this write "o w o" in the comments.

Comments

Oskar Gessler

Yeah! New Shoevid. Day is saved.

WillC0709

I was 22 when I first found your channel, I’m 34 now and still watching. Pretty sure your channel is the only one I still actively watch from that era, it’s only gotten better with time!

Max Sonthonax (edited)

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2026-10-23 15:00 I was too old for it when I first saw Shoe biz & now I am even older.
2026-07-29 13:45

sjmcc13

Not satisfied with v-tubers reacting to ShoeOnHead, ShoeOnHead reacts to ShoeOnHead

Kurt Anderson

I can’t believe it’s (already? only?) been 12 years! I was adrift in the YouTube culture wars for a good year and a half before June sprung forth from the head of Zeus to guide us

Pike Logan

I was around 12 when I started watching ya. Now I'm 23.

Tia

Ah. The olden days.

Phil Craig

I was there. A little trip down memory lane.

Alexandre

Same story, +11 years adjusted

Ruben

Thanks for the throwback Shoe, must have been a nightmare to edit 😭, to 15 more and less (more) troublesome years!

TheHandicapper

“I may be cringe, but i am free” -Sh0e probably Also: did we really cure schizophrenic feminism just so we could replace it with…schizophrenic wokeism?

Kaz132

How about Shoeonhead reacting to Vtubers reacting to Shoeonhead? :)

Joylessmonkey

It is funny to see how everything got so much worse. We thought we HAD problems back then, how naive we were.

Winston Smith

Time really flies. Sad to see the more things change the more they stay the same in regard to the old issues.

bestelitt

I "only" watch your channel since like 2017/18 but this Video was a lot of fun. Also you said in the Hassan react video that your views haven't really changed much since then and I guess that's really true :D

Michael Booker

As an ancient white guy, I can attest to many iterations of pre-woke woke.

bunni

Ah yes. Woke 1.0, back in the good ol days of Leftbook and 4chan/pol/ 🙃

Austin Blackwell

Everyone else I watched from that era either disappeared or sucks now. Its crazy seeing those videos again.

Iterx

Found your channel shortly after your "Questions for Men" video. At the time I was really struggling with the culture war nonsense and feeling a lot of self loathing about it. You made me see I wasn't crazy and your videos have helped me through a lot of tough times over the last 12 years. Thank you June.

Todd Lakey

Woke 1.0 happened in the late 80's and 90's with political correctness

Paul

You've aged well

Niles Gazic

When Shoe explains that "And I did not, in fact, learn when I got older", I snorted out loud like a happy pig.

Fifteen

Nice work mate ☺️

Ryan Jones

The throwback is crazy. The arguments and complaints these nutjobs had were at the time unchallenged so they spiraled into their most extreme forms. Now they’ve been repackaged into more subversive forms, have mostly ignored public opinion in favor of blackmailing institutions. Oh, and now they’ve made a suicidal pact with Islamism for the sake of ground support. Things only get crazier from here, so strap in!

Brandoni

This just reminded me how out of hand things have gotten since then.

Travis Thomas

Bro wake up, mom just posted a new video

dd

To this day I still quote "Two of a thing I like, together!"

BryanFury343

I was 14 when you made that first video and only found your content about a year ago. Although I have retroactively watched all your stuff, I wish I could have been there for the ride. RIP your head on the outro though, yikes.

SaycoRa

Wanna feel younger, or what?

RyRy

Shoe you are one of the few channels I can actually watch while I work and not be annoyed or anything be repeat episodes. It's you and that channel history time, good vids

Entropy

Naw, you have better teeth than Asmon on HRT. Helluva time capsule reaction. Better than I thought it would be! You should’ve showed your dad at the end of the first episode: “Dad, what do you think of feminism?” “Eh.” Also, oof… 10 million views but demonitized. That’s fucking brutal.

Jacob

I’m so happy that we have shoeonhead reacting to herself we are getting closer to V-tubers. And Shoe to answer your question I was 9 when your first video came out….. hopefully that made you feel old

Viviko

The fact that things have changed so much and nothing has changed at all simultaneously is kinda crazy to me

Inekimchi

In 2014, I turned 30 years old. When I went to college, I blamed college (not necessarily Tumblr) for what I encountered. I am around Anita Sarkeesian's age, and I believe she studied political science. At the time, many activists went on to become educators at the university level, serving not only as professors but also in student affairs and student services. These professionals often oversee or work in Women's Centers, which many universities are legally required to provide. Residence halls and student life programs frequently included discussions about systems of oppression, teaching that oppression can take both overt and covert forms.

Inekimchi

Universities are supposed to be learning environments, and student affairs and student services professionals often say that learning does not stop when students leave the classroom. Their job is to keep the university a learning environment outside of academics through residence halls, campus programming, and student organizations. The difference is that the learning in these spaces usually is not about the subjects students are taking in class. Instead, students are often taught about topics like identity, privilege, oppression, power, inclusion, and other social issues. That happens in residence halls, Women's Centers, Africana Centers, Latin American/Latinx Centers (now called "Latine"), and through organizations like Black Student Unions, Asian Student Unions, and Latin Student Unions. These co-curricular spaces play a major role in shaping students views on culture and politics, often morre than their academic courses do.

Inekimchi

I recall men in college getting called, dismissively, MRAs because they wondered why universities have women's centers and LGBTQ Centers, but no center for men. The idea behind these Centers is to support students developmentally; we have multiple identities and each center helps students based on their identities. So, me, a Latin man ("Latine " now) can go to the Latin American center. I am also a veteran so I can go to the veterans affairs office and be with my people there too. If I were LGBTQ then I could go there, as well. But, when it comes to struggles men face, there is no center to support us.

Sean Jackson

Aged like milk? Nah wine wishes it could age this well.

D3adMan

I was 7yrs old when you posted your first video... I started watching you last year thanks to VTubers

mari

love this, loved your first gamergate explanation, been here forever, you've grown into a beautiful woman asmongold, let's see how awful another 15 years makes this present time feel like nothing :) oh rick and morty got funny again. just if you were curious. season 9 is peak tbh

Inmanity

I would love to know how you get through the endless dumbass comments you must still receive. I get that you can rationalize their general stupidity but it must still be impactful - right? Or is it all Numbness now?

StarGazer_3301

12 years and you haven't changed even a tiny bit. please remain this way.

blosSsom

I am once again wondering if the woman who held up the "I need feminism because my gender studies degree is just as valid as anyone else's degree" was making satire or being serious... I really can't tell.

Oskar Gessler

You went from ´cute but slightly annoying teenager´to ´stunning, wise woman´. If this is how you age, you don't need to worry about your future.

Kaz132

Gamergate had one good thing though: female npcs in the Gothic 1 Remake have at least something to say now and a quest instead of just being sexy prisoners. Their bust size has been downgraded though. What this video made me understand was how hard the LGBTQ+++++ stuff actually hit the US as opposed to where I live.

Joe Thelizard

You know we used to call sjw ideology cancer mostly as an insult. But seeing the world now it feels extremely depressingly accurate.

skutr13

Being in the SS paid off only bad thing is that i can't go to the Discord even if i am a comrade

blosSsom

I grew up in a very proto-woke punk scene (early 2000s) that was heavily influenced by feminism and other "progressive" ideologies, more anarchist than socialist, but I watched a lot of this unfold over the years. You used to have to work pretty hard to be an activist, not a lot of virtue trophies or head-pats being handed out... I think the SJW community was very small comparatively as a result, but often likewise relatively sincere and genuine even if/when misguided. There was still the same self-righteous anger at times, but not so much the arrogant prideful self-assured know-it-all confidence. It was a much steeper commitment. They didn't have censorship on their side back then, much less the algorithms, nor the mainstream news, or much of anything. Even academia still felt more 50/50, like you might have an SJW or two for a professor, but you'd just as easily get an oldschool outspoken conservative for the sake of balance. Maybe it was Obama that sped up the change in 2008, but I think the internet also just allowed people to get very lazy en masse with their sociopolitical insights, and this culty hivemind began to entrench itself into every subculture. Sort of like ideology superimposed upon all the uncomfortable impressionable angst of being a young adult. In the absence of true elders and guidance, blame was the next best thing to give context/validation to their existential crises of identity. The delulu feminists always existed, even prior to the internet, but they were in a climate that pushed back against them constantly... which actually made their own critiques feel a lot more relevant, hard-won, and insightful at times, before it became a dumbed down gender tug-o-war, and before all this rhetoric was so streamlined, people actually had to speak from the heart and debate you off script if they wanted to get a point across. Once young people started being validated and rewarded instantly for low-effort venting and trauma dumping I think things changed a lot, and those personalities with cluster-B/dark-triad tendencies started to hunger for the easy power in "empowerment." I don't know whether it's conscious or unconscious for most of them, because I think these social incentives became so appealing to either/or, it was almost passively absorbed and mirrored into our collective consciousness after a point. It's been a strange juxtaposition of humanity's dark sides (shadow sides) playing out on the inter*net, and then willful 'social engineering' coming from both foreign and domestic agencies, billionaires, discrete societies, politicians, corporations, sociopathic bad actors, BOT armies, the app coding itself, etc. Seems like practically anybody who can buy/manipulate influence does these days. Perhaps the short version is that the internet gave the unconscious masses a place to vent their resentments, and team up, which in turn became a kind of dopamine-enhanced tribal team sport and a simplistic coping mechanism for all the world's messy problems; and a lot of other enterprising entities took advantage of that dynamic. It really is social engineering at its finest and most seamless, just surround impressionable people in a new algorithmic sub-cultural ecosystem of ideas... and watch them cultivate those cult personalities.

Todd

Congratulations on 12 years! You're better than ever Shoe. Here's to 12 more! 🥂

Gary Drechsel

yes it was on the college campuses, but it couldn't spread as fast. thanks internet!🤦

bunni

After actually finishing this video I feel genuinely robbed that I missed out on the OG sh0e era 😩 I think she would have saved me from my breif but hellish sjw phase (twas my canon event, IM SORRY)

Shaun

I just started watching and already had to roll my eyes. Kneeling in African costumes...for someone who isn't African. If you were born in America, you are an American. Why is this so hard to understand?

NemoX

Thank you for your sacrifice for our entertainment. Nobody should have to look back at their younger self cringe lol (still low-key miss those simpler times)

Shoe

all of those people were serious but it looks so goofy now it comes off as conservatives making fun of liberals

Brdllc

This video is like the chocolate bar theory for me

Jakkadyl

I was 15 when I first saw your videos, I am now a 25 year old man and still enjoy seeing what you have to say about internet culture. Thank you for all that you do, shoe.

CriticalMemeTheory

Shoe0nHead reviewing and analyzing Shoe0nHead is peak.

Jared Adams

I simply refer to the terms 'Self Insert & Terminal Depression' It comes in many shades & forms and as you said previously. Society pays for it. (and our mental wellbeing)

Emperor Kane

Should have got Squchan to react with you

GWJones

Thanks to Shoe for this stroll down memory lane and to blossom for an awesome analysis of how we got to "here" in the social media hellscape.

Shaarred

Cartmanbrah!

Shaarred

Before Trump ran for office, most people i knew were betting on Bush jr going down in history as the worst president of the 21st century, mostly for iraq, afghanistan, trickle down economics and opening the border to the south. I like to think back to that. It reminds me that no matter what happens, today’s insanity is no more insane than yesterday’s. Its just not strawberry flavor it’s quinoa.

Manuel E. Flores C.

That's crazy, I was graduating high school when that first video came out. Found you thanks to 4chan shortly after.

Joshua Koch

This is like the Silmarillion-lore of the culture wars. "In the first age of woke..."

Brydie Hardwick

I was 12 in 2014. Didn't know about Shoe at the time. I actually watched Blaire White. I swear they both went to a gun range or made a video together, but I don't see it anywhere?? Guess i dreamed it up. But now at 24, still got hella respect for you Shoe! Thanks for sticking around🍫✨️

Max

hey another Max!

Max

The day when your son will record his reaction to your online legacy Shoe will be legendary.

Max Sonthonax (edited)

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2026-10-08 03:00 Interesting insight. For one, you a dead right about the "Dark Triad" character dominating. Sickens me deeply.
2026-07-31 03:16 Interesting insight. For one, you are dead right about the "Dark Triad" character dominating. Sickens me deeply.

Interesting insight. For one, you are dead right about the "Dark Triad" character dominating. Sickens me deeply.

Max Sonthonax

Truly excellent analysis. From my own background, I have observed a shift from the 1990s where tacit Left-wing attitudes were healthy amongst most young people, if not particularly militant, to my being involved in the mid-2000s with an eco-anarchist group (FoE). They ran everything by consensus yet "all hated each other" (quote from a long-serving member), bitter & warring, highly marginalised & irrelevant in the social & political landscape. Yet I could see in that group all that blossomed into this mass-scale nightmare we are mired in now. (I may go into more detail later). Groups these days are all like this, even some more conservative conservation groups, dominated by people of the worst character, ruthless yet clandestine, adept at setting double-bind traps for those around them. I now consider these groups to constitute a 5th column within the broader historical movement, the latest "useful idiot" archetype. They do the Right's job for them. I have been patient, but most young people sicken me in their ignorant sanctimoniousness, or else frustrate me with their resignation & blaming "Boomers" for everything (yet they are even lazier than that generation). I believe there is a way forward, but it lies in the material world, feeling & acting in the concrete world around them, away from the self-obsession of this species of ours.

BeWilderedKings

I’m just realizing I’ve been shoeonheading for nearly 12 years. Holy crap. I’m a grandma. Gonna go buy a walker and get a parking pass. Congrats shoe. See you on the other side of the next 12.

VanDilf

Shit I was 18 12 years ago. I remember those days when life wasn't so serious, social media was still fun, I was in college and these raving mainstream lunatics were still fringe internet peops that we made fun of for being raving lunatics. When you said college kids though I suddenly remembered there were a couple of those types in my classes, hell 12 years later they're acting exactly the same and I always wonder where did they pick it up?

Milton Reduxed

When a society rejects the foundation of Christianity all sorts of ideologies are given space to take its place

Milton Reduxed

The biggest weapon against wokism continues to be police bodycams—Every day the wokies pet group are exposed for savage antisocial behaviour

Cobra56

Lol in highschool and college back in Early 2000s I put Cobra Attack Helicopter on all my social media gender areas because it was funny to me never changed it I was Apolitical back then

Inekimchi

I think you are identifying an important mechanism: the internet gave people a way to develop and distribute ideas at a scale that had not existed before. It was not just a place to vent -- it became a transmission mechanism. A lot of that content came from college educated millennials who adapted academic writing to a new medium. Creators like Anita Sarkeesian, Lindsay Ellis, and Abigail Thorne (then known as Ollie from Philosophy Tube) did not just share opinions; they produced long form video essays that developed a thesis, presented evidence, and defended a position. The same structure many of them had practiced in disciplines like philosophy, communication, and film studies. The video essay is, in many ways, the college essay adapted for YouTube. What most people do not see is that this was only half of what shaped that generation. College is not just classrooms; it is also student affairs: residence life, orientation, multicultural affairs, leadership programs, student conduct, and more. I did not understand this myself as a commuter student until I started dating someone who lived on campus and got pulled into that world through her and her friends. Later, as a graduate student studying Student Development in Higher Education, I learned that this was by design. That environment is intentionally structured to shape how students think about identity, community, and leadership, separate from anything taught in a syllabus. This intentionality is documented, not just my interpretation. In 2010, ACPA and NASPA (the field's two major professional associations) jointly published Envisioning the Future of Student Affairs, explicitly describing the field as an educational enterprise rather than simply a provider of services such as financial aid or the bursar's office. That same year, a task force that began in 2009 produced the Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Educators, which formalized ten core competencies, including Social Justice and Inclusion, that graduate programs still train toward today. So there were two complementary educational pipelines shaping that generation: academic training in argument and evidence, and a co-curricular environment intentionally built around identity, community, and leadership. Many graduates carried both onto blogs, YouTube, and other social media, translating what they had learned for audiences who would never set foot on a college campus. The internet did not invent these ideas; it gave them a platform capable of reaching millions. This also helps explain why the audience was so receptive. Millennials are the most college educated generation in US history, and many maintained close relationships with friends and family who had not attended college. As a result, the ideas did not spread only from creator to viewer; they also diffused through everyday social networks as people carried concepts and vocabulary they had encountered on campus into conversations with those who had never set foot there. The internet did not simply amplify a message. It connected creators with an audience that was, in many cases, already familiar with these frameworks and well positioned to pass them on.

Kraken

Before "woke", and even "SJWs", there was plain old "political correctness"- though that seemed so relatively inane and toothless that there were humor books like "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories", and even my rather liberal college friends would laugh at stories about "womyn". That was, largely, before people got fired from long-standing jobs or businesses got closed because of what someone said, or even were *believed* to have said. Ah, we used to laugh. It was nice. At this point, even using the term "woke" may get someone piping up saying that the term originated from African-Americans, and how dare you use it wrong- and if there's anything more absurd than someone suggesting that slang has already been PROPERLY DEFINED by the APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES and its usage shall be henceforth fixed and immutable and you will use it properly, thank you very much... I don't know what it is, but (*sigh*) we'll probably find out.

Astranna

You just reminded me about the era when public discussion officially died and became, well, whatever zombie apocalypse we live in right now. I had exactly the same feeling back then... I grow up anti-racist and feminist. Suddenly I was not anti-racist enough, every time I had different opinion I was 'mansplaining'... Opinion like: it will get much worse and will make right-wing more crazy and stronger. Decade had passed and well... Not sure whether to cry or laugh. It feels so fucking surreal.

Pudding Eater

Damn, you used to have a messy room. You need to formally apologize for purchasing and wearing a Mega Man shirt when you've never played the game. That is virgin stolen valor. I remember in 2014 people would frequently post pictures of you kissing a black guy. At first I thought it was an advertisement for Target.

Tom

Found Shoe maybe a month ago. Was an immediate fan. Fun to see that she originally blew up by just... being reasonable. I can't/won't go full redpill because it's too radical, and I don't 100% agree with Shoe, but she's definitely the reality check we need and deserve. Hope she keeps getting monetized and has many more years of entertaining pseudo-edgy content.

Skater901

Hey Shoe, just a heads up that the Patreon versions of vids still mention the Discord for the $5 tier in the video description.

Jamie E

I used to watch your old videos with my dad because sharing things like "maybe the pink tax isn't real" in a group setting would be social suicide lol woke 1.0 was insane. Thanks for being a refuge all of these years!

bjoardar

Poor Chelzor the Destroyer is still waiting for Vtuber Shoe to deliver the sandwich video of Shoe reacting to Vtubers reacting to Shoe 😂

bjoardar

"Now get off my lawn!" 😂 "My knees hurt when I get up off the floor." - Shoe0nHead As a guy nearing my mid-century age, I resonate with such comments more and more, every day 😂

bjoardar

Do what I do and plead the fifth. We don't talk about ourselves during those times 😂

bjoardar

The internet became the town square for the most obnoxious and irritable people who were confidently wrong. They assumed they were right, and through the internet, they found the other like-minded and the feeble minded they could shape, until there was enough of them to make a change. I learned then to never underestimate idiots in large numbers.

AndrewA

I don't think any of your early videos are cringe at all, Shoe. To some of us, all that woke bullshit back then was beyond annoying and forced. My wife put it best: "manspreading? do these stupid ugly women even know the differences between the male and female pelvis???!! It's called different bone structure people!" There was also this thing where people on twitter used to just post about their day, like "look at this muffin I just bought!" or "look I'm on a walk in a park!" and we were like "who the F cares!!!! Why is this being posted online?!!!?" so all the "purpose-driven" posts, like the women hating on men for how they sit in public, was just reaction to the BS everyone was putting online. "Oh, you made jam today bitch? Well, did you know that those strawberries are from a male-owned mega corporation that is enslaving migrants to pick their berries?!?!!" Ya post about nothing, you get people posting about a different kind of nothing that is supposed to make people "think" and "wake up". Thanks for posting real, honest content back in the day, Shoe, although I didn't see any of it (I was a few years from 40 back then and had a bit too much going on to see a lot on YouTube) I'm glad you made all those videos because WE NEEDED IT THEN AND WE NEED MORE NOW!!

Inekimchi

AOC trying to rewrite history when it comes to her participation in woke 1.0. I wonder if Shoe has a crystal ball.

zagan ds

This vid brings back so much memories. Hope we really go back to Normal one day.

Kurt Thompson

This comment gets better reading it in a wildlife documentary British accent.

J.W. Chism

Just wait for another ten years to go by when you're responding to "Join the SS today!"