brian david gilbert’s Unraveled, while both an entertaining and informative series that makes really dense amounts of video game lore easy to digest, also brilliantly parodies and critiques gatekeeper nerd culture and “fake fans” in its depiction of brian at the beginning of each episode as the ultimate authority on all things game and then throughout depicting him as either slowly losing his mind (i.e. explaining Kingdom Hearts) or having to take on a less comprehensive approach to his lore (i.e. going from categorizing every Castlevania monster to just picking the sexy ones). in this essay i will