Vera Drew/Vera Katerina Drew/Andrew Michael Kordik - director & star of The People's Joker - failed alt comedian - alien abduction conspiratard - "pill freak" - Just another ContraPoints wannabe
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Did you know that, before he trooned out and became "Vera Katerina Drew", the director of The People's Joker was an actual Gay from LA?
Meet Andrew Michael Kordik. This is him doing his standup comedy as a teenager :
One thing that should strike you while watching Vera Drew's cult hit movie The People's Joker is that AGP is a serious and dangerous mental disorder that is being enabled, applauded and encouraged instead of being recognized and treated before it gets to the horrific levels shown in that film. Instead of seeking a real psychiatrist who can help him deal with his decades-long overmedication and serial misdiagnoses - people who have been misdiagnosed and overmedicated for decades cannot simply stop using their medication but need to be weaned off of it slowly and gradually by a medical expert in psychopharmacology - Vera Drew goes and does "ketamine under supervision", whatever that means, and wallows in denial about being a drug addict even while openly admitting to his continued drug abuse in his interview with underground filmmaker BruceLaBruce, himself a seasoned drug user who of course immediately recognized that The People's Joker is basically a drug film inspired by Vera Drew's substance abuse. Yet not a single review on Letterboxd will point this out about the film.
Bing just doxxed The People's Joker director without me even having to lift a finger. Simply by typing in his name and going through the search hits, I eventually came across his legal name change court doxx from 2019 (meaning: someone else had looked up these documents before I did, IMO most likely the WB IP lawyers who wanted to sue him over his Joker film):
unicourt.com
These are all of his name change legal doxx from the Glendale court, but it's not like I'm doxxing him because he literally still has this video up on his Youtube channel where he identifies himself as "Drew Kordik" at the beginning of the video:
This is his Youtube channel as "Drew M Kordik":
Archived: https://archive.is/ebmgL
His directing real on this Youtube channel is very interesting because it plainly shows that The People's Joker was just the natural outcome of all the other things he had already been doing for years:
He also has this "Vera Drew" Youtube channel where he himself hosts pre-trooning videos of himself, so it's not like I'm doxxing him by pointing out these videos that he himself has uploaded to Youtube and kept there for years :
It's actually kinda sad to know that Vera Drew made this video in 2018 while he as in the toxic abusive relationship with the person he was engaged in and meant to marry before he trooned out. The found footage collage of short clips in this video makes it look like images of normalcy and degeneracy were battling it out in his head:
This music video from 2015 looks like Drew was using the female actress to express his own jaded boredom and barely repressed disgust with all the gay men he was having mindless sex with at the time:
Here is another music video that Vera aka Andrew Michael Kordik made before he trooned out: "I do not know the meaning 'platonic'." (Vivian Strange will certainly agree with that part!)
This is a Livestream podcast from 2016 where Drew tells a story of anally fucking a woman for the duration of a whole month, then announcing at his grandfather's funeral that he was going to stop anally fucking said woman:
This doesn't get mentioned enough: Vera Drew did fund raise for The People's Joker, and actually managed to raise about $20k for his movie:
www.gofundme.com
What can I say, at least Vera Drew didn't have to lie to his followers about being on the verge of homelessness and imminent eviction to con them into giving him money, only to spend the funds meant for his film on drugs and a new bed frame instead.
Vera Drew, like most troons, is actually de facto delusional. In his fundraising video for The People's Joker, he admitted getting into conspiracy theories through his grandfather, who was a US Air Force Korean War veteran.
According to this obituary, his grandfather died in 2018 ("Drew" is mentioned in the obituary as one of his grandchildren):
However, no one had any idea just how much of a crazy conspiratard Vera Drew actually is. Here he is in a 2019 Livestream interview insisting that one of his personal friends was actually abducted by aliens:
Vera Drew readily admits that he was "like a pill freak" as a drug addict, which would certainly explain his delusional belief about his friend being an alien abductee:
I'm just going to say it out loud: I personally do not believe that whatever original events inspired The People's Joker were a TIM/TIF relationship. I suspect that in 2018 Andrew Kordik was very likely in a gay relationship with another gay man, was madly in love with this guy to whom he got engaged to and was planning to gay-marry, but then Kordik proceeded to come out as trans to this other guy (likely due ROGD/watching other trans people blow up on social media and being envious of their success), and then had to deal with the cognitive dissonance of "asking a gay man to now pretend to be a straight guy in relationship with a woman", which his boyfriend likely attempted to do, at least for a while, just to entertain Andrew's delusional Vera LARP, but did so resentfully. Cos remember, Andrew said he originally intended to play both The Joker and Harley Quinn himself. I suspect that Andrew decided to have a TIF play the role of The Joker to avoid making it obvious that The People's Joker was about Andrew ruining a gay male relationship with his trooning out, and that whatever abuse occurred in that relationship was likely the result of Andrew forcing his LARP onto someone he was going to marry. I think that replacing what I personally suspect was Drew's gay male partner with a TIF, a delusional woman who thinks she's a man and is herself a drug addict, allows Andrew to deflect blame from himself by presenting two characters who are both delusional about what they are, and hence both to blame for attempting to have a relationship based an a lie, and it inevitably turning out toxic and abusive, because neither of them are able to name the problem for what it actually is: both are delusional drug addicts who are running away from the mess they've made in their real lives through make belief role play.
I've now read a lot of the reviews on Letterboxd of The People's Joker, and one name that pops up over and over in these reviews, especially the negative ones, is none other than Nyk (and I have to stop and appreciate, yet again, the sheer amounts of cultural damage that Nyk was able to achieve through his artificially inflated reach on Youtube):
ContraPoints? Who the fuck is ContraPoints? Someone whose old videos Vera Drew is literally copying in his own:
It's telling just how many troons on Letterboxd use "Nostalgia Critic" as a shorthand for "badly made Youtube video", but the point still stands. Here you have all these people who transparently saw what Vera Drew's primary cultural reference was. You have all these people on Letterboxd who are already familiar with Nyk's videos, subconsciously understood what Vera Drew was trying to do with TPJ (with a couple comparing TPJ negatively to a Youtube video essay), but no one is willing to say the quiet part out loud: Andrew's ROGD in 2018 was very likely inspired by him encountering Nyk (ContraPoints blew up all over the mainstream media around that time) and wanting to do the same thing Nyk was doing. So Andrew trooned out, became "Vera Andrew" and made a feature length video essay where he recast his ruined male gay relationship as a toxic TIM/TIF relationship... just like Nyk did in one of his videos, where he alluded to his relationship to Theryn Meyer, a TIM/TIM relationship where Nyk accused Theryn Meyer of "lesbophobia" for conceding he was "unable to be in a relationship with another trans woman" (Theryn is an HSTS, and was planning to marry a Korean man before Nyk got in the way and homewrecked that impending marriage). Vera Drew doesn't want to be trans, he just wanted to be another ContraPoints.
I did a search to see if Vera Drew himself has ever mentioned Nyk by name and I found this 2019 interview where Andrew, one year into his trooning out, openly stated he wanted to work with Nyk:
www.premiumbeat.com
Vera's takeaway from the success of cult hit movie The People's Joke is that he needs to be more compassionate towards other filmmakers on Letterboxd:
The motherfucker had to make a film of his own to realize that "making film is hard".
Vera also wants to see a greaterbrotherhood "sisterhood" of filmmakers who are contemporaries: "Sisters helping sisters."
I find it very telling that Vera Drew apparently considers it beneath himself to upload The People's Joker for free to the internet for free despite countless requests to do so. It's almost like doing so would be an admission on his part that he isn't the quirky auteur filmmaker that he wants to be seen as, but is rather just another one of those Youtube video essayists whose videos Vera himself has been watching (and copying) for free.
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The Lie Of Hot Trans People
Did you know that, before he trooned out and became "Vera Katerina Drew", the director of The People's Joker was an actual Gay from LA?
Meet Andrew Michael Kordik. This is him doing his standup comedy as a teenager :
One thing that should strike you while watching Vera Drew's cult hit movie The People's Joker is that AGP is a serious and dangerous mental disorder that is being enabled, applauded and encouraged instead of being recognized and treated before it gets to the horrific levels shown in that film. Instead of seeking a real psychiatrist who can help him deal with his decades-long overmedication and serial misdiagnoses - people who have been misdiagnosed and overmedicated for decades cannot simply stop using their medication but need to be weaned off of it slowly and gradually by a medical expert in psychopharmacology - Vera Drew goes and does "ketamine under supervision", whatever that means, and wallows in denial about being a drug addict even while openly admitting to his continued drug abuse in his interview with underground filmmaker BruceLaBruce, himself a seasoned drug user who of course immediately recognized that The People's Joker is basically a drug film inspired by Vera Drew's substance abuse. Yet not a single review on Letterboxd will point this out about the film.
Bing just doxxed The People's Joker director without me even having to lift a finger. Simply by typing in his name and going through the search hits, I eventually came across his legal name change court doxx from 2019 (meaning: someone else had looked up these documents before I did, IMO most likely the WB IP lawyers who wanted to sue him over his Joker film):
IN THE MATTER OF: ANDREW MICHAEL KORDIK
On 07/08/2019 IN THE MATTER OF ANDREW MICHAEL KORDIK filed an Other - Name Change court case in Los Angeles County Superior Courts. Court records for this case are available from Glendale Courthouse.
These are all of his name change legal doxx from the Glendale court, but it's not like I'm doxxing him because he literally still has this video up on his Youtube channel where he identifies himself as "Drew Kordik" at the beginning of the video:
This is his Youtube channel as "Drew M Kordik":
His directing real on this Youtube channel is very interesting because it plainly shows that The People's Joker was just the natural outcome of all the other things he had already been doing for years:
He also has this "Vera Drew" Youtube channel where he himself hosts pre-trooning videos of himself, so it's not like I'm doxxing him by pointing out these videos that he himself has uploaded to Youtube and kept there for years :
It's actually kinda sad to know that Vera Drew made this video in 2018 while he as in the toxic abusive relationship with the person he was engaged in and meant to marry before he trooned out. The found footage collage of short clips in this video makes it look like images of normalcy and degeneracy were battling it out in his head:
This music video from 2015 looks like Drew was using the female actress to express his own jaded boredom and barely repressed disgust with all the gay men he was having mindless sex with at the time:
Here is another music video that Vera aka Andrew Michael Kordik made before he trooned out: "I do not know the meaning 'platonic'." (Vivian Strange will certainly agree with that part!)
This is a Livestream podcast from 2016 where Drew tells a story of anally fucking a woman for the duration of a whole month, then announcing at his grandfather's funeral that he was going to stop anally fucking said woman:
This doesn't get mentioned enough: Vera Drew did fund raise for The People's Joker, and actually managed to raise about $20k for his movie:
Donate to The People's Joker Crowd Fund, organized by Vera Drew
::DONATION TIERS:: $1-$20...................................................................… Vera Drew needs your support for The People's Joker Crowd Fund
What can I say, at least Vera Drew didn't have to lie to his followers about being on the verge of homelessness and imminent eviction to con them into giving him money, only to spend the funds meant for his film on drugs and a new bed frame instead.
Vera Drew, like most troons, is actually de facto delusional. In his fundraising video for The People's Joker, he admitted getting into conspiracy theories through his grandfather, who was a US Air Force Korean War veteran.
According to this obituary, his grandfather died in 2018 ("Drew" is mentioned in the obituary as one of his grandchildren):
William R. Kordik, age 88, late of Frankfort, US Air Force Korean War Veteran, passed away peacefully with his family by his side. Beloved husband of 64 years of Catherine Kordik nee Misun. Loving father of Ellen Kordik (Tom Watembach), Billy (Dawn) Kordik and Mike (Tammy) Kordik. Proud grandfather of Paul, Lauren, Brian (Rosie), Jamie Schultz, Derek (Brandi) Buchmeier, Drew, Christa and great grandfather of 4. In lieu of flowers, a donation to the Joliet Area Community Hospice, 250 Water Stone Circle, Joliet, IL. 60431, would be appreciated. Visitation Monday, March 19, 2018, 3:00-9:00 PM. at the Vandenberg Funeral Home, 19604 Wolf Rd. Mokena, IL. 60448. Chapel service will be held at 7:00 PM Monday evening. Inurnment will be held at a later date at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. For information on services, 708-479-1210 or www.vandenbergfuneralhome.com
Mr. William R. Kordik - View Obituary & Service Information
Share Memories and Support the Family.www.vandenbergfuneralhome.com
However, no one had any idea just how much of a crazy conspiratard Vera Drew actually is. Here he is in a 2019 Livestream interview insisting that one of his personal friends was actually abducted by aliens:
Vera Drew readily admits that he was "like a pill freak" as a drug addict, which would certainly explain his delusional belief about his friend being an alien abductee:
I'm just going to say it out loud: I personally do not believe that whatever original events inspired The People's Joker were a TIM/TIF relationship. I suspect that in 2018 Andrew Kordik was very likely in a gay relationship with another gay man, was madly in love with this guy to whom he got engaged to and was planning to gay-marry, but then Kordik proceeded to come out as trans to this other guy (likely due ROGD/watching other trans people blow up on social media and being envious of their success), and then had to deal with the cognitive dissonance of "asking a gay man to now pretend to be a straight guy in relationship with a woman", which his boyfriend likely attempted to do, at least for a while, just to entertain Andrew's delusional Vera LARP, but did so resentfully. Cos remember, Andrew said he originally intended to play both The Joker and Harley Quinn himself. I suspect that Andrew decided to have a TIF play the role of The Joker to avoid making it obvious that The People's Joker was about Andrew ruining a gay male relationship with his trooning out, and that whatever abuse occurred in that relationship was likely the result of Andrew forcing his LARP onto someone he was going to marry. I think that replacing what I personally suspect was Drew's gay male partner with a TIF, a delusional woman who thinks she's a man and is herself a drug addict, allows Andrew to deflect blame from himself by presenting two characters who are both delusional about what they are, and hence both to blame for attempting to have a relationship based an a lie, and it inevitably turning out toxic and abusive, because neither of them are able to name the problem for what it actually is: both are delusional drug addicts who are running away from the mess they've made in their real lives through make belief role play.
I've now read a lot of the reviews on Letterboxd of The People's Joker, and one name that pops up over and over in these reviews, especially the negative ones, is none other than Nyk (and I have to stop and appreciate, yet again, the sheer amounts of cultural damage that Nyk was able to achieve through his artificially inflated reach on Youtube):
ContraPoints? Who the fuck is ContraPoints? Someone whose old videos Vera Drew is literally copying in his own:
It's telling just how many troons on Letterboxd use "Nostalgia Critic" as a shorthand for "badly made Youtube video", but the point still stands. Here you have all these people who transparently saw what Vera Drew's primary cultural reference was. You have all these people on Letterboxd who are already familiar with Nyk's videos, subconsciously understood what Vera Drew was trying to do with TPJ (with a couple comparing TPJ negatively to a Youtube video essay), but no one is willing to say the quiet part out loud: Andrew's ROGD in 2018 was very likely inspired by him encountering Nyk (ContraPoints blew up all over the mainstream media around that time) and wanting to do the same thing Nyk was doing. So Andrew trooned out, became "Vera Andrew" and made a feature length video essay where he recast his ruined male gay relationship as a toxic TIM/TIF relationship... just like Nyk did in one of his videos, where he alluded to his relationship to Theryn Meyer, a TIM/TIM relationship where Nyk accused Theryn Meyer of "lesbophobia" for conceding he was "unable to be in a relationship with another trans woman" (Theryn is an HSTS, and was planning to marry a Korean man before Nyk got in the way and homewrecked that impending marriage). Vera Drew doesn't want to be trans, he just wanted to be another ContraPoints.
I did a search to see if Vera Drew himself has ever mentioned Nyk by name and I found this 2019 interview where Andrew, one year into his trooning out, openly stated he wanted to work with Nyk:
Industry Interview: Emmy-Nominated Editor Vera Drew
Emmy-nominated editor and filmmaker Vera Drew sat down with PremiumBeat for a look into her work on "Who is America?" and more.
www.premiumbeat.com
Vera's takeaway from the success of cult hit movie The People's Joke is that he needs to be more compassionate towards other filmmakers on Letterboxd:
The sum of these three things amounted to a realization that I wanted to start talking about film in general differently. Not just his. All film. No more cynicism or unnecessary public ridicule. I truly love most movies I see but if I didn’t like a movie, I didn’t talk about it or at the very least, I’d provide more context and not take as many cheap shots. It’s why I give most movies on here five stars. Making film is hard. Most directors put so much of their soul into their films, and in Kevin’s case…it’s like…idk dude. As far as straight white cis men go, I don’t know that anyone makes films more personal and naked than him. Especially this one. It’s clearly a film that has been inside of him for 40 years. It’s the most personal movie he’s made since Chasing Amy. No matter where you land on his art, you gotta respect that he makes vulnerable movies that only he could make.
...
The times where I talked shit about Kevin or balked at something he made 30+ years ago…I’m no longer convinced that was me shit talking him…I think that was me putting down that 15 year old me. It is something I’m exploring in therapy and recovery these days. It was some toxic armor. A wall I put up to protect myself. An alt comedy/irony poisoned punk trying to distance herself from the sincerity…that embarrassing sincerity…
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The motherfucker had to make a film of his own to realize that "making film is hard".
Vera also wants to see a greater
Showbiz still does this. Contemporaries who should be friends, feeling threatened by each other to the point of resentment and alienation. When we’re all supposed to be on the same team. Not pulling the ladder up behind us. Sisters helping sisters.
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I find it very telling that Vera Drew apparently considers it beneath himself to upload The People's Joker for free to the internet for free despite countless requests to do so. It's almost like doing so would be an admission on his part that he isn't the quirky auteur filmmaker that he wants to be seen as, but is rather just another one of those Youtube video essayists whose videos Vera himself has been watching (and copying) for free.
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