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Ginette Reno posted:I'm 31 so not exactly an old man myself but these kids should try getting a real job if they want to know what burnt out feels like wow gramps, why don't you take a nap or something you clearly are completely out of touch. Everyone being connected is a good thing... go back to the stoneage where you belong old timer *Watches 6 hours of some guy who farts in tubes while playing minecraft* *says lol irl* *masturbates to VR porn of Elsa being raped by pokemons* *is 12 years old*
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In defense of these people the YouTube comment section really is sanity damaging. I looked at it once. It felt like I was in a lovecraft story. You know, the horribly racist ones where he was writing about being afraid of finding out he wasn't 100% white only with more naked racism.
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Jul 12, 2018 19:47
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FilthyFrank gave himself seizures and turned into an emo asian rapper. Maxmoefo got fat and grew out of his antics it seems. H3H3 stopped doing skits and focuses on his podcast. iDubbbz still going but I feel is watered down in order to not be demonetized. anything4views always sucked and got banned from twitch. the gang really fell apart.  Internet Comment Etiquette is still hilarious. oh and neistat is totally gonna bankrupt himself trying to expand. I watch too much youtube at work.
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Jul 12, 2018 19:49
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This weird obsession with other people doing the most mundane bullshit isn’t new. Think of reality tv or Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Why it’s now unboxing toys instead of looking at badass mansions is anyone’s guess, but it could be because the Youtube personalities draw kids in by feeling more “real” and “approachable” than today’s traditional celebrities. If you’re a goonlet who needs more social interaction and a nice guy on the screen cracks jokes and addresses his audience, including you, while engaging in something the watcher enjoys, it comes across as a (depressing) kind of substitute friendship.
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Collapsing Farts posted:I love watching that adult man-child-thing in suits trying on trashy foods Pee-wee Hermans nephew. Maybe one day he'll grow into that suit.
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yogizh posted:Pee-wee Hermans nephew. Maybe one day he'll grow into that suit.
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extra row of teeth posted:but it could be because the Youtube personalities draw kids in by feeling more “real” and “approachable” than today’s traditional celebrities. If you’re a goonlet who needs more social interaction and a nice guy on the screen cracks jokes and addresses his audience, including you, while engaging in something the watcher enjoys, it comes across as a (depressing) kind of substitute friendship. yeah this is definitely it and is what makes the YT phenomena so unhealthy. unreciprocated friendship and a hollow substitute for actual community. it’s no wonder youth antidepressant use and suicide rate is way up.
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Jul 12, 2018 19:59
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Blast of Confetti posted:congrats you're getting old and making the same argument that everyone since the dawn of time has made it's really weird and stupid how knee jerk a response it is to look at something younger people are doing and just immediately dislike it because it's different from your own experience. it's not something I understood when I was younger but now that I'm feeling those same knee jerk responses about stuff younger people do it's weird because when I was younger I would have never thought I'd be that way. And I try not to be now, but it's still hard sometimes. Lowtax posted:It's not a generational thing, it's an age thing, and if you don't remember being younger and the stupid poo poo you liked when you were young, well then guess what, you've officially become Generic Old Person. I'm pretty sure I'm still an idiot. The one advantage age has brought for me is the older I get, the more aware I am of the fact that while I know a decent amount of stuff there's still a whole poo poo load of things I don't know. ToxicSlurpee posted:In defense of these people the YouTube comment section really is sanity damaging. I looked at it once. It felt like I was in a lovecraft story. You know, the horribly racist ones where he was writing about being afraid of finding out he wasn't 100% white only with more naked racism. Is it really so different from how the internet was 10-12 years ago? I remember when I was 20 and playing online games that people were every bit as big poo poo heads as they are now. And certainly the same was true on message boards as well. If anything the negativity might have been even worse back then because people probably felt safer in the perceived anonymity they're granted by being on the internet. Nowadays it's much easier to doxx people who say or do awful things online.
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:yeah this is definitely it and is what makes the YT phenomena so unhealthy. unreciprocated friendship and a hollow substitute for actual community. it’s no wonder youth antidepressant use and suicide rate is way up. not to mention a lot of these people foster a hosed up sense of community when they're actually awful human beings. there was some lady that was hosting Fyre Festival 2.0 a few weeks back to try and compete with vidcon and they were so underprepared that 15 year olds that spent hundreds of bucks to fly out and attend were having heat strokes outside because the building they hosted at couldn't hold them all
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Watching Sips' journey from one of the more entertaining Youtube personalities I followed for many years to becoming a full time Twitch streamer who probably gets paid way more to play a game for 8 hours straight and read 12 year old kids' names out loud has been lovely. Although I'm sure this is better for him, it still makes me think about these guys who do this into their middle age who *must* know in the back of their heads that this poo poo isn't going to last. I hope they save enough to retire on because I can only imagine going from that to being a banker again or whatever must really fuckin suck.
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Jul 12, 2018 20:02
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Lowtax posted:Let's hope it's before he gets burned out. With the amount of junk food he's doing the hopes are high. Sometimes I learn something new like there is a thing called Mac n' Cheetos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSt4uMRs8dc&t=202s
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Jul 12, 2018 20:11
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that twink is going to be skinny up until the day he dies at 50 when the internal fat crushes his heart
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I tend to not pass judgment until the youtuber makes one of those sobering videos where they sit in front of a camera without any makeup or lighting and talk for 45 minutes about how they're near suicidal and the hosed up things that happened in their lives. Bitch you have a cooking show where every episode ends with you fake burning down your apartment I don't care about your grandmother.
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Jul 12, 2018 20:16
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Terrific Accident posted:I tend to not pass judgment until the youtuber makes one of those sobering videos where they sit in front of a camera without any makeup or lighting and talk for 45 minutes about how they're near suicidal and the hosed up things that happened in their lives. Bitch you have a cooking show where every episode ends with you fake burning down your apartment I don't care about your grandmother. I’m still gonna be sad when Hila’s dad croaks.
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Terrific Accident posted:I tend to not pass judgment until the youtuber makes one of those sobering videos where they sit in front of a camera without any makeup or lighting and talk for 45 minutes about how they're near suicidal and the hosed up things that happened in their lives. Bitch you have a cooking show where every episode ends with you fake burning down your apartment I don't care about your grandmother. Horror game dude I mentioned previously had a meltdown for a few vids of his separation from his fiancee because of parent drama or whatever. The unhealthy unfriendship on youtube goes both ways sometimes
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As an old person I decided to figure out how fortnite actually works, so I watched a video by this older guy who does like lets plays on youtube. After watching one round I stumbled onto his normal page which is just the worst kind of youtuber gaming clichés: In the middle there where three sad looking videos where titled "Where I have been" "Where I am now" and "Soo... now what" In the first he describes tearfully how youtubing gaming videos ruined his marriage and that his wife and him are sepperating. In the second he suddenly talks about how they figured things out by giving themselves to jesus and being reborn. In the third he shows off that on top of this he decided to get a gnarly looking hair transplant in his widow peak, which he now sports in all subsequent videos. He also talks about everything is great now that he has found jesus. Video 1 because it's pretty pathetic and funny in a sad way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su8luWeY1lQ All this he decides to post in the middle of stupid gaming videos, with a fanbase that is made up of literally children around 10 - 16 years at my guess. It makes me really wonder how broke brained you have to be to ruin your marriage over youtubing games to kids and how weird I find it to tell kids about this in detail. Also having such a crisis that you get reborn and a hair transplant due to playing too much is kinda funny. E: Terrific Accident posted:I tend to not pass judgment until the youtuber makes one of those sobering videos where they sit in front of a camera without any makeup or lighting and talk for 45 minutes about how they're near suicidal and the hosed up things that happened in their lives. Bitch you have a cooking show where every episode ends with you fake burning down your apartment I don't care about your grandmother. I didn't realize this is a regular thing that happens so lol
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Slightly unrelated because Twitch instead of Youtube, but DrDisrespect decided it would be a good idea to admit to everyone on his stream that he had cheated on his wife and publicly apologize for it. A lot of these youtubers and streamers think of themselves as the product and have an unhealthy relationship with their audiences that I'll never understand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhTmrVj4YjA
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A. Beaverhausen posted:Horror game dude I mentioned previously had a meltdown for a few vids of his separation from his fiancee because of parent drama or whatever.
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Terrific Accident posted:Slightly unrelated because Twitch instead of Youtube, but DrDisrespect decided it would be a good idea to admit to everyone on his stream that he had cheated on his wife and publicly apologize for it. A lot of these youtubers and streamers think of themselves as the product and have an unhealthy relationship with their audiences that I'll never understand.
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Jul 12, 2018 20:33
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Sounds like these folks just need to invest in a little something called self-care, mmmkay?
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Son of Rodney posted:All this he decides to post in the middle of stupid gaming videos, with a fanbase that is made up of literally children around 10 - 16 years at my guess. It makes me really wonder how broke brained you have to be to ruin your marriage over youtubing games to kids and how weird I find it to tell kids about this in detail. Also having such a crisis that you get reborn and a hair transplant due to playing too much is kinda funny. The social media age has made people confuse being "real" and "true" with making every facet of your life completely public and not knowing what to keep for yourself. People's personas are bleeding into their personal lives, and vice versa, and it's causing all kinds of hell on both ends. There are just certain things that you should keep contained to yourself and your loved ones, but youtube and twitter and all these platforms thrive on the sort of weird parasocial relationships people have with these creator types, who then mine their own illness to deepen the relationship and spread their following. It's like camming except instead of exposing your junk you expose how you cheated on your wife and yelled slurs at Alexa
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What if these people like, I dunno, volunteered a few hours a week or audited a class in a subjected that interested them instead of whining about how empty and vain their lives are?
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Three Olives posted:What if these people like, I dunno, volunteered a few hours a week or audited a class in a subjected that interested them instead of whining about how empty and vain their lives are? turn on your monitor
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How is burnout even a thing? Just walk away from your camera. It sucks that these guys aren't allowed to take breaks because YouTube's algorithms will screw them over but it's way better than most anything else they could be doing. I don't like pulling out the "Get a real job" cliche but I think anyone feeling burnt out from making videos should do some manual labor for a couple months. That would give them a renewed zeal for making videos for a living.
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I'm going to start a relief fund for paparazzi, who have been put out of work by the modern celebrity's willingness to air even their most private thoughts in videos like "TOP 19 FAILS I COMMITTED IN MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE, WHO I CHERISHED AND CONTINUE TO CHERISH DESPITE THE PREVAILING ALLEGATIONS"
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Terrific Accident posted:Slightly unrelated because Twitch instead of Youtube, but DrDisrespect decided it would be a good idea to admit to everyone on his stream that he had cheated on his wife and publicly apologize for it. A lot of these youtubers and streamers think of themselves as the product and have an unhealthy relationship with their audiences that I'll never understand. it was a good idea. he got shitloads of press and managed to pull in tons of viewers/subscribers. he actually figured out a way to take a vacation, something most streamers are too afraid to do because of a complete lack of "job" security sucessful streamers/tubers are extremely calculating, they know their life is basically a reality show and there's no way this was meant to be an actual apology.
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Blast of Confetti posted:ty for your service, lowtax
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little munchkin posted:dude figured out a way to monetize cheating on his wife. what a world SMASH that like and subscribe button if you want to see more videos of me getting snot all in my mustache as I describe in vivid detail the acts I committed with people who aren't my beautiful and forgiving(?) wife, love you tater please come home
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little munchkin posted:dude figured out a way to monetize cheating on his wife. what a world yeah boogie pretty much monitized his divorce even if he doesn’t see it that way. god drat.
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Wait, boogie the fatman got divorced from the woman who in a completely different league than him? The hell is he gonna do now??
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little munchkin posted:dude figured out a way to monetize cheating on his wife. what a world Wait he cheated on his wife? I thought it was the other way around
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The part that makes me mental is how none of them can talk for > 1 minute without loving it up and having to do a quick cut. They're not even good at the lazy rear end job they've signed themselves up for.
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There's a youtube streamer I like quite a bit who does sim racing. Couple weeks ago he crashed his virtual car during an endurance event, became extremely emotional, and wandered off camera for 30 minutes while mods and viewers assured him everything would be ok and that they still loved him. People who made fun on him were summarily executed and he returned to apologize to everyone for his performance and how much the support of the community means to him when driving his cars made out of pixels. I went back through his youtube video history and yeeeep there's a video detailing his extremely hosed up mental state and near suicidal tendencies
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Zzulu posted:Wait, boogie the fatman got divorced from the woman who in a completely different league than him? he’s banging even younger and better looking tinder chicks who recognize him lol. and breaking his arm. and I think his weight loss has plateaued.
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