since we're all going around talking about what we learned from hbomberguy's video (SO FUNNY that's we're doing that like we've been told off by an adult saying we shouldn't eat random shit we find on the floor) i thought i'd say things also. as someone who watched james videos occasionally i often ended up clicking off them because eventually he'd say something weird. it was always worst when i was actually familiar with the subject he was talking about. i would think "he says he's not making enough money to keep the channel going so i guess this script didn't get the care it needed. sucks that he butchered a topic i care about but he must be creatively suffering under so much stress." i gave him the benefit of the doubt. besides the work he stole that made his videos appealing in the first place he said a lot of dumb shit. sometimes the absurdity of his statements would pierce the veil of ignorance but other times who knows what got past me. i unsubscribed to his channel months ago because of the bad takes i noticed but i cant know for sure there weren't bad takes i didn't. the other day i listened to a video essay by a cis ally who was calling out transphobia from a trans creator. it was all fine until they ended up agreeing with the person they were criticizing. they said they could understand how frustrating it is for binary trans people that non binary people get so much attention when they're not the ones really being oppressed. i'm trans and i'm not going to fall for that stupid talking point. but this cis youtuber did fall for it and ended up affirming it to their followers. when we don't understand a subject (especially when the subject is about a marginalized identity that is not our own) we shouldn't be comfortable repeating what just one person says. we shouldn't be comfortable not checking if what they say is true or not. we can do better than that. check what content creators say. they might be wrong, bigoted or plagiarizing someone actually worth listening to. or in the case of james somerton: all of the above. that's what hbomberguy's video was about to me.
ps. dreamsounds is a now inactive channel that ended because the work become too high for pay too low. you know, the thing james lied about struggling with? the creator was a lovely woman who deserved everything james took for granted. justice for dreamsounds.
I have completed my work for the day. I have also procured a list of potential therapists for you. Is this a good time to visit in order to have our discussion?
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... Yeah. I guess. Don't really have a choice here, do I-?
Clawing at the wall until my nails are dull and flat. Softly banging my head against the wall in desperation. I want to play Super Paper Mario I want to play Super Paper Mario I want to play Sup
My ass finally fucking finished both the Pokemon Sv Indigo Disk Dlc and watching Dawko's playthrough of Help Wanted 2. So hopefully I'll talk about my opinions on both tomorrow if I fucking remember lol.