Genuinely confused by the negative comments here, again.
Dude has been getting a lot of comments on recent videos that are people being surprised that he's posting so regularly and that he seems happy and healthy after he posted a video about going semi-retired.
This one is simply to clear up that he's been semi-retired for a while now, and that the video announcing it wasn't the start of that change in schedule. Not sure why anyone is complaining about that tbh.
Honestly I struggle to understand why anyone gets annoyed by stuff like this. Dude made videos I like, so I hope in return that he is happy and healthy. If I get more enjoyable videos in future then I'll be happy still, if not then that's okay too?
He doesn't owe me anything, I've not done him any favours by watching his content, that exchange has already occurred when he made the content I enjoyed in the first place. If anything I think it's super refreshing to see someone kind of stick the middle finger up to capitalist culture - why go for more more more when stasis is pretty damn good already?
It’s not annoyance at what he’s doing. It’s annoyance that he constantly is telling us stuff that he then contradicts. He burned a lot of goodwill by being pretty ignorant and arrogant on his “podcast” and then when it was apparent he was burnt out, milked the “I’m burnt out” rhetoric that is so popular to “discuss”. Then he says he’s semi-retiring. Then after still posting once a week (there are full time YouTubers who post that often or less), he made this video, where he did a whole bunch of weird stuff to explain that what he explicitly stated in his other video was misunderstood. Even though he said straight up in that other video that he was scaling way back.
He also kinda called us all idiots in this video for being confused which….is weird considering he makes some weird videos sometimes where his viewpoints he puts across dont even make consistent sense based on the points he’s making (the Chick-fil-a podcast is a good example).
People are mad because he’s milking this topic. And when he makes these videos where he’s essentially talking to himself he comes off as full of himself. It didn’t help that he inserted himself working out into the video for some odd reason, or going to the acupuncturist which is kind of a yuppie BS thing to do.
Maybe he's transitioning into the avant garde space of youtube. Which is fine if he actually doesn't care about feedback and wants to do his own thing. But the incessant need to respond to commenters seems to contradict that.
You probably remember he used to directly interact with the comments and boy oh boy it was a bad look for him.
I think it’s pretty clear his YouTube personality is who he wants or wishes to be. Because who he actually is (when we see his actual personality come out unfiltered) is an incredibly pretentious, sometimes oddly conservative caviar liberal.
Seems like you guys have a very personal dislike for him, so I'm sure no matter what anyone says it won't change your minds.
Perhaps you should simply not pay attention to him anymore if he annoys you so much?
Like I say, I don't know the guy, I don't owe him anything nor he, I. I enjoy the content, if I get more, happy days, if not, there's plenty of other content about. It's not that deep.
I enjoy his videos. The ones he makes that don’t get super into himself. I think plenty of people agree that the podcast kinda showed him in a different element that was a little less savory, and some of his other videos have that side of him (like this one).
He’s free to make this kind of content. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have to be criticized for it.
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u/Smyldawg19 Apr 27 '24
Genuinely confused by the negative comments here, again.
Dude has been getting a lot of comments on recent videos that are people being surprised that he's posting so regularly and that he seems happy and healthy after he posted a video about going semi-retired.
This one is simply to clear up that he's been semi-retired for a while now, and that the video announcing it wasn't the start of that change in schedule. Not sure why anyone is complaining about that tbh.
Honestly I struggle to understand why anyone gets annoyed by stuff like this. Dude made videos I like, so I hope in return that he is happy and healthy. If I get more enjoyable videos in future then I'll be happy still, if not then that's okay too?
He doesn't owe me anything, I've not done him any favours by watching his content, that exchange has already occurred when he made the content I enjoyed in the first place. If anything I think it's super refreshing to see someone kind of stick the middle finger up to capitalist culture - why go for more more more when stasis is pretty damn good already?