Born To Die With A Smack On The Ass In Between

Most people have some kind of violent thoughts, we can imagine a scenario where violence or robbery becomes not only just a survival mechanism but also a form of empowerment.

But that does not really exist for a lot of people when it comes to sex crimes.

Generally, I tend to see two main issues. The first one is the most common, which is lazy writing using sex crimes as a shorthand in some way. If you wanna make someone seem like a slightly less bad person? Have them stop a sex crime. Want a an often female character to go through rapid character change but do not want to develop it? You can put a sex crime on it.

That can be triggering to a lot of people because you get that exposure to the pain and turmoil of trauma, with no visceral power fantasy to buoy you through it.

The other is coming back to that power fantasy again. Because we can mostly relate to the idea of taking power through violence, we absolutely can feel more moral and chill about that.

But if you think someone would like to take power FROM someone else with sexual violence, that can be very upsetting. And I think people can often wrongly assume that someone writing about that is perhaps making light of, or is able to fantasise, about someone losing power through sexual violence.

It is not correct, I think all writing is more nuanced than that. But I do think it is more complicated than just immaturity. I think it usually comes from a deep personal wound and an inability to separate that wound from their media lens.

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

Kapkan used to be a guy who could place a bomb on a door.

The conclusion most draw from this is typically that Jimmy doesn't have passion for what he does, it's all about popularity and money. This is not inaccurate, far from it, but it goes deeper.

By being so metric focused, Jimmy has an understanding of what is popular (at least at the time he rose to prominence) but no understanding of why. And that failure to understand is a huge detriment because it means that he doesn’t know how to innovate and build outward from his format.

Beast Games is illustrative of this. The Mr Beast video style translates very poorly to an actual reality show. The fact he had to ask other YouTubers how to build fandom is pretty damning. He doesn’t understand why people like things and mistakes hyperbole for excitement.

Jimmy is in an interesting position. Outside of YouTube, his ventures into real world businesses have largely failed. Lunchly was a moldy disaster and Beast Labs is functionally dead. He's like a kid who cheated on his physics exam and is now in charge of a nuclear reactor.