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His antics were funny when he was just bad at video games, but he's been doing more and more to step out of his lane and cozy up to some of the most wretched people that walk this planet.

I had to unfollow so many people over the past 5 years because their channels turned into crying business meetings rather than actual videos, and the few videos they DID post were once every 6 months to a year or some shit.

So either you do YouTube as a hobby, or you're dead serious about being entertaining or informative. Either way, you'll be doing it because you actively WANT to.

The exit plan seems to be to pivot to Angry Joe after this, but I hope we find some other surprisingly funny people to add to the docket. Then again, Jer started out like Joe is now, where his insanity didn't reveal itself until one damning thread got pulled and he melted the fuck down.

I picked Jer as the playlist to manage because I didn't expect him to ever go insane. I thought that was going to be a quiet, peaceful, cozy playlist, that would just keep slowly updating over years. I DID NOT expect the absolute chaos he caused.

Joe does more self-inflicted meltdowns for no good reason, and he has a history of kicking the hornet's nest. With "woke" being on the downturn lately, (Bethesda layoffs, Disney cancelling a bunch of pride episodes of shows and several black-led movies) he's probably going to have a crashout cascade, because he gets way too invested in culture war shit, pings a bunch of creators who weren't bothering him, then cries when they have a comeback at him. (ISHYGDDT) His behavior over Supergirl was shameful. Go watch the movie, enjoy it, and if you liked it while other people didn't, just own it, accept that you have an unpopular opinion, and move on with your life. Use that varied opinion to make conversations on your show more interesting. But no, he treated the movie like a ballot vote.

Corporations are not your friends or political representatives. They follow the money. That's all they do, and it's that simple. When they smell that something isn't making them money, they drop it and try something else. When they smell that something IS making them money, they latch onto it and run it into the ground. It's not personal in either direction. "Woke" was making them money before, it isn't doing that anymore, and then in another decade it will make them money again. It's just endless cycles.

The culture war shit is a result of people not being able to come to terms with the fact that everyday people have very little political sway, and their politicians will ignore or betray them whenever they feel like it, and people just overall have very little control. These people then try to assert control over the one thing they DO have autonomy with, which is purchases of meaningless goods. They shove all of their hopes and dreams into those purchases and hope they affect the world. As we have learned, that barely does anything either, and now does even less with investors shielding companies from financial unrest over unpopular decisions (PlayStation ending physical discs).

Found someone who has never experienced a New Weird work before.

You don't "solve" those stories. The continuity is built via your emotional connection to the characters and how you experience them on your own, much like Twin Peaks.

Even with something like Control/Remedyverse, there is a clear "emotional continuity" side, and a regular "factual events continuity" side. It's cool to see that the FBC has been in a location if you pay attention, but it doesn't replace the enjoyment of following Ahti or Dr. Darling or characters like that.

If you try to "solve" AWM, you're going to tear your hair out wondering what you're missing. The resolution lies within your connection to the characters. It's not about the science of the warp core. It's about a friend apologizing and reconnecting with you.

Oh, wait, let me play the clip.

I want a site where creators aren't put in jeopardy over talking about someone else, or cursing, or mentioning the bare minimum of violence. And a site where a user with over a million subs doesn't have the right to just delete whatever other YouTube channels they don't like with no questions asked.