Hello to whoever sees these blogs, I know short snappy ones are trendy but I might ramble here as I am annoyed by this small thing. First let me preface this with something simple, if you’re an old guy who remembers the golden ages of youtube, you may remember that it was possible to make video replies to other videos. Maybe someone’s video made a hypnotoad joke and a reply followed through the classic “All glory to the hypnotoad” punchline, maybe some Gmod guys decided to do a long series of videos trying to tag others into creating new parts for the story, maybe it was some other thing, who knows? Either way youtube has long since removed this admittedly brilliant feature, and yet it hasn’t stopped anyone from making video responses to other videos.
If you spend any time on youtube you will notice that there are an alarming number of videos on there that are of people taking issue with another person’s video. Ya know, maybe someone’s annoyed by another guy’s criticism, maybe they’re pissed Matpat said something again, maybe they’re just being a scum of the earth Dramatuber who wants some fleeting attention. I dunno, point is, this is a problem though. I mean, if you made such a video, what are you trying to accomplish? I probably never even heard of the guy you’re yelling about, and honestly if you take Matpat’s silly side project/job that seriously, maybe you gotta calm down a bit. Seriously guys, these are silly videos designed to entertain you in some way. You’re not gonna be inherently smarter just by watching these. It’s like getting pissy over Mythbusters, it wasn’t the supposed myth that was the draw of the show, it was the tech, the explosives, the drop from 200 feet, the maiming of the dummie, everything else was just kind of there.
And that’s how we should treat these youtube things. Who cares who won that one Death Battle? The fight was fun. Who cares what game theory said? It’s weird that you get pissy over non-negative comments. Who cares what that cartoon reviewer said? They’re not changing my opinion. And yes, I’m aware Angry Video Game Nerd accentuates the negative for entertainment value, he said so himself both in character and out of character.
In the end, I simply ask a modicum of levity here, let the video be, it’s silly entertainment for silly purposes. If you are not entertained, you are able to ignore it. Okay?