"I am still of the opinion that all the use of F***mooks etc is not necessary. Your blog, and other things would not suffer with less of that term, I don't believe. As you get better known and press, it may become a negative. think about it. I know you will do what you think is best....just inserting my 2 cents worth. thanks for listening."
I received this email the other day. I appreciate your concern, but I feel the need to clarify some things. No one reads this blog. No one will ever read this blog. No one watches my videos. No one will ever watch my videos. I have no illusions about this. I write and make videos for my own enjoyment. Period. So I try and stay true to myself. I swear. A lot. People will need to come to terms with that or they are always free to continue not paying attention to what I am doing. I get people ketchup for a living. As I get older I will have to start working in crappier and crappier restaurants. Eventually I will probably work the register at a Denny's when I am no longer able to actually wait on tables. I will die a poor and lonely old man that never fully realized the potential of his youth. I accept this. And I find it extremely liberating.
Yes, GooTube Conspiracy is getting increasingly popular. But I have no misconceptions as to why. Nalts is a YouTube "star" and people tune in to our show to get a further 'Nalts fix' because his posting 3 vids per day on his own channel isn't enough for some people. My own channel only has about 70 subscribers. That is a huge indicator of your popularity. Matter of fact - let us all just take a moment to see exactly what people think of my videos, shall we?
"What a load of heavy-handed bulls**t"
And another:
"Hey Kyle. Maybe you should run a food shelter, or give your home to those poor people so they can have a place to sleep instead of making videos. If you really wanted to bleed your heart, you could sell all your production equipement and feed them all. But then how could you afford a pack a smokes?"
Yet another gem:
"Kyle. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life."
To put it succinctly:
"u faggy???"
And finally:
"your an idiot"
So, you see, the veil has been lifted from my eyes. I will never be a professional filmmaker. I do not kid myself into thinking that I will. Hopefully, I will make a few silly vids that people enjoy along the way before Time does its thing and I lay down for that final dirt nap.
Get bent.
As I sit here, early one spring morning (very early, to be more precise) I decide to checkout the lonely blog of my lonely brother in New York. "Hey fuckmooks," he cried. How strange, thought I. He didn't capitalize "fuckmooks." I would have sworn that was a proper noun. "Congress Members, Senators, Speaker of the House, Mr. Vice President, Fuckmooks." But, being Kyle-speak and all, I will suspend judgement on the matter and accept it for what Kyle has deemed it - a lowly title, reminiscent of "trash collector."
ReplyDeleteNo one watches his videos. Nalts is a celebrity. Normally, I would accept the greeting of "fuckmooks" as a random wordchoice. The real meaning and affection wishing to be conveyed being that of a strangely indifferent respect. But the remainder of his blog caused me to realize that Kyle had chosen to use the harmless "fuckmooks" moniker/greeting in the offensive and abbrasive way that he was accused of using it. And knowing that only the person(s) offended by it's original use would be offended by its continued use, I realized that there was very little in this blog that I could take and use for myself.
That is a shame. I've actually spent more time commenting on this blog than I spent reading dear Kyle's statements.
Though I suppose there was at least one other item that concerned me. Kyle, thinking that you could retire away at a Denny's is just a fruitless pipe-dream. You will almost certainly be a door greeter at Walmart - or whatever Walmart is replaced by. Probably Starfucks.