When I warn that this might mess with your head, I mean it.
In this talk, I challenge things that are normally so unquestioned as to be part of the cultural background, the water in which we swim.
But fish don’t know they’re wet.
Anyhow, here it is :
More on point, they’re the thoughts that make other people go, “Huh….” as they rub their foreheads because I am making their brains hurt.
At least I know when I am doing it. That’s an improvement over a younger me, who would just trot these things out then wonder why the conversation died.
You killed it, younger Mike. You didn’t mean to do it, but you did it all the same.
It’s things like that which assure me that I have that whole “have your own unique personality and point of view” thing they tell young YouTubers to have and I have it in very large amounts.
I have an incredibly unique point of view and personality. I am confident that some of the thoughts I think and have thought (and will think) have never been thought by another human being in the history of humanity.
And may never be thought again, come to think of it.
Must keep putting them out on the internet so they are available for future generations!
Unfortunately, being a magical visionary thought leader type does not, in and of itself, get one noticed on YouTube.
I am still pondering ways to make my vids more appealing. I keep telling myself that I need to start making my points in a more compact and pithy way so that they can fit within a one minute YouTube short.
And I am pretty sure I can do it if I stop being so lazy.
I could easily take some of my more provocative and stimulating positions and get the essence of them across pretty quickly.
Especially after I have made a longer video about them. My vids where I present my case for something, like today’s vid, would make excellent rough drafts where I figure out what, exactly, I am trying to say and how to say it before I then can condense my verbiage down to a minute.
Who knows, maybe I will use my video making time to make a bunch of those one of these days. I can see it being kinda fun.
I might even take notes. Fancy that.
And it would certainly be something different to do. Something that might even lead to my attracting more viewers.
Which reminds me. It has occurred to me that I have to up my promotional game by including (sigh) links to my Patreon in my descriptions and outros.
That is going to be so hard for me. Every Gen X fibre of my being (and that’s most of them) rails against doing something so obvious and commercial.
So I will have to figure out a sufficiently sarcastic and self-aware way to do it like I did with my little Like and Subscribe outro.
Would you believe that I recorded that thing with zero pre-planning or forethought and I got it in the very first take?
I am just that amazing. Comedy just radiates from me like body heat.
So yeah, I will herd people towards my Patreon and I suppose I should get a Kofi too as those seem popular for, I assume, people who are too cool for Patreon.
Next thing you know, I will have my own Discord server that is only available to members of my channel and things will get all elite n’ shit.
Honestly, like I said once before a long ol’ time ago, I would be happy just to have a small community of interesting people with lively and curious minds that I could draw upon for the thing I love the most in the world, intellectual conversation.
If I had that, I wouldn’t need anything else. And I wouldn’t care if it made me money either, although that would, of course, be nice.
But today I realized that once my new power supply is installed in my computer, the question of “what would you do with the money?” is kinda solved for now.
That was the last thing. Once my computer is fully future proof for a while, I am all out of grand financial ambitions.
My next tier is things like a new (smaller!) bed, and those don’t come cheap.
And there’s always sex workers…. mmmm…
More after the break.
24 Karrot Gold?
Downloaded a little app called Karrot, and it really says something about how terrible and stupid app names have gotten that a name like Karrot seems normal to me now.
Downright respectable, even.
Anyhow, Karrot is your typical buy/sell/trade marketplace. I checked it out on a whim because I saw an ad for it that claimed people used it to give away stuff for free, so I figured, what the fuck.
So far, I am not seeing any really wild deals. If people are giving away stuff for free, I ain’t seeing it. Maybe they just don’t do that around here.
One tiny bit of amusement – in order to sign up for Karrot, I had to give them my location so it knew what “neighborhood” I am in, and it gave me a choice between two – am I in City Centre, or Brighouse?
And I’m like….”Both!”
I chose City Centre.
So after failing to find free stuff, I browsed for a bit before suddenly realizing that I had no money to spend so what the heck was the point?
All my spare cash is in this new power supply. And I am quite proud of myself for finally biting the bullet and buying the damn thing.
And this week’s groceries came in below budget, so who knows? Maybe I can even afford to order in tomorrow night.
As long as it’s something cheap, like Subway.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.