Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A Youtube Revelation
I went into the bowels of youtube to see the kind of humor that certain people enjoy. It was the kind of brutal, violent, shock humour held in high regard by some of most detatched and unempathetic members of society. I do feel like a bit of a hypocrite though. I do enjoy a decent episode of Southpark here and there which has been known to have some seriously terrible toilet humor. If that is all there was then I wouldn't watch it. Fortunately Southpark is genius. So I put up with the gore and shock to be rewarded with solid satire, a decent laugh and food for thought. To me, Toilet humour is detrimental, discouraging and not all that funny. I guess that's the difference. So who are the people who watch this stuff exclusively?
In a nutshell (although does not apply to about 7% of them)?
You know that thing in your drain that catches all the stuff that isn't water? Over time it just gets nastier and happens to attract other scum that just seems drawn to it until your drain is clogged?
Well that is the 'Toilet Humour' subscriber.
'Psychicpebbles' makes a series of videos aimed at appealing to certain tastes in comedy. As a young man making high-quality videos, although the content is garbage humour, this is quite a feat. He is exploiting a tool so as to gain viewers in order to make money. Why not? Popularity gained from providing simple things to simple people makes perfect sense. With a minimal amount of creativity, you can reap massive rewards. Does it take a comedic genius to make a cartoon showing old women's faces getting ripped off or them being baked alive?
What it takes is a desire for money and a disturbing lack of empathy. An audience that appreciates this type of humour has no empathy as well. I walked in on over a million psychopaths. That's fucking scary.
The idiots in question are the Psychicpebbles fan base. They are almost like religious zealots in their passion to defend this crap as the best humor on earth. They will use their words like bullets in order to barrage any detractor and are completely immune to reason. Actually 'Bullets' is a faulty analogy as in implies swiftness and the ability to strike to the heart of the matter. Perhaps a more accurate analogy would be lemmings who bash their soft, yet many heads against the stone wall of reason. As long as there are more lemmings, their brain damaged viewpoint makes them think they are winning.
They do not even see the paradox of "wouldn't be so funny if it happened to you". You flame one for an ignorant or threatening comment which shuts him up and 5 more see the flame and figure you are being a jerk. Eventually you realize that no one is going to listen to your point of view as they have become the Internet version of a 'Gang'. Individually quite weak, they attack single people with the advantage of numbers. In the midst of this, I got Psychicpebbles himself to stick his own foot in his mouth...and pointed it out to him and 200 others who applauded both sides of his contradictory statements. Mission Accomplished. That was the original viewpoint that got me after him in the first place.
But if a point falls in a forest of morons...will anyone get it? They say they don't but who knows?
I went back to my usual stuff. A live rendition of Blind Faith singing 'Can't find my way home' for the first time in Hyde park 1969. There I found the people I wanted to be with. No anger. No sarcasm. No antipathy. I shed the dealings of the last few days with one saying from that channel:
If it's heavy ... put it down (Thanks Brother).
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