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Jan 29 4 tweets 1 min read
Feedback for YouTubers from someone who watches a LOT of YouTube videos.

I am not interested in you. I don't need a map to find subscribe. Think of it as a race to hook me with information before I scroll down to unsubscribe and then close tab. Intros make me scroll.
I still don't know how most YouTubers don't seem to have figured this out. Get to your content ASAP. That is the biggest thing you can do to retain me, not random info about yourself, your daily life, asking me to subscribe before I know you are any good, some random jingle, etc
What is your video about? Start talking about that. Like right now. If your talk is good, I'll be curious to know more about the person doing the talking. If you manage to irritate me with your self-importance, chances are I'll find someone with more clarity.
You want branding, put a fucking watermark on the video. Don't waste my time. There's a reason even TV shows begin with cold opens and then get around to the intros. They don't have a text box below, so they have to put it in the video. You can escape even that. Please do.

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Jan 31
It is a good time to be glad to not be into James Bond. Turns out that James Bond is now gay.

I don't get this trend of fucking around with gender or orientation of well established characters.

Particularly those who are highly romanticized.
In many ways I see this trend as suddenly Doctor who is a woman. James Bond is gay, etc to be extremely dehumanizing and appropriative.

Fans have emotional relationships with characters. Appeal is a HUGE part of that. Screw around with gender/orientation and you fuck that up.
Superficially, it may seem like activism, but in reality, it creates a bogus "equality" by equally denying masculinity and femininity.

A man attracted to a woman is same as man attracted to man is same as woman attracted to woman, etc. It is an emotional violation.
Read 14 tweets
Jun 3, 2021
The 'appropriating' someone's voice argument is used so illogically sometimes that it is verging on fallacy.

A person speaking their own perspective is not appropriating anything.

It is an ad hominem attack that also adds false accusation to basically shut someone up.
Regardless of the subject. Even if it is a man speaking on women's rights, savarna speaking on caste discrimination against dalits, corporate rich fellow talking of poverty, whatever.

Own perspective is not appropriation.
OTOH, it is appropriation when someone not from that identity claims to speak what their reality "really" is. Particularly when it contradicts stated reality by that identity. This must be opposed.

The distinction is huge. One is interested participation. Other is suppression.
Read 5 tweets
Jun 2, 2021
Brumby update day 6

Ghar wapsi continues. Now with an attempt to help community (his followers) too find a good response to self harm.

Probably gets awkward when they are surprised at his U-turn
So it seems from people who do self harm being attention seekers, we have arrived at a place where Brumby is doing his best to find a better response to self harm that doesn't get him spanked.

Not bad for under a week, eh? Practically transforming as we watch.

Unfollow anyway.
All Brumby ever asked for as per today's version is that you don't glamorize self harm and he is still against wokes. Unclear why, since he appears headed there himself.

Or maybe he is just pretending.

For those puzzled by the Brumby thing, a primer
Read 6 tweets
Jun 2, 2021
Was talking to someone who may be in trouble because of disclosing too much to someone she no longer trusts in Twitter DMs.

General guide. Never ever say anything you wouldn't be happy to announce from a stage.

Hormones are the WORST "proof" of trust followed by ideology.
She approached me thinking that I say many bold things, so I would understand why she did what she did.

I say bold things because I am a bold person. My main timeline is actually more 'bold' than any private messages to anyone.
If you find yourself saying something you hope no one comes to know, DON'T. That is the only real way for no one to come to know.

DMs or WA Chats may seem private, but they are not, unless you guarantee the person on the other end will ALWAYS have your trust.
Read 5 tweets
Jun 2, 2021
Speaking of which, day 5 of the Brumby project seems to be about ghar wapsi.

Seems he is actually quite sensitive, just opposed to some, puzzling his followers...

Not even a week yet. Not bad.

Screenshots follow.
Followers be confused. So now we are against taunting and harassing suicidal people?
So we have some clarification of what he really thinks today...
Read 4 tweets
Jun 2, 2021
So I had not really intended to talk about this since the woman in question didn't have a problem.

My reason for speaking up was more that if you're making a space claiming to respect women, then respect them, not trash talk their opinions even after she disagreed first time.
The thing with this not a democracy, my space, my rules thing is that this is exactly what women go through (Which was being discussed just prior). Spaces they live in are usually controlled by men, their opinions are often trashed and their rights can be conditional to approval.
My point was that if he invited her to speak in his space, he owed her the respect of not trashing her opinions.

That said, he was fine after a topic change AND the woman in question did not mind, so it is not my place to object further beyond the space when I was speaking.
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