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Get off of my cloud
Jun. 11th, 2019 10:20 pmThere are fans (mostly but not exclusively dudes) who reflexively gripe about what I will loosely call "host segments" in YouTuber videos.
Now, I get griping about them when they run on forever and consist mostly of the host or hosts either complaining about a thing or aimlessly farting around in whatever passes for their studio. I also get being annoyed about them when they're supposed to be comedic and they fail at being funny, although humor is subjective enough that if no one is being hurt by it I don't see the point in taking time out of your day to tell the creator you didn't think it was funny.
But when the creator is trying to tell a story, or craft a character (who isn't just them with a little contouring for the camera), or build a world? Or all three? Why in the dick would you decide to gripe about it in the comments, especially if you have nothing else to say? Just zoom ahead to the talky bit and let the creator play, damn it! Even if it's objectively bad - and it usually is for their first year of doing it - at least it's going somewhere, building a what-if, instead of just being a buttmonkey for views like most YouTube jockeys.
I didn't understand it when whiny fanboys did it to MovieBob in the second iteration of the Game OverThinker series (and yeah, those were awful until he got two arcs under his belt and never rose above slapdash, but he took constructive feedback about what he was actually doing wrong like a champ; pointless guff got no one anywhere), I don't understand it when people still do it to Linkara now (and those got away from awful pretty quickly; by three years in he was doing an adequate job and has only continued to improve), and I don't understand when fans do it to Captain Disillusion (and his were already all the way up to mediocre at the get-go and have only gotten better). If you're not there for the fiction frame, either ignore it or use the thumbs Ninhursag gave you to fast-forward to the review/essay/explanation. Let the creators have their fun, and let those of us who are here for the lore have ours.
Now, I get griping about them when they run on forever and consist mostly of the host or hosts either complaining about a thing or aimlessly farting around in whatever passes for their studio. I also get being annoyed about them when they're supposed to be comedic and they fail at being funny, although humor is subjective enough that if no one is being hurt by it I don't see the point in taking time out of your day to tell the creator you didn't think it was funny.
But when the creator is trying to tell a story, or craft a character (who isn't just them with a little contouring for the camera), or build a world? Or all three? Why in the dick would you decide to gripe about it in the comments, especially if you have nothing else to say? Just zoom ahead to the talky bit and let the creator play, damn it! Even if it's objectively bad - and it usually is for their first year of doing it - at least it's going somewhere, building a what-if, instead of just being a buttmonkey for views like most YouTube jockeys.
I didn't understand it when whiny fanboys did it to MovieBob in the second iteration of the Game OverThinker series (and yeah, those were awful until he got two arcs under his belt and never rose above slapdash, but he took constructive feedback about what he was actually doing wrong like a champ; pointless guff got no one anywhere), I don't understand it when people still do it to Linkara now (and those got away from awful pretty quickly; by three years in he was doing an adequate job and has only continued to improve), and I don't understand when fans do it to Captain Disillusion (and his were already all the way up to mediocre at the get-go and have only gotten better). If you're not there for the fiction frame, either ignore it or use the thumbs Ninhursag gave you to fast-forward to the review/essay/explanation. Let the creators have their fun, and let those of us who are here for the lore have ours.
