[WildVirtue:] Youtuber thanks commenters for the engagement, sets the hamster wheel of Eisel's mind in motion
In before Eisel calls this just high-level triple-uno-reverse-satire.
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[EM:] Both of you need to get in line for some kind of therapy: this is a very mild joke, funny if you're aware of the history of each youtube channel in relation to the other (i.e., I have discussed Lindie's polyglot philosophy in the past)…
…the only people who would find this hard to interpret have some condition that prevents them from interpreting social cues.
BTW, also, I notice that neither one of you actually has any kind of objection to my side of this story: if I actually had a crush on Lindie Botes, or if I thought she had a crush on me, so what? Like, the point of the joke presumes that you're intelligent enough to be aware BOTH that I don't want her AND ALSO that I'm aware she doesn't want me, but if (if!) you're too stupid to pick up on it… what are you pretending to be offended by?
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[WildVirtue:] My desire to post this fully accounted for the possibility you're aware Lindie doesn't want you. You desired to make a tacky joke because you're a novel lil fellow. I like discussing novel lil fellows.
I get you don't feel this was a tacky joke, but out of curiosity are you able to acknowledge you've made a lot of tacky jokes in the past, such as in your tumblr days, where you painted people into imagined weird sexualized scenarios such that most of the people you were trying to make laugh just cringed?
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You're really addressing this from the perspective of a mentally disabled person who assumes everyone else shares your mental disability: we don't.
"Are you aware that this joke you were making was a joke?"
Yes, I am aware. Everyone else is aware. Everyone else gets the joke. Not you. Just you "have difficulty reading social cues".
Not everyone who gets the joke finds it hilarious, but several thousand people just saw that video with Lindie Botes in the thumbnail (you can see many, many appreciative comments on it, BTW, showing that people responded to it in a thoughtful way: it isn't a shallow or mean-spirited critique of what she has to say about polyglottery).
Yep, in that context, it is slightly amusing to point out that Lindie Botes gives my comment a heart, etc., not realizing who I am — and it is slightly amusing for me to refer to myself as "too hot for Lindie Botes".
You will notice that I posted this myself, publicly, intentionally, both on Instagram and on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxlsuM7jIJimab7oyv7ZAOJe2-40DYjmGO
You behave as if you're "exposing" something I'm trying to "conceal"… nobody else is stupid enough to see it that way. It's a joke I made en passant, and posted on youtube, where it's visible permanently, as shown above.
Now, again, if you actually wanted to criticize my comedy videos, you could do so, if you had something intelligent to say. On some level, tragically, you're aware that you don't, so no actual criticism ensues. You can easily hear me criticizing my own engagement with comedy in hour-long podcasts, etc.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4JPuusVMWoBdQ3kOUwi0we
Dude, not everyone is upset and deranged about this stuff: some people are capable of being serious intellectuals for a finite number of hours per day, and then joking around about the absurdities of life in their spare time. Not you, apparently.
I've recorded very grim, very serious reflections on climate change (carbon parts per million, etc.) but I've also recorded lighthearted comedy videos about it —probably some of them contained sex jokes you found offensive. So what? If you think that being an intellectual means that you can't have a laugh (including having a laugh at your own expense) you're wrong: even Machiavelli wrote comedy. And the one example that survived history was a bawdy sex comedy, BTW.
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I'd just point out, I'm the "proud" author of a comedy video (eight minutes long, one take) titled, She calls me the n-word, but I don't identify as black. I just cannot relate to the stupidity of WildVirtue asking, here, if I'm aware that my comedy involves "imagined weird sexualized scenarios" —yeah, bro, that video takes politically provocative humor about as far as it can go. And it isn't joking around about sex for self-indulgent reasons: it actually is making a political point through farce.
[LINK:] https://youtu.be/zurq4cVDUho
