Monday 8 October 2012

YouTube Offense.

I'm JaackMaate.  I'm known on "YouTube" for being the naughty boy, the "rebel", the one not afraid to speak his mind.  I'm no pretty faced English teenager like the majority of popular YouTubers (who I think are brilliant, by the way), I'm just a guy with braces who shouts at a camera, in a vain attempt at making you laugh... right?

Now, yesterday (07/10/2012) I uploaded a video entitled "PS3 vs XBOX" which was basically a five minute rant at gamers, and geeks.  (I did however, quote the fact I am a nerd also).
This video has currently received over 500 dislikes, which I find fucking hilarious, it amuses me.  Because, although YouTube is my job, and good feedback is always overwhelming, as you know full-well, I am not the type to give a shit if you don't enjoy a video.  Obviously, again, I'd rather you did though.

Now, bare in mind, my channel isn't MEANT to offend, but we're both aware it will.  I speak about stuff that most YouTubers wouldn't dream of, and I pride myself on being out-there.      But one thing that really, really, gets on my fucking nerves, is when people tell me that my video offended them?  So fucking what?  In the famous words of Ricky Gervais "Telling somebody that their work offended you is like calling up the small-ads and claiming - I DON'T WANT PIANO LESSONS!"
Ignore it, move on, life goes on, nobody gives a shit about wether or not you found a video offensive or not, you're a cunt.

Being offended is subjective.  You choose to be offended.  There is not a list of rules in your brain that trigger an offence mechanism, you hear something, then you decide if it's offended you or not.  Why let it offend you?  If I'm making a joke about poverty, sure, it's harsh, starving children are dying, but do you have the power to change this, or in-fact, change my joke?  Nope.  There is no rule-book of what is offensive, and what's not, it's SUBJECTIVE.  So, as people choose what offends them, surely, that opens the door to any possibility.  I could say that chocolate ice-cream offends me.  I could say that One Direction offend me.  I could say that people who read my blogs offend me. I could LITERALLY claim anything to be offensive, if I chose to be a class A prick.  Correct?

So when you watch my videos, you must be aware that I "can offend", the same as anyone "can offend".  But due to my touchy subject, I'm probably more likely to persuade you that I'm "offensive".  And I respect your right to have an opinion, but please, don't believe it's your right, to have your opinion respected.  It's not.  Everybody has different opinions, and what offends you, may not offend others.  So if you do often get offended, please unsubscribe from my YouTube channel, unfollow me on Twitter, and get on with your lives.  If you like to laugh at everything, and don't take life too seriously, then I'm fucking thrilled you're joining me on this internet journey.

It's brilliant to laugh at life, because as I've said before, if you don't laugh at life, life will almost certainly laugh at you.
Take care, I do in fact love the majority of my audience, lots of love, the ginger, lisp-ridden, brace-faced, lanky piece of dirt.
JaackMaate.