Datasets:

mpasila

/

DarkViperAU-Essays

like 0

Gabi:This entire situation is extremely nuanced and not black and white and extremely simplistic as you wanna make it seem. It's not just all these creators are gone, all those impressions are going to smaller creators.

So there's a meme from a very long time ago where I exclaimed “No one can be this dumb!” but Gabi has taught me anything is possible. I do not truly understand the depths of human stupidity. Maybe I am wrong, maybe the infinite does truly exist. In that perhaps the depth of human stupidity is truly infinite as demonstrated by Gabi.

Gabi:

Your original argument can make a lot of sense and fundamentally I actually agree with it.

I have absolutely no idea what Gabi thinks my original argument is or what that could possibly even refer to. She does not - even slightly - understand my perspective on anything. And I'm fairly convinced she does not have the mental capability to do so. Throughout their content I explained my perspective in many different ways with many different examples, and Gabi still didn't understand it. That is insane! But even more so despite not understanding it even slightly, she still felt confident enough in her ignorance to make a video this dumb. Mind-boggling!

In this next part, Gabi speaks of my references to spiking people's drinks.

Matt (in ‘''Hi Charlie! Nice To Meet You!''’ in Gabi’s video):

When the script was released, the most I heard from one person was that they could be taken in the wrong way.

Gabi:

You didn't hear that just from just one person. You heard that from multiple people. You're pretending that this was just like one person taking one thing out of context and getting mad.

Again… Gabi seems blissfully unaware of the nature of the response that my essay got prior to Charlie releasing his video where he misrepresented to 2 million people. After I'd already spent many hours taking in the feedback from my audience and changing my essay, there was one guy on Twitter who said he didn't like it. Like, fuck me dead! The main thing that Gabi's put on screen this entire time is not even my tweet of my essay, it's not even my essay, but a reply to this comments. Gabi seems to be like, “What do you mean everyone didn't go to your tweet, dig down in the replies to find this reply, and then found your reply to that reply. Everyone saw that man! What are you talking about?”. Like, obviously when a trusted creator, like MoistCr1TiKaL says “Hey, this guy is out here calling reactors rapists!”, that's gonna elicit a response. And the vast majority, “I'm not gonna read a fucking essay, Gabi, come on.”. It is the unfortunate case that popular people would define reality for a lot of people. In the same way that my essay clearly does not talk about just more creators, but Gabi had to continue to hammer that home, “It does! It does!”, even though it clearly does not. 'cause Charlie said that, and for that reason alone, Gabi would defend it to the death.

Gabi:

Like I, if you had intentions with this document, clearly most of it didn't get across.

No one… fucking… read it! The people who did, did understand it! And they agreed! Most people based their understanding of the essay on what Charlie said, and he misrepresented every aspect of it and misunderstood it in a way that was hilarious to watch.

Gabi:

And you shouldn't need consent to exercise free speech and react to content that you disagree with or agree with. I am not an expert on fair use, but you are completely in the right to react to content and do so. And just because you don't agree with react content doesn't mean you should be comparing them to people who would spike your drink.

If we had to ask for consent to everything that we reacted to content creators that. Should be made aware are not good people like RiceGum and whatever Logan Paul did back in the day should be made aware through the exercising of free speech. I'm allowed to comment on these things.

These are just insane assertions that the only way to communicate that something is bad is to completely redistribute that creative work as if no one called anyone out before the existence of people sitting on livestream and watching YouTube videos. This is insane.

I'm not going to rehash the guidelines for fair use or the cases related to it. I did it in another video, but goddamn, no, none of this is legal and it's also not necessary. And as I've heard before, reaction views are the worst way to call out other creators. Make a creative video, bring together multiple different things that they've done. Make a case, script it. Presenting your first time impressions to someone else's work to call them out, is not responsible. Nor is the redistribution of other people's hard work necessary for free speech.

Gabi:

You're acting like nobody read your document and you're just getting this criticism out of nowhere. Because some people took things out of context. They didn't. Many people read your document actually in the document right now, there's over 30 people in here reading it.

“Holy shit! 30 people! Did you hear that guys? 30 people!”, so it'll take about half an hour for the average person to read an essay of that length. So Charlie's visual video was seen by about 2 million people maintaining a constant rate of 30 people reading that essay. It would take about four years for everyone who watched that video to read it, so you know any fucking day now.

I do not understand why it's so important to Gabi for her to believe that the entire internet is just like an essay loving group. They're all putting on their reading glasses, sitting before the fire, and reading random essays written by strangers on the internet. What an insane world Gabi must live in. You remember when Twitter used to ask people, Hey, are you sure you've read this article? You should probably read it before you post it. Gabi must have thought that fucking insane like “But everyone always reads everything in which they comment on on the internet. No one in history has ever shared an article based merely on the headline or judged the contents of an article on the headline. That's absurd. People on the internet love reading essays!” This fantasy world Gabi lives in is insane.

So while I do have a lot more very interesting things to say, this is somewhat me wrapping up the video. Finally. When I first saw this video from Gabi, I was honestly very surprised at how little she knew yet how confident she felt in what she knew. Further, how bad she was at reasoning or understanding the implications of her own words. Let learn my words for that matter. But then I stumbled across a clip in one of her other videos that made me understand Gabi a bit more as a person.

Gabi:

But then what is ethical? I'm in a, I'm in a philosophy class and I wanna die. I hate philosophy, I'm not gonna lie. My advisor in college was a philosophy professor, and every time you started to talk about philosophy, my brain just shut off and I just, I switched majors and I got a different advisor.

That… makes… so… much… sense…

One thing that was very strange to me was something that Gabi stressed so many times at the end of her video.

Gabi:

But this is my opinion. This whole video is my opinion.

“Oh my gosh guys, I did just misinform you for like 40 minutes, but you can't be mad 'cause it's just my opinion…” as if she doesn't have to try to be accurate 'cause they're just her opinions. As if they're things that she said in this video that are massively incorrect aren't going to have ramifications to how other people live their lives.”. She appears entirely uncaring as to how her words might impact other people. Sure she might get everything wrong, but “Who cares? Just opinions!”.

You can see this belief echoed in her support of people watching videos in order to debunk them, “Of course, just in real time you can watch someone else's video and just debunk it like that as you go. The world is a simple place. You don't need research. No, you can just do it in real time. Let's go. Sure, you might get 700 things wrong, but who cares? Other people don't matter!”.

It seems as though these days there's no consequence to not even trying to be accurate in what you're saying on YouTube. You are better off shooting from the hip, releasing video after video, and then maybe giving a backhanded apology if you get something wrong. If you wanna spend all the time doing the research, making sure everything is perfect, you'll be miles behind the people just shooting from the hip. You release 1/10th of the video. Sure, they may be more factually accurate, but that's not gonna be valued on the market. These people will always be behind the Gabis of the world who believe just because they can wake up in the morning that this makes them all knowing deities, who can speak on anything with accuracy.

Originally, I wanted to cast judgment on the 15,000 people who liked Gabi's video, but then I realized for most people, they just click on a video, don't really think about it, and then click off and do something else. They don't think deeply about what they're hearing. They're just like, oh yeah, this seems pretty good. And then they move on with their day. People to some degree just have to hope that the person they're listening to isn't malicious and deceitful as Gabi is. These people, as far as I'm concerned, are perhaps even more a victim of Gabi's video than I am.

So obviously Gabi's video isn't the first video to misrepresent me and my work to hundreds of thousands of people, but I'll be honest with you, it never gets easier. The knowledge that there are so many people out there who believe false things about me and there's nothing I can do about it eats me up inside. I would like to say this past year was sufficient for me to get over all that stuff that happened a year ago, but I still have not. Being misrepresented and in many cases directly lied about, provably lied about, by so many people and having that accepted by so many is something that radically shifts your view of the world and other people. Like obviously Gabi is not gonna care about this, a person who cares about the world being of other people could not make a video like that. But you can obviously see how a person will come to view the world negatively when they realize that there is no consequences for the suffering that Gabi will cause. She'll go onto this to countless people over her career and suffer nothing for doing so 'cause that is the world we live in. Those who have no care for accuracy and no care for others will obviously be able to sprint ahead of anyone that does and they will receive nothing but rewards for doing so.

For most of my life, my only aspiration was to go out and help other people to make the world a better place. But honestly, at this point, I don't think I'll ever be strong enough to do that. How do people who actually go out there and try to make the world better deal with people like Gabi? Selfish, dishonest liars who care about no one but themselves. To some degree, I've become convinced that maybe the world can't get better. There's just a continuous cycle of things being slowly better than, slowly worse forever. But maybe I just wanna emotionally believe that, so I can justify my cowardice for not being able to face terrible people like Gabi more often.

So, yeah. Thank you for watching! Sorry this video is not as substantive or as well argued as the actual video that I made on the topic of reaction content that came from my essay. If at the end of this video you find yourself being like, I have more questions, or I don't agree with this, or I don't agree with that, it's probably explained far better in that video. This video was bogged down by Gabi's misunderstandings and poor reasoning that as far as I'm aware, are entirely unique to her. This is another reason why I felt it important to make this video, while I certainly hope Gabi is fairly unique in the world… she can't be, right?