Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to be successful. Embrace the concept that rest, recovery, and reflection are essential parts of the progress towards a successful and ultimately happy life.
Iâve been waiting a couple of days for a YouTuber I follow - who posts daily - to upload his new video. Heâs been talking about something new and different that he put together, and Iâve been excited to see what it is. When I didnât see anything on his channel, I went to check his Twitter and was horrified.Â
Instead of a link to a new video, I found a retweet of YouTubeâs controversial âking.âÂ
âMy Response,â was the name of the video in the PewDiePie tweet. âMy statement about hate groups supporting me.â I sighed so loudly I woke up my dog.
YouTube has become somewhat of a comfort for me over the past year and a half or so. Iâve discovered some hilarious and creative people, and have been inspired myself to be more creative. Iâve picked up hobbies, learned new skills, and refined skills that I already had by watching YouTube, and on lazy days, I can always count on a series of videos to keep me occupied or help me fall asleep. But sometimes things get weird in the YouTube community, and it starts to drain all the fun.Â
As with practically every part of the internet, you learn to avoid two major things on YouTube: comment sections and content that you donât like/disagree with. I learned pretty early on that PewDiePieâs brand of humor was not for me. I had figured that he maintained such a large following for a reason, and decided to give him a try, but he failed to entertain me. Edgy, boundary-pushing humor stopped being funny to me when I was about 14. But entertaining me, specifically, wasnât his job; I moved on to channels that did engage me, and I never looked back.Â
His current âsituation,â for lack of a better word, didnât come as a surprise to me. Heâs said some awful things in the past, and my response to hearing that he made anti-Semitic remarks was along the lines of âyeah, that sounds about right.âÂ
Obviously, I thought it was atrocious; how anybody in 2017 could possibly think making light of the historical genocide of a group of people was somehow acceptable - or, worse yet, humorous - was beyond me. But I wasnât shocked when I heard who did it. I wasnât even shocked when other YouTubers didnât say anything - whether for or against the situation or PewDiePie himself, there was an overwhelming silence from the community.
But what did shock me was the amount - and the kind - of support he got today, particularly after posting that video.
The videoâs description made me think Pewds was going to condemn those hate groups. He was going to maturely accept fault and acknowledge that losing his show and connection to Disneyâs Maker Studios came as a consequence of his actions, and that would be that. Instead, what I made myself sit through was less of an apology or understanding of what he did wrong, and more of an instance of âsorry you were offended,â and condemning of the media.
Funnily enough, the video came on the same day our âfake newsâ-hating president tried to assure the press that he was the least anti-Semitic and least racist person he knew.Â
Election night for me, like for many others, felt like the shock ending of a movie: dramatic and emotional, but, by all accounts, the results made no sense. In an effort to find comfort in a situation that led many to fear for the livelihoods of themselves and their loved ones, many of us flocked to social media, particularly Twitter, to express our disdain for what had just happened. What was this going to mean for journalists, who scramble to gather and distribute the truth in a time where the new leader of the country attacked them and their industry at every turn? What about women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, people who werenât rich, people of different religions, people who fit into more than one of these identities? We were openly devastated, not because the person we voted for lost, but because someone unqualified and backed by groups like the actual KKK was elected as the face of the country.Â
While most of us were on the same page - angry, terrified, desperate for someone to say âjust kidding!â - there, of course, were those who didnât share the same sentiment. Iâm mature enough to know that not everyone shares the same political opinion; to paraphrase a quote from Obama from his farewell speech, we may disagree on our plan of action, but we can agree on what needs to be done for the good of everyone. But this was a different thing altogether; we werenât just disagreeing on taxes, we were arguing about whether someone who talked about grabbing women by the genitals should be at the head of the discussions on reproductive rights; whether the guy who filed for four different bankruptcies should be in charge of the countryâs finances; whether the guy backed by - I repeat - the very real KKK would listen to groups like BLM or condemn hateful acts by dangerous people like D*lann Roof.
But what really blew me away was the response from a YouTuber, who I used to consider a favorite of mine. In a (what appears to be deleted) series of tweets, he made comments on how those opposing the election results were just as intolerable as those people who supported the new president. In a rare move, I replied to one of his tweets, asking why we were expected to be okay with the results and the presidentâs supportersâ hateful actions surrounding the situation. I was extremely disappointed when he replied that âpeople hate on [him] all the time,â and that it didnât stop him from persisting in his career because he didnât âhateâ them back. This was a grown man with a child, so I wasnât going to explain to him that the âhateâ he gets on YouTube is vastly different from the hate of discriminatory groups of people with political and systemic power to hold back and even harm the people that they hate.Â
I had an idea of what he was doing - I know that maintaining a large fan base on such public platforms as YouTube comes with being careful not to alienate your fans by taking âextremeâ stances on certain issues. I get it. But I expected someone whose âthingâ is being nice and accepting of people would be more sympathetic to the fears of his followers.
Imagine my lack of surprise when I saw that this same YouTuber was speaking out in support of PewDiePie, laughing at headlines that he claimed pushed an âagendaâ and telling publications to âlearn humor.â It really made me wonder why they were so convinced that âthe mediaâ as a whole had it out for him. What would established publications have to gain from trying to tear him down?Â
âI do strongly believe that you can joke about anything,â PDP says in his video. And I think this is part of the problem; you absolutely can not joke about everything. Everything is not a joke. It has nothing to do with differing senses of humor; some things are not okay to make light of. Period. Even in, for example, reclaiming slurs used against marginalized groups, that is only for marginalized groups to do; itâs the same concept that says non-black people are not allowed to say the âN-word.â These are not his jokes to make.
To carelessly say and display a phrase like âDeath to all Jewsâ and say itâs just a joke is irresponsible, especially when you have a following as large as he does that contains young, impressionable kids, who can easily go to school the next day saying the same thing, joke or not. Both kids and adults who joke about things like that (remember fried chicken and watermelon jokes?) are normalizing hateful stereotypes and ideologies. But for some reason, he doesnât seem to believe that this is something that happens. Â
As far as I know, no one believes that heâs an actual real-life nazi. But in trying to push boundaries with distasteful âjokes,â he messed up big time, and itâs time for him, his fans, and his friends to realize that. The Wall Street Journal has no reason to âattackâ him; they were reporting on his actions and how that affected his business, because they are, in fact, a publication that focuses on business. And while 48 Jewish community centers in the U.S. and Canada are receiving bomb threats, making hate speech into a joke is crossing a line. There is a bigger discussion that needs to be had beyond people and the media âhating onâ successful YouTube personalities. Sitting idly by and keeping silent until your fave is âtargeted,â to quote PewDiePie, âhelps no one.â
On Wednesday, Seth Rogen gave impassioned testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee. The comedian and his wife Lauren Miller recently started a charity dedicated to Alzheimerâs education and research advocacy, Hilarity for Charity. Video of the ever-unassuming Rogenâs plea to support Alzheimerâs research resonated widely across the Internet, already having been viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube.
Itâs not just that Rogen is a funny guy and that Alzheimerâs affects more than 5 million Americans, but also that a third of people fear dementia more than they do death. At odds with the massive public response to Rogenâs message, of the 18 members of the subcommittee, only twoâSenators Tom Harkin and Jerry Moranâattended the hearing. âNot sure why only two senators were at the hearing,â Rogen tweeted. âVery symbolic of how the Government views Alzheimerâs. Seems to be a low priority.â
Architecture Studio, a new set from Lego, comes with 1,210 white and translucent bricks. More notable is what it lacks: namely, instructions for any single thing youâre supposed to build with it. Instead, the kit is accompanied by a thick, 277-page guidebook filled with architectural concepts and building techniques alongside real world insights from prominent architecture studios from around the globe. In other words, this box oâ bricks is a little different. Where past Lego products might have had the happy ancillary effect of nurturing youngstersâ interest in architecture, here, thatâs the entire point.
Seventy-three different kinds of bricks are included in the set. But bricks are easy to find. Itâs the guidebook thatâs truly new. Its pages offer accessible overviews of basic architectural concepts, along with illustrated exercises for exploring them in Lego form. Pages on negative space and interior sections, for example, encourage budding builders to think not only about how their miniature creations look from the outside but also in terms of what sorts of spaces they contain within them.
Watch Music Bring Back Memories for Alzheimerâs Patients
One day in 2006, New York social worker Dan Cohen realized that with todayâs devices, all of his favorite musicâheâs a fan of â60s rockâis at his fingertips, but he might no longer be able to listen to it if he winds up in a nursing home when heâs older. When he called around to local assisted-living facilities, he found that none of them provided personal music players to their residents.
So, he began giving them iPods. Eventually, his project became Music & Memory, a nonprofit that helps seniors living in nursing homes get access to the songs of their youth.
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