How to get Branzy back on Lifesteal:
Adopt “Once a Lifestealer, always a Lifestealer.”
Unless you do something unforgivable, every past lifestealer is free to come back. There is so much pressure to “make a name for yourself” that Branzy wasn’t sure if he would be welcomed anymore.
Losing the pressure to stand out will also enable people as side characters. To let themselves get swept up in someone else's plot, rather than having to always make their own.
The only time I panic is when I feel I don’t have tomorrow. But we could have infinite seasons of Lifesteal. If you do this, everyone will have time to tell their beautiful story.
Make “Real Talk” a Lifesteal podcast as a gift to Branzy.
Real Talk is a series created by Branzy as a way to talk honestly about his feelings. I would like Lifesteal to make something similar as an apology to him and all its members.
My idea is that whenever a content creator is portrayed as an antagonist, or is betrayed as a character, off camera, they will honestly as a person say how they feel to the other storyteller.
You cannot be a character here. You need to be honest, as people, what felt right and what felt off to you.
On camera, there is one question you need to answer: “What is one thing I could have done to make you more comfortable?”
You cannot say nothing. Even if it’s a nitpick, you need to answer with one way that, not only the other person, but with how Lifesteal can improve. Because kindness shown to you here will bring up other people. A boundary laid by you protects everyone else as well.
Don’t worry about pulling back the veil. You may fear the word “Scripted,” but you are writers creating a story. And that is real. It’s personal, but it doesn’t have to be painful.
We need to protect the villainous and morally grey leaning characters from hatred. We need to seperate an evil character from an evil person. The viewers need to see the cogs.
Make accommodation the norm, not the exception.
Branzy was never made to feel ashamed of asking for help, but there’s a culture in Lifesteal that you have to do everything legitimately.
But do you think people would be angry if they knew Branzy’s immortality was scripted? That he was protected in making his final love letter to Lifesteal: The Killer Amusement Park?
Risking everything is a nice slogan, but do you know who Branzy’s “Everything” is?
Branzy wants to come back. Lifesteal needs to change before he does. But the most painful thing is? This was all fixable before he left.
Note: Branzy is really nice in his video, which is why this is going under the radar. But these problems are not a "him" problem (even if he thinks it is).
allow me to put this all in a reblog! i will not be using bold text, but i'll do even more linebreaks, although this shouldn't be how real paragraphs are written.
i never said you believed what you were saying was objective truth. i was stating that generally to say that, even though branzy worried he wouldn't be welcomed back, that didn't make it objectively true (see this clip) or even based off past events in the first place. it's clear from branzy's content outside of and before lifesteal he has always been the type of person who seems to worry about burdening others; his experiences on lifesteal didn't create that line of thinking for him. it's a trend in some of his echocraft content, which predates lifesteal. i also never called you parasocial. i stated that believing viewers have a right to creators' personal lives is a parasocial TAKE, which is not an opinion, it fits into the textbook definition of "parasocial." also, saying "we aren't entitled to their private lives" is not the same thing as saying "i don't view the lifestealers as human." i never said that or implied that. one doesn't need to see into someone's personal life to view them as a human being. you pass strangers on the street every day and still know they're human, no? you continue to state that you have more evidence beyond branzy as if that's news to me, but in my reply i'm actively critiquing your other sources, such as vitalasy's video, which you didn't acknowledge at all. my statements about content creation being taxing and not exactly lifesteal particularly were sourced straight from vitalasy's video where he announced leaving lifesteal because, if you watched the video, you'd know that video was not about him leaving lifesteal specifically but actually about taking a step back from content creation. also, vitalasy has since returned to lifesteal in both s6 and s7. in s6 he returned to make a fun gimmicky manhunt video with them, and then afterwards they all hung out on the server as friends. my point was, you can't use the way vitalasy felt in that video about content creation to say he felt that way about lifesteal only/specifically, because it isn't true and is misrepresenting your source.
your response section about branzy is confusing to me, but regardless, i find it crucial to point out that branzy is a grown adult man. i also find it crucial to point out that once again i never said the words "branzy isn't too bothered," so please don't use direct quotes. that format would make sense if you were generalizing from multiple statements, but considering you're pulling from only me, it actually just harms your integrity. then again, painting critiques of your argument as "misconceptions" also does that. i've also never seen you acknowledge that branzy has in fact returned to lifesteal since these clips you're posting for the peace trials in season 6 after 4c asked if he wanted to, so i'm curious how that fits into your narrative so to speak.
probably the most important thing to say is in regards to my statement that lifesteal is already a friend group. you continue to use branzy as evidence that it isn't, when i am talking about lifesteal now. branzy's video is largely about when he joined lifesteal. years have past, even since he left lifesteal. you don't acknowledge my statement about subz leaving lifesteal in season 6 because it has become a friend group, probably because you don't have a way to misconstrue it into a "misconception" like other statements. you continually state that lifesteal needs to change and hasn't changed in the present day, and yet all of your evidence is outdated and doesn't acknowledge more recent evidence to the contrary. i attempted to point out some of that evidence to you, and you did not acknowledge it.
important too to mention: lifesteal being a friend group doesn't mean they need to not treat it like a workplace. a lot of them depend on lifesteal for their livelihoods and use it as a setting for their job because content creation is their job. this fact doesn't mean that the people on lifesteal are not a group of friends. haven't you ever been friends with your coworkers? that said, seeing as a large group of them are together in japan right now, one could determine the relationship is deeper than just coworkers. especially when multiple lifestealers outright call it a friend group.
overall, it feels like you cherry picked my response, misrepresented quotes, and avoided anything that actually combats your take rather than thinking critically about how they might affect or play into your argument.
if you want to specifically claim that lifesteal today hasn't changed, you should probably use more recent and relevant proof.
I have important things to do, and I write all this in my downtime because I like helping people and want to see them happy.
I did not misunderstand you on purpose, but you tend to send me walls of text, and it’s hard to read and parse information.
I am writing fanfiction, tagging it well, and encouraging all who feel uncomfortable with my stories to Don’t like, Don’t read. Block me if you have to.
Please give me time to clear up misunderstandings, as it is harder on my mental health to respond when you assume the worst of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPxhbTi8whs&t=745
Here’s a quick link to explain more of my mindset in my real voice.
it doesn't help these creators to write speculative posts assuming that their real friends are bad people who don't care about them or their wellbeing. i want to make that very clear, as you seem like a well meaning person, but your posts themselves are inherently not well meaning if they wrongfully tear real people down. i'm not uncomfortable at all, but thank you! just discussing and pointing out some other arguments and truths that i feel are necessary to the points you're trying to make.