Aug. 15, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| Hey everyone, so this is an excuse to test a new camera and a microphone that I got for it because everyone's complaining that my mobile setup sucked. | |
| The sound quality was terrible. | |
| It was because I was using the cheapest, crappiest equipment I could find. | |
| But I bought a new camera and I thought I'd test it. | |
| It seems pretty good, which is good to cost the fucking earth. | |
| So I thought I'd run a few things by you guys. | |
| So you've probably heard me talking about doing things IRL. | |
| And I think it's important that we do do things IRL. | |
| And I spoke about doing a This Week in Stupid Live or something similar. | |
| I don't think I don't know exactly what I'll do, but like, I don't know, just, I don't know, rent a venue, sell tickets to a certain place and see what happens. | |
| Because we did the shitlord meetup down in London and a hundred people turned out and I hadn't even advertised it. | |
| And I was just, you know, it was really nice to see everyone. | |
| And it would be nice to be able to do things for people. | |
| Because it was just in a random park and I was just kind of surrounded by people who wanted to talk to me. | |
| I was thinking, right, okay, this is a bit much. | |
| If I had a bit more structure and organization to this, this might be, it might go a bit smoother. | |
| So yeah, I was thinking about doing just some kind of live show. | |
| And I think I could probably get some other interesting YouTubers to come down for it and give presentations of their own. | |
| And it could be fun. | |
| It could be quite interesting. | |
| I guess the question is, how many people would be willing to travel and pay? | |
| I don't know what the price of tickets would be, but I can't imagine it would be that much. | |
| So I'm genuinely worried about how much time I've got left on YouTube. | |
| I think that eventually my channel will too be in the gulag, regardless of the fact that, you know, I'm an anti-racist, regardless of the fact that I'm a liberal, regardless of the fact that I spend my time criticizing lots of different types of people from lots of different ideologies. | |
| I think eventually they will just say, well, you know what? | |
| This guy's too much work. | |
| And I think that'll go for the other skeptics as well. | |
| And I think the problem that we have is that we are effective at challenging their ideology. | |
| So I'll leave a link in the description to a survey that you can give me feedback on. | |
| I really would like to know if you, even if you wouldn't, if you're not interested in coming, let me know as well. | |
| You know, it's good to know the actual proportions. | |
| So I've got some real data to work with. | |
| I'm pretty sure we could put on some good live shows. | |
| It'd basically be like a live stream, but just live. | |
| Strange, isn't it? | |
| But I think we can make it worth your while. | |
| And it would be a way of supporting content creators. | |
| And I'm sure we could do, you know, question answer meets and stuff like that. | |
| You know, that would be no problem, you know, from my point of view anyway. | |
| So yeah, let me know what you think, because I honestly think our time on YouTube is coming to a close. | |
| Because I mean, my secondary channel has been entirely placed into the potentially demonetized category. | |
| Not every video has been demonetized, but hundreds of the videos on my alternate channel were hit with the, you know, manual review requests. | |
| And it took an afternoon for me to go through and manually request all these reviews. | |
| And I think this is the boiling frog syndrome. | |
| You know, they're just slowly turning up the temperature. | |
| And it makes more sense for us to jump out of the pot. | |
| I won't be closing my YouTube channel, obviously. | |
| Even if it gets entirely demonetized, I'll still use it. | |
| But obviously I'll need a way of financing my life. | |
| I have a family to take care of after all. | |
| But yeah, and I've got a few other things that are in the works that should be quite exciting. | |
| But I think the live event is the quickest and easiest thing for us to be able to do. | |
| And hopefully you guys will enjoy it. | |
| I mean, I think it could be a lot of fun. | |
| I think we can cause some mischief. | |
| Because people pay attention to you when you're in real life. | |
| They actually care when you're in front of them. | |
| When you're on the internet, it doesn't matter how many hundreds of thousands of people you're speaking to. | |
| They can pretend like you don't exist. | |
| But when you're there in the flesh, they can't. | |
| And I think that's an interesting thing. | |
| And I think we should be taking advantage of that. | |
| Especially if we want to push our ideas forward at the expense of their ideas, which is what we want to do ultimately, isn't it? | |
| I mean, I don't think anyone wants to see this collectivist horseshit get any further than it already has. | |
| And after Charlottesville, let's be honest, it's gone too far. | |
| So we need to give people an alternative and make ourselves able to punch into the public domain without them characterizing us. | |
| And to that extent, I mean, honestly, what we need is, and I hate to say the M-word, a manifesto, or at least a statement of principles or something like that. | |
| But I don't really want to be the sort of person who writes a manifesto. | |
| So if someone wants to crowdsource one, I'm more than willing to give it a read. | |
| But yeah, so I think conferences or live shows are a good idea. | |
| I mean, everyone else does them. | |
| There's no reason we can't do them. | |
| And I think ours would be the more interesting ones. | |
| Because the thing is, I don't just want to give a platform to people who agree with what I think. | |
| I'm more than happy to have a person on the stage who's got differing views. | |
| So maybe we could ask them questions and actually interrogate their beliefs and the coherency of their worldview. | |
| But again, all of this is really rather speculative. | |
| So I'll leave a link in the description so you can fill that out and tell me how interested you are in this. | |
| Because I honestly wake up in the morning and I do wonder if today is the day when YouTube have decided they've just had enough of me. | |
| And I'm not trying to play the victim or anything, but it's honestly worrying me at this point. | |
| It's honestly worrying. | |
| I don't feel secure at all. | |
| And I can't imagine there are many other alternative content creators who deal with politics who feel that way. | |
| And even those who don't deal with politics. | |
| I mean, I've seen, I get loads of comments and messages from people who are non-political channels, who have been absolutely hammered by the adpocalypse and are having the same appeals rolled out to them. | |
| And it's becoming a real problem. | |
| So let me know what you think, because I think we've got something good going here. | |
| And I don't want to just allow them to take it all away from us. | |
| You know, I don't want... | |
| Because I see my channel as very much a group endeavour. | |
| I don't just see it as, it's not just me, you know. | |
| My channel would be nothing if it wasn't for you watching. | |
| And so I don't see why we can't do things that we all enjoy. | |
| If you guys are willing to pay ticket price to go somewhere, then I'm willing to put a show on. | |
| Even if it's just me there rambling with a microphone about whatever stupid thing happened in the news, I think it could be quite fun. | |
| And I'm sure I could get some good guests. | |
| And so yeah, let me know what you think. |
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