Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - What Next？
Aired: 2017-08-15
Duration: 06:32


=== Running Things By You (06:32) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:08]  The sound quality was terrible.
[00:00:10]  It was because I was using the cheapest, crappiest equipment I could find.
[00:00:14]  But I bought a new camera and I thought I'd test it.
[00:00:17]  It seems pretty good, which is good to cost the fucking earth.
[00:00:21]  So I thought I'd run a few things by you guys.
[00:00:23]  So you've probably heard me talking about doing things IRL.
[00:00:28]  And I think it's important that we do do things IRL.
[00:00:31]  And I spoke about doing a This Week in Stupid Live or something similar.
[00:00:35]  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.
[00:00:46]  Because we did the shitlord meetup down in London and a hundred people turned out and I hadn't even advertised it.
[00:00:53]  And I was just, you know, it was really nice to see everyone.
[00:00:58]  And it would be nice to be able to do things for people.
[00:01:00]  Because it was just in a random park and I was just kind of surrounded by people who wanted to talk to me.
[00:01:03]  I was thinking, right, okay, this is a bit much.
[00:01:05]  If I had a bit more structure and organization to this, this might be, it might go a bit smoother.
[00:01:09]  So yeah, I was thinking about doing just some kind of live show.
[00:01:12]  And I think I could probably get some other interesting YouTubers to come down for it and give presentations of their own.
[00:01:19]  And it could be fun.
[00:01:21]  It could be quite interesting.
[00:01:24]  I guess the question is, how many people would be willing to travel and pay?
[00:01:28]  I don't know what the price of tickets would be, but I can't imagine it would be that much.
[00:01:32]  So I'm genuinely worried about how much time I've got left on YouTube.
[00:01:34]  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.
[00:01:48]  I think eventually they will just say, well, you know what?
[00:01:50]  This guy's too much work.
[00:01:52]  And I think that'll go for the other skeptics as well.
[00:01:54]  And I think the problem that we have is that we are effective at challenging their ideology.
[00:01:59]  So I'll leave a link in the description to a survey that you can give me feedback on.
[00:02:03]  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.
[00:02:08]  You know, it's good to know the actual proportions.
[00:02:11]  So I've got some real data to work with.
[00:02:13]  I'm pretty sure we could put on some good live shows.
[00:02:15]  It'd basically be like a live stream, but just live.
[00:02:19]  Strange, isn't it?
[00:02:20]  But I think we can make it worth your while.
[00:02:22]  And it would be a way of supporting content creators.
[00:02:25]  And I'm sure we could do, you know, question answer meets and stuff like that.
[00:02:29]  You know, that would be no problem, you know, from my point of view anyway.
[00:02:32]  So yeah, let me know what you think, because I honestly think our time on YouTube is coming to a close.
[00:02:39]  Because I mean, my secondary channel has been entirely placed into the potentially demonetized category.
[00:02:46]  Not every video has been demonetized, but hundreds of the videos on my alternate channel were hit with the, you know, manual review requests.
[00:02:55]  And it took an afternoon for me to go through and manually request all these reviews.
[00:02:59]  And I think this is the boiling frog syndrome.
[00:03:02]  You know, they're just slowly turning up the temperature.
[00:03:04]  And it makes more sense for us to jump out of the pot.
[00:03:08]  I won't be closing my YouTube channel, obviously.
[00:03:10]  Even if it gets entirely demonetized, I'll still use it.
[00:03:14]  But obviously I'll need a way of financing my life.
[00:03:18]  I have a family to take care of after all.
[00:03:21]  But yeah, and I've got a few other things that are in the works that should be quite exciting.
[00:03:26]  But I think the live event is the quickest and easiest thing for us to be able to do.
[00:03:31]  And hopefully you guys will enjoy it.
[00:03:33]  I mean, I think it could be a lot of fun.
[00:03:34]  I think we can cause some mischief.
[00:03:39]  Because people pay attention to you when you're in real life.
[00:03:41]  They actually care when you're in front of them.
[00:03:43]  When you're on the internet, it doesn't matter how many hundreds of thousands of people you're speaking to.
[00:03:48]  They can pretend like you don't exist.
[00:03:50]  But when you're there in the flesh, they can't.
[00:03:53]  And I think that's an interesting thing.
[00:03:56]  And I think we should be taking advantage of that.
[00:03:59]  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?
[00:04:06]  I mean, I don't think anyone wants to see this collectivist horseshit get any further than it already has.
[00:04:10]  And after Charlottesville, let's be honest, it's gone too far.
[00:04:13]  So we need to give people an alternative and make ourselves able to punch into the public domain without them characterizing us.
[00:04:22]  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.
[00:04:32]  But I don't really want to be the sort of person who writes a manifesto.
[00:04:35]  So if someone wants to crowdsource one, I'm more than willing to give it a read.
[00:04:41]  But yeah, so I think conferences or live shows are a good idea.
[00:04:45]  I mean, everyone else does them.
[00:04:47]  There's no reason we can't do them.
[00:04:48]  And I think ours would be the more interesting ones.
[00:04:50]  Because the thing is, I don't just want to give a platform to people who agree with what I think.
[00:04:54]  I'm more than happy to have a person on the stage who's got differing views.
[00:04:59]  So maybe we could ask them questions and actually interrogate their beliefs and the coherency of their worldview.
[00:05:05]  But again, all of this is really rather speculative.
[00:05:08]  So I'll leave a link in the description so you can fill that out and tell me how interested you are in this.
[00:05:14]  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.
[00:05:22]  And I'm not trying to play the victim or anything, but it's honestly worrying me at this point.
[00:05:28]  It's honestly worrying.
[00:05:30]  I don't feel secure at all.
[00:05:31]  And I can't imagine there are many other alternative content creators who deal with politics who feel that way.
[00:05:38]  And even those who don't deal with politics.
[00:05:40]  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.
[00:05:53]  And it's becoming a real problem.
[00:05:55]  So let me know what you think, because I think we've got something good going here.
[00:05:57]  And I don't want to just allow them to take it all away from us.
[00:06:01]  You know, I don't want...
[00:06:02]  Because I see my channel as very much a group endeavour.
[00:06:05]  I don't just see it as, it's not just me, you know.
[00:06:08]  My channel would be nothing if it wasn't for you watching.
[00:06:10]  And so I don't see why we can't do things that we all enjoy.
[00:06:15]  If you guys are willing to pay ticket price to go somewhere, then I'm willing to put a show on.
[00:06:22]  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.
[00:06:28]  And I'm sure I could get some good guests.
[00:06:30]  And so yeah, let me know what you think.