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TBH I'm a little dissatisfied with my last couple videos. I mean I think they're good—professional, up to my standard of writing, founded on good research. But they're too cautious, and not really what I want to do on YouTube.
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I've gotten too skittish. I've let Twitter get to me. I've started taking directions from my audience. And as a result I've done a few videos that, while still produced to the best of my ability, were motivated by meeting a demand, not by any genuine inspiration on my part.
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In particular, I did the videos on capitalism largely because I got 50 comments a day saying "talk about capitalism." And I do think it's an important topic, I'm glad I did something on it. But economic analysis is not really what I'm good at. It doesn't excite me.
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I think people who are fans of a thing have an idea of what they want from that thing that isn't necessarily what they actually want. Probably they don't yet know what they want, so it's the creator's job to tell them what they want and then give it to them.
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There's a place for feedback too, obviously, but other people can't tell me what inspires me. People think they want a million-part series on capitalism from me, but I'm telling you right now that there are other things I can do much better than that.
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So this spring and summer I want to go back to following my heart for a while, and return to my roots producing psychedelic, over-costumed, hypersexual trash. Let's get real weird with this.
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I'll be honest here and say that I preferred the AGP video to the capitalism videos since it felt more from the heart imo. The capitalism videos were, as you said, good but didn't quite have the same heart to them. Sounds cheesy but that's how I can best express how it felt to me
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The two you did were pretty good IMO. But I'd rather see you doing stuff that makes you happy--that's when you're at your best.
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Your use of Worth It as a way to explain value was an inspired stroke of academic wit, and all the gold food played brilliantly with your aesthetics. Don’t sell yourself short, you’re top of the YT game even when your heart isn’t in it. (Racism one was a little meh)
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You're capitalism videos tore down my views on the subject, and made me socialist. If you can brainwash people without being inspired, I'm excited to see what happens when you are.
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Those capitalism videos really came out of nowhere.
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I'm aware I'm just like one viewer and the comments might appear to reflect differently but although subjects like politics and economics interest me that's not why I'm subscribed. I personally click on a contrapoints video in hopes of either learning something new or getting 1/2
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Ur opinion on something and whether that's about capitalism or trees idrc and as much I really appreciate u approach important subjects I understand the best videos are when u are passionate about what you're talking about so that's what I'm here for
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