@fitprotunes
I’ve not responded here for a few days, for a few reasons:
i) I genuinely don’t have the time to get into a back and forth and my shorter replies have been dismissed as ‘one liners’ which you have decided are inherently problematic.
ii) Your responses have been increasingly judgemental and hostile. For example, above telling me that I’m actively trying to ‘police expression’ of others and if I don’t see that in myself I have ‘serious issues’.
If I’m honest, I can’t blame you for this as most of my comments on this channel have been counter narrative and occasionally blunt in tone. If I was in your shoes I’m sure I would have become hostile too.
So, to clear things up, here is my stance on the whole RG / SV situation.
1) I’m not a fan of either RG or SV although I have found the content from both of them interesting and useful.
2) I have no idea what has occurred in the relationship between RG and SV. I don’t believe any of us really know the facts about their relationship beyond that which they have told us on yt and social media.
From what I can gather, no one commenting on their fall out has even MET either party, (you know, IN REAL LIFE) outside of maybe an occasional programme one of them has run.
It’s hard enough to understand what people are like IRL let alone trying to come to conclusions based on social media output, which massively distorts ones ability to perceive reality.
3) When I have asked for evidence for what has gone on behind the scenes, no one has yet given me anything that allows me to make accurate judgements of the character of either individual.
When I’ve asked for evidence on this channel it has been either not been given or dismissed as trolling or wilful ignorance.
For example, on the RG Triggernometry video. Read the comments. I was genuinely trying to work out what RG needs to be held accountable for. A commentator told me that there is a group of 100s who have had issues with him.
When I asked about the group, your response was hostile. The irony is that you have concluded that I’m in favour of secrecy when I was actively pushing for the opposite.
If there is good evidence of his immoral or dysfunctional behaviour I would like to know. I just haven’t seen any convincing evidence of it…yet.
4) I see lots of people taking sides and revelling in drama which I judge to be inherently dysfunctional and unhealthy.
As I state above:
‘All this fawning / condemnation of EITHER PARTY smells like inherently dysfunctional behaviour to me.’
So when you state I have been ‘excessively loyal in defending RG’ this is factually inaccurate. If it appears this way, it is likely because you are hostile to RG.
You may have your reasons to be hostile to RG but I haven’t seen evidence as to why he deserves such hostility beyond your sense of rejection for being shunned by him, having been a moderator on his channel.
So here it is.
I’m not a fan of either guy.
I believe that without conclusive evidence, putting either party on a pedestal or throwing them in the bin is unhealthy behaviour..
I’m open to the idea that RG does deserve hostility, just haven’t seen the evidence to prove why.
Having spent way too long writing this message, I’m reminded of the main reason I haven’t responded until now.
Despite the occasional, utility of gossip in ones personal life, spending hours and hours a week speculating on the lives of complete strangers is, on balance, a complete waste of time.
I have my own personal challenges and aspirations and situations like this are a massive drain on my limited resources.
So if I respond briefly or don’t respond immediately you no longer need to make assumptions as to why.
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