I had this comment back-and-forth with someone on youtube critiquing my “bad celebrity impressions” video. They broke after the last reply posted here and said they “saw the light” and agree with me now, which sounds unlikely. More likely that they still feel the same way but got logic-cornered and gave up. Too bad cuz I wasn’t trying to ware them down. That’s never my aim. I just try to understand where exactly I differ with people but often times that’s hard when we can’t agree on the objective stuff from which we THEN offer our subjective conclusions. I prefer clarity to agreement, always.
curb1510: I suspect you are talented but this video with the jump cuts and the all too apparent self-consciousness, made me feel like I was locked in a classroom with 15 ADD kids who just? finished a lunch of Pixie Stix and red Kool-Aid. Don’t try so hard and your light will shine.
I’d like to take something constructive from this but “all too apparent self consciousness” & “trying too hard” are contradictory criticisms. if you’re trying too hard you don’t include direct references to your performance attempt in the editing or you’re by definition not trying very hard? to achieve that goal. further, i pretty much AM a Pixie-Kool ADD-er x15 so you’re saying “i dont like u when u dont try hard cuz i think you try too hard but you might be talented”. i assure you i’m not.
curb1510: @richardland a self-conscious person who attempts to step outside of themselves to comment on their self-consciousness seems to me the definition of “trying to hard”. It seems like an attempt to? win over that portion of the audience whom you don’t believe to already have been won over with your regular schtick. In other words, breaking character to comment on that character is trying both for audience and player.
Why you are doing this if you really don’t consider yourself talented?
My reply:
@curb1510 you just restated what i took issue with in the first place instead of explaining it. it still doesn’t make sense to say that calling attention to screw-ups is example of “trying too hard” and saying its the definition of it isnt any more revealing. its like saying “i baked a cake but i suck at baking. also i used a couple wrong ingredients” and you say “this isn’t a good cake. quit trying so hard”. bizarre reaction.
The more annoying part (it always annoys me when people don’t “get it”) is that it was over his head that its not breaking character – it IS the character.
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