the funniest thing about this q dteam fallout situation is that i 100% believe quackity initially started distancing himself from them because he wanted to pivot to hispanic content more, and as dteam arent hispanic he couldnt really use them in content anymore and instead focused on networking with hispanic creators.
and then dteam become the first non hispanics to be invited to la velada 🤣 and squid craft 🤣 and all the hispanic ccs love them 🤣🤣🤣🤣
this would be beautiful karma but maaaan it would be so sad that he ruined a whole friendship over content. like you don’t have to make content with people to stay friends like why would you just. throw that all away in the name of networking.
if we’re looking at this aside from friendship, one of the big things that’s advantageous of when networking is knowing a lot of different people in different spheres. and dream is an EXCELLENT person to have in your network. having youtube’s golden boy on your team like are you serious.
although it’s so clear that q doesn’t actually want people outside of twitter and twitch to watch his content it’s all for online stans bc that’s the kind of crowd he wants i guess.
ARRGGHH i know this is the vod where cellbit gets tasked to get information from roier but from roiers pov he seems so fucking caring it makes me so sad. because obviously he does care about roier he later makes it clear in the letter that he meant everything he said to him. but fuck man. watching this knowing its all with a much more deceiving intent hurts. cellbit asking what would make roier happy and roier replying a companion and just needing someone there to keep him company. he lost fucking everybody and after bobby dies it becomes very apparent how alone he actually was without bobby. he lost spreen and quackity and missa and mariana and jaiden wasnt there all the time and he only had bobby. so when you remove that factor hes left totally alone. it makes sense why he got so immediately fond and close to cellbit. he needed someone and cellbit understood that in a way many of the others didnt get to see. after roier expresses this need for someone cellbit tells him “its been kinda lonely for me too. we could like hangout more and if youre feeling lonely you can just hop on- youll probably be the only person in the island to have my new waypoint” and roier is so fucking touched by that. because its an actual sign of trust from cellbit to him. roier loves deeply and trusts his friends so strongly until he feels that trust has been misplaced. so to feel that trust reciprocated it really becomes a big foundation of their dynamic. a mutual understanding and trust between the two. i think thats why roiers such strong defensive of cellbit during this time is so particular. because its not something light its heavy. he isnt pretending. its such an honest expression of who he is towards cellbit
i am losing my mind over the lack of georgebur and also the lack of people to talk about georgebur in my native language. georgebur please come back 😭😭😭
ok one last thing. i think one thing i didnt understand as a child/teenager and perhaps still dont as an adult is how im supposed to feel about photography. because. ok. yes the image evokes a feeling yes. but how do i know what the photographer was feeling when they took the image. did they have a crazy smile on their face. were their hands shaking as they tried to capture the moment that would quickly slip away. were they feeling anything at all? what were they thinking when they took it? there's so much missing from photography and photographs for me and the thing that makes me truly incredulous at times is that enough people agree on what they feel when they see a photograph that they can say with any interval of confidence that "the photographer was trying to convey [x]" like how could you possibly know. what if they weren't trying to convey anything deeper. what if the meaning was the beholding of the photo? what if it was just a moment captured and shared and its meaning is fucking inscrutable. because that is something i feel often looking at photographs. how could i possibly begin to imagine what you felt when you looked at this. our lives are so different. the architecture of our brains, the pathways, the associations, the very colors we paint our feelings with are different. art is about sharing right? at least to some degree? its about sharing with others and connection? i want to connect but the possibilities of what could be communicated through photos are, to me at least, seemingly endless!!! in summary i want to connect but i dont know how because how can i be sure we're even feeling the same feeling. that our yellows are mutually intelligible. that the story ive made is even something that exists. anyway
i don’t think the advice the guy gave was bad tbh like it all made sense especially considering that he doesn’t know the fanbase and the point of his critique is retention so he goes into it with a first time viewer perspective. but i do think the overall culture of catering to the algorithm is in some ways poisoning youtube by devaluing creativity. the algorithm is definitely something interesting and worth factoring into content but you don’t want it to be the only basis of your content and i think from some of george’s comments that it’s clear that he wants to seek out this balance rather than only pursuing the algorithm. i think the editor did a great job doing exactly what george sought him out for: he gave him a bunch of advice that he could choose to either take of reject in order to improve retention. he doesn’t know george’s audience or artistic intent so he can’t tell him what to do for that, he can just give him advice based on his own limited knowledge of his content and general editing wisdom and then george can evaluate when it’s important to take that advice to pursue retention and when he’s rather focus on his own artistry or cater to his long term fans