Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg

Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg

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    Why do 99.9% of all YouTubers let the fame go to their heads if you give them even the slightest bit of it?
    Hooded Pitohui
    Hooded Pitohui
    The reasons are complex and it's not possible to paint every case with a broad brush, but I would reckon fame tends to warp how people view their relationships to everyone else. Massive attention from the public invites constant scrutiny, harsh criticism from strangers, and excessive praise/fawning all at once. Attention is already a heck of a drug on its own. Consider how stimulating it is (for better or for worse - sometimes you're exhausted and still can't look away from the computer) to see online chatter and messages, especially concerning yourself. Multiply that greatly, and suddenly you're awash in this stimulation that you're going to keep craving even if it's actively making you feel worse.


    Then add to that a sense of being "critic proof". You have to shut out the most vitriolic comments from your critics, because people can say truly nasty things behind the anonymity of a screen, but it's easy to slip from there into denying and deflecting all criticism. Then your decision to disregard criticism is easy to justify, because you have all these legions of fans praising you. You must be doing something right, right?

    So you're awash in a level of attention you've probably never had before, you're craving more of it, which starts turning people from people into... well, merely fans, potential fans, and folks who don't like you, and you're incentivized to move as many people from that middle category into the other two (even negative attention is attention!). That's already changing your dynamic with the people around you. Add on that shutting out your critics and embedding yourself in an endless stream of praise making you feel smugly superior to a lot of other people, another change in how you relate to everyone else. Maybe you also become obsessed with comparing yourself to other famous folks, another way in which the way you relate to others can warp! You start to see yourself as powerful and talented, and it becomes easier to justify exploiting people around you. After all, they're inferior to you! They should be thankful you let them have the opportunity to work for/with you at all! Maybe on top of all of this, your life circumstances are changing, because, say, this has all made you wealthier, so even there the way you relate to other people is undergoing a massive change.

    All of these rapid changes, all of this new self-perceptions, all of these new ways of relating to people around you, it's going to change how you behave.
    Blitzo
    Blitzo
    The ratio of chill to not chill YouTubers that I know about is pretty heavily weighted towards ones that are fine so I don't know where this info is coming from
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    @Sir Pentious It's just based on personal experience. Like half of the YouTubers I have watched over my lifetime let the face go to their heads, both in my homeland and in English speaking countries alike.
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    What I wouldn't give to live in a timeline where my grandparents got to live into their 90s, COVID, internet drama and other shit that happened to me during the 2020s never destroyed my mental health and I was having success with whatever venture I chose to follow in life...
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    This is my personal opinion, but I'm not really a fan of the Extreme Home Makeover reboot, and I think replacing Ty Pennington with Jesse Tyler Ferguson was a mistake. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Jesse, but given that Jesse is an actor and I know him from Modern Family, when I see him hosting a reality show, I simply don't see Jesse Tyler Ferguson, I see his most popular character, Mitchell Pritchett instead, and for some reason, it makes me uncomfortable. With Ty Pennington, I never felt anything awkward watching him at work because Ty wasn't an actor like Jesse is, so when I see Ty, I actually see him instead of a fictional character like I do with Jesse.
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Don't you just love being woken up at 4 AM in the morning by a mosquito and being unable to go back to sleep afterward, knowing you have to get up at 8:30 in the morning to get ready for work?
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    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Tell me about it. Summer fucking sucks. It's hot, there's bugs always getting in the house, it's a mess.
    Blitzo
    Blitzo
    I don't think a mosquito would wake me up in the middle of the night. Nor do bugs get in my room all too often
    MegaBowser64
    MegaBowser64
    The only bug in my room is me 🤯
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    What if Nintendo ended up making an open world Mario game that included full voice acting as well as radio stations playing real world music inspired by Grand Theft Auto, with the disk jockeys being several Mario species that are voiced by both regular voice actors and celebrities alike?
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Given that September is gonna be here in about two weeks, I'm already planning my theme for that month, and I have decided to have my September theme be an Animal Crossing villager that has remained exclusive to Dobutso no Mori e+ and not reappeared in a single Animal Crossing game afterward. I'm thinking of choosing between Jūbei and Madam Rosa. Which of the two should I go with?
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Did everyone enjoy themselves during the Awards last night? I'd say that I did so myself. Got to chat with some fine people here and there, got to see some well deserved wins in the Community Awards, and I got to thank those who liked my 'Shroom sections enough to cast their votes for me in the categories I was nominated in. So all in all, it was a night well spent for me last night.
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Don't you just love when you open your window in the afternoon to let fresh air in, and keep the window open until late at night to allow a dozen mosquitoes to get in and keep you from sleeping because you can't sleep with a dozen mosquitoes bugging in your ear?
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    You know what I find very funny about the internet? People who claim to be against bullying or post motivational quotes while being toxic as heck themselves.
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Why is the majority of the fandoms for things I love more toxic than a cannister of cyanide?
    Hooded Pitohui
    Hooded Pitohui
    Any group that reaches a large enough size is going to end up with a number of vocal, particularly demanding, and oftentimes obnoxious individuals within it. It's the nature of large groups in general. Focus on finding small comfortable niches within your fandoms and tune out those types of folks.
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    @Hooded Pitohui Yeah, that's definitely true. I'll do my best to find those smaller, more comfortable niches in my fandoms and drown out the loud and obnoxious majority. Thanks.
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Why is it that whenever I try to peacefully earn money on GTA Online, I have to suffer the wrath of the toxic playerbase?

    Will Solace
    Will Solace
    All the more reason why I have to intention to ever earn money by playing video games such as with videos
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    I'm thinking of changing my theme for August, and I'm thinking of choosing between Goombario and E-103 Delta. Which do you guys like better?
    Will Solace
    Will Solace
    One of the users here is Goombuigi, so maybe E-103 Delta? I've only played Paper Mario out of the two games but have heard mostly good things about Sonic Adventure.
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    I continue to get haunted by my past mistakes, both witnessed and committed. The guilt from the mistakes is destroying me on the inside, and I feel incredibly helpless on an almost daily basis. I wish I could go back in time to erase my mistakes, but I know very well that I can't, so I have to continue to live with the guilt of my mistakes every day for the rest of my life.
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    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    @Ray Trace Are mistakes fine to make if they're many of the same mistakes made over the course of ten years and linked to the same toxic behavior?
    Roserade
    Roserade
    If you're in a position where the guilt is consuming you like this, you have two options: either you do something about it, or you don't and remain stagnant. None of us can make you do either, but if I were you, I would find a way to do something about it. If you're looking at yourself and your behavior and saying "I wish this were different", the obvious next step is to change. The people you know can offer you pointers, but nobody can tell you how to change. You need to do that by experimenting, getting uncomfortable, and empowering yourself.

    Like, if you're looking at this from the framework of "I've made the same mistakes for ten years", then yeah, that does sound like something worth adjusting. But you can't become consumed by guilt; you have to let it bolster you. If you're being haunted, figure out how to get rid of the ghosts. Be better because you want to be better for yourself, and don't wallow in it along the way. That's how you get somewhere and make a change.

    Growth isn't linear, but it needs to be intentional.
    Green Arrow
    Green Arrow
    Hey Clawgrip, sorry to hear you're feeling like this. I can really relate to what you're going through as I myself have made a ton of big mistakes in life. I used to be crushed by the guilt and spent all the time wishing I could go back in time to do things differently, and it took a long time to get over this.

    And sure, yes, if I could go back there are things I would want to do differently. But why waste time dwelling on things that get me down, and which I can never change, when I could instead be looking forward and focusing on making new happy memories, starting today? Ironically enough, I actually have regret over wasting a lot of time dwelling on my regrets rather than living every moment to the fullest so I learned from that.

    None of us are perfect. Virtually everyone has at some point done something wrong and later regretted and in that respect we're all in the same tunnel. Sure, some of us may be further down the tunnel than others, but still, we are all in that tunnel. And there are many people who are as far down the tunnel as you are, possibly including me.

    You're not the same person you were years ago, and if you learn from your mistakes and do your best to be a good person today and going forward then that's all that matters.

    Take these words to heart, Clawgrip: You deserve to forgive and love yourself. You don't deserve to be haunted.
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Waldorf and Statler (The Muppet Show) on Love, Simon:

    Waldorf: Simon Says: This film is a fundamental depiction of how progressive the 2010s were.
    Statler: Simon Also Says: You know what that makes the 2020s?
    Waldorf: Simon Says: What?
    Statler: Simon Says: Congressive.

    Hohohohohohohohoho!
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Waldorf and Statler (The Muppet Show) on Pearl Harbor:

    Statler: If you ever wondered what would happen if Michael Bay teamed up with Randall Wallace to make a dollar store parody of James Cameron's Titanic, here's your answer.
    Waldorf: It's a wonder that Ben Affleck made it out of acting school when he's starred in so many B-list movies and box office bombs like this one.
    Statler: Maybe that's why he graduated from acting school in the first place: They knew he was good enough to qualify for being a B-list movie star.


    Hohohohohohohohoho!
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Waldorf and Statler (The Muppet Show) on Disney's Song of the South:

    Waldorf: I'm old enough to remember that when this movie came out, Disney wasn't all about political correctness, but frowned upon it instead.
    Statler: You're old enough to remember when The Birth of a Nation, the most politically incorrect movie of all time released in 1915.

    Hohohohohohohoho!

    (Waldorf frowns and shakes his head in annoyance)
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Waldorf and Statler (The Muppet Show) on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:

    Waldorf: Should we call it a night?
    Statler: Well, I certainly wouldn't call it a show.

    Hohohohohohohoho!
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Waldorf and Statler (The Muppet Show) on Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3:

    Statler: Well, this show is certainly a downgrade from the Super Mario Brothers Super Show.
    Waldorf: As to be expected from a show about plumbers; The more shows you make about them, the more it's guaranteed that the quality will go down the drain.

    Hohohohohohohohoho!
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Waldorf and Statler (The Muppet Show) on Tiny Toons Looniversity:

    Statler: Well, that was different.
    Waldorf: Yep, lousy.
    Both: But different.

    Hohohohohohohoho!
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Waldorf and Statler (The Muppet Show) on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace:

    Statler: So this is where the Skywalker Saga begins...
    Waldorf: Not just the Skywalker Saga. It's also the beginning of the end of the Galactic Republic.
    Statler: If I didn't know any better, you'd think this movie took place in the United States of America.

    Hohohohohohohohoho!
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Waldorf and Statler (The Muppet Show) on A Troll In Central Park:

    Waldorf: This movie raises so many questions. Like, why would they banish a troll with botanic powers to Central Park, New York City?
    Statler: I think that's the least of the problems with this movie. The biggest question of all that this movie raises is: Why did they do it?

    Hohohohohohohohoho!
    Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
    Waldorf and Statler (The Muppet Show) on Jaws: The Revenge:

    Statler: Man, talk about sinking your franchise! I definitely wouldn't wanna be on that ship!
    Waldorf: You know what's ironic?
    Statler: What?
    Waldorf: The director of this movie had to borrow money from a loan shark in order to pay off the financial losses from the box office bomb.

    Hohohohohohoho!
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