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Jubei
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.
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Jeff Lyne (real)
Jeff Lyne (real)
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
Jubei
Jubei
@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.
Pink Cat
Ever since I came out as trans, people stopped yelling at me:"Play that funky music, white boy!"
G Major Steven Stone
G Major Steven Stone
That's strange that they did to begin with. I'm a white guy but no one ever does that towards me but maybe it's an inside joke lol
Pink Cat
How would you react if I retroactively erased every time you ate a hamburger from the past?
Kerrigan
Time to wait an hour for a meeting that might not even happen because the person I'm trying to meet with is really unreliable about answering his emails.
Jubei
What are people's views on the phrase "Violence isn't the answer, it's a question, and the answer is yes."?
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
Aw, man...wanted to change my user name and profile pic and banner and stuff to Ludwig but apparently can't do that until September 3 so I changed them back ☹️
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
Yep, September 4 is the earliest I can change my username.
yoshibro75
yoshibro75
So do all of Bowser's kids use the same Mario Boards account?
Lady in Pink
I went to this river with my family yesterday and I have so many cuts and bruises lol
Kerrigan
People who complained about algebra having letters in their math would probably lose their minds at the thought of hexadecimal.
Panther Pedalf
Panther Pedalf
I don't even want to know what that is, algebra 2 is a death sentence for me this year and I couldn't imagine having to do anything harder
Fizzle
Fizzle
Fizzle
And to make things worse, I played through the entirety of Ducktales: Remastered on my Kindle when I was younger, up until the final boss, and NEVER realized
Iron Checkpoint Crate
I saw you're a fan of Spyro, which games do you have? Do you have the Spyro characters unlocked in Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled?
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
Eh, I have Spyro A Hero's Tail so far + all three Legend of Spyro games on PS2, which I bought for my birthday last year I think. I also own and completed Spyro Reignited Trilogy which was super fun. I finished all three Legend of Spyro games as well.
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
Skylanders and Legend of Spyro people say are kind of bad (well, specifically the OG Spyro and LOS fans seem to think Skylanders is bad but I don't know if it's hated in general) but I just like all things Spyro so I don't really mind them. So yeah I'm pretty much a fan of all incarnations of the franchise. Heard that Spyro 4 is coming and I'm excited about that. Also ironically I didn't grow up with Spyro (although I was five years old when the first game came out in 1998 on the PS1)-I got into him later on as an adult. For some reason when I was a kid I just wasn't really interested in him, and I didn't watch Cartoon Network or anything so I never saw ads for the games. But I became interested later. So yeah there's all the information about my fandom with him. Also I haven't tried Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled yet. I might want to check that out.
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
Hey man, I checked out your channel and watched all your Super Mario Keshi videos. They're really cool, and I think it's really cool that you collect them. I like collecting video game figures myself; I have a bookshelf; the top shelf is filled with Spyro figures and the shelf after that is Jakks Pacific Mario figures and then after that is another shelf full of Sonic Jakks Pacific figures and more Mario figures on the shelf below that and finally on the bottom one last shelf of Sonic figures. Anyway, I just think your videos are really cool and I hope you'll collect more and make more of them.
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KeshiCorner
KeshiCorner
Thank you so much for checking out my videos and sharing your thoughts with me! I'm very glad to hear that you enjoyed them, and your kind words really help encourage me to continue with these efforts :)

Very cool to hear that you have a sizeable game figure collection yourself! I find it's one of those things that kind of runs away on its own; you have one or two figures, and then suddenly you've got dozens! That's kind of how it has been with my keshi figure collecting and scanning as well; I wanted to make scans of my Zelda 1 keshi and various Mario keshi I had gotten in Japan over the years, but I kept thinking "oh, just a couple more from this set," or "I'm so close to having a full set of this series, so I might as well get the final few..." And now I'm nearing 500 keshi scanned and shared online!

I hope you continue collecting figures that you love, and thanks again for your message. :)
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
@KeshiCorner You're welcome. And I think your hobby is really cool. I bet since these figures are so valuable and rare that they're pretty expensive to get, right? That makes having them even more special.
Kerrigan
Only on my Spotify playlist could you go from Elvis Presley to Caramelldansen with nothing between them.
Jubei
Jubei
That's the beauty of having your own personal music playlist on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube et cetera: You never know what you're going to get, just like a blind taste test roulette.
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