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kleinbl00  ·  3647 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hank Green: Holy Shit I Interviewed the President

    Mainly, I just don't get the whole hate for Youtube in general.

I've worked with Morgan Freeman.

I've worked with Carson Daly.

I've worked with Jessica Alba.

I've worked with Ryan Secrest.

I've worked with Reba McIntyre.

I've worked with Sharon Osbourne.

I've worked with Shirley Jones.

I've worked with Hannah Hart.

Can you guess which one was an order of magnitude more of a pain in the ass?

Can you guess which one has accomplished exactly fuckall beyond Youtube?

Now - you can extend that. I just looked at the Vidcon 2014 speakers and I've worked with about 40% of them. And everything I said about Hannah Hart? Holds true for every single person I've worked with.

I'm glad someone on Youtube encouraged you to listen to a podcast about the Mongols. But nobody I've worked with who does anything on Youtube has ever done anything that would interest anyone over 20, and they've never done anything that isn't all about them.

And that's where the Youtube hate comes from: Entitled attention whores that add nothing to the general dialogue and are more of a pain in the ass to work with than Ryan Secrest. This is not an idle observation. This is a cumulative experience over half a decade interacting with these fucks, rather than simply clicking on their faces.