Hey Danny,
You’ve blocked me on youTube, so I can’t send this message to you there. That in it’s self upsets me. But… well, fair enough. I’ve been critical of you as of late.
I only wanted to say this:
Why are you doing this kind of comedy now? I’ve been with you since you did these…holy fuck. I just went back in your history. It’s been 3 years.
Three fucking years, Danny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A5z3cLFAXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsxjQQqCndo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjHDTPde0Iw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haA4Oq2OWxY
You know why everyone compares you to Jim Carrey? And also why they rarely spell his name correctly? They’re morons. That’s why. You attract idiots now. Why do you fuck with the speed of your videos? You used to put so much thought, insight, intelligence, etc in to your videos.
Now it’s just stupid fucking shit.
Why??? Please. I miss the real you (I say that because I firmly believe what I loved watching was the real you — the intelilgent George Carlin style stuff).
I hope you don’t take this insultingly. I promise you, I mean no harm. I just want you to be great again. You don’t need to lower yourself to this douchebaggery. You were so fucking good. And, I believe if you had kept at it, you’d be famous after a lot of years of work. As you are now though, you’ll always be some douche (like Fred) from youTube.
You’re better than this.
Dear *****,
I rarely, if ever, block people. I have done it a few times, if the person was particularly hateful or mean spirited. So congratulations for being an asshole. From your email I can deduce you mean well and want to help. I appreciate your comments and offer this in reply:
Creativity, like thoughtfulness, vacillates. Waxing and waning in a never ending cycle of effort and failure. Success on the internet has less to do with being creative and more to do with appealing to the lowest common denominator and alining yourself to other more relevant (read topical search item) brands.
The videos that appeal to the largest group of people are popular and give me food and freedom to think and play. If I could, I would make all videos genius and be recognized as the most thought provoking interent comedy bla bla the world has ever seen, but try as I might my best efforts fall short of blending thoughtful with mass appeal.
Also those videos are the result of several agonizing weeks of searching for correlation’s that came out in a moment of brilliant inspiration whist spending hours infront of a camera splitting hairs about morality and pizza.
Sadly those types of melding between funny and thoughtful are not only difficult to sustain but weakly rewarded.
A video with condoms in the title gets 100K views in three days, is fun to shoot, and rewarding on a gut splitting slap stick humor sort of way. A video about the loss of artistic pride in pizza and how it mirrors the fall of social value is a difficult cognitive exercise that is inherently unfunny, requires punching up to get traction and is rarely forwarded to friends, making it a poor earner.
I cannot apologize for the videos you didn’t like because I assure you every single one of my videos makes me smile, most of them make me laugh, and I still get one or two out every few weeks that make me think.
I hope you stick around, but more then that, I hope you find what I lack in something you create yourself.
-d
