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Tolkien and Sanderson are both great at what they do, but have some seriously unhinged fans who seem to think that all fantasy needs to copy what they do.
I reject that. I don't want to be the next Tolkien or Sanderson. I want to be the first Erika McCorkle
Chris here - just to elaborate.
Not been a fan of Mr Beast's content for many years now. I don’t think he’s inherently bad, but like many folks his content isn’t aimed at me and thankfully his videos never appear on my homepage.
However, seeing him partner with Logan Paul, a man who's done nothing but awful act after act for almost a decade now just made me snap.
It may have been six years but I still have the dystopian fucked up image in my head, of Logan Paul vlogging himself in the Aokigahara forest, mocking somebody who was quite literally hanging from a tree before him. And rather than do what any decent person would do, and show compassion and immediately switch off the camera, he recklessly and selfishly exploited it for views. He carried on filming. He joked about it. And then he actively uploaded it to his channel.
Then I had to go on Japanese national tv and explain why a foreign YouTuber would want to exploit a man who’d tragically taken his own life for views. Understandably, everyone in Japan was confused why anyone would do such a thing.
And while I believe in forgiveness, Logan Paul hasn't exactly reformed his character. He's not a changed man - barely a week goes by without a new headline of some outrageous, awful shit he's actively partaken in.
So to see the world's largest Youtube gleefully partner with a man like that and endorse them to an audience of tens of millions of kids is something that just sickens me, all in the name of some disgustingly tacky food product, again aimed at children. I'm not sure what counter argument he has up his sleeve this time, but you can be damn sure references to philanthropy will be made in abundance.
My rant wasn’t about “making money is bad”. It was about the act of making money by partnering with a man with an abhorrent track record to sell crap food aimed at children seems like a pretty spectacular error of judgment.
@Kiraofthewind1 You've said it before, and I appreciate you saying it again. 🙏
I love hard magic both in the stuff I write and in the media I consume, and absolutely want more books/shows/movies/games with hard magic.
Just got my entry feedback from @prize_novel!
This was the main reason I entered the contest, and I can confidently say that it was worth every penny. It's extensive, thorough, and comes with several plans of attack to address the issues they point out. Would strongly recommend.
@AshShees My writing career is one long string of going
'That sounds like good advice, don't think it's for me though'
and then realizing six-to-twelve months later that it was absolutely for me and I should have listened the first time around.