@squarebear98 Why are you acting like he didn't actively choose to have unprotected sex. Do not act like he's a child with "he said he's not ready!" He should have said that he wasn't ready BEFORE he was doing that. The responsibility is on both of them, equally.
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
@Nrgill1@timsoret I think maybe a bonus for the people who worked on the show would have been nice, it’s not unheard of. They aren’t obligated to though.
@timsoret If I agreed to work on a low budget film, under the impression that it was only going to be shown at film festivals, and then I found out that they released it to box office, and have one of the most net-profitable films of the decade, off of my work, I’d be pissed to.
@timsoret But also I think blasting that you didn’t make enough money online is extremely unprofessional, and an industry so based on word of mouth, is not at all smart. That art director killed her career. Not saying being paid on exposure is good, but it would have helped her career.
@LauraRbnsn I think we're entering a new era of comedians going into new genres, and klling it. Comedy, in my opinion, has always been the hardest to master. Something meant to be funny can quickly become unsettling. So I think the Jordan Peele's, the Vincent Staples of the world are showing
Dear @TeamYouTube@YouTube@YouTubeCreators@nealmohan@UpdatesFromYT,
I am respectfully asking for a real person or specialist to review my channel, ScalingStories, again. I was demonetized for “inauthentic content,” but I genuinely believe my channel may have been misunderstood or grouped in with low-effort story channels that do not reflect how my videos are actually made.
I completely understand why YouTube has policies against mass-produced, repetitive, automated, or minimally transformed content. I respect those rules. I know YouTube has to protect viewers, advertisers, and creators from content that is only made to chase views without adding real value.
But I truly do not believe that describes my channel.
My videos are not automated or mass-produced. Every video is voiced by me, manually edited by me in DaVinci Resolve, and uses gameplay/background footage that I record myself. I also use custom-drawn avatars to represent myself when I’m speaking to viewers, which helps add personality, emotion, and expression to the content.
I do my best to transform the stories I read into something unique to me and meaningful to my viewers. I am not just reading text and uploading it. I add my own commentary, reactions, opinions, explanations, and perspective throughout the videos, so viewers experience the stories through my voice and point of view.
My commentary is not limited to a brief closing summary. I add my thoughts repeatedly as the stories unfold. Viewers directly respond to those thoughts in the comments. They agree, disagree, joke with me, and continue the discussion around my perspective, which shows that my personal contribution is a real part of why they watch.
Even after being demonetized, I have continued making videos every day because I care deeply about the community I’ve built and I do not want to let my viewers down. This channel means a lot to me, and I have put years of work, effort, and passion into it.
I am kindly asking for a fair manual review with the full context of how my content is made and transformed.
Please help me get ScalingStories reviewed by a real person.
Channel: https://t.co/1uIjA6VPmi
Behind-the-scenes video showing my process:
https://t.co/8l9lgqH7Ml
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@TeamYouTube@ScalingStories1 yall are dead wrong for this. have someone go over his account. He literally voices all his own stories, does all the editing, and has tweaked it for yalls program. His content i more original than half of the other real people who sit on screen and read reddit stories.
@NR_acting@anarchoboognish I think the point here is that if we compared what he did to the other disgusting and abhorant pedos in this world who have done the same things, the punishment is harsher because hes black. it's not "punish him less" its "punish all of them as brutally".
@MOOOOrion@cturnbull1968 Oh shit, no way…First they came for the mansions, and I did not speak out. Then they came for the yachts and now the private jets! When they came for the Rolls Royces there was no one left to speak out.
When will the assault on the poor cease? Lol