Why does it seem like everything is a competition for some people? I don't mean in video games or sports or whatever
I mean in everyday casual situations where people will find a way
to make everything a challenge and feel the need to defeat you in a competition
you didn't sign up for.
Well to be fair I guess we should all have that sort of motivation for achievement you know.
To aim for first, to be number one, to be the very best like no one ever was
But for some people it ain't even about that.
To them, it's about seeing everything as a race and to drag everyone else down from it.
Nowadays I feel like you can't say anything about your day or about how you're doing anymore.
Someone's bound to try to one-up you.
if you are in any sort of pain, forget about expressing it because they'll find a way to
make yours feel insignificant.
-Hey, man, are you feeling okay?
-I slept kind of awkwardly last night my neck's killing me.
-Killing ya? Ha that's nothing at least you have a bed.
I sleep in a closet because my boss Betty has been cutting my shifts,
And now can I not only afford a bed but a room too.
Even when it's not specifically their pain.
-Woah, Jimmy, what happened?
-I fell on my arm during soccer practice. Don't worry about it.
-Ha! A broken arm? That's nothin'. My cousin used to wrestle grizzly in his spare time.
And I'm saying used to, because he don't got no arms no more! Bear ripped it clean right off!
-Who are you?
You can't mention your workload.
-Yeah, I have five courses this semester.
-Five!? Well guess what. I have ten courses, five labs six tutorials, and I haven't slept for a month.
My bloodstream is pretty much caffeine now.
-And I'm pregnant.
You can't even eat your favorite food anymore without being put down
-Haha, Mac and cheese. Nah man. It's all about that fettuccine alfredo my boy
-But I-I like Mac and cheese
-Yeah, well you wrong my boy. That don't matter. It's all about that fetti alfi!
And there's all of that one guy that needs the last laugh in a conversation.
I'll admit, I catch myself being that guy sometimes,
But you know who they are
Someone will make a joke and that person will always add on to it and try to make it funnier
And they'll keep adding on until there the last,
effectively taking the joke too far to the point where it's redundant,
or not even funny anymore and everyone else has moved on to the next topic.
-Wouldn't it be funny giraffe have short legs?
-Hahaha! Oh, what if they had short necks, too?
-I think that would just make them a horse or uh, a zebra?
-What if they had two heads but one is shorter than the other and the shorter one has low self-esteem
because his girlfriend left him for his other longer neck head and...
*Crying*
-Are you okay?
Actually, it doesn't even matter what you like people will find a way to force their opinions on you,
and try to make you only like what they like.
-Ew, Smash 4? Melee is better.
-I don't care I still like it.
-Ew, One piece?
All these are better.
-I don't care I still like it.
Someone : Eww that music genre? Blah blah blah is better.
-Wait, what? How can you even hear that?
-Ew, Android? Apple's----
-Shhh...Shut the hell up you don't want to start that.
But what concerns me the most is when content creators are put down
simply because they're compared to others.
Giving an example the animation community on YouTube has always struggled keeping up with other content genres,
so it's not unusual for them to branch off from YouTube
because it just hasn't been sustainable for them.
And many of us draw inspiration from people whose work we respect
So it may be natural to find similarities in style.
Granted, some a bit more than others.
But it's no reason to put them down.
It's fine to prefer someone's content over another,
but you don't have to try and convince people that one is better than the other.
Maybe some of you don't know, but it's ok to like two or more things at once!
-Holy shit a groundbreaking concept!
It bothers me when I find out about
Outright bullying just because someone may have a similar style of content that I have.
And I get bothered even more when our content is
nothing even alike, but they get compared and ridiculed anyway.
Oh, you started off with comics and now you want to do animations on YouTube ha ha ha what a Domics copycat
*Holy damn that laugh XD*
Let me just drop some enlightenment on some of you who think I'm some kind of forefather of narrative animation
I'm not. Not even close. And just because someone on YouTube decides to tell stories
accompanied by storyboards and animation,
It doesn't mean they're Domics or a Swoozie
Or a whoever copy. Just let them do their thing!
Some of them actually have their own unique narrative style
and don't at all just use the same jokes I do and trace over my drawings,
But just color their hair differently and call it their own
The lot of us are not in competition with each other.
We make content for you. In fact we need each other to keep you
guys occupied since we can't all do daily uploads like other channels.
I'm not entirely against the competitive mindset,
I think it's needed sometimes to push ourselves and test our limits,
but there does need to be some element of fun and sportsmanship.
There's nothing wrong with striving to be the best as long as it's through your own merits.
But if your method is to make everyone else seem worse than you then that doesn't really make you number one
You just happened to eliminate the competitors, and when there are no competitors,
then you wouldn't really consider it a competition anymore would you?
I'll tell you one thing you don't have to compete for my boy, and that's Loot Anime!
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I recently received my dimension crate featuring Kirito socks from Sword Art Online,
An Asuna figure, also from the same anime,
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"Dammit! I missed this!" You're probably saying. But it's cool.
You can look forward to this month's crate, which is themed: Together.
Expect items from the One-Piece Film: Gold, Haikyuu ,The Boy and the Beast, and Mr. Osomatsu
February does have valentine's day, but let's not forget our other special bonds between family and friends.
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