I got a monster in my closet! Please review. What do you think?

[Crunchbird]

What's frustrating is that the thread about [my] podcast has almost no comments on it and this thing generates a dozen in an hour. Honestly, I need to figure out what this guy did that worked for him.

Sam, I sure hope you were kidding, but a high number of responses is not in and of itself a valid goal. Negative attention is of no benefit to this rapetastic piece of trash, and it's not something you should pursue. No part of this "worked" for these creators, unless you think that marginal changes in the number of YouTube views you get is really something of value.

. . . goes to see what Sam's podcast is about . . .

Ah. Looks from the title like you've already decided negative attention is worthwhile, because you're definitely going to get it. I doubt anyone here is going to be all that offended, but you'd be sure to generate a little huffing and puffing and outrage if you dangled yourself in front of conservative political and culture blogs.

As far as what these guys did "right" in comparison to your situation, it's entirely about the difference between an immediately clickable video and an audio blog that you download and listen to later. If it's this sort of immediate feedback you're looking for, turn your chapters into 3 minute vlogs instead of audio. Then you, too, can be yelled at by the mods for spamming!

[TimBuktu]

If you like Jellybean, you'll love this comedy...

[HeyItsLiam]

I re-written this paragraph three times with jokes against the post above me. Not that I don't agree with the person but that I believe him being the prosecutor of the argument is utterly ridiculous. Despite writing three different forms of the same joke, I decided sometimes blatantly pointing out the obvious is the best tactic.

JUST TOOK A DUMP

What does what I wrote have to do with my user name?

I have absolutely no problem with a juvenile sense of humor. I have a big problem with rape jokes.

[Having Fun!]

I would love to get into an lenghty argument about how your juvenile sense of humor is no better than these creepos, but I made too many posts today and will be taking the week off to get in touch with my "authentic aura". I would advise you to do the same, but you just took a dump.

[Mack Luster]

What does what I wrote have to do with my user name?

I have absolutely no problem with a juvenile sense of humor. I have a big problem with rape jokes.

Were you raped by a rape joke?

[HeyItsLiam]

I would love to get into an lenghty argument

How sad for you.

I chose my username as a reminder not to take anything posted on a message board seriously enough to get into a flamewar over. I've seen some cool virtual communities break down because people forget that.

[HeyItsLiam]

Were you raped by a rape joke?

THAT'S NOT FUNNY!

I don't think rape jokes are inherently bad; some are fantastic (eg, every Norm MacDonald prison joke ever). It's just that inartfully-executed rape jokes are worse than most bad jokes, because they not only bomb, they genuinely hurt people's feelings.

It's the difference between the original post and this scene:

[James Smann]

All this talk of grape jokes being bad. What is so bad about a joke about grapes?

[Having Fun!]

JTAD, you are disrupting my etheric vibes with your ignorance to sarcasm and your now reveled sub-plot as a internet nomad looking for life beyond the thunderboard.

[Mack Luster]

All this talk of grape jokes being bad. What is so bad about a joke about grapes?

Grapes are hilarious, but there's nothing funny about shurder.

[Mack Luster]

THAT'S NOT FUNNY!

I don't think rape jokes are inherently bad; some are fantastic (eg, every Norm MacDonald prison joke ever). It's just that inartfully-executed rape jokes are worse than most bad jokes, because they not only bomb, they genuinely hurt people's feelings.

It's the difference between the original post and this scene:

I love Norm MacDonald, but that just didn't seem funny to me. It was okay, and certainly unoffensive, but not all that funny.

[samishah]

Sam, I sure hope you were kidding, but a high number of responses is not in and of itself a valid goal. Negative attention is of no benefit to this rapetastic piece of trash, and it's not something you should pursue. No part of this "worked" for these creators, unless you think that marginal changes in the number of YouTube views you get is really something of value.

. . . goes to see what Sam's podcast is about . . .

Ah. Looks from the title like you've already decided negative attention is worthwhile, because you're definitely going to get it. I doubt anyone here is going to be all that offended, but you'd be sure to generate a little huffing and puffing and outrage if you dangled yourself in front of conservative political and culture blogs.

As far as what these guys did "right" in comparison to your situation, it's entirely about the difference between an immediately clickable video and an audio blog that you download and listen to later. If it's this sort of immediate feedback you're looking for, turn your chapters into 3 minute vlogs instead of audio. Then you, too, can be yelled at by the mods for spamming!

Oh I was just being snarky is all. I am quite grateful for the lack of negative attention. Although, maybe I do need to include more disturbingly inappropriate rape jokes.

[suavepebble]

I love Norm MacDonald, but that just didn't seem funny to me. It was okay, and certainly unoffensive, but not all that funny.

You are dead to me.

[Mack Luster]

You are dead to me.

It's about time.

[SlyBattery]

I wish someone would send this thread to me in an email so I could delete it.

[2150studios]

This is like a coal in my Comedy Stocking.

Interesting, its nice to get honest opinions for a change.

[2150studios]

You know, I have to say, I rarely like to get into it with people on the Internet*, and I understand that when you're trying to do something, there's the whole process where you learn what works and what doesn't. And lord knows I've produced my share of crap that I can't even watch. And I really try not to hold up a goofy amateur comedy video on Youtube to any kind of professional standard.

So I'm going to leave aside any kind of opinion about the quality, and say - I've actually sat through maybe two-thirds of the videos on your channel, and there is a lot of sexual assault humor in them. A lot. Like, a "would make me think twice about letting you babysit my kids**" amount of sexual assault humor.

Like, a "your Youtube channel actually had to go door-to-door and announce that it had moved into my neighborhood" amount.

Like, a "my droogs had their eyes pried open, watching this Youtube channel while Beethoven's Fifth blasted in the background" amount. Okay, maybe not that much.

Then again, I just get uncomfortable with a lot of rape humor. And it could very well be that I'm reaching an age where angry, edgy stuff is no longer as entertaining to me personally as it once was. But really, you might want to think about it as you attempt to make your way in the world of mass entertainment.

I guess the moral of this story is, this is a very slow holiday for me, and I have the time to sit around watching, and then thinking about, and then commenting on, Youtube comedy videos.



* sober
** my very, very, extremely hypothetical kids

Thanks for the review. I normally dont get this much negative feed back from one forum. I have read everyone messages and will be create newer videos with less sexual jokes to them.

Thank you for taking the time to watch my videos and reviewing with a very interesting words.

[2150studios]

New video. What you think?

[smartbunny]

I re-written this paragraph three times with jokes against the post above me. Not that I don't agree with the person but that I believe him being the prosecutor of the argument is utterly ridiculous. Despite writing three different forms of the same joke, I decided sometimes blatantly pointing out the obvious is the best tactic.

JUST TOOK A DUMP

Don't let the name fool you, Liam's a funny guy with actual TV credits.

[Mack Luster]

New video. What you think?

Not a bit of that makes sense. I know it's not all supposed to, but the characters have absolutely no reason for doing the things they do.

And the delivery of the lines could use work.