The Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqUiVkDeGk8
My response
I'm... done with this guy. He's trading in his old mindset of not taking the black pill and doing and not giving in to rage and bitterness, andj ust... taking a steaming shit on people.
His attitude is summed up by a comment that.... frankly is the reason I'm not following the man anymore.
'If reddit mods were winning at life they wouldn't be reddit moderators. They literally do it for free.'
Counterpoint: Some people like being helpful for its own sake or knowing that the job has to be done and that a community of like minded people is goodto have even if they're essentially the janitor.
Then this string of comments
'Redditors losing is nothing new'
'Selfishness and losing at life is the very essence of being a redditor.'
'There is a reason people make fun of "redditors"'
'The average reddit user has never stood up to anybody except their mother, who's basement they reside in. I can't say I'm surprised.'
Counterpoint: You do not know these people. Yet you paint a broad brush for the sake of simply pointing, laughing, and going 'HA I'm better than THOSE people HAHAHA look at me!.'
Then there is this gem
'Louis, I think what you should understand is that an awful lot of these critiques of your actions are made by people who are, in some way or another, Jokers. Heath Ledger Jokers, to be exact. What they are trying to do is prove that deep down, everyone is as ugly as they are. They lash out at you because they are convinced that you must be a bad-faith actor in some way, because they can't imagine acting selflessly for a cause that doesn't expressly benefit them. You aren't blind, so why exactly would you ever bother going out of your way to help a blind person? This is the kind of behaviour that a large part of the modern internet condones and actively promotes, especially reddit. Corporations know this, and they encourage this, because they know it is very effective as a what amounts to a digital union-busting measure.'
Commentary:
White knighting louis's behavior while also describing anyone criticising his methods as inhernetly and intrinsicly 'wrong.'
This is why I am walking away from Rossman. He's inviting this sort of behavior.
I'm no saint. Far from it. I actually agree with several people who have, over the years, screamed at me that I need mental help. My problem is these people are broad brushing for the sake not of commentary and reaching to either help or to give 'tough' love to rock someone out of complacency, but to make themselves feel better because nobody is going to stick up for 'a redditor.'
Replace 'redditor' or 'reddit mod' with other words.
'If black people were winning at life they wouldn't be in this situation. They literally do it for free.'
''Selfishness and losing at life is the very essence of being gay.'
'There is a reason people make fun of "homosexuality".'
Suddenly not so OK is it?
So no. I don't care what points the man might have. Look at the commentary he's inviting with his 'look how shitty and stupid these people are' rhetoric.
I'm out.
Did we watch the same video? Your "attitude is summed up by:" seems completely antithetical to what was said. The true thesis, in my opinion, directly quoted from the transcript is:
"Getting what you want in life whether it's out of your business, your personal relationships, or even a legislative hearing is not necessarily about focusing on your own selfish interests it often comes down to whether or not you're willing to help somebody that nobody else is willing to help that you can tell is clearly in distress when you have the means and you have the opportunity to do so."
This is in response to a redditor emailing him accusing his take on the reddit situation as being essentially "pearl clutching", supposedly saying:
"Be real you don't care about the blind or disabled and you never did, this is virtue signaling of the highest order...."
I might be "knighting" a bit here but as someone who didn't even use a 3rd Party App and wasn't directly impacted by Reddit's actions, Louis's past video on this topic was what actually caused me to delete the app and not look back. Thus I feel that if I found value, it is possible others can too.
Agreed -- not only do I think OP misunderstood Louis's point (if you have the means to help and the opportunity to help, you should help), their post also doesn't make clear that the comments being cited and quoted in it weren't actually said by Louis during the video (or said by him on the channel), but were comments made on the YouTube video by people completely unrelated to him.
It seems easy to read the post and mis-attribute the quotes to Louis based on how it is written, but he didn't actually say any of those things.