Let's talk about aspiration.

Article: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/14/do-animated-female-characters-need-to-be-pretty/

I remember high school literature teacher mentioning the words of "I'm worried that we have a generation that doesn't believe in meaning in the universe."

So, how the heck is that relates to the article above?

It's all about the challenge the assumption of aspiration.

As long as media was invented, and became intertwined with business via ads and pitches, media tries to set a place or a time or state which we should look up to. Beautiful girls, beautiful houses, doing socially approved messages.

In the early days before the nihilism became the force of thought, most people didn't care and heed as the advice was given.

But then we started challenging the ideas of aspiration. Setting up hopeless goals that only makes us depressed, causing stupid calls on buying a house or getting that surgery...

I think I'll let Charlie Brooker explain in his most vehement and my personal favorite episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8MjoB3vgv8

I think the internet has had it with aspiration.

Therefore the rise of the third wave feminist and other thinkers of this century (Yes, I mean the 21st.)

The feminism and other rights group we see now are now just talking about women or gays or whatever... it's more that they are trying to dismantle the bubble the society is given to us.

At least, that's what I think. Do you have thoughts? Please write them below. Thanks.

RIP Video Responses...

I've been thinking a lot about end of the video response lately ,and when I searched through the videos of people talking about the topic and I focused on the single comment that was sent in by a person, either quite new to YouTube or old-time returner, someone who has a life and couldn't get to YouTube in 2 or 3 years. And the comment said,

"Why is YouTube going all about promoting content? I thought YouTube was a video sharing site."

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Why, yes it is.

It IS a video sharing website. A website to share videos. You know, through the site, sharing the video... you know like vlogbrothers and brotherhood 2.0 which was about communicating in YouTube videos. Through you know... Subscriptions or VIDEO RESPONSES...!

You know... sharing video in the internet. You know, a video sharing website. Website of sharing videos... you know, video which are shared through the internet in a nice convenient way. You know, sharing videos... not using other media to share video to people who want to see them because it's a VIDEO SHARING WEBSITE.

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Sorry. Just... Video website. Of sharing. of web videos. Video on the internet. To people who might want to see them. Videos. You know to people. Sharing Videos. YouTube.

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So.... Anyway... (moment of recollection) I was watching through the videos of this topic and people pointed out (like Kevin, are you watching this?) that YouTube want us to be a consumer of video and not wanting people to make videos. You know. Creating content...

ANd... if you remember back in the old days when YouTube was a video sharing website.... still is, I'm afraid. Anyway, you might seen a motto of YouTube on the bottom of the logo... you remember it, right?

Right?

Come on, say it. Broad...broadcast yourself. Broadcasting to other people. Sharing things. Making it public. And not hidden from algorithm and such....

Yourself... you know what you're feeling, what are you doing.... what do you want to show... to us. The people. Who want to watch videos. Oh yay. Video for you to watch.

MAKING CONTENT! That's what YouTube was for. To create content and sharing to the world. Isn't that simple way to do things?

I remember when back in 2009 when YouTube was rehauling its format to appear more like Hulu and other competitors, and that was such a backlash that YouTube decided not to do it.

I remember the song.

"Oh why, why am I even surprised

Maybe YouTube can be Hulu

And avoid its demise

But if it comes at the cost of the little guys

then I think that I might say my goodbyes

I think that I might say my goodbyes"

(Repeat chorus)

When now... we're just. frog in a pot.

You know the metaphor. When you put a frog in a cool pot of water and you heat it up real high, the frog will sense it's hot and jump out of the pot.

But when the heat is applied ever so slightly, and the temperature rises just a little bit every time. The frog will stay there and just simmer and die.

That is what we are. YouTube had slowly turned this place to the Hulutube we loathe and we don't even recognize it. We're just frog in a pot. Just simmering and dying.

There is some people who want to start making a new website for old YouTube goers like us who like to watch content and share it with other people. You know, create a community and we know the technology is there.We can embed videos quite easily and we can make other features work too and we're just starting to create a concept, I was getting excited, but this thought ran in my mind.

Why didn't we do this earlier?  Why didn't we do this in 2010 or 2011 when the pot was lukewarm, not barely boiling!...

I don't have the strength anymore. I feel like I'm just going to perish and die in this incredibly hot water. We don't know if we can make the jump... but if we can, we must try. We must jump.

New website: frogoutofthepot.com. (Huh? What you think?)

(We thought making YouTube studios and doing nextup was great for our community. But now i realized it was trying to make content in higher quality so the people can't climb any higher. Those new people will be daunted and don't want to climb the building.)

Princess and the Doctor tag!

I created this tag when I realized that there's eleven incarnation of the Doctor and eleven Disney Princesses. As both are widely drawn and loved in many ways, I think it'll be a perfect time to add the two together.

So, basically which princess best fit the companionship of which doctor?

Let's start with the First Doctor. Now, he's known as a cool old grandpa in the talks about him so I think I'll place a more vulnerable person to the list... um, I'll go with Ariel. I think the brattiness of Ariel will contrast nicely with the sternness of the First Doctor. Could be a interesting combination.

Second Doctor... he's much more of a bumbly type with the trick and mannerism and all that, so let's have a fun loving character to add with him. I think Rapunzel will suffice?

Third Doctor. James Bond phase, and also the soildfier in many tropes of the Doctor. Which princess should go with him? Let's go in Cinderella, she wouldn't mind the whomobile and the Master.

Fourth Doctor... friendly and childlike and also a rambunctious adventurer... let's go with Mulan with this one as he wouldn't mind his companions to be part of the action.

Fifth Doctor, a gentle but a bloody Doctor. Who can survive all the attacks and graciousness and the celery to boot! I think Snow White will fit the bill as the classic bumbling companions of his era.

Sixth Doctor... when the Doctor took a dark turn... who can accompany him at such harsh times? Well, Jasmine is known to keep a sane mind through the antics of Aladdin so why now for him?

Seventh Doctor, the Chessmaster. Who can match his wits and battles? Well, his scottish accent will fit nicely with our scottish redhead. Also, it would be interesting to place Merida in one of his schemes.

Eighth Doctor, the lovey-dovey one. Who can take his big heart and his adventures...? Belle will certainly take his love and give the brain to his bumbling body.

Ninth Doctor, a street-wise and mood swinging one but a good one nevertheless. I am going with Aurora because she's very domestic and will contrast nice with his style. Fantastic!

Tenth Doctor. Manic and bubbly but knows how to take down a villain. Tiana can replace the role of Martha and she'll be least good as Martha in the show...

Eleventh Doctor. What could I say? Well, only Pocahontas is left so he will have deal with that princess. Or more likely she will have to deal with the Doctor. She's a serious one.

Well, I'm not a final arbiter by any means so leave a comment or make something of it and send it my way. I'll be excited to hear your opinions.

Conspiracy time.

Bing's new video gave a new clue to the conspiracy of time traveler among us.

For years, people have been questioning about how Bing dislikes Doctor Who ,but seems to have fascination with time, like the PBFB project.

With this video, I can safely say... Bing is a time traveler.

Of course, how could it not be! Of course, Bing doesn't like Doctor Who because it gives a false impression on time travel. Bing knows that time travels are not about swashbuckling adventures... it's more manipulative and cunning.

Bing has traveled all this years trolling our daily lives. Number 42? That was him. All the conspiracy? That's was him tricking the people to believe something otherwise.

Bing working for Google... all covert mind-control. I could feel it in the air as Bing posits an idea of Bing to a Microsoft worker.

I thought I had all the clues. But the truth is more than that. Kim is a time traveler, too.

Behind the mugs and the sarcasm, don't you realize she can do everything?

She can climb, she can sing and do fancy movements. She also has a deep wisdom not commonly possessed by an 18-year old.

She doesn't even age either. Have you Kim looking different than way she looks now?

It's because she's immortal. And probably a time traveler. She has literally done everything and got bored and decide to live a life as a college student in Cardiff. Because she knew Doctor Who films in Cardiff and answer is closer than you think.

Obviously, Bing and Kim were buddies and went around trolling the universe. And there's Lindsey, who is actually Kim in a alternate universe, in which paradox brought her and stripped her of Kim's awesome power and spend her life constantly trolling her... tilll the end of eternity.

Everything has been coming true. And don't get me started on EBO stuff. Man, you'll be freaked out when you see that theory.

(By the way, Emily Graslie is not a Time Lady. She's a companion as best; she looks and acts like a companion.  She doesn't have that mystic quality that time lords, like Bing and Kim, have. She's wholesome and playful, two great characteristics of a companion.)

Today's watch.

One of reason I'm started using YouTube was to watch game shows. I loved game shows and still do today. But there's some game show don't deserve my love.

One of them was Temptation. More specifically, 2007 American version.

Story of this atrocious game is a long one as far back to 1969.

Jack Kelly (yes, Bart Maverick) was down on the dump after Maverick was canceled in 1962 and some guys decided to pick him up and let him host a game show... that would combine the fast pace of auctions and the tension of buzz-in quiz shows. The show was called 'The Sale of the Century' and realizing that he is an actual actor Jack left in 1971 and was replaced with Joe Garagiola Sr. who left the field (and the show) in 1975 to support the Ford presidential campaign (much to later dismay).

But that's just pretense to 1983 when veteran game show host Jim Perry (of Card Sharks and Definition (cue Austin Power theme, which is reference to game show mentioned)) took the helm and revive The Sale of the Century (Bah-lop Bah-la!)

The show's quick pacing and quick-witted host along with some humor and epic tension made show last for six years before closing the door to the American audience.

(Break: It's a nice little show, not a classic people remember but a damn good one nevertheless. The rules were simple... here's some money and five dollar gain if correct, lost if incorrect and you can bargain for prizes and in the end there's a speed round which raise tensions to the max. The winner go on the bonus game, which frankly changed every few years... Did I tell you this was highly fast-paced?)

But not to the world! Some mind, namely Reg Grundy, decided to take the show underground and add some mini-games and show lasted for 21 years from 1980 to 2001, having two great host to boot!

Australian were missing the show so much, they decided to revamp (by removing most of the mini-game, therefore basically identically to the 80's US show) and re-title it Temptation and it was massive hit and ran for 4 years.

With this massive hit, America has no choice but take it and do it for themselves...

And oh boy, how did it mess up the game.

The show was notoriously choppy and host just being dry and not being there... seriously! It was least watched show in all networks for some time and it limped her way to oblivion.

So, here's a show from it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKnSsR0Hcq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNLt3SRiJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7zRZk236H4
(Oh, did I told you it featured Trisha? And that was point of this whole post? I didn't think so?)

Catchphrase...

Like the Doctor, I usually want to give a catchphrase for each Vidcon.

The first VidCon was the awkward vidcon. No one knew how this internet convention worked and there were still some kink to kick out.

The Second Vidcon was the cramped vidcon. Lots of more people in that 'tiny' hotel and everywhere there
was noise and shouting.

The third vidcon in contrast was the expansive vidcon. Everything was bigger, but nothing necessarily changed... in my view the best vidcon out of four.

The fourth vidcon.... this vidcon, I want to name it fangirl vidcon or fangirling vidcon... but seeing the recap videos and other feeling, I might have a different name.

Homesick vidcon.

I wrote three sketches for vidcon and one didn't need a script because it was a rendition of 'Where everybody knows your name' or the 'Cheers' theme song. And that's what vidcon is for people... a home for a half a week.

That's why fangirlling was so much discouraged... it'll be weird to have fangirls in your family reunion...  even if the fangirl is also member of your extended family. Actually especially if your fangirls are part of your extended family... (ew.)

So, that's I got from the recap videos.

Vidcon was great... right?

I obviously didn't go to Vidcon. But I heard a lot about it! So I wrote some sketches!

First one solves the problem of just too many things! (with consequences)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16hoNarTB8aCQ4k2qYXMhlUFolpxNwXDDXockZ_ElAJo/edit?usp=sharing
Second one refers to the previous post.... it's slightly more coherent.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rgXwAlhpnTI3DJwy1KKL-k6t2OLBZuXnkts9bfyLKBY/edit?usp=sharing
Hope you like the sketches and I want to write more!

(Does the link work?)