Ambiguous
As a (female) YouTuber, I’ve gotten my fair share of “friendly” private messages. I’m not flooded with the rain of love/hatemail that falls on the popular people, but I get maybe two or three a week. Very few of these messages are from people I actually know (in the internet sense of the word)—my YT pals leave their comments directly on the videos, where everyone can see them. The private messages I get from strangers range from a quick “I like your videos, make more” to detailed critiques of particular videos to blatant “i think you’ll enjoy my hilarious videos” spam to less-than-subtle suggestions that we “get to know each other better.” I’d say the split between friendly and “friendly” is about half and half (give or take ten percent for the haters).
For your voyeuristic pleasure, I provide a few samples spanning the range of weirdness. I hadn’t heard from any of these people (that I remember) before they started messaging me.
How are you today? I don’t think I have ever seen such a combination of intelligence and beauty. There is nothing as stimulating as the mind. A deep and challenging conversation is the ultimate foreplay. I hope you find the right person who understands how special and rare you are.Prepoc:
A note on your video manner:
Please try not to smack your lips so much. You do it a lot.
Content-wise your vids are really interesting. And you’re very intelligent. (I’ve written that before.)
Please: less lip smacking.
That’s all.I`ve been an subscriber of your video`s for a couple of months now and I really enjoy them
so when I decided to post a video myself, I figured i`d start by taking your vlogs and mixing them up a bit
ode to natalie(the result)is the first video I ever made (like on a computer)
so it kinda sucks, actually it sucks alot
still I sincerely hope you like it!So correct me if I’m wrong, your saying sarcasm is “bad” but being a racist, a sexist, a homophobic, a fashion fanatic, or a person who hates accents, a person who doesn’t like “outsiders”, IF YOU THINK THAT WAY YES YOU HAVE NO BRAIN,…lady I would rather be sarcastic then ALL OF THE ABOVE, and one more thing, sarcastic people don’t think they are better then you, YOU just have some low self esteem, and what are saying…sarcastic people only have 3 “sarcastic” friends, look next time you make a video go over your script…
That last one went on a bit longer, and one could argue that I was kinda asking for it*. Still, people are nuts, eh?
The weirdest, I think, are from the fetishists. Now, I have no problem with fetishism, nor with most indulgence therein. If leather or tickling or oatmeal gets you off, have at it. I would even gladly go along with a partner’s fetish, as long as it wasn’t too painful or icky. But being asked to participate in a stranger’s fantasy? Creepy with a capital EWW.
I’ve been asked to cry, sneeze, smoke, play with my hair, and apply deodorant (or just generally show off my underarms more) on camera. Feet have come up at least twice. For the record, I have neither obliged nor responded to any of these requests. I would ban any who messaged me a second time, but none has.
The other day, though, I received an unsolicited message that seems to teeter on the brink** between ordinary spam and fetish. It reads, in full:
please make a video blog and then post it on you tube of you answering thiis question..Who would you stomp on if you were 1000 feet tall and explain in detail how youd step on them and squash them with your giant foot?..loved your videos
See, it starts off sounding like the spam people sometimes send out when they’re running a video contest or trying to popularize their channel. But “explain in detail”? That smells distinctly fetish-y. I’ve never heard of a giant-squashing-foot kink, but to each his own . . .
So what do y’all think? Fetish or not? I bet I could make this game a monthly feature.
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* For a good laugh, read the comments on this video, or watch my follow-up video.
** Can brinks run between things, or can you only teeter on the brink *of* something?
Tags: YouTube
May 25th, 2007 at 10:01 am
It’s a bona fide fetish. Wild, eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trampling_fetishism
May 25th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
[hhhhh]. I don’t know what to write… First: thank you (good laughs). Second: I’m planning another YT account (I get inspired). Meanwhile (I just can’t help myself), please: more lip smacking*. Now, I’ll look for the meaning of “Gasp”.
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* It’s so weird to see strange people commenting on someone’s YT channel and|or blog. I’ll never do that.
May 30th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
That giant foot stomping thing? DEFINITELY fetishistic!
What if you made a video in which you cried, played with your hair, smoked, applied deodorant AND talking about being 1000 feet tall and stomping people? That would be, like, awesome!
(I NEVER get those kinds of haters! I only get the kind who speculate on my partner-gender and -age preferences!)