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- Feb 22, 2018
I was just poking fun at Dave's claim that he literally never watches any of his videos on YouTube and how Leanna would threaten to make Dave watch his own videos as a punishment. I wasn't trying to say anything like, 'Hey, report this sack of shit for fraudulently inflating his views by watching his own videos and get his AdSense account banned!' I was making a joke that he must be in really dire straights to be viewing his own videos, but I think I forgot to actually make the joke.
I think earlier this summer when he was Tweeting about how he was watching his 'History of Street Fighter: DSP Cheeses the AI Edition' videos is the only time I've ever heard of him actually watching his own cahntent. He knows how bad it is.
I don't think he doesn't watch his own videos because they're bad. I think he doesn't watch his own videos because he doesn't care, which is what in the end makes them bad. He goes through the motions of uploading them and then they're out of his hair forever. It's how he's been making playlists out of order since 2011. It'd be worth analyzing how he gets from this stage to expecting a large passive income from those same uploads for the rest of his life.
Over the coarse of my relatively short Detracting career I've seen him tweet about watching the "the second half of yesterday's SF Master Run Challenge" and the "Pimp slapped the 11 year old girl" video. In both cases he was nervous about them. My thought was it's a palliative to convince himself he's right when challenged into a less dominant position.
Along with those two examples I've also heard him go on, unprompted by chat, about how Project 7 appeared in his suggested videos and so naturally had to see how those videos held up. He gushed about how great they were. IIRC his wandering down this path lead him to bashing John and Howard with chat begging him to stop.