If I can indulge my fascinations for a minute, here, I watched Daddy Derek's video that YMS is responding to in that video, and found it incredibly interesting. Why? Because Daddy Derek has a lot of mannerisms that say a lot about him. I could be way off base, but the way he speaks, uses his hands, and acts give the impression that he has anger issues, and is either aware of them and restrains himself, or may have even gone to some kind of therapy or anger management for them. Which would explain a lot about not only how he's handling this, but shit, Cool Cat in general.
Derek's a guy who obviously wants to do good. Guy's well-meaning. If he's not, than he's amazing at faking sincerity. I'll say all that up-front. I don't think this guy's as malicious, or is as rancid a person as a lot of people who have their own threads here. He's just got... problems...
In the video, Derek gets himself wound up several times. When he does, his tone of voice will change instantaneously. No segue, no beat, no moment to compose himself or formulate a thought. When he makes a point and gets to said point he'll all of a sudden bust out a stronger tone of voice, and it comes out like a gunshot. It's miniature "snapping". When he says things that he feels are the most important part of what he's saying he gets louder. He switches from a gentle Mr. Rogers-type tone of voice to the sound of an angry father, while still trying to speak like Mr. Rogers.
His hand movements are a huge giveaway. He uses his hands to talk several times, and they're incredibly stiff. His fingers are almost always slightly curled, and his hand and finger movements are deliberate. People who naturally talk with their hands don't do this. But he does it in a way where he's not forcing himself to do it, either (if you've ever seen a big burly football player in a commercial point to the camera and make other hand motions while talking about what they're shilling, you can see what I'm talking about. Someone told to do something with their hands who doesn't talk with their hands will make stiff, deliberate motions). Savage's hand movements are prevalent enough that you can tell he's doing it naturally, but the way he moves his hands shows a great deal of restraint. He's not curling his fingers as much as he wants to because that would have him balling a fist. He doesn't point at the camera as hard as he wants to because that would be shoving a finger in the viewer's face. You can see it start to come out more when he's holding the water bottle and explaining his grasp of copyright law. You can also hear how he's trying even harder not to yell, or get angry, there. If I remember correctly, you can see by the contents of the bottle that he shakes it pretty hard when he motions to it.
If you want to see how people naturally talk with their hands, watch any interview with a director. They, more often than not, get into the habit of talking with their hands. Now watch how Daddy Derek does it.
What ties this into Cool Cat in general? Now, I wouldn't even register this if I hadn't seen his mannerisms in the video, but Cool Cat's morals and life lessons sounds more like something you'd read in a book than any practical or personal advice for kids. The lessons in Cool Cat feel like they're coming from someone who's following directions himself, rather than from someone who actually has something to tell kids. Hell, even his slip-ups hint to this. All these moral lessons he's going on about--many of which are impractical and removed from reality--and he doesn't get basic stuff like "don't just run into the street" and "it's really creepy to make yourself your mascot's interspecies father and call yourself 'Daddy Derek'".
I could be totally wrong on this one, but I thought it was interesting. Guy sends a lot of signals when you see how he behaves, see what he produces, and put the two side-by-side.
