The point of Sseth is he delivers funny lines with funny footage. I don't give a shit if it's his experience or not.
Yeah, this point is well made by this:
Someone posted two sources and I don't plan to watch them. He does credits at the end, so it would have been nice to mention the video picks or add them to description, but I wonder how much would that change (I probably still wouldn't watch them if they were mentioned in the video).
I'm not going to watch some guy's dwarf fortress channel either. And I thought Sseth's vid was pretty entertaining and maybe some day I'll watch it again. He takes those stories and presents them in an interesting way. Still, it was weird finding this out because that's not how Sseth seems to want to be seen. It was actually earlier in the thread that I first heard about it (although thanks to
@Book Thief because I don't think anyone upthread presented any such definitive evidence, certainly not as well explained). I think it's jarring for two reasons:
First, it changes your perception of Sseth, or maybe just makes certain things clearer. He obviously
can make videos where he's passionate about the game in question and personally loves to push the boundaries of its systems; but that sets the bar of autism expected, and he can't always live up to it. I believe that he played Dwarf Fortress and probably liked it, but he's actually just not that guy. He isn't autistic enough about it to have new zany fun breaking its systems, he just had a normie experience with it and moved on like most other people. But he can't make a video like that because of the reputation he's made, so instead he passes off someone else's experiences as his own. The only time you can be sure it's
his experiences with the game and exploits is when it's something really jewish, like money grubbing or cheating.
Second...is it not also just kind of fucking jewish to pass off someone else's stories, experiences, and even footage as your own? There's no reason for the people who made the vids to be grateful because they're not credited, they have nothing to gain. Perhaps you can stay it's still putting a spotlight on a somewhat niche game, but that has its own issues:
1. Servers getting overrun and the beginning of a localized Eternal September within a fandom are well known symptoms of the Sseth Spotlight, so it's not necessarily all positive.
2. If he didn't care enough about the game to actually have those experiences with it himself, why assume he cares enough to be motivated by giving it a spotlight? It might just be trend-chasing for the sake of shekel grubbing.
Whatever, talking that much about it makes it seem like I give more of a shit than I actually do. I still watch the videos, I just didn't love learning this about the guy who makes them.
