Dave Chappelle isnt a real person, ive never met him in person or spoken to him

@michaelwerkov3438

Жыл бұрын

Sadly... I have :/ I used to think it was cool

@justsaying7979

7 ай бұрын

Alabama isn't a real place. It's true, Florida made it up.

@TheAlanRaptor

6 ай бұрын

I'm not a real person. I only exist in this text box. It's not that I exist in flesh and blood and use my fingers to type this into the non-real place of youtube. KZread is real, and tangible and I am not. I'm certainly not taking a sharp breath into my physical lungs right now. Because I, a person, am not real. And yet Twitter and KZread are real places that can be traveled to and not ephemeral constructions only able to be seen on screens. And this entire comment WASN'T completely sarcastic and meant to point out how asinine this line of thought is.

@lynnpehrson8826

6 ай бұрын

​@michaelwerkov3438 He sold out. He should stayed retired

As a Spaniard watching this I had a blast seeing how you unraveled the concept of our potential non-existence according to Chappelle's logic.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

😂 hope you didn’t feel too called out

@christiandolz6272

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo juuuust a little bit ps: i love your channel, keep up the amazing essays and ramblings 💖

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

@@christiandolz6272 ❤️❤️

@btnhl

3 ай бұрын

If she can go on an 8 minute rant...I mean dissertation...about one line in a Dave Chappelle comedy special imagine what she could do with the history of your country.

This reminds me of something I've had quite a few debates about. Whenever I talk about the toxic people and attitudes that frequent the internet, I'm invariably told by somebody that it doesn't matter because it's "just the Internet" - as if there's no connection between what happens online and what happens in the physical world. I try to explain that every one of those online people is a real person in the physical world who still thinks and probably still says those same things. But the response is generally a non-committal shrug. Sure, in the physical world, those people have much less, if not a non-existent capacity to infiltrate your life like they can online. But it doesn't change the fact that if there are 100,000 comments on a single story, all saying the most horrible toxic things, that is 100000 people in the real world who still think and probably say the same.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Social media and neoliberalism as a whole relies a lot on this fuck you got mine defense mechanism. We don’t like the idea that some things are bigger than the individual

Ever since Lindsey Ellis left the Tube, my incisive-criticism-and-analysis itch has gone unscratched. Until now. So glad I found this channel!

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Honored ❤️

@TSmith-yy3cc

6 ай бұрын

You are absolutely right; I only realised that after seeing your comment!

I always find the notion that social media can be dismissed due to the inflammatory nature of its' discourse fascinating. I mean, yeah, there is a lot of dumb stuff said on twitter or whatnot, but the candid dialogue people engage in better reflects the truly held beliefs of the world's denizens. If anything, it amplifies the "realness" of sentiments expressed on social media, as our discussions are significantly neutered in IRL or formal discussion. Randomly found your channel from your vid about the thing, BTW. Went from that to hearing about how Dave Chappelle is espousing elements of solipsism lmao. I love it.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

It’s such a weird, willfully blind way to look at things. Peak centrism. Thanks ha, best of luck recovering from your whiplash 😅

I've been a Chappelle fan since the late 90's, but I really appreciate your take. You make great videos.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

He's a genius, way too smart for this boomer bullshit. Thanks for watching :)

@btnhl

3 ай бұрын

I find the ideas he presented in Half Baked to be more nuanced than those in his later works.

I mostly use Twitter to vent about my uncontrollable constipation on the toilet for 2 hours because I ate too much kimchi. Thank God the world can understand my pain.

@fatkart7641

Жыл бұрын

Some shits are better left on Twitter!

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

This is the only ethical Twitter use

I cannot believe it took me this long to find your channel. I feel weirdly at home here. You do truly wonderful work, and I'm already looking forward to binging all of your content.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much :)

@audeon_visual

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo You're very welcome!

I think an interesting analogy to the relationships and interactions people have on social media that might be more relevant to Chappelle are those created between a comedian and audience when performing standup. Or even more spooky - between a comedian and audience watching a recorded stand-up special long after the comedian has finished performing. Is the meeting place created by twitter any less real than the meeting place created by stand-up? Chappelle might even insist that stand-up isn't real either, which is why people are so silly to get offended by anything he says during a stand-up routine. Except by that logic they'd also be silly to laugh. Love what you do!

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Nice, excellent point. Thanks so much!

Chappelle says tt isn't a real place and then buys an nft.

It’s always a little bittersweet coming across small channels like this, on one hand Its cool that I’m this early to a channel but on the other hand I feel like you should already have over a million subs. You’ve got way too many insightful and intellectual ideas and points to not at the very least have 100k+ subs by now. Would say to keep up the amazing work but it looks like you don’t need my advice lol thanks for the content (:

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Things just recently started taking off for the channel in the past few weeks, I feel good about it 😊

@jsucisiqixidjd

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo You definitely got somethin special to bring to this genre so It wouldn’t surprise me if the channel sky rocketed soon tbh. Just remember us when ur famous! Also is there a time frame for the elden ring video release?

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

@@jsucisiqixidjd I’m shooting for the end of the month :)

Well. No, it’s not a real place.

@GraphicalRanger

Жыл бұрын

I wonder how many bots are real bots or people pretending to be bots or bots pretending to be ...

I need you to know I never comment on youtube videos but I've just been so floored by every single one of your videos it's like compulsory at this point. AMAZING insight, and your delivery is so fresh and passionate, it's insane!

@themorbidzoo

8 ай бұрын

Ahhhh thanks 😄

I love that you are so passionate about what you're saying; it really draws me in.

The way you articulate yourself is terrific! As an aside, I enjoy that you're spitting absolute fire while utilising a colour palette that makes it look like you've been sent to an anger management class (not that it doesn't look great haha).

This was on point, sharp, and freaking captivating. I’m so glad your channel came up in my recommendations. Just spectacular. Wow.

@themorbidzoo

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! :)

Completely unrelated; just watched your review of The Thing and I’m instantly in love with your style of analysis, can’t wait to see what else you post!

I just found your channel today and I’ve been binging every video keep up the great work!!

👍I want to say more but you coverd both sides I might offer. You are so smart. I love your distillation of this subject. You are brilliant.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!

Greetings from Spain! I really enjoy your videos, looking forward to the next one :D

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

The existence of Spain is just hearsay, I remain suspicious. Thanks for watching 😊

I LIKE THAT THIS CHANNEL MAKES ME feelz

What? I was here for the horror movies, but this channel is so much more... !! Funny and engaging, informative and thoughtful... awesome!!

your subs went up by like 8k in the past few weeks i've been subbed to you! keep at it!

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

😊😊😊

"pancake" is a top notch clean insult

You really know how to cause a existential crisis on a spaniard lol

Just leaving a comment to congratulate you on a very good video, found your channel recently and all of the content is excellent, keep it up! :)

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! :)

Shit's fucked, yo. I don't know what word I'm looking for, but the way you articulate things and communicate them in your videos is done very well. I ask that you'll forgive a random stranger if they're overstepping a boundary, but I think you could make it big if you pursued KZread more seriously. That is, if you wanted to or had the time/energy. I personally don't have the will to give a shit about anything when I get home from work.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words :) haha it’s not overstepping at all, this has been a great creative outlet and I plan to do more of it

According to the Pew Research Center, only about 23% of U.S. adults use twitter. So, if Twitter Is The Discourse, then the entire is determined by a fifth of us. The loudest most obnoxious fifth. "Twitter is not a real place" reminded me of the Team Fortress 2 Soldier yelling to the Scottish Demoman "Scotland is not a real country! You are an Englishman in a dress!"

Im gonna have to watch this vid again at a different time because its raising points far more important than my opinion on chapelles jokes (which is what I had in mind upon clicking). Points so important they are distracting me from my daily and almost constant escapism provided by this plataform in the form of various animated characters and videogames. I do not welcome your abrupt crashing of my waking dream, now I will have to return to this video to consider its message when I feel ready to afront my reality and how its being forced upon me by limiting my vision thru the very window they promised me would allow me to see beyond it. Tl;dr How dare you make me think a meaningful stringof thoughts!? *Thank you I'll be back for more*

Love the wit the passion and care you've put into this, which I totally agree with but couldn't think of it as clearly as your brilliant confutation helped me to, and I hereby thank you a lot. Also: your channel *slaps*

I liked Chappelle in his hay-day. Very quotable amongst me and my friends when we were stoned and had nothing better to verbally volley back and forth. He had some great takes on society back then...I think. When he made his resurgence back into our screens he got a bit of a hero's welcome and seemed to take on the role of America's Moral Compass in the window of hype that followed his return...at least that's what I picked up from the few clips that I saw and how people seemed to be reacting. I could be very wrong about that. I couldn't get into it like I did his previous material. Not because of anything in particular he said, it just didn't land. I did laugh at the "twitter isn't a real place" part because I do feel I fall into that camp when it comes to social media. You do make valid points that I will ponder and reform my stance with...maybe. It might not be tangible, but it's influence on our everyday tinkerings, direct and indirect, is undeniable, omniscient and fucking scary. Kinda like god. Fine. I noticed Chappelle become an example of one of his earlier jokes before his sojourn in obscurity. It was a joke making fun of Carson Daily calling Ja Rule on live TV to get his opinion on the 911 attacks right after they happened. "Who the fuck cares about what Ja thinks at a time like this?" Was his punch line, more or less. Now I understand Chappelle is a sharp social commentator with a strong following and not a rapper whose career ended because a guy named eminem dissed him, but nevertheless he IS a celebrity and I myself heed his advice from that joke about not alloting too much merit to the things that fall out of celebrities' mouths. He was Achoo in Robin Hood Men in Tights.... Have a great day.

I feel like this video is very much trying to stretch as well as taking a clip and trying to make too much out of it. Of course this is because of how you've lived your life, and your perspective is different But, the way I live my life, it makes this video feel more like complaining for the sake of complaining As is every time I find a new KZreadr I might actually enjoy , I always find something negatively fueled that keeps me from actually giving my subscription

@sculptorofdreams6428

Жыл бұрын

So much this. I loved her video about The Thing so much, I wanted to check what else the channel has to offer but then I come across her Twitter feed and some of her other videos with the absolute worst one being this where she comes across as incredibly whiny and arrogant.

this is a really good perspective

Solipsism is also thinking that your self-identity is how everyone else should see you and categorize you.

@themorbidzoo

7 ай бұрын

I agree

"People who arrive on the doorstep claiming to have invented an impossible technology." So basically everything Elon Musk is selling.

@mazz2622

Жыл бұрын

Half the shit he sells is a reinvention (worse version) of trains and light rail, or a variation of something that isn't actually beneficial to the world (i.e. electric cars - we want less cars,- walkable cities are the way forward - but I digress); the other half is techno-porn designed to get morons excited about hare-brained schemes like colonising mars safely and efficiently, or transcontinental rocketry (which are so fundamentally flawed functionally, it's laughable.)

I did a paper on, and regularly have lectures on a similar thing. It's how the artificial reality of online video games are connected to our reality using Bourdieu's theory of practice. Like how you meet friends online, and they become friends in real life and enhance your social capital. Same with increased cognitive, understanding of different perspectives or cultures and language skills earned in video games translate over to our reality in the form of cultural capital.

The problem is it's foolish to argue with something someone said in the context of a comedy bit the way you would argue with someone making a genuine philosophical statement. The whole point of comedy is not to tell the truth but to say something funny that resonates with people on some level, it's not supposed to be an air tight philosophical statement of fact. Even a complete lie can be hilarious if the timing is done well. The reason it is unwise for people to take issue with comedians is because of what role they play in society, if the king kills the court jester he's killing the only person in the room who's allowed to take jabs at the king there by increasing the pint up rage people feel against him, making him less safe and look insecure. No body is hated more than the guy you're not allowed talk about because that creates the perception that he has a disproportionate amount of power, and is willing to use it to bully people into silence. So I would argue that who ever it is trying to punish comedians makes being trans less safe, and creates more hostility towards them. I've heard the argument that great comedians only punch up not down but while that might be true canceling comedians creates the perception that trans people aren't marginalized and are actually a very powerful political force that is dangerous to be reckoning with. The net impact from society at large is probably going to be that there are a bunch of Karen's on the left who don't know how to take a joke. And the sad thing is that most trans people are probably pretty thick skinned because they've had to be and get blamed for a what a bunch of annoying up start kids who've only recently discovered politics as a hobby say on the internet.

@themorbidzoo

9 ай бұрын

There are very funny jokes about trans people to be made, Chappelle just isn’t making them. That’s the problem, not that the concept of making trans jokes is morally wrong

@skeldrif351

9 ай бұрын

@@themorbidzoo I actually agree with that. I thought his material was pretty weak from what I remember.

@themorbidzoo

9 ай бұрын

@@skeldrif351 🤝

@ShadyDogg

6 ай бұрын

​​@@themorbidzoobecause you think its not funny means its not funny? Isnt that the same exact concept you are applying here that you're criticized him for?

Please keep on doing these stuffs mate!!❤🥃🥃 Cinema and this minisode thing mainly!

geez you are smart , also like your pyjama. and love your vids

Good evening. "Dave Chapelle" was a 34 year sociological study conducted by the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

social media addicts are the worst

The KZread algorithms are so interesting……

I learned about solipsism today.

I agree with chappelle, social media ain't a real place. the only place you can get a descent meal is planet earth

As someone who quit using social media entirely in 2014, I feel very happy. The more the internet and reality merge, the lamer both get. Social media turns people into cretins.

I truly appreciate this as someone who both their partner and herself are trans with chronic conditions and disabilities that leave us largely housebound, particularly being so at risk from covid. Communicating by letter is equally as un/real. What about sign language? Where does language and communication actually take place? Nothing is real unless we physically interface brains!

Why didn't I find this channel until the present

In the offline real-world environ, communication and activity is done with rituals agreed through a social contracting. Said rituals imbue these actions with a societal importance. Ritual example would be a greeting and a handshake before you talk, with frequent eye-contact for the duration, with a farewell and handshake to end. Social media is in a chaotic state with no rituals socially contracted except inside small cells occasionally, but are mess of dialogue and action only vaguely time bound. Without proper price paid in social ritual, can we call it humanly intellectually real, or just an animalistic forest of animal noises. Sorry if this seems vague, I find it's hard talking about mentally constructed ideas.

I won't deny that a lot of Chappelle's newer material comes across as trans-phobic. I'm curious though as to why his jokes targeting whites, blacks, cisgender women or peoples of Asian descent don't generate as much controversy. I personally don't detect any more vitriol in his tone or subject matter when he attacks the transgender community compared with other groups of people. For example, he opens his special Sticks and Stones with a joke about the suicide of Anthony Bourdain, drawing a parallel with the hardships of a black man he went to high school who didn't end his life. This joke is callous towards the very real issues of mental health, depression and suicide, implying that white people aren't as formidable in coping with life's trials and tribulations in comparison with blacks, which is very much not true. All that being said, I really enjoy your vids and I hope you upload more in the future.

@negativezero8174

Жыл бұрын

He’s always made fun of everyone. He’s made fun of blacks, whites, Asians. He literally told one joke where the punchline was that you should be happy Michael Jackson molested you. It’s comedy, comedy is fucked up. But like with all comedy everyone laughs until the joke is about them.

@johnmcclane88909507

Жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. In fact, most memorable jokes at the very least scratch the surface of a sensitive issue or deeply rooted anxiety shared by the public at large.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

It's because society has already collectively basically decided that it's not cool to target people based on race and binary gender, but trans people are very much free game, and are regularly discriminated against both legally and illegally, and increasingly so. They're a much more socially vulnerable community than the other groups you mentioned, so it seems particularly cruel to have it out for trans issues the way Chappelle does. Thanks for watching :)

I think the problem is that people are thanking jokes nowadays as statements, he is a comedian not a politician

@007kingifrit

Жыл бұрын

i blame jon stewart for convincing a generation of millenials that snarky was the same thing as intelligent

@blackslime_5408

Жыл бұрын

@@007kingifrit disagree, cuz i have to google who you were talking about :P

This video made me feel even better about Musk destroying Twitter

This was great, I loved your passion when talking about this. The role Social Media plays in the world certainly has an impact on a lot of people and it was cool to hear is described so succinctly.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much :)

Could you do some sort of movie recommendation video or blog post? I don't want you to feel cheapened by doing a top 10 video, but man would I love some recommendations after the movies you said you liked.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I’ll give it some thought!

@BobBob-gv9wx

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo Also, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on Nocturnal Animals. The intro includes nudity and there are some violent scenes, so beware of that. It's such a simple concept for a movie, but it was really well done. I think I understood the ending, but I'd like to hear your take. You don't even have to make a whole video, I'd just like some sort of reply of what you thought.

I like your passionate delivery. I really only use KZread as social media... So I can't agree or deny with your or chapelle's claims. If its the new town square, I'm at the park playing basketball.

Have a great day! Love it hahahaha

It’s weird that you think Dave Chappelle, a stand up comedian of all people, is unable to grasp that real people are criticizing him. “Twitter isn’t a real place” is another way of saying he’s not holding weight to opinions being tweeted at him. That makes perfect sense.

I disagree that social media users are people. Being a person involves things that people are rarely online. Teaching geography myself, I am still wondering if it's a place or not. But I find your newly discovered channel interesting.

i considered subscribing, but then this video happened.

This video was hilarious!

I think this was extremely well said and everything from 7:13 on is very valuable and salient

I've been bingewatching your videos the last few days since our gratious overlord the Algorithsm recommened me one. Absolutely *superb* in both presentation and analysis. Thank you ( and please don't stop.)

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thank you the algorithm does provide all hail 🥺

In my defense my Twitter death threats usually involve some place around a Mexican coastline

Brilliant video as per usual, I also love that you don't reply to the negative comments as most of them aren't constructive and don't have anything meaningful to say. The way I would take the "social media isn't a real place" thing is like you said about it being a magnifier of outrage. In the real world people don't come up to you (usually) and scream in your face about how you made a video they didn't like. On KZread, they feel that's acceptable. There is something inherently unreal about that because it doesn't match in person human behaviour.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! Right, I don’t really give a poop if edgelords want to be misogynistic or whine at me in the comments, they just don’t impress me very much, but I am interested in what it is that makes people behave differently online as opposed to in person, and how collectively that change in communication style can’t help but shape our world. IMO the extent to which it doesn’t match in-person behavior is only useful as a point of reference for the seriousness of how the structure of the internet has changed communication, because whether it’s in person or not, human behavior is still human behavior, and spills over into the real world. It’s in our best interest to question the design of the tech with which we’re augmenting our society and ourselves.

@AcornPlays

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo I'm really hoping that good manners won't be completely obsolete in my lifetime, i work in retail people are already rude as it is, I don't need the online insanity bleeding into the real world any more than it already has

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I like Dave Chappelle, his stand up is funny.

Damn! Why you content is sooo good!? Good topics, good analysis, good and well timed (especially burp in out of frame episode ) humor. Love every video! Promise to become you patreon (as soon as Visa and Mastercard remove my country from blacklist...)

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ❤ Aw, that's a pretty good excuse lol, your kind words are more than enough!

I'm no fan of Chappelle or his humour - particularly on this topic - but I do think he's saying something here a little different from what you're rebutting. By saying "Twitter is not a real place", I think Chapelle is saying that how people interact, communicate and think on twitter is not how people - even those same people - do those things in real life. That Twitter is an artificial environment - not in that it's virtual, but in that it is preprogrammed to create isolated bubbles of ideology, where everyone agrees and there are no dissenting voices. And those bubbles exist *regardless of the opinions they hold*. So when Chappelle dismisses Twitter as "not a real place" I think he's just saying that on Twitter, you can always find a community of people who have any take you choose about an issue, with enough self-reinforcement for that opinion to appear more popular or significant than it really is. That's not what Chappelle finds in real life as he travels from city to city - the people he talks to in real life are more moderate, communities less homogeneous in ideology, and issues more nuanced, than Twitter-based discourse. I'm not saying that justifies his opinions or humour, but I think his comments about Twitter do have some merit. And I think many people who spend a lot of time on Twitter have an inflated sense of its importance, because it appears to be a place where ideas can spread, whereas I think it's more accurately a place where people with the same ideas can find each other.

@themorbidzoo

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I understand what he’s saying, but like his insistence that he’s never said anything transphobic because he doesn’t consider himself transphobic, he’s still wrong. Part of what disturbs me about social media is the very fact of its outsize importance in public discourse compared with its demonstrably small user base and distortion of communication. Whether it should hold that importance or not is irrelevant, because it simply *does*, and no insistence that it lacks validity as an engine of information is going to keep it from being that engine, because we are irrational creatures living in a communication environment that takes advantage of that irrationality. He’s just burying his head in the sand and calling it wisdom.

BRAVO!

Humans exists in two worlds, the real world, and the information world. We tend to care far more about the later.

I’m a year late I guess. Anyway, I enjoy Dave chapelle’s comedy. I alway watch his new material that comes out. You made me really think about some stuff. Like that part about social media still having influence whether or not we chose to acknowledge it. And you called him a pancake? Those are fighting words 😂 We may have different political standings or beliefs, but you brought up some really good and valid points. If I received the message you were conveying , then maybe he was talking out of his ass when he made that statement.

You know what else is a real place? The building that Daphne jumped from when she was bullied enough by the LGBTQ

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

you’d think Chappelle would make the connection 🤷🏻‍♀️

@edouardkb2064

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo He does, in that same speech, like 20 or 30 seconds apart from the sentence you clipped.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

@@edouardkb2064 no he doesn’t. He implies that social media might have been a contributing factor in her suicide, which I’m sure it was. He’s not making a connection, he’s just contradicting himself, spinning it as everybody’s problem except his own. I’m glad he said the thing at the end about not talking about it anymore until he knows we’re all “laughing together” or whatever it is he said. I don’t think he’s a super transphobe, but he has a deeply boomer understanding of how masscomm works today. Sorry, you didn’t ask for a wholeass explanation, but here it is anyway

Love your videos I think as a celebrity you get to cultivate the kinds of spaces you inhabit, what kinds of opinions you're exposed to, what kind of people are around you. Your money buys you exclusive access to literally any place you want to go. Twitter as toxic as it is also happens to be somewhat democratic, anyone can voice their opinion, you don't have to be a celeb getting interviewed in order to be heard, so of course rich and famous people would decide it's not real

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Agree. It's very much an argument from privilege. Thanks for the watch! :)

This is random, but have you heard of or watched a movie called "Gonjiam Haunted Asylum"? It's a really scary movie, and I was interested in seeing you make an analysis about it

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

I will check it out :)

@MrSaurus

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo Thanks! By the way, I really like your analysis videos. I always learn something from your videos

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSaurus thanks!!

Wait so if a tree falls in the forest does it make you solipsistic?

Your points are valid, but I don’t value it much. Because it’s an argument directed at a 6 word statement. Those few words can be misinterpreted to say a handful of takes that makes anyone a demon. You brought up a variety of political discourse. Much of it can’t even be addressed in 6 words. It’s like hearing someone say “you people” out of context. And using that to argue about racism.

I mean, Dave sure complains about it a lot.

Twitter's not a place; it's a people.

Barring physical acts of violence, the main cause of strife in human interaction is...words. By Chapelle's logic, if someone is not right in the same geographic location as you, they're not real, and any interaction (good, bad, neutral) did not take place.

How are you only 8k subscribers??

May I ask how you go about critiquing films and some other topics. You seem to have a wealth of knowledge in philosophy/ethics, figurative language,poltics and storytelling elements. Which allows you to come up with compelling arguments and interesting insights into different subject. How did you find a way to compile all of that,or learn it in a way to use it the way you are now?

@riotfist9747

Жыл бұрын

I mean, I learned some of this in my ap englishes and ethics/philosophy class. But the way you string things together is so elegant and thoughtfully put together it seems that you can get to the root of an argument quite quickly. Maybe a pairsocial assumption because I dont know the amount of effort you put into these videos and experiences you've been through to make you this smart.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

@@riotfist9747 Oh my, that's so flattering. 🥺 I'm a PhD candidate in a Communications program that was founded after WWI to study propaganda, so in my professional life boiling down an argument to its most precise elements is the expectation. So to the extent that I know things, it's from several years of reading and studying and being surrounded by good mentors who challenge me :)

@riotfist9747

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo That sounds amazing! I can really tell this is the case while watching your videos. I recently subscribed too. I'm thinking to educate myself more in areas such as these to do the same. I'm currently doing a Comp. science Ba,but I miss having conversations like this with other read people, but I felt I couldn't contribute because of my lack of knowledge and not necessarily my critical thinking skills. I wish to get stronger in the topics you tend to cover, and really understanding the complexitys as well as having the ability to put names to these topics/arguments. Do you have any suggestion such as books or general places to find this information. Just general things that really helped you? Sorry for the long reply.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

@@riotfist9747 I think the first philosophy text that really changed how I thought about things was The Myth of Sysiphus by Camus. :) Later on, I started thinking about things differently again when I started doing a bunch of work with the Anthropology department. It sounds like a bit of a strange way to approach philosophy, but can be really enlightening. If you have a chance to take an upper level anthropology course in your program, I recommend it! Economic anthropology is especially interesting, and those texts are often very readable since the main scholars in it are usually modern. Look up David Graeber, for example :)

@riotfist9747

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo Thank you for the suggestion!!! I will definitely add this to my reading list.

You are much smarter than I gave you credit for.

Your social media is an avatar. It allows you to be your very best, all the time, and show to the world an extremely rehearsed version of yourself. When confronted irl, that version has many many chances of crumbling to dust. Because humans cannot remain their perfect selves all the time. Hell, even this KZread video is edited, and so is my comment, to an extent. A feat you simply you cannot do irl. My point is, Chapelle disregards feedback received on Twitter, because a big part of it is not an authentic expression of deeply held beliefs. It's simply a bunch of people who want to look good.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Yes correct! So considering the primacy of social media in directing public discourse we should be very concerned with the fact that these platforms result in altered, adjusted versions of yourself for the benefit of engagement, no? Whether the effects are good or bad or neutral to us individually, it’s dumb to speak like social media doesn’t matter on a societal scale.

@KINKYmustache

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo absolutely. Some of us, guilty of too much idealist thought, might say that it SHOULD NOT matter. I've edited this comment (hehe) because I wanted to add something about how a person should not be defined by the group, and a person is first and foremost an individual, and then part of the mechanism; and with this in mind, disregarding social media's impact would be ez pz. Then I realized midway that it's quite bullshit considering how most people work. So yeah I was wrong and I hate it!

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

@@KINKYmustache Right. I don’t think we’ve collectively gotten a good enough understanding of the way social media makes people behave to get people to intuitively understand that you can practice good discipline in not letting it affect your own life too much, but still care that it affects society as a whole.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

@@KINKYmustache hahahahha everywhere you turn on this issue there’s a counterargument 😂

@ShadyDogg

6 ай бұрын

​@@themorbidzoohes never saying it doesnt matter on a societal scale, hes saying it doesnt matter TO HIM. I think that's where you went wrong honestly

Has anyone noticed a lot of social media users are homeless

This video is so well done, and (on par with your channel overall) needs so many more views! ❤

Ethics to its core!! 🤯

Is there ever a middle ground?

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

I think there is, but it would require a complete and likely anti-capitalist overhaul of social media, which I think is unlikely 😬

you think like i do .... thanks

Just a feedback: I don't really care about what Dave Chapelle thinks social media is. His statement and logic is flawed. I get it. But this video sounds more like a rant than an intellectual debate or commentary on a larger social issue about social media. I didn't finish watching it as it's exhausting to watch someone pontificate and overanalyze an oversimplified statement said at a comedy show. I was looking forward to a more philosophical and mind-broadening commentary on the concept of reality within social media after stumbling upon your video on The Thing and Donald Trump is Not A Fascist but was disappointed instead. Just thought you should know if you're looking for ways to elevate your content. I think your content has great potential if you stay clear of internet drama.

Twitter is a website, not a place.

I really don't understand why you compared twitter to Spain. Spain is a nation and former empire that has played a massive part in human history, and twitter is just a social media thing where people talk and argue with each other. I can understand why people would be upset with Daves jokes but honestly he is right about twitter not being real. In the real world most people aren't looking to argue eith or upset other people.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

My point in that comparison is that a “place” has little if nothing to do with geographic existence - placehood is defined by community and influence. Social media is currently playing an immense role in the development of human communication, and if that communication mostly involves arguing with and upsetting other people, that’s something we should all be concerned about. Just because we don’t like how people behave on social media doesn’t mean it isn’t important, in fact, that makes its ubiquity in modern life even more troubling. See?

@joevines3428

Жыл бұрын

@@themorbidzoo To be honest I don't have twitter and I don't think I know anyone irl that even talks about it, but having thought about it more than 10 minutes, I think you are right. It's easy to dismiss social media as silly, but It's undeniable Facebook has stoked civil unrest around the world and is likely the cause of the Genocide in Myanmar. I would imagine Twitter is or could be just as dangerous.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

@@joevines3428 exactly

him being generationally different makes me think about what he says. sounds like he wont let toxic behaviour change who he is, but it does affect him. media actively seeks to take our time and monetize it ( for whatever purpose ). We dont get that back. The only real place is you and what you do, with an outwardly extending influence. An interesting time to see how everyone is affected by the proliferation of small tools over the last 20 yrs. -who says you cant reinvent the wheel, we do it all the time.

Dayuummm! Watched a review of the thing and thought this person is really insightful lemme see what else they’ve got. Next thing I click is this and I’m like what the actual fuck? This chick has codified my feelings (all be they very conflicted)about Chapelle‘s transphobia and my like of his comedy. I mean just out here spitting fire and dropping knowledge. Bravo! Can’t offer you a marriage proposal, but I can like and subscribe. done and done!!

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🥺🥺

Lol I literally just subscribed to your channel earlier today, and as if by destiny, you uploaded a video! 👌😂👍❤

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

🤙🏼

People have opinions… That’s it then we die…

How does a person conjure a tangible physical place from thin air? And how do i get there? Without and digital screen, and with my very real legs and hands and feet, how do i get to the place known as X formerly known as Twitter l? What space on earth does the website; not an office for it; but the website itself, occupy?

Reported you for hateful content. We don’t need more cyberbullies.

@themorbidzoo

Жыл бұрын

Ok snowflake :)

Dave Chapelle also said Chris Dorner was a hero. a man who murdered FOUR PEOPLE, one of them being the daughter of a man who defended him in court. a hero. He's funny, sure, but he's also just...kinda dumb sometimes.

"And they have already succeeded! Have a great day!" Me: Ahhhh! Scare!! :'0''''

But he's not wrong and nothing in this video addressed it. He didn't say the website "doesn't exist", he said its not a real place, because no, there isn't any real physical place. He's also correct in the sense that its not an authentic place. The jump in logic that what he said was somehow "solipsism" makes no sense to me, like that was pulled completely out of nowhere. How does calling twitter inauthentic translate to believing that the self is the only thing knowable in existence? He never said there aren't real people behind the user accounts and having people behind the user accounts (a lot are bots btw) doesn't make social media any more "real". The Spain analogy doesn't even hold up, Spain is not a shared fiction, there is a physical place people known as Spain where people physically have homes in, and people actually interact with other human beings there, its not just detached people typing on keyboards or glass screens to send messages through a website. Then theres this claim that human communication is inherently political. Please explain what is at all political about a 3 year old hugging their parent, or Antonio Vivaldi's Trio Sonata in C major? I would really like to know this. Is some overly broad definition of political being used here??

@themorbidzoo

4 ай бұрын

I literally can’t think of a more primordial form of politics than a three year-old hugging their parent. A hug is a gesture devised by evolution to strengthen social bonds and thereby convince others to help you, an especially necessary thing for a helpless baby. A three-year old hugging their parent, though they’re not aware of it, is making an extremely potent political argument: “I need you.” As for Vivaldi, his career and influence was sustained throughout his life by a series of wealthy commissioners and patrons, without which he would never have had the resources to compose anything, let alone the reputation needed to continue publishing and performing. He composed in 12-tone and for instruments typical of 18th century Western European standards of musical beauty, and his approval by upper classes reaffirmed these standards. For his own part, Trio Sonata in C Major is Vivaldi’s personal argument for the aesthetic importance of the harmonies he wrote. He is asking you to pay attention to a specific aesthetic quality you would probably have not otherwise encountered and to value it. And yes, Spain, like all countries, is a shared fiction. Human collectives begin in the mind. I am American, but I have never seen most of my country or met most of the people who live in it and never will. The only thing that makes me similar to most other Americans is an extremely broadly defined culture and a series of governmental policies attached to a three hundred year-old idea called “America.” There is nothing substantively different between the “authenticity” of a national cultural influence and the influence of a communication platform like Twitter, and the willful ignorance of this fact is what allows Chappelle in this special to dismiss Twitter as “not a real place” in one breath and then talk about how its influence is so powerful that it was responsible for the death of his trans friend in the next. Hope this helps.

By all accounts its a real place. Even if u ignore social media it can effect you life in so many ways Isolation is dangerpus one. The irony of Social media, how it gives u access to communicate with people from all over the world, while at the same time it's so convenient that it can easily prevent people from socializing with people in real time. It isolates you and then you are at their mercy. It can easily be shut down and if used by the wrong peiple can have serious teal life consequences. It has an impact on our culture as a society. It changes the way people see the world, see themselves internally, it can seriously effect the way people interact with each other in rea life. Social media has even radicalized people to who have gone on to committ some of the worst type of atrocities imaginable. By shutting social media, off and ignoring, it doesn't change the fact that it impacts enough people for it to influence society. If a train is coming and your standing on the tracks, just because you close your eyes doesnt keep the train from hitting you. It still exists. The last time i checked, these platforms aren't exactly run by the most reliable and trustworthy people. If anything, its run by the most socially inept people who have enough wealth, influence and power that combined can be I incredibly dangerous considering how mentally unstable and how easily unhinged a petson like elon musk often gets. We live in a world where many of the wealthiest people are also the pettiest. Not exactly the best combination to have them at the helm of social media