| irstupid said: I thought he was highlighting what was bolded. You know the part about instead of stating their own opinions - attack the opinions of others, and make silly generalizations Considering your post didn't have any points, but just generalizations about how his arguments were not good. Were not good how? |
That's a fair way of looking at it, sure. I'm going to bring up a few reasons why I personally do not feel that is hypocritical or ironic.
I don't put my guesstimation of what the contents of an Arlo video are up to the same standard as someone trying to make video replies to people on the internet as part of his job. If I had the same platform as Arlo, and I literally just stated what I wrote in my comment in a short 2 minute video? Sure, that's pretty much clear cut hypocrisy. However, I do not have the same platform as Arlo, and I know that my opinion to something he said is ultimately irrelevant to just about any discussion relating to his channel. I think that saying what he said in that quote after 2 or 3 videos of doing the same thing that's in that quote is pretty hypocritical. But I don't think I hold myself to that same standard, not just because people expect less out of a random forum post then a video, but for more reasons as well.
To be clear, the whole point of my post was that I didn't watch the video, I was literally guessing what Arlo's video was like. So defining that part of my comment as a "generalization" and thus hypocritical is kind of missing the point, because anything that's a guess is going to be a generalization in the grand scheme of things compared to the specific reply you could make to the literal contents of the video. That's not "hypocrisy" - it's a literal guess, based on someones continuous use of low-hanging fruit and bad arguments to make video replies to morons on the internet, of what the contents of the video was like. I ended up being right, but there wasn't much more to add other than I feel these videos are very cheap. You're basically saying that the comment is hypocritical because of the entire idea of the comment, which is just missing the point a bit, I feel. The fact that I didn't feel any different after I watched the full video, then I did when I was writing the first two paragraphs of my comment, speaks for itself. That point couldn't be made without a guess, which is always going to be a generalization. In other words, the generalization is the entire point.
That being said, I did watch the video by the time I wrote the third paragraph. The problem is, calling these videos cheap isn't the same thing as disagreeing. So there's no reason for me to make ultra-specific essay listing all the things I disagree with. I don't disagree with what he says on paper, I just find the whole idea of it problematic. So yes, the comment is going to be general, because frankly it would be beating a dead horse to write an essay about my gripes with these kind of videos.
Anyways, you can think I was being hypocritical if you want. Surely wouldn't be the first time I've made a mistake. I just think Arlo is a very good content creator, so it's sad seeing stuff like this. Not the end of the world, just a bit disappointing. This is way more than I would have ever wanted to write about a video, by the way xD
