“look the guy who spends all day every day saying things said a cringe thing once! stop listening to him about israel and billionaires!”
there’s a huge hasan smear campaign by corpo “democrats” right now, because obviously he’s the real danger for some reason and not the cheeto rapist in power.
when people are calling democrats controlled opposition, this is what they mean.
remember hasan’s dog? don’t think about the entrenched democrats actively enabling the fascist takeover. don’t think about their support for funding israel’s genocide of gaza. what if his dog possibly potentially had a shock collar because the way it moved once! keep hasan on the defensive so he isn’t talking about israel or billionaires!
etc.
i definitely am not the biggest hasan fan, but i find myself defending him regularly from absolute bullshit.
if there’s was ever a time to be picky about hasan’s choice of emotionally biased statements on non-issues, this is really not it.
I think I actually believe him when he says its soul-sucking. He’s obviously missing a lot of perspective on what he calls ‘real jobs’, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an emotional toll from what amounts to being a clown whose paycheck is derived from the whims of literally faceless masses
I respect and appreciate what Hasan does and the impact he has even if I myself am not a fan.
But boy, I do wish he managed to be less annoying while doing it, or that we had a better face for the movement in broad media than him.
That’s why the most successful streamers never had souls to begin with.
Most of youtubers and streames are disconnected from real world.
I think Hasan is a net positive for leftist politics in USA overall, but god damn this is doubly true for Hasan I don’t even really tell people I like him. Nobody that I know in real life is interested in his politics anyway it’s just people who like internet drama.
I have personal bias in favor of the guy because while watching his stuff I actually kinda realized I hate the drama farm side of the internet, Hollywood, music, whatever. and I learned being liberal isn’t the end all be all of leftism.
But god damn I get annoyed by people who are kinda yuppies & act like yuppies especially a guy who’s such a good orator. Like goddamn shut the fuck up about the DNC and take off that fuck ugly Gucci shirt. That’s really my main gripe with any leftist orator, hasan kinda being the easy dunk example
What does the need to create divisive discourse around a popular leftist streamer serve to obscure about how you actually feel about the world?
Fucking IMAGINE that.
Seriously though. I cannot imagine that this is what actually bothers you, right?
What probably actually bothers you is the systemic injustice of the world. Am I wrong?
If it actually bothered me, I wouldn’t post it in the shitpost community on lemmy… I don’t even remotely care about streamers. I am trolling/ragebaiting in the community where that behavior belongs.
Oh right, this is all ironic *wink*
Lmao look at the engagment. Paint me however you want.
Yeah seems kind of whiny since he’s super successful and was probably already well-off, but on the other hand…
I’m kind of tired of hearing that my nieces and nephews have no career goals other than to be a “content creator”.
Maybe if more people were honest about what it takes and how the social media companies have started to squeeze creators then kids would aspire to get real jobs.
I’m kind of tired of hearing that my nieces and nephews have no career goals other than to be a “content creator”.
It’s completely normal for people to try to survive as artists and creatives until they’re enslaved into capitalism.
Was that Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha from the Beatles’ I Am the Walrus or from Jurgen Schlachter’s The Big Laugh?
Maybe Heath Ledger’s Joker walking into the mob meeting? Or the lyrics to They’re Coming To Take Me Away?
Typically just what I say when im trolling and rage baiting. No idea if it’s from something.
One of the main reasons we suffer is because we don’t work on ourselves.
If we did, we could lift ourselves up, then our families, and then our communities.
I do think the streamer may have a point, but only in a bullshit jobs way. A job that actually improves the world has a sense of satisfaction that a job that’s either harmful or pointless lacks, and the latter does some damage to the psyche
That said, he could you know, change careers
But then he might chip his manicure
He could probably get a desk job career that feels meaningful
I find it hard to think of any job that would feel meaningful, under capitalism–which is the only system I have experience with. Certainly no job I’ve ever had has felt so. Sure, I could lie to myself that looking at the work from a narrow view, from a certain angle, and in the right light, potential meaning beyond just making the rich richer, and eking out an existence for myself could be occasionally glimpsed, but that was always an obvious lie.
You can certainly frame your meaningless job in a meaningful way.
I am specialized in reducing waste and carbon emissions.
How do I do it? I reduce excess inventories and implement shipping routes that make sense (using less expensive and less wasteful means of transportation wherever possible).
Healthcare was meaningful until they went corporate model now it sucks (admin/IT side)
Have you considered plumbing? Civil engineering? Becoming a physician or nurse? Installing solar panels? Even a fair amount of manufacturing does something that the world is better off for having it, and within that, supportive work is still meaningful because it enables that good to happen.
Yes, the distribution of resources and organization of labor are alienating in our society, but there’s work that improves the world and there’s satisfaction in doing it.
Mine feels good, provide electricity to thousands.
You say chip, what’s up?
Nah he’s right. I’m in a friend circle that includes a lot of content creators and the burnout is so palpable, they can’t even take real holidays because if they do the algorithm fucks them over. Then the guy in the group who’s effectively a Janitor is the happiest and well adjusted and he loves his job.
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The person in OP’s picture could retire today and never work again. So clearly it’s not “sucking out his soul” since it’s entirely voluntary.
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He’s also talking specifically about streaming which is the absolute lowest common denominator of online content. Like people just flip on OBS and record themselves playing games or eating or reacting to other content, literally just things they would be doing anyways even if they weren’t recording. No one is owed the ability to make money streaming and it’s hard to find a “real job” that provides less value to society than streaming.
It’s surprising that more political science majors that want to make a difference to society aren’t working at an Amazon warehouse instead of streaming.
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I can absolutely see this. Viewers are expecting something new every time they check your page. If you aren’t active for a week they may stop checking.
Are any of your content creator friends trying to get other jobs?
Yeah, most of them are actually artists primarily, but getting a stable job in art is quite hard.
Best of luck to them, then.
LOL, they can’t take holidays? I can’t either, show me who can afford holidays… I haven’t been on holiday in a decade. At least they can pay their bills ffs, unlike me.
I get PTO and my job is maybe two steps above flipping burgers. I ain’t going overseas but I can deffo take a vacation. If you’re in a red state or otherwise victim to similar ratfuckery, my condolensces friend.
???
All my other friends? I’m on a very average wage and can take holidays, I have a friend’s that on like 1k/year over minimum who’s going to Japan later this year.
Scream out of touch louder. In the US (where Hasan is so its the pertinent example) federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour, thats 16,080 a year, add 1000 and you’re saying your friend can afford to pay all their bills and a trip to Japan? The state with the highest minimum wage is Washington at 17.13 hourly total annual being 35,630, add 1,000 36,630. You’re saying thats not only a livable wage in that state but one high enough to afford a trip to Japan? Your friend is putting it on a credit card or they don’t have any of the bills associated with being an adult.
Americans still don’t understand there are other countries that exist.
Boooooo you stink. We are talking about hasan and you are trying to apply whatever your country (which is undeniably a significantly smaller number of people) to all countries by making the statement you’ve made based on your sub 1% incredibly high level of privilege. Your niche example can’t apply to the other 7.5 billion at least humans.
lmao??
Sup babe?
Let me get this straight, you’re saying that because some people hate their jobs, nobody is allowed to say a different job sucks? Or is it that nobody is allowed to enjoy their job?
And you’re saying that because some people are struggling financially nobody else is allowed to be doing okay financially and enjoying the fruits of their labor?
Get some perspective bro. Read the room!
Yes thats exactly what I’m saying and I mean it
Dude you badly need to spend some time offline and touch some grass and talk to some new people. Go have some fun in the real world!
That line of thinking only comes from being in an echo chamber for too long
I love that no matter what I say in shitpost there is a shockingly high percentage of people who take it as genuine. This is the best place I’ve ever found to bait/troll.
Delusional
I love that no matter what I say in shitpost there is a shockingly high percentage of people who take it as genuine. This is the best place I’ve ever found to bait/troll.
Hinting at quitting streaming?
Praise be
Stop giving fuckheads attention. It’s the only way we can prevent further idiocracy. Attention focus matters.
Hell no
chat, is this real??
Yes and no. He’s definitely said similar comments, which are relatively true but has often acknowledged how privilege he is to be able to do this as a job. Dipshits like OP will deliberately avoid mentioning this.
Chat, are we cooked?
Maybe
He’s right, normal jobs don’t completely take over your life or get you stalkers and death threats or make it impossible to exist in public without being harrassed. Success as a streamer is like any other kind of fame in that it results in a bunch of extra bullshit above and beyond the actual work that is uniquely psychologically exhausting.
Clown world
Your mask is slipping.
False
Totally get that. Is someone forcing him to be a streamer? Is it that hard to stop?
People are allowed to complain about their jobs regardless of their short/medium term plans
Nope
Is it hard to stop needing a job? Yeah actually, famous people still have bills.
Career change? Or start building skills while you’re a streamer so you can eventually transition out? I’m not saying it’s easy at all. Just possible
And?
Or
