Comments by "Yes Theory" (@YesTheory) on "I spent a day with OG YOUTUBERS" video.

  1. This was so incredible, although our channel is more from a middle wave starting in 2015, I could relate to every single one of these problems, from identity to anxiety, pressure to keep up and lack of prioritizing self-care. I want to really thank everyone in this video for speaking so honestly and vulnerably while putting words to certain problems I'll admit I hadn't fully vocalized myself. Every person here was someone I looked up to growing up, (for me personally Kassem G was a big one!) dreaming of one day being like them, then once I got here I realized that the experience is more nuanced than I'd thought. Continuing to find joy and fulfillment in the creative process however is what I have accepted as my duty and the "job" part that I have as a creative. Ultimately, the only cure I have found to most of this, is to make sure that the output matches my current state of maturity, even if it means changing and not delivering what the audience expects. Much love for this wild and unpredictable creative journey we are all on! There's a quote from Zadie Smith I read recently that echoes some of this sentiment: "We want our artists to remain as they were when we first loved them. But our artists want to move. Sometimes the battle becomes so violent that a perversion in the artist can occur: these days, Joni Mitchell thinks of herself more as a painter than a singer. She is so allergic to the expectations of her audience that she would rather be a perfectly nice painter than a singer touched by the sublime. That kind of anxiety about audience is often read as contempt, but Mitchell’s restlessness is only the natural side effect of her artmaking, as it is with Dylan, as it was with Joyce and Picasso. Joni Mitchell doesn’t want to live in my dream, stuck as it is in an eternal 1971…her life has its own time. There is simply not enough time in her life for her to be the Joni of my memory forever. The worst possible thing for an artist is to exist as a feature of somebody else’s epiphany." - Thomas
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