This will be in a similar format to my vlog, which I will avoid as much as possible. I forgot to put some stuff in, and I didn’t feel like rerecording so I figured I’d just put it here. The basis of my vlog is as the title of the might preclude that today was an interesting day. I follow that with “Because every day is an interesting day”. My point with the whole theme is finding those tidbits that make each day special. If you can pull those minute points out even, if some would view them as pointless(get it oohhh snap), then you can find value in the mundane. If we cherish each and every day for the little wonderful things or frustrating things or whatever things it increases the apparent value. This shift not only allows you to care more about yourself and value yourself it helps relate to others and view each person as more important and more valuable. That’s a good thing, trust me. If we all cared and valued humanity in general, phew that’d be amazing!

back to the point.

So yesterday was a pretty fantastic day.

side note. This has now spanned 3 days. I started on Saturday evening, it is now Monday afternoon. I get soooo distracted. I’ve honestly forgot a large amount of what I intended on typing.

Lets see… TWO days I went to a renaissance fair. It was awesome. I not only went around pretending to be The Doctor, ok I’ll be honesty that’s about all I did. However. With reason.

First I found Master Chief. Which spells trouble for the locals.

Then I found this guy…

All in all the fair was fun, jousting, beer, accents, ladies with fantastic costumes. What’s not to like?

Then… It got better. Not very many things are as satisfying as ordering a pizza and answering the door wearing a ninja turtles t-shirt. Just saying.

It’s the small things in life that make it worth while right? I said something about that before I feel. THEN came Sunday.. gah what a day. Finished reviews at work. On to the next burden, I’m running a major project which will weigh heavily on my career and my division.

side note, remember how I said YouTube is weird? I’m going to go a little more into that.

YouTube is creating a whole new type of celebrity. One where the fans feel much more connected. These folks are most often playing either themselves or caricatures of themselves. This creates that I’m your friend bond instead of you’re above me bond as we find with hollywood folks and tv celebrities. I mean, I’d much rather hang out with the Yogscast than any other group of “celebrities” they just seem cool you know? A group of folks you could just sit around and bs and play games with. I think it’s changing the game when it comes to fame. From what I gather most of them aren’t SUPER wealthy. I mean, they make more than I do, but they’re no A-list celebrity making 10mil for a movie.

back to the point.

As they build this bond with their fans they have a profound impact when it comes to interaction. It seems to affirm the notion of “we’re friends”. Often YouTubers call their subs that, or something like that. It’s tremendous. I myself would say I fall victim to that and as stated before would be more a fan boy for one of my favorite YouTubers than a regular celebrity. As a frame of reference, I tweeted to @TheStrippin  joking about Hearthstone. He favorited it and retweeted. I momentarily was like, “OH SHIT! THIS GUY! FUCK YEAH. My man Strippin just retweeted my shit and favorited it! wooooo That means he read it! Dope!” Then I calmed down and thought to myself. “He’s just a dude like me. He plays video games, uploads stuff to YouTube, has another real job on top of that.” After that I was a little ashamed of myself for the fanboy reaction. Still I appreciated the response even though it was simply two mouse clicks. Two mouse clicks and he made my day, sounds weird but that’s impactful. And he’s just one guy. The thousands of YouTube channels out there that have these massive fan bases, they interact with their fans on such a regular basis. Just think about the influence these kids have(yes I said kids, I myself still count as a kid at 26 and tons of them are at or around my age). All they have to do is reply sometimes. I know that can be a huge burden when thousands are trying to reach you at once, it can become stressful and overwhelming. It also… I got up to check my phone and lost my train of thought.

I watched Ninja Turtles today. I thought it was pretty good. As you can form your own opinion about it I will respect that. Now I will admit there were a few parts that were pretttty bad. April was a joke, I’m sorry but that acting(not that I could do better). It was hard to watch, I’ve seen her deliver better performances. I’ll leave it at that though, I thought it was worth it.

Hope you guys have a great day!

Crash and Burn

Casey

GO HAWKS!