When you first discovered him, what did you feeeeeel, and how did you go about it?
When I first discovered him on ED on Nov '07, I laughed, was fascinated, and felt bad about laughing at him. I wrote him a bigass tl;dr whiteknight, butt-licking letter about how to improve himself, which of course got no reaction and probably wasn't even read. Found out he got flooded with letters like that, and ignored every single one of them. tbh I was glad about that, since it meant i could continue to laugh at him, but not feel a bit of guilt over it! You reject advice, you deserve to be laughed at.
When I first found him, all he had were his parappa vid, his soul calibur vid, future message, and dvd trailer. It took me 3 tries to watch the parappa vid, as I kept feeling reeeeaaally embarrassed for him. I sent it to a friend to get her to try to watch it. She could barely make it a few seconds in before being overcome with secondhand shame. I also recall it was very hard for me to make out what he was saying. I showed some vids to my brother (when more vids were made), and at this time I could understand him well enough (in the verbal sense), but all my brother could hear was absolute gibberish.
It's also worth noting that after forcing myself to watch his parappa vid a few more time (that was painful), I gradually trained out my secondhand humiliation thing. Actually now, sometimes I get cravings for people humiliating themselves. Like that on painful A-Log stand up vid. Didn't feel a bit of secondhand embarrassment, but apparently some people got so humiliated for him they had to leave. Interesting. SOMETIMES I feel a bit of secondhand shame for some people (even personal lolcows with no grip on reality), but it's a rare thing and I feel the shame over the dumbest little things. Like a sperg on DA writes a story with a really, really awkward exchange and suddenly I feel embarrassed for his little characters being so awkward. Weird little things like that.
so anyway, you go.
When I first discovered him on ED on Nov '07, I laughed, was fascinated, and felt bad about laughing at him. I wrote him a bigass tl;dr whiteknight, butt-licking letter about how to improve himself, which of course got no reaction and probably wasn't even read. Found out he got flooded with letters like that, and ignored every single one of them. tbh I was glad about that, since it meant i could continue to laugh at him, but not feel a bit of guilt over it! You reject advice, you deserve to be laughed at.
When I first found him, all he had were his parappa vid, his soul calibur vid, future message, and dvd trailer. It took me 3 tries to watch the parappa vid, as I kept feeling reeeeaaally embarrassed for him. I sent it to a friend to get her to try to watch it. She could barely make it a few seconds in before being overcome with secondhand shame. I also recall it was very hard for me to make out what he was saying. I showed some vids to my brother (when more vids were made), and at this time I could understand him well enough (in the verbal sense), but all my brother could hear was absolute gibberish.
It's also worth noting that after forcing myself to watch his parappa vid a few more time (that was painful), I gradually trained out my secondhand humiliation thing. Actually now, sometimes I get cravings for people humiliating themselves. Like that on painful A-Log stand up vid. Didn't feel a bit of secondhand embarrassment, but apparently some people got so humiliated for him they had to leave. Interesting. SOMETIMES I feel a bit of secondhand shame for some people (even personal lolcows with no grip on reality), but it's a rare thing and I feel the shame over the dumbest little things. Like a sperg on DA writes a story with a really, really awkward exchange and suddenly I feel embarrassed for his little characters being so awkward. Weird little things like that.
so anyway, you go.
