... wiggling them firm little butt cheeks around and getting me all flabbergasted, I got to thinking about some things people may or may not have said to me.
One correspondent suggested that I start a forum about shortwave radio. While I find shortwave interesting and know a little bit about it, I'm no expert. Radio is really just one of many offshoots of my general dabbling in electronics and whatnot. I'm into telephones, vintage computers, music synthesizers, and analog audio gear too. But I'm also interested in many other things besides electronics.
More to the point, I don't think I would post enough about any single topic to devote a whole forum to it. The forums and chat rooms I've participated in, and administered myself, have always been general purpose sites. Even on the home recording and tape recorder boards, I tended to spend most of my time in the off topic areas. A general chat platform offers more opportunity to let the bullshit flow freely.
The user328 persona, as originally developed on right-wing social media, was geared mainly, but not exclusively, towards sociopolitical satire and commentary, with an emphasis on infuencer culture. For the most part, the commentary was about other users of the same social media platforms. I wouldn't be able to pull off MO's trademark schtick of commenting on YouTube personalities. Most of the videos I watch are about a particular subject rather than the creator's personal life.
It's been awhile since I followed politics, current events, or the various pundits I used to follow as well. The only subject I've posted about that gained much traction in the past year or so was my experience in the homeless shelter. There were a lot of eccentric characters there, which made it ridiculously easy to find funny things to comment on.
I don't have any intention through all of that again just to milk it for comedy material. I'm gonna have to create my own situations, and see what comes of them. Hence, the absurd stunts like dressing like a goth chick to shock and amuse my friends. These are perhaps the sort of things a YouTube channel could be built around, but I'm not a content creator. The endless hours of editing, not to mention dealing with YouTube's corporate fascist bullshit, would just ruin it for me. I'm retired, so there's no reason at all for me to engage with the corporate world any more than necessary to feed, clothe, and house myself.
One correspondent suggested that I start a forum about shortwave radio. While I find shortwave interesting and know a little bit about it, I'm no expert. Radio is really just one of many offshoots of my general dabbling in electronics and whatnot. I'm into telephones, vintage computers, music synthesizers, and analog audio gear too. But I'm also interested in many other things besides electronics.
More to the point, I don't think I would post enough about any single topic to devote a whole forum to it. The forums and chat rooms I've participated in, and administered myself, have always been general purpose sites. Even on the home recording and tape recorder boards, I tended to spend most of my time in the off topic areas. A general chat platform offers more opportunity to let the bullshit flow freely.
The user328 persona, as originally developed on right-wing social media, was geared mainly, but not exclusively, towards sociopolitical satire and commentary, with an emphasis on infuencer culture. For the most part, the commentary was about other users of the same social media platforms. I wouldn't be able to pull off MO's trademark schtick of commenting on YouTube personalities. Most of the videos I watch are about a particular subject rather than the creator's personal life.
It's been awhile since I followed politics, current events, or the various pundits I used to follow as well. The only subject I've posted about that gained much traction in the past year or so was my experience in the homeless shelter. There were a lot of eccentric characters there, which made it ridiculously easy to find funny things to comment on.
I don't have any intention through all of that again just to milk it for comedy material. I'm gonna have to create my own situations, and see what comes of them. Hence, the absurd stunts like dressing like a goth chick to shock and amuse my friends. These are perhaps the sort of things a YouTube channel could be built around, but I'm not a content creator. The endless hours of editing, not to mention dealing with YouTube's corporate fascist bullshit, would just ruin it for me. I'm retired, so there's no reason at all for me to engage with the corporate world any more than necessary to feed, clothe, and house myself.
