Rick Unedited: Patreon Exclusive Reupload (Patreon)

FUN FACT: The only other video on the channel I made private also used Beato in the thumbnail. The man is a curse.

I made this really weird video because I had a really weird idea when hearing about Rick Beato's solo show. I saw a clip of it and he like, plays stems from old Beatles tracks and does air guitar on stage or something. It's unhinged. 

I made this video because I guess I thought the whole thing was absurd. Beato's popularity as an end-game boomer gatekeeping music is absurd. Mary Spender's content thievery, inscrutable smirking, and self-absorption are absurd. Whyte Sea Studio's YouTube faces are absurd and disturbing.

I don't understand why we just accept things like this anymore. Like, we are forced to experience this absolutely deafening cognitive dissonance, to the point where nothing really means anything that it presents on its surface, and we just go "yeah haha, the world sure is funny, but they have to do those things because the algorithm and stuff!".

They don't. You don't. You don't have to accept anything you don't want to. It hurts me because I can't get away from it, I see it everywhere, and it feels like an inescapable force that needs pushing back against sometimes. That sounds weird but, yeah.

The video wasn't REALLY supposed to be mean-spirited. It was satire, surreal, and a giant piss-take, but it was as gentle as I could be.

Anyway, I took the video down. I have absolutely top-tier rejection sensitivity and the few negative comments I got in a sea of overwhelmingly positive comments made me change my mind.

The truth is, I was feeling a personal cognitive dissonance publishing this video as the one right after You Took Away My Gun. I felt like even though the Beato video was funny, and I still stick by it, it wasn't the right thing to publish after that. I even had to zoom in on the frames of the Beato video to not show the 9mm on my nightstand. It all felt too different and too... wrong... and I didn't want that weighing on me. I needed to release it the day after Beato's scheduled show for it to land, but that put it in direct opposition to the vulnerability on display in Gun.

The march of content is abhorrent and dehumanizing and I am having a really hard time figuring out what the actual fuck to do in 2024.

Anyways, here's Beato. Enjoy. 

I said ENJOY.