Hi friends it's Saajid and today I wanted to come at y'all with a very quick casual
discussion video about handling criticism as content creators. So this is
in part a reaction to a situation that occurred about perhaps a few weeks or
months ago it was with regards to George Lopez cussing out one of his fans in the
audience, take a look at this video.
[Lopez]: Sit your fucking ass down. Bitch. You can't take a joke you're in the wrong motherfucking place.
Sit your fucking ass down or get the fuck out of here (x2). I see you, I see you. *audience applause*
Essentially he made a joke about Latino families having two main rules: "don't
park a car in front of the house" and "don't bring home a black person." And
allegedly, and I'll get back to this later on in the video, but allegedly an
audience member was upset with this joke and she got up to contest him and he
completely cussed her out. I really found this video particularly interesting
because it got me thinking about the way we as content creators respond to
criticism and it also made me think about the ways in which we should and
should not do so. I can't really come from a personal experience because my
platform is significantly smaller than a lot of content creators and I have
actually never really experienced that level of criticism from anybody. But I do
think that there are certain ways that I should handle it if it ever happens me
as well as dressing me that I think other people should handle criticism. Now,
this is not me saying that this is how you definitely should go about handling
yourself this is just my personal opinions and thoughts I think the first
thing you should do is be aware of the fact that your content is not going to
slide at some people for different reasons and people are going to give you
feedback and that feedback is going to come in many different forms there's
going to be the people who constructively criticize you and those
people are worth engaging with, I think. And then you have people who will be
more emotional in their critique of you. Take it in the context of a book
review I might read The Hunger Games and not like it and come up with very
constructive critique say that the writing was bad, I didn't particularly
think that it was done well the characters were not well developed the
will was not well executed but then I might make a more emotional review of
the Hunger Games, saying book was crappy, characters were shitty, Suzanne Collins
can write a book to save her life. That's where it's a lot more difficult to deal with
criticism because in that case you have a situation where you are feeling
personally attacked and as humans we are reactive individuals but I really
think the best thing to do is avoid responding emotionally
to those types of things, which could be difficult for different people. Like, for
example, if you are PewDiePie or Lilly Singh then you know you can just ignore
stupid comments that people leave under your videos but if you are George Lopez
and somebody in real life comes up to you and starts to heckle you you will
want to react that because you are a human and that's your natural response. But I
think again you have to know that people are not going to be okay with what you
have to say and I think that also has to do with knowing the environments and
knowing what's okay to say, Now I'm not saying you should censor yourself and
you should not make these types of jokes because they offend us the people
obviously it is your freedom of choice and freedom of expression and freedom of
speech to say whatever the hell you want to. I think you should also have the
responsibility of knowing that you live in a climate and an environment where
something that you know what's funny ten years ago is no longer funny now, it will no
longer slide with the general public now. So you have to be aware of that and you
just have to deal with it because as much as you don't agree with the PC
police and the SJWs the reality is they're there, they exist and they are
going to critique you. So you have to be prepared for that and you have to put
measures in place to handle that criticism whether it be ignoring them,
whether it be engaging with them, whether it be removing them from your audience
if they start to react a certain way. But cussing them out really emotionally
involving yourself with them I don't think it's very productive. Another
reason why I think that content creators should be careful when engaging
emotionally with critics is that, you know, you might misunderstand them. And
this brings me back to the George Lopez incident because it was later revealed
that the girl who got up to contest his joke actually didn't get up the contest him or
criticized him at all. She actually got up to jokingly tell him that she's half
black and half Mexican and she wanted to make like a joke about how you know she
is the exception to the rule. But he misunderstood her he thought that she
was getting up to like criticize him. Should she have done that was it the
best most appropriate thing to get up and interrupt a comedy show? No, not
really. But at the end of the day we all want to be the one who sings halo when
Beyonce sticks her hands out to the audience.
We are humans, we crave attention. Especially from the celebrities and
these people that we admire so in this problem and I can understand how she
wanted to get up and say "hey you know so and so is the case, hahaha" and George Lopez would have
been like "hahaha I see you, that's funny too."
or something like that. I think overall what I'm trying to say is number one we
as content creators need to be conscious of the fact that our content is not
going to be liked by different people for many different reasons
the fact that it just may not work for them, the fact that we live in an
environment with it and things are no longer seen as appropriate um the fact
that you know you just might be bad and it doesn't I really need to work on your
shit. And I think I'm also trying to say that we need to be more careful about
the way in which we engage with our audience now I keep saying remove
emotion don't be emotional I don't know if that's the best route to take as I
said I've never really dealt with this personally so none of what I say should
be taken as conclusive but I do feel like there are certain ways that you
should kind of handle yourself when engaging with critics and that's really
for up to you to decide I personally think that you should kind of remove the
emotion especially when it's antagonistic kind of like shut the fuck
up don't tell me what I should do don't tell me what I should say I'm correct.
That very defensive reactionary thing, I personally think
that may not be the best route to engage with criticism. How I would handle it? I
might probably just ignore it if I get a mean comment. If I get a constructively
criticism constructively... if I get one of those, I would probably just
engage with them a little bit but maybe not too much. So yeah that's basically
everything I have to say about it this wasn't a researched video this wasn't
like a scripted laid out video. This is me talking at the top of my head so I
hope that was okay. Obviously in the comments down below I love to know your
thoughts on this particular situation. Other than that thank you all so much
for watching. I hope you have a lovely, lovely day and until next time Insha
Allah keep reading.
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