Get the hate out of your heart.Breathe!Let that "bug" in your bathroom live.
Don’t use my personal email address that you are able to access because you are inexplicably a mod to send me harassing emails. I am glad I didn’t pay to join this site so you don’t have access to my credit card details. Creepy and inappropriate and immature on your part. Please don’t do it again. I’m asking you politely to acknowledge this and apologize. Don’t just delete and pretend you didn’t do it.
What did the emails say?
What is with the ridiculous amount of copycats making a "Reaction to..." channel on Youtube?
The two Black guys who are beyond high when they put out a video is good, but it usually has nothing to do with their reaction to the music. Those dudes are already hearing colours and seeing music.
And so many of them are full of sh*t. Love it, hate it or indifferent I don't believe anyone has not heard Hey Jude.
Frankenstein's Lab! I don't know why but I just always smile through their videos. Nothing great or original, but you do just get a nice warm fuzzy feeling watching along and reacting. If I'm on the subway or wherever and need a quick chuckle, throw on a Frankenstein's Lab and watch some classic comedy bit. You'd be surprised at how much of a non-event various things white people think are a big deal and take for granted are in the black community and also how unknown a lot of the "classic" stuff is with young people. Heck, I had parents who weren't into popular music AT ALL. I didn't F all about the Beatles basically until college. I knew more about the Smashing Pumpkins and Tupac than The Beatles. I think I knew "Yellow Submarine" because I had to sing it one class and then I remember in Middle School that Ringo Starr was a crossword puzzle answer I didn't know, Like I knew OF the Beatles and what they looked like thanks to Simpsons and stuff like that, but when your dominant musical influences during your childhood are classical, opera, folk songs and whatever is on Prairie Home Companion, you aren't really into that stuff. I never listened to much popular music until late middle school and high school. Aside from some rap during the MC Hammer/Vanilla Ice days of elementary school. Of course then I went whole hog and in college went hard into classic rock and such, but yeah, complete non-event and I was raised in a white family.There's lots of people out there that aren't into The Beatles or Seinfeld or whatever else a lot of people seem to think is "mandatory". Large swaths of black people, other minorities, country folk, religious people and people who don't listen to popular music know very little/don't care much about many songs and bands you take for granted. This may give an idea of that gap- Black people having a "First Reaction" to a Beatles Song or Seinfeld is as natural and expected as YOU/Random White Person having a first reaction to Patti LaBelle or Mama Mosie or the Madea movies or Martin. Like I bet if you took random white people, they might know OF Martin and the Madea movies. Probably 50%+ you could trick into thinking Patti LaBelle was some white movie actress from the 1940s, and you'd be lucky if 1% knew who Mama Mosie was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEG_h2xB3g0
The humour in this clip is because no one could imagine it being true, but who knows? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEcEZ820rGM
HaHaHa, that guy nailed it.
The joke there was that black people, by and large, weren't into Seinfeld.
If you want to get a sense of the divide and obliviousness despite a common language, think of the divides in sports- Americans without the foggiest clue about rugby, cricket and football. People from SA or NZ who know next to nothing about hockey or baseball or American football. A fun one for us Americans is Brits/Euros reacting to college football and the sheer size and spectacle of the whole thing. Many have no clue as to the scale and what goes into college football.
Yes, the audience that watches Curb couldn't imagine that someone didn't know Seinfeld.
But so many now are pandering and clearly full of sh*t because they've seen how successful channels like Jamal have been. Everyone's hopping on the bandwagon which is my chief complaint. Even if all these Black people don't know Let It Be, dod they really think we need a fifty third reaction video from a channel that came into existence two weeks ago?
Someone never even knowing any verse of the song, nor recognising ANY of the melody, not even knowing that Queen was a band would be like a NZ or a SA saying that they weren't even aware that hockey was a sport or that it was played in winter. I cannot name a single Ella Fitzgerald song, but I'm sure if a couple came on I'd go "Ah yeah, I've heard this somewhere" and when quizzed, I'd say "Yeah, she was singer from the 40s." I don't think every single black person would pass a quiz on 5 questions about Queen, but jesus. Even my dad knows who bloody Snoop Dogg is.
There really is a BIG gulf sometimes. You go to a community that's like 98% black and you're talking about a completely different frame of reference...The gap in things like TV, music and movies can be huge.