Another Funny Youtube Gaming Community Trend

Last week I made a quick blog post about the whole Youtube "Payola" for shout outs trend that is taking over the gaming community. Today I noticed another odd trend that plagues the community. (Plague is too strong of a word but screw it, it's staying there!)

I woke up late today, 3:00PM. Ok, it was actually 4:00PM but that is only because of the time change. Anyway, I checked my Youtube channel to see what was going on and noticed I had a message. Cool. A fellow Youtube gamer sent me a message with the subject line "help." Now, the shit just hit the fan in Japan so I was assuming that this had something to do with that. Seldom right and wrong again. This Youtuber, who has close to 5000 subs, for some reason needed to point out to me that I wasn't subbed to his channel. I was friends with him, but only because he spam mailed me a few months ago with a friend invite. He wanted to know why I was his friend, but yet not subbed to him. He pointed out his 400+ videos and how professional they were. It almost sounded like he was dumbfounded as to why I wasn't subbed to his channel.

Here is the funny part, I had been subbed to his channel for months, ever since he spammed me with a friend invite. For some reason, he still felt the need to spam me again. Funny again, he couldn't even be bothered to subscribe to my channel.

I don't expect everyone to sub for sub, but if you are going to ask for a friend or sub, at least have the common respect to sub back. All these unwritten rules within the Youtube community have taken on a life of their own and sometimes push real life respect and courtesy aside. I really think sometimes people need to take Youtube a little less seriously and just think about how you would interact with someone in the real world before acting in the Youtube universe. This applies to everything; subs, comments, thumbs up, responding to comments, etc.

Now, at the end of the day, I'm not to worried about any of this. I do feel that the whole sub and friend thing on Youtube creates an interesting dynamic within any one specific community. This dude who spammed me expecting a sub, even though I was subbed...is a douche. His "pro style" videos are straight out of 1989, everything down to his denim shirt and mullet. I love the mullet, I had one that was pretty epic back in the day. The denim, dude the denim has got to go. Douchetastic.

(I have no intent to flame or call out Youtube users on this blog, as long as they are not being douchey. I reserve the right to blog about random douchery at any time. If you are offended by my douche-like blogging style or my use of the word douche, go lie down out of it.)