A Guest Writer Joins Us
I promised to write a substack a day some weeks ago, this promise has not been kept. Thus, today I have invited famous youtuber “Garthon the Great” to write todays article, I hope he is as informative as I am.
Just a few years ago, I was an atheist youtuber. Those were happy days, my friend. We owned the Christians 10 times a day. They were wrong about evolution, they were wrong about miracles and they were wrong about souls - which, by the way there is no scientific evidence for. More than that, they were the big guys, they had so much power! Did you know that in 2009 a group of Christians forbade the teaching of evolution in Texas public schools? Outrageous! Imagine violating the principles of scientific rationality this way.
Anyway, that’s all in the past now. Nobody much cares about owning the Christians anymore. Maybe they’ve lost the power they seemed to have back in those days, or maybe people just got bored of us repeating the same talking points again and again, maybe both, who can say. Anyway, eventually my videos started to get fewer and fewer views: at my peak, I would get 5 million views on a good day, by the later days, I reached the hundreds of thousands and eventually I fell into the tens of thousands. The video that really got me thinking was “Jesus and his DISCIPLES destroyed with FACTS AND LOGIC.” I got barely 10,000 views on this video, even though a few months ago I’m sure I would have got millions. It was a real low point for me, with my ad revenue drying up, especially because in those days YouTube was just starting to get really harsh about ‘inappropriate content.’ My girlfriend left me that year as well, so all around, things seemed to be going down hill.
Anyway, to explain what happened next, I really need to explain what got me into YouTube in the first place. This isn’t a story I’ve told before, but Sirsfurther is a really nice guy and he persuaded me to tell it to you guys. Anyway, I used to work for a major tech company, It’s best if I don’t say which, but let’s just say that it’s one you probably use quite a lot, one that’s really amazing, and a really great zone to work in. So anyway, I was in a pretty bad place in those days, I had to work long hours and I wasn’t very socially skilled or good with women so I was very lonely. One day, I’d been working late on some code and I was making my way back home, I lived just a few blocks from the office so I tended to walk home. As I was approaching the intersection near my house, I spotted a mysterious figure. I feel foolish describing him, I couldn’t really make out his face, but he seemed to almost suck the light from his surroundings. He was standing right under a street light, but everything still seemed so dark. I don’t normally speak to random people on the street, even if they ask me for help, but for some reason, I listened to him when he told me that he was looking for a certain ‘Mr Webster.’ Looking back, it seems like a ridiculous thing to ask of some random person in such a massive city, but at the time it seemed entirely reasonable. I told him I didn’t know any Websters, but for some reason he kept asking the question again and again. I told him that I didn’t know any Mr Websters and that I was quite busy and didn’t have any time for his games. He replied that he was sorry, and that he had some kind of disorder where he couldn’t remember the past, even things that had only just happened, but that he could only see the future. Obviously I didn’t believe him, I still don’t, he was probably just some cranky fundamentalist, I don’t know. But just at that moment, I felt this weird urge to ask him about my future, I can’t explain it at all looking back, but it just seemed like the right thing to do at the time, so I did.
It isn’t really important what he said. He was just some random homeless guy, probably drunk. But for some reason, I remember it really well and it had quite a big influence on me. He told me that I would uncover great truths and that I would bring down the powerful people who controlled the country. The next day, I quit my job and started my channel. I started making videos about atheism. My first was about how the ontological argument is clearly a load of crap. When I look back on that video it seems so unoriginal, I had probably just read about it in Dawkins or something and I was just recited a bunch of boring points. Anyway, the point is I got better at it, and then I got really good, but people stopped watching anyway because they were bored of God.
So I tried to find something else dumb and irrational to get angry about. Eventually I settled on feminism, it appealed to my mostly male audience and I could make it about video games, which those guys loved. For a bit this worked, then I realised I could expand it by getting angry at the SJWs in general.
Sometimes I think back to that mysterious stranger and how right he was, coincidently of course. I have been an enemy of power, and I have revealed hidden truths. I wonder what he sees in my future now?