Being young and attempting to be creative?
Just a thought, he's taken a lot of knocks around here but is just doing what my mates did at his age, two of whom now have careers in television that pay the bills
Conrad Green and Finn McGough (Roger McGough's son)
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 11:24,
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I did think that initially
but a lot of his work is very self-indulgent and unresponsive to criticism, constructive or destructive, a la "welcome to my workings feel free to critically analyse because it makes no difference I still think I'm amazing". What is the difference between him and Rizzivision?
Two of your friends or two of his?
EDIT: Just realised you mean two of your friends. Did they respond to criticism or were they fortunate enough to be witty/interesting in the first place?
It sounds harsh but the amount of talent that they had was either the result of being brought up with it (McGough Jr) or by hard work (Mr Green seems to have been working hard at this and has), or even both as the case may be.
The point I am putting forward is that JacobDyer may well have talent somewhere, but unless I'm mistaken this person seems to be a far cry from your friends in terms of effort put in, receptiveness to critique and general demeanor as to the content and execution of his works, which I lay the blame partly at Youtube for.
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Frisbee OG wanker, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 11:34,
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Two of my mates
we're a bit older at 37 :)
As for Jacob, I don't particularly like his stuff; it's without doubt ego driven to an extreme, but that's like how teenagers are, full of the quite blatant self-indulgent, "look at me" factor, which is why they come across as being so ridiculous to the rest of us who come out the other side of being one. He'll learn to take on board criticism or he'll have no career ahead of him, it's just part of growing up. I'm sure we all were the same at that age, so i'll forgive him on that front. It's not as if i've ever seen the guy post a video containing malice, hatred, or anger to be honest; just him and his mates having fun :)
EDIT: We, of course, didn't have the internet in the eighties to post the crap we were playing around with
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 11:43,
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Agreed
A combination of his age, his (understandably) like-minded peers and the availability of Youtube could be contributing factors. If he wishes to follow in your friends' footsteps, godspeed to the man and I hope his learning curve will be good to him.
Admittedly, it was me who brought this latest creation to /link/'s attention and not Jacob himself. In realisation this could be interpreted as Jacob no longer doing the shameless self-promoting that I criticised him for, which introduces me to this very tasty slice of humble pie
*eats whilst looking at your snow-leopard pictures*
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Frisbee OG wanker, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 12:06,
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this.
I find his work self indulgent and self-obsessed (I mean, calling yourself jacobdyerMEDIA because you have a youtube account is pretty pretentious).
Most of his work is nothing more than youtube blogging. He seems obsessed with making himself an internet celebrity (he even puts his own name in the middle of this vid, which is a rare attempt to actually make something creative rather than just blog to camera).
His main contribution to b3ta seems to be to occasionally post his childish improvisations to camera on this and a billion other sites, before fucking off again (which is at least a blessing)
Also, he has a face I would like to punch.
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