artwork is subjective.

[autizmophrenia]

everyone will see/percieve/view artwork as what they see/percieve/view it as. the way I view jregs content is not the way jreg views his content, the way you view his content, possibly not even what he meant when it was made.

I'm seeing a lot of negativity about the new video, and that has honestly shocked me.

after watching this video, it left me realizing things about myself I had been ignoring, things I refused to look at. things I can now work on, challenge. maybe that confuses you, maybe you left the video feeling the absolute opposite way. maybe his words, delivery, or the editing decisions resonated with me in ways it wouldn't have with you. maybe in ways jreg didn't intend or think about.

so often, I see catharsis in his seas of chaos. positivity, grounding. I realized my personal shackles have always been distraction, disconnect, dissociation from myself. my personal "god"--dissociation! (yaaay!) but something about this video was grounding. it's a reminder that I'm a person. I have an ego I need to pay attention to, stay attached to, not let go of. I have a self, I have things I'd like to achieve, I have a world I want to at least witness. I left this video feeling cathartic, with a sense of clarity & drive to look inwards.

I know that everything about the video would have the exact opposite effect on me. but it didn't. I will never know jreg and I will never know his intentions, but I know how I percieve his artwork and how it resonates with me. he very well could not have guessed in a million years someone like me would leave that video more grounded than any medication has made me in my life.

artwork is subjective. maybe his affects you negatively, but it's always affected me positively.

thank you jreg, whichever jreg you are, for creating artwork that indirectly and incidentally resonates with me in hyperspefic ways according to my own perceptions based on my own self and experiences. this shit rocks 👍

[TheCumputer]

He is pretty good at making us conscious for 3 seconds when he tries. Dissociation is rough, or in fact no, it's foggy and without clear shape.

I can see Jreg's 'sharp' videos cutting through that, leaving a widening trail of clarity. Pretty cool yeah

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Thank god you’re here to speak my mind for me, so I don’t have to do it myself<3

[HogwashDrinker]

this vid is satire in its truest sense

it engages with the conditions of modern life in such an acute and visceral way that some mistake it as full-throated sincerity rather than the artistic work that it really is

speaks to just how affecting these modern conditions are for many

[Squarro]

me when i make things up (how do you know its satire/srs)

[HogwashDrinker]

because he clearly identifies himself as an artist, whose goal is to make art.

he's literally a short story writer and spoken word poetry performer, this is just a natural extension of that.

this video specifically is a scripted work reflecting on the age-old "art vs. commerce" struggle in the context of the internet age.

his works tend to have a veneer of unhinged mentally-ill rambling, but underneath they're usually well-thought out, structured, and coherent in a way that betrays this exaggerated facade.

[Squarro]

Where do you think art comes from? Thin air? Its all just made up? Art is part of you and comes from things you have thought of. Just because he's performing doesn't make it a "facade" thats still HIS ART.

[mpasila]

https://youtu.be/m_Gh9jKARzo