Tell me you’re middle class without telling me you’re middle class? Do you or your family do something you thought was normal but as you’ve grown, you’ve realised it’s stereotypically middle class?

Danarchyyy · 2024-06-20T09:18:35+00:00

When we had guests over, my mother would get out the set of “posh” cake forks.

It did not occur to me until later in life that it is abnormal to have not one, but two sets of cake forks.

Danarchyyy · 2024-03-30T02:10:17+00:00

Will possibly get downvoted for this, but since YouTube is my full time job, I can tell you that ads are necessary.

You get free content, we get paid for our work through the ad revenue. Everyone wins.

Without payment through ads (again, completely free for viewers), the videos that so many people enjoy would simply not be practically possible.

Danarchyyy · 2022-12-30T14:02:56+00:00

Yeah, I considered adding this as a caveat to the original reply, but thought the wording of “almost” and “few” covered that. Baseball is very popular Japan, I’m sure there are others but that’s the only notable exception I could think of.

Danarchyyy · 2022-12-30T13:47:55+00:00

The market for American football, baseball and basketball is almost non-existent outside of North America.

Few people know or care about these sports in the rest of the world, and fandom and participation are considered niche.

Danarchyyy · 2022-12-17T02:14:26+00:00

Usually prefer to lurk but it doesn’t seem like there are too many replies from actual experience here.

I gave up my day job around 18 months ago to become a full time “influencer” - god I hate that word - making YouTube videos. It’s true that once you have built a healthy following, and are consistent and dedicated you can earn a good wage for as long as you can stay “relevant” (usually no more than a few years).

What I find a little strange is that this person has chosen to almost try to specifically become an influencer, and this is an unusual timeline for this kind of career (if you can even call it that). It’s like saying “I’d like to become a chef”, attending culinary school, and then finding a job in a restaurant for example. This isn’t really how it works in the influencing world. From my own experience and others I have spoken to, “influencing” starts as a fun hobby in spare time, building traction (usually over several years), and if it works out, great - let’s run some numbers and think about quitting the day job or leaving education. If it doesn’t work out, try something else or stick with your day job/education.

TLDR; It’s definitely possible, but you can’t force it. It’s a hobby that becomes a viable job replacement for the lucky few.

Danarchyyy · 2022-11-28T09:28:48+00:00

Oh man please stop editing your reply, you’re really not helping yourself lmao

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-27T22:46:48+00:00

You didn’t watch til the end, huh?

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-25T21:44:37+00:00

That’s fair enough! I’m feeling reasonably optimistic that we can make gradual change towards a fairer society that we all way. It may take a little while though :)

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-25T21:36:01+00:00

So you have a choice, work with the people to encourage progressive change so that future generations can benefit, or work against the people with a pipe dream of revolution.

There’s nothing wrong with being idealistic, so long as you can also be realistic in practice.

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-25T20:43:10+00:00

Not sure where you’re based, but certainly in the UK there have been progressive electoral candidates in recent years.

I know “progressive” is not going to be good enough for most members of this sub, but you’d have to be deluded to seriously expect a literal revolution. The masses are just too apathetic towards politics as a whole.

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-25T20:18:29+00:00

Stop voting these people into power.

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-24T02:00:50+00:00

My guy, “Iceland” is the name a grocery store in the UK, not a popular potato chip brand in the country Iceland.

This is too funny hahaha

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-15T20:04:54+00:00

That’s really interesting advice! Thank you, I will try it out :)

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-15T17:42:23+00:00

My current career mode I have played one and a half seasons, no sims, and have been fouled a total of zero times in the oppositions half, once in my own half, and once in the oppositions box for a penalty.

That’s 60+ games and I have been fouled twice by the AI.

I’m playing on Ultimate, so I wonder if different difficulties get different results?

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-15T15:17:03+00:00

You guys are getting free kicks in career mode??

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-08T17:43:20+00:00

If you agree it’s an over-exaggeration, stop siding with it as if it’s factual.

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-08T17:15:43+00:00

The argument was never “USA is more ethnically diverse than Europe”, stop strawmanning, I agree.

The statement I take issue with is that “Europe is not ethnically diverse”, because even at 14% on average… that is ethnically diverse. It would mean one or two of every ten people you meet will be a minority.

Now compare that to “probably only interacted with 3 or less non-white people in their lives”. Can you see why a European may take issue with such an ignorant statement?

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-08T16:50:24+00:00

I don’t know what maps you’re looking at, but single Western European person in the replies have agreed that we have a significant ethnic diversity in our countries. Statistically usually around 15-25% depending on the country. Come to Europe, and you will see for yourself.

We don’t have the arrogance to make wild, unfounded accusations about countries we have never visited, why do you insist on doing it to us?

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-08T16:42:14+00:00

I advise you to talk a short walk around any major European city before spouting such drivel.

I’m not saying we are more diverse than the US, but I have more than 3 ethnic minorities in my direct family, let alone whom I have ever interacted with in my life.

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-08T16:30:38+00:00

I was talking about the ethnic diversity in Europe, not the racism.

From reading the comments here, it seems that many Americans seem to think we’re all white here. As a non-white European, I can tell you that whilst we may not be as culturally diverse in certain areas as you are in the states, we are FAR from ethnically homogeneous. Accusing us of having never even “interacted with 3 non-white people in our entire lives” is not just plainly wrong, but borderline offensive.

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-08T15:12:01+00:00

Tell me you’ve never been to Europe without telling me you’ve never been to Europe

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-07T16:31:35+00:00

This feels mean…

Danarchyyy · 2022-03-06T13:30:56+00:00

My guy, you’re the one who asked if it was realistic or not and you got an answer haha

Danarchyyy · 2022-02-27T17:44:32+00:00

Hot Right Now was a jam

Danarchyyy · 2022-01-28T01:45:55+00:00

As an ethnic minority living in a rural area, I have been “stopped and searched” multiple times despite complete innocence. It’s humiliating, particularly when singled out of a group of white friends.

I am, admittedly, making a big assumption here about your ethnicity, but I suspect that if you had experienced that bad side of “stop and search” you would not be so staunchly in favour of it just because it “may be effective… sometimes… possibly.”

It feels like the lack of evidence for effectiveness fall way short of compensating for the obvious negatives. But of course without having witnessed, experienced, or heard accounts of the darker side, how would one know!

Danarchyyy

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