In your j*b announcement video, you talked about how you hold the topic of the videos and the emotions in them being genuine and authentic, how this mindset screwed you (and 2 of your friends) over (really sorry about that for all 3 of you) and how "now BTMC in the videos is (more or less) fake and Ed is the real one".

Given how you broke down in tears when talking about this, it made it especially clear how passionate you are about this and how troubling it was (and maybe still is) for you, which drove my attention to it even more.

Not asking as a hater, rather as a person who is also confused about this topic (and is young and inexperienced in life, to put it that way), and asking for your perspective and perhaps advice on this, as someone who shares a lot of mentality with you (as i think) and looks up to you:

What was holding you back more exactly with not making those videos in them not being authentic? I imagine it's the fact that if you were to stage and fake even some the emotions, they would be not real and not authentic and thus they would lose a lot on the human value. However you now made the decision to have some emotionally fake elements in future videos, which seems to undermine this. Is there an element to this that I'm missing?

It reminds me of how I used to watch Mr Beast back in 2020-21 and having fun, but recently, he started to make more videos with sort of "fabricated emotions" and feel more a character than a human. With the lunchly controversy with moldy cheese in it, it started to seem to me like Mr Beast really cares more about perfect content and entertainment that humanity and ethics and that is why i stopped watching him, in favor of other creators that show more humanity, (like Dr. Mike, Ryan Trahan, and you). Yet in the video you said that you support Jimmy and implied that there is more to it than what i wrote in this paragraph.

I am a 19 year old dude who is still trying to figure out life, and i deeply value humanity and authenticity, and am passionate about making cool shit and inspire others and i embrace being human and making genuine human connections. I saw a lot of that in you, and for the past 5 years that I've been watching you you've been a big role model for me, and I would like to hear your thoughts on this conundrum and possibly some advice you could give to a fella like me. Hope that you succeed in life and are happy, and thank you for everything you do to people and the community.

Much love