I recall conversations with insomniasexx on this subject. While negative responses on (my) creations always seem to sting more, they're still responses: people caring enough about your work to actually respond to it.
This video reminded me of this article. Being an arab living in Israel who has friends on both sides (it would surprise you how little we actually mix, socially) I was afraid to express my opinion about the latest Israel-Palestine issue. I didn't want anyone to dislike me (on both sides). I did not want my arabic friends to think I am a supporter of the attack by telling them that I dislike Hamas. And I did not want my jewish friends to think I am a supporter of Hamas by criticizing the IDF. In the end, I said nothing.
About those G-waves... background dust may invalidate their data, we will find out in the coming years. Edit: after scrolling through the YouTube comments to see if people are discussing the possibility of dust skewing the data, I want to kill myself. Now I can see why he made the "Be Hated" video in your original post, veen.
There's a pretty cool extension that lets you replace the youtube comments with the comments of subreddits that posted the video. http://alientube.co/ Might be marginally better. Hell, ANYTHING is marginally better than youtube comments.
Self-consciousness is probably a function of the amount of feedback we get from our peers. The form and format of it, especially from a person wearing a YouTube hoodie and is surrounded by a multitude of people, is, most likely, in mixed-media. There were probably people looking down on this guy as he was recording himself of the street. Not to mention the scientific discourse he was spouting. He says, "Don't feed the trolls," but the irony is that he is holding a camera to himself in public, thus exposing himself to more trolls. Maybe this is the new doublet of empirico-transcendentalism that Foucualt wrote so strongly about.
Think of it in this way: it is emperic(o/al) because you can point to your insides and say, "My stomach hurts." That is the internal, but still a conceptual side of man. The transcendental side deals more with adopting a particular fork of culture and history, while still recognizing that other forks of culture and history can as well be unified with. What I mean by this (and I as well have no credentials, philosophically, beyond an armchair) is that while empirically holding a camera to his face, in a space where it is pointable, identifiable, he also posts it on the internet where it is transcendental. This is a representation of the new man, where one is linked to technology.
Ah, that makes more sense. It's weird indeed how doing something like running a big Youtube channel messes with your identity. On the one hand, you don't want to give everything away and need to make a distinction between your personal life and your work. On the other hand, the created (or transcendental) work is so heavily influenced by that individual that it's hard to distance from oneself. I don't think this is something new, though - it seems like a struggle any artists can run into. Which part of the work is yours and how much of your identity is based on your work? The Internet is in that sense just a different, more powerful medium through which this process might occur.
I think his statement is more about the motive of your work than about the method of dealing with responses to your work. His advice came over to me as 'do something that might result in being hated by people, don't let other people's opinions degrade your viewpoints', which is something different than 'do something which makes people hate you'. Or is it the former advice you disagree with?
If by "be hated" the writer means "don't give a fuck about people who might be offended" then yeah, I agree. But to intentionally provoke people just to provoke them is juvenile. Either way, one should be in control of how they affect people, because that is part of being an adult. If you can't manage perception, then I am firmly in the camp of "you are incompetent" or "you are an ass". Finesse is the name of the game. Making people hate you is fine, as long as there is an endgame.
So, my notification for this wasn't terribly encouraging: insomniasexxx: be hated thenewgreen. Wow. Off to watch the video, but this is one hell of a way to start.