Geoff The Hero

First off, love your videos. Second, how do you handle people's misperception of your satirical persona? I used to look at you and say "That guy's funny, but kind of a dick," but now I just say "That guy's a really clever comedian" once I understood your angle.

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Thanks for the love.

Yeah man, it’s tough. Through my entire video career I’ve noticed an alarmingly large amount of people that aren’t able to differentiate between a *varying* parody persona (regardless of my name being DarksydeGeoff… like, really?) and reality.

The thing is, those people who aren’t able to understand are 99% of the time those guys who find hivemind humor funny (memes, preapproved “jokes” like “get back in the kitchen”) and their self-awareness levels are horrifyingly low.

So, to answer your question: I handle misperception like I handle most situations from people who aren’t self-aware: I just keep doing my thing that I enjoy. I’m not going to change to please a minority of people I never liked to begin with— I have tons of other people who love my work who need me to keep being me.

Many people are just crowd-pleasers, but I’m too much of a hedonist to care. I’m very fortunate though. I have a great sizable fan base, a number of close friends that care and understand, and I have the personal drive to learn and do whatever I want.

Thank you for this question.

Being Positive 101

Being positive is much more than just putting on a cheery facade while ignoring all the negativity in your life. You don’t control everything that happens in your brain. After all, your emotions come as a reaction. Stressing yourself while trying to ignore negativity is stupid.

Being positive is about having the strength within you to bring change, in order to make yourself happy. It’s about having the self-esteem to believe in yourself when others don’t, to stand up for what you believe in while at the same time keeping a worldly point-of-view.

It’s about acknowledging what stresses you, and being smart trying to find an efficient way to deal with it. It’s about knowing you can fail but not changing your gameplan and doing it anyway. Even if you DO fail, you’re more than willing to do it again. It’s about persistence. It’s about being able to laugh at yourself, and at life.

Positivity goes far. It’s what got me the numerous accomplishments I’m proud of in my life, including my education, my friends, my creativity, and my persistence.

Sadly, not a lot of people see the world this way. They intend on living a complacent bare-minimum life where chances of failure are small, where nothing can penetrate the tiny bubble they’ve made for themselves. They won’t even ask others for help, and make dumb excuses like “I have my pride” or “I’m too shy.” Don’t be like that. Nobody’s going to ultimately help you other from yourself.

Take your chances, swallow your pride for failure, be your own number one instead of just saying it. Love yourself for once, for fuck’s sake.