Time for a personal story from Briefed’s private life:
Why I do what I do.
Every once in a while, I get comments saying that I am a part of their Sunday routine, or that my videos brighten their day… that they look forward to it, and... more along those lines.
These comments make me VERY, VERY happy.
very.
emotional too.
Back in the day, in my teenage and adolescent years, I used to struggle with depression and anxiety, and certain entertainment formats were a beacon of light that helped me pull through. Particularly 'Friends', but also other shows. YouTube to a lesser extent, because it wasn’t as much of a thing back then yet.
That is one of the biggest reasons I chose “entertainment” as my profession. You might not know this, but I started as a script writer — and also published a novel — and I was the creative director for the gaming news/entertainment website EarlyGame.
On this path to providing the people with entertainment, I often wondered and doubted if what I’m doing is worthwhile, you know… compared to doctors or nurses or firemen or caretakers… these people actually make a visible difference day in, day out. They are heroes, and here I am just… entertaining.
But then I remember Friends.
Entertainment that literally saved me from darkness, at a time when no doctor — or more specifically: therapist — could. Friends gave me the energy to pull myself together and undertake all the other measures to escape depression, it was the light that I needed to find a way.
Now… as a means of full escape, entertainment can be dangerous, as it is something you can get lost in, especially now in this era of doom-scrolling and social media... but as a source of energy for other productive means of taking care of yourself, the right entertainment... it is beautiful.
(note that therapy eventually did help and was crucial, and I am VERY supportive of therapy, and please do not dismiss therapy — it can change your life)
Anyway... I think I structured this poorly. Good thing that structure and storytelling is not my job.
I just wanted to voice these thoughts.
Oh, and speaking of poor structure… I need to say more: Nowadays there is also a lot of entertainment that is dumbed down specifically to… dumb us down. That’s where the educational part comes into Briefed. Well… I guess, in fact, the educational part is bigger than the entertainment part in my videos anyway, but I never saw education and entertainment as separate things: I can get a lot of depths and philosophical discussions out of my entertainment, and I can get a lot of entertainment out of my education. If the education and/or entertainment is high quality… it’s one and the same.
I can’t tell you the hours of conversations I’ve had about whether or not Batman should kill the Joker or the philosophies in Game of Thrones or pondering moral decisions I made in video games.
This seperation between educaiton and entertainment is silly to me, and a part of my motivation was to bridge that gap.
So… that’s that ramble haha
The point, I believe, was:
To know that my content is a part of peoples' routines and everyday now reminds of what good content creators have done for me in the past and that makes me very happy.
Thank you all.
P.S.: The Vegetable Wars continue.... *insert brooding music* ...
Briefed
Time for a personal story from Briefed’s private life:
Why I do what I do.
Every once in a while, I get comments saying that I am a part of their Sunday routine, or that my videos brighten their day… that they look forward to it, and... more along those lines.
These comments make me VERY, VERY happy.
very.
emotional too.
Back in the day, in my teenage and adolescent years, I used to struggle with depression and anxiety, and certain entertainment formats were a beacon of light that helped me pull through. Particularly 'Friends', but also other shows. YouTube to a lesser extent, because it wasn’t as much of a thing back then yet.
That is one of the biggest reasons I chose “entertainment” as my profession. You might not know this, but I started as a script writer — and also published a novel — and I was the creative director for the gaming news/entertainment website EarlyGame.
On this path to providing the people with entertainment, I often wondered and doubted if what I’m doing is worthwhile, you know… compared to doctors or nurses or firemen or caretakers… these people actually make a visible difference day in, day out. They are heroes, and here I am just… entertaining.
But then I remember Friends.
Entertainment that literally saved me from darkness, at a time when no doctor — or more specifically: therapist — could. Friends gave me the energy to pull myself together and undertake all the other measures to escape depression, it was the light that I needed to find a way.
Now… as a means of full escape, entertainment can be dangerous, as it is something you can get lost in, especially now in this era of doom-scrolling and social media... but as a source of energy for other productive means of taking care of yourself, the right entertainment... it is beautiful.
(note that therapy eventually did help and was crucial, and I am VERY supportive of therapy, and please do not dismiss therapy — it can change your life)
Anyway... I think I structured this poorly. Good thing that structure and storytelling is not my job.
I just wanted to voice these thoughts.
Oh, and speaking of poor structure… I need to say more:
Nowadays there is also a lot of entertainment that is dumbed down specifically to… dumb us down. That’s where the educational part comes into Briefed.
Well… I guess, in fact, the educational part is bigger than the entertainment part in my videos anyway, but I never saw education and entertainment as separate things:
I can get a lot of depths and philosophical discussions out of my entertainment, and I can get a lot of entertainment out of my education.
If the education and/or entertainment is high quality… it’s one and the same.
I can’t tell you the hours of conversations I’ve had about whether or not Batman should kill the Joker or the philosophies in Game of Thrones or pondering moral decisions I made in video games.
This seperation between educaiton and entertainment is silly to me, and a part of my motivation was to bridge that gap.
So… that’s that ramble haha
The point, I believe, was:
To know that my content is a part of peoples' routines and everyday now reminds of what good content creators have done for me in the past and that makes me very happy.
Thank you all.
P.S.: The Vegetable Wars continue.... *insert brooding music* ...
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