What is most striking to me about this fellow's video is how utterly banal it is.
One need only to watch the first few minutes to see how calculated, how boilerplate and how passive this man's account is. He repeats boilerplate nonsense about domestic violence -- nobody talks about it, people need to be "educated" about it, etc. -- that bears little relevance to his own personal issues with his girlfriend. His video is heavily edited, which speaks to calculation all by itself, but for a professional like him to "accidentally" release such a personal video is a dubious proposition, at best.
He talks about how he thought "he would never have to discuss something like this," as if he expected his life to be free of struggle, disappointment and pain. He doesn't even mention the person's sex at first -- once again, another obvious calculation to engender views -- and he spends quite some time describing how this person made him feel. He goes on to discuss how this abusive "somebody" made him do all of these horrible things, as if he was some sort of impotent, passive object being brandished about by some fearsome bully.
All of his itinerant rambling are framed in this wide-eyed, passive sort of way that a five year-old might describe something painful happening to him. One might be argue that he does this as a way of distancing himself from pain, but the more likely conclusion is that this is just an aspect of his personality: an overgrown child who invites trouble because he's a boy living in a man's world.
One need only to watch the first few minutes to see how calculated, how boilerplate and how passive this man's account is. He repeats boilerplate nonsense about domestic violence -- nobody talks about it, people need to be "educated" about it, etc. -- that bears little relevance to his own personal issues with his girlfriend. His video is heavily edited, which speaks to calculation all by itself, but for a professional like him to "accidentally" release such a personal video is a dubious proposition, at best.
He talks about how he thought "he would never have to discuss something like this," as if he expected his life to be free of struggle, disappointment and pain. He doesn't even mention the person's sex at first -- once again, another obvious calculation to engender views -- and he spends quite some time describing how this person made him feel. He goes on to discuss how this abusive "somebody" made him do all of these horrible things, as if he was some sort of impotent, passive object being brandished about by some fearsome bully.
All of his itinerant rambling are framed in this wide-eyed, passive sort of way that a five year-old might describe something painful happening to him. One might be argue that he does this as a way of distancing himself from pain, but the more likely conclusion is that this is just an aspect of his personality: an overgrown child who invites trouble because he's a boy living in a man's world.