2021-8-6 Why do you Guys attack me

[0:00 - 0:28] What's up everyone? Now I have a question and it's a very serious one. It's one that I've
[0:28 - 0:46] been wanting to know for a long, long time now. Ever since all this shit started, what
[0:46 - 0:57] I want to know is this. Why do you feel like, like for those of you that do attack me, why
[0:57 - 1:10] do you feel like you have to attack me and make fun of me? I don't understand. Cuz see
[1:10 - 1:18] growing up I never had it easy. I had it harder than most. When I was born, as many of you
[1:18 - 1:26] already know, when I was born, I was born one pound ten ounces, with one kidney and
[1:26 - 1:33] one severely underdeveloped lung. And I was so tiny that they had to put me in an incubator
[1:33 - 1:46] for six months. Six months I was in an incubator until my skin, until my skin can actually
[1:46 - 1:53] tell if they're onto where somebody can actually touch my skin. Cuz when I was born, my skin
[1:53 - 2:02] was so fragile and so translucent that the slightest touch would make it tear. So I
[2:02 - 2:08] had to be put in an incubator and wrapped in saran wrap with tubes in my head. All these
[2:08 - 2:15] things that go on in my head, I can't control that. This stuff right here, I've had to
[2:15 - 2:22] deal with that my whole life. Because when I was born, I had to have tubes in my head
[2:22 - 2:32] to make sure that I was okay. I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm not even supposed
[2:32 - 2:45] to be alive. The day I was born was the day I was supposed to fucking die. My head was
[2:45 - 2:50] no bigger than my mom's fist and my legs and arms were the size of her pinky. That's
[2:50 - 3:04] how small I was. The day I was born, my dad got arrested and my biological mother can
[3:04 - 3:10] never take care of me because she had a lot going on there to where she couldn't. She
[3:10 - 3:19] had severe mental stuff going on that wasn't her fault to where she couldn't. So my grandmother
[3:19 - 3:29] adopted me making her my mom. My entire life through school, I've been bullied. I've had
[3:29 - 3:36] to move around, base to base, place to place because of my dad being in the military.
[3:36 - 3:43] We constantly moved around everywhere we went. We would stay in one spot for like three
[3:43 - 3:50] months and then we would move again. And that's the life I lived until I was 12, 13 years
[3:50 - 4:09] old. And my dad retired. After that, he walked out. After my dad got out of the military,
[4:09 - 4:17] he walked out on me and my mom. So from the time I was 12 years old until now, my mom
[4:17 - 4:29] raised me on her own, fighting the pay bills, helping family to help us, doing what we
[4:29 - 4:40] could to get by, not really having anything. We were raised in the backwoods of Washington
[4:40 - 4:47] State on Inbelling Hill, which if you guys are unaware, that's the country part of Washington
[4:47 - 4:59] State. I was raised out in the country on a farm my whole life. I never had anything
[4:59 - 5:08] growing up. We didn't have much. While other people played the latest video game systems
[5:08 - 5:15] or the latest stuff, you know what I did? I played outside with my action figures.
[5:15 - 5:24] While people were playing the latest N64, I was playing older consoles like Super Nintendo
[5:24 - 5:32] and Game Boy. Growing up, we didn't have anything really. And throughout my school
[5:32 - 5:41] years, I got bullied all the time. I got called Midget. I got beat up all the time physically
[5:41 - 5:51] every day. I had bus drivers that would make fun of me. I had teachers that would embarrass
[5:51 - 6:00] me because I had so many medical problems wrong with me that I couldn't help. And then
[6:00 - 6:07] when I got into high school, that's when it got really bad. In high school, it got
[6:07 - 6:16] so bad that I had attempted at one point to end my own life. I would get picked on
[6:16 - 6:25] and bullied so bad that I would get beat up. I would get my head slammed in the lockers.
[6:25 - 6:35] I would be stuffed in lockers. I would be physically beat up. I would be in detention
[6:35 - 6:44] almost every day for fighting because I had no choice but to fight. I was constantly
[6:44 - 6:52] ridiculed, constantly bashed on. My entire high school career, my entire life, I've
[6:52 - 7:02] been bashed on. And then in 2009, in 2009, I lost my best friend David to a drowning
[7:02 - 7:18] accident right here in Ohio. And then a few years later, in 2015, on February 3rd, I lost
[7:18 - 7:30] my older brother to lung cancer. And in that same year, that same year in December, I lost
[7:30 - 7:42] my best friend who was not only friends with me but was also a good friend of David's.
[7:42 - 7:50] In December of 2015, I lost my best friend Zach to murder. Some guy walked into his family's
[7:50 - 7:58] pizzeria, demanded money when she handed over without a fight. And even still, he got shot
[7:58 - 8:09] in the chest and died three hours later. Now let me tell you, there is no worse feeling
[8:09 - 8:15] in the world than losing your best friend to murder. There is no worse feeling in the
[8:15 - 8:24] fucking world than to lose your best friend to a fucking murder. It took a year and a
[8:24 - 8:30] half for the police to find his killer. And thankfully, they got him behind bars for
[8:30 - 8:48] 12 plus years. And then in 2017, I lost one of my heroes, Chester Bennington, whose music
[8:48 - 8:55] helped to save my life from suicide when I was in high school a few years prior. And
[8:55 - 9:07] that hurt. That hurt seeing my childhood hero take his own life. Hearing that my childhood
[9:07 - 9:16] hero, whose music helped me, had taken his own life and that hurt a lot. Because with
[9:16 - 9:22] Chester Bennington, I felt like he actually understood what it was like to be different.
[9:22 - 9:36] He understood what it was like to be bullied, to be attacked. And then, a year and a half
[9:36 - 9:46] ago, last year, I lost another friend that was a fellow YouTuber. The real me shooting
[9:46 - 9:54] Nicole, who was actually a very good friend and a near and dear friend to me. And that
[9:54 - 10:11] made things even worse. And then last year, this year, just a few months ago this year,
[10:11 - 10:23] I got the worst news in my life that I never thought I would get. I've gotten news from
[10:23 - 10:32] one of my best friends that my high school sweetheart, who I was dating, had passed away
[10:32 - 10:40] due to medical issues with her body. That she had severe health issues. I lost the
[10:40 - 10:46] one girl that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, Lexi Workman, who like me was
[10:46 - 11:02] different. Lexi was different like me. She was a little bit shorter than I was, but
[11:02 - 11:09] she was very heavy set and she was very dark. She wrote a lot of dark poetry and even taught
[11:09 - 11:20] me how to write poetry. So like me, Lexi was different. And we had dated all throughout
[11:20 - 11:31] high school. And then, last year, I lost her to severe health issues with her weight
[11:31 - 11:38] and her body. And it was a little bit of her weight, but it was also, you know, medical
[11:38 - 11:44] stuff that was going on with her body. And that killed me because this was somebody
[11:44 - 11:52] that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Somebody who, just a few months prior,
[11:52 - 12:01] I had asked to marry me. And let me tell you, losing the one that you love hurts so
[12:01 - 12:20] much. It really does. It hurts so much. But what gets me above all else is this. Every
[12:20 - 12:31] day I go on here to try to help people like me that are different. People like me that
[12:31 - 12:40] get bullied. People like me that are different from the norm. I try to inspire people. I
[12:40 - 12:49] try to help people as much as I can. Because like them, I know what it's like to be different.
[12:49 - 12:54] I know what it's like to be an outcast because my whole life I've been an outcast. My whole
[12:54 - 13:02] life I've been different. I've been called ugly, short, nidget. This thing going all
[13:02 - 13:12] in my head right here, all this, I can't help that. When I was in high school, that's
[13:12 - 13:20] when this happened my last year of high school. My biological mother had stuff going on there
[13:20 - 13:29] to where she had very thin hair. And that's where I get this from. But something that
[13:29 - 13:48] people don't realize is that on my 15th birthday, on my 15th birthday, when I turned 15, that
[13:48 - 13:55] same exact day, I had found out that I had lost my biological mother to a house fire
[13:55 - 14:07] up in Alaska. It was all over the news. It was in the newspaper clippings out there.
[14:07 - 14:15] And a lot of people don't really realize that when you lose somebody on your birthday,
[14:15 - 14:24] it becomes hard. Like I never really knew my mother fully, but there was still that
[14:24 - 14:34] connection. And when I found out she died, I fucking lost it. I've had people telling
[14:34 - 14:46] me my whole life that I can't do this. I can't do that. Oh, you'll never be this. Oh,
[14:46 - 14:58] you'll never do that. And do you know how much that hurts hearing those words even
[14:58 - 15:09] now? But what gets me above all else besides those words is why is it that all of you feel
[15:09 - 15:20] like you have to attack me when I've done nothing to you? I try to stay to myself.
[15:20 - 15:25] I try to help people help. I even try to open up a shop so I can make some kind of
[15:25 - 15:31] money. Because as many of you know, when I first moved here with my family, we didn't
[15:31 - 15:39] have a home. We were living out of my mom's car for a year before we got this home. So
[15:39 - 15:47] I know what it's like to not have anything. And all I'm trying to do is give back to
[15:47 - 16:03] my family who gave me everything. All I'm trying to do is do what I love and enjoy.
[16:03 - 16:10] But yet I go on here every day. I get bullied. I get attacked. I get videos being made about
[16:10 - 16:18] me. And for what? Because I look different. Because I look different from you. Because
[16:18 - 16:25] I look different from you guys. Yes, it's true. I may look different. Physically, I
[16:25 - 16:36] may look different. That is very true. It may be true that I'm only five foot three.
[16:36 - 16:41] It may be true that I'm only a hundred and so odd pounds. That may be true. But at the
[16:41 - 16:50] end of the day, I'm just like every one of you. I'm human just like you. You bleed red.
[16:50 - 16:58] I bleed red. Like you, I'm a human being. And all I'm trying to do is provide for my
[16:58 - 17:09] family. Because see, growing up my whole life, I had to help take care of people. Both my
[17:09 - 17:17] grandparents were deaf. Both of them were deaf. And they couldn't hear. So I had to
[17:17 - 17:24] use sign language to speak to them. I had to help them long take care of them until
[17:24 - 17:35] they passed. And then the rest of that time, from the time I was 10, up to 2015, I had
[17:35 - 17:44] to help my mom take care of my older brother the entire time. Going to doctor's appointments,
[17:44 - 17:57] going to surgeries, the constant travel, going hospital to hospital, specialist to specialist,
[17:57 - 18:04] trying to fight my brother's age, trying to fight his cancer. That was my whole life
[18:04 - 18:15] growing up, taking care of people. So you see, I don't have the luxury that people
[18:15 - 18:27] think that I do. I don't have the luxury of taking care, you know, taking care of myself
[18:27 - 18:37] and being on my own. I don't have that luxury because some people don't realize this. People
[18:37 - 18:48] don't really realize this. About a year and a half after my brother's passing, my mom
[18:48 - 18:58] got hit by a car. She was getting off the bus to cross the street. She was just coming
[18:58 - 19:04] home from the store. She was getting off the bus and went across the street and got hit
[19:04 - 19:15] by an oncoming car. And she got thrown 10 feet, which same way no bones were broken.
[19:15 - 19:23] But with my mom being elderly as she is, ever since then, I've had to help her out
[19:23 - 19:31] with almost everything. Getting out of bed, getting up and down stairs, putting her shoes
[19:31 - 19:37] and socks on whenever she goes somewhere, helping out around the house, doing things
[19:37 - 19:44] that I can. So it's not that I'm being lazy, it's that I don't have that luxury of working
[19:44 - 19:49] a regular job like everyone else because I constantly help to take care of my family
[19:49 - 20:00] and my mom, as well as my now stepdad. And people don't really understand what that's
[20:00 - 20:10] like to grow up my entire life, taking care of people. That's all I know. So the only
[20:10 - 20:16] thing I really have going for me are the things that I enjoy like my artwork, my writing,
[20:16 - 20:28] my poetry, doing my music. That's all I have going for me. But what I don't understand
[20:28 - 20:35] is why do you guys feel like you have to be so negative? Like why make videos attacking
[20:35 - 20:46] me when you don't truly know me? I never once did anything to any of you. Not once
[20:46 - 20:55] have I ever done anything to any of you who attacked me. Not once have I done anything
[20:55 - 21:10] to come after you. I'm not sure, man. Honestly, I don't know if they're doing a gathering
[21:10 - 21:25] that sure enough. But if they are, I might. I don't know though. But you know, and that's
[21:25 - 21:31] what I don't understand above all else is why do you feel like you have to take from
[21:31 - 21:40] me? Like I try to start my own shop up with my artwork. And every time I start up an
[21:40 - 21:49] art shop with my artwork, you guys come in and you take it down. And you sit there and
[21:49 - 21:59] you laugh at me. But something not a lot of people understand or you didn't really
[21:59 - 22:08] know about is what I went through relationship wise growing up. When I was in high school,
[22:08 - 22:15] I got my first girlfriend Cynthia, who wound up graduating a couple of years ahead of me
[22:15 - 22:19] when I was a freshman. She graduated literally a couple of years ahead of me. We wound up
[22:19 - 22:29] splitting and whatnot, but we still remain good friends to this day. But when I was
[22:29 - 22:35] in high school, I met this girl named Christina, which many of you probably know by now and
[22:35 - 22:42] have seen the photos of me and her together and when we were kissing and holding each
[22:42 - 22:49] other and having a good time. Me and her had dated on and off since high school. And
[22:49 - 22:57] then my best friend Eric at the time. At the time, my best friend Eric, who was like
[22:57 - 23:04] family to me, I had known the guy for like five years. Do you know what he did? He took
[23:04 - 23:11] her away from me out of pure jealousy. Out of pure jealousy, my best friend stabbed
[23:11 - 23:17] me in the back and took the girl that I loved, which in a way I'm kind of glad because it
[23:17 - 23:25] led me to Lexi and all that. It led me back to Lexi, I should say. But after Christina
[23:25 - 23:39] and me had split, for the years to follow after that, I was in and out of emotionally
[23:39 - 23:48] and verbally and mentally abusive relationships. The worst one being Rebecca May Anderson,
[23:48 - 23:58] who did all of those things 100 times worse than any of my other exes. So it's not that
[23:58 - 24:03] I don't want to be with anyone. That's not it. I would love to have a girlfriend, but
[24:03 - 24:12] it's like every time I get with somebody, somebody comes along and fucks it up. It's
[24:12 - 24:20] not that I'm a bad person. That's not it. It's that I get bullied so much that it makes
[24:20 - 24:33] me look like a bad guy. And what people don't realize is all those times that I raged out
[24:33 - 24:40] on live streams, all those times that I raged out, it was for a reason. It was because
[24:40 - 24:53] I was being bullied. I was being attacked. I was being picked on, prodded, poked at.
[24:53 - 25:04] Stuff that I never asked for. See, when I started YouTube back in 2009, I started YouTube
[25:04 - 25:14] as a way to relax and have fun. I was posting fun little videos here and there of AMVs
[25:14 - 25:23] and stuff. My first ever video. Do you know what my first ever video was? My first ever
[25:23 - 25:32] video was a tribute to my best friend, David, who had died in 2009, literally just a couple
[25:32 - 25:45] months prior. My first video was a tribute video to him. And then over the years, I started
[25:45 - 26:07] to make AMVs and do little gaming videos here and there. I also understand why you people
[26:07 - 26:15] feel like you have to manipulate me. Why you feel like you have to attack me? Why you feel
[26:15 - 26:28] like you have to catfish me? You know, I didn't ask for any of this. I really didn't.
[26:28 - 26:34] I never asked to be bullied. I never asked to be picked on or attacked or harassed or
[26:34 - 26:45] have my life threatened or get put in these situations that I get put in. All I want
[26:45 - 26:54] to do is give back to my family. I want to make a living on here doing what I love to
[26:54 - 27:02] do. I want to be able to say, hey, I'm doing something good for my family. I have a job
[27:02 - 27:07] doing what I love. I have a job doing what I enjoy. I want to be able to say that so
[27:07 - 27:16] bad, but I can't because every time I do get to that point, people come in and shut
[27:16 - 27:32] me down for no reason. And I don't understand why. I don't understand why you feel like
[27:32 - 27:38] you have to attack me. I don't understand it. And then whenever I speak the truth,
[27:38 - 27:49] everybody says that I'm lying. Like, I understand that I look different. Okay, I get it. I may
[27:49 - 27:56] not be the best singer in the world. I may not be the best musician in the world. But
[27:56 - 28:04] let me tell you, I have more skill with instruments and doing artwork than most people could
[28:04 - 28:26] ever hope to have in their entire lives. And yet I get attacked. For what? Being me?
[28:26 - 28:39] Like, honestly, you don't know how much it hurts me to wake up every day and see people
[28:39 - 28:51] bullying me in videos, leaving nasty comments, making shirts with my face on it, attacking
[28:51 - 29:02] me, making lewd items and selling them with my face on it. You don't know how much that
[29:02 - 29:08] hurts seeing that on top of the threat on cueing bombs where everybody loves to attack
[29:08 - 29:18] me. You don't know how much that hurts me inside to wake up and see that every day.
[29:18 - 29:28] Every day I'm constantly seeing people making videos, laughing at me, attacking me, for
[29:28 - 29:57] no reason. Why, what did I ever do to deserve this?
[29:57 - 30:05] Like, the stuff that went down with Kate, I can kind of understand. But there again,
[30:05 - 30:26] I was manipulated and catfished and set up. I was set up and catfished. But nobody seems
[30:26 - 30:37] to want to listen to me. And I don't understand why. You know, these people catfish me. They
[30:37 - 30:44] come in, they catfish me, and then what do they do? They humiliate me to the point where
[30:44 - 30:55] I've almost taken my own life a couple times. You think that I do stupid stuff because
[30:55 - 31:03] I want the attention? No. That's not it. All this stupid stuff that I did, like with the
[31:03 - 31:21] stylists and all that shit. I was catfished into doing that stuff. I was catfished into
[31:21 - 31:35] doing that. You know, all I want is a normal life. That's all I want is a normal fucking
[31:35 - 31:48] life. Alright, you're good enough too. But let me tell you, that's all I've ever wanted,
[31:48 - 32:08] was a normal fucking life. You want to know what I really want? I want a normal life where
[32:08 - 32:14] I can have a girlfriend without having to worry about people coming after me. I want
[32:14 - 32:24] a normal life where I can have a girlfriend and be successful with what I love to do.
[32:24 - 32:31] Is that too much to ask? To have a normal life? And to be able to make money doing
[32:31 - 32:37] what I love to do? Especially with the fact that I don't have the luxury of working a
[32:37 - 32:43] 9-5 job because I have to help take care of my family? Is that really that much to ask
[32:43 - 32:58] for? To be able to have a job doing what I enjoy? Without being an alert of fear? Without
[32:58 - 33:04] having to worry about my shots getting shut down for no reason? Is that seriously that
[33:04 - 33:11] much to fucking ask for? To have a normal life with a girlfriend and a job doing what
[33:11 - 33:20] I love and my family by my side? Is that really that much to fucking ask for? Really? Is
[33:20 - 33:27] that really too much to ask for? All I want to do is make a living doing what I love
[33:27 - 33:39] to do. Especially with my artwork. My whole life I grew up doing art. Ever since I could
[33:39 - 33:51] hold a crown I've been doing art. But what I don't understand is why shut down my shop
[33:51 - 34:04] when I'm just trying to make a living. I mean you think it's funny but it's not. But here's
[34:04 - 34:13] the thing though, that's what people say but that's not true. I've proven a few times.
[34:13 - 34:19] I've proven time and time again that I do do my own artwork. I've proven that many
[34:19 - 34:28] many times over that all the artwork I do is my own. I have proven that. If you don't
[34:28 - 34:37] believe me, go look at my Weeping Raven video where I did an art piece live. Ask anybody
[34:37 - 34:44] that knows me in real life outside of YouTube. I don't steal artwork. That's just what people
[34:44 - 34:58] want to say and have others believe. And that's not entirely true. See Raz, what you don't
[34:58 - 35:06] understand my friend is this. My artwork is legitimate, okay? But the reason why people
[35:06 - 35:15] shut it down is because they don't want to see me succeed. They don't want to see me
[35:15 - 35:28] succeed. That's why they shut them down. And that's what you don't seem to understand
[35:28 - 35:36] Raz. These people come in and they shut me down because they want to attack me. They
[35:36 - 35:48] want me to not have money. Actually, no it's not. Hell, you can even ask Clint here. Matter
[35:48 - 35:53] of fact, Clint right here can tell you for a fact. He watched me do that art piece on
[35:53 - 35:59] my other live stream. He said that I watched me do that samurai art piece that everybody
[35:59 - 36:10] loves. That everybody's actually wanting to buy, ironically. Matter of fact, let me prove
[36:10 - 36:18] a point to you. Let me show you something here. Matter of fact, Raz, let me show you
[36:18 - 36:42] something. Maybe this will change your mind.
[36:42 - 37:06] Let me tell you, let me ask you something Raz. Does this look stolen to you? Does this
[37:06 - 37:17] look stolen to you? Cause none of these are stolen. These are all very real. Both my digital
[37:17 - 37:31] artwork and my original. And at the end of the day Raz, it doesn't matter whether it's
[37:31 - 37:38] my digital artwork. At the end of the day it shouldn't matter whether it's my digital
[37:38 - 37:47] artwork or my hand painted stuff. All my work is my own. All the work that I do is
[37:47 - 37:55] my own work. But yet, people want to claim that I steal but I don't. Just because I
[37:55 - 38:04] do fair use artwork and I transform a piece into a totally different image that doesn't
[38:04 - 38:11] make it stealing. And yes, I know there's a gray line. I know that's a gray area. I
[38:11 - 38:27] get that me doing my fair use work is a gray area. But at the same time, matter of fact,
[38:27 - 38:33] here later tonight I am going to be doing an art stream where I show people how I do
[38:33 - 38:40] my fair use artwork and how I am transformative with it and how I transform it into an original
[38:40 - 38:49] piece. That's not stealing. Being transformative with an art piece and doing it to where it
[38:49 - 38:55] becomes then an original masterpiece, that's not stealing an art piece. That's called
[38:55 - 39:04] fair use artwork. And there is such a thing. Look up fair use art on YouTube. There's
[39:04 - 39:09] a couple videos on it that you'll actually see. There's a lot of artists that do make
[39:09 - 39:16] good money from that. And I just happen to be one of the most skilled ones to do such
[39:16 - 39:26] a thing. I just happen to be an artist that can do fair use artwork and people love it.
[39:26 - 39:42] People genuinely love my fair use digital artwork. So I don't understand how that's
[39:42 - 39:52] stealing. And no, I'm not going to stop doing my fair use artwork. You want to know why?
[39:52 - 40:00] Because people enjoy it. People love it. People love when I do my fair use artwork.
[40:00 - 40:13] Because it's dark. It's different. Like, let me ask you this, Raz. Let me tell you
[40:13 - 40:23] this, Raz. If you were to take an image of me, let's say you took an image of me, right?
[40:23 - 40:30] If you took an image of me and you took and you completely transformed me. Let's say
[40:30 - 40:35] you put filters on me and you did this, that, and the other. You gave me weird looking
[40:35 - 40:44] eyes or whatever. Like if you took an image of me and completely transformed it, you could
[40:44 - 40:49] not get in trouble for that because that is considered fair use. You took an image
[40:49 - 40:56] of me and you transformed it into something different. You completely transformed it
[40:56 - 41:05] into something entirely different, which is what I do. That makes it fair use. Give
[41:05 - 41:21] me those two things you just showed me. Actually, yes, that can be very much considered that.
[41:21 - 41:27] If you took and you transformed them, let's say that you took this piece right here. Let's
[41:27 - 41:33] say you took this piece right here and you did something like this. Let's say you took
[41:33 - 41:39] this piece right here, right? If you took this piece right here and said you did something
[41:39 - 41:45] like this right here, which is what I'm still working on. If you took this and transformed
[41:45 - 41:52] it into something like this, then, yeah, it could technically be considered yours.
[41:52 - 42:03] It could be considered yours. If you take a piece and you transform it so extensively,
[42:03 - 42:11] you could technically say that, yes, this art piece is mine. Well, yes, I may have taken
[42:11 - 42:22] from the original piece, but I transformed it, making it fair use. Anybody in the world
[42:22 - 42:30] can do it. Hell, do you know how many fair use pieces I've made money from people like
[42:30 - 42:35] say the Mona Lisa? Do you know how many fair use pieces of the Mona Lisa have been put
[42:35 - 42:51] out there, man? Yo, Cynthia, you're all good. Don't worry. All right, seriously, take a
[42:51 - 42:57] look on Google, bro. There's tons of, do you know how many deviations of the original
[42:57 - 43:03] Mona Lisa have been put out there and people have made money off of it? Do you know how
[43:03 - 43:14] many people have taken Mona's and all these different artists? Hell, Robbo and Banksy,
[43:14 - 43:24] two very famous artists, did similar stuff and they made money. So don't tell me what
[43:24 - 43:30] you think you know because you don't know the art industry like I do. You don't know
[43:30 - 43:38] the art industry like I do, man. Matter of fact, let me pull up a video for you. I'll
[43:38 - 43:42] personally pull up a video and show you. I will prove my point to you.
[43:42 - 43:54] Allow me to prove, allow me to make a point to you.
[43:54 - 44:05] Oh my, I did the right way.
[44:05 - 44:15] Let's set that right there. I'm going to prove a point to you here.
[44:15 - 44:20] And maybe after this video, you'll actually change your mind.
[44:20 - 44:43] Let's see if I can find the right way, right here.
[44:46 - 44:53] Transformation is the key. So what are you doing with, you know, the copyrighted content
[44:53 - 45:00] that you want to use? And are you creating new value, adding something new, different? This has
[45:00 - 45:12] been the heart of the fair use case law over the last 20 years or so and it is a big consideration.
[45:12 - 45:18] So is it new expression, new meaning, new message, or like I said, does it supplant the objects of
[45:18 - 45:22] the original? If you're doing the same thing that the original work was doing, you're going to be
[45:22 - 45:27] in trouble. But if you're doing something with a totally different purpose, you know,
[45:27 - 45:33] it's a new tool or it has new meaning, you're going to be, you know, that's what we call
[45:33 - 45:39] transformative. Do you have a transformative purpose? Can you articulate it? And is it
[45:39 - 45:43] something within your work that when other people watch it, they're like, Oh, yeah, I get it. I get
[45:43 - 45:52] what you're doing is different than you would, etc. Okay, so to the much anticipated examples,
[45:52 - 45:58] this was a case called Blanche versus James. Andrea Blanche is a photographer. She took this
[45:58 - 46:04] photo of this pair of legs over here for an ad that appeared in the lore magazine.
[46:06 - 46:12] Jeff Koons is a very famous artist. He is also famous in the fair use world. He's been sued,
[46:12 - 46:17] I think this might have been the third time he was sued for copyright infringement and the first
[46:17 - 46:26] time he won. So he used a fragment of the lore photograph there in the black and white. And you
[46:26 - 46:32] can see where the feet, the second on the left have been inverted. But you know, he took the
[46:32 - 46:39] original photographs and did what he did. But there the court held that this was a fair use
[46:39 - 46:46] because his painting was using the photograph to comment upon the culture and attitudes promoted
[46:46 - 46:53] and embodied in the lore magazine. And this was while he wasn't commenting on Andrea Blanche's
[46:53 - 46:59] specific but let me go back and let me let me revert to something here. Let me show you.
[47:01 - 47:11] 20 years or so and it is a big new expression in the message. Or like I said, does it supplant the
[47:11 - 47:16] objects of the original? If you're doing the same thing that the original work was doing,
[47:16 - 47:22] you're going to be in trouble. Did you catch that? If you're doing the same thing the original
[47:22 - 47:29] piece is doing, you're going to be in trouble. I am not doing the same thing as the original.
[47:30 - 47:38] I am doing the complete opposite of the original. I am taking a piece and being
[47:38 - 47:44] transformative with it. Therefore, fair use.
[47:44 - 47:50] But if you're doing something with a totally different purpose,
[47:50 - 47:57] you know, and it's a new tool or it has new meaning, you're going to be, you know, that's
[47:57 - 48:05] what we call transformative. Say right there. They're doing something with a totally different
[48:05 - 48:11] purpose. You know, when it's a new tool or it has new meaning, you're going to be, you know,
[48:11 - 48:17] that's what we call transformative. Do you have a transformative purpose? Can you articulate it?
[48:17 - 48:22] And is it something within your work that when other people watch it, they're like,
[48:22 - 48:29] Oh yeah, I get it. I get what you're doing is different and new and etc. Right there.
[48:29 - 48:40] What she just said is what I do. I take art pieces or photos off of Google and I completely
[48:40 - 48:50] transform that giving them new value, new meaning, different point of view, you know, new everything.
[48:51 - 48:54] So, dude, you're not winning this one.
[48:54 - 49:07] I'm not a fag, guys.
[49:07 - 49:14] I'm not a fag. You know what?
[49:14 - 49:20] You know, don't get it. Let's do it. Well, let me show you exactly what I do with my fair use.
[49:21 - 49:26] Let me show you exactly to the T what it is that I do.
[49:26 - 49:30] Let me set this up here. Hold on.
[49:30 - 49:35] Let me show you exactly what it is that I do.
[49:45 - 49:50] Let's set this right here. Hang on. Let me sum my stuff up right quick.
[49:50 - 49:53] I'm going to show you exactly what it is that I do.
[49:53 - 50:00] Where's my sketch pad?
[50:00 - 50:09] Oh, damn, dude. I hope he gets better, man.
[50:09 - 50:13] Just saying, bro. I hope he gets better, dude.
[50:13 - 50:30] All right, so I'm going to switch this over.
[50:30 - 50:40] I grabbed my pen time one year. Let me get rid of this.
[50:40 - 50:49] Let me go here. And yes, this is the original piece, which I'm actually thinking about.
[50:49 - 50:58] You know what? Let me put out my thing. Let me put out my samurai piece.
[50:58 - 51:03] Because I kind of like that one.
[51:03 - 51:09] No, I didn't want to edit it.
[51:09 - 51:20] So that's the style background.
[51:20 - 51:25] Yo, that looks good.
[51:25 - 51:38] All right, so let me grab my roll of keyboard here, which I fucking love this roll of USB
[51:38 - 51:49] keyboard. It's so fucking dope.
[51:49 - 52:06] So let me go right here.
[52:06 - 52:17] You know, let's go with this one.
[52:17 - 52:27] Let's type in. Oh, I actually like that.
[52:27 - 52:33] I might just make the samurai piece.
[52:33 - 52:40] All on here as well. Actually, no, I'm going to use the other one.
[52:40 - 52:50] Yeah, that looks cool. All right, so let's go here. Let's type in.
[52:50 - 53:03] Oh.
[53:03 - 53:29] Oh, I just do.
[53:29 - 53:52] All right, let's look for something here.
[53:59 - 54:23] Yeah, that's actually the way it's going for the right one here.
[54:23 - 54:33] Oh, I'm looking for a very specific.
[54:33 - 54:44] Color.
[54:44 - 54:48] Actually, that right there is my work.
[54:53 - 55:04] All right, so let's take this image right here. Let's run with this.
[55:04 - 55:11] Now let's go.
[55:16 - 55:25] K-R-I-T-A. And you can sit there and you can run your mouth all you want.
[55:25 - 55:35] Take and run your words.
[55:35 - 55:43] Yeah, I don't think I need to think about what I'm doing. That's all you, brother man.
[55:45 - 55:47] All right, yeah, we're still good.
[55:47 - 55:52] No, no, no, you're going to sit here and you're going to watch this.
[55:52 - 55:56] You're going to stay right there and you're going to watch.
[55:56 - 56:08] I'm going to prove to you that what I do is legit.
[56:08 - 56:25] Although I suppose it's the same right here, I could have just put it right behind the thing.
[56:25 - 56:31] I could have put it like right behind the houses there. I may do that afterwards, though.
[56:31 - 56:52] I'm going for a crayon to come out.
[56:52 - 57:13] All right, now let's go here.
[57:13 - 57:15] Okay.
[57:15 - 57:22] Let's see, is it in here?
[57:22 - 57:23] Or is it in the other one?
[57:23 - 57:27] Yeah, it's probably in the other one.
[57:35 - 57:53] All right, here we go. Now watch closely at what I do.
[57:53 - 57:57] All right, so you see that?
[57:57 - 58:20] I want you to bear witness to this whole thing.
[58:20 - 58:37] Okay.
[58:37 - 59:05] Now you see how I'm pushing the colors around?
[59:05 - 59:11] How I'm slowly transforming it?
[59:11 - 59:21] I know it might not look like much now, but just wait.
[59:21 - 59:25] Watch so you see the final result.
[59:25 - 59:31] I want you to bear witness to this motherfucker.
[59:31 - 59:42] Okay.
[60:06 - 60:08] Make sure I didn't throw on the eraser tool
[60:08 - 60:11] because I have a tendency to do that when it comes down and down.
[60:11 - 60:25] Now I'm just blurring that up for now.
[60:25 - 62:49] Okay.
[62:49 - 63:09] And normally I do this on my leaving writing page but I wanted to prove a point here.
[63:09 - 63:37] So now I'm writing my own.
[63:37 - 63:57] Then it doesn't work.
[63:57 - 64:15] Oh, that is way too much.
[64:15 - 64:44] You can say that and argue all you want but you know I'm telling the truth, dude.
[64:44 - 64:59] It's called pushing the colors around.
[64:59 - 65:18] You fucking idiot.
[65:18 - 65:31] So, do I need to prove myself any further?
[65:31 - 66:00] As a matter of fact, that shop that I was telling you guys about, that company that I'm working with, yeah, I may just release this through that. I don't know though.
[66:00 - 66:29] So, I'm going to do this.
[66:29 - 66:42] Sorry Cindy, I'm not trying to ignore you but when I get going on a piece I'm just, I have a one track mind.
[66:42 - 66:46] So don't think I'm ignoring you.
[66:46 - 67:04] Because I'm really not.
[67:04 - 67:30] Okay.
[67:30 - 67:52] I'm going to finish this piece up, Cindy, and then I'll check out your cover.
[67:52 - 73:11] Okay.
[73:11 - 73:40] Almost done.
[73:40 - 79:54] Okay.
[79:54 - 80:23] All right, you know what, I think I might just erase that part of it.
[80:23 - 81:50] Okay.
[81:50 - 81:53] See, nothing like the original.
[81:53 - 81:56] So right there.
[81:56 - 82:19] There you go.
[82:19 - 83:03] Okay.
[83:03 - 83:09] See, nothing like the original, dude.
[83:09 - 83:50] Okay.
[83:50 - 84:16] So bro, miss me with that bullshit.
[84:16 - 84:20] That's all right, though.
[84:20 - 84:45] That's a quick fix.
[84:45 - 85:14] I'm trying to get this shot a little bit.
[85:14 - 85:36] You know what, I actually kind of like that right there.
[85:36 - 86:05] Kind of a brush stroke feel.
[86:05 - 87:41] Okay.
[87:41 - 87:55] Now that I've proved my fucking point, I'm going to transform it into artwork.
[87:55 - 88:21] Now, I'm also going to take it a step further.
[88:21 - 88:36] Now, I'm going to take it a step further.
[88:36 - 88:52] Let's go.
[88:52 - 89:21] Let's go, Amberlight.
[89:21 - 89:50] Oh, that would actually have like dope and blue, so let's go with blue.
[89:50 - 96:16] Okay.
[96:16 - 96:24] All right, so it's, it's kind of a bit taller in some way.
[96:24 - 96:53] Let's go.
[96:53 - 97:41] Okay.
[97:41 - 97:51] Now, try me again.
[97:51 - 97:54] Do I really need to prove my point anymore?
[97:54 - 98:03] I don't think I do.
[98:03 - 98:20] So all y'all that doubt me can piss off.