I received a message from Greg today, and in the interest of transparency, to aid Greg Solomon in learning the lesson he tries to teach me, and to get back at him a little1
I am posting his message as well as my two responses here for your own enjoyment.
(NOTE! This crap is extremely long. Look in the footnotes for TLDRs)
Edit (20:35): NOW INTRODUCING TREVOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!!! YAAAAY!
Greg Solomon, man of integrity and passion. (Click and make me big, baby)
This is what I responded with (OMGZ in b4 copypasta instead of pic, verify through GregSolomon)2
Greg,
I see where you are coming from and what you think has happened. I see that. But you are working without all of the information available. “Das Economista”? That was posted 7 days ago before you ever made a video about me. Proof: http://www.vimeo.com/2468991
I understand that you feel you spurred me to action, and in a way you did. I was planning on making parodies of youtubers long before you came along, which is verifiable from a few sources (Cory Mr Safety, Danny Diamond). You simply became my first target.
For that I thank you.
I hope you do not take it as too mean spirited, although there was a tint of personal butt-hurtery there that I’m only recently shedding. For me, it was a fun video to make and I had a great time observing your mannerisms and writing what I think is an effective parody of your persona.
So I have to apologize Greg in that I don’t feel you are responsible for anything more than the parody video, which I have linked to your video for promoting your work as a reference to mine. I can’t advise people that are interested in my videos to go to yours, because (and I mean this objectively) I don’t see you as an interesting performer. You have intellect and you obviously can write, but until you reign in your persona and stop locking yourself to branding rules your “shtick” will become your cage.
I know you didn’t ask for my notes, but I feel I can help. Disregard this if it doesn’t interest you. You pacing is good, but it is overdone. You need to vary your tonality, pace, and hand gestures to more accurately convey your internal dialogue. I see snippets of the person you are under this act, and if you are not trying to be a character you need to be yourself. Don’t be afraid to show controlled emotion to illustrate your opinions on the topic at hand nonverbally.
A UCLA study listed in this article (http://humanresources.about.com/od/interpersonalcommunicatio1/a/nonverbal_com.htm) states that they found up to 93% of communication can be nonverbal; which includes body language, tonality, and your choice of words being the last potential 7%. Findings by John Grinder and Richard Bandler’s studies on nonverbal communication have similar findings, but a less weighted percentage on body language.
I know you are a studious man, and if you would let me I would offer whatever help I can provide to see you succeed. I simply wish you would see me for the person I am instead of the person I misrepresented myself as for a year and a half. I was an ass. I lied, I begged, I was going after the money and it nearly killed me.
But I have my groove back now, and I’ll do whatever it takes to stay happy, creative, and stimulated.
I hope you understand. Please let me know if you need clarification on anything. I’ve tried to be as precise as possible.
Regards,
Ben/boh3m3
And I shortly followed that with this message
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And Greg, I also have to apologize in advance, but I feel the need to post your message on my website.
I know you are a good person, but your motivations have gone sour. I want to teach you the lesson you have tried to teach me, and I can think of no better way.
Take it from my experience that this will help you if you are strong enough to handle it. This will not be easy, but if you persevere and embrace transparency you will be a better person for it.
If you should have a problem with me posting this message on my website, please contact me and I will help you.
I swear to you there is not more than the tiniest tinge of personal reasons behind this. They are not nonexistent, but my motivations here are at least 95% for your benefit.
So again, I apologize for what I am about to do.
I doubt you would send someone you have criticized for years anything you wouldn’t want opened in public, so I feel your confidence in sending this message is a conscious choice you made of your own free will and without instigation by myself.
Hope to talk to you soon,
Ben/boh3m3
19:23 Pacific-ish: GREG RESPONDS! LARGE MESSAGE WARNING4
“Greg, I see where you are coming from and what you think has happened.”
Ben, not what I “think” has happened…what I “know” has happened.
Your “Re: BoSceme” video, which you spring-boarded off of my video, has now received (in one day) more views than your “Peach Fuzz” video that you posted 3 days ago, and it almost has as many views as your “Drain-O” and “Setting Up A Shot” videos that you posted one week ago and one month ago respectively.
All that in one day Ben.
You have well over 40 thousand subscribers. I should think that videos you uploaded one week ago and one month ago would have many thousands more views than a video that you just uploaded yesterday, but such is not the case.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.5
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“…there was a tint of personal butt-hurtery there that I’m only recently shedding.”
That’s quite understandable Ben.
When I bust a man’s chops, he usually remains smarting for quite a while afterwards.6
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“You pacing is good, but it is overdone. You need to vary your tonality, pace, and hand gestures to more accurately convey your internal dialogue…etc, etc.”
Ben, suffice it to say here, psychology is not your strong suit.7
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“I simply wish you would see me for the person I am…”
You obviously inferred from my video that I have something personal against you…such is not the case.
I have no hard feelings against you or dislike for you, and in fact wish you all the best.
Certainly you must have got an inkling concerning the tenor of my video when I inserted the teeth in my mouth?
I believe I even complimented you a couple of years ago as showing maturity beyond your years for your measured response to my “chop busting” video then…remember? 8Regards,
-Greg
OMG MOAR! RESPONSE TO APOLOGY MESSAGE! DRAMA DRAMA EATITUPYUMYUM! 9
“And Greg, I also have to apologize in advance, but I feel the need to post your message on my website.”
I knew you would feel that need when I sent you the message. It’s analogous to a “card force” in magic.
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“I know you are a good person, but your motivations have gone sour.”
You’ve got a hole in your glove Ben…you’re missing the high ones.10
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“I doubt you would send someone you have criticized for years anything you wouldn’t want opened in public.”
Actually Ben, I never write -anything- in an email or internet message that I would not expect at some point to possibly be displayed by someone on a public medium…because I realize the motives and intentions of some persons can be ulterior and self serving.11
Just a good dose of healthy cynicism on my part.Regards,
-Greg
AND NOW ITS TIME FOR BACKWARDS DETECTIVE WORK WITH TREVOR THE OBSESSED!12
THE CONCLUSION!
The CONFLICT!
The INTRODUCTION!
EDIT: 12/16/08 15:14 PM Pacific time! I’m done with this shit!
The Saga of Trevor, Episode 1! Say this with me, Trevor: 'I are the Demons'
MERRY CHRISTMAS MOVIE HOUSE!!!
- This is a sincere statement. This is only a tiny part personal. If this post were a cocktail, the personal tinge would be the twist of lemon. And I would probably get a little drunk. ↩
- TLDR; My name’s Ben and you are claiming you did more than what actually happened and are now trying to leverage me into promoting your channel like the “schemer” you claim I am. ZOMG I ARE EXPOZEENG HIM HERE! ↩
- TLDR; Oh and you sent me this without instigation of your own free will and I assume you don’t mind me posting it as nobody in their right mind would give a potential “frienemy” ammo to attack with after having just criticized the hell out of them for the better part of a year! ↩
- TLDR; “I know what happened and nothing else beyond what I see exists. I did something, you did something before that in the style that people now love and I’m taking responsibility for that, even though it was not released on YouTube. You owe everything to me, because I’m the man and I’m smart.
When I insult someone, it hurts and I’m tough because of that. Your psychology is also flawed, according to me even though I clearly have not studied body language or Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I like to point that out, because it belittles you and makes me feel special. If I don’t know that, it doesn’t exist, puny mortal!
I was sure you understood the vast, sweeping adjectives of my videos by inserting teeth into my mouth, after watching more than two minutes of my slow-paced communicative overcompensation.
Don’t you remember talking to me before? Even though you say in your response that you don’t remember doing a response to me before, because that last response was to RENETTO’s video and not to mine. ↩ - OMGZ I LOVE PUDDINGS! ↩
- I am truly humbled by the sheer velocity of this man’s cockyness. ↩
- Even though I’m talking about acting and performing, not psychology… ↩
- I don’t remember that, because all I can remember is responding to RENETTO’s video making fun of you ↩
- TLDR; “I know magic tricks, and use metaphors to my previous knowledge that I think you know a tiny bit about to impress and relate to you.
I use obscure metaphors to befuddle and make you think, thus proving my intelligence not by information but by poor communication with my common man.
Actually, I’m smart, and I’m going to tell you why I am, despite the fact that the statement I’m responding to was a statement and not a question.
I’m also cynical, and am IMPERVIOUS to satire! ↩ - Now he is critiquing my poverty and clothing. Just like I did to him! YAY! Lurneeng! ↩
- TRUTH! FINALLY! ↩
- TLDR; “I want you to give my website exposure, because I think that my insane opinions and wildly unclever “satire” in the format of the notebooks from Se7en entertains, instead of just documenting my downward spiral into obsessive madness in the cold, dark cell that is my mind.”
Oh and by the way, “Trevor,” you won’t get any of my exposure that I don’t have anymore… CAUSE IM NOT GIVING IT TO YOU!
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?! ↩
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I actually read all of this. I have no idea what I read, but it seemed intelligent… so go Boh3m3!
(I don’t feel as though I can call you Ben, so I will continue calling you sir or Boh3m3.)
Good Day.
GAH! Well if you didn’t understand because of my lack of communication skills, I apologize.
Otherwise, sorry for just using professionalspeak instead of responding to him the way that I really wanted to. :D
Your communication skills are wonderful, it just I do not comprehend the fancy speak you used, sir. What I did understand was beautiful and majestic though.
You responded maturely and fairly, but taking it public seems unnecessary. Why would ‘transparency’ make the slightest bit of difference to his response?
Sigh.
I am so confused by all this.
You drive away the half of your fans that wanted vlogs and drama, then proceed to create vlogs and drama. You promise people who want your creativity more Haberdashery, and then move away from that entirely. I’m sure there’s more Hab. coming, but… well… in short, internet drama isn’t what I’m here for.
C’mon Ben babe, you were going up in my estimation, and I like you! I want to see you do great things, and this ain’t it.
Ease up, Anna. It’s just the interwebs. Trust that if I’m having fun, I’ll be trying to entertain you. Just let go of control, perceived or otherwise.
Whoa, what a radical web page design! It’s so bright and… white!
Well, it looks like old man Solomon achieved his original intentions; to get an response from you and bring much-needed traffic to his YouTube page. He couldn’t pull it off with his lengthy, long-winded, repeat-several-times-like-a-skipping-CD diatribe videos, but I guess he enjoys a good verbal video joust with willing participants.
I need to know; is this new design temporary or permanent?
You can disregard my last comment about the web design. Since I refreshed the page; the answer became quite apparent. Lookin’ good!
Thanks! All credit to the original author though. I only moved things around and customized.
You responded pretty politely, Jamin’…are you ill?
Had he said something so condescending, so fucking arrogant and pathetic to my face, he would have probably lost a few teeth. Had he e-mailed me with the same message, I would have giggled, and then deleted it.
“Tell your fans to subscribe to me”…how fucking desperate. He’s too homely and uninteresting to obtain a real, strong subscriber count on his own…so he has to pawn off of other people?
He’s unhappy with who he is and what he does. He wants attention, but he never specified what kind. I’m just giving him what he wants.
So, Solomon’s real intentions shine through. He tried to get your goat to up his viewer and – gasp! – subscriber levels? Your fan base may be loyal, but they aren’t stupid.
At first I sensed this parody as a step back, like Theifree does, away from the new, less-dramatic Boh3m3. But considering how this dude intentionally called you out, to ignore him would have only given him a louder boom mic, if you will. I think your response was apt and not too much at all.
Ben.
Destroy this shitdick.
I’ve dealt with bitches like him before. It maddens me.
Unfortunately it seems as though any attention you give him he will feed off of like a sick gimp who loves the whip. You have to completely destroy him.
We’re cheering you on, you unbelievable bastard.
Dizzy, just enjoy the ride man.
Also, in my opinion your bipolar changes of format (drama vlog to creative masterpiece to silly ninnyness and back) make me want to tune in even more.
I’m just sayin’.
I am verily interested by all of this… very intersting material here… I smell movie deal!
Could win an Oscar Meyer.
‘Treiver Reger’ (misspelled on purpose) is the ULTIMATE lolcow on the Web and acts like a starving buzzard that picks act non-existent meat on sun-bleached carcass bones in a desert. The ‘man’ is desperately seeking for a story to post on his laughably-bad tabloid website, because the Drama never dies!
Haha, I’ve been enjoying this Ben, long time watcher first time talker. Just wanted to give you a heads up that you forgot to blur his site name in “the introduction”. Keep us updated man!
Oh shit! Let me take care of that… wouldn’t want to give him any exposure, now would we? :D
Haha most definitely not! Keep kicking ass dude.
I love how Solomon tries to keep the upper hand after you dealt him an ass-whooping in the form of some excellent observations, but he fools nobody, least of all your more seasoned suscribers. Ive been watching your videossince i joined in august last year, and whereas your vlogs and random rants are great, the evolution of your creative style is really showing us what your’e capable of, and isnt that what video making is all about? Sure doing vlogs is fine, and gets you views, but thats not whats important, look at FRED and NigaHiga, both utterly shit and un-creative, but have loads of viewers, its wrong.
This shows that Solomon only glances at things on the surface, he clearly only cares about statistics which gives him the integrity of a cheap hooker and the personality of a carton of apples.
Boh3m3 1 – 0 Greg Salamander
Still going on with your Self Obsessed friend?
Yeah…I didn’t have time to read all of it. Intelligent, witty, funny (None of that on Greg’s end except the humor in his denial), etc… It’s still just another pointless, hypocritical Interwebz War between an old fart and a young man, who have nothing in common-except of course, the will to type angry, teenage-angst type letters back and forth.
Hope you’ve been well, Ben.
Dude Trevor is a low-life. He probably wastes his whole life away on his computer. I actually found his website and saw his video. He thinks he knows what he’s talking about but in reality he doesn’t know jack-shit. He provides no evidence for his claims and doesn’t even know the people he’s talking about personally. Don’t let low-life morons like Greg and Trevor get to you Ben.
I is confused. Who made this Solomon guy King of the Internets?
Hah Chef, you’re SO right. Still. Let ‘em play if they want to… as the old saying goes, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and the whole world ends up blind and toothless (and butthurt).”
Anna my dear, Ben makes my throbbing, apparently pressured headache so much worse D:
Oh, and Anna…this video makes me think of you now…just because of that quote xD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqZtWzPNEJw&feature=related
I fucking love the animation in it