On occasion, I have found myself in a situation where people on the internet are mad at me, and that seems surprising to many of you who've been following me for years. I'm such a likable, friendly guy. It's hard to believe anybody would ever be mad at him for any reason, but sometimes they are.
00:03:27.680And I need to stop imposing my way of thinking and living on other people.
00:03:32.080Which is why I'm sorry I wasn't more specific.
00:03:35.060I should, I, and I am, because I, I should have, I should have said that, you know, if you, if you take a sick day, it means that you're a woman or you're a child or you're a total pansy.
00:04:16.780Look, we all know how Christmas season goes these days.
00:04:19.380The stores put up their decorations in October.
00:04:22.020Corporations try to sell you on their version of holiday spirit.
00:04:25.280Before you know it, you're stressed out, overwhelmed, and completely missing the actual point of the season.
00:04:29.780That's why I want to talk to you about something actually meaningful, Advent.
00:04:33.160It's the sacred time before Christmas where we're supposed to prepare our hearts through prayer and reflection.
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00:05:24.020Let's actually prepare our hearts for Christmas this year instead of just our shopping carts.
00:05:28.640Finally, uh, my number one internet controversy.
00:05:31.660And this, this takes us back a couple of years to that infamous moment when I said,
00:05:36.440totally seriously, of course, that anime is satanic.
00:05:39.400What's your opinion on anime? It's really popular amongst teens and young adults.
00:05:44.400I think it's all satanic. All anime to me seems weird, just like bizarre, creepy.
00:05:49.120And this has proved to be the hot take of all hot takes.
00:05:53.840What was for me a brief aside, an offhanded remark has become a rallying cry for the anime community for years now.
00:06:03.540They're still traumatized by it, even now.
00:06:05.720So today I do want to apologize to the anime community.
00:06:09.940It's taken me a while. It's taken me a couple of years to work up, to get to this point where I'm, where I, where I can even say this.
00:06:17.700Um, I should not have said anything to upset you. I should not have angered you.
00:06:21.680I should not have bullied you. I should have known better.
00:06:26.060Uh, you guys are, you guys are not the ones to mess with. I've realized that, you know, because you can't handle the stress because you're morbidly obese.
00:06:34.540And I should have known, I should have known better. I should have taken that into account.
00:06:39.160And I'm sorry. Rather than needlessly trolling you, I should have helped you get past the trauma.
00:06:44.980I should have helped you to get over it.
00:06:46.920Um, I mean, I can't help you get over anything physically because, you know, because, because of the obesity, but I, I can help you emotionally.
00:06:52.480And I should have. And while we're on the subject, I want to make one of the, because this, this also upsets me a little.
00:06:57.740Because here's the thing. There, there are, some people were taking my side in this whole, in this whole debate.
00:07:02.700And, um, and some of the things that those people said that were on my side, ostensibly, I found kind of upsetting.
00:07:09.600And, uh, and they, they, one thing is that, well, these anime people, they're all sitting in their mom's basements, right?
00:07:17.800They're sitting in their parents' basements, yelling at you.
00:07:21.100And I want to be clear. I know that you're not all sitting in your parents' basements.
00:07:23.720Uh, you might also be in their den or in their attic.
00:07:29.200Um, they don't let you in the living room because they're ashamed.
00:07:32.460But the, the point is that you're not necessarily in the basement.