Recently, one of my good friends introduced me to an infamous YouTuber who goes by the online name of Dax Flame (but displays his real name, too). The first videos I watched I cried myself laughing, until I got to the one where he talks about “accidentely [sic] beating up” someone; at that point, I realized that he could possibly be suffering from mental illness. What did I do? Continue laughing, even harder the weirder/stupider his actions became.

See, this is where it becomes morally grey. I would not normally laugh at someone with disability, either mental or physical, but what happens if they choose to let others make fun of them? It’s not as if someone found secret recordings by a kid and posted them online for public humiliation (and hilarious entertainment, nonetheless); this Dax Flame character, probably a junior in high school (or senior in elementary), chooses to upload countless “video blogs” to millions of viewers, who cruelly rip him up and even encourage him to commit suicide in the comments section (which I find goes way over the limit, whether he’s mentally adequate or not). Perhaps he is just an actor who’s damn convincing fooling us into thinking he’s a “retard”, using common politically-incorrect terminology, or perhaps he’s really who we see on YouTube, but he doesn’t really care what others think (hopefully, judging from the responses of fellow YouTubers).

Regardless, I sometimes question if me dying of laughter from Dax’s possible inability to control himself (and his social awkwardness) will lead me to a circle of hell. I laugh a lot at things I see, clean humour or not; Dax Flame, with his 122 videos, doesn’t seem to be much of an exception. I simply can’t help bursting out in laughter when he recounts a particular event that happened earlier to him, or him trying out new things in life. Yes, you may ask, “Then why not just avoid watching the videos?”; a good question, indeed, but then why would he make so many videos on one of the world’s most popular sites, and undoubtedly the world’s most popular video site? Because he wants an audience, and if I (and millions of other people) don’t watch, then his goal will have failed! And I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that he may not truly know what he’s doing, since he has responded to the “haters” and he does have enough of a grasp on life and social relations in general.

So I guess until someone points out clear reasons why I’ll be damned taking comedic advantage of this Dax Flame, who may or may not have disabilities, I’ll continue roffling at his postsbye. And try not to piss my pants in the processbye.

P.S. Apologies for the lack of posts lately, been busy.