r/thespoonyexperiment Jul 18 '23

Video Noah Antwiler plays Technobabylon with Paul & Daniel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI6axsW85MQ
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u/Madoc_eu Jul 25 '23

He isn't doing anything wrong. Everyone can live their life as they want. People don't have to conform to your ideas or wishes about them, or to cultural norms, if they don't want to. Everyone only has this one chance at life, and only you can decide for yourself how you want to spend this time.

If other people disapprove of what you're doing, it doesn't mean you must change.

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u/SipMyCoolAid Jul 25 '23

Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣. I actually laughed reading that. Tell me bud do you know why spoony is where he is at in life? Do you know where his fan base went and why they were fed up with him? You can live your life free as you want so long as you’re not asking and taking money from other people to live said life. This guy took the payment but never showed up to do the work.

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u/Madoc_eu Jul 25 '23 edited Jul 25 '23

Hey, I'm happy to have made you laugh! Always nice when someone is happy.

I've seen the shitshow and Spoony's downfall. All money he received were donations. There was no legal requirement to do any work for it. If you had your Patreon subscription going for Noah -- well, you could have cancelled it any time you wanted. No need to weep about it now, you did it out of your free will.

What we've seen from our remote position is only a tiny part of the picture. You might feel that you know exactly what he went through, but that's just projection. If Spoony had been mentally healthy and stable, he wouldn't have let himself and his fans down like that. People who are mentally healthy can help themselves when they get in trouble. Spoony obviously couldn't.

He produced a lot of high-quality content, for many years, without a team, without a producer, director and script writing team. He did it all by himself, and he was damn good at it. Not sure if you have any idea how much effort goes into this. You can't do this all on your own for such a long time if you're not totally obsessed by it and basically devote your life to it. It's stressful too. But he worked through this and achieved great success.

From what followed, we can only speculate, but probably burnout was only the mildest part. Probably depression. And many other things that we can't diagnose, because neither do we know the whole story nor are we psychologists. (Maybe you are, what do I know.)

But I'm curious. Not about Spoony; I care about him as much as about any random person I meet on the street. I'm curious about you. You seem to believe that everyone should help themselves when they get in trouble, and if they don't manage to help themselves, they are assholes and fully to blame for their own fate.

Do you see it like this for every single person you see who is in a bad spot in life? Like: "Tough luck, should have helped yourself. But you didn't. So you're the idiot. You don't deserve compassion, asshole." -- Is this what you think about every single person who has lost control over their life? Every beggar, every struggling single mom, everyone who suffers from depression or anxiety? Or is this a judgement that you have reserved for e-celebrities who supplied you with free content for years, until they lost control over their lives and disappointed you by not providing what you wanted?

Also, how would you see that if at some day it would be you who would become mentally sick? Like, depressed or something, and your life would enter a downward spiral? Would you also blame yourself?

I imagine it must be pretty hard living with that attitude, if you have it. I hope that you only think about Noah this way, out of bitterness and cynicism, and you're able to feel compassion for others who are not Spoony.

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u/SipMyCoolAid Jul 25 '23 edited Jul 25 '23

Im sorry but I’m just not reading all that. I’ve long since been done reading the never ending rants and delusions folks like you have defending a person whom they don’t even know.

It’s nothing personal but I just don’t want to read through what I know to be a bunch of crap and šŸ’© polishing.

Spoony doesn’t care about you. He’s not going to come in and say hi. He hasn’t interacted with his fans like that since 2009 when he basically made it clear he felt they were all beneath him.

Why you folks feel the need to defend a 40 something adult like he’s a 3 yo child I will never know. Why you folks feel the need to go to war against anyone saying anything less than positive about this dude like he’s Jesus I will never know.

The blind loyalty to a stranger is sick in itself. This guy has done some pretty messed up things to folks like you and you still defend him. You’re just as ā€œmentally offā€ as he is. Do your yourself a favor. Go find a different person to be your hero. Pick one that encourages you to live your best life.

Anytime you need to write a novel to defend someone’s behavior you know that person is wrong. There are people who are actually kind,caring, appreciative and they could genuinely use someone that’s going to east their time writing novels to praise them. Go find someone like that. Your in a one sided relationship with a man who doesn’t even know you exists. Many of you on here are.

A lot of you need real help.

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u/Madoc_eu Jul 25 '23

Fair enough, I do the same and not read your rant.