Ok, I'm royally pissed right now, so if you are so easily offended, please do not read this. I have no time to waste to hear people whine about what I have to say!!
I'm utterly shocked at how many PAGAN people are deleting their channels and videos on YouTube because of the so many **trolls** out there who just CAN"T seem to keep their mouths shut. It makes me utterly sick to my stomach that people who think they DESERVE to have everything handed to them on a silver platter need to make this "OPINION" known, especially on the channels of hardworking video makers who have been around for almost a decade!!.
They think these people, who take so much time, effort and planning to make videos; who take the time to edit and post their videos, OWE them something. It's actually quite the contrary. I know how hard it is to make a video, edit it to the specifications that THEY want, and post a video. It can take DAYS to edit a video, it's not simply just recording a video, and posting it on YouTube all pretty with pretty fonts, pretty pictures and pretty music. It can take DAYS to get everything right, to carefully place images and words in the right place, to pick the right music that goes with the theme.
But this is not the reason for this rant, it's the so many people out there (whom I can call every expletive out there), who think these people OWE them something. This is the SECOND time I've heard this very phrase/word used by a channel owner.
I just watched my SECOND "Goodbye" video on YouTube by a very popular video-maker on Pagan topics. How does ANYONE who claims to be a Pagan sleep at night, when all they do is go on YouTube videos, harass, demean, and be just plain RUDE to those who take all this time to make a video for you. They don't HAVE to make these videos, they make them because THEY want to. They owe the watchers NOTHING!!!
These video makers want to be helpful in the Pagan community, but I see the Pagan community show much of it's true colors when so-called "Pagans" come on and say to someone who offers classes at a price, claim they're a "liar", "theif" or other derogatory phrasing. Pagans have to make money too.
I'm not one really for advocating things like spell work that MUST be paid for, however teaching classes is something different. When people charge for spells, generally it's people who are in the same category as "gypsies" or "psychics", who are into it for the money. i'm not one who is in my craft for money so I don't see the need to charge for any service. If someone wants to donate money to me for my work, so be it, I may or may not decline it.
But for teachers, this is something much more different. They have NUMEROUS clients and students participating in their class, (whereas a spell caster would have maybe one or two clients). Books, materials, time all cost something.
This last video I watched, this woman noted comments she received in which said "everything you can learn comes free" (or words to that effect). "You can get "pirated" books online for free". yeah, and the poor person who wrote that book is out money for the time they took to write that book, hence making those books cost more to the consumer. "Nature can teach us everything we need to know for free". Yeah, nature can teach SOME of us what we need to know if we just sit and really listen, but the people who make these idiotic comments are the types who want everything handed to them on that pretty silver platter with no work involved, so it's pretty hypocritical for them to say this. Nature can only teach us so much...there are those out there who know how to make use of the knowledge obtained by nature, and sometimes because they gain a great number of students, it's not free. Again, time, materials, location, transportation COSTS MONEY!!! You expect these teachers and those who run businesses to cater to you because you're too cheap to shell out a few bucks?
I dont' have any money, but you don't see me bitching and whining to a teacher claiming they should teach me for free because I don't have money. I have more respect than that. I wait until I DO have money, then I take the class. I have never, EVER, once said that a teacher, video maker, forum, whathaveyou ever owed me for their service. Simply because they have a video on YouTube does NOT mean they owe me something for watching. They place their videos on YouTube because THEY want to, not because they feel that they owe their watchers to continue making videos. If that's your assumption towards makers of YouTube videos, then you're pretty shallow, and that makes me sick.
I agree with CharmingPixieFlora...people need to GROW UP!!! You bring down the ENTIRE Pagan community when you show this type of arrogant, bigoted BS, and it makes me ashamed to be a part of that Pagan community with people like these!
Victims of Pagan "BULLIES" (for every one of these, there are probably dozens more)
CharmingPixieFlora - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlnCymr367Y&feature=g-all-u
TheShoeWhisperer - http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShoeWhisperer/videos?view=0
TipToeChick - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSKnjDflYM
Ma’iingan
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