https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/527/c3816d8c-bd6d-4f45-aa5f-0102c6ae8174/Lonely Car Shop Man.webm
Here's a 360 video of the op. Not that anyone cares.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1oopfKnLw
What a weird thread. I guess I'm the fool for not expecting it to take the dark turn that it did. The song, whilst ending on a bitter-sweet note, isn't tragic at all. It's an invitation to take the time to slow down and to smell the flowers. It's an observation about not always getting wound up in the misery and minutia of every-day life.
And yet, post after post, people willfully misinterpreted the point of this thread. Everyone was so willing to share some really tragic shit in the face of a music video -- which I'm pretty sure most of you didn't actually watch -- whose message is that your perceptions of the world is what changes it the most. Why did this happen? Why were you all so willing to gleefully ignore what was trying to be said in order to share your own stuff? Why did everyone jump on the bandwagon to take this thread to a place I didn't want it to go? Was the thing I was trying to share so unimportant that you all collectively decided the thread should be about something else entirely? Something tragic?
Well if this is what you wanted: mission accomplished. You guys are jerks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPySpppmHkU
Part of the off topic can be attributed to me, as seeing my sad post receive so many ratings, and others posting inherently sad pieces of
media, I felt like it was okay to continue.
It's not unusual for threads with one subject evolve into being about something else, however. That happens all the time on facepunch. You've been here long enough to see it happen before.
And here is the crux of the problem. With the thread turning into something else, I get the impression from the post that the message in the music video, and the content you wanted to share, was ignored. At least for me, it wasn't. I watched it, enjoyed it a bit. But then when I saw Curl's contrarian post that was trying to be witty, I threw in one of my own- of something sad, as a direct response to the thread title instead of the music video you shared. This wasn't some sort of neglect of the topic you wanted to share or people being malicious in ignoring you. The thread simply turned into something else from there, and others went along with the shift in subject.
Ultimately the better course of action after a couple of posts was to create a "Shit that makes you Sad" thread in general, but what's done is already done.
For what it's worth, I'll apologize for myself in the hand I played in seeing this threads purpose changed. Seeing how it's upset you, which was never my intention, I won't post anymore in the thread.
https://youtu.be/YwFAXG_7hXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4cJh2YgrKE
For real, if you want some really hard, painful feels, this is the peak
Especially the written speech at the end that's read
I'd like to apologize,similar to how Perogi Palooka thought this was a sad post thread I thought the same way because of other people's posts without watching the video you posted.
you're the one digging so deep into this
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