TkyoSam & Oriental Pearl: Cruel to Be Kind.

what's up guys it's tko sam coming to you live a lot of people can say you're fat the only reason you're getting laid in japan is because you couldn't get laid in other countries you know what that's 100 true [Music] i um oh my dick oh my dick in my ass but also my dick uh don't worry for all of you guys who are like why aren't you streaming on twitch i'll probably be streaming on twitch later uh when i get back to uh nakano i'm gonna get back to tokyo but i'll be doing gaming what you find upsetting politically ethically emotionally very often has to do with the gap between what you want to believe what you have to believe i was talking to my friend once it's a friend from many years ago and we haven't spoken now for many many years just talking to a friend of mine about a documentary i'd seen about the holocaust and it quoted a man when they were discussing the transitional phase before the outright gas chambers had been constructed the transitional phase when executions were just being carried out with rifles knives guns there's this guy who was a witness to the events and he was recounting how disturbing it was to see a man jeering and smiling staring over the fence as jews one by one walked their final mile toward the execution someone who was there as a spectator to enjoy watching these people getting killed and there was an older accomplished jewish man seemingly relatively wealthy who stopped as he was making this somber procession towards his own death took off his fur coat and handed it across the fence to the spectator and said simply here i won't need this anymore the spectator laughed and smiled and even danced a little jig saying to the people around him hey look i got a free coat and the conclusion from the man telling this anecdote who was witness to all parties was simply some people are like that when i told this story um to this friend of mine what was so upsetting to me was his response because he insisted everyone is like that and he went so far as to argue that the victim in this scenario the man walking his final mile to his execution with some sense of gravity and dignity the man who went shivering to his death handing off his coat for someone else to enjoy because there was no more enjoyment to be left for him in this life that he too was just as bad because he'd never shown any concern about the animals that were tortured to death and killed to produce the fur coat as i say this conversation was upsetting to me why i don't want to believe that everyone is like that you know what the truth is i don't even want to believe that some people are like that i don't even want to believe that 10 of people are like that but i know on some level i'm forced to reckon with the extent to which the vast majority of my fellow human beings are indeed precisely this crass this cruel this uncaring that these attitudes that seem self-evidently revolting to me right those are the attitudes of the great majority who surround us when i look at tko sam when i look at oriental pearl in that meat market smiling and laughing as turtles are tortured to death when i see their happiness and their glee when discussing these turtles that are still alive in plastic bags laughing about how if you open up the plastic bag just a little bit they'll struggle viciously to survive they'll even try to bite your finger off for their chance to be free when i see how happy and unconcerned they are that these animals are terrified and struggling and suffering right here and right now in front of their eyes and that it is only a matter of time before one customer or another steps up to that counter and asks for the turtles to be killed for their delectation i'm upset because there's a gap between what i know to be true and what i want to be true i don't want to think that everybody is like that i don't want to think that the great majority of humanity is like that i don't want to think that 10 of people are like that i don't really want to believe that anyone is like that just a few days ago tko sam deleted a huge number of videos from his youtube channel it is obvious that he is attempting to cleanse his public image that he is removing videos that now could cause embarrassment that now could discredit him that could now negatively impact his career if you don't believe me you may notice today there is a video called how to get laid in japan part one there's another video called how to get laid in japan part four part two and part three are now absent you may have heard him even in recent live streams referring back to a video in which in the past he self-pityingly described his struggle to get laid via dating apps apps like tinder how badly he felt about himself compared to his handsome friends his thin friends whom he was jealous of and how once just to make himself feel better he stole the photographs of a handsome friend of his and he set up a fake account it was his account but using photographs of a thin handsome white man using photographs of someone he was not just so he could see what hypocrites these women were he pours out all this scorn he has for the shallowness of women who would choose a partner such a petty basis to their physical appearance unlike unlike tko sam himself right tikyo sam took the time in this way to scroll through and click through every video he'd ever made and to delete the ones that now he thinks reflect on him badly but this video this video of him and oriental pearl together smiling and laughing as these animals are tortured to death in front of their eyes it didn't cross his mind to delete that one if you were the man standing at that fence watching people being executed by the nazi regime during the third rank what would you do oh you might have a fantasy that you'd be a hero you might have a fantasy that you'd set them all free that should save lives that you would instantly dramatically heroically change the whole course of the history of world war ii yeah well i don't think you would i don't think you'd even have that choice or that option i think in that moment whatever you might have accomplished over say a five-year period during the war you might have joined the resistance you might have done your share of heroic things but in that moment standing at that fence the only choice you've got is about whether you're going to in a sense conserve your own dignity and try to extend dignity of some kind to others to those victims if you were in that meat market in japan what would you do oh oh do you imagine you'd set all the turtles free do you imagine you'd kick over the table or something or cause a scene or get yourself put in jail to liberate a few dozen turtles i don't think you would i think the choice you have to make it's much more subtle it's much more humble and humiliating but you could at least conduct yourself in such a way that you acknowledge that what you're witnessing is an aspect of a world gone terribly terribly wrong what's up guys it's tko sam coming to you live a lot of people can say you're fat the only reason you're getting laid in japan is because you couldn't get laid in other countries you know what that's 100 true [Music] i um oh my dick oh my [ __ ] dick in my ass uh but also my dick don't worry for all of you guys who are like why aren't you streaming on twitch i'll probably be streaming on twitch later uh when i get back to uh nakano i'm gonna get back to [ __ ] tokyo but i'll be doing gaming yeah look at these games i want to get all these look pilot wings diddy kong racing kirby mario kart bomberman f-zero mario tennis puyo puyo donkey kong star fox but that's like it's like 50 bucks things just weren't going very well last year with my dating life i couldn't find a girlfriend and i was just wondering why don't women like me is there something wrong with me and i thought to myself well people keep making fun of me calling me a loser for not living by myself or not having my own place and i thought to myself why don't i try moving out and having my own place to see if it makes any difference it made no difference i wrote on all of my dating app profiles that i'm financially independent i've got my own place i live by myself and i live on the 29th floor in the biggest skyscraper building in all of manchester and no one cared i took pictures of myself in the place i took pictures of the view so i could brag about it and put it on my profile but after six months of going on dates i couldn't even get one girlfriend so i came to the conclusion that in general women don't really care if i have my own place or if i don't so i've never done anything like this before but i think it's gonna be a lot of fun i'm going to respond to viewer comments specifically the ones posted to my video entitled 2018 game room tour [Music] [Music] [Music] if people still think that gamers have trouble being in relationships they are behind on the times the vast majority of gamers on youtube collectors or not are in relationships it's hard to find anyone who is single at all there's no point moving out and getting her own place i just didn't have women lining up to check out my bachelor pad didn't have women ask me back for second dates there's obviously something very wrong with my dating strategy but i just don't think that my lack of having my own property my own house or place to live in i really feel like that's part of the problem a large portion of the population still views gaming as a childish behavior that is intellectually vapid and lazy i would think that actively playing a game is more beneficial to one's brain than passively watching tv a lot of scientific literature supports this notion but these studies don't get a lot of coverage in the media it's hard to break a stereotype i've spent the majority of my life at home with my parents and for a lot of people they think that's sad and pathetic the only time i've attempted to leave my home is whenever i went to japan but i would only stay there for a few months before coming back home the longest i ever stayed away from home was when i got married in japan and that was for about a year and a half i think i went on about seven dates so on average i got one date a month so having my own place and showing off my place in the pictures really didn't help my situation by much out of all of the dates i went on only one wanted to see me again but i didn't really like her so i said no thanks but all of the other dates some of them i did kind of like they either unmatched me they ghosted me or they just told me up front sorry i'm not really interested in you so i came to the conclusion that in general women don't really care if i have my own place or if i don't it was a very expensive and long experiment but basically i proved that there's no point moving out and getting your own place a lot of people can say you're fat you're a [ __ ] [ __ ] like the only reason you're getting laid in japan is because you couldn't get laid in other countries you know what that's 100 true i came over here when i was 18 i was fat big virgin total geek you should have seen my dress code it was horrible it's like white pants and hawaiian shirts it was oh something on my hemi fights long black hair it was horrible and you know like i kept that throughout school and stuff until i came to japan and just um yeah like i i think if i went home i could get laid now but just like back then it's like wow um i've said on this channel many times don't get jealous i don't experience jealousy and maybe that's just because i think about these things in an adult way rather than a childish way there was a time when i was a scholar of buddhism there was a time when i was specifically researching the overlap between buddhism and the political history of laos political history of cambodia do you think i would have been jealous of someone else coming into that field and doing it better than me really showing me how it's done really outclassing me really blowing me away with their research no i would have been so happy i would have been so happy to have a colleague even if that colleague were my competitor whom i could admire whom i could look up to i did not get involved with buddhist scholarship i did not get involved with put his studies in order to be the greatest scholar of buddhism i didn't get involved with that field in order to be alone no i could list off a whole bunch of different fields i could listen i have a whole bunch of different areas of ambition and aspiration i've had in my life and i could say the exact same thing and still to this day i'd say to anyone look man if you've got more talent more self-discipline more brilliant go ahead show me how it's done and i think this is fundamentally the adult perspective on these issues and the problem i see with tko sam with a whole generation of young men who've grown up like him is that they cultivate and hold on to fundamentally childish and childlike attitudes habits and behaviors they don't grow up not merely because childish things bring them joy but because they wrap themselves in a kind of blanket they quite literally never put down the video game controller they never put away the toys the cartoons the comic books that made them happy as a child and they put all of their energy and effort into trying to make themselves happy as an adult by those same things in those same ways now sam you might not have thought of it this way but what if the comic books you read as a teenager were actually intended to prepare you to read something more sophisticated as an adult what if they were supposed to be a stepping stone whether you think of that as a stepping stone to adult literature adult history adult politics adult science what if the movies cartoons comic books and even video games of your childhood what if those were meant to be stepping stones on your path of intellectual development your path of emotional development and your path of ethical development instead of you coming to that first stone stepping on it sitting down and then remaining there childlike and childish waiting to die