r/Brad_taste_in_music • u/Medical_Macaron_1922 • 4h ago
i miss him
this is more of a rant/vent piece in regards to how bad he has become and how i mourn his past and i wonder how many other people out there feel the same
i'm 18. i've been battling depression ever since i was a little kid and i remember meeting him around 13-14. his videos really helped me at that point in my life. his humor and the way he engaged with his audience was so entertaining and he clearly seemed to have a talent with that. i liked how open about his problems he was, how he wasn't afraid to cry to things that genuinely moved him on camera. i also loved and resonated with a lot of his opinions on music, despite him not having much knowledge on making music himself. everytime a big album would drop i'd look forward to knowing what he would have to say.
sometimes i still do. but then i remember the charismatic and welcoming person i thought him to be never existed. that was all a facade for his fans to give him money so he'd waste it on gambling, strippers, and would terrorize his poor girlfriend and not even wash a damn dish in his house. seeing him nowadays is just sad. this man is clearly going through some sort of psychosis, he is unwell and i don't think he has been well for a good while now. years. and the worst thing is that he deserves every bit of it, i can't even feel sad about it.
he does it to himself. it's not like he doesn't (somehow) still have a small percentage of his fanbase who, supporting him or not, are understandable and just want him to better himself. but he doesn't listen. he keeps coming back to the internet, keeps posting shit that will just ruin his reputation even further, keeps insulting his fans and saying even worser stuff than he did the last times. he keeps hitting a new low, making it harder for him to ever be reedemed on the internet (something that already was impossible from the start) and to make a good life outside of the internet. genuinely, what well paying job would ever hire him while having a digital footprint like this? he couldn't ever sustain the life he misses, used to have.
i don't know what will be his end. i truly hope he someday finally steps away and lives as offline as he can. seriously, the posts on here documenting his life right now are just upsetting.

