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Locking twitter was exclusively to reduce this insane amount of input I was getting. There are too many people there for me to respond or effectively formulate my thoughts to them and communicate what I’m trying to do.

I have been responding here and on the yt video because I am actually capable of reading and talking.

I’m not sure how so many people take the “useless information” thing in such an offensive or personal way, and I thought my video made what I was saying clear, but I guess it didn’t. So I’ll Try to explain better to you.

1. When I go to bulbapedia or serebii, 99% of the time, I want to know one of the things in my top landing boxes. Evolve method, location, capture info, moves, etc 2. Serebii and bulbapedia often put other information that is effectively just fun trivia / game database stuff high up on the page

3. Them doing that is frustrating for me when their websites are really the only websites I can find that info on. I understand these sites goals is generally to preserve as much info as they can, that’s totally fine. I appreciate that and think it’s good.

4. My video talks about these websites because those frustrations led directly to the design situation I set up on my page. I put a lot of thought into what goes where and what a player is mostly likely to search for / want to see.

5. I think bulbapedia is hard bound by its wiki style formatting and not separating spinoff / anime info into other pages.

6. I think serebii would benefit from a more focus on information that’s generally more searched for being higher on the page.

That’s all I was trying to say in my video and I think none of the way I said it was me being a jerk even in the text of my video.

I find myself being told I was TRYING to do and say things that I wasn’t. Even Joe himself has taken what I said and attached his own beliefs onto it. He has said I was doing things I wasn’t trying to.

I haven’t done anything much because I can’t. I’m not home and have no computer atm and whenever I say “that’s not what I was doing” people just tell me I’m lying or something.

So I’m taking the time to respond to places with less input before I make a big post and say a bunch of stuff either in x or YouTube or in a follow up video. Obviously I missed the mark in some way. The way Joe has said he feels is not the things I was trying to say or make him feel.

I’m still also in a partial state where I believe a lot of the noise is people only seeing the thumb and not having watched a majority of the vid, bandwaggoning onto me by spouting joes opinions of my videos as facts of what I was going for.

I had several people watch the video before it launched and literally no one red flagged my video as being offensive or rude to Joe, even a personal friend of his didn’t say anything. So yeah I’m caught off guard and a bit confused and defensive. I don’t think I’m being that weird or rude atm.