YouTube vs. Anette

I don't like YouTube users. The ones who comment. It seems like the vast majority of them are ignorant fools who dig and dig and dig for an argument. When watching videos that I know will cause a stink, basically anything religious (or anti-religious) or any Nightwish video (*sighs*), I make a pointed effort to avoid looking at the comments because most of the time they just piss me off. I also do not comment on anything anymore. People take things way out of context and reply with idiotic remarks, and like I said, they just dig and dig and dig for an argument. What is it with these people? Some of the things they write are just downright rude, simply disturbing.

I remember once on a free hugs video, I wrote that I would love to do free hugs, but the busiest place here (downtown) was filled with unsavoury types and chances were that I'd get groped by some old man. And so that I wouldn't. Someone wrote to me saying that I was selfish. Riiight. It's selfish to not want to be groped. God only knows what these people can do to someone of both my age and size. It wouldn't be that hard to drag me off somewhere. So whatever. This person has obviously never been to Winnipeg. But it's stupid to call someone selfish because they don't want someone touching them in inappropriate places (which can also be called SEXUAL HARASSMENT people!).

Nightwish videos are horrible though, for Anette vs. Tarja. Thankfully it's calmed down significantly, but those are still pretty bad. On live videos that people KNOW will have Anette singing, they comment things like, "Oh she sings horribly. She make my ears bleed" or whatever. THEN DON'T WATCH A VIDEO THAT SHE'LL BE IN! It really isn't that hard of a concept to grasp. If you didn't like her in the first few live videos you saw of her, if you didn't like her in Amaranth or Bye Bye Beautiful or Eva, then why would you search up a video you know specifically will have her in it?! Someone wrote that Anette has no emotion and is only in it for the money. Okay, wtf? Tarja had emotion, and Century Child stands out as an album that portrays it very well, but Anette does too! And as if she's in it for the money. She wasn't even going to apply at first, thinking she wouldn't be accepted (but I'm so very glad she did *nods*). And honestly. Anyone listen to Mother & Father in The Poet and the Pendulum, or Meadows of Heaven, and tell me that that isn't just heartbreaking, or at least shows emotion in her voice! Or the first verse of Eva in particular. So, my point still stands. People on YouTube are idiots. And they think their opinions are fact. Which they never are. Maybe Anette has no emotion in her voice. I think she does. I also think the fact that she said she cried when practicing the songs at home shows she does. I also think someone who didn't feel anything when they sang wouldn't look like this:

So honestly, people. Be reasonable. I'm not saying Tarja was only in it for the money either. I don't know. She says one thing, they say another. Whatever. He-said-she-said. I am an Anetteholic. But I also really like Tarja. Just thought I should clarify.
Back to YouTube, though, and idiotic commenters. There was a comment once that disturbed me to an extent that can't be described. It shouldn't shock me, because people are sickos or whatever but it was quite disturbing. It was on the Amaranth video and was something to the extent of "I'd rape her up the ass and then just because I'm such a nice guy, I'd pee in her bum." OMFG. That is so fucking disgusting. Or is it just me? I canNOT be the only person who thinks that's disturbing. That's just. Ew. Just ew. Why do people say things like that? Honestly. Ew. Just ewwwwwwwwwwww.

You know, I read comments and I smile giant grins of happiness when I see someone who supports whatever my cause is (and for the case of this post, it is evidently Anette) because they seem to be so few. Well except for atheism. There's a lot of atheists, haha. But I mean for other things, and the one most relevant right now is Anette. Giant grins of happiness when someone sticks up for her, a nod of acknowledgement to those who say they don't like her, but at least say it respectfully, a bit of a sour expression to those who aren't overly respectful in their opinion of Anette, but the instant I see something overly harsh and downright rude, I close off the comments and think of a million replies I could make but instead let my frustration simmer. Because I don't comment on YouTube anymore. I refuse to be an ignorant fool who digs and digs and digs for an argument.

The comments that Nightwish are a "pop band" now just amuse me though. These metalheads have no idea what pop is. Any who do know to keep their mouth shut, because Nightwish never was and isn't a pop band. They sound nothing like pop. So in the first video Anette did with guys, so in the first few concerts, she did some dancing moves metalheads probably aren't used to. She wasn't familiar with metal, what do you expect? And I, personally, find it kind of scary when chicks headbang madly on stage O.o But that's me. And at concerts, in the audience, of course it's fine, haha. People compare her to Britney with her dancing, but I'm like "WHAT?!" and stand there jaw-dropped and wide-eyed Do these people have any idea what they're saying?! It isn't like Anette is masturbating in the video for christ's sake! Or flailing around madly in sheets! Or doing pre-choreographed dance moves! She just doing some funky shoulder-pump-head-movement-eyebrow-arching thing. Not even a twentieth of the things Britney does.

But can someone PLEASE explain to me why it's SOOO bad that Anette should (seem to) be a happy person? That is by far the stupidest thing I've ever heard. "She's too happy." WTF?! Isn't that better than having her (seem to) want to hang herself ever second of every video and live performance? I'm not saying Tarja did that, she didn't, I'm just saying that that is basically the opposite of happy. It makes me smile to see someone smile, in the same way that Jacoby makes me smile (but he also makes me swoon, but shhhh) with his crazy antics all the time. It's a good thing. But whatever. To each their own and all that.

I apologize for this rant. I feel very strongly about it. I feel bad for Anette. At the Montreal shows, someone shouted "Anette sucks" and she said she couldn't sleep that night :/ It must be really hard on the self-esteem. At the same time as greatly rewarding to see all the Anetteholics on the Nightwish.com forum. I'm dying for May to come! DYING!

I need to rant somewhere, after all, and anywhere else I'll be viciously attacked. So I suppose here is better than anywhere else.

Currently listening: The Snake and the Crown by Raine Maida

Cigarettes and alcohol and a few minutes to pray,

But it don't do any use to, so we'll have hell to pay.

A penny for your thoughts and a penny for my clichés.

Oh, I try to get some distance, I try to escape,

But this nightmare's so persistent in a Shakespeare kinda way.

Be not afraid?

Oh fuck that, be very afraid.