Mumkey just made a very long post on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/28453854
Wow, what a fitting end to this pitiful debacle. As much as I'd like to believe that Mumkey is making progress towards living his best life, it's hard to see this as anything other than delusion or deception given what's been going on with him recently. Here's my scene-by-scene interpretation of the Mumkey Jones series finale:
A Paradigm Shift
I'm making a brief return to the internet to make this important, lengthy post. I was going to record a 3rd life update vlog featuring all this information, but I think I'll come across as less crazy and doped up on prescription medication if I do this one in print.
Translation: "I'm so crazy and doped up on prescription medication that I'm incapable of pretending otherwise, so I'm going to hide behind a text post instead."
HAVE I LOST IT?
No. I'm actually doing really, really well over here. I'm the healthiest I've been in over half a decade, both physically and mentally. I know my wild Doc Brown gesticulations and drunken stupor attitude in my most recent videos have convinced some people that I'm not well, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I've finally made the changes I needed to make in order to be healthy. I'm seeing doctors about my mental issues, and I'm taking a prescribed medication that balances my brain chemistry so that I'm not miserable every day. I'm not indulging in hardcore drugs or drinking everyday or any of the other bullshit people have assumed. I'm a healthy, happy person now rather than what the projected diagnoses from a hate mob of incels whose entire social lives begin and end on Discord might tell you.
Translation: "I've drastically changed several major aspects of my life in under two months, but that's totally not a sign that I've lost my shit. All of the changes are good because I'm on miracle pills! Anyone who suggests otherwise is a dumb-dumb loser incel!!1"
Elliot Rodger's stepmother Soumaya, in a leaked email to Elliot that I featured in my Leak Week documentary, once gave him this piece of advice: "Happiness is a choice, not given." And I think she was absolutely right. For too long I've mistakenly left the power of my personal happiness in the hands of other people. I have relied on my sense of self worth to be determined by other people. But Soumaya is right. I can't let my happiness be given to me by other people. I need to forge a life for myself that I'm happy to live. And that's what I'm doing now.
Translation: "I really want to be the kind of man who can be happy with himself, so I'm going to fake it until I make it. I'm going to pretend this is my giant leap forward, but if you've seen my last video then you know I'm desperately relying on Liu for all my validation and happiness now."
RETIREMENT PARTY
This might seem crazy, but consider this post my official retirement from Mumkey Jones as a career. Making videos, podcasts, books, and other forms of entertainment are my passion. I really enjoy doing these things, and they make me happy. And for several years now I've been able to do my favorite hobby as a career, and it's been really great for the most part.
But I'm now realizing that the key to happiness, at least in my life, is reducing the power that other people have over me. And this whole "internet celebrity" business definitely creates an atmosphere where some (but definitely not all!) of my supporters feel as though they have power over me. Some of my supporters feel as though they're entitled to my time, friendship, attention, or a myriad of other things just because they give me two dollars per month. And because of this added pressure to make my supporters happy and satisfied, oftentimes to the detriment of my mental state, I am no longer enjoying my favorite hobby.
Translation: "I'm completely incapable of establishing healthy boundaries, to the point that I feel pressured to bend over backwards to satisfy even my smallest donors. Therefore I'm ending my career as an entertainer despite the fact that I was just making plans to revitalize said career like two weeks ago."
Thus, I'm going to return to making entertainment as a hobby, and I'm going to seek out my income elsewhere, be it a full time, part time, or seasonal job where I can ideally receive benefits like health insurance. Expecting to have a life long career in the YouTube business is foolish. I've been putting my life and happiness in the hands of a soulless, evil corporation, and I've somehow been surprised time and time again when they've mercilessly and needlessly crushed my hopes and dreams.
Translation: "I'm sick of letting a soulless evil corporation crush my hopes and dreams, so I'm going to let a different soulless evil corporation crush my body and spirit instead. Surely that will be better!"
I've allowed 14 year olds around the world to think they have power over me because they used their mom's credit card to give me two dollars. None of these things would be a problem or would hinder my ability to do what makes me happy if I returned to doing the internet as a hobby and relied on more traditional methods of earning my income.
Translation: "I've allowed myself to become emotionally and financially cucked by people I assume are teenagers. From now on I'm going to stick to being romantically cucked by people I
know are teenagers."
This isn't to say I'm going to stop monetizing my videos or operating a Patreon. As some of you may know, money can be exchanged for goods and services, and if I can earn additional income from doing my favorite hobby, then I'm not going to stop doing so for no reason. That being said, none of you should feel obligated to support me on Patreon anymore unless you genuinely want to support the content I'm making. If for whatever reason you no longer want to support me as a person or the content I'm producing, then take away your patron pledge guilt free. I would even recommend you transfer your support from me to Asterios Kokkinos since he's been such a great friend to me and I really fucked him over as a business partner.
TL;DR: I'm gonna get a real job when I need to and keep making videos and podcasts and books at my leisure for fun because doing these things makes me happy.
Translation: "I want people to keep paying me for my hobbies, I just don't want them to actually expect anything from me in return."
SOCIAL MEDIA
You may have noticed I've been off of social media for the past week, and it's really been great. Many people have suggested that social media is the modern day cigarettes where billion dollar companies are making a massive profit, meanwhile the public has no idea what the health risks of this newfound addiction are because there hasn't been enough research into it.
I'll be perfectly frank: I have been much happier since deleting Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord from my phone. I no longer feel the obsessive need to constantly check feeds and messages and comments and updates. Honestly I don't give a single shit anymore about any of it. None of it holds power over me anymore. I'm just gonna live the happy life I've been living in the real world, and I'll post my creations online to the amusement of the people who still want to watch them and still want to support me.
Hundreds of people have reached out to me through these social media platforms to give me kind words of support or to make sure I'm doing well, and I definitely appreciate all of you from the bottom of my heart, but I'm done using these platforms on a regular basis. If something is urgent, you can try emailing me, but don't expect a reply, and especially not one in a timely fashion. I don't say these things to be rude, but rather perfectly honest. My life is happier off of these social media platforms, so I'm going to stop relying on them for validation and socialization.
Translation: "Social media holds an incredible amount of power over me due to my crippling asspat addiction. Since I'm unable to use it in a balanced or healthy way I'm going to avoid it completely, like a former alcoholic who becomes a teetotaler because they can't drink responsibly."
IS IT KINO?
I fully intended on continuing to record episodes of the IS IT KINO podcast twice monthly, but a few days ago Erich informed me that he no longer wants to be associated with me (not that I can really blame him).
Florian wants to continue doing the show without him, but this one really hurt, and my heart just isn't in it anymore. But never say never. Could the show return as early as next week? Possibly. But my current mindset is that it's over, and I don't have any interest in resuming it.
BOOMER VS ZOOMER
I'm not going to put Asterios in the awkward position where he has to cancel our business partnership in order to protect his reputation, so I'll do it for him. I'm a better fan than friend, and I'm a better friend than business partner. Go listen to The Loudest Podcast instead, it's a great show and Siracha is a funnier comedian than me.
Translation: "Nobody wants to collaborate with me because my reputation is basically radioactive, so all my collaborative projects are cancelled indefinitely."
FINAL THOUGHTS
In the next few days I will update my Patreon pledge tiers to reflect these new changes. I don't think there will be a new Discord. I will still be offering patrons early access to new videos, their names in the credits of major videos, and maybe some other fun ideas. But obviously if any of these changes aren't to your liking, nobody is forcing you to stay pledged.
Translation: "I'm changing my Patreon tiers so that I can continue to get paid without feeling like I'm obligated to do anything."
That's about it. I have created a life that I'm happy to live. I actually like the person I am for the first time in a long time. An important aspect of maturing into an adult is finally having the self confidence to be the man you want to be without fear of embarrassment, and I've finally reached that point. It doesn't matter what you all think of me anymore because none of you have power over me. I've apologized to the people who deserve an apology, and I've changed my ways for the better. I now treat everybody with the same kindness and respect that I would expect them to give me. If that troubles you, you're going to have to overcome this personal obstacle yourself, as I can't help you fix your own hatred, envy, or whatever other vice is restricting your happiness.
Translation: "I have become my ideal self and achieved Buddhist Nirvana in less than two months. I am above all worldly concerns. If you question my enlightenment then you are flawed and I look down on you."
I sincerely hope you all one day can be as happy as I am. Give medication and therapy a try if you're unhappy. It worked for me.
See you all in the next video (and nowhere else online other than these Patreon updates, which are going to be Patreon exclusive from now on).
patreon.com/asterios
Translation: "I'm offering life advice and acting magnanimous because I desperately want you to believe that I'm empowered and enlightened now. PLEASE remember me as someone who gracefully retired for positive reasons rather than as someone whose career was crushed under the weight of his public mistakes. Seriously, please, I'm begging you, my fragile ego can't take the embarrassment. Oh, and namaste or whatever."
So yeah, that's my interpretation of Tyler's career suicide note. I believe that he really wants to start turning his life around, but it sounds like he isn't anywhere close to actually achieving that yet. If he truly didn't care what people think of him then he wouldn't need to completely isolate himself from every possible source of negative feedback. He wouldn't have lost his shit over his lack of Tinder matches. He wouldn't have desperately clung to Liu with his little marriage proposal gambit when she tried to leave him for a goddamn teenager.
He simply isn't as stable as he clearly wants to be, and no amount of pretending will change that. It's gonna take a lot more than a couple months and some pills to fix his lifelong thirst for external validation. I won't claim to know what's in store for Tyler, but for his sake I hope he's able to get his shit together before real life calls his bluff.