I know a lot of people have been wondering this and I haven’t mentioned anything on it. I’ve been purposefully avoiding the question.
Mark and I had a long overdue call today and talked some stuff out. It’s the first time we had talked to each other properly since maybe PAX last year. We weren’t exactly the best of friends in that period and honestly we were never really AS close as people made out online anyway. Nothing serious happened between us, we didn’t fight and no Septiplier didn’t tear our friendship apart. Things just kind of ended up the way they did.
I didn’t say anything on the matter because I didn’t think it was right to talk about it until Mark and I talked about it first in private. Moving on this year we’ve both agreed to try our best to get back to a good place in our friendship and not let something like this happen again.
This is all I will say on the matter because I know how many people are desperate for information on it. Please don’t start up the rumour mills, speculating endlessly about what might have happened and please respect both of us.
Reblogging this to confirm. Sometimes things just get in the way, nothing to speculate, expand upon, or to even blame. When you spend so much time focusing on what’s in front of you things that seem like they can wait can easily slip away.
It was a good talk and I look forward to working with you on cool shit in the future!
Happy 28th year of life to Sean William McLoughlin: the sweet ball of light in our lives that screams obscenities and PMA into our earholes and makes us feel special. Happy birthday @therealjacksepticeye. We love you!
When I was in art school one teacher gave my class some wisdom.
He warned us not to fall into the trap of working while under the influence. A lot of artists will get drunk or high before they create, because they think it makes them more creative.
It becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. By only allowing themselves to be creative while under the influence of a drug, they program their brains to associate drugs with creativity. They train themselves like Pavlov’s dog.
Eventually, their brain forgets how to be creative while sober, because they’ve spent their so much time practicing and reinforcing this self-destructive behavior pattern.
People can only rely on self-destructive habits for so long before they hit a crisis point. Eventually the addiction gets out of control, and starts to destroy their careers.
The same applies to mentally ill artists who refuse to take their meds because they think that their skill is a product of their psychosis.
Whether you’re taking drugs you don’t need, or not taking medication you do need, you’re sabotaging your art. It might seem like it’s improving your creativity in the short term, but self-destructive habits will only damage your creativity in the long term.
Real skill doesn’t come from random moments of inspiration – it comes from thousands of hours of practice. If you do the bulk of your practice when you’re in a manic state, or when you’re high, etc., you’ll end up falsely attributing your skills to that mental state.
Don’t fall into that trap. You’re self-inflicted suffering is not the source of your “genius.” If you believe it is, you’re suffering from a grandiose delusion, and you need to rethink your creative process.
