In a world of lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

12:02 AM
Oatmeal Life - Rebrand Thyself, Part 5

Wanna go after Kenni? No Ra Ra, I don't wanna seek revenge
You might say I was too disconnected
Too much of a disconnect
That I had too much cognitive dissonance
Keyword here is too as in dangerously excessive
I'm trying not to say what I think about this right now
I could see both sides of the argument
We can all be guilty of these things
It's more of a question of not if but how much
Like how disconnected are you cuz we all disconnected
But are you too disconnected or were you
It's all up to debate
And I'm guilty of these things
I've done many things in my life and one of those things was trying to settle for an official professional name to go by, to be known as for my display name, username, URL, brand name, trademark, copyright, reserved, for social media, websites, missions, business, work, and anything and everything really
Born 1985 in Oregon with the name Joseph Scott Arnold but people called me Joey
Since the 1990s, I usually say name is Joey Arnold
Sometimes had other nicknames like Cool Kid, Bumbaloe, Star JSA, Ghetto Joe, Tweety Bird, Thief in the Night, Oatmeal, Original Oatmeal, Green Oatmeal, Vietnam Oatmeal, Ice Breaker, Jill Mill, Billy Breaker, Joseph Arnold, JoeyArnoldVN, JoeyArnold7, JoeyArnold4, JoeyArnoldVEVO, iJoeyArnold, Joe Dirt, Hey Arnold Move It Football Head, Four Eyes, Guinea Pig Lover, Fonnie Filden, Rambo Revenge, EA creator, Mea Omnia, Ra Ra, Mickey Morehead, Arnold Attic, 44 Tapes, Box Smasher Master, AWANA Master, CMT Bobbin in the Flatman & Bobbin puppet shows, etc
I thought about branding myself since like the 1990s
Sometimes I couldn't really stick with one official name
There were times over the years I'd go back and forth
Like I said, I did many different things in my life
Thus part of the reason it was so tough to stick with just one name
You might say I had my reasons for changing my mind so many times
I put myself out there online a little in the 1990s via AOL, Yahoo, etc, and possibly Geo Cities
My first Internet diary was probably via diaryland.com since like 2001
In 2004, started blogging on Xanga because my friends at my first college were on it
Then started using MySpace as well since my friends were on there also
Then at ABC, was on Facebook at least by 2007 if not earlier as all my friends were on it, I thought Facebook was lame but joined so I could try to have more friends than everybody else
I think my original display name on Facebook on my first account was Dr. Oatmeal
People would get friend requests and think who the beep is Dr. Oatmeal
They would tell me about it, like I got them, almost like a prank, like an inside joke or whatever
I felt like everyone who knew me online already knew me in real life first
Whether too subconsciously, accidental, or intentional, I didn't always explain myself to others
Sometimes just assumed people would understand me
Sometimes didn't think about how other people would think
Was in my own world/bubble/mind as an invert
Chris Chan, but I thought the short bus was coming today
Was often too busy in my mind thinking or outside of my mind building with my hands
You might say I knew better regarding how to interact socially and sometimes I did blend in and other times maybe I would worry, I would maybe overthink, and especially I'd try to like multi-task which employers/teachers/etc didn't like
There were times I would think about what my main username should be on social media and everything
This was an ongoing debate within myself on and off for years
Which resulted in me changing my display name on Facebook many times until like 2014
Right or wrong, good or bad, for better or for worse, etc, the results of all that chaos included some collateral damage, burning bridges, a variety of things deemed possibly/potentially counterproductive long-term or short-term speaking
My main username on social media past almost ten years since 2014 has been JoeyArnoldVN
But first like 17 years online from like 1997 to 2014, I didn't always have a main/consistent username/display name/URL or perhaps changed them too often and too many times over the course of those two decades
In the back of my mind, I still contemplate changing my main username of JoeyArnoldVN
Many times over the years I talked lot about problems I ran into which you might say I was making up excuses trying to blame other people and so and so forth; and my life is up to debate for the world to see as I'm so transparent
Perhaps I looked like social justice warrior, orange man bad
I was trying to seek justice, raise awareness to issues through, I considered problems in my life as object lessons that could be applied in the lives of everyone else on the Internet who saw my content over the decades
But regardless of whatever I thought I was trying to do, regardless of whatever my intentions were be them true, noble, just, pure, in raising awareness, in seeking justice, in the greater good scam, revenge, education, etc
Sometimes my passion came out looking like insane anger
Like sometimes you try to say something and it just comes out the wrong way
I failed a lot in my life, long story, regarding everybody everywhere these past almost 39 years, PewDiePie
Like regardless of whatever I was trying to do in life, you might say I hurt people, Tickle Me Elmo
Me changing my Facebook name a lot was partly one of the reasons I ended up making additional Facebook profile accounts, like dozens of them and also around 200 pages-accounts and around 200 groups too
You might say many things damaged my online/offline reputation/persona/brand/image/mojo/potential/reach and I often gave bad first impressions among other things long story
And me changing my Usernames/Display-Names/URLs over the years and other things probably didn't help you might say maybe but debatable and stuff, to be continued

08:09 PM
What Do You Do Song

1855 Galton movement turned into the Nazis