How Did We Get Here? Tour in Copenhagen
It was on a bit of a whim that I bought a ticket to this show. I saw when the tickets were going to go live and I figured that I would try to score a tickets. I like seeing YouTubers I watch regularly online in real life on the rare occasions that they make it to DK. Gamers aren't really the group of people I usually watch but this certain Irish guy had somehow managed to make me go against it.
I discovered his channel about a year ago, so he'd a fairly recent addition to the group of people that I have been watching for years. His gameplay of long story-driven games drew me in with his interesting commentary, even when he got a bit loud. It was his thing. But the reason, I probably kept watching his content was because he started talking about having a Positive Mental Attitude from 2018 onwards. It was a nice burst of positivity without being overwhelming and I always like when communities can come together around something nice.
And so I ended up buying a VIP ticket to see him when his show came to Europe on its final leg. I wanted the good ticket and it also got me entry to a pre-show Q&A and a signed poster. As always, it was a bit odd to see someone you've watched on a screen in real life. But other than being smaller than you expected, Seán was still his own lovely and charming self. He answered the audience's questions eloquently and he just proved why I like the way he speak about issues again. When asked about Article 13, he respectfully said he couldn't comment on it before doing his proper research. It's a very mature way of looking at it and I appreciate it very much.
I sat on fifth row near the centre of the stage but thankfully my eardrums survived Seán's rather famously loud voice. It is also the first time I have been to an event in DR Koncerthuset and it was such a cool venue. It was apparently the largest stage they had performed on during the tour. It was also stupidly easy for me to get to it, with it just being located a feverish minute walk from my flat. It was extremely convenient.
The VIPs were let in at 17:30 and the show started at 20:00, so we had about an hour after the Q&A to just sit and chill but I spent that time dropping some love into ask inboxes on tumblr. Unlike some other of the people I watch on YouTube, I'm not really in the community for Jacksepticeye. Nevertheless, people seemed cool and a lot of interesting questions were asked during the Q&A.
The show was very fun, even if I had walked into it not knowing exactly what to expect. Obviously, the title of the show was a question that he would attempt to answer but that could have gone a lot of different ways. It was a mix of a proper stand-up show, with different segments focusing on his childhood, teenage years and then his adult life. I was impressed with his stage presence and how he delivered his jokes. In between, audience members were asked up on stage to play different games (Pokémon Ruby, Shadow of the Colossus and Happy Wheels) and every singe one of the five people were an absolute gem. At first we had someone dressed as Seán with his old green hair, then a dyslexic boy and lastly a group of three friends who were very relatable and funny. Each time the players were fighting against life's obstacles.
It was a very nice and feel-good show, which also contained a lot of hearty laughs. You never really know how people will act when you see them on stage and in a different element but I throughly enjoyed it. It was a very cool thing and my cheeks were aching when I left.
Since the show is ending in less than a week, or being retired as Seán called it, I feel like I can include the closing monologue without causing too much trouble. It was every bit of uplifting and the essence of PMA, so I wanted to capture it on here, even if it was quite long ramble. I didn't record any other bits of the show but I had a feeling that he might say something important to close the show and I was not disappointed.
"But technically, I should not be here at all. I should not be here because life didn't want me to be here. At a very young age, life got very hard for me. When I was in the log cabin I became so depressed that I didn't know what I was going to do with the rest of my life. But that does not matter. What matters is that you keep fighting, is that you keep pushing forward because we all go through our problems. We all have problems whether they be small or large, it does not matter we're all going through. And the thing about this, the reason I got up here, to tell this story, specifically my story was to show you that I did not come from anywhere special. I didn't come from a very poplar place or anything like that but that doesn't matter either. It doesn't matter where you come from. It doesn't matter what you look like. It doesn't matter what gender you are. It doesn't matter if you're straight, gay, bi or anything in between. And the reason I got up here, and I know I'm literally talking down to a bunch of you, but I hope that it never feels like that. Because the thing I take away from doing YouTube each time, the thing that I've learnt over the five years of doing this, is that we are all people. The humanity behind it all, the community behind it all because we may look different on the outside, we may act different, we may sound different but on the inside, we're all the same. We're all people. We're all going through our struggles together. So it's about time we started treating each that way, building each other up, helping each other out, instead of tearing each other down all the time. So what I want people to do, when you go out there, is go out and be the heroes of your stories."
The story of his life was phrased in a very humorous way but he still didn't downplay his struggles. He was honest about how he struggled to find what he wanted to do with his life and the aimlessness he felt and it was a feeling several people in the audience, myself included, related to. It's scary figuring out what you want to do with your life, but as long as you keep fighting, you will get there. You have to keep trying and looking for opportunities. Grab them when they come to you and figure out if that's something for you. Even if it's not, then it was still an experience and hopefully it taught you something.
I had a great time and I'm very happy he managed to come to Denmark with his show. I appreciated being able to see his smile and his optimism and positivity without a screen in between.
I discovered his channel about a year ago, so he'd a fairly recent addition to the group of people that I have been watching for years. His gameplay of long story-driven games drew me in with his interesting commentary, even when he got a bit loud. It was his thing. But the reason, I probably kept watching his content was because he started talking about having a Positive Mental Attitude from 2018 onwards. It was a nice burst of positivity without being overwhelming and I always like when communities can come together around something nice.
And so I ended up buying a VIP ticket to see him when his show came to Europe on its final leg. I wanted the good ticket and it also got me entry to a pre-show Q&A and a signed poster. As always, it was a bit odd to see someone you've watched on a screen in real life. But other than being smaller than you expected, Seán was still his own lovely and charming self. He answered the audience's questions eloquently and he just proved why I like the way he speak about issues again. When asked about Article 13, he respectfully said he couldn't comment on it before doing his proper research. It's a very mature way of looking at it and I appreciate it very much.
I sat on fifth row near the centre of the stage but thankfully my eardrums survived Seán's rather famously loud voice. It is also the first time I have been to an event in DR Koncerthuset and it was such a cool venue. It was apparently the largest stage they had performed on during the tour. It was also stupidly easy for me to get to it, with it just being located a feverish minute walk from my flat. It was extremely convenient.
The VIPs were let in at 17:30 and the show started at 20:00, so we had about an hour after the Q&A to just sit and chill but I spent that time dropping some love into ask inboxes on tumblr. Unlike some other of the people I watch on YouTube, I'm not really in the community for Jacksepticeye. Nevertheless, people seemed cool and a lot of interesting questions were asked during the Q&A.
The show was very fun, even if I had walked into it not knowing exactly what to expect. Obviously, the title of the show was a question that he would attempt to answer but that could have gone a lot of different ways. It was a mix of a proper stand-up show, with different segments focusing on his childhood, teenage years and then his adult life. I was impressed with his stage presence and how he delivered his jokes. In between, audience members were asked up on stage to play different games (Pokémon Ruby, Shadow of the Colossus and Happy Wheels) and every singe one of the five people were an absolute gem. At first we had someone dressed as Seán with his old green hair, then a dyslexic boy and lastly a group of three friends who were very relatable and funny. Each time the players were fighting against life's obstacles.
It was a very nice and feel-good show, which also contained a lot of hearty laughs. You never really know how people will act when you see them on stage and in a different element but I throughly enjoyed it. It was a very cool thing and my cheeks were aching when I left.
Since the show is ending in less than a week, or being retired as Seán called it, I feel like I can include the closing monologue without causing too much trouble. It was every bit of uplifting and the essence of PMA, so I wanted to capture it on here, even if it was quite long ramble. I didn't record any other bits of the show but I had a feeling that he might say something important to close the show and I was not disappointed.
"But technically, I should not be here at all. I should not be here because life didn't want me to be here. At a very young age, life got very hard for me. When I was in the log cabin I became so depressed that I didn't know what I was going to do with the rest of my life. But that does not matter. What matters is that you keep fighting, is that you keep pushing forward because we all go through our problems. We all have problems whether they be small or large, it does not matter we're all going through. And the thing about this, the reason I got up here, to tell this story, specifically my story was to show you that I did not come from anywhere special. I didn't come from a very poplar place or anything like that but that doesn't matter either. It doesn't matter where you come from. It doesn't matter what you look like. It doesn't matter what gender you are. It doesn't matter if you're straight, gay, bi or anything in between. And the reason I got up here, and I know I'm literally talking down to a bunch of you, but I hope that it never feels like that. Because the thing I take away from doing YouTube each time, the thing that I've learnt over the five years of doing this, is that we are all people. The humanity behind it all, the community behind it all because we may look different on the outside, we may act different, we may sound different but on the inside, we're all the same. We're all people. We're all going through our struggles together. So it's about time we started treating each that way, building each other up, helping each other out, instead of tearing each other down all the time. So what I want people to do, when you go out there, is go out and be the heroes of your stories."
The story of his life was phrased in a very humorous way but he still didn't downplay his struggles. He was honest about how he struggled to find what he wanted to do with his life and the aimlessness he felt and it was a feeling several people in the audience, myself included, related to. It's scary figuring out what you want to do with your life, but as long as you keep fighting, you will get there. You have to keep trying and looking for opportunities. Grab them when they come to you and figure out if that's something for you. Even if it's not, then it was still an experience and hopefully it taught you something.
I had a great time and I'm very happy he managed to come to Denmark with his show. I appreciated being able to see his smile and his optimism and positivity without a screen in between.
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