Tom Guarriello clarifies that Snark was misquoted about the council's video. He says the timing was poor and quality was low, but emphasizes that personal feelings don't matter compared to the community's collective work and momentum.
Hi, it's Tom Guarriello. I'm sitting here in a hotel room in Denver, Colorado, where it's dark still at 6:30 in the morning. I just watched, as far as I could watch, the Snark the Triomphe video. Snark was saying that she had been misquoted by Trevor Rieger. In the, you know, that thing that he does, all the news, all the spam news, which I love too, by the way. I just really, I don't know what's going on half the time, and that thing really keeps me up to date. YouTubeDrama.com, I think it is, if you want to go right to it. But Snark was saying that she didn't say that the council was treating everybody in the community like children, only that our video was bogus and, you know, not very good and came out at a lousy time. And that, you know, she hadn't heard from me after that because she said she really, she really liked Sari and she really liked me and she hadn't heard from me and she was wondering if maybe I was offended by that snark. Who could be offended by you? Why do we— we watch you, we love you, we— there's no offense by the snark. Keep snarking all over us, will you please? Uh, so no, I'm not offended at all. As for the, uh, as for the video and the timing, look, you know, if everything in life worked out the way you'd like it to, it wouldn't be life, right? It'd be something else. Um, we would have all liked that video to have been different, I think. But, you know, there was, there was, uh, momentum for getting the thing done. And, and it, you know, it spoke to the things that were— that, that we were able to speak about and the changes that YouTube was ready to announce. And, um You know, you're part of a team when you do something like this, and you know, when you're part of a team, you're part of a team. You don't go, uh, uh, you know, not being supportive of your team. You know, there's, there's— it's, it's the right thing to do. So if everything that happens isn't exactly to your liking, you know, you shut up and you do what you're supposed to do as a team member. You, you go along with the team. You know, the video wasn't awful, it wasn't great, it said what it said. And you know, it's not about the video, it's about trying to make things better here. And that's what we're trying to do. Everybody on the council was trying to do that, and the YouTube people that we're working with are trying to do that. And you know, take it for what it's worth, that's really what it is. So Snark, thank you very much for the mention in the video. I am not angry by any stretch of the imagination. And I gotta run. I'm here in Denver doing stuff with a client, and it's time to go take a shower and get dressed and get out of here. So see you soon. Bye-bye.
