Asmongold apology advice
The strategy for surviving public backlash relies on a counterintuitive rule where brevity and a total lack of specifics actually increase the odds of success. Asmongold released a video offering advice to other content creators, outlining a method that demands admitting a significant mistake without providing any explanations or rationalizations. The proposed script requires stating you messed up big time, acknowledging the error shouldn't matter to the audience, and promising not to repeat it before ending the video immediately. He claims this bare-bones approach works nine times out of ten because over-explaining triggers a predatory response from viewers. The speaker compares adding details to a cat playing with a squeaky toy mimicking a dying animal, noting the sound incites the cat to maul its prey with joy. Just as a dog bites down harder when you try to pull a toy from its mouth, audiences react aggressively when they sense you are minimizing or justifying the fault. This advice functions as a general rule for handling public mistakes, urging creators to stop struggling with the narrative and simply own the error.
Transcript (en)
Only emails shared were a small list of people who opted in to receive promotional emails while checking. So you shared people's email? Okay, like, I mean, I don't know why, like, this is, in my opinion, this is the way I think that you should do apologies, okay? You should say, guys, we fucked up big time. Shouldn't have done it. I could explain why we did it, but it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter to you, and it shouldn't matter to me because I made a mistake. we're gonna try not to do this again sorry that's it and that's the end of the video like i i really believe with apology videos right nine times out of ten the shorter it is the better it is the less specifics the better just say we fucked up that's it sorry because any amount of minimizing or trying to like rationalize it like at that point it's kind of like whenever it's It's like you ever see like a cat or something that's like playing with you. Do you know why cats like squeaky toys? It's because they mimic the sound of a dying animal. I have never seen a cat happier than when it's brutally mauling a baby animal to death. Oh, my God. You ever seen a cat killing a baby bird or like a little mouse? This is like the best day of their life. It's what they're made to do. so really like as soon as people start to see you start struggling and you know like now they're really it's like trying to take a toy out of a dog's mouth right like now they're gonna bite down even harder so just say the way it is
