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Episode Date: October 14, 2025

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This has been a problem on the internet for a very, very long time. And now, finally, some people are talking about it, which is a relief. I'm glad. Here we go. What's a midwit? It's a derogatory insult to a person of about average intelligence who perceives themselves to be above average. Let me turn this up. That's what the insult means. So most people will average, yes, that would be correct. Today, we will be looking at the most obnoxious, unlikable, pretentious phenotype out there,

the midwitted pseudo-intellectual. I mean, they're literally what you would get. Oh. If you took the um actually mean, and turned it into a literal person. Not bad enough. Those who don't know, a midwit is someone who's of average intelligence. And they think of themselves and present themselves as someone of higher intelligence. Which is seen in this name of the Midwood.

Then after that, we have this pseudo-intellectual. This person is deceptive. They pretend to be knowledgeable or intelligence while they are somebody who lacks genuine depth and understanding of a subject. Yeah, those are people that bring up logical fallacies. That kind of stuff. But they have a lot of overlap. And a lot of the traits we just covered, they're generally.

Yeah, it's the same person, generally. They're multi-classing. And as somebody who has a lot of experience with these people in general, I believe I have a very good understanding of them. I know how they operate, why they behave the way that they do. Anybody who makes content on the internet is fully aware of these people. I don't know if I call them people. Many of videos already have gone over this.

They've covered this exact same topic. And I would say that they're very valuable. And for the sake of not regurgitating that. same information? Think of this video as an addendum to their work and not the end-all be-all. Firstly, we have to understand them, know exactly what drives them. And at their core, they are very antisocial people who are extremely insecure. That is where a lot of their obnoxious behavior stems from. Now let me give you an example here. Let's say that you were talking to one of these midwits and you said, the weather outside looks beautiful. Off of that statement

alone, they're going to rush into it and say, yes it is. And that happens because the high-pressure systems over our heads. You see, clear skies happen in the air season. So basically, they're AI before AI was created. They're like a chat GPT pot. Okay, got it. Yeah, it's about right. Yeah, it's about right. Oh my word.

Just shut up. Nobody cares. Shut up, retard. Nobody gives a shit about whatever you're saying right there. We have all had this happen. Yes. We've had this person who goes on an extremely long tangent that nobody cares about. just for the sole purpose of this seems personal about me but okay demonstrating how much they've read on wikipedia oh that usually not do this is because when you interact with them is what is always at

the center of their mind is how can i being perceived as a person above above average intelligence and being able to perform that in front of other people to make them think that you're superior to them That's the reason why they do this. Opportunity to show the people around me how smart and knowledgeable I am. Which at the end of the day is rotten to the core. Yep. Because it is only self-serving. And people can sense this.

We all sense this coming a mile away and we hate it. Which ties into the key aspect of pseudo-intellectuals, why they're feigning knowledge, wisdom or intelligence. They don't learn the things that they do because it's useful to implement it into their own lives. No, they don't care about that. Nope. What they care about is using it to impress the people around them. What a surprise. Fake and shallow at the end of the day. Everybody hates it. And the way we know that it's true is because if you pay

attention to a person's actions, it will tell you what they actually care about, what they value, what their goal is. Isn't it exhausting to do this your whole life? Well, there's a lot of people that spend our whole life being addicted to stupid things. This is just another version of that. I wouldn't really be that surprised. This is normal. If you and me, we were talking to each other. For them, that's normal. I stopped to listen to you.

I start to ask questions about you. I hear you out. This is my way of conveying without words that I care about you. I care about the things you're saying to me. You deserve my attention. That's what you're showing with your action. Sure. On the other hand, if I just ignored you, I talked over you, I just went on long,

irrelevant tangents about the things I know. That is my way of saying to you, you are unimportant to me. What I truly care about is not you, but it's how I appear to you. You see what I'm getting at? Yeah, it's all self-referential. It's selfish, self-referential logic that they just want to feel important and feel smart. Yes, it's egocentric. Yeah, it is.

To explain the lens in which we need to view these things. If you use this lens to view all social interactions between people, you will have a better understanding of people in general. And it's through this. lens that we can examine some of the stereotypical behavior of these midwits. One common example is the nitpicking behavior. It could be you make a small typo, you mispronounce something, and they'll hone in on that and use it against you. While in reality, it's non-issue. Everybody knew what you meant. We could- I think that people usually do this because they can't attack your argument. Usually, whenever I see people that attack spelling errors, what that indicates to me is that

it's a person who wants to find a way to invalidate the other person, but isn't really able to do that. So they have to resort to looking at their grammar, their spelling. And, I mean, to a certain extent, if somebody can't communicate that they probably are a fucking moron, but not always every single time. If you attack spelling, you're a loser. I mean, to an extent, but I think that if you really can't spell shit at all, like, you're probably a moron, too. Very pendantic.

Yeah, it is. And so I think generally that's the reason, that's the impulse behind it. Let it slide. And it wouldn't change anything. But the midwit, the pseudo intellectual, they will not. These people will never miss an opportunity to pop in and show, I'm actually, this is the correct way you say it. Yeah. This is what you actually mean.

And at the end of the day, this action, it doesn't aid in the conversation. It doesn't aid in clarifying anything. But it does aid in their ego, which is the only thing they care about. buddy and it is nothing more to these people than an opportunity to showcase how much they know at your expense again you've got to remember what is at the forefront of their mind look at me look at how much i know shut up and pay attention to me look and see how smart i am and what is so ironic at the end of the day is they characteristically don't even understand what they're talking about it's all surface level i tell you once i was talking to a guy and he asked me what i do and i told

I do freelance video editing because that is what I was focusing on at the time. And instantly he jumped in and said, oh, you should go to Fiverr. I heard there are people who make a lot of money on there. You should try a lot of money. It's $5. It's in the name. You should do the smart thing and let the business come to you rather than seek it out yourself. And I politely told him that's not how it works.

You can't just simply make a Fiver account and expect it to work from there. Yeah. I've looked into this as a freelancer. it's a lot harder than you make it out to be it's not that simple but he didn't listen he said no no no trust me i've seen it you can just make an account on there and you'll bro this is like somebody trying to sell an MLM scam or something like that like people that constantly try to insist that they know how to do your job better than you do how fucking obnoxious oh my god look trust me i mean just try it out you can't hurt right trust me i know i know i know how it's worth and we were talking about this until i find the estimate

said, wait, have you ever done any video editing yourself or any commissions? No. And he said, no. No, I haven't. Then I asked them again, have you done any work on Fiverr? And then he said, no, man, but I've heard people do really well on it. Well, see, I read on the internet, it said it was good. So you're personal, no, no, if I read it on the internet, it's real. And I instantly realized right at that moment, I wasted my whole time talking to this fucking etiquette, who doesn't know anything he's talking about, who's telling me, what I should do. And what's worse is if you stop to think about it,

you realize these people don't care about you at all. Again, all of this is performative. The only thing he really cared about and wanted to hear was for me to say, yes, I will do this thing I'm going to help you. So he can feel good about himself. That's all he wanted. That's all he cared about. This whole conversation at the end of the day was simply self-serving to him to give him an ego boost.

But let me tell you about another story, another interaction I had. I one time met this girl, Naster. What are you going to college for? And she said photography. And then she told me what her whole plan was to get hired by a big company and to do their marketing for them. Oh, wow. That's a lot. For everybody who's into photography, I know you've heard this a billion times before.

People tell you, you should become a freelance wedding photographer. You should start your own business. Sure. You'll make so much money. Just take pictures of people at their weddings. That's what you should do. Yeah, makes sense. But instead, any of that.

I stopped and said, I'm curious. Why are you interested? and working for a corporation instead of doing freelance work, like everybody says. Yeah, sure. And after that, she instantly lit up. She told me why. She went over the pros and cons of it. She talked about the negatives of doing freelance work rather than having a stable job at a company.

Well, and you can see what the difference there is, right? It's like you're not imposing what you're saying on somebody else. You're not telling them what to do. You're not trying to like talk down to them or patronize them or something like that. You should rather than I should. like you just ask you and also like by the way this is something that's in general true whenever you're having a conversation with somebody and you ask the person questions about what they're telling you about they're going to like that because it means that you're paying attention to what they're saying so that's a little a little life hack little tip okay uh you know i'm not the best looking guy out there so if i'm talking to a girl i need all the help that i can get and let me tell you something guys asking them about their interests than asking follow-up questions about those interests. It's like a life hack.

It's like a cheat code. It works really well. It works really well about this thing. You'd be shocked. Guess what? It's not my place to give her advice in her own field that I know nothing about. The only position I am in as someone who doesn't do photography while she's pursuing it.

Thinking about it for hours every day is to ask her questions. I'm not in the position to give her advice, especially. Unrequested advice because most people out there they don't do these things because they believe it's the best They want to help you they do it to paint themselves as an intellectual One of the reasons why I believe these midwits and these pseudo intellectuals do this These redditors they like to convince themselves that they're smart They're educated yes and it's all a coped them absolutely low self-esteem It's like hey maybe I look like shit maybe I smell like shit also fat

I'm unlikable I'm ugly but I can at least go on monologues that you Nobody pays attention to. People compliment me and tell me how smart I am, right? That's why so many people in general value their intelligence. They take pride in their intelligence. They base their self-esteem upon it, which is unhealthy. I don't think you should do that. Because if you are actually intelligent, that is not... In my opinion, I think that if you base your self-esteem off of any sort of voluntary reaction from other people,

you're only going to make yourself unhappy. So if you base your self-esteem around people liking you, if you base your self-esteem around people perceiving you as anything, what you're going to end up doing is eventually running into a wall with that and making yourself unhappy. That's my opinion, that's my advice. You've got to have your own self-image that is defined by you, it's reinforced by you,

and it may be enhanced by other people, but it can stand on its own. Earned virtue. You did nothing to earn it. You were simply born with it. People who fixiate on their own intelligence. They usually have nothing going on in their lives. That they can rest their self-esteem on.

Well, this is another thing, too, is that a lot of these pretend smart people on Reddit, there's a reason why they're on Reddit. It's because they're not smart. Like, and you can see this at any topic that, like, you know a lot about. Go on the Reddit and read about people talking about it. And these are a bunch of retards that have no idea what they're saying. Yeah, the actually thing? Yeah, exactly. You have a job?

Exactly. Yeah, a lot of these people are just morons. But alone, is there one pillar they rely on? And if you threaten that, if you shake it by being smarter than them or undermining their... This is the same reason why a lot of Redditors insist that every streamer is stupid. It's because it creates, and you have to understand that the perception around this and insulting and calling other people dumb, the reason why they do it is actually in order to protect their own ego. they care about being perceived or seen as somebody who's intelligent,

and because they care about that so much, they don't like, or seen as other people like, let's say like they, they don't want to be seen as somebody who is in one way or another a loser. So if you go on LSF or you go on one of these other like subredits, you're going to have all these people that are talking down about like content creators or talking down about like a musician or talking down about anybody who's successful. why is it that they have a

Crabbs in a bucket mentality for anybody who's successful? Well, the reason why is because the moment that somebody is successful that they perceive to be less intelligent than them, what that happens, what happens to them is now they feel like, wait a minute, if they're dumber than I am and they're successful,

well, why the fuck am I not successful? That's reaching? I don't think so. I think that almost all people, and the way that they act is in some way or another related to them. It's a reality check. It is. That's the reason why they do it.

It's coping. Intelligence. They will hate you because that's the one thing they have in life. Never undermine it or shake it. Never point out how they are wrong because they will hate you. And what we can learn from this is one, we should not rest our self-esteem on intelligence. Secondly, we need multiple pillars of self-esteem. If you base it off of intelligence.

There are going to be people out there by virtue of existing that will make you feel inferior. Be smarter people. Sure. Whereas let's say you're a retard. You can be a happy, lovable retort. You can say to yourself, well, I might be retarded, but I'm at least moderately attracted or I take care of my looks. I'm likable, people enjoy me.

I make the people around me laugh. I'm charismatic. I have other positive qualities about myself. There's a lot of people like that. When he meets somebody who's smarter than him, he's not going to be insecure whatsoever. He's not going to be combative. be combative with them he's not going to be so yeah that's the way that retards are smarter than the midwits exactly because they don't need to be secure around them he's going to love them and that is

what you need to do be like the retard instead of the midwit or the pseudo intellectual who do everything in their power to feel good about themselves feel very intelligent and get that ego boost don't do and one thing i'm going to do is i'm going to drop a truth nuke i usually don't call it a truth nuke but i'm very confident with this and everybody needs to hear this. Okay. One, people do not care at all how you appear to them. Nobody cares about how you talk about yourself or how you frame yourself to be in front of them. Absolutely.

Fucking absolutely. Yes, nobody gives a fuck. Very true. You say things that are solely designed to impress other people. Nobody's paying attention when you go on these long monologues. People block it out. They start the daydream. Nobody cares about you. I have, I've had people like this in, so there's been like meetings that I've been in and there's always been people that are like this.

And I know that like whenever they start going, I will watch like the call and the amount of people will be like, just go away. People just start leaving. That's the truth. Nobody cares. No, no, please. No, not again. How you make them feel. Yeah.

And also what value you supply. to them. People care about and love people who make themselves feel good. What is actually valuable is the skill of making other people feel smart. That's right. Loved, valued, happy. People will love you. And also to help them, like if you're smart

and you know how to solve somebody's problem and you can solve the problem, they're going to like that. They're going to like that a lot. And that's really the issue is that if you really know what the hell you're talking about with something, you can help somebody and be like, yeah, I actually know a lot about this. I can help you. Do you want me to help you? And I say, yeah, it's like, all right, this is what you got to do. And a lot of people have like one or two things that

they do know a lot about. Now, maybe the one thing you know a lot about is Pokemon. So you don't have a lot of options. But every once in a while, somebody might not know how to make a team for the Elite 4. That's where you come in. That's when you're fucking ready. Okay? And you don't need to be that guy for everything, man. And so that's it. Got to catch them all? Exactly. Yeah, you don't need to be that guy for everything. You don't have to know everything.

That is what is extremely important. And also, being a valuable asset in general. If you supply value to people, you give to them in whatever way you can. Absolutely. People will love you and value for that. And oddly enough, if you're supplying value to people, they oftentimes view you as intelligent. If you want to be seen as intelligent, just be competent. Just be a person who...

That's exactly it. Yeah. everybody wants to be around somebody who knows what the fuck they're doing. Even if it's a low-skilled job, like even if you're working at Burger King, the guy that can work at Burger King and then do three jobs at the same time, people are going to be like, damn, that's impressive. Rather than the guy that knows about, you know, some random fucking arcane history of the Roman Empire, people aren't really going to care about that.

I mean, the only people that are going to care about that or other people like him. That's it. focuses on and pays attention to other people what they need, how they feel, and supply also value to them with your actions. That is what you should focus on. Then maybe people will view you as smart. But again, who cares? You shouldn't even be focusing on that anymore. You got to focus on other people rather than being self-absorbed. Provide a value to them. And that's the end of this video. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, be sure to subscribe and check out some of my other videos. And as always, I hope you have a good one. That was a great video.

I really, I thought that was great. And I'm going to link you guys the video right here. Remnant 777, good one. And yeah, there you go. I probably had that issue about yesterday. I went to a museum guy just kept talking in front of everyone as if he knew everything. Yeah, it's just kind of annoying. And I don't know why people do that, but that's what happens, right? I mean, you've got a lot of people, there's the video, make sure to give it a like. And I think also a lot of Redditors and people like this, whenever I see people that are expressing them this way, it's not for you, it's for them. It's so they will feel good, so they will feel smart, and they will feel superior, right? Like that's always the goal that they have rather than anything else besides that. It's always about their own ego and building it up in that own way.