Vivian posts a video about political assassinations, claims to quit Youtube yet again - changes the description of his Youtube channel: "a chilly dormant & defunct channel - a house haunted by butterflies & ghosts - the last will and testament of Vivian Strange" - privates his Instagram account again - turns off all commenting to his videos & Community tab - post a 10 minute meditation video in memory of David Lynch
Vivian posted a new video titled,
"The Ballot or the Bullet?" describing it as
"a collection of anarchist text readings by V. de Guerre, compiled to commemorate a special occasion. a Finale...and Farewell.".
The video is on the topic of political assassinations and
the propaganda of the deed:
Towards the end of this video Vivian filmed himself ripping up the US flag with a knife and a pair of scissors, while once claiming to quit Youtube
"for real this time":
As an aside, even while he's stabbing and cutting up the flag, Vivian doesn't come across as an aggressive person. I find this hard to put into words, but I don't get a sense of genuine aggression from his movements attacking the flag. I really hate to say this, but TBH: these do not come across as violent hands. (Vivian's contemptuous, glaring eyes express more violence and anger than his hands actually do.) I mean, he even made sure to lay down that white sheet to protect his floor white stabbing the flag, and he zooms in on his poor cat Garnet looking at him frightened from behind the curtain, as if acknowledging how he must look doing this, even to his cat. Vivian looks like a child breaking his toy out of a desperate need for attention more than anything. The way he looks up at the camera and grins at the end reinforces the juvenile quality of the act.
"Thanks for watching but this is goodbye... (for real this time)", like, how many times has he rage-quit Youtube by now?
While I was watching the above video, Vivian changed the description of his channel to the following:
a chilly dormant & defunct channel
a house haunted by butterflies & ghosts
the last will and testament of Vivian Strange
He also turned off commenting to all of his videos and also turned off all the comments under the posts in his Community tab (except for a few like
this one).
Vivian has privated his Instagram account yet again:
About two weeks ago, Vivian posted this picture of his calendar on Instagram as well as under his Community tab. There is a yellow skull posted on the 20th. Yellow letters at the top state
"Two weeks until...", presumably in reference to the yellow skull.
According to this calendar Vivian is supposed go back to uploading V.S. ("Video Star") Commentaries of his old Youtube videos to his Patreon account on the 31st and February 7th, so what does the yellow skull mean? Was that the day Vivian was going to abandon his Youtube account for good? According to the colour coding on this calendar, Vivian was going to upload yet another C.V. (Cabaret Voltairine) video on February 5th. It's not the first time Vivian has rage-quit Youtube, so I don't know what this means. Is he having his "period" again or what?
Vivian also deleted a video he uploaded recently, titled
Internet Killed The Video star (trailer + channel update), where he was recanting on his promise not to doxx his DMs with the victims, now saying he was going to do it anyway on Patreon in his "Video Star" Commentaries:
A few days after he posted this video - where he also said he was going on a date - Vivian unfollowed and blocked his new target
"tattcat" on Letterboxd. Maybe
"tattcat" doesn't like David Lynch and Vivian got mad at them because his favourite film director had just died and
"tattcat" wasn't there for him while he was mourning? There's also Ali Nahdee publicly denouncing Vivian on BlueSky and saying she was going to cut all ties with him, after being contacted by Sarah of The Leftist Cooks about the Google Doc with the allegations. Maybe having a date gone bad, losing yet another Youtube associate
and the death of David Lynch was a little too much for Vivian.
After shutting down all comments and declaring his Youtube account
"defunct", Vivian posted the following video to Patreon:
David Lynch World Meditation Memorial
today, Jan. 20, 2025, at noon (PST), countless people all over the world participated in a ten-minute meditation in honor of David Lynch......
I am not quite sure but it looks to me like Vivian has dyed part of his hair black. The books spread around him are all David Lynch books. Vivian sounds like he's on the verge of crying when he mentions that today would've been Lynch's 79th birthday.
The above video is in reference to this post by Lynch's family, where they asked David Lynch fans to meditate for 10 minutes at a given time to commemorate him: