Credit: Gage Skidmore

As an adult it’s easy to become entrapped within the echo chamber of your own life. You can worry about money, relationships, health etc. The world moves too fast for most, especially in the age of internet where the public dialogue remains active. Within the subculture of gaming most content creators or ‘Youtubers’ need to be outspoken and/or eccentric to get noticed through the mass of competition and remain relevant. However there’s one who I’ve known about for a while that doesn’t fit this mould.

Timothy Bishop or ‘NintendoCapriSun’ has consistently been making ‘Let’s Play’s’ since the hey-day of YouTube. On his second channel ‘BreakingNCS’ you can also find his vlogs, old tape recordings and various other things.

Tim’s demeanour on both channels are extremely relaxed. He takes the time to talk about his everyday life and whatever other random thoughts he has. His style may seem mundane to some and his gross-out humour might not appeal, which I can understand. But it’s extremely refreshing to have a content creator who’s not pining for your attention and rather creating their content just because they wanted to, whether many are watching or not.

Credit: Gage Skidmore

NCS’s collaborators ChuggaaConroy and ProtonJon do well to showcase the other side of gaming. The side that actively wants to entertain you and wants to be vocal. While these content creators have their place, there’s a degree to which they’re creating a performance for us, the audience. With Tim’s content there’s almost no filter to what’s included or excluded from the video. He’s honest about himself, and I think there’s some value in that.

His videos, especially his vlogs say to me that sometimes you should slow down in life. That there’s a certain quality to simply being able to breath and look at the small things around you. We’re all human after all, most of our lives aren’t as grand as we’d like to think they are.

Despite having 400,000 subscribers he only averages 3,000 views per new upload. His audience is small while loyal, which is probably ideal for a channel like his. You may see him as just some weird southern guy posting his low-key videos on the internet, and maybe I’m just reaching. Either way, I think that there is something admirable about quietly living your life while gaining joy from your interests and from the people around you. None of our lives are perfect and the world is chaotic. But that’s fine, just breath.

To whoever’s reading this, hope you’re doing well and take it easy.