So far, a lot of the discussion seems to assume any lingering confusion is due to the respective viewer's lack of "reading" ability or insight, and ignores the fact that this confusion could have been avoided if the vidder had made different choices. These problems are not a failure on the part of the audience. No matter how inflammatory your song choice or subject matter, if you make a "fuck you" vid and your audience is left completely unsure of who or what you are saying "fuck you" to, then you are doing something wrong.

Well, it's a general tendency in fandom to assume that things that don't work for you are some kind of mismatch or misunderstanding, rather than a failure of execution, and it's exacerbated in vidding, which a lot of viewers don't feel competent to judge, or need more than one viewing to understand, or are not at their sharpest on the third or fourth day of a con suffering sleep deprivation, vid shock, and probably really strange approaches to nutrition (hi!) So I understand where the attitude is coming from.

But I also feel like, in lots of cases where I don't understand vids, especially after the first viewing at VVC, when other people make arguments about the vid, their takes make sense. And usually *someone* will have a convincing take on the vid, instead of *everyone* groping for interpretations, as is happening here.