Asking Audience for Support After Field Work

Sunday morning at 10 AM in federal forest campground. rswfire is in his RV, having been up for a couple hours with a slow start. He's drinking coffee and preparing daily paperwork while observing wildlife. The environment includes ATV noise, birds, and a squirrel that regularly attempts to break into his RV and shed. He's in the middle of a multi-day field clearing project.

Energetic Signature

resolute

Field State

ethical infrastructure building

Orientation

toward reciprocal community

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July 27, 2025

10:51

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Author

rswfire

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ARCHIVED

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TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

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[0:00]Good morning, audience. It's Sunday, 10

[0:03]o'clock in the morning here. Just

[0:05]getting my day started. I've been up a

[0:06]couple hours. Been kind of a slow start

[0:09]to the morning.

[0:11]Drinking my coffee, watching a squirrel

[0:13]play in my yard, collecting pine cones.

[0:17]Little tiny ones. I don't know if

[0:18]they're really called pine cones. That's

[0:20]kind of what they look like. I think I

[0:22]might start collecting those for it cuz

[0:24]this is a neat little squirrel.

[0:26]It's tried breaking into my RV for a

[0:28]couple weeks. Every single day, it comes

[0:30]to the my RV and it climbs up on the

[0:32]side and starts pecking like a

[0:34]woodpecker. We have to tell it to stop.

[0:36]Oh, here it is now. Look. Hi, little

[0:38]squirrel. Hi. You're so awesome. God, I

[0:42]love you.

[0:45]You're awesome.

[0:48]I think I just got to like I mean, you

[0:51]know, it's doing its thing. like it's

[0:52]got to go collect those pine cones. But

[0:54]maybe if I put some in a pile, maybe we

[0:56]become little friends, I guess. So, be

[0:58]friends with the squirrel. Anyways, it

[1:00]was trying to break into my RV and it

[1:02]was trying to break into our little shed

[1:03]over here. I went over to the shed. I

[1:05]said, "You know, I could see you,

[1:07]right?" It jumped up on the roof and it

[1:09]just stared at me like, "Yes, I know you

[1:10]could see. I don't care." Like, I love

[1:12]the squirrel.

[1:15]So,

[1:17]I'm going to finish weed blocking the

[1:18]the field that I've been working on.

[1:20]It'll be done today. It looks really

[1:21][ __ ] amazing. Really happy about it.

[1:27]It's pretty funny because you get so

[1:30]much satisfaction out of stuff like

[1:31]this,

[1:34]you know, and I've been doing like very

[1:36]complicated programming all my life, but

[1:38]I get way more satisfaction out of out

[1:40]of weed whacking the fields. So, let's

[1:43]just let these ATVs go by. It's loud

[1:45]here. This is what it's like here.

[1:49][Music]

[1:52]I don't know why it sounds like that.

[1:55]Sounds ridiculous to me.

[1:58]They don't all sound like that.

[2:04]It's a weird sound. Oh, my paperwork

[2:06]just fell. I got to go grab that.

[2:10]So, anyways, there's something I did

[2:11]want to talk about this morning.

[2:14]Just give me a moment here.

[2:22]Every day I got to prepare my paperwork.

[2:25]Our online systems aren't great. Like if

[2:27]I was to go online and look up who's

[2:29]here today, there's no real easy way to

[2:32]see that. So I literally

[2:35]I literally go through like day after

[2:38]day

[2:40]through um I'm not explaining this well.

[2:43]So,

[2:46]I basically prepare my own report on

[2:49]what the what the campground looks like

[2:51]today by going through every single day

[2:53]until I catch everybody cuz you have to

[2:55]go to the day that they checked in in

[2:58]order for them to even show up in the

[3:00]system. Doesn't matter how long they're

[3:01]here. It's a very strange thing. And so

[3:04]every day I spend an hour or so just

[3:06]putting that report together so that I

[3:08]have a full snapshot of what's happening

[3:10]here and I can be the most useful to

[3:13]people. It's already been helpful this

[3:15]morning a couple times. There's a bird

[3:18]over there just

[3:21]just eating. This happens a lot too.

[3:29]You know, I've seen

[3:32]um I've seen bears here twice now. I saw

[3:35]a small one like a child bear and you

[3:38]know, like a mother bear like separate

[3:40]times.

[3:42]That's interesting to me.

[3:46]So anyways, I wanted to talk about one

[3:48]thing and that is

[3:51]yesterday I did my best to articulate to

[3:54]my audience my situation to ask for

[3:56]help.

[3:59]Like why aren't they even going out on

[4:00]the dunes? Like what the [ __ ] That was

[4:02]just too loud. I had to pause the

[4:04]camera. So anyways, this morning what I

[4:07]wanted to talk about is yesterday I did

[4:10]my best to articulate to my audience my

[4:12]situation, what I've been through and to

[4:14]ask for support.

[4:21]It's very hard to do that.

[4:23]Very hard.

[4:27]But you do what you have to do and you

[4:28]just hope for the best. You hope that

[4:30]there are humans out there with enough

[4:32]empathy

[4:34]who've watched your journey who

[4:40]have it within their ability to help and

[4:41]choose to do so. It hasn't happened yet.

[4:49]That ATV was just too loud. I paused the

[4:51]camera. I'm going to walk over to that

[4:54]field and show it to you.

[4:58]What I wanted to talk about this morning

[5:01]is yesterday

[5:04]did my best to articulate to my audience

[5:07]my situation to ask for support and I am

[5:09]going to continue asking for it even if

[5:11]nobody helps because I feel ethically

[5:14]that if you witness someone's life and

[5:16]you witness their suffering, you should

[5:17]try to do something. That's what I've

[5:19]done all of my life. And maybe you don't

[5:21]share my values, but those are my

[5:23]values. It's not easy getting on this

[5:25]camera and asking for help, but I'm

[5:26]doing it.

[5:28]I'm going to keep building a sovereign

[5:30]life. One that matters. One that I share

[5:32]with others until I find an audience

[5:35]that actually gives a [ __ ] about me. If

[5:37]you watch my life and just consume it

[5:39]and don't give anything back, those are

[5:41]your values,

[5:44]not mine.

[5:46]So, this is the field here.

[5:51]All of this was covered in weeds like

[5:53]like way more than knee high. Over here

[5:57]we got a campsite. So somebody might put

[5:59]up a tent over here.

[6:02]And if we, you know, like have a

[6:03]overflow situation, somebody just wants

[6:05]their tent somewhere else.

[6:08]Um, I could probably ask, you know, just

[6:10]let them come over here or something.

[6:12]Gives us a little more room. It's an

[6:14]interesting campground. So

[6:18]it's a big field. Been doing this for

[6:20]days. Just got to get this part a little

[6:24]bit over here.

[6:25]Almost done.

[6:30]Got the field next to mine, too. There's

[6:32]a little bit more work to do there. I

[6:34]got

[6:38]It's just a lot of work.

[6:41]Feels very rewarding when you do it.

[6:45]Get more I feel more reward from weed

[6:47]whacking a field than I do from

[6:48]programming sometimes.

[6:51]It's kind of interesting.

[6:53]I think I'll go this way.

[6:58]So that's really all I want to say.

[7:01]And just to just to state something that

[7:05]I feel should be apparent and that is I

[7:07]have never tried to manipulate my

[7:08]audience. Not once.

[7:10]When I learned what a parasocial

[7:12]relationship was, I shared that with my

[7:14]audience. I've never pretended to to

[7:16]love or like or know the people who

[7:18]watch me.

[7:21]I don't do what a lot of other creators

[7:22]do because I'm I'm not on here

[7:24]performing. I'm on here being real and

[7:26]that matters.

[7:28]You may not know how much it matters

[7:30]what it does. You may not understand.

[7:33]You don't have to understand it all. But

[7:35]if you feel something, if you're

[7:37]witnessing my life, you continue to

[7:38]witness it.

[7:46]You cannot just take from somebody

[7:52]and pretend that that's a good thing.

[8:02]Just cuz we've normalized it. Just

[8:04]because there are people on here

[8:07]who are performing for you

[8:14]who are okay with that, who are okay

[8:16]with the extractive nature

[8:20]doesn't make it right. Doesn't mean that

[8:22]it's right for everybody.

[8:27]What I'm doing on this channel is very

[8:28]different.

[8:30]I'm going to build an audience that gets

[8:31]it.

[8:33]don't want people watching my life

[8:37]who don't know how to reciprocate, who

[8:39]have forgotten how to connect, who have

[8:40]forgotten how to be a human being.

[8:43]I don't care how that sounds to you. If

[8:47]that feels like an attack,

[8:49]ask yourself why.

[8:55]All my life I have chosen growth

[9:00]and I've challenged others to do the

[9:02]same and I will continue to do that. So

[9:04]if you watch this channel that's what

[9:05]you're watching.

[9:14]So frustrating.

[9:27]I just don't understand people anymore.

[9:30]So, let me end with this.

[9:33]I know that I probably could get more

[9:35]support if I was less direct and less

[9:37]honest with you.

[9:40]But that is not who I am. It's not who

[9:43]I've ever been. And I shouldn't have to

[9:45]change.

[9:48]When I'm not doing anything wrong,

[9:52]it is not my fault

[9:54]that people can't seem to sit with

[9:59]with the unvarnished truth.

[10:06]I share my observations honestly,

[10:10]authentically,

[10:12]rationally,

[10:14]and I deserve to be met and kind.

[10:18]Everybody deserve to be met that way.

[10:23]I will not soften my truth just because

[10:26]it's hard for some people to hear.

[10:29]We do not make a better world by doing

[10:31]that.

[10:34]And if that's the only way I can get

[10:35]support from you, then you're not the

[10:37]kind of person I want in my life.

[10:41]I'm not trying to guilt trip you. I'm

[10:44]stating reality.

[10:46]And what you do with that, those are

[10:48]your values being expressed.

Summary

rswfire begins his Sunday morning routine at 10 AM, drinking coffee and observing a squirrel that has been trying to break into his RV and shed for weeks. He describes his daily process of manually preparing campground reports due to inadequate online systems, spending about an hour each morning going through check-in dates to create a comprehensive snapshot of current occupancy.

He walks to show a large field he has been clearing of knee-high weeds for days, explaining it could serve as an overflow campsite. He expresses finding more satisfaction in this physical work than in his previous complex programming career.

**The main focus becomes his direct appeal to his audience for financial support.** He states he articulated his situation the previous day and will continue asking for help, even if no one responds. He frames this as an ethical obligation - that witnessing someone's life and suffering should prompt action. He emphasizes building a sovereign life worth sharing until he finds an audience that "gives a shit" about him.

rswfire distinguishes his approach from other content creators, stating he has never tried to manipulate his audience or pretend relationships. He describes his content as authentic rather than performative, and criticizes the normalized extractive nature of content consumption without reciprocity. He concludes by stating he could probably get more support by being less direct and honest, but refuses to change his approach or soften his truth.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission establishes a clear boundary between extractive consumption and reciprocal relationship, declaring that authentic witnessing requires response. The field is simultaneously grounding through land-work while articulating ethical standards for audience engagement, refusing to soften truth for palatability.

Dominant Language

reciprocateextractive natureunvarnished truthyour values being expressedwitnesssovereign lifegrowth

Symbolic Elements

fieldsquirrelthresholdmirrorground

Ontological States

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sovereign
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grounded
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coherent
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boundary-setting

Subsystems

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ethical
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relational
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infrastructural
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somatic

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1080 × 1920 @ 30fps

Duration

10:51

Bitrate

4308 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028