So I wanted to talk about Salt... 

Shows LTG vs Viscant "Let's not go on that direction", i felt that.

Totally unexpected to end up in a video lol. Shout out to Brian F!

I'm loving Brian's fgc therapy sessions.

A friend of mine once said, "I'm sorry I don't play the game the way you want me to." and I've never looked at my own behavior while playing the same since.

I like the focus back dash cancel at the sight of the infamous Viscant video 🤣🤣

I once broke a Brian_F 19 game win streak with my birdie but ended up losing the set. the next day i checked out the stream and the things he said about me were not too nice. I felt like crap at first ,didn't play for a few days stopped watching Brian_F on you tube but later it gave me motivation to get better and to take the things he said about my play more as constructive criticism. Oh and clearly im back on watching Brian_F on RU-vid lol

"Gief is a walking casino" that is a quote to remember

My favorite salt moment was my college roommate playing Madden. The CPU had some BS comeback and he threw his controller at the couch. This was back in the day with wired PS controllers though, and the controller wire went taut. The controller arc'ed the air and flew out the window of our apartment. The controller wire popped out, sending the controller 13 stories to the parking lot below, but not before the wire pulled the PS off the console. The PS crashed to the floor, breaking his PS, also. That was a lesson for Scott.

I destroyed my arcade stick watching this video.

The match was laggy And my stick was acting up And that character is broken And your play style is cheap And I wasn't even trying

The apology was like a preentive backdash to the IRL SPD that was coming a month later. Godlike reads.

The quality of these discussions are very high for them just being clips from your stream. I play smash ultimate competitively but youre one of my favorite FGC content creators because of the depth of thought in these videos, keep up the good work!

“it shouldn’t matter if your opponent isn’t 6’4 gief irl”

It's strange, I get super salty when fighting against bots but I'm actually really chill when fighting real humans. Obviously the problem is that I haven't fought enough real humans to get sick of their shit yet.

I’ve genuinely been brought to tears from a terrible session of street fighter,I was so angry at myself I started beating my thigh with my fist over and over until my eyes were watering from pain,I know it sounds pathetic that I could get that emotional about an online video game but being able to maintain and master a stable mental state while playing is so important

Man this video was something else, the ending story was too good... I was hooked... It's a small world man.. Loving these videos Brian 🤘😎

The autoplay decided to give me "LowTierGod gets slammed by corageous Karin"

We need Greyskarr in here.

This is still one of your best discussion pieces you put out on RU-vid. Great message and great story at the end to boot, always makes me chuckle.

The last time I played SFIV, it was 2012, and I ejected the disc and snapped it in half. The loss I was salty about was due to lag (no, really), but I should have known that my opponent was experiencing the same lag, and was just better than me regardless of the situation. Years later, I'm not bugged by it so much. I think I've finally settled into a place where I truly regard both the wins and losses as learning experiences to absorb, rather than judgments about my skill level or personal character.

You spiking your stick out of salt is really relatable and it's really cool that you make a video talking about this subject. I've split open my hand smashing my stick before and i've broken a lot of butons and a pad but i think the time that really got me thinking about my salt was when i bent the metal plate of my te2 that my mom got me for my birthday, it got me feeling really awful. Thankfully it's just the plate i'll fix the stick at some point but now i really try to stop playing when i feel that my frustration levels go up

Hearing this from a competitor is so great. I always assumed that salt is something I had to get rid of completely to get to a high level. But from this I can tell that it's not about not getting salty, it's about managing your salt in a healthy manner.

Great video Brian F! This has helped me out alot lol. I got a confession to make: I was the salty player for awhile, and I still feel it in me. Like, full on tantrums, RQ, breaking shit: it was bad. But recently I feel like I'm able to control it, mainly because I found out a couple of tips, one of them being like you said, remembering that there's another person on the other side of the screen. Another big one that was really hard for to do is give my opponent credit when they do something that works, even if it is really fucking stupid to do. Because it's not stupid to wakeup super for instance if you get hit by it lol. Thanks so much man, and I hope I get good enough that I can play against you

It was a great discussion in the comments as well. Brian gets in depth and I love when he challenges us to look into it more than we may think. SFV twitter is so good.

it's interesting how this same kind of salt is directed on your team mates in team games.

if u lose a match with good connection, its ur fault, no excuses, i struggled to learn that

I'm in this video! Im Number2Headband that you 2-0'd at the AB you met Greyskarr at. I remember them being close games, and I was proud of how safe I played against you.

Late to the party but still had the urge to say how much I appreciate the video. I'm in a similar boat and while I'm also aware that many people feel this way, I still had difficulties relating to them. Your transparency and way of talking about the topic here was different though. It felt like I was standing in front of a mirror and reflecting on myself again to become more self aware of the issues so I can continue to try solving them in the future. Thanks again. Have a nice weekend and happy Christmas.

That fucking Aris Rage video has been one of my favourites for *ages.* Talk about a classic.

Ever since I got really into sfv scene a month or two ago, i’ve found so many amazing content creators. Love the content!!

This was beatiful man, keep encouraging people to have this attitude towards not only fighting games but games in general

No Brian, let's go in that direction LOL.

I found your videos around when SF6 came out and once and a while youtube throws an old one in the recommended, I really enjoyed this one a lot and I can relate to the occasional video game rage. It is weird too cause I am the most calm cool and collected guy in life in pretty much every situation to the point where people always take notice of it... But lose a few rounds in video games and I can feel the pressure starting to build lmao. Thanks for the welcome reminders that our fellow humans are on the other side of the screen.

I used to get super salty back then as well, but then as time went on I dont get as salty as much as I used to anymore and I actually show respect to my opponents and when I do get salty I know that I have to actually learn matchups and adapt to some of the stuff that was in the game. Awesome vid as always Brian.❤️❤️❤️

I'm currently student teaching, and I can say as a teacher - sarcasm/humor is such an absurdly universal tool for dealing with tense situations. It's your bread-and-butter as someone standing in front of a group. You take resistance lightly, you make a joke about it, you minimize your portrayed ego. Most importantly, you won't burn out if you take things lightly. By all means, get serious when you escape the emotional vortex - but use humor and sarcasm to turn a negative situation into a positive one.

man this video is another gold mine. Thanks for the quality content!

Every time i get salty,whatever the game,i come back to this. Genuinely therapeutic,thank you brian 👍.

Glad he didn’t mention LowTierGod

Dude this was one of the coolest videos ive seen bout salt, good shit Brian.

Great video, i've always wondered how players like smug can stay so calm and not get salty when they are losing. From the videos i've seen of your streams I thought you were really chilled too, I never would have guessed you'd smashed so many pads haha. I tend to get salty when I make the right read but mess up the execution or if my opponent gets punished for doing something random but then just does it again when I don't expect them to. Feels bad anyway

Sometimes you get emotional, and will say harsh stuff after a loss. When you realize somebody is on a state where the events that are happening might change his perspective emotionally, it's better to give him some space and don't take what the person say to heart. Even pros are still human beings with emotions, salt is normal.

Damn Brian that was a really moving story you told near the end of the vid. I mean seriously, how many people would willingly apologize to someone after they've wrong them in this day and age? People these days think that apologizing to someone after you've wronged them is a sign of weakness but I personally im glad that you stepped up to the plate, owned up to your mistake and did the right thing. I cant give you enough props for that Brian, well played. 👍👍👍

you're the best Brian so much empathy, respect and responsibility with your fans. the fgc needs more guys like you, jimmy and smug

Vids got recommened so often i honestly thought i was subbed 😅, but here ya go for top tier content that builds the community up

I already saw myself in James Chen shoes in a lot of situations (also spike some pads too, not happy about it), and actually droped SFV for a while a couple of times and return some months latter. I have beeing trying to work this and instead of beeing frustrated and angry with my mistakes, analyse the games and watch again some replays of matches that I lost (later I was only used to watch matches that I have won), to understand why I was beeing beat. My point is, working on this made me able to control it, and also make my game skills actually improve learning from my mistakes, so yesterday I managed to reach Gold rank, It might not sound much for some people, but I was for such a long time stuck in the 2500 - 3000 points range, that it was unlikelly think about transpass the 4000 points barrier a while ago.

This is why I subbed. Genuinely insightful and an important thing to think about for the small but scrappy FGC as it's growing and gaining eyes at a rapid rate. Great content.

I think I'm just happy watching this video because it's a healthier, upfront, no BS kind of way to talk about a weakness most of us have. Thanks for this clip.

Excellent video. I was explaining to my friend the other day why i mainly play against friends and only grind ranked occasionally. There's no intimacy there, so its so easy to just forget there's another guy at the other side of that 3 bar snake edging Bryan. When my homie does that and we're in discord, its hilarious. When its a random online, not so much. Only discovered your channel recently, keep up the great content.

The real question is: Why is RunItBlack not drowning?

This has been the most enlightening conversation on salt i've ever seen, thank you for thinking about it deeply. It caused me to go on a deep dive of your videos (though I think it got started with "Daigo teaches me footsies video" FYI), and I was impressed with your resolve after the poison defeat. Wanted to add-in a single observation on that match that maybe you already recognize, but in case you missed it, maybe it will help you. I'll start off by taking you at your word that the critical error was spending meter early in that deciding match, you understand mechanics of street fighter much deeper than I do. But it seemed you already knew to conserve meter before that match started, so from my perspective, the real question is, why did you decide to spend meter early in that final round (Game 5, Round 3)? And my best guess comes from Game 5 Round 1 where you started strong, had him in the corner with a life lead and meter, and then ate a single crush counter, throw, throw, chip damage, etc that lead to you being pushed all the way across the screen, and importantly, you lost that round with full V-Trigger. Fast-forward to G5R3, and I think you'll notice a similar start compared to G5R1, but this time, you went for the early V-trigger. Anyway, my guess is that you have already reflected on that, but in case you haven't, make sure you analyze G5R1 as deeply as you did G5R3, because I think that's where the subconscious/automatic/in-game decision came from. I don't understand SF well enough to say what the hell happened in G5R1, I'll leave that to you, good sir. Anyways, i'm bothering with this massive text because I see you winning it all at some point in the not-too-distant future. Good luck

I actually started streaming HOPING that it could be a way to keep my salt in check. Glad you covered this in depth the way ya did.

I think this video touched on something I'd been feeling in my own streaming. I am/was (I don't know anymore) like James Chen but more often silent about it. I feel empathy for that kind of salt and that kind of stream too. I'm glad you touched on this topic today.

This insight is so good , never considered the difference between being the show and an audience in the show

😂 I love the guy in chat who said "this guy is a maniac" when Brian talked about his rage.

Brian F is a great Street Fighter player with good sportsmanship and entertaining to watch. How does this man not have 100k subs?

2:24 - that "I don't know" killed me, and the sildence after made me laugh so much harder. "I regret doing that.."

Your content is excellent Brian, it's great to have a figure like you in the community. Thanks for being an entertaining inspiration for the fun ladder of progression that are FGs instead of the toxic ego competition they can unfortunately become. I drastically lowered my salt levels with a mindset shift: You can learn stuff and why it's effective by paying attention to what's happening when someone's kicking your ass instead of getting mad. I try to learn from and respect anyone who's able to beat me!

Yo this story was crazy! Great content bro! Been following for like 2 years now learning a lot from you. Wish you the best in SF6. Hope you get rog

Hearing brian talk about being salty is unreal. Seems like the chillest fg player i know

hey if anyone else like me looks up "Greyskarr" on yt, be careful when clicking their channel "Greyskarr V" because for some reason they uploaded someone obviously not them having a mental breakdown & attempting to cut their wrist on camera edit: gone now, maybe cuz i reported it lmao

Man, I'm so glad I watched this video. You brought up some amazing points, and I can definitely relate when it comes to destroying some pads. The thing that helped me manage the salt was watching how other people handle losing. When I come across people who handle it really well, it just makes me wanna be the same way.

Brian, you're the man for owning up to your own mistake on stream/youtube. Huge respect. Keep up the great content

Hey Brian, your story of how you curb stomped your first stick sort of resonated with me. Well, more so got me thinking. I’m pretty young and relatively new to the fgc (at least on a level above pure casual), but I feel like my parents don’t enjoy me playing fighting games, granted I used to get very, very salty but I’ve definitely gotten better. Yet, whenever I jump on street fighter, even between matches and I’m just chilling, my parents still get really annoyed. A specific time that sticks in my memory is when they saw me playing SFV and asked me “why do you enjoy going online and beating people up?” In an angry/sarcastic tone. My parents didn’t grow up playing games of any kind, so I can semi-understand where it comes from, but I still feel like whenever I try to tell them anything regarding it they shut it down, I’ve had to find my own way to locals since I’m too young to have a license. Do you have any tips or advice of what I can do? Because I’m stumped. P.s they’re great parents btw, and they support me fully on everything else, it’s just this one hobby that they completely shut down.

+1 for morally wholesome content, well done Brian

The ad break perfectly cut the scream at 6:25

This is the kind of content that made me fall in love with the FGC. Thank you Brian F

This is honestly the hardest thing I've had to keep in check since I started streaming again. But my secret is instead of calling them bad, I try to say "I'll body them next time." That's it. No questioning their actions. No questioning my decisions. Just declare to do better against them, and that's it. But for real, content like this is why you and Super Eyepatch Wolf are like, my two favorite RU-vidrs now.

Greyskarr is by far one of the most humble dude that I know! That's an awesome upload right there. Really like everything about it!

So I just played Persona 4 for the first time and hearing that music at the end of the video made me think I was actually going insane.

This was a great talk and really elevated my respect for you Brian. I know the 'culture of the FGC' (putting that in quotes for a reason) seems to largely be that being an asshole is a personality and if you don't particularly care for that you're soft or whatever but you brought up a ton of great nuance here that gets lost in the 'if you can't handle it, get the fuck out' mentality a lot of people still cling to as gospel. As you said being decent to others doesn't have to come at the cost of passion for the game or passion for your personal craft at the game. This was even more interesting to me coming from someone who is a self professed salty motherfucker and still feels this way about being responsible about it and also learning to direct it well. TLDR great video, opens up great discussion, hope Greyskarr is having a good day.

Honestly you're such a verbose and well-spoken streamer/player. You help contextualize and show people how I feel way better than I can lol. Your content has been really great recently, keep it up

I think this is a great video. Great way to talk about healthy ways to deal with frustration. Pretending you are too "grown" to feel frustrated is flat out lying to yourself. Everyone gets frustrated. It will come out eventually. You gotta deal with it. How you deal with it- thats the part separates maturity from immaturity. I've never broken a controller but I've wanted to! You gotta let it out somewhere somehow.

Man this video speaks to me so well. I definitely hit the James chen type of salt way more than I would like and still struggle with it. Glad to know that there is a way to get past it and take back control.

this is a good reality check for any entertainer in a competitive environment. just like practicing combos you gota practice self control in tense situations. i have also slammed my controller on the ground or put a whole in my wall with that same controller. it is embarrassing when it happens but if your passionate about your hobby and trying to improve at said hobby your going to strong emotions about it when something goes wrong so don't feel alone when you do loose control. this video hit it right on the mark

What a perfectly cut scream with the ad at 6:25. Genuninely got me to chuckle.

This is a great video I feel not only for the fgc but for video games in general. Toxicity is just everywhere in gaming and the message that there is always another human being on the other side is just a great concept to have in your head at all times. That there is someone else just trying to do the same as you. And I feel its even worse in team games when people are putting down teammates for not being good enough or losing to the other team all the time. They're just trying to learn and get better the same as you. I recently started playing rogue company since it was free and well since I play a decent amount of fps games I was pretty good. I was the only one with downs and elims on my team and so I got on the mic and started just ripping into them about how they're bad and terrible and should stop playing. And then I hear a mic click on and its a kid around maybe 9 or 10, he tells me, "I'm sorry, I'm just playing for my dad since he was gone and asked me to. I'm sorry I'm so bad, I'll try to be better." And I felt so bad man it pretty much brought me to tears, because I do what that man does with his son, with my brothers that are younger as well. It just made me think about them and how it'd make them feel if I told them what I told that kid. Thanks Brian, you made this video around the time this happened, I just didn't see it until now. A new sub and fan now :)

your content is healing the scrub outta me i swear to christ

This is genuinely one of the best pieces of FGC content I've ever seen

That James Chen clip and your analysis of it is exactly how I get too. I get so frustrated with my own inability to execute what I see in my head. I'm an okay street fighter player. I mostly play my gf (who is much better than me) and my friends and sometimes the salt comes out and I have to make sure once it's passed that I make it clear that I'm not mad at them. They beat me straight up and I accept that. It's me that I'm frustrated with. I've seen that string they beat me with a hundred times and I still get caught by it and it makes me mad at myself.

My salt is almost always directed at myself, which is like a weird sort of unhealthy. I recently adopted the "Do push-ups if I lose" approach, though, and it really helps. It just makes it much more fun, and it feels like I'm doing something to improve myself whether I win or lose.

When you start fighting games, see it as a lesson in dealing with frustration.

6'4 Gief IRL made me laugh out loud hard. You're a real dude. So glad to see this cause I have been in the salt mines while exploring the cast to learn other characters and losing horribly. I've dispensed nearly every flavor of salt including controller spikes. But I've also apologized for my tyraids ri my friends and it's the greatest feeling when they forgive you for it and sympathize/empathize with you. Great vid from a great guy. #RogMain

Analyzing different cases of salt? What a great video idea!

After a lot of salty punches on my wall playing sfv, once I was so salty, that I took the first thing on my sight, that was my galaxy s7 edge, and I bited it (don't know if that is a irregular verb) and man, the whole screen got cracked, I don't regret it, because I learned not to do those things anymore, but I did lost the frontal camera to that bite lol

I basically never post comments to youtube and I just wanted to say that this is a really good video brian

That Greyskarr redemption story arc was some wholesomeness.

My family was poor growing up so when I got really salty at a game, part of the frustration was not being able to throw or break my controller or I just couldn't play games anymore. I think the most relief I ever got from salt was when I threw my xbox 360 headset (the dirt cheap £10 ones) onto my bed causing no damage or noise whatsoever. Was better than nothing I guess.

Damn Brian, this is some quality content. Educational and entertaining!

Tbh finding ways to release anger and frustration in healthy ways (or "Flavoring your salt" I guess) is an underrated skill. Not even for just fighting games. It's impossible to not get angry at things and people who tell others they shouldn't get angry don't help, but at least don't let the anger consume you.

My salt is usually >Lose >Want so badly to blame something else ("omg that move/damage/character/etc is bs") >Know I can't because it's all/mostly me >Get saltier because I can't blame those things Or the second type of salt shown, James?

Whenever I lose I just blame myself and try to get better. Be nice and respect your opponent. Also don’t feel it in your neck.

I think I'm gonna be Aris, thanks Brian LMAOOO

One of your best videos to date, I personally think its even better than Core-As video on the topic

i love aris. commentary powerhouse right there. that clip has me cracking up and i haven't played tekken in a decade.

Yeah, I've had to tone down my salt because I was stressing my wife out too much.

Salt? Of course I know him. He's me.

I don't destroy controllers because mid swing I think "this sh*t is expensive as hell" and all anger vanishes

Dang this was wholesome. Good stuff bro

That Aris set will forever be legendary lol

Dude you are such an intelligent guy. And we all make mistakes. Glad it turned around.