Magibon: her silence speaks volumes

There is a new phenomenon going on at YouTube. Head on over if you don't know.

It's called Magibon. or Mririan; she's the new lonelygirl15.
Except better. In my opinion, with far more substance.

In a society where the imperative is to gossip, the imperative is to talk, the imperative is to say something witty or funny, or else - be socially rejected, socially unpopular, socially "inept"... what her silence says to us, speaks volumes.

I love it.

She is the speaker for silence. Our representative.

Everyone is puzzling. Why does a video, with her staring at the camera, saying nothing, get 3 million views?

The answer is simple: silence.
Something everyone pretty much downplays, ignores, in this modern day and age; something they attribute, simply, to "losers" with no social skills. Something, quite undesirable as a trait, in this modern day and age of self-assertion and propulsion.

Yet: it hits these people right in the face when they see this video. RIGHT IN THEIR FACE.
SILENCE.

Perhaps for the first time in their lives, people can step back and contemplate.

Just relax away from the verbose barrage we receive everyday. Let it all fall.

That, in my view, is what really attracts people to her. They may say, it's her eyes, it's her cuteness, her "Japaneseness" or whatever. Sure they may play a part; but I believe the real reason is more subconscious, more deeper down. There really is, in modern Western & Westernised societies, that lack of silence. That social imperative that denies it. Yet... deep down... people seek it; but they don't know how, or where... until they see magibon. And her silence.

I remember a quote from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, along the lines of: "communicating does not simply constitute of constantly talking." Sometimes, silence, or what is not said, speaks far more than what is said. I remember this from a great English teacher that I once had - often, the greatest stories are marked not by their words, but words the author leaves out. What they don't say.

In light of that, please let magibon be a beacon of hope for those of us that are... silent; quiet. And help the rest of society to understand; to accept, to appreciate silence.

"Silence is a virtue" - oh, what a long lost adage, stamped as "irrelevant" by people of this modern day. Please, let us restore it.