To the OP, congratulations on your success, in what ever form it may be! Nice of you to post something inspirational to anyone just joining the forum. Success in many forms, can be achieved with hard work and dedication...and this forum can be one of those tools you use on the journey.
Am I missing something here?
Is there any reason why he's is being attacked? Even if you feel as though he came off as being arrogant in his post, it to me, was meant way more of an inspirational speach telling anyone of many noobs, that if you apply the things you learn here you can achieve success. Isn't that the goal of this forum? Helping people achieve success in thier hobby/profession/passion?
Does it matter if you don't like the genre or you think they aren't original, if they are succeeding in doing what they set out to do, why try to bring them down?
Where's the proof to spawn the faked hype conspiracy? Do you really think he went thru all that trouble to fake the website, youtube videos, reverbnation stuff just to come into this forum and show off.....that's delusional.
And as far as self promotion, there a MANY of you who have self-promoting links in your signature, therefor shamelessly self-promoting yourself every time you post.
"This is a hobbiest forum, no one cares where you think you are, what are you contributing?"
....a success story. No matter what you think of the OP, his music, his website, or his personal character, why defile the post with all this garbage? If this irritates you....don't read it. You don't like his video.....don't watch it. Hate his music....don't listen.
But if this inspires one person to really try to learn and get better and achieve some level of success, I really don't see how that could be a bad thing.