RiceGum what do you doing man what is up everybody this is Chris from the
rewired so where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if
you're new to my channel my channel is all about mental health and what I like
to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you
how to improve your mental and emotional well-being so if you're getting that
kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and bring that boat of occasional Bell
and if you don't you should do do you want to know what you should do you
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do going into 2019 is hit 10,000 followers so I can get that beautiful
swipe up feature in my stories that's it come follow me over there for some extra
mental health goodness and I take amazing pictures like these to show you
my gorgeous cats alright yeah we're going to talk about rice gum today we're
gonna be talking about his channel I'm not gonna be diving into like rice gum
controversies as him as a person if you want that scoop go watch the idubbbz content cop
there's all that stuff but yeah I don't think ricegum is a good role model or
anything like that but I was actually a spider right not right to record this
video talk about wise cub from one of my new favorite channels it's not even a
new channel but the channel is Christopher Tom so this dude has been
following me for a little while on YouTube and he's talked to me on Twitter
and he's a good dude and we've chatted a little bit and I just now this morning
went over to his channel I saw her binge watching his stuff and
oh my god I'm gonna link his channel down below and up at the info card go
check his channel out like this this kid this kid is legit one of my favorite
commentators now like one of my favorites like I was watching it and
it's like a blend between like YouTube commentary or even like internet culture
commentary and like psych IRL like I get that kind of vibe this kid is only 18
years old and like his understanding of the
brain and psychology and the mind and things going on in society like it was
blowing me away so I was talking to him this morning hopefully he'll come over
and do a collab with me but you guys like he's only at 9000 subscribers
and like my one of my other goals aside from growing my Instagram in 2019 is to
help this kid blow up like he is phenomenal and super super smart for his
age so go check out Christopher Tom all right this morning I was just kids
watching you stuff and I watch this video on ricegum like I don't really
care about rice following his stuff but there was a part in Christopher Tom's
video that really stuck out to me and I'll show you a clip right now and
although some youtubers aren't able to change things up rice comes audience was
actually pretty receptive to the changes his overall viewership wasn't really
affected by this change however his relationship with his fans
eventually began to deteriorate he would start to upload at a slower rate now
this in and of itself isn't so bad what made this situation so bad for him was
that he would often make promises to his subscribers like daily uploads and he
would continuously break these promises again and again hey guys I feel like
every week we talk I give you guys more of a reason to hate me I have a lot of
supporters and I have a lot of haters but slowly my supporters are turning
into haters lengths it's a combination of lack of content broken promises and
just being inconsistent is honestly all my fault you guys deserve a lot better
but he still continued to slack on his upload schedule so yeah the first topic
I want to talk about is like having false promises and little to no
accountability and all you some of my experience like you guys we cause so
much of our own problems and we don't understand like you guys I try to take
these YouTube figures and try to help you understand how you're doing this
stuff in your own life this is me like I hate to admit it but ricegum and myself
had this in common so those of you who don't know me if you're new to my
channel I'm the recovering drug addict an alcoholic
all right I have six and a half years clean from drugs and alcohol I haven't
touched a single substance but what I learned when I got clean and sober was
it wasn't just that people didn't like me because of my addiction they've left
me because I was just irresponsible you couldn't hold me accountable for
anything like this is one of the reasons why I talk about accountability so so so
much like I was write them I I knew I was screwing up I always knew I was
screwing up whether it was with my family with my girlfriend with my
friends with work right I would keep messing up over and over
and over and I would apologize I would keep coming back and apologize and think
was I was so sincere about my my apology I felt awful I felt awful about I'm like
you know what I'm gonna change I'm gonna try to stop doing this I'm I'm gonna
work really hard at it but I didn't I didn't I kept doing the same exact
behaviors and what Christopher Thomas pointing out is how rice gum became
inconsistent with his content and it kept coming back and apologizing for it
and whether he was sincere or not I don't need to be the judge of it but we
could know what really happened to white gum by seeing these false promises and
that Christopher Tom pointed out his fans even noticed that too like you guys
here if any of you are aspiring youtubers let me tell you one of the
first lessons I learned when I jumped on this platform when I first started my
youtube channel I started looking around at other mental health channels and
their addiction channels and seeing who was doing good who wasn't doing great or
who stopped growing or whatever was the best lesson that I learned when I
started researching this was all I had to do is just outlast everybody because
so many people drop off so many people lack consistency I knew I knew for a
fact that if I could be consistent on this platform I would grow and I'm gonna
talk more about that in a minute but like that's all you have to do you
have to be more consistent than the next guy like other people try to tell you
like oh you can't grow on YouTube or you can't grow on social media or you can't
do that so you can't do that all you got to do is be better all you got to do is
be better by being consistent like my editing isn't all that great I do very
minimal editing in fact this video that you're watching right now there is very
little editing in this entire video I used like one clip and that's about all
I'm gonna do but my consistency is on point right
and this is something that's huge especially when you're on a platform
like this and you're building a fan base like I'm not going to name names but
like there is a mental health youtuber out there
who was one of the first ones that I found and I absolutely fell in love with
their channel it was so helpful the information was great just so amazing
and as I started to take YouTube seriously they stopped posting videos
now granted they were dealing with their own kind of mental health struggles but
as a mental health youtuber that's one of the reasons we got to keep this thing
in check like same thing as a father I gotta keep my mental health in check so
I can be a good father but when we're mental health youtubers it gives us even
more of a reason to make sure our mental health is in a good place but anyways
this youtuber made a couple comebacks disappeared and yeah it bums me out like
it really bums me out but you guys this is why people like
rice cup are losing subscribers like you'll see you'll see some youtubers who
do this when they when they become less consistent they actually lose a lot of
subscribers when they post and his here's my theory on this is that people
forgot they were subscribed to this person because they haven't posted in so
long no in that post people get upset they're like what what is this like I'm
not gonna stay subscribed to you if you're posting so inconsistently and
they unsubscribe right and that's something that Christopher Tom pointed
out with rice gums number is that they're starting to dip so he's made
these false promises and these apologies that he doesn't follow through with so
the number one thing I want you to take away from my video if you're somebody
who apologizes all the time the promise this change of ways actions speak louder
than words alright like I have clients who came to me all the time like oh my
family still doesn't trust me oh why don't people forgive me oh this the
other right and it's because actions speak louder than words
alright apologies don't mean jack squat unless you're doing something about it I
have somebody DM me the other day about their relationship they're in a
relationship with somebody with borderline personality disorder and they
were telling me about you know how difficult it is but they're trying to
work on it and this person told me that their partner is trying
to get better and I'm like what do you mean by trying right because I hear a
lot of people when they're saying they're trying to work on their mental
health they're not doing anything they're just saying they are like what
does this mean what is trying me are you going to therapy right are you
meditating are you journaling are you taking medications are you talking to
your doctor are you seeing a psychologist a psychiatrist
have you joined a support group like that's trying to me a lot of people say
I'm trying but they're not really doing anything so I want all of you to
remember your actions speak louder than words the second topic I want to talk
about is something that Tristan and I talk a lot about and like I'm thinking
about making a video on this I just don't know how to tie it in to mental
health but now's a good time to just kind of bring it up and I'm not gonna
name names again but like twisting twisting is absolutely blown away at the
amount of videos I put out because I'm pretty much daily I do two videos a day
most days right and Tristan's like what are these other youtubers doing who are
posted like once a week who do this full-time and I can't help but ask
myself the same question now don't get me wrong I know a lot of them you know
they tour or they travel or whatever but how many youtubers do you know who post
one video a week or even one video a month and this is a full-time job right
rice comes a great example I bro what are you doing with the rest of your time
like what are you doing like people ask me all the time or they say Chris I wish
I had your energy I wish I had your work ethic no the only thing is and I need to
make videos about time management or maybe I'll send it out in my email blast
by the way sign up for my email list is free it's down in the description
anyways like the only reason I'm able to get so much done is because a long time
ago I realize how much time every single day I'm wasting right how much time I
waste binge watching Netflix how much time I wasted binge watching YouTube how
much time I just completely zoned out and just flip through Instagram or
Facebook or Twitter when you count up all those hours you realize how much
time you are wasting like something I'm trying to do every single day if I am
awake I try to make every single minute count and maybe like maybe
and this is something that all of you can use to your benefit if you have a
similar story to me but six and a half years ago I almost died dude like I had
a 10% chance of living because of my drug addiction and alcoholism like Todd
is very precious to me a lot of you comment on how I always
look tired I don't sleep that much when I wake up
early in the morning I don't like to go back to bed because when I'm awake like
I am living on borrowed time and I am so grateful every single day that I get to
wake up and I get to do something like this to help inspire other people like
you to improve your mental health I love it I love it so so so much my life is so
much better today so once I realized that I try to make every minute of my
day a little bit better by making it worthwhile whether it's making these
videos whether it's spending time with Tristan or my son or it's just
communicating with all of you like just this morning I did a livestream and I
got to hang out with you guys all right but anyways anyways let me know what
your thoughts are about inconsistent youtubers or let me know if you have
issues with time management let me know down in the comments alright anyways
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