there's really just two types of people in this world the people who
continuously whine and then there's the other type who take action what is up
everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul 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 so what I try to do is take different topics going on in the
YouTube community or for my personal experience and try to see what lessons
we can learn to improve our own mental and emotional well-being so if you're in
that stuff make sure you subscribe and bring that notification valve and if
you're not yet follow me over on Instagram and Twitter at the rewired
soul and I'm gonna tell you why this video this video right here is the first
of a series I know you're like freaking out you're like but Chris you just
started a series yesterday what well yes this series is youtuber Tuesdays alright
and over on Instagram I had a little contest if you will and I was like hey
give me ideas for what I can call this series I don't really know and by the
way like five of you won all right you get a free copy of any of my books so
make sure you follow me on instagram i'm doing my polls and contests and
everything like that but yeah it's like one of those things were like I can't
believe I didn't even think about it like some people said like tuber
Tuesday's I was like oh yeah youtuber Tuesdays yeah so anyways a bunch of you
want a free copy of any of my books I'll send you a coupon code I'll be DMing you
on instagram but yeah I want to dedicate one day a week to helping out my fellow
YouTube creators I've been through a lot here on this platform over the last
couple years the good the bad the ugly all of that stuff and yeah like
something else taught a long time ago is use your experience to help others but
if you're not a youtuber stay tuned because the lessons like trying to teach
are universal this might apply to you and your own job alright so anyways yeah
we're gonna be talking about about how I quit being a little bitch alright so
those of you who don't know the full story I'm not gonna dive all the way
into it but man things were going good for me they were going so so good for me
for a very long time I started on this platform a couple years ago and nothing
really happened the first year I just you know did whatever and yeah last year
was my second year on the platform and it started taking off I did my I did a
series on the show thirteen reasons why so are getting a ton of views okay cool
then it was this time last year October of 2018 I started covering the Shane
Dawson series inside the mine at Jay Paul and I was I was on this like just
New York rise you know what I mean and then after that things just got better
and better so this time last year I was about 18,000 subscribers all right and I
jump from like 5,000 to 18,000 by the end of the year like my goal was like
60,000 which was crazy and I ended up hitting like 70,000 all right like every
video I was putting out was just views subscribers views subscribers January in
February of this year 2019 things were going amazing and then March I got
canceled a lot of it was my own fault 90% if it was my own fault right but
since then I've been still pushing forward and doing work and everything
like that and oh my god I'm so sorry my beautiful girlfriend Tristan sitting
right there Tristan I'm sorry that you had to listen to me whine and bitch for
six months alright so the last six months like my
views have tanked not only have the subscribers tanked but like the views
alright like losing subscribers that's cool but the fact that YouTube is not
promoting my videos I'm just sitting there just whining and bitching and
moaning about how the YouTube algorithm why why are you doing this right because
like I said for a long time every video I dropped was just taking off and
reaching so many people I was getting tens of thousands of views
now I got people coming to my channel talking shit cuz I can barely hit a
thousand and I'm just here blaming YouTube
so as many of you know I got to go to vid summit
alright so vid summit it's like VidCon but specifically for creators all right
so I went to VidCon this year loved meeting so many of you but vid summit
that's where you go and you put in the work alright that's where you go and
you're around of the creators and all the talks are just about you know the
YouTube algorithm and growing your channel you learn from other people's
experiences and anyways when I went there like it was just that that
metaphorical pop of your head coming out of your own ass right I have spent six
months just sitting here bitching about YouTube and the algorithm and how things
are so unfair I make daily videos and I work so hard I work and so many other
people and I put in these these tags for SEO and I type descriptions and I work
so hard on these thumbnails well when I sat there in those panels I saw that I
wasn't I was not working nearly as hard as I thought I was alright I went
through so many panels and they were talking about all of these little things
all of these little things that I did without question when I started on
YouTube when I started on YouTube I was building a community I was being very
thoughtful of how I linked my videos and you know engaged with people on my
channel and I grew and I grew and I grew but when things got easy for me I
stopped doing all of the small little details alright and I finally realized
like wait YouTube's not the problem I'm the problem
alright and finally like you know the people in my life the people aside from
you know Tristan and but others in my life like in the YouTube community who
I've been just sitting here and crying to like I'm just like you know what it's
time to put in the real work you know what I mean and that's another reason
why I'm being more active on Instagram and Twitter and
all these other things whether or not I'll get more views or whether or not
I'll get more subscribers I don't know but the thing that was being it in my
head at vid summit is something that I knew for a long time and I forgot was
that this isn't about me I come here to give you value this is about you not me
all right so as long as I do that and I try to provide you with you know mental
health tips or education or whatever it is if I can do that and I get one view
beautiful all right so why am I making this video hmm well I did pull my head
out of my ass but there is something going on in the YouTube community and a
lot of it has popped off since the mcjuggernuggets video and trust me
YouTube definitely has issues but like again this series is to help out my
fellow creators and I see so much entitled whining and complaining and
yeah you thought this video is just about me but no no no it's about a lot
of other creators in the YouTube community just like my girl Missy
Elliott I just put my thing down flipped it and reversed it it's your freedom but
the flag yeah that's right so I want everybody to look around and quit
whining about this platform like think about it like I could sit here and
realize the audacity the audacity I have to come to a platform who hosts my
videos for free who's paying me for my content which no other platform is doing
really right unless you're getting brand deals which you can do on YouTube like
you guys like let's put this in perspective real quick if you make
videos on Facebook they play non skippable ads on your videos and you
don't see a dime of it and everybody is complaining about D monetization so
there's a few things one of them for all of you in the audience don't be fooled
just because you get that yellow icon does not mean that you are fully
demonetized there are plenty of videos that a lot of us have that are showing
yellow but we still get ads on them now one of the issues is
I wish they had three colors because you know there's green you're totally good
yellow can either mean some ads or no ads it doesn't tell you which one it is
so yeah that's kind of a pain in the ass but it does not mean that you're not
getting paid at all I have plenty of videos with that little yellow sign
where I'm getting paid but anyways I'm sitting here I'm not gonna name names
but I just saw a bunch of creators and like I said it's been going on since the
mcjuggernuggets video and like somebody said YouTube's holding us hostage like
after I upload a video I have to sit here refresh and wait for monetization
like what what no you don't like here's the thing like do you know how many
shitty jobs I've worked at I will get a lot of shitty jobs alright first off
YouTube is not my employer it's none of our employers unless you work at YouTube
headquarters so when I see my fellow creators equating this to that job and
employer relationship it's not it just isn't
we didn't meet with HR there's no benefits or anything like that like
YouTube is doing so much more for us than so many other platforms and like
I'm not here to kiss ass or anything Susan Wojcicki is never gonna see this
video but I've worked as so many jobs that were so much worse and let me tell
you the beautiful thing let me tell you the beautiful thing and this is for
everybody watching this video if you don't like your situation change it all
right like how long are we gonna sit here and whine and complain now I'm not
saying like don't work for a better environment and everything like that but
like when I see people who are just doing this on a day to day basis I'm
sitting there and I'm like leave like just just go like we're not being held
hostage I can shut this camera off and never come back here again you know what
I mean like we have that freedom like if I have friends who are working at a
crappy job and they're complaining about that crappy job
every single day you know what I'm gonna tell them start looking for a new job
sorry quick little edit in here so I forgot to mention in the video is one of
the reasons why I'm kind of given that tough love is this and many people don't
realize this and this is not a blanket statement about all creators but there
are many creators who are not even working five days a week or 40 hours a
week you know what I mean and like I just I feel that many other creators
don't really have like a normal 9 to 5 job to really compare this to but we
also have to take a look at the the give and take of this whole thing right we
make our own schedule we we decide when we upload and everything like that so I
don't necessarily agree that when we upload we have to sit there and keep
refreshing because we can leave we can upload whenever we want like that's kind
of the awesome thing about being a youtuber is the freedom that you get you
know what I mean like there's two different types of control and it's that
internal locus of control or external locus of control external locus of
control or people who thinks that they have no control over their outcomes it
has been proven time and time again that these people are more depressed and more
anxious then there's an internal locus of control if you can work on that this
means that you believe that your actions get certain results right you are in
control of what happens and I see far too many people acting like they're in
no control at all here's what's fascinating to me like I said vid summit
is an event where youtubers go to learn write to learn how to grow their
channels and do better on other social media platforms I'll tell you this all
of the people I see complaining I didn't see any of them at vid summit a vid
summit I saw a lot of big creators and I don't see them complaining nearly as
much do they have some gripes here in there
yes but those are the ones who I respect a lot more because they're putting in
the work and like me maybe they're trying to keep their head out of their
ass and figure out what they have control over so the last thing I'll talk
about is anchors all right so there's this amazing author dr. Dan Ariely he is
a social economist he understood tries to study why we do what we do why we
behave the way that we behave why we think the way that we think and all
these other things and he talks about different anchor points so you know yeah
I'm old I'm 34 now let's talk about me so gas prices when I first turned 16
they were like what like a buck 25 all right so that was my anchor that's where
it was at so now with gas prices at like four bucks here in Las Vegas
okay well back in my day they used to be a dollar 25 and then people order them
in like I used to get 50 gallons for a nickel because that was the anchor point
and what we see with a lot of youtubers and what my problem was - I reach such a
good stride of success that my brain has latched onto that as the anchor all
right so what you see a lot of other creators they were in this time where
the YouTube ad revenue was so good D monetization was not even a thing they
were living the dream right and now that there's more restrictions and it's a
little bit tighter here on the platform they're comparing it to back what it
used to be but we have to be flexible because nothing nothing stays the same
right the only thing that is inevitable is change you know what I mean but like
I said like we need to come in here and be grateful or we got to take off and
not saying that we shouldn't make change or like work for changes but there's a
difference between putting together like well-thought-out arguments or videos to
have a debate to have a discussion and just whining here's a good example of
that someone who put together a very well
structured video was nerd city amazing video it was detailed it it was calm it
was cool it was collected it had a bunch of different points that it touched on
beautiful is YouTube doing anything about it I don't know but I'll tell you
what that video has more of a chance to incite change than people whining on
Twitter alright but anyways the moral of this
story the solution of this story is take a look at your life acknowledge what you
can and cannot control alright something I had to realize is I have absolutely no
control over the YouTube algorithm but I have control over is my work ethic what
I have control over is how much I stay engaged with the audience what I have
control over is whether or not I stay on this platform these are all things that
I have control over so if you're somebody who's stuck in a job that you
absolutely hate look at what you can or cannot control anybody who's been to
therapy you've probably had a therapist say this to you you either accept it
change it or eliminate it all right if you can't accept it and if you can't
change it guess what you got to do okay but anyways again I will be DMing
everybody on Instagram who won the contest like I said I think there's like
five of you alright but if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up if
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thank you to everybody who supports the channel over on patreon or buys my merch
on my mental health books all of you help when YouTube is d monetizing video
see there's other ways to go about this things alright anyways thanks again for
watching I'll see you next time