Hi it's Emily from Bite Size Vegan, and welcome the second "vlogget" about my move. So this
is, again, an "informal Friday," or whatever you want to call it, for you guys that want
to see more of me being a real person rather than just this educating machine in front
of a really awesome backdrop that I kinda like now.
So in this video, it's all with the GoPro, I mean all of the vlog from me driving are
with the GoPro. And this one is just me in the truck so the audio is [makes raspberry
sound] you know. So I thought that I would at least film the intro and outro with my
nice camera, so that you could have a little bit of good audio. Also, there's not gratuitous
Ooby in this video, so...Ooby come here! So, we'll get some Ooby in right now and we'll
get some Ooby in at the end of the video. [Ooby makes loud noise] Cause you gotta have
Ooby, especially in informal videos. So, also, a lot of you- okay hold on, I'm going to put
Ooby dow...good job- also, a lot of you have been asking why I moved. And, since I didn't
talk about that in the vlog itself while I was moving- [Ooby snorts loudly] Some good
background noise. Since I didn't talk about why I moved in the vlog itself, I thought
I would just tell you guys really quick during the intro, which is turning out to be a very
long intro, why I moved. So the reason I moved- there's a couple. My lease was up, I'm not
a big fan of Florida, but the main reason was that I was able to get a really good deal
on rent up here in Massachusetts- that was the primary motivation, because I need to
save as much money as I can for Bite Size Vegan because at this point, it's still not
sustainable. Oh wow, I didn't even have my chapstick on- I can't believe you're seeing
me without without my makeup of my chapstick. Now I look really good. At this point, Bite
Size Vegan is not yet sustainable financially, so...it's kind of bleeding money, and I'm
hoping through people joining Patreon, the Nugget Army, and I'm also working on a series
of ecourses- the ecourses I'm really super excited about- it's actually going to be- I'm going
to try to create an entire academy of vegan resources for people. But that's down- that's
coming, so just stay tuned. And hopefully, that will help Bite Size Vegan stay going
so that I don't have to stand out on a street corner. I wouldn't be spreading the vegan
message. I'd be spreading something...but not the vegan message. Anyways, on to the
vlog-et!
So, I’m trying stay active on social media, to give you guys a little bit of something
while I’m absent from YouTube. When I’m not on YouTube, and in between things a good
way to find me is on social media, especially if you like the vlogging style then you’ll
like that ‘cause I share different photos about what I’m doing sometimes my meals
I’ll share. When Bite Size Vegan was still really new, I signed up for a Twitter account,
I didn’t know how to use it and I was so overwhelmed that I closed it down after two
hours. I just cancelled the account. I couldn’t handle it. I finally got a smart phone a couple
of months ago and you know, I grew some balls and opened up a Twitter account. If it wasn’t
for Bite Size Vegan, I wouldn’t be on social media. I’m actually not even a technology
person, I’m kinda tech-phobic, technology freaks me out. I’m really awkward in social
situations, I have a lot of social anxiety. I don’t understand trends, I still don’t
understand hashtags, if nothing else, you can follow me on social media just to make
fun of my hash tagging. I have no idea what I’m doing with hashtags. I think I make
up one. But the reason that I’m on social media, the reason why I do all of that and
I challenge myself with technology is because with my activism, I want to do whatever I
can do to reach the most people and make the biggest difference for the animals and like
it or not, in today’s society, the way to reach people is through technology and through
social media because that’s where everyone is spending the majority of their time. You
know, we’re a visual culture and we’re a very tech savvy culture that I missed the
boat on so I need to meet people where they’re at so that I can be the most effective advocate
for the animals that I can be. I’m willing to face my tech fears and to challenge myself
and live in a constant state of anxiety. Whatever discomfort I’m going through about silly
things like trying to figure out how to tweet properly, that’s nothing, that’s nothing
when I think about what the animals are going through on a daily basis, I have nothing to
complain about. I have a lot of challenges in my life, I think most people have- I continue
to have a lot of challenges, nothing I can ever go through will come close to what
the animals are going through, even when I got branded, even when I shaved my head and
was branded with a cattle iron, that’s still the tip of the iceberg of what animals are
going through because I chose to be branded, they don’t have a choice in the matter,
and not only are they branded, but their lives are taken from them brutally you know and
I was voluntarily branded, I was aware of what was happening to me and I got to go home
and nurse my wounds. You know, it was scary for me, it was very painful for me and imagine
if that happened to you and you had no idea what was going on, you had no way to communicate
your fear or to ask what was going on or basically, your communication wasn’t heard, it wasn’t
acknowledged. You know there’s that famous quote that animals, I think it’s by Alice
Walker. She has a lot of great quotes, Unfortunately, she kind of revised her position about animals
but the quotes themselves are still good, something like; “Animals do know how to
communicate, animals do know how to talk and they do, but most of the time they are ignored”
which is true but with this branding experience, you can imagine . Animals do try to tell us
that they’re afraid. You know they cry out but we don’t listen to them you know? I’ve
gone off on a big rant again. Whatever I go through is nothing compared to what they go
through and this keeps me motivated to keep trying to make a difference for animals in whatever way
that I can. Because they deserve it, they deserve for me to do whatever I can and for
me to push myself through every kind of discomfort. The funny thing too behind the branding experience
and I wrote a whole article about this, I’ll post a link to that in the video description.
I wrote a whole article how the main reaction I got from people was ‘That’s so extreme,
like how can you do something so extreme. It’s funny to me that people think it’s
extreme for me to voluntarily brand myself in a controlled, safe manner after researching it, planning it out
for four months is extreme. And what I pointed out was I don't think what I’m doing is
extreme. The reason why I’m doing it is to point to the things that are extreme. It’s
extreme that we do this to billions of animals every year, not voluntarily, we’re doing
this to animals every single day, not giving them any choice in the matter this is forcibly
done to them, and this is just the beginning of what we do to them. Not only do we brand
them, but we hold them captive, we torture them, we take them away from their families
and then we kill them, we murder them violently. That’s extreme! And we’re doing it.. for
a meal? That’s what’s extreme. Separating a mother from her child, that’s extreme,
so we can steal her milk. The milk we don’t even need and that is actually physically
harmful to us. That’s extreme. It’s crazy, honestly. Anyway, I don’t know what I’m
going to do with all these rants. I’ve had a couple of people tell me I need to start
a vlog channel and I thought I just don’t have the time, but I think that’s because
I want to do everything perfectly I want everything to be captioned. I type the transcripts and
the captions for all the videos, so maybe I’ll start a vlog channel and it’s just
not gonna be perfect, it won’t be captioned and I feel bad about that because I do have
some deaf viewers and I would like them to follow along. I just won’t have the time
to type out the captions for the videos. We’ll see! I’ll talk to you guys soon.
So I hope you enjoyed my second vlogget of moving. There's probably gonna be one more...probably
one more. So stay tuned for that. And if you like seeing me be a total dork like this,
then definitely join up on Patreon. You can do it for as little as a dollar a month- or
you can even sign up for my newsletter for free at my website and you get these kind
of ridiculous informal videos from me a lot more often. If you liked the video, give it
a big thumbs up- I'd love to hear what you thought about my branding experience and also
if you're also tech-phobic or have social media issues, let me know about them in the
comments below or if you're like a social media guru and you just love it, I'd love
to hear your own experience with those type of things. And also, you know, share this
video around if you want- that'd be cool too as well. If you're new here, do a vegan a
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every Monday, Wednesday, and some Fridays. Lately, every Friday, but that's not always
the case- we'll see. If you like seeing me being more of a natural human being, and you
want to support what I'm doing with my educational videos and the Bite Size Vegan mission to
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by hitting that logo there or the support link in the video description below. We've
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up for the newsletter for free and get my ebook for free, cause that's awesome. And
while you're here, be sure to check out some of my other videos- you can entertain yourself...on
the YouTubes. So now this video is really long because I prattled on during the intro
and now the outro- now, before you leave, we need a little more Ooby. Now go live vegan,
and we'll see you soon. What is on your face? It's like you've got a big dog zit. Don't
turn that way- don't let them see- you've gotta stay beautiful. Maybe you can go stand
on a street corner. You're pretty cute. I'm sure you'd bring in some dough. That's not
vegan of me.
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