- Hey guys, welcome back to the Dr. Cliff AUD vlog.
This is vlog number 21, and today's vlog
almost didn't happen.
I was out on my morning bicycle ride.
My long ride that I usually do on Sunday mornings,
like I mentioned in last week's video.
And a big SUV pulled out in front of me
and I went smack right into the SUV.
Somehow I was able to stay upright fortunately,
instead of me going, you know, 20 to 25 miles per hour,
because I just got done pulling away
from a stop light, I was just kind of accelerating.
And they ended up making a right hand turn
right in front of me because they didn't see me
in the bike lane.
And I smacked right into the side of their SUV.
Now it's been about, I don't know, five, six years
since I had a really bad cycling accident.
And, you know, significantly worse.
I mean, I came out of this relatively unscathed.
Still was a little bit nerve wracking,
'cause just on the timing of when you hit a vehicle.
Unfortunately I know how that goes.
Depending on when you hit them,
it can be either a relatively not impactful collision
or it can be really, really bad.
And fortunately things were okay.
My bicycle's okay, which is arguably more important
than me being okay.
Just kidding there.
But the driver actually pulled over
and made sure that I was okay.
They were visibly shaken.
But it's just how it goes.
I mean, you know, I get it.
Sometimes you just can't see cyclists,
but, you know, in a place like Phoenix,
when you have a ton of cyclists out there,
it's something that people have to pay attention to.
But that being said, I am okay
and I still wanted to record a vlog today.
I have several other videos I'm recording this weekend.
It's a nice, long Memorial Day weekend.
So happy Memorial Day on Monday.
And that just gives me more time to make more videos.
My wife, Ashley, I am gonna spend a little bit of time
with her, but you know, whenever I have a little bit
of extra time, I like to be productive.
That brings me to the point of today's video,
which is offending people.
And when I say that, when I create videos,
I don't create videos necessarily with the intent
to offend anybody.
However, there are certain topics that offend people
that I do.
There are certain thumbnails which are the images
that I use before each video that can offend people.
And then titles of videos can offend people.
And you know, I'll just explain it like this.
When I'm creating video content,
I try to make the content as accurate
and as factual as possible.
And so when you watch the video,
I think that a lot of people understand my intent
of what I'm trying to get across.
I'm trying to educate someone, make them maybe question
a belief that they had prior to watching the video
and kind of give evidence and then my opinion
as to why I believe things are the way that they are.
And you know, and I'll give you a for instance.
So on April Fool's Day.
I mean, I've been doing this what?
Three years, so there's been basically
three April Fool's Day videos.
Sorry I think there's been two.
I think I missed last year.
But the April Fool's Day videos.
I design them in a very specific way.
So the one that I did this last year
was talking about a all-natural cure for hearing loss.
And so I put up a newspaper clipping
that I fabricated on the thumbnail.
I have this little ear dropper where I'm pretending
to put a drop of some natural concoction
inside of my ear canal, and then I post this
on April Fool's Day, April 1st.
And with the intent of it being somewhat playful,
but when I made that video, the reason I make a video
like that and the reason I launch it
on April Fool's Day is 'cause it gives me an excuse
to be able to do it, is I basically present this idea
that a lot of people are potentially searching for.
So searching for natural cures for hearing loss.
Now there is no limit to the amount of natural cures
for anything that is out there on the internet.
And hearing loss included.
I mean you see some really Shyster people, you know,
trying to hock different products
as natural cures for hearing loss.
And it just, they're not real.
I mean they're just intended to rip you off.
And so when I make a video talking about this stuff,
and then I kind of, you know, I'm going through
the whole process like I'm serious
about this being a natural cure.
And then I switch it and say,
oh and by the way, this is an April Fool's joke.
And the reason that you shouldn't believe these things
is because they're not real.
Like they don't exist.
And so that gives me an opportunity to basically
get someone who may have been susceptible
to be taken advantage of and actually give them the truth
and then give them a reason why it's not actually a thing
that is real.
Would I love there to be a natural cure for hearing loss?
Absolutely, and that's a topic for another video
'cause I have another thing that happened this last week.
We just won't have time for me to share it on this vlog,
but I'll share it next week, 'cause it's something
that really bothered me when it comes down to this search
for a cure and then different companies' perspectives
of whether or not that's good or not.
But back on to today's topic.
You know, when it comes down to, you know,
upsetting people, I don't want to upset anybody.
I think that having videos like that out there
are very important to help people understand
that there's no shortcuts to hearing loss treatment.
There's no natural cures.
If there was a natural cure,
it would not be covered up.
It's something that would be out there.
It would get out.
But there's still a lot of people who are searching
for that type of information and the only way
to get them to kind of realize that oh, okay,
I guess that's not really a real thing,
is to kind of get them to watch a video
that they wouldn't normally watch,
and the way that you do that is you create
interesting titles, interesting thumbnails, what have you.
The other video that I recently released
was talking about this cure for tinnitus
with an exclamation point and a question mark
at the end of it.
And I was really, you know, like excited
in the thumbnail, and someone took offense to that.
In fact, probably multiple people took offense to that.
And, you know, their whole reasoning is that, you know,
tinnitus is not a joke, there are people who are suicidal
over tinnitus, it significantly impacts people's lives
in a negative way, and I totally get that,
and I sympathize with that.
But again, you know, there's a lot of people out there
talking about tinnitus cures and stuff like that.
And I need to make sure that the video that I make
ends up in the search results for people
who are searching for these, you know,
these cures that aren't actually legitimate.
They're just, you know, companies out there,
people out there, that are trying to sell their programs,
or trying to sell their, you know,
their products or whatever.
And I need to make sure that my videos
get in to those search results, okay?
So that's kind of why I make, you know,
these thumbnails and these titles
thew that I do is because I need to figure out a way
to get, you know, YouTube and Google
to identify my video as a potential, you know,
result for what these individuals are searching for.
And if I don't put out video content
kind of alluding to that,
then people will never click on it
and they'll never see it.
They'll think that the other results
that they see where you have people talking about
these natural cures and all this, you know,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They'll think it's legitimate.
So I need to make sure that my videos rank up there
with these other videos, and it's very strategic
for me to get these videos in front of people.
I think that there's a lot of people
who have a lot of good things to say on the internet
that are factual, that are, you know,
for the betterment of society and not necessarily
the betterment of themselves.
But one area that they come up short in
is that they can't make a video
desired to be watched.
They can't get it to rank up high enough
in search results for people to actually watch it.
So you have a bunch of this legitimate
content out there that no one will ever see,
and I'm just trying to prevent my content
from being that.
I mean, I put way too much work into these videos
and into researching the content for the videos
for me to just put a boring thumbnail with a really boring
title and then nobody watches it.
So you know, it accomplishes what I want.
You know, people, again criticize me because they're like,
oh, you're just looking for views so you can make money
on it, and if you guys haven't noticed,
there is not a single advertisement
that ever plays on any of my videos
on my Dr. Cliff AUD YouTube channel.
There's a reason behind that.
I don't want to prevent people from watching my videos.
So, you know, I don't want there to be some kind of barrier
that you have to watch, you know,
or skip over an ad to get to my video content.
I also, you know, from a monetization aspect,
I don't want these companies that sell these really cheap,
you know, crappy products.
You know these amplifiers, these, you know, ear drops,
these whatever that are promising, you know,
some kind of unrealistic results
from a hearing treatment or an earwax removal aspect.
And let them advertise on my videos.
Which would give them a credibility that they basically
paid for that they didn't have to earn.
So I don't monetize my channel in that way,
and I know that I talked a couple videos ago about,
you know, me doing product reviews.
I also have, you know, sponsored videos
that I do, if I believe in a product or a feature,
or a service, something like that.
But, you know, for the purpose of what my goals are
with my channel is to create really good content
is my number one goal, is to make factual content
that provides value to the person who's watching it.
Not with a sales motive in mind.
And get people to actually watch it.
I mean that's really the goal here
with creating YouTube content.
You know, so I think that I'm gonna keep
making video content and thumbnails, and titles
the way that I do, because it obviously works.
It gets people to watch the content
where they may not have watched it otherwise.
Or they may not even have been presented
with the opportunity to watch it
because every single time you type something
in to YouTube or Google, they are,
Google and YouTube, which, I mean,
Google owns YouTube, they're just trying to give you
what you're searching for.
And so if you're searching for something
that is not real, they're gonna give you the results
of whatever that thing is that you search for.
So I'm going to continue to create some videos
every once in a while that are specifically targeted
at those individuals who are searching for something,
and it's not that they're, you know,
being, I don't even know what the word is.
It's just 'cause they don't know
that it's not really a real thing.
And so I need to be able to make sure
that my videos get in front of those people
and you know what?
If it offends someone, if it offends you, I apologize.
I don't intend to offend anybody,
but you know, if I have to offend a few people
to show some people the truth,
then that's what I'm gonna do.
So that is what I wanted to cover today.
I'm glad I was able to do a vlog today.
And I'm gonna get ready to film a couple of videos today.
I'm gonna make sure that I film another hearing aid
review video today.
Those things, you know,
it's a long recording session for that.
And then I'm gonna record, you know,
comparing rechargeable and non-rechargeable hearing aids.
So that should be a good video that'll come out
in a few weeks from now.
But hopefully you guys enjoyed this video.
If you wanna see my other vlog videos,
you can go ahead and check them out on my YouTube channel.
And as usual, I'll see you next week.
(upbeat music)