hello everyone and welcome to mexico city once again great timing there's a plane
going over more than likely there will be mattresses microwaves going past as well
and also the gas guys the ones that deliver the big container things and go
at like six o'clock in the morning i swear if that happens anymore i'm to punch him in the face
but that is mexico city life anyway i'm in my bedroom um with two cats i'm living with a lovely
lady called paulina near the viaducto area um it's very nice there are some shots over the top now
that i am showing you from my little walk back from starbucks this morning today's video is a
bit of a prelude if you like to my final mexico travel series so the next videos will be proper
travel ones all right but i just wanted to do a bit of an update video before we get started
um to fill you in on a lot of things that have been going on behind the scenes over the last
few months the first thing i want to say or is it the second thing now i can't remember
is the fact that i know that for many of you and judging by some of the messages i get and comments
you may not have seen me since i left mexico last august because the youtube algorithm doesn't work
in a way that helps creators if you know what i mean bit of a recap so i left mexico i went to
serbia i did a very successful series of videos in serbia probably my most favorite of all time
then i went to ukraine where i had myocarditis as a result of two dodgy covered vaccines brilliant
then i went to brazil and became a polish citizen at last i have now applied for my polish passport
at the embassy in san and hell on friday last week and i'll come on to that a little bit
later as well but the primary thing i want to talk about is something that i alluded to in the last
brazil video which i know hardly anyone's watched because again the youtube algorithm and i kind of
metaphorically described the fact that i've moved on from travel but also what i was alluding to was
the fact that i've moved on from youtube hence i haven't filmed a video in two months because um
for many reasons all right and when i say moving on i don't mean giving up giving up implies that
you've tried your hardest at something to make something a success but you just can't do it
so you give up you stop doing it but this has been a success it's been an overwhelming success
because youtube right has been at least partially responsible for keeping me on the road for almost
six years almost 2 000 days you know and if i wanted to i could continue doing that because
everything's set up fine yeah but the fact is i don't want to it's kind of like um you know
when you have a job for years and you get to the a point in that job where you feel like you've
achieved everything that you want to achieve and that you don't see yourself going anywhere with
it in future that's exactly where i am it's a good thing it's a positive thing all right many of you
have said about you know i should just continue making videos when i move to poland and you know
yeah that's a valid question that may happen at some point in the future but right now it's not
what i want to do so that's that i will be moving on from youtube potentially after mexico i might
do another little series in serbia afterwards to end things um but that's where i am at the
moment and where did this come from so polish citizenship right as you know it's been going on
forever since like september 2020. december the 27th when i was in ukraine that was the date
that my citizenship was confirmed however due to the christmas holidays i didn't know about this
until january the 7th by which time i'd already left ukraine and i was in brazil
double brilliant so if i had known that before that day i wouldn't have gone to brazil and i
wouldn't be in mexico now i would have done all that passport business in um poland or serbia
or somewhere in europe but that's the way the cookie crumbles and i ended up in brazil
and i didn't realize it at the time i filmed like seven eight videos in in brazil but there
was something missing throughout but i couldn't really work out what it was it
wasn't so much that something was missing it was something there was something in the back of my
mind my priorities had changed that day that i received that polish citizenship confirmation
everything changed in my head because it was finally the ticket out of living the lifestyle
of a digital nomad which i've been trying to get away from since like late 2019 but then of course
the pandemic intervened and you know and really you know everything i think about
now is in relation to moving to poland or another eu country so i'm looking at things like places to
live cities to move to researching cities we're searching things like health insurance taxes
you name it you know that's taken the large amount of my time away from travel and you know just the
thought of you know traveling or you know going out to film a video i just don't want to i have
no desire whatsoever despite that i'm going out to another city on at the weekend i'm going over the
weekend so that's those will be the next videos i've got an immense plan which as always will
change about nine million times yeah so it's a really you know the whole polish thing has really
completely changed my outlook on everything uh i'm not the same person as i was a few months ago
i've also got new glasses by the way if you follow me on instagram you'll know what happened to them
super glue gate 2020 2022 um but i can see again which is a miracle right what's on my list so what
can you expect from this final series of mexico videos i'm going to put a hashtag on the screen
final season david what this means is that i've been doing this for years i've seen it
done it eaten the scorpions in durango last year i haven't got time for [ __ ] anymore
you know how i feel about the whole travel youtube bollocks you know the
perpetuating this myth of perfection crap and lying and scammers especially youtube couples
mainly no names and you know i haven't got time for that [ __ ] anymore if you've seen the uh
brazil videos i did i kind of uh used a couple of metaphors in relation to the scream franchise i'm
a big fan of the screen movies the recent one was out a couple of months ago and if you've seen that
sydney prescott and gail weathers they were like the original characters right but by this
point they're just like whatever don't give a [ __ ] anymore they know exactly what the
killers are gonna do and that's kind of my view now like you know i haven't got time for that
i want to move on to other things sydney and gail have got lives now not that they're real
but you know what i mean and that's kind of what i'm going to be like so if you think i've been
straight talking and brutally honest before i haven't even got started all right so this year
will be an extension of that and what else and as per the screen theme the new screen movie was a
recall what that means it's a way of extending the franchise using new sexy young characters
that get gutted in five minutes and also bringing back legacy characters here comes the metaphor so
new locations such as new states that i haven't been to will be the
large chunk of the videos this year but i'm also going to bring back some epic legacy characters
from the past ie past locations that are like absolute top tier i'm talking about like 2018
2019 videos if you're a recent subscriber you may not have even seen those videos it's kind of like
don't [ __ ] with the original which was a quote from one of the screen movies sorry i'm a scream
geek but i am gonna [ __ ] with the original because i've got a drone now my editing techniques
have developed i've developed you know so i'm looking forward to seeing what i can do the third
video that's coming will be a remake recall if you know what i mean from a 2018 location i'm looking
forward to it the point about the algorithm and this is another reason that i've kind of decided
to move on because for some channels for some it does for some channels it doesn't work the
fact that i'm traveling you know i can go to ukraine but no one will watch even subscribers
because the way youtube works is that if you don't regularly search for ukraine or brazil videos for
example oh my god that brazil series probably the worst i've ever done in terms of views if
you don't regularly search for those new locations they're not they're not going to show up on your
recommendations even if you're subscribed and that's why a lot of people have been messaging
me like where are you because they didn't know i was still making videos it's ridiculous right
and and the fact that travel doesn't work for youtube it's kind of ironic right you know we
can't travel because the only way travel channels work in reality is if you stay in one country i
could stay in mexico forever go to every single state film videos everywhere go to san miguel
de allende 900 times and rehash bollocks videos about expats or something ultimately this has
always been a travel channel and it it doesn't work with youtube and i just don't see the point
of continuing in which way in the way in which the algorithm works something i
might do in the future as i alluded to earlier i'm using the word alluded a lot today right
is about setting up a new channel i've already set up a new instagram page the british pole
in preparation for the future when i'm living in poland somewhere else and this you know i might
be doing blog posts or posting things on instagram about you know everything about poland places to
go um moving there taxes all that crap that you know i'm currently looking into that might be an
avenue for the future i don't know i might come back to this channel in a year i don't know and
start doing videos in poland and around europe again things change but ultimately i want to do
other things like write my book um i'm potentially starting a six month online course in something
which i'm not going to tell you about yet but it's possible new career and um playing the oboe
making friends you know all sorts of things actually having a normal life again which is
ultimately what i've wanted to do for years now so that's about it i think i won't drown
on forever um you'll be seeing this on saturday i think the 19th by which point i will be in
estado de veracruz yes finally going to verocruz to film two videos um and then i will be going
to some other states after that before heading north yes we're going back north again brilliant
um to some classics you might know where i'm talking about and also some new locations so um
i hope this hasn't been too manic because i'm feeling a bit manic i'm a bit hot actually
brilliant i think i've covered everything yeah so oh that actually the last thing i
forgot to mention passport yeah so i've applied for my passport but due to the whole um ukraine
situation at the moment apparently there are some major delays with anything to do with
migration such as passports and visas so actually my date that i have to contact
the embassy is the 20th of may so another two months um after which
i'll be moving back to europe um yeah some exciting stuff all positive moving on not
giving up lovely um so i'll see you next time from veracruz city to be announced catch you later