 So I was just making my rounds over there on Twitter and I happened to see hashtag save social blade trending and I'm like oh my god we finally gotta sit down and have this conversation. 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philosophy and just kind of trying to look at things from different perspectives all right so getting back to hashtag save social blade some of you might be wondering like why why are people trying to save social blade well this is something that people have been talking about because YouTube just came out with news that they are changing the visibility of subscriber counts okay and what they're going to be doing is they're basically going to like be rounding them so when you see them instead of it saying like you know 15.3 million it'll just say 15 million right or I won't say like 15,366,432 it'll just say 15 million all right now a conversation has been happening between YouTube and then third-party platforms like social blade like how will that affect their API okay so not to get old tech nerdy on you but a website like social blade is pulling data from YouTube for their website to run and social blade is a place where YouTubers can check their own numbers but anybody out there can go and check the numbers of different YouTubers all right there's a long and short of it so it's going to affect it and people are freaking out I see so many fellow creators on Twitter freaking out I think PewDiePie said something Keemstar said something my boy iNabra said something and you guys we have to have a conversation about how social blade is affecting your mental health not only is it affecting the mental health of creators it's affecting the mental health of the audience and like I just tweeted about this too like it literally reminds me of my days in like my addiction when I was like wondering when I was gonna get the next pill that I can crush up and snort and the idea that I might not have those pills anymore I start freaking out like that's how people are acting the same thing happened when Instagram announced that they were playing around with the idea of removing visible likes and don't get me wrong like let me make it very very clear I am a data nerd okay I can spend hours in the YouTube analytics I can spend hours on social blade just kind of looking at things um because I like to take data and see what I can improve I like to take data about myself in my life and that that is how I see if I'm improving how am I doing what's working what's not working so in that sense I get it I get it but on the other hand too like we have to face the reality that there's a lot of sick twisted toxic things going on with these numbers okay so one of the arguments that social blade has is talking about like the live subscriber count feeds right and it talks about the one between PewDiePie and T series okay like I get it I get what they're saying there but here's what I want you to think of of um social blade ask like big pharma okay big pharma knows they're creating drug addicts with things like opioids like social blade ain't dumb like most if not all major social media um applications and things like that they have people who are literally there to figure out ways to get you hooked on their platform okay and social blade is definitely one of them they're trying to figure out ways to get you hooked on your platform on their platform so like I don't really like how they're like well we like to show the numbers in the competition like I want everybody to sit back sit back for one second and honestly answer this question aside from PewDiePie verse T series when has there ever been a healthy subscriber count feed competition don't worry I'll wait you can't think of one all right like when when this was announced it was right around the time of the the recent drama with James Charles and Taty Westbrook and Jeffree Star and this isn't new this is not new okay like when drama happens and people get quote unquote exposed like people are watching the subscriber feeds like it's a freaking blood sport okay I made a video about this I was talking about how like at one point like when I went into the live subscriber count there was like over 20,000 people just sitting there watching these numbers go just watching I'm like what are you doing like what what is happening because we as people we experience shod in for that okay and that is getting pleasure out of somebody's pain as a creator I can tell you this it's happened to me and I've seen it happen to many other creators when people don't like you they like to point out your flaws right and something they often do is they point out your subscriber numbers and they use that as kind of a kind of a a little jab to you a little a little knife stab right and that's what blows my mind about creators like oh yeah hashtag save social blade like creators are in such a state of denial if they're not going to admit that things like social blade keep them in a state of anxiety right like you guys something that I had to work on during my mental health break something that other creators have talked about like a lot of creators are sitting there refreshing their numbers like I live in Las Vegas so the best way I can kind of like give you something to relate this to is somebody like mindlessly sitting in front of a slot machine or a video poker machine just completely zoned out just tap in and tap in and wasting life away right and people are doing this with their social blade numbers they're just refreshing refreshing refreshing refreshing all right and they're saying did I go up did I go down and when they go up they get a little dopamine hit when they go down they feel a little bad about it and it's crazy that people are I don't know if they're unwilling to admit it or if they actually don't know that it's happening like I'm trying to sit back and think and I understand I'm like okay create your best argument for having social blade like create your best argument okay my best argument is it keeps a pretty a pretty long um track of somebody's growth and different statistics and everything like that but if I'm being honest with you the youtube analytics back end does the same exact thing all right the only difference that I see is that social blade keeps us live subscriber count okay now something else that social blade tried to argue is we like to celebrate milestones we love to celebrate milestones like get the hell out of here with that nonsense like I find that so funny like it's silly for anybody to sit back and believe like social blade like the the board members of social blade or the creators of social blade like you know what we need to create a website that um you know really highlights people's milestones no social blade knows that people are getting addicted to this and when I see my fellow creators like freaking out about this and trying to make up excuses as to why this thing should exist I'm absolutely blown away it reminds me of like an alcoholic who gives you every every excuse on earth like why they need to go to a bar like no no no I don't want to go to the bar to drink they just they just have the best they just have the best chicken wings in town you know what I mean like think about that for a second and I'm more than happy I am more than happy to hear from all of you down in the comments below if you want to present me with your best arguments as to why social blade should exist but here's the thing for as much as people try to throw social blade numbers in people's faces and everything like that but anybody who's been around here for the last two months based on social blade I've lost a ton of subscribers the reality is I've gained more subscribers more new subscribers than a lot of people okay I was cautionary to even mention that in this video but this is something that I realized was that social blade was affecting my mental health and and people aren't even seeing the full story with social blade you know what I mean so aside from social blade just creating something where people can watch it like it's a blood sport keep creators addicted to it I really don't see the point and why should it why it should exist all right and I hope if any other creators are watching this if you make some videos about this I'm like you want to change my mind I am more than happy to hear other sides of this conversation but from my relationship with myself and social blade and my relationship with other creators my relationship with seeing how the community uses social blade I can't think of too many positive aspects of social blade so with all these changes happening right now I'm not I'm not really worried about it I think it'll actually help a lot of people and a lot of people don't realize how much their anxiety will be reduced how much their depression will be reduced if they cannot keep obsessing over their numbers because at the end of the day if you are basing yourself worth on those numbers there are much bigger issues that you need to address baby girl all right but anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you 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