 What's up zoomers, so I've been struggling from success recently might as well tell you about it So in case you haven't noticed over the past couple months or so or really just I guess January and December I've been putting out a whole lot of videos and that's just um, I don't know. I had more free time It's not like I was forcing it. I only do videos on stuff that I think is actually important But though during this period had the chance to do a whole bunch of stuff that I'd been meaning to do So I did it But I sort of I want to I don't want to say I want to cut back I'm not saying that I'm not going to do a video tomorrow, but um We'll put it this way first off. It's been nice doing videos nearly every day because I have a lot of problems with YouTube But if you do do constant videos, you will get you will get some ad comies You will get more traffic. You will get more recommendations, you know contrary to popular belief You don't actually get most of your YouTube views from like people recommending videos. I mean like you sharing the link I guess that's nice, but most of it just comes from the YouTube algorithm and Which really loves you just putting out basically spamming videos and well, I don't think any of the videos I put out recently are spam as I said, you know, I make them all with a purpose it has been a little tiring on me just because you know, I live the Boomer lifestyle, okay, and I like having free time and You know, I've been doing these Boomer rants in the woods videos Which are nice because I can I'm out all the time. I can just record them out here, but um, you know, it's just been there You know considering this isn't like my job. You don't actually make that much money on YouTube if you have a channel my size I mean, it's like good pocket change. It's nice to have but it's not a job I'd make more money if I quit and started an Uber or something But um, you know, it's nice to do but it takes up more time than I've been wanting to spend and you just don't want to have to think about it and I say it like You know, I wake up. I'm like, oh, I should record a video. I'll take the camera out Well, which first off I don't like taking the cell phone out. It's don't like having it when I'm out walking and You know, I go out I record my video and while usually I'd spend out spend a lot more time outside I'd be like, oh, I got to go back and upload it and then I got to check comments when I post it and all this stuff So, you know, it just takes up more and more of my day Same thing with screencasts You know, I haven't done as many well, I've done a couple this year, but not not quite as many I've been meaning to do more just there are different reasons for that and Yeah, it's just a bunch of things that you know, I don't want to force myself to do in like a video every day Sorry, the Sun is like right behind us. I'm about to make a turn though So yeah, I mean, it's not it's you know, it's been nice. I Guess my analytics have been good. I usually don't look at those things, but I noticed um I think it was in November. I did some calculation before I started putting out a bunch of videos You know, I was putting on at the beginning of the year. I was putting on like 30 subscribers a day That's nice by the by the November. I was putting out sick getting 60 subscribers a day. Okay, that's nice But when I started putting out a whole lot of videos I'm nowadays I get like 250 subscribers a day and in November I think I had calculated it before this happened, you know I was like, oh man, I can maybe hit 50,000 by the end of 2019 Where now like I'm already like 40,000 just because I've been growing so fast But anyway, I mean, that's nice. I'm just saying it but uh, you know I think it wouldn't be real if I didn't live the boomer lifestyle So I need a little bit more, you know personal time and honestly if you're putting out a video once a day You'll become a youtuber, which is why I don't want to do it And what I mean by that is, you know, the other videos I do spiderweb, I swear I Went through the spiderweb yesterday. I don't know why he keeps building in there If you're trying to put out a video once every day, you don't really have time to prepare for better videos as far as I'm concerned I haven't put out a podcast video I haven't put out, you know, as I said, I mean to make a series on Creating your own website, which will probably come soon But you know if I'm trying to put out a video every day, that's it's sort of a pain I got to do a good bit of planning even though I might end up might end up taking less than a day to make frankly You just you know I just don't want to be in the the point where I'm constantly trying to put out videos even if again I don't put out any wasted videos like every video I put out You know I had some inspiration for but um and of course the other thing is theoretically I should be working on my dissertation this semester So it might be that more my content is geared in that direction not towards linguistics per se But I guess some of the the epistemological issues that I might talk about so there might actually be some Episodes of the podcast on that but anyway, I just wanted to say this I mean, I'm not saying like I'm quitting YouTube or something don't don't get me wrong In fact, I might I might still be putting up a video a day I'm just saying that I'm not gonna be trying or one other strong way to put it I'm just not gonna be like You know, I'm not gonna be paying that much attention to the analytics anymore because you know It's not the kind of stuff you want to be focused on so again I might be doing oh and I there is one thing I probably will be doing more and I mentioned this before I probably will be doing more Livestreams because I have better internet now as in I actually have good internet now so I might be a regularly scheduled thing not just because I want the supercomings or anything but because It's actually easier to do a livestream than it is to like record a video and sometimes it actually takes less time You know including all the uploading and preparing the thumbnail and all this kind of stuff and all the watching the comments and stuff So I might actually make livestreams a regular thing. I don't know what times are good for people Maybe maybe 10 o'clock Saturday morning. How about that? Either way I'll get to you just subscribe to my RSS feed And there's another thing actually I'll record that in a separate video. There's something else I want to talk about but that's about it So giving you an update just saying thanks for watching whatever Keep watching or something as long as it's valuable. Don't don't force itself, but um, yeah, I'll see you guys next time