 Hi, oh, just dropped socks. Hi guys, I am packing once again because we're going to Ohio, Valerie and I are. So stay tuned. I know you guys love Valerie in vlogs. So I'm showing Sherry what I packed. So obviously I have my socks and underwear here. I've counted that correctly. This is one working day outfit because we're like cleaning stuff out of a house. And obviously I'll wear tennis shoes. This is my second outfit. The movie theater and then my biker shorts. Then I don't know what the weather's going to be like. Or I also have bra. So I brought this shirt. I brought this sweater. I was thinking about it. I don't know if I'll need that. It might be too hot for that, but I don't know. And I'm thinking I'll just bring one pair of jeans. So I'm thinking maybe just these blue jeans. Okay, that's quite good. I don't need that. This is for travel outfit. So I have leggings, this bra, and then this. Is that good? Yeah. Do you have jammies? Oh, that's a good idea. Don't forget the jams. I won't forget the jams. I always tend to forget the jams. Okay, how does that do it? Does it look like I have everything? Yes, it does. Okay. Because we're not going to be there for that long. No. And then I'm not like washing my hair because I'm going to wash it Friday morning. Like I'm going to get up early and just like shower and then bring dry shampoo. Okay. It looks good. So yeah, we're just going to Ohio for a quick trip. Get everything ready. If you guys haven't seen the house tour, I'll try to remember to link it down below this video. This video is kind of like packing slash, it's going to be a mukbang kind of because tomorrow I'm going to film myself because I'm getting Chick-fil-A for breakfast because I have to eat at like a weird time because we have a shoot like later in the day and I just don't know when we're going to eat. I'm going to film that. And I actually have a really good topic that I want to like discuss. So that's going to be exciting. You'll see that in like a few seconds because it's going to be the next clip. But yeah, I'm going to get Chick-fil-A breakfast tomorrow then I'm going to just head to the station because they wanted me to like meet them like kind of early. Err in the morning ish. That's not very descriptive. I'm sorry that the vlogs have been like, I don't know. I just feel like, I think they're all right but I'm like getting them up barely in time that they're supposed to go up. And I'm used to like getting vlogs like scheduled and everything like a good two to three days before they go live. So I don't know. I feel like I'm like turning in my homework right before it's like the deadline. And it's just so weird to me. I mean, I'm getting them all ready in time and stuff but it's been a struggle. It's not like I'm unmotivated to vlog. It's just like I haven't had like a lot of things to vlog. And then the things that I think I'm like going to vlog I just don't get the footage that I was thinking about because I get distracted or I forget to vlog or it's just harder to vlog in like certain situations. So yeah, that's my life right now. Just a little chaotic but we're surviving here on the channel and you guys are so amazing cause like my views have been so good lately. So I wanna thank you guys so much for just like watching me like literally whatever I put out especially when my parents are in the videos you guys are just so cool. And I just, I don't think I thank you guys enough for taking the time to like watch my content cause it means a lot to me and I try to make the videos as good as I can. So all right, this has become like a chitter chatter with this like mess behind me. So I'm gonna like stop talking now but I don't know. I just wanted to like kind of get that off my chest. So you guys will know that I'm like trying but it's, I don't know. I'm just like feel like I'm in this weird funk with the videos. Yeah, but you guys seem to always like support me which I'm very grateful for. So onto the next clip where I'm probably eating in my car probably vlogging on my phone cause I don't wanna leave this camera in my car when it's like so hot out. The next day. Oh man. Okay, there we go. I got my Chick-fil-A like I promised in my last clip. I got the chicken biscuit cause I love them. And as you guys know, I always get this now because we're not really in the office and each like quarter meeting they always provided these and like it got me spoiled and now we don't have it and it's just upsetting. Also, sorry if there's like a black square around here it's just because it's so hard to like blur out things and I'm just like really lazy. So we're just not gonna do that today. So I actually plan a topic cause every time I do like eat with me videos I never know what to talk about. So hopefully this will be kind of entertaining. And also you guys know like I don't eat sandwiches like a normal person I just have the chicken and then the biscuit because I just don't do sandwiches. Like it's just not, I can't do it. The topic is people stopping YouTube and like friends that I've kind of distanced myself from, oh wait, I need to get something to add along. Okay, so the first topic is like kind of distancing myself from certain YouTube friends. And there hasn't been any drama like I don't wanna like say, oh there's been drama with this person. And honestly, like even if there was like, I don't know I hate drama and I honestly am like terrified of like people being mad at me or just like, I mean not disagreeing with me cause like it's fine if people disagree with me but like I just don't really like confrontation stuff. But if I don't see like our values aligned then I'll just like distance myself and like simply unfollow. Like I don't wanna spread hate or anything like that. I just like to distance myself. So there's like a couple of people. It was around like election time and like I again, like I don't care really what you believe in or whatever but like if I know that you agree with a certain viewpoint that's against my family almost and like against, you know, certain values that I have then like I'm just gonna distance myself because I just feel that that's right. I haven't like ever gotten into like a YouTube bite with anyone but it's definitely, I've made the decision to kind of distance myself from people. I mean, I still watch some of their videos to support but like I don't wanna develop like a deep relationship with them. If you guys know what I mean like there's other YouTubers too like some family vloggers that I watch. I haven't even like taken a bite out of this yet. There's some family vloggers that I have watched and continue to watch that like I don't believe what they believe but I'm not like developed a friendship with them if you know what I mean. I don't know if that makes any sense but there have been a couple of people that I've just like distance myself from and that's totally fine. Like I wish them the best with their channels and content and stuff. And I still like kind of support because I do watch. I just like, I'm gonna keep my distance. Okay, next topic. I'm gonna be like done with all the topics before I like eat this thing. So I've done YouTube since 2015. Like I started kind of in 2014 but it was like on and off again and it's kind of cringy to look back on but I've been doing it for YouTube for a long time. So that means I've come across and met a lot of people and like made a lot of friends and stuff which is so great. I've met like one of my very good friends through doing this which is like so cool to even think but like there's a lot of reasons and there's a lot of people that I know that have decided to, you know take a step back from the channel and like not do social media anymore. And there's a lot of reasons that go into it. And I just thought I'd talk about them. So the first reason being career. So like, I don't know. Let's say someone's gonna be like a lawyer. Now I'm not saying that like no lawyers can do YouTube but that's a very like, that's like a type of profession where like I don't know if you would want to post you getting drunk at Epcot, you know what I'm saying? Like even though social media is pretty like open and stuff, your certain professions that you do have to be careful about because you don't know who's watching. You don't know who's gonna use that against you and like things like that. Next reason, return on investment. So if you have like 100,000 subscribers you're not getting the views and your CPM and RPM is low and you have a full-time job, clearly you're gonna focus on your full-time job because you're not seeing a returning investment in the videos that you're producing which that's not a reason to do YouTube is like for the money, like you shouldn't do it for the money, but after you get comfortable my monthly paycheck, I'm kind of comfortable with it. And if that, let's just say like, we're go down like I would probably produce less, you know what I mean? I don't know if that makes sense but I'm just trying to think in someone else's shoes. Honestly, I probably wouldn't post less because I love doing YouTube and I didn't make a cent for like a good two years that I did this and it was still really fun. Next reason being time. So I will say it was very difficult posting and everything when, well, number one, you have a job. Number two, you have a relationship. Number two, number three, I don't know if you know what number we're on. Number three, you have friends and like clearly you don't wanna like, you know, sometimes maybe they don't know you do YouTube. That sort of thing, like to balance the work, social life, relationship, family time, like it's so difficult. And I know that it doesn't sound that difficult because the excuses for every time, like when people say, oh, you vlog, it's, oh, it's so easy. You just turn on a camera. There's a lot of other factors that come into it. Personal information can easily be leaked like on a camera. When I'm in this car, like my work ID is like right here. I'm wearing a work shirt right now that I'm like gonna have to do something with the logo, you know? It's not like you can just turn on a camera if you don't do this full time, you know? Like there could be papers like sitting in someone's living room. What if you go to your friend's house and like they have a picture of an inappropriate something like on the wall. Like I don't know, there's just a lot of things that you have to think about and like making people feel uncomfortable. Like that's always something that's like taken into account. It's like super awkward. So there's a lot of like little things that you play into it. It's not as easy as just like, oh, let me just turn on the camera. Another thing is people just lose passion. Like I've definitely been drained out with YouTube. Around vlogmas time, when I'm producing like a video every day, it gets draining and like tiring. And like the motivation to edit is like gone. Now the next topic I wanted to talk about, I'm here enjoying this, why I do this. And I know that a lot of people like make fun of the reason that every vlogger says it's for the memories. But it really is because I was telling my parents like, I don't know, not too long ago, I only have one clip on my grandma. It's on my TikTok. I may put insert it here. You're so ratchet. You're so ratchet. Oh my God. But it's basically one clip of her. Well, there's one that she says Merry Christmas Alex cause it was Christmas time. But the only one that I actually have of just her is me saying, mom, I'll say that so ratchet. And she says it, but that's the only like clip of what I have from her. And like, I wish that like I had more, you know? And last night I was watching like some of my favorite videos of like our Christmases and like our day which is so weird that like there's a few people in some of the videos that like are in my life anymore, which is like so weird. But like the time that happened, it was just so much fun. And like, I don't know, it's just like kind of cool to see and like relive almost. So that's the reason why I really do this. Cause like I love watching back on like old memories and stuff. I don't know. I just thought I'd have this conversation because it's been something that I've been wanting to talk about. There's a lot that goes into like doing YouTube and social media and stuff. And it's like, I think I do a pretty good job of like trying to get footage when like, I really can't get footage in certain areas, but I don't know. I think that's gonna be pretty much it. I'm on my biscuit now. These things are so good. So let me know in the comments like if you've ever like tried to do YouTube or you do YouTube, like kind of shout at your channel if you want to in the comments. I know I have an older audience, which I'm very appreciative about. Like, I don't know. Like if I were to talk about like more serious topics, like I don't think like 13 year olds would want to listen to that. So I'm glad that my audience is older and I really appreciate you listening to my ramblings and stuff. I don't know. You can only like act a certain way for so long. And I feel like a lot of YouTubers have had to do that. Guys, Chick-fil-A's biscuits are so good. I think that's gonna be it. I'm gonna finish this up. And yeah, so I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I was out of town. That's why the past two videos were a little bit different. My workout update, I only worked out once and I ran. That's it. So literally not even gonna include that. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you give it a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.