 I'm in my closet because I'm over it. I'm over it. You have to excuse my hair girl. Y'all I'm over YouTube in the sense of I miss the old YouTube. I really do. I've been on YouTube for seven years making video for about five and a half. The only reason why I'm writing about this is I just noticed that things have changed and it's escalating. I thought it was going to get better. I thought we were going to leave all the foolery behind. In 2017 it is not to say that nothing has come. Nothing new has happened. It's just that nothing has changed either. You see what I'm saying? So some of the ways or one of the ways that I get inspiration for my hair videos is that I used to search for and I type in you know what I'm looking for natural hair or whatever and some of the stuff I'm seeing I'm just like I just don't get it and to be quite honest it's not just natural hair. I'm over every the gossip ones. It's just that the cooking videos were especially the cooking one. The mukbangs it's just that things have changed. YouTube is not what it used to be and I know y'all y'all have noticed it and we've been noticing it for a while but at this point I'm just getting real tired of it. I'm just getting tired of it. It's gimmicky. It's oversaturated with content. I'm tired of searching for 4a4b and I'm getting Tory Kelly or I'm getting someone who's clearly clearly you 3c4a. Are you claiming 4c? One of the reasons why I don't even like to do the hair type in. I don't I just say I'm four type one of them one of the three but I don't even mind the sponsorships that I'm okay I'm okay with. I'm just finding that a lot of these youtubers are just very gimmicky. I don't fault the new ones because I think that with YouTube new guidelines when it comes to monetization some of the newer people are not going to be as inspired to make videos or the ones who don't really care those are the ones you want to look out for but I'm not talking about the sherry jays or the natural 85s um and even some of them have change and again it's not all hair there's some cooking cooking youtubers they change I just miss the way YouTube used to be. I miss my african export she kept it real I miss Leo body natural chica she lives in Mexico now I miss people like that who were authentic who did a product review and I I believed everything they said and I went out and bought it the next day but I don't know y'all when I do certain things in my videos I try to give credit where credit is due and it's not to say I mean look there's thousands of people on this earth it's going to be a chance that two people are going to do the same damn deep conditioner have the same recipe but when it's blatant that you are doing the same thing like I'm seeing stuff like people who are mimicking intros from other youtubers like down to the music you know I guess nighttime routines are popular go I just go to bed I make sure my hair is is moisturizing I go to bed but one type of video that is kind of getting on my damn nerves watch me perm my hair after seven years of being natural you have to know some a part of me is um interesting and intrigued by those type of videos and another side of me it's like you have to know that there is a whole group of helpers just waiting on those videos and to come and say some shit to you you gotta know that sis so it's your channel you can do whatever you want but I'm seeing a lot of those videos coming up like quite a bit and there's nothing wrong I've mentioned this before there's nothing wrong with permming your hair after however long but be mindful of when you post that type of stuff on the internet I try not to be that type of youtuber I really do I try to be as authentic as possible um again like I said if I am doing a recipe that's very similar to someone I insurer and I make sure I name drop you guys have heard me name drop natural uh nappy had a whole but excuse me kimi tube and the green beauty channel was a big one for me so but some of these people like oh look at what I did and I'm like uh I just saw this tell the day girl and I know you saw I do because I saw you comment on their video dirty helpful you I missed the old YouTube I missed the way it used to be I don't think that when it comes to hair natural hair I don't think that natural hair community is what it used to be five six years ago it's just not anyway y'all what do y'all think y'all agree with me do you think that I should just shut up and go pop a zenex I may do that too but all right y'all but no this was on my mind it was on my heart it was in my spirit so I want to put this out there y'all take care bye