Addressing Channel Purpose and Audience Expectations

The speaker is 47 years old, living in an RV, and has been creating content for approximately 4 months. He is in a reflective state about his channel's purpose and audience reception patterns.

Energetic Signature

clarifying frustration

Field State

boundary establishment

Orientation

toward signal coherence

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July 24, 2024

10:33

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Author

rswfire

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ARCHIVED

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[0:01]hello fellow

[0:02]humans so I wanted to just talk for a

[0:05]minute

[0:06]about my channel and what I'm trying to

[0:09]do with it and some of the challenges

[0:11]that I've seen because I feel like maybe

[0:15]maybe if I just address it directly

[0:17]maybe that will help so we're just going

[0:19]to try that please know I'm not trying

[0:20]to be confrontational I'm not trying to

[0:23]make anyone feel anything really and

[0:26]this is just more about trying to set

[0:30]expectations I guess so let me just try

[0:32]this the stream of Consciousness like

[0:34]always

[0:35]so if you've been watching my journey

[0:38]long enough some of you have 4 months

[0:40]now something like that you have watched

[0:43]me go from living in a house to living

[0:45]in the sarv you have watched me quit

[0:48]smoking you have watched

[0:50]me uh withdraw from tramad doll which

[0:54]that was horrible quit taking clopin

[0:57]that was nothing because I was basically

[0:59]not taking any of that

[1:03]um you have watched

[1:05]me go through many challenges you've

[1:09]watched me overcome some of them you've

[1:10]watched me struggle with others some

[1:13]that are just ongoing that I just can't

[1:15]seem to to get past you have watched me

[1:18]analyze

[1:19]myself you have watched

[1:25]me um absorb very difficult emotions

[1:30]based on things going on in my life

[1:31]you've watched me analyze my past my

[1:33]childhood my relationship with my

[1:36]parents my relationship with other

[1:38]people Society at large all of it you've

[1:41]seen it

[1:42]all and I feel

[1:47]like for those who have been watching me

[1:49]for that long I think my channel

[1:50]probably makes a whole lot of sense

[1:52]you're just watching a guy who was on a

[1:54]growth Arc this is a personal growth

[1:56]Channel I'm you are watching a person

[1:59]who has middle age pretty much I'm

[2:02]47 and has just completely re-evaluated

[2:06]his life and where he's going in life

[2:08]and wants wants to be a better version

[2:11]of himself wants to change wants to grow

[2:13]wants to find happiness wants to find

[2:16]personal fulfillment is actually trying

[2:18]to do that on this YouTube

[2:20]channel and so for those people I think

[2:23]it probably makes a lot of sense that

[2:26]there's always especially if you

[2:28]understand my cognitive style and we

[2:30]talk about that right so you know that

[2:32]there is always a subtext to everything

[2:34]I'm saying you know that um there's a

[2:37]lot of nuance in the things I say

[2:41]so with all of that said it confuses me

[2:45]that people still engage with me on a

[2:47]surface level and and that's just I'm

[2:51]just being honest here so I'll give an

[2:53]example my last video I talked about

[2:56]challenges with my tires I and I

[3:00]mentioned that I don't know how much

[3:01]coffee to put in my coffee maker this is

[3:04]just me stream of Consciousness sharing

[3:07]my thoughts with you several comments

[3:10]talked about how much coffee to put in

[3:12]my coffee maker like like I couldn't

[3:14]look that up myself if I if I really

[3:16]wanted to know or talked

[3:20]about their thoughts

[3:24]on my entire situation now these were

[3:27]helpful comments so I'm not blasting

[3:31]them but there all of it is something

[3:34]that I've of course thought about

[3:38]and kind of misses the point because I'm

[3:41]not I'm not asking for advice I'm not

[3:44]asking for that so I don't understand

[3:46]why that's what I always get from people

[3:49]I'm just trying

[3:50]to show you how I think in real time how

[3:55]I process things what I'm going through

[3:58]how I'm handling

[4:00]it just where I am in my life and then

[4:04]it I and then I get this

[4:06]this the reaction I get is either

[4:09]negative somebody just trying to troll

[4:11]me or somebody trying to tell me how to

[4:14]fix the

[4:15]situation some people I mean those

[4:17]aren't the only two then there's people

[4:19]who are just they're encouraging without

[4:21]overstepping and I love those comments

[4:24]there there were two of them I'm just

[4:26]going to say that go ahead and go look

[4:27]at the comments if you want and see if

[4:29]you can figure figure out which two they

[4:31]are um

[4:36]some some related their own

[4:39]experiences so I feel like they

[4:43]are they're looking at the Nuance in

[4:45]what I'm saying and and applying it to

[4:47]their own life I love

[4:48]that um I'm not saying that you can't I

[4:54]mean that's the topic of the video right

[4:56]so I'm talking about my tires it makes

[4:58]sense that you would respond with a

[4:59]common about

[5:01]tires so there is a Nuance there that I

[5:04]myself don't know yet but I feel it's

[5:06]important to talk about this because I

[5:08]have been watching a channel today of a

[5:11]truck driver this 25-year-old who's on

[5:14]camera and he's just talking

[5:16]about um he's just he does the same

[5:19]thing I do in a different context he

[5:21]processes what he's going through in

[5:23]real time he has this awesome

[5:26]personality I actually love this guy I

[5:28]just found this Channel today

[5:30]and some people a lot of people in his

[5:33]he's got almost a million subscribers

[5:36]so he gets a lot of comments as a result

[5:39]and a lot of them are from older truck

[5:41]drivers who are just criticizing him

[5:44]they're saying he complains too much or

[5:45]he's a rookie or just all these things

[5:47]and they have completely missed the

[5:50]point none of those things are true

[5:53]about him first of all he's not

[5:54]complaining he's just he's just

[5:57]processing his experience in real time

[6:00]he's verbalizing it like I'm doing

[6:02]that's actually really cool he's trying

[6:05]to he's showing

[6:07]people something that you wouldn't see

[6:10]otherwise on YouTube I'm doing the same

[6:13]thing this this platform has become so

[6:16]sterile and so programmed that there's

[6:21]nothing real on here anymore I don't

[6:23]even you know why it's called you too

[6:25]but it is not about the you anymore you

[6:27]know it just isn't and so when someone

[6:30]like me comes along or this truck driver

[6:33]it challenges what people are used to

[6:35]seeing and they just respond negatively

[6:38]or inappropriately because it is

[6:41]inappropriate to you wouldn't do this in

[6:44]real life you

[6:47]wouldn't I mean there is Nuance here I I

[6:50]just I have to keep saying that because

[6:52]if I was talking to a friend in real

[6:54]life and I was talking about what I was

[6:55]going through they might have say some

[6:59]things about the tires and I and I would

[7:01]want them to so I'm working through this

[7:04]in my own head right now okay so maybe

[7:07]I'm being a little more negative about

[7:08]that that's probably not a good example

[7:10]it's really more

[7:13]about the overall Arc of my channel like

[7:16]over a long period of time that has been

[7:19]what it's felt like to me just people

[7:22]and this is what's gotten into my head

[7:24]I'm thinking to myself what do people

[7:25]think they're just watching a train

[7:26]wreck and they find that entertaining

[7:29]and

[7:30]so because you know they have these

[7:33]skills they think well let me just share

[7:34]them with him and and show him how it's

[7:37]done like like that is the impression I

[7:41]get and I you know part of that probably

[7:44]is because this is a parasocial

[7:46]relationship I don't know you you guys

[7:49]see me on camera you guys hear my

[7:51]thoughts you know a lot about me I know

[7:53]absolutely nothing about you I just see

[7:54]a username and some text and you know so

[7:57]there's not a whole lot for me to to

[7:59]draw on from that so in my own head

[8:02]there's you know this has been something

[8:04]I've thought about for a long time I've

[8:06]never said but I do wonder and I've said

[8:08]before you know this channel is not

[8:11]meant to entertain you not in the

[8:12]traditional sense so I'm thinking why do

[8:15]these people watch me did they just

[8:16]think I'm a train rat because you've

[8:17]seen me go through every emotion that

[8:19]there is you could pathologize me and

[8:23]say well that guy's just crazy or

[8:25]whatever and it just misses the point

[8:29]I'm this is an experiment for me I am

[8:33]very

[8:34]curious two two reasons here

[8:37]one I'm very curious if this kind of

[8:41]sharing is helpful for me I haven't

[8:43]quite figured that out I I Intuit it

[8:45]that it might be I don't know for sure

[8:47]because it could just be okay well they

[8:49]coincided together maybe I just um maybe

[8:52]even without this channel I'd still be

[8:54]growing like because that's just where

[8:55]I'm at in my life so whether I was using

[8:57]this Channel or not I would find find a

[8:59]way right but maybe even if that is true

[9:03]I mean there's there is depths to

[9:05]everything we have to think about the

[9:07]angles nothing is just straightforward

[9:10]and just on this superficial level like

[9:13]that is not how life works so all those

[9:16]things are going through my head and

[9:17]then number two I'm just hoping to

[9:19]inspire other people to try it too just

[9:22]you know if I say something that's

[9:25]interesting and gets you thinking about

[9:26]a thing and get you thinking about your

[9:28]own life Maybe that leads to a positive

[9:30]change in your life I mean the context

[9:32]could be completely different it doesn't

[9:34]have to be okay I live in an RV you know

[9:37]and um all my challenges are related to

[9:40]that or you know my um I've got a lot

[9:44]of issues with um the way I was brought

[9:48]up so maybe that helps um a parent from

[9:53]doing that to their child I really hope

[9:55]that that's a big one for me or maybe I

[9:59]younger person sees it and says oh

[10:01]that's validation you know I'm not the

[10:03]only one like all of those things are

[10:05]really important to me and so that's all

[10:07]I'm trying to do

[10:09]here and I just feel

[10:12]like that gets missed a lot I just I

[10:15]think it gets missed a lot and it's

[10:16]nobody's fault it's just

[10:19]that's the

[10:22]situation the context of of sharing on

[10:26]YouTube in today's world really really

[10:29]what it comes down to I hope you all

[10:31]have a good day

Summary

rswfire addresses his YouTube audience directly about the purpose and nature of his channel. He explains that viewers have watched his journey over 4 months, including moving from a house to an RV, quitting smoking, withdrawing from tramadol, and quitting clopin. He describes his channel as a personal growth journey where he processes thoughts in real time rather than seeking advice.

He expresses confusion about surface-level engagement from viewers, using an example of his previous video about tire challenges and coffee-making where commenters offered practical advice rather than engaging with the deeper context. He compares his approach to a 25-year-old truck driver with nearly a million subscribers who also processes experiences in real time but faces criticism from older truckers.

rswfire explains that YouTube has become sterile and programmed, lacking authentic content. He clarifies that his channel is an experiment to determine if public sharing aids his personal growth and to potentially inspire others facing similar challenges. He emphasizes that his content operates on multiple levels with nuance and subtext, not just surface-level problem-solving.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission establishes clear operational boundaries around signal reception and interpretation. The field is asserting its authentic transmission modality against surface-level engagement patterns, demanding recognition of depth architecture rather than content consumption.

Dominant Language

nuancestream of consciousnessreal time processingparasocial relationshipexperimentdepths/anglestrain wreck

Symbolic Elements

mirrortrain wreckplatformsterile grid

Ontological States

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clarifying
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boundary-setting
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authentic
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frustrated

Subsystems

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cognitive
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relational
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ethical

Transmission Details

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youtube

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