[0:00]Morning, YouTube. It's Monday morning.
[0:02]It's 9:00 a.m. here. It's my day off, so
[0:05]I'm just hanging out. Been reflecting on
[0:08]some things. I thought I'd try to share
[0:09]my thoughts with you.
[0:12]So, yesterday I was browsing YouTube
[0:14]just randomly. It's kind of a boring
[0:17]night. I was just browsing YouTube and I
[0:19]ended up on this live stream, some kind
[0:21]of some kind of weather live stream
[0:23]where they were tracking tornadoes in
[0:25]the Midwest.
[0:27]And I watched over and over people
[0:29]willing to pay money to ask the most
[0:31]basic questions that they could Google.
[0:34]Like, what's the weather going to be in
[0:36]Jacksonville, Florida? Here's 20 bucks
[0:38]to answer that question.
[0:41]And I've been sharing raw, authentic
[0:43]content for nearly two years.
[0:46]I'm at a point where I really need help.
[0:51]And I have tried so many different ways.
[0:53]I once made a video that literally had
[0:55]in the title, I need your help, life
[0:57]update. Over a thousand people watched
[1:00]that and not one person helped
[1:03]and that was hurtful
[1:06]and confusing.
[1:09]And I it's still confusing
[1:12]especially when you compare that to what
[1:15]they seem willing to pay for
[1:19]and what they're not. And I I truly
[1:21]don't know what to make of that.
[1:24]So, I asked AI about that this morning
[1:26]and it says it's about utility. So,
[1:31]if you think you're getting something
[1:32]out of it, then people are more willing
[1:34]to pay for it.
[1:37]You're getting a lot of free content
[1:38]from me, but it's not free for me. My
[1:41]entire life is built on it.
[1:46]And this channel won't continue. It
[1:48]won't exist forever if I don't survive.
[1:51]And I'm about to lose a lot. gonna be in
[1:54]a situation where
[1:57]I truly can't even predict
[2:00]where that will lead while at the same
[2:03]time building something incredible that
[2:05]has the potential to transform all kinds
[2:08]of industries including YouTube.
[2:12]This reflection engine I'm building with
[2:14]artificial intelligence has the ability
[2:17]to
[2:19]open up all new pathways
[2:23]and there's utility there, but I need to
[2:25]be able to get there.
[2:29]YouTube is a very flattening platform.
[2:33]I have over 700 videos, but you're not
[2:37]likely to ever see any of them. You'll
[2:40]watch this one and then you'll just
[2:41]scroll on to the next one. And you'll
[2:43]just keep doing that and you'll do that
[2:44]for the rest of your life. Whatever is
[2:49]the freshest content, that's what you
[2:50]watch.
[2:52]That's a shallow way of
[2:56]interacting with a channel like mine.
[2:58]You miss so much context.
[3:02]And it's not just me. This would be the
[3:04]same for any channel that's that's like
[3:06]mine
[3:08]that just has depth to it.
[3:11]And I know a way of
[3:14]making that more accessible to you cuz
[3:16]this isn't your fault. This is how the
[3:18]platform is designed.
[3:22]Everything that YouTube does is designed
[3:24]just to keep you hooked into a
[3:28]superficial bandwidth where you're just
[3:31]the whole dopamine thing. It's just
[3:34]they're manipulating you.
[3:39]And for some reason, most people don't
[3:41]resist that.
[3:43]I mean, they they know that it's
[3:45]happening, but they just they engage
[3:46]with it anyways. And
[3:50]it's possible to build ethical
[3:52]platforms. Like I have the intelligence
[3:54]and the ability and the skill to build a
[3:57]whole new YouTube
[3:59]where
[4:03]where it doesn't flatten its creators.
[4:09]I could even build like a scaffold over
[4:11]the existing YouTube just a completely
[4:13]different platform that's based on just
[4:15]YouTube videos. uh every everybody's
[4:18]YouTube videos. I have the skill for
[4:20]this. I could do this where where you're
[4:23]browsing YouTube on just a different
[4:25]website or a different a different app
[4:27]on your phone, but it's all YouTube
[4:29]videos, but it's presented to you in a
[4:32]different way that doesn't take
[4:33]advantage of you. That's ethical.
[4:38]That makes makes it so people like me uh
[4:41]people who have channels with depth
[4:44]don't feel flattened and don't feel
[4:46]invisible,
[4:48]who are truly engaged with
[4:51]and where you're getting something out
[4:52]of it, where you're not just randomly
[4:55]scrolling through videos that
[4:59]trying to find the thing that gives you
[5:00]that dopamine hit you're looking for.
[5:02]That's no way to live.
[5:06]It's rotting out our society,
[5:12]but I need the support of my audience
[5:14]and I don't know how
[5:17]how to get there. So, I'm just sharing
[5:21]sharing a perspective with you this
[5:23]morning.