Thinking out loud....

I shouldn't .. but I will...

    Here's a couple subjects that  mean virtually nothing to
me yet I feel compelled to talk about them anyway.  With my 
extensive following any repercussions will be minimal anyways.

You Tube...

    I truly enjoy making videos for you tube.  I have no ambition

to grow a large channel and get monetized and such.  I simply 

enjoy the frustration of shooting and editing scenes together and

seeing the finished product.  I'm not very good at it so each time

gives me a chance to improve.  

    That being said I totally understand my content is not something

that is going to pull in a lot of views and that's fine.  At present I 

have about 530 some odd subscribers on my page.  Why ,, I'm not 

sure.  lol  Some people must be truly bored.  Or maybe it's the 

lock down. Who knows?  My point is I'm satisfied with that .

The one thing I do thrive on is the comments.  I love reading the 

comments people leave on my videos.  Sure, most are insincere 

but the fact that they took a few seconds out of their day to type

in a quick comment means the world to me.  I try to respond to 

every one of them.

    The rub is that a lot of the channels I sub to are larger channels

that depend on YT for added income or in some cases total income.

They have lots of ways of making money on YT and I'm fine with

that.  Most channels I have followed for years before they became

 'big' channels all have membership tiers now where you pay a 

monthly fee and receive bonus videos and channel swag now and 

then for being a member.  I refuse to pay to watch you tube videos.

They talk about how much work it is and the cost of equipment it

takes to make these videos.  While it's true you can get into some

really high end cameras ands studio equipment..  It is not your

only option.  If you choose to seek perfection and go that route

fine .. but don't expect me to pay for it .  A lot of people will and a

 lot of people do.  I'm not one of them.  

     One of the reasons is almost all of the bigger channels that I've

followed for years are now too big to keep up with the little guys.

I totally understand that having seven or eight thousand subs makes

it impossible to respond to everyone.  But most of the channels

that send me membership request aren't even subbed to my channel 

or have never visited . Even though we've been 'friends' for years.

I guess I'm being selfish but golly guys ..  Just a howdy now and then ...

Oh No.. Not politics again !!!

   As some know I have tried to shy away from the craziness of Facebook

for a while.  I still lurk but I very seldom post.  I made the mistake of 

mentioning that to a few people and low and behold the next morning

a friend posted a couple political posts on MY page that he knew I didn't

agree with. When confronted I was told .. sorry I thought you weren't 

watching FB anymore.   The cat may be away but the mice still better behave!

I did break over just a tad tonight in a pretty discrete way.  I am simply 

amazed at how many times I was told after the election.  Just accept what

happened and move on.  Over and over.   Now comes something as stupid

as why a stadium wasn't filled for a ego boosting rally and the world is just

abuzz with how could this happen???  So what was it ?

Was it the virus?

Was it Tic Toc

Was it the protesters? 

Was it those Korean teens?

Was it the temperature takers union ?

Was it the media hype?

For the sake of everything Holy quit blaming everyone in the entire world

for something that means absolutely nothing!  You don't need to put twenty

thousand people in a closed arena in the middle of a pandemic just to listen

to someone explain slippery shoes vs rubber soles and cheer for them for

drinking a glass of water with one hand.  I's not like we were going to solve

any of the worlds ongoing problems or anything..  Chill out everyone.. accept

the small turnout (what ever the reasons were) and move on.  Using your own 

logic of course.