The Internet Is Toxic & Full Of Hateful People - Sad Reality Of Putting Your Life Online
The Internet
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Monday
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December 2nd
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2024 the last month of the year walking
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along Water Street
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here enjoying the day weather is
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beautiful I leave town tomorrow to go to
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the West Coast for a series of days and
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then after that off to Hawaii big family
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trip to Alani was there last September
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with my mom this time I'll be there with
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a few
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others this is my last full day in
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celebration tomorrow is a travel
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day we'll talk a little about the
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internet today and how the internet has
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changed my life blessed me and giving me
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an outlet to you know do these videos
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and make a living doing it
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and enjoy life ability to
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travel
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Etc but it comes with negativities and
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I'm used to
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it I'm inviting you to join me little
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walking talk a little driveing talk a
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little caffinated
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talk good to have you here shall you
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I've been doing this YouTube thing a
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long time first started to know kind of
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how I don't use the word toxic but let's
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just say opinionated well some of it's
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toxic but mostly just overly
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opinionated people can be online in 2017
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I knew it before that but 2017 when I
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lived in Hollywood is when I really
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started to notice you know growth of the
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channel and influx of people watching
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and those people a percentage a small
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percentage were very
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very you know very opinionated not
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always positive in fact very you know
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the that small percentage was rarely
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positive but sometimes you take the good
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and the bad from opinions and you kind
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of morph how you are sometimes you just
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toss a lot of those opinions out the
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window but sometimes it sticks so it can
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be valued in its own way but sometimes
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overanalyzing my life sometimes can get
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too far go a little too
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far and can be
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bothersome not necessarily to me again
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after 2017 I had a really hard time with
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it but I've since gotten used to it I
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mean Jack and Sally they get their
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criticisms as well this dog you know
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like someone's probably looking at this
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dog right here criticizing its ear muffs
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well people don't really criticize dogs
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everyone everyone loves dogs that's a
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bad example moose on the other
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hand both these houses really
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go pretty heavy during October for
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Halloween and also this time during
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Christmas Santa Mickey up there
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but I definitely get why viewers can
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start
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to you know first they really like what
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you do and then over time something they
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might not enjoy and might not get out of
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what I'm putting out there what they
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what they want to have and then they
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turn into those who are not 100%
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positive about everything I get it I'm
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critical about things
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too the only issue I have is when things
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that I don't put out into the world
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myself I'm a pretty private person as
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much as you'd like to think I'm not even
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though I do daily videos and I put a lot
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of my life out there my mom's always
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saying you tell people too much and
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she's right I do but I don't tell people
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a lot cuz I keep a lot of stuff to
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myself
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just do my
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thing not everything has to be out there
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not every second of every day has to be
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posted online in fact I am used to
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having my face on the
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interwebs I can deal with you know what
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people have to say about me I get it
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it's low hanging fruit I know what this
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face looks like I know what my body type
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looks like I know the words that
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incoherently flow out of my mouth I get
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it I don't have to read forums or watch
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other videos that people talk about me
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cuz I know what they're going to say
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it's right here I mean I'm not I'm not
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perfect I'm human others who are not in
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this realm who have not been dealing
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with that for a long
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time they have made things known to me
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quite a few friends over the
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years that they don't want to
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be they don't want to be in the videos
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simply because they don't want to be
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overanalyzed
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critiqued put on a public forum and
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that's never really been a major issue
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but there's been a few times over the
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last couple years
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and recently where this has happened and
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it's really discouraging for me to have
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someone that I know have to go and
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adhere to
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that and I think it's I think that is
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wrong I don't mind being criticized you
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know it's free speech people say what
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they want everyone's got a thought
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process I put something out there if I
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don't edit it out I know what's going in
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here I'm not an idiot I know what I'm
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putting out on the into the world
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but when something that I'm not putting
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out there you know if someone's over
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here and I'm walking with a friend or a
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family member someone that I just
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randomly met that walked up to say
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hi or someone that I've never presented
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to the internet simply because they
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don't want to be online and they live a
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life where they don't want that those
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focused eyes 30 40 50 60 70,000 views
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that I get on a normal daily
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basis they don't want that those eyes on
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them because they have their own lives
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to live and they don't want they don't
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want
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that so I try not to have people who
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aren't part of this weird wacky YouTube
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World in my videos for that
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reason and there's a lot of times
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throughout the course of the day I might
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be filming something and there's someone
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with me that doesn't want to be on
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camera so the problem I have and I feel
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for
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those you know if I was here walking
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with someone and someone was over there
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taking a picture from a distance also if
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you ever see me in the Parks come up and
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take a picture with me say hi don't be
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shy I am very socially awkward I cannot
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guarantee we're going to have the
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greatest conversation because I get
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really weird around I don't know what to
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say I'm not good at small talk but I
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will take a picture with anyone so if
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you see me walking around come up say hi
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give me a fist bump shake my hand I'm
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friendly but I'm very awkward so keep in
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mind I'm very very socially awkward I've
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always been socially awkward I've kind
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of become a little
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bit of a an extrovert simply because I
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have to be when I'm out and about people
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say hi but really I'm a
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reuse I know the videos make it seem I'm
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completely opposite than that but I
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assure you I am more comfortable talking
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to a camera than I am to someone I just
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met just just
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saying but yeah I just I have I have an
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issue with someone who doesn't want to
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be that has made it known to me hey you
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know what' be nice Maybe not maybe not
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make me part of the episode that way I'm
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not I'm not analyzing criticized and
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then it ends up someone else makes them
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part of it and puts it out there and it
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becomes a whole thing that's the only
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that's the only thing that really
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bothers me anymore it used to bother me
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when I was criticized I don't even care
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anymore I'm doing
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fine I'm I'm
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good don't put people out there that
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don't want to
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be that's it think about it from a
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personal aspect again I make videos
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I'm on a
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little more well-known level than
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someone who might just be on Instagram
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with with 12 followers and they just
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posting to their friends and family
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however those people are still doing the
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same thing they're posting their
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personal life online like I
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am and those people would not want that
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done to them maybe they could handle it
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but they would not want people that they
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are showing
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talked about and put out to thousands
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and thousands of
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people I actually don't even mind a good
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roasting sometimes again I know I know
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how I
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am sometimes it just goes a little too
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overboard also it'd be kind of nice to
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have a equal balance take the good with
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the bad that tree that tree's from the
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cut down from the hurricane
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there something's going on down
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here I just don't think there's ever a
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solution nothing I'm going to say is
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ever going to change anything
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but I just wish those that weren't
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involved didn't have to be have a bunch
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of eyes on
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them when they when they don't want it
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that don't want it to
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be I again nothing I'm going to say or
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do is going to change anyone else's
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thoughts on it but I just wanted to
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wanted to clarify what my thoughts were
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on that whole situation I'll never
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really understand why people will watch
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me do things and watch these videos that
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don't enjoy it I guess there's like hate
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watching which
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happens but I kind of feel like there
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has to be a
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percentage of even ones who are watching
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for that reason that enjoy something so
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I'm glad I'm glad they're watching
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watching in some kind of some roundabout
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way I've tried wrapping around my head
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of the fact that people are annoyed with
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me
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sometimes I'm just a guy living life
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putting videos
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online just putting out a daily diary
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daily
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that some people will find
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anything it's a nitpick
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I should start giving
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refunds that's a turtle that's a joke
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because I don't charge anything for
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these videos there's no pay
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wall I don't ask for
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anything but
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yet hi
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Turtle That's not going to stop opinions
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each day when I upload a video I'd
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upload it on my phone but then I go on
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my laptop and that's how I put the ads
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in I don't go overboard with the ads I
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put one around 6 and A2 minutes 7
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Minutes one around 14 about every 7
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minutes if YouTube does it on their own
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they just layer the ads so thick and I
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just don't feel comfortable having a
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gazillion ads in my videos so that's why
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I put the tags in I put the ads in
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that's why bring my laptop when I travel
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I have the laptop I only use the laptop
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for that 5 minutes each morning and you
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can't see it on the app when you look up
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on you on the YouTube app you can't see
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your thumbs ups and thumbs down but I
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can see them on the laptop when I go to
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the desktop I get about
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seven let's see
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97% to
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98% positive so let's say a video that
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people don't like it's going to get
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about 97% thumbs up so 3% thumbs up down
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went to Alaska 99% positive only 1%
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thumb down if I go to Disney 97 there
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people people love Disney but there are
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a few people who just really get
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irritated when I go to the parks and I
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get it I get irritated sometimes and I
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know I'm kind of like repeating myself
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and that's why I've made the promise for
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next year International but when I am
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home the week or so every month probably
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going to be celebration stuff and Disney
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stuff I love the Disney parks I try to
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incorporate that into this daily daily
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vlog
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but even on a even a video that people
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are seemingly in the comment section
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upset with still about 97% let's say 3%
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let's say if a video gets 50,000 views
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that's average it's usually between
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35,000 and 70,000 let's say 50 3%
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is, 1500 1 1200 1500 people out of those
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50,000 don't like it so I could yeah I
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would imagine there's a Grand of people
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a grand amount of people a thousand
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people I don't know where I was going
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with that that are going to be chiming
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in letting their thoughts be known and
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that's probably not even I would say
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those are people who just don't like the
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one video let's say 10% of that let's
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say let's say 50% of that make their
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voices known forums videos making things
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talking about me all that so there
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probably a good three four 500 people on
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a daily basis that have contempt for me
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and that's fine again I get it there was
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a point in my
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life when I thought everyone no one
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would dislike you this is when I was
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younger started working retail if one
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person did not like you you were crushed
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and now as sad as it is sad life as it
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is online and you start to get to a
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point where people know who you are you
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were going to be disliked by
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hundreds and
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hundreds and hundreds of
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people but there's 49,000 others who
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like me so F off and there's nothing I
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can do about it nothing at all and I've
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come to grips with that over the
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years just got to keep doing my
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thing right all off warm hugs