it is natural if you only produce an update every few months. And she is not in Russia anymore and therefore cannot tell, what the normal population is thinking there, which a lot of viewers would like to know.
@@tshavfengvang7831, I agree. She's "new to this" & not quite "true to this". Editing is a hassle sometimes. Sometimes you just don't want to create content, & then when you create something you don't want to edit the darned thing. Keep it up, homegirl!
Hi Alena! Pls dont stop making these videos. I love the vibes of your vlog, and the background story. Your current place is beautiful and to be honest I am a little jelaous. Greetings from Hungary! Stay strong!
I don't get why people would unsubscribe from you. You do amazing videos. I've literally watched you since the first video that you did with Natasha. I hope you never stop.
Almost 2 years since she left Russa an she made a handfull of videos. After Natasha helped push her subscribers to 50 thousand. She just got lazy an collected money. I was with her channel when she had less than 5 thousand subs but when she only make 1 videos a month or none at all for months I had to cut some channels out so she had to go.
Being a classical musician, I'm used to performing for small audiences. It's not about how many are there, it's about the meaning you bring to their lives. Turn it around, you have people watching that like you.....and it's not a small number. Keep it up. Also, hooray for Purple!! 🙂
You give me smiles Alina! I like your dry, matter of fact sense of humor. Your intelligence shines through even when you aren't really talking about anything specific. I think you're on your way to finding your real, personal voice. As you are moved to go deeper about you and your world you'll find you and us are interested. PS- Do something nice and extra for Natasha.
Big fan. I struggle with being witty and funny in my own language yet here you are pulling it off in English. For that alone, I think you are awesome. Don’t get too down…I think it’s more of RU-vid issue than a ‘you’ issue. I have to search your vids even though I’m a subscriber. Keep keep being you and stay awesome.
Your videos are authentic and YT was for such a content a while ago. Now, it is quite different, but it is good that someone is still carrying the torch. Greets from Poland.
What a lovely relaxing adventure you and Natasha had! The time in the garden, and playing Frisbee with Natasha looked like a good time. You can never go wrong with puppy/dog content either 🥰
I did not know you can shazam animal sounds. You learn something new every day. Also: I was wondering if you and Natasha had lost contact. So it's good to see you together again.
Hi Alena, sorry to hear about your negative swimming experience. I was a late swimmer too. Had felt this sense of shame because everyone else could swim. So I made it a goal to learn. I started with breathing and blowing out bubbles in the water. Then I practiced floating and hanging on to the side of the pool trying to stay afloat. Be sure to practice in shallow water so you can stand up if needed. Learning to Swim is a process and it takes patience. The calmer you are the easier it becomes. I hope you keep trying and never give up. It is rewarding when you do finally accomplish your goal. Your videos are great and your sincerity is admirable. It is in your struggles and hardship and life challenges that I can relate and find commonality. May you never lose that.
@@letterbox203 Even doing that can be very scary. I found the mere thought of putting my head under water terrifying until high school age, and even then I still hated it. I find it weird that some people just seem to be able to float easily but others can't. I can't.
Lovely spot. Doggos are beautiful. As far as content goes the life of an expat trying to find their place in the world is probably more interesting than just life in Russia. Keep it up and good luck finding your audience! ☮
Nice to see our favourite Depressed Russian, again. Also nice to see you hanging out with Natasha again. As a video suggestion, how about filming things you are interested in trying, or places you're interested in going to? I find that watching people grow and try new things is both entertaining and educational. Take care of yourself and don't be too long making another video, (We miss you when we don't see you.)
Hi Alena, Always enjoy your videos from here in Massachusetts, and don't worry about your stats because you've still got lots of friends here. Hang in there and keep posting!😊👍👍
I think thew sad truth is that you need more uploads to not lose subs, like at least once a week. On the swimming. it's a skill you really need to learn, this means take lessons! We humans are not like many other animals who can do it from birth, by instinct. In my country we have a lot of water, so 99% of the kids learn to swim at a young age. But sometimes a migrant kid tragically drowns, because they never learned it where they come from and they want to swim with their friends here. If professional lessons are not an option in your current situation, I really hope you have a friend who can swim and who you can trust 100% and then go together without any other people (no onlookers) to a safe body of water and practice together. The first step is to learn how to float and be one with the water. The water will carry you. Once it feels less alien and more comfortable, you can start with the actually swimming. Your friend can demonstrate and support you. like really physically, hold your body You should start in water that is about 1 meter deep.
@@davidwebb4904 A baby might, perhaps some subconscious memory left over from pre-birth, but an infant would drown, as would a child or an adult who hasn't learn to swim as a child or an adult. It's not natural for humans to swim. Swimming is an extremely difficult skill to learn. It's also very difficult to float without sinking. I gave up 50 years ago after 10 years of lessons.
I am a subscriber and like your videos, but if you don't want to keep losing subscribers, you need to post more often. Sometimes you go one or two months without posting any videos, which leads to viewers losing interest. Give some thought to interesting topics and post more often, I'm sure your subscriber numbers will increase then.
Nice to see you Alina, and Natasha. Your hair tied up when you were on the swing looked very nice. You both looked very well. I like to see the people of different parts of the world. Keep in mind, ordinary people do not get to see your part of the world. Also what may look very simple and not interesting is very nice for me and I'm sure others to see. Bye for now please make more Video.
For whatever it is worth, I really enjoy your sense of humor and I'm always glad to find you've posted a new video. As some others have said, posting videos more often might be helpful. I think people are busy and distracted with lots of other content so if you don't post often enough, people who like me enjoy your videos lose track of you. Either do that, or go the soul-less route and attend a Taylor Swift concert, record it and post short clips of her prancing around the stage.
I enjoy your videos a lot. I think you might consider making content more frequently and that might increase your subscriber numbers. Fun to see the owl and the glamping spots. Your humour is funny and very dry. Maybe just walking around during your daily activities and commenting on odd things that you see or think are funny. You tell us so little about yourself and what you’re doing and where you live. That would be interesting, too. Fall is around the corner and I bet the countryside and parks will look lovely. Forge ahead!
YOU HAVE 49,600 SUBSCRIBERS? YOU ARE DOING GREAT RU-vid HAS CRITICIZED OTHER CHANNELS JUST TO HARRASS THEM PLEASE KEEP ON SHARING YOUR VIDEOS ALL GOOD CHANNELS GROW AS TIME GOES ON 💜
Even experienced swimmers sometimes accidentally swallow some water. It’s more common to get water up the nose, which is uncomfortable. Some people wear a device, a nose clip, to prevent water from going up the nose. I enjoy your videos! The place where you guys are camping is beautiful and looks peaceful. (Avoid eating unripe apples, however, as they can cause diarrhea.) As for people watching your videos, focus on what YOU are passionate about. Of course you’re still young and trying to determine who you are and your place in this world-which is common. It takes time but you’ll get there. If you like birds and enjoy bird watching, know that there are bird watching groups all over the world. You can even start one if you wish. There are even group tours that feature traveling and bird watching (also called birding) even in Eastern Europe. In North and South America we have the Audubon Society, which has nearly 2 million members and over 600 chapters. The main purpose of this organization is to protect birds and their habitats. Some members gather information about birds such as what species live in their area, how many, and if they migrate. They are called “citizen scientists.” There are over 11 thousand species of birds worldwide, some with unique and amazing abilities. For instance, some birds know how to migrate by using a “sun compass” to tell direction, which works in conjunction with their internal clock. A cuckoo bird can dart into an unattended nest of another type of bird, snatch an egg, lay a close copy and quickly fly away. After hatching, some cuckoo chicks instinctively shove their foster siblings and remaining eggs out of the nest, so as to have all the food to themselves.
I learnt so-called "swimming" at age six but that doesn't really count because I was using a buoy which kept my upper body out of the water. I knew all the different strokes and could pedal fast. 😂 I really learnt swimming when it had become a college graduation requirement. That's something I had to achieve or else I have: 『前功盡癈。』"All previous [years of college studying and working] efforts, utterly wasted." I didn't use a nose clip when learning to swim. I leaned back slowly as if relaxing to lie upon a soft bed while keeping my nose and mouth up in the air above water. Once I floated, I could just pedal around. The dolphins and whales have their nostrils up high on top so I can do the same thing but I need to be careful about getting clearance to avoid hitting anything as I swim backwards. It's my no-see-um dolphin style. 😂
Keep it going, don’t worry bout anything else. You’re doin just fine. In swimming, try practicing in a shallow water, then work your way gradually to deeper water. In no time you’ll be a great swimmer.
Your videos are great, interesting content with a great sense of humor. Please don't get discouraged. I don't have much time in my day for watching videos, so I'm more likely to watch a video that's 5-10 minutes long than one that is 15-20 minutes long. But maybe some people prefer longer videos, I don't know. I like what you do, no matter what....
Balancing pleasing the algorithm, subscribers, and being true to yourself can’t be easy. You could always do some classic videos like “what i eat in a day” or “my workout routine” or “get ready with me” to boost content, but please keep being YOU because that is what you bring to RU-vid!! I found your channel through Natasha’s Adventures, you both are awesome!!
Agreed, she would make an excellent councilor or therapist/ psychiatrist. She has a calming/relaxing tone that really puts me at ease. Maybe she's not aware of this skill she has?
Great to see you again, love your sense of humour! It helps when you put videos out on a regular basis, and perhaps a little more often when you can. Let's say every week or every two weeks.... So see you in two weeks :)
Learning how to swim isn‘t hard at all. You can catch up later at that point. I‘m watching you because it‘s allways a little break from hectic life. Please don‘t start doing strange content just for views. You do want you want to do. Enjoy your life Alena and stay healthy. The rest isn‘t important
No one hates you! There's a LOT of competition on RU-vid. Keep hammering away, and get back into your routine, crank out the content. Put your thinking cap on and think about what sort of content YOU want to make.
As an American, I love you and Natasha's outdoor content. Not that you need to travel around a lot, but I think my favorite video of you two is when you went to Armenia. I love seeing the streets of Tbilisi, but I know it's awkward filming in public.
Think about taking formal swimming lessons. In Tbilisi, consider looking into WPC Dinamo. The have professionals and great facilities. At the very least, you'll get to see a neat athletic center.
Just leaving a comment to aid in the algorithm. Of course everyone watches for different reasons. I wanted to visit Russia a couple of years ago and came across several RU-vidrs . It was your sarcastic humor that made me laugh and subscribe. There really wasn’t a subject matter that interested me in your vids, just your observation of what was around in your life. I feel that people can relate to life’s challenges, even the mundane, and you do it with your humor.
Thank You for all you do.When i was young we had a plum thicket as well.Miss that.Now all the pesticides have runined it.Maybe better minds will bring all those fruits back and able to eat them.
This place looks gorgeous. We just got back from camp this morning. Thankfully it's only 20 min away but when you live up here in VERY far NE of the US you don't have to travel far to be in the great outdoors. That being said, your English is super good. Like much better than my bud Pavel's English and he's lived here in the US for easily 15 years. Haha.
Also, I liked finding out that ypu enjoy listening to birds and then identifying them... my girl and I do that too.. as well as you shpwing the owls. My girl loves owls.
Learning to swim, and finding places to go swim, could be life changing-don’t drown! But floating and enjoying rivers, streams etc. may be a wonderful new pleasure. Remembering that our bodies are mostly water-we literately are here, and alive, because of water. Enjoy!🙏
Alena it’s great to see you and Natasha out having a good time. You might want to check out some of the RU-vid videos learn how to swim and then make some videos with you swimming.
Travel vlogs are great. People want to see what you're experiencing in your travels. At least, that's what I can see from your most common vlogs and those from other Russian RU-vidrs. Love the purple BTW :-).
I greatly enjoy watching your videos, keep them coming :) Also I laughed out loud at the shazam-ing a bird, never thought about this bit a great idea 😅
Great video! Very happy that you and Natasha spent some time in this beautiful place. You are a wonderful youtuber and your videos are really interesting. 🍀🌻
Love all your videos! Whatever you post I'll watch. Maybe try keep to a schedule? Good luck with your swimming - I hope you can get some lessons, either way please be safe ❤
In the Netherlands there's a yearly tradition when the new college / university year starts, some foreign students drown. There are canals and bridges everywhere in cities, often without fence. They get drunk, fall in, can't swim, and die 🏊
Hi Alena. I'm surprised you can't swim. You just need the right swimming instructor, or teacher. You start out with the dog-paddle, then when you get better you learn the crawl. And then the rest is easy. Side-strole and back-stroke. You just need someone to help you. Camping is fun. I camped a lot in my youth. In the wilderness, with a tent. In remote campgrounds. Lots of fishing. I enjoy your videos.😁
looks like so much fun. I spend a lot of time here in the Minnesota woods. I can swim good enough to save my life lol. RU-vid is a corporation out to make money, you just keep doing you. Your doing great and thanks for sharing your journey
My partner can't swim either, and we live next to the beach. Its hard keeping subscribers, I subscribe to this guy that flies around on a parachute with a motor, and risks his life almost every video, and he is losing subscribers too. People get bored easily and they don't want to watch the same thing every time.
Hi Alena, all the way from Australia. I watch every post, I like your content as it is; I like discovering things with you. 😁 Keep going girl, you're doing ok.
Don't worry about sub numbers, we love your vids. It's your off beat style that is appealing. In the long run the best thing to do is make vids about things that interest you. Cheers
Don't know why you're losing subscribers. Maybe people find your videos too "low key?" I like watching your videos because I find you unpretentious and "real." You are also in a part of the world I would like to experience someday. I'd like to know more about how you get by: how did you find a place to live, what are the challenges of your daily life, etc.?
Good to hear from you, thanks! A good place to try getting used to being in the water is in salt water as it is at least pleasant tasting. A bay or protected cove where there are no powerful waves to scare you, and fairly gently sloping from ankle deep to a bit past waist deep and you can try to swim...no danger of sinking when you can just stand up 🙂
Мне нравится видеть вас и слышать о ваших будущих проектах, таких как немецкий город, я понятия не имею, как он выглядит! Не могу дождаться следующего видео, продолжайте оставаться собой!
