When People Hear You Have A Hobby 

🤣🤣🤣

Perfection🤣

😂😂

brilliant! :)))))

that's close to the truth probably, literally. tell me he was an only-child and it's confirmed.

Me too that child is the greatest in existence

Thia comment is under every video that mentions a kid… I think Ryan’s audience has PTSD

yeah same

Every time I think of that kid I laugh uncontrollably. Now I need to go watch that video again.

BLOOD! 😃

Exceptions exist.

​@ which, in turn, prove the rule.

Yes but if the other option is worse, it's still worth it.

As someone who managed to make a living from one of my 'hobbies' for 30 years, your professor was very correct...it makes you start to hate it because it turns into a job, & what you once found relaxing & fun, you now find stressful & look for any excuse to try to get away from it...

​@@Thuazabiok

Me too! 😅 The funniest part is that I've talked with home bakers and they make less money than I do right now. Weirdly even after saying that, people still don't accept my argument, oh well 🤷‍♀️

@@Asharra12 yes! That's the other thing I say. To make it worth my while I'd have to charge pretty high prices and most people don't want to pay $80+ for a cake. I've seen plenty of amazing bakeries go under because I imagine the margins are super thin. Seems like added stress I don't need when I already have a decent job. Just let me have my hobby!

I am the exact same - been baking for almost 40 years since I was a kid. Friends & family love my treats and often suggest I sell them or open a bakery… but no, for all the reasons you’ve so perfectly described. I’m NOT getting up at 4 am to bake for 12 hours straight!! Plus I’m sure the taste would suffer - whenever I get something from an actual bakery I think my own cakes taste better, and I’m sure that’s why. My one concession is that I recently started an Instagram account entirely for photos of my baking projects… so I can delight my 35 followers 😂

​​​@@prenticeclark1454well here in germany it wouldn't even be allowed to bake at home and sell the stuff and than just turn it into a business. You need qualifications and certifications, years of training with diploma until you are even allowed to become a baker here and than still you would have to fulfill so many health requirements.. Seriously being a professional baker here has nothing to do with baking stuff at home, that's why this isn't even a thing here 😂

​@@bofh85 In America some people do sell home-baked goods on a local limited basis - I know a 14-year-old boy who does it - but yes, I agree that if I were to open an actual baking shop I'd need to go to culinary school and get a degree in order to secure funding, pass health inspections etc. I've never had any intention of doing all that myself. I'm sure baking professionally at scale involves all sorts of different requirements. But I do think you might be underestimating the talent of home bakers, many of whom are quite skilled and dedicated. Some start popular websites and develop their own recipes. And if the many seasons of The Great British Baking Show are any evidence, there are a lot of amazing home bakers all over the world. Those contestants of all ages and backgrounds really show their abilities in tackling complicated baking challenges.

yeah, exactly where my head went too!

This is exactly what this skit reminded me of.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of it

As an entrepreneur whose business started out as a hobby I can confirm this is the truth😂😢

Too many words. Didn’t read

It's almost like we're all individuals that should follow our own separate paths or something.

no, we must accept the will of the capitalistic hivemind overlord being.... in the skye... probably somewhere @@TsukiNaito1

and now we're gonna have a shortage of electricians and plumbers that's great

@@Zeylo89 all must pray to the GRIND

I firmly believe that anyone can start a business or go to college but not everyone should. We all have different ways of learning, different goals, aspirations and sometimes those goals don't require a business or college

Dude, I wish someone had told me that but I was surrounded by people who wanted me to make money off my art work, so I tried for too long and mostly it was just a lot of stress. Turns out selling your artwork is like 10% actually doing art and 90% trying to figure out ways to market it, making a website, ads, sourcing materials, keeping track of finances, etc. etc.

@@linmonPIE Same boat. I did graphic design professionally for 7 years and grew to hate it. I had a stable job doing design, but also tried freelancing and Etsy. Most of my time was spent designing social media ads for my designs. Hated it. I've now switched jobs and have taken up writing as a hobby, just for myself and my family. Currently working on a family history and enjoying it immensely

As a now retired professional artist, I agree... it's like getting married...what was great when you were doing it because you just wanted to do it, turns into a torturous grind & you want nothing more than to get away from it...

Now to find something I can tolerate... (I'm 45)

Had my first panic attack from illustrating for a comic job. I love illustrating, and comics, but I hated that job and it made me lose what little confidence I had left of my art altogether. Went back to school for another career path and now work as a medical coder. Nearly 7 years later and only now am I thinking to illustrate and make other art more often again, _just as a hobby!_ Art is my passion, but I also always happened to like reading, research, data sheets, and other random tedious things with computers, so medical coding is alright enough to do indefinitely for me. I get to work from home too!

Hi Ryan, nice to meet you. I am Ryan.🙂

God I wish

Lol

That's how well TPTB have pushed capitalism into everyone's mind. When I read that "I invested $CASH into this game, or this tool for my hobby"…

It's also how the RU-vid algorithm operates.

"False needs" as described by Herbert Marcuse in The New Forms of Control

@@memerminecraft585 It's 2024, if nobody made a movie version then less than 0.01% of people will know it exists, I bet more people watched this video than has read his works, so it won't matter. People are idiots and our species is not going to survive for very long, end of story. I've been telling my parents about climate change and the degradation of our environment for the past 20 years, every time they just say, it's fine, it's normal, people in charge got it handled, etc. Yesterday they watched an entertainment show with a celebrity talking about it, and all of sudden they where all, "I had no idea it was this bad, why have I never heard about these things before?", I've told them literally every single thing they "learned" from that program many many times. Humans are freaking braindead, and a few people knowing about stuff will change nothing.

​@@daniel4647 heres that yappuccino you ordered ☕️

My brain read "deadliness". My brain wanted to read "deadliness". It is better that way. You do take headshots, yes?

I don't know if this is even relevant to you anymore, but anyways: Usually selling stuff has nothing to do with the quality of your work and everything with selling it. To basically every product you know, you can find a better or cheaper version if you just look for it (best example apple). But people buy the "worse" products anyways because 1. Humans are stupid and 2. Marketing works and people get paid to do nothing but think the whole day about how to get you to buy something. So I don't know how good your beading is. But I'd bet money on it, that the reason why you couldn't sell it wasn't that it wasn't good enough but rather that you didn't know how marketing works. And that's fine (I don't either), don't let it destroy your passion :)

​@@temeraire8329

​@@temeraire8329Thiiis. What do you like to do? Singing? Cool. How about you do marketing instead? Yea, do a lot of search engine optimization, networking, and think about budgeting a lot. That's got nothing to do with what you want to do? Well you've gotta put in the work! Hey you, what do you like to do? Cool, cool. Hey how about marketing, search engine optimization, networking, budgeting,... I'm not finished! Listen! So TikTok is popular, you do that now.

@@temeraire8329 Thank you. I appreciate the advice and encouragement. Unfortunately though, I don't have as much time as I used to, so my jewelry making has fallen by the wayside. But I hope that some day, I'll pick it back up again and enjoy creating stuff just for the sake of enjoying it.

Hillariouy and wholesome comment :-)

Yeah, my hobby software is not even on GitHub, I keep that stuff elsewhere, and while its open source, you can't send me a PR or report an issue. I don't care if anyone finds it useful (if they even find it at all).

Yes! I'm in the group. Suck it, other RU-vidrs!

I would like to see your software one day

@@elcaponeholyemperorofnj1169 Do you already have a business plan in mind? 😁

As much as I hate this sort of thing. I realized that I was doing this to my sister. I don't want to ruin art for her, but I know there are people who would love her drawings. It'd be some nice chump change. I'm trying not to be overbearing about it though.

@@tiacool7978 As a guy who loves art and have had that same thing mentioned to me, I can get a bit repetitive, to say the least. It's ok to do a commission or two, and even make money off of it but, Art block is a real thing and if that is your Job or "Gig", and you hit one of those, your life is gonna feel miserable until it naturally clears up

My parents unfortunately did this too, so there's always that nagging feeling I'm supposed to somehow be trying to make money when I'd rather just be enjoying leisure time.

Looking at the positive side, they probably just want you to have a successful career doing something you like, not a soulless job doing something you barely give a crap about, not considering you don't want a hobby done for leisure/fun turned into a full-time job, that if turned into a full-time job might suck out all the fun you have doing it.

Same.

Actually it was super easy, barely an inconvenience

Actor? Role? Are you implying that these videos are fictional?

You know Ryan played the bird right?

Birdly an inconvenience..

Jokes on you, that's just Ryan in a mask!

That explains why I don’t like talking about my writing 😅 Like don’t get me wrong I’d love to have a book but if I focus on that my brain goes to mush and the creativity stops. It’s mostly for fun

I used to make handmade cards for my family, but every time, all I'd hear about was how I should sell them, how I should open an Etsy shop, how I should sell them at craft fairs, etc. Not just a casual "Oh, you could sell these!" as a compliment. Actual pressure, like you faced with your family and plan ideas like in the sketch. They all get store-bought cards now 😂

I'm struggling with this. Been telling a story to my kids for years. They have had a lot of input. But I can't talk about it with people because they do exactly this. And I love talking about it. But I find myself doing it less and less because I don't want the fun and wonder to die like drawing did. And music. Jeez, can I just have a hobby!? ...😅

@@lunacouer It sucks cause they usually genuinely think they’re being supportive! But in reality you just feel pressured and under expectation.

Same here. My dad kept badgering me to sign up for Amazon or whatever and start posting unfinished drafts so I could get in the public eye or something. Every time I visited him, it was always "Are you ready to publish yet?", "How far have you got on your novel?", "You should consider posting unfinished drafts so people can see them"... Now I just write self-indulgent fanfic, because at least with that there's no expectation to monetise it from anyone. Quite the opposite, in fact, since that would be illegal (unless you pull a Fifty Shades, but fuck that). I can just sit down and have my fun. Do I get judged? Probably. But it's better than dealing with all the pestering for me to turn it into a daily grind. My hobby is kept firmly within the hobby category, right where it belongs, and my dad eventually stopped his nagging so we actually get along again now. Win.

I don't. 👍🦋

The hell?

It's funny because stuff like that can't be predicted at all, in fact in hindsight it's often the most unique and unconventional names which are the most popular and appealing

You should snap back at her citing the novel Snow Crash where the main character is named Hiro Protagonist and that book sold very well. Great book too.

i liked writing as a hobby when i was a kid and as i grew older i started getting exhausted because i started thinking about world-building 🥲

Ooh. You could throw this back at them. "Sure, so are you going to take care of all the logistics and I'll just do my hobby?"

No, because they'll take me seriously & want to go into production, which again turns it into a job & they'll think I'm offering a business deal when I'm not...& even if I were to start a business, I don't do partners, because then you'll have another person wanting control & pushing for more products, different varieties, etc, etc... I prefer to make one off projects for my own entertainment & that's it... I have no desire for money or to sell anything I make... I may not be rich by any stretch of the imagination, but everything I have is paid for & I'm in no debt, which is fine with me... I don't need money, or anything resembling a job... I'm good with where I am in life...

@@Road_Rash My thought process was like "let them know just how much work would go into turning the hobby into a work" less so than an offer.

The people I know wouldn't care about how much work it would be...once they smell money & think they might be able to get some of it, they'd never leave me alone...best just to tell them a good, firm no & move on... people simply won't accept any explanation as to why you don't want to make money... they're absolutely crazy when it comes to that, & become just like the pushy guy in the video...trust me, I've had the same conversation like in the video too many times...they don't let up until you hammer it into their heads that you're not doing it...

Speaks to why things are so often done poorly

Do you and dad love each other? And see, you have a camera, so why not earn some money? Oh what, now I'm the one who doesn't respect boundaries, sure.

@@onkelpappkov2666your one of the weirdest people to exist, stop talking to yourself

Is this video a call for help?

So the guy in the white hat is ScreenRant? 🤔

@@nickpierson4423 One that's super easy, barely an inconvenience!

He's dying inside.

Gosh I hope not, I’ve decided.

Yeah it’s crazy how literally everything these days is a side hustle it’s like people don’t have fun anymore

Tbh I tend to share my hobbies only with people that are into same/similar hobbies and leave my friends and families out of it.

@@luisfilipe2023 can't blame them though with the cost of living crisis one stream of income isn't enough or secure

@@luisfilipe2023everything needs to be a side hustle so people can still make a living that the sad truth

IM A BESPOKE TAILOR of men's historical suits - I only work for myself, family and friends and I have this conversation WITH EVERY PERSON I MEET...!!! ITS MY HOBBY - I DONT WANT TO MONETIZE IT - ITS WHAT I DO TO RELAX - HOW WILL I RELAX IF ITS A BUSINESS...??? I finally set up an IG page to shut people but it says "Im not currently taking commissions" and it deliberately really bad LOL, but they now tell me I have to promote the page, NO I dont want to do this, I just like sewing, please leave me alone.

What someone enjoys as leisure often doesn't make for a good job for them. It's a quick way to get burnt out. Has to do with motivational salience, intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation, an appropriate amount of effort and reward, the prosocial purpose of a role, and operant and classical conditioning and associative learning. It's similar to school.

It's fine to make a job out of your passion, but it's not for everyone.

Who makes Ryan's days brighter though?

@@Scottishcanary Ryan him self

Hey, props to you rediscovering your joy in the thing you love doing.

I want to do that with art, but I can’t get re-inspired :/

That’s awesome!

@@Miners666I’m an artist too and I totally get what you’re going through. What started the issue for you love?

@@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700 well I wanted to be an artist/illustrator as a career, as art is the only thing I’ve ever been good at, but, as it turns out, life isn’t about how good you actually are, it’s about how good you can convince people you are, you are a product you have to be able to sell. So anyway, that never panned out. Also, my artwork got stolen by Amazon and slapped on merchandise, they just ignored any action I took against them and the products were never taken down. Adding to that my artwork was removed from my own site due to being copyright struck, despite it being my own original work. Also, whenever I bothered to share my artwork or design ideas plenty of people online loved to tell me it was shit and that professional designers were laughing at me. So found that my work wasn’t good enough to give me a job, it wasn’t good enough to sell as a side hustle, but it is apparently good enough to steal and there’s nothing I can do about it. And so realised there was no point to any of it. Plus nowadays AI can create something better in seconds than what I can produce in hours.

What’s this fisherman story?

@@jakobr_just Google “Mexican fisherman story.” But basically it points out the lunacy of pursuing riches just so that you can do everything you were already doing before, but after losing 20 ish years of it

​@@jakobr_ fish her deez nuts

Google “The businessman and the fisherman”

@@jakobr_ It's a story about how a businessman saw a fisherman chilling and told him he should get off his ass and work to expand his operation into a huge corpo with tens of boats and hundreds of fisherman doing the fishing for him. Fisherman then ask the businessman why would he want to do that? Businessman said so you can retire happy and chill all day long. Fisherman replied well whaddaya think im doin now?

Whhats your hobby

@@simon-peterwilliamson2412 The one turned into a business is credit card rewards. (I teach people how to strategize their credit card applications in order to gain the most profit with the lowest cost and effort).

not if i love him first

You turned solving rubik cubes into a business??!!

@@joeynathan6073 that's one of my other hobbies, ha.

Yeah… I liked this for 2 minutes… then I started having an existential crisis

I do that while walking. Going from bopping to a great beat to questioning whether I should wipe out humanity.

​@@ShapelessIsle I can help with that one! You couldn't possibly wipe out humanity so there's no point in trying, and you shouldn't even if you could.

@@-Teague- Honestly, I dont need to. A Lot of people are gonna die by 2050. World population would drop massively by 2070. And you most definitely can wipe out humanity. Covid already showed one method how it can be done, with ease infact.

You shysters are so toxic.

Millions of gamers with failed channels felt the same as you but made the mistake of doing it anyway.

Brains are weird, aren't they? I grew up playing games but once I hit 17 games became a "waste of time." So I couldn't bring myself to play through most games anymore, especially the long single player ones. Yet, I still spent most of my time reading comics or other idle activities all day. Knowing this even now 12 years later, I can't quite sit down and play a game for too long. I just get a bad feeling surrounding games specifically. It's kinda stupid!

My hyper-realistic sketches of high denomination bank notes should be really easy to monetize, I decided.

@@makarabaduk1754 LOL!

That's so charming, the tourist basically overcomplicating enjoying the seaside view.

That's what I though about too. Must be based on this old story (the one I know about is without cameras).

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2atNgJ6W4N0.htmlsi=SJoWTVNIWvu7MGSV

After which, the fisherman somersaulted over the tourists head, broke his neck, and saved the day?

I remember reading that story in class too. 😅🇦🇹

Unless you don't get any pay out of it, then it's neither, then you are just being miserable

Conversely, turning any hobby into a job immediately makes it not fun anymore - because now you HAVE TO do it.

playing league of legends

@@thequestcube That's just called addiction

I'm literally about to quit designing FPV drones because of this video

I think he should even try and turn it into a side hustle or something. I’m sure there’s money in it don’t you think?

And then he did a black flip and snapped the bad guys neck.

"or simply viewers who have lived life" What is he inspiring them to do?

"I've published 2 more novels than you ever have." Nice burn /gen

Exactly. I'm learning to draw because I want to make a comic. Not because I want Netflix to eventually make a movie out of it, but because I have an idea in my head, and I want to make it real! It's amazing how adulthood can ruin this stuff. When I was a teen, you wrote because it was fun, and no-one ever got on you for not trying to maximum monetize it. That said, I feel terrible for teens these days, because the omnipresent pressure of social media has many of them feeling like if they're not getting 5,000 likes on whatever they post, why even try?

This. I've painted 400 more canvases than most people ever will. Even in my secondary hobby that I do just for fun, no, I don't sell it. But I've probably made 500 more pounds of soap than most people ever will in their lives.

I have this little hobby on the side too. I'm ahead of most people, but I guess I still have a ways to go before I catch up with Ted Bundy. . . . Ok, bad joke. No need to send the black helicopters.

Because the idea that you can’t be happy or successful without making money has been BEATEN into American culture to the degree that it’s nauseating

It's a scam. Everyone thinks they can make it but no one does. Its bs.

@@avesatana20it’s also survivorship bias, in that you only ever hear the success stories. It makes it seem that all you need to do is try, work hard, and you’ll make it. They don’t show you the 99.9% of people who did exactly that and failed.

@@Miners666 And they keep changing the goals of the scam so people don't realize it. A few generations ago people were sold the idea that degrees, college and hard work would guarantee them a successful and wealthy life. They were even sold on the idea that they would find the perfect partner, have great kids (who would be perfect and fulfil their parents hopes and dreams) and now people realise THE WHOLE GAME IS RIGGED. The wealthy elite keep the majority in poverty, and a few of the middle class as some sort of false ideal for the poor to aspire to. Even the middle class are miserable and finally figuring out the game is bs. Post WW2 they introduced the 'entertainment industry'. Suddenly movies, TV and popular music was used to as an aspirational focus. It's a well known in psychology that if you want to control an animal, including humans, you must give them an aspirational focus. Hope by itself is not a strong motivatior, you must also given that animal something that equates with pleasure, not just hope for an absence of suffering. Hope is weak, but can fade quickly, but a belief in a dream is powerful and enduring. Religion was a strong control mechanism for the poor for thousands of years, with heaven and a great afterlife plus they were told their suffering was their own fault due to not being perfect. As the influence of religion has waned in the 20-21st century fame has replaced it, wealth, career success and now business success and internet success has replaced it. As people stop believing in one aspirational focus they churn out another load of bs to control the masses. This latest 'everyone can be famous, run an internet business or be wealthy gamers, RU-vidrs' etc. is all more of the same. Romance is bs. Marriage is bs. A career is bs. Getting on the 'property ladder' is bs. Fame is bs. People need to come together and realise wtf is going on. Everyone is being played against each other because of gender, race and all the other divide and conquer bs. 🙄 But instead they all turn to idiots like Rogan, Brand, Tate, Peterson and many other lackies of the elite who are just steering them down another false path.

Ikr? It usually costs money to talk to someone whos got a business growth plan ready to go that fast they dont just come over unless it's your cousin who just finished some degree

I spent over 3 decades as a professional artist trying to get to retirement so I didn't have to do the artwork that others wanted me to do & just do the art that I personally wanted to do... I'm finally there... I don't like commission work... it's someone else's idea, not mine...then you have to submit your efforts for approval to someone who has no clue how to do what you do, but will nit pick your efforts... I have no desire to deal with that 🐂💩 again... I make what I make for me now... it's a finished product when I say it's finished, not when someone else says it's finished...& if nobody else likes it but me, I'm good with that, because I made it to suit me & not anyone else just to get paid...& in my experience, any time you think you've really outdone yourself, you've done your dead level best & actually impressed yourself with whatever it is, that project will be roundly ignored, but you half ass something, cut every corner & just throw it together, people will love it & praise you for it, & you'll actually hate the piece because you know you can do better... that's the irony that creates 'tortured' artists...these days, I don't have to worry about who likes what...as long as I like it, that's all that matters...

I would never force you to start drawing again, but if you do... don't tell anyone. Just do a little doodle or two.

Don't listen to any of those people and draw stuff only when you want to. And then if you want to share it with someone don't share it with those people. The "fun suckers" who suck away all the fun can get screwed.

So you stopped liking drawing. How is that their fault just for saying words you could ignore?

@@grabble7605 that’s always easy to say when you’re not living it from the inside.

It was just a theory... once.

Thanks for watching internet.

no mostly in the funnies

MatPat too??

yes, check@@robertb.7772

Came to write pretty much this exact comment. 😂 👍

What kinda fanfics you write?

@@beeftips1628 Are you gonna... _pay_ for them?

I’m gonna guess you write Star Trek fan fiction about the steamy, forbidden love between Captain Picard and Mr. Data, and how Jean-Luc could make Data feel _even without_ his emotion chip. And if I’m right, you’re doing the Lord’s work! 🖖

As a fan fic writer who has ALSO written my own stuff... you still don't get published and make money.

Who is 'they' tho

@@christianjaros2520 media, influencers, boomers who think that they've walked in your shoes but failed to account for massive inflation, and sometimes even your own expectations can hurt your feelings. "I thought I would be x at this time in my life, but I'm nowhere close to it." You just gotta grind to get there bro! Work 25 hours a day and 8 days a week on your portfolios and monetize every single thing you have a little bit of talent doing.

Sometimes it's even just good friends who nonetheless can get annoyed that you're having fun without working as hard as they do... The "sunk cost fallacy" is _really_ seductive; it's increasingly hard to accept that maybe chasing 'dolors' isn't all it's cracked up to be, once one has sunk a lot of time & effort into doing it

Same. It's literally the only thing anyone ever talked about. The idea of deriving any kind of personal joy or satisfaction from one's work was just ... too ridiculous to even imagine saying out loud.

Nobody ever did that to me. Now everyone seems to have a side hustle and multiple streams of income Maybe I missed out. He should have said his hobby was paddle boarding

​@@recoveringsoul755 You can have multiple streams of income and none of them be from former hobbies.

Good wife!

Now I'm thankful for not having any hobbies

For sure. I love woodworking. Doing a couple craft shows has helped make a few bucks but I definitely keep all sales or "business" firmly in the lense of getting others to pay for my hobby. I already have a full time job. I don't want a part time one to go with it.

I started sewing and making LARP and other kind of stuff out of leather and the first thing out of most people's mouths is about monetizing it. Seriously it shows how money has taken over their minds

I don’t even talk about my hobbies anymore.

You are me right now, from computer to woodcarving animals 😂

Keep it up. We need more teachers and fewer people chasing fame and glory. Props to you man

Your spelling of the word "tonne" made me go back and read your whole comment in an English accent. Lol

I get that. I'm drawing super infrequently. When I do I put time in and learn new things until I get it right, so what I show to others looks good. Someone I knew asked to draw something for them they could use in a business and I just straight up had to say no because thats simply not what I want to do with my skills. It doesn't feel right. I tried turning it into a job when I was in school by aspiring to be a graphic designer and that was the worst decision I made in life and killed the fun of drawing for me completly for a solid few years. Got a job in IT helping people and its just way better. After all that I started drawing again here and there because I could enjoy it again.

I think you're epic.

Tbf, i for one have actually considered building pcs for others and starting that sort of business simply because i just wanna make more pcs but its like if the person doesnt want to make it their job why do they have to?

Ikr, as if the yarn and time involved in making an afghan can be monetized - it's in the hundreds or thousands. No one is going to pay 1000 bucks for an afghan when Walmart is selling some for 50$

Lol

😂

That is brilliant

YES!

Would that not be a very one-sided conversation though?

Or when you knit something ... or make some homemade Christmas cards ... or some homemade candles. 🙄

That could make lot of money? Maybe there is a way to franchise it.

I wouldn't advise that.@@XtreeM_FaiL

@@XtreeM_FaiL the grind never stops

How are you going to make money out of heavy eye bags? Unless you are going to draw them and make a story about yourself as the sleep deprived artist. That could work very well. Off to it. Chop Chop.

Hi there. Hello. It's me your unpaid intern. Start paying me or I will Tweet bad about the working conditions here!

Hi it's me your second unpaid intern, give me a raise or i'll leak the terrible working conditions in this basement of yours

@@gosucab944maybe, but if you arent making a podcast off of your eye bags, you arent cutting it. get a merch line going and some sequels + prequels before you can call that a day. even then, you also gotta think about the netflix documentary.

Just be friends with it and respect it.

Great thing we made idolizing it the number one most important thing in our society

Sadly we live in a society where we need money to survive. Artistic integrity doesn't mean $hit when you're starving.

My problem is I've never been ambitious enough. I'm happy enough just to make enough money to pay the bills. I don't give a crap about swag and all that.

We need some root cause analysis here. Love of money is just a symptom. Why do people love money? Because it gives power and the illusion of control. Why do people want power and control? Because of fear. So maybe fear is the root of all kinds of evil.

I’ll do a reaction video to your reaction video, keep the cycle going

@@ThisDarkKnight Im gonna do a live stream of me shitting on your reaction video to my reaction video, which will make the reaction format even lazier!

@@ThisDarkKnight And I''ll do a reaction video to your reaction video of matrix780's reaction video

​@@gt8200-0I will make a podcast about your reaction video

"Sound of old lady screaming" 😂

I want to say hi to a fellow mead fan. I haven't started brewing mead, but I have been brewing soda for years. I agree that making it and experimenting with recipes is a lot of fun. I expect it'll be just as fun when I finally start brewing mead!

I'm the same with my hobbies. People often forget the amount of safety regulation that can be (quite reasonably) involved once you start selling certain things (my hobbies have a quite strong mechanical engineering bent, this is obviously not so applicable if your creations can't potentially cause crush injuries or electrocution! Or in your case licencing and food-safety, which I imagine are - again entirely reasonably - rather involved). Also, once I am building my 'things' with the wants/needs of people other than myself in mind, I am really just going to end up building things already on the market by big companies with the sort of economies-of-scale I can't achieve anyway.

Can I be your friend? I always wanted a friend that brews mead and gives it away 😃

Are you serious? Because the laughing emoji says you're being sarcastic.

@@avesatana20 I meant it as laughing at myself, so thank you for letting me know that it would be misinterpreted. I changed it to a smiley face now, so hopefully that works 😁.

@@jennifere.pergola598 Ok. I actually thought your comment was making good points. There is always a pressure to monetize creativity and it is seen as a failure if you don't have a bestseller when in fact the success is in the creativity itself.

@@avesatana20 Thank you very much, I needed to hear that, too! 😁

@@jennifere.pergola598 You're welcome. It's great to hear that someone has freed themselves from the fame bs that plagues creativity.

It is the first time that I've ever heard of them 😮

how@@LlamaDuck2211

All of this. It seems that disabled people cannot live life, enjoy life, do what makes them happy without having someone tell them they need to be productive. Hope everything goes well for you.

@@giftyampratwum2865 Thank you! I am extremely fortunate that I am in a position where others support me and don't resent that I need that support. The people closest to me don't try to get me to monetize stuff. It's mostly strangers and acquaintances that, upon hearing of my life situation, know exactly how to (a) cure my disability if I just tried [thing] and (b) monetize my skills regardless of disability.

Yeah… I got that vibe too

Yeah, that he wants to go paddleboarding.

@@jimmym3352 paddleboarding is super easy, barely an inconvenience!

@@jimmym3352that he likes to draw happy chubby birds

How in the current capitalism everything has to be turned into a product and that we can't enjoy our free time with fun hobbies or with our families without thinking it is all a waste of time if we are not making a profit out of it?

Not anymore it ain't. :D

I keep seeing big "leaving RU-vid" announcements. Wonder if one person started it and then a bunch of others realized they feel the same way.

same :( But gotta eat you know

As someone who actually monetized one of my hobbies for 3 decades, you'll regret it... you'll take something you enjoyed, suck all the joy out of it, & you'll start hating it & wanting to escape it at every given opportunity... when aspiring to 'live the dream', just remember, nightmares are dreams too...