A YouTuber kept eating more in videos because viewers demanded it, eventually becoming severely obese. The speaker argues creators should make what they love, ignore audience pressure, and post consistently so reactive comments don't derail them.
Hello, let's talk about chasing views on the internet for a second. The game that all the influencers play and a lot of brands are playing these days. So really quick story that's not so great to help prove a point here. So there was a kid, a gentleman, he weighed, I don't know, maybe 150 pounds. He had a channel on YouTube. That was him. It was like a food blog, basically, and he was showing people like different recipes and food that he would make. And that's all fine and well, but he wasn't getting the views he wanted. So a couple comments started streaming in like, "Why don't you eat some more?" And then the challenges started getting harder from the comment system. So he just kept going, and he would essentially overeat based on. doing exactly what the audience wanted. And come back to, you know, a few years later and the kid is, I don't know, 400 pounds, very obese, and, you know, has essentially destroyed his health all in favor of giving the audience exactly what it wants. So there's a healthy balance out there. I think the thing is you gotta do what you love to do. And there's 5 billion people on the internet. There's going to be other people out there. So just make sure you're not letting someone else control your subconscious and the things that you create in the world and online, because it can cause some pretty significant damage. And the other thing I'll say, the final note here is that, you know, basically if you move fast enough and you're releasing your creative and your content every day, What you'll find is that these comments come in, they feel like they come in well after the fact, after you've created it. And so they stop almost mattering because you're creating content that's generations beyond your initial piece and publishing that out in the moment where the other stuff was, even if it's a few days behind in real-world time, in your mental time, it's— Weeks, months behind. So just stay above the trends, stay true to you, and create that content that, that you vibe with, and the audience will probably respect you more in the end. It'll be more authentic, more organic, and it'll have a nice healthy balance for you. All right, that's it. Oh no. And of course my dog is— he's upset about that. Okay, we'll talk to you later.
