Why I don’t even bother with YouTube anymore [BAWWW]

I wanted to go out quietly, but a certain playground full of trolls and slanderous information made me think otherwise.

For the sharp observer who’s been paying attention, I deleted my youtube videos AND my subscribers just a few days ago.

I did NOT delete them because of the following:

Me being rejected for partnership for the fourth or fifth time. (I’ve lost count.)
I guess I was butthurt after the 1st rejection, but after knowing that no one makes any money from it anyway made me not care after the 2nd. I’m after opportunities that are better than $100 every other month, thank you very much!

Being chased off by a group of people who have absolutely no life.
There IS no “Victory”. I win for having a life. I get to move on with my life while some of my so called protagonists are still mentally disabled and/or unemployed. This is pointed to absolutely no one in particular, but I have to add that a certain few participants who are completely addicted to this site aren’t getting anywhere in life. Some of my friends included.

To all of those declaring victory I have a quote from the immortal Willy Wonka:

“You lose, good day sir!”

I DID delete my account for these reasons:

Making YouTube videos was a waste of time for me:

I’d rather do something (like writing for example) that is more productive than making a pointless vlog that only a few hundred people would watch anyway. While I was flattered to get SOME type of validation from those few hundreds, doing videos kind of felt like a chore to me.

While it was wonderful to voice my opinion, no matter what I said would be always misinterpreted. For instance at the Philly gathering recently someone AGAIN referred to the videos where I put 10 youtubers in their place as a hater video. I mentioned numerous times and I even made a video stating it was solely opinion and not hate. Of course people want to believe what they want to hear. Which leads to the next reason.

The fact that I dealt with tremendous stupidity:
Lets face it, YouTube is a site tailored those with ADD (myself included.) At least the trolls were creative…sometimes. Unfortunately it really makes my head spin to see comment after comment of illiteracy and poor grammar.

Not wanting to sound like an elitist, but most youtube viewer cannot comprehend complex topics. Of course I am solely judging this by how often people would not get my main points of a simple argument I presented. I blame text messaging and IM for damaging analytical skills for many young people.

Feeling out of place:
I also felt that I was in a place where too many children on the site running around unsupervised. If it wasn’t the sub4sub stupidity, it was them uploading copyright content or putting up total garbage.
I felt that at my age I could be doing something better.

It’s almost like being an adult on myspace, the number one landfill dump of the internets. Youtube is no doubt competing for that title as of right now.

Dealing with incompetence from the youtube staff:
Why would I waste time and bandwidth making videos when the staff clearly doesn’t care about me and countless others? Often I have tried to make a dialogue with the staff and point what was wrong. Despite that I got ignored numerous times. I understand them being overwhelmed with morons asking how to subscribe to videos, but they should at the very least speak to their content creators partner or not.

If it wasn’t the glitches, it was them who made countless “cheery” blog postings while being oblivious to several issues.

Despite the “Fail Whale” at least Twitter still addresses their issues head on and tries not to sugarcoat them.

I do have a feeling that Viacom is going to sue them to the point where people are going to flee the site. (Like Napster). I’m starting now before it gets even far worse than it is now.

I have higher priorities in my life:
I don’t have time to waste making vlogs. I am soon going to experience a major transition with my life. I will be done with school and on to establishing a career. Having a video of me cursing out marginal e-celebrities is definitely not the mark I want to leave on any future employers. While I STILL stand behind my words, It was only a matter of time before people in my private life began to notice. Knowing that made me a little freaked out.

That discovery would only hasten my decision.

You can quote that and tattoo it in your retinas. There will be no “comeback” like I did when Roger, The Boring Dispatcher passed away. I will not make videos on another channel. I will not pull a Greg Solomon and come back 2 years later.

To make sure I don’t “comeback” I unsubscribed to all 694 of my subscribers. This will make this decision absolutely final.

I am not leaving youtube! I will still watch and comment videos on youtube just like 95% of the public. HAHAHA! DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS. Account is closed for GOOD. I will be on stickam (or BlogTV if I can figure it out) so you can still see me. I will also be at 888 next month because its close to me and I still want to hang out with my friends (and other Toronto people as well, not just youtubers.) In fact I will go to future gatherings if they are within a reasonable distance for me. However, I will never fly out to one because there is really no point in doing so.

For the ADD crowd:
TL,DR. I did not leave because of  trolls or partnership rejection. I’m leaving because i’m tired of vlogging on YouTube. Its a waste of time, people in IRL started to notice and THAT freaked me out.

P.S. I have to approve all comments and plus I know your ip address if you do comment. Just some food for thought.

Thank you for your well wishes everyone, but its time for me to go.

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