what is going on everybody welcome back to another video on electric talks if you stumbled upon my videos within like the last year and a half to two years possibly even two and a half years you probably had no idea I even had a third Channel but now you do today's video is a video that I have been wanting to make for a very long time now and unfortunately I have not really known where to start with this because it's a very it's a video that has a lot of complexity in a lot of things
that I have wanted to include in it and also haven't felt like should be included in it and just there's there's a lot of of things I feel like I should cover but I'm actually going to try my best to keep this very brief and and just very straight to the point here if you stumbled upon my channel within the last two years like I said earlier and you have come upon my recent content and when I say recent content I mean anything starting at like beginning of 2023 up until now and you're just seeing
this video you may not know this about me but I used to be a YouTuber that posted videos every single week from the moment I started YouTube in 20 14 2015 I posted a video every single week I was doing supercharged menu challenges I was doing um carb collections I was doing eating 50 pieces of KFC chicken like all these different kinds of videos I would do every single week but the biggest videos were the calorie challenges and all those kinds of videos were videos I did for many many years up until towards the end
of 2022 now when you're a YouTuber that posts regularly and you build an audience of of subscribers that are used to seeing you put out content very very regularly and then you all of a sudden go from posting weekly to posting bi-weekly and then you go from posting bi-week to monthly and then when you go from posting monthly to every two months and then eventually every 3 months eventually people are going to start to wonder like what's happening and that scenario is exactly what happened with my YouTube channel obviously that's going to raise a lot
of questions and especially what I do on YouTube it's a very like not so healthy thing I unfortunately did not do a very good job at explaining why that happened to my channel and hopefully I can address that today and answer the questions that I I feel like a lot of you watching this video probably have that being said I feel like the best thing I should do is explain first why I stopped posting regularly for this I feel like the the best way for me to start is is by really explaining where I was
at in the middle of 2022 and honestly I can't even say just that year and for those years leading up to 2022 and what made me want to change things around YouTube has been everything for me it's been my entire life and when I started doing YouTube full-time I always assumed I had to post every single week and that's the only way you're going to stay relevant because the reality of this all is that we're as YouTubers competing for people's attention spans that is the reality of YouTube and I know that a lot of you
that consume YouTube I consume YouTube everybody is competing for attention spans we all pay attention to things that we're interested in that being said my livelihood and my my life pretty much depends on how well my YouTube channel does in my nature I always want to be the best I can possibly be whatever it is I'm doing and YouTube being the biggest thing in my life for many many years I admittedly was not I was struggling and a lot of YouTubers struggle with this a lot of I feel like just people in general especially people
that work for themselves like if you're not constantly doing better or you feel like you're stagnating at whatever it is you're doing and you don't have a way out or you don't have a solution like you can fall into a lot of Dark Places and unfortunately for me I fell into those Dark Places many many times and I had a moment in the summer of 2022 and I was actually filming I was filming an eating challenge and I can't remember what challenge it was I was bouncing back and forth between doing weekly challenges and then
I would do like a a video where I would eat something for like 24 hours I would do these larger scale eating challenges and they would get way more people would watch watch them and I knew that but I was also what I was trying to do is I was trying to force parts of myself that I like to do outside of eating challenges which back then was like riding my bike and running and lifting weights and you know like all these things about me that I wanted people to like also seeing these challenges and
I was filming a clip where I was on my bike but I remember this shot it was just a simple three or 3 second shot or whatever of me riding my bike and this 3se second shot turned into my phone falling over like 18 billion times and like I was out of focus on a bunch of the shots like just this whole ordeal turned into like a 45 minute long thing and I remember just like getting done with it and going back home and I just realized that this shot I just spent all this time
filming was going to be completely irrelevant to the video I just like wasted 45 minutes just like filming something that most people are going to skip over anyways because people were coming to these videos not to see me ride a bike or like lift a bunch of weight or like give you my life story or like me talk about stuff that completely wasn't relevant to the video I I just I had this like Epiphany in my mind where I was like oh my videos just haven't been good like I haven't been making good videos I
was trying to force so much of my ego into these videos where I wanted people to like care about the fact that I could run 50 mil at a time or I could do Iron Man's or I could like ride my bike 150 miles like I wanted people to care about those things and my ego really wanted people to care care about those things and because I was so consumed with that and consumed with this post every single week kind of mentality and just all these things I feel like it held me back a lot
as a YouTuber and I eventually realized that I just wasn't making good content I wanted to enjoy YouTube again I wanted to enjoy posting I wanted to enjoy the creative process of of my videos because I this may surprise a lot of you but I edit film produce all the content within my videos and I have been doing that ever since I started doing YouTube and since that is the case I take on every part of how well the videos do or how well they unfortunately do not do so I wanted to start succeeding again
and I wanted to start having fun again and I hate to say it like this but every time I would post a video I was just like post okay I bought myself 24 hours or 48 hours before I have to like think about the next week's challenge again and it's just like you're in that cycle of just like buying yourself time and it sounds horrible but unfortunately like that mental gymnastics kind of mindset is just like not fun at all to be in and that is the reality that I feel like a lot of YouTubers
don't really talk about is like the entertainment aspect is great and when you're consuming content you're consuming it from one perspective but also on the back end there's everything else that goes into it as well and so like my mental health suffered a lot because of my mindset back then that being said I just decided to like actually make a huge change with my channel and what I decided to do was go back to my roots and what started my channel I don't expect you guys to know this but my channel actually started as a
fitness channel and I saw the 10,000 calorie Challenge and I decided to do the 10,000 calorie Challenge and this is back in 2015 and my attempt at the 10,000 calorie challenge was like me doing I think it was like 177,000 calories and I was like oh this is super fun so these that like it was like over a 24-hour time span that I did this and that was like the first video on my channel that just like started it all and so I thought to myself one day what if I just like actually only did
24-hour challenges and in October SL November of 2022 I just decided you know what I'm just going to only do that and when I changed over to only doing 24-hour challenges I also just got really brutally honest with myself and I felt like my content was just not entertaining enough but I think the biggest thing I struggled with the most was making content that I felt like actually made an impact in people's lives like there was no emotion involved like yeah you'd probably laugh a little bit but I felt like I was a robot making
content back then and I wanted to start making videos that were more than just food videos that had more meaning involved in them and 2023 was my year of really working my hardest to make those kinds of videos and my channel has never ever had a year like 2023 and at the beginning of 2024 I decided to go from doing 24-hour challenges to doing 7-Day challenges and the comments I was getting for a long time was just like where are you like why did you stop posting weekly now turned into like are you okay because
I would go from posting a video and then 3 weeks later you see another video and then now it's like I post a video and then it's like you see a video in two months or 3 months I started seeing the comments saying oh glad you're still alive I saw that comment probably a thousand times and I was always just like are people joking when they say that it started to hit me that people weren't kidding and when I started seeing those comments I was like okay I I got to make a an like just
like an update video and just let you guys know like what actually transpired into what's going on right now so that being said yes I'm okay there's a lot of things like I kind of wanted to make this like a life update video slash like whatever it is I'm currently doing video but that will hopefully come in the video after this I'm not going to make any promises because I have a history on this channel of making Promises of posting videos and I haven't haven't stuck to those promises so if you guys want to see
an A Life Update video why don't you comment life down below and I will work on that life update video ultimately all this has left me where I am now now and I am going to hopefully answer any other lingering questions you guys may have about my content moving forward the first one that I I have gotten a lot is will I ever go back to doing weekly challenges and the answer is no um at least not for the time being I'm having so much more fun actually making content right now that is it's meaningful
for me it's like content that I'm really really proud of and that I put my heart and soul into and I'm not saying I didn't do that before but I'm just having a lot of fun with the videos that I make currently did I stop posting weekly because of health issues and this is a question SL statement that I've kind of seen like a lot over the last couple of months and the answer is no in fact my health is as good as it's ever been and I'm stronger than I've ever been I've been doing
a lot of powerlifting lately and just I I've been I'm in a really like good physical health spot the mental health thing been working on that for a long time now but that's also a separate video in and of itself that being said everyone there is one thing and it's the biggest thing I want everyone to take away from this video I want all of you to know how much I genuinely appreciate every single one of you I know that may sound like super cliche and cheesy and everything but it's just the reality I wouldn't
have anything if it wasn't for those of you out there that watch and support my videos because over the years I have gone through a lot um and YouTube has been the only thing that I feel like has provided me with purpose and without I don't know where I would be and without all of you I don't know where I would be so I apologize to all of you out there who I have left out in the dark and like I haven't explained things but hopefully this video has been a good enough explanation and that's
pretty much everything I wanted to talk about today everyone I want to say thank you so much for following for watching for supporting and hopefully I didn't miss anything and if I did be sure to leave a comment below anyways everyone thanks for watching I'll see you all in the next video on electric talk bye guys
