My problem with Rachel and Jun

Rachel is an American woman and Jun is a

Japanese man, and they are married to each

other, and they have cats. They make

videos about their cats and their

wonderful, amazing lives in Japan, which

is such a fantastic, good country. In

total, they have 4 channels on YouTube:

the main channel Rachel and Jun, plus

Jun's Kitchen and Rachel and Jun's

Adventures, and then finally Jun

Yoshizuki. On the Rachel and Jun's

Adventures channel, they have videos

mostly focusing on their cats. And the

mundane parts of their lives which they

thought were too boring for their main

channel. On the Jun's Kitchen channel, he

shows off his cooking skills and how great

of a husband he is. And on the Jun

Yoshizuki channel, he has the exact same

kind of content as his Jun's Kitchen

channel— cooking videos. Why not just put

it all onto the same channel, Jun? Now my

main problem with Rachel and Jun is their

videos are so boring. Japanese apartment

tour. We hired a Japanese moving company.

We're moving. And for some reason, even

though the content is really dull,

mundane, and sterile, they manage to get

insane amounts of views. Look at this, 2

million, 6.1 million. Every single video

they get gets at least a million or more

than a million, in most cases 2 million.

I don't understand how they get so many

views every single time. It's not normal

for a channel to get more views than they

have subscribers, but nearly every single

time they upload a video, They get more

views than they have subscribers. For

example, you take a look at a typical

channel like Abroad in Japan, which has

1.3 million subscribers. He doesn't get

over a million views every time. He gets

200,000 to 400,000 views every time,

which is normal. That's the regular amount

of views that a channel that size should

normally be getting. But for some reason,

Rachel and Jun seem to be able to manage

to get more views than they have

subscribers. Nearly every upload. And I

think something fishy is going on because

either their content is top-tier,

amazing, perfect, wonderful content which

deserves all those views, or something's

happening behind the scenes at YouTube and

they're favoring Rachel and Jun because

they are family-friendly, PC, and very

respectable and likable. Well, I'm sorry,

Rachel and Jun, but I just don't think

that your content is that amazing that it

deserves more than 2 million views every

single time you upload. I think you

deserve maybe a couple hundred thousand

views, just like our friend Chris Broad

gets. Why do you get so many views? Look

at this, Jun's Kitchen's channel, which

has 3.5 million subscribers, gets insane

amounts of views. Look, 7.7 million, 6.4

million, 3.5 million. Every single

upload is an amazing viral hit for him.

How the hell does he manage to get a viral

hit Every single upload. Now, for most of

us YouTubers, viral hits are very

important because it's the easiest way to

get explosive growth on your channel. If

you don't get viral hits, then your

channel, well, frankly, it starts to

stagnate and it starts to die. And most of

us don't really know how to get viral

hits. We basically just wing it, make a

lot of videos, and hope that one day one

of them will go viral. But not Jun, our

special wonder boy here, manages to get a

viral hit every single time. What is so

amazing about his ideas and his video

titles that manage to pull in these insane

amounts of views? Cooking birthday

presents for my wife. Blueberry cheesecake

homemade yogurt. Taking my cats for a

walk. 3.6 million people wanted to see him

take his cats for a walk. His latest

video, which was 5 months ago, is

literally him just cleaning his pots and

pans and showing you how to get rust off

it. And for some reason, 1.6 million

people thought that would be interesting

and clicked on it. I bet he could make a

video scraping mud off his boots and it

would get 5 million views. Okay, I get it.

There's a lot of people interested in

Japan, and Japan is a very fascinating

place for a lot of people. But there are

loads and loads of other Japanese,

Japan-related channels, and they don't get

anywhere near the views that Rachel and

Jun get. Take Abroad in Japan, for

example, he makes way better, higher

quality content than Rachel and Jun do.

Does he get the views they get? No, he

doesn't. What is so special about Rachel

and Jun? I have no idea. But it's like

they have a friend in YouTube, at YouTube,

who is just pushing out their videos every

time. Another thing that irritates me

about Rachel and Jun is their upload

frequency is absolutely appalling. They

make maybe 1 or 2 videos every couple of

months. In the past year alone, they've

only made a total of 8 videos on their

main channel. How can they only make 8

videos in an entire year? Either they're

really, really busy, or they're really,

really lazy. I can make 8 videos in a

week. If they're getting millions and

millions of hits every single upload, why

are they not taking advantage of this?

Why aren't they making more videos? Why

aren't they making a video every week?

Why not every day? Why not just milk their

popularity dry What are they waiting for?

It just kind of feels like they don't care

about their channels and they're just

doing it on a whim, as a hobby, as a side

thing, something they don't really care

about whilst they do whatever they're

doing in their real lives. I don't even

know why they have proper jobs. They

probably have proper jobs because

otherwise what would they be doing? Why

have proper jobs when you're getting

millions and millions and millions and

millions of views every upload just by

uploading onto YouTube? Wouldn't it be

better to focus on that? Instead of

whatever else you're doing. The chemistry

between Rachel and Jun is also very weird.

It's kind of like watching a human being

interact with a robot. Rachel is like a

stereotypical loud, energetic,

hyperactive American person who's bouncing

off of the walls, and Jun is just

basically like a piece of wood who barely

has any emotional reaction to anything

Rachel says. There's barely anything

interesting about either of them, which is

kind of strange considering that they're

internet personalities But they barely

have any personalities at all, and yet

they're still able to captivate the

interest of millions and millions and

millions of people by doing pretty mundane

everyday stuff. Just because they're in

Japan, I guess that's the appeal. The

other kind of content that you'll see

quite often on their channels are about

their cats. They have 2 fluffy ginger

cats, maybe more, I'm not sure, and

they're very, very good at making

clickbaity cat thumbnail content. Which a

lot of people seem to be interested in.

And Jun actually attaches a leash to his

cat and walks it around outside in public

and takes it for bike rides, placing it in

the basket at the front of his bicycle,

which is just so weird. I would never even

dream about taking my cat out in public.

It would just have a heart attack or

scratch my face off trying to run away.

So in conclusion, my review of Rachel and

Jun would be around 2.5 out of 10. They do

not make interesting content, they're not

interesting as people, and they do not

deserve the insane amount of views that

they easily get every single time. It's

like they don't even put effort into

making videos, they just wash some pots

and pans, boom, 1.6 million views. Whilst

the rest of us who don't have friends who

work at YouTube have to struggle along

getting crappy views. And if you want to

see content about Japan, I would recommend

Abroad in Japan, which is a channel which

is actually worth watching. Good quality,

good production, good narration, and the

host of Abroad in Japan actually has a

personality, unlike Jun.

Hello,

today we're

going to be washing some pots and pans.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I

wash my pots and pans.

Squeaky clean, as you can see.

Just how I like them.