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Hello.

Hello.

How bad is it? It's pretty bad.

Not looking good.

Oh my God, everything is really messed up.

The last few days has been like this

massive emotional roller coaster where I I

thought I had good news yesterday. I

thought I had good news and I was

celebrating and I bought myself a döner

kebab, and then I checked the email again

and realized, wait, I got it wrong. This

is nothing to celebrate about.

So let me explain what happened.

Yeah, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I

think I'm gonna have to ask my mum for

some money because I

don't know how to pay this. It's just—

it's too much.

So yesterday I got an email saying that

the tax you owe is like £2,400.

And then I was like, is that it? And I was

really happy and I thought, wow, I guess

because I told them I was living in

Rotterdam in 2020, they must have taken

the tax I owed down from £6,000 down to

£2,400. So I was really happy because I

thought that my 2020 tax

got cut in half. But then I looked at the

email again today, and now I realized,

wait, that £2,400 tax I owe is not for

2020, it's for 2019. I still

owe like £6,000 for 2020.

So me telling them that I was living in

Rotterdam for 6 months didn't help. They

said, in order for you to not be UK tax

resident, you need to be out of the UK for

182 days. I was

out of the UK for 179 days.

So literally, if I was in Rotterdam for 4

more days, maybe I could have gotten

a lower tax bill.

So they said because I was only out of the

UK for 179 days that I'm still technically

UK tax resident and I still got to pay the

full amount for 2020. So basically

it's all Mila's fault. If she didn't dump

me until like 1 week later, then I would

have been in Rotterdam 1 week— 1 week

later, 1 week more, and then I would have

been non-UK tax resident.

So like, I blame Mila for everything. She

destroyed my YouTube channel. She forced

me into making fake videos so I could

protect the relationship. And then she

dumped me literally 4 days before I would

have been eligible for being tax— non-tax

resident in the UK. And she made me lose

loads of money. But if you know what she

could have done, or what she should have

done as a Dutch person, she should have

rented an apartment for me like my Thai

girlfriend right now. Is renting the

apartment for me, because if I rent it

myself as a foreigner, as a tourist,

they would rip me off and charge me like

a, a huge amount for rent just because I'm

a tourist. So I got ripped off in

Rotterdam because I was renting a place as

a tourist when

Mila could have helped me rent it and I

could have given her the money. So Mila

didn't even help me get an apartment. She

She didn't even warn me that I was living

in like a really dangerous part of the

city as well. And then I ended up getting

my benefits— I mean, my deposit money from

the apartment taken, stolen from me by the

stupid landlord. I gave him 2 months

deposit and he didn't give any of it back.

It was like, what was it, £2,000?

2 months, um, rent deposit

that I was supposed to get back. But

because I left the place in a little bit

of a mess, he said I broke the sofa,

which I didn't. He said something like,

the sofa is kind of weird when you—

because it was a sofa bed and it was

getting a lot of action every night. He

said the sofa bed doesn't fold back in or

something. I don't know what he's talking

about. And then he said the oven was

messy, had like black stuff burnt

into it, which— it's an oven, you can't

burn the inside of an oven. The oven is

designed to be heated up to 200 degrees

plus. It's just like burnt-on grease. You

could easily scrape it off if you get

cleaning equipment. So they claim that I

messed the place up and broke this and I

broke that when I didn't. And then they

didn't give my deposit back, and then they

ghosted me.

So I lost thousands of pounds staying in

that stupid apartment, and then I didn't

get my deposit back, and then I wasted

thousands in Airbnbs. And then now I

wasn't even in Rotterdam for over 180

days, so I'm not counted as non-UK tax

resident. Now I pay everything that I have

to pay as tax on everything I made in

2020.

And this is not even the end. They haven't

even told me how much I owe for 2021. So I

made slightly less in 2021 than I did in

2020, so it should be a bit less, but it's

still going to be like £3,000-£4,000

probably. And they haven't even decided on

the penalties yet. So they

said I owe £2,400 for the tax year of

2019, but I replied saying I was

living in Japan for 9 months. But they

seem to have ignored that, so I just sent

them another email saying I was in Japan

for 9 months because I shouldn't have to

pay tax on 2019 because I was in Japan for

9 months, wasn't I? I came back to

England in 2019 around February because of

my dad. And then, so the tax year is from

April to April. So from April I was in the

UK and then I went to Germany for like 3

weeks. I guess I could count that,

but I don't really need to. So I was in

the UK from April and then I went back to

Japan in July, didn't I, to go back to

Chihiro. And then I came back to the UK

after we got divorced in March, didn't I,

because of, you know, the you know what.

So that's July, July,

August, September, October, November,

December, January, February, March.

That's 9 months. I was easily out of the

country for more than 180 days. So

hopefully they say, okay, you don't have

to pay any tax, and they get rid of that

£2,400, which they should because I wasn't

living in the UK. So anyway, I need to

wait for the reply now. They take freaking

ages to reply.

So as of right now, I go into my, my tax

account, it says I owe £6,540.

Now I'm kind of confused because as of

right now I've got 2 emails telling me how

much I owe, and I added it up and the

total came to like £7,500.

I don't really understand the wording.

Look, it says,

says your tax returns showed income tax

contributions due as £1,307.

After this amendment to the figures, your

tax returns show tax due of £6,000.

The difference between these amounts is

5,160.

So it seems like I owe 6,470,

but then on this email it says for

2020 to 2021, it says amount

charged by this assessment 5,160.

So do I pay one— it says 5,160 charge

amount charged, but the other one says

6,400 something.

So I don't know which one's which, and I

don't know because I go into my tax

account, it says you owe 6,500. Is that

just for 2020, or is that 2019 plus 2020?

Because if it's only 2020, then when they

add the 2019, then that's going to become

like nearly 9,000.

Do you have a due date to pay all the tax?

Yeah, it says you've got to pay all the

tax by 24th of September.

So then I emailed them saying I don't have

that money, can I do monthly payments?

And it says on the website set up a

payment plan if you cannot pay in full,

and it just gives you a phone number. So I

gotta phone them up and then say,

I'm broke, how can I pay this? I don't

have the money. Like, I'd be happy to pay

more than what I owe if you let me pay it

over like 10 years.

Um, so if I go

by— if I go by what it says I owe— did

you never pay tax? I did pay tax, I just

didn't pay enough according to them.

I was not declaring everything I

So I was only declaring, I don't

know, my YouTube earnings but not the

other one, through no fault of my

own, obviously.

So if I go by what the emails say I owe,

it says you owe $2,300, and then this

other email says you owe $5,100.

So that's, uh, $5,160.

That's £7,460 I owe so far.

And then I don't even know what I'm gonna

owe for 2021. I was in the UK

the entire time because of lockdown, so I

can't say I was living outside of the UK

anymore. And I think I made like £24K.

Oh crap, but I took— I took the— you

know, in America they gave you all

stimulus? Did everyone get that? Did

everyone in America get stimulus, or was

it something you were able to choose to

receive or not receive, or was everyone

just able to get it? Because in the UK,

um, they were giving out money for

self-employed people, so obviously I took

it, but now they're adding the amount of

money I took to my earnings, so 2020

says I made $30K, but because I took the

self-employment benefits, it says I made

$36K because I took like $6K in the

stimulus. And I think I, yeah, I took more

stimulus in 2021. I took like $6K again or

$8K. So my earnings for 2021 are going to

be like $30K again, which means I'm

probably going to be taxed like $5K or $6K

again. So add that to what I currently

owe, it's like £5K. I owe £12K now and

I don't even know what they're gonna do

for penalty. What if they do like 100%

penalty? I'm gonna owe like

£22,000.

Yeah, I owe like £25,000.

I don't even have that. All I've got,

my entire life savings, is like $18K,

$19K. This is

gonna completely wipe me out.

Now all these years of grinding on YouTube

and I've got nothing to show for it. I've

got a dead channel. I got— I don't even

have like the FU money. Oh, look at all

the money I made from YouTube. It's all

gone now. It's gonna be completely

wiped out.

Then my videos are just not getting views

anymore. I get like 2K views. The video

game stuff's not working. I don't know

what to do. Like, I'm actually screwed.

I think this is it. This is actually it.

This is— it's over. I don't see how I can

come back from this. People are not

interested in my videos anymore.

Nothing's going viral. It's been a

slow month with video games.

I don't know how to make money anymore.

Like, money— for the last 5 years, money

just came in so easily because I just made

a video and then I got money. Now it's

like I make a video and I make $15.

So I think I'm gonna end up owing— if

I have to owe like 20K, that would be best

case scenario. Or maybe that they'll be

kind and they'll just give me a 50%

penalty and then I'll

owe like 18,000. But it doesn't seem like

there's any way where the outcome is not

just me losing all my money, every single

penny. Yeah, 20K is probably going to

be best case scenario because I already

owe like 7K Just from— if I can get them

to, to remove the 2019 tax because I was

living in Japan, then that would help a

little bit. But it's only $2K. I'm screwed

for 2020 and 2021 because I made a lot of

money in 2020 and 2021, like $30K if

you include the stimulus checks I got.

Because, you know, OnlyFans— I made so

much on OnlyFans. Stupid OnlyFans really

screwed me.

So even if I get the 2019 removed, still

gonna be like 5K, 10K, and then,

uh, penalties probably gonna be like 5—

between 5 and 10K penalties. I don't know.

So either I sell my entire stock portfolio

to pay this. I've got about— let

me add up my stocks. I think

I've got like $18K,

$17K, probably like $17K.

10, 20, 30.

My stocks are not doing good.

Then I got like 2,000 there. I've only got

16K in stocks now. My stocks have been

hammered.

I lost— I'm down 700 in

gold, I'm down 600

in Walgreen Boots, I'm down 200 in China.

I'm down £200 in inverse SPY.

So my stock portfolio was like £18,000 to

£19,000, but now it's like £16,700. Now

I've got about £1,000 in my bank. Yeah,

I've got £18,000, my entire life

savings network. I've got £18,000.

Which if I'm lucky is almost or maybe just

enough to pay off all the tax. But then

I've got nothing. I've got no savings and

I'm only making like $1,000 a month now if

I'm lucky.

Actually less, probably making like $800,

$900 a month now. And I'm having to

pay my rent and food and And recently paid

$1,000 for school.

So I'm thinking there's basically 3

options that I see. Number one, I phone

them and I beg for a payment plan that's

reasonable, like maybe £300, £400 a month.

I could manage spread over a few years,

hope— hoping they would let me do that.

Or I sell all my stocks and just

pay everything in one lump sum, get it

over and done with, you know, just rip off

the Band-Aid. It's gonna hurt, I'm gonna

be broke, I have no more money left, but

at least I won't have this massive tax

bill anymore and I can just move on. But

then I got no money. It's like all my

money's gone. I won't be able to have any

money in stock market. Or I

ask my mum to lend me some money and then

I pay my mum back like a couple hundred

pounds every month. I don't know if she

would do it because, you know, things,

things are okay between me and my mum now,

but, you know, I said some pretty harsh

stuff and I blocked her. So I'm not

exactly a great son. So maybe I could ask

my mum to lend me some money. I don't see

why she wouldn't. It's not like she's

losing anything because I'm gonna pay her

back. She will lose the money for like a

year or two, but then I'll be paying her

back every month. So hopefully she

hasn't blown all of the money that she got

from my dad. Could ask my sister.

I don't know, my sister always seems to be

broke as well. She said her wedding is

gonna cost like £25K, and her life

in London is quite expensive. Like, I

think she pays a couple thousand every

month for rent and food and stuff living

in London, but I think she makes like

£30K. But I don't have to ask my sister.

What, what do you think is the best

option? Maybe I'll do a poll. Let me do a

How should I pay my tax?

Um, ask mom for money,

sell all my stocks and pay it

all Ask

tax people for payment plan.

Okay, I'll let my community decide.

We'll use the brain hive— hive brainpower

of what, 95 people?

HMRC only offer payment plan if you commit

to paying all your new tax returns on

time. I think the maximum term of a

payment plan is 12 months. Well, yeah, I

would say I commit to paying it.

Or is it if they think I'm going to

commit? Because obviously I would say

that, yeah, I commit to paying it,

otherwise they won't let me do a payment

plan. So spread over 6 months, if I have

to owe like 18,000 still damn lot

of money. I would owe like £1,500 every

month. That's gonna slowly bankrupt me.

You know, option 4, run away to

Thailand and get Thai citizenship.

Yeah, then I can never go back to the UK.

Because when I land, I'll just get

arrested, won't I?

I haven't even finished my tax assessment

for 2022 to 2023,

but I'm claiming that I've been in

Thailand since October, so I only have to

pay— I'm gonna claim I don't have to pay

anything because the amount I made whilst

I was in the UK before coming to Thailand

was less than the 12K tax tax-free

allowance.

Yeah, do I want to get bankrupt all at

once, or do I get bankrupt slowly over 12

months, or do I want to get bankrupt

slightly slower by paying my mum?

Yeah, I feel like mum option could be the

best. And then

I'll set up like a direct debit,

automatic payments, £300 a month.

Then it'll take, take like

5 years.

Okay, what if I say £400 a month? After a

year, it's like £5,000. So after 3 years,

I would have paid back like 15,000.

Won't they ask for interest if they do a

payment plan? Yeah, probably.

I don't mind paying interest if I can pay

over like 10 years, so I might die.

Yeah, the mum option is the real loser

option, but let's not kid ourselves

anymore. Let's not pretend that I'm not a

loser. Let's just admit it, that I am a

massive loser. There's no point even

trying to, to argue that I'm not. I don't

even care anymore. I'm just trying to keep

my head above the water now. I'm not

trying to brag, oh guys, I'm a famous

YouTuber, make so much money. Nope, the

channel's dead. I make less than $1K a

year. I don't even make— I only make

triple digits every month. It's over.

There's no point bragging anymore. Can't

brag about anything now, can I? I don't

even get 5K views. What's there to brag

about? When I was getting like 20-30K

views and making thousands every month,

yeah, I felt like a big shot. And I got

triggered when people called me a leech

and stuff, but it's true. Like, I'm broke.

My channel's dead. I don't get any views.

I make less than $1K a month. There's

literally nothing to brag about. I admit

defeat. The haters won.

You happy now? Are you happy? You won,

guys.

I'm basically screwed.

If you arrived in Thailand October 7th,

you are still a tax resident.

Yeah, it happened again, didn't it?

Why do I always— I'm always out of the UK

for just slightly below 6 months.

October, November, December, January,

February, March, April. It's 7 months.

When did I arrive in October? I mean,

when did I arrive in Thailand?

Well, I have to go back home next year

anyway because my visa is going to end,

and the only other visa I could get would

be the Thai Elite Visa, which I would have

to apply for in the UK.

So I don't know what's gonna happen next

year. I can't even afford the Thai Elite

Visa now. So even if I was dead, dead sure

on getting the Thai Elite Visa, I can't

even buy it. I would literally have to get

a job to save up for it to get back to

Thailand, because I don't know how else I

could come back to Thailand. Can I get

another education visa? I don't think you

can. Maybe I could apply for the tourist

visa again, but that's only a few months.

And they have to leave again and go to, I

don't know, Vietnam or something. I can't

do that because they warned me at the

airport.

Continue education visa, but the school

said the max amount of months I can get my

visa is gonna be 1 year. After a year,

they said we can't extend it anymore, so I

don't know if I just Go to a different

school, leave Thailand and apply for a new

school. Continue education visa for

3 years. I skipped

school yesterday to play Armored Core 6,

which didn't get any views.

Yeah, probably have to get a job back at

the petrol station. I don't know what to

do. My whole life is screwed.

If I ask my mom for money, then I could

probably still get the Thai Elite Visa

whilst paying her back.

How did you make money before all this?

What, before the tax?

Before YouTube, I used to work in a petrol

station, and then I made a lot of money on

YouTube 2018, '19, 2020,

and 2021, to be honest. So actually only

this year— this year has been really bad

for the channel. People are bored of

Thailand. They don't care about Thailand.

There's no drama.

There hasn't really been some big video.

There was Diablo, which I did quite well

on, but Diablo trend died already.

But I only made like a couple hundred off

Diablo, maybe like 300, 400. It wasn't

big money. People don't—

people are bored of my channel because I'm

in Thailand. Like, I could be sitting in a

room in Japan and they might be slightly

more interested, but because I'm in

Thailand— I understand it though, I

completely get it. Like, Ice Poseidon is

in New Zealand now and I don't care. I'm

not even— I didn't even watch Ice at all

since he left Japan because I don't care

about New Zealand, so I'm not going to

watch him in— like, in New Zealand.

Ever since Ice left Thailand, I lost

interest in watching him. So I get it,

you want to watch the person who's living

in a country that you're interested in. I

didn't even watch the India streams

because I don't care about India, but then

when he was In Thailand, I was glued to

So I do get it. It's just I don't know

what to do because I can't just go to

Japan. And I was in Japan for 3,

4 weeks and the views were the same. I was

getting like 100. Most I got was 140

viewers. That was the highest I saw it.

We're then averaging like 100.

So let me check the poll results.

43% say ask tax people for payment plan,

but you realize that's going to be the

most expensive outcome because they're

going to charge me interest.

Paying it all at once, I would have to

sell all my stocks and then they

won't charge— they've already charged me

interest for paying it late,

so if I do a payment plan with them,

they'd probably charge me even more

Put the interest part in the poll.

Well, I thought that was kind of obvious.

If you do any kind of monthly plan,

whether it's paying monthly for something

on Amazon or paying monthly for mortgage,

everything's gonna be more expensive

because they're gonna charge you interest.

Nothing— you don't get this money for

free. Like, the bank's not gonna let you

pay monthly for free. They want something

out of it. Otherwise, why would they?

They're not like so, so kind and generous.

Oh, here, Daniel. You can pay it monthly.

No, they want to make money off it, so

they're going to charge you interest.

Everything will— Amazon, banks, tax.

That's why I didn't put it in the poll.

HMRC don't charge interest on payment

plans. Oh, but I thought someone said they

So it says, uh, I got

phone, a phone number. I feel

like I need to wait more because I still

don't know the total amount I owe. I gotta

wait for like the penalties and stuff and

2021 tax amount.

I gotta phone this number and then,

yeah, what do I do for 2022 to 2023?

2022, because I made quite a lot actually

because of Elden Ring. I think I made like

24, 22k.

And if I can't claim that I'm

not UK tax resident, they're gonna charge

me like £3,000 probably on that. And then

they've also started making you pay tax

for the next year even though it hasn't

finished yet. So then I have to pay like

half of 2024 in advance, £1,500.

So I've— I'm screwed. I don't give up.

April 2023 has already passed.

Yeah, but I have until January 1st, 2024

to pay for 2022 to 2023.

Um, let me check my flights because

I want to see the exact day I arrived in

Thailand. I think it was like the 4th

of October.

London— ah, damn it, it was 7th of

So I need to calculate how many days

between 7th of October until April 5th.

How do I do that? Get the calculator.

Okay, let me add it up then.

Where's my calendar?

October. Okay, so 7— sorry, it'd be—

how'd you do this?

31 minus

7, so 24

days in October I was out of the UK.

Oh, thanks, John Russ. Good job

for what? For getting screwed.

Do you have any skills like video editing?

Uh, do you think my video editing is good

from watching my videos? My video editing

skills are rubbish.

Maybe I could make merch and then my last

remaining fans might be interested in

buying some of my merch. Well, I think I,

I could focus on making some cool stuff

for you guys that you might be interested

in buying. Like, I don't know, make some

artwork and make a video about it and then

say, here's some merch. Or I

don't know what else I can do.

Not many fans left.

Yeah, pretty late. 2,000 left now.

Okay, calculator. So 24 October

and then 30 November and

then 31 December and And

then 31 January,

and then February. Oh, it's looking good.

February, 28 days.

March, uh-oh, 31 days.

Oh my God, 5— oh no,

I'm screwed. I've only been in Thailand

for 180 days. And they

said,

to be considered a resident in the UK,

you need to spend 183 days or more

in the UK tax year.

183 days or more.

I think I spent 185 days in the UK.

Oh my God, I gotta pay another £5,000.

I can't say that I've been living in the

UK for more than— oh my God, if I went to

Thailand 2 days earlier. Oh my God.

Let me recalculate it.

I'm actually screwed.

So the tax year was April, what, 5?

So 5, 30 minus 5,

so 25 in April.

31 in May,

30 in June, July 31,

August 31,

September 30,

and then 7 days in— oh my God, I was 185

days in the UK!

I can't claim that I was living out of the

UK for any of the years because I was in

the UK for like 4 days more than I had

to be to claim to be non-UK tax resident.

Oh my God.

Where's my spreadsheet?

Oh my God, I'm actually screwed.

Because I hired a tax accountant for 2022

and he said I owe like £3,000

and then £1,500 for 2024.

Why didn't you pay taxes before? I did, I

just didn't pay all of it.

I don't know, why didn't I just pay all of

it?

I honestly don't know. How could I be so

Well, if I, if I did pay all of it, I

would be broke right now. I would have

like zero in my bank account.

So now I'm gonna be zero in my bank

account and then minus whatever penalties

they slap on.

So I can't actually pay the tax with my

own money. I am gonna have to ask my mom.

Let's see,

2022. I did this before.

2022, I made Ah,

damn it.

I've only calculated April to October

because I thought I could say I'm in

Thailand now.

Oh my God, I made like 22K in 2022.

Why'd I have to make so much damn money?

I wish I just didn't make any money.

Where did it all go? Oh yeah, I lost it on

stocks.

Uh, how do I log in?

How do you think your mom will react? I

don't know. I did tell her, so she knows.

I told her a month ago.

My tax accountant said,

yeah, he said I owe £3,600 for

2022 to 2023,

and then I also owe £1,100 for the

advanced payment.

Yeah, so I was in the UK for 185 days

before coming to Thailand, so I won't be

able to say I was out of the country,

although I will be able to say that for

So I don't see how I can get out of paying

that.

If you sold all your stocks to pay for

taxes, would you go back to UK, live

rent-free as opposed to paying for living

in Thailand? Well, I was not living

rent-free. I was paying my mum £250 a

month and I was buying my own food.

'Cause my mum wouldn't go shopping. She

kept— my mum didn't really eat properly.

She would come home from work and just

have like a packet of crisps and a

chocolate bar. I never saw my mum just

cook a meal and sit down at the table and

eat it. Maybe like once a week. I'd always

go downstairs and she was back from work

and she was just sitting there with like,

like a chocolate bar and crisps.

Sometimes I saw her with a plate of

noodles, so I had to buy my own food

because otherwise there'd just be no food.

She just doesn't really have proper meals,

she just has junk food all the time and

crisps.

Let me think.

Well, I'd still rather live in Thailand

because I've got a girlfriend and stuff.

Got fish. I can't just leave my fish.

But I have to go back next year anyway

because I don't know what to do for a

So I really don't know what am I gonna do

So I owe— it's at $6,500,

and then I'm probably gonna have to pay

like $4,000, $5,000 maybe.

How much did I make in 2021? I think like

$24K. They haven't replied yet.

$5K. And then for 2022,

it says $3,000.

Well, if I just make loads of videos about

tax, I might be able to make like $100.

Imagine it goes viral and I pay the tax

off using my videos about tax. We're in

the tax arc now. Yeah, I might make

some videos like why I didn't pay tax,

why I'm financially bankrupt, because I

think my viewers are interested in the tax

stuff because it's like a big life event.

They're increasing the Thai Elite visa to

30K. What, for the 5-year

Are you joking? Yeah, I did hear that

Thailand wants to squeeze

out the broke digital nomads.

They only want like the rich ones, so

they're raising the prices.

They don't want like failed YouTubers who

make triple digits. They want rich big

shots who make like $10K a month.

Stupid website's not loading.

What did I say for 2022? I think 3,500

and then 1,100. So I owe 16,000.

I hope some miracle happens for you.

Anyways, the jab industry has a huge

shortage of men in Japan.

Oh, thanks, Nihilist Evo.

Yeah, but I don't see how anything

great is gonna happen.

If the Thai Elite Visa becomes $30K,

there's no chance I can get it. Even as it

is right now, it's like, what, I think

it's $16,000 or $17,000

for the 5 here,

and I don't even know about 2018. What

It looks like my, my dream of becoming a

YouTuber coming true has now become a

nightmare because I made so much money

back then. Now it's really coming back to

bite me.

And then what else is there?

How much did I make in 2018? Was it a lot?

I don't think it was more than $25K.

Because there were only a few months in

2018 where I made like $4,000.

That was when the channel blew up, and

then the rest of the months just started

going down to like $1,500.

How do they calculate the penalties?

There was an email that said Don't

like being a YouTuber anymore.

Oh, here it says type of behavior:

reasonable care, no penalty; careless,

0 to 30%; oh

no, that's for unprompted disclosure. I

was prompted. Deliberate,

35% to 70%. Deliberate and concealed.

So either I'm deliberate or deliberate and

concealed. 50% to 100% is the worst one.

The reduction on the penalty we give

depends on how much assistance you give

us. For telling, we give a 30% 40%

reduction. Telling what? So I

didn't tell them, did I? Helping, we give

you 40% reduction. So I helped them,

didn't I? I never refused to send

statements. Giving access to records, we

give up to 30%. I gave them access. So I

could get 70% reduction, couldn't I?

Yeah, how do they expect me to just

suddenly get like £25,000 within 28

days? And what do I do if I don't have

that money? They're just gonna say, oh

well, then we're gonna fine you more.

Well, okay, I don't have the money, do I?

So how am I gonna pay it if I don't have

it? You gotta work with me here.

Now, okay, we're gonna now fine you £1

million. Okay, I don't have it.

So I don't understand how they work out

To work out penalty percentage rate, we

first work out the difference between the

minimum and maximum penalty charges,

then we take off the percentage reduction

from the maximum percentage we can— I

don't understand what this means.

30% minus 15% is 15. 15 times

70% is 10.5%.

30% minus 10.5% is 20%.

What?

So maybe I get some reductions because I

helped them and I gave access to records.

So let's say— what did she say in the

My decision is that you failed to declare

all your self-employment income in order

to understate your turnover and net

profit. So is that deliberate and

concealed? That means I'll be get

like the maximum penalty, 50 to 100%,

and then maybe I get some reductions, 20%

reduction, still like 80%.

I'm gonna owe like

£30,000. Oh my

god,

I would have to ask my mum for like

£15,000. And sell all my stocks just to

get $30,000, and then I have no money.

I'm broke.

Are you depressed over this? I don't know,

I just find it funny now. Like, it is so

ridiculous that I can't do anything but

laugh. So I just— I completely

give up. There's literally

zero hope in my heart forever becoming

successful at anything.

So much for making hundreds of thousands

so I can buy my mum's house. So much for

buying a Tesla. So much for getting a Thai

Elite Visa. I just give up.

There's like no hope left.

What you can do at this point is just

laugh. And drink and watch you

Yeah, it's definitely the HMRC, not

scammers. They got all the information

and stuff like that and the codes.

If I got a job and I worked for like a

year, I could pay it off. Minimum wage

job, make $15K a year.

If I get a job, then I've lost. As long as

I don't get a job, then I still haven't

As long as I don't get a job, then it

means I can still say I'm winning.

Come on, Starfield, 1 million views!

Armored Core 6 kind of flopped. Didn't it?

The game is just not trending at all. I

went on to Google Trends, no one cares

about Armored Core 6. Look,

go on Google Trends,

Armored Core 6.

Search term. It doesn't even come up as a

video game. Armored Core 5 comes up. Past

90 days. So the trend is slightly going

up, but compared to Baldur's Gate,

it's so tiny. It's like a little

blip on the chart compared to the trend of

Baldur's Gate. But Baldur's Gate is coming

down now, so I'm kind of too late to

jump on that trend. Trend's already coming

down, and I really don't have to pay to

buy the game, and I really want to play

the game anyway because it's boring.

Do you not make money off YouTube? I do,

but I make such little money now that I

end up spending it all on rent and food

and stuff. I don't really have much left

after I pay for rent. So take

this month for example, I think I made

like, how much,

£687 on YouTube,

and I made a couple hundred PayPal

donations. So that's like £864 and

like £300 in donations. I'd say it's like

£1,100. I made for the past month.

And then my rent is $298.

So let's say I made $1,100 minus

$300 for rent minus— I don't

know how much I spent on food, probably

like $150.

Minus my phone bills,

it's like $500-ish left over.

It's not factoring tax. Well, I'm making

such little money, I don't have to pay tax

anymore. Do you think I'm gonna make over

$15,000 this year? I'm gonna make like

$10,000 this year, probably.

Well, the good thing about my channel

dying is I don't have to pay tax anymore

because I make such rubbish money.

I guess that's like a bright side of

viewing things.

Why I'm happy my channel died.

Oh my god.

And we're also about to dip below 112,000

subscribers, and my livestream is

demonetized. Please give Pia a shout out.

Thank you. Oh, thanks, Kale. Yeah, shout

outs to Pia. Please give Pia a shout out.

Why is my stream demonetized?

Can my day get any worse?

I didn't swear, I didn't talk about W-A-R.

Is tax in the title? Not Good for

monetization or what?

Because I put bad news. What if I get rid

of really bad news?

I didn't say anything weird today, just

talk about tax.

Oh, now it's on! Oh my God, I just

removed bad news from the title and now

YouTube is so— oh my God,

why is putting bad news in the title not

advertiser friendly? But it's green now.

I just— so

frustrating. Yeah, I can appeal the

demonetization, but it takes nearly 2

days. By the time 2 days has passed,

all my viewers have already watched it and

I didn't get any ad rev. Please say all

hail Snail Cat. Thank you. All hail Snail

Chat. I mean, Snail Cat.

Thanks, Kale.

Yeah, it's like they don't want you to

monetize negative sentiments.

Yeah, it's monetized now. Just abandon the

UK. With that much money, you can just buy

an elite visa. No,

that's scary because then if I ever have

to go back to the UK, I'd be completely

screwed, arrested at the airport.

And then maybe they got like an

extradition treaty where

they could get me sent back. No, I don't

I'm 26 years old with $250K US.

Jesus, how'd you get so much money? Been

waging away at finance job, being

miserable. From your point of view, is the

sacrifice worth it.

I don't know, it depends if you value

$250K more

than just making YouTube videos.

I don't know if I can say the sacrifice is

worth it anymore because what have I

gained? I got no money now, so I can't

say, oh, I made all this money. Yeah, I

made all the money and then I blew it. I

literally have nothing to show for, like,

2K average views.

My YouTube legacy— I didn't even build

anything. At least I could have said, oh,

I built this massive community. I did,

but then I lost it all.

I can't really say— I can't really tell

you something that is so amazing after I

slaved away on YouTube for the last 5

years. What do I have to show for it?

This number saying I

got 112k subs? Oh wow, it doesn't even do

anything. There's gonna be 111k subs soon.

We are 15 unsub away from dropping back

down to 111. 13 subs away now.

Yeah, I guess I got the freedom,

but I won't have that freedom for much

longer now because I'm gonna be broke and

I gotta pay this tax.

I lived in the moment. I lived with this

mindset of I might not be alive next year,

which was not a very good idea. Yeah, I

did get cereal, a lot of fangirls. I guess

that was nice, but again, it's just

like short-term temporary thing. The only

thing I have left over from that is the

Fading memory.

Oh my god, the stream is demonetized

again. It went green and now it's yellow

Maybe because the thumbnail has bad news

in it.

What if I change the thumbnail?

Save, because the thumbnail says bad in

Change thumbnail pictures.

Open.

The last 4 livestreams were fine

and didn't get demonetized. The last one

was completely fine, green the entire

time. Now this one's yellow.

I can't even make my $15.

I guess I'll make some videos about my tax

thing then. It's weird because you make a

video and it will do checks before to

check if it's good for monetization, and

it's fine and there's no problems. I can

put like, this sucks, this is bad, why I

hate the title and it's fine. But when

it's a livestream, it's like

it can't decide if it's monetizable or not

whilst it's live, and then the bot just

flips out.

Maybe there was a word I said like

screwed.

I don't see how the title tax update would

make it not advertiser-friendly. Yeah,

that was just yellow. I can't get it back

I have no idea. I didn't swear.

Yep, so I'm screwed. I don't know,

can't even get a stupid livestream

monetized to make a bit of money.

It's weird. It went from wow, it's so easy

to make money, to now I don't know what to

do to make money. Daniel, please say Ave

Ave Domina Soster et Salvator tot mea

patria. Oh, thanks, Kale. Daniel, please

say Avenue Ave Dominus Noster et Salvator

Cochlea Catus. Ave Ave

Dominus Noster et Salvator Cochlea

Catus. What does it mean? Is that

gonna get me demonetized?

No, this stream is wrecked. I can't get it

monetized. It's gonna be demonetized and

it's gonna take 2 days to get appealed.

Accept money from Jupiter. If Jupiter

gives me $10,000, I'll make him the god of

Discord and ban everyone. Borrow money

from Ice. Yeah, as if he would lend me

Only my mum, or maybe my sister, could

help me out. There's no one

who would lend me money.

Yeah, then my girlfriend dumps me too.

Imagine that, like, YouTube channel dies,

bankrupt, all the money's gone because of

tax, girlfriend dumps you, back living

with mum, 40 years old. How could it

become any more sad? Working at McDonald's

with a bunch of 16-year-olds.

Imagine me like 40 and I'm— my boss is a

16-year-old at McDonald's. And I'm like,

hey, I'm Daniel. I didn't achieve anything

in life. Teach me how to make a

I'm gonna look so bad when I'm 40. I'm not

gonna look good. You can see my face aging

already. It's like, it's like drooping and

getting bloated. My face is getting fat,

and I can't even grow facial hair to cover

my face. I just look like,

like an aging lesbian Asian woman.

At least some people get old, they look

cool. Like Russell Brand, he looks kind of

cool. And Keanu

Reeves still looks kind of cool.

Who else? Basically, if you're white and

you've got a beard, even if you get old,

you still look kind of cool because now

you look like a manly man with a beard.

I— when you look like a man-child or like

you've got boyish looks, you look good in

your 20s, but then mid-30s you just look

bad because you look like a— like an old

woman.

My face is just gonna droop and then I'm

gonna go gray and I can't

I don't know why my face got all bloated,

because I don't remember it looking like

this last year. It's like being in

Thailand just destroyed my body.

Don't know if it's because of the heat, I

just feel kind of lazy all the time

Come on, let's try and look at the bright

side. There has to be a bright side to

this. Stop being so doom and gloom.

So I borrow 15k from my mum.

And then I'll say, I'll pay you back 300 a

month for

the next 5 years.

In 5 years, I'll be paying my mum Um,

I think I'm gonna need like 15K.

Is it because I was shouting and I got

like an angry face? Do you think that made

the stream get demonetized? Cuz I have no

idea why.

Last stream was fine. Last stream

was called— wasn't it called Why I'm Gay?

Maybe they won't demonetize gay stuff cuz

they're scared of backlash,

cuz people be like, oh, YouTube

demonetizing gay people, they're

homophobic.

Yeah, it's definitely a bot error because

all these streams get demonetized and

every single one gets appealed

apart from 2. Actually, my last update on

my tax problem stream got demonetized and

then confirmed by manual review as not

suitable. But then the one before that,

the first tax stream, got monetized and it

And then I'm Giving Up on YouTube got

demonetized and confirmed, but that was

just— so 2 out of the last like

30 streams got confirmed by manual review

as not suitable, but the rest were fine.

No, I don't owe 1,160. That's how much

money I've raised.

The goal is 15,000.

So yeah, I probably need to ask for like

15,000, pay off the tax.

I think 15,000 is still not gonna be

I don't know, I guess we wait until next

week to see how much I owe for the other

years, and then I need to redo my

self-assessment for 2022.

I'm gonna

have to pay like £4,000.

I already asked an accountant and he came

up with the same figures.

I don't know how to change the goal to

make it more clear because it does look

like it says tax I need to pay $1,000.

Tax raised.

I thought the sociopath video would do

better. It's only got 2,600.

It might get to like 4,000 after a while.

The CPM is pretty good on it, $4,

but if you only get 2K views, it's like $8

then. He needs it to get 6K views because

then 6 times 4 starting to be a good