The end of Cooking with Daniel

So I have some updates and announcements I

want to make for this channel. I don't

think it's going to be about cooking

anymore. I know the channel is called

Cooking with Daniel, but to be honest,

um, I kind of lost interest in cooking and

making food videos. As you may have

noticed, the last few videos haven't

really been about food, and it wasn't even

me cooking the food, it was my mum

cooking. And that's because I don't

really have to cook anymore. Back when I

was in Japan and Korea, I had to cook

by myself because if I didn't cook and

make food, then no one else would. And you

know, I had to eat eat food. But now that

I'm back home in England, I don't really

have that problem anymore. I don't need to

cook anything because there's always food

in the fridge. My mum cooks most of the

time, and then she cooks lots of food,

and then we always have lots of leftovers.

So I don't really have this need to do any

cooking. So that makes it a bit tricky to

make videos for this channel. When I don't

really have to make food anymore. So I've

been thinking about, you know, what to do

with this channel now,

and I think I want to do something else,

something different. Maybe video

game stuff. I was thinking about doing

let's plays.

And I'm guessing most of you won't be

interested in that, but hopefully at least

a couple thousand of you might be. It's

not really going to be about the game.

I'll just be playing the game and then,

you know, rambling about stuff like I

usually do. So really, it's not going to

be that too much— it's not going to be too

much different to my cooking videos.

Cooking videos were never really about

cooking anyway. It was just me preparing

food and then talking about other stuff.

Whilst I ate it.

So the gaming videos might just be the

same, it'd just be me playing whilst I

talk about other things. So that's what

I'm interested in doing right now. I'm

also interested in doing more ASMR walking

videos as well. Some people were

complaining that the sound wasn't very

good from my GoPro, and I think

it sounds fine, to be honest. I'm not

gonna spend— I'm not gonna go out and

spend hundreds of dollars to get a decent

mic when no one probably cares anyway.

Sometimes it's windy and maybe you can

hear background noise from the road when

traffic passes, but there's not much I can

do about that. Maybe I'll put on the wind

muff, but I don't think it's too

important. So yeah, I just wanted to let

you know that I'm going to be renaming the

channel from Cooking with Daniel to maybe

Gaming with Daniel. I don't know, maybe

I'll just name it something else. Why does

the channel name have to reflect the

content when I keep changing the

type of content I make?

Hmm, I think that's all I had to say. Um,

I feel a bit— feel a bit down right

now because Mila left. She left about an

hour ago. The taxi came and picked her up.

It feels strange not having her here

anymore. She's been here— she

was here for about 3 weeks, so it's kind

of hard not to feel strange Now that she's

gone, I feel kind of sad,

to be honest.

It was nice having her here. I know I

started to get a bit annoyed nearing the

end, and I complained about her, and we

had that argument, and I kind of feel

guilty for that. I feel bad that I made

And I did like her being here.

It was such a weird,

weird experience. A good experience, but

it was strange and kind of exciting.

I guess the whole lockdown thing made

things exciting. Going to the supermarket,

stocking up on food.

I was kind of worried I would feel like

this when the day came that she had to

leave. I didn't really want her to leave

actually, but I guess she can't stay here

forever, and I don't think it's fair on my

family if she just stays here for such a

long time. Maybe they didn't like having

someone living with us this whole time.

I guess I wouldn't like it if my sister

brought her boyfriend to come and live

with us for such a long time.

Well, she went back to the Netherlands.

She wanted to stay in England and get a

job, but because of the whole lockdown

situation, it's kind of difficult to get a

job now. So she went back home to

live with her mum, and she said she's

going to save up money so she can go back

to Korea later. She asked me if I wanted

to go to Korea as well and meet up there.

I said I'll think about it. I'm not really

sure what I want to do right now.

I guess I need to think about it. It's

kind of hard to plan anything when the

country's all shut down and traveling

isn't really a good idea.

Some of you might be wondering what

happened to my Discord server and my

Twitter account, so I guess I'll explain

quickly. I didn't get banned, I didn't

get suspended or anything like that. I

decided to delete them myself, and that

was mainly because it just felt like I

was kind of addicted to using Discord and

Twitter, and it was having a negative

impact, a negative effect on my mood.

And I think if something has

more of a negative effect on you than a

positive one, then it's best to just cut

it off, delete it, get rid of it. And I

felt like the Discord server was just

stressing me out, and it was just full of

toxic, negative,

lying people that I didn't really want to

have anything to do with anymore.

And the Twitter account, well, I decided

to delete that because number one,

whenever I was in a bad mood, I ended up

going on Twitter and saying stupid things,

which I don't really think is going to

help me in any way. It's actually going

to— it's probably going to

harm the channel. Well, I don't know, not

that many people followed me on Twitter

anyway. Had a couple thousand followers,

but I felt like they don't even watch my

channel anymore. Maybe they followed me a

year ago or 2 years ago, back when they

used to watch me, and then they just

forgot to unfollow. I don't really want to

have a Twitter account where I'm just

followed by thousands of people that

forgot about me or forgot about my channel

or don't even watch my videos anymore. Or

maybe they used to like me but don't like

me anymore. And it was just kind of

frustrating, I guess. So I've

deactivated it. The annoying thing about

Twitter is you can't just suddenly

instantly delete your account. They make

you wait for about a month, so you have a

period of time where you can reactivate

So I'm trying not to reactivate

it because I do want to get rid of the

stupid Twitter account because it was just

stressing me out as well.

But I have to wait 4 weeks until it gets

permanently, permanently deleted. I am

thinking about making a new Discord

server, but it will be private and only

people that pay will be able to join. So

that'll be Patreon members or YouTube

members.

And the reason why I'm going to make it a

paid-for private server is because I think

if I make it paid for, then the trolls and

people who irritate me and people who

don't like me, it'll prevent those people

from joining, and it'll prevent people

from just making loads of alt

accounts and trolling accounts from

joining.

So I don't know if people would be

interested in paying if

they wanted to join. I don't really care

anymore. I don't really want a Discord

server anymore.

I think it was kind of a mistake letting

my viewers have such

close contact with me, if you know what I

mean. I mean, Maybe it was a bad idea to—

what's the word I'm thinking of? I don't

know. Maybe it's a better idea to have a

bit of distance between me and my viewers,

just a little bit. I think chatting to all

of them all the time every day wasn't a

very healthy thing. And yeah,

I guess maybe I'm starting to slowly

realize that having all these followers

and social media accounts and chatting to

all these people that I don't really know.

None of that was really making me happy,

and it's nicer to have real connections

with people like Mila instead

of just spending so much time chatting to

people, strangers on the internet. And the

Discord server gave me so many problems in

the past, so many arguments I had with my

ex-wife and problems I got into were

because of the Discord server. And really,

I should have deleted it way earlier.

It was weird deleting it. I really felt

like I was addicted to it. I've been using

it since 2 years ago, constantly just

going on there every day chatting to

people. And after

deleting it, I only

got about 2 messages from people asking me

why I deleted it on Instagram. I felt like

people didn't really care as much as I

thought they would. I guess the Discord

server wasn't as important as I thought it

Well, I'm gonna go now and have a shower.

Haven't had a shower since 2 days ago,

and then I'll do a livestream,

and I'll probably end up repeating

everything I just said in this video in

the livestream. Hopefully the internet

works properly and it doesn't lag or

disconnect,

and then I guess it's back on the grind.