2018 was pretty good actually

Well, 2018 has been a pretty crazy year

for me. A lot of interesting things

happened, some good, some bad, and I just

wanted to make a quick video to quickly

recap over some of the main events that

happened this year. Mimo, what are

you doing out there? It's dangerous.

Look, she's just standing outside of my

window. My bedroom window.

How'd she get up there? Hello, where you

going? Stupid cat.

Oh, what just happened? Okay, let's go

back to talking about 2018! What happened

this year? Lots of things happened. Where

should we start? Let's start off in

January. The first day of January this

year, I was doing a livestream and someone

asked me what kind of translation work I

was doing. Hold on. I was doing

a livestream and someone asked me what

kind of translation work I was doing, and

I decided that instead of explaining it to

them, I would just show them a picture of

the translating I was doing at that time.

And at that time I was translating a

hentai comic and I thought it'd be a good

idea to show them a page of the hentai.

And there was a pretty erotic scene on the

page that I showed on the livestream and

10 seconds, 10 seconds later the

livestream got taken down and YouTube gave

me a community strike for sexual content.

And I felt so stupid. Why did I think it

was a good idea to show hentai on a

livestream? And why did I think it was a

good idea to show a sex scene on a

livestream? I felt so irritated with

myself because I nearly lost my YouTube

channel. I could have lost my YouTube

channel if I showed something extremely

sexually explicit. Thankfully, they just

gave me a strike, and then a few months

later the strike went away. But it was

really scary because I genuinely thought

that I could have lost my channel over

that. And then sometime at the end of

January, beginning of February, I hit

YouTube Gold with 2 videos: Why I Hated

Why I Hate Living in Japan and Why I Have

No Friends. For some reason, YouTube

pushed those 2 videos out to people and

recommended it to people, and they went

mini-viral, getting a lot of views. And a

lot of people found my channel thanks to

those 2 videos. And it was really good

timing because around that time I got

banned from translating, and I was making

enough money on my YouTube channel to not

even need to do translating anymore. And

then in March I got married. I got married

to my girlfriend. We're still married.

And, um, yeah, that was a bit of an

interesting experience. I'm not sure about

it yet. I mean, it was— it's the best

thing that's ever happened to me, and I

have no regrets. It wasn't really that

much of a big deal. We just went down to

the town hall, signed some papers, and

then went for McDonald's afterwards. We

didn't have a big fancy wedding. No one

came. We just went down to the town hall

and signed the documents, and then, then

we became a married couple. And then in

April, I don't even remember what happened

in April, but in May we went to Malaysia.

That was, that was okay, I guess. Oh,

I forgot something in March. Going back to

March, uh, when I went to the immigration

center in Japan to get my visa, I ran into

a Canadian guy and then a Hong Kong guy

who recognized me from my channel. That

was pretty, um, pretty, pretty funny.

And then in Malaysia, some random guy at

McDonald's also recognized me, which was

also kind of weird. Oh, and who remembers—

who remembers that time in March when

that, that kind of racist nationalistic

Japanese forum message board found my

channel and found my video where I was

complaining about Japan, and they wrote

100 pages of comments, um,

bitching about me? They really hated me.

You should have seen the comments on that

message board. It was like one of those

2chan, 4chan style message boards. And

there were just so many angry Japanese

people. They were saying stuff like, this

guy needs to get the fuck out of Japan.

This guy needs to die because he doesn't

like our bacon. They were saying stuff

like, let's report him to immigration

because he's working illegally in Japan.

Let's report him to immigration because

his marriage is a sham marriage. I don't

know if they actually reported me to

immigration, but nothing happened, so I

guess they failed because I got a visa and

I live there now. So well done. It was a

bit scary though, actually, because, um,

I was expecting that someone would show up

at our place because I doxxed myself by

accident and people were posting my

address all over the place, and they were

posting my address on that message board

trying to tell Japanese people where I

lived, hoping that one of them would be

crazy enough to come over to my place with

a knife or something. No one ever came

because they're a bunch of— I mean, I'm

very grateful that no one showed up at my

doorstep holding a knife. That would have

been Good clickbait. I think

it just kind of made me realize that

people say a lot of stuff on the internet,

but when it comes to actually taking

action in real life, um, most people don't

have the balls to do anything. So no, I'm

not, I'm not scared. And then in May, end

of May, we came back from Malaysia and we

had a few really big arguments, me and my

wife, and I ran away a couple times, did a

few hotel livestreams. That was fun.

Remember the time when I was in a hotel

the first time doing livestream? I had

1,600 people

watching my livestream. That is an insane

amount of people for a livestream.

1,600 viewers on a livestream, that's more

than The Anime Man gets, more than a lot

of YouTubers get when they livestream.

And then sometime around August, um, I

found out that I went to the same school

as Chris Bloody Broad from Abroad in

Japan. You know Abroad in Japan, that

English guy who makes videos in Japan

about Japan? I went to school with him!

Him. Primary school. He was in the year

below me. And I made a video explaining

how I found this out, and then he

contacted me saying that he's not overly

keen about— he's not overly keen with

people knowing where he's from because I

may have mentioned the village he's from

in the video. So because I liked Chris, I

decided to take down the video, and he

said, thanks very much, Daniel. Mr.

Thomas would be proud. And then he also

said that he'll be down in Osaka in

October and we could go for a drink.

October came and went, and he never

messaged me about said drink, and now I

don't like him. If you had no intention of

going for a drink with me, then don't say

it. Don't get my hopes up. And I might

re-upload that video I made about him

since, uh, I mean, why should I hold up my

end of the, of the promise, of the

bargain, of the deal when he doesn't hold

up his end? He came to Osaka, made a

video, and then he left without even

saying anything to me. And then going

back, I know this is all over the place,

but I should have figured out the timeline

properly before I made the video. But we

have to go back to May before we went to

Malaysia. I did a Skype interview call

with Nobita from Find Your Love in Japan,

and I thought he was a nice guy. Turns out

he's a prick. I don't know if I want to

get into it now. It was a pretty

traumatic, traumatic thing that happened a

few weeks ago. Not even a few weeks ago,

a week ago. Last week it happened, and

I'll just give you a few hints. Guess why

the Tube News video that I made has gone?

Yes, you can thank our dear friend Nobita

for that. I don't really want to go into

it now because I have a video planned

where I'm going to talk about it in

detail, but basically the gist of it is he

copyright striked my channel because I

used his photo for about 10 seconds.

Can you believe how petty of a person he

is. Unbelievable. Thankfully, I contacted

him and I managed to talk him into

retracting the copyright strike if I

promised not to use his photo again. So

he's not a complete dick. But I think

people should— I think people need to know

how much of a petty, lying person he is.

He is a liar. I know I shouldn't be so

hard on him because he did retract the

copyright strike in the end after I asked

him nicely. But the thing is, he shouldn't

have made it in the first place. He should

have— if he was so against me using his

photo in a video, then He should have

asked me about it. He should have

requested me to take down the video or

blur out his face, not issue a copyright

strike without saying anything. What kind

of dick does that? Uh, what else happened

this year? I guess a lot of my big dreams

in life came true this year. My dream of

living in Japan came true. My dream of

getting married to a Japanese woman came

true. And my dream of becoming

self-employed and having a way of earning

money by doing something I enjoy doing

came true. That was pretty good. I had a

pretty bad time in November because of a

cockroach. I never thought a single

cockroach could cause me so much stress.

I don't know if you remember, but I made a

video talking about my friend, and in that

video I filmed footage of a cockroach

lying on its back, moving its legs like

this, and it was dying. And I got a strike

for it for graphic and violent content.

That's why I haven't been doing

livestreams on YouTube anymore. It's

because I can't until the end of January

next year. And if you want to see me

livestream, I'll be on

twitch.tv/danielhimr. Won't be streaming

now because my internet sucks. I just, I

still can't believe they gave me a strike

over it when there's so many videos on

YouTube of cockroaches being poisoned.

And of fish and octopus being butchered

and put into boiled water when they're

alive, and animals fighting each other,

and all this— all these other videos where

there's creatures suffering in them, and

they gave me a strike for violence just

for filming a cockroach lying on its back.

It kind of made me realize that YouTube

isn't your friend. As a creator, YouTube

is not on your side. YouTube is a big

grizzly bear, and you have to be very

careful and tiptoe around it. Because if

you step on its toes, it will destroy you.

You cannot rely on YouTube being on your

side because they will give you strikes

for stupid reasons, and they won't have

your back when you try and appeal it. Uh,

what else happened this year? I think, I

think that was, that was it, basically.

If you remember anything else that

happened that I forgot, feel free to tell

me. Yeah, all in all, I think it was a

pretty good year. My main regrets would

be— I don't really have that many regrets,

but my main regrets would be obviously I

wish I didn't film a cockroach on its

back, and I wish I didn't show hentai on a

livestream. And I think my main

goals for next year will be to try and not

get banned from YouTube. That'll be great.

Try not— try not to get any more strikes.

And I want to put more effort into my

Twitch channel, and I want to start

building my second YouTube channel. So I

don't— I don't really want to promote my

second YouTube channel much on this

channel because I'm trying to attract

completely new audience, you know, a

completely new demographic of people with

this new channel. I'm not saying that I'm

fed up with you guys. You guys are great.

I love you. I just think it would be nice

to have a completely different channel

which makes completely different content,

which has a completely different audience,

so I'm not so dependent on this channel.

You know the saying, you shouldn't put all

your eggs into one basket. I'm just trying

to diversify. I'm just trying to branch

out a little bit to create a bit of

stability. I guess I want a new channel,

a different channel with a different set

of people watching it, just so— just in

case this channel dies and people stop

watching my current type of content, then

I can have a second channel to fall back

on. It's like a— it's like a safety net.

And I want to thank everyone for watching

this video, and I want to thank everyone

for watching my channel, and have a happy

new year and a merry Christmas, but

Christmas is over. I hope you had a nice

year this year, and I hope next year will

be very good too. I think, I think that

sounded pretty sincere.

Hello and welcome back to an exciting

episode of Cooking

with Daniel. So today for lunch, I have

some leftover ham that my sister made for

Christmas. And I have some Jacob's

crackers,

biscuits, water biscuits. I'm not sure why

they're called water biscuits, there's no

water in them. And we have some,

have some Scottish smoked salmon from

the seas of Scotland, I guess. Looks like

this. And basically we're just going to

put put it onto the crackers. Oh, we also

have some broccoli. Who likes broccoli?

I like a bit of broccoli.

Yeah, that's it really. I'll show you how

to make it. Okay, this is kind of tricky.

I'm going to try holding my phone under my

chin so I can film. It's kind of hard to

speak now without moving my chin. Oh shit!

I'll try not talking this time.

Someone's here. So we're having this

problem with the phone line, and this guy

from the phone company keeps coming. He

came into the house about an hour ago. He

asked me to show him where the main socket

is for the phone. I don't know where the

main socket is, so I phoned my dad, and my

dad told me it's up here. Oh look, you can

see that van out there. That's him. I'm

not sure if you can see me filming him,

but he, he's out there in that van and he

was going up the telephone pole trying to

fix it. I'm not sure if he fixed it

because I've lost internet connection.

It's kind of annoying because I'm trying

to make lunch and I'm very hungry and I

just finished editing today's video and

I'm starving. I want to eat my salmon

Jacob crackers. I guess I can do a quick

room tour of my sister's room. This is my

sister's room.

She has a balcony as well. She has a big

Winnie the Pooh, and there's a mirror

here. She hasn't used this room for a long

time, I think, since she lives in London

now. Yeah, it's a nice room.

View of the garden out there. She also has

this cool Japanese— I don't know if it's

Japanese, but it looks kind of Japanese-y.

Yin and yang. Sands and stones with a

wooden stick. I'm not

sure if the phone man is going to ring the

doorbell or not, or if he's just— oh,

he's gone! Where'd he go?

He keeps coming and then going and then

coming and going again.

Oh ho ho ho ho! Guess, guess who?

Guess who got his Amazon Prime package? I

got my mum a set of ceramic knives as a

late Christmas present. Should have got

them earlier, packed— wrapped them up for

her, but I didn't have— I didn't

have the idea until a few days later. She

has a lot of kitchen knives already, but

they're already old and very blunt, so I

decided to buy her some ceramic kitchen

knives. Okay, now we can get back to

making lunch. Let me see. Try the chin

thing again.

Hopefully the phone mount— oh shit, it's

not a very good idea. It just won't stay

No, this is not a good idea. It's falling,

it's falling again. Oh, he's back again.

I just finished making one of the Jacob

crackers. As you can see, it's just ham

and then a piece of broccoli on top.

Oops, I can make another one using salmon

instead. I want to try one, but I'm not

sure if the man in the van is going to

come and ring the doorbell or not. Be kind

of embarrassing if he rings the doorbell

and I'm munching on on this.

Mm-hmm. Can't hear

him. Mm.

A bit dry. It's a

little bit dry.

Ceramic knife. Very nice box. Let's have a

look inside. Made in China.

Oh, they gave us a potato peeler as well.

Ceramic potato peeler. And we have 4

knives of different sizes. This is a small

one. This is a bigger one,

and this is the biggest one.

Feels quite, quite nice in the hand.

Feels light.

Oh, it's very sharp. It's sharper than my

combat knife. Look how easy that cuts.

The pork— can you see that? I'm not

putting any effort into slicing. It just

slices like butter. Look at that.

Can you see that? Effortless.

Very impressive.