My response to Think Before You Sleep's video about me - Why I have no Friends

Wow, I just don't know what's going on

with all these YouTubers making videos

about me recently.

First of all, it was Turkey Tom and then

another one called Schmooshy Wooshy or

whatever.

And now another pretty big channel has

made a video about me and the channel is

called Sleep When You— no, Think When You

Sleep.

It's a very boring generic name for a

YouTube channel, but okay.

It is a little bit weird why suddenly all

these big channels are making videos about

me reacting to my content from such a long

time ago back in 2018.

Would have been nice if these people were

making videos about my channel back when

this content was actually happening in the

actual real time, like in 2018 or '19 or

'17.

I don't know why they're reacting to this

7-year-old content.

I guess they just recently found out about

my channel.

I guess better late than never.

So this latest video about me is made by a

channel called Sleep When You Think, and

he's got 920,000 subscribers, which is

pretty cool.

And the video about me is titled Why You

Have No Friends.

So he's reacting to my viral video that I

made in 2018 about not having friends,

where I give some pretty weird reasons,

which I still kind of believe in to this

this day for not having friends.

So the title is called Why You Don't Have

Any Friends, as if I want friends, as if

I'm trying desperately to get friends, and

then for some reason that I just don't

understand because I'm too stupid, I can't

get any friends and I'm upset about it.

No, I don't have any friends because I

don't care about having friends.

I don't need friends.

I'm too busy to have friends.

I've got stuff to do.

I've got a job.

I've got my stock trading to do to keep me

busy that I'm trying to learn as a new

skill.

I've got my YouTube channel to manage.

I've got videos make, streams to do, I've

got food to cook, and then I've got to

exercise.

And recently I've started a vegetable

patch in my garden.

I don't have time to have friends and hang

around doing nothing, drinking beers at

the bar like I've got no life.

I've got things going in my life that

don't require friends and require solitude

and focus and attention to it.

So I don't have any friends, not because I

don't have the ability to make friends,

that I don't understand how to make

friends.

It's because I voluntarily decided not to

have any friends.

Because it doesn't interest me.

And, um, yeah, I'm very transactional when

it comes to do I want to hang out with

this person or not?

What do I get out of it?

If I don't get anything out of this

relationship with this person that I

benefit from or that I want, then I don't

really have any interest in interacting

with that person.

I'm pretty sure most people in the world

are like that.

Why would you want to waste your time

spending time with a person or interacting

with them or developing some kind of

relationship if you aren't getting

anything out of it that you benefit from,

either money, serial companionship.

Everyone wants something and they seek out

companionship and they meet other people.

It could be networking so they can improve

their status or look for opportunities in

the market.

Everyone wants something from other

people.

Nobody doesn't want anything.

It could even just be love.

And also, I'm so sick and tired of these

stupid documentary reactionary videos

criticizing me because apparently I don't

care about other people and I'm very

transactional and I only think about how

things benefit myself.

Yeah, why would I not think about how

stuff benefits me?

Why would I waste my time doing something

or interacting with someone if it doesn't

benefit me in any way at all?

I'm not this billionaire who has infinite

resources that can waste this time.

I've got very limited resources.

I've got very limited time in the day.

I have to pick and choose very carefully

what I spend my time doing.

And if it doesn't benefit me in any way,

then I'm not going to be interested in it.

So I'm also sick and tired of how people

keep criticizing me of not caring about

other people.

And I have to admit, I find it very

difficult to maintain romantic

relationships with girlfriends because of

this problem.

Basically, every time I got dumped, the

main biggest reason is because they didn't

think that I care about them.

And no matter how much I tried to tell

them that I do care, because obviously I'm

not going to say, oh yeah, you're right, I

don't care at all.

You never want to say that you don't care

because then it's just like the end.

Then you've lost, then you lose a

relationship.

So I would keep trying to prove that I

care by saying that I care.

But you can only say I do care a certain

amount of times before they just don't

believe you anymore, and you have to kind

of prove with actions that you do care.

So I keep trying to explain that I do care

and I don't want bad things to happen to

you, and I don't want you to get hit by a

car and go to hospital because that'd be

really annoying for me and obviously for

you.

So isn't that in a way caring about your

well-being?

But no one believes that I do care about

them, and then they get all upset.

And they say that I don't care about them,

I only think about myself.

Actually, I don't only think about myself.

I think about others and how if they get

in trouble, how is that going to

negatively affect me?

And to be quite honest, sometimes I do get

a bit frustrated with this needing to have

to prove that I care about someone.

And when I say that I care about them,

they don't believe me.

And I just feel like saying, well,

actually, now you put it that way, maybe I

just don't care about anyone.

Maybe it's true.

I'm just fed up and tired of having to

prove or argue that I care about someone

when people just seem to assume that I

don't care about them anyway.

So yeah, maybe I just don't care about

anyone.

I only care about myself.

Then another thing that Sleep When You

Think When You Sleep touches upon is that

he calls me lazy.

Number one, I find it iconic— I mean

ironic— that a reaction channel is calling

me lazy.

At least I make my own original content

based off my own thoughts and my own life

instead of just watching other people's

content and then using their content to

make videos and make money.

I think that is lazy.

I think pretty much everyone can agree

that reaction channels— at one point

everyone was saying that reaction channels

are the most laziest form of channels.

My channel, okay, I don't get as many

views as reaction channels, but it takes a

lot of self-sacrifice and putting yourself

out there and creating my own original

stuff instead of just ripping off other

channels and using their content and then

just giving some kind of narration over

it.

So I watched his video and 90% of it was

just my own clips.

I was just sitting there watching it just

watching my own clips, watching myself

talk.

And then he would interject his own

opinions every now and then, but they were

very short opinions and very, you know,

obvious things like, oh, you shouldn't say

this and do that because it's bad, Daniel.

Okay, duh.

And I don't think I'm necessarily— and I

don't think I'm necessarily lazy.

It's just that I lose interest in things

very quickly.

And when I'm not interested in something,

I don't want to do it anymore.

And when I am interested in things, I get

really dedicated and really obsessed with

it, and I'll study it until I have gotten

fairly good at it before getting bored.

So with Japanese, yeah, I was really,

really interested in life in Japan and

anime and Japanese women when I was very

young, probably between 17 to age 20.

I was obsessed with Japanese and I was

obsessed with mastering the Japanese

language.

That's why I was able to pass N2 and

nearly pass N1.

And yeah, I did get to quite a good level

with my Japanese.

I decided not to push further with it

because I just kind of got fed up around

age 21 or 22.

I was losing interest in life in Japan.

I lost interest in anime, and I just

didn't really care anymore about having

perfect Japanese.

As long as I could talk to Japanese women

and they could understand me and we could

have a conversation, then I didn't really

care about having the best Japanese in the

world.

And that tends to happen with me a lot,

where I get really interested in something

and then I kind of lose interest, and then

I start half-assing it.

I stop putting effort into it.

It's just because it's boring at that

point, and when things are boring, I can't

summon or muster up the enthusiasm to want

to learn about it.

So yeah, in summary, it's getting kind of

boring reacting to these channels reacting

to my stuff from 8 years ago, and they

always just say the same stuff like, you

don't have any friends because you don't

care about people.

Yeah, I don't care about most people, and

I'm pretty sure nobody cares about

everyone on this planet.

There's only maybe 1 or 2 people that I

really actually care about, and then the

rest of the world, I honestly don't really

care about the rest of the world because I

don't even know who they are.

And I guess you don't care about me

Because you don't know me personally.

If something happened to me, you're not

going to shed a tear.

And I wouldn't blame you for it because

you don't know me.

I'm no one to you.

So why would I care if you don't care

about me?

Why do people care if I care about other

people in the world?

I don't know many people in the world.

I don't have any friends.

I don't have a relationship anymore, and I

don't really have a lot of people in my

life to care about.

So that's the reason why.

So yeah, in conclusion, 2025, I still

don't have any friends.

I still don't really care about people.

People are boring.

They don't really

interests me that much.

He said, um, that there's other ways of

getting views, and then he bragged about

how he's been doing YouTube less— for less

time than me, and he has more views than

me.

Yeah, because you just leech off of other

people's content.

You just leech off of famous or bigger

YouTubers and then get views that way.

That's easy.

I don't want to do it because I don't care

about other people's lives.

If you have the stomach for being able to

sit through hundreds, tens of hundreds of

hours of other people's content to make a

reactionary video, that's great, good for

you.

But I can't do it because, as everyone

keeps saying, I don't care about people

and I find the lives of other people

extremely boring.

There's only a couple YouTubers and

streamers that I actually find interesting

enough to actually want to follow their

content.

I think I would really like to see a

societal change where people stop shaming

people for not caring about other people.

I think it should be okay to act out of

self-interest and only do things if it

benefits you.

There's nothing wrong with that.

The entire natural world does that.

Nothing in nature does anything unless it

benefits them directly.

Prove me wrong.

So I just think we should stop shaming

people just because they are selfish and

don't— I don't believe that there's such

thing in a selfless good deed.

And on that bombshell, I'm gonna have

lunch.

Bye-bye.