grinding to level 60

Hello? Oh my God, I'm so dumb.

Testing.

Dang. Okay, now it's working. That was the

worst, worst ever start to a livestream.

The microphone wasn't even plugged in.

God, I've been doing this for how long and

I can't even do it properly.

Look, this thing was plugged into the USB

hub, but the USB hub wasn't plugged into

the laptop. Great start.

Amazing.

One word: arrogance. Refuses to change.

Shut up, Ivan. You're the one who refuses

to change. I've changed a lot. Just cuz

you didn't care to, to stick around and

find out, you just assume I haven't

changed. Idiot.

Okay, I think it's working good.

Good.

Why do I always have this mic problem

where I forget to plug it in or it's not

actually being set as the mic?

I wish it would just work and I didn't

have to keep doing stuff. Okay.

I think live streaming, it can be so

stressful sometimes. This doesn't happen

when you're trying to make a video. Well,

it does, I guess, but you can fix it

before you post the video.

Well, maybe we— everyone here, we all

failed at life in Some way.

I keep getting my whole comments are just

people saying it's not pronounced Diablo,

it's pronounced Diablo. Yeah, well, how

come it's pronounced diagonal and

diaphragm and diagnosis and diabolical?

I mean, diabolical comes from the word

Diablo, doesn't it?

So obviously it's Diablo, not Diablo.

You name one word that begins D-I-A that's

pronounced D. Stupid gaming people.

Why not make videos instead of streaming?

Because the streams make more money. I got

10K views on a recent video, which is

pretty good. Guess how much it made? It

made— it made like $32.

Oh my God. What is the point even trying

anymore? I get more than— I get $30

from ads just doing a stream plus

donations. The streams make like $100,

whereas the videos, to make a good video,

I need to put a lot of emotion into it.

And it's not like I have a constant stream

of ideas. These video ideas just pop up in

my brain randomly, or depending if someone

wants to start some drama with me, like

stupid guesthouse manager guy,

because he started drama with me. I had

the idea of that video, but it's just a

one-off thing, isn't it? So I

just— I don't have a constant stream of

people trying to start drama with me, so I

don't have any content. So who

could we piss off next? I can't piss

Chihiro off anymore because she just

ignores me. It was funny when she got

upset and would start whining to my mum,

but she doesn't do it anymore. When she

realized my mum— I don't listen. Do you

think I listen to my mum? As if I'm going

to be scared of my mum. Oh, sorry, Mummy.

I won't do it again. I'm a 34-year-old

grown man. Chihiro honestly thought if my—

if she nags to my mum, she can get my mum

to make me stop doing stuff. Yeah, right.

You can have just 50 viewers and make that

much money. First of all, I get like 100

viewers. On average.

It just takes a few minutes to, um, get

people here. And yeah, it's okay, it's 100

viewers, but I get like 5,000 views

overall. So that's 5,000

people, and you get a CPM of like, uh, $3

or $5. That's like $25,

$30.

Generally expected you care about your

mother's feelings. Well, no one cares

about my feelings, so why should I care

about theirs? Everyone's like, oh,

Daniel, you should care about X, Y, and Z

person's feelings. Does anyone care about

mine? You name one person who cares about

my feelings. Everyone else just

walks all over me and then expects me to,

like, bow down to them. Screw that.

Who cares about my feelings? Did Shahira

care about my feelings when she did 1

billion livestreams with Casey? Did Casey

care about my feelings when he backstabbed

me and stole my wife? Did manager guy care

about my feelings when he said, oh,

kimochi warui, just because I put his face

in a thumbnail? No one cares about my

feelings. So screw them.

And no one's like, oh, Daniel, I'll help

you make a video. Oh yeah, Daniel,

it's fine if you use my face in your

picture. No one wants to help me.

Instead, they're trying to stop me or

hinder me. If you're against me, then if

you're not with me, then you're against

me. You are my enemy.

You talk bad about me and you criticize me

and try and tell me what to do. You're

basically my enemy and I hate you.

You bow down to me or else I cut ties.

I blocked the manager guy. Anyone who

messages me complaining, I just block you.

I don't owe you anything. I don't care who

you are. Gay guy, Mila, manager guy,

ex-wife. Screw all of you,

really, to be honest. I hate you all.

Ruined my life.

They can all go to hell.

All these people piss me off. They don't

message me or chat to me at all. Not even

a, oh, hey, Daniel, how's life going? Do

you want to hang out again? They don't

message me ever again after we go

back to our own countries and depart. And

then they only hit me up 10 years later

Because they found out I used their

picture or something in a video. Eat my

nutsack.

Do whatever the hell I want to do on my

YouTube channel. Don't, don't anger

me, okay? Or else I will put you in a

video and say rude things

about you. What are you gonna do about

that, guest house manager guy?

You are an idiot, so screw

yourself. Oh wow, thanks Blood Bucket,

very generous.

Yeah, I was in a good mood. I don't know

why I got all triggered just then. I'm

fine, just feeling funny today.

I just get annoyed with people in general.

That's why people avoid me these days, I

guess, because I guess they're scared,

like, oh, I better not anger Daniel or

I'll be on his YouTube channel.

Audio? What's wrong with the audio? What

is the point even trying anymore? Hello?

What is the point even trying anymore?

Hello? There's nothing wrong with the

audio. It's fine now.

Okay, so I went to the school yesterday.

Let me show you what I got.

Oh no,

no, I can't. Damn it.

Oh, that was close. I was going to show

you. They gave me a little bag and some

textbooks and I was going to show you the

textbooks, but then I just noticed it has

the school's name on it, so I can't show

you what I got. That was— I nearly doxxed

my school. That would have been so

embarrassing. Oh my God. They gave

me this little bag and the visa documents.

Notice how Chris doesn't really bother

with YouTube anymore? Yeah, I know. I

thought I was the only one who noticed

that he only posts videos Because it

has a sponsor in it. Can you see it? He

only cares about his— oh, hold on.

Thanks, Jim. Big ups to Sexy Himzel 2 on

Discord. Oh, wow. Thanks, Sexy Hitler.

What? Sexy who? You notice Chris Broad

only cares about his specials like Journey

Across Japan and The Frozen Frontier. You

can tell he cares about that. But then

whenever he posts a video that is not a

special, like one of those in his studio,

10 Things I Hate About Japan. That kind of

stuff, it always has a sponsorship in the

middle of the video. And you can tell the

only reason he's making it is because he

got a sponsorship and he's like, hmm,

okay, this blah blah blah Hello Box

sponsorship's paying me $10,000. Need to

make a video. What can I do? Oh, I know.

5 amazing foods you can find only in

Tokyo. So obvious.

He just puts out videos because it has a

sponsorship in it. Otherwise, he probably

wouldn't bother. I bet you anything if it

wasn't for the sponsorship, he wouldn't

bother. You can tell he's just pumping it

out, you know, to provide some content in

between the big specials that takes him a

lot of time to, um, like plan it, get all

the people together, get the van, and then

the drone shots. Probably takes a lot of

effort and editing. But in between those

ones, all these other videos just like

ways to put sponsorship deals

out. So obvious.

How do they not see it?

He'll do like a, I don't

know, like cheapest foods you can find in

Japan. And then it's just him going to

sushi row and getting conveyor belt sushi.

And he's like, oh, this is really good

sushi. Only ¥100 a plate.

Yeah, okay, it's just the sushi chain

restaurant. Who cares? Next on

the list is McDonald's. You can get a ¥100

cheeseburger. Wow, great tips, Chris.

This is like something everyone knows

already. Oh, thanks,

Jim. We should work together.

Why I won't be buying GTA 6. Yeah, I'm

definitely making that video. Wow, €5.

Daniel, trust me, why I won't be buying

GTA 6 will get you views. When is GTA 6

coming out? I have to make a do not buy.

That would get views.

Make another video about the guy who

licked the sushi roll stuff. I don't know,

because my first video flopped. I only got

12K views. I don't really know what to

say. How do they expect a kid or his

parents pay $500,000. Most Japanese people

would never make $5,000 in

their whole lifetime. And even if they

did, they'd be spending it all on

expenses. They're not going to have $500K

disposable income. So how do they expect

him to pay that? I don't get it.

He'll just be like, oh, sorry, I don't

have $500K. So what are you going to do?

Make them pay ¥500 a month or something.

I don't know. I think the best

thing they can do is like publicly shame

them, make their life hard so they're

constantly being punished throughout life

for doing that. Because everyone knows

their faces now. Good luck trying to get a

job. They'll be like, oh, you're that kid

who spat in the sushi. No thanks.

Goodbye.

You're talking to nobody. I'm talking to

your mom right now.

So when is GTA 6 coming out? A lot of

games coming out soon. I'm going to be

rich with all the views. We got Path

of Exile 2 coming out next month,

Starfield, Final Fantasy 16, Mortal Kombat

1. Oh my God.

How are your finances? I am broke.

Do you know how much I owe in taxes for

last year?

I owe £3,600 in taxes.

Can you believe that? And I paid an

accountant £150 to do my taxes and he

literally came up with the same amount

that I came up with by doing it myself.

So that was a complete waste of money.

I thought, okay, I'll pay for an

accountant. He's going to help me save

money on my taxes. He didn't save me

anything.

So I don't get it. It says you owe $2,600

in taxes plus an additional $1,100 that

needs to be paid by July 2024. What? What

is the additional €1,100?

I asked him, he still hasn't replied.

Useless. I think I got scammed.

What a waste of time paying someone to do

your taxes. Oh wow, thanks, Jim. €20.

Very generous.

So I made a lot of money last year because

of Elden Ring. And I had some sponsorships

and, um, what else happened? Yeah, I made

a lot of money because of Elden Ring and

that came back to bite me in the backside

because now I've got a massive tax bill,

which I wasn't expecting. I thought my tax

would be like £1,500 at the most.

It's like £3,600. I'm gonna have

to liquidate some of my assets to pay

that. I don't have £3,600 in cash

just sitting in my bank account.

So I've got until January 2024 to pay

that, which I guess it's

a long way away, but I got to pay for

Christmas in the UK. Oh my God, I'm going

to be broke.

Hopefully they could— I think I can do

monthly payments because I did it last

time. I was doing £200 a month for my last

tax bill. My tax bill now is gonna be

like, I don't know, if I split it over 12

months, that is £300

a month. Okay, it's doable, I guess.

Yeah, I told my accountant my expenses as

well. Like, I got this DJI mic,

£289, professional quality mics I bought

for my business. I put that as an expense.

Put the LiveU Solo as an expense. I put

the What

else? I got that webcam, I think, that AI

tracking webcam.

So I didn't realize I could deduct things

as expenses. So I wasn't doing that up

until last— this year for last year's tax.

Oh, thanks, John. Hello to you too.

Ask your accountant what can be included.

Yeah, I told him I do YouTube. I make

videos about tech and games. Can I write

that off? And he said, absolutely you can.

So I'm going to do that more for this year

because I spent a lot this year, didn't I?

Hola, Daniel. Oh, thanks,

John. I think for this tax year, which

will be from April 2023 until April 2024,

I could write off the IRL server. That was

like $100 a month.

Um, what else did I get?

Do you think I could write off the Japan

trip?

All the games? Yeah, I could add the

games. Like Diablo 4 was $70, Zelda was

$70. Uh, what else did

I buy? Sons of the Forest.

I want to get the ROG Ally. I could write

that off as well.

So I don't know why my tax is so high. I

think it'll be cheaper this year because I

won't even be in the UK. I would have

spent over a year in Thailand. Maybe I'll

just convert nationality to Thai and be

like, oh, screw you, England.

But I'm probably not going to make as much

money this year because I haven't really

had a big successful video this year. My

biggest success this year was the

PewDiePie video, made $500, 260K views.

And then Zelda was also a big one, but

they just didn't hit the numbers like

Elden Ring did, a million views. Diablo 4

is not really getting the views. So I

don't know, I'm hoping at least one game

gets me the big views, like Starfield

maybe, or maybe Path of Exile.

Something should hit, hopefully.

Oh, thanks, Jim. Can I be moderator on

your Discord? Maybe. What's your name on

Discord? I will look into it. Have to

consult with my human resource manager.

Uh, how long can we enjoy your company

today? Well, I really want to get back to

Diablo, so I think I'll stream until 1

or 2 PM. It's currently 8:35,

so maybe 4 or 5 hours. Can I be moderator

on your Discord server? Only if you

promise not to ban people unless they're

being racist or something. How long can we

enjoy your company today, Daniel? Oh,

thanks. Uh, yeah, maybe 4 or 5 hours. I'm

so addicted to Diablo. That game is

amazing. I love it. It just scratches

every itch. It's got amazing combat. You

can get really stuck into the nitty-gritty

details of gear and builds. I'm gonna

start playing my Rogue, I think. I got my

Barbarian to level 59 and I

did a tier 20 dungeon nightmare

dungeon yesterday, and I got stuck on the

last boss, and I wasted all my lives, and

I died, and I got kicked out of the

dungeon. And it was so frustrating. I went

back with a tier 17 dungeon, and I nearly

wiped my 12 lives on that, but I just

managed to get to the boss with 0 lives

left, and I aced the boss first try. It

was so rewarding. The feeling was so

satisfying. Felt so good.

But now I want to play my rogue because I

think it'll be more fun.

It's such a good game.

Okay, it's kind of repetitive and it's

just a grind fest, but it just feels good.

I don't know what it is, like the sound

design and the whole game loop of grinding

money and getting gear, getting stronger.

It feels so good. I love it.

Daniel's not reading comments unless it's

a dono. No, I'm just, you know, doing my

rants and then reading in between rants.

Thought you hated Diablo. No, I think it's

great. Probably the best game I played all

year. Better than Zelda? I thought Zelda

was pretty good, but now compared to

Diablo, Zelda doesn't have any of the

great gameplay mechanics that Diablo has,

like Loads of abilities that you can

pick and choose and customize and upgrade

based on your own playstyle and build.

You can't do that in Zelda. Well, in

Zelda, all you do is you like hack and

slash, jump around, do a parry, build some

weird contraption that breaks after 5

Imagine Zelda but with Diablo

combat mechanics. Oh, that would be

amazing. Imagine you could make Link

either this barbarian or like a rogue or

a sorcerer instead of just whatever he

does. I don't know how I can go back to

playing Zelda now.

It's such a great game. It's like World of

Warcraft, but way more,

way faster paced. And,

um, I don't know, it is like World of

Warcraft, but imagine playing it 10 times

speed. It just feels way faster paced.

World of Warcraft was very time consuming.

Like, you had to do quests and run here

and run there, and everything just felt

like it took ages to do.

Today I'm going to stream 5 hours, I

think. Do you like that Uniqlo

shirt? Yeah, it's my favorite shirt. I've

only got 2 shirts because I keep buying

shirts and they're always too big or

they're too small. Wait, I want

to show you my Thailand shirt because it

is funny. Oh wow, thanks Jim

again. So generous. Big ups my cousin Chet

Goldstein. Big ups Abdul Malik. Thanks.

So before I left Japan, I went to Uniqlo

and I bought 2 new shirts. These ones.

I got this one and a black one, but

they're too small. I don't know why,

because I tried it on in the fitting room

and it felt fine, but then when I came to

Thailand, it felt tight. And the collar is

like tight around my neck. The collar is

like this. Way too hot for Thailand. And I

got a black one, so that's a waste of

money. And I bought new jeans, but I left

them in Japan. So I got this Thailand

shirt in Phuket, but it's

way too big. I got L size

because my other shirt is an L and it fits

me perfectly. So I thought, okay, I'm L

size. So I got this, which I really like

the design. Too big. So my girlfriend goes

on the internet, finds me the same shirt,

and buys me M size. But M size is too

small. So M is too small. L is

too big. It's so frustrating trying to buy

t-shirts here. So I think I'll just go

back to Uniqlo and buy another one of

these. Maybe they need a

size in between M and L. When I wear the M

size, it's like this, really tight.

You do not want tight clothing in

Thailand. It feels so hot.

Very frustrating trying to get clothing

that— maybe I just have a weird shaped

body. I don't know.

Is Diablo 4 your first Diablo game?

Yeah, I never played Diablo before. It's

always looked like a boring nerd game.

And I never understood the appeal of it.

So you just run around dungeons doing AoE

damage, grinding for loot and gear. How's

that fun? It is actually a lot of fun.

Are you skinny fat? Yeah, I'm really

skinny, but then I've got fat belly. It's

not too fat recently. Where are you

originally from? I'm from the UK.

British. I heard nothing but good things

about your girlfriend. What do you mean?

When are you going to make a video for

this channel? What about my girlfriend? I

don't really want to make a video talking

specifically about her because it'd be

kind of weird because she'll watch it.

Let her make a vid? Nah, it'd be weird.

I just want to focus on video game stuff

and then do like a life update stream once

Thai girlfriend's watching right now. I

don't think so. She should be busy.

Okay, so yesterday we

went to the school to pick up the visa

documents they prepared. I don't know what

they prepared. It's like a load of papers,

and we need to go to immigration maybe

next week. To hand in the documents.

And I think we have to wait maybe 2 weeks

for them to review my application, then

give me my student visa, and then I'll

start going to school. So I don't actually

have to start going to school until the

end of June after I get my visa, which is

great because I thought I'd have to go— I

thought I had to start school next week,

but I don't have to start until end of

June.

And, um, yeah, they gave me some

textbooks, but the annoying thing is I've

been learning how to read Thai, the Thai

alphabet, but they're not teaching the

Thai alphabet. The entire textbook is in

English, so they, they write out the Thai

words phonetically in English, but it

looks really hard to, to understand

because I don't know how you're supposed

to pronounce it. So for example,

in English they've written some word as

P-O-O-T, and I thought, okay, it's

pronounced poot. But then my girlfriend

said, no, it's pronounced boot. So like

P's and B's are not pronounced how you

would expect it to be. And they've got all

these dashes, like a line through the O or

dash above the O. So it's like And we're

going to have to learn how they write

their words in English. It looks like

Vietnamese with all the dashes and stuff.

It's kind of annoying because I've been

learning how to read Thai and I think

it's, I think it's better to learn the

alphabet and then learn Thai after you can

read. But I can understand if they've got

a classroom of people trying to teach them

how to read and write would take ages.

I've been— I dedicated a few hours and I'm

pretty good at learning alphabets, so I'm

quick. But most people suck. Can you

imagine like a white guy from Scotland

trying to, trying to write his name in

Thai? There's just no way. It would take

ages. So I guess for the sake of

efficiency and time, it's better to just

teach Thai in Romanized

English alphabet, but I think it's a bad

way of learning a language. You really

need to learn the alphabet of the

language. I think it's a much better

idea, but then you really need to dedicate

a lot of time into studying how to read,

and a lot of people are just not good with

recognizing the different symbols. I think

I have a high IQ, which is why I'm good at

it. Good at recognizing the subtle

differences between the different symbols

and being able to create a memory palace

to remember what the symbols mean. That's

why I'm so good at kanji. Adolf Sexy

Himzel 2 on Discord. Thank you, John

Johnson, for giving me money. I will waste

it away. Thank you, Adolf Sexy Himzel 2 on

Discord. Great. Oh, you're not wasting it.

You're investing it in the best YouTube

channel in the world. I will use

your money wisely.

So I want to give you an example of why I

think you should learn the alphabet. We

were in the car park yesterday and I

noticed a sign with an arrow pointing down

with 2 letters. And I note— I remember the

first letter is L from my name Daniel.

It's the same letter that I see a lot.

But the second letter, I haven't seen it

before and I don't know how to read it.

It's like a little circle with a hook. So

I'm guessing this means down, but I don't

know how it's read. It starts with an L.

And then we get into the elevator and then

this Thai couple are getting in too, and

they ask my girlfriend something that

begins with long. They're like long,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then it

just clicked. Long means down.

So that little second symbol is like an

ung sound. So that kind of clicks for me.

And I see the same ung sound in the

spelling of Bangkok. So yeah, that

clicked. So I learned a new word just by

seeing the letters. I thought that's

pretty cool. Oh wow, Jim donating a

lot today. Very generous.

So I think it is a good idea to learn the

alphabet. Also, in Thai,

they don't call Bangkok Bangkok. They call

it Krung Thep or something like that.

It's strange. The actual official name for

Bangkok is some really, really long word

that begins with Krung Thep Makana Kong or

something like that. And then Bangkok is

only one of the words in that really long

name. But Thai people call it Krung Thep,

which is why the official bank of Bangkok

is called Krung or something like Krung

Thai. It means— shout out to Eris

from CEO of Autism. It means land of the

angels. I think Krung is like angel or

something like that. Oh, thanks, Kevin.

Shout out to Eris. Why is she the CEO

of autism? Krung Thep Nakhon Ratchasima.

Yeah, that's the one. Only English people

call it Bangkok, which is funny. Krung

Thep— I remember Gant from Trash Taste.

There's a clip of him saying it. Krung

Thep Nakhon Ratchasima.

Why is it so damn long?

Wait, Bangkok is not in the name.

Most countries don't call their capital

cities the name their colonizers gave it.

Well, no one colonized Thailand.

And I think we say most countries— I don't

know, because we say Tokyo and we say

Kyoto and we say Seoul and we say Moscow,

but Americans call it Moscow. Even though

Russians call it Moscow. We say Paris when

French people say Paris, I guess. I don't

know what German people call Berlin.

So I went to the school. You know what I

noticed about the school? A lot of white

people there. I saw a lot of other visa

application forms with pictures on it,

and they were all white people. So I feel

a bit relieved. That I'll be attending

class with my fellow white people. I don't

know why, but I feel, I feel

like I feel more comfortable with white

people since I ident— I identify

as a white person. Just because I don't

look like one doesn't mean I can't feel

like one because I grew up in England

surrounded by white people. So I identify

as one. On the inside.

I feel like they're my people. Apart from

the chavs. They're not my people.

Oh, thanks, Jim. Enjoy your money. I'm

going to go and get drunk on Smirnoff.

Okay. Thanks for your contributions.

Maybe you can write off your donations as

tax write-off. Can you do that? You can

write off charity donations as tax

write-off because Connor keeps saying it.

He says, oh, donate to the IMF fund, it's

tax deductible. Are you donating

to it? I mean, I'm not an official

charity, so maybe that won't work.

Lying about being homeless to your viewers

is a great job. I did not lie. That video

was made for entertainment purposes. And I

made a disclaimer in the video that I

wasn't actually homeless. It's not my

fault you didn't pay attention.

LOL, enjoy your money. I'm going to go and

get drunk on Smirnoff, pimp master

glorious Daniel. Also big ups Adolf sexy

Himzel too on Discord, great guy. Oh

thanks, enjoy your Smirnoff.

So we go to the school, they give me back

my visa stuff, and, um, what else

happened? Oh yeah, I wanted to buy the ROG

Ally, so we go to the nearby shopping

center, but they didn't have it because

it's like a crappy shopping center. We

need to go to Paragon or Central World

where they have the, the Gamer Republic

gaming shops. I don't know if the ROG

Ally is out yet in Thailand, but I wanted

to check just in case.

It's kind of annoying living in Thailand

because you don't have access to the

latest tech as soon as it comes out. And

the ROG Ally is kind of like a niche

product. If I was in England, I would have

pre-ordered it and had it by now. So we go

to a restaurant instead and have food and

She has her second job starting at 6 p.m.

and it's like 5 p.m.

And then we finish eating at 5:30. We've

got 30 minutes to get back and we get

stuck in a massive traffic jam,

obviously, since it's rush hour. And then

she's like freaking out because she has to

get to work. And it was probably the

scariest car trip I've ever had. We,

we were overtaking lanes of traffic in

the oncoming traffic lane. It was

absolutely crazy. So there's a massive

traffic jam, single lane.

So we're like bottlenecked, bottlenecked.

And there was like solid queue of traffic

in our lane. But the other lane was kind

of empty with some cars coming towards us.

And she was trying to get into the

oncoming lane. So our car was half

sticking out into the other lane. And then

we were blocking all the motorbikes behind

us and they were all beeping at us. Some

of them were trying to risk it and

overtake us. By going straight into the

oncoming lane. And they were like shaking

their heads at us and beeping at us. And

then other cars were beeping at us. And

then she actually drove into the oncoming

traffic lane to skip the queue of,

of traffic that was queuing up. And then

we had to get back into the left lane.

And she was like opening the window and

begging the car to let us back into the

lane. And the car wasn't letting us in.

He was still trying to push in to block us

from getting us back in, letting us back

in. But we kept pushing in and then he had

to let us enter the queue. It was so

crazy. I'd never seen driving like that

ever.

And then we would leave. We were changing

lanes and then cars were beeping at us

because we were just trying to get into

their lane whilst they were going pretty

quickly. And then we would leave our lane

to get into the other lane. And as soon as

we get into the other lane, our lane that

we just left starts moving. So it's like

completely pointless to keep changing

lanes like that. I'm pretty sure there's a

science to lane changing where it's

proven that it doesn't actually get you to

your destination faster. And you're just

making unnecessary dangerous risks to try

and save like a couple seconds. You leave

your lane that you think is not moving.

But then as soon as you leave it, it

starts moving again. And then you're stuck

in the lane that you just moved into.

It's kind of like the stock market. You

buy stuff when you think it's moving. And

then once you've bought into it, it stops

moving up and then you sell it because

it's going down. And that's why people

keep losing money. Same psychology.

So I don't know if this high-risk,

constant lane changing actually got us to

our, our home faster than if we just

stayed in the same lane. I don't know,

but it was pretty crazy.

I'm— I just— I can't believe we didn't

crash. I thought for sure we were going to

crash because we were like accelerating

hard into the queues of traffic, braking

hard. Changing lanes.

It was insane. And then she was late

for work by 20 minutes.

I don't want to be the one to say, I told

you so, but I didn't think it was a good

idea to have a meal in a restaurant and

then try to go to work during rush hour.

But I kept my mouth shut.

It's 5 PM Bangkok.

I don't think you should expect it not to

I thought I was gonna die, but I'm alive.

Got home safely. And then we were speeding

like 20, I think 25 kilometers per hour.

In the car park with the speed bumps. And

this woman was crossing the road and we

were just speeding towards her like 25

kilometers per hour. And she ran. She,

she saw us speeding towards her and she

just like, she was walking casually and

then she just started running because she

thought we were going to hit her or

something. It's like GTA. It was like

being in GTA. We were like bouncing off

the speed bumps at 20 kilometers per hour.

You know, you're supposed to slow down to

about 5 kilometers per hour. To go over

speed bumps. We're hitting them at 25.

That car's poor suspension,

skidding around the car park ramps, it was

insane. I swear I'm going to die in a car

crash at some point.

Oh my God, I have never seen driving like

that in my whole life.

Maybe you're insane cuz I complain about

doing the same thing expecting a new

outcome. Well, I don't really want a new

outcome. The same outcome I'm getting now

would be fine, which is

why I still do what I do.

I just, I really hope we don't crash and

then I have to do something like I don't

know, stop the angry man from punching my

girlfriend in the face. I feel like Thai

people get really angry.

I would just be sitting in the car hiding.

I don't know what to do when you get in a

car crash. What do you do? I think in

Thailand they just do like a cash

settlement to not get the— they don't want

to get the insurance companies involved

because if you do it properly with the

insurance company, you lose points or

something like that. It makes your

insurance credit go down. So most people

in Thailand, when they crash, they'll just

negotiate and say, okay, I'll give you

$100 to fix it. Sorry, sorry I

crashed into you. I don't know if it's

like that in the UK. I think in the UK

they— everyone does it properly. They

exchange insurance details.

One time my girlfriend crashed and she

said the other man who she crashed into

was so angry. He said, if you were a man,

I would have punched you. That's scary.

You know, that's why I'm scared of

driving, because I think I'm going to

crash and then I'm going to crash into

like an angry man and he's actually going

That's— I mean, a lot of A lot of angry,

scary men are on the roads, and if you

are unfortunate enough to crash into them,

they're gonna be pissed. They're gonna be,

oh, you fucking idiot, you just broke my

car. I just got it fixed last weekend. I

need to go to work. You're gonna make me

late. You fucking pillock. And then I'm

gonna get punched in the face. Just don't

be a bad driver. Well, that's the thing,

isn't it? Driving, sometimes you just zone

out a bit, daydream a bit.

You're not paying attention.

Driving is stressful. You've got 100

things to pay attention to.

And the traffic in Bangkok is just crazy.

At Victory Monument, you've got an 8-lane

roundabout. Where overtaking on the

roundabout is insane. I thought 2-lane

roundabouts were stressful in the UK. You

try going to Victory Monument in Bangkok.

The roundabout is massive,

but no one follows the rules of the

roundabout in Thailand. They just get on,

get off, overtake, cut people off on

the roundabout. The police don't care

either. You can speed and be on your phone

and do really bad driving in front of the

police and they won't do anything. In the

UK, they would have pulled you over and

probably you'd lose your license by now.

I never— it never ceases to amaze

me, the driving here. It's just like the

biggest culture shock is the driving.

But when I get a taxi, it's not so bad.

It's just when my girlfriend's driving,

it feels like a crazy go-kart simulator

Just another day in Thailand.

So how am I going to go to school? Maybe

I'll get a taxi, but I think it's, it's

about, I think it's maybe $3 to

get a taxi there and back. If I'm going 5

days a week, how much is that going to be?

It's going to add up. It's going to be

like $60 or $70 a month.

Maybe I can afford it. If I get the train,

it's gonna cost an— I mean, it's gonna

cost way less, but it's gonna take an hour

to get there and back. Maybe I get a

bicycle. I reckon I could get there way

faster by bicycle. It takes half an hour

by car, but then you get all jammed up,

probably in the morning, this rush hour.

Do you think I should get a bicycle?

I'm not sure how I'm gonna get there. I

might just do, do a Grab, get a Grab.

Yeah, when I say taxi, I mean Grab. I'm

not gonna get the yellow and green metered

taxis. They rip you off. They'll charge me

like 300 baht just for a 15-minute taxi

ride when it should only be about 50 or 60

Don't get a bicycle. I've seen a few

people ride bicycles.

It's kind of annoying the school's so far

away, and the train— I

would have to change trains 2 times, I

think, because we don't have a direct

line to where Victory Monument is.

Could get a Grab scooter, but those things

are scary. I did a livestream, remember,

and I got on the back of a scooter. It was

okay. I just— I don't like— I don't

like being dick to butt with the moped

rider. It's weird. Your dick is so close

to another guy's bum. I only

like riding on the back of a motorbike

when it's a girl and I could put my arms

around her. Like when I was in Taiwan back

in 2016, the Taiwanese girl had a moped

and then she would take me around and I

put my arms— I'd squeeze her tightly like

that. That was the only time I could touch

her. I was so sexually depraved

and frustrated and that was the closest

thing I could get. Sniff her neck and

stuff. I can't believe she got married,

moved to the UK and had a baby.

That's insane. Women really do just

completely change their lives because they

met some guy and got impregnated. That's

She said she was lonely living in the

middle of nowhere, England countryside,

and she's got no friends. She just stays

at home all day looking after her baby and

she doesn't know what to do. She sounds

depressed. Well, can you imagine

going from living in Taiwan in a bustling

city with your family and friends and then

just moving to the middle of nowhere UK

countryside with no one who speaks your

language? That sounds depressing.

That's like me just moving to the jungle

in Thailand. Actually, I wouldn't mind

because I don't really go out anyway. I

only like Bangkok because it's where you

got all the shopping stuff. People ask me,

why do I want to live in Bangkok, the

city, when I don't go out? It's because it

has the big shopping centers where you get

all the cool stuff. They don't have that

stuff in the middle of nowhere. Pia's on a

date right now. What? How could she betray

me? A date with who? Does he

look like me? Better not be white.

It's Mila, not Pia.

Pia is on a date right now. How would you

know what Mila is doing? No, not jealous.

It looks like @SushiVlogs channel died.

It doesn't grow anymore.

See, I'm telling you, YouTube channels

blow up and they die after a few years.

His channel blew up in 2021 because I

remember Chihiro telling me, oh, I got

this coworker, his channel recently blew

up. That was him, @SushiVlogs. His channel

doesn't grow. He's stuck at

like 40K subs or something.

Suck it. How long can

he keep doing these boring vlogs about his

stupid life being

a minimalist before people get bored of

it? Why can't I find

his channel? Oh, there it is.

Oh, shut up, idiot. Ohayo gozaimasu.

Why does he sound like he's got Down

syndrome or something? He always has

that cringe smile in his intro, like,

ohayo gozaimasu. He's like that, isn't he?

He looks like a spastic. Can't believe

Chihiro dated him or dates him. Talk

about, talk about stepping down from me.

Jesus Christ.

He's like beta version of me.

His videos

get like 50K views now. 50K, 60K, 60K,

60K. He doesn't get 100K anymore.

Channel dead already after only 2 years.

Join the club, buddy. Do that face again.

Well, my retard face I

feel like that's, that's insulting.

Oh, I love it when channels die. I'm like,

join the club, buddy. YouTube lifespan is

like 2 to 4 years. 4 years?

I mean, it's like stage 4 cancer.

The lifespan of a YouTube channel is

basically less than a goldfish

for most people. It is.

I found— I followed a lot of channels back

in— I mean, I still check up on them now

and then just to see, and they all died.

The channels I was following back in 2017

and '18 just to check if they would ever

become massive, like JoyNen, Sora the

Troll, Ben Dean, Terry TV.

Who else is that? Every single one of them

blew up, but then they're now dead.

It's so funny.

The only one is Zach Choi that didn't die.

Every single other channel that I was

keeping tags on,

checking the process, they all died. Look

at Ben Dean, 1 million subs and he only

gets like 20K views. I mean,

60K views. TerryTV's channel died too.

He's got like 2 million subs. He used to

have a big fan base of like 500K viewers

and then he only gets 30K views now.

That's insane. Just a few years and your

entire fan base abandoned you. So it's

not just me. It literally happens to every

creator. They have a blowup. Things are

amazing for maybe 2 or 3 years, then on

the 4th or 5th year, it's really,

really— things have dried up.

Unless you're the top 1% who is some kind

of influencer marketing genius,

everyone's channels just die. The only

reason the Trash Taste people and Chris

Broad are doing so well is to this day is

because they did Trash Taste and they

merged all the audience together and they

created this strong brand

of Trash Taste. And they're like

networking like crazy. Connor is

networking with Ludwig, Joey's networking

with PewDiePie. They're just networking

geniuses, and they've got a whole company,

Geeks+, helping them market. They've got a

whole team. Like a managing team, a PR

team reaching out to all these massive

names. Obviously most people are not like

that. People like me just doing YouTube

from our bedrooms, we don't have a

freaking marketing team and we're not

collabing with Ken Watanabe and PewDiePie

and stuff. So that's like the top 1%, and

if they failed after doing all of that, I

would just be gobsmacked because they're

putting in so much effort. Money and

effort into, into not fading into

irrelevancy.

But yeah, sad story is us normal

casual YouTubers, we're just going to blow

up and we'll have, you know, have our time

in the spotlight for a few years and then

it's just going to fizzle out. That's the

sad reality of most YouTubers.

But it's kind of fun to, um, laugh at

other people's channels dying because

misery loves company.

It takes a lot of work. You can't just

blow up and think, okay, I'm set for life.

You have to blow up, then also carry on

making amazing content and network and

collab and keep doing new stuff.

Otherwise, you can't just blow up and sit

here playing games and doing streams on

your own. You're going to die. Your

channel's going to die. I was

too lazy. I didn't put in the work. I

don't want to collab with people because I

don't like meeting or talking to people.

So my channel with my attitude

is doomed to fail. Was doomed to fail.

It's just too hard. I'm doing YouTube

because I'm lazy. I don't want to put in

the hard work. And network. If you

don't network, you're really going to

struggle unless you've got some genius

creative skills.

So I'm willing to bet next year

at Sushi Vlogs, we'll be getting an

average of 20K views. And it won't grow

again. I really doubt his channel is going

to grow much more.

He'll do like some growth, but very

slowly. Because if he— if there was the

potential to grow even more, it would have

happened already. He's been doing it for 2

years. If you're doing a kind of content

for 2 years and it hasn't blown you up to

the stratosphere by now, then I don't

think it ever will. You gotta try— he

has to try something else, I reckon.

You make 200 videos about a type of topic,

I reckon a few of them will get over a

million views and go viral. The rest will

get decent views, and then some will get

crap views.

But I just, I don't see the

longevity in some guy just sitting in his

apartment saying, hey guys, bought a new

frying pan.

YouTube is a marathon. It's not a sprint.

Just because you blow up and then you've

got great numbers for a couple of years.

Okay, what about 5 years later? What are

you going to do? What are you going to do

for content 5 years later? Once 80

or 90% of your subs are not watching

anymore? It's a marathon,

not a sprint. That's what I learned.

Appears on a date because she told me.

Why would she tell you and not me?

Tokyo Creative is a clique to stop new

YouTubers coming through and taking a

piece of the pie. Yeah, I bet they're

very I mean, I bet behind

the scenes they're like this predatory

business entity thinking, okay, how can we

maximize our profits?

They just lure in big YouTubers with the,

the promise of getting them an

entertainer's visa so they can live in

Japan and live out their weeb dream. And

then in return, I don't know, they

probably get a percentage of whatever that

YouTuber makes. It's basically a multi,

multi-networking channel, an MCM.

Back in the day, like the Smosh days, you

had to have a networking— what are they

called? Multi-network.

Is it MCM? I can't remember the term.

Like a networking company that will do all

the marketing for you. Because back then

you didn't, you didn't have ads and

YouTube partnership, whatever.

You had to get a networking company to

get you the views and the exposure, and in

return they'll get you the money and you

give them like 10 or 20%. But then I think

it was like early or late 2000s, YouTube

introduced monetization, and then you