I am a MASSIVE IDIOT

Hi, so I've had some recent discoveries

recently, and basically I feel like a

total idiot because,

well, there's 2 things I want to talk

about. One is merch, and then the second

is OnlyFans. So merch,

why have I not been selling merch until

now? So you may have realized that I

started selling merch about a month ago

and I haven't actually— I haven't really

promoted it or said much about it since my

last video, which I uploaded yesterday.

Apart from that video, I didn't really

promote my merch much apart from

mentioning it a few times in a couple

livestreams. Well, I say mention, it was

more like I was just moaning because no

one was buying it. The reason why no one

was buying it is because no one knew about

it because I didn't promote it. In a good

way, and I only had one cup on sale.

Well, now I've added loads more items.

I've got shirts, I've got more mugs, I've

got long sleeve jumpers or sweaters, um,

I've got— what else do I have? I think

that's it. I'm gonna add more, maybe

stickers, maybe a bag, maybe posters, I

don't know. But I have nearly 8 items now

And after uploading my last video about

gay men, where I promoted the video,

promoted the merch in the beginning, I've

sold 10, 10 pieces of merch in

total, totaling to about, um, nearly $100

in sales. I can't believe it. It's crazy.

And I just feel really stupid for not

doing this earlier.

I don't know why, but I've been— I've just

been really lazy and kind of against the

idea of selling merch. People kept telling

me, Daniel, you should sell merch. Why

aren't you selling merch? If you sold

merch, I would buy it. And I really should

have started like 2 years ago when my

channel was blowing up. That's really when

I should have started all this merch and

Patreon stuff, but At the time, I was

making so much money, I didn't really feel

like I needed more money. And I kind of

thought selling merch was kind of lame. I

thought, we're supposed to be YouTubers

making videos. Why are we just selling

random pieces of clothing now? And I think

Jake Paul, you know, when all that Jake

Paul stuff was happening with the whole

buy my merch link in bio, I just thought

selling merch was really lame, mainly

because of him and all the other big

YouTubers. And then there was this other

YouTuber called PhilipSorloTV. Don't know

if you remember him, but he blew up really

quickly and got really big, and straight

away he started selling merch. And I

thought, wow, what a loser. He's only just

blown up a week ago and he's already

selling merch. I thought it was kind of

lame. And then I started warming up to the

idea, and I did make some some designs,

some mock designs, but I never got around

to— never got around to making a proper

merch website because I thought it was too

complicated. I thought, I don't know how

to make a store or website and get people

to go onto it. Well, recently, um, well,

I don't know how recent it is, but there's

a merch shelf on YouTube and

it's so easy to set up. I set it up last

month when Mila was here. And all you do

is you go onto this website called

Teespring, and then you sign up, make an

account, and then you just upload your

designs and then choose a piece of

clothing or a mug that you want to sell.

And then Teespring handles everything for

you. It manages all the shipping, all the

posting, the wrapping, and you don't have

to do anything. I guess the downside is

they take half of the profits of the

sales, so I only get half of the money.

So if I sell something for $20, I only get

$10. I guess if I had my own site that I

set up myself, I guess I would end up

taking all the money. Maybe I should

set up my own site.

I don't know, I think it's fine because

this way I have the merch shelf under my

videos, which is— it's very easy to see,

and I think that might help a lot to get

sales. I noticed other YouTubers, not all

of them use the merch shelf. A lot of them

do have their own websites. I guess that

is a better idea if you know how to make a

website, or if you're willing to pay

someone to make a website. I don't really

want to pay hundreds of dollars to someone

to make a shop for me.

Um, so yeah, I feel really motivated now

to do artwork to make new merch.

As of now, I don't really have new designs

for merch. I just have my old designs from

a few years ago, and I've just used a

couple of images that I took off

Instagram. So I don't really have, um, I

don't really have good designs or new

designs. So I've been working on this. I

was up until 2 AM last night designing

this. I think it looks pretty good. So

this is going to go onto a shirt,

hopefully. I'm really pleased with the

detail. If you look at the detail,

I spent a lot of time zooming in to make

sure the lines are clean and neat and

tidy. I think it looks really good. I

actually had a really nice time just

sitting there drawing, listening to music,

and I think I'm gonna make a video,

something like top 5 places I had cereal,

and then use that video to promote this

new design, put onto a shirt, maybe a bag,

maybe a few other items. I think people

would like it actually, and I'm really

getting into the idea of designing stuff

and making more merch. So yeah,

it's nice to feel motivated again to get

back into artwork. I didn't really feel

very motivated to do art because,

uh, I didn't really feel like I needed to.

I didn't really feel like there was a way

to make money from doing art, and I didn't

really enjoy doing it just for the sake of

it. But now I'm enjoying it again. I guess

money is a big motivator.

So hopefully— oh yeah, I want to redesign,

remake one of these characters that I made

years ago when my channel was really

small. I don't know if you remember it.

It was like a chibi character of myself

with a big head wearing that— oh, I've

still got it— the blue and gray stripy

hoodie that I used to wear all the time

from Primark. I thought I got rid of

it. Um,

so yeah, merch is going really well and

it's nice because it takes a lot of

pressure off of having to get views.

My only source of income has always been

ad revenue, so I was always under a lot of

pressure to get as many views as I could.

That's why I did so much drama stuff and

clickbait, just trying to get views

whenever I could. However I could.

But now I don't really have any drama and

clickbait is becoming less and less

effective. My views have gone down

a lot and so has my income, and I was

getting kind of stressed out about it and

worried because what am I going to do if I

can't get views anymore? So thankfully

this whole merch thing and the OnlyFans I

think if I can make maybe $200 or $400 a

month from merch and OnlyFans, that would

really take a lot of pressure off of me to

get views. I don't really mind my views

going down if it means, um,

if it means I can make some extra income

doing merch stuff. Uh, what else

do I want to talk about? Yeah, maybe it

will give me some motivation to make

different kinds of videos instead of just

instead of just cereal talk and girl talk

all the time and drama. I don't really

want to do drama, to be honest, because of

Mila. Mila is kind of worried that I'm

gonna make a bunch of drama YouTube videos

with her and give her a lot of stress.

And she said to me she doesn't want to be

involved with YouTube drama and fights and

all that rubbish like Chihiro was. And I

agree, I don't want to have to do that

again with Mila like what happened with

Chihiro. I would like to have a nice

peaceful relationship with her. I don't

want to mess things up with her because

I'm desperate to get views by using drama.

I got so lazy, I think. I didn't used to

be like this. I used to, I used to put

effort into making videos and thinking of

ideas and stories, but When I

found out how easy it was to get views

just from talking about fights and talking

about cheating stuff, I just went with

that and I kept doing more and more drama.

And now the drama's run out. Don't really

know what to do. I guess I could just make

stuff up, but I don't really feel like it.

I guess I have to go back to thinking

of actual ideas for videos instead of just

relying on Oh, I had a big fight with my

wife. My wife kicked me out. I cheated on

my wife. It was just like that over and

over and over again, and it was getting

kind of boring for me, but it kept getting

really good views, so I kept doing it.

Anyway, I would like to do more artistic

kind of videos using art and stories,

so I'm going to try and get back into

that. And it's nice to have the merch and

the OnlyFans to help me out a bit because

the views are going to be much lower

compared to before. Okay, so let me talk

about OnlyFans quickly. Um,

I made an OnlyFans recently and I'm

pretty shocked, pleasantly shocked at how

well it's doing. I have 18 fans already

and I charge $10 a month, so that's

quite a lot of— it's quite a lot of money.

I'm making nearly $200 off of OnlyFans in

just a couple days. Not even a couple, it

hasn't even been one day actually. Yeah,

it's not even been one day since I

uploaded my last video promoting my

OnlyFans, and already I have nearly 20

fans paying about $10 each.

That's crazy. I can't believe how many

people are interested in my nudes.

And I'm actually very motivated to, to

take more nudes, I guess, and to sell

other content like that. I think OnlyFans

could be fun because I'll be able to do

all the stuff I want to do on it that you

can't do on YouTube. YouTube is boring.

Can't talk about anything fun. Can't show

nudes. Probably can't even say nudes.

This video is probably going to get

demonetized just because I said nudes.

Ah, so annoying doing YouTube. I can't do

anything fun like I used to be able to.

And I don't really know why I'm so

motivated by OnlyFans when I had Patreon.

I guess it's kind of like the same thing,

but for some reason OnlyFans just seems

like a better platform to me than

Patreon does.

I always get worried that a bug or an

insect crawled inside it and then I'll

drink it.

Um, what else? I think that's it. There's

just so many things I could do on OnlyFans

that I can't do on YouTube. I can talk

about cereal in graphic detail without

having to call it cereal. I could show all

kinds of pictures. I could show my love

doll. I've got it in the closet over

there. I could take it out of the box and

show it to you. Yeah, I could do all kinds

of stuff on OnlyFans, and people

are willing to pay $10 a month, which is

great. So if I can get my fans— my initial

goal was to get 20, which would give me

about $200 a month. Extra income. But I've

already reached 18, so 20 is going to be

easy. If I just keep promoting it, maybe I

can get 50. Wow, could you imagine if I

can get 50 fans on OnlyFans paying $10

each? What if I end up making more money

on OnlyFans than I do on YouTube? That'd

be crazy. Anyway, it's nice to have extra

new streams of income because I'm so

reliant on ad revenue And it was kind of

stressful because I would just be worrying

about ad revenue all the time. Now I've

got so many different streams. I've got

OnlyFans, I've got merch, I've got the

second channel as well, and then I've got

Patreon, and then I've also got my private

videos which I sell for $50 each.

Surprisingly, a lot of people interested

in that as well. One guy bought 2

of them yesterday for $100. $100 is

more money than I make from 3 videos these

days. I'm not making much from videos,

which really sucks. It's really hard

to feel motivated to make videos when

number one, the views are down so much,

and number two, you don't even make that

much even when you do get views. And every

time you upload, you lose like 50

subscribers. I don't know why people keep

unsubbing every time I upload. Either I

said something in the video which really

upset them, or the video is reminding them

that they're still subscribed to me when

they're bored of my channel and they don't

want to be subscribed anymore. It's kind

of demoralizing when your channel has

stopped growing and now it's actually

going backwards. I think I might actually

drop back under 105K subs if this keeps on

going on. Kind of demoralizing,

but you know, maybe my time is up. It's

been 3 years, 2 years since I went viral.

My peak is over. Maybe I need to start

trying to do new things. I think the whole

merch and artwork direction is a good

idea. I think people might be— a lot

of people might be willing to buy my merch

if I, if I come up with some good designs.

I think this design is pretty good.

Stupid Face ID. I think it's pretty good.

I'm going to add maybe a bit more detail,

clean it up a bit more, put this on the

shirts. Yeah, I think

everything would be okay.