My Plans to Find A Girlfriend in Scotland are Failing...

So I've been in Scotland for a few weeks

now, and I thought I'd just make a video

update on how things are going. Things are

not really going amazingly, to be honest.

Nothing's happening, and I still haven't

managed to find any girlfriends. My plans

to try and find a girlfriend here in

Scotland have completely failed so far.

I've been on Tinder ever since I got here,

and I even purchased the gold membership

so I could get a boost, but it hasn't

really helped that much. I've only been on

one date so so far, and it was with a

Japanese woman, which was kind of

unexpected. It's a bit of a surprise to go

on a date with a Japanese woman in

Scotland. I wasn't really expecting that,

but the date went quite well, I think,

and we spoke Japanese for most of the

date. I was kind of worried that my

Japanese skill had kind of deteriorated

since I left Japan. It's been so many

years since I actually had to use it, but

it seems like my Japanese is still pretty

good. For some reason, I felt more

confident speaking Japanese during dates.

Maybe that's because when I speak in

Japanese, I can kind of hide or cover up

the fact that I'm not very good at

conversation. And if I'm speaking in a

foreign language, I can kind of get away

with the fact that I'm not very good at

conversation because it's not my native

language. And even though I felt like the

dates went pretty well, I decided not to

do my moves at the end of the dates

because I felt like, why don't I just try

and do things normally and try to get her

to come on a second date and then do my

moves? That way I'll have more confidence.

So I told her that I liked her and that I

would like to see her again, and she said

she would like to see me again as well,

but she didn't tell me when she would be

able to see me again because she's busy

with trying to sort work stuff out. Now

I'm not really sure if she really wants to

see me again. Maybe that's just Japanese

politeness saying, yeah sure, I'd like to

see you again as well. Maybe she didn't

really mean it, and maybe her saying that

she's just busy and doesn't know when she

can see me again is like a subtle way of

telling me she's not interested. So it

doesn't really look too promising with the

Japanese girl. So apart from that one

Japanese date, I haven't really met anyone

else, and I don't really have a lot of

matches on dating apps. I've got a few

other ones, and I have asked them about

meeting, and they said yes, but nothing's

really confirmed or anything. I just don't

really have a good feeling about, about

dating here or in England in general. For

some reason, I just don't have very good

luck. When it comes to dating here in my

own country, which is kind of weird and

also kind of explains why I always had to

keep going to Japan or to Asian countries

to, um, to get any female action. I

remember people used to make fun of me

because I used to have to go to Japan to

be able to get girlfriends, and I used to

get a bit annoyed with this, and I wanted

to prove them wrong and show that I didn't

have to go to Japan to get a girlfriend,

but it seems like I failed so far to prove

them wrong because it's like everything

they were saying was true, and I'm just

really struggling to, to get anywhere

here, and I don't know what I'm doing

wrong. And I don't want to sound like I'm

blaming Elvis the Alien for anything, but

it doesn't really help when I'm still

getting recognized from the whole Asian

Onision videos. Even in Scotland, I got—

I get matched And people say stuff like,

oh my God, are you Daniel? Are you the guy

from Elvis the Alien's video? And then I

say yes, and obviously they haven't

matched me because they're interested in

meeting me. So I got this message

yesterday on Tinder. I matched this woman,

and first thing she says to me is, are you

the dude from Elvis the Alien's video? I

say, yeah, that's me. And then she says,

yikes, so do you expect to have much luck

on here? If people have seen that And how

awful and disrespectful you were to your

poor sweet girlfriend. Are you not ashamed

of yourself? And to be honest, I got a

little bit angry. I'm not really proud of

this, and I lost my temper and I said some

bad things. But then we ended up

apologizing to each other, so I guess it

wasn't too bad. I just find it amazing and

slightly shocking and a little bit

worrying that even 3 years later after

those videos came out, people still

recognize me and people still don't like

me and they still have anger and hatred

towards me just because of the way I was

portrayed in those videos and how I

portrayed myself back then. That's the

scary thing about, about being on the

internet, I guess, because if people know

of you for something you've done that's

bad, they'll remember you for that bad

thing for the rest of their lives. Even if

you've changed or you've stopped doing the

bad thing that you were known for,

They'll never accept that maybe you've

improved or changed as a person. Even

after 5 years or 10 years, they just still

think of you as, as that bad person, as

the Asian Onision. And now I feel like I'm

gonna be punished for the rest of my life

just because of a few mistakes I made

almost 4 years ago now. Even when I was in

Liverpool a couple months ago, I matched

one girl there and she said, wait a

minute, have we met before? Your face is

kind of familiar. And then she eventually

remembered that she saw me from YouTube.

From the Asian Onision videos, and then

she unmatched me, obviously. And then it

makes me think, how many girls have seen

me on Tinder, recognized me from YouTube,

and then unmatched me? I don't know,

because how would I know? I would only

know if they matched me to tell me, and

most of them don't. There could be

hundreds of girls who might have matched

me but then decided not to match me just

because they know of me from those videos.

So now I'm thinking maybe I just have to

give up on the idea of dating in

English-speaking countries because I'm

guessing the majority of the viewers for

those videos were from England, USA,

Canada, and maybe a few European

countries. Maybe I've got to go to like

some really obscure non-English-speaking

country to have any success at dating now

thanks to those videos and my, my

tarnished reputation. So yeah, that kind

of sucks. I still have to suffer the

consequences of some that happened nearly

4 years ago when I was in Japan. But I

guess that's the, um, that's the price you

pay for easy money on the internet. It's

just getting, it's getting really

frustrating how this whole pandemic thing

has been going on for so many years now.

What, we're on our 3rd year now? 2020,

'21, '22. Yeah, we're on our 3rd year of

this bloody pandemic thing and Japan is

still not letting us foreigners back in.

And being shut out of Japan has just

completely ruined my love life.

Completely. And this may sound kind of

silly, but I think that as an

international community, we should be able

to sue the Japanese government for ruining

my life and ruining so many other people's

lives who planned on going to Japan to

study, to work, to go on Tinder. During

this entire situation, Japan has been the

only country to completely close its

borders for so many years without even

giving us a little bit of a break and

letting us in for maybe a couple months

here and there. No, they just completely

shut everything, 100%, completely. And no

other country on the whole planet has done

this, and it's just ridiculous at this

point. It's getting out of hand. Anyway,

no point moaning about dating, I guess.

I'll show you my new apartment. I got this

new apartment. It's a bit smaller than my

last one. Bathroom shower.

It's very kind of like a Japanese

apartment. It reminds me of Japanese-style

apartments with the, the little hallway

and the little thing here. So this

is my bedroom, and this is my kitchen.

It's got a stove, microwave.

There's no oven, but apparently you can

cook meat and pizza and fish and stuff in

this microwave.

It's quite a nice little kitchen, came

with everything you need. It's got plates,

cutlery, cooking stuff,

pot noodle, and it also has this really

nice Nespresso machine. I had to buy my

own Nespresso pods, which were a bit

expensive. I think it was £10 for 10?

No, £5 for 10. And I also got this coffee,

which is pretty good for instant coffee.

Having a coffee machine is pretty nice,

actually. And it has a fridge which is

full of my food. I've got eggs, onions,

salad stuff, minced beef.

Might make some chilli con carne later.

And where's my bacon? I got bacon.

British bacon, and I've got sausages,

peppery. Um, yeah, so it's

nice to have your own food. All this food

cost me about £40, and it's gonna last me

a whole week, so that's like £4 a day.

You try living off £4 a day on food when

you have to eat out and get Uber Eats.

It's just not possible. So having a

kitchen is really financially Good.

I don't really know how much longer I'm

gonna be in Scotland. Probably until next

week. I don't know if I want to stay

another week unless I get some kind of

success in the dating world. If I don't

really have any progress with dates, I

think I'm just gonna leave next week and

probably go back home for a little bit.

Hopefully Japan might reopen this year in

summer or spring, and then I could just go

home and then save up some money and wait

for Japan to reopen,