My problem with Texan in Tokyo

Hello and welcome to today's video.

Hello and welcome back to another exciting

YouTube video.

Today we're going to be talking about

Texan in Tokyo. Now, if you don't know who

Texan in Tokyo were, they were a fairly

popular YouTube channel back in 2016

before they decided to quit YouTube to

focus on making babies. And they were

an American girl and Japanese guy couple,

basically just like another Rachel and Jun

clone. And they used to make videos

showing everyone how spectacular and

amazing and fantastic their lives are in

Japan. Now you might be thinking,

Daniel, why are you making a video about

them now, 2 years later, when they don't

even make videos on YouTube anymore? I

don't think anyone cares about them

anymore. Maybe most of you don't even know

who they are. But I don't have anything

else to do, so I'm gonna make my video on

them expressing my opinion. So if

you have a look at their channel, you'll

notice that the last 2 videos they made

were goodbye videos explaining why they're

going to quit YouTube. Grace made one and

her husband also made one in Japanese.

Now the main reason why I don't like Texan

in Tokyo is because they're not even in

Tokyo. It says right here, adjacent,

living in the countryside adjacent to

Tokyo. They should rename the channel to

Texan Adjacent to Tokyo. I'm just kidding.

I don't have anything against these 2

people. They seem very nice, very

friendly, very normal, very average, very

boring. It's just that the reason they

gave for quitting YouTube kind of, kind of

pissed me off, kind of irritated me,

tickled my toes. I don't agree with the

reason they gave. If you want, you can go

and watch the videos that they made where

they explain why they quit YouTube. But if

you just want the short version of the

story, basically they decided to quit

YouTube so they can make babies, and they

didn't want to put their babies onto

YouTube, and they think that You shouldn't

film kids because they don't understand

what the whole YouTube thing is about,

and they're too young to give consent,

and their privacy is very important, blah

blah blah. I personally don't really think

it's a big deal to have kids on YouTube.

I mean, we have child actors, we have

children who appear in movies and appear

on TV. I don't really think it's a big

deal. Do they— did they consent to being a

child actor? Does a 10-year-old really

understand what he's getting into when he

appears in the movie and then becomes

super famous? I think it's a very touchy

subject and lots of people have lots of

different opinions on the matter. For me

personally, I don't think it's a big deal.

It's just showing a kid's face on a

YouTube video or video or showing them on

TV. It's not really— I don't think it's a

huge deal. Anyway, Grace, Texan in Tokyo,

and her husband seem to be very conflicted

about this. They're very worried about

showing their kids on YouTube and having

their privacy leaked, and they decide to

quit YouTube to protect their future

children's privacy, which sounds, sounds

great, you know, very noble of them, very

self-sacrificing. They sacrificed their

entire YouTube channel, and it's a fairly

big, successful channel— 250,000

subscribers. They were getting pretty good

views on their videos. Walking away from a

YouTube channel of that size isn't an

easy decision to make. It's a big Big

deal. They must have been making a decent

amount of money from their videos. And I

don't think they wanted to walk away. I

don't think they wanted to quit YouTube.

It seems like they still wanted to make

videos. They seemed very upset about

having to give up YouTube. And I don't

understand why they made such a big fuss,

made such a big deal out of something that

was quite— there's quite an easy solution

to their problem. If they wanted to have

kids and they wanted to keep their kids'

identities private, then, then just keep

them private. No one's forcing them to

take videos of their children and put them

onto YouTube. It seems like a no-brainer

to me. All they had to do was not film the

kids and not upload those videos of their

kids onto YouTube. How hard is that? How

difficult is it? How can you accidentally

film your kids and accidentally upload it

to YouTube? If you accidentally film them,

either edit it out or just blur their

faces or something. A lot of YouTubers

have kids. Probably most of the YouTubers

that you watch have kids, and you might

not even know about it. Some of the

YouTubers I watch have kids, but they

never show their kids. They never talk

about their kids. Their YouTube content is

completely unrelated to their family

matters or their children. And it's not—

it's not that difficult to keep your

private life private. Everyone thinks,

oh, if you're a YouTuber, you have no

privacy and you have to share everything

about your life. That's not true. You only

have to share what you want to share. No

one's forcing you to overshare. If you

want to overshare, then overshare. If you

don't want to share everything, then don't

share everything. No one's forcing you.

That's what irritated me about the whole

Texan in Tokyo thing. They— the way they

spoke, it sounded like they had to quit

YouTube, otherwise the kid's privacy is

gonna be leaked all over the internet and

something terrible is gonna happen when

probably no one would even care. Maybe you

think, oh, she won't have any time to make

videos now. She's a busy parent, single

mother. Well, not single mother, but I'm

going to assume that she's going to be

doing most of the mothering herself whilst

her husband goes out and works. Maybe she

won't have time to make a video. Does she

really not have at least 5 minutes spare a

day? Come on, the baby's going to be

sleeping a lot of the time, and then when

it grows up, it's going to be at school.

She must have at least 10 minutes to make

a quick update video here, here and there,

now and then. So you might be wondering,

Daniel, why do you care so much if they

quit or not? It's not like you're

interested in their videos or you used to

like watching their content. And the

reason why I care so much is because I

just think it's a huge waste. Imagine

you're a carpenter and you work in some

shitty little store for some horrible

dickhead boss and you hate him and you

want to quit and you want to someday open

up your own workshop and sell your own

products, and Jim Bob down the road has a

really big workshop that he owns, and it's

very successful, and he has lots of

customers. And then one day Jim Bob goes

crazy and decides to burn down his

workshop, and he just vanishes. You're

going to think, for Christ's sake, Jim

Bob, what are you doing? What a waste.

Why didn't you give your workshop to me if

you didn't want it anymore? I'd be happy

to take it off your hands. What I'm trying

to say is it's very difficult to make a

successful channel. It's very hard to

build a following and and keep people

interested in watching the videos that

you're making. And they managed to do it.

They managed to pull it off. They had a

good channel. They had a good thing going.

And they flushed it all down the toilet

because Grace wanted to become a baby

factory! Look, I'm not trying to be rude.

It's none of my business. It's their

lives. They get to decide what they do

with their own life. I get it, okay? I

just don't think it was necessary to quit

their YouTube channel. The simple solution

would have been Don't film your kids.

Easy peasy. In her video where she was

explaining, she kept saying, well, I could

try not to film my kids, but I just don't

trust myself. I'm not, I'm not strong

enough. I'll— I won't be able to resist

temptation and I'll just end up uploading

the videos. How difficult is it to just

not upload the videos though? Seriously,

think about it. It's a lot of effort to,

to film your kids and then edit it and

then put it onto YouTube. You can't just

accidentally Whoops, I uploaded a video of

my kid again. Whoops, showed his face

again. It's not that simple. If she

was a livestreamer, then that's a

completely different matter because yes,

it's, it's very difficult to control

things when you're livestreaming because

everything's live, there's no editing. If

you accidentally show someone's face,

then you've screwed up and their face is

gonna be seen. But they aren't

livestreamers, they make simple videos,

simple vlogs, and that's my next point.

I'm not saying that their videos are bad.

I'm just saying that their videos are very

low effort, easy to make, typical vlogs.

Day in my life vlogs, travel vlogs,

talking in front of a camera vlog, which

doesn't take any time. I know it takes me

like half an hour to make a video like

this. 90% of their videos consisted of,

hey guys, look at what I'm doing right

now. I'm doing this. Hey guys, look,

we're in this Cool place. It's very

beautiful. Even if they had kids, they

could have easily continued to make those

videos, and people loved them. If you're a

stay-at-home mum and you have to stay in

the house to look after your new baby,

your child, and you can't go out to work,

what better job is there than YouTube?

What better job is there than making a

quick 10-minute video just to explain

what's going on in your life and then

uploading it and, and raking in that sweet

YouTube money? I don't know, maybe they

don't really care about the money. Maybe

they already have other jobs where they

make a lot more money. Maybe her husband

found a really good job and they're not

worried about money at all. That's great,

good for them. I'm just saying they could

have made even more money, a lot more

money, if they continued making vlogs on

their YouTube channel. There's so many

videos they could have made talking about

what it's like being a mum in Japan, what

it's like being pregnant, what it's like

having your your first child when you're

living in Japan. And they could have made

these videos, it wouldn't have taken them

that much time, and they didn't have— they

wouldn't have had to show their kids in

these videos. Their kids could have been

just sleeping in the background and no one

would, would even know. Okay, so now on to

my final topic. If I had a kid, if I had a

baby, well, if my wife had a baby, would I

film the baby and put it onto YouTube?

Yeah, I would. I would like to show my

baby to you guys. I'd be like, hey guys,

look at my baby, it's so cute, I made it.

I would make videos about what it's like

becoming a parent. I'd make videos, um,

talking about my wife becoming pregnant.

There'd be so many things to talk about.

Why would I not make videos about that?

And babies all look the same anyway.

Babies don't look the same. I mean, what

I'm trying to say is babies look like

babies when they're babies, and then they

grow up and they no longer look like

babies. So you could show a baby And then

a few years later, it will look completely

different. Obviously, when it grows up and

it starts going to school, I guess I would

start to have to think about keeping its

privacy private, keeping its face private.

I wouldn't even send my kid to school

anyway. I think I could do a better job.

This is a completely new topic for a

different video, but I think I could do a

better job teaching my kid about what it

needs to know than some teacher would

know. I honestly think school is a

complete waste of time. Everything that

you need to learn can be learned on

Wikipedia and Google, and you get bullied

at school, and you sometimes you have

really bad experiences that can just kind

of ruin your life. I personally had a very

bad experience at school, and I would feel

a bit worried that my kid would also have

bad experiences at school, and I might be

tempted to homeschool it. So in

conclusion, my opinion on Texan in Tokyo.

Pretty, pretty dumb people. I'm sorry,

that sounds so rude. But just come back to

YouTube, make a quick, quick update vlog.

Ask your husband to look after the baby.

Just make a quick 5 or 6 minute update

video. Doesn't have to be long, doesn't

have to be complicated. You know, you can

just say, hey guys, I'm back. I just had

my baby. My vagina's very sore. Boom!

Instant $200 AdSense revenue. Thank me

later. And that's all for today, ladies

and gentlemen. I hope you have a very nice

day. I'm gonna go and play some video