Less YT views = a hidden gift

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Recently we've seen a drop in the "numbers" on our channel. For a while, it was getting me down. But then I saw that it was actually a hidden gift . . .

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Music is "The Woods" by Silent Partner.

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Video Transcription

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greetings friends so there's been this thing happening with with the YouTube channel that Rebecca and I started years ago and the thing is that the subscriber base has just been leveling off where it had been growing and growing and growing before and our views have been I want to say plummeted over the last few days I've started to get concerned about that and so much so that I was watching some videos on YouTube about you know why this can be why this can be happening there's that little bell notification people have written to me and said you just disappeared from my notifications I don't know if it's a YouTube thing or who or what could be a YouTube algorithm thing it could be that our content just isn't what it used to be and then people aren't resonating with it you know should we do should we start trying to do you know flashy titles and flashy screenshots and all the stuff that you know YouTube creators say will will make your channel go or should we just stick to trying to create just the best most straightforward videos that we can that that can hopefully help people well last night Rebecca and I sat down to have a talk about it and something really kind of special happened and what that was is that

we remembered back to our original mission and when we started this channel you know getting our first hundred subscribers we said what we want to do is that when we make a video you want that video to be able to reach out and touch one person make a difference in one person's life well I realized that for me especially somewhere along the way that got twisted a little bit and it got twisted in the sense that subscribers kept growing and growing and and there was something about seeing those numbers you know and I've done videos about this before but still it was affecting me somewhere inside we're not just touching one person we're touching tens and hundreds and thousands of people and reaching out and making this huge huge difference and that's that's fine but but in a way I had lost that original spark that original vision just reaching out and helping one person and so what happened last night is during our conversation we essentially decided that numbers didn't matter that it wasn't about reaching thousands of people with each video or having X number of subscribers it was about when we make a video right back to the roads why don't we make a video in that video reach out and touch one person and make a difference in their lives coming back to that my heart just was soaring it just felt so right this is what this was all about and you know oddly when we when we finished that conversation and made this decision and had this change in my heart I went to check the email one more time and one of our patrons Joseph he had edited his pledge and and i sat there feeling like this was a sign from the world you know somewhere wherever Joseph lives in this world he had at that moment right when Rebecca and I were talking about it I decided to sit down and change his pledge upwards by that moment you know maybe I'm reading into things too much but it was a confirmation you know that the world was almost saying hey you you remembered what this is about and then I agree with you you know and in so does the world this is a big thing for me and I think a big lesson for me and and I hope it can be something for you too because we live in this world that is telling us that our self-worth is based on how many people love us I think in some some way I'd bought into that a little bit again even though I've preached against it there's something in me that was happy with those big numbers and going back and saying well when I make a video I want this to just reach out and touch you I want it to make a difference in your life that felt so good and Wow I mean that same day it wasn't just Joseph it was listen another young man right from here from Wisconsin who wrote and told me that he had been watching my videos for so long and how much difference it had made in his life so I just want to say a thank you to those two people and thank you to all of you because so many of you have written in so many of you have become patrons so many of you have reached out in some way and said to Rebecca and I these videos make a difference in your life and that makes a difference to us and it keeps us going with this so really this video is just about gratitude it's about a reminder that in this world it's not about the numbers it's about this personal interaction can we reach into each other's lives and make a difference and I hope that these videos are doing that for you and I know that so many of you have done that for Rebecca and I in a way that you've reached out to us gratitude and thanks love to you all move talk with you soon [Music]