Social Media Is Toxic Draining and Empty-Promises Money In My Pocket

I write about things that are interesting. I accept that my audience is small, and sometimes I even like that depending on what I'm saying and who I'm talking to.

But of all the exchanges I have with people, being asked to compare and despair is one of the most toxic, and really makes me ask the question:

Why should I stay on YouTube? It requires me to do extra work that I don't want to do, all the keyword and algorithm gaming...similar thing with google serach rsults here on my blog, but there's no gettin out of that. Then on top of that, YouTube has never given my business anything in return - not one penny, not one referral or client, just the occasional comment like "Who tf are you?" "There is men, and then there is you guys." "Dude, you have to stop talking like such a groomer!"

YT really doesn't do anything for me except act as a server to store my videos.

If I'm gonna have to encounter more toxicity (one of the big reasons I left Meta), and I have to spend more time and effort learning how to fit into YouTube's peg holes, maybe it would be better for me to move all my stuff to a server I pay for.

And in that case, the only people who watch my videos would be the ones intertested in what I have to say.

I'm making videos and vlogging as a way to express myself through my work.

Do I really want the additional work of competing on YouTube and the meanness that go along with that? I'm not sure anymore.

Youtube is a great search engine. I'll continue to pay the 22 bucks a month to avoid ads and have the play-in-the-background option. But, how long with that be useful?

The original Live I was posting was a low-key rager on how I felt choosing a blog title based on keyword research is a backwards process. Ironic that what I experience in that process is people behaving like assholes.

Maybe my complaing drew these people in...something for me to think about.

I'll be writing more in the future about the toxicity of social media.

Thanks for reading.