why's everyone quitting YouTube??

what a wild week we had yet another YouTuber announc their retirement secret tunnels were found under New York City an entire country declared a state of emergency after one man disappeared from his cell Sony revealed a new car that could be controlled with a PlayStation Remote at least it's not Logitech not a funny joke and so much more [ __ ] went down so let's get into it so we kicked off this week with the largest and most powerful Tech event in the World CES now if you didn't know what CES is it's essentially a place where all of the top companies gather each year to show off all of their latest and greatest technological innovations and this year we got some bangers starting with this now whenever there's a movie set in the future the first thing that we always see is when people call each other they're on Holograms no more of this stupid Hardware get out of here and this year a company called holoc connects showed that the future isn't really that far away with their AI powered hologram technology they say it will provide solutions for Staffing remote consults by doctors retails events and education the only problem is uh the machine looks like the size of a bloody fridge and I'm not even going to speculate on the price so as of right now it might just be easier to go and see the person that you're trying to connect with this one was wild because it's a car that carries a massive manned drone in its bloody Boot and yeah we've seen some concepts of flying cars before and they were always promising us it's coming it's soon but this company say that they will be taking orders at the end of this year and they will be delivering these things by 2025 and honestly it's not even that expensive they estimate a price of $200,000 which I mean for a car and a flying car it's not that bad probably one of the biggest things to come out of the event this year year was this because we've got transparent TVs now the [ __ ] Samsung and LG both came out to create the world's first transparent TV now the way it works is that all of these tiny microscopic pixels that are on the screen essentially turn transparent with not being used allowing you to see right through as if it was a piece of glass and as shown on Jerry Rick's video on this because it's supposed to be more of a nice looking design piece LG has one of these things where you can stream stuff to your TV from this little black box so there's completely no wires Phillips created a home security device where you don't need your keys you don't even need a PIN because all it does is remember your palm if you miss the good old days of having a Blackberry and a physical keyboard well miss no longer because we now have a iPhone case that has a keyboard on it you just plug it in and yeah you're living in the old days we got Sony's new electric car which of course was brought on stage using a PlayStation controller this is something that I I wonder every single day of my life how is this not being invented before because it is a toothbrush that brushes all your teeth at one time seems like why have we not got this 10 years ago you just Chuck it in your mouth chew on it softly and move it side to side wait for the timer to tell you when you're done flip it around and do the exact same thing and you're done in about 20 seconds we're in the goddamn Stone ages right now and whenever that drops I'm coping LG showed off a robot Butler that can follow you around the house turn on the lights for you feed your dog projects stuff on the wall for you sends texts makes phone calls points a camera at you and even reminds you to uh take the bloody bins out okay now this one is very cool now this is an AI device which essentially does what Siri is supposed to do it's actually able to do [ __ ] sorry you can tell that me and Siri have been we've been in the wars lately the rabbit R1 works by connecting to all of your accounts somewhat scary and then it has the cap cap ability to navigate through all of them to the point where you could say book me an Uber ride to the local brothel and it'll do it they even say that you can get it to watch you do something on any device let's say for example you're editing a picture on your laptop and you can ask it to do that once you've Tau it how to edit a picture and that would be huge because personally I like the idea of whatever comes after a smartphone to have the capability of a smartphone but doesn't require you to use your bloody Stone Age thumbs to navigate through everything and do it all yourself so we're allowed to have all of the efficiencies of a smartphone but not have to be glued to our phones all the time and I feel like this could be you know the first small step in the right direction now there were so many more of the things but those were my favorites so uh let's move on because talking about insane Tech this week we had an iPhone surviving a 16,000 ft drop out of that Alaska Airlines flight that blew out mid midair I mean I don't even know what's more insane the fact that that phone survived the fall or or the fact that someone found it I like come on out of all of the scenarios that you could lose your phone your phone getting sucked out of an aror plane is probably one of those where you're like you know what okay fair enough I'm just going to buy a new one firstly what are the chances of the side of your plane blowing out and then your phone getting sucked out with it and then what are the chances out of all of the places it could land it land somewhere soft enough to take the impact from the fall then what are the chances of someone seeing where it lands and then the chances of that person being being a good enough person to actually hand that phone back in for you the whole situation is ridiculous and insane and it was even handed back with half a battery and their baggage claim form still in there for them and if you look closely enough there's a broken off charger still inside okay let's move on because talking about impossible chances recently a 13-year-old boy in France was just doodling in class you know not paying attention just drawing some of his favorite fun items of clothes and shoes he comes home his mom sees what he's drawn is so proud that she has to post it on Twitter a local French publication then saw the sketches and thought yeah that's pretty sick let's do a story on it and then by a miracle Louis Vuitton then sees that post and is like godamn this shit's sick in fact they were so impressed by his designs that they reached out to him and offered him an internship becoming the company's youngest ever intern and not only that but this story has now gone Mega viral and tens of millions of people had seen his work so I guess the moral of the story really is just don't pay attention in class moving on because what the US and UK did this week has all of us in the gym like [Music] [Applause] this yes 2 days in a row now the US and the UK have bombed a number of parts of Yemen now we won't dive into all of the details of why and what it means for the world because I've already done that on Tik Tok go check that out there but what I didn't get to show you then was the Public's reaction to all of these strikes now what you are seeing is thousands upon thousands of people as far as the I can see protesting in the country's capital and you want to know what the hell they're chanting they're all there waving the Yemen and Palestine Flags shouting death to America death to Israel and I mean even children could be seen stamping and setting fire to the US and Israel flag I mean looking at that we are in some worrying times and not only that but as I record this right now there are hundreds of thousands of people set to descend onto the streets in London in protest you know in support of Palestine bit of a bit of a hectic week but just to kind of tip the scales we can all relax a little bit because experts say that yes while this is a worrying escalation we probably won't be breaking out into World War III because of this for that to happen they say that a lot more countries would need to get involved in support of the houthis which remember are only a part of Yemen and that as of right now doesn't seem very likely hopefully I've got some more positive updates on this whole situation for you next week because after right now it's kind of just all kicking off moving on a wild Riot broke out this week at a New York synagogue after secret tunnels were found in the building now this whole situation is so strange and we do have a little bit but not a whole lot of explanation as to why or how these tunnels were dug now these illegal tunnels were actually found last month when neighbors reported hearing suspicious noises coming from underneath their homes I mean with the size of the freaking rats in New York I would have just said it's probably the rats cue a massive rat on the screen right now the [ __ ] actually cue this video you know just it's a little bit of a tangent but look okay the video that you're watching right now I saw the other day and it's of a homeless man and he's just trying to get some sleep in a New York Subway and then the guy kind of sees a few rats sneaking out of the blankets and he's like what the hell's going on over here he goes over and I think he lifts up the blankets or something like that and hundreds millions of rats just run out New York City that's what I would have blamed the noises on if I was there anyway let's continue so following this discovery of the tunnels the synagogue leadership called in these Structural Engineers to assess the damages that these tunnels may have had and then when they called the cement mixers and construction crew to fill them a group of rebellious Orthodox men tried to stop it many of them started ripping away the wooden walls which is hiding the entrance to the secret tunnels and then ran in there to try and prevent them from being filled a riot broke out police were then called and nine of them were arrested and have since been charged now it's not clear what the purpose of these tunnels are and a lot of people have gone wild with speculation we don't want to speculate here the only thing that we do know is that reportedly they were being dug for an entire month they had a freaking soiled mattress in there for some reason we saw footage posted on Crown Height's Instagram showing that through an eerie dirt walled space the tunnel reached all the way to the abandoned woman's mikva which is near nearby now as for the reason why they wanted them connected a spokesperson for the jaad said this group of extremist students wanted to expand the synagogue and connect it to the Mikvah and if you didn't know what a Mikvah is it's basically a bath in which certain Jewish ritual purifications are performed in now that's pretty much all we've got hopefully this week we'll get some more details about this whole situation and I'll give you an update next week moving on now the next story I have to be a little bit careful about because I don't want this video being taken down by the YouTube overlords this situation in Ecuador right now is it's getting pretty serious this week the entire country was placed under a state of emergency after one man vanished from his prison cell just imagine being that powerful SL dangerous that an entire country is descended into chaos because you got the out now for context the man that escaped was a notorious gang leader known as feto seems like a friendly name though doesn't it hey my boy feto um everyone loves fito and his Escape has caused the nation to literally descend into lawlessness the president not only ordered a nationwide curfew but also declared a state of internal armed conflict which is in a fancy way for maybe just saying Civil War and sent the Army onto the streets the cartel has been kidnapping police officers threatening to end anyone that they found on the streets at night attacking universities and they even broke onto a television channel Studio while they were live on a broadcast and forced the staff to the floor they did more than that but I don't want to get this video taken down in fact the situation there has got so bad that their neighboring country Peru has had to order immediate deployment of a police force to the border to prevent any instability spilling over into their country so this man's causing [ __ ] in not only one country but but pretty much two these cartels are quite literally at war with police right now and what's sad is that it wasn't always like this a spokesperson for the country's Navy said Ecuador was always considered an an island of peace and Tranquility but no more over the past 4 years as Mexican cartels and crime syndicates including the Albanian mafia have flocked to Ecuador in search of huge profits from cocaine trade its murder rate has soared making Ecuador one of Latin America's now most violent Nations ah sad to hear and this situation is only getting worse so hopefully I'll give you some more updates next week that are positive and finally let us dive into the question why that hell are all of these YouTubers quitting right now I mean just recently we've had Tom Scott Seth Everman Captain Sparkles meat Cannon Stampy Longhead and most recently Matt Pat from Game Theory all quitting or stepping back in one form or another and honestly I think we're seeing just the start of this because firstly YouTube has been around long enough now for all of the ogs to be consistently making daily and weekly content for over a decade and as a lot of them mention themselves they're TI TI they're burnt out and they just want to pursue some something else and I guess we all get that that's self-explanatory no surprises there but why now well the most interesting thing that came from one of these YouTubers quitting was what Tom Scott said in an interview with the guardian it feels like a lot of people who have been making long form content have recently announced not retirements but reductions and step backs everyone I know is noticing their views slowly falling and therefore their ad Revenue reducing and I guess this is where I and all of my other short form crony creators come into the play because one of the biggest things that a lot of YouTubers are worried about right now is the rise of short form content think about it people only have a certain amount of hours in their day so if they decide to spend 2 hours of their day on Tik Tok which they would normally or before spend it on YouTube that is quite literally taking views from YouTubers and giving it to Tik Tok creators or Instagram reals let's not forget about them and I mean it's like they're saying Netflix's biggest competition is sleep and I mean my brother's a YouTuber I've been seeing him complain about how his entire Niche is down bad right now I mean of course it's not only short form content's fault but in general it is playing one of the biggest parts and the problem is if YouTubers views are going down their money is going down and their stress is going up just think about the mental state of someone who relies on getting views to survive and then slowly little bit by little bit seemingly without anything that they can do their views start to trickle away granted it's pretty scary Tom Scott continues by saying between the decline in long form viewers the threat from junk zero effort generative AI channels that are only going to get better and the sheer mass of competing video options I think it's going to be a difficult few years so as a big short form creators that YouTubers will probably look at and say I am the problem let me try and answer the question do I think that YouTube is dying no I don't and I think it is because of one thing that's keeping it alive right now short form creators once they get big enough always want to leave the short form apps because they do not pay and if platforms like Tik Tok and Instagram don't pay it's really hard to scale your videos and business in general I mean think about Mr Beast there is no way Mr Beast could run his operation on Tik Tok rates the only reason we have a Mr Beast in the world is because of YouTube they've literally enabled us having a mist of Beast and even if YouTubers are seeing a dip in their views and money right now I genuinely think that if YouTube at the end of the day is always poaching the best creators in the world because the other apps just don't pay YouTube is where the best content and best creators in the world will end up at the end of the day and a platform is only good as the creators which are on it and listen as a Tik Tok Creator I can tell you firsthand that right now none of these short form apps have figured out the problem of how to pay or at least pay well their short form creators to make us want to stay on those apps hence why I'm even here in the first place at least that's what I I think anyway and that is where we will end this week's news but of course as always I'm sure we've got a whole lot more [ __ ] kicking off next week so I'll see you [Music] then