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Alright, I wanna record something for you guys.
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I just could film this sh I got I filmed for Vero's and Hurts today and we had some line.
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So I'm gonna say the algorithm.
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Film exactly what you want to film.
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Who cares about the goddamn algorithm?
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So here's some of my thoughts.
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Every creator conversation sounds exactly the same.
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People are making the same damn content everywhere they go.
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It's ridiculous.
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I turn on and I watch videos that people are making, and I'm blown away by how everyone sounds exactly the same.
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And it's kind of starting to be a problem for me.
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Man, I miss the days of Casey Neistad, Peter McKinnon crushing it with stuff that they wanted to shoot, videos they wanted to make.
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And it was genuinely authentic without the the authenticity catchword.
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Cause come on, man, every company out there is now trying to be authentic.
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Let's connect and connect with creators who are authentic.
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Man, f that.
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Uh editors, please leave all of those fanks and everyone talks about your fing retention, your hook, your SEO, AI.
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And God, like part of this script was generated by AI.
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That's the funny sh.
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I kind of brainstormed with it because I was like, what should I say?
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And ChatGPT was like, this is a good idea.
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We need to make a video like that.
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God damn it, man.
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I'm tired of the bots telling us what to create.
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So today, I made videos I wanted to create.
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And I don't give a crap if people don't watch them.
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I genuinely care about them.
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My daughter wanted to do a K-pop makeover for me.
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So I let her do a K-pop makeover.
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Then she wanted to do kind of like a skincare thing, and I let her do skincare for me.
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Not because it's gonna get good views, but because she wanted to.
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We had fun.
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And who cares more than that, you know?
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We've started creating for machines.
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Machines that tell us what to watch, what to do, where to go, and who to be.
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Stop doing that.
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Make whatever you wanna make.
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In this day and age, the single most important thing you can do is to be you.
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We literally are dealing with some Terminator right now.
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We're not gonna make it, are we?
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As these AI companies are not stopping to thinking, should we be using AI for all of this?
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Probably not! James Cameron showed us that.
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It's not a good idea, it doesn't end well.
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Then at some point, we all have to ask, do we want to make this anymore?
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If we're just optimizing for b, why are we even doing it?
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Unless we stop and we reset shit and say, hmm, what do I want to make today?
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For me, it was making this video after polishing off probably about a half a bottle of wine, we had two bottles, I had about a half a bottle myself, of some of the finest champagne and sparkling wine that comes out of France and California.
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Hands down, Jeff Plant, this guy right here, you are a fing wizard with wine.
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Hands down.
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You know, and people are constantly asking, will YouTube like this?
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Will YouTube like this video?
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Probably not.
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But maybe it will because it's so out there.
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And I don't know what I don't care.
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I really don't care.
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If you're out and you like mountain biking, show people that you like mountain biking.
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If you have puppies, I wanna see your puppies.
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I'm gonna trust you way more whether you are a business leader, a doctor, uh, an astronaut if you show me your puppies.
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Hey, where are my puppies?
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Elvis, Mariah, where are you guys?
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Mariah! I don't know where my dogs are at.
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They're probably upstairs.
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You know, but at the end of the day, who cares?
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I'm gonna finish this video by finding my puppies.
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I'm gonna just tell you guys that.
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Optimization is useful, is it?
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Like, that's what the AI script told me to say.
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I don't care about optimization.
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AI made this problem worse.
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Packaging tools.
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Who cares?
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Make a thumbnail that just says what people are gonna see, and a title that helps them understand what's in this damn video.
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Stop trying to overthink it.
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Man, we have A B testing?
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Dude, just tell people what's in it.
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Show them what's in it.
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Like, everyone's like, oh, you need to have a place, a thing, and you have to show them what's happening there.
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Man, who cares?
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Make a video, a title that you like.
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Sean losing his shit talking about AI and talking about he doesn't give a f about the algorithm.
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Okay, that's a great video.
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Uh, I probably should have a censored title over it because I'm swearing a sh load in this video, and I don't fing care.
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Kinda care, but don't fing care.
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We live in a time where shit is changing.
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I have a kid who spends all day experiencing the world.
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Over here, we've got a piano.
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Um, in here I've got computers, I've got cameras, I've got all of these tools to document my life and the life of the people around me.
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The reason I do that is to spread hope.
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So why should we give a f?
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I found out that an old friend committed suicide a couple days ago.
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Three of my fans that killed themselves.
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Uh, one of them was Brian.
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Brian was my jiu-jitsu teacher.
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Um, Brian had a skin condition that left him in constant pain.
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I remember all the time he was doing all these treatments to try to feel relief.
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And he couldn't.
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He never found relief.
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All around us, there are people who are suffering.
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Social media wants us to tell people how to win, that everything's okay.
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There are a lot of days that it's not okay.
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Today I had some glasses of wine with my family so that I can kind of relax and unwind.
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But on all the time with my family, I came up here so I can have a little time away to make this video.
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My wife, both of us deal with stress and anxiety.
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The other day, there was this video where they talked about the guy who made this one app, the beer drinking app.
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And uh, it was one of the first apps that went like absolutely viral.
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I don't know if you would say it went viral.
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It just got really popular on the app store.
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And it was this app that an iPhone one, you turned the phone and it made it look like you were drinking a beer.
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In the article, the news article, or the Facebook, I don't know what it was, where it was, but they said, and the guy gave up media and content and just moved to the countryside where he now lives on a farm.
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What a beautiful life.
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Spending time with family doing things that he loves.
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If I could walk away from content in this moment, I would.
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But I don't, and I'll tell you why.
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Because I used to be a teacher.
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For 20 years, I was an English teacher.
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And this is something I tried to cover up for a long time.
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I wanted to say that I was a filmmaker, I wanted to say that I was always crushing it, I wanted to say that I had it all together.
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That I was an English teacher.
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I love showing up to class and teaching kids.
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I love being the person who could shape a young person's life.
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I had one kid named Boris.
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Boris was a kid that no one understood.
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And I think that if I hadn't been there, Boris might have gone a different direction.
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I had so many students that years later would send me these letters telling me, uh, Mr.
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Sean, you were one of the people who made the biggest impact in my life.
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So when I make content, I hope and pray that by showing up, I'm making that impact in someone's life.
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You know, for those three friends I lost, I wonder if someone had been there, if they might have that still been here.
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We can't know that.
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But I can know that today I can show up and make a difference.
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That's why I'm making this video.
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The algorithm.
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Make stuff that connects with other humans.
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And hopefully makes a difference in the long term.
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I'll see you guys next time.
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I'm gonna go back down and have some fun with my family.
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Because uh, that's what life's all about, right?
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We only have a certain number of time, certain amount of time, certain number of years on this planet.
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You do not know what's happening tomorrow.
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I almost got hit by a truck two days ago.
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Some jackass was driving recklessly, zipped down the road, I was turning left, and he passed some guy illegally, and for two seconds I had a truck coming at me at full speed while on a motorcycle.
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It made me think what's important, family's important.
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Beyond that, nothing much else.
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Hope you guys have a beautiful day.
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Get out there and make an impact.
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If you're creating content, make content that changes this world.
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The next generations of future generations are gonna thank us for it.
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See you guys next time.
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And this is my dog.