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hey there people it is your boy Roman
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your favorite neighborhood Russian
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welcome to a brand new video and um this
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is a video that I kind of debated to
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myself whether I should make it for a
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while but I decided to do it anyway here
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I am by the way guys yes outside in
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Lisbon Portugal got this new vlog camera
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here actually has really cool features
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like this wow check it out i can show
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you guys what's going on on these
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streets and bring it back just like that
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with one tap incredible this is
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technology guys this is what it's all
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about but anyway now what I want to talk
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about is actually something that me and
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a couple of other YouTubers that I know
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personally some of us have been noticing
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that something really strange is
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happening at YouTube right now as far as
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recommendations and essentially what
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happened is that it's all absolutely
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drove over you guys i'm cooked i'm
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finished i think YouTube decided to just
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throw my channel down the trash i mean
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look guys here's the thing i've been on
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this platform for basically like 10
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years now i've been through ups and
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downs i've seen different eras of
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YouTube right my channel has gone
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through different eras or whatever but
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I've never really seen a decrease in my
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views that was so sudden and
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unexplainable you see guys I mean you
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pretty much probably know my story by
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this point i'm a Russian YouTuber i'm
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originally from Russia i'm a Russian
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citizen and for the longest time you
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know ever since I was a teenager pretty
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much I've understood that something is
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deeply wrong with my country and that is
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definitely not going in the right
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direction right and even though I made
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different content at one point I made
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MLG montage parodies right that was the
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word I started out with on YouTube i
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made like YouTube drama slob way back in
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the day but I ended up eventually
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pivoting my channel to always talking
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about Russia it's always talking about
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kind of my experiences growing up in
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Russia what it was like to live in
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Russia also to exist in that system and
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also myself as a Russian you know who
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can speak English well I realized that
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I'm in a bit of a unique position to let
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the world know about what is actually
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going on in my country i could cover a
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lot of the propaganda a lot of the
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cringe kind of happening in the society
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on the internet whatever everything
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that's connected with Russian censorship
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and so on and that's what I've been
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doing on this channel for the past few
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years actually non-stop and I've also
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been documenting my own journey as an
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immigrants actually from Russia i
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originally moved to the country of
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Georgia which is actually not far from
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Russia which was one of the countries
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that would allow me to move basically
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now I'm living here in Europe in
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Portugal in Lisbon and you know the
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thing is guys even though I don't like
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to parade myself on this channel I
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really don't like to like toot my own
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horn too much in a sense right but I
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have actually stood on business for
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years now i have sacrificed a lot for my
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channel and for like my beliefs and to
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be able to say the things that I want to
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say i mean I literally had to leave my
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home country in order to say the things
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that I can say to you right now on this
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channel i had to leave my friends my
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family behind pretty much everything and
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I mean it would probably happen either
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way to be honest even if I wasn't a
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YouTuber or something but YouTube as a
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platform has definitely created the
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opportunity for me to move to the west
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in the first place because I'm making
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these videos and obviously videos make
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money this is kind of how I'm able to
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sustain myself and live this you know
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amazing European life or whatever but
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the thing is guys is that right now uh
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things are not looking too good actually
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if you take a look at my YouTube channel
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my videos since the start of 2025 my
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channel has kind of a lot of my videos
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have basically have like gone down three
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or four times in the amount of views and
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even though the YouTube analytics will
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tell you that it's just because your
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content has gotten boring nobody has any
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interest anymore you got to try
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something new whatever it's not what
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it's about exactly at all even if the
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views decrease it doesn't happen
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overnight and I didn't get cancelled or
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anything either i mean look I don't want
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to throw a pity party or anything but I
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also don't want to be too serious about
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it in a sense for example a fellow
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YouTuber LA86 who makes content about
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China he's actually been talking about
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something pretty similar and he's been
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noticing a similar thing on his channel
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where right after the start of the year
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right after the election maybe even
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YouTube basically stopped recommending
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his channel to people and his views on
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his new videos also went down like three
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four five times in their viewership now
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I kind of don't want to over dramatize
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this whole thing like Laai did in a
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sense because you know he had a very
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like serious angle towards this whole
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thing i get views on my content because
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you deserve to see what's really
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happening behind what China is trying to
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cover up this isn't about me this is
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about the future of our world this is
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the future of our freedom this is the
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future freedom of Chinese people i put
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in the work and I put everything on the
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line to tell you the truth i just feel
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like for me it would be a little bit
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corny to say stuff like this is not
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about me this is bigger than me okay
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this is about the future freedom of the
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Russian people or whatever no I'm not
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under any impression that my content is
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like helping save Russia or something
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not at all it's not that serious not
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that deep but I do believe it's content
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that deserves to be seen and that
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actually does bring up important issues
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and it is very annoying to be treated
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like this by the YouTube algorithm by
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the YouTube system and it's just not
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what YouTube wants on their platform
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apparently apparently what they want on
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their platform is rage bait let's look
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at my buddy Serpent Zed he's been doing
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really really really well on his channel
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when he made videos that looked like
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pro-China and anti-US content the views
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went up five times they want that they
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don't want somebody discussing actual
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issues and somebody who's like an
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immigrant going through problems in life
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nobody wants to hear about that like bro
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I get it that rage bait and clickbait is
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what does well on YouTube but I'm not
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trying to make videos with titles like I
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changed my mind about Russia and Putin
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was actually right or some [ __ ] like
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that for clicks on YouTube like I really
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do not want to do that okay the way LA
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kind of put it and the way he sees it is
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that in his opinion what has currently
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happened on YouTube is that there's been
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a bit of like a shift specifically like
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regarding content aimed at like
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America's enemies or whatever like
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Russia and China and he's essentially
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saying that supposedly because Trump is
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now in office YouTube is now like
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pro-China pro-Russia they recommend only
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pro-Chinese content to people and more
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or less like I don't know at least I
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don't know if that is going on regarding
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Russia right there is a lot of like Z
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pro-Russian content on the internet
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right now surely that is getting a lot
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of views but I don't think there's like
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necessarily like a plan of some sort of
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great replacement where they're trying
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to replace you know anti-Russia creators
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like myself of course with like Z
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pro-Russia creators because it's like
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better for the algorithm or something
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but you know once again I really don't
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like making these videos where I just
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complain about like not getting views
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basically being [ __ ] irrelevant but
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like sometimes it just comes to a point
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where it makes zero sense like where
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your views and the reach out that your
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videos get and like the feedback that
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your videos get make absolutely zero
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sense like for example just recently
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I've been actually trying out different
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things trying to bring myself back in
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the game right i made a video about
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history recently about Pushkin i made a
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vlog which is something that supposedly
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a lot of people wanted to see didn't get
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like any views whatsoever nobody [ __ ]
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saw it from my subscribers base my vlogs
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would usually do way better than this so
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I was like "Okay sure whatever i'm going
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to make like a video about Russia about
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what's going on in the culture also did
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like [ __ ] so then I thought okay maybe
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it's all about being parasocial going to
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make a video about something like more
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personal no once again terrible
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performance nobody saw it and the thing
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is guys this stuff is annoying to me not
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really even for the reason that I want
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like a lot of views i want to be like I
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want to be basking in fame or something
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honestly guys I don't really care at
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this point like I've been on this
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platform for 10 years once again and you
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know I've already been like YouTube
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famous for a while i don't really care
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about that by far the biggest issue
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about this entire thing is that YouTube
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is my work right it's a business i need
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to pay my bills right i need to you know
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be able to survive out here in Western
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Europe i have people depending on me i
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have like family members depending on me
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and stuff i have people living with me
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actually so unfortunately there's a
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direct correlation between how much
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views you get and how much money you
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make on YouTube this is just not the
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greatest thing to experience when you're
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in a position like me you know once
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again I'm like an immigrant that's here
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on an immigrant visa on a work visa i'm
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supposed to be like a freelancer who
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brings in a certain amount of income per
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month to be like eligible for my visa
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the digital nomad visa and stuff you
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know and obviously the cost of life and
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everything is way higher here than like
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in Eastern Europe than in Russia for
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example and to begin with right as a
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Eastern European person here in Western
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Europe right now I do have a bit of like
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Eastern European imposter syndrome where
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I feel like I'm not supposed to be out
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here you know I don't belong here
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essentially and this entire area is like
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too exquisite too rich too cool for me
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and you know what I'm saying and I was
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like not meant to uh be on these streets
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out here and I'm really like you know
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it's basically like the imposter
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syndrome where you feel like you don't
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belong here you're not adequate enough
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but also it's compounded with like this
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need to have financial security as an
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immigrants in Europe it's not like I'm
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out on the street or anything but if
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things keep going this way honestly like
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I don't know i do not know what like
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kind of future is ahead of me here in
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Western Europe if like my views keep
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going down and like it's just bad and my
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income is like zero you know making one
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penny and it's obviously even more
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frustrating when it's it does barely
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feel like even your fault because
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YouTube just decides to stop
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recommending your stuff and stop showing
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your stuff just one day and you can do
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basically nothing about it and honestly
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guys there's a reason why I don't like
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even talking about this most of the time
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is because to begin with I do realize
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that first of all most people think that
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YouTubers are like entitled brats anyway
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who do nothing all day who don't deserve
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the money that they're making right and
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I know that people are going to say
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"Roman who gives a [ __ ] we're all also
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struggling with the same exact thing
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paying rents or whatever even as
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citizens of like the West or whatever."
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I completely understand that i
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understand that I'm not unique or
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special i'm just [ __ ] like it's just
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a cry for help at this point you guys
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you know and also the reason why I
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particularly don't like sharing this
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stuff with my audience is because when
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you say that you know your channel is
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not doing well and nobody's watching
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your [ __ ] or whatever people a lot of
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people you know they come from a good
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place they try to have certain opinions
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and like advice what you could do but
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the thing is that I kind of found out
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through experience that asking your
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YouTube followers or whatever your
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followers what to do is probably the
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worst thing you can do because you will
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just go insane everybody out there like
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has their own perceived version of you
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everybody out there has like their own
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ideas of what they want to see from you
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ideas of what you should be making so
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like you just get these people saying
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"Bro we're tired of your [ __ ] make more
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vlogs or whatever." And then you make a
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vlog nobody watches it and you're like
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"Huh what happens?" you know or just
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your hastes start coming out of the
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woodwork with like their terminally
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online takes on why it's what you know
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what the real reason why you fell off
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actually is because you complain too
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much because you're too arrogant now in
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videos or something sure bro okay
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basically nothing good long story short
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right so yes as much I would actually
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like to hear you guys' feedback on this
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video and why you think this is the case
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um there really isn't like a good
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explanation and you know a lot of people
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who don't know YouTube who've never you
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know had a YouTube channel think they
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know how I can fix my [ __ ] but they
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don't even we YouTubers like I'm asking
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other YouTubers what I can do and nobody
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has an idea everybody's just like "Yes
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the algorithm is insane now it's [ __ ]
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over." Basically and yeah like this is
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the life when you live in such an
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industry that is so volatile where you
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know your success and where um your
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financial success also depends on
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essentially an algorithm choosing
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whether you know you're a you're a bad
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or a good boy this is what happens you
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know what I'm saying it's [ __ ]
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annoying yeah it is what it is by the
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way check out this camera you know it
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can follow me that's insane bro
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absolutely insane but I would like you
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guys to follow me instead right i am
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trying on this channel okay i'm trying
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to come up with new stuff all the time
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trying to come up with new topics new
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videos something that I've not done
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before and look guys even though I do
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like to call the Russia content that I
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make on this channel slop it's more of a
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joke right and the issue is that I don't
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actually really consider it slop it is
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slop in a sense that maybe it's rather
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easy for me to make but it is content
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that like you know brings up real issues
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that is relevant to what is happening in
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real world and also it is content that I
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kind of had to once again I had to
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sacrifice a lot in my life to be able to
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make this type of content even the slop
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even the slop on my channel is something
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that like you know is scary to talk
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about and people just don't [ __ ]
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appreciate it I guess which is fine you
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know if you do the same thing over and
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over again people just get bored of it
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and I get it but like so does every
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YouTuber that's popping right now so
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does every [ __ ] like React Andy or
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whatever they're all doing the same
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[ __ ] slop [ __ ] and they're
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killing it so like I'm honestly really
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not sure what is going on sorry the wind
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here is killing my hair i look like ass
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probably guys that's just pretty much
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all I wanted to say in this video i
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think uh again I could probably present
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this in a more kind of rage basy or
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engaging or conspiratorial kind of way
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where I could say that you know the
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whole reason why my channel is doing
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like ass is because Vladimir Putin
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himself is sitting in his office right
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now watching my [ __ ] and he's like
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calling he's calling Sergey Breen
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because he's Russian right so he has
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Russian roots he's calling Sergey Bin is
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like "Bro turn on this motherfucker's
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recommendations right now he's
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destroying our entire [ __ ] you know his
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NIS propaganda is too good you know our
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country cannot handle it no I don't
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think that is what is going on i don't
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think there's some big plot to destroy
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me or to destroy like anti-Russian
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content on YouTube but nevertheless the
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fact that this is what is happening is
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extremely annoying and um so yes well I
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could definitely say in this video you
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know you guys should hit the bell you
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know you should subscribe and watch all
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of my videos and also donate to me
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because uh because the future of Russia
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in the world depends on it right and I'm
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like the the best journalist in
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existence or something no that's not the
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case i'm just a guy making videos on
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YouTube but nevertheless you know
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existing in this climate is [ __ ]
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terrifying so yeah guys I mean that is
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going to be pretty much it for this
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video i just wanted to have a a bit of a
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chat walk around and you know talk about
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some real [ __ ] for once and uh Oh the
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rain is kicking in just now perfect i
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just finished couldn't be more perfect
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but yeah guys uh hopefully enjoy this
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little down to earth video sometimes I'm
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not feeling this [ __ ] man and today is
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definitely one of the days um if you
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guys do appreciate what I do on this
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channel though if you ever you know
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found anything I ever said on this
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channel useful or interesting once again
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maybe click the bell so you can actually
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see my videos and also if you want to
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support me additionally and that is
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financially in these times that's the
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only thing that matters right then you
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can go over to link down description and
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become a YouTube member or donate to me
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or support me on buy me a coffee which
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is why you can either do a onetime
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donation or like a monthly donation or
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you can also do a super thanks
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underneath this video for a onetime
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donation it will help me out a lot and
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um yeah people that's going to be pretty
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much it this is where I'm going to leave
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you guys rainy Portugal is still
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beautiful and uh yeah see you guys in
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the next one peace
