It is always nice to get a note. And it is also nice to get a notification that one of your favourite people here has written something. It is equally nice to get a comment on a video you uploaded. It is these little connections that are meaningful. They are reaffirming and reassuring. They are saying, “keep going, you’re on the right track.”
(Or at least they are saying “we are on the same page.”) Or something like that.
We are on the same track. Our lives intersected. Hello out there.
Hello back.
So two of my Youtube friends messaged me to let me know that Sabbatical published a new video. He’s on Kinmen Island, off the coast of China. Should be a good one. I would watch it right now but I haven’t got an hour to spare - I have to take the truck up to the shop for 9am.
So, I have that to look forward to. Much better than my current YouTube diet of van conversions, and talking heads videos talking about politics and economics. I hate myself for watching these.
And I got a couple of notes on my recent video, (tie dye t-shirt – welcome to the go go phase) and that is notable, because I don’t get a lot of notes. So I followed the link back to the owner and it turns out that the owner of the note is part of the vlogging posse - a collection of young guys who like to vlog about nothing. They vlog about their daily boring lives, which is what I do. It is something of a trend, a backlash to the over-produced, over-edited, overly cinematic vlogs that seemed to take over in the spirit of Casey Neistat.
And you know me, I never like to be in the middle of a group. I like being on the fringes of society. I don’t like being in a club. I like being club adjacent. So I was surprised to get a note. I suppose I did dip my toe in the water of the vlogging posse with a comment or two over the past month or so. People really pay attention to comments.
I think this vlogging posse is an updated version of what we do here - sharing our boring ass lives with others just for the fun of it, the possible connection. Leave me a note.
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