The Vlog: A Personal Account of Balancing Life and YouTube

As I sit down to record this video, I want to start by thanking all of my true supporters out there who set aside time every weekend to watch my vlogs. Your dedication and enthusiasm are what drive me to continue creating content for you, the people who matter most to me. Doing what I do may seem easy when viewed from the outside, but let me tell you, it's far from it. Creating videos like this on top of my other responsibilities is time-consuming and mentally draining. Unfortunately, there's a large portion of people out there who don't realize the work that goes into making videos like this.

I've evolved as a person over the years, and I'm proud to say that I'm still the same positive, spirited person who shares their life with the world through cameras falling over places. However, I've also become a lot busier lately. With my dad working on various projects with me, balancing everything at once can be overwhelming. It's not always easy, and some days I feel like I'm juggling too many things at once.

One of those days was yesterday when I spent the day working with my dad. I got some work done that I had missed out on because we were busy with other projects. That in itself is a prime example of balancing everything at once. It's not always easy to keep track of what needs to be done and when, but that's just part of life.

I also want to talk about something else that happened recently. A lot of people freaked out over my thoughts on certain topics because they didn't agree with me or understood the context. However, I don't understand why some people get so angry. As a YouTuber, I'm allowed to express my opinions and share my thoughts with the world. If you don't like something, that's okay. Just move on and don't bother.

However, there are those who take it too far. People who threaten me and my family with harm because of something as simple as launching a store where I sell designs myself. Those people are bad news. They're full of hate and negativity, and they're the kind of people that you don't want to grow up to be like.

If you support me and enjoy watching my vlogs, I appreciate it more than words can say. But if you don't support me and hate the idea of me making money or doing what I love, then I don't want you in the community. Simple as that. Your negative energy doesn't bring value to anyone's life.

As for those who are going to continue watching despite my rant today, I appreciate your loyalty and dedication. I'm one of the more brutally honest YouTubers out there, and I won't be afraid to express my opinion. Life is short, and if you're not living it on your own terms, then what's the point?

Before I sign off, I want to thank Loot Crate for sponsoring this video. Loot Crate is a monthly gamer and geek subscription service that delivers handpicked items based on a monthly theme. From gadgets to snacks, Loot Crate has quickly become one of my new favorite services. And as a special treat, use my discount code "FrancoDranCo" to save in your order.

That's all for today's rant video. I hope you enjoyed it, and if not, that's okay too. I'll see you guys in tomorrow's video peace out.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's video is brought to you by Loot Crate hey guys how are you David Franco here davidf franco.com espace summit.com geop.com def Franco gaming.com and for five.com I thought there was a be inmy car.com you see what I'm getting at here I'm naming off every website that I run oh and also Mac Pro upgrades. comom did I say the franah hosting.com I'm not even sure cuz I run so many freaking websites on a regular basis and that is exactly the point of today's video I originally wanted to create today's video about my dad's beats he recently got wireless Beats and he wanted to do an unboxing but it just ended up being too busy what's going on oh really Mom she's asking for tea cuz she saw my checking out Wawa but that unboxing video never worked out cuz we were too busy last night and too busy today and as you can hopefully see I worked with my dad today up in Te New Jersey so we were on the road for like 4 hours today back and forth total so yeah that unboxing clearly never worked out so I wanted to take today's opportunity and turn it into a vlog to talk about something very important to me today's video for me yesterday for you was all about Magista an awesome service that I honestly and genuinely do recommend checking out and they are approach me with a sponsorship offer where if I promoted their contest and got people to sign up and get creative through making videos of memories you know through videos and photos then it's a win-win scenario for everyone right yes of course that's how business works because I do all this for free so obviously I have to get something back now and then there's nothing wrong whatsoever with that as long as I remain true to myself and I'm always 100% transparent and that's a exactly what I'm with you guys I'm always transparent so basically I got a lot of backlash because I promoted Magista even though it's a completely legit product/service slapp that I thoroughly enjoy myself because for whatever reason whenever somebody wants to promote something on YouTube you might as well be killing babies because that's what you're doing you're murdering people you're breaking rules right no of course not it's freaking Madness so let me start by saying this do you support me do you support me as a person as a content creator as someone who's trying to make an honest living by creating 100% free content for you to enjoy when I don't even have to do that to begin with I could be out there having a real job and not have time to to create videos at all that means no more weekend Vlogs no more five videos a week no more Christmas videos no more Seaside Heights videos I'm not trying to sound like I'm making a threat out of this I'm just looking at the big picture here because if I can't make money doing what I love to do and that's creating free content for you guys to enjoy then what is the purpose of all this tomorrow I could wake up submit my resume to some companies and just drop YouTube Al together I could fall off the face of this planet just like that do I want to do that hell no cuz I love you guys I love YouTube I love making videos and through making videos all these opportunities have come you know through all these years especially recent times when advertising Revenue sucks and other content creators like Chris prow can back me up that's exactly why Chris has his own patreon campaign going on right now it's because advertising revenue is the worst it has been in years that's not an opinion that's a fact so the point of this blurb this rant whatever you want to call it is if you support me as a person and as a content creator then I hope you're going to be okay with a sponsored video here and there and I hope you're going to be okay with some promos here here and there and if you're not okay with that then I don't want I just I don't want you watching my videos I'm going to be completely honest if you're not going to support me I'm not going to support you I know I sound like an saying that but it's the gone honest truth guys doing what I do here is extremely timec consuming the last weekend Vlog you watched called The Great Outdoors I was up until 3:00 in the morning EDI editing that literally falling as my desk because I was so worn out from enjoying the day with my family and spending time with them and just having fun yeah that's not hard work but when you're in the sun all day blah blah blah waking up early from camping having a full weekend just doing stuff yeah you get tired and my point of that is even though I'm tired I still push myself to 3:00 in the morning till 4:00 in the morning to get out these videos on time for completely free and yes I'm saying completely free a lot but that's essentially what it is if you don't like free content that's not my fault but for free content to work at this point of my life where I have a lot of other things going on this stuff takes time which means yeah I'm going to have to make money in the process and yes I will be launching a patreon campaign in July I've had people ask David why don't you launch a patreon campaign and my honest response was well I'm not comfortable doing so because I just had a Mac Pro campaign on Indiegogo be more successful than I ever predicted and it would be kind of H I don't know what the word is kind of greedy of me to have a patreon campaign launched so close to my Indiegogo campaign even though I launched that back in February and the patreon campaign literally has nothing whatsoever to do with Indiegogo I just know going to get a lot of backlash for that but you know what that's fine I'm using that as my chance to weed out the people who don't matter weed out the people who don't truly support me as a person and yeah end of story so wrapping up this video I do want you guys to know the ones who out there who who do truly support me you guys are awesome seriously you are awesome you are the reason why I set aside time every single weekend to make weekend vlogs for you the true supporters because doing what I do may seem easy when in reality it's far from that it's time consuming it's mentally draining and unfortunately there's a large portion of people out there that don't realize the work that goes into making videos like this on top of doing what I do outside of YouTube such as this a full day of working with my dad on top of other things I do graphic design web design affiliate marketing I do a lot of stuff I'm a much different person today that I was 5 years ago 6 years ago 7 years ago and I mean it in a good way I'm the same positive spirited sharing my life with the world kind of person as well as cameras falling over the place kind of person if that even makes sense but I've also evolved a lot I'm a lot busier nowadays so anyway I don't want to repeat myself too much cuz I feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over again I did just get wobble coffee if you must now and I'm going home to get some work done that I've missed out on because I was working with my dad and that right there is a prime example of balancing everything at once and please keep this in mind everything you see on the video that's just a very small percentage of my daily life I'm extremely stress you should have yielded dude I have I have the right of I I doubt by the right of away some people still don't understand the basics of driving but that's okay it's not my problem oh and also one more thing I almost forgot to mention this before signing off a lot of people freaked out over the thoughts well over the fact because it happened over the fact that I opened a spreadshirt store last week when it's okay for other YouTubers to do it and that's F I mean I don't understand why people get so angry I mean I have literally had people threaten my life as well as my family's life saying I hope you die of cancer and stuff like that because I launched a store because I'm creating designs myself and selling them for Revenue those are the of people that I don't want within our community they are bad people they are full of hate and those are the kinds of people that you do not want to grow up being like trust me and I'm saying grow up because I'm talking to the younger people right now I'm just trying to set a good example for the future people of the world I know that sounds egotistical of me but that's the best way I can express it so I don't I mean yeah maybe I should have launched my store with a different design rather than the ladyes face which I don't care if people hate the face it's just don't don't buy the shirt simple as that don't buy the shirt you don't have to give me threats like literal threats I don't I don't support that kind of behavior whatsoever if um I mean if you don't like something move on don't buy it but anyway okay so now I am done for real maybe this rant video wasn't necessary maybe it was necessary but either way I think I made my point very clear if you support me I want you sticking around and if you don't support me and you hate the idea of my making money of doing what I love then I don't want you in the community I don't I honestly don't give a what you think so that's all brutal yeah honest yeah I like to think I'm one of the more brutally honest YouTubers out there I'm not afraid to express my opinion and I will always always always do what I enjoy in life life because once I'm dead I'm dead and there's no going back and I will never ever let others influence me to do something that I don't personally enjoy myself because what is the point in living if you're going to follow the rules of others I say screw that seriously screw that so guys thank you to my true supporters out there love you I seriously do your support is incredibly appreciated I hope you enjoyed this rant I felt like it was necessary and if it wasn't and whatever it's fine I'll see you guys in tomorrow's video peace all right let's talk about today's sponsor and that is Loot Crate Loot Crate is a monthly gamer and geek subscription service that is filled with handpicked items based on a monthly theme from gadgets to snacks lot crate has quickly become one of my new favorite services and yes I know exactly what you're thinking lot crate is international so join the club by going to late.com David that link is right below for your convenience and don't forget to use my my discount code to Franco d r an Co to save in your ordertoday's video is brought to you by Loot Crate hey guys how are you David Franco here davidf franco.com espace summit.com geop.com def Franco gaming.com and for five.com I thought there was a be inmy car.com you see what I'm getting at here I'm naming off every website that I run oh and also Mac Pro upgrades. comom did I say the franah hosting.com I'm not even sure cuz I run so many freaking websites on a regular basis and that is exactly the point of today's video I originally wanted to create today's video about my dad's beats he recently got wireless Beats and he wanted to do an unboxing but it just ended up being too busy what's going on oh really Mom she's asking for tea cuz she saw my checking out Wawa but that unboxing video never worked out cuz we were too busy last night and too busy today and as you can hopefully see I worked with my dad today up in Te New Jersey so we were on the road for like 4 hours today back and forth total so yeah that unboxing clearly never worked out so I wanted to take today's opportunity and turn it into a vlog to talk about something very important to me today's video for me yesterday for you was all about Magista an awesome service that I honestly and genuinely do recommend checking out and they are approach me with a sponsorship offer where if I promoted their contest and got people to sign up and get creative through making videos of memories you know through videos and photos then it's a win-win scenario for everyone right yes of course that's how business works because I do all this for free so obviously I have to get something back now and then there's nothing wrong whatsoever with that as long as I remain true to myself and I'm always 100% transparent and that's a exactly what I'm with you guys I'm always transparent so basically I got a lot of backlash because I promoted Magista even though it's a completely legit product/service slapp that I thoroughly enjoy myself because for whatever reason whenever somebody wants to promote something on YouTube you might as well be killing babies because that's what you're doing you're murdering people you're breaking rules right no of course not it's freaking Madness so let me start by saying this do you support me do you support me as a person as a content creator as someone who's trying to make an honest living by creating 100% free content for you to enjoy when I don't even have to do that to begin with I could be out there having a real job and not have time to to create videos at all that means no more weekend Vlogs no more five videos a week no more Christmas videos no more Seaside Heights videos I'm not trying to sound like I'm making a threat out of this I'm just looking at the big picture here because if I can't make money doing what I love to do and that's creating free content for you guys to enjoy then what is the purpose of all this tomorrow I could wake up submit my resume to some companies and just drop YouTube Al together I could fall off the face of this planet just like that do I want to do that hell no cuz I love you guys I love YouTube I love making videos and through making videos all these opportunities have come you know through all these years especially recent times when advertising Revenue sucks and other content creators like Chris prow can back me up that's exactly why Chris has his own patreon campaign going on right now it's because advertising revenue is the worst it has been in years that's not an opinion that's a fact so the point of this blurb this rant whatever you want to call it is if you support me as a person and as a content creator then I hope you're going to be okay with a sponsored video here and there and I hope you're going to be okay with some promos here here and there and if you're not okay with that then I don't want I just I don't want you watching my videos I'm going to be completely honest if you're not going to support me I'm not going to support you I know I sound like an saying that but it's the gone honest truth guys doing what I do here is extremely timec consuming the last weekend Vlog you watched called The Great Outdoors I was up until 3:00 in the morning EDI editing that literally falling as my desk because I was so worn out from enjoying the day with my family and spending time with them and just having fun yeah that's not hard work but when you're in the sun all day blah blah blah waking up early from camping having a full weekend just doing stuff yeah you get tired and my point of that is even though I'm tired I still push myself to 3:00 in the morning till 4:00 in the morning to get out these videos on time for completely free and yes I'm saying completely free a lot but that's essentially what it is if you don't like free content that's not my fault but for free content to work at this point of my life where I have a lot of other things going on this stuff takes time which means yeah I'm going to have to make money in the process and yes I will be launching a patreon campaign in July I've had people ask David why don't you launch a patreon campaign and my honest response was well I'm not comfortable doing so because I just had a Mac Pro campaign on Indiegogo be more successful than I ever predicted and it would be kind of H I don't know what the word is kind of greedy of me to have a patreon campaign launched so close to my Indiegogo campaign even though I launched that back in February and the patreon campaign literally has nothing whatsoever to do with Indiegogo I just know going to get a lot of backlash for that but you know what that's fine I'm using that as my chance to weed out the people who don't matter weed out the people who don't truly support me as a person and yeah end of story so wrapping up this video I do want you guys to know the ones who out there who who do truly support me you guys are awesome seriously you are awesome you are the reason why I set aside time every single weekend to make weekend vlogs for you the true supporters because doing what I do may seem easy when in reality it's far from that it's time consuming it's mentally draining and unfortunately there's a large portion of people out there that don't realize the work that goes into making videos like this on top of doing what I do outside of YouTube such as this a full day of working with my dad on top of other things I do graphic design web design affiliate marketing I do a lot of stuff I'm a much different person today that I was 5 years ago 6 years ago 7 years ago and I mean it in a good way I'm the same positive spirited sharing my life with the world kind of person as well as cameras falling over the place kind of person if that even makes sense but I've also evolved a lot I'm a lot busier nowadays so anyway I don't want to repeat myself too much cuz I feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over again I did just get wobble coffee if you must now and I'm going home to get some work done that I've missed out on because I was working with my dad and that right there is a prime example of balancing everything at once and please keep this in mind everything you see on the video that's just a very small percentage of my daily life I'm extremely stress you should have yielded dude I have I have the right of I I doubt by the right of away some people still don't understand the basics of driving but that's okay it's not my problem oh and also one more thing I almost forgot to mention this before signing off a lot of people freaked out over the thoughts well over the fact because it happened over the fact that I opened a spreadshirt store last week when it's okay for other YouTubers to do it and that's F I mean I don't understand why people get so angry I mean I have literally had people threaten my life as well as my family's life saying I hope you die of cancer and stuff like that because I launched a store because I'm creating designs myself and selling them for Revenue those are the of people that I don't want within our community they are bad people they are full of hate and those are the kinds of people that you do not want to grow up being like trust me and I'm saying grow up because I'm talking to the younger people right now I'm just trying to set a good example for the future people of the world I know that sounds egotistical of me but that's the best way I can express it so I don't I mean yeah maybe I should have launched my store with a different design rather than the ladyes face which I don't care if people hate the face it's just don't don't buy the shirt simple as that don't buy the shirt you don't have to give me threats like literal threats I don't I don't support that kind of behavior whatsoever if um I mean if you don't like something move on don't buy it but anyway okay so now I am done for real maybe this rant video wasn't necessary maybe it was necessary but either way I think I made my point very clear if you support me I want you sticking around and if you don't support me and you hate the idea of my making money of doing what I love then I don't want you in the community I don't I honestly don't give a what you think so that's all brutal yeah honest yeah I like to think I'm one of the more brutally honest YouTubers out there I'm not afraid to express my opinion and I will always always always do what I enjoy in life life because once I'm dead I'm dead and there's no going back and I will never ever let others influence me to do something that I don't personally enjoy myself because what is the point in living if you're going to follow the rules of others I say screw that seriously screw that so guys thank you to my true supporters out there love you I seriously do your support is incredibly appreciated I hope you enjoyed this rant I felt like it was necessary and if it wasn't and whatever it's fine I'll see you guys in tomorrow's video peace all right let's talk about today's sponsor and that is Loot Crate Loot Crate is a monthly gamer and geek subscription service that is filled with handpicked items based on a monthly theme from gadgets to snacks lot crate has quickly become one of my new favorite services and yes I know exactly what you're thinking lot crate is international so join the club by going to late.com David that link is right below for your convenience and don't forget to use my my discount code to Franco d r an Co to save in your order\n"