**The Struggle is Real: A Vlogger's Dilemma**

As I sat down to record this video, I couldn't help but think that things might have been better if we hadn't started doing vlogs. I mean, who needs all that extra work, right? But, as it turns out, people do love watching our lives, and that's exactly what happened. We started doing vlogs, and suddenly, we had a huge following. People were engaging, commenting, liking, and sharing our content left and right. It was like we were on top of the world.

But, as time went on, things started to change. Our engagement began to decrease, and we found ourselves struggling to come up with new content that would keep our audience interested. We tried different formats, different lengths, but nothing seemed to work. And that's when it hit us: maybe we just needed to take a step back and re-evaluate what we were doing.

The problem was, people were telling us that they didn't like the shorter vlogs we had been posting. They wanted more content, more interaction, more of everything. But the truth is, making content isn't easy. It takes time, effort, and a lot of work to come up with something that's not only entertaining but also engaging. And let me tell you, it's not just about hitting a certain number of views or likes; it's about creating something that resonates with our audience.

We started looking at the metrics, and what we found was shocking. A lot of viewers were tuning out right around five minutes into our vlogs. We're talking 5 minutes! That's not even halfway through the video. And let me tell you, it's not just about the content; it's about the editing too. I've been taking care of that part for a while now, but even with all my best efforts, we can't seem to get past that five-minute mark.

So, what's the solution? Well, it's pretty simple, really: engagement is key. We need our audience to be actively participating in our content. We need them to be commenting, liking, and sharing our videos with their friends and family. And that's not just about us; it's about you guys too. You're part of this community, and we appreciate your support.

But here's the thing: when people don't engage, we can't keep going. We need to see that there's still interest in what we have to say or show. And right now, our numbers just aren't as strong as they once were. It's like we're stuck in a rut, and I'm not sure how to get out of it.

That's why I want to propose something simple: try the challenge for yourself. For one week, see if you can stick around for at least five minutes into our vlogs. See if you can engage with us, leave a comment, like a post, or share one of our videos with your friends. It might just make all the difference.

And let me tell you, it's not just about us; it's about the community too. We love having you guys here, and we want to keep doing what we're doing because it means so much to us. So, if you're feeling bored or uninterested, I encourage you to try something new. Maybe take up a hobby, read a book, or watch a different type of video altogether.

But most importantly, remember that you're not just a number; you're a person. And we value your opinion and your engagement more than anything. So, please, share with us your thoughts, your ideas, and your feedback. We want to hear it all.

And on a personal note, I'm feeling a bit exhausted. Maybe it's the fact that I didn't get my morning espresso yet, but I'm ready for a break. Maybe you guys can join me in this virtual coffee break? Who knows what we'll come up with when we're refreshed and rejuvenated?

Finally, there was something I dreamt about last night that I just had to share. Diana had a dream about hot sauce from Louisiana. Yeah, it's weird; but hey, who knows what dreams are trying to tell us?

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthank you for watching liking commenting sharing and subscribing right now kind of foggy school bus made it home in time we've got carpet cleaners coming in just a few minutes I got present yeah you got something I don't know what it is though read it to me hope you like it Callum oh it's something from the Olympics neat this one is from Australia series 4 mini fig and another series 4 mini fig from gleno 260 PS I still want your Apple hat LOL thank you it's kind of it's a laminated postcard created for you by Dan Thomas at Macy boy Pros Mac Diana Locker mini fig from West Worchester wor wor from the UK I don't know if you can hear that humming but uh he's doing the carpets right now so I'm doing most of my work from a very small screen this is like the opposite of two 30in monitors yeah there you go see that I was told to do that uh on our way out of the conference that I spoke at the other day um someone stopped me and said hey I I noticed your gate and let me guess your hip is twisted and I was shocked I was like yeah it's been Twisted all my life Morton's toe that's what I have I have Morton's toe I thought I had my own toe but I guess not so it it's supposed to make me walk straighter cuz normally my feet flare out like that I do not want to have back surgery in my life purple brain today it's all about the feet carpet's cleaned and I got some booties uh we just have to stay off the carpet generally speaking for the next 4 to 8 hours while it dries it's probably best you hang out pretty much just down here or whatever but I got sorry pixie I just she was snipping my booties and I was going to kick up the booties I ended up knocking her in the head oh am booties yeah hey Chris I thought you already went out for the day I did but I didn't have enough time to check to see if they had the garbage pel kids brand new series at the department store so I'm heading out again even though I did also order the full set on eBay last night and we'll be doing a live unboxing of that on YouTube so stay tuned if you're a gpk man just like me sorry well they didn't have any garbage pil kids so I got Diana's Mom some candy no s pot of tea did I say that right Y no not for you my office is still a mess I can't do anything until like 9:00 tonight it's driving me nuts you know what else is driving me nuts I know it sounds crazy but I can't put that on the floor I have a problem I mean not just with that not being on the floor I mean having a problem with that not being on the floor we have wiener and Diana it looks good you going to try it my wiener sure I'll eat my wiener what kind of wiener is it hot I like hot wiener e you can hear me walk with these booties on you need honey are you in there am I talking to myself again I don't know why I will frequently turn my wrist to look at an invisible watch that's never there my mind thinks time so I look at my wrist even though I just see hair it's starting to get darker earlier now it's about 7:30 at night I think you would agree it's pretty dark especially when contrasted against my white Alabaster skin my Skin's not really made of alabaster I'm just do you even know what Alabaster is you guys okay down there yeah okay just checking in since you've been stuck in the dungeon awesome room all day what is it with this Refugio it's a Spanish soap opera it's crazy actually I know Diana's mom must like me cuz she's never referred to me as her son of a in-law truth be told she's pretty awesome to have around in fact now that I think about it Diana's entire family is awesome I got lucky it's been a while since last I checked this and it looks like I'm just a few points shy from getting a $25 Amazon gift card go. tag.com sfree apps is a way that you could start earning gift cards and well other gifts as well like free apps it's still wet Maybe by tomorrow morning it'll be dry honey we finally have some empirical data to back up what we were saying the average view duration on our YouTube YouTube videos is less than 4 minutes yeah I mean that was my guess but uh Hey the numbers don't lie guys what do you want us to do about this people are telling us that they didn't like the less than 10minute Vlog here's the problem with that we love you and we appreciate that you want to see more of our lives but I think you greatly underestimate just how much time it takes not just to record footage for anything but to edit it it's a great challenge so when we started doing the Vlogs I mean people latched on I mean they were engaging commenting liking sharing and we love that and and we were doing this for a while we were going up and up and up and then all of a sudden we started going down like fewer people were sharing definitely fewer people were liking I looked at a video we recorded and uploaded three days ago we had maybe about 600 likes we used to be able to get over a th000 likes that so I looked deeper at the metrics and a lot of viewers were tuning out right around five minutes I'm not talking about the people who stayed for the full 10 you guys are awesome we need more of you so that's really what I'm proposing guys Diana and I sometimes have a problem even filling five minutes worth of footage during the average day we really do and I just you guys try it on your own for like a week and you'll understand what I mean and that's not even talking about the editing part which I've been taking care of pretty much you know for a while now so if you really want us to hit the 10-minute Mark we got to know you want us to hit that 10-minute Mark and when we see statistics doing this that's not growth I I don't know what to tell you I mean I'm not making it up you guys can look at it yourself it's it's not something that is even generating a lot of Revenue right now I'm doing it because it's kind of fun and I think there's a possibility of doing more with the Vlog format um you it's a part of our Lives Diana and I dream about it all you had a dream last night didn't you yeah that we were vlogging something and something what was it hot sauce yeah hot sauce yeah uh no from Louisiana hot sauce yeah she was almost talking in her sleep anyway um we enjoy doing those things but when we see statistics doing this when our engagement starts to decrease I I can't control that Diana can't control that only you can control that our numbers just aren't as strong as as they once were I don't know what to tell you so it seems like at least 700 of you guys are really really awesome but the majority of people who end up watching the videos don't engage and we can't tell because they're not commenting they're not liking and most importantly they're not sharing the only way we're going to be able to grow do this with everything is if you share and I'm serious that's you guys are as much a part of this as we are and we understand you care and you want to see more we want to do more but we're not going to do more when these things happen we're not going to do more is on a downhill uh slope and we're not going to ski that's a downhill thing but we're not into the whole sporting thing so again I'm very grateful that you show your support the way you do but help us I mean really I'm dead serious I don't want to do this anymore don't want to do that no more that this help us do this and you can do that by sharing by remembering to like by remembering to comment that means so much to Wicked are you bored see he was bored five minutes ago so there's the challenge to you the person who's watching who may appreciate the more that we do for you I'm not begging okay you guys wanted the 10-minute Vlog so I'm trying to tell you how to get to the things you want share let others know but you you are not a number you're a person and we love having you here especially if you made it this deep into the video I need to get my espressothank you for watching liking commenting sharing and subscribing right now kind of foggy school bus made it home in time we've got carpet cleaners coming in just a few minutes I got present yeah you got something I don't know what it is though read it to me hope you like it Callum oh it's something from the Olympics neat this one is from Australia series 4 mini fig and another series 4 mini fig from gleno 260 PS I still want your Apple hat LOL thank you it's kind of it's a laminated postcard created for you by Dan Thomas at Macy boy Pros Mac Diana Locker mini fig from West Worchester wor wor from the UK I don't know if you can hear that humming but uh he's doing the carpets right now so I'm doing most of my work from a very small screen this is like the opposite of two 30in monitors yeah there you go see that I was told to do that uh on our way out of the conference that I spoke at the other day um someone stopped me and said hey I I noticed your gate and let me guess your hip is twisted and I was shocked I was like yeah it's been Twisted all my life Morton's toe that's what I have I have Morton's toe I thought I had my own toe but I guess not so it it's supposed to make me walk straighter cuz normally my feet flare out like that I do not want to have back surgery in my life purple brain today it's all about the feet carpet's cleaned and I got some booties uh we just have to stay off the carpet generally speaking for the next 4 to 8 hours while it dries it's probably best you hang out pretty much just down here or whatever but I got sorry pixie I just she was snipping my booties and I was going to kick up the booties I ended up knocking her in the head oh am booties yeah hey Chris I thought you already went out for the day I did but I didn't have enough time to check to see if they had the garbage pel kids brand new series at the department store so I'm heading out again even though I did also order the full set on eBay last night and we'll be doing a live unboxing of that on YouTube so stay tuned if you're a gpk man just like me sorry well they didn't have any garbage pil kids so I got Diana's Mom some candy no s pot of tea did I say that right Y no not for you my office is still a mess I can't do anything until like 9:00 tonight it's driving me nuts you know what else is driving me nuts I know it sounds crazy but I can't put that on the floor I have a problem I mean not just with that not being on the floor I mean having a problem with that not being on the floor we have wiener and Diana it looks good you going to try it my wiener sure I'll eat my wiener what kind of wiener is it hot I like hot wiener e you can hear me walk with these booties on you need honey are you in there am I talking to myself again I don't know why I will frequently turn my wrist to look at an invisible watch that's never there my mind thinks time so I look at my wrist even though I just see hair it's starting to get darker earlier now it's about 7:30 at night I think you would agree it's pretty dark especially when contrasted against my white Alabaster skin my Skin's not really made of alabaster I'm just do you even know what Alabaster is you guys okay down there yeah okay just checking in since you've been stuck in the dungeon awesome room all day what is it with this Refugio it's a Spanish soap opera it's crazy actually I know Diana's mom must like me cuz she's never referred to me as her son of a in-law truth be told she's pretty awesome to have around in fact now that I think about it Diana's entire family is awesome I got lucky it's been a while since last I checked this and it looks like I'm just a few points shy from getting a $25 Amazon gift card go. tag.com sfree apps is a way that you could start earning gift cards and well other gifts as well like free apps it's still wet Maybe by tomorrow morning it'll be dry honey we finally have some empirical data to back up what we were saying the average view duration on our YouTube YouTube videos is less than 4 minutes yeah I mean that was my guess but uh Hey the numbers don't lie guys what do you want us to do about this people are telling us that they didn't like the less than 10minute Vlog here's the problem with that we love you and we appreciate that you want to see more of our lives but I think you greatly underestimate just how much time it takes not just to record footage for anything but to edit it it's a great challenge so when we started doing the Vlogs I mean people latched on I mean they were engaging commenting liking sharing and we love that and and we were doing this for a while we were going up and up and up and then all of a sudden we started going down like fewer people were sharing definitely fewer people were liking I looked at a video we recorded and uploaded three days ago we had maybe about 600 likes we used to be able to get over a th000 likes that so I looked deeper at the metrics and a lot of viewers were tuning out right around five minutes I'm not talking about the people who stayed for the full 10 you guys are awesome we need more of you so that's really what I'm proposing guys Diana and I sometimes have a problem even filling five minutes worth of footage during the average day we really do and I just you guys try it on your own for like a week and you'll understand what I mean and that's not even talking about the editing part which I've been taking care of pretty much you know for a while now so if you really want us to hit the 10-minute Mark we got to know you want us to hit that 10-minute Mark and when we see statistics doing this that's not growth I I don't know what to tell you I mean I'm not making it up you guys can look at it yourself it's it's not something that is even generating a lot of Revenue right now I'm doing it because it's kind of fun and I think there's a possibility of doing more with the Vlog format um you it's a part of our Lives Diana and I dream about it all you had a dream last night didn't you yeah that we were vlogging something and something what was it hot sauce yeah hot sauce yeah uh no from Louisiana hot sauce yeah she was almost talking in her sleep anyway um we enjoy doing those things but when we see statistics doing this when our engagement starts to decrease I I can't control that Diana can't control that only you can control that our numbers just aren't as strong as as they once were I don't know what to tell you so it seems like at least 700 of you guys are really really awesome but the majority of people who end up watching the videos don't engage and we can't tell because they're not commenting they're not liking and most importantly they're not sharing the only way we're going to be able to grow do this with everything is if you share and I'm serious that's you guys are as much a part of this as we are and we understand you care and you want to see more we want to do more but we're not going to do more when these things happen we're not going to do more is on a downhill uh slope and we're not going to ski that's a downhill thing but we're not into the whole sporting thing so again I'm very grateful that you show your support the way you do but help us I mean really I'm dead serious I don't want to do this anymore don't want to do that no more that this help us do this and you can do that by sharing by remembering to like by remembering to comment that means so much to Wicked are you bored see he was bored five minutes ago so there's the challenge to you the person who's watching who may appreciate the more that we do for you I'm not begging okay you guys wanted the 10-minute Vlog so I'm trying to tell you how to get to the things you want share let others know but you you are not a number you're a person and we love having you here especially if you made it this deep into the video I need to get my espresso\n"