Drakhen99
The Forrest Gump of Motovloggers
I knew you were good with a paintbrush!I'm not neurotic. I'm just heavily autistic!
I know, that joke is offensive to some, but I still think it's funny. I'll see myself out.
-John
Does anyone here Motovlog on YouTube for a living?
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I know, that joke is offensive to some, but I still think it's funny. I'll see myself out.
-John
mymotorrad
Wannabie Member
I prefer the term aspergerish, but yeah.... Two of my 5 kids are on the spectrum. No surprise. The oldest and the youngest.I'm not neurotic. I'm just heavily autistic!
mymotorrad
Wannabie Member
I've never been tested, only evaluated through discussion if you will. I am relatively mild. Never had speech or other delays, just a facts curator that can be blunt at times.
Drakhen99
The Forrest Gump of Motovloggers
I think there should be a book written about my quirks. I'm sure it would be good reading for 5-10 people.
-John
mymotorrad
Wannabie Member
I'd read it
Drakhen99
The Forrest Gump of Motovloggers
Picture Boondock Saints [I'm the bartender] with a healthy dose of Tucker Max. Maybe mix in some of Steve Carrell's cringiest scenes.
I wouldn't blame you if you had to Google either of those, but it sums up my life quite well.
-John
Moto Mengy
Motovlogger from PA, USA
I was only tested last year and found out I'm heavily autistic, like near the top of the range actually.
It explained a lot honestly, I mean I always knew I thought and acted differently than most people but I learned early on to just "pretend" to understand other people and "fit in". As I got older I just stopped trying, but at least now I know WHY I'm odd!
mymotorrad
Wannabie Member
I am like a combination of Joe Pesce and George Carlin in a way, maybe Capt Casey from mash thrown in there too.
mymotorrad
Wannabie Member
I have found I have adapted some. I just STFU at times, as hard as that is to believe. At one time I was an unabashed truth teller. Now I just tell myself, at least in certain circumstances, that most folks can't handle the truth, so why bother. I have a very quick discussion with myself about the transactional value. The problem is when there's build up and then the truth laden invective(or is it invective laden truth) come out. It's been building at work. I find the heavy bag a good outlet.I was only tested last year and found out I'm heavily autistic, like near the top of the range actually.
It explained a lot honestly, I mean I always knew I thought and acted differently than most people but I learned early on to just "pretend" to understand other people and "fit in". As I got older I just stopped trying, but at least now I know WHY I'm odd!
Drakhen99
The Forrest Gump of Motovloggers
Over time, I have learned to just keep my mouth shut at work unless I am 100% sure of my position and it benefits me to say something. I actually had a memo in my file at my last job that REQUIRED me to take a 15-minute break if someone in the office pissed me off... rather than lose my temper, which happened once and was not going to be tolerated again.
That's not to say I haven't told people to piss off and not talk to me anymore, but they weren't in my chain of command or a direct coworker, so that was OK.
I could use a heavy bag.
-John
That's not to say I haven't told people to piss off and not talk to me anymore, but they weren't in my chain of command or a direct coworker, so that was OK.
I could use a heavy bag.
-John
mymotorrad
Wannabie Member
We have surveys after our tickets and I've had a few that weren't positive. One I got called on. I almost got fired for calling a professor ignorant. I was justified in a sense. He was very unprofessional in an email response and I just replied that was uncalled for and ignorant. You wouldn't believe the shit storm that caused. Professors can practically do what they want. They should hear what I say when they're not around...The heavy bag does me in by the end of round 3. I use a phone app called Callout. I pretty much hit with max force with combos and it'll get me 95% max HR.
Moto Mengy
Motovlogger from PA, USA
Wow this is me to a tee.
ShadowRide
Wannabie Member
This makes me ask myself, if I had 8-9 hours a day to put into this, what would I do with that time? If you're livelihood depended on it, what would be the most important factors to work on?
Hippo-Drones
Pleb
You have to have more than just the YouTube revenue, so you'd need to be spending time contacting companies to give you kit to review, having merch you can sell, so time would need to be spent organising that if you were to do that in house (Shadetree Surgeon does this). You'd also be creating more content if full time, so you'd need more time to edit etc.
Drakhen99
The Forrest Gump of Motovloggers
I would definitely go with what @HippoDrone said, and spend more time crafting ideas for videos, riding to new & different places, setting up an LLC [for expenses and such], and trying to edit as much as possible so I could get more videos out into the world.
Finding off-bike stuff to film would be a good way to go about it - install/review videos do quite well on YT.
-John
Finding off-bike stuff to film would be a good way to go about it - install/review videos do quite well on YT.
-John
Hippo-Drones
Pleb
One of the larger channels I follow (and Patreon to) generally just rides his local roads, which is a 2mile radius effectively... it does get tiring looking at the same roads all the time, but he does make interesting topics, which counteracts the same locations!
ShadowRide
Wannabie Member
Interesting ideas. A plan of getting interesting videos to be worthy of attention, then getting the attention, then getting sponsored or getting merch, and then improving the video quality would seem a good order of things to do.
The YouTube income would just happen in the course of trying the other things. I'd worry about it last because it would just fall in line.
Fun to think about, but I'd better work on being able to chew bubble gum and ride at the same time for now. I get this monotone, broking speech pattern and I need to get that under control. I doubt that's ever going to be something I can just call my style and make money. It's fun trying.
The YouTube income would just happen in the course of trying the other things. I'd worry about it last because it would just fall in line.
Fun to think about, but I'd better work on being able to chew bubble gum and ride at the same time for now. I get this monotone, broking speech pattern and I need to get that under control. I doubt that's ever going to be something I can just call my style and make money. It's fun trying.
Drakhen99
The Forrest Gump of Motovloggers
Drakhen99
The Forrest Gump of Motovloggers
You'd be surprised... my thought train is always getting derailed, and i have constant breaks in my speech [mostly so I can keep my cigar lit and gather my thoughts for the next sentence]. I find that running 2 cameras and cut cut cutting the footage, works. I've leaned into it. Heck, I have my "Scatterbrained" series of videos where I go through like 10 topics in 15 minutes LOL. They get decent views.
-John
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