PLS SUB ME, THX IN ADVANCE

So this morning, I got a message, one of which I often recieve because people are fucking MORONS. Have a look.

"hey!
Hey KickThePj

I think you might like my style of video. I was wondering if you could check out my videos if you had the time and subscribe if you like them.

Thanks in advance,

bigwhiteseth"

Right, so the first thing I did was actually look at his subscriber count, to no surprise, he has 20k plus. I wonder how he got them.
This is clearly just a standard message he sends to everyone because he's just copied and pasted my user name straight to the message because most people don't spell PJ, like KickThePj, with a lower case j, ANYWAY, It's obviously a copy and paste job because...well it's obvious.

Secondly, "I think you might like my style of video", no, no I probably wouldn't. I like really interesting videos like those of Lassegg, or nintendo related ones like the AVGN. However, I had a look anyway because I was curious. He is an american vlogger, with HORRIBLE raspy sound quality which is a put off in itself, by the looks of the titles of his videos he talks about news and celebrities, so, no thanks.

Thirdly, check out the videos if i have time. Nope.

Fourthly, subscribe if I like them. Again, nope.

Then lastly, the icing on the top of the shit, "thanks in advance". Erm NO, that's NOT how it works love. The little phrase "thanks in advance" pisses me off. Unless I've said I'll do something for someone, I haven't got the intentions of doing what they've asked, so DON'T fucking thank me in "advance".

It baffles me why someone with 20k subscribers needs to go round spamming people to subscribe, it's stupid. Similarly, I have no idea why people with no videos, no subscribers and no intentions of making videos go round begging for subscribers. Why? Do you even know the point of subscribing? They just want it for the number because they think the more subscribers you have, the cooler you are, erm no. Think about it, subscribing is so people are kept informed of when you have a new video, what difference does it make if you have 10 or 10 thousand if you've asked people to subscribe that WON'T WATCH THEM.

Right, that's all I have to say, I've got a coach to catch ina few hours, and I still haven't packed.

Bai

Selling out

I just wanted to write a quick blog on the term "sell out". I think dom once mentioned this in how someone can't be a sell out if they actually had intentions of making money. People brand alot of youtubers as sell outs because they're youtube partners, but realistically, everyone in life wants money. It might be due to jealousy, but it's stupid.

Now that brings me on to the confused.com advert. I was asked to do a clip and i've always said, if i was asked, i would do it. The money for doing it is pretty good, and although theres the slight embarassment of being on TV across the country saying some silly lines, just keep thinking about the money. Plus my little cousin would be really happy, ever sinse they saw phil on tv and thought it was me, they kept saying "WHEN ARE YOU GONNA BE ON THE ADVERT?".

Alot of people on youtube make a living on youtube, so I wouldn't consider it selling out. Maybe there is a certain degree, maybe if someone started doing mass product placement with coca cola, doritos and tampons, then people would probably deem it as selling out. But not completely anyway, it would be weird if i all of a sudden stopped making videos about nintendo and shit and started just advertising.


In unrelated news

[15:18:33] lex says: shit i just squirted the juice all over my keyboard

Toombalor

So I noticed lately alot of people have been using tumblr, I decided to check out the website, it looks really good. It's very simple, which I like. For months and months I've wanted somewhere that I can host very small audio files to show people, tumblr seems promising. So if you have an account, go follow me or something

www.kickthepj.tumblr.com

Also, I will still be using this blog for long updates. I'll use tumblr for audio, small video (maybe), pictures, (which I will be taking more of), and small snippets of things that I like.

As for anyone that may think "fuck sake, not another bandwagon", who cares? True, I wouldn't have started using it if others hadn't because I wouldn't have bothered to check it out, but I wouldn't be using it if it was crap.

Becoming cool

Let me tell you, I've not been this super cool guy you see before you all my life. I was having a conversation about year 7, and it made me think back. I HATED secondary school. I loved primary school because It was simple, and people liked me. I remember people would fight over who would sit next to me on the carpet, that sounds like a really bad lie, but i'm being srs. The teachers loved me, my friends loved me, the girls...not so much, but I was somewhat popular.

Then I moved up to secondary school, and it was scary. I hardly knew anyone, but that's never really a bad thing, I'm always up for making new friends, but it's hard when they don't give you the chance. Without going in to too much detail, i'll cut it short. I was not cool for the first few years of secondary school. I was short, fat and geeky, but why would that make me any less of a nice person? It didn't. So not really making friends made it hard to get on with school, and I really loved school. New lessons, new classes, everything new.

I was bullied, alot throughout the first couple of years in secondary school. This being year 7 abd 8 mainly, I changed alot towards the end of year 9. I remember that my class mates would used to steal my equipment, snap my rulers and pens for no reason, and generally make my life hell. They would do the 'oh so cliche' stealing my dinner money and food.

I remember that I would always come home really upset. I felt like such a fucking idiot whenever I cried, whether it be in the middle of class, or when I got home.
Eventually I would just lie about being ill so I didn't have to go into school until eventually my mum didn't believe me, so i would start to make myself ill. Eventually I just made myself throw up and stuff to have a legit reason to stay at home.

I just hated it all so much. Oh and by the way, why are we ever taught that "if you tell a teacher, you be fine"? That has never helped me, any time I told a teacher, it definitely made things worse. My dad always used to tell me stories about when he got bullied, he stood up to them and that helped. You know what? It fucking did.

I changed alot towards the end of year 9 then onwards, found a nice group of friends, felt accepted and had fun. That summer of I think 2005, maybe 06, I went out every day, took up skate boarding which was so much fun, and just made the most of being a teenager.

Now i've gotten to the age where I can't fuck about, and I hate it. For any juniors reading this, here is my advise, make the most of being a kid. I mean yes I'm still relatively young, although I'll be 19 in 6 months today. I guess I'm partly ready for adult life but partly not. Don't like the idea of working, but it has to be done If i want nice things. Something I'm very fond of now though, is my girlfriend. I love lex, and don't really need to express that very much more in words.

School was hell, I hope to never go through anything like that again. It was mainly because of the way I looked, but oh well. I've changed loads, i'm not nice and tall, builg big and just completely different.

I'm going to leave it at that, I hope I have enlightened you a bit on my early secondary school years. However, you still know next to nothing about me.