I Find Your Lack Of Sense Disturbing

There may have been things I meant to comment on before, but I think today makes a prime candidate to update about.

So basically, Cory was determined to win his Gold's Gym Challenge, repeating often "I've got to win this" and "I'm going to win this" throughout his training. Then when he realizes he's not going to win, he starts giving that "It was never about winning" line, which I thought was a hair on the sore loser side to be honest with you. He improved his body, sure, and in that respect he certainly won. But let's face it, he was banking on winning this contest to fix his finances, and he counted his chickens before they hatched. Now he's back where he started, apparently depressed and in financial problems, and needs to find a way to make money again the old-fashion way.

The rational direction here would be to continue making DudeLikeHella videos, building up a secondary fan base and income, putting his wrestling aside so that he can work on SMP Films and Mean Kitty videos for bigger projects that will pull in the most views on his main channels.

But somehow I don't think rational thinking went into this, because he's decided to stop doing DudeLikeHella, citing a lack of views as the reason he's not going to focus his efforts on it.

Now first of all, no, I don't know how much money he makes. But I can tell you this: he has more subscribers than Kate did when I started watching her. Kate managed to move to another country on what she made, along with that from her side jobs. So something tells me that between SMP Films, Mean Kitty, and DudeLikeHella, he's making a decent paycheck. If you go and look, DudeLikeHella has been getting around 30k views on most of the vlogs. This is how much Kate's vlogs make lately, believe it or not. And this isn't good enough???

And yet, Cory's views were even much higher a few weeks ago, which, surprise surprise, we before he started this bodybuilding and wrestling stuff. I'm sorry, but that stuff is so boring to me, and apparently to a lot of other people as well. Yes I know it's part of his life, but that doesn't mean it has to be filmed. He's said before that he makes the vlogs for himself primarily, not us, so that's why he films that kind of stuff. But that's a silly excuse because there's nothing stopping him from filming private stuff of his workouts and whatever to save for later in life, and only sharing the rest of his day with fans to entertain them. The "they're for me" thing is a cop-out as far as I'm concerned. Work with your audience, don't expect your audience to work with you. If you're giving them a product they don't want, then, you know, there's a good chance they're going to stop buying it. And that's exactly what's happened to his view counts apparently.

But I digress, and come back to the thirty thousand views part. Most people never make that many on all of their videos combined, and he's making it on a potentially daily basis (if he went back to daily vlogs). And I reiterate that Kate is getting this many views as well, on a daily basis, and somehow she's managing to live just fine, even though she doesn't hardly ever make a Katers17 video anymore.

So whatever. I thumbed his video down today. I know that Cory acts on impulse a lot, and there's a good chance that he'll be posting another video in a week anyway, but the fact that he would scoff at this kind of success as not being good enough is just ridiculous. Give me a break.


EDIT: You know what I realized after writing this? The big problem Cory might have is taxes. A few days ago was tax day, and he was going to owe a lot after winning that $20k furniture contest.