YouTube Update

Hello Dear Readers,  it has almost been a year since I shared my thoughts about youtube and youtubers and their channels. I have curtailed greatly my viewing of them, but just recently looked at some I use to view regularly, to see if anything had improved, but, all have grown more disgusting. Many now are doing live stream, of which is nothing but live blah blah blah, for an hour or more, my goodness who has the time! If you really are homesteading. New channels have joined on the band wagon of the old ones, which makes it more disgusting. I could not give a reliable estimate of the percentage of ones asking for donations, or who have gone to patreon or other means to get viewers to pay to watch their channel, but it is considerably high. Most all the people with channels are now making/selling various wares such as t-shirts, cups, mugs, give aways, anything that will give them a 'draw.'  Deep South Homestead is now selling 2, oh my, TWO different style t-shirts and all proceeds will go to their cabin they are building as Danny has always wanted one. Gee! This thread continues on with Guildbrook Farm, of which Jamie is using some of the funding from their subcribers to buy and get into archery, something she has always wanted to do, and now she can.  Gee!  It is very disturbing to me that people would actually want to fund some others lifestyle. Just for a t-shirt or what ever trinket they have to offer.?  Seriously? I only have named these two channels, but believe me there are so many more, too numerous to mention.  Viewers, get a life of your own, fund that. There are some, very few some, channels on you tube that are of encouragement on this homesteading movement, they have not fallen into the mold of these others, they do not put up a video every day,  every week, but only as what they may be doing will be of help. I think these ones have become disgusted as well at the change in you tube and the so called homesteading channels. Some say they homestead, but they are traveling all across the states doing what? and guess who is paying for them to gad about!  This is not homesteading.

I won't be reviewing you tube homestead channels again, enough is enough, and doubt anything will change for the good, it will only grow into more of the same as it is now. I do not miss it, nor need it. I still go through my back issues of magazines, gaining more each time for there is always something I missed before.

Again, I do encourage ones to 'fund' your own lifestyle, get some back issues of homesteading magazines, nothing wrong with reading and re-reading.

In Joy