Dream A Little Dream...With Me?

New Dream + Goal

RICK NELSON BY FRANK PETTIS

After two days of posting on YouTube again, I dreamed about not having to post on the platform last night. Waking up this morning and realizing it was just a dream, I set a new goal: weaning myself off YouTube and its AdSense nonsense.

YouTube is currently a big part of my monthly income.
But YouTube is an even bigger source of daily stress.

Every time I check my inbox, I brace myself for emails about:

1. YouTube’s bots falsely accusing me of violating their “Community Guidelines,” or

2. Yet another bogus copyright claim from a shady music “publisher” abusing YT’s broken Content ID system.

After only two days back, I’m already fighting two copyright claims. Despite reporting these copy fraudsters, YouTube seems less interested in holding these corporate abusers accountable and more interested in punishing independent content creators.

To avoid more drama and trauma, I want to stop relying on YouTube as a main source of income. Doesn’t mean I want to stop posting entirely, but it does mean I’d like to be less invested in what the platform and its bots do next.

If you support this dream—and aren’t already a patron—please consider subscribing to my Substack. It’s the best, most direct way to help me towards this goal.

If you aren’t ready or can’t afford to become a paid subscriber, please consider sharing my posts and videos with nears, dears, and queers.

Every restack, share, and subscribe helps bring me closer to making my “Freedom From YouTube” dream a reality.

Thanks for reading, sharing, and supporting my work. It means a lot to me!
Clint

P.S. Ricky Nelson—circa 1961—was in my dream too. Whatta man! 😍

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ON THIS DAY = DECEMBER 8

BIRTHDAYS

• 1542 = Mary = Queen of Scots = Queen of Scotland

• 1765 = Eli Whitney = American engineer and cotton gin inventor

• 1861 = Georges Méliès = French actor and filmmaker

• 1861 = William C. Durant = American businessman and General Motors founder

• 1886 = Diego Rivera = Mexican painter

• 1894 = James Thurber = American humorist and cartoonist

• 1915 = Ernest Lehman = American filmmaker

• 1922 = Lucian Freud = German-English artist 🌈

• 1925 = Sammy Davis Jr. = American actor, singer, and dancer

• 1930 = Maximilian Schell = Austrian-Swiss actor and filmmaker

• 1932 = Claus Luthe = German automotive designer

• 1933 = Flip Wilson = American actor and comedian

• 1936 = David Carradine = American actor, director, and producer

• 1943 = Jim Morrison = American singer-songwriter and poet 🌈

• 1947 = Gregg Allman = American musician

• 1949 = Nancy Meyers = American filmmaker

• 1950 = Dan Hartman = American singer-songwriter and producer 🌈

• 1950 = Rick Baker = American actor and makeup artist

• 1953 = Kim Basinger = American actor

• 1953 = Sam Kinison = American comedian

• 1963 = Wendell Pierce = American actor

• 1964 = Teri Hatcher = American actor

• 1966 = Sinéad O'Connor = Irish singer-songwriter 🌈

• 1976 = Dominic Monaghan = German-British actor

• 1978 = Ian Somerhalder = American actor

• 1979 = Ingrid Michaelson = American singer-songwriter

• 1982 = Nicki Minaj = Trinidadian-American rapper

• 1984 = Sam Hunt = American singer-songwriter

• 1988 = Brendan Burke = Canadian hockey player 🌈

EVENTS

• 1660 = A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time in a production of Othello.

• 1813 = Ludwig van Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres in Vienna.

• 1941 = POTUS Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the US declares war on Japan, officially entering World War II.

• 1980 = John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City.

• 1981 = The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus becomes the first openly-gay musical group to play at Carnegie Hall with their Christmas concert.

• 2013 = Metallica plays a concert in Antarctica, becoming the first band to perform on all seven continents.

• 2019 = First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.

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