Views + Visibility

All Hail The YouTube Gods + Hell No To The Goddamnits

Jul 27, 2026

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I’ve been posting more regularly on YouTube lately.

And it’s finally starting to pay off.

Over the weekend, my channel held steady at around 250,000 views over a 48-hour period. That's a HUGE jump from the 10,000 to 20,000 views I've been averaging. Those numbers include Videos, Shorts, and Live Replays.

The views are exciting, sure.

But what excites me even more is watching people discover stories, photographs, artists, and pieces of LGBTQ history they never knew existed. Every comment that says, "I had no idea," feels like a small victory.

The comments have been about 90% lovely and 10% hateful.
By YouTube standards, that's basically a standing ovation.

The kind comments remind me why I keep creating.
The hateful ones remind me why the work matters.

Because if sharing a century-old photograph of two men holding hands or telling the story of a forgotten queer artist makes someone angry, that says far more about them than it does about me. Or us.

Life's too damn short to spend arguing with strangers on the internet. So I tend to block them, report them, and move on.

My “block” button gets far more exercise than I do, y'all.

Berlin Pride attack prompts grief and solidarity with LGBTQ community

After this weekend’s tragedy in Berlin, I’m more determined than ever to keep sharing the stories, faces, art, and history that extremists desperately want erased.

Not because YouTube views change the world. But because visibility does.

Here’s the thing: We’ve always been here. We’ve always existed. We’ve always loved. We’ve always had to fight for the right to simply exist. We’ve always built communities, made art, raised families, and left our fingerprints all over history.

No law, sermon, politician, or internet troll can rewrite those basic, inalienable truths.

Every vintage photo I share, every forgotten artist I spotlight, every queer story I tell is one more reminder that our lives matter, our history matters, and our stories deserve to be told.

Visibility isn’t vanity.
Visibility is survival.

Visibility tells the scared, closeted kid growing up in a small town that they’re not alone. It reminds older generations that their stories won’t be forgotten. And it makes it a little harder for anyone to erase us from history.

They can ban books. They can pass laws. They can preach from pulpits. They can flood comment sections with hate. But they cannot erase what has already happened. They cannot erase us.

So yes, I'm grateful to the mysterious YouTube gods for throwing a few extra views my way. Every view is another chance for someone to learn something, smile at an old photograph, or see themselves reflected in history.

And to the religious extremists, the bigots, and the goddamn goddamnits trying to erase us, censor us, or scare us back into the shadows: NOT ON MY WATCH!!!

No one gets to decide whose stories are worth telling. No one gets to rewrite history.

So I’ll keep posting, preserving, and telling our stories. For those who came before us. For those who are still here. And for those yet to come.

Keep calm and keep our stories alive!
Clint 🌈✌️