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800 Day Addiction
Um, I like directed TV commercials and things like that. I just didn't have much on top of vlogging. Yeah, that's when I was like— like I was in— I was in a lot of debt, lived off my credit cards a lot. And I remember like the summer before I turned monetization on, on my YouTube channel, and I only did it cuz someone was like, you have no idea how much money you're leaving on the table. Before I turned on, I was like $180,000 in debt. Credit cards, personal loans.
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When you were doing your 800 days, were you chasing money or fame or making followers? What were you after?
No, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, look, I started it because I had just started my tech company. And I wanted a way to like share what I was doing in my tech company. I needed to like— I needed an audience to care about what I was doing. So I…
What did you do for money?
Um, I like directed TV commercials and things like that. I just didn't have much on top of vlogging. Yeah, that's when I was like— like I was in— I was in a lot of debt, lived off my credit cards a lot. And I remember like the summer before I turned monetization on, on my YouTube channel, and I only did it cuz someone was like, you have no idea how much money you're leaving on the table. Before I…
And then you turned on ads, like monetization.
Yeah. And I remember like the first month it was like $8,000 and I was like, oh my— wow. I had no idea. I did 100 million views without monetization turned on.
Wow. Just to add to the whole wealth thing, there's a thing called the black card. Basically, you have to be invited. What happens? You have to be invited to have this card and it's like a titanium card. It's like pretty—