#obviously as well george wasnt held hostage to make this video and may have been interested to get people's critiques

[theymightbegeorge]

at the end of the day it seems like these critiques are aimed at increasing retention, clicks, new viewers, blah blah blah

it ignores george's own personality and style that we love, the details he included that his community had begged for (e.g. patches), the fact that he was documenting some of the most important moments of his life

yes youtube is a job that people want to do well at but let's not forget the creative part of content creation

creativity can mean taking risks, doing what feels right to you, including personal details, making things fun rather than polished, and speaking from the heart

george's heart shone through in that vlog - through the filming, editing, music choices, EVERYTHING - he was documenting a dream coming true and you could feel the love towards dream who he met for the first time, sapnap who he also finally gets to live with, and his audience who have been on this journey with him

no graph can demonstrate how much that video meant to george, to his best friends, to me, to so many others that watched it

this was a heartfelt video that george made to share a hugely important and beautiful moment in his life - I'll take that ANY DAY over soulless content specifically manufactured to please an algorithm thank you very much