A slow Saturday‑morning walk turns into a long reflection on identity, creativity, burnout, AI, SEO, career shifts, and whether staying online even makes sense anymore.

After 26 years of creating — music, videos, livestreams, vlogs, film projects, gaming streams with my kids — I’m at a crossroads.
Do I keep showing up online, or fade out and live a quieter life offline?

In this stream I talk about:

• Why AI is flattening everything except identity
• How SEO and marketing are changing
• The emotional weight of deleting years of content
• Losing my job, losing my studio, and losing momentum
• The loneliness of adulthood and trying to make friends again
• Why I started creating in the first place
• Whether any of this still matters
• And why connection — real connection — feels harder than ever

If you’ve ever questioned your online presence, your creative purpose, or the point of social media in 2026… you’ll probably relate to this one.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 — Starting the walk
00:00:06 — Going live, not as early as usual
00:00:31 — Saturday crowds & the sun coming up
00:00:54 — Struggling with staying online
00:01:18 — Thinking about deleting my online identity
00:01:49 — AI flattening everything but identity
00:02:33 — SEO, AIO, and the future of marketing
00:03:37 — Career changes & shifting priorities
00:04:31 — The emotional layer of brand identity
00:04:48 — Parallels between AI and human identity
00:05:07 — Debating whether to stay online
00:05:55 — Downloading and deactivating accounts
00:06:20 — Old channels, monetization, and burnout
00:07:00 — Dad Does Video Games & past projects
00:07:21 — “To be or not to be” online
00:07:48 — Losing passion for creating
00:08:05 — The last project I was proud of
00:08:28 — TV station work & layoffs
00:09:19 — Irony of having time but no desire
00:09:33 — Starting and deleting “Walking to Myself”
00:10:24 — Blacklisting theories & algorithm weirdness
00:11:08 — Losing the studio after losing the job
00:11:38 — Talking to the few viewers hanging on
00:12:01 — Old videos, out‑of‑body comments
00:12:23 — YouTube then vs now
00:12:41 — Social media isn’t social anymore
00:13:20 — Considering disappearing from the internet
00:13:39 — Loneliness, adulthood, and making friends
00:14:16 — Wrapping up the rant & signing off