How we can all BEAT the Tech Bro Billionaires

Here are 10 ways we can all beat the Tech Bro Billionaires. 

It seems down sometimes, but we have these 10 things where we beat the Tech Bros like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and Elon Musk hands down, each and every day. Inspired by Wealth Inequality guru  @garyseconomics  

How we can all BEAT the Tech Bro Billionaires



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Hiya, this is another taking-the-dog-for-a-walk kind of ramble, and uh... I... I'm just going to share to camera how I'm just getting really annoyed at the tech bros at the moment.

And I don't know if it's player hating.

It probably is.

But there's this idea that we've got to now bow down to the billionaires.

I mean, that's always been the case, but it's like they've kind of forgotten themselves, and they—it's like they're over-reaching. And it's like they—they now want public congratulations from us.

Uh, you—you know, there they all are in the front row, lording it over us—scuzzy dopamine addicts that they've made their billions on.

They're there.

We're not.

They're there with the money that we paid, that we don't have anymore.

They're there, all on the dollars that we've provided for them.

Do we get any thanks for that?

No.

But I don't think it's healthy for me to be, uh, obsessed by the tech bros.

Maybe it's a male thing. Maybe it's a dad thing.

Can't help noticing.

So, I was—I recorded a video the other day about being under the thumb of the tech bros.

The thing I didn't put in was that they're not—they're not family men, are they?

It's ironic, really, because they've kind of made their billions from wrecking family life, which is our fault.

We're the problem in this—for being scuzzy dopamine addicts.

But it's their products that have kind of helped... well, it hasn't exactly reunited the family, has it?

And this—what—what I'm worried about is that this observation sounds, uh, bitter. Or maybe resentful.

Maybe it is.

But, um, I'm trying to be objective.

I'm just—I just want to notice it, because the more people I talk to, the more friends I talk to, they're all starting to think the same thing.

It's not good news for them.

Uh, they think their brand is at an all-time high, like their stock.

And I'm recording this in early 2025.

You're watching this in the future by definition, so you know how that all maps out—how it all works out.

But from here, at time of recording, it's not working out in the way that the billionaires—the tech billionaires—think it's working out.

They think everything's peachy and it's going to last forever.

There are seeds of discontent.

And it's ironic that I'm sharing this, actually, on a tech platform.

I'm fully aware that I'm part of the problem.

It's like all pretence at balance has gone.

It's always been like this.

It's just been hidden in the past.

And now that everything's open, there's something a bit unseemly about the tech bros—how—how they're conducting themselves.

Obviously, they've got to where they are from their neurodiversity.

Nothing wrong with that.

I'm neurodiverse myself.

And they've got there through a complete lack of humility... or self-control.

Hence the, uh, lack of a family, I suspect.

But this... like, it's got to the point now where they go, "Ah, we can do anything. We can literally do anything we like.

"Want to put—want to put a Wi-Fi router up in the sky?

"Yeah, of course! That's mine. I'm—I'm doing that.

"You can't do that because you're a scummy dopamine addict.

"I get to do that because my brain is wired to not be affected by the code that I write."

And it is coding, isn't it?

All of this has come from—the tech billionaires have got there through their neurodiverse ability to write programs that ironically impact neurodiverse people like me—to feel completely overwhelmed by it.

To feel completely, uh, inadequate.

It's exactly like in the 1800s—how Victorian gentlemen in this country would look upon the poor as if it's their fault for not being able to afford the products that we are, uh, releasing.

Ironically, it's like, "Well, we've given these products for free, and you're using them, so what—what are you complaining about?

"It's time for you to pay that subscription, by the way."

I want there to be some kind of redemption—something that—that doesn't feel like bellyaching or—or complaining.

And my wife wrote this.

This list.

This list is brilliant.

I'm going to make a video on this just by itself.

I—I think this—this made me feel better.

So she wrote 10 ways you can compete with rich people.

And by "rich people," I think she meant—not—not like people who are well-off—but, you know, the tech bro billionaires, basically.

And here's the list of ten.

Or should we just go through them?

Yeah.

The first one is mental health.

I'm taking a wild and crazy gamble that, uh, some of the tech bros' mental health isn't probably the best that it could be.

I don't think that's a controversial, uh, supposition. A controversial view.

I also could not see a tech bro just doing this—taking the dog out for a walk at 4:30.

Uh, in nature.

The nature that's left.

This is all—by the way—this is all going to be developed into an industrial park, which is why we've got these boards.

Uh, look, there's a sign over here.

I think the rain's washed it off.

Oh, there you go—Reptile receptor site.

"Please do not move the fence."

So it's going to—basically, the reptiles—I don't know how it works.

Uh, leave me a comment if you know how a reptile receptor site works.

But because they're doing, like, full-on construction work over there, sometime this year, we've got this receptor site for reptiles.

So yeah, the one—one—one way we can beat the tech billionaire bros is by looking after our mental health.

So for me, that's talking this out to you.

On here.

Uh, the platforms owned by the tech billionaires.

And also... I can—I can shut my eyes for 40 minutes.

And the—the—the tech bro billionaires can't charge me for that yet.

I don't think.

And they can't take that away from me as well.

So—so mental health is something that we've got to—to beat the—the billionaires.

Second one is physical health.

The tech bro billionaires can't take the physical health away from us.

I think I need to do a bit more than walking Casper twice a day.

Uh, I was going to say I need to do something that—that makes me out of breath.

But this—this is making me out of breath right now.

Now, I want to go back to martial arts.

I miss the martial arts.

And the tech bro billionaires do not own martial arts.

Or—or those kinds of physical activities.

Physical activity that actually involves community.

That's something I really want to, uh, to do.

But anyway, we've got that.

The tech bro billionaires can't take that away from us.

Yet.

Third one is well-being.

It's a bit of a—I'm—I'm—I'm really grateful for this list.

I think this one's a bit catch-all, but we can't look to the tech bro billionaires for our well-being.

Our well-being being all of the things on this list.

And just, you know, just feeling good about ourselves.

Stepping away from the Instagram feed to just look at what's real and the things that are good.

Kindness.

Oh, if the tech bro billionaires could, uh, make a dime from kindness, they would.

But they don't.

No.

It's not in their coding.

How do you code for that?

And how do you—how do you create advertiser return on kindness?

It's such a, uh, a basic thing, and it's a choice.

It's a hard choice sometimes.

We can compete with the billionaires with kindness.

I—I think we've already got a few steps ahead of them.

Number five on the list is no stress.

These are ways we can compete with the billionaires.

We can de-stress.

Ironically, again, from stepping away from the tech bro billionaire products—which stress me out.

Number six: happiness.

Here’s the thing with the tech bro billionaires—they don't—they don't look very happy, do they?

Like, they're at, uh, President What's-His-Name's inauguration.

Uh, they don't—they're not like smiling, smiling.

They're not like joyful happy, are they?

They're like, "Oh, we've got to be here," kind of look.

Hangdog expression.

It's the kind of expression that you see on someone driving a 4x4 Porsche.

Porsche SUV.

I've never seen anyone in a Porsche SUV look happy, have you?

Please leave me a comment if you've seen someone, like, being genuinely—you know when someone's happy?

You can tell from their, uh, their demeanour, their face, their posture.

I've never seen anyone in a—in most 4x4s—premium 4x4s—looking happy.

It just sounds schmalzy, but I bounced on the trampoline with the kids.

I can't see a tech bro billionaire doing that.

Either because they've got too many kids and no access to them—or no family.

I felt truly happy just bouncing away on a trampoline with the kids.

That is something I—I think I'm well ahead of the tech bro billionaires on.

And I think you might be too.

Family support.

Do the tech bro billionaires spend time with their families?

I—I don't know.

Obviously, many of them don't have family of their own.

But they are of a family.

Has that family got their backs unconditionally?

I don't know.

I know I—I do.

Had to take—take, uh, a member of my family to the minor injuries clinic.

They call it the Urgent—what do they call it—the Urgent Treatment Centre.

It was so nice.

Obviously, he was in pain.

Well, he wasn't in pain, because he didn't feel the cut.

But obviously, it wasn't the best of circumstances.

But actually, just spending time together—hanging out in, uh, an emergency room—it felt really good.

I loved it.

I don't think the tech bro billionaires would do that.

I don't think they'd be there.

I don't think they'd have the time.

I don't even think they probably know what to do in those kinds of situations.

Would they just, kind of, drive the parent around to—?

Would they just wander off?

Drive the family member around to A&E?

I don't think they would.

So these are ways that we can compete with the tech bro billionaires.

Friendship.

Like, proper friendship.

Not tech bro-ship.

Um, which is a pretty vile competition by the look of them.

Those sour faces in that front row.

Have they got proper friends?

I don't know.

And I don't care.

I know that I do.

And I know that you probably do as well.

And if you don't, this is definitely a way you can compete with the, uh, the billionaires.

Gratitude.

Let's just remember for a moment Apple's idea—their in-house idea for gratitude.

For, you know, just inanimate objects.

In that crusher.

They go—

That is Apple's idea of gratitude.

They don't understand.

Because of their wiring—to be coders rather than community-minded human beings—it's like gratitude does not come easy to them.

Uh, so it's definitely a way that you could beat the tech bro billionaires.

It's quite a long one for number ten: forgiveness, empathy, humanity, and community.

Yeah.

I don't need to explain that one, do I?

I don't need to explain any of them.

It's a brilliant list.

What else did she write?

It's getting a bit dark, isn't it?

Should I go this way?

Most of the above are free and accessible to everyone.

Some of the above go hand in hand.

If we nurture the above and look after ourselves, we can have the poorest job but be the wealthiest in terms of well-being.

This is how the poor win.

This is what sets the poor people apart from most rich people.

Is Elon Musk rich in any of the list?

There's an inequality between rich and poor.

But being rich—being able to live a luxury lifestyle—does not buy you any of the above.

Yeah.

It's true.

And they just don't look happy!

They don't look happy at all.

How much does that cost?

So ask yourself—is the current inequality a bad thing for poor people?

Should we accept our lot?

Control what we have the ability to control?

We're collectively not going to get much richer in terms of money and luxury.

That's true.

But we could get a lot poorer.

And the billionaires want to bring us down to their level.

If the billionaires want the above, they need to pay more for their stuff.

And they need to lose their collective bad influence over the rest of us.

Rich people are in charge of the world.

And they only have their best interests at heart.

Billionaires live in fear of losing their money.

Poor people are fearful because they have no money.

It affects their self-worth.

Money should not define any of us.

Billionaires and people striving for richness have ruined our economy.

Yeah.

Everything is more expensive when you're poor.

Oh yeah, she's written something else on money begets money.

Yeah, it's difficult, isn't it?

It's separating money from self-worth, which is always a tricky one.

So I feel better.

I do feel like I can take on the tech billionaires this year.

On this list.

Not on their device or platform that's kind of rigged to pay out the dopamine.

What do you think?

It still feels like player hating and whining.

But I've got kids I can hug at the moment, so that's good.

And I've got a family that can hug me.

Maybe you have friends or family that can hug you.

I don't know.

What's it like hugging a billionaire?

I—I don't think they get many hugs.

And I—I don't think they're that bothered about not getting the hugs, uh, 'cause it gets in the way of the algorithm and the coding.

Anyway, this is—wow.

This was quite a dog walk, wasn't it?

Thank you for any comments that you leave.

Always interesting to—to hear what you think.

And thank you for your thumbs up or hitting the subscribe button.

Because, you know, we got to feed this algorithm.

I feel like I'm the virus in War of the Worlds—that I can just help us to bond together and, uh, do more on this list of ten.

Uh, anyway—thank you for hitting the thumbs up or subscribe button.

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How to open LOCKED FOLDER in Google Photos app... on phone, iPhone, iPad STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

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How to open LOCKED FOLDER in Google Photos app... on phone, iPhone, iPad STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

Unlock the secrets to accessing your Locked Folder in Google Photos with this simple, step-by-step guide! Whether you're on an Android, iPhone, or iPad, we’ll show you exactly how to find, open, and manage your hidden photos and videos. Learn how to move or permanently delete items from your locked folder with ease, ensuring your private moments stay organized and secure. This quick tutorial will save you time and frustration, so you can take full advantage of this powerful feature in Google Photos. Don’t forget to stick around for bonus tips and tricks to make the most of your photo library!

How to open LOCKED FOLDER in Google Photos app... on phone, iPhone, iPad STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE



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Hello! How do you open the locked folder in the Google Photos app on your Android phone, iPhone, or iPad?

On the Google Photos homepage, make sure you're logged into the correct Google account by clicking on this avatar picture on the top right-hand side. Then, we'll need to click on the Library tab, which is this button on the bottom right-hand corner.

There's a button along the top called Utilities—click on that and scroll all the way down to Locked Folder at the bottom of the list here. We now need to use our device security to gain access to the locked folder, and congratulations! Here are all our hidden photos and videos.

If you want to move photos and videos out of the locked folder, just select them by long pressing the picture. We have the option on the bottom here to either Move or Permanently Delete. Congratulations! We did it!

If this video is helping, thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to run this channel, so thank you! And right here are even more Google Photos tips and tricks.

Can you please help my dad get to 1 million subscribers? Just click on his face. Thanks! Bye!

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How to add YOUTUBE SHORTS THUMBNAIL to your video...

Want to change the thumbnail for your YouTube Shorts? This step-by-step guide shows you how to do it easily using just your phone! Maybe you're used to TikTok and want to move over to YouTube Shorts. Learn where the hidden options are in the main YouTube app and how to select the perfect frame and add text or filters to make your Shorts stand out. 

What You'll Learn:

How to access and edit YouTube Shorts thumbnails

Tips for selecting the best frame for your video

Adding filters or text to enhance your thumbnail

How to add YOUTUBE SHORTS THUMBNAIL to your video...



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How do you change the thumbnail for your YouTube Shorts videos? 

It's really easy but the options are really hidden so I can walk you through this step-by-step and you only need your phone to do this.

As you know YouTube Shorts looks so much better when they have a thumbnail that shows what's actually in the video. 

First we'll go into the main YouTube app, NOT YouTube Studio, and then we can press on the "You" icon, that's your face or avatar, in the bottom right hand corner. 

That brings up this page.

Scroll down to "Your Videos", And click on that and then we can scroll down to the YouTube Short where you want to change the thumbnail. 

Find the three dots to the right hand side of the video listing here. This brings up a menu. 

One of the options is "Edit".

If we click on edit this brings up a menu. "Edit Video".

On the thumbnail at the top here there's a pencil icon and if we click on the pencil icon it opens the video. 

There's a frame at the bottom of the screen and we can scroll through our video to find a frame that can work well for a thumbnail for this YouTube Short. 

This video is about delicious croissants so I don't need a thumbnail showing "me". I want a Thumbnail that shows the delicious croissants. We've got to be patient with this because it is really difficult to get the exact frame to land on the exact moment that's best for the thumbnail, but when we have found one we can also add a filter or some text by pressing on the letters icon and then typing in a banner And press "Done".

We can stretch and move the text to wherever we want it. Just click on the tick in the top right hand corner when you're done. You now have a new thumbnail for your YouTube Shorts video. Congratulations! If this is working for you, let me know in the comments down below and thank you for clicking the thumbs up or the subscribe button.

It really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here are even more awesome YouTube tips and tricks for your channel. Can you please help my dad get to 1 million subscribers? Just click on his face.

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Want to download YOUR OWN TikTok videos without a watermark? Whether you're backing up your content in case TikTok gets banned or repurposing videos for YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels, this simple guide will show you how to save your TikTok videos in four easy steps—no third-party apps required! Follow along to secure your content and keep your TikToks ready to share anywhere.

How to DOWNLOAD TikTok Videos from your own account



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 How do you download your own TikTok videos? TikTok might be shutdown or banned anytime, and it's good to have a backup of all your own videos. You can also download your own tiktoks to use them for uploading to YouTube shorts and earn money. here on YouTube. Here's how to download your TikTok videos without a watermark to your phone in four easy steps.

Step 1, open the video that you want to download. This has to be one of your own videos though so make sure you're logged in. 

Step 2, click on the three dots on the right hand side here under the comments and like icons.  That brings up this menu.  

Step 3. We have all these options along the bottom here.

We are going to choose save video  and you can see the percentage download bar going up to 100 while it downloads.  

Step 4. Now it's offering us a share to menu. You don't have to, but you could email your TikTok video to yourself or even send it to WhatsApp. Just click on the icon here and it opens up a new email with your video as an attachment. 

Your TikTok video is now saved on your iPhone's camera roll. or on Android in the internal camera folder so it's showing up for me here in Google Photos and if we play this video file we can see that it doesn't have the TikTok logo watermark. The video is clean which will really help it to get more views if you're going to upload this to YouTube Shorts or Instagram.  

Congratulations! If this is working for you, let me know down in the comments and thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going, so thank you. And right here are all the TikTok tips you might need if the TikTok app is banned or shut down.

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Do comments INCREASE your YouTube video views?

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Do comments INCREASE your YouTube video views?

Can replying to YouTube comments actually increase your video views? I ran a test by answering 65 comments in one hour and track what happens next. The results are surprising! 

I show how I handle comments on my channel, explore YouTube’s comment filters, and reveal whether engaging with your audience might boost your views. If you’re wondering whether replying to comments is worth the effort, this might help you decide!

Do comments INCREASE your YouTube video views?



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Can you increase the views on your YouTube videos just by replying to your comments?

The idea is this: if you reply to all of your comments, you will double the number of comments on your videos, and maybe, just maybe, that is a good sign for the YouTube algorithm.

I made this video one year ago, and it’s just me answering 65 comments in a very short space of time. It was just over an hour, and I didn’t put the video out. I thought it would be a good idea to share how I deal with comments on my channel, but I... I was just worried it was going to look boring to just have me typing and replying to comments.

But I looked at the stats from when I shot the video and when I made the 65 comments in a short space of time, and the results, I think, are quite shocking.

I’ll go through those results at the end of this video, but here’s how I deal with all of my comments.

I’ve not replied to my comments for about two weeks now, and in that time, I think the views on both my channels have dropped from their giddy highs. The last 28 days, I’m seeing lows in the low 5000s. If I show you my last 90 days, I’ve been bouncing around the 10,000, 9,000 mark, but these troughs are starting to get deeper over the last two weeks.

And I’m not sure that it’s... it’s a coincidence that I haven’t been replying to any of my comments in the last fortnight. Usually, I reply to comments every day. I just tap away here and there as and when I can log in.

I have a backlog, not only of two weeks but also messages that I’ve missed before those two weeks.

So I am replying to all of my comments in one go.

To do that, we’re going to go into my YouTube dashboard.

Hello, YouTube dashboard!

You can go to this on studio.youtube.com. You can, of course, reply to comments on your YouTube app. I’m doing it on the desktop so that you can see the replies more clearly.

All we need to do is click on the Comments tab on the left-hand side, and that opens up our comments and mentions dashboard.

I wish we had, on YouTube, a dashboard for... for as a viewer so that I could see my comments, because I find it really difficult with the small window.

You can see there are these buttons at the top. There are two tabs: Comments and Mentions.

Oh! We’ve got a mention! Oh my goodness!

Uh, it’s from seven months ago. And one from 11 months ago. Well, I... I’ll deal with that later.

Sorry, Solomon and Welsh Tony! I’m so sorry.

We have some filters under the comments, though.

Can you see this triangle of lines here—this sort of upside-down pyramid?

And it shows you all the filters that we can apply to our comments.

I can hit this cross here. I’ll come back to the ones I haven’t responded to.

But if I hit, uh, this filter, you can see lots of different ways to filter our comments.

We can do a search, so I could just look for the word "Tony." Apply that, and it gives me anything that mentions the word "Tony."

The next filter is for comments that contain questions. So here are all of the comments asking me a question. I guess they use AI or just search for a question mark, but that’s quite handy.

If I go back into the filter, we can also filter by Public Subscribers.

This lists comments from people who have subscribed to my channel publicly, and you can see that with this little red, uh, kind of stack icon.

So if I just wanted to concentrate on the people who subscribe to me, it means I can prioritize those comments, which is good.

We can also filter by Subscriber Count, so let’s filter by... I don’t know... 10,000 subscribers.

And it just shows... oh, there’s a few here, but it also shows my comments in there, which isn’t that helpful.

We can filter by Super Thanks, so I can see all the comments where I have been given Super Thanks, which is really nice.

Thank you, those guys!

The Response Status—this is one that I am going to use.

We can choose the comments I haven’t replied to, the ones I have replied to, or—this is really useful—the comments where I’ve replied, and they’ve replied to my reply.

So it’s really easy to miss those messages, and it looks like there are some there already waiting for me.

But I’m going to use the default that YouTube gives me anyway, which is Response Status: I Haven’t Responded.

Should we do this?

I feel like we need some different music.

Let’s... let’s get some energy music.

And first up, here is a very, uh, easy—easy comment:

"Hi."

I think I’ll just give that a thumbs up, because in that video, I say, Why not say hi in the comments? I don’t think I need to go into, uh, replies for that.

The next one... I... I need to show you the video for context with some of these comments.

Uh, but you’ll see on the right-hand side that this was a tutorial about how to set up right-click on a MacBook.

"Thank you! First time using a Mac, and your video helped a lot."

So I’ll put something like:

"Thanks for the kind comments," and I’ll put her handle in because I’ve got this superstition that if I just say Thanks for the kind comments on every comment, it probably doesn’t work this way, but I’m worried that the YouTube algorithm would think that I’m a spam commenter because I keep posting the same—the exact same—comment.

So I... I do put the commenter’s handle into the reply. It takes up more time that I should probably spend on making videos, but I just... I just feel superstitious about not spamming, even though it’s on my own channel.

So I’ll hit reply, and I’ll give a thumbs up to my own comments.

I read somewhere—and I don’t know how accurate this is—but I think with comments, it is okay for you to thumbs up your own comments.

It’s not treated as gaming the system at all.

Some people even heart their own replies. That feels a bit... a bit much for me.

Next comment:
"Cheers, Neil, I’ll give this a go."

So you’re going to see this reply a lot, I think:
"Thanks for the kind message, I appreciate it. Good luck with your Google storage."

Reply.

"Thanks, man, really useful vid."

Oh yeah, that’s for fast-forwarding and rewinding while watching YouTube videos.

I’ve got a nice message that I can put here:
"Hi, thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment. If you forget any, you can always press the question mark while watching YouTube videos, and it brings up the whole list. Thanks again."

And this comment looks interesting:
"Hi, Neil, I’ve just been invited onto the YouTube Shorts Creator Program, and I’m meeting up with my partner manager tomorrow evening, so hopefully, I’ll get some insights into what their plans are."

Wow!
"Thanks, Julie. Congratulations! That’s fantastic. Good luck with the meeting, and that’s wonderful work."

And I hit reply.

Onto the next comment:
"Thanks!"

Oh, that’s great! So I can give that a thumbs-up and a heart.

Right, Higana Sudek now—oh, from time to time, I get a comment that’s in a completely foreign language, and I always find this exciting because I think, Oh, could this be a bad comment in another language?

So, cover your eyes just in case this is rudeness. I’m sure it’s not, but I go to Google Translate.

It’s really easy to visit, just type in translate.google.com, and it brings up this translation page.

Oh, here we go:
"Daylight."

Oh, it’s Japanese! No... it really doesn’t want to translate this.

I’m trying different ways.

I think what I’ll do with this one, I’ll just give it a heart and a thumbs-up.

Who cares if it’s a horrible comment? I... I don’t care.

But maybe it’s a nice comment.

Next comment:
"I’m taking mine in. I got this a month ago, and this has been the issue since day one."

So the problem with answering lots of comments in one go is you’ve got to constantly flick through to try and remember the video that they are referring to.

This was a tutorial on how to fix a flashing red light on your MacBook charger.

So I’ll just say something like:
"Sorry to hear this! Good luck with your repair, and fingers crossed for you and your Mac."

Right, back to the Google—right, so this Google Photos video, it shows you how to fix your Google storage if you go over the free storage.

This video has received... received 1 million views.

It’s far and away my most popular video on my channel.

"Thanks for the kind updates, Kelly! Really pleased this might be working for you. Good luck with your Google storage."

But she actually left a message before that:
"Hi, how can I get all my photos in one place?"

Well, I actually have another video for this, so I need to look that up now.

So if I go to Content and then Google Photos Download—this is the video here.

So I’ll just get, uh, get shareable link:
"Hi Kelly, thanks for the great question! Here’s one way to download everything to one place in one go, in case it helps."

And there’s the link:
"Good luck with the download!"

And then I’ll heart and like those comments.

Next comment:
"Thank you very much! A good video, straight to the point."

Oh, that’s nice! A thumbs-up and a heart.

"Thanks for the kind message, I really appreciate it."

And I really do.

Because when I get horrible messages—and I tend to get one horrible message for every 20 to 30 nice messages—it really reminds me of how much I appreciate it when someone has taken the time and gone out of their way to leave a comment that isn’t... that doesn’t wreck my confidence.

So I do appreciate it.

"Thank you!"

Oh, that’s nice!
"Thanks," and I’ll put his handle in.

"I appreciate it! Good luck with your Google Photos."

And I hit reply.

This is a feature that isn't very helpful at the moment, but, uh, YouTube has given everyone a handle, and it's put numbers after their name just to deal with people having unique handles and URLs. But it makes it really difficult to reply, because I know his name isn't 4397.

I feel I should put the proper handle in just so that it looks, you know, like a mention rather than me trying to guess their name.

This is for a video about what to do if your phone is full with Google Photos.

"I did as you told. I made another account and shared all my photos with the new account. But after one day, Google disabled my new account. Why? So, can you explain?"

I can't.

That's... that's a shame, because the system that I explain in the video—I'm still using two years on now, and it's working a dream for me. So it's difficult to know how to reply to this, because I... I can't think of a solution.

So I just tend to be honest about that and encourage them to find another YouTube video for this new problem.

Everyone's circumstances are different. I don't know what's going on with their computer. Thousands of other people have watched this video without a problem, so, um... it... it's good of them to ask me in case I can think of something. But when I can't, I just have to hold my hands up and say, "I hope... hope they manage to fix it."

"How to delete your YouTube Shorts videos."

And it's from Mr. Bill Hicks—from beyond the grave! How amazing.

"That's all very well, but I'm watching YouTube on a laptop, and when I go to my history to delete some of the things I've watched, there doesn't seem to be a way of deleting—not disabling—the Shorts I may have previously watched."

Now, this happens a lot with my channel. He's actually referring to another video that he's watched, which is how to clear your watch history.

And I think what he's saying is that he's having problems clearing his Shorts watch history.

"Hi, thanks for the kind question, and sorry to hear about this! But this is very interesting—that you can't delete or clear Shorts viewing history.

There seem to be three dots for the Shorts shelf on History, but the three dots next to every video seem to have the 'Remove from Watch History' option.

Does clicking on this work for you? Thanks for the heads-up on this, and hope this might help!"

There you go! That's quite a long reply. But what's great about that reply is that I've actually learned something.

In the history, when you're trying to clear search history, there are two different places where the "Remove from Watch History" might actually appear. So I've learned something about YouTube there, which is helpful.

Um, Google.

Someone has just replied for "How to make a Google account," which is a short. They've just written the word "Google."

That's got to get a heart, surely, because I... I... I... I think the reason I haven't looked at my comments for two weeks is—I am scared.

I'm really scared that I'm going to hit something. And I have seen some pretty off-key messages. And they're so infrequent. And when they do arrive, they make no sense, either.

And they always say more about the commenter than they ever say about me.

And yet, it still... it still puts me off from living in the comments.

I'd rather be making videos than reading, uh, not-very-nice messages.

Obviously, everyone feels that way.

But, uh, so it's always really good when you get a nice message like that one.

"Download Google Photos.

Awesome work! Like a charm."

Comments that may be offensive have been hidden.

"Show hidden comments."

Should we look at the... the comments that even YouTube doesn’t want to show? On "Held for Review"?

Do I look at these?

Let’s do it. Let’s go in.

"Show hidden comments."

Here we go. Hold me. Hug me.

Oh, I now get another warning.

"They may contain language that’s considered offensive."

Oh. "Show." I’ll... I’ll have to blur it out.

Here we go.

Oh... oh, here we go:

"Useless idiot. Change your description."

I... I almost want to reply. Just say, "Thanks!"

What’s this one?

"Bad advice."

I’m... I’m going to—because I’ve done so many comments—I’m going to give that a heart.

"Are you that brittle?"

Right. This is my first horrible comment.

So this is on my video about how to block someone on YouTube.

"Are you that brittle?"

Now... now, the... the reply I want to give is:

"Are you that anonymous?!"

Let’s click on their channel.

Oh, look. They’re completely anonymous.

Oh, they’ve got an "About" here.

"The internet is dead. Everything is fake."

Okay. Well, this is a... a lovely... Should I just put "Yes"?

Should I...? I shouldn’t even give a response to this, should I? Because—and this might be the comment to end on—I think this will be the one to end on.

So, this is... this is the hardest part about replying to comments.

It’s like... I’m trying to provoke a response from you.

"Are you that brittle?"

Thing is, I’ve explained everything I need to explain in that video.

And that video is awesome. It’s brilliant. I love it. And I don’t care what anyone thinks about it.

I don’t know if I need to reply.

If I reply to it, then I’m kind of giving them the attention they want without them having made a video.

And also, it kind of negates the time that I spend on the people who’ve taken the time to be nice and to help me with my channel.

So I think I’ll just give that a thumbs down and ignore it.

Um... I could... I could remove it.

Um... which is funny, because that’s what the video is about.

This is actually a good comment to end on because that video that he’s commenting on is all about bad comments.

And my goodness, it really touched a nerve with some people.

Like this commenter here—I think they are looking up this video about how to block comments to see if creators are able to block messages or ban them from their channel.

And we are. We are able to block comments.

And some people who want to lurk and post anonymously—they do not like this.

I’ve had other comments like this saying things like:

"I’m going to sue you!"

Like... they’re going to sue me for explaining how comments work on YouTube.

Okay. That’s a really good use of your time.

And, uh, the other comment I keep getting on that one is:

"You can’t stop free speech!"

But to me, the term "free speech" comes from the time when you’d stand up publicly in a town square and you’d put your reputation on the line to offer your opinion. Because you’re in public. And the town can judge you.

Bad comments that come from anonymous avatars, like this comment, aren’t free speech.

They’re... they’re kind of like someone walking past the person who’s putting something out there, vulnerably, and then shouting at them before walking off.

This here is not free speech.

This is heckling.

Because they don’t have the same stakes or investments as the creator—you and I—and they’re not publicly identifiable.

That is being a heckler.

We don’t need to give time to hecklers.

Too true, one-year-ago me.

So, what happened next?

I shot that video one year ago, and I thought I would just have a look at my view counts—my statistics—from that day, just to see if answering all of those comments did have any impact on my views.

And, oh my goodness, it might be a complete coincidence, but this is my view count.

These are my views from one year ago.

I shot the video here on the 6th of March. It’s around the 5,000-something level. And then, within a few days, look at this—it’s up to 7,000, 8,000.

And then it just stayed up there.

And it just stayed, and stayed, and just slowly crept up.

It just seems like such a coincidence.

Your results might vary, but what a leap here!

Like, within a week, the views don’t just, like, go up ever so slightly and then down again.

I mean, they just chunk up from 5,000 to 8,000.

And then, if I show you how that fits in with the whole of last year...

So, I made the video here, and I answered all of those comments here.

And that’s why I was a bit worried, because these... these views were a bit low compared to what I had experienced.

But then, look at it.

I mean, it just shoots up all the way for the rest of the year.

It’s like it put things on a completely different trajectory.

Now, that might have happened anyway.

But I didn’t make any videos in this period where the views actually jumped up.

The only thing that I did was answer 65 comments in one hour.

And who knows?

Maybe it was a signal to the algorithm.

Maybe having many of those 65 people come back to the video to see the comments—maybe that tripped something in the algorithm to, uh... to say that my videos were bringing people back.

I don’t know.

So, this might be a complete happenstance. Complete coincidence.

But for me? That was an incredible rest of the year.

And the spark for that happened when I answered all those comments in one go.

What do you think?

Guess what? You can leave a comment!

It’ll be lovely to hear from you.

How are you finding answering comments?

Is it a bit of a pain?

Do you not want to look?

I don’t want to look most of the time—for fear of what I’ll find there.

But mostly—overwhelmingly—I find good comments.

I got one slightly iffy comment in 65 comments.

So, one in 65 hit rate isn’t bad.

Maybe you have a different experience. I’d love to hear your experiences.

And I’d love to know—if you try this, do you see the same results?

If you don’t answer your comments, and then just plow in on the comments that you do have, does it have this kind of result?

Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button.

It really helps me to keep this channel going.

Really appreciate it.

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How to DELETE TikTok videos AND UNDELETE posts

Want to delete a TikTok video but not sure how? Whether it's a mistake or just not performing well, I'll show you exactly how to remove a video step by step before TikTok is banned. 

Plus, if you accidentally delete the wrong one, I'll show you how to recover it within 30 days! Follow along with me as I walk through the process on my phone.

How to DELETE TikTok videos AND UNDELETE posts



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How do you delete a Tiktok video? Maybe you've spotted a mistake, or maybe it's just not getting the views you deserve. It's really easy. I'm shooting this on my phone so you can follow along with me. First, open the Tiktok app and click on your profile in the bottom right hand corner. That brings up your videos. Then obviously, click on the video you want to delete. I really like this video, but I want to put it over on my other channel. Can you see the three dots on the right hand side here, underneath comments and favourites? That brings up this big menu of all the places to share, but there's a row of other menu options along the very bottom, which you can scroll to the left with your finger. The very last menu option on this list is delete, but keep watching because I'll show you what to do if you make a mistake and how to recover. For the video, we're going to press delete, and it brings up this reminder, so let's see how this works. Congratulations, the video is deleted. If you accidentally delete your Tiktok video and you want to recover it or undelete it, go into your Tiktok profile and click on the three lines at the top right hand corner. Click on settings and privacy, then scroll down, down to Activity Centre. We can now scroll down again to, there it is, recently deleted, and if you click on that, it shows all your recently deleted videos. This has to be within 30 days since you deleted it; they're permanently deleted after this. Just click on the Tiktok post that you want to restore, and at the bottom of the video, you can see this button, restore, and it brings up this window; people will be able to view and interact with it again. Click restore, and boom, it's back again, restored. If this video is helping, thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button; it really helps me out, and all my videos about earning money on Tiktok are in this playlist right here.

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How to find and delete TIKTOK watch history videos

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How to find and delete TIKTOK watch history videos

Want to find a TikTok video you watched but forgot to save? This quick guide will show you how to access your TikTok watch history, recover videos, and even remove them from your activity log. Follow along step by step and never lose track of a video again! Don't forget to save this video by hitting the thumbs up so you can refer back to it later.

In this video, you'll learn:

✔️ How to find your TikTok watch history or Search history

✔️ How to delete a video from your TikTok watch history

✔️ How to recover a video you recently watched

How to find and delete TIKTOK watch history videos



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How do you find your TikTok watch history? Sometimes we want to go back to a video we've seen in the past. Maybe you want to follow that TikTok creator, save the video, or even remove the video from your watch history.

It's really easy, but don't forget to save this video first so you can go back to the steps if you need them. Just click on the thumbs up button, and it will appear in your liked videos playlist here on YouTube.

Here's how to find your activity log and watch history on TikTok:

First, go into your profile—that's in the bottom right-hand corner here. Then, click on the three lines (hamburger icon) in the top right-hand corner.

Now we can click on Settings and Privacy at the bottom here. Scroll down to Activity Center, and when you click on that, you can see your account history, mentions, search history, comment history, and at the top here—Watch History.

Here are all the videos that I have watched. If you want to remove one of these videos from your watch history, just long press on the video and choose the Delete option at the bottom.

Selected watch history deleted. Boom! It's gone. Congratulations!

If this video is helping, thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me out.

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How to have cheap London Day Out! Epic E-BIKE rental trip!

How to have Epic E-bike Rental Trip to London! This is a great thing to do with older kids on a day out to London: rent a bike from the Santander Cycle Hire. This is my first day back on a Boris E-Bike, after a major collision that put me in A&E with no memory. 13 years later, I'm back on the rental bikes and this time the new E-bikes released for hire in London. We rent the electric bikes from a docking station in Tower Hill, using the Santander Cycles app, then cycle down Victoria Embankment to Big Ben and the Houses Of Parliament, down past St. James Park to Buckingham Palace. This is a real time electric bike ride, with all the sights and sounds from our bike ride POV...

How to have cheap London Day Out! Epic E-BIKE rental trip!






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When these three 3-wheel bikes get together in Camden Lock...

This is a quick preview from an upcoming video where we take out the Santander Cycle Hire E-bikes for another a cheap day out in London.  We hit Camden Lock where I grew up, looking for the ultimate toilet... and get distracted by these trike motorbikes. 3 of the 3-wheel motorcycles. And a snake.

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Walking into a load of influencers in a shop on a video shoot in Rome...

Clip from an upcoming video... We were shooting in Rome, and I wanted to show you inside an anime clothing store called Friking. Except a group of influencers came in and knocked it out of the park instead. I went over and said Hi like a complete Dad. Negative Aura, according to my kids.

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