When People Hear You Have A Hobby

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[@keviii505]

Ryan : I like talking to myself. Ryan : That's weird but how can we monetize it The rest is history

[@mom2artists]

🤣🤣🤣

[@giovannitresoldi5420]

Perfection🤣

[@whatduck943]

😂😂

[@ShumuStudios]

brilliant! :)))))

[@AnoNymous-dh2sv]

that's close to the truth probably, literally. tell me he was an only-child and it's confirmed.

[@AprehamLincoln]

As soon as Ryan mentioned his kid, I thought we were about to get a glimpse of the greatest nightmare child that has ever existed

[@siriusgames7730]

Me too that child is the greatest in existence

[@adamantii]

Thia comment is under every video that mentions a kid… I think Ryan’s audience has PTSD

[@cannedcan9059]

yeah same

[@WaterShowsProd]

Every time I think of that kid I laugh uncontrollably. Now I need to go watch that video again.

[@nanoglitch6693]

BLOOD! 😃

[@ghostderazgriz]

"If you turn a hobby into a career, you lose a hobby" Best advice I learned from my professor.

Exceptions exist.

[@Thuazabi]

​@ which, in turn, prove the rule.

[@rlsvid]

Yes but if the other option is worse, it's still worth it.

[@Road_Rash]

As someone who managed to make a living from one of my 'hobbies' for 30 years, your professor was very correct...it makes you start to hate it because it turns into a job, & what you once found relaxing & fun, you now find stressful & look for any excuse to try to get away from it...

[@spongebobsquarepants2981]

​@@Thuazabiok

[@launchpadmcquack8142]

As a home baker, I felt this. People are always telling me to monetize my baking and I always tell them, if I did that, I'm pretty sure I'd learn to hate this thing that I currently love so no, for now I just make stuff for family and friends.

[@Asharra12]

Me too! 😅 The funniest part is that I've talked with home bakers and they make less money than I do right now. Weirdly even after saying that, people still don't accept my argument, oh well 🤷‍♀️

[@launchpadmcquack8142]

@@Asharra12 yes! That's the other thing I say. To make it worth my while I'd have to charge pretty high prices and most people don't want to pay $80+ for a cake. I've seen plenty of amazing bakeries go under because I imagine the margins are super thin. Seems like added stress I don't need when I already have a decent job. Just let me have my hobby!

[@prenticeclark1454]

I am the exact same - been baking for almost 40 years since I was a kid. Friends & family love my treats and often suggest I sell them or open a bakery… but no, for all the reasons you’ve so perfectly described. I’m NOT getting up at 4 am to bake for 12 hours straight!! Plus I’m sure the taste would suffer - whenever I get something from an actual bakery I think my own cakes taste better, and I’m sure that’s why. My one concession is that I recently started an Instagram account entirely for photos of my baking projects… so I can delight my 35 followers 😂

[@bofh85]

​​​@@prenticeclark1454well here in germany it wouldn't even be allowed to bake at home and sell the stuff and than just turn it into a business. You need qualifications and certifications, years of training with diploma until you are even allowed to become a baker here and than still you would have to fulfill so many health requirements.. Seriously being a professional baker here has nothing to do with baking stuff at home, that's why this isn't even a thing here 😂

[@prenticeclark1454]

​@@bofh85 In America some people do sell home-baked goods on a local limited basis - I know a 14-year-old boy who does it - but yes, I agree that if I were to open an actual baking shop I'd need to go to culinary school and get a degree in order to secure funding, pass health inspections etc. I've never had any intention of doing all that myself. I'm sure baking professionally at scale involves all sorts of different requirements. But I do think you might be underestimating the talent of home bakers, many of whom are quite skilled and dedicated. Some start popular websites and develop their own recipes. And if the many seasons of The Great British Baking Show are any evidence, there are a lot of amazing home bakers all over the world. Those contestants of all ages and backgrounds really show their abilities in tackling complicated baking challenges.

[@jemazondo9331]

When I was a kid they started the “everyone can go to college” craze. Now it’s “everyone can start a business”

[@TsukiNaito1]

It's almost like we're all individuals that should follow our own separate paths or something.

[@Zeylo89]

no, we must accept the will of the capitalistic hivemind overlord being.... in the skye... probably somewhere @@TsukiNaito1

[@LegoCookieDoggie]

and now we're gonna have a shortage of electricians and plumbers that's great

[@LegoCookieDoggie]

@@Zeylo89 all must pray to the GRIND

[@Valorian6167]

I firmly believe that anyone can start a business or go to college but not everyone should. We all have different ways of learning, different goals, aspirations and sometimes those goals don't require a business or college

[@keithk888]

This was great, reminded me of the Fisherman story: An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village late one morning when a small boat docked. Inside the small boat was just one fisherman who had already caught several large fish. The American complimented the fisherman on the fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisherman replied, “only a little while.” The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had caught plenty enough to provide for his family’s needs for quite a while and even to give some fish away to others in the village. The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?” The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, and stroll into the village where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.” The American scoffed. “I am an experienced businessman and can help you,” he said. “You should spend more time fishing, and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could have a fleet of fishing boats, open up your own cannery and control all of the distribution,” he said. “Of course, you would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to a bigger city to run the expanding enterprise.” The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will that all take?” To which the American replied, “Oh, 15 to 20 years or so.” “But what then?” asked the Mexican. The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time was right, you would sell your company and become very rich. You would make millions!” “Millions - then what?” asked the Mexican. The American said, “Then you could retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you could sleep late, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, and stroll to the village where you could sip wine and play guitar with your amigos.”

[@TappyThursday]

yeah, exactly where my head went too!

[@joshuadavidson3689]

This is exactly what this skit reminded me of.

[@Charisonic_558]

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of it

[@sequillawilliams8809]

As an entrepreneur whose business started out as a hobby I can confirm this is the truth😂😢

[@stefaan9218]

Too many words. Didn’t read

[@DMIwriter]

The best piece of advice my dad ever gave me: People say find what you love to do and make that your job. But really, you should find something you like to do, or can at least tolerate, and keep the thing you love to do for yourself. Otherwise you'll turn what you love to do into work, you'll grow to hate it, and you won't have something you love to go anymore. Sadly, he had to learn this the hard way.

[@linmonPIE]

Dude, I wish someone had told me that but I was surrounded by people who wanted me to make money off my art work, so I tried for too long and mostly it was just a lot of stress. Turns out selling your artwork is like 10% actually doing art and 90% trying to figure out ways to market it, making a website, ads, sourcing materials, keeping track of finances, etc. etc.

[@DMIwriter]

@@linmonPIE Same boat. I did graphic design professionally for 7 years and grew to hate it. I had a stable job doing design, but also tried freelancing and Etsy. Most of my time was spent designing social media ads for my designs. Hated it. I've now switched jobs and have taken up writing as a hobby, just for myself and my family. Currently working on a family history and enjoying it immensely

[@Road_Rash]

As a now retired professional artist, I agree... it's like getting married...what was great when you were doing it because you just wanted to do it, turns into a torturous grind & you want nothing more than to get away from it...

[@prophetzarquon1922]

Now to find something I can tolerate... (I'm 45)

[@ShoulderMonster]

Had my first panic attack from illustrating for a comic job. I love illustrating, and comics, but I hated that job and it made me lose what little confidence I had left of my art altogether. Went back to school for another career path and now work as a medical coder. Nearly 7 years later and only now am I thinking to illustrate and make other art more often again, _just as a hobby!_ Art is my passion, but I also always happened to like reading, research, data sheets, and other random tedious things with computers, so medical coding is alright enough to do indefinitely for me. I get to work from home too!

[@angrysaltycroutan3262]

This is what happened for me with beading. I used to make jewelry as gifts for friends and people always said i could sell it. It made me feel confident for a while but then i actually tried to sell it and it never took off. Ultimately, it made me feel like the things i made weren't actually good and I started to think that all my friends were giving me the "this belongs on the fridge" treatment. It took away the joy i had from just making stuff for people i cared about.

[@temeraire8329]

I don't know if this is even relevant to you anymore, but anyways: Usually selling stuff has nothing to do with the quality of your work and everything with selling it. To basically every product you know, you can find a better or cheaper version if you just look for it (best example apple). But people buy the "worse" products anyways because 1. Humans are stupid and 2. Marketing works and people get paid to do nothing but think the whole day about how to get you to buy something. So I don't know how good your beading is. But I'd bet money on it, that the reason why you couldn't sell it wasn't that it wasn't good enough but rather that you didn't know how marketing works. And that's fine (I don't either), don't let it destroy your passion :)

[@TheRealJellyBomb]

​@@temeraire8329

[@onkelpappkov2666]

​@@temeraire8329Thiiis. What do you like to do? Singing? Cool. How about you do marketing instead? Yea, do a lot of search engine optimization, networking, and think about budgeting a lot. That's got nothing to do with what you want to do? Well you've gotta put in the work! Hey you, what do you like to do? Cool, cool. Hey how about marketing, search engine optimization, networking, budgeting,... I'm not finished! Listen! So TikTok is popular, you do that now.

[@angrysaltycroutan3262]

@@temeraire8329 Thank you. I appreciate the advice and encouragement. Unfortunately though, I don't have as much time as I used to, so my jewelry making has fallen by the wayside. But I hope that some day, I'll pick it back up again and enjoy creating stuff just for the sake of enjoying it.

[@LucasCastleman]

“No you do want that, thats the dream, that’s everybody’s dream” was so dystopian and accurate to the mindset of society today 😢

That's how well TPTB have pushed capitalism into everyone's mind. When I read that "I invested $CASH into this game, or this tool for my hobby"…

[@mattwo7]

It's also how the KZbin algorithm operates.

[@memerminecraft585]

"False needs" as described by Herbert Marcuse in The New Forms of Control

[@daniel4647]

@@memerminecraft585 It's 2024, if nobody made a movie version then less than 0.01% of people will know it exists, I bet more people watched this video than has read his works, so it won't matter. People are idiots and our species is not going to survive for very long, end of story. I've been telling my parents about climate change and the degradation of our environment for the past 20 years, every time they just say, it's fine, it's normal, people in charge got it handled, etc. Yesterday they watched an entertainment show with a celebrity talking about it, and all of sudden they where all, "I had no idea it was this bad, why have I never heard about these things before?", I've told them literally every single thing they "learned" from that program many many times. Humans are freaking braindead, and a few people knowing about stuff will change nothing.

[@rolandverde8771]

​@@daniel4647 heres that yappuccino you ordered ☕️

[@davidsnoeberger]

This is especially funny when you realize that Ryan's KZbin career probably started as a hobby. 😂

[@nickpierson4423]

Is this video a call for help?

[@MegaGandalf12]

So the guy in the white hat is ScreenRant? 🤔

[@privacyvalued4134]

@@nickpierson4423 One that's super easy, barely an inconvenience!

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

He's dying inside.

[@DenisLoubet]

Gosh I hope not, I’ve decided.

[@onslaught147]

I'm a software developer and this applies to all my side projects. Whenever I tell people about a cool thing they immediately ask how I'm going to make money off it. It's like i already make money off my programming, it's called a job. The side project is specifically not to make money. Just having fun building some things for the sake of creating. But nope, they just ignore all that and ask about shoving disgusting ads into my beautifully designed UI. Fuck no, I release my software for free just because. I'm not linking it here though, don't want any weird KZbin people looking at my stuff. But not you reading this comment, you're cool. I'm talking about those other KZbinrs.

[@timhuester7721]

Hillariouy and wholesome comment :-)

[@MiaChillfox]

Yeah, my hobby software is not even on GitHub, I keep that stuff elsewhere, and while its open source, you can't send me a PR or report an issue. I don't care if anyone finds it useful (if they even find it at all).

[@onkelpappkov2666]

Yes! I'm in the group. Suck it, other KZbinrs!

[@elcaponeholyemperorofnj1169]

I would like to see your software one day

[@timhuester7721]

@@elcaponeholyemperorofnj1169 Do you already have a business plan in mind? 😁

[@betterchapter]

Ryan George isn't only every character in his videos, he's all of us.

[@mariahina8529]

Hi Ryan, nice to meet you. I am Ryan.🙂

[@Giran023]

God I wish

[@KoopatheQuick]

Lol

[@SarahDavisPhoto]

Photographer here--I took my fun hobby and added a bunch of stress and deadlines to it. Loved the sketch so much!!

[@onkelpappkov2666]

My brain read "deadliness". My brain wanted to read "deadliness". It is better that way. You do take headshots, yes?

[@astronautninjatoxic]

The actor for the bird must've been real hard to find, but you definitely made the right choice. They fit their role perfectly.

[@popeyethesailorman7850]

Actually it was super easy, barely an inconvenience

[@osheridan]

Actor? Role? Are you implying that these videos are fictional?

[@Walkingbread7]

You know Ryan played the bird right?

[@fulstaak]

Birdly an inconvenience..

[@xFurashux]

Jokes on you, that's just Ryan in a mask!

[@hotdogvan3399]

Whenever people ask me if I intend to make money off one of my hobbies, my answer is always "It's a hobby. This is what I SPEND my money on."

[@Road_Rash]

I actually go through this a lot... I have many hobbies & people often ask me why I'm not a millionaire, or when I finish a project, they'll say things like, 'You should make a bunch of those & sell them'...to which I often respond, 'No, that turns a hobby into a jobby, & I don't want that'...& then that begins a conversation just like this... people just don't seem to grasp the concept of doing something for the pure enjoyment of it...

[@drollfurball2863]

Ooh. You could throw this back at them. "Sure, so are you going to take care of all the logistics and I'll just do my hobby?"

[@Road_Rash]

No, because they'll take me seriously & want to go into production, which again turns it into a job & they'll think I'm offering a business deal when I'm not...& even if I were to start a business, I don't do partners, because then you'll have another person wanting control & pushing for more products, different varieties, etc, etc... I prefer to make one off projects for my own entertainment & that's it... I have no desire for money or to sell anything I make... I may not be rich by any stretch of the imagination, but everything I have is paid for & I'm in no debt, which is fine with me... I don't need money, or anything resembling a job... I'm good with where I am in life...

[@drollfurball2863]

@@Road_Rash My thought process was like "let them know just how much work would go into turning the hobby into a work" less so than an offer.

[@Road_Rash]

The people I know wouldn't care about how much work it would be...once they smell money & think they might be able to get some of it, they'd never leave me alone...best just to tell them a good, firm no & move on... people simply won't accept any explanation as to why you don't want to make money... they're absolutely crazy when it comes to that, & become just like the pushy guy in the video...trust me, I've had the same conversation like in the video too many times...they don't let up until you hammer it into their heads that you're not doing it...

[@prophetzarquon1922]

Speaks to why things are so often done poorly

[@buddhadoodle6019]

God, this hits hard. So many times I have shown off something I enjoy doing, Art, Tinkering with tech, even working with clay, and my parents will ALWAYS say "Nice, you can make some good money off that if you start selling, start taking some requests" It's gotten so bad to the point I just keep my hobbies to myself, ngl

[@tiacool7978]

As much as I hate this sort of thing. I realized that I was doing this to my sister. I don't want to ruin art for her, but I know there are people who would love her drawings. It'd be some nice chump change. I'm trying not to be overbearing about it though.

[@buddhadoodle6019]

@@tiacool7978 As a guy who loves art and have had that same thing mentioned to me, I can get a bit repetitive, to say the least. It's ok to do a commission or two, and even make money off of it but, Art block is a real thing and if that is your Job or "Gig", and you hit one of those, your life is gonna feel miserable until it naturally clears up

[@johnchedsey1306]

My parents unfortunately did this too, so there's always that nagging feeling I'm supposed to somehow be trying to make money when I'd rather just be enjoying leisure time.

[@Azyrion_]

Looking at the positive side, they probably just want you to have a successful career doing something you like, not a soulless job doing something you barely give a crap about, not considering you don't want a hobby done for leisure/fun turned into a full-time job, that if turned into a full-time job might suck out all the fun you have doing it.

[@user-cm8di3eb2t]

Same.

[@hollowwoods7130]

God I remember showing my mom a story I wrote when I was like 12 or smt and she read it and told me that "character names like these won't sell" and never said anything else. She still wonders why I don't show her my writing.

[@morebirdsandroses]

I don't. 👍🦋

[@dejus_e]

The hell?

[@cenciende9401]

It's funny because stuff like that can't be predicted at all, in fact in hindsight it's often the most unique and unconventional names which are the most popular and appealing

[@nutbastard]

You should snap back at her citing the novel Snow Crash where the main character is named Hiro Protagonist and that book sold very well. Great book too.

[@scumbuck3t397]

i liked writing as a hobby when i was a kid and as i grew older i started getting exhausted because i started thinking about world-building 🥲

[@Macrochenia]

I've had entirely too many conversations like this about my hobbies with my mother. Usually, I ask her why she doesn't try to turn *her* hobbies into side hustles.

[@onkelpappkov2666]

Do you and dad love each other? And see, you have a camera, so why not earn some money? Oh what, now I'm the one who doesn't respect boundaries, sure.

[@lilbluridinghood6296]

This reminds me of my dad. I got Technoblade and Philza plushies last year (I RARELY buy merch from content creators but thought I would treat myself), and when they arrived I was so happy and my dad asked, "So now that you have them, what are you going to do with them?" "Uh, hug them? Cuddle them?" *looks of judgement*

[@izarian42]

This is too relatable. I started writing years ago about a fantasy scifi world. It was only ever meant to be for me, a little escapist world to develop. Think of it like a world simulator game but without the actual game part. I just liked the idea of creating things. I already had a career, this was just something to relax with. My whole family, when they found out, tried to do exactly this sketch to me and it destroyed my love of writing for years because they took all the peace out of it.

[@DeathnoteBB]

That explains why I don’t like talking about my writing 😅 Like don’t get me wrong I’d love to have a book but if I focus on that my brain goes to mush and the creativity stops. It’s mostly for fun

[@lunacouer]

I used to make handmade cards for my family, but every time, all I'd hear about was how I should sell them, how I should open an Etsy shop, how I should sell them at craft fairs, etc. Not just a casual "Oh, you could sell these!" as a compliment. Actual pressure, like you faced with your family and plan ideas like in the sketch. They all get store-bought cards now 😂

[@Hussemo]

I'm struggling with this. Been telling a story to my kids for years. They have had a lot of input. But I can't talk about it with people because they do exactly this. And I love talking about it. But I find myself doing it less and less because I don't want the fun and wonder to die like drawing did. And music. Jeez, can I just have a hobby!? ...😅

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@lunacouer It sucks cause they usually genuinely think they’re being supportive! But in reality you just feel pressured and under expectation.

[@theredlioness2502]

Same here. My dad kept badgering me to sign up for Amazon or whatever and start posting unfinished drafts so I could get in the public eye or something. Every time I visited him, it was always "Are you ready to publish yet?", "How far have you got on your novel?", "You should consider posting unfinished drafts so people can see them"... Now I just write self-indulgent fanfic, because at least with that there's no expectation to monetise it from anyone. Quite the opposite, in fact, since that would be illegal (unless you pull a Fifty Shades, but fuck that). I can just sit down and have my fun. Do I get judged? Probably. But it's better than dealing with all the pestering for me to turn it into a daily grind. My hobby is kept firmly within the hobby category, right where it belongs, and my dad eventually stopped his nagging so we actually get along again now. Win.

[@j-willy4137]

Ryan making me glad I chose coin collecting as a hobby, I’m technically saving money. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@makarabaduk1754]

My hyper-realistic sketches of high denomination bank notes should be really easy to monetize, I decided.

[@raydunakin]

@@makarabaduk1754 LOL!

[@ellysetaylor5908]

In my opinion, everyone should have a hobby and a job and they should not be the same thing. The job is something you enjoy but know you are going to have to put in the grind for to make money and will be hard work. The hobby is something you do to relax and create beauty

[@caiden3396]

What someone enjoys as leisure often doesn't make for a good job for them. It's a quick way to get burnt out. Has to do with motivational salience, intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation, an appropriate amount of effort and reward, the prosocial purpose of a role, and operant and classical conditioning and associative learning. It's similar to school.

[@AmoebaInk]

It's fine to make a job out of your passion, but it's not for everyone.

[@SetsuneW]

I stopped being able to play anything but the shortest video games for years because my brain screamed, "You should be streaming this." Even though I was never a successful streamer and don't really have the personality and energy for it, my brain decided playing games without trying to broadcast them was "a waste".

[@avesatana20]

Millions of gamers with failed channels felt the same as you but made the mistake of doing it anyway.

[@ShoulderMonster]

Brains are weird, aren't they? I grew up playing games but once I hit 17 games became a "waste of time." So I couldn't bring myself to play through most games anymore, especially the long single player ones. Yet, I still spent most of my time reading comics or other idle activities all day. Knowing this even now 12 years later, I can't quite sit down and play a game for too long. I just get a bad feeling surrounding games specifically. It's kinda stupid!

[@bjarnes.4423]

You made the fisherman story more modern and more entertaining. Well done.

[@jakobr_]

What’s this fisherman story?

[@harryosborne8215]

@@jakobr_just Google “Mexican fisherman story.” But basically it points out the lunacy of pursuing riches just so that you can do everything you were already doing before, but after losing 20 ish years of it

[@reviewchan9806]

​@@jakobr_ fish her deez nuts

[@justins8802]

Google “The businessman and the fisherman”

[@kun]

@@jakobr_ It's a story about how a businessman saw a fisherman chilling and told him he should get off his ass and work to expand his operation into a huge corpo with tens of boats and hundreds of fisherman doing the fishing for him. Fisherman then ask the businessman why would he want to do that? Businessman said so you can retire happy and chill all day long. Fisherman replied well whaddaya think im doin now?

[@regrettablemuffin9186]

I actually did the opposite. I used to write with the intention of getting published and it was killing my love of writing even though an author was the only thing I’d ever dreamed of being. When I “gave up on my dream” and started just writing for me I fell in love with it again.

[@shankhao2005]

Hey, props to you rediscovering your joy in the thing you love doing.

[@Miners666]

I want to do that with art, but I can’t get re-inspired :/

[@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700]

That’s awesome!

[@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700]

@@Miners666I’m an artist too and I totally get what you’re going through. What started the issue for you love?

[@Miners666]

@@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700 well I wanted to be an artist/illustrator as a career, as art is the only thing I’ve ever been good at, but, as it turns out, life isn’t about how good you actually are, it’s about how good you can convince people you are, you are a product you have to be able to sell. So anyway, that never panned out. Also, my artwork got stolen by Amazon and slapped on merchandise, they just ignored any action I took against them and the products were never taken down. Adding to that my artwork was removed from my own site due to being copyright struck, despite it being my own original work. Also, whenever I bothered to share my artwork or design ideas plenty of people online loved to tell me it was shit and that professional designers were laughing at me. So found that my work wasn’t good enough to give me a job, it wasn’t good enough to sell as a side hustle, but it is apparently good enough to steal and there’s nothing I can do about it. And so realised there was no point to any of it. Plus nowadays AI can create something better in seconds than what I can produce in hours.

[@IWASRANSOMED]

The face of pure greed at 00:14 just kills me “nice nice!”😂🤣

[@fallonfireblade4404]

Ryan, don't ever leave us! Know that even if your hobby-job of making videos does make money, what's more important is your passion for it and the fact that you make so many people's days brighter ❤

[@Scottishcanary]

Who makes Ryan's days brighter though?

[@munchaking1896]

@@Scottishcanary Ryan him self

[@academyofuselessideas]

when you come for a fun sketch and you end up curled crying and questioning all your life decisions... that's the stuff... great one!

[@johnwbatey]

Yeah… I liked this for 2 minutes… then I started having an existential crisis

[@ShapelessIsle]

I do that while walking. Going from bopping to a great beat to questioning whether I should wipe out humanity.

[@-Teague-]

​@@ShapelessIsle I can help with that one! You couldn't possibly wipe out humanity so there's no point in trying, and you shouldn't even if you could.

[@ShapelessIsle]

@@-Teague- Honestly, I dont need to. A Lot of people are gonna die by 2050. World population would drop massively by 2070. And you most definitely can wipe out humanity. Covid already showed one method how it can be done, with ease infact.

[@Damesanglante]

You shysters are so toxic.

[@VicJang]

As someone who’s turned his hobby into a full time consulting business, I think this is incredibly well written and terrifying. Love you as always Ryan.

[@simon-peterwilliamson2412]

Whhats your hobby

[@VicJang]

@@simon-peterwilliamson2412 The one turned into a business is credit card rewards. (I teach people how to strategize their credit card applications in order to gain the most profit with the lowest cost and effort).

[@GenghisClaus]

not if i love him first

[@joeynathan6073]

You turned solving rubik cubes into a business??!!

[@VicJang]

@@joeynathan6073 that's one of my other hobbies, ha.

[@MarcosCodas]

I sent this to my therapist with the caption “me, to myself about my hobbies”. And she’s was like “yeeeeesss”. 😂

[@mattgarrett2583]

I crochet toys and characters (marvel, animals, plants). Everyone goes, "oh, go on etsy, sell your work it's really good, people will buy them!" and I always say, people will not pay what it's worth compared to the hours i put into creating the item.. "Oh yeah they will, people love stuff like that".. yeah, ok.. no one is buying a crochet deadpool for 50 bucks. Or a crocheted Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors for 60.

[@Gherit1]

With MatPat and Tom Scott announcing "retirement" this just hits in all kinds of ways... but mostly in the feels.

[@laurocoman]

It was just a theory... once.

[@FieryPheonix-pq8sh]

Thanks for watching internet.

[@AlmostNamedOne]

no mostly in the funnies

[@robertb.7772]

MatPat too??

[@AK_804]

yes, check@@robertb.7772

[@crystallxix1493]

“Thats the dream, that’s everybody’s dream” is funny but also wildly dystopic

[@TheThunderinghammer]

As an artist who has always struggled to enter the world of commissions and going fully professional, I actually admire the shear tenacity and exacting skill of Hat Ryan

[@avesatana20]

It's a scam. Everyone thinks they can make it but no one does. Its bs.

[@Miners666]

@@avesatana20it’s also survivorship bias, in that you only ever hear the success stories. It makes it seem that all you need to do is try, work hard, and you’ll make it. They don’t show you the 99.9% of people who did exactly that and failed.

[@avesatana20]

@@Miners666 And they keep changing the goals of the scam so people don't realize it. A few generations ago people were sold the idea that degrees, college and hard work would guarantee them a successful and wealthy life. They were even sold on the idea that they would find the perfect partner, have great kids (who would be perfect and fulfil their parents hopes and dreams) and now people realise THE WHOLE GAME IS RIGGED. The wealthy elite keep the majority in poverty, and a few of the middle class as some sort of false ideal for the poor to aspire to. Even the middle class are miserable and finally figuring out the game is bs. Post WW2 they introduced the 'entertainment industry'. Suddenly movies, TV and popular music was used to as an aspirational focus. It's a well known in psychology that if you want to control an animal, including humans, you must give them an aspirational focus. Hope by itself is not a strong motivatior, you must also given that animal something that equates with pleasure, not just hope for an absence of suffering. Hope is weak, but can fade quickly, but a belief in a dream is powerful and enduring. Religion was a strong control mechanism for the poor for thousands of years, with heaven and a great afterlife plus they were told their suffering was their own fault due to not being perfect. As the influence of religion has waned in the 20-21st century fame has replaced it, wealth, career success and now business success and internet success has replaced it. As people stop believing in one aspirational focus they churn out another load of bs to control the masses. This latest 'everyone can be famous, run an internet business or be wealthy gamers, KZbinrs' etc. is all more of the same. Romance is bs. Marriage is bs. A career is bs. Getting on the 'property ladder' is bs. Fame is bs. People need to come together and realise wtf is going on. Everyone is being played against each other because of gender, race and all the other divide and conquer bs. 🙄 But instead they all turn to idiots like Rogan, Brand, Tate, Peterson and many other lackies of the elite who are just steering them down another false path.

[@terrie3957]

Ikr? It usually costs money to talk to someone whos got a business growth plan ready to go that fast they dont just come over unless it's your cousin who just finished some degree

[@Road_Rash]

I spent over 3 decades as a professional artist trying to get to retirement so I didn't have to do the artwork that others wanted me to do & just do the art that I personally wanted to do... I'm finally there... I don't like commission work... it's someone else's idea, not mine...then you have to submit your efforts for approval to someone who has no clue how to do what you do, but will nit pick your efforts... I have no desire to deal with that 🐂💩 again... I make what I make for me now... it's a finished product when I say it's finished, not when someone else says it's finished...& if nobody else likes it but me, I'm good with that, because I made it to suit me & not anyone else just to get paid...& in my experience, any time you think you've really outdone yourself, you've done your dead level best & actually impressed yourself with whatever it is, that project will be roundly ignored, but you half ass something, cut every corner & just throw it together, people will love it & praise you for it, & you'll actually hate the piece because you know you can do better... that's the irony that creates 'tortured' artists...these days, I don't have to worry about who likes what...as long as I like it, that's all that matters...

[@ame6547]

It was strange and insightful when a friend that is nearing his 40s said; "all I've been working for has been everyone else's idea of a fulfilling life, pushing yourself for money for a house I don't even want. I don't want more things I want more happiness in my life"

[@SoniaSephia]

As an artist who's trying to get back into drawing I feel this. Lol several of my well-meaning friends and cousins have told me to make it side hustle or make an Instagram/tik Tok for it 😅. And I'm just like guys I just want to draw for fun 🎨🖌️

[@luisfilipe2023]

Yeah it’s crazy how literally everything these days is a side hustle it’s like people don’t have fun anymore

[@drazenbudis7881]

Tbh I tend to share my hobbies only with people that are into same/similar hobbies and leave my friends and families out of it.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

@@luisfilipe2023 can't blame them though with the cost of living crisis one stream of income isn't enough or secure

[@CajunGator]

The way money scales regular folks sort of need to. It doesn't need to be a side hustle, but multiple revenue streams is more important then ever. The issue is instead of people doing their thing and leaving small ways of showing gratitude, people want to dial it up to NFL levels of marketing and strategy. KISS & honesty is what is missing from people. They misrepresent themselves and their product, or take it in a strange direction all to make an extra 563 dollars that is taxed to crap.@@luisfilipe2023

[@C0wMan]

@@luisfilipe2023everything needs to be a side hustle so people can still make a living that the sad truth

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

The timing with all the retire anouncements could not be better. Remember, if you have a hobby wich isn't fun anymore, it's not a hobby, but a job.

[@thequestcube]

Unless you don't get any pay out of it, then it's neither, then you are just being miserable

[@AttilaAsztalos]

Conversely, turning any hobby into a job immediately makes it not fun anymore - because now you HAVE TO do it.

[@levai762]

playing league of legends

[@Boltclick]

@@thequestcube That's just called addiction

[@PetroniusPixel]

I'm literally about to quit designing FPV drones because of this video

[@AtrelitheNerdGirl]

This entire sketch felt like a ghost that's been haunting me for awhile. I have alot of hobbies and people are always pestering me to make money off of them. I've even been told numerous things over the years to convince me to. Like, 'if you don’t share your gifts, you'll lose them' and 'what's the point if you don't make money off of it?' I just like to create things. Please just leave me alone to enjoy my hobbies. P.S. Wonderful video Ryan! Its too accurate. 😂

[@slendersera]

This happened to my mom. She sold a couple of things on Facebook to just clear up space in the house, and now she’s hitting up estate sales and thrift stores for items that she can resell. And it takes up huge amounts of time, too. Bad thing is that it's almost pulling me in. They sell books so cheap at those places. If I was more clever, I could probably resell them myself. Luckily, I'm lazy. But now I have several new books cluttering my closet that I couldn't help but buy.😂

[@WonderBran31]

Oh my GOD! This hits home so hard. Outside of my corporate job I work on art projects for a hobby and I'm even a self-published author of my own fantasy series. Anytime I bring that up to someone new I meet there's a 70% chance the conversation will shift to, "So, how much money have you made? Is it a best seller?" Hell no, dude, I made and did all of this because I could and it made me feel good. What does the money matter in the end? I've published 2 more novels than you ever have. Absolutly bonkers how people don't comprehend art sometimes.

[@catbatrat1760]

"I've published 2 more novels than you ever have." Nice burn /gen

[@Prederick]

Exactly. I'm learning to draw because I want to make a comic. Not because I want Netflix to eventually make a movie out of it, but because I have an idea in my head, and I want to make it real! It's amazing how adulthood can ruin this stuff. When I was a teen, you wrote because it was fun, and no-one ever got on you for not trying to maximum monetize it. That said, I feel terrible for teens these days, because the omnipresent pressure of social media has many of them feeling like if they're not getting 5,000 likes on whatever they post, why even try?

[@BronzeDragon133]

This. I've painted 400 more canvases than most people ever will. Even in my secondary hobby that I do just for fun, no, I don't sell it. But I've probably made 500 more pounds of soap than most people ever will in their lives.

[@dtylerb]

I have this little hobby on the side too. I'm ahead of most people, but I guess I still have a ways to go before I catch up with Ted Bundy. . . . Ok, bad joke. No need to send the black helicopters.

[@kailencollier1443]

Because the idea that you can’t be happy or successful without making money has been BEATEN into American culture to the degree that it’s nauseating

[@MusicaGatti]

As a fanfic writer, I feel this 🤣 I’ve been told “why don’t you write your OWN stories and get them published to make money?” And I’m like nah, I just wanna write about my favorite characters in my spare time cause it’s fun. I don’t need it to be a side hustle 😅

[@ClubsDeuce5150]

Came to write pretty much this exact comment. 😂 👍

[@beeftips1628]

What kinda fanfics you write?

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

@@beeftips1628 Are you gonna... _pay_ for them?

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

I’m gonna guess you write Star Trek fan fiction about the steamy, forbidden love between Captain Picard and Mr. Data, and how Jean-Luc could make Data feel _even without_ his emotion chip. And if I’m right, you’re doing the Lord’s work! 🖖

[@Zara-Bari]

As a fan fic writer who has ALSO written my own stuff... you still don't get published and make money.

[@alphamorion4314]

This hit *so* close to home... Ever since I was 10 y/o people have been saying to me that my drawing hobby should be my career focus. Ever since that time, I was adamant that no, not happening... But people kept hammering so much that in the end they kinda killed the fun in it, for me 😅 Nowadays, I hardly draw anymore even for myself 😅

[@ChrisHendricks]

I would never force you to start drawing again, but if you do... don't tell anyone. Just do a little doodle or two.

[@Justacheese]

Don't listen to any of those people and draw stuff only when you want to. And then if you want to share it with someone don't share it with those people. The "fun suckers" who suck away all the fun can get screwed.

[@grabble7605]

So you stopped liking drawing. How is that their fault just for saying words you could ignore?

[@Olive-cx2jw]

@@grabble7605 that’s always easy to say when you’re not living it from the inside.

[@gamingintrospection]

Ryan has impeccable writing, acting and editing skills, he's an inspiration for so many people, and that could be fellow creators, or simply viewers who have lived life, because he satirizes it so well. Thank you for what you do!

[@orionpierce1287]

I think he should even try and turn it into a side hustle or something. I’m sure there’s money in it don’t you think?

[@munchaking1896]

And then he did a black flip and snapped the bad guys neck.

[@grabble7605]

"or simply viewers who have lived life" What is he inspiring them to do?

[@ladycaruso]

Omg thank you for putting this into words. From childhood, before the internet even existed, any hobby was “how can you make money from this”, from parents, then literally everyone else. Then I started to internalize it and any time I tried to work on a hobby, I would ask myself the same, or ask my wife if I’m wasting my time and she would have to convince me again and again that it’s okay to JUST have a hobby and enjoy it. She went through this too! This vid was cathartic, thank you! ❤

[@hermes_logios]

Same. It's literally the only thing anyone ever talked about. The idea of deriving any kind of personal joy or satisfaction from one's work was just ... too ridiculous to even imagine saying out loud.

[@recoveringsoul755]

Nobody ever did that to me. Now everyone seems to have a side hustle and multiple streams of income Maybe I missed out. He should have said his hobby was paddle boarding

[@dinodare1605]

​@@recoveringsoul755 You can have multiple streams of income and none of them be from former hobbies.

[@dinodare1605]

Good wife!

[@jimmym3352]

Now I'm thankful for not having any hobbies

[@chloeblack2615]

I started drawing at 11, by 19 I was paying my bills with art. I also had started a large interest in dogs at 12, and now I run a dog training / grooming business at 30. I gave up art 5 years ago when I finally felt burnt out. But the dog thing is still going. Turning hobbies into your work removes a lot of the fun, 100%.

[@jennifere.pergola598]

This video is the final push I needed to stop sending out query letters to literary agents and just post what I've written for anyone who wants to read it, for free (I already have a blog and had some plays performed by a non-profit theater group, but I've written one novel and a novella that never "made it"). I've been feeling that way for a long time, but sometimes you just need to hear someone else say it 😁. You're performing a great public service, Ryan!

[@avesatana20]

Are you serious? Because the laughing emoji says you're being sarcastic.

[@jennifere.pergola598]

@@avesatana20 I meant it as laughing at myself, so thank you for letting me know that it would be misinterpreted. I changed it to a smiley face now, so hopefully that works 😁.

[@avesatana20]

@@jennifere.pergola598 Ok. I actually thought your comment was making good points. There is always a pressure to monetize creativity and it is seen as a failure if you don't have a bestseller when in fact the success is in the creativity itself.

[@jennifere.pergola598]

@@avesatana20 Thank you very much, I needed to hear that, too! 😁

[@avesatana20]

@@jennifere.pergola598 You're welcome. It's great to hear that someone has freed themselves from the fame bs that plagues creativity.

[@Cyrra]

Ooof, this hit me 😅 My mom and friends mean well, but they constantly push me into making my crafts into a company and it takes all the fun out of it

[@BeWe1510]

This is almost like a relatively well known German short story, we red in school, called anectode on lowering the work ethic. There is a tourist at an harbour clicking with his camera and asking a local fishermen who is chilling there what he is doing. The fishermen explains that since it is a good day for fishing, he already reached his goal and is just enjoying the seaside view now. The tourist is shocked and says that if it is a good day, he has to go out again and catch more to get a surplus. That way he could eventually upgrade his boat, open his own restaurant to sell his fish and so on. The fishermen asks what he is supposed to do after all of that and the tourist answers that he could sit by the seaside enjoy the view and not having to worry about anything anymore, to which the fishermen says that he had already been doing just that and only the clicking of the tourists camera disturbed him. Loved the video btw, just got a major flashback, since I had almost forgotten this story 😄

[@projekttaku1]

That's so charming, the tourist basically overcomplicating enjoying the seaside view.

[@Fulphilment]

That's what I though about too. Must be based on this old story (the one I know about is without cameras).

[@8014rick]

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[@chinkasuyaro8983]

After which, the fisherman somersaulted over the tourists head, broke his neck, and saved the day?

[@renab.7390]

I remember reading that story in class too. 😅🇦🇹

[@JesmondBeeBee]

The crochet and knitting crowd know this pain. "You should make these to sell!" "Okay, taking into account yarn and an hourly rate, I'll have to charge $70 for a beanie hat. How do you think that's going to go?"

[@ROFLBOB24]

Very good video that brings awareness to this issue. It's not "normal" to monetize hobbies, and you are not "lazy" or any kind of bad person if you just don't want to do that. In the previous economy that Gen X got to enjoy, you could make it fine off of a simple job, but now if you want to do fine, you have to have 2 working adults with side hustles to thrive, and that is just awful. It's propaganda being fed into people convincing you that you are a bad person if you are not "grinding" 24/7. They want to work the fun right out of your life, and they want to ruin your fun by constantly reminding you that you are a lazy bum with no motivation and probably low testosterone.

[@christianjaros2520]

Who is 'they' tho

[@ROFLBOB24]

@@christianjaros2520 media, influencers, boomers who think that they've walked in your shoes but failed to account for massive inflation, and sometimes even your own expectations can hurt your feelings. "I thought I would be x at this time in my life, but I'm nowhere close to it." You just gotta grind to get there bro! Work 25 hours a day and 8 days a week on your portfolios and monetize every single thing you have a little bit of talent doing.

[@prophetzarquon1922]

Sometimes it's even just good friends who nonetheless can get annoyed that you're having fun without working as hard as they do... The "sunk cost fallacy" is _really_ seductive; it's increasingly hard to accept that maybe chasing 'dolors' isn't all it's cracked up to be, once one has sunk a lot of time & effort into doing it

[@RyanNerdyGamer]

0:01 Hi there hello Fresh. 👋🏻🌱🥗

[@graduator14]

Hi Ryan! Please do a video on the first person to talk! I would be speechless!

[@user-pf2ef8lv9r]

Lol

[@Thesayinciyan]

😂

[@RandomguyfromtheinternetN1]

That is brilliant

[@Ms.Pumpkin]

YES!

[@miketeabag6501]

Would that not be a very one-sided conversation though?

[@ChadeGB]

This is how it is for me. I've always enjoyed building, repairing PC's, consoles, tablet and stuff. I can fix just about any problem, hardware or software, even replace capacitors or other smaller bits and pieces like ports etc. I like to do it as a hobby, as something I enjoy tinkering with, for friends and family. But as soon as someone finds out what I can do, they're suddenly telling me about how I can make so much money from it with all sorts of advice on what to do next, when I tell them I don't want to do any of that, that it's just for fun, they look at me like I've just smeared dog poop on my face.😂

[@morebirdsandroses]

I think you're epic.

[@chucklesdeclown8819]

Tbf, i for one have actually considered building pcs for others and starting that sort of business simply because i just wanna make more pcs but its like if the person doesnt want to make it their job why do they have to?

[@miniwolfsbane2407]

As someone sitting here having to take a test for a job I don't really want, my advice to anyone is to take advantage of your talents. They might put food on the table someday. Don't work yourself to death or start to hate it, but don't let your skills languish either. The job market sucks and a fallback plan is always a good thing. Anyway, great sketch!! Very on the nose. Edit: Also, I regret not starting my novel career a decade ago, but better late than never. All I want to do is write now, but noooo! I have to actually work for a living wage. Edit: I'm grateful for the opportunity, but I'd rather have fun doing something I love over something I have to do. As would most people.

[@MaskedIntrovert]

I feel this so hard. People told me all the time I should sell art. I did: commissions for 10+ years. It was the most miserable time, dealing with clients, not drawing what I wanted, getting paid less than I would working retail. I gave up for a while. Just starting to get back into drawing now, but with arthritis it's making me more adamant to only draw what I reallt want or what I'm truly interested in.

[@MunchyLikesOtters]

"This was the right way! What? Im gonna kill you! Oh my god--" The freak out always makes me laugh!😁

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

That could make lot of money? Maybe there is a way to franchise it.

[@TheShiningEnergy]

I wouldn't advise that.@@XtreeM_FaiL

[@LuisSierra42]

@@XtreeM_FaiL the grind never stops

[@TheFeralBachelor]

Hahaha this is sooo true. As soon as I started woodworking people started telling me to sell them at craft shows and etsy. I just wanted to do something away from a computer.

[@davidnorton9997]

For sure. I love woodworking. Doing a couple craft shows has helped make a few bucks but I definitely keep all sales or "business" firmly in the lense of getting others to pay for my hobby. I already have a full time job. I don't want a part time one to go with it.

[@de14jabs]

I started sewing and making LARP and other kind of stuff out of leather and the first thing out of most people's mouths is about monetizing it. Seriously it shows how money has taken over their minds

[@JCintheBCC]

I don’t even talk about my hobbies anymore.

[@Felix-tz6hn]

You are me right now, from computer to woodcarving animals 😂

[@UnrealRealism]

Everyone: “Ryan, is it hard to monitize that?” Ryan: “Super easy, barely an inconvenience “

[@GENERIC_CHANNEL_HANDLE]

Literally the same conversation I have with my aunt whenever I bake something. SOMETIMES A COOKIE IS JUST A COOKIE, I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH FUCKING PROFIT MARGINS OR ONLINE STORES.

[@avesatana20]

Or when you knit something ... or make some homemade Christmas cards ... or some homemade candles. 🙄

[@blackwingred3473]

That's exactly what happened with my dad's hobby. He makes handmade books, and he was just having fun with it. Fast forward a few years later, and now he has an LLC and spends more time making those books and stressing about them than actually enjoying them.

[@francescaperron2003]

As a crocheter this video resonated with me on another level

[@mom2artists]

Ikr, as if the yarn and time involved in making an afghan can be monetized - it's in the hundreds or thousands. No one is going to pay 1000 bucks for an afghan when Walmart is selling some for 50$

[@worldwideinterests1]

I sincerely hope that this isn't how life is for Ryan personally. He bring so many people so much joy, and does it in such a thoughtful manner but I would never want for it to interfere with happiness in his life.

[@Prederick]

The "Who's they!??!?!" at 1:22 is perfectly delivered and absolutely killed me.

[@samuellickiss8463]

My dad is like this. I enjoy music and I like writing songs and that sort of thing. He's always disappointed that I'm not trying to go professional or releasing albums every month. I am quite content just doing local gigs, amateur ensembles and that sort of thing! I'm a teacher for a day job so I don't get a tonne of free time, but I enjoy using my musical skills at work with choir and what not. It doesn't feel like work when I'm just running a fun club at school as opposed to it actually being my job. People keep saying I should set myself up on Fiverr or whatever and nope, I don't need that extra pressure in my life!

[@andrewmoore4510]

Keep it up. We need more teachers and fewer people chasing fame and glory. Props to you man

[@NowaboMusic]

Your spelling of the word "tonne" made me go back and read your whole comment in an English accent. Lol

[@gosucab944]

I get that. I'm drawing super infrequently. When I do I put time in and learn new things until I get it right, so what I show to others looks good. Someone I knew asked to draw something for them they could use in a business and I just straight up had to say no because thats simply not what I want to do with my skills. It doesn't feel right. I tried turning it into a job when I was in school by aspiring to be a graphic designer and that was the worst decision I made in life and killed the fun of drawing for me completly for a solid few years. Got a job in IT helping people and its just way better. After all that I started drawing again here and there because I could enjoy it again.

[@somecitrus7561]

As a freelance artist I felt my eye bags getting heavier as this went on, bravo

[@gosucab944]

How are you going to make money out of heavy eye bags? Unless you are going to draw them and make a story about yourself as the sleep deprived artist. That could work very well. Off to it. Chop Chop.

[@NinjaPieceLOL]

Hi there. Hello. It's me your unpaid intern. Start paying me or I will Tweet bad about the working conditions here!

[@Terraw77]

Hi it's me your second unpaid intern, give me a raise or i'll leak the terrible working conditions in this basement of yours

[@genralty]

@@gosucab944maybe, but if you arent making a podcast off of your eye bags, you arent cutting it. get a merch line going and some sequels + prequels before you can call that a day. even then, you also gotta think about the netflix documentary.

[@ProductBasement]

I have this exact argument with myself every time I try something new

[@mechadeka]

There's definitely an importance in realizing the distinctinction between "this is something I want to do" and "this is something I want to do to make money".

[@rylucia]

Funny retake on the fisherman and businessman story which I try keep close to my heart!... Until I can finally afford that Ferrari 😂 Thanks for the vid, Ryan!

[@RamenDenominator]

The love of money is the root of all evil. This has always been true.

[@paintnamer6403]

Just be friends with it and respect it.

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

Great thing we made idolizing it the number one most important thing in our society

[@kmjkmjkmj]

Actually I think the love of inflicting pain on others is the root of all evil. And people like that so much they'll do it for free.

[@Gatitasecsii]

Sadly we live in a society where we need money to survive. Artistic integrity doesn't mean $hit when you're starving.

[@jimmym3352]

My problem is I've never been ambitious enough. I'm happy enough just to make enough money to pay the bills. I don't give a crap about swag and all that.

[@pixiethebug]

This is just about the same conversation that happened between my Mom, who got into a fun sublimation thing for gifts... And my Dad who decided we had to mass produce, open a business and started talking to all the companies around us 😂😂

[@chrisham3781]

The irony is those chubby animals are adorable and I would buy those prints for my office where I make magnets as a side hustle. 😅

[@OverflowingWithIdeas]

Watching this channel is my hobby. How do I monetize watching other people’s content with no creativity on my part? Oh right. TIME TO MAKE A REACTION CHANNEL

[@ThisDarkKnight]

I’ll do a reaction video to your reaction video, keep the cycle going

[@OverflowingWithIdeas]

@@ThisDarkKnight Im gonna do a live stream of me shitting on your reaction video to my reaction video, which will make the reaction format even lazier!

[@gt8200-0]

@@ThisDarkKnight And I''ll do a reaction video to your reaction video of matrix780's reaction video

[@pg2826]

​@@gt8200-0I will make a podcast about your reaction video

[@morebirdsandroses]

"Sound of old lady screaming" 😂

[@13Bbeards]

So true. Everyone should have a hobby that they can just do for fun. Regardless of money, skill, etc.

[@Is_This_Really_Necessary]

First half hit home for me. I've had at least twenty different people try to convince me to monetize my hobbies over the last 25 years. (Most of the time it has been primarily three family members harassing me to monetize my hobbies.) Tried it on and off several times for about a decade and not only did it burn me out but it nearly killed multiple hobbies of mine as a result. Had to end several friendships, distance myself from family and even disown a couple of family members as a result of their endless harassment. Now, I just mainly do things for myself whilst occasionally doing stuff for my friends.

[@raydunakin]

Something most people never realize is that doing something creative, and running a business, are two entirely different things. Running a business requires a completely different skill set, skills that many creatives just don't have or even want.

[@DaxSchaffer]

I'm an artist who tried to make it into the animation industry (with a small amount of success in doing so). However, my sad realization was that it was indeed slowly killing my love for creating art. Something I once had a lot of passion for was gradually worn down from turning it into a career upon which I depended to pay my bills and during which I was sometimes stuck creating things I wasn't all that interested in. Eventually, I shifted into doing some audio editing work for a while instead, and what do you know? I started to enjoy it when I was drawing again. Things are improved now, and I know better how to balance my love of creating art for myself with doing it for money, but I COMPLETELY understand and support anyone who wants to just keep their art or craft as a hobby. You may very well be mentally better off for doing so.

[@Darth_Zabrak]

These days I hate telling people my interests, because they always think I should compete or monetize my skills, but then seem to get really disapointed in me when I say "I just do it for fun"

[@Mylesthemyth]

The actors 35 years later look so similar to the first guys, how did they age them so well is beyond me. Great casting.

[@coolj4334]

You have unlimited free time now! What're you gonna do? I feel like I can play flute, maybe? Oh, that's great! 'Cause I've already booked a gig, concert, and meeting with the president!

[@johnwolfer3239]

This is too real. I make mead, and every time it comes up at least one person asks if I plan to sell it, even people that I've already explained to that it would be very illegal to do so. I give most of it away because making it is the fun part to me.

[@TimJenningsVideo]

I want to say hi to a fellow mead fan. I haven't started brewing mead, but I have been brewing soda for years. I agree that making it and experimenting with recipes is a lot of fun. I expect it'll be just as fun when I finally start brewing mead!

[@glenalec]

I'm the same with my hobbies. People often forget the amount of safety regulation that can be (quite reasonably) involved once you start selling certain things (my hobbies have a quite strong mechanical engineering bent, this is obviously not so applicable if your creations can't potentially cause crush injuries or electrocution! Or in your case licencing and food-safety, which I imagine are - again entirely reasonably - rather involved). Also, once I am building my 'things' with the wants/needs of people other than myself in mind, I am really just going to end up building things already on the market by big companies with the sort of economies-of-scale I can't achieve anyway.

[@alfredomaclaughlin1185]

Can I be your friend? I always wanted a friend that brews mead and gives it away 😃

[@ericgabonay6554]

I was ready for the retired artist to say what new hobby he'd take up in retirement, followed by business guy reacting with "wow we can monetize that!" 😂😂😂

[@clank1013]

Anyone else trying to picture Ryan, I mean, the Ad-stronot juggling in space?

[@B.Cypher]

1:00 the corporate boat 😂😂

[@Vanessa-uo6lt]

as someone who has many hobbies (painting, cross stitching, that sort of thing) i feel this deeply

[@elizabethkenobi1365]

Me every time I do something well enough for people to notice. Someone always says: "Hey you could sell this!" or "You could go into business doing this!" And they think it's a compliment but it actually sucks.

[@ryanalving3785]

I recently got a 3D printer and just started making resin miniatures and statuettes as a hobby. When I showed my work friends they immediately asked me if I was/could sell them.

[@outsidewithjames]

You know what... When he suggested the chubby little lizard, I didn't think it would be good, but now that I got to see it, I want.

[@thatsretarded]

Seeing how all my favorite people are now leaving KZbin, I have to say this is funny, even very funny, the funniest and good. This is fun... please don't leave me😞

[@emilyz4104]

I keep seeing big "leaving KZbin" announcements. Wonder if one person started it and then a bunch of others realized they feel the same way.

[@alex.g7317]

This feels like Ryan’s trying to tell us something in the form of a skit…

[@thetay24]

Yeah… I got that vibe too

[@jimmym3352]

Yeah, that he wants to go paddleboarding.

[@alex.g7317]

@@jimmym3352 paddleboarding is super easy, barely an inconvenience!

[@MisterIncog]

@@jimmym3352that he likes to draw happy chubby birds

[@victorsales3850]

How in the current capitalism everything has to be turned into a product and that we can't enjoy our free time with fun hobbies or with our families without thinking it is all a waste of time if we are not making a profit out of it?

[@Victor-qx3vx]

2:31 Ok this line… this line right here… I’ve heard it this week and somehow managed to not kill anyone. But completely understand the sentiment.

[@anitawallace2166]

I knit for pleasure. I can’t count the times people have said “you could sell those!” It’s a nice compliment, but making it a job would take all the fun out of it.

[@Akari-br7ci]

As someone who is currently trying to monetize their hobby, this hit real close to home.

[@raf-lofi]

same :( But gotta eat you know

[@Road_Rash]

As someone who actually monetized one of my hobbies for 3 decades, you'll regret it... you'll take something you enjoyed, suck all the joy out of it, & you'll start hating it & wanting to escape it at every given opportunity... when aspiring to 'live the dream', just remember, nightmares are dreams too...

[@ODISeth]

Every hobby must now be sponsored by Hello Fresh

[@LlamaDuck2211]

It is the first time that I've ever heard of them 😮

[@AK_804]

how@@LlamaDuck2211

[@akanar_1924]

This speaks to my soul! I don't even like telling people about my hobbies anymore because this is what happens every time.

[@randomnerdythings9094]

This is the reason I stopped making Jewelry lol. I really enjoyed making necklaces, but literally every single time I gave one away, the people I gave it to would say I needed to sell them. I didn’t mind at first lol. I was flattered. It wasn’t until everyone kept telling me that I NEEDED to do it, that the fun was taken out of it

[@LtColShingSides]

I'm just saying... Id buy a Hoodie with that happy chubby bird on it.

[@stephenwilliams163]

Had a long talk about this with a coworker the other day. My hobby is woodworking and I'm trying so hard to walk a tightrope between making a little money at it and not turning it into a business. His hobby is golf. It's perfectly normal to everyone that he will drop a certain amount of money to enjoy his free time with no expectation of return. I both love and hate having a creative hobby.

[@M_Alexander]

You have to either spend money on a hobby or make money on a hobby or else people who don't even have hobbies will judge you

[@obsidian4844]

You don't hate your hobby, you hate the pressure imposed on you by capitalism.

[@johnl.7582]

The key to success is to be really bad at it and then nobody will give you money.

[@NaudVanDalen]

They could still wonder why he isn't trying to become a pro golfer just like people ask why you aren't recording your gameplay to maybe become the next PewDiePie. Because it's nearly impossible.

[@OC-CPA]

​@@obsidian4844 Has nothing to do with capitalism. Capitalism doesn't dictate how people spend their free time.

[@mileenaeupheme1975]

Absolutely correct. Whenever I tell people that one of my hobbies is baking, they always tell me I should do baking as a job instead of my current one. I've done that before and it's absolutely correct that doing a hobby as a job makes you lose that hobby.

[@theblindsniper9130]

For what it is worth, i turned my hobby into a youtube channel. Still love doing it lmao non stop. Been keeping at it since 2017