The new trend apparently is to claim I do long videos because it earns more money. I've always done long videos, I've been doing them for years. I did them through the period in which doing long videos was potentially disadvantageous because your search ranking was heavily affected by how much of a video people watched before switching off. I did it through the time when conventional wisdom was "anything longer than 10 minutes won't get watched". I started in podcasts with long content and I took that with me when I started my video career. I didn't adapt to Youtube, Youtube adapted to me. For whatever reason, Youtube came to the conclusion that long videos and long retention were a good thing for their platform and started to reward people for it.

I've taken all the disadvantages of long videos in the past and not compromised the length that I think my content should be, just so I can make more money or appeal to a wider audience. Now I get to reap the benefits of sticking to my guns and believing that the way I do things is a good one. If people want to claim I do long videos for extra money, that's up to them, but anyone thats followed me for any real length of time knows the truth. Youtube came around to my way of thinking, after years of pushing the exact opposite. There are benefits to sticking to your principles.

I spent years building an audience that likes the way I do things, on a platform where not many people were doing it that way. Now I get to harvest and I'll tell ya this, the crop has never been better. Youtubes change in attitude could not have come at a better time. Even though I'm making far fewer videos than I used to now because of my illness, income is up, not down. Thanks Youtube, you did me a solid, I appreciate it, thanks for letting me have this wonderful opportunity and giving me a platform on which to live out my dreams. Thanks to the audience for joining me on this journey. We're nowhere near done yet, there's so much more I want to show you.