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0:00 in a nutshell GTA is absolutely killing my revenue and my chances to grow my YouTube business today I'm going to finally address the elephant in the room the question that I've been asked most about in the comments when are you going to upload a new GTA video for those of you who don't know I started out this channel uploading insanely highly edited GTA mod videos and it's been a while since I uploaded my last one I think the last time that I did an actual GTA mod video was probably like 3 4 years ago something like that it's been a while and I thought when I'm starting to upload new stuff people would slowly but surely forget about the whole GTA mod
0:45 thing but the thing is to this day there are people still asking for more GTA videos I cannot run away from this question anymore so today I'm going to explain in detail while I'm probably never ever going to play GTA ever again on my channel let's begin first of all one of the reasons why I don't really like making GTA mod videos is the insane amount of effort I'm putting in each video like you need to realize I'm known as this monster editor who's putting thousands of hours into editing each video but the thing is the editing in of itself wasn't even the thing that took me the longest when making a video like you have to imagine making one GTA mod video isn't just me recording a video
1:32 editing it and then uploading and that's it there's like an entire production process of making one GTA mod video that is so complicated and convoluted and mind-numbing that to this day I'm basically the only gaming YouTuber that really put consistently that much effort into his videos like you need to imagine to make a radel GTA video there's like multiple things I need to do first first before I even get to the edit first of all I need to find a topic for the video that's going to go viral I need to write a script for each video like literally like 10 pages in Microsoft Word with all the ideas and jokes and little things that I'm going to show off in the video
2:17 and little brainstorming things here and there you know to like create almost like a story line that I'm going to tell in the video I need to find mods a process that's not even exact aerating it takes sometimes up to 2 weeks I went for example to GTA inside which is like a GTA mod downloading website right so I went to San Andreas show all and then I literally went through all of these mods here Page by Page scanning every single entry and deciding if I want to have this mod in my video or not like this entire website has 6,440 Pages like I've probably visited 4,000 pages in this in this entire website bro and sometimes I even edit
3:04 and create my own mods because the mods available on these websites are just kind of garbage and I need to create something myself to make it funny I actually have a good example for this remember in this one GTA San Andreas video where I walked up to my garage and there was like a picture of like Gordon ramsy Squidward or something like that I created this mod myself I I never found it somewhere on those websites I literally had to download some GTA San Andreas file viewer go through every single file in the GTA San Andreas folder to find this one texture of the garage door to change it into the Gordon ramsy meme that I'm going to laugh at for 5 seconds in the video and then just move on to something else like you don't
3:50 understand the amount of like mind numing work and effort goes into just changing the most simplest thing ever bro or at one time my Babushka reacted to the Bel deline door oh look Babushka it's Bel deline like do you know how long it took me to find this [ __ ] door texture in the millions of texture files that are in GTA 5 bro you don't understand the the the [ __ ] mind numbing work it goes into this and all of that just to have the chance of recording something funny because sometimes you're putting work and effort into one scene and it's just [ __ ] garbage and it doesn't work out and then I just delete the scene and no one even knows that I even put that much effort
4:35 into something because I'm not showing it because it's not funny enough for the final video and the thing is most people don't even know most like sometimes I get like comments on my videos and people were asking me hey Ral which mod did you use for this video I'm like bro mod singular [ __ ] that's like multiple bro multiple sometimes I have like 100 mods installed when I make one of these videos bro and it's too much effort bro I I cannot do that I can't do that anymore which leads us to the second reason why I don't want to do GTA mod videos anymore I'm just burned out on GTA content bro I'm not even exaggerating the moment that I already felt burned out on GTA videos was on my second Battle Royale video bro this was
5:21 even this was even before the mod videos actually happens bro already on video number two I was already kind of like holy [ __ ] I don't know if I can do this anymore bro you know because I want to like evolve as a YouTuber I don't want to do the same [ __ ] over and over and over again bro like you have to imagine some of the people that stting watching my videos they were like 13 14 when they started watching me these people are now in their early 20s like it's not 2018 anymore bro this [ __ ] is getting old I'm getting old bro I'm 28 I started out this [ __ ] when I was 21 22 I'm I'm almost in my in my in my 30s bro I can't do this [ __ ] any anymore and I know what a lot of you people probably think right now redel it's okay you don't have to play GTA but why not play something else
6:07 instead which leads me directly into reason number three why I don't want to do these types of videos anymore and it's a very eye openening reason I actually never talked about that before I think I'm going to break a lot of people's heart when I when I say this sentence but I need to confess to something I don't really like video games all that [Applause] much I'm sorry bro but video games nowadays are so [ __ ] uninteresting to me I literally could not give less of a [ __ ] bro you always read about oh this game is bugged this game is walk this game is garbage $80 video game and you need to buy dlc's extra L negative news
6:53 about video games every single time bro and there's nothing [ __ ] good bro gaming to me is completely that the only way I can see myself gaming starting to game again is when I'm playing very shitty video games and just laughing about them so yeah one of the big reasons why I just don't have any motivation uploading gaming content in general is because gaming to me is absolutely dead there's nothing to do really and now let's get to statistics and money ladies and gentlemen the best topic of all time I already talked about this topic a bunch of times in the past but I didn't really dive too much into the details into the nitty-gritty of what is what is going on behind the scenes today I will okay today I'm going to show you the statistics ladies and
7:39 gentlemen so you understand what the [ __ ] I'm talking about in a nutshell GTA is absolutely killing my revenue and my chances to grow my YouTube business let me explain when you go to your YouTube Studio there is one metric that YouTubers love seeing uh being high as possible which is RPM revenue for every 1K views okay this basically tells you how much money you earn per th000 Clicks in this case here I got a revenue of €23 this is I would say is probably around normal when you're a YouTuber I guess this is kind of like the minimum that you would expect as a YouTuber to gain per thousand clicks right but for me this value was never anywhere near
8:25 close to €2 not even anywhere near close to € 1 when I had my Peak GTA modding phase where I would get 4 5 6 7 13 15 200 million views per video my RPM was literally I'm not even exaggerating like 45 cents or some [ __ ] like that like this was trash bro this means if one of my videos gets 1 million views I get €450 out of that for 1 million views 450 bucks you can barely afford a PlayStation 5 this [ __ ] is not good at all this is like actually trash right so for me as the best GTA YouTuber of all time the most creative the most talented the funniest YouTuber ever the views
9:11 that I get on my videos are four times less valuable than from any other YouTuber I would have to get three four 5 million views per month just to earn as much as someone working at McDonald's 3 four 5 million views per month and some random [ __ ] flipping Big Max is making more than me bro you know what I mean and the thing is because my videos take so much effort to do I can't release like 17 [ __ ] GTA mod videos in a month right I can only barely release one because it put so much effort editing and recording and mods and everything right so so I need to make sure that my video gets 2 to 3 million views per month and that the rest of my videos also get you know played enough times to reach 1 million
9:59 views so we reach the 4 million view threshold right like just imagine the stress that lies on your body where you your video needs to get millions of views just for you to earn minimum wage I see like these random [ __ ] YouTubers uploading reaction videos Barely reaching 100K views per video they have Lamborghinis they have their own home they have like Rolex on on their arms 17 of them and [ __ ] I was like bro how the [ __ ] are they affording this and then I looked into it you know I thought maybe YouTube is hating me maybe I did something wrong what did I do to YouTube to deserve this and then I looked into it you know why some people get more money than I do and I learned that the number one metric the number
10:45 one value that decides how much money you're going to get is audience Geographics when you look way back in the day during my Peak when it comes to GT San Andreas videos you can see in my geography stats that the number one country that viewed my videos is the United States with 14% but then on second place is Indonesia and then on third place Philippines and then on Fourth Place India and all of those countries here not to be disrespectful I'm just saying RPM wise absolute trash brother if I select a revenue stat you can see it even better Bro Look at that you can see I got 18 million views from the United States and I got €3
11:30 33,000 from them that's an RPM of $180 okay that's not that great but hey better than nothing right so for every 1,000 views I get $180 and now let's see how much money I get from Indonesia okay Indonesia 14 million views [Music] 2,650 bro what the [ __ ] how big is the RPM for this one oh my god there there's there's an E bro you already know your RPM is cooked when there's a letter and a minus bro in this thing 17 cents 17 cents per thousand clicks America gives me
12:15 $180 Indonesia gives me literally 10 times less so if I get 1 million views in America I need 10 million Indonesian views to reach the same revenue and bro Philippines and India ain't that good either it's around the same it's also like not great RPMs whatsoever you know what I mean so although America is like 14% of my total audience they give me like half of the revenue that I'm receiving so I thought to myself to increase my Revenue I really need to get more American and like Western viewers in General on my content and the reason why I even have that many Indonesians Philippians Indians watching my GTA videos is because GTA San Andreas is
13:02 extremely popular in those regions my theory why that is is probably because GTA San Andreas is so easy to Pirate you can play GTA San Andreas on the shittiest [ __ ] laptop imaginable like obviously some guy living in the Indian slums is not going to [ __ ] play Call of Duty war zone on ultra settings on on his laptop from 2010 right so that's why I think those games are just so popular in those Legions and now you might ask why the hell does Indonesia and the Philippines and India have such low RPM there's like a very simple but hard answer to that question basically because those countries aren't really that rich compared to America like you have to imagine like an Advertiser that
13:47 wants to advertise on YouTube let's say for example Sony okay Sony wants to advertise the new PlayStation 6 they have like a budget that they're going to put into advertising that they're going to send to YouTube and now Sony is thinking okay who are we going to Target with our ads who are these people that are going to buy the new PlayStation 6 It's usually the people who have the money to buy a PlayStation 6 the average wage of a United States American is like how much $23,000 per month or something like that even like a poor American who doesn't even have that much money lying around probably somehow can save money to maybe get a PlayStation okay it's not like out of the realm of impossibilities right in Indonesia Philippines India bro some of these people bro they're earning like
14:33 €2,000 per year if they're lucky Sony and all of the other companies know that they're not going to advertise their console their their big advertising money to countries that can afford it so they're going to advertise to rich countries like America like Canada like Sweden Germany Austria so the ads that my Indonesian and Philippians and Indian viewers are getting are usually ads for for like way less valuable products and if I was doing some random [ __ ] videos that don't take any effort I probably wouldn't even care that much if if it took me 30 minutes to make a GTA video bro who cares you know come on man but I'm not I'm putting some of the most effort that anyone has ever put in
15:19 gaming videos ever on this website the effort to revenue ratio to me is completely off bro like I can't I can't anymore bro I can't stand seeing people reacting to my videos bro getting 100K views and I already know this [ __ ] probably probably earned more money because his audience is just more American than mine is bro I can't stand this [ __ ] and now I know what some of you might think but rle why don't you just get sponsors you would think getting sponsors with that many views on on each video would be easy bro which sponsor would not jump on the redle train when she sees the VI of some on some of these videos the thing is sponsors also look at the audience Geographics there was a time when me
16:06 talking to sponsors depressed me so much I literally just stopped working on videos for an entire week bro I don't know how many times I wasn't contact with a sponsor with a promising sponsor you know lots of money involved lifechanging money for 99% of people on this planet but then they asked me to send them my audience stats I do a little screenshot send them a a message here is my audience statistics what do you think they ghost me they [ __ ] ghost me they don't they don't they don't respond anymore we have that many messages bro talking to each other sucking each other's I sent them my audience statistics bro they see Indonesia and Philippines in the top three they [ __ ] ghost me bro as if I insulted their mom bro they see
16:53 Indonesia they're like what the [ __ ] what the [ __ ] is that Indianapolis what is that I'm like yeah it's a country in Asia Asia what the [ __ ] is that get the [ __ ] out of here and then they just stop talking to me swear to God bro it's like it's it hurts it hurts and I also got like a manager this guy literally tells me hey Ral uh currently we don't seem to find any sponsors for you because they don't want to work with someone that has this low of a United States audience percentage like you do bro it hurts it hurts if you put so much effort into those [ __ ] videos making everything perfect my OCD is exploding in my brain bro I need to make this video as perfect as possible bringing unique angles unique funny moments unique mods that I do myself editing in a perfect way finding uh uh sound effects making my
17:39 own sound effects buying packs here buying packs there learning new 3D Technologies with After Effects and [ __ ] and in the end no one gives a [ __ ] so it's not only that I'm just burnt out on GTA content that I just just can't bring myself to find the motivation to put so much effort into this it's also that when I do make like a good video and people watch it and there's millions of people loving that [ __ ] but then I look into the revenue and bro it's almost as if I'm demonetized and I can't really grow my business whatsoever with sponsorships because it's so difficult finding people you know obviously I did have some sponsors that are very thankful that you gave me a chance bro but it's like out of 10 sponsors that I
18:25 talk to one of them maybe goes through I'm just stuck yeah I I I just can't do this anymore bro so so I'm just thinking to myself if I'm not having fun with those videos if they actively burn me out and I'm not even earning enough revenue and if I don't even have the sponsorship opportunities and I'm basically just stuck making videos like that why don't I just do something else something that people from Western uh from the Western world would want to watch why why am I why am I torturing myself just to prove a point just to be like no I'm better than everyone else I don't have to do trendy content I can do I can do very Niche content about a video game that that got released 20 years ago I'm better than them no so that's why 3 or 4 years ago I don't know
19:11 how long it was I just decided to really just kind of stop making GTA videos and just focus on videos that are more interesting to American viewers to like Western viewers something that don't flood my audience statistics with uh Philippians and Indians and Indonesians you know what I mean I mean they're still there if if if I look at my current stats they're still there so my channel is now trending in a very good direction I just need some more time and more interesting videos you know and it's also funny because my videos don't get anywhere near as many views as back in a day but my revenue is just climbing and climbing and climbing and climbing you know what I mean so yeah ladies and gentlemen that's my reason why I stopped making GTA videos I hope you're not too mad about it it's time to grow up and
19:57 try some new things in the end can I promise that I'm never ever going to make GTA videos ever again I can't promise it who knows maybe I have a complete change of mind especially when GTA 6 drops who knows so yeah guys where were you when radel quit GTA San Andreas what did you think did you cry did you cry write it in the comments I want to laugh at you point and laugh
