Dinner with Joe Rogan of Thailand: Pandering the Algorithm

Okay, not the real Joe Rogan, but Pete from @Thairish Times on YouTube and I meet for dinner with our Ladies. I like to call Pete the Irish Joe Rogan of Thailand because he does interviews. The restaurant we met at, however, is indeed owned by the most popular YouTuber working out of Thailand @Mark Wiens on YouTube.

Forgive me please for my slightly inaccurate headline, but that is the point of this video. While my YouTube channel has been up for over six years, it's the last two years I have been posting videos in earnest. When I began this video making effort here in Thailand I wanted to be authentic and "real", whatever that means.

At the same time I began this latest effort, another retired Bangkok guy began making videos as well. He was retired from the movie business and employed lots and lots of promotional techniques in his videos. I was critical of such methods and stuck to my authentic and real approach.

That other retired guy now has 240,000 subscribers. I have 1500. I'm reconsidering my video production approach. That is the underlying theme of this video.