Today I spent being either in bed or on the computer.

They turned the clock forward by one hour, so days are flying really fast.

Today I did basically nothing, not a prolific day.

After decades of blogging and vlogging I can say that it is just free labor.

Most people do not get any money from their blogs or vlog channels.

This ‘start a blog or vlog to make money’ idea is just bullshit because blogs never pay.

You might accept the dream of someday being paid and pursue it all your life, but after 40000 videos and 1000s of blog posts I can firmly say it doesn’t pay a single cent unless you’re lucky to get some donations.

If you want to create a lot then you need to be really bored and lower your creative standards.

Most of it is info trash.

But creating info trash is better than drinking or playing video games.

The reality is that many people have high creative standards, that’s why they stagnate and don’t create.

Back in the day when there was no promote button, you could actually get views on YouTube, but now when the promote button was introduced, you really can’t get any views on YouTube.

For free there are no views, for money they find you views.

Videos on YouTube are artificially supressed.

Your blog will always have one loyal reader, that’s you.

People have turned away from blogs due to different content consumption.

Now everyone is reading the AI answers which are supplied from blogs, nobody is going to search the web for some bullshit blog.

But for you – your blog is the most precious thing online, and sometimes you wonder – why there are no views on your blog…

The reality is that there is more content online than there is attention in the world.

Your blog competes with video, audio, images, and countless other creators, so expecting a lot of views can be tricky. It often leads to disappointment when expectations aren’t met.

As a blogger, my “work” is to create articles for my blog.

But most of the work isn’t actually writing—it’s waiting for ideas to pop into my head.

Everything I’ve created online has come from a place of boredom. I was so bored that I ended up making tens of thousands of videos and thousands of blog posts, scattered across the internet—some of them deleted and lost.

So blogging is more about waiting than writing. When an idea appears, it’s actually quite easy and fast to write it down.

So, as some of you know, I’m a blogger and ex-vlogger.

I’ve been making money from donations, and I used to get this question: what’s the biggest donation I’ve ever received in a single transfer?

My biggest donation ever was €100 in one transfer, and that same person sent another €100 within a couple of days.

Since I have this opportunity to speak with you all, I want to thank everyone who has supported me over the years. It makes my work feel somewhat valuable.

Although I don’t make much from donations and book sales, it’s honest money. I don’t steal anything, and I’m not selling some overpriced €1000 course.

My books used to be $0.99 each, but now I’ve decided to become a premium author and charge $9.99 per book. I know that might be high, but bear with me—I do a lot of free work, so I believe the price is justified.

If I could get everything for free—like kebabs and everything else—I would also make my work free. In fact, most of it already is free, even though I still have to pay for everything. But I’m still forced to sell something and accept donations.

So if you value my work, feel free to grab a book or make a donation. Thanks again.

I recently talked with my brother about currency and how not all currencies are equal.

I Googled how much people in China make per month in euros, and it seemed to be around €160–€250.

If a person earns €160 per month, that’s basically the price of about 10 kebabs in my country.

That’s also why many Chinese and Indian people come to our country—here the minimum wage is around €800, which is roughly 44 kebabs.

When choosing work, you shouldn’t just look at the numbers, but at what you can actually buy. I personally measure it in kebabs.

So Lithuanians are earning roughly three times more value than some workers in China, although of course prices there are different too. Unfortunately, I can’t ship kebabs here. 😀

If I moved to China now, I would be relatively rich since I receive a €560 disability payment.

So you could say working isn’t really a choice for me. Still, I keep producing blog posts just to stay productive and not feel like I’m doing nothing. I receive money passively, but I also work without pay—so in a way, I “earn” my disability income indirectly.

When I first started blogging, I used Blogger.com in Lithuanian—you can still find a backup of that blog here. I thought 4 million people should be enough for a blog to get some views, but that wasn’t true.

Later, I moved into video and made around 40,000 videos.

With the experience I have now, I feel like I should have started this blog years ago (about 17 years ago, to be more precise). I never should have created videos, but at the time, it was fun.

Looking back, I’d tell aspiring bloggers: start a blog while you’re young, and don’t drift into video just because it feels more exciting or visible. Even if you start with either video or blogging, don’t constantly reset your progress. I did that many times—I kept chasing different paths, but now I’ve settled with blogging.

Instead of doing things that get more views, do things you actually enjoy. If it’s blogging, then blog. Neither video nor blogging will automatically pay you unless people are genuinely interested in what you do. But most people will simply be indifferent.