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.

All living creatures have infinite lives within infinite matrices.

This comes from understanding nonexistence as non-experience. When something does not exist, it does not register nonexistence as an experience.

That said, all lifeforms can be seen as moving through infinite cycles of matrix states, because there are only two things: the matrix construct and the matrix itself.

In that sense, all lifeforms go through a sequence of matrix construct → matrix → matrix construct → matrix → and so on.

Since a being is already within the matrix, it cannot defy its existence from within it.

When something does not exist, it does not experience time. From that perspective, time does not “pass” before birth—because there is no subject to wait through it.

Of course, this is only speculation, but it forms a consistent internal idea.

Everybody would like to have fun and make money, but that rarely happens.
Most people work jobs they hate just to pay the bills.

I never really worked full-time—maybe three months with a friend—and I realized the jobs I was offered felt like bullshit to me. So instead, I decided to work for myself.

Instead of doing what people expect, I do what I want. I rarely get paid for what I enjoy doing, because there’s a mismatch in demand. People don’t really need what I create; if they did, they would support it—but most of it doesn’t find an audience.

That’s the harsh reality of modern life.

If fun activities translated directly into money, nobody would hate their job. But most jobs feel meaningless to the people doing them—they do them just to get money and pay the bills.

I started blogging about 17 years ago. I blogged everywhere and tried to make money, but no platform really paid me for the views I got. Over all that time, I made a bit over €2,000 from donations—which isn’t much.

Money from blogging is more of a dream that keeps people going. You probably won’t make much, if anything—sorry if that sounds harsh. A small minority of bloggers do make money, but most don’t.

Blogging is more of a creative outlet than a money-making machine. It’s a platform for publishing, not for earning. Even when you publish on sites like KDP, you usually earn little to nothing, no matter how much you produce.

I have over 100 titles on Kindle, and they bring in just €1–€2 per month—completely passive income.

The truth is, a lot of people want a life where they sit at a computer, do easy work, and get paid. Blogging often feels like that kind of work—but it rarely pays.