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a second mincing I'm not really sure that it is all right I shall be streaming live to YouTube so hello everyone I am giving it just a second oh you know I should do I should mute this alright good that's better hi guys welcome to this somewhat impromptu Q&A video I want to start off by saying that yes I'm angry super angry I've been trying to maintain my anger to make it last throughout the video so I will be you know feeding it to you a little bit at a time and I want to point out from the start here that this entire video is powered by the Sun yes my power wall and solar system is up and running so over here I have we're already getting four and a half thousand kilowatts that's just before 10 a.m. here in Southern California 3.6 kilowatts is charging the home and I'm using just shy of a thousand kilowatts to power this this video and all the electronics in my home right now so cool but hey the main point of this video is to address something that's come up in the past 24 hours it's affected several of us tech youtubers if you follow us myself bit what Kyle js2 since Hardware unboxed gamers Nexus and it's all sort of derived from a couple things originally I guess video cards posted something vaguely related to this but they did not name names and then there was an individual who came and posted something yesterday basically accusing a lot of us who had gone to Computex in Taipei Taiwan which I was at all last week still kind of getting over the jet lag from that of basically taking money in order to go to booth so the the accusation was that any of the Computex coverage that you saw from me all those booths were not me going to Computex and deciding I want to cover this or this or this it was me going and saying hey you want me to come cover you you better pay me money that's absolutely false it's completely wrong I am not sure if there is any legal recourse involved here I'm not currently planning on calling up the lawyers or anything like that but there is apparently some additional information that I'm not going to go into right now that does affect other people personal stuff that again I'm not going to go into details for but it's it's a concern because we have the tech community rely almost entirely on our integrity and I personally have a strong philosophy of doing the right thing as well as purity of intense I want to do what's right by you guys because I have a lot of respect for anyone who has chosen to follow me to subscribe to me on my channel and I think it is absolutely wrong to mislead you guys in any way and in particular I think accepting money for coverage of something is one of the ways in which viewers can sometimes be misled there is the way there are ways of doing it rights to do sponsored videos to disclose that upfront and that gives you guys the foreknowledge of okay when I'm watching is sponsored but personally I do not do any wholly sponsored videos I accept money for pre-roll ad integrations that I post at the beginning of videos and in the case of something like Computex which involves a lot of money investments up front to pay for plane tickets and hotels and to bring an editor along with me and pay for food all of that requires a little bit more money than your typical day to day videos so when I go to Computex I get a group of sponsors I put their logos at the beginning of the video and I say this coverage is brought to you by these people and they helped me to go there and travel and bring that content to you that's pretty much all I do and it's it's been a personal decision of mine to not do sponsored videos for one thing it just makes it easier because I do I mean I'm I'm blessed to be successful enough to the point where I get I get people who come to me manufacturers who say hey we'd love to have you show our product on your channel you know we could we could pay you for it and I always say I don't do sponsored videos I've I've replied to people with that multiple times just in the past month when people have approached me with that kind of thing I'd like to keep the separation there simply because not only does would accepting the sponsorship for a video mean that I have to then go and do that video for that person and I like to keep my videos a little bit more geared towards what I'm interested in and what I want to do but it also in my personal opinion serve detracts from the integrity of the video itself if it wasn't something that I just considered thought of Tim to create organically versus a separate third party coming and say hey hey saying hey do you want to make this video we'll pay you money for it so that's that's how I do it more specifically this morning I caught on some follow up from that original the original tweet was from an individual who's shut their Twitter account down on everything and just to show some of the fallout fallout from something like this heard OCP followed up with that with some statements that I thought were were incredibly misleading and deceptive and also showed no integrity towards for instance what we had recently praised heart out he heart OCP for in the past couple months which was the coverage of GPP and sort of drawing that on to the public and being well researched and looking at multiple sources and the immediate response from her dose of heart OCP following up with that was like oh yeah youtubers it's all pay to play and like you know you wouldn't believe the some huge sums of money that I paid for exposure exposure are huge and even like the suggestion the suggestion and this that Kyle said in Computex in 1998 I was offered prostitutes to cover companies products like that's not said directly but it's in the same goddamn tweet accusing us on all the people included in this of pay-to-play and that's pretty freakin offensive I hold myself to some pretty high ethical standards and that's absolute so I got no more to say on it than that but this is supposed to be a Q&A video I hope that was a bit of anger for you've been trying to you know keep that high up but let's move on just actually some of the questions because I'm going to try to keep this video but to the 10 to 15-minute range if possible okay first question is from cell cells moderator and our live show we do on Tuesdays which is coming back next week by the way once Kyle gets back from Japan he that's what--when crap like this happens how do you still find joy in what you do is it worth it and some follow-up questions are there there I mean you kind of have to roll with it sometimes it's it's one of the downsides to to success in some degree like I have I have a level of success that I'm fairly proud of that I'm also very grateful for but along with that is gonna come people who for some reason think that I'm not deserving of it and you know there's there's psychology that goes into that I've been somewhat open in the past that like I've struggled with depression like that's a common thing and when you have people sort of attacking you with stuff like this yes it can it can sort of drive you down like that so I try to maintain positivity stay positive by wearing the shirt of course and also just trying to focus on things that I do that bring me joy and that give me a feeling of accomplishment and also that give me a feeling that I've helped people that's often why I tend to focus a little bit more on entry-level stuff with computers and I often don't go into quite as much depth as like gamers Nexus is because I try to make things approachable and understandable for people so I don't so anyway I I hope that answers that question I know I got I ramble a bit but another question from Moises is these are all questions that were just responded to the tweet that I posted just before the show how are you I'm doing okay again a little upset but trying to maintain positivity brian says well being a bad mood mean we will see some emotion coming from you well you be the judge Brian trying not to be too emotional trying to maintain dignity and decorum but so it goes oh thank you for the hugs pop guys thank you thanks for the donations in chat by the way as well I appreciate you guys jumping in there and saying that but I'm I'm I'm probably not going to get to the those actual questions but I do have a few more from Twitter lined up here Dan 101 out of pure curiosity and nothing else how do you make your money is kind of like Jays to sense videos and - has also done it video in the past so I tweeted yesterday because when when when accusations kind of come out of the woodwork like this oftentimes they're pretty baseless and they don't get much uptake this one there's a little bit more going on behind the scenes which is I think why there was more of a response from various youtubers like myself Jay posted a video last night and it's important it's important again integrity is is so key making sure that you guys know that I'm doing everything to bring you guys honest and true information is also important and it's stupid that I feel like I have to tout that because it's the exact opposite of what I want to do is to be like hey guys look leave this stuff I'm doing that's good I don't I don't like to do that and so it's it seems like almost a step backwards to try to do things with integrity and honestly and then come and then have to like make a video be like see look look at me doing things right and everything but you kind of have to at some point especially when accusations got like this so more to the point of answering your question I would direct you to that video it's called how I run my youtube channel where I sort of make lots of statements and there's basically three main ways that I make money one is from YouTube Adsense revenue and that's if you guys watch ads before the video if you don't have ad blocker or if you whitelist me or if you just watch the video and you get an ad show and I get a percentage of that money same goes for YouTube bread if you're signed up for YouTube bread and you watch my videos depending on how many videos you watch I forget exactly how its perched out but I can see like a certain percentage of the YouTube ad revenue is from YouTube bread a second way that I make money is through those add integrations and those I line up directly with sponsors and try to make sure it's always stuff that's relevant to the concept I produce as and also products that I'm are reasonably good that no one's gonna get no one's gonna buy that product and feel like oh like Paul really led me wrong with that pre-roll ad he did I usually try to make those 20 seconds or less and a little trick if you guys are watching my videos on the YouTube and you want to skip because I know with ad integrations you can't skip them a double or a triple tap on the right side when you're watching in the YouTube app on your phone will jump forward 20 seconds and you can skip the ad or like two right arrow clicks if you're watching in the browser I try to make them easy to jump forward because I know not everyone likes to watch those what's the other the other way I make money is my nice my store so if you guys want to buy merchandise you can go to pulsar bread Nets and I sell merch like mugs fun stuff it's all high-quality and that's I make a little bit a little bit of money to I think that's it right Oh Amazon Amazon referral links have account with Amazon and I also have an account with them what is it double click Africa do I have another account so like if I linked his places like new egg if I link you to a product and you go through there and you buy something then I get a small commission from that which is pretty standard just about every youtuber does it - also explains that in his video as well so that's how I make my money note that none of those things was someone coming and saying hey Paul can I pay you five thousand dollars and you make this video that we want you to make covering this product that you wouldn't have made otherwise I don't do that same thing with the booth coverage at at Computex so moving on a few more questions I'll try to get through these quick since I've already gone over my estimated amount of time a little bit alley Ramesh's did you use a gaming laptop for video rendering or where you provided with a PC during your Computex trip I've tried taking like portable systems on the go slick for CES I've been bringing a physical system that's like more full-sized and that helps excuse me that helps with rendering because full-size systems are a little bit better this guy p-tech strip one of my sponsors was gigabyte and completely unrelated to the gigabytes ad contract that they signed up to put their little logo at the beginning I asked hey you guys have a laptop that we could borrow and use for the trip because I have a razor blade but I like to grab something else for my editor use and they provided this which is a gigabyte arrow 14 it still sits small which is nice the screen size is a little smaller smallish for us I believe this is what a 15.6 inch screen no sorry it's 14 inch screen hence arrow 14 but it's got a quad-core 7700 Shh Q + 16 gigs of ram and this was perfectly adequate for editing and rendering the videos at Computex and no i wasn't paid to put that in Nick hey it's just a question that was fast I have to explain myself so often alright daymo crickets ed is their PC relay to perch that if you could design or sell your own that you would do recently I have been I had a chance to check out the 11 dynamic from Leon Lee that der bauer worked with them for and I like to see a lot of sort of little little touches that I think maybe maybe weirder bars idea I don't know exactly what was what but I think a case would be cool every case that comes out has sort of different nuances to it and it would be interested to take interesting to take all the things that I like most about a case and try to have a case manufacturer make that and put that together I've done nothing to pursue anything like that but maybe in the future a few more Lamont Cranston favorite new tech Computex I'd have to say there were some cool cases that came out I liked the evolved X as far as all the cases I thought it was just when it comes to price and everything you can put in into it I thought they did a good job with that need to test actual wire flow and everything of course still but I think he's probably at the 32 core thread refer to which is supposed to come out in August I thought that was a big announcement and a little bit more practical than Intel's 28 core hey and I could go into a separate side tangent about the drama around that too but let's let's not make this video too long torch games studio says what what's your advice what's your best advice for an absolute beginner diving into the world of PC building one ignore the haters that's that's an important part of it but I would say you just have a day job have something that you can support yourself with don't immediately try to support yourself with the YouTube channel make sure it's something you enjoy doing from like from its core you need to enjoy the technology you need to enjoy the production process as well as the entire process through editing and uploading if you don't like all those things then one of them will start to be feel like a drag on your production and just make videos that you enjoy and remember there's no shame in getting a product reviewing it and then returning it if you're having a difficult having difficulty from the get-go finding stuff to do videos on one last question from Jason B how many times have you accidentally stuck your fingers in a running case fan I was originally gonna say way too many to count but then I realized he says accidentally because stopping a case fan blade with my fingers was off in a way that I would use to actually determine what the loudest fan in a case was so I would just go and stop the fans to be like nope all right that woman wasn't the loud one and when it comes to that just many I've done that many many times but I probably probably at least 10 or 15 times it's usually a nice wake-up call and perhaps shaves a little bit of skin off of your knuckles but guys that's pretty much all the time I have for this video I didn't want to make it too long just wanted to address a few things there might be more on this topic in the future who really knows but this is pretty much all I have to say about it for now but we'll probably redress this next week on the live show we should be back next Tuesday and was that five six or five days or so 5:30 p.m. Pacific time on twitch.tv slash awesome hardware as well as my youtube channel and Kyle's YouTube channel and I should maybe have one or two more videos coming up later this week too and also I do have the parts coming in for my 1,000 deep build back there which I'm very excited to move on to the next step for water cooling parts from aqua cool apical aqua tuning alpha cool okay thanks for watching this video though guys hit the thumbs up button if you did enjoy it and I'll be back soon angry angry I'm very all right now I'm calm now gonna go get some more breakfast jet lag just makes you want to eat all the time goth waffles