I think it will be quite a while before we'll be okay again.

I started doing some YouTube back in 2016, when everyone could monetize their channels regardless of how many followers they had. Then when they changed it to a minimum of 1000 subs, I felt less interested. At the time I was just thinking about how the big YouTubers I was following had a hard time walking down the street in their city without getting stopped by fans. That was all about people who liked the creators, and even that seemed a bit unpleasant to me.

Once I married my husband, and we talked about how we wanna make passive income, we agreed that neither of us really want our faces to be the sales funnel, but rather our books, our words.

I've read books I've enjoyed but I have no clue who the author is. Even if I've looked up the name to read more of their works, I don't feel as close to the author as I do to a YouTuber, but I do feel close to their works.

This is one of the only ways I can think of to create some distance between what I put out there, and the crazy people who would take someone's life because of what they put out there that they can't accept.

It is utterly despicable how some people think.