Granddad, what do you do when you can't do nothing? But there's nothing you can do.

You do what you can.

So, I removed all of my... wait, hang on.

I removed all of my followers from Instagram, which was my one social media outside of Youtube that I kept with a big following.

Now, I don't have anything outside of Youtube.

I wish I could say that this was a hard decision for me, but in all honesty, this was something that I've been thinking about since the year 2020.

And so today, I thought that I just give you guys my opinion on it as I tend to do on this channel.

I'm also kind of trying to film in public as you can see.

I'm really stepping out of my comfort zone.

So first of all, I have a lot of videos on this channel talking about how I don't really like social media, how I don't really endorse people investing their time in it in terms of social status.

But at the same time, I feel like it's really important for our generation.

Like whenever I meet a new person and we want to stay in contact, whenever I make new friends,

the first question to stay in touch, is always, "Oh yeah, what's your Instagram? Let me follow you on Instagram."

It's the most universal app where you can follow anybody that you meet, right?

So that's why I always had this dilemma of, I want to be using Instagram for my friends and new people that I meet, new context, but at the same time, I didn't really want to keep it public anymore.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

I've never cared about being an influencer or having a lot of numbers because to be honest, the number of followers has never added any value to my life.

I guess the main reason why I kept my public Instagram for such a long time even though I didn't really want to was because there was always the advantage of just announcing my videos to quite a lot of people.

But to be completely honest, the cons have always outweighed the pros.

So I removed about 25,000 of my followers and I only kept people that I know personally, my actual friends, people that I've met in person at least, my acquaintances.

Let me talk about the cons of having a big Instagram and mine wasn't even that big.

The thing is that I've always used Instagram as if I was talking to a bunch of my friends,

but the truth was obviously that with every story that I posted, I was sharing it with at least 3,000 people.

And a couple of years back, I haven't really thought about it that deeply, but as I got older, the desire to share my day-to-day life with people that I don't know, slowly started diminishing.

Not only that, but having a public Instagram is a lot different than having a public YouTube channel.

I can't express how many instances I've had of my friends telling me, "hey, your fans started following me and DM me, asking me about you."

Trying to get my number or stalking my friends and those friends didn't want that sort of attention at all.

So I just gotta admit I'm not built for this, I guess.

It is a little uncomfortable when some people get invested in your life way beyond the point that you'd want them to.

I just want to say that this is, I'm not complaining, okay?

I know that there are certain aspects that the influencer lifestyle brings with itself.

So I'm just saying that I don't need it.

I value my privacy a lot more than the cool looking number on my Instagram profile, if that makes sense.

I can do whatever I want, right? I got free will.

I don't have to abide by any requirements just because I like making videos doesn't mean that I have to participate in this social media game, right?

But yeah, that's about it.

And for those of you who watch this video until the very end, if you really want to follow me on another social media than just YouTube for, I guess a little more frequent posts, I guess you could follow me on Tumblr.