Why I Left Jubilee (*sort of)

all right this time for real I'm going to start a YouTube channel I'm going to consistently put out content and it's going to be good okay so I want to start a YouTube channel for the 5,453 billionth time I am trying to think of how to start my own YouTube channel and the exposure blown [Music] out how's it going my name is John and this is the start of something uh hopefully really cool I'm ready for the last 6 years I've been working at Jubilee media Jubilee is a pretty popular YouTube channel maybe you've seen this video you think that is the shape of the earth points or this video I I am the mo H or this video you can call me nut though if you want EXC I started out in 2018 as a director creating videos myself myself and then in 2020 I became the creative director we produced hundreds of videos a year and developed some of YouTube's most recognized and mimicked formats thank you Jubilee for the idea we kned you and then at the end of 2023 I decided it was time to quit here's why the simplest answer really is family I became a dad in 2021 and I got married in 2022 then we ran into some family medical issues [Music] during those life experiences the reality and the demands of running a YouTube channel with 8 million subscribers really started to sink in and being young parents in Los Angeles was just becoming less and less realistic and even though I loved my job Jubilee if I'm being really honest it became clear to me that I was much better at being a creative than I was at being a manager and so downshifting and moving to Chicago and leaving Los Angeles presented an opportunity for me uh which I'm now exploring here with you which is being creative um as an individual and so yeah I want to make more content on my own and I want to share it with you give me a little thumbs up Cal in 2019 when I was a director I created a podcast called radical empathy in this podcast I have conversations with people who have unique and challenging points of view and I try and connect with them and I try and understand where they're coming from and I'm starting new episodes of the podcast and you can start listening to them um now actually cuz yeah that that's the plan in addition to making that podcast I also want to create new video essays that I release Here on my personal Channel I'm very interested in media and media literacy and I'm what you would call a peak Millennial I was born in 1989 and I was raised on television cartoons Disney Channel Nickelodeon in the 9s and I witnessed 911 as a media event and how that drastically changed the world in the global narrative we were all living in I was one of the first generations to form an identity on social media I was on Myspace I was on Facebook I was on Instagram when it was new I was there when radio had released their album and you could choose how much you wanted to pay for it but I was there I want to share my experiences as a millennial who has lived through a rapid evolution of media and I want to create video essays that explore media as a medium that shapes us as humans and how we think and what we believe and who we are as people if that's content that you find interesting or those are ideas that you find interesting you should subscribe and stick around because I'll be releasing those videos here and I'd also like to close the book on what Jubilee has meant to me I found it so rewarding and I felt so fortunate to be at a place where we were really allowed to to try and do things Fearless ly my deepest deepest thank you to anybody who ever participated in a jubilee video and my deepest thank you to the team that I worked with and all of the energy that they poured in it was a really magical meaningful and um important experience for me as a creative as a thinker and as a human and I just want to say thank [Music] you [Music] am I crazy or is that a new shirt am I crazy or is that a new shirt am I crazy or is that a new shirt are you talking to me yes okay uh yes it is

Channel: John Regalado

Views: 33,989

Keywords: Jubilee, Why I Left, Buzzfeed, Try Guys, John Regalado, Creator Economy, Colin and Samir, Versus 1, Middle Ground, Odd One Out, Jubilee Media, I Quit My Job, Radical Empathy

Id: 1Frvy2Fo3SM

Length: 5min 40sec (340 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 21 2024