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Bilibili's financial situation in that I'm pretty confident that the amount of money you can make on Bilibili is not the equivalent of YouTube by any stretch of the imagination.

And of course, subscriber numbers don't really tell you how successful a person is in terms of their monthly viewership.

You can have one person with 150,000 subscribers making a million dollars a year and one person with 150,000 subscribers making $20,000 a year.

Subscribers don't really mean much.

Although they might mean more on Bilibili still to this day.

You're in that kind of domain where you're not so established that you can just disappear for months and come back and people will care.

Or you've just recently got successful.

You recognize that your situation is very precarious, where if you don't give it your all every moment of every day, you might not be there next year or the year after.

Job security is something that you work for and kind of throw years of your life away to get in this industry.

And even then, it's still precarious.

Social media is not a place where you get job security traditionally.

And so I can understand at that kind of size, you'll be looking at anything else that you're doing as like a threat to your survival in social media.

And that's the way that I looked at it when I was in that kind of situation.

There was a period where I didn't see my family for a year.

I didn't speak to my mother for a year.

She and I had an argument that I'm sure under normal circumstances would have just resolved after a while.

But because I was so into my work, I just didn't fix that.

There was a period where my backyard, the grass was up to here.

It was a literal jungle because I just didn't go outside.

There was absolutely no work-life balance for me during the period where I was growing to be successful.

Every single waking minute was about how do I maintain and sustain myself on YouTube.

I remember when I realized that I might have a problem, I was on a call with another content creator and I just instinctively recorded the call.

And I was like, I don't think we should make content out of this call, man.

I'm like, oh, fuck yeah.

It was just like a friendly chat and I'm recording it just in case it can become a YouTube video.