Liza Koshy told her 17 million subscribers that she needed to be seen as a human, not a character. Dan Howell had a ‘complete breakdown’. MatPat, the host of Game Theory, knew he would walk away three years before he finally did, saying “I didn’t want to do this forever.” After ten years of weekly uploads, Tom Scott said in his ‘goodbye’ video he needed “things in my life that are not work”.
I, too, quit YouTube. When people find out I was a content creator, they always get excited. When I tell them I quit, they always ask why. Six years after I last uploaded, I still don’t have a proper answer. I’m caught between two truths: it was amazing and led me to do incredible things; it was immensely stressful and made it so much more complicated to exist.
