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The Long Awaited Discussion
Finally, eh? 😅 Here we are at the most anticipated discussion for my brands in all of 2025. 😲 After that 10-month long cryptic absence from uploading onto my flagship brand, Guuzaka, or nearly 24 months in the case of Atazaka, you are all naturally wondering, "What in the vast universe happened to this guy?" Behold! Today is the day where I will tell you what I want you to know. Here are all the topics I will be discussing in this entry: 10 Months Later: The Follow-up, Channel Description Update, Outdoor Buildings Videos, Music Plans, Gaming Plans, Commentary Plans, Parasociality, Amazon Associates, AliExpress, and August Closing Thoughts. Yes, you are in for a long read. 📖 I hope your attention span is long. 😝 Then again, if you read the July 2025 entry, you totally saw this coming, and wanted it.
10 Months Later: The Follow-up
Oops, I did it again. 😖😳 3 times now. 😬 While I have had hiatuses several times in the 2010s, from what my memory can recall, they were maybe typically 3 months at worst. They were not very common either. Enter the 2020s and OUCH! 🤕 3 ultra long hiatuses: 1 in 2022, another in late 2023 into early 2024, and here we are again with another one from September 2024 to July 2025. 💀 Let us get straight to the matter: I caught the Ultra Low Productivity Virus, and man oh man did it go nuclear ballistic on me! ☣💥☢ To clarify, I am not using this as euphemism for COVID-19 or something. While there were certainly some physical things at play, COVID-19 was not confirmed to be 1 of them. 😌
After recovering from 3 heavy-duty takeovers of the Ultra Low Productivity Virus, lots of learning, reflecting, reevaluating, and more, I have taken ultra measures. Ultra measures to ensure that this does not happen again. The only time you will ever see such a lengthy hiatus is if something absolutely valid, like, God forbid, lengthy hospitalisation happens. 💀 At the time of this writing, the 3 Gravely hiatuses I took in the 2020s have now resulted in 42 months of content debt. 💀☠💀☠ The good news is that because my content does not utilise ultra fancy editing, I do not need 42 months to clear the backlog. That said, clearing the backlog will take serious time and Lord-level self-discipline if I wish to clear it as soon as feasibly possible. 😐
Channel Description Update
This was my old channel description from XXXX To July 31, 2025:
You are on Guuzaka. 😶 The 5 major pillars of this brand are the outdoors, mobile games, products, music, and talk videos. 🌳📱📦🎼💬 However, Guuzaka is by no means a mass appeal brand. It can be rather strange, different, complicated or controversial at times. 😲 I upload videos that I like. If you like, cool. If you do not like, you are strongly advised to move on without any drama or nonsense of the sort. Important! Even though some of the videos are rate "E" Guuzaka is NOT catered to children. 🚫👦🏾👧🏾 Comment Section Rules: 1. No hate speech. 2. No spam, bots, or advertising. 3. No personal attacks. 4. Stay on topic. 5. Do not post anyone’s personal information. 6. No swearing. 7. No trolling. 8. No lying. 9. Post in English. If a foreign comment can be easily and accurately translated in Google, I will leave it alone. 10. No unintelligible posts. Comments that fail to follow rules get removed, or blocked in more serious cases.
Why I even thought this was good in the first place is beyond me. 😳 I am glad some sense came to me this Year 2025 Summer to get rid of that! If I saw comment section rules on a channel's description I would think of 2 scenarios:
1. The Channel had a very turbulent comment section, thus the need to bring it to the forefront.
2. The Content Creator is excessively rules-obsessed, and therefore an unpleasant human-being to engage with.
So where does this fall for Guuzaka? 🤔 Neither. While I firmly believe in the importance of following fair, good, civil rules, I also believe that it is important not to be predatory over the enforcement of rules, unless it is genuinely called for under exceptional circumstances. Now for the updated description:
The Great Green Guuzaka. 🟢 The 5 major categories of my brand are the outdoors, mobile games, products, music, and talk videos. 🌳📱📦🎼💬 Friendly notice that Guuzaka is not for everybody. 😅 It can be rather strange, different, complicated or controversial at times. 😲 I upload videos that I like. If you like, cool. If you do not like, you are strongly advised to move on without any drama or nonsense of the sort. 😌
Ahhhh, is this not soooooo much better than the outgoing, congested old description? 😌 Just straight to the point. Lets you know what I make, while causal-friendly letting you know that my personality is a bit different from your Family Friendly, Mainstream content creators. Sounds like a win-win if you ask me. 😏
Outdoor Buildings Videos
Had it not been for such tight time constraints, I would have made a separate blog post the same day I made the grand decision. What decision? I will copy and paste Question #5 Urban Exploration Videos:
Question #5: Why did you delete the following playlists: Automobile Dealership Comedy, Religious Buildings, Religious High Schools, Secular High Schools, Religious Schools, and Secular JK-8ish Schools?
Answer: As of July 31, 2025, I formally announce to you that I will no longer be filming these kinds of videos. This is not a decision I took lightly, but thought about repeatedly many times. I made this decision on my own; not from force or anything, but because I feel it is ultimately the right thing to do. As my brands continue to grow with the many ambitious, exciting plans I have for them now and in the future, I have to be careful about the dangerous precedent it could set if I were to keep making those kind of videos with a significant following. I will not delete what I have already uploaded. I will upload whatever has already been filmed, but no new additions. There are some exceptions.
Example 1: Abandoned places that are not high-risk.
Example 2: Something absolutely interesting happened at ABC place, like an Unidentified Object Landing on top of it.
Example 3: Certain Special Events.
Some of you are going to be saddened at first, but will understand that it is for the better of my brands and the community as a whole. On the contrary, some of you are going to be so happy to see that I finally stopped making these "Creepy" "Weird" videos, though I did also explain and dispel those notions to the people that thought that was the intent, when it never was. 😑 Fun fact: the naysayers were largely the reason why I even created the Frequently Asked Questions Page for my brands in the first place. 🙃
As explained in the Answer to Question #5, it was not the naysayers that made me stop; I chose to stop on my own terms to avoid the bigger dangers that could occur in the future. 😐 Furthermore, I really do not want to attract lots of people under 18 to my brands. 🔞 That might sound rather dry and mean, but I must be transparent about that. While my Rated E videos can be technically watched by everyone, Guuzaka Atazaka is made by an adult for adults. 👩🏾👨🏾 That is why you will notice more adult-oriented themes in the videos of the newer years. 👀 This does not mean necessarily mean a surge in sex, nudity, drugs, and similar, however. If you watch a variety of my videos entirely, you know exactly what I am getting at. Other outdoor videos will continue to be part of my brands for as long as my health permits. 🌞
Music Videos
As much as I yearn to play my Tenor Recorder and Soprano Chalumeau again, I honestly do not know when I will get around to playing them. 😶 But I can tell you something I have noticed: Unboxing Aulos Tenor Recorders 211A-E consistently ends up in the top 10 on my Channel Analytics. 😲 What I find particularly strange is that the video is not even in my top 20 for view count. 🤨For a 4-year-old video to keep getting new views, it tells me some important things:
1. People love the sound of the tenor recorder, so long as you play at least moderately good.
2. The most shocking point of all time: people want to see more tenor recorder videos. 😱
So, why am I not playing and recording anymore? 🤔 Ongoing things that have not been resolved...... 😶 Hint: hands, arms, and other. 😶🪐👹
"Hold on Guuzaka, since when did you get a chalumeau, and how come we have not seen it yet?!" You must be wondering. Well, just 1 of literally 100s of videos I still have not gotten around to uploading yet, and then I just had to exponentially exacerbate that by going on a 10-month long, giga stupid, unproductive content hiatus. 😳🤪😵🥴
Gaming Plans
I do not have any gaming priorities at this time. There are certainly plans in the future, but nothing at the moment as of August 2025.
Commentary Plans
I think about commentary videos a fair bit. 🎙 However, due to the amount of time it takes to put together a script, edit the script, record the script, and then edit the video, you can easily see why commentary videos are so far and few between. 😶 This will change once the video backlog is dealt with.
Parasociality
I have been seeing this word so much on YouTube and Reddit, that the day has come where I take a professional look at what this word means. Before I quote the professional definition, here is what I thought it meant: Cringey social media people obsessing over another creator who will never want anything to do with them. 😂👏🏾🤣 And now for the professional definitions:
"A parasocial relationship is a one-sided relationship where a person extends time, energy, and emotion toward another person (often a celebrity or public figure) who doesn’t know them" --Everydayhealth
"Parasocial relationships go beyond simply following an influencer and engaging with their content. “It involves a level of commitment to a public figure where you even begin to view the celebrity as a friend or confidante,” --Jessica Leader
Right, so I was not entirely wrong then. 😆 However, after reading the full article on that website, it is clear that 99% of the time when people throw the term "Parasocial" around, they are typically using it the most negative context possible. Because according to the same website, these relationships do not always have to be negative, so long as the admirer is not making their idol feel uncomfortable, they are not stalking them, prioritising real relationships over parasocial relationships, isolationism, and et ceterea.
What do I think of parasociality personally? 🤔 100% Pointless. 😐 Why should I invest time, energy, and emotion into somebody who does not give a rat's backside about me? Do not get me wrong. Of course I have content creators that I follow on social media. However, I expect absolutely nothing from them in return, other than basic online politeness and the content I followed them for in the 1st place. 😌 Furthermore, a fair bit of people in celebrities and creators are actually rude in reality. 🖕🏾 Not everybody, but if you have ever seen those "Celebrities/Creators That Are Rude In Reality" threads, you realise how many people end up on those lists. 😳
There is no doubt that forming meaningful relationship with people can be very challenging for some, but parasociality is not the answer, folks. 😬 There are resources that can, and should be used for people struggling to form meaningful real-life relationships. Some might be free. Some might be cheap. Some might be subsidised by your country. You will never know, until you actually make an effort to try. 🌱🌞
Amazon Associates
I will keep this part ultra short: if you are from Canada, United States Of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, or Japan, consider purchasing from my Amazon locale affiliate links so I can officially get into the program for each locale. If users do not get 3 qualified sales within 180 days, Amazon discards the application. 💀 You then have to reapply for each locale that failed to meet 3 sales within 180 days. 😒 You can also find these links in my videos' descriptions.
AliExpress
There are a fair bit of videos I have in the pipeline, where I have purchased numerous quality products from AliExpress. 🛒 Yes, "Quality" and "AliExpress" can be said in the same sentence. 😆 You just have know who to buy from. Pay attention to things like whether or not the seller has a silver badge, golden badge, ratings, AND whether or not verified reviews, ideally with customers' item pictures are present. Even if the seller does not have a fancy medal, the reviews, ratings, and customer pictures will be your sword and shield. ⚔🛡 Even if something is faulty, and you have proof of it with picture or video in some cases, genuine sellers are usually pretty good at informing you to have AliExpress refund your money. 😌
So here are some real things that I have actually personally purchased: Infinity Nado 3, 2 In 1 Mechanical Keyboard Key Cap Pullers, 18650 Batteries, Samsung Galaxy S5 Home Buttons, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Home Buttons, and a Hangsong Universal Stylus to name some. I would imagine Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max cases and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra cases to also be very popular. 😏 When I curiously looked at the trending page, I see a highly variable list of things from BINBOND Luxury Men's Quartz Watches, 100% Cotton Men T-shirts, Women's & Men's Gym Bags, Women's Bikini Sets, Men's Denim Shoes, and literally 1000s more. 🤯 Those I have not purchased, so I cannot comment on their quality.
August Closing Thoughts
Thanks for reading if you have come this far. 👋🏾
