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Monday, January 31, 2022

2021: What Happened? 2022: The Explanations Of Guuzaka

Guuzaka 2022-01-31

2021: What Happened? 2022: The Explanations Of Guuzaka

That Silent Year

'WHOA! You remembered that you have a blog?!" 😱 Yes, I remember. 😅 In fact, I never forgot about it throughout 2021. ✏ That said, I also never did any blog posts during 2021. 😶 No, not even 1. 🦗 And for that reason, that's why I call it "Silent Year" in terms of blogging. 2021 itself was by no means a silent year in the world! 🔊 There were certainly lots of things happening. 🗺 But we are not here to discuss what John was doing in Jamaica, or why Mary went to Nigeria. 🌴 You are here for a long-awaited update on what happened to this place in 2021, and why 2022 ends up being the year the dormancy ends. 👀

Focus On Videos

Sometime ago, not sure which post I mentioned this, I announced that I would not be doing blog posts that accompanied the videos uploaded. 🚫 This was because I wanted to focus on videos without having blog posts to slow down production output. 🐌 After all, Guuzaka was born in YouTube. 🌱 Not Blogger. 🚫✍🏾 As video batches have gotten larger, more time would be required to edit and upload them to social media. 📶 Having to do a blog post that details the specifics for all the videos of a batch was not only laborious, but honestly unnecessary 99% time. 😶 Whatever specifics people needed to know, could be easily put in the video description, or better yet ------ the video itself! 😲 It's not like I'm using Windows Movie Maker or some other weak editor that does not allow you to use multiple video and audio tracks. 🥱 Waaaaaayyyyy past those days! 😎 So ok, you get it: excessive blog posts are not necessary, and I want to focus on video output. 🎥 Is that really a reason for not uploading for an entire year? 🐌 Well, though I have said it in some of my videos, a new serious problem emerged within 2020: video debt. 💀⚰

Severe Video Debt

"What is video debt?" you may ask. 🤨 Being behind in videos that were supposed to be uploaded during a certain time. 😬 Within 2020, it became a 1-3 months worth of videos behind. 💩 Fast forward to January 2022, and guess how bad it has become? 😳 Wait, you can probably already tell from the latest videos on the channel: 12 Months!!!!

😱

"Whooaaaaaaaa, man! How da hell did you let it get so bad?!" There are a number of factors that led to this: lack of consistency, real life hurdles, and YouTube becoming increasingly demotivating. ☹ Let us go over these things and then the plans for 2022. 🤓

Lack Of Consistency

"Overfilming" back in 2020 was a terrible excuse to let months worth of videos pile up. 😖 While I have gotten into video debt in the past, it was never nowhere -- not even a millimetre close to the amount of video debt that I am currently in. 💀 Had I just stuck with routinely editing videos within a given month, it would not, and should not have gotten so out of hand. ✋🏾 Even better, if I had tried to edit whatever I filmed as soon feasibly possible, that would have made an astronomical difference! ☀

Real-life Hurdles

2020 was a year that shook the world upside down. 🌎 Guuzaka definitely included. 🙁 It was a year where all sorts of madness took place, all thanks to something invisible to the naked eye called COVID-19. 🦠 Thanks to this atrocious disease, it led to numerous disruptions across the world from lockdowns, restrictions, standing in stupid lines, unemployment, increased clueless politicians, shortages of goods, and the list goes. 📃 While people are no longer fighting for paper used for perineal cleansing in 2022, masks, restrictions, unhygienic people, and incompetent politicians remain place in place. 🧻

YouTube Becoming Increasing Demotivating

No, I am not quitting YouTube, so you can breathe either a sigh of relief or disappointment. 😌😠 Let's just get straight to the point with this:

- 1000 subscribers 4000 watch hours

- Hiding exact subscriber count number

- Putting advertisements on videos without paying creators

- Locking the comment section on children's videos

- removing dislike button

- removing dislike counter from comments

If I missed something that should be on that list, SAY IT! 💬 The recent debacle of YouTube removing the dislike button back in 2021 is so bad that even giga popular creators like PewDiePie and MKBHD have called it out! 😱 One of the major reasons why YouTube is getting away with this is because they have no competition. 🦗 Every other video uploading website that currently exists just does not have the presence and power as Google-Owned YouTube does. 👹 As I have mentioned back in an extremely ranty Tweet from November 2021, I hope that a potent rival comes and dethrones YouTube from its position of the #1 Video Hosting website. 🏆 A rival that will give us everything YouTube has taken away from us, plus everything good that made YouTube good before it started getting increasingly demented. 🤪 No, I do not want YouTube to be killed; just taught a hard lesson. 😤

Now while Guuzaka is not a children's brand, I have read several sad stories of people leaving YouTube because the platform keeps locking their comment's section. 🔒 Why? 🤔 Because the video was marked for Kids. 🤡 If a creator did not make a video specifically for children, they should not go around locking comment sections without their consent. 😒 I would go on with more, but at this point, I may very well consider doing an ultimate rant video based on the points above. 💢

2022?

2022 will not be a silent year. 💡 In fact, once I get my consistency set straight, you will see hundreds of awesome videos over the next several months. 📺 From places, products, animals, new hobbies, and oh so many more! 😃 When do I hope to get out of video debt? 🤔 I do not know. 😶 Unlike what some would do, I absolutely do not plan to burn myself out by pulling all-nighters, editing with no breaks, or any of that sort of extremism. 😅 As much as I would love to be editing January 2022 videos right now, as opposed to January 2021, these videos are not paying my bills which leads to the next point: Support The Channel. 👊🏾

Support The Channel

When some people see "Support XXX" their hairs stick up because they feel like somebody's begging them for money. 💰 That is not the case here. 😌 Even if it were, most creators, at least the good ones, do not hound and pound people to give them money. 💸 They make it optional for cheerful givers to give them money for their creative works. 💲

"How do I support Guuzaka?" The number #1 biggest thing I need right now is for people to Subscribe to the channel to push it past the 1000 subscribers threshold as soon as possible. 🌠 However, the battle does not end just there. 😮 I also need people to actually watch the videos, and leave proper comments on them, too. ✍🏾 This will send a good message to the algorithms and recommendations, that it is not a brain-dead channel full of skeleton subscribers.🦴 If you think I am kidding about this, just ask any of those "Helping Creators" focused channels. 👀 Hell, even non-helper channels have talked about this problem of subscribers who do not encage. 💬

The second thing that you can do to help the channel is to shop from my Amazon or eBay links of the video descriptions. 🛒 If you already naturally shop from those websites, doing it through my links may earn me commissions at no extra expense to you. 🛍

2 Final Things I Would Like To Say In This Post

All videos filmed from January 2021 and newer now have the following content descriptors:

Blood
Death
Gross
Language
Politics
Profanity
Religion
Sexual
Substances
Violence

The details of these will be done in another post. ✍🏾

And for the final thing: Channel FAQ. 😲 "OH MY GOSH! REALLY?!" Yes, really. 🤯 This is actually something that I have been wanting to do since the 2010s, but have never gotten around to it. 😐 For 2022, that changes. 🌟 This will obviously a separate blog post. 📃 See? 👀 I told you that 2022 was not going to be silent year. 🔊 From now on, I'll do my utmost best to try and let that never happen again. 😅 Communication is important in both video and text form. 💬 Texts are faster, and allow you to go back to them readily and easily to update them. 📄 Something videos cannot do, unless you would rather spend that much time and resources making too many videos before realizing a post would have served you and your audience better. 😵

Friday, December 25, 2020

Christmas 2020: When God Sends Snow

Guuzaka 2020-12-25

Christmas 2020: When God Sends Snow

Let It Snow

Did you know? 🎄 That during the daytime of Christmas Eve in my area, there was no snow? 🤨 During that time, I thought this year was going to be a mild, green Christmas! 😁 Yes, I actually prefer my winters to be like that. 🌴 However, when the nighttime rolled in, the Greater Toronto Area suddenly got covered in snow! 🤯 In fact, check this out:

"Toronto and the surrounding area was a winter wonderland on Friday, as snow started to fall on Christmas Eve night and continued into Christmas morning." - CityNews Toronto

Did you click on the link source? 🤔 Told you I wasn't making this up. 😶 It feels as though God saw that the year was chaotic, and decided to send snow to cheer people up for Christmas. 😇 While some do not care for it, you have to admit that a little snow will not do you any harm. For some, the presence of snow drives them to throw on their hats, jackets, pants, and boots to get out there and enjoy it! ❄🥳 Or clean it. 😐

Speaking of that, I heard people outside early morning shovelling snow. ❄ How early? 7:00 AM approximately. 🕖 To get up that early on Christmas morning just to shovel snow is a special type of ~~madness~~ determination. 😂🤣

Merry Christmas And Happy New Year

May there be peace, health, and prosperity. 🙏🏾 Merry Christmas and have Happy 2021 New Year! 🎊

Monday, November 2, 2020

Guuzaka 2020+

Guuzaka 2020-11-02

Guuzaka 2020+

The 2020s And Guuzaka

If you do not know why November 1st is a special day, then you know alarmingly little about this brand! 😬 Anyways! 😜 Yesterday marked the 4th anniversary of the Guuzaka brand. 😎 Well, the nitpickers might say only one year without "Tube" in the name, but you know what? Guuzaka is simply GuuzakaTube without the "Tube". 🤓 Thus, it is 4 years. 🕒 Now time to dive right into why you clicked this blog post in the 1st place: Guuzaka 2020+. 🌠

So aside from the new ever-so-typically-Guuzaka 2020+ trailer, what exactly is so special about the 2020s decade? 🤔 My oh my! Where do I start?! Perhaps with the trailer itself, given that it was remastered just one day after its official release? 🤪 Sounds like a reasonable start to the discussion. 💬

Guuzaka 2020+ Trailer

The first trailer was released yesterday in time for Guuzaka Day. 😶 The problem? 🤔 Two things:

1) I started putting it together too close to Guuzaka Day

2) As a result of #1 and Shotcut not having fine-tuned time duration for frames, I ~~panicked~~ became concerned

So as a result of me feeling cramped for time, and being more familiar with Windows Movie Maker's fine-tuned durations for frames, I decided to download it, and set it up. 😎 It seemed like a smooth idea at first. Until when export time came along, and I quickly remembered its shortcomings with exporting 4K videos. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Truth be told, it's not even built to accommodate 4K in the first place, let alone 4K@60FPS. As a result, I had to break it up into multiple video clips. 😲 I know. Ultra ridiculous given that all I wanted to do was export a video that's not even 2 minutes long. 🙄 I proceeded to putting the clips together in Shotcut, adding the soundtrack, other tidbits, then exported it. 🎦

It was after that moment, that I realized how much Windows Movie Maker downgraded the quality. 🙈 Truth be told, I could have checked and compared the quality between Shotcut and Movie Maker, but I did not. 😵 I just went ahead with it, and decided to remaster the trailer today, November 2nd 2020. 😵 Talk about trailer drama! 🤪

So aside from resolution sharpness, is there anything else different between the two? 🤨

the remastered one has two cool filter effects the other did not.

Channer Trailers Over The Years

Which trailer was best? 😎 Which was the worst? 😒 Watch them all and let me know! 💬

Official GuuzakaTube Channel Trailer (2017)

Official Guuzaka 2019 - 2020 Channel Trailer

Official Guuzaka 2020+ Channel Trailer

Official Guuzaka 2020+ Channel Trailer - Remastered Ultra High Quality Version

Whoa! 💚🟢🟩😲🤯😬💚🟢🟩 You must be ultra green after watching all of those! 💚🟢🟩😂🤣💚🟢🟩

Instrumentation

For past trailers over the years, it has been that iconic synth that I used for the Guuzaka theme. Enter 2020, and now it's gone! 😶 Good? 😇 Bad? 👹 Do not care? 🤔 Well, would you like to know how I've been recording songs, intros, outros, and soundtracks for the past several years? I would put on hearing protection, turn up the keyboard volume, hit record on a smartphone and capture the sound from there. Now, let me accurately predict your emotions with emojis:

😐😶😲😭😧😱😰😳😬😂🤣

It is one, two, many, or all of the above, eh? 😐 I know, I know, I can't believe that was how I used to record music for so long! 🤣😂 Perhaps I shouldn't have even admitted this! 🤪 Then again, there's not much people that read these blog posts anyways, right? 👀 Yeah, nobody's gonna know that. 😉

So, ok! You now must be wondering how the 2020+ channel trailer soundtrack recorded, right? 🤨 It was done with the combination of a MIDI, electronic keyboard, and FL Studio Mobile. 😲 Yep that's right. Just like the way a professional would do it, except that I am not a professional! 😅 Still, we can all agree that this improvement is lightyears better than how I used to do it. 🌠 Even I am personally excited for all the new, ultra high quality music I can now produce. 🎵 Thanks to finally coming to my senses, and investing in some proper tools. 😳 Speaking of new music, this leads to the next point: new intros and outros.

New Intros & Outros

Before November 01, 2019, there were no intros and outros. Ever since Guuzaka 2019 & 2020 rolled onto the scene, it now became a thing for most videos, except certain outdoor videos and others, to have an intro and outro animation. With it now being 2020 a new decade, videos uploaded from November 2020 and onward will feature Guuzaka 2020+ intro & outros. 🎵 Again, some videos are exempt.

5 Major Pillars

Remember when it was just games, talk and outdoors? 🧐 Then it became games, talk, outdoors, and music. And when I realized that I have been handling a lot of products, I realized that there may have very well been a "Products" pillar for longer than I officialized it. In no particular order:

1. Smartphone Games 📱

2. Outdoors 🌲🌳🍁🌊

3. Commentary-Discussion 🎙💬

4. Music (Casual Instrumental Noise Sessions mainly) 🎵🎶🎼

5. Products 📦

What's Going On With Commentaries And Noise Sessions?

I know, I know. 😖 These two categories have been sorely missing in action. ❌ And quite frankly, I miss them a lot. 😥 The hold up? A backlog of videos from previous months that I have not uploaded yet. 🥴 So why exactly has this caused a pause for these two categories and not the others? 🤨 For commentary videos, I do not feel that they are videos that can be sat on for months, and then uploaded much later. That would make the content of the video stale, badly timed, awkward, and even outdated. 😬

For the Casual Instrumental Noise Sessions. 🎵 Ehhhh, where do I start? 😶 Let's just say that once I start playing my instruments more frequently, and not now and then, then it would make sense to resume. 😅 Nevertheless, I would like to resurrect it for 2021. 🙏🏾

Theme Specific Intros & Outros

Ever since I added intros and outros to my videos, I have been wanting to add Pillar-specific intros and outros to them. 💡 For example: a Music video intro could have music notes fly across the screen before Guuzaka comes. Maybe he could even chase them! 🎵 You get the idea. Sounds like an awesome idea, eh? 😀 So why haven't I done it? Just haven't been able to get around it. Perhaps once I get the backlog of videos cleared, I will be able to focus on it more. Perhaps I could even introduce them as a cool new change for videos uploaded November 01, 2021 and beyond? 🤔 Or would you be appalled at the idea of putting off such a good idea for so long? 💡

2020+ And More

The list of possibilities, ideas, concepts, and what not, could potentially run for kilometres this decade. ⭐🌟🌟 So! Stay tuned by keeping up to date with Guuzaka on Twitter, Instagram, and yes this weblog. I have not been terribly active on it lately, but I do sometimes post some pretty important things. 👀 Stay healthy, blessed, and safe this decade! ⭐🙏🏾⭐

Monday, August 31, 2020

August 31st 2020 Entry

Guuzaka 2020-08-31

August 31st 2020 Entry

New Blogger Interface

So as you can see here, Blogger got a new interface. 🤨 I haven't posted here since early last month, so they must have either done this in August, or late July. What do I think of it? Looks quite good. 🙂 Definitely more modern than the theme I've been seeing for the last 4 years and counting. ⏳

June, July, And August?

I missed the opportunity over the last two weeks to get the videos from those months edited and uploaded. 😖 I really, really need to stop letting time carelessly go to waste like that! Especially considering that there are some pretty exciting videos in those batches. 😲 Thankfully, I have at least done my part to transfer the files from the BlackBerry Passport, iPhone 6s Plus, Microsoft Lumia 950 XL, and *I cannot tell you until I upload my June 2020 videos*. Therefore, I need to get on with it! 😶

Asus Zenfone 7 Pro ZS671KS

No, this is obviously not the smartphone I bought. Still, it is quite refreshing to see a flagship device without any notches or hole punches. It retained the microSD card slot. Too bad Asus just had to lousily omit the headphone jack, citing reasons pertained to lack of space. 🙄

Nonsense! How come the LG V60 has a headphone jack, microSD card slot, and 5G all in one body? 🤨 Honestly, if the LG V60 had no notch and a removable battery, it could have been the ultimate utility flagship of 2020. Still, I'd say it comes close. Quite weird how I started talking about how the Asus Zenfone 7 Pro was refreshing, and then it led to me trashing it! 🤣😁😂 Well, not really trashing it, but poking at it for losing the headphone jack so soon. What took the Samsung S series and Note series generations to lose, Asus loses it in a single generation with its ROG and Flip Camera series. 😨

Monday, July 6, 2020

North Grand Forest (DEFUNCT POST)

Guuzaka 2020-07-06

North Grand Forest (DEFUNCT POST)

I have long stopped playing this demented game and have not touched anything from Gameloft since!

Current Intake

February 07, 2021 - February 14, 2021

Valentine's Season

About North Grand Forest

North Grand Forest, spelled in-game as "NorthGrandForest", is a hyper-exclusive iOS Asphalt 9: Legends club that I created back in January or February 2019. 🌲🌳😎🌲🌳

Important Bits

Club Name: NorthGrandForest

Club Leader: Guuzaka

Club Tag: #9abd5

Club Location: Canada

Club Language: English

Club Motto: The forest where many things happen

Hyper-exclusive

I only "open" the club 3 times a year to invites. 😲 I do not publicly announce these ahead of time. 🤫 Why do I make it like this? 🤔 The reason it is hyper-exclusive in the first place is to only allow people that truly want to be apart of this club. 🦜 Not just someone looking for any club in hopes of winning big rewards quickly. 🐗

In fact, this club is not even a "big rewards" club at the moment, so you would be disappointed anyway. 😢 If you are a committed player like myself, then it could turn into a big rewards club fairly soon. 🤑

Requirements

While I do not have any particular set numbers, I do expect people to be active and do their best to contribute as much as they healthily can. 🥕🍎🥦 If I find that you just sit like a bump on a log, you will be removed when the Season finishes. 😨 And remember, because North Grand Forest locks after an intake period is over, this means that once you leave, there is no coming back until another intake period. 😱

Also, no toxicity. No swearing, threatning, abuse, lying, trolling and so forth. Read here for a more detailed post on what I expect from comments/chats.

My Club Or That Guy's Club Is Better Than Yours!

That's nice. 🙄 Well, guess what? You absolutely do not have join, if the hyper-exclusive intake is a turn-off to you. In fact, please do not even think about joining if you are a toxic person. You will be booted in no time!

How Do I Keep Notified Of Intakes?

I announce them on my Twitter @OfficialGuuzaka and sometimes Instagram @guuzaka.

Comment Section Rules (DEFUNCT POST)

Guuzaka 2020-07-06

Comment Section Rules (DEFUNCT POST)

NOTICE!

As of of July 12, 2022, this post has been amalgamated under the Guuzaka-Atazaka Frequently Asked Questions. As such, this post will no longer be updated! Read no further!

Obey Or Be Thrown Into The Bay

Any comments that fail to follow these rules will be deleted, or given a warning in some cases. ⚠ In more serious cases, the commenter may be blocked or even reported. 👀 These rules not only apply to the YouTube channel of Guuzaka, but all other social media accounts pertained to this brand. ▶ Your comments are a privilege, not a right. ◀

1. No hate speech.

Do not express any hatred to human beings based on skin colour, race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, veteran status or other. 👊👊🏻👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿 We are all Homo sapiens sapiens. 🩸 Regardless of whether or not you prefer light skin, dark skin, or are a passionate believer of a certain religion, you absolutely cannot express hate in my comment sections.

2. No spam, bots, or advertising.

This is a major pet peeve of mine! 🙄 No spammy comments, bot accounts, advertising, or self-advertising is allowed. This would also include follow4follow, which also really ticks me off. 😑

3. No personal attacks.

Do not prey on people in my comment sections. 🦈🚫 This also includes threatening other people. Remember, if you result to personal attacks in an argument, it means that you lost the argument. 😳 You were not mature enough to keep the discussion constructive and classy. So if you claim to be all smart and convincing, then actually act like it! 😑

4. Stay on topic.

If a video, Tweet, or Instagram post is about Lake Ontario for example, keep it pertained to Lake Ontario. 🌊 This might sound like common sense, but if you ask anyone who dealt with comment sections for a long time, they will tell you that they have lost track of how many times a conversation has gone from ants to zippers. 🐜➡🤐

5. Do not post anyone’s personal information.

Names*, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail address, and other forms of sensitive information is a major no-no. 🔒

*Names are a bit of a grey area. If you are obviously talking about an individual who is publicly known, then that is different. If you watch a video, and make a comment stating that you, John and Mary were at a certain place where I was at a time, then I will usually leave the comment alone. If you were to post their full names, that would almost certainly result in it getting deleted. 🗑️

6. No swearing.

While profanity is already filtered out by my blacklist, sometimes there are exceptions where it does not catch it. 🤬 In such an event, I will delete the profanity. This also applies to other languages as well. How will I know what is a swear word or not from another language? You will find out once I get to #9. 🤐

7. No Trolling.

Do not say something for the sake of getting a reaction. Instead, take your time to do something more meaningful and positive. 🕊 Comment sections need not be a sewage lagoon. 🚫👹💩

8. No Lying.

This not only includes lying on people, but also posting blatantly false information about something or someone. Such acts may get you into legal trouble depending on the severity of the false information, and how far it went. 🤥

9. Post in English.

If a foreign comment can be easily and accurately translated in Google, I will leave it alone. Granted, it does not break any of these rules here. Even then, you are strongly advised to post in English, as this is after all, an English-speaking channel. Foreign languages that cannot be translated, or are poorly translated, will be deleted. It is not worth the risk of what potential nastiness someone could be saying that you, or I, may not know. 😨 This leads to the next rule: unintelligible posts. 🥴

10. No unintelligible posts.

Comments that are nonsensical, garbled, jibberish, poorly translated, or that cannot be deciphered, will be deleted. 😵 Not only are comments like this an eyesore, but are uncalled for. 👺

Guuzaka: Explanation And COPPA

Guuzaka 2020-07-06

Guuzaka: Explanation And COPPA

"You are on Guuzaka. 😶 The 5 major pillars of this brand are the outdoors, mobile games, products, music, and commentary-discussion videos."

Pretty self-explanatory. Lets you know that you are on the official Guuzaka channel and that the main categories of videos I like to make are outdoors, mobile games, products, music, and commentary-discussion videos. 💬📱🌳🎵📦

"However, Guuzaka is by no means a mass appeal brand. It can be rather strange, different, complicated or controversial at times."

My channel is the way I want it to be. 😤 It is not intended to be enjoyable to the general population. 👾 This is not to say that it is straight up vulgar and shocking. It is not. 😌 But at the same time, I do not try to win the mass approval of everyone's tastes. As such, sometimes commentary may be political, religious, strange, not to your tastes, or oh-so-variable! 🌈

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.

As explained above, I upload what I want to upload. That said, if you did manage to like a particular video, then great. 😎 If you did not like a particular video or this channel as whole, just move on without being rude, stupid, or dramatic. 😑 You would be surprised at how easy it is to actually do that: leave peacefully and respectfully. 🕊

Important! Even though some of the videos are rated "E" Guuzaka is NOT catered to children.

This is extremely important. So important, that I actually had plans to create a video entirely on this subject since February. 😶 Well, we all know how that went: did not happen at all. 😣 While July is a good 5 months apart from February, it is better to discuss it now than never.

You see, a lot of the videos on my channel seem to be rated E, right? 🤔 And you also see that there are a lot of outdoor videos of schools when they are closed. 🏫 This must mean that this channel is obviously catered to children, right? 🤡🎈

Absolutely wrong! 😲 In fact, none of the videos on my channels are catered specifically to people under 13. 😐 The rated E simply means that it is safe enough for people of all ages to watch. The general recommended age for my videos is 13+. As explained earlier, commentary (as well as edits 😏) may vary a lot in my videos, which can cause a video that you might expect to be rated E, get stamped with a rated 13+ or higher.

That said, you will notice that all of my videos before November 2019, do not have age ratings. What are viewers supposed to do in this situation? 🤨 You have to use a combination of personal judgement, as well as the fact that Guuzakan videos are generally recommended for an audience of 13+. If at any point a video made you feel uncomfortable because the topics of the commentary were too mature, immediately stop watching it and seek a channel that caters to children, or is at least always rated E. 😉

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Canada Day 2020

Guuzaka 2020-07-01

Canada Day 2020

Canada Day Is Racist? I Do Not Think So.

It is that time of the year again where some people will resist Canada Day. Why? According to people against Canada Day, celebrating this day is apparently celebrating colonialism, abuse, murder, robbery, rape and the list goes on. 🥴 If you're like "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!" Then yeah, that's what some people really say. Just search those hashtags on Twitter if you think I am kidding. 😨

So ok, let's be 100% real without hiding a thing: yes, what we now call Canada was indeed colonized by White Europeans who did mistreat the Indigenous peoples that have lived here long before they did. That is why we speak English and French as the official languages, as opposed to Cree and Inuktitut -- the two most populous Indigenous languages in Canada. That is also why the population is predominantly White Europeans, particularly from the British Isles, as well as France.

However, Canada has since changed a lot. Is there still room for improvement? Absolutely. Is systemic racism still an issue? Yes it is, and it really needs to stop. Does anybody in 2020 celebrate Canada Day by hunting for Indigenous and beating them? I am pretty sure 99.99% of the population does not. If you ask any Canadian how they celebrate Canada Day, this is what they will say:

A) I watched television

B) I sat in my leather chair

C) I went outdoors

D) Barbecue

E) I wore a maple leaf

F) I watched fireworks (2020 exempt)

and other harmless things. Well, not everyone does harmless things per se, but most people do. So to have sum it up: nothing wrong with having harmless fun, but it is also important that we do not mistreat the people who have lived here before settles arrived. In fact, it is important that we do not mistreat anyone. Let us live in peace and appreciate the racial diversity we have in this country. Choose peace. Say no to racism. Have a fun Canada Day. 🍁

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Channel Description, Explanation, And COPPA (DEFUNCT POST)

Guuzaka 2020-06-21

Channel Description, Explanation, And COPPA (DEFUNCT POST)

ATTENTION!

I have decided to split the topics of COPPA and my comment section rules into their own blog posts. Why I decided to lump them together in the first place? Not sure, but that was not a good idea, so this has been fixed.

In case you missed the Tweet, my channel description has been updated for the first time since possibly 2016? 🤔 Yeah, crazy. 😵 While Guuzaka has remained pretty similar, a lot has changed since then both inside and outside of YouTube. As a result, I would like to take this blog post as not only an opportunity to explain things, but to also serve as a reference to legal things like Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA).

"You are on Guuzaka. 😶 The 5 major pillars of this brand are the outdoors, mobile games, products, music, and commentary-discussion videos."

"However, Guuzaka is by no means a mass appeal brand. It can be rather strange, different, complicated or controversial at times."

My channel is the way I want it to be. It is not intended to be enjoyable to the general population. This is not to say that it is straight up vulgar and shocking. It is not. But at the same time, I do not try to win the mass approval of everyone's tastes. As such, sometimes commentary may be political, religious, strange, not to your tastes, or oh-so-variable! 😶🎈

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 rated "E" Guuzaka is NOT catered to children.

This is extremely important. So important, that I actually had plans to create a video entirely on this subject since February. Well, we all know how that went: did not happen at all. 😣 While June is a good 4 months apart from February, it is better to discuss it now than never.

You see, a lot of the videos on my channel seem to be rated E, right? And you also see that a lot of them are outdoor videos of schools when they are closed. This must mean that this channel is obviously catered to children, right? 🤡🎈

Absolutely wrong! In fact, none of the videos on my channels are catered specifically to people under 13. The rated E simply means that it is safe enough for people of all ages to watch. The general recommended age for my videos is 13+. As explained earlier, commentary (as well as edits 😏) may vary a lot in my videos, which can cause a video that you might expect to be rated E, get stamped with a rated 13+ or higher.

Comment Section Rules

Any comments that fail to follow these rules will be deleted, or given a warning in some cases. In more serious cases, the commenter may be blocked or even reported. These rules not only apply to the YouTube channel of Guuzaka, but all other social media accounts pertained to this brand. ▶ Your comments are a privilege, not a right. ◀

1. No hate speech.

Do not express any hatred to human beings based on skin colour, race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, veteran status or other. We are all Homo sapiens sapiens. Regardless of whether or not you prefer light skin, dark skin, or are a passionate believer of a certain religion, you absolutely cannot express hate in my comment sections.

2. No spam, bots, or advertising.

This is a major pet peeve of mine! 🙄 No spammy comments, bot accounts, advertising, or self-advertising is allowed. This would also include follow4follow. Another thing that really ticks me off. 😑

3. No personal attacks.

Do not prey on people in my comment sections. This also includes threatening other people. Remember, if you result to personal attacks in an argument, it means that you lost the argument. 😳 You were not mature enough to keep the discussion constructive and classy. So if you claim to be all smart and convincing, then actually act like it!

4. Stay on topic.

If a video, Tweet, or Instagram post is about Lake Ontario for example, keep it pertained to Lake Ontario. This might sound like common sense, but if you ask anyone who has had to deal with comment sections for a long time, they will tell you that they have lost track of how many times a conversation has gone from ants to zippers. 😬

5. Do not post anyone’s personal information.

Names*, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail address, and other forms of sensitive information is a major no-no. 🔒

6. No swearing.

While profanity is already filtered out by my blacklist, sometimes there are exceptions where it does not catch it. In such an event, I will delete the profanity. This also applies to other languages as well. How will I know what is a swear word or not from another language? Read section #9. 🤐

7. No Trolling.

Do not say something for the sake of getting a reaction. Instead, take your time to do something more meaningful and positive. Comment sections need not be a sewage lagoon. 👹

8. No Lying.

9. Post in English.

If a foreign comment can be easily and accurately translated in Google, I will leave it alone. Granted, it does not break any of these rules here. Even then, you are strongly advised to post in English, as this is after all, an English-speaking channel. Foreign languages that cannot be translated, or are poorly translated, will be deleted. It is not worth the risk of what potential nastiness someone could be saying that you, or I, may not know. 😨 This leads to the next rule: unintelligible posts. 🥴

10. No unintelligible posts.

Comments that are nonsensical, garbled, jibberish, poorly translated, or that cannot be deciphered, will be deleted. 😵 Not only are comments like this an eyesore, but are uncalled for. 👺

About Time

It's about time I finally made things crystal clear, eh? 💎 As the brand continues to grow and change in some ways, it was time that I finally made a post to touch on these important matters.

Father's Day & National Indigenous Peoples Day 2020

Guuzaka 2020-06-21

Father's Day & National Indigenous Peoples Day 2020

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Whoa! 😲 The June 20-21, 2020 weekend was met with three annual observances: Summer 2020 on the 20th, and Father's Day and National Indigenous Peoples Day on the 21st, the same day I am writing and publishing this blog post. ⭐⭐⭐ Amazing, eh? 😎 Not only did these observances occur, the weather was amazing, too. ☀ Well, where I was at least. 😅 Well, I guess for some they would consider it unpleasant, given that it was a nice, balmy 30°C. 🌞

So! To all of you good fathers out there that have worked hard to bring joy to your children and relatives, Happy Father's Day! 🤗 Continue to be your best, stay healthy, and strong! 🌞 Enjoy the gifts your relatives or friend may have given you.

Indigenous peoples, Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! 🙏🏾 You are truly a special group of people. You were the first to inhabit not just Canada, but the America's as a whole. You took care of the land, and did your best to live in harmony with nature for millennia. Things have changed drastically since then and now. A lot for the worse, but thankfully there is now a push for the better. There is still much work to be done. Since the death of George Floyd and others last month in the United States, people have been talking about the problem of racism more than ever before.

I, for one, believe that nobody, Black, White, Asian, Indigenous, or multiracial should face any form racism. Remember, one blood; many nations. 🩸❤️ Choose peace. Say no to racism. 🕊