Thanks for a very good video in reminding me to schedule a haircut.

I can always tell when it starts to invade my ear canal.

Why you going in there?

I've been going through the first round of responses to the cafeteria census, which is still open.

And will you open for a little while longer and people are taking about 15 minutes to finish it.

It tells me that so I know it.

And if you want to fill it out, just pop video, go do it now is very helpful to us.

And I love reading the responses.

Just give me a lot of ideas about my punishment, which is coming up.

So thank you.

Everybody who's submitted those I'm pretty sure I know I'm gonna do now is gonna be unpleasant.

I've also, of course, been reading people's longer text responses about like what we're doing and maybe what you'd like us to do differently.

One person wanted there to be pizza, Miss Murch, without John's weird face on it.

And look, I understand that perspective.

It makes perfect sense.

Sorry.

I agree.

It's weird face, but there we are.

Much more common theme than that people want Do not be a burden on us like it seems like people are afraid that you are a burden and that we are stressed out and that you want to help give us some time off.

That leads to a pretty consistent theme.

There's also a lot of people who are saying, Man, I liked it better when you were more free form and more silly and less serious and stress.

And a lot of times that comes without the word stressed that it's like you guys were so serious.

Now it's easy to take that feedback and think like, Well, know what we do Lots of silly videos still, and I don't really know where you're coming from with that.

Actually, if I think about it in the frame of that first response, that was really common.

It does make some sense because I don't know that it's about what the topic of the video is necessarily.

I think that it might be more about like us looking stressed out like, I don't think that you wanted to be in our twenties again.

I don't think that you want us like out on the street like putting peeps inside of weird punk rockers, though maybe I don't know it's not gonna happen.

I think that that might be like chill out a little bit, enjoy it.

I want to see you enjoy the thing, and that makes a lot of sense to me.

That actually really rings true him.

If we're stressed out, it's going to come through no matter what this dress is about.

Like it could just be about.

Think of the number of obligations we have taken on in the last 10 years that includes, like family and life stuff.

It includes work and projects stuff.

It also includes the fact that, like 2018 Internet is sort of a less carefree vibe than 2008.

Internet was also, I feel, the responsibility of using the platform correctly.

More also, I'm just generally more worried about the future of humanity now than I was 10 years ago.

I don't know if that's cause I'm older or if it's because of other changes that have occurred regardless of the source of the stress.

If you can feel it coming through, I would imagine because it's there, we're not gonna hide it, John As you said in your last video, I love every individual thing I'm doing.

And as people who listen to dear Hank and John will find out next week.

John and I agreed with Kurt Vonnegut when he said, Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

I don't mind doing maintenance.

I just like building Maur.

But I will say that Vlog brothers to me, has ever felt like maintenance.

This has never felt like all we got to keep the thing alive.

It's just, ah, creative outlet to do something interesting and have a little bit of freedom and have complete control over the process and not let that fall away.

The obligation of you on this channel isn't ever frustrating.

It's just free and just like it seems like Valtteri, you would like me to be less stressed.

I would also like to be less stress And while there are some things that I can't change and some things that I don't want to change, there are some ways for me to be a little more free.

I'm honestly not the kind of guy who thinks that like achievement is the point of life.

Um, I see a lot of people like that, and I just don't understand it.

I think the point of life is is joy and beyond that, helping other people find joy.

So let's do that more joy in 2019.

Okay.

Okay, John, I'll see you on Tuesday.