[Day 340] Selling Out

Watch the video first, then read the blog below.

Ok. So I got a free wallet in exchange for a short little video review. They actually didn’t even tell me to be nice, they just asked for a review. But since I loved the wallet so much, obviously I was going to give it a good review.

This will probably bring up a lot of “selling out” comments, and so I wanted to address these concerns.

At VidCon, I think it was the vlogvetica girls who responded to a question about their feelings on selling out. And one of them gave an answer that I agreed with wholeheartedly.

“I don’t consider doing something for money on the internet selling out unless you do it in a way that is unlike what you would normally do.”

I have actually been thinking about a blog/vlog about wallets for a while, and the opportunity to make a video about a subject I was already considering for a free wallet didn’t seem like a bad deal. This video is the same as all my other videos, but I got something out of it. And I don’t think that’s selling out.

Look, I didn’t have the twenty dollars cash to buy the wallet. I’m an internet person. I don’t have a job. The temporary one I did have for babysitting kind of screwed me over. (ex: I worked for 44 ish hours, babysitting and house sitting, and was paid $150. If you do the math, I got about $3.50 an hour. Minimum wage is $8 in Colorado.)

I didn’t compromise my creativity or my integrity by making this video, and if anyone ever approaches me with an offer like this again, I’ll probably take it.