It's about MONEY: James Aspey & Instagram activism.

they also have this other narrative that
that there is a problem with vegans and animal rights activists uh content creators influencers whatever you want to call yourself they seem to have more of an issue now with people who are doing this having money if this best life living is so in our faces right now if they do get rich and i mean some of us might want them to so they'll actually give it to the animals but if they do get rich it's gonna be so in our faces them telling us well you should've listened to me when i said to get in at ten dollars no it's up to 50 and we've made millions and it's like who has 220 000 to invest your life savings i don't know with your body's out on show for the world to me i just it just feels gross to me and i want to like move my eyes away from it and move on hey everyone so a few of you have been asking me what do you do for work where do you study blah blah blah july and i said i'll make this video in july and it's the end of july so it still counts it actually marks my seven year anniversary of not working [Music] so i'm actually really proud of this what i want to ask for are donations essentially i somehow gotta get money now just a quick question i'm probably going to sweden with my girlfriend in september and i may also want to go to norway if there's anybody out there who would offer us a place to stay i don't know like i don't i don't owe these people explanations it can be on the floor or anywhere i don't need a lot of space both of us don't because we don't sleep on a bed anyway just something what's up everybody it is time for me to create a patreon page for those of you who do not know patreon is a way for supporters of my work to support me by giving a monthly donation this will give me some security in my life because for the last five years or i might i'm in my fifth year now of doing full-time volunteer animal rights activism i haven't ever asked for any money i've never charged a single dollar for any of the 100 speeches a few hundred speeches that i've done and i wanted to do that so that no one could ever question my integrity or question why i'm doing this no one could ever question my integrity or question why i'm doing this it would be like so easy for me to just sell out and like post an a like a [ __ ] detox ad on instagram and just be holding a [ __ ] skinny tee and make 10k like i could have done that so many times like i've gotten so many offers from companies to do that and i've never sold out because if i lost my authenticity and i would just lose everything i would lose everything that i've been building and it's not worth it but i was in this place a few months ago of like [ __ ] like i literally like what am i gonna do like i'm a very lucky guy in life i'm very lucky very very lucky lucky lucky for real and the thing is that uh i had a girlfriend who has put up it now whose parents are millionaires and they gave me 500 euros at least every month usually more [Music] i would recommend anybody who's in any grade now to drop out of school for real and that's no joke at all at some point if i get to the point where there's no other alternative for me than to work then i'll probably just take a few of my things and just get away somewhere maybe on some island i'm not sure but i would probably rather die trying to hunt my food somewhere then i would rather live like that honestly than be enslaved i pretty much can't afford this diet anymore because i don't get the money anymore because i met somebody else and i chose her over everything else and i also want to be able to fight the best that i can and get involved in everything that need that i believe will help the cause and sometimes that takes money and often i'm given opportunities to get involved in that i have to say no to because i simply do not have the funds so i don't want that to be an issue i want to try to start being more organized and getting more done and employing people if need be and getting the equipment that i need to get and whatever it takes to move this vegan movement as far forward as possible i want to be able to do that and if more money will help me do that then that is what i'm going to have to do so someone had said um is this is this is money going towards ending the animal holocaust and then obviously like it turned out that it was for uh the investment which in your eyes i suppose means it is going towards ending the animals of course more eventually so is that is that kind of what you were getting at when you said yes it is two things two things two things so someone said is this money going sorry what do you remember what the there was there was yeah it was like someone was like is this money going through the ending of a holocaust you said yes it is and then later on i think you said i never said it was all right all right i can explain this easily i can finally see he's like yo what's cracking everybody hey it's dawn so i'm here with my homie randy what up big dog yo randy started getting very excited um and i was like what the hell what's going on bro come down here come down here anyway so randy's the chart man i have no idea what all this stuff means but randy's very good at this it's like another language to me anyway why don't you tell everybody what's happened since the video i posted yesterday it was it was a deception in the very beginning of what you were buying because the way i was sold on it was this is going to change the future of the world this is like an energy sharing program for the whole world it feels like it's this like hyped up gambling game that's like now now now look at the numbers are going up they're going up and then to focus on your followers to like share this as non-financial advice to like hundreds of thousands of followers that you have gotten to trust you through the years through your work in animal rights so like you've built up a trust with these people and now you're using that trust from one area which was animal rights to get them to to like get excited about this gambling program you're in and nobody really knows like how it's gonna all turn out okay so anyways when we posted the video the price was hanging around uh they made eight dollars this morning it went down to about 8 10 and then right now we went from actually 819 all the way to a high of eight nine ninety why are these people are they paying my bills am i this are they my boss like who are they they don't deserve the information to my life if i don't wanna give it to them even if i even if i did like david okay so yeah i said no because who is this person asking me personal questions about my life like yeah i lied to them not that i did but even if i did so what if anyone um watched my video yesterday and decided to buy into ewt they would have made twenty percent more on their investments we think no this isn't financial advice it's not financial advice but just a couple of guys paying attention to the shots i'm at this point where all i want to do is give and help and like just give back to people but like also i need money to do that and because i haven't been creating that much at all my income dropped significantly when i was in hawaii but i literally had to sell my camera last month to pay rent my camera and that like that literally makes me want to cry it's okay to have money it's good to have money like look at the most famous people in the world the most influential people in the world they're influential because i got money money is power because i feel like art is an extension of who i am like art is art is what gives me life it's what makes me feel alive and i had to like i don't have my camera anymore like my beautiful camera that i used to film all those videos i literally don't have it because i was like broke so people looking up to all these people with 50 million followers on instagram what do you eat we want to do whatever you do what do you eat they're up there because they're loaded with cash money is what everyone cares about it's so easy for social media to give the impression that like i have this together and that i like have my [ __ ] figured out and really like no one does i want to be able to do this job until the job is done until we've reached total animal liberation to do that i'm going to need some sort of security some sort of income so that i don't have to quit doing this and get stuck in some sort of nine to five job where i am not helping this cause at all obviously money can help the vegan movement encounter the animal rights movement in countless different ways one of them when we're talking about social media if you are living a great life a really great life a life that most people can't live you are going to uh you are going to attract vegans and countless non-vegans probably one of the best things you could do in terms of activism is get very rich and famous live it up and influence your tens of millions of followers to go vegan i'm striving to do that [Music] maybe we can we can practice