no way you were my favorite skate youtuber back then. i recently went through a spiritual awakening and i was watching informational tiktok’s and i stumbled across you on your podcast talking about ego death and i was like wait is that george poulos? it’s good to see you again and i am definitely going to be watching this new content your releasing. wokeee

It's not about the lack of skating, I will watch other skaters talk endlessly if they're entertaining. I am out cause I got no interest in stoner philosophers. You do you but it is not for me. And before I go here's a word of caution: Being authentic isn't inherently a good thing, you can be an extermely genuine monster. Being a good person comes first on the hierarchy before expressing yourself at all cost. People sometimes change things about themselves for very good reasons, don't start using authenticity as an excuse.

No offense but what did you expect? People subscribed what they subscribed for and you switched up (which is your right). Point being, don’t take it personally.

Dude I’ve been watching your videos since you were a freshman in college at the time I was a freshman in high school and I was super into skating just like you I would always look forward to your videos in my subscription feed after school and I remember watching your slappy crook trick tip over and over again it’s crazy because you’ve really inspired me ever since I was a kid to pursue my own KZfaq channel and the making of this video couldn’t be better timing Thank you George keep creating and expressing yourself!

Keep bein authentic George ! Wishin you nothin but the best

Take a shot every time George says “authentic self”

Part of the journey. That goes with any social site. Keep going! 💯

It’s cool. Love to see it. You’re in another chapter of your life and different people will gravitate towards this while others from before stay or leave. It’s a shedding and it’s brave. Who knows maybe sometimes you’ll want to do some skate stuff again now that you’re showing yourself you can incorporate whatever moving forward

i got into meditation about a year ago and I'm totally here for the content transition, even tho I love the skateboarding stuff. been enjoying your talks on Instagram but now that I've deactivated my Instagram I'm glad to see you here. have a great Wednesday :)

im inspired by this act of creative freedom!

i recently found your channel, ive enjoyed everything youve put out thus far. i appreciate the authenticity, ive also realized its okay to just create for yourself, its been so freeing be able to come out of my shell on my channel as well. keep doing what you do, thank you !

It's just making space for the right audience to come in❤️

I sense also a slight bit of intentional self sabotage with posting about “who you are now”. What’s the worrying within yourself comparing who you where to make the channel with comparing it to who you “are now”? You worry you’re not as impactful?

Seems kinda self serving and redundant to make a statement out of your channel dying when you abandoned it for a year then came back with totally unrelated subject matter. You spent years asking people to like and subscribe for skateboarding content. If you subscribe to a cooking channel and then they start talking about drywall repair every week you’re obviously gonna unsub or not watch. Using your audience that you’ve turned your back on essentially to gain some sense of self awareness or personal growth is just wack. Good luck in life but just start another channel or move on, dude. Peace.

New sub. Butt have had multiple accounts that Javed subed to you. Always lose the account lol. Ur the best George. Stay real and stay up

I subscribed for the skate content but i never ended up watching. I'm enjoying your new content now :)

This is inspiring! Thanks for sharing George!

It's called "Progress Plateau" don't give up! Ur loyal subscribers love and support ur vids!! ❤

So appreciate you🙌

time of being afraid myself.....feel you.

Dude, it’s good that you’re growing. We go through so many stages in life. I watch skating vids most days but I go through spells where I can’t be bothered. I’m not really fired up to skate myself anymore but I enjoy the scene. Anyways… stay strong

Just do what you want to do you got it

Hey man, I give you so much credit for being authentic on the Internet. Stay strong thru this month my guy, It will get easier I'm sure

later

Love these new vids now💜🛹

In a way. You built a community with your previous styles of content, and you're building a community again, now around your new content themes.

Keep going man!💪🏽f*ck fear!

Yo! I joined up because I’m curious and I want you to do well. Good luck, George

Im going through this exact phase of my life change on my channel. I keep getting hurt skating so is becoming hard to make skat content so I think im gonna do skate reactions / other general commentary

There's also a consequence to posting outside the niche on another channel and then coming back onto the this channel after months with something completely different. Where as if you you faced the fear straight away the decline in subscribers might not have been as drastic and your audience might have transitioned with you a little easier. Pewdiepie is a brilliant example. He never had another channel he just changed the content as he changed. The same goes for Josh Katz, he was a skate channel and transitioned into photography. He may have lost some of his audience but a lot of them just followed along because people liked him. It can be the same for you but because you transitions of the channel for a while some of your audience may have to get to know you again as a lot of your journey has happened on other channels.

Hey I wanted to let you know KZfaq always unsuscribes me from. Many channels . Yours included. I just re subscribed we will see how long till it unsubscribes me again. But mad love for thus channel and the many similar ones. Always appreciate the newest upload dawgg. 🤘 Namaste 🙏

🖤🖤🖤 had a similar feeling recently when posting an illustration on my art page on IG. For some reason I had really bad anxiety about posting it. An overwhelming feeling of it coming off as “cringe” with the flaming skull and left hand horns. Buttfuckit we push thru! 😤🤘🖤

i used to watch your skate content sporadically for the past few months, but your authenticity breaking your niche on that video made me subscribe to your channel, so keep doing what you're doing, and eventually you'll know how to incorporate the skate content organically as it is part of your life I suppose, if that's what you want

I like you

I won’t lie, I’m following your channel right now to see if I can stick it out with the new content just because I like your personality but it’s a hard sell.

What is interesting for me as much as I'm subscribed to your channel I had stopped watching your skate videos. Now that you are posting what's going on in your mind I'm watching again. 🤔

Fuck yea dude. You’re gonna build up a new community that’s there to watch the content you want to put out instead of content you don’t feel as connected to. Also, I wouldn’t take it personally when people unsubscribe, they’re probably just skaters who are interested in skate content so when they see something different they unsubscribe, but it’s not something personal against you.

i subscribed then and if you didnt go through this path i wouldnt be watching this video..

Point taken . What’s coming?

👍💖💖💖💖

Sorry George I was down with you for a while didn’t care about the helmet or anything what I liked about you was you were yourself, fun, kind & kinda dorky but that was unique in skateboarding & I liked it. Then you started taking mushrooms and got honestly not just annoying but sooooo self involved, kinda narcissistic & absolutely pretentious. We get it, you read books & meditate but you absolutely use word jargon to walk yourself in loops. Authentic folks don’t need to remind people they are their authentic selves everyday. Have fun with the enlightened path of the Amazon influencer program, skateboarding isn’t that deep…

I followed you for skate content, have no interest in your new type of stuff. I unsubbed ngl, no hate tho. Wish you all the best George.

You could just start a new channel. Have one for your skateboarding content, and one for more personal/other stuff... It's not "un-authentic". It helps your viewers lock in to what kind of content they want to see more of. Maybe someone only wants to see your skateboarding content and isn't interested at all in your personal journey stuff (yet). That should be fine right? By breaking off into a separate channel, you don't alienate that viewer, they can just sub to the skating channel and get exactly what they want! Hear me out. Many people come to KZfaq seeking education and information about a particular thing. If I subscribe to a carpentry channel, it's because I like the carpentry content. If every other video is totally unrelated to carpentry and dives into the guy's new found spiritual quest into the Old Testament, I'm like, okay good for you but I'm here for carpentry. That might cause me to look elsewhere to a channel that's more focused. I see where you're coming from, but look there's probably more people who are just more into your previous content. Not a big deal. Grow another branch on your tree, you can still cross pollinate by doing shout-outs to your other channel. "If you want to learn more about me personally then check out my other channel... etc, etc." If this is your business, treat it like one. You've got over a quarter million subs, you should be using your metrics as a guide for what kind of content to produce, that's what it's for! I dunno, just a perspective to consider.

tbh the skating industry is def on the decline rn anyway, also i haven’t seen one of ur vids in years man but this one got random recommended to me, also a helmet saved my life snowboarding so helmet gang haha😂

i’m glad you are free 🤍🤍🤍

Be unapologetically yourself that’s skateboarding 🛹 unsub gent bent 😂🎉