Why There Are Not That Much YouTubers In The Philippines.

Before you say "But there are so many Filipino YouTubers!", hear me out at least for just a second.

How many YouTubers do you know? Say at least 10 YouTubers.

See? There are not that much.

Now, there are other people who are gonna say "There are so much more 'Filo' YouTubers out there!" and yes, there are, I know. But they are not given as much recognition as they needed.

Which is why I've made a blog post about said topic. Here are the reasons why there are not that much YouTubers in the Philippines.

1. The #1 YouTube Channel in the Philippines is not from a YouTuber.

I saw this list on how YouTube channels in the Philippines ranked and the #1 rank goes to ABS-CBN's YouTube channel. I know that this is just a way for me to hate ABS-CBN since I hated them since an eternity ago, but this explains everything. Society has more time to watch clips from their favorite TV show than to watch videos from Filipino YouTubers.

2. Society focuses more on "YouTube Sensations" than "YouTubers" itself.

There is a difference between YouTube Sensation and YouTuber itself, and I think society is focusing more on the former. I mean, look at countries like the UK and US, they are giving YouTubers radio shows and TV shows, while here in the PH, the greatest thing a YouTuber has received is a cameo on a movie and a spot on a comedy TV show. Yes, I was talking about Moy Moy Palaboy and Bogart the Explorer.

3. The only famous YouTubers are not even doing YouTube anymore.

Well, with the exception of Mikey Bustos and Bogart the Explorer(or if you want to be more specific, his channel, PAPERBUGTV). Some of the Pinoy YouTubers I meant were Moy Moy Palaboy and Jamich.

4. Smaller YouTubers have been awfully ignored by society.

Because of reason #1 and #2, society has been ignoring smaller "Filo" YouTubers and have only been watch YouTubers from outside the country. I mean, that's fine and all but, there are also YouTubers here and they need your love.


So yeah, these are the reasons I think there are not that much famous YouTubers in the Philippines.

CATCHING UP BLOG

So, I haven't been blogging since, well, last year. Got side tracked with life, like all of us.

And I remembered, I haven't even done a 2014 recap blog, in which I'm going to do very quickly, since I have lots and lots of things to tell you.

2014 is where I went to cons frequently. At least for my standards, not yours.
2014 is the year where I finally went to Manila. Yes, I still haven't to Manila in the previous years, nor ever lived there.
2014 is the year where I have watched movies in the cinema very frequently, I call it my "Film Buff Transition Year".
2014 is where I did stuff more, like finally publishing my comics online, Even if it will take so long for me to post the next issue.
In short, 2014 is my year, and 2015 is no different.

More recently, I went to NexCon, and it, was a party.

I met some Whovians here and there, did a vlog, made some "friends" and other stuff.

SIDENOTE: I have a youtube channel, it's adoboisnotwhite.

I guess that's today's blog? I might blog a bit more frequently than last year. I hope?

KUBOT: THE ASWANG CHRONICLES 2 REVIEW(POTENTIAL SPOILERS)

Okay, so I saw Kubot last last week and I've got a lot to say.

It got a lot of promotion, which may sound like a great move for a dumb movie. But no, it actually lived up to the hype.

Erik Matti, director of Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles and its sequel--which is this movie for all y'all who don't know--ditched the overuse of green screen from the first movie to spend almost all of its digital editing to the visual effects of the aswangs on the sequel.

Kubot, for those who don't know, is centered on Makoy(Dingdong Dantes) who, by luck(or bad luck, depending on how you think), encounters the aswangs for a second time due to Nieves(Lotlot de Leon), his relative's suspicion on her boss, Lex(Isabelle Daza)'s true identity.

First things first, it had the format of what seemed to be a feature-length TV episode, and literally picked up where Tiktik left off.

Lovi Poe, who play Sonya in the first film, may not be in Kubot, but her character still kinda is. But she gets replaced by a girl who looks like Mikael Daez and Lovi Poe's love child. But at a glance, you won't notice that, good job to the guys who gets the task of re-casting her.

The main conflict of this movie is Makoy being traumatized after seeing his "wife" get killed by the aswang right in front of him. Now, the story is well done, the effects are great, they did minimal green screen work in some scenes, especially the Pulupandan scene and probably some of Nieves and Makoy's house, but it turned out to be so good that you won't notice where the green screen is placed or how big the area actually is.

The movie has got a great balance of dark comedy, action, drama and adventure. The scenes the actually got me to laugh are when Nestor(Joey Marquez) suddenly did a back flip to evade the gunshots fired by the cops, the scene where one of the cops played by Bogart the Explorer used a cellphone app to prove that the CCTV footage was faked, the scene where Bogart the Cop just sees two different Nieves-es killing each other, and the scene where Tope(Jun Sabayton, an old favorite of mine) and Nestor did a fistfight.

But the only small flaw is at one point, it's got comedy-comedy-comedy-comedy scene after scene that it evaded us from the plot for a bit.

But still, it's worth checking out, it's got a 3.5 out of 5 stars for me. It's a good movie for everybody. But if you're a kid, just watch out for the foul language that you will hear.