{"id":3501,"date":"2020-02-01T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2025-02-01T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:45:16","slug":"why-i-watch-sailing-channel-videos-and-not-netflix-or-tv-anymore-because-this-is-the-future-of-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/01\/why-i-watch-sailing-channel-videos-and-not-netflix-or-tv-anymore-because-this-is-the-future-of-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I watch Sailing Channel Videos and not Netflix or TV anymore – because this is the future of media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is noon on the 1st February 2020. I am honored to be the 500st person in the world to see the first private video about climate activist Greta Thunberg<\/strong> crossing the Atlantic Ocean. I am able to be in this position because since years, I believe that Sailing Channel Video<\/strong> makers do something right, that they are pioneering a model that will change the future of media creation<\/strong>, that other media like TV, Movies, or Netflix try hard to achieve and will never achieve. Do I like it? I like it a lot.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What are Sailing Channel Videos<\/strong>? Typically, it is a bunch of people who bought a sailboat, are living on it, and make videos about it. They often start creating these videos to share their live with their close friends and family, to stay in touch. But after a while, some channels went deeper and developed an art form and new media format, that has not been there before. They create videos that anyone can watch and enjoy, not only friends and family. Often a talent for making videos and being natural in front of the camera plays a role. To continue doing this, they ask the audience for money and resources, with the simple offer: if you support me living my life and doing these videos about it, I am going to continue so. Thousands of people today already support Sailing Channel Video makers. The videos get better. The fanbase increases. The creators talk with their audience and listen to them. A positive feedback loop comes into play, where both creators get more confident in what they do as artists and the audience gets more comfortable supporting them what they do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is  1st February 2020, I am watching one of my favorite YouTube channels, <\/strong>Sailing La Vagabonde<\/strong><\/a>. Today is a special day. It is the day, they published their first video about their atlantic crossing with climate activist Greta Thunberg to their Patreons. I love what Elay and Riley from Sailing La Vagabonde do since many years. I watched nearly all their episodes. When they announced in November 2019 that they are going to help climate activist Greta Thunberg to cross the Atlantic Ocean to reach COP25, I decided that it is time to now also support them with a donation $3 each month. Because they are good people and they do something that is deeply right and I as a decent human being must support this cause. In addition to their YouTube channel, I support Sailing La Vagabonde financially on Patreon.com<\/a>. Since November, I pay a donation of about $3 each month to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you see this post on 1st February, the video will not be online yet. To see it, you have to join me on Patreon and Support Sailing La Vagabonde<\/a>. I could just share the secret YouTube link here – but I won’t do it, because – hey – it would be wrong. And this post is all about right and wrong and respecting artists and their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is the 1st February 2020<\/strong>. My favorite Youtube Channel just released the first video about Greta Thunbergs Atlantic Crossing – only to their patreons<\/strong>. I click the link. 499 people watched this video before me<\/strong>. We are amongst ourselves. We, the fans. We see Riley, Elay, Lenny on La Vagabonde. We know the boat because we saw it when they bought it. We know Lenny because we saw the pictures when he was born, when Elay was pregnant. We know the hardship and good and bad because over the last years, we followed them. We commented on their posts, they liked our comments and replied. As audience, we are connected to the artists. We know them, they know us. I also follow climate activist Greta Thunberg, who I highly respect for her writing\/talking skills and for her activism. I bought her book. I follow Greta on Facebook and Instagram. Today I see something like if A-Team and Knight Rider would team up to save the world. The real world. Do I like it? I like it a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow, on 2nd February 2020, Journalists will see this video<\/strong>. They will report about it. They will report about the private life of Greta Thunberg and Svante. They will discuss if this YouTube couple just did it for fame and money and if Greta was secretly paid, if anyone has an advertisement deal, what corporations may be behind all this<\/strong>. That Greta Thunberg is different. They are biased because as paid journalists, working under the regime of channelized media and pressured by shareholder value, they do not understand how free media works. They are biased. You will be biased by their reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know who paid this video. I did. And others.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love Sailing Channels. Since years. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never wanted Netflix or Amazon. I am watching multiple channels and I will quote my experience with them, so to understand this, it helps if you first know what we are talking about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n