Well, here I am on the last day of summer. Looking back, it was definitely completely wasted. I had three goals, and there were to 1, get a job, 2 make some friends (perferably of the lady variety), and 3, to bulk up my subscribers count and to finally try to make a better name for myself on youtube. Well, I epically failed with all of those, but I’m not dwelling on it. It’s opened my eyes a bit, so bear with me during this post, because I am definitely not complaining. Don’t assume I’m whining here.
So, let me tell you about the job thing. There comes a point when a man gets sick of sitting on his computer all day and chasing fame he’ll never get that he get’s bored with it, and wants more. That was me last May. I wanted to finally get a job. I was QUITE optimistic, too, because my sister told me should could get me into an interview for a job as a golf caddy, because she had connections. Mind you, this was not just an average country club, too. I had the potential to be caddying for Bob Uecker and Aaron Rodgers if I got the job. Sounds like a dream job to me. But, alas, this recession happened. The country club needed to cut back on caddies, and they even needed to lay off some of the ones they already had. Well, that was the end of that dream. But, I decided to not fret yet, because they had been working on a Dunkin’ Donuts nearby for over a year. I love Dunkin’ Donuts! That was so exciting! I would have loved to work there, and I figured that there would be A LOT of positions available if they were just opening it. Well, it never opened. And it won’t ever open either. What do I have to thank this time? Probably the recession again. I hadn’t given up yet, though, as there was a Jimmy Johns right next door to it, which also, may I add, had plenty of pretty girls working it. So, I dropped by to ask what the qualifications were, and they said I needed to be over 16. So, in my awkward, annoying manner, I did that thing where I point my finger on the tabe, and said something along the lines of “Weeeeeelll, that doesn’t look very good for ol’ Reuben, does it?” …then I walked out, embarrassed I did that thing in front of all the pretty girls. I wish I didn’t always do that “mockingly suave” thing when I get nervous. I hate it. I hate it so much.
So, that was blown out of the water. I had one last chance, when one day decided I wouldn’t mind working for a coffee shop nearby. So, the same day, I headed on over, and picked up an application. Everybody was really nice to me, so I headed home and filled it out. Took it back 2 days later, and waited. They never called back. Looking back, it might not have been the best idea to say that “Rockin’ the suburbs” by Ben Folds describes me the most. So, I’ll take the high road, and blame ol’ Benny on me not getting this job.

Thanks a lot, Ben! While you are out hanging with Weird Al, I'm stuck in school with no source of income!
So, yes, the job hunt was unsuccessful. Very unsuccessful, as was my attempts to make friends. Actually, I lost friends this summer. Pretty much, I lost all of my friends except for like one person, and a few aquaintances. I guess I forgot to follow the old saying of “Never befriend a little guy who’s name rymes with Teoff, because although he will be your best friend for over a year, when the Summer comes, he will completely turn his back on you and become the biggest jerk ever by rekindling another friendship with another guy who stabbed you in the back, and then he’ll just skateboard all the time and completely change as a person into a really mean spirited little clone of everybody else, and he also won’t give you back your beloved screenplay that you worked on for over 2 years because he is a jerk who probably lost it even though he promised to not lose it over the summer when you gave it to him to read it because you trusted him, and now you probably won’t ever get it back.”
Silly me!
Other than that, my pals have stopped talking to me, have decided to start dating an old flame of mine without telling me, have deleted me from my friends on the social networking sites, and altogether have changed as people who no longer like me for whatever reason. Maybe it’s my fault, because I HATE being the only other person who calls people to hang out. Once in a while, it’s okay, but when you have friends who NEVER EVER EVER EVER call you, you start to get the feeling that they aren’t really good friends.
Plus, I had no luck with the ladies this summer. No luck, at all.
So, probably the worst, my goal of getting at least over a thousand subscribers this summer fell extremely flat. I assumed that I’d have nothing but time to work at revamping you channel and making good videos that people would HAVE to discover me and subscribe. Not quite. Grand total, I got less than 30 subscribers the whole summer.
LESS THAN 30.
That’s not only a fail, that’s a horrible shameful fail. Even if I didn’t shovel all of my spare time into making youtube videos and everything, that would still be earth shatteringly heart-breaking. Seriously. Less than 30. Girls with videos about the Jonas Brothers get more than that. Yes, I’ll admit that I had that scare when I got over a thousand fake sockpuppet subscribers, but that just doesn’t count. Plus, they have all gone away, and it’s been over a week since I got one measly subscriber. In fact, over the past 2 weeks, I’ve lost 2 subscribers, and that’s it.
So, I’ve had a lot of time to think. I’ve come to the conclusion that people still really, really, REALLY don’t like me on the internet, and that won’t change. Youtube is not the right place for me, and I’ve wasted years on it. The Reubnick channel is such a dead horse that it’s rotting. I’ve plateaued in early January, and it’s been that way since. There is no Reubnick future on youtube. I won’t become a partner, and I won’t become a “web-lebrity”, either. My youtube progress is done, and if videos I spend hours and hours on can’t get over 200 views in 2 months, that tells me something.
But, I’ve also decided to not whine ANYMORE about it. I face the facts. I’m not liked on the internet, and at this point, there’s nothing I can do about it. So, I won’t dwell at all, because nobody wants to hear it, and it’s pitiful. That’s why I’ve decided that this year, I’m going to stop focusing on my youtube channel much at all, and do other things. I’m going to write a bunch of scripts, but they are going to be longer and involved, and nobody will probably know about them. I want to contribute to Uncyclopedia more, and I want to work on developing the Flash series I’m working on with Dom about Martini Martian more. Quite frankly, I don’t really care that much about youtube anymore. It’s only brought me heartbreak, and that won’t change. That’s why I want to pursue my other endeavors and see how that goes.
No, I’m not quitting youtube, because although I have grown to hate it, I just can’t give it up. It’s become such a part of me that I can’t leave it. So, I hope to still make videos, but with a lot less frequency. Because I’ll have a lot of other stuff to worry about, and like I said, it’s not that important to me anymore. I am thinking I might start to do “vlogs” more, because those seem to be all the rage lately. I can dig up my “Reubnickisanidiot” channel, revamp it, and basically just completely rip off what Nalts, PeterCoffin, ZackScott, CharlesTrippy, WhattheBuck, Shaycarl, and Ijustine are doing, amongst others. I’ll see how that goes, and if anybody really cares about what I have to say.
I’m really optimistic about this whole Martini Martian thing, though. The very first episode got featured on Albinoblacksheep, which is a huge deal to me. That website is honestly what got me started on the internet. Without it, there would be no Reubnick. Just writing the script for something that got featured on there is probably even a bigger deal than getting featured on Youtube. Even though it probably sounds like I’m sucking up to it and being really annoying, it is a huge deal to me. Does anybody even know how many hours I spent watching the Angry Strawberry and that weird video where the crabs dance with Britany Spears to the Castaway music? I don’t think so! The answer is a lot of time.
There’s already 8 or 9 scripts I’ve written for it, and I think they are all solid. We need to rerecord them because the sound quality is B-A-D BAD, and because the person who voices Martini is a little jackass, but when that is done, we’ll get the series more on the road. Even though people don’t like the first episode very much at all, we won’t give up there.
What else? Oh, yeah, I got featured on the front page of Bananasurprise.com, too. I mean, all I had to do was send in a picture, but it’s still pretty cool.

SURPRISE!
So, there you have it. A new Reubnick in the future. Less in front of the camera, and more behind it for me. if by some chance, my channel finally takes off this year, I’ll go back to doing what I’m doing, but for right now, I think I’ll just write more scripts. I’m still going to write annoyingly large ammounts of twitter updates, but I just won’t be on Youtube as much.
I mean, right now, I’ve got like 5 feature length movie scripts I’d like to write just for the heck of it, and for possible use in the future. They are all genious in my opinion. Plus, I’m going to release a free book I wrote sometime soon, so hopefully people will enjoy that.
Normally, I’d end posts like these on a discouraged note, but I’ve realized I really shouldn’t get discouraged about doing what I’m doing until I’m in college, and things still don’t go very well for me. But, If I don’t get into the Second City, and then SNL, I’ll just become a politician! It’s a good plan.
So, don’t worry about Reubnick, because I’m alright!