Fly Soldier (67:32)
Me, I do family content. So me, I'm like. I'm on. I'm on a positive note. I got a lot of haters. He could tell you that. I have a lot of haters. Just be. Just by just being me, I. I literally just do family content. And they. People don't like it. You know, they. You know, my. My son was in a NICU for 43 days, okay? I didn't know my son was gonna live or die, okay? So, you know, that was a. That was different. You know, I went through homelessness, addiction, jail, prison, all that. I went through heartbreak, all that. But this one was different. It was the most harshest time in my life, is that my son was in NICU 40 days, and I only missed one day of not going there. And there was one day that I took place for my. My. My. My wife, because she said she couldn't go because she was starting to get NICU psychosis. Because when you go in there, it's, like, really, really depressing. There's kids in every unit, and they're all, you know, trying to survive. You hear D D and they're on cubes, and they're little babies, you know? And it's very sad because you see a lot of sad things there. You know, kids with cancer. That's. It's. It's not a nice place to go to. And I. I had a. At it. So I. I'm. Technically, I was a NICU dad. You don't think I was embarrassed that I had to sign myself in? I had to take a picture like this, so I get a tag and see my son every single day, you know? You know? No, I was embarrassed. I was like. I wanted my son to be home, and I showcased it on the Internet. I had. You know, I thought to myself, like this, like, when I was at. When I was at the hospital, and they didn't discharge my. My girl yet because at the end of the day, when your baby's in. Going to NICU or not, they separate your baby, but you're still. But she's still a patient. But she just pushed the baby out, and she had an epidural, so she's still a patient. So we're in the room alone, right? And then our baby's in a different unit in NICU until he gets transported to the real children's hospital, right? So we're sitting there, and she looks at me, and she's like, I want to be. I want to be a drug addict. And by the way, she's not a drug addict, not one bit. I said I would not allow that to happen. So I didn't let that happen. So I. I took all. I took all the hits. I took all the hits. So I went through it. I had to know myself. I went through it because I didn't want her to go through it. So I catered to her, treated her like a princess. I distracted her mind. I made. I. I made her life real good. I paid all the bills. I did everything for her just so she could not stress. I would tell her, hey, baby, I go to NICU today. You don't have to go. I'll do things like that, you know, so she won't be stressed out. Because I don't want her to ruin her life. Because this. Because you had. We had two options. Number one, we're very famous, and everyone knows that. Where's the baby? And I posted already, hey, she. We're getting. We're delivering the baby. It's already got 2 million views. Okay, so now they're expecting the baby. So now the next one is. Where's the baby? Is he at home with you guys? Nope. So we decided to do on YouTube and we talked about our life, and we said, hey, our baby's in the nicu. And we had two options, and one of them was to hide from the Internet until our baby gets out. The NICU can't do that. That doesn't sound like a therapeutic thing. That sounds depressing. Depressing. Or keep doing what I'm doing and make this into a story. And that's why a lot of people hate me. Because when I first started Snapchat, I did the NICU thing and I showed Cased my whole life on how. What it was to be a NICU dad, NICU mom. And she signed into my Snapchat, too. It's our Snapchat, so it's a whole team thing that we have. So she's doing Snapchats, I'm doing Snapchats. So we're doing all that and we're showing what is, what does it feel to be a nicu dad? NICU mom. And it was getting so many views because people were like, what? I've never seen something like this. And we would go there every single day with a whole new surprise. He's got this, he's got that, he's got this, he's got that, he's got this. And that's why a lot of people don't like me. But the funny thing about it is, is my baby, my baby was not in a nicu. You know, I'm not stupid. I knew my baby was going to end up being nicu okay, before he came out. Okay. One thing about me is, is that if my baby was not going to nicu, I knew for sure and for a fact I was going to showcase him anyways. NICU or not. So just because he was a nicu, that doesn't mean that I'm exploiting my child. That just means that I was trying to start my family channel. And I've said it from the jump since I, since I, since I. Before my baby came out and was in the belly, I said, hey look, I am doing a family channel. I am going to do it for anytime. Well, it's going to be on Snapchat or YouTube. I'm doing it. I did not think about the NICU situation, but guess what? The guess God throws you things and everything happens for a reason. So I did, so I showcased my NICU stuff and Now I'm pulling 8 million views a day on Snapchat because I showcase that. And that's why they don't like me because I'm winning and they think that I used my child, my child because that had, that had issues when he was first was born. And they think I used my child for view, for viewership and for monetization reasons. I did not I was going to start a family channel anyways. So when in their airhead mind ever think that, oh, you don't think because he was in NICU you should have never shown that. No dumb she. We were gonna have a family channel. I will showcase whatever the I want to because in the guidelines and the rules of every applications it never says you cannot post your child no matter what degree your child is on. So I show my kid getting physical therapy. I show my kid, my kid going to docs appointments. I show all that. Why? Because he's mine. You don't like it, you get to. You can watch somebody else. He's mine. We were gonna start a family channel anyways. What are you mad about? And then I'm going through my other, my other daughter, and I'm getting parental alienation. I'm seeing her tomorrow, finally, after five months of not seeing her.
