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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing YouTubers here in Thailand. This is not a rant against YouTubers in Thailand. Let me be clear, I enjoy watching a lot of the folks that like to travel throughout Thailand or come and live here and kind of occasionally throw up posts about their day-to-day lives. I tend to not ever really comment. I am aware that on YouTube, this is kind of in a business context if you will or professional context, but yeah I am on YouTube, I am aware of that so I am not going to point anybody out here and quite honestly I don't think anybody really deserves to have this pointed out. 

The reason I am making the video, it's not one of those "stay in your lane" things, or "get off my lawn, I'm a grumpy old man and I'm upset that you are over here talking about legal issues." The thing that scares me is I occasionally will see a video. I see this a lot with folks that come in and are here for like 2 years and they will make a video that will go viral talking about like Immigration or something and they talk about the way that they did it with a bunch of certainty and quite honestly to some degree in my opinion some unearned confidence because clearly they have had somebody show them, probably an agent or something, assist them in doing what they do and then they talk about it, more the certainty, it is not so much the unearned confidence, it is more the certainty where they talk about "hey this is the way you do this". Well look, different especially in an Immigration context, different offices do things differently. So when folks do a video that says, "this is how it works, this is the definitive video on Thai Immigration", for example, that is very misleading whether intentionally or otherwise because Immigration does different things depending on the Office you are dealing with. The other thing I often see is folks again will do YouTube videos talking about legal issues that quite honestly they think they know about and they don't, where they talk about how they are doing something and it's legal when in fact it's illegal and they are just getting away with it because there hasn't been any enforcement. I see this a fair bit on YouTube as well. Again not pointing anybody out; it just seems to be a phenomenon.

So the thing and the reason for the title, I am not here to be hostile, the title was more designed to get folks attention. Just generally, YouTubers especially folks that are really based here in Thailand and you are doing like a lot of videos about Thailand, there is nothing wrong about talking your experience at Immigration for example but if you could kind of refrain from making videos that go out and kind of state with certainty that this is how this works in Thailand, that would probably be a better way to do things because I think if one of those videos inadvertently goes viral and then a bunch of people watch it and they think "oh this is how this works", and it may not be A, how it works in all situations or B, it may not be how it works at all and you just don't know, it would be better for the public if they just didn't hear that in my opinion because it causes, again and I don't like getting, this isn't a censorship thing, disinformation, misinformation, not the point, this is just more of a courtesy kind of thing. It's like just kind of preface what you are saying with "this is my experience" rather than stating it as the definitive "this is how it works".