I'm Jerry Banfield. It's July 31st, 2026. I'm a full-time YouTuber, and this is the daily vlog I do to communicate real, raw, authentic living. I'm a role model — I'm trying to live a life here and share and show others how to do it. So here's what's happened in the last 24 hours. Who would find any of this interesting if you haven't known me? I think it is interesting.
Going All In on YouTube
I realized in the last 24 hours that I need to just go all in on YouTube. The idea of me trying to do business locally is a bit unrealistic. I know what I'm doing on YouTube. I've been praying about it — please guide me on my work — because I want to make a full-time income, like ten-plus thousand a month, doing what I do. I'm grateful that I'm up to maybe a couple thousand a month right now, from zero in just two months, with six YouTube channels I started four months ago.
The TikTok Seller Conversation
One of the best things that happened in the last 24 hours was an amazing conversation with a guy I ran into at a meeting. He's going through a divorce himself and struggling, but one thing he said in his share is that he got a call from his divorce attorney while he was on camera. I thought, I'm going to have to talk to him afterwards about that. Same as when I picked that woman up at yoga a few weeks ago — anytime I hear anybody talking about content creation, I've got to figure out what's going on there.
So I talked to this guy after the meeting and asked, what do you do on camera? He says he sells stuff on TikTok. You sell stuff on TikTok? He tells me exactly how he does it. He's making a fortune doing it, and he puts in a lot of work doing the livestreams too. I told him I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself, and he said TikTok and YouTube are where it's at — you've got to be able to find something to do on YouTube, you're in the right place already. We ended up talking about all kinds of different games and stuff that he sold before, and when I brought up Magic: The Gathering Arena, he said, dude, Magic: The Gathering Arena is so popular, there's so much money you can make around that game. Really? Because I love playing Magic: The Gathering. I played as a kid. I got to Mythic. And right now, out of my six YouTube channels, my gaming channel is the weak spot. All the other channels are growing pretty consistently, and if the gaming channel could pull in an audience, that might be critical mass. So I left thinking, thank you for the guidance — YouTube is exactly what I need to be doing.
The Numbers Behind My Setup
Behind me in my vlogs is a $10,000-plus YouTube setup. My light alone is several hundred dollars. Claude Code runs a $200-a-month AI workflow on my videos in the background, and my spreadsheet shows I've uploaded 371 videos since May 18th. I've averaged five videos a day, even going on vacation, even changing my strategy to livestreams. I've averaged 73 minutes of content a day — that's 90 hours of content I've uploaded since May 18th, with OBS running right there in my studio. Almost nobody gets this kind of a setup. With this kind of setup, I know I can make at least 10 grand a month. And at this point it's like, okay, what do I need to do to get there? Just keep grinding out YouTube videos. You went from zero to 2,000 a month. There's no reason you can't go from two to three, three to four, four to five, five to six, six to seven, seven to ten. There's no reason you can't just grind out videos and make a full-time living on YouTube.
I'm really grateful for that realization. All I need to do is go back to cranking out six videos a day. I will eventually get some sponsorships — I do need to put my business email in all my channels — and everything should escalate. Right now I only have two monetized channels, and they bring in $500 a month in ad revenue. What happens when I get three, four, five, six monetized channels and they start bringing in $1,000, $2,000, $3,000 a month in ad revenue?
The Jerry Banfield Family
I made the Jerry Banfield Family super affordable so that anyone can easily join. In there you can talk, you can post to everybody else who's in there, you can introduce yourself, you can DM me, and I'm putting my own courses and video archives up in there. If you want to support me, if you want a direct connection, if you want me to read your comments, that's the place to do it. And if you want a one-on-one call a month, you can upgrade, or if you want a one-on-one call every week, you can upgrade in there. So I've got a nice business system set up right now. And if the ICP price would ever kick off, I'm so set — I'm already in the right position. All I need to do is keep grinding out content and stay focused, which most of the last few months I have done. But in the last week I started getting distracted. I've had this idea that there are these big opportunities for me locally, but I've got to say that's unrealistic. Most local stuff comes from face-to-face networking and in-person connections, and I have very little of that. I don't enjoy doing that a whole bunch either. I'm good at all this tech stuff, so we're going to keep doing that.
Back on Hinge
I also rejoined Hinge yesterday. I know, cringe, but I'm going to keep doing that, and I am going to document it on my Jerry Banfield dating channel. Look — Hinge day one, just rejoined, here's my profile, here's my strategy, let's see how long it is before I either meet someone or delete it. I was thinking about the woman I went out with from yoga that I got all excited about — she was on Hinge also, and she had some guy cancel a date on her. And I know on Hinge, if you send roses, that is a pretty easy way to get attention from a woman. I think I've made my best Hinge profile, and you can be the judge of that on Jerry Banfield dating.
I've also decided I don't need to put these vlogs out a full two weeks behind. So I'm going to start cranking out the ones I've filmed every day. There should still be a few days' delay on the vlog, in case I get a little embarrassed that I filmed a video crying — we're just going to censor that one. I don't have to put out every single moment of my life. One guy was messaging me saying, well, your YouTube makes it hard, because women are going to be able to see everything going on with you. And this is important: if I'm going to date a woman, she needs to be comfortable with what I do on YouTube. That was one of the big points of friction while I got divorced. My ex hated my very public life, that I would put everything out there. She hated being a part of that. Now, many women will feel the same way, but some women will be very happy to have that kind of lifestyle, where we live a transparent life. I want a woman who would film videos with me and be a part of my vlogs and film dating videos with me. Maybe play a game with me or something. Maybe hop on the crypto channel once a month. I want a woman who will cooperate with my YouTube channel, who is proud of what I do, and who is happy to support me with that. So I'm not going to try to hide or minimize my YouTube. On Hinge, I put that I'm a YouTuber in my description. My shirts have my name on them — it says Jerry Banfield. Who knows?
I've also been thinking about the woman at yoga. She's pulled away. Maybe she'll come back, maybe not. It doesn't matter that much, because what matters is I keep getting out there and making an effort myself. I picked my friend up from the airport yesterday and had a nice conversation with him, and I was listening to some of his videos. I decided I'm going to watch some more of Andrew Tate's course — and I don't agree with a significant portion of it — but I'm feeling really grateful, like I'm getting back to what I know, what I already learned about dating. The woman who was supposed to come over today canceled. She first rescheduled, and then she said, oh, I'm not feeling good, can I reschedule? I'm just going to leave that. For me, if you're canceling or rescheduling, I'm going to figure you're not interested, and I'm just going to withdraw any attention from there. If she wants to try again sometime later, cool. But I really don't like canceling or rescheduling — to me, that indicates you're unstable, that you can't commit to the things you say you're going to do. And with the woman from yoga, the queen, I should have immediately pulled back a hundred percent when she canceled that date — just been like, I'm out — and maybe then she decides she misses me and then she's pursuing after that. But I'm grateful for all these lessons I've learned.
Be Careful Who You Listen To
I'm grateful for all of you watching and supporting. That said, if you want to talk with me or share your opinions with me, you've got to be a member of the Family, because the YouTube comments have been too damaging to me over the years. Negative little amounts of feedback are so toxic that I can read nine positive comments and one negative comment sticks. Who's posting these comments? I don't know if the comments are from bots. I don't know if the comments are from some miserable, lonely person. I don't need to hear that.
I know it's really important in life to be careful who you listen to, and random people commenting on my videos are not who I need to listen to. I need to listen to people who have something invested in me, who care about what I'm doing, who want to support me, for whom my videos make a difference. I got some really nice messages on Skool yesterday from a guy saying my videos have made such a big difference in his life. That's what I need to hear. I don't need to hear from somebody who's just out there, coming over from some other video, wanting to talk a bunch of junk. So be careful who you listen to in life. My goal with all that I create is to be a person worth listening to, if you want to have a life that's satisfying, that's fun, that's authentic, that's full of joy.
I'll keep you updated with everything on my Life playlist. I'm also shortening things up — if I go over 10 minutes on a video, I'll be back with another video. It's time to wrap it up, because if I'm going to do six videos a day, I probably shouldn't be putting out more than 60 minutes a day of content right now, and I've been averaging 73 minutes a day. It seems the number one thing I can do to grow all my channels is crank one video a day out on every single channel. If I want to make 10 grand a month on YouTube, then if I put six videos a day out for the next six months, that'll be a little less than a thousand videos. That gives me pretty high confidence there's going to be a lot of reach and discovery. So we're going to wrap this up. Hope to see you on tomorrow's vlog.