Who bought the $2,000 Queen video
I'm Jerry Banfield, and this is my vlog for September 2, 2026. Today we've got a big reveal on who bought the Queen video. It's a channel that appears to be a very big Jerry Banfield fan. Over the years, when I deleted everything online, this channel re-uploaded a whole bunch of my old videos. And in the last day, this channel just discreetly dropped the $2,000 Queen video on their channel as a two-part series. One of my friends searched, found the video, and told me it was up. What I find so interesting is the choice to break it into two separate parts instead of putting it up as one single video.
This is also the channel that took the @JerryBanfieldGaming handle. My official channel is @JerryBanfield. If you want to watch my gaming videos, that channel is @JerryBanfieldGames, which is my actual gaming channel. I deleted @JerryBanfieldGaming and created it twice, and when I deleted it the last time, a guy came through, grabbed the handle, and titled the channel "Jerry Banfield Viral Sensation." So this is super interesting to me.
The person who bought the Queen video was not WhoAreThesePodcasts, and I think there was some other person who was interested in it too. But the person who actually bought it did so to show it off on their own channel and to support me, which is really cool. Now anybody else who wants to react to the video has to react off of the videos they put up, because they got to put it up first. I think I'll go through and react to it on my Jerry Banfield dating channel a week or so from now, because they got an exclusive license to put it up. So whoever is behind this channel is the person who paid $2,000 for the Jerry Banfield Queen video to put it on their channel. That's really cool.
It's also nice that this channel has a bunch of my old gaming videos, which I've been using AI to make edited versions of for my new channel. Instead of putting up a 140-minute livestream, I've been taking clips to make them a little more watchable. But this channel has all the originals. Now, what's interesting is that I could go to YouTube and get this channel taken down if I wanted to, because they're putting up a bunch of my content. And yet, why? Why bother? I think it's cool that people have fan channels and put my videos out on other channels. That's how you know you're the real deal.
That was the biggest thing today so far. I've been so curious about who bought this video for $2,000 and got to show it off, and I hope they're enjoying the fact that they got to release the video before anybody else. This is a good example of how accepting and cooperative I am. Some content creators wouldn't let people put up a whole bunch of their videos, but I love it. I love that other people want to make Jerry Banfield channels and show off my videos.
The toxicity on X and why critics are free marketing
Today I'm doing great with my marketing. I'm getting 10,000 or 20,000 views a day just on the videos I'm putting up. But the toxicity on X has gone insane in the last couple of days. On my Jerry Banfield ICP channel, I said that I'm not going to keep marketing ICP for free anymore and that I'm cleaning house in the ICP community. In my opinion, it's a mess. The incentives are all lined up for people to just talk a bunch of crap. I've explained a proposal that would be absolutely fantastic to support the community and to build, and I put out a video saying I'm done marketing ICP for free. People have just gone off. There's name-calling. There are people saying they're not following me anymore, that I should sell my ICP, and that they'll never watch another one of my videos. Some of the other content creators are getting attacked because of the videos I put up and because they've collaborated with me. And some of them, even though this would be fantastic for them, don't even want to be behind it, because they don't want to get all these attacks, or because in their opinion it's not the best way to go about it.
What I'm grateful for today is that in the past, I would have thought something was wrong. If all kinds of people were writing things about Jerry Banfield and most of them were nasty, maybe I was doing something wrong. But today I know better. Today I know that if all kinds of people are talking about Jerry Banfield and saying a bunch of critical things, I'm doing something right, because I'm getting attention and they're marketing and promoting me for free. Lots of times when someone shares my post and calls me a name, the person reading the post won't agree with them. They'll find my videos instead. They'll end up following one of my six YouTube channels or one of my couple of X accounts, or they'll go to jerrybanfield.com, where I've got a lot of stuff online. I've got six YouTube channels, four channels for vlogs, four crypto channels on different platforms, three different dating channels, and then three or four different channels for creators. I've got a lot of stuff online, and I'm getting free attention. I'm grateful for the free attention I'm getting.
Tennis and how relative life is
It's funny, I was about to say nothing has happened with my dating. Actually, no. Since I did the last vlog, I went and had an awesome time playing tennis with a woman who is very athletic. Man, we wore each other out playing tennis in just an hour and a half. We had such a nice time. In the past, I would have wanted there to be more certainty. Was this a date? Are we going to date? Is this just friends? I intentionally didn't try to bridge any of that. I love playing tennis, especially if I can play tennis with an attractive woman who might be single. Absolutely, I'm happy to do that, and I'm okay leaving some uncertainty. Then she can wonder: did he think this was a date? Do I like him? Cool. She seemed very enthusiastic about playing with me again, which was really nice, because it had taken about a month to get this first match scheduled with just the two of us. She seems very enthusiastic about playing with me again, which I'm really happy about, and she scheduled a time to play with me next week. I'm like, awesome.
My mom watched the kids while I was out playing tennis, and I got a great workout. We missed the rain, and I felt so good. I'm out there on the tennis court, there are other guys out there playing, and I'm out here with this beautiful woman playing a very energetic, active game of tennis, getting a great workout and having fun. And I thought about how anybody else seeing the two of us shows how relative things are in life. Most people would see me and her playing tennis and probably assume that we are a couple or that we are dating. If I see a man and a woman together doing an activity like that, I'd assume they're dating or they're together. That would be my first assumption, and then maybe they're friends or something second. So it's funny how, from other people's point of view, I might already have exactly what I want, so to speak. That's how relative our lives are. It was that deep. Did that just blow your mind a little bit? I hope it did. I'm super grateful for that.
Rest, time for work, and a learning curve with MaxFi
I felt fantastic after playing last night. I got home, showered, and was good and ready to rest. I went to bed with the kids at 9:30 last night, which was nice. I woke up at 5:30, went back to sleep, and had almost 10 hours in bed to rest. I woke up with a ton of energy, ready to go today. I've been really enjoying not taking hours out of my day to go to yoga and an AA meeting most days. For most of the year, I've been going to yoga and an AA meeting most days, and man, it feels good to have so much time to put into my work.
I also had a lot to learn with my MaxFi positions today. They started off printing money, but then some of them weren't, and there was a good learning curve there. I'm glad I enjoy learning. I enjoy having fun learning, and challenging yourself is fun.
Around $4,000 in a week and a stronger man than ever
I think in the last day or so we've peaked in the amount of negative, nasty, critical posts people are writing about me online, and what's nice is that not only am I okay with it, I'm really happy with it. Good. You all want to write stuff that is nasty about me? Great. I'll take the free publicity, because some people are going to see it, go to jerrybanfield.com, and start following me. I'm very happy with where I'm at, what I'm saying, and the life I'm living. I've now made around $4,000 in the last week, so haters can complain all they want. I love getting paid. This is the first month all year where I've made enough that my income from just the last week by itself is able to cover the rent, and I'm really grateful for that. And because I've spent more than I've earned in my business over my life, I don't even have to pay any tax until I get into profit and start making more, because my business is in losses.
So I'm grateful today that I can handle it. I'm a stronger man than I've ever been before. My body is physically strong and extremely healthy. My mind is able to handle more and more crap, more and more people doubting and hating and criticizing, and because of that, my views are going up and up. I was kind of nervous to see where the Queen video would come out today, and I'm so happy to see it came out on this channel. This is awesome. Other channels can still watch it and react to it off of this channel just fine, but they'll be taking it off this channel instead of one of the others. So this has been a fantastic day.
Kids at home and a thank-you to my supporters
My daughter stayed home from school today too, which has made filming my videos interesting. She's like, "Dad, you want to play a game?" And I'm like, yes, I want to play a game, but I also want to get my work done too. Especially when my son's home, he needs more attention, and the kids are playing video games. The time to get my work done is now, while my son's still at school. Getting my work done is important, and it pays the bills. I like to have at least a day of videos scheduled out in advance, so that if I do genuinely need to take a day off sometimes, I can. If I stop publishing videos, I quickly start to lose a lot of the views I get, because a lot of the views only last for 24 to 48 hours after a video comes out, and when you quit publishing, the views start to drop off. So this one is a little shorter than usual, and if you want to follow along with these days as they happen, you'll find every one of them in my Daily Vlogs playlist. Wow, I guess that's all I have to say.
Thank you to those of you going to jerrybanfield.com and buying the chat membership, to the person who just finally bought the meme coin game, and to those buying my Officer Banfield book, buying time to talk with me, and buying the Queen video. I really appreciate the support. It means the world to me. The one thing all the haters do, everybody complaining and whining, is switch overnight from supporting me to criticizing me as hard as possible. Those of you who stick with me and keep supporting me over the long term, even when it's just silent, when you're just watching and enjoying the show, that means the world to me. So thank you. I appreciate you, and I keep doing videos for you every day.