Jiang answers his own test case negatively: even if his YouTube channel spreads wisdom, public influence is not what gets a soul from Purgatory to heaven.
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Jiang says he wants to keep teaching on YouTube for the next fifty years and treats the platform as his long-term teaching community.
He says Substack support allowed him to keep YouTube unmonetized, avoid sponsors, and focus on teaching quality.
Jiang says all livestream content will eventually be uploaded to YouTube, but live participation itself will remain limited to founding members or paid subscribers.
Jiang says YouTube censorship limits what he can say and motivates a possible move to Rumble and a Discord space for more direct community exchange.
The YouTube channel began as a review aid for Chinese students but rapidly became a global audience after growing from roughly 300 subscribers at the beginning of May to about 25,000 by this recording.
Viewer comments will shape the next course iteration, which Jiang promises will be leaner, cleaner, and more enjoyable.
Jiang says he posted predictions publicly because he truly believed them and wanted a historical record that could prove or disprove him.
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"...like like me right like like like i have my own youtube channel and i'm spreading wisdom is this going to get me to..."
"...don't appraise myself too much but i feel as though my youtube channel i am educating a lot of people and i am in..."
"...planning for this new year is to continue to teach on YouTube. Because I love what I do on YouTube. I love teaching you..."
"...me because of the generosity I've been able to keep my YouTube free of monetization. I've been able to avoid sponsors. I've just been..."
"All live streams will be eventually uploaded to my YouTube. YouTube channel, so no one will miss the content. But during the live stream,..."
"...So, that was my strategy and planning when I started the YouTube channel. It sounds so silly, right? Are you telling me that you..."
"It's gonna be Joe Biden. Okay? And like, there was a lot of pushback. And it says, no, no, it's gonna be Pete Buttigieg...."
"...reality to them. So screw this. I'm gonna make my own YouTube channel and just speak my heart, basically."
"...and i do monetize i mean like i don't want my youtube but i monetize my sub stack and that's a lot of money..."
"...they get you through money okay so i don't monetize my youtube and everyone's like you're insane you could be generating a lot of..."
"invite the devil in and i'm not gonna let you guys in so don't bother right i don't care what you do to me..."
"...to be on this show. They allow you to be on YouTube. You get past the great firewall that you criticized in that CNN..."
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