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Hiiii everyone, Pearly needs your help😆

In fact, one of my New Year's resolutions this year is to create my own small online course about language learning (ahhhhhh)🤭💚 I think having a course would be nice as it can be more structured and I can also talk more in details about many things💭 But I want to make it affordable to everyone as I know many of you watching are around my age and prob don't have much money💸, just like me😅 So, I'm not going to make a super big course, just a small & cute one but with useful tips & nice vibe haha😆🌴

I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know what topics/tips you would  like me to cover in the course, any suggestions would be awesome! Thanks in advance💚 

Good evening from Taiwan😄Just wanna let you know, I will take some time off and won't be posting a video on April 30th. It's been quite some time since I've taken a break, plus I'm quite tired after traveling to Japan haha😆Anyway don't miss me too much and I'll see you soon okkkk🌴🫰😆 

Hi guysssss💚For those who saw the earthquake news and are wondering, I'm totally fine, fortunately🥹Thank you for thinking of me🫶

The earthquake yesterday was so huge that I thought I was going to die😵‍💫 To be honest, the more natural disasters I encounter, the more deeply I feel how small human beings are in this universe. Many worries and frustrations in life don't seem that important anymore. 

And it made me even more determined to keep creating and doing what I love in life, no matter how uncertain the future holds, I couldn't be more grateful that I'm still alive and healthy now🥰 

Hi everyone😆, this is Pearlyyyy✨

I will be adjusting my posting schedule for the next few months (plus this month) due to various reasons. I will share with you why I've made this decision in the upcoming video😉

I will post 3 videos a week (instead of 4) starting from this month, on the 10th, 20th and 30th of each month! So the upcoming video will be posted on the 10th of February (which also mean no video today🥲).

In the meantime, I will start trying to post Podcast episode once a week😆, so if you miss me too much when I'm not posting new YouTube videos, feel free to come hang out with me in the Podcast hehe😜 here's the link 🔗 https://linktr.ee/baobaopearly 

Wish you all a lovely day ahead💚 

Hello~~~and good evening from Taiwan🤗 ✨
I'm finally doing a Q&A video (I hesitated for so long cuz I'm afraid no one is interested in asking any ahaha😅).
✍️plz leave your questions (if you have any hehe😅) under this post or through IG stories! 
I will try my best to answer them😁🫡💚 

Coucou everyone✨
In case you haven't checked out my new video, I started my own Podcast!!! It's called "Listen to Myself" (👀more details about it in the newest video and in the trailer episode of the Podcast).

Launching a Podcast and recording Podcast episodes is a brand new challenge for me in 2024, I'm nervous and a bit scared because I have never done it before and honestly zero idea how it will go, BUT I'm ready for this challenge😁✨💪

Feel free to check it out if you wanna listen to more of me talking LOLL

✅Check out my Podcast "Listen to Myself" here!
🔗  https://linktr.ee/baobaopearly 

🥳🥳🥳Today, marked my one-year anniversary as a full-time YouTuber, and there are some messages that I would like to share with you❤️

Reading time: about 8 mins (sorry for such a long post haha) *you could check out the complete version on my IG (due to the word limit here)

Time flew, today marked my one-year anniversary as a YouTuber. It’s so crazy, I experienced so many different kinds of emotions, fears, frustrations, surprises, excitement, sadness, happiness, and loneliness during this period. I don’t think I have ever in my life feeling all these emotions this strong during such a short period. 

Probably one of the most valuable lessons I learned from my previous 9-5 full-time job is, if I’m not doing something that I truly feel passionate about, that I feel meaningful, that I feel happy, that I feel fulfilled, I would only work for the sake of working or living, and days, months and years would just pass by in a blink of an eye, when I notice it, I’m probably already too old to change anything. This, for me, is very dreadful. If I’m fortunate enough to be in a position that allows me to have the freedom to find out and pursue what I’m passionate about, then, I really don’t have any excuse not to do it.

I chose to become a YouTuber, not because I want to be famous, not because I think YouTuber is cool, not because I think YouTube is a platform that will help me succeed, not because I want to potentially earn a lot of money out of it, I chose it solely because there are messages that I would love to share with the world, and YouTube happen to be the platform that I love the most as a consumer. 

Maybe not in the eyes of Gen-Z, but for my generation and my parents’ generation, being a YouTuber is definitely an unconventional job. Not only that I received doubts from people who are close to me, but I also doubted myself, that’s why I used to feel very embarrassed to tell people that I do YouTube full-time instead of “just a hobby, you know, nothing that serious”. 

During the first few months as a YouTuber, along with the doubts I already had within myself (e.g. can I even make it without any fan base or experiences in content creation, can I even survive in this competitive platform, am I really going to like being a YouTuber?, can I really earn any penny out of it, etc., etc.,), the stats in the creator studio always gave me a hard-hit on my confidence, I was very afraid and worried, I felt like with thousands and thousands of videos out there, I would never get noticed, people would never spend time watching my videos. 

"Why do you even bother to work so hard on filming and editing videos and to always upload it once a week if no one is even watching?” my brother posed this question several times to me. I don’t know, while feeling extremely discouraged, naively, I still have this optimistic outlook that one day one of my videos might get noticed and I would be so regretted if I didn’t put my best effort into making it just because I felt no one would watch it.

It would be a lie if I said that I don’t care about the stats at all, I still do, even today, but since then, I have been working hard to shift my focus from the stats. I tried my best to focus more on you (my viewers) and myself. I feel extremely grateful that my condition allows me to spend so much time on YouTube without having to worry about paying the bills.

I understand that not everyone is this fortunate, so I want to apply what I’ve learned and give back to the world and society, even if it’s just a little bit. I couldn’t be more grateful for the fact that being a YouTuber allows me to do it and actually even more than I expected. Creating these videos and sharing my knowledge, my thoughts, my experiences, and my journey have not only helped, inspired, and brought joy to people, it also helped me immensely to better understand myself. It’s just like a positive cycle. And I find this extremely, extremely meaningful and rewarding. 

When I feel down, demotivated, not wanting to create videos, I always think about you guys, if my video can make one person's life better, then it’s totally worth making, and because of this exact reason I would not and cannot give up.

Before starting my channel, my focus was always on *me when it came to career choice. I apply for this job because it will look better on my resume, I do it because that’s what interests me, or because it will offer me a higher salary or a better career track. I quit my job because I want to study more or to move into another industry etc. etc. It’s always “me, me and me”. But since I started to create videos as a YouTuber, I noticed that my focus shifted, now, it’s not always about me anymore, it’s also about others. I make this video because someone needs advice on it, or I think it’s a message worth sharing and it might make people’s lives just a bit better, so I do it. And let me tell you, this feeling is amazing and it feels so meaningful to me.

In this post, I try to avoid using the word "job" to describe being a YouTuber, because while I did put my time and energy into doing it and earned money out of it, for me it never really feels like a job. While, indeed, there are some tedious admin tasks involved in being a YouTuber, I really enjoy doing it, to the extent that it doesn’t really feel like a job for me. I don’t mind doing it 7 days a week because I want to do it, it’s fun and rewarding, and it not only helps others but also helps me to grow as a person. It offers me this immense flexibility to be in control of my time, my location, and most importantly, what I want to create.

I have been extremely fortunate that my condition doesn’t require me to worry financially at the moment. But my next in-the-near-future goal would definitely be try to earn enough to be able to survive out of it. However, so far, I don’t want to worry too much about that, I have this confidence in myself that, if I keep working hard on it, I will be able to achieve that eventually. Now, I just want to use my energy, time, and experiences to help people in this world, even if I receive little money out of it.

“If I have the ability to do it, why couldn’t it be me?”. While I’m definitely not the only person in the world who could share all these, not everyone has the time, resources, conditions, and willingness to put themselves out to the internet. So, if I’m willing and have the ability to do it, why can’t it be me? I should totally do it!

You might think the hardest part of being a YouTuber, in the beginning stage, is to get noticed, but I think the hardest is to keep going, even when there are very few people watching. You might think, it will be much easier to keep going after you receive traffic, nope, let me tell you, to keep going is always, in my opinion, going to be the hardest. If you can’t figure out a way to make it sustainable for you, you will likely quit even with 100K+ subscribers. 

People tend to see the glamorous part about being a content creator, but what people don’t see is that it could be very mentally toxic sometimes, it all depends on how you react to various things. One of the biggest lessons that I learned as a content creator is that taking good care of yourself mentally, physically, and listening to your heart, your intuition, and your needs are actually more important than the views, subscribers, and traffic you receive. Because if you can’t keep going and create new content, then it’s a game over.

In this crazy era of social media, it’s easy to think that content creation (and being an influencer) is about quick fame and quick money. But it’s really not like that, to be long-lasting and sustainable, you need to learn how to find peace within yourself amid this super-fast changing, unpredictable, and overwhelming (new reels, shorts, videos, comments, stats, etc., etc.,) environment. The more chaotic the environment is, the more important it is to find inner peace within yourself, otherwise, it’s too easy to get yourself drowned in this environment.

I’ve learned so many things in the past year as a content creator and I keep learning new things every single day. If you ever started this convo about being a content creator with me, I could talk about it for 3 days straight haha. 

Being a content creator has taught me so much, it allows me to go beyond the focus of “me” and to help others directly, it allows me to constantly jump out of my comfort zone, it allows me to learn from so many talented content creators, it allows me to improve and learn about myself a bit more every single day, it allows me to believe that kindness still exists and it can be spread amid this crazy and sad world we currently live in. 

“I will learn to believe in myself just a bit more every day, and do what I could do to make this world just a little bit better.

Lastly, I just wanna thank you guys for all the kind support along the way, I'm always very happy reading all your kind  & heartwarming comments, I even cried a bit a few times haha. Thank you so much❤️

- 2023/12/09 Pearly, Taipei, Taiwan 

Bonsoir from Paris, I’m leaving Paris tomorrow and I just could not find time to finalize the video for this week while profiting my last few days in Paris 🥲 Really sorry about such a last minute notice, but I decided to post this week video next Sun, so there will not no video for this week 🥲 I’ll see you guys next week! Don’t miss me too much hehe😜 

Bonsoir from Paris😆🧡

I will be adjusting my posting schedule a bit for this and next week! This week video will be posted tmr and there won’t be any new video next week as I will be travailing again (to Barcelona🇪🇸yayyy) hehe😁✨I'm sorry about it but I promise I’ll try my best to create more videos for you, I just need some time as I’m very tired lately (due to my very packed schedule😅)

If you are interested in following my most updated journey and daily life, please do follow me on IG @baobaopearly🥖🇫🇷💚

I’ll see you guys tmr✨😆