The Youtube algorithm suggested this video, and it’s fascinating.

I get the deal.  Cute, fit woman who doesn’t talk, goes camping with a lot of cool equipment.  She has 2 million subscribers, so manufacturers send her free stuff as long as she makes sure we can see the company logo.  Nothing about the video is instructive or practical.

In a blizzard, she is dragging a 200 pound inflatable tent to a lovely site on the side of a mountain.  We know she drives a Jeep because we saw that logo 4 times, but don’t know where she’s camping because they didn’t contribute.

She will be sleeping in a bounce house that’s 20 feet from a cliff, as the wind is picking up.  A bunch of stakes were pounded in to anchor it, but I’d still run a line to the bumper of the Jeep.

It’s not clear what the power situation is.  The site looks remote, so isn’t likely to have an electrical hookup, but she’s got to have a generator running.  That thing on the left is big, fat-ass fan to circulate the heat.

Since she isn’t paying for the equipment, it doesn’t have to make sense.  Under that big fan, is a kerosene heater.  There is no way I’d use that. 

She also has a neat, inflatable dog house, with a twee set of dog bowls and LED street light.

I thought the dog looked like an asshole, but Sparky defended her.  The dog didn’t cut her own hair or pick out that sweater.  Sparky figured the dog’s best trick had to be detecting dangerous levels of carbon monoxide from the kerosene heater, and learning that trick could not have been fun.

The woman doesn’t talk, so not much is known about her heritage.  She has a near limitless ability to fiddle around with a vast amount of trivial crap, so I would have guessed she’s Japanese, even without her name or face.

Oh wait.  A half-hour in, she gives some commands to the dog in Japanese, and the dog obeys.  Maybe that’s what I’ve been doing wrong with Sparky.  Too bad.  All the Japanese I know, I learned from the band, Styx, and Sparky isn’t a robot.

The trip is over, so what did I learn?

Nothing about camping.  She was humping equipment from the Jeep, and setting up LED tea lights for, I don’t know, 4 hours.  Within 20 minutes of arrival onsite, Sparky and I are sitting on the couch, watching Bugs Bunny cartoons, and having a beer. 

Dogs may know Japanese.

A successful Youtube channel just needs the right premise.  For the cost of a boob job, Kirin has mountains of camping gear and a good income.  Not talking makes the videos more universal and easier to edit.  Since all she does is decorate her tent and spend way too much time making simple meals, there is no writing or creativity required.  Good for her.

Additional knowledge from second video:  Jim Beam makes a Lemon Highball drink sold in a beer can.