Something I wrote about an 87 year old man who made some popular Youtube videos fifteen years ago, and still makes weekly uploads, to about 12k views each.

His videos are getting very low effort now. From fun concepts with themes to shaky 'budget cooking' videos, coupon chicken and veggies, bad editing in a dim kitchen. His new house looks smaller. He knows though if he were to stop, he'd be dead, nothing left to do. Or perhaps harder to deal with, everyone would immediately comment 'he's DEAD.' He sees it everyday.

Trapped. Why'd he choose to end his 80 year spree this way, his happy little life, unlucky, unfulfilled, but never huge or terrible, now ends up in moderate popularity on this alien medium he can never fully understand.