Steps to covering up your failure | Steps to Wander | Part 7

[HashtagBlessed]

Corbin clearly thinks that he can make more money on Instagram than he can on YouTube. It may be the case that YouTube families make more money on Instagram ads, but don't they need to maintain their YouTube channel videos in order to drive interest in their Instagram? Without daily vlogs, why would anyone stay interested in their other social media profiles? They must really be making next to nothing on views alone if he's advertising that the "full" and "original" version of the birth video is on Instagram.

Edited to Add: I guess he thinks he can use whatever song he wants without purchasing the rights on Instagram? I noticed he used a well-known song in the Instagram video, and replaced it with something else on YouTube.

[HashtagBlessed]

I got this exact impression from the birth video! So much focus on Corbin I had to laugh. Corbin catching the baby, Corbin doing skin to skin. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in a YouTube birth vlog.

He’s HIS son. Let’s not forget that.
Just watched their short clip on insta of birth vlog.
So many pieces are insanely irrelevant, Kelsey dancing like a hippy in the middle of a field? Corbin running????
Why the creepy shot of their house? Just super odd compilation of clips and at the END, ladies and gents Corbin Adam Scott gives birth to his son!!!!!

My guess is he used those clips as time fillers.

So much cringe in that video. No need to rehash it Its obvious he is a narcissistic try-hard. It didn't come across as "artsy" at all. To each is their own, I suppose.

I don't understand why he would upload to IG first, you'd think that would take away the views ($$$$$) on YT.



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I agree, the irrelevant clips and the clips from other videos felt like filler for a "birth vlog" that's only 7 minutes long and didn't actually tell you much of anything about the birth. If you don't want to film the birth that's fine, but when he tries to pass off these lazy videos as "artsy" it's so cringey and embarrassing. Corbin thinks he can make anything look good in post-production with editing, that he forgets to be thoughtful and intentional with what he actually films. Kelsey waving her hands around in a "dance," Corbin running, creepy shots of their house, etc. He just doesn't have an eye for camera work or telling a story with film, so he relies on moody music and slow motion.

[minniemouse99]

He’s HIS son. Let’s not forget that.
Just watched their short clip on insta of birth vlog.
So many pieces are insanely irrelevant, Kelsey dancing like a hippy in the middle of a field? Corbin running????
Why the creepy shot of their house? Just super odd compilation of clips and at the END, ladies and gents Corbin Adam Scott gives birth to his son!!!!!

My guess is he used those clips as time fillers.

So much cringe in that video. No need to rehash it Its obvious he is a narcissistic try-hard. It didn't come across as "artsy" at all. To each is their own, I suppose.

I don't understand why he would upload to IG first, you'd think that would take away the views ($$$$$) on YT.



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I agree, the irrelevant clips and the clips from other videos felt like filler for a "birth vlog" that's only 7 minutes long and didn't actually tell you much of anything about the birth. If you don't want to film the birth that's fine, but when he tries to pass off these lazy videos as "artsy" it's so cringey and embarrassing. Corbin thinks he can make anything look good in post-production with editing, that he forgets to be thoughtful and intentional with what he actually films. Kelsey waving her hands around in a "dance," Corbin running, creepy shots of their house, etc. He just doesn't have an eye for camera work or telling a story with film, so he relies on moody music and slow motion.

Exactly. Would be cool to have Kels talk about herself and how she’s feeling (more than what he posted) if she got an epidural etc... not just “hey, how you feeling? Good? Ok give me five!”
Now back to Corbin....

Didn’t seem personal what so ever. Just a bunch of random clips slopped together. He was either drunk to sleep deprived while making it

[rosie_dalia]

Was there a reason Corbin helped deliver the baby but wasn't in scrubs or even wearing gloves? If the doctors and nurses are, shouldn't the grungy father be wearing them too??

I had to LOL that the birth video looked like a single dad picking up his baby from a surrogate. The shots with Kelsey seemed like after-thoughts. In the last shot she's wearing jeans/street clothes, so it must have been they day they left the hospital.

I didn't feel any emotions at all watching that. They are totally pushing IG now. They must be panicking about the YT changes.

[PirateWench8]

My guess is he used those clips as time fillers.

So much cringe in that video. No need to rehash it Its obvious he is a narcissistic try-hard. It didn't come across as "artsy" at all. To each is their own, I suppose.

I don't understand why he would upload to IG first, you'd think that would take away the views ($$$$$) on YT.



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I agree, the irrelevant clips and the clips from other videos felt like filler for a "birth vlog" that's only 7 minutes long and didn't actually tell you much of anything about the birth. If you don't want to film the birth that's fine, but when he tries to pass off these lazy videos as "artsy" it's so cringey and embarrassing. Corbin thinks he can make anything look good in post-production with editing, that he forgets to be thoughtful and intentional with what he actually films. Kelsey waving her hands around in a "dance," Corbin running, creepy shots of their house, etc. He just doesn't have an eye for camera work or telling a story with film, so he relies on moody music and slow motion.

Exactly. Would be cool to have Kels talk about herself and how she’s feeling (more than what he posted) if she got an epidural etc... not just “hey, how you feeling? Good? Ok give me five!”
Now back to Corbin....

Didn’t seem personal what so ever. Just a bunch of random clips slopped together. He was either drunk to sleep deprived while making it

He wasn't drunk or sleep deprived he's just a narcissist who thinks he has to run the show and that the world revolves around him and his feelings. What he doesn't realize is that his audience went away as soon as he threw a hissy fit and stopped working for and with DB. I'm sorry though I can't stand DB they did so much for C&K and their family and C&K really come off as really entitled jerks. Missy though I think she's incredibly backwards, immature and naive truly loved and cared about Kelsey and June and did so much for them. I have zero respect for Corbin and even less for Kelsey who decides to be a doormat and lets her husband rule her life and cut ties with all of those she cares about. I'm sorry that's not love Kelsey that's a person that you want to get as far away from as you can!

[Gladys Kravitz I]

well, that was something....

I still say only Keith Morrison can possibly do their Dateline story justice......

[GGF1987]

That was perhaps the dumbest birth vlog I've ever watched. The first 2 and half minutes had nothing to do with anything let alone the birth. I didn't expect anything better from them though.

[avabrooke1226]

6:28 of the birth vlog, Kelsey looks miserable. Just seeing her face like that I feel for her, she looks hopeless, I wonder if she’s happy in that marriage.

[PirateWench8]

6:28 of the birth vlog, Kelsey looks miserable. Just seeing her face like that I feel for her, she looks hopeless, I wonder if she’s happy in that marriage.

Of course she isn't, but he's got her so brainwashed that she thinks she doesn't deserve or can have any better then him. My maternal grandmother thought the same thing when she was married to her first husband who was mentally and physically abusive. Then by chance she met my grandfather and he showed her after two years of never giving up on her that she deserved and could have better. They were happily married for 35 1/2 years when my Gramps passed away.

[opangatay]

Just popping in to say that I’m an emotional person that cries at every single birth vlog I watch but I didn’t shed a single tear or even get teary eyed watching this.


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[Parktown]

I just can’t get over how ‘FBI files’ it is! I mean the voice of a nurse sounds just like the 911 calls those documentaries start with! Then as if a serial killer is eyeing out the house and creepily approaching, then some creepster has entered it and is touching the window before making a kill!
Then the family swaying slow motion in the fields and an empty house as if they are no more! Then that devastated look in Kelsey’s stare!
Just so creepy all around! Maybe I should stop watching FBI files,I don’t know!

[HashtagBlessed]

Corbin advertised that he was on a podcast a couple days ago, has anyone listened? I could only get through 15 minutes. I almost can't believe the amount of BS he was able to spew in just 15 minutes.

-Even Corbin knows that they aren't a YouTube success. The host of the podcast titled the episode "building a career on YouTube" and called Corbin's channel "successful" and even Corbin seemed uncomfortable with that and backtracked. He said, "I don't know about 'successful' channel...it's more like, 'what is success to each person?"

-He claims the channel kept growing through "collaborations with friends" and that's the understatement of the century. I assume there will be no further mention of their high school friends who had a very successful YouTube career and gave them a large following right off the bat that Kelsey and Corbin squandered. No, it sounds much better to simply say "collaborations with friends." God, Corbin really wants to downplay all the assistance he received and continues to receive.

-He would like to take credit for the "van life" movement on YouTube, as according to him no one vlogged about traveling in a van on YouTube prior to them. It was all on Instagram. Such a pioneer.

-He compares the different "seasons" of their life on YouTube to different seasons of a TV show. Oh God.

-The host then defends his use of the word "successful"- the host makes the claim that Kelsey and Corbin just bought a house in a "nice neighborhood" with a "nice yard" all because of YouTube money. Corbin doesn't dispute this. He continues to claim that they "built up a brand and "built up a business from nothing, from thin air." Again, no mention of the Lannings. He is still insisting that this business "provides for their family and takes care of their children"...if that were the case, why would he be taking a job with his dad's business? It doesn't make any sense.

-We also learn how Corbin got invited on this podcast in the first place. Apparently he lives across the street from the host. How many of us actually believe that Kelsey and Corbin bought this house on their own? Even if Corbin didn't receive financial help from his parents for the down payment, first time home buyers can put very little money down and get approved. It's not necessarily a big financial achievement to "buy" a house.

-The host continues to insist that Corbin is part of the "upper echelon" of YouTubers. Corbin says they just try to compare themselves to where they were last year with their channel. Haven't their views continued to drop dramatically after peaking in 2017?

-Corbin claims he produced the local news for three years. "I was the one who would *write* the show and put the show together. *Write* the words that the anchors would say on the teleprompter." He says he got promoted to Senior Producer and was "basically running the newsroom." He claims that he was working too many hours a day and that Kelsey is the one who put her foot down and said that something needed to change. That's when he said he took a job in Portland "part-time" in a newsroom, and I assume this is the one he quit after a couple weeks. He really throws the blame on Kelsey, claims that her idea to travel in a van is what caused him to "throw away" his "entire news career" that he had been "working years for" after "finally making it to a metropolitan" market. Claims the Portland job was going "great," which isn't how I remember it from his video he made about quitting. I've never encountered someone who needs to exaggerate his accomplishments to this extent, and yet at the same time sounds so unimpressive and unintelligent. Successful people who are running the show don't need to shout it from the rooftops.

[HashtagBlessed]

Okay, one last point. The host asks Corbin how he got his subscribers and Corbin just says, "I don't know" with a laugh. Again, no mention of the Lannings, who essentially handed them subscribers on a silver platter. Corbin goes on to say that they don't participate in trends (Um, what about all those prank videos? The infertility clickbait? The baby mama dance?) and that they only make videos that they want to make for "memories."

[Steps_to_STFU]

Okay, one last point. The host asks Corbin how he got his subscribers and Corbin just says, "I don't know" with a laugh. Again, no mention of the Lannings, who essentially handed them subscribers on a silver platter. Corbin goes on to say that they don't participate in trends (Um, what about all those prank videos? The infertility clickbait? The baby mama dance?) and that they only make videos that they want to make for "memories."

The man is a narcissistic douchebag. He is so delusional it is insane.

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[HashtagBlessed]

I finished the podcast and I must say the host actually asked some pointed questions and had some good observations that Corbin mostly had non-answers for because he clearly doesn't know how to run a business and hasn't put a lot of thought into this.

It was a lot of what we've all heard before from Youtubers, about brand partnerships being the main source of income. Corbin claims that 85% of the time, the brand or marketing agency is reaching out to them and not the other way around. So...what does he do all day if he's not seeking out these brand partnerships?

He described ad revenue as similar to a "bonus" on top of your paycheck but not something you count on or live off of unless you're one of those channels consistently bringing in millions of views per video.

He says that they do their "brand integrations" at the start of the vlog and try to shoot it like a professional commercial so that they can license the footage back to the brand for the brand's own social media. I mean, that seems short-sighted in some respects, because it's cheesy and feels insincere. Sure, they're making more money because they licensed footage back to Best Western or whatever so that Best Western can use them in their own ads. But what happens to their sphere of influence when their subscribers/followers realize they are just watching a commercial? If your audience doesn't trust you and isn't invested, what value are you bringing to the brand? It's clear that Corbin just sees YouTube and Instagram as a way to get paid for shooting commercials, which is the "influencer" model I suppose and I guess it's cheaper for the brand than paying for a professional commercial. But he doesn't seem concerned with connecting with his audience, which I feel like is imperative if you want to continue to influence said audience. It sounds like a quick cash grab, without much thought towards "building a brand" or running a long-term business.

It also made a little more sense to me why he is shooting these try-hard weird videos that he thinks are artsy and "cinematic"- he said that one of the main analytics you're judged on is view time. Perhaps people were clicking out of their boring vlogs, but more people watch these short videos all the way through if they're weird and cringey, just trying to figure out what the hell is going on?

And he just compared exploiting his kids on YouTube to everyone pitching in on the family farm, so I think I need to stop listening for my own sanity.

[Parktown]

Wow I wonder how many times he has blamed Kelsey for ruining his excelled career in the news room! I am sure his mom does! Her boy was going places, huge producer then hippie girl persuades him to grab a van and Woodstock it along the countryside because she wanted him all day to herself! I can only imagine what his mother thought!
He probably blames her every single day of their state and bangs the drum of his three year glory days as if it were years! Probably left the Portland job because he went into it thinking they would treat him like royalty and he was meh! His ego couldn’t take it!

[TellAll]

If I didn’t know better I would have thought Corbin gave birth.


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[aral12]

I was due at a similar time to them (about 5 days later) however my little bun decided to make a dramatic arrival and is already 5 weeks old.

Jesus Christ. I can’t believe the birth vlog. If my wife had have made it all about her...I mean I actually can’t imagine because she never would have done that! I was the birth mum but it wasn’t all about me either. It was about OUR daughter. Imagine being so self important, with such a superiority complex that you make it all about you without even a nod to your significant other.

It was interesting to have a parallel pregnancy with Kelsey... I’m curious to see the journey of our babies side by side.


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[rosie_dalia]

-Corbin claims he produced the local news for three years. "I was the one who would *write* the show and put the show together. *Write* the words that the anchors would say on the teleprompter." He says he got promoted to Senior Producer and was "basically running the newsroom." He claims that he was working too many hours a day and that Kelsey is the one who put her foot down and said that something needed to change. That's when he said he took a job in Portland "part-time" in a newsroom, and I assume this is the one he quit after a couple weeks. He really throws the blame on Kelsey, claims that her idea to travel in a van is what caused him to "throw away" his "entire news career" that he had been "working years for" after "finally making it to a metropolitan" market. Claims the Portland job was going "great," which isn't how I remember it from his video he made about quitting. I've never encountered someone who needs to exaggerate his accomplishments to this extent, and yet at the same time sounds so unimpressive and unintelligent. Successful people who are running the show don't need to shout it from the rooftops.

This is entirely BULLSHIT! He quit his F/T news job in Portland after A WEEK. He was then working P/T doing communications work for a church...not a news station. All of this happened while Kelsey was still in college 300 miles away in Southern Oregon. She certainly didn't force him to quit his job...she wasn't even there!

They lived in PDX and renovated the van for almost a year. It's ALWAYS been Corbin who wanted to live the van life. He's still the one who seems to be bummed they moved back to Idaho and bought the house. I think he misses being on the road and not having kids.

Why would Kelsey tell him to work less? She didn't have a job and she wanted her husband to make less money? That doesn't even make sense.

I'd love to listen to the podcast. Do you have a link or name??

Sidenote: The only reason people watched June's birth vlog was because of MISSY! Missy was even in Portland for the birth. No Missy = No Views. I don't think the Lannings have mentioned the new kid once. They must REALLY hate each other.

[HashtagBlessed]

They posted about Kelsey graduating from college in June of 2015. Corbin posted about quitting his part-time news job in Portland in May of 2015, which was within weeks of him moving to Portland. I don't know for sure where Kelsey's college campus was but Corbin claims he quit his senior producer job in Medford, Oregon because he wasn't spending enough time with this wife and she had a problem with that. Did her University have a campus in Medford? Regardless of if they were long distance or not, I thought that didn't make a lot of sense to begin with considering he follows up that statement by claiming he took *another* newsroom job in Portland, which is a bigger market and presumably more intense, but this time it was just "part time." How did they plan to survive in Portland and pay the rent on one part time job? And then no job? I'm thinking they wanted to live in Portland and this part-time news job was the best Corbin could get. He can't take responsibility for his choices or his failures so he has to rewrite history. They tried to live in Portland *again* after they got pregnant and that's when Corbin took that administrative assistant job with the Unitarian Church, and we all know how that worked out.

The podcast is called "Art of Visuals Podcast."