This video destroyed my YouTube channel

Hundred thousand views and a mismatched audience

17.03.2020 Homeless

Everything began with the lockdown in 2020. Contact restrictions were not the greatest gift you could make to filmmakers and photographers.

Sitting on packed suitcases in our small, and now empty flat in Copenhagen, we were supposed to leave for a trip to Norway before traveling through South America in the coming years. Even tho our flight on March 17th still took off, we never made it past the Oslo Airport. It wasn’t a problem for my girlfriend to enter her home country but I, with my German citizenship, ended up being rejected at the border control.

Nationals only.

We had to collect our eight heavy suitcases and book a return flight.

The time until the departure was 5 hours of hectic social media posting to find a place to crash back in Denmark (we canceled our flat for the day of departure). Luckily, helping each other was a big strength of the lockdown, a big hurray to friends and compassion!

In our new temporary home, waiting for the borders to re-open, all I had was time. Time and a vision.

After years of dread, I was finally ready to start my own YouTube channel. It felt like lockdown was exactly the excuse I…