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NeoLorenzo
The main channel: essays on video and training vlogs.
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Media
Making things for an audience.
Videos about politics, philosophy, training and technology. It started long before the writing and the software, with a 240p webcam and a PlayStation 3.
§ 01History
Fifteen years in five lines.
From a 240p webcam to a numbered video journal.
- 2011 – 2017A dozen YouTube channels under pseudonymsMinecraft let’s-plays at 240p, stop-motion Lego, and short films shot with friends in Sintra.
- July 2018Twitch affiliate at fourteen86 hours streamed and 105 followers in the first month-long run.
- 2019 – 2020TikTok, from 6,000 to about 204,000 followersThe first non-parody video reached 35,700 views overnight; the account passed 100,000 within four months.
- 2021 – 2022Nefarious Politics292 hours of political streaming, 457 followers and 81 subscribers: a small, loyal community built on ideas.
- 2024 – nowYouTube: essays, training vlogs, a video journalThree channels, including a numbered video journal on AI and building that is now past seventy entries.
§ 02Channels
What is being published now.
Live from the YouTube Data API: the newest upload across all three channels, the most-watched video, and each channel’s feed.
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YouTube
PaleoLorenzo
An archive playlist, including the 2024 training vlogs.
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ProtoLorenzo
A numbered video journal on AI, building and attention, now past seventy entries.
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Background
Why I make videos
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Background
Why I make videos
As a child I begged anyone nearby to watch me play video games. My first recording was a Minecraft let’s-play on a 240p laptop webcam; over the years came around a dozen pseudonymous channels, stop-motion Lego films, and short films shot with friends in the hills of Sintra.
A gaming laptop in 2017 opened up streaming. I became a Twitch affiliate at fourteen, which was the first sign that this could be more than a game. TikTok followed: from a few thousand followers to about 204,000 in under a year. It taught me how quickly attention arrives, and how little it means when people come for the wrong reasons.
The era I value most came after: Nefarious Politics, a political stream with a small, loyal audience that came for the ideas. Seven people in a room every day is worth more than a crowd driving past.
Today I make videos for the same reason I write: to share the lenses and systems I use to make sense of the world, and hopefully help others improve their corner of it.