SHNEAKO - October 16, 2025Why I Moved Back to NYC...
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with a good friend of mine to talk about her life in NYC and what it's like to move back to NYC after 2 years abroad. We talk about the pros and cons of moving back to the Big Apple, what it s like to be a millennial in NYC, and how to deal with the pressures of social media.
Transcript
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No, no, because I'm Jewish and I want to like...
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I want to like ask you more questions about like...
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So, in general, would you say your viewpoints have evolved?
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Or like, I've noticed there's like a shift between
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You look familiar, I think I've seen you somewhere before, I swear to God.
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It's a very moody, spooky, cloudy day, but I just got tickets to the One Summit Vanderbilt.
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Everyone's telling me to use my new camera there, so hopefully it's a good view.
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Uh, yeah, so I got the ski mask on, but, you know.
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One Vanderbilt was our opportunity to put our mark on the sky.
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I'm going to take you up so you can get a private elevator, alright?
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You take a photo of your face, and they scan your wrist when upstairs.
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Yeah, yeah, bro, that was a long, long line that it skipped.
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You know, sometimes being an influencer is not so bad, huh?
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There were a lot of screaming babies and families and now I'm
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Dolo in the sweat. Not bad. Not bad. I'm wearing sweatpants right now. I should have dressed up a bit.
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Yeah, this might have been one of the worst days to come here, it's too bad.
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I'm going down to shoot my lady, you know I probably messed up now, I've heard about it.
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Hey, Joe, I heard me shout Joe down, just shout her down now.
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So far, Project X has brought my PR higher than it's been in a long time.
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And I have this history of always self-sabotaging when I'm at a high point.
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I remember having this conversation with Gideon two years ago, and he said,
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Sneeko, people want to like you, but you keep giving them reasons not to.
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I love that lyric from Ye on Onsite where he says,
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As soon as they like you, make them unlike you, because kiss people's ass is so unlike you.
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For some reason, I've internalized this idea that if people like you,
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you're cringe and corny and you're predictable mainstream all this i've instilled this idea that
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if there's a lot of noise and controversy that i'm doing something right but that's not the case
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negativity controversy and animosity hate that doesn't translate to you saying something true
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that just means you're pissing people off and yeah people get pissed off with the truth but
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that doesn't always mean you're saying what is true that's a major reason why i wanted to move
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back to new york city my streams became rage bait became clips became angriness and it was going
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viral, but it wasn't making people happy. I want to make myself happy again, and I want to make
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the audience happy again. I'm going to challenge myself this time around to see how long I can
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keep this good PR going without self-sabotaging because I'm bored. I really don't know how I
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internalize this fear of being corporate if I'm being liked, but got to get rid of that.
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Moving back to New York City is a lot more expensive. There's a lot less return immediately,
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I just stopped. I still watch it. Have you seen the new videos on X?
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Are you streaming right now? Nah, nah. I'm just
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Wait, do you wanna, this is my merch. You can get the back of the merch.
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Honestly, we get to take a little since it's bad.
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They have like the most like outrageous funny shit you can just say it's the most outrageous thing to Victor
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How's the experience I'll give this a four out of ten because of you
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I was about to say silver balls, but I'm like, that's AO for the video.
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Pushuanu's secret, some of the best oysters in the world are downstairs in this train station.
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The delicious, delicious seafood in the train station.
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Some of you will remember I came here four years ago to make a video during peak COVID.
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march 15th 2020 and the video is interesting because absolutely nobody was here nobody in
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february 2020 i was living on long island in a house with six people that were all going to the
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college that i dropped out of and i had to move out because there was a leak into the basement my
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mattress is on the floor with a rug and it got moldy and i literally couldn't live there anymore
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so march 1st 2020 i moved to harlem on 141st street and 7th ave if you're not familiar with
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the area that's the projects in new york we call it night show i was extremely excited i finally got
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my studio apartment in manhattan i was lit two weeks later covid pandemic worst city in the world
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to be in the pandemic people were evacuating everyone was freaking out everybody told me to
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leave i stayed and i came here and nobody was in the biggest train station in the world and if you
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haven't been here there's a million reasons why i shouldn't have moved back and they're all valid
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in only one week we saw the daniel penny situation where he was acquitted of manslaughter on jordan
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neely blm riots everywhere you have the luigi mangione situation where a guy assassinated
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his ceo on the street and evacuated on a city bike blm riots the new unabomber craziness on
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the train station liberals everywhere a lot of people that disagree with me but i had to come
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back because this is where my roots are streaming for two years had created an atmosphere where
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then there's no better place to be than right here.
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where artists will latch onto something like a woman
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a Parisian model in her 20s and call her my muse,
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And no matter what tax bracket you're in, you can find that here if you try.
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When I was in a quarter million dollars of debt from student loans living in the projects,
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I found the same inspiration that I'm finding now.
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And logistically, why would I invest all my creative energy into an entertainment medium
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Banned on YouTube, you know that, but also banned off of every single streaming platform
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people have run with the narrative that I'm a terrible person in that medium there's no reason
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for me to invest all my time into this when you've seen how they turn me into a villain and the villain
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card is fun to play you get to be like the joker on the outskirts all the time but doing that for
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your whole life when you know you're not a bad person is not healthy whenever I do something
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positive there's always this comment like rare sneeko w or I hate sneeko but this is good I don't
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like this guy but this was like i have to admit i'm tired of people forcing themselves to admit
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when they like something that i do to simplify i'm tired of just living for the internet i want
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to live for myself and my creation and let everything else come from there and this is
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the place where i found all of that this is why i started i was born here and i could very happily
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die here too well they are but i'm okay the way you speak of certain things because someone may
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even know you and just see that statement you think they're gonna say oh I know what he means