Chris Mocko

He seemingly disappeared right after Western States and getting that pancake contract, no?

Did he ever do a video with a WS race report?

Also a lot of these youtube runner personalities flake out. Jamil Coury had a great daily vlog for a long time and now barely produces any content at all. He has "films" that he has promised for years, like a WS video from 3 years ago that he hasn't finished. The Ginger Runner now does a Monday night podcast thing but hasn't made a real video in a long time.

At least Sage and Demoor don't get distracted easily and flake out.

Hasn’t uploaded to Strava since October. Hope all is okay.

Jamil does his weekly mountain outpost. I'd say that's pretty good of him to do.

Ginger runner has done 9 different vids in the last month. Also pretty good.

It takes money and a team to make good quality and regular content.

Rick Sanchez wrote:

It takes money and a team to make good quality and regular content.

Sage and Seth have teams?

Mocko Show!!! I was wondering where he has gone to as well. I hope he is ok. A true ultra runner fan favorite.

The dude was pretty strange. Didn't care much for him. Glad he has slipped out of the spotlight.

Where is Mocko? wrote:

Where has Chris Mocko gone?

I actually enjoyed his videos and thought he had a real genuine funny sense of humor. As he did more videos, racing, and opening up the last 2 years, some of my thoughts were always, is he okay?

He quit his job in SF 3 years ago, went all in on training for WS and ultras, and seemingly after a year nearly went up in flames due to burn out. Got a job at twitter, life was better, and then quit twitter about a year in because the balance was too much, and now hasn't even done a status update for 3 months? I really don't know what to make of it.

He had a great showing at WS, and won the Squamish 50. I hope all is well with him and he's just doing some recharging. I have to wonder though, when your job is making video content and racing, how does one just disappear?

He tweeted yesterday about Western States entries. Only thing I've seen from him in months.

Where is Mocko? wrote:

Where has Chris Mocko gone?

Probably biking with Anton K.

Most of the youtubers don't last that long.

I guess creating content is a lot of work with not much reward except some likes.

That gets old pretty quick I would think.

As someone who has created my own running-related content on YouTube for over a decade now (granted some pretty low quality vids!) I'd say it's a lot like distance running in general with the sustainability. You have to have a geniune passion and real interest in it (videos) to want to do it long term. Much like distance running training and racing (which I've done for over 20 years now)...and I love it! I think a lot of people don't realize how much time it takes to record, edit, and upload videos on a regular basis (Even low quality ones like the ones I shoot!). I couldn't imagine doing all the "youtube stuff" if I had a traditional 9-5 job or had a kid...or even a dog to also take care of. In some ways you have to be quite selfish and self-absorbed (and even vain) to post VLOGs and stuff like I do....as well as other "content creators." I mean just look at Instagram culture in the influencer sphere. But I've always just liked videos/media and am addicted to social media. The Google Adsense money can be pretty good, but it certainly doesn't scale directly with subscriber count (watch time is also important). I recently got into launching some "Merch" which can add to the income of course (depending on the margins and scale) but for me (still sponsored to run trail-mountain-ultras as an actual job) its not going to be a huge time commitment or business investment. I'm still shooting most of my videos with a GoPro and an old cannon Rebel T5i. I see others nowadays with way more fancy SLRs/mirrorless cameras and editing with After Effects graphics etc. Time to step up my game! Okay, I'm going to practice a new music video intro now...

Youtubbing wrote:

Most of the youtubers don't last that long.

I guess creating content is a lot of work with not much reward except some likes.

That gets old pretty quick I would think.

S. Canaday wrote:

I think a lot of people don't realize how much time it takes to record, edit, and upload videos on a regular basis

Oh, we know.

sub_3_is_the_goal wrote:

Also a lot of these youtube runner personalities flake out. Jamil Coury had a great daily vlog for a long time and now barely produces any content at all. He has "films" that he has promised for years, like a WS video from 3 years ago that he hasn't finished. The Ginger Runner now does a Monday night podcast thing but hasn't made a real video in a long time.

At least Sage and Demoor don't get distracted easily and flake out.

I have a theory that Jamil got some flak for his race films because he spawned a lot of copy cats which I am sure a lot of people in the ultra community weren't cool with dudes running all over the course trying to be the next Run Steep Get High. I think thats why he hasnt released the WS film he kept promising. His vlogs maybe got too personal? IDK. Its too bad though because those films were amazing, I still go back and watch the TNF50 and Lake Sonoma ones from time to time.

Also, I personally liked his stuff with Schuyler the most. When he moved away a lot of his content was just not nearly as entertaining.

Where is Jamil Coury?

Harry Runs put out a lot of good content. He posts sparingly now.

When you give too much of yourself for public consumption, you risk having nothing left to give.

where ISN'T Mocko, is the question