Excessive Occasions has realized that Paul Tokin, an early on-line hashish vlogger behind the YouTube channel Tokin Daily, handed away in December 2023. In an interview before his passing Paul explains that his YouTube channel, which started in 2006, began with movies that confirmed processes round rising hashish.
“Previous to doing Tokin Every day I began importing content material on the web, simply photos and stuff on net boards within the early 2000s, and YouTube got here alongside so I began importing YouTube movies in 2006,” he says within the interview. “For a very long time it was simply kinda from time to time I’d add a video of the crops I used to be rising. That’s after I began doing the low stress coaching movies and simply primary stuff as a result of I preferred sharing info. So after I realized easy methods to clone, after I constructed my first cloner I used to be like, ‘Fuck yeah I’m gonna make a video of all this and present everyone else what I did.’”
Through the years Paul’s movies grew in recognition, with some reaching as many as 300,000 views. In a confessional video filmed in 2010, he explains that he began smoking weed when he was 22 years previous and used hashish as a medicine for a number of situations.
“One of many very best issues about weed is that it makes these on a regular basis, tedious, redundant jobs so much much less tedious and redundant, it makes them virtually enjoyable to do,” he says, recommending hashish for doing the dishes. “Numerous life is simply that boredom and weed simply form of floats you thru that.”
Paul was initially primarily based in Denver, Colorado, however moved to Hawaii in 2015. Again round 2011 he labored as a budtender in Colorado and related with hashmaker Nikka T.
“Paul and I got here up with the unique time period Solventless Hash Oil or SHO collectively whereas seshing a few of my latest creations from the lab for his YouTube channel which was one of many largest and most revered hashish content material YouTube channels on the time,” Nikka T says in a tribute post in Instagram. “Paul was the primary public hashish influencer to me. He was at all times very poised, joyous and sort hearted in his uniquely Paul methods.”
Fellow hashish vlogger Coral Reefer additionally posted a tribute to Paul on Instagram following his demise.
“Relaxation in peace and nice ganja fields Paul,” Reefer wrote. “Paul Tokin modified so a lot of our lives. I’ve lately came upon he’s handed away, I’m heartbroken, and so grateful for the time he gave me and my channel years and years in the past. Deal with one another.”