The 'Too Serious' Person is Starting to Change — A Love Letter to Support Yohaku-chan Through a Thorough Analysis of 114 Articles
This is a love letter from a fan (@yohaku_work) written after reading all 114 articles by mental health writer Yohaku-chan.
The writer, who has focused on the theme of being too serious to rest, is clearly starting to change as of May 2026. I wrote this as an observational record to simply watch that movement from the outside using numbers. This article is a submission for her long-term project, the 'Yohaku Dream Support Festival'.
TL;DR
The core theme of Yohaku-chan's note is 'Too serious / Trying too hard / Too strong a sense of responsibility → Therefore, cannot rest'. This is the main theme of her entire note and also her own self-diagnosis (KOTAYA-san described this as 'a ritual like public therapy').
The 5 operational changes announced by her in the May 1st update post were all confirmed to be achieved by the numbers by May 23rd: Character count -32% / Like efficiency +32% / Comments +60% / Writing style 'seems fun' / 5 metrics all won / Paid magazine launch / First large-scale project launch
KOTAYA-san's two-stage prediction made on 4/28 (public therapy hypothesis + 'incomplete / developing' assessment) was proven completely correct by the numbers 25 days later
However, looking at the manual analysis article posted on 4/22, 'being too serious' still remains as a continuous thread. The loop where she decides to shorten things and actually cuts them in half—that execution power itself is too serious.
That is why I wrote this article wanting to support her, but trying not to over-support. So that praise doesn't become an override of 'try even harder.' This is an observational record to simply watch from the outside, using numbers, that she is moving at her own rhythm.
Intended Audience
People who have read Yohaku-chan's articles / People who are interested but haven't been able to keep up
People who read KOTAYA-san's analysis article and are curious about 'what happened after'
People who are aware that they are 'too serious to rest' (= overlaps with Yohaku-chan's readership)
People interested in data-driven approaches to observing creators
How I found out about Yohaku-chan
The catalyst was this analysis article published on April 28th by KOTAYA-san (@kotaya_log).
After reading KOTAYA-san's "Why do people return to Yohaku-chan's note?", I learned of the existence of the writer Yohaku-chan for the first time. That said, at the time, I only read KOTAYA-san's analysis and did not follow her actual note.
I actually started reading Yohaku-chan's articles in earnest only after I decided to write this support article. However, once I started reading, I couldn't stop. After reading one, I became curious about the next. As I continued reading, the same themes appeared repeatedly from slightly different angles. Before I knew it, I had read all 114 articles.
Honestly, I had been completely drawn into the "Yohaku-chan World" before I knew it.
In the meantime, 25 days have passed since April 28th (KOTAYA-san's analysis) (as of 5/23, when I am writing this), and her note has grown from 76 to 124 articles (including 10 exclusive to her paid magazine), and on May 1st, she announced a major operational change herself. I want to re-trace what happened during those 25 days using the same method as KOTAYA-san. That is why I am writing this article.
Therefore, please read what follows as a love letter from a fan that borrows the form of an analysis article. There are data summary tables, and there are stories that I found "fun" when looking at the writing style. Everything here is something I wanted to convey to Yohaku-chan.
…However, there is one thing I must be honest about here first.
From Yohaku-chan's perspective, I am a newcomer who has never even left a comment on an article, practically a "nice to meet you" stranger. I have clicked the "like" button here and there, but that's it. I am not a core commenter, a membership subscriber, or someone who has been following the support festival since before it was planned. I just happened to see KOTAYA-san's 4/28 analysis article and the announcement of the support festival that happened to cross my feed.
I am aware of how it looks for someone in that position to suddenly send a 14,000-character love letter. From Yohaku-chan's perspective, it is completely a "Who is this guy?" situation. Even so, I wanted to write it, so I would be happy if you could laugh and accept it as the runaway act of a newcomer.
§1. The more serious you are, the harder it is to rest
Even when told "It's okay to rest," you cannot rest.
The person themselves doesn't really understand the reason why they cannot rest. In fact, the more they think "I have to do things properly," "I don't want to cause trouble," or "Things won't run if I'm not there," the harder it becomes to rest.
Mental health writer Yohaku-chan (@yohaku_work) has written about such people many times in her own words.
As someone who read all 114 of her notes, these were the three lines I encountered most often.
The more serious a person is, the easier it is for them to feel guilty about resting. The stronger a person's sense of responsibility, the easier it is for them to feel distressed during time when they are doing nothing. The more a person was dedicated to working, the harder it is for them to accept themselves when they have stopped.
And she continued by writing this.
What I needed during my leave was not to push myself by thinking "I have to rest properly," but to realize that "I must have been pushing myself too hard until now to be unable to rest".
In another article, she writes this.
The reason why serious people push themselves too hard is not because they are weak.
It is precisely because they are serious that they put themselves last until they reach their limit.
"The more serious a person is, the more they overdo 'responding properly' and 'thinking properly,' and end up unable to rest." "You don't need perfection even when resting." The same theme appears over and over again, with different expressions.
This could be called the main theme of Yohaku-chan's note. "Serious / trying too hard / too strong a sense of responsibility" and, as a consequence, "unable to rest / not feeling rested even when resting." The writing she addresses to her readers is almost always some kind of response to this cause and effect.
As a test, I will use a morphological analysis engine to break down the text of 114 articles and all comments attached to those same 114 articles, and extract the 30 most frequent words.
Then, an interesting division of roles becomes visible. Words like "guilt / burden / bipolar / on leave / recovery" appear repeatedly in the author's own articles, but hardly appear in readers' comments. Conversely, words like "thank you for your hard work / empathy / courage / support / thanks for sharing" are written only by the readers. On the other hand, "anxiety / work / time off / returning to work / impossible / workplace / disability" are shared by both sides.
Words used only by the writer, words returned only by the reader, and words that intersect on both sides. They are neatly divided into three categories.
Looking at the words lined up on the "writer-only" side again, they are all words that name the person's own symptoms or state. "Guilt," "burden," and "bipolar" are all words the person uses when talking about themselves. It's not that readers can only respond with those words; rather, they are replying with gentle, accepting words like "thank you for your hard work" or "courage."
KOTAYA-san described this as a "ritual like public therapy".
I thought, "That makes sense." It's a cry from the heart that Yohaku-chan is telling herself, in the form of a message to readers who share the same struggles. I believe this vocabulary gap is close to the true nature of that ritual.
And then, May 2026. This "
person who is too serious to rest" is clearly starting to change.
§2. But, the person herself is starting to change from May
The trigger was a single announcement article on May 1st.
The title was "[Announcement] I quit my job, and now I'm starting for real.." A declaration that she quit her company at the end of April and would be working in earnest as a freelancer. Along with that, she announced five operational changes from May onwards.
To summarize the content, it goes something like this.
Reduce character count. I've been aiming for 2,200 characters, but since it's a heavy burden for readers every day, I'm going to make them shorter.
Change the posting schedule. Every day until 5/10, and from 5/11 onwards, Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun + Mon/Wed/Fri as project days.
Change the posting style. 'Until now, I've been writing in a stiff, involved manner,' but from now on, 'I will use a writing style that reflects my own voice.'
Create a paid magazine. Selling the articles up to April as a collection titled 'To Avoid Breaking Down After Returning to Work | A Practical Magazine for Managing Anxiety and Guilt' (¥980 / 14 articles in total).
Run two projects in May. Urging everyone to 'have lots of fun and liven things up!!'
Up to this point, it looks like a typical announcement article. The kind where the person says they'll 'change their policy' and then accidentally forgets about it.
However, Yohaku-chan was different.
I read all 44 posts made during the 23 days from 5/1 to 5/23, and when I lined them up with the data, all 5 items had been implemented. And not a single one was sacrificed.
The 5 announcements and the implementation results up to 5/23
For the 5 announcements, there is implementation and numerical backing for all 5. She said she would do it, and she actually did. This alone is rare.
The person who said they would 'shorten them' and actually cut them in half
What is particularly effective is ①.
This is interesting. Even though the average character count per article was cut by nearly half, it was offset by the increased number of posts, so the total amount written has hardly decreased.
In other words, she didn't reduce the 'amount she wants to write' itself. She only lowered the 'burden placed on each article.' The first reason she gave in the 5/1 announcement ('it's a heavy burden for readers every day') was reader-first, not to reduce her own writing volume.
And what happened as a result of the cuts? 'Like' reactions per character written grew by +26%, and comment reactions grew by +77%. Far from cooling reader interest, the shift to shorter pieces has actually made them easier to reach.
The person who decided to shorten them really cut them in half, and what's more, all the numbers improved.
Yohaku-chan in May has entered this kind of phase.
§3. KOTAYA's 4/28 assessment was a major hit 25 days later
Here, I would like to return to KOTAYA's point once more.
Looking back at that 4/28 analysis article of Yohaku-chan (the one described as a "ritual like public therapy") where I placed the blog card at the beginning, KOTAYA made two major predictions about Yohaku-chan.
The first is the 'Public Therapy Hypothesis'. It was described as "a ritual like public therapy, where she borrows the voices of readers to peel away, one by one, the 'guilt about resting' that has become ingrained within her."
The second is the 'Work-in-Progress Assessment'. The article concludes as follows.
Yohaku-chan's note is not yet complete.
The flow is not yet fully organized.
The form of monetization is not yet clearly visible.
(omitted)
What was visible this time was not a finished product like a strategy guide.
It was 'white space' that could change from here on out.
And now, 25 days later, both of these two predictions were major hits.
The 'Public Therapy Hypothesis' is supported by three independent indicators
If the public therapy hypothesis is truly working as 'therapy,' then within her, guilt should decrease, she should be able to give herself permission, and she should be able to understand herself without needing long explanations.
What I mean by 'giving herself permission' here refers to phrases she often writes, such as these.
It's okay to rest
You don't have to pretend
You don't have to make them the bad guy
You don't have to blame yourself
Phrases of the type "it's okay to ~ / you don't have to ~ / it would be good if ~" that grant an "it's okay as it is" to herself and her readers. When I ran a part-of-speech analysis on the entire text of her 114 articles and extracted only this pattern, it appeared a total of 318 times, appearing at least once in 69% of the articles.
Moreover, what is interesting is that even though we call it "permission/acceptance," it is divided into 6 categories, each with a different target (table below).
As a writer, Yohaku-chan is granting permission to herself and her readers simultaneously on about four different layers: A (exemption from blaming behavior) → B (approval of existence) → C (acceptance of moderation) → D (desire for the future). Just "It's okay to rest" (B, 19 times) has become like the base text of her note, but around that, "You don't have to blame yourself," "You don't have to pretend" (A) dissolves the sense of obligation, "It's okay to go slow" (C) loosens perfectionism, and "I'd be happy if I monetized" (D) gently places the future, forming this structure.
If the public therapy is truly working, the frequency of these permission phrases appearing should decrease (= she will be able to be herself without seeking permission).
While re-reading the 114 articles, I measured three indicators by month (figure below).
These are indicators with different properties (keyword frequency / syntactic occurrence rate / character count), and there is no direct causal relationship between them. Yet, they are moving in the same direction of 'getting closer to the side that understands oneself'.
The public therapy was working properly.
The habit of "giving myself small permissions while repeating the same theme" also appeared in the run-up to her daily posts.
People call it "public therapy," but I wonder how it specifically works within her. There is a small episode that serves as a hint. In early March, when she began her daily posts, there was a very gradual run-up.
Arranged chronologically, it looks like this.
3/3 (Day 1): Start posting daily in silence. No announcements, no declarations, starting in stealth mode.
3/6 (Day 4): The hashtag #4Days suddenly appears at the end of the text. She presents "4 days continued" to herself with a small marker that only she understands. She hasn't declared it to anyone.
3/11 (Day 9): Publicly announced for the first time in "[Announcement] A talk about future posts ✨".
The body of that article says this:
I myself am extremely prone to getting bored, and honestly, I thought I couldn't keep it up.
At the very least, during my leave of absence, I want to leave behind some kind of achievement.
I will challenge myself to post daily.
In other words, she confirmed to herself that she "could keep it up" in stealth mode for 9 days before finally declaring it to others. She doesn't say she will do it and then do it; she only announces it after she is convinced she has done it. A three-stage self-permission process: give permission to oneself -> explicitly give permission to oneself (#4Days) -> declare permission to others (#9Days). And by Day 30, she has evolved to the point where she can announce the major decision of resigning along with a PS about achieving 30 days.
I think this is a microcosm of how public therapy works within her. While repeating the same theme, she gives herself small permissions. She uses the same approach in the run-up to her daily posts in March and in the leveling of the ground of guilt that took 114 articles.
The "evaluation of being in development" was also almost pinpoint accurate.
When you line up the three points KOTAYA-san mentioned as "not yet fully polished" with the actions she took herself after May 1st, they match perfectly (see figure below).
From the very next week after KOTAYA-san wrote that "she can change from here," she began to change. Moreover, in the direction that perfectly matches those three points she cited as "not yet fully polished."
When it lines up this much, it's no longer a coincidence.
However, I feel it's a bit off to write that "KOTAYA-san predicted the future."
In terms of timing, it is highly possible that she (Yohaku-chan) started moving after reading KOTAYA's 4/28 evaluation. The timing of deciding to resign and starting in earnest overlapped with the opportunity to have her account accurately verbalized from the outside. It must have been the ultimate push to get moving.
In other words, what KOTAYA-san was doing was not future prediction, but closer to accurate observation of the current situation. Where is this person now, and where are they facing? He verbalized that with 50 articles' worth of data and an eye for reading between the lines. For the person moving, I think it was an experience where the direction they vaguely felt was returned to them from the outside with a concrete outline.
And for the reader (in this case, me), just being able to follow the 25 days after that has the interest of watching a real-time documentary of a creator who keeps moving.
By the way, if you compare the top 5 commenters that KOTAYA listed as of 4/28 with the top 5 commenters 25 days later on 5/23, it looked like this.
The core members observed during KOTAYA's time are almost all still there after 20 days. If anything, the concentration has increased. The expression "a place where people return to" can be confirmed here with numbers as well.
§4. From May, even the writing style has become more cheerful
In the announcement on 5/1 mentioned in §2, there was another important notice. The topic of changing the writing style. In her own words, it was written like this.
Until now, I've been writing in a stiff way as a party involved, but since some people said they prefer my natural writing style... I will make my writing style as conscious of my own 'voice' as possible!!
Reading the articles in May, I kept thinking, "Wow, this seems fun." Even with the same theme of "not being able to rest," it is clearly lighter than it was until April. There are many "!!"s, many laughs, and the emojis are lively too.
However, since this is just an impression, I properly verified it with numbers. Here are 5 indicators (chart below) converted per 1,000 characters of the article body.
All 5 moved in the direction of "becoming more cheerful."
In particular, exclamation marks increased 2.4 times, and laughter expressions increased 2.3 times. The departure from the "stiff feeling" she mentioned is visible at the punctuation level. On the other hand, negative emotional words decreased by 33%. This is a separate calculation independent of the reduction in guilt from the "public therapy hypothesis" seen in §3, but they are moving in the same direction.
In fact, in the announcement article on 5/1, she wrote about a major project announced the following day in this way.
In May, doesn't everyone let their guard down after the tension of April?
Wouldn't it be fun to have a festival at a time like that!!
I have a request for you all.
I want everyone to have a lot of fun and liven things up!!
"Wouldn't it be fun to have a festival!!" is a tone that didn't come out much from her until April. A barrage of "!!"s, casual phrasing, and simple invitations.
The next day, on 5/2, the first large-scale project she organized since starting note was dropped. This is it.
"Yohaku's Dream Support Festival". Small regular projects like Sunday projects and Marshmallow Q&A had been running since March, but this is the first time it has been launched as a large-scale reader-participation project. Participating articles, including this one, have continued to be collected for over a month since the project started. For her, who has just started in earnest as a freelancer, this is a major event important enough to determine her future direction.
This first article dropped had 285 likes, making it the biggest hit among her articles in May. The enthusiasm of "Wouldn't it be fun to have a festival!!" reached the readers just as it was.
A change in writing style does not mean a change in what she wants to say. The core theme (§1) is maintained. But the temperature of how it is delivered has clearly risen. And the most intense node of this cheerful shift in May was the "Yohaku's Dream Support Festival".
§5. But 'being too serious' still remains as a continuous thread
Having read this far, I suddenly felt a bit anxious.
'I decided to make it shorter, and I really cut it in half.' 'I decided to change my writing style, and exclamation marks increased 2.4 times.' 'I decided to do a project, and I launched my first large-scale project.'She did it all, properly..
...Isn't she doing it a bit too properly?
But actually, the article that convinced me most that her 'too serious' nature remains intact isn't from May. It's this one from April.
'I Thoroughly Analyzed the Hitotaraw Phenomenon' (4/22). For a festival project called the 'Hitotaraw Phenomenon' hosted by fellow note creator Hitotaraw, Yohaku-chan participated in a slightly strange way.
§5.1 This is amazing
The Hitotaraw Phenomenon is a festival where participants introduce three recommended articles by Hitotaraw to each other. Yohaku-chan read all 94 introduction articles gathered in the comments section of this project article, and manually counted the total of 282 recommended articles mentioned within them one by one.
I don't have the technical skills. I can't count everything with AI.
In that case.
Why not just check the articles one by one myself?
The time it took just for the counting. About 2 hours.
From there, she spent about 3.5 to 4 hours reading the top articles and writing this article to complete it.
Honestly, even if she received tips, in terms of hourly wage, the amount of work is surely well below minimum wage.
Just to be clear, I (the writer of this article) am using a self-made tool that hits the unofficial note API + a morphological analysis engine to analyze Yohaku-chan's 114 articles. For the same count of 282 articles, with my tool configuration, it would finish in a few dozen seconds.
So from my perspective, this manual work is an amount that I 'No, that's absolutely impossible, it's insane to count by hand for 2 hours' genuinely feel. Yet she said, 'In that case, I'll do it myself,' started counting them one by one, and really finished it.
§5.2 But, she's too serious
I will place the words of Yohaku-chan herself, quoted in §1, here once more.
It is not because they are weak that serious people push themselves too hard.
It is precisely because they are serious that they put themselves last until they reach their limit.
The person who wrote this was at home on 4/22, spending 2 hours straight manually counting recommended articles for someone else's project. Perhaps it would have been far more efficient in terms of reward to write one of her own paid note articles in that time.
A person who can properly write 'they put themselves last' is putting herself firmly last. The subject and the symptoms match too perfectly.
§5.3 That's just like her
There are other similar episodes.
In the post from 4/1, '[Notice] I decided to return, but I also decided to quit' (♡310). This is the postscript at the very end of this article, where she announced a heavy, life-scale decision: notice of resignation.
30Days
Along with the resignation notice, a commemoration of her own 30-day daily posting streak is casually added. She finishes off with a PS a milestone that could have taken an entire article to celebrate 'herself for continuing for 30 days.' The main topic is the heavier decision.
The courage to make the decision to resign and the modesty of tucking a congratulatory message to oneself into a PS coexist in the same article.That's exactly the kind of thing you do, I muttered while reading.
§5.4 Still, I am drawn to that earnestness
Returning to the story of the Hitotarao analysis article. She herself writes in the article about her motivation for carrying out such a difficult manual task as follows.
However, it's just that I wanted to leave behind proof and memories for those participating in this festival. I did.
It's not for the reward. It's not for efficiency either. I wanted to leave behind proof of participation for those who took part in the festival.
Once you read this, the mouth that was about to make a snarky comment about her being 'too serious' ends up saying, 'No, I actually like that about you.' In fact, the comment section of that article is filled with words of a very similar tone.
It can also be read that participating in the Hitotarao project was, in the end, a prelude to launching her own project in May (the 'Yohaku Dream Support Festival' in §4). The experience of participating with all one's might in someone else's festival becomes the rhythm for when you hold your own festival.
And what's interesting is that in that article, Yohaku-chan broke down Hitotarao-san's strategy into three parts herself.
“By stating the time in advance with [Read in XX minutes], isn't there a tendency for views to increase?”
“There is an intention to connect to the reader's 'personal relevance' by using well-known things like anime for 'analogies'”
“Creating a sense of unity with a low hurdle of 100 yen per month”
—While manually counting 282 items, she was simultaneously verbalizing in her own way why people gather around Hitotarao-san.
And since May, she has started implementing the three strategies she analyzed herself on her own note one by one.
Time-saving title strategy → In May, she posted 12 titles in the '[Read in X (and a half) minutes]' style
Making anime characters personally relevant → 'Why Isono-let's play baseball! doesn't work in modern times', 'A way of living like Nobita', 'Can Doraemon exist without Nobita-kun?'
Welcoming readers as companions → 5/2 Yohaku Dream Support Festival + 5/13 onwards 5 consecutive introduction relay posts + added 100 yen/month 'Super Apprentice Plan' to membership (originally there was only one 300 yen plan. She removed the unlimited reading of 100 yen articles and designed it to just lower the hurdle)
In other words, that article isn't just 'amazing' for counting 282 items by hand.
She verbalized Hitotarao-san's success factors herself and went as far as implementing them in her own style the following month. Yohaku-chan is truly trying to imitate and incorporate the Hitotarao philosophy, which the person himself says is to 'imitate successful people.' She is incredibly 'proper.' She is serious... too serious...
T-h-a-t-i-s-e-x-a-c-t-l-y-t-h-e-k-i-n-d-o-f-t-h-i-n-g-y-o-u-d-o.
Even so, this guilelessness of hers might be one of the elements that makes Yohaku-chan so irresistible to readers.
§5.5 However, I want to be careful here
Here, I (the writer) will disclose my position in just one line.
I want to support this earnestness of hers, but I don't want to support it too much.
If I say 'Amazing!' too much, it might end up overwriting the 'keep working hard' message for her, who originally wrote that she was 'too serious to rest.' That would go against the core theme I saw in §1.
That's why I want to read articles like that with a temperature of 'Amazing, but let's rest a little bit.'
§5.6 With that in mind, once again
When I look back at May with that temperature, her choice to cut the character count by -43% per article feels even more important. She decided to 'make it shorter' and really cut it down. She implemented all 5 announcements. And all the numbers improved.
The loop isn't over. It isn't over, but in May, she is starting to recreate her own rhythm little by little within that loop. Just seeing that is enough to make me happy.
§6. Why I wrote this article
Finally, I would like to disclose my position as a writer just once.
Actually, this is my first time sitting down to analyze a creator. I am a tech-oriented person who usually writes my own tools to hit the unofficial note API, and I just learned the analysis method itself by buying and reading the 'Thorough Explanation Manual' (a paid article) published by KOTAYA-san.
So, this article is also my first study piece.
However, when I organize the situation again, it comes down to this.
The distributor of the method himself (KOTAYA-san) has already published a proper analysis article on the creator (Yohaku-chan).
I am using the original method I just bought and obtained from that KOTAYA-san.
The same subject written with the same theme.
When I put it into words, it's probably an unusually high hurdle. A reckless act of insanity.
But for my first practice, I really wanted to go in this order. I wanted to follow the original method using the subject the original author actually addressed, while filling in the 25-day gap with my own hands. I felt that as a beginner, it would be better to start with non-negotiable constraints.
The only advantage I had was that Yohaku-chan's biggest turning point was after KOTAYA-san's analysis article (4/28). The declaration of starting her freelance career in earnest (5/1), the launch of her first large-scale project (5/2), and that series of movements where she even changed her writing style. If this had happened before KOTAYA-san's article, my study piece would have just been an inferior copy.
This is just a matter of timing. I think I'll thank the god of note.
KOTAYA-san carefully analyzed Yohaku-chan on 4/28, four days later Yohaku-chan herself spent two hours manually counting 282 recommended articles (§5), and nine days after that, she declared an all-encompassing operational change in her 5/1 announcement article. To record a creator who keeps moving in real-time was the perfect timing for my first subject.
I also followed the method KOTAYA-san used: 'Read first → then check the answers with numbers.' I checked the parts that caught my attention while reading against the numbers. If they were different, I corrected them. The outline that remains is this article.
There is KOTAYA, there is Yohaku-chan, and there is me, who retraced what happened between those two 25 days later.This article was written as one piece of that chain of observation.
With the sentiment of 'I want to support you, but I don't want to support you too much.'
I touched on this in §5, but I will write it again.
Yohaku-chan's core theme (§1) is 'The more serious you are, the harder it is to rest', which is the subject of her entire note and her own self-diagnosis. Writing 'You're amazing! Keep working hard!' to such a person would likely have the opposite effect. The support would end up overwriting the feeling that 'I have to do things properly.'
That is why in this article, I have laid out her total victory in May's strategy, the accuracy of KOTAYA's assessment, and her shift toward having fun, all as 'the result of her moving at her own rhythm'. I didn't spur her on from the outside, and I don't intend to do so in the future.
However, I just wanted to convey that 'there are people who are properly watching the fact that you are moving'.
As a declaration of participation in the Yohaku Dream Support Festival
As I wrote at the beginning, this article is a participation piece for the first large-scale project Yohaku-chan launched on 5/2, 'Yohaku's Dream Support Festival'.
What she has set as her future goals are obtaining a career consultant qualification and becoming independent as a writer. As someone who is 'too serious to rest,' she is trying to move to the side of supporting others who share the same difficulty in living, while translating ways to rest.
The full-scale start of her freelance career in May (the announcement on 5/1) is also the first step toward that dream.
As someone who watched that step from the outside through numbers, I want to cast one vote.
Yohaku-chan, the numbers for May were all great.
Please, by all means, don't work too hard, and if you continue at that rhythm, I will keep watching.
Conclusion
Thank you for reading this far.
I am not usually the type who is 'too serious to rest.'
If anything, I am the type who is 'diligent in order to be lazy' and 'spares no effort to make things easier,' like a programmer.
Even so, I could deeply empathize with Yohaku-chan's words.
If anything, it might have been more of a motherly kind of empathy, like 'Yeah, yeah, that's fine just the way it is,' haha.
Even if 'it's okay to rest' isn't a phrase for myself, it remains as a phrase for someone close by.
And her changes in May were also a model of someone who has been writing about the same theme taking a step forward at their own rhythm.
She properly left behind a milestone that makes one think, 'It doesn't have to be a sudden change.'
If even one of the 114 articles caught your interest, please go and read Yohaku-chan's note.
Since there are more short articles now, there are plenty of entry points.
You can also find articles by others who participated in the Yohaku Dream Support Festival via the project hashtag #YohakuDreamSupportFestival.
If you'd like, please join us in enjoying and cheering them on.
Related Links
I have compiled the articles cited in this piece, along with reference links for further exploration.
Yohaku-chan (@yohaku_work) Account:
Account Top: https://note.com/yohaku_work
5/1 Announcement "[Announcement] I quit my job, and now I'm starting for real.": https://note.com/yohaku_work/n/n8c10674dd992
4/22 "I thoroughly analyzed the 'Hitotarao' phenomenon": https://note.com/yohaku_work/n/nfe1e5ff43784
5/2 "[Project Part 1] Yohaku Dream Festival, we're holding it!!" (Where this article participated): https://note.com/yohaku_work/n/n64e9bae355a5
Paid Magazine "To avoid breaking down after returning to work | A practical magazine for managing anxiety and guilt": https://note.com/yohaku_work/m/m6d3b370af4dd
KOTAYA-san (@kotaya_log) Account:
4/28 "Why do people keep coming back to Yohaku-chan's note?" (The starting point of this article): https://note.com/kotaya_log/n/n3a81bf1e64bd
"[I'll analyze your note] From analysis to paid article production assistance, revealing all methods." (The methodology source for this article): https://note.com/kotaya_log/n/n34d6c85656ad
Hashtag: #YohakuDreamSupportFestival