It’s time for our yearly rumor check, so that you guys can decide if FujiRumors was worth your time or not.
We will also give you an overview over all remaining rumors for 2024 ranked by reliability.
75 rumors shared in 2023
12 rumors still to be verified
60 correct rumors out of 63 verifiable rumors
2 wrong rumors (sort of… not really… but yeah…) NOTE: one rumor instantly corrected (just misunderstood the source)
NOTE: another one is 99% correct, just a small detail is not accurate (how much faster the GFX100II sensor is compared to the GFX100 sensor). Still today this is not clear, but I am brutal to myself and move the entire stuff into the wrong section
1 rumor out of ranking (for reasons I will explain below)
Looking back at the past year, I am proud and happy of my channel. Especially because I was able to film so many videos outdoors and show you some of the most beautiful places my country (Italy) has to offer (and there would be endlessly more nice spots to show you).
Let’s hope I will be able to keep it up also in 2024, and it certainly would help a lot if you’d subscribe to the channel.
And since you guys asked… no, I am not paid by any tourism board to travel and hike around the Dolomites to bring you these videos. Maybe one day the YouTube videos themselves will be able to generate enough money to pay for these videos, but we are still far away from that goal for now.
But if you want to support my work, then feel free to subscribe here. It’s free, nothing to lose, and subscribing is just as easy as unsubscribing if you had enough of Dolomites and Rumors at some point ;).
Maybe money can help you to get rid of some of the stress and worries in life. Unless you have to stress yourself to make that money in the first place and worry to accumulate and guard it later on. In which case money would turn from being your (good) servant to being your (bad) master, as Michel de Montaigne would say.
But what I can tell you is who are the most happy people I’ve met in my life.
The most happy people I have met in my life were not those with the most money, but those who simply and genuinely enjoyed their relationships.
Kids are superior beings. Superior, but also particularly fragile and sometimes at the mercy of unfavorable conditions they carry no responsibility for.
But luckily there are some, who made it their mission to take care of exactly those kids. I’ve met a few of them in my life, and one of them is Saveth from KNGO*.
Now, I am no longer able to travel nearly as much as I did in the past. Life got me. I have a family, jobs and responsibilities that simply don’t give me the freedom to continue that type of life (but they give me many other joys). And I guess many of you are also, like me, busy to make sure we get our own stuff sorted out day by day.
But there is still something we can do for people like Saveth and the kids they take care of: make a small donation.
Because money can’t buy happiness. But it can buy school books, pencils, pay teachers, build classrooms and more. Because what’s just a few bucks for us, can make a whole of difference to them.
This is why, if you haven’t done yet any donation this year so far, I can warmly recommend you to donate to our friends at KNGO.
KNGO donation page (select between sponsorships or one-time general donation)
Here is an indication on what can be done with your money.
20 Euro – one student is provided with a one-year supply of school books, folders, and pencils
50 Euro covers all costs for one student for 6 months
100 Euro gives a one-year scholarship to one student (the option I picked also this year myself)
Thanks to anyone of you, who decides to make a small donation to KNGO.
*How do I know KNGO? I was in Cambodia to make fair trade T-shirts made by the amazing guys at Tonle. During my travel I stumbled on KNGO and I loved their work so much that I decided right there to donate all profits from the T-shirt sales to them. We ended up raising $5,000 for them.
Note: in the video below I silence the moment when I say “Italia”, because it was a time when I still did not want people (aka Fujifilm ;)) to know where I am located. The kids were at the Los Quinchos project in Nicaragua.
