Hi guys. For a few days now, the chat has been spammed with people asking for subs or posting their channel links. These are people ignorant of the rules and eager to try for a few easy subs. We look negatively upon them. But, at the end of the day, can you blame them?
Youtube is a lucrative dream. If you don't wish day in, day out to be a famous Youtuber able to live off your videos, you're lying. I'm sorry, but you are. To take your hobby and make it your job? It would be a Godsend for many of us. To sit in front of a camera or PC, to play games or chat to the internet and rake in some serious dough? That'd be awesome.
But that doesn't come overnight. It's not this sudden thing that you upload a few videos and the next morning, you've got 10K, 50K, 100K subs. And people will look up to PewDiePie or JennaMarbles and think 'I could do that'. Yes, you CAN do that. But these people have a head start. And they started in a MUCH smaller communtiy where getting noticed was easy.
Subs begged for and views grovelled for are worth nothing. They're numbers. They don't improve your work and they don't motivate you to do more. As Batman's Daddy once said: we only fall so we can get back up again. It's failure that spurs improvement and creation. Sure, it may not drive motivation but that's something we must endeavour to find for ourselves.
So here are the tops for Youtube Success:
1. Create Content
Sitting at your PC and filming you playing CS:GO or sitting in front of a camera and talking about your day at school is fine. But is it special? I'm not saying to make fresh, original content but, if you wish to be successful, you need to give people a reason to watch you. Your looks, your personality, your approach to content, your ideas. Be creative, inventive. Hell, take an idea you know and formulate your own original style from it. Give yourself a trademark, something recognizable for your community to latch onto.
2. Be Socially Confident and Active
And do this in the right way. Don't go to Freedom chat and spam channel links. Start a Twitter and Facebook, follow those you aspire to be. Look at their content and what they do online, see how they conduct themselves. Networking is usually more important for success than any other factor. Find other content creators like you. Share ideas and collaborate. Give your fan base a place to commune with other fans. Start building your online following and community.
3. Be Genuine
This is something that, sadly, people don't seem to grasp. Be yourself. So you're not funny like Jontron or clever like VSauce. You'll have something about you people are willing to watch. Be confident in yourself, your content and your abilities. If you sit there and mumble through commentary, people will see it as a lack of effort. Talk clearly and proudly, relax and adjust yourself to the idea of being in the public eye. And be honest, genuine and dependable. Don't lead your fans on with false pretences.
4. Learn Patience
Youtube is FULL of videos. A major problem I see is the number of Let's Play channels. Anyone can Let's Play these days and it's just this sea of content that people are too lazy to wade through. But the key is to keep making content. Makes videos in your own unique flair. Perhaps they won't catch on, but you haven't been noticed yet. So keep making your videos, take in critique when you can and, when you have a large library of content behind you, contact other creators for a collab. It's a good way of sharing views, ideas and experience in a genuine way. No sub4sub rubbish.
5. Improve
Take feedback. Ignore the trolls an haters telling you to 'kill yourself'. Look to the comments by people only looking to help you adapt and grow your skills as a content creator. Be mindful of your strengths and weaknesses. Don't be afraid to ask for help. The more criticism you get, the more basis you have to improve. Be careful of friends and family who will praise your work to spare your feelings. It doesn't help you or your channel.
It's not something you can change, but in this ever growing environment of online content, you'll just need luck. And the thing about chance is that it's fair; there's no bias. Some guys get features on news sites or shared and some just stay piled under the rubbish. But don't be disheartened. Every video you post COULD be the lucky one. Stay positive, stay determined and stay mindful.
TL
R 'plz sub' is bad, patience is good.
Youtube is a lucrative dream. If you don't wish day in, day out to be a famous Youtuber able to live off your videos, you're lying. I'm sorry, but you are. To take your hobby and make it your job? It would be a Godsend for many of us. To sit in front of a camera or PC, to play games or chat to the internet and rake in some serious dough? That'd be awesome.
But that doesn't come overnight. It's not this sudden thing that you upload a few videos and the next morning, you've got 10K, 50K, 100K subs. And people will look up to PewDiePie or JennaMarbles and think 'I could do that'. Yes, you CAN do that. But these people have a head start. And they started in a MUCH smaller communtiy where getting noticed was easy.
Subs begged for and views grovelled for are worth nothing. They're numbers. They don't improve your work and they don't motivate you to do more. As Batman's Daddy once said: we only fall so we can get back up again. It's failure that spurs improvement and creation. Sure, it may not drive motivation but that's something we must endeavour to find for ourselves.
So here are the tops for Youtube Success:
1. Create Content
Sitting at your PC and filming you playing CS:GO or sitting in front of a camera and talking about your day at school is fine. But is it special? I'm not saying to make fresh, original content but, if you wish to be successful, you need to give people a reason to watch you. Your looks, your personality, your approach to content, your ideas. Be creative, inventive. Hell, take an idea you know and formulate your own original style from it. Give yourself a trademark, something recognizable for your community to latch onto.
2. Be Socially Confident and Active
And do this in the right way. Don't go to Freedom chat and spam channel links. Start a Twitter and Facebook, follow those you aspire to be. Look at their content and what they do online, see how they conduct themselves. Networking is usually more important for success than any other factor. Find other content creators like you. Share ideas and collaborate. Give your fan base a place to commune with other fans. Start building your online following and community.
3. Be Genuine
This is something that, sadly, people don't seem to grasp. Be yourself. So you're not funny like Jontron or clever like VSauce. You'll have something about you people are willing to watch. Be confident in yourself, your content and your abilities. If you sit there and mumble through commentary, people will see it as a lack of effort. Talk clearly and proudly, relax and adjust yourself to the idea of being in the public eye. And be honest, genuine and dependable. Don't lead your fans on with false pretences.
4. Learn Patience
Youtube is FULL of videos. A major problem I see is the number of Let's Play channels. Anyone can Let's Play these days and it's just this sea of content that people are too lazy to wade through. But the key is to keep making content. Makes videos in your own unique flair. Perhaps they won't catch on, but you haven't been noticed yet. So keep making your videos, take in critique when you can and, when you have a large library of content behind you, contact other creators for a collab. It's a good way of sharing views, ideas and experience in a genuine way. No sub4sub rubbish.
5. Improve
Take feedback. Ignore the trolls an haters telling you to 'kill yourself'. Look to the comments by people only looking to help you adapt and grow your skills as a content creator. Be mindful of your strengths and weaknesses. Don't be afraid to ask for help. The more criticism you get, the more basis you have to improve. Be careful of friends and family who will praise your work to spare your feelings. It doesn't help you or your channel.
It's not something you can change, but in this ever growing environment of online content, you'll just need luck. And the thing about chance is that it's fair; there's no bias. Some guys get features on news sites or shared and some just stay piled under the rubbish. But don't be disheartened. Every video you post COULD be the lucky one. Stay positive, stay determined and stay mindful.
TL
R 'plz sub' is bad, patience is good.
