I have a long history and story to tell about my time on YouTube and I'm curious to hear yours!
I uploaded my first video EVER in late 2008 and it got 18,000 views. It was a review of a brand new paintball hopper. My brother and I though it was amazing so we started making more videos in 2009. Of course we just stopped and never uploaded again.
Years later in 2012 I started my own channel. I was a freshman at the time and was uploading about 2 videos a day. They were hardly edited and terrible quality. I also sounded a lot like tobuscus and pewdiepie at the time. I eventually realized I wasn't having fun and the channel wasn't going anywhere. So again I started over and finally made a channel I was proud of.
In 2013 I started my channel mattersgame. I worked hard for a year uploading 2 to 3 times a week. My channel started to take off and I was making 10 to 15 subs and over 500 views a day. It was going so good, and then I graduated. I got a job, went to college and had a girlfriend. There was just too much for me to devote time to YouTube. So just as always I stopped.
Just in the past month something changed. Some people I knew on YouTube now have over 200k subscribers and when I was networking with them they had 1,000. I read something that just changed my life. Lol it was dr. Suess. "Oh the places you'll go" it inspired me to do something with my life. To do what I enjoyed. A lot of things inspire me now.
with this new found motivation to follow my dreams I started uploading. Of course my active subscribers dropped from about 2,000 to 20 but I didn't care about numbers this time. I just cared about doing what made me happy. And you know what I decided to start over! I now have a channel that is 5 days old and I am at 20 subscribers! I am so excited to just make videos and start a new journey on YouTube to become better at making videos and become a better person. My dreams are right there waiting for me, I just have to reach out and grab them. I will work nonstop until I can't move before I let my dreams slip away from me.
I hope you do too! You can do it. Anyone can. You just have to try. I hope this inspires you to do great things, because I know you can. If you want to do something do it. If you have a dream chase it. Now I want to hear your story.
I uploaded my first video EVER in late 2008 and it got 18,000 views. It was a review of a brand new paintball hopper. My brother and I though it was amazing so we started making more videos in 2009. Of course we just stopped and never uploaded again.
Years later in 2012 I started my own channel. I was a freshman at the time and was uploading about 2 videos a day. They were hardly edited and terrible quality. I also sounded a lot like tobuscus and pewdiepie at the time. I eventually realized I wasn't having fun and the channel wasn't going anywhere. So again I started over and finally made a channel I was proud of.
In 2013 I started my channel mattersgame. I worked hard for a year uploading 2 to 3 times a week. My channel started to take off and I was making 10 to 15 subs and over 500 views a day. It was going so good, and then I graduated. I got a job, went to college and had a girlfriend. There was just too much for me to devote time to YouTube. So just as always I stopped.
Just in the past month something changed. Some people I knew on YouTube now have over 200k subscribers and when I was networking with them they had 1,000. I read something that just changed my life. Lol it was dr. Suess. "Oh the places you'll go" it inspired me to do something with my life. To do what I enjoyed. A lot of things inspire me now.
with this new found motivation to follow my dreams I started uploading. Of course my active subscribers dropped from about 2,000 to 20 but I didn't care about numbers this time. I just cared about doing what made me happy. And you know what I decided to start over! I now have a channel that is 5 days old and I am at 20 subscribers! I am so excited to just make videos and start a new journey on YouTube to become better at making videos and become a better person. My dreams are right there waiting for me, I just have to reach out and grab them. I will work nonstop until I can't move before I let my dreams slip away from me.
I hope you do too! You can do it. Anyone can. You just have to try. I hope this inspires you to do great things, because I know you can. If you want to do something do it. If you have a dream chase it. Now I want to hear your story.
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