Dorkopotamis posted:

I work in an entertainment field and I live in Los Angeles. Because of this and other reasons, a large portion of the new people I come into contact with are aspiring actors, writers, artists... etc. I've noticed a trend in the last several years and that is that these types of people are re-orienting their aspirations with new media in mind. I met a person almost a week ago who told me that they were a “youtuber.” I asked to see their page, which had a modest audience of less than 200 viewers per video with around 30 videos posted. We watched one, which included footage of beaches, her feet, people eating lunch/acting pleasant, words to consider (Live for today, Believe, Dream, etc.) and an assortment of other poorly shot but inoffensive scenes of life.

A version of negative feedback that you can give to strangers is to not give any feedback or ask questions. I asked “What made you decide to do this?” and “Who are you attempting to emulate?” They said that they had been watching youtube videos for awhile and thought they'd like to give it a try. They told me that their “main youtube inspiration is Will Darbyshire.” I got home and I looked this person up. The first video I watched was of a young handsome English man immediately acknowledging the things he was afraid of, which included: making this video with a new haircut, standing up while making this video and how his audience (hundreds of thousands) would respond to this video given the circumstances (new haircut, standing up v. sitting down). I watched a second video which was eerily similar to the video the person from earlier showed me, but more professionally shot.

In the right context, discussing fear can be inspirational. That is if it's coming from someone who I could imagine respecting or aspiring toward. To know that someone competent, skilled or powerful, has banal fears can be comforting. To know that a simpering English youtube star is fearful and an overt narcissist is assumed. The appeal I see in a lot of youtube personalities is their humanity and honesty. For modern internet audiences that seems to be enough.

So with that I want to know who your main youtube inspiration is. I'll start: https://youtu.be/YraqQabax8A?t=46s

Trojan.exe posted:

Venturing into youtube is actually not an entirely bad idea for someone who wants to get into acting, writing, music etc. If someone takes the right steps, good camera, lighting, video editing skills, using the right tags, descriptions, pictures, titles, having a niche, etc it is really not that hard to make some decent side income off of a channel. Getting the blog out there takes a little more effort, but again, it's totally doable to get a lot of viewers.

It's really hard to find information about how much an average youtuber makes since there are risks of getting an account shut down and obviously if someone has made that their livelihood they don't want to risk that. However I did know a girl who would casually upload videos a few times a year and she said she usually makes about $100 a month off of that. Not sure how many videos she had over the years. But anyway, making an income is definitely doable via Youtube if someone wants to put in the effort. And for someone into entertainment of whatever kind, it's really not a bad avenue at all if it means getting paid to do something you like.

im gaye posted:

im gaye posted:

dont worry the rickster has like 2 years left to live tops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_6k_Gnfbfs

ahiwattamplifier posted:

A lot of Youtube content is a bad version of things that already existed in old media. And those weren't any good to begin with. That Youtubers React series is pretty cool to watch though, no one seems to get the meaning of anything, like they've got zero cultural awareness.

Sheep-Goats posted:

I uploaded one video on YouTube and I have a thousand subscribers and that video has over a million views.