I got into making YouTube videos back in 2016. before I did, I thought making videos was easy, I always complained to myself when my favorite creator took too long to make a video. I thought it was as simple as pressing record and uploading. In 2016, I decided to start a YouTube channel due to unemployment. After YouTube moved the goalpost, then I joined Steemit in 2017. When I recorded a video and posted it, they didn't do well. Little did I know so much goes into a YouTube video.
- recording
-editing
-audio
-lighting
-SEO
-research if your video calls for it
-Thumbnails
-promoting
Now I see how much goes into a video. I thought being a gaming creator was that simple. Record myself playing games and you're done. In reality, you have to have personality. When I didn't add any personality, my gaming channel had slow growth. When I started adding personality, such as rage when I lost, I noticed a huge difference in my channel. Also, being a gaming creator comes with editing as well.
When people say YouTube isn't a job, they have the mentality I used to before I became a video creator. I assumed being a video creator was that simple.
It's close to waiting for your favorite TV show, they film more than just the movie, they film promo stuff to hype viewers up for the new season.
Also, content creators have to report what they make to the IRS. Do you think we're making all this money and NOT reporting it to the IRS? Hell, Coinbase notified me I had to report what I made on here. In 2022 I almost made 1k (most of the money was from Steemit before my earnings dipped) the next year I made 500, still has to report that. Sounds like a job to me if the IRS has to know about it.
A dude who harassed me called my content "low-effort" because I post mostly videos. I embed my YouTube videos. You could ask why I don't use Threespeak. Threespeak still doesn't work for me, my videos fail to encode, and they will only encode videos under 5 GB or 2 hours and my videos are past 5 GB. I think this is why my posts don't do well. The reader probably didn't realize it's a YouTube video, I prefer to embed it over using Threepseak due to video length and file size.
Maybe some people thought it was a poorly written review when it's my Let's Play or Twitch VOD that I'm promoting.
I formatted it like a threespeak video so people know it's a let's play video and I'm writing a short description of the video so people know what it looks like.
What you see is a 5-minute video, what you don't see is the editing that went down before the video went up.
Low-effort content should be cut some slack. Posting a meme 20 people posted already is one thing, jumping on someone because their post about their coffee isn't long like the Harry Potter end credits is overkill. Different pieces of content call for different workflows. A vlog doesn't take as much to record and edit as my gaming videos and my Twitch VODS.
Hive is mainly a blogging platform, I came from a video platform. of course, there will be some creative differences.
Make a video walking people through how you edit your videos. Let them see what happens that they don't see. perhaps if I make one of those, maybe folks on here will see what really goes down when Im recording my videos.
