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by riskable 1322 days ago
Do you want your life to revolve around whether or not you can keep the lowest common denominator entertained for 10 minutes at a time? Spending (maybe) hours and hours of your life every week doing nothing but video editing?

If the answer is, "no" then you're never going to be "a YouTuber" (that makes enough money to live from your channel).

I highly recommend doing what I do: Post videos because you want to help people, not entertain them. Also, every now and again I'll post a video just because making videos can be fun but it's fun for me... Whether everyone else has fun with it is mostly irrelevant :)

If I make a few bucks from my tutorial videos about how to make an analog hall effect keyboard that'd be nice but really, I made them so I could point people to the video series to save myself a lot of time explaining things in chat messages. If enough people use those videos to gain that skill maybe we can move the world off of electromechanical switch technology (aka "cave man switches") some day.

1 comments

You don't need a lot of editing if you produce useful content that's not filmed with a potato. Any time I post a car repair video, I get 100x the views of anything else I've done. No real editing is needed, other than stitching a few video clips together.