what's up shenanigans John here and I am back. so what I came to talk to you
tonight about I want to do real quick I'm gonna do a quick chat with you
tonight a lot of the comments I've been getting
lately on our channel because I've been doing these type of talking-head YouTube
focused videos the small YouTube community has come out and just droves
to this channel and I welcome all of you thank you so much for coming here I
really do think we all like to research we all like to have discussions on the
challenges and of being a small youtuber and some of the things and tips and
tricks and things to do to get better and this kind of leads me back to when I
first started youtube three years ago it was extremely stressful because you know
I started off with all of this energy and so focused and I mean so much Drive
and then I kind of went through this period of I was creating lots of content
and wasn't get a lot of subs I wasn't getting a lot of views and it kind of
just started to kill on motivation and it really was kind of disheartening and
going through those cyclical patterns of you know motivation and then kind of
getting down on yourself and doing lots of research and then learning something
and then applying that something to your channel that all gets really exciting
and I know that all of you are super passionate you're super creative you're
super excited about growing your channel so you're doing lots of research you're
watching videos you're finding people that you connect with and you're kind of
learning from how they do things and I did the same exact thing and I still do
it I'm a little more focused than I used to be just because I know where my
strengths and weaknesses are so I focus on those areas and so that's probably a
good thing to kind of concentrate on but the stress of running a small YouTube
channel can be a bit much and in hear me out so I know a lot of you feel kind of
demeaned or underappreciated as a small youtube channel I know that I do
sometimes and you know we all have voices regardless of the sub size of our
channel and we want to be creative and we want to produce content on YouTube
but what happens a lot as we start to get bogged down and this I don't even
know how to explain it just the monotony of putting out content and not getting
that affirmation and it really starts to become
a mountain that you have to climb and you start to lose the motivation which
then starts to kill your channel even more because you're not outputting any
content I did this there's points where I took off a month two month three
months on this channel I might put out one video in a two month period and it
was because of that things got busy in my life I got stressed out and there's
the the the channel suffered not a lot has changed with my channel with the
stress level in my life but what has happened is I've learned to take it easy
on myself and set healthy expectations so now I know like I said in the
previous video about being more consistent I know how to film now I know
how to edit I know how to kind of put something together quickly without just
putting too much stress on myself I used to be a super perfectionist and
everything that I did and I just wasn't good at it so trying to be perfectionist
and not being good at it was not a good combo because I spent way too much time
focused on the wrong areas now I learned a ton and I've told you guys this
practice and this repetition of learning this craft because this is a craft that
is a skill you guys are skilled you're learning a skill some of you were
probably better at certain areas than others I am too I was not really good at
the editing part when I first started this well let's just be honest I
probably wasn't really good at any of it but I've gotten better over time and
you're all gonna be there but what I want the small YouTube community to do
is take it easy on yourself right now we have so much stress on us with the
partner program and everybody's stressing out but it's sudden for
subband and in commenting on everybody's videos and trying to create this you
know which I completely completely support this community in trying to make
friends and and trying to learn from one another and everybody stressed about
this 4,000 hours or 10,000 subs so these metrics and these these levels that
YouTube is set I'm worried that the small YouTube community is gonna start
focusing on the wrong things and that is just numbers per se not learning the
craft and producing good content and not saying that anybody's not doing that but
if you start to focus on the wrong things you're gonna go in the wrong
direction and just amassing subs and just a massing watch time
through ways that are not natural per se is not going to help the channel very
much and I think it's stressing people out and so I think some of the larger
youtubers are probably trying to tell us and not articulating it not not all of
them are taking it very well but they're telling us the focus focus on the things
that matter buckle down work hard and you will get there and now all are we
all gonna get there at the same time we're not there's gonna be people that
grow up way quicker than me there gonna be people who grow way quicker than you
there could be a person who starts a YouTube channel today and by the end of
the week has more subs than I have after three years it's gonna happen it's just
the nature of the beast it's what's gonna happen but I want us all to kind
of learn to take it easy on ourselves and Ness its managing that stress and
being kind of baseline that I mean when I first started out I was so excited and
I was way way way up and then I come way way way down way away live and I was
almost manic instead of just trying to take a breath and know that I was new
and take it easy on myself and learn the crafts and not stress about my sub count
you know I shouldn't have been worried about if someone's gonna respect me as a
channel if I didn't have enough subs didn't want people to overlook me
because that was a small channel it was just all of the stuff going on that I
think it just causes lots of stress people are talking about now revamping
their schedules and you know there's people on here I mean there's most of us
most of us either work a full-time job or we're stay-at-home parents which is a
full-time job that's super stressful I mean it's a
super super stressful at the end of the day what is this all work if we're
stressed to the point where this is not fun I love you too I love making videos
I love talking to you guys but if this got to the point where it's not fun then
what's the point what's the point take it easy on yourself love this learn
from it you know cherish the growth cherish the the the highs and the lows
and know that you're gonna learn from all of them learn from each other now
right now I'm trying to impart some of the wisdom that I
gained over my time here and I know that I learned a lot from other folks and
there were people that kind of took men of the wing when I first got here and
kind of explained some things to me on how I should go about things and that's
what we should be doing for each other when I talk about community that's what
I mean now I don't want people to be confused
that you know me community means this reaching out to 500 people and getting
upset when someone doesn't reciprocate that I know I've talked about that
before because that's just gonna happen there's gonna be people you gel with
there's gonna be people you click with there are groups of people for everyone
out there and I don't even know how to explain how it happens but people just
hide together it just happens and if you watch someone they're like ah this
person is awesome I want to take them under my wing or I'm gonna give them
advice or oh I want to learn from them because I think their channel is
fantastic you know that's what you do and if they don't reciprocate then you
know what we move on and life moves on but take it easy on yourself know that
this is a learning process that we're all gonna get there keep doing what we
love you know your creative dis enjoy this enjoy the ride enjoy the highs and
lows enjoy the growth enjoy the process and just support one another as best we
can through this being a small youtuber is something special because we are all
joined together for a common goal which is growing and spreading the message
that we have with our channels and we all have different channels and it's
just that's what I find so cool I mean a couple of my best friends on YouTube
have completely different channels in me and it doesn't matter because we're in
this together they're a lot bigger channels in me but we're in this
together nonetheless I thought I was a brain with a lot tonight guys I
appreciate you listening and if you have comments on this about how you deal with
the stress and kind of what your viewpoint is on YouTube and kind of what
your strategy is what your mantra is day in a day out and how you handle the
highs and lows and of creating content and not getting a lot of views and some
of them get a lot of views and it's just no rhyme or reason
where you watch a chain on there like why they get in some use I do that I'm
good you know it's there's so many thoughts that go through your head when
you're on here but again I can tell you one piece of ice just take it easy on
yourself I don't know if this made sense at all if it did please smash that
thumbs up and I appreciated guys and we'll see you tomorrow later
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