made me want to too

they marketed themselves at people as a network that anyone can join. this was back in the day when joining a youtube network meant you'd "made it".

and a lot of the views came from people who just wanted in

they weren't like that when i got involved, but they quickly turned into garbage. quality went way down and it all felt wrong. i left just before they collapsed but i could see it coming

was it video game stuff?

easy guess

yeh

tfw no secondary channel with clickbait video game content for the cash money

I had a loss of motivaiton too and tried to quit but I think I just realised that it's my channel and I can do what I want

hence the old shit videos and all

I felt like I had to keep buying chink shit for people to care

doing what the fuck you want is the best way forward

trying to make it on youtube is a fool's errand, its 99% luck

so you might as well just make the shit you want to make

yeah I actually wanted to make my old shit series and I think it shows

I really cared about doing it

rather than pumping out more chink shit memes

it's definitely the best way

if you care then the people care

for a while i committed myself to a news series

and some weeks it was good because the stories were interesting

other weeks it was fucking boring and hell and i didn't want to be doing it, and it was always obvious

did get the $$ tho

>made not a single $ from this yet

shoo shoo, Scank stinky chinky

I wonder if I'd change my stuff if $ rolled in

if you actually want to make dollar then you need some kind of sponsorship

you know how linus tech tips does? thats were the money is

you won't make more than pennies off adsense

obviously I'd love to just sit around and make videos all day, but yeah, I'd need some Linus tier production values

beats being a wageslave if you've got the gig

can't stand youtubers like OMG I HAVE ANXIETY AND THIS JOB IS SO HARD I WORK ALL DAY

it always happens when they get rich

some of those guys make like 100k a year

or more

tbf though there is very little security

like what's their backup plan?

yeah I always wonder if google went through hard times and pulled the plug

i can understand it being scary

no pension, no savings

i think they have some savings

probly a lot more than we considering how much money they pump out of

when it comes to linus and other tech-reviewers .. they could just sell their gear to next fools

you can tell the ones who have no savings

they panicked during the demonetisation thing

MUH LAMBO DOWNPAYMENTS

or they were just jews about their cashflow

kek yeah maybe

think that they cant order that french bacon anymore.. now they have to do with 2 slices of italian instead

my biggest regret was that I had a youtube channel when it first launched and I closed it, if I'd kept it going I'd be philip defranco oldfag by now

it always kills me

I had no idea it would explode

back then it was just pure vlogging

the most creative idea was "I FILMED MYSELF OUTSIDE"

honestly would be set for life if I'd just kept building the audience

what did you close it for

I had weird stalkers

and it was pure cancer back then, worse than now because it was a small pool

so everyone was shouting out everyone else

its pretty adapt or die business anyways

I had a pretty big series of me and my friend just wandering around town

but edited in a funny way

but that was when 1000 subs was e-celeb status

pre-monetisation

yeah it is @Tervy

I broke when some girl did a video of herself falling asleep to my videos

what

oh now you've reminded me of when "reply girls" was a thing

yeah she filmed herself putting it on then getting into bed and falling asleep smiling to my voice

the fok

hot

find this video

pls

it isn't there anymore, she deleted her channel

rip

a lot of the old crowd did

because they were embarrassing themselves on camera thinking no one would ever see it

my old content was garbage

"CINEMAS, ANNOYING RIGHT?!"

but it took off bigtime then

thanks god all i have done is some livestreaming back when twitch did not even exist

i have skipped so many problems when it comes to social media

philip defranco is funny to me because when he first launched all he did was get butthurt and launch into drama

constantly

he was always upset

now he's seen as some wise oldfag

like he'd get into 12 feuds at once

over nothing

kek

he was the kind of guy like OKAY GUYS THAT'S IT I QUIT YOUTUBE

then come back when he'd calm down

lmaoo

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Filthywhore

this was the top subbed when I was doing it

then people found her porn

and she deleted her channel

i miss the days when you could legitimately grow an audience just by making shit and expecting people to stumble across it

yeah the algorithm buries you now

>youtube-shit-general

does youtube allow mockvideos from other streamers