Biggest Channel Regret?

The audience I catered to. I envy the animators who get to make a broad genre of content. I feel like the way I began "trapped" me into an audience that only likes one particular thing (and I've exhausted myself of said thing). Perhaps I should've started right off the bat with video game parodies, speed drawing, or animated music videos but the past is the past and I can only keep working through the transition I'm trying to make.
 
My only regret is my channel's URL. I wished I picked a more suited username at the moment. I didn't originally create my channel to feature videos. It was originally made to keep playlists of my favorite YouTube videos.
 
Franklin said:
My only regret is my channel's URL. I wished I picked a more suited username at the moment. I didn't originally create my channel to feature videos. It was originally made to keep playlists of my favorite YouTube videos.
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I originally signed up for an account to show something work related to a friend in another state. When I started doing cooking videos I should have started another one with a cool cooking name.
 
Its not really "Oh I really regret doing that" its more of a "Oh poop" moment, when I use to learn how to do magic tricks, I use to add them to lists that my school "friends" could see then they all came in the next week saying "Oh look at this Sam" then thats why they're my "friends", but its fine, Im actually glad that happened :)
 
James Strange said:
I originally signed up for an account to show something work related to a friend in another state. When I started doing cooking videos I should have started another one with a cool cooking name.
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Franklin said:
My only regret is my channel's URL. I wished I picked a more suited username at the moment. I didn't originally create my channel to feature videos. It was originally made to keep playlists of my favorite YouTube videos.
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I feel you guys. "AlvanTheSnowman" still haunts me to this day [emoji31]
 
Franklin said:
My only regret is my channel's URL. I wished I picked a more suited username at the moment. I didn't originally create my channel to feature videos. It was originally made to keep playlists of my favorite YouTube videos.
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Me too, my channel name is my last name with Google's auto suggestions since it was taken. I came to regret the "Mr" the most as irl I like gender fluidity. Also wasn't a fan of the numbers.

I did utilize the custom URL feature for my new one but now I regret that too because it's much longer, and means I can't really do non-cartoon stuff without contradicting it (maybe). Regardless my first name isn't going anywhere, given it autocompletes and everything so I've come to accept it. I mostly cope by considering it a "branch" of a much larger "umbrella", and seeing it as a "Mr. McMahon compared to Vince McMahon" kind of separate personality. :unsure:
 
Like others - I wish we started earlier! I have on my laptop videos from a year and a half ago when Alice was pretending to host a cooking show and playing with her toys for her "show" in front of the webcam...I can't believe I was so dense that I didn't think about making them real until now. Anyway, better late than never!
 
I regret not starting sooner.
I've been on YouTube since 2008, but I had no idea of what it was capable of as a marketing tool. Seeing people who have done really well for themselves and found a purpose through doing videos and noting that they've been at it for years does worry me a little bit.
I mean, it could still work out as hundreds of new popular channels emerge from the woodwork every other week - but will there be more than just the "first generation" of successful YouTubers? Will they eventually retire and be replaced by a new series of people over time? Or will YouTube eventually lose its appeal?
 
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