For fun or profit?

Do you do it for the money, fame, or fun?

  • Money

    Votes: 10 23.3%

  • Fame

    Votes: 8 18.6%

  • Fun

    Votes: 41 95.3%
  • Total voters
    43
SomeGuyDude said:
I'm not being rude at all (and please don't tell me to stop posting, that IS rude).

See, what worries me is that I've seen it around before that there's this sense of "shame" attached to saying you like the money and fame aspects of YouTubing. Like that's selfish. "Fun" isn't separate from those. You said it yourself, and I totally agree! Videos aren't FUN if they're just sitting unattached from the community. The fun is IN sharing and getting a little community built up and interacting with viewers and fans, and if you can turn it into your primary job? Well then you struck oil!

It's just a trend I see and it bugs me. If it makes me "rude" that I want to stop people feeling bad about their motivations, then I guess I'm proudly rude.
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What makes you rude is calling me slow. I just woke up. Go away and stop harassing me please.
 
For fun but of course everyone nowdays hopes to become famous :) but I wouldnt be making videos in the first place if it wouldn't be for Fun!
 
I would like to go on and claim that almost everyone that does YouTube as fun, also does it for the profit.
I understand that "doing it for the profit" may sound, how to put it, like "faking it" but it is actually the road for the ultimate fun :D

Everyone wants to spend his life doing something he gets pleasure from doing, but we need money to live on. But wait! What if that fun thing you do could also bring the money you need?! BAM, this is my point :) Many of us here in this forum dream of not having to work "traditional jobs" but live by making videos, this means doing it for the profit. But, the profit, is ultimately just a tool to have the fun life.
 
I definitely want to turn this into a career someday. Not so much to be rich or famous as to be able to do something I love doing for a living.
 
Fun. And no matter where my channel ends up in the great scheme of things that will always be the case! Those that start out YouTube for Money or Fame... Good luck. Because if you do not have fun first people will notice that in the way you carry yourself, and subsequently they will ignore your channel.
 
TheDutchTexan said:
Fun. And no matter where my channel ends up in the great scheme of things that will always be the case! Those that start out YouTube for Money or Fame... Good luck. Because if you do not have fun first people will notice that in the way you carry yourself, and subsequently they will ignore your channel.
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I think the big thing is whether you want to make money YouTubing or you want to YouTube to make money. There's a big difference between the two, more than just the order of the words. I think people who want to turn YouTubing into a career because of the love of doing it will have a drive that people who just are using it because it's the current fashionable way to be popular just won't.

Like, as a gamer, you used to see "stream girls" who were, quite literally, cam strippers that transitioned to Twitch. They had no interest in gaming, it was JUST about showing cleavage and getting donations. Game streaming just happened to be the format. It works a bit, but that just can't maintain.
 
I do it for fun and money (although I'm yet to make any). I enjoy going to different football games, being around different sets of fans and travelling to new places. It would be nice to earn a pay check along the way but I'd do it for quite some time before that first one.

It's also worth knowing that all successful you tubers LOVE what they do and you'll only really become successful if you love it.
 
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