How seriously do you take youtube?

I take it a lot more serious than probably needed. A lot of people look for income on youtube which is good and bad. Good being giving more effort, bad being that's your ultimate goal. YouTube should be a fun place to post videos that you made for fun and just creativity. Income should come if it does, if not then you had a good time.
 
For me it's like my oxygen...believe it or not...I am very serious about it,cause I want YouTube as my full time job,& hopefully I will be able to do it :)
 
I go through phases. Youtube is like a rollercoaster for me. Some weeks I am completely engrossed in EVERYTHING about it, other weeks I need a break haha. I should take it more seriously, but if I do it'll lose the fun I reckon and I really enjoy my videos.
 
ashleynicholsonvlogs said:
Just curious what all of your opinions are on this.

I'm not sure how seriously I take it honestly, mostly because I think I'm more excited about making videos more than the fact that they're on youtube.. I don't even know if that makes sense!
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I take it pretty seriously, but only as serious as my equipment will allow me. I'm barely a channel, but I enjoy making videos, and that's what makes me happy, so yes I understand exactly what you mean.


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A few months ago I started a channel for fun with my son and my cell phone. Never made a real video before, never did any kind of graphic art and especially never edited a video. I thought it would be fun to do some videos of his own like the ones he loves watching.

Almost 5 months later I now use a Sony A6000 mirrorless camera, purchased editing software and spend hours a day becoming part of the YouTube community and researching everything I possibly can to help in become successful on YouTube. It has pretty much become an addiction.

If I can eventually make some real money doing this that would be amazing. If I can make a living that would be like rock star status to me. I love being creative and knowing other people are enjoying what I do is such and amazing feeling. You definitely have to put your time in though. It is almost like taking on a second job that offers no salary.
 
I wish I was more serious about youtube, but being me, in all honestly I lately been unmotivated since my videos rarely do any good as of late, since well my DIY apparently aren't unique enought, gaming videos are saturated and people don't watch a lot of toy videos so welp I just upload whenever I feel like it cause I feel un motivatd and my numbers couldn't look more fake even tough I have never done sub4sub neither boost anything sooo yeah thats my view
 
Shendijiro said:
I wish I was more serious about youtube, but being me, in all honestly I lately been unmotivated since my videos rarely do any good as of late, since well my DIY apparently aren't unique enought, gaming videos are saturated and people don't watch a lot of toy videos so welp I just upload whenever I feel like it cause I feel un motivatd and my numbers couldn't look more fake even tough I have never done sub4sub neither boost anything sooo yeah thats my view
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Who is your target audience? Is it kids? Get involved in the community. Watch others video's, comment on them. People will come and check out your vids. How did you grow to so many subs? What drew all those people in and why aren't they watching now?
 
FunWithTheBugs said:
Who is your target audience? Is it kids? Get involved in the community. Watch others video's, comment on them. People will come and check out your vids. How did you grow to so many subs? What drew all those people in and why aren't they watching now?
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My youtube is 7 years old, some subs are from back when I did AMV that still watch a few of my vids, some are friends who I don't think they even watch my youtube so they are dead subs. My target audience is kids - teens. (my analytics read a lot of adults watch my videos because of the DIY) I have gotten involved with the community but that doesn't help at all lol so whatever everyone had said before I have done it and now days in all honestly if you don't have a viral video you wont get anywhere :)
 
I don't take it very seriously, it's just for fun for me. I find that I can go back and play games I enjoyed and say random things over them and it makes it not be as boring as it would be normally. Who knows though, maybe my opinion will change.
 
Shendijiro said:
My youtube is 7 years old, some subs are from back when I did AMV that still watch a few of my vids, some are friends who I don't think they even watch my youtube so they are dead subs. My target audience is kids - teens. (my analytics read a lot of adults watch my videos because of the DIY) I have gotten involved with the community but that doesn't help at all lol so whatever everyone had said before I have done it and now days in all honestly if you don't have a viral video you wont get anywhere :)
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If I wasn't involved in the kids community I might believe that but in the 5 months I have been active on YouTube I have seen channels with 700 subs go to 3,000 - 4,000 subs. They put out consistently good videos often. If I haven't seen it myself I probably wouldn't believe you can grow without a viral video either and I know the struggles of growing as we are going through it ourselves and it can be very discouraging. I think I go through the I am quiting speech with myself weekly.
 
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