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The Gamer Musician

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Hey all, more thought-provoking threads from me, The Gamer Musician MWAHAHAHA!
*coughs...*
Anyway, recently, I published my first episode in a series I want to do (a Zelda theory series).
As I was uploading it, I was thinking about how many other channels already do this kind of stuff, people like Macintyre Productions, HMK, Dr. Wily, VortexxyGaming, GameOverJesse just to name a few... oh and Game Theory haha!
I started thinking, and of course I still intend to work at the series anyway, but is there a lot of point in attempting to start doing this kinda stuff now, in smaller niches with various other established Youtubers already working at it.
Other than of course how much fun they are to make!
I guess, what I'm really trying to say is that a lot of the niches on Youtube already have people doing them, so if you wanted to try doing it, make it unique, something so different that viewers need to subscribe to you as well, or they'll miss out on something they wouldn't get elsewhere!
I guess I was lucky, in that I hadn't seen anyone else really cover my specific topic (covering every individual playable ocarina song from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask)!
 
I love this kind of content, and I will watch the same theories from multiple channels. I always like it when they go the extra mile. SwankyBox is a recent fave of mine because of the cool animations they have to illustrate their point. I think voices and accents help make you stand out too. we're basically going to be listening to you talk, so make it interesting to listen to. :)
 
If you can have a new take on something, then go for it. Yes, there's a lot of saturation in many, many subjects on YouTube, but if everyone shied away from stuff because other people did it, there wouldn't be the diversity of viewpoint that makes YouTube so unique.
 
You ask a very good question that I believe you should factor in. I believe on one hand that you should mainly make videos of something you're truly passionate about, otherwise you'll give up in the long run. But at the same time, if the saturation of your niche is so competitive that no one is even watching the videos you've worked so hard on, you might have to consider taking a different direction. You have to see your channel as a business and make the tough choices. It's also wise to invest in skills to try to beat your competition. Watch videos and then keep asking yourself, "how can I make my content better than that?"
 
Lightsen said:
I love this kind of content, and I will watch the same theories from multiple channels. I always like it when they go the extra mile. SwankyBox is a recent fave of mine because of the cool animations they have to illustrate their point. I think voices and accents help make you stand out too. we're basically going to be listening to you talk, so make it interesting to listen to. :)
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Very true, accents do make or break a theory! I've also been watching Swanky Box too, the animations are on point!
 
xingcat said:
If you can have a new take on something, then go for it. Yes, there's a lot of saturation in many, many subjects on YouTube, but if everyone shied away from stuff because other people did it, there wouldn't be the diversity of viewpoint that makes YouTube so unique.
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That's also very true! Without many people's different viewpoints, then the community WOULD be fairly one sided!
 
PositivelyBrainwashed said:
You ask a very good question that I believe you should factor in. I believe on one hand that you should mainly make videos of something you're truly passionate about, otherwise you'll give up in the long run. But at the same time, if the saturation of your niche is so competitive that no one is even watching the videos you've worked so hard on, you might have to consider taking a different direction. You have to see your channel as a business and make the tough choices. It's also wise to invest in skills to try to beat your competition. Watch videos and then keep asking yourself, "how can I make my content better than that?"
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Thanks, yeah! That was the essence of whar I was getting at! I think it must be a bit of a process to decide what to make, but 100% if you reckon you can do better than someone, do better than them! But that's just a theory. A GAME THEORY! *umm...sorry*
 
I think that's a really good point that you made in your post, despite things being ABSOLUTELY saturated in YouTube now. Adding a unique spin on things that is unique only to you is what pulls people in. And of course we all have that uniqueness about us because there aren't 2 people in this world that are the same
 
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