Should i just go for it?

Molly and Lizzie

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Hi, a few weeks ago my mum heard from me about a video i put up on the channel, she got super angry because i'm 13, she doesn't want me to put up videos without her seeing them and making them valid to put up....the problem is.... she doesn't really know me. I have two personalitys, one for at home and one for everyday with my friends and such. The one i use around my mum and at home is a sweet little innocent girl who doesn't swear and only found out about sex when she heard "The talk" But thats not who i am, i swear, all the time and i make sex jokes and i'm a sarky b***h...... (Not all the time) And i like to be myself in my videos. I'm scared to show her any others incase she doesn't approve or she somehow finds out i'm not an innocent little girl. The next problem is, i can only put up videos that i show her, and i just like to put them up when i want to. Should i show her (i made sure not to swear or anything in it) Or should i just upload it knowing she probably wont find it because her knowledge of the internet is as vast as a penguin with no feet...

Help..........................?
 
Make a fake channel and upload crap sweet girly videos, and keep this one a secret :)
Yeah thats a great idea but i think you shouldnt have pretended in the first place. but then again i am doing the same my parrents got no idea who i am... not even the internet xD but i know how you feel so i gues that is a good idea
 
As vast as a penguin with no feet? That is a non sequitur, right? Does your mom improve of those? But seriously, I do not believe it is a good idea for you to live a double life. It is not healthy. I'd try to ease your mother into it. Make a sweet girl video with just one, small thing your mother won't like. Then say it would be too much work to remove it, and isn't it so nice for the most part? She might let you, and then you continually but gradually make them more and more like the real you.
 
Nice idea


Yes lying to your mother is a great idea </sarcasm>. I don't know you or your family well enough to know why you'd have a split personality around your mother, but this is the worst way to go about it. You are 13 years old and only just legally old enough to even have an account. She has every right to want to know what you are uploading. Respect her enough to be honest with her.
 
Yes lying to your mother is a great idea </sarcasm>. I don't know you or your family well enough to know why you'd have a split personality around your mother, but this is the worst way to go about it. You are 13 years old and only just legally old enough to even have an account. She has every right to want to know what you are uploading. Respect her enough to be honest with her.

Pretty much this.

You need to keep in mind as soon as you upload anything to the internet, there's a very real risk that it can stay there for ever and or be used against you. Be honest with your mom, maybe it'll be a chance to actually get to know each other as people rather than just her in the mother role and you in the daughter role.
 
Yes lying to your mother is a great idea </sarcasm>. I don't know you or your family well enough to know why you'd have a split personality around your mother, but this is the worst way to go about it. You are 13 years old and only just legally old enough to even have an account. She has every right to want to know what you are uploading. Respect her enough to be honest with her.


Fair enough... i just really want to make videos without the hassle of showing her. Plus the only reason i an a sweet little innocent girl around her is because she acts like i am. So i just go with it
 
Basically Starkster and Frankie beat me to postage. I looked at your profile and you are only 13 years old. Now the thing about being 13 is that you are obviously very young (Nothing wrong with that at all) the thing your mum will be worried about is that being on the internet...everyone is watching.

Let's say you record a bunch of hate videos towards an ethnic group. The internet in all its uber power may then copy that video and spread it around. You then go for a job but then they find out that you spoke prejudice against people on the net. The company doesn't want someone like that representing them and so you are forever shamed from that potential employer.

Now you say you sometimes make sex jokes and are bitchy. Again you are only 13 years old and stuff like that is looked down upon by parents, a lot of Youtubers and people in general. That doesn't mean you have to be a stereotypical girly girl and not be yourself but you just need to think about how you want people to see you.

There is nothing bad about being yourself and not saying rude things. Humour can be created and said in many forms of speech and still be very successful without having to cuss. EXAMPLE! Your indie video begins with you being very informative about the game you were playing. Why not do that in all your videos? Even though you are 13 you have a voice that really supports that kind of commentary.

In a way I think you have the potential to pull off really informative indie game reviews. Why not make Indie Monday about reviewing various indie games that aren't getting much spotlight? Not only will these developers see that you have put in the time to look at their game but you will then potentially build connections, improve your commentary abilities and be seen as something who can be taken seriously on Youtube.

Even though Youtubers like that PewdiePie fellow swear and say offensive jokes doesn't mean that is the key to success. In a way he has probably locked himself out of a lot of potential career opportunities if his channel ever went south because a lot of places don't want to support commentary of that caliber. I for instance like to replace swearing with no serious words. EXAMPLE! 'F**k' turns to 'Fudge'. Simple, respectful and it sounds funny when it rolls off your tongue during commentary.

As I said, step back and think about how you want to be seen. You don't need to swear to be yourself and if you really took your commentary in a professional direction like you did at certain points in your Indie Monday video then you have the potential to go a certain direction and become successful from it at such a young age. Just got to put those brain meats to work.

I wish you the best of luck :)
 
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