Like for example, do you guys just stick to popular youtubers or if a video seemed cool but low views you wouldnt mind watching it? Does the views of a video matter to you?
- Not trying to improve the hook for each video, I know that sounds obvious but it kills me now that I regret it.
- Genuinely just not caring about video ideas, like I didn't think it mattered and I kept going even when I knew it was a mistake. Its genuinely like a stacked thing, if you have a bad video idea nothing in your video works at all. You won't get impressions even if you made the best video, with title, with thumbnail in the world. I heard the advice so much but never thought it meant anything but now I know it holds the whole fucking video
- Getting a condenser mic when my room is a little noisy, do your research before you get a mic. It sucks to waste money on something and don't just listen to recommendations, learn what a condenser vs dynamic mic is, learn what frequencies it covers, and get a boomstand. If someone heard bad audio, they click away immediately which makes it impossible to focus on if your doing the intro wrong or if they have left because of the audio. Big regret, I got a blue yeti which was expensive then I got am8 which works much better for me. Also look at the brands of the mic your buying from, I got the fifine am8 and fifine is a trusted brand for budget microphones. I got am8 just yesterday but I recorded with it and I was so happy to have no audio problems like keyboard noises, clicks, etc and it was very easy to remove those unlike a condenser mic.
- Watch your own video, genuinely if you have insecurity over watching your own video. That is a unhealthy mindset, and watching your own video will let you see all the mistakes you made, all the inconsistency, especially if you were to have someone else's video side by side. I know many of you guys would rather die then do this, but ignoring problems, having a negative or positive ego is bad. Kill your ego guys, I was stuck in this phase for 3 years not seeing or even acknowledging and not trying to put myself in a position where mistakes are seen. Because I hated making mistakes, i hated not being good, i hated puting myself in a spot where I can see my mistakes. That's my advice
- I think having a side by side of someone else's video vs mine, helped me see what I could improve. I also have learned to be happy with my mistakes and learning process
- For editing, you don't need to cut then make bla bla, if you don't enjoy it you can feel free to do it any way you like even if it's not "efficient" it doesn't need to be as long as it's fun, work processes help you be creative, pick the process that makes you the most creative not everyone is the same and that's not a bad thing.
- If you know you made mistakes in your previous or you have continuously been making the same mistakes.. it's time to acctually go list all of the problems, I knew I had the worst mic audio for so long. But I didn't do anything and even i just recently did that. Im gonna ask this politely, PLEASE JUST NOTE DOWN ALL THE PROBLEMS AND DONT FORGET ABOUT THEM AND FIX THEM AND TARGET THEM ONE BY ONE. YOU CAN DO MULTIPLE FIXS IN ONE VIDEOOOO-
- Think of yourself in the viewers mind, put yourself in the shoes of the viewer. Would you even watch your own content? Because let's be honest without good editing or good curiousity in thumbnails, you would never click on your own video so don't expect others too click on it either. Learn the skills and keep doing so
- Alot of people get dismotivated because they don't blow up, but youtube won't ever blow you up. Not as long as you don't make as good content as your competitors and picking bad video ideas will just cement it. If you treat it like gambling, your never gonna have motivation because you don't think this will ever lead it to anywhere but guess what, give me a video that is bad and blew up in a niche that's has lots of saturation, any popular youtubers whatsoever that blew up during this timezone 2018-2026 (youtubers that blew up before this era had different rules, and are still carrying that fame) Tell me one, any of your youtubers out of the millions that exist. It's not luck, even if there is luck involved as any other job it isn't luck.
Work hard, and be smart. Take criticism without feeling insecure because your not perfect, I'm not either. I'm not even a popular youtuber but just a person learning along the way and wanted to share this. Having insecurity made me so dead inside and made youtube feel so terrible, not puting myself in spots where I see my mistakes made me not improve and when you constantly make videos without improving and not even geting views it burns you out. It makes you think it's impossible or hate your content or even yourself. Don't fall into that trap, it's not healthy for your mental health nor is it good for your channel. Try to have fun, try to correct your thoughts because you can control them if you teach yourself how to respond to your thoughts, it will go away after awhile. Be kind to yourself, not just fake kind and fake positivity like acctually seeing your mistakes and loving even that and teaching yourself to be kind to that, don't hate yourself. Just work on it
Like what are we going for? Why can't you leave a mic the way it is and why and how does it sound better because I can recognise it sounds better I just don't know why. I get how to use eq, I just don't know why or what to do with eq. I also found that there isn't any eq tutorials I can copy because I'm a girl and my voice is higher so copy and pasting doesn't even work. I would love to hear about these things if anyone can answer them, like why boost the lower frequencies in our voice or the higher frequencies?
I realised that I have a condenser mic which sounds really bad and is really bad for gaming videos, could you guys give me suggestions