u/Possible-Call-9879

Hey Reddit,

So I posted here a few hours ago asking about starting a German YouTube channel while my English one (@lifeofdenissuv 743 subs) was basically dead. The feedback absolutely destroyed me but in the best way possible. Basically everyone said my content is boring, and they were right.

I was just... existing in Tokyo and filming it. Why would anyone watch that? There's literally thousands of people doing the exact same thing.

They said nobody cares about you until they do, and the thing that makes them care is what you're actually offering, not who you are. So I've been thinking about this.

I'm 24, German, living in Tokyo finishing my degree. When I was 18 I herniated my disc pretty badly. Stopped me from doing anything athletic for years. But now I'm getting back into training and I actually want to document that journey. Maybe ideally in some inspirational fitness influencer way, whilst sharing my student lifestyl trying to fix it and gettung it all under one hat. How do you manage being a student and dealing with that?

But here's where I'm stuck. I don't really know how to make that into a coherent channel. Like do I make some videos that are just pure information about training with a hernia? Do I make lifestyle vlogs but keep the hernia lens? Do I try to combine all three things - the sports, the student life, the German-in-Tokyo angle - into every video or keep them separate?

I know the last time I posted everyone basically said my channel concept was weak and they were right, so I'm trying to actually learn from that instead of just starting another channel that flops. But I don't want to overthink this either.

Has anyone here successfully built a channel around a specific journey or situation like this? How did you actually structure it so it wasn't just boring vlog content?

Thanks

Hi, I'm Denis Suvakci, 24, a student who is about to graduate. I'm living in Tokyo right now. I'm from Germany. I run an English YouTube channel, which is called Life of Denis, with currently 743 subscribers. It's been over one and a half years now, and I kind of don't see any growth. I kinda lost fun because I boxed myself and forced myself in. Usually, at about this time after that, I feel like I need to try something else and quit, and that's why I'm thinking about starting a YouTube channel, but this time in German. I never tried it because I thought, yeah, international, bigger, more reach and all of that, but ultimately it didn't work out for me.

As of now, I don't wanna fully quit. It's just that I want to try something else. I injured my back when I was 18 with this hernia, but now I'm kind of getting back into it. I want to also document the journey of having a herniated disc, still doing sports, taking care of your body, being a student, and the day-to-day lifestyle. The thing is, there are also some giants already in the German YouTube scene that do sports, extreme sports, like Arda Saatci or Tim Gabel, stuff like that, so I don't know if I would even find my way in. I don't know if you guys have any suggestions or similar experiences. I would appreciate any help.

u/lifeofdenissuv

Hi, I'm Denis Suvakci, 24, a student who is about to graduate. I'm living in Tokyo right now. I'm from Germany. I run an English YouTube channel, which is called Life of Denis, with currently 743 subscribers. It's been over one and a half years now, and I kind of don't see any growth. I kinda lost fun because I boxed myself and forced myself in. Usually, at about this time after that, I feel like I need to try something else and quit, and that's why I'm thinking about starting a YouTube channel, but this time in German. I never tried it because I thought, yeah, international, bigger, more reach and all of that, but ultimately it didn't work out for me.

As of now, I don't wanna fully quit. It's just that I want to try something else. I injured my back when I was 18 with this hernia, but now I'm kind of getting back into it. I want to also document the journey of having a herniated disc, still doing sports, taking care of your body, being a student, and the day-to-day lifestyle. The thing is, there are also some giants already in the German YouTube scene that do sports, extreme sports, like Arda Saatci or Tim Gabel, stuff like that, so I don't know if I would even find my way in. I don't know if you guys have any suggestions or similar experiences. I would appreciate any help.

it was 2:56am when our dorbell rang of our apartment, all I saw was a hand at the bottom of the floor trying to open the door. I got so scared and shoked so I called the police.

My girlfriend heard, prior also, some knocks when this third-floor balcony is but there are people below us. She heard knocks on the windows, and the guy was like walking around the building and, whenever he rang, also other people's bell. For some reason, people inside our apartment are super uncooperative. Nobody else called the police apart from us.

Today at 4:00 p.m., another guy rang our bell and hit again, so super random. We proceeded to ask the neighbors, and nobody opened a set from one. She said there's maybe our neighbor, and that doesn't add up. Is that something normal?

edit:

we then asked the neigbours and they sad they never seen him before since he also rang their bell.

Additionally we put a poster up inside the apartment door at the main entrance where one could anonymously right down if he saw anything or also had the same experience.

SCARY ENOUGH somebody ripped it off, over the night...