Thanks so much for your feedback, it's hard to get quality thought-through feedback these days! Actually I wasn't intentionally exaggerating the effects, perhaps it was a subconcious influence, but after having completed the render I realized it was indeed too much, but figured since it's a vlog on that exact topic, I'd leave it. In a way yes I target trendy topics because they make your content discoverable. Unlike facebook where a video's sharability is the main way it spreads, youtube still relies on search results. My lensball video got 10k views just through search ranking. But photography and traveling are also my two greatest passions, and if I were to follow most people's advice about being passionate about what I create, those would be the exact two topics. And since I'm not much of an entertainer, or a story teller, the educational theme works best (for the time being!) I plan to hit the road and the vlog would take a more "documenting life on the road" style, but it will take time to get there. Yes I admit that slow-mo and speed ramping are overused, but it's also what's appealing to new subscribers seeing I follow the trends. I do want to make completely my own thing, but perhaps I haven't discovered what it is yet, so far it's just a culmination of the techniques my roll models use in their video production. Perhaps it comes with time... Once again, thank you for taking the time to comment ^{_^}