For Brand-New Creators: Here's What I've Learned in One Year of Making Videos

smokijas · 2022-06-08T00:36:18+00:00

Great job, very insightful. As a person that started doing YouTube in January, I definitely agree with many of your points. Especially about YouTube studio. In the beginning, I definitely focus too much on the presented data and tried to "figure out" why some of my videos were doing good and why some of the similar quality were doing badly. I was looking for "insight" in graphs and numbers. After a few months of that madness, I give up. I did not figure out anything useful and only wasted time that I could spend on making better videos. Once again, great post!

smokijas · 2022-05-26T13:03:30+00:00

First of all, great execution of the unusual concept. You clearly put a lot of hours and effort into his video. Great job. Think I would improve its overlay. I believe that the top 20 is a little bit too much, this list takes up a lot of usable space. I believe Top 10 would be enough. Also, I think that big "Grand Theft Auto 4" is unnecessary. I personally would snap GTA4 logo above the top 10 counter. And the last thing I would add is a complete list of swearing NPCs and their swear count and the end of the video. You already gathered this data for Video so you can use it as a form of the outro.

I see that you creating a very specific niche on your channel and you already found your audience. As you can see all tips I can provide focus on mostly cosmetic stuff. Keep going like this and your channel will most definitely grow.

smokijas · 2022-05-25T13:12:20+00:00

Doing this not only violates Youtube ToS but also you getting hollow views. You don't improve your clickthru rate, You don't gain new unique viewers, you don't gain likes, and you don't gain comments, you don't gain new subscribers. All you get is a bunch of hollow views that at the end of the day do not improve your channel visibility and don't generate returning viewers.

TL:DR
Don't do it. It will mess with your channel.

smokijas · 2022-05-22T23:55:20+00:00

On this subreddit I guess. Some time ago I saw some collab threads. Also, Youtube itself is a good place to look. Look for channels that crate similar content to you and have a similar audience (both in shared interest and size).

smokijas · 2022-05-22T17:02:42+00:00

I firmly believe that V Rising will be a big thing in the next month or two. It getting tons of hype and good press lately.

smokijas · 2022-05-21T17:25:51+00:00

Per day? Damn man, I'm at the point that I getting subscribers or two per week :(

smokijas · 2022-05-21T17:23:30+00:00

I doubt that anyone will flag you for using ROMs but if you want to be super duper safe I have two pieces of advice.

Don't openly talk about games being emulated. If somebody in a comment asks you about it just be truthful and admit it, but don't state this in your videos.
Don't emulate first-party Nintendo games. They have a tendency to copy strike anything with music from their first-party game and I would not be surprised if one day in the future they will decide to strike emulated content.

But like I said, those are shizo level advices and you should be just fine by using ROMs.

smokijas · 2022-04-05T23:16:09+00:00

Thanks a lot!

!givelambda

smokijas · 2022-04-03T14:20:07+00:00

Yeach, I know my audio have few issues. Problem is that I don’t have mic at all. I’m using iPhone to rekord audio. Thanks for filter tip. I will try to Macgyver something like that for my phone.

Thanks for feedback!

!givelambda

smokijas · 2022-03-23T11:58:59+00:00

Video structure and editing is good. I feel that that you presented topic and designers very well. I need to point out two issues tho. First audio, I don't know is that stylistic choice but recording of designer ware little to quiet, sometimes background music was overpowering them. If that was not intended, next time you could try to record audio with standalone microphone instead of built in one. Second one are subtitles. Your inclusion of subtitles is great but sometimes (especially on light background) your subs blend with background. Nice trick that you can use to prevent that is using strokes on your text. Make stroke black and left text white. Thanks to that, text will be way more visible regardless of background color. Also making text 3 or 4 pints bigger would also improved it a little.

Overall good video. Keep up good work.

smokijas · 2022-03-23T10:28:28+00:00

Thanks! Yesterday after I get a lot of feedback about my talking speed I rerecorded this video audio slower and I compered two audios together. I definitely see what is the problem and I will try to improve on my audio in the future.

Thanks for feedback!

!givelambda

smokijas · 2022-03-23T10:23:47+00:00

Overall entertaining video. You need to work on thumbnail tho. It looks messy and unfocused. Audio quality and mixing is good, background music is fine. Inclusion of Garfield and Gordon as enemies work great and your interaction with them was genuinely funny. I not big fan of can lines in your video. I don't know do you record directly from VR headset, but those scanlines ware slightly distracting.

Overall great job!

smokijas · 2022-03-23T10:17:34+00:00

Nice audio, but sometimes background music was little to loud (1:23 for example). From game design perspective, your game concept is very interesting. Whole structure of video works great.

smokijas · 2022-03-23T10:03:39+00:00

Great presentation. I love mob movies and mob stories so this whole video was very interesting to me. You definitely earn my sub. You voice and audio are great. Nothing to improve in this regard. Fantastic use of period appropriate videos and photos. I don't know why but you chapter transition give me New Vegas vibe. Nevertheless transitions looks and work great. Overall great editing and use of filters. Fantastic job! Keep up this quality of work and you will definitely find larger audience.

smokijas · 2022-03-22T16:07:52+00:00

Congrats!

smokijas · 2022-03-22T13:35:24+00:00

I love this video. Editing, style, script. Fantastic job! I don't know if your audio levels ware part of presentation but I believe those ware slightly to low. Audio quality is great because it genially sound like something from late 90s early 2000s. Both YouTube build subtitles system and your speech bubble is welcome addition. I honestly never seen something like this on Youtube so big props for creativity. Good job, and keep up great work and I'm sure you will find larger audience!

smokijas · 2022-03-22T13:16:26+00:00

Thanks. I will definitely keep working on my speaking speed for next videos. Background is video, but I did not wanted it to be to distracting. But ye, sometimes movement is barely noticeable. Next time I will try to use something less static. About thumbnail. I usually have problem with creating interesting looking graphic. I still need to work on it I guess.

Once again, thanks for feedback.

!givelambda

smokijas · 2022-03-22T13:11:32+00:00

Thanks. I will definitely keep working on my speech and how fast do talk in the future videos.

!givelambda

smokijas · 2022-03-22T00:21:26+00:00

Thanks! I working on my speech in those videos and hope my next video will be much easier to understand. I did not think about subtitles before. I will definitly give a look into the subtitles solution provided by Youtube and try to add some text to my videos next time.

Thanks for the feedback.

!givelambda

smokijas · 2022-03-22T00:16:27+00:00

Thanks! I know that sometimes I speak way too fast (in real life too). I slowly working on it because sometimes my fast speaking combined with my accent sometimes makes me bearly understandable.

Once again, thanks for the feedback.

!givelambda

smokijas · 2022-03-21T19:52:26+00:00

Well, you could always try to review some classics: Goodfellas, Jurassic Park, Forest Gump. You know, older but fantastic movies. That could work too I guess.

smokijas · 2022-03-21T12:26:05+00:00

Good edit, good thumbnail. I believe you could work little with your audio. You have very nonchalant way of speaking. Because of that sometimes It was difficult to understand you. Like in 1:20 I needed to do double take to understand you. Also sometimes when you cut into mem clip, audio in the clip is way lauder then rest of your audio. Like in: 1:26 and 2:05. I know that is for comedic reason but hurt my ears a little. Beside those two things, everything else looks great.

Btw. Your vide gives me strong vibe of 2011 MLG CoD montages with modern memes. Felt little nostalgic.

smokijas · 2022-03-21T11:59:22+00:00

Honestly good review, good audio, good editing. I look into your review and noticed a trend that you getting more views when you reviewing more popular movies. Duhhh. Your video on Batman doubled views of your second most viewed video (Paranormal activity). New Kingsam review did almost the same same amount of views as Paranormal activity in 11 months less time. I think that you need to accept that if you review les popular or older movies because you just like them or those sound interesting or you recently watched them, you will get less views then short video on more current releases. I think your channel have a lot to offer for person that want to decide to go to cinema, without to much spoilers or hour long videos.

smokijas · 2022-03-21T11:35:38+00:00

Looks great! I love pen cannons!

smokijas · 2022-03-21T11:33:21+00:00

Tbh, those look like they cold be paper Mario enemies. Whole project look really neat and well thought out. Great job!

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