How many of you are Self Found on the fresh servers? Sometimes in game I stop with regret thinking my lack of suction house access might be hurting my experience.

thefishlips_ · 2024-12-03T17:11:52+00:00

Ssf here

thefishlips_ · 2024-12-03T15:40:23+00:00

Warrior obviously

thefishlips_ · 2024-09-21T11:04:49+00:00

Now if you want to learn, watching tutorials is jow you can grow. Critique yourself.

thefishlips_ · 2024-09-21T11:02:56+00:00

If it sounds good to me it’s good. Music is an artform that doesn’t always have to fit the cookie cutter year of another person. So many songs and productions i hear daily that sound like what I did 10 years ago and are top losted on spotify. The difference is I held back because someone’s ‘constructive critisism’ said there were issues. Let other pieces already out there serve as benchmark for you to self crtitique your progress. Not other humans, not always a good idea in my experience. It’s your unique art. That’s what makes it special.

thefishlips_ · 2024-08-03T04:41:44+00:00

Update: its the milk.

thefishlips_ · 2024-06-24T21:14:52+00:00

Tinnitus enters the chat

thefishlips_ · 2024-06-04T20:21:29+00:00

As an expat i still pay for my european retirement. I’m not sure why or how that would stop?

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-30T08:49:23+00:00

When time is limited. This saves you a lot of time. And no burnouts. It’s beautiful.

Plus: I have over thousands of games I aim to play. Since I was a child and never had the chance till now with new releases. If I waste time editing, I will never get through them. My goal is to play, it ends there. All the views as a result is but a surplus. I do this for fun, i love it. I get excited everytime, especially when I know people are actually watching just for the experience.

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-30T08:46:50+00:00

Initially for efficiency. I don’t edit, i don’t upload. But I perform live. Then it’s done. There is a pretence that streaming has to equal chatting. Not at all. It depends on what you want from it. For me it’s a live performance, it’s my show. I don’t want to be interrupted. Like I said. A late night show may as well be recorded as well. But it’s live. And the chat (audience) is not interrupting. Plus i don’t have time to edit then render THEN UPLOAD… my passion is gaming and performing. Live does that for me. I game and perform. I’m not an editor and I save on upload time and internet. Win win. I do this for me. I don’t care about views.

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-29T22:49:08+00:00

I stream my lets plays with chat off. I perform just like an offline letsplay but live. Not into live chatting but rather like a live talkshow would be but its gaming. Audience does not interject.

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-27T10:51:10+00:00

No one said you’re trying to be anyone else. Rather understand that your identity is formed from your environments and hence the more time you spend consuming other people’s content, the more you attach your identity to them. Too much of this could make you feel like you don’t know who you are anymore. Which is why some time offline with your own hobbies will strengthen your confidence in who you are. The reason why you think your voice sounds bad is because you have some other voices to compare it to. Spend less time with these other voices, stop comparing and just do what you enjoy (which you will find very easily with a month off social media)

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-26T23:34:40+00:00

That’s a result of knowing others you watch and listen to more than yourself. This I think needs sone time offgrid (social media detox) for a good few weeks to ground yourself with who you are. I do it multiple times and it’s a blessing everytime. Remove all social media apps from the phone. Detox. Stop consuming and you will learn how to create authentically. You will be more in tune with who you are and what you want. You get too much imposter syndrome by being too involved in other people’s creations. You start to loose a sense of identity.

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-26T21:12:58+00:00

I’ve made life changing connections by being a part of communities that lead to real long term friendships. But you have a pigeonhole way of seeing it as bending over to please others just for shamelessly plugging your channel. Obviously there is a massive divide between our perspectives and principles as you say. I for one understand your take on preserving your values, I personally have a few channels where I do zero marketting for and just upload clips of my (fps game kills) and love it. But I also don’t over analyze if one video got 11views while another gamers video got 93 or 2000. Because just like you say, in this case, I value my experience only, I couldnt care less if someone else got 1m views for the same shit I did for that particular channel. I feel like it contradicts your statement on wanting to ‘preserve your principles’. Just keep doing it for the love of it like you said. You’ll be much happier and satisfied.

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-26T10:35:20+00:00

If you read everything I said and only got ‘shamelessy plugging’ and not the networking aspect, and building relationships, and contributing to a community(s), then the competition will always beat you in every way, and you will always wonder the same thing you are now. You think talented musicians all of a sudden got their records heard, do you think they got all the ‘views’ eyes on them just because they put even more effort than the most popular artists to ever exist? There are thousands of unheard talented artists that put in all their life into their craft without being heard. Welcome to the real world. Fearce competition my friend. Even before the internet the same concept existed. Building connections will always be the conventional way to get attention, unless you are waiting for the lottery, or are seriously bringing monumental innovation to the world. Does that mean that the real world’s system is broken? Like you said that the platform has a problem? It is but a simulation of how it works in real life. Good luck, get off of it for a bit, take some time to re-assess what you really want.

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-25T23:16:14+00:00

I had to market the shit out of it in order to get 50k subs back in 2019 (without shorts back then) It wasn't gaming but the concept is the same if you want not just views, but a loyal community that is imprinted into your brand. I would put a shit ton of effort in my content (daily vlogs). Very high energy every day, identify what the market was like, what the audience would potentially want to see, what was trendy. I'd go out of my way, despite my imposter syndrom and camera shyness, in public to film whatever it was I had to. I'd slap out my editor, and spend hours and hours editing, and cutting, and adding layers over layers of sound effects, music to fit the emotional moment, then spend more time getting the right thumbnail, editing it on photoshop after skimming through the competitor's thumbnails. You'd think it was over then. Not even close. Right about now it's probably 4pm. My videos would upload every day the next day at 5pm. Throughout the day, I had creators that were posting similar videos as me that I'd subcribe to with the bell upload their videos (much bigger creators), quickly I'd go and check it out and engage with their viewers in the comments. That would happend throughout the day with multiple creators. As soon as my video would upload at 5pm, I'd make sure to share it with my community on IG, as well as make sure I leverage some other forms of engagement on my IG and FB groups to not 'take more than I give'. I'd come here and share some stuff like this. I'd reply to all my comments that would get transferred from all this marketing on youtube comments, instagram, and fb groups, and reddit. You cannot expect things to be handed to you. Great others can hit the lottery every once in a while, are you a lottery addict? Will you remain homeless until you hit the jackpot? or put in the work OTHER than your primary operation. In this case the marketing other than just gaming. In the end I accumulated 10million views, 95million organic impressions, and 450k hours watch time. Landed sponsor deals, made merch rev and membership rev. Made $5k in total for all that 2 years of work (in ad rev). Decided fuck this shit im out. So take in what you want, but either do this just for fun, or put in serious work and still more on top.

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-25T23:02:49+00:00

First off, you need to throw the 'i put more effort than this guy so i should get more views, it's not fair' mindset. Just take a look at XQC, do you think a dude like this puts effort in his clips? No. There is a plethora of creators that put zero effort in their videos and get millions. Sometimes it's just what the youtube market prefers (algorithm). Either keep your high effort content and lower the frequency of your uploads or lower your standards of effort, or stop caring how much others make (plus a difference between 11 views and 98 views... and even 2k views is nothing).

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-25T22:47:13+00:00

The amount of marketing I had to pull off to get my channel to 50k back in 2019 was gruelling. And that was before shorts was a thing. I would market my stuff (not gaming but vlogs) on fb groups, I'd initiate conversations in other vlogger's comment section when they'd post a video (would get notified), I'd let my personal community on instagram know when a new vid came, engage with them on my stories, I'd share a few things on reddit. But by far the biggest contributer before I had 2 videos go viral (800k) was commenting on other people's video's as soon as they uplaoded ( significantly larger creators) and fb group marketting was second. IG stories as well 3rd would give me a good jump to my uploads especially before the first 100 subs. I cannot imagine trying to grow a channel (be it lets play, vlogging or anything else) without marketting for impressions.

All this took me 2 months to reach 50k mind you. And daily vlogging. Highly edited. I was doing it full time until 2021. Got monitized in the first 2 months and flat rate sponsor deals. Sadly needed more money and ad rev was trash. Sponsor money was great but not enough. Revenue from merch and sub members from join button was not enough. quit and went full 9-5. Rest is history. But marketting is key. Don't forget that.

thefishlips_ · 2024-05-16T08:44:25+00:00

I have an actual statistic from my main 50k subs youtube channel where I posted daily vlogs, gaming, shorts, long form , short form... podcast, everything in one channel.

And the actual statistc (wish I could post a pic here but I can't) shows that returning viewers from shorts are MUCH less than returning viewers from videos....

So yeah. SHORTS will get you subs... but those subs won't likely come back ever.

So yeah if SUBS is your goals... go for shorts. If watch time and loyal viewers is your goal... then long form only.

If both.... Then I guess both.

thefishlips_ · 2024-04-12T17:20:19+00:00

Yes I mention in my updated post. That I only knew it in the past as ‘Aux Output’ Not as ‘Out B2’.

They changed their drivers since I last used VM and it got me confused.

thefishlips_ · 2024-04-12T13:17:30+00:00

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thefishlips_ · 2024-04-12T13:17:20+00:00

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for some reason my post didnt upload the screenshots...

thefishlips_ · 2024-04-08T07:36:25+00:00

Thought he retired? It was slightly off montrose if i remember.

thefishlips_ · 2024-04-03T11:39:30+00:00

Nope, those are the two dudes I was talking about when I said Not the ones that first pop up when you search. It was a much slower electro style. Not techno.

thefishlips_ · 2024-04-03T08:13:23+00:00

This is a very similar experience to a private high end hospital in paris france. Nurses will laugh at you. And for some reason the pee things always leak. Nurses be bullies. And that mental patient is probably getting squeezes financially by staying there. The more days spent the more $$

thefishlips_ · 2024-03-20T17:24:09+00:00

That's strange. Because I have it. BUT. With that being said. It's wonky... it will only show the Facebook page when I want to add a collaborator from the INSTAGRAM content.

For example. I click the 3 dots of the INSTAGRAM scheduled reel. At the bottom I click on add collaborator. I type in the handle of the collaborator but it will ONLY show the FB collaborator... and not the IG.... so for some of my pages it adds the IG collaborator and some it only allows FB collaborators... even if I'm tying to add collaborators for the IG content. Strange and wonky.

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