YouTube adventures part -35- Your YouTube identity
Who are you? That's a good question and I don't think everyone can give a good answer to that question. But then again what is a good answer to that question? Is your name who you are? Is the way you look who you are? Is what you do who you are? What defines you as you? I guess you kind of understand now how it's difficult to create your own type of YouTube identity on YouTube because you could just say you're you but what does that actually mean?
Your YouTube identity.
For some people it's easy, they know what they want and how they want to do it. Then it's still the question if he or she can do it but it does help if you know what you want to do with your channel. For example if you love playing games and want to share that with others then you already have a solid foundation for your channel, I guess at that point it's just the question what kind of gaming videos you're going to make. Are you going for the montage, competitive multiplayer videos, walkthroughs in single player, make achievement/trophy guides or just talk about games?
Another thing that is important is showing people who you are, which is something you can do with a picture or you can actually make a video and introduce yourself. This can be some kind of vlog or just another type of video where you talk about yourself a bit while you play a game. But you should remember that this is important to some people, because if you hardly reveal anything about yourself some people might be less interested in your videos which might seem strange but some people just prefer to see a face with the voice they hear and I can't say that's dumb because it does make sense to me. But I don't think everyone needs to do a face reveal on YouTube, some YouTubers actually have their identity hidden and they have a lot of subscribers and make fun videos. So you don't have to worry too much about that.
But even people that keep their identity hidden do give viewers a lot of videos and in those videos they give a part of themself, for example their laughs and their frustration and that's also giving a part of your identity to other people. Because these are human emotions and by sharing these in a video you pretty much share a bit of your identity. I'm not saying that a laugh defines who you are or that a moment of frustration is telling others that you're easily frustrated. But these are part of who you are, so in a way you do share something of yourself with others and that's not a bad thing. I guess it doesn't really matter who you really are and your YouTube identity is for you to decide what that will be and what you're willing to share with others. My advice? Keep it fun and keep it honest, those two don't always work well together but it's the right thing to do. At least that's how I see it.
Your YouTube identity.
For some people it's easy, they know what they want and how they want to do it. Then it's still the question if he or she can do it but it does help if you know what you want to do with your channel. For example if you love playing games and want to share that with others then you already have a solid foundation for your channel, I guess at that point it's just the question what kind of gaming videos you're going to make. Are you going for the montage, competitive multiplayer videos, walkthroughs in single player, make achievement/trophy guides or just talk about games?
Another thing that is important is showing people who you are, which is something you can do with a picture or you can actually make a video and introduce yourself. This can be some kind of vlog or just another type of video where you talk about yourself a bit while you play a game. But you should remember that this is important to some people, because if you hardly reveal anything about yourself some people might be less interested in your videos which might seem strange but some people just prefer to see a face with the voice they hear and I can't say that's dumb because it does make sense to me. But I don't think everyone needs to do a face reveal on YouTube, some YouTubers actually have their identity hidden and they have a lot of subscribers and make fun videos. So you don't have to worry too much about that.
But even people that keep their identity hidden do give viewers a lot of videos and in those videos they give a part of themself, for example their laughs and their frustration and that's also giving a part of your identity to other people. Because these are human emotions and by sharing these in a video you pretty much share a bit of your identity. I'm not saying that a laugh defines who you are or that a moment of frustration is telling others that you're easily frustrated. But these are part of who you are, so in a way you do share something of yourself with others and that's not a bad thing. I guess it doesn't really matter who you really are and your YouTube identity is for you to decide what that will be and what you're willing to share with others. My advice? Keep it fun and keep it honest, those two don't always work well together but it's the right thing to do. At least that's how I see it.
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