YouTube adventures part -38- There is no modesty among YouTubers?
Sometimes there are YouTubers that just scream attention whore on the thumbnail of their video. Some love to put their face on every thumbnail and then there are also some that already need to brag about their performance in the video. The whole I killed fifty people and only died once title is just sad in my opinion. Maybe there are people out there that want to see some camping sack of shit in a video or a drop shot loser that can't play like the rest of us but I prefer to see a video that makes me laugh, not one that makes me want to turn my computer off. So the question is...
Is there still modesty among YouTubers?
I'm not going to lie to you, a lot of people that post a video online aren't really in it for the fun of it. Some people like to brag, others just want to get a lot of views for financial reasons and then there are people that post videos to send a message. But where are the people that recorded a great match and stay modest? Where are the people that got a perfect game, they never died but got a lot of kills, and don't let that go to their head?
Of course I understand that someone is happy that he or she got a great game and even managed to record it, but that doesn't mean that you have to brag about it. You can put the video on YouTube and if people are interested they could watch it but you shouldn't try to lure people in with these titles that just scream attention whore. But maybe this can't be avoided, there are a lot of people active on YouTube and trying to make that career work means you have to stick out. That often means you have to get noticed and modest people often don't get noticed. So maybe that's the real problem, there are too many people with videos and not enough people interested in watching all of them.
It sucks when you make good videos that are funny and interesting but there is no one that watches them. I can't speak for myself because I think it's wrong to say that your own videos are good, that's like a butcher judging his own meat. But I'm not dumb, I realize that my videos aren't great and I'm fine with that. Even when I do something amazing I'm not asking for attention, if people want to see that then they can but I will not draw too much attention to that. Which often means that videos might get lost in the ocean of YouTube videos but I'd rather be the anonymous guy that has fun making videos than the attention whore that tries to come up with another video that has to be interesting.
But this doesn't mean that there are no modest YouTubers, I think there are lot of people that actually are modest. Just think of people that make achievement/trophy guides. A lot of them don't really ask for anything and yet they help you get achievements/trophies. There are also people that just make videos talking about certain topics, sometimes because of a personal experience and sometimes because they think it's important. Maybe not everyone has noble intentions with these videos but I think that most people at least start these videos with good intentions. Perhaps the same can be said about people with their game montage showing off, I guess we all start somewhere and end up somewhere else. Maybe not everyone can stay modest, perhaps that's just not possible in certain situations. But I think it's important that you stay modest, because a YouTuber is only as succesful as the viewers make him or her.
Is there still modesty among YouTubers?
I'm not going to lie to you, a lot of people that post a video online aren't really in it for the fun of it. Some people like to brag, others just want to get a lot of views for financial reasons and then there are people that post videos to send a message. But where are the people that recorded a great match and stay modest? Where are the people that got a perfect game, they never died but got a lot of kills, and don't let that go to their head?
Of course I understand that someone is happy that he or she got a great game and even managed to record it, but that doesn't mean that you have to brag about it. You can put the video on YouTube and if people are interested they could watch it but you shouldn't try to lure people in with these titles that just scream attention whore. But maybe this can't be avoided, there are a lot of people active on YouTube and trying to make that career work means you have to stick out. That often means you have to get noticed and modest people often don't get noticed. So maybe that's the real problem, there are too many people with videos and not enough people interested in watching all of them.
It sucks when you make good videos that are funny and interesting but there is no one that watches them. I can't speak for myself because I think it's wrong to say that your own videos are good, that's like a butcher judging his own meat. But I'm not dumb, I realize that my videos aren't great and I'm fine with that. Even when I do something amazing I'm not asking for attention, if people want to see that then they can but I will not draw too much attention to that. Which often means that videos might get lost in the ocean of YouTube videos but I'd rather be the anonymous guy that has fun making videos than the attention whore that tries to come up with another video that has to be interesting.
But this doesn't mean that there are no modest YouTubers, I think there are lot of people that actually are modest. Just think of people that make achievement/trophy guides. A lot of them don't really ask for anything and yet they help you get achievements/trophies. There are also people that just make videos talking about certain topics, sometimes because of a personal experience and sometimes because they think it's important. Maybe not everyone has noble intentions with these videos but I think that most people at least start these videos with good intentions. Perhaps the same can be said about people with their game montage showing off, I guess we all start somewhere and end up somewhere else. Maybe not everyone can stay modest, perhaps that's just not possible in certain situations. But I think it's important that you stay modest, because a YouTuber is only as succesful as the viewers make him or her.
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