YouTube adventures -54- Recorder's curse

Do you believe in bad luck? Well it doesn't matter if you believe in it or not but sometimes bad things happen. As a YouTuber this could mean a lot of different things but one of the things a lot of YouTubers are most likely familiar with is...

The recorder's curse!

 So you're probably wondering, what is the recorder's curse. Well for me it's having the bad luck that whenever I'm recording I fail or things go wrong, but the moment I turn of my camera things are working or I do succeed with what I wanted to record. It's really frustrating when you really want to record something and it just doesn't happen, but the moment you stop recording then it happens. I don't think I have to explain how annoying that is and how much you hate being a YouTuber at that point.

It does work in your favour if you can record for a long time, because the more time you have to record the bigger the chance is that you get something good. But if you only have a short moment of time to record, like me, then every second pretty much counts and the recorder's curse becomes that more real. At first I could record about 40 minutes but my camera is getting older and when technology is getting older things start to get worse and so now I can record between 5 and 15 minutes, which sucks because I don't even know for certain how much I can record at once anymore.

When you have only a little bit time to record then the recorder's curse becomes that much more real, because you will feel the pressure of precious time ticking away when things go wrong. For example I'm recording an achievement video and I just keep failing. Do I keep recording or do I stop? It's often better to stop because the more time I waste on recording failures the less time I have left to record a succes. This means that I will quickly stop recording the moment things go wrong, but sometimes it's tempting to keep recording and then hopefully succeed the second time. Unfortuntately there is no guarantee for succes, so I can record ten videos and fail or just record once and succeed.

What's worse is that the moment you stop recording things go great, for example I get a twenty kill streak in a multiplayer game or make an amazing triple kill. This would've been nice to record but since I'm only recording a very short time of the total amount of time that I'm playing games there chance of me recording that is already pretty small. The moment I do decide to record then you can probably guess that not a lot of interesting things will happen. Yes the recorder's curse is real, maybe for some YouTubers more than for others but I have dealt with it and it never makes me happy. But the moment you do get something good on camera it does feel like a great victory, so I won't stop trying!

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