Reflecting on 2014, Im proud of what Ive accomplished, and I feel Ive put out some of my best work over the past 12 months. Though some may not agree, I feel as a content creator, you should only make stuff that YOU want to make. Screw what your audience demands, the customer is rarely right. Whoever made up the phrase The customer is ALWAYS right is probably dead and Im GLAD. Say you have 100 customers, and they all want something completely different. Are they ALL right? No. Thats ridiculous. One person wants a milkshake, another person wants their horse operated on, and youre trying to run a mattress store. What is this? Dr. Seuss? If you try to please everyone, your head will explode because thats impossible. If someone doesnt like your content, unsubscribes, and announces their departure, fantastic. One less whiny Everything should go MY way person to deal with. Those people are selfish and youre better off without them. Youre giving them free content that youre not obligated to make. I cant tell you how happy I get whenever I read a Ive been with you since day 1, THOSE are the kinds of viewers you want, not the MAKE MORE OF THE SAME OR IM LEAVING! fair weather fans. Repetition is boring, I have to constantly create different styles of things in creative and weird ways, or Ill break down. Now Im not dismissing criticism, I LOVE criticism when its constructive. Hell, I love criticism when its DESTRUCTIVE, that shits hilarious. Most of these people are 12 anyway, and when has anything a kid has said ever mattered?! Except for maybe that ONE time, but thats pushing it. Do my videos get the views they used to? No, but Ive stopped worrying about views. It does nothing but give me a headache, stresses me out, and then I rant on Twitter about how garbage the popular shit is on Youtube. Even I have to tell myself to shut up every once in a while. Seriously though, there IS a factory that pumps out all these Ricky Dillon type vloggers. Theyre all babies of one main queen vlogger and theyll all evaporate and get replaced by more of the same in a year. Joey Graceffa has a gaming channel where he plays video games with his shirt off. He averages 5 million views a month. Thats entertainment? If I seem like a cynical prick, its because I am. The entertainment industry is in shambles. You REALLY have to dig to find the good stuff. Im not afraid to speak my mind about it. Any bridge I burn is a bridge I wouldnt want to cross in the first place. The sheer thought of kissing ass makes me vomit in my mouth and then swallow that vomit, leaving me with a weird acidy aftertaste. Am I perfect? Hardly. Are my jokes hilarious? Rarely. Is my stuff better than most of the popular crap on Youtube? Id like to think so is how Id React To That™. Im content with the fact that Ill never be popular on Youtube, it seems like a lot of pressure, Id probably become someone I hate. Id rather be a slow burn then a flash in the pan. To be popular on Youtube, you have to be cute and have really tall hair, and Im nearly 29. Shits going downhill fast, even IF I did recently lose 30 pounds. I think this all boils down to Am I happy? And…I am, I love what I do. My 2014 goal was to go beyond Youtube. In a way, I have. Ive gone beyond my OWN channels at least. I can barely make a living off just my channels alone. Im in a position now where I make videos because I just love being creative and putting my dumb ideas out there, and my impression videos get me potential voice over work. If I were in it for the money instead of quality, Id have a gaming channel. Ive been lucky enough in 2014 to get consistent voice over work and various gigs here and there outside of my channel. Relieving the pressure of Oh shit, I have to get views so I can pay rent and bills or Ill DIE! because THAT was eating my soul. 2014 was awesome and life changing. Im very lucky and grateful to do what I do, and I have awesome friends. I also have this dumb ability to mimic a whole bunch of voices, and Im passably humorous, so that helps. I moved into a house in August…a rental…but still…not an apartment with paper thin walls and constantly sticky elevators covered in mystery liquids. I actually have room to breathe now, and Im building myself up to make even bigger and better stuff in 2015. Onward and upward to a constant struggle to better myself! I love you.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:41:39 +0000
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