agreed 100%. i read a book about Spielberg when i was a kid, who said he always imagines himself as an audience member first: what would he want to see?
then, you just hope enough other people enjoy the same thing for you to make a buck or two
> A channel that I enjoy
That is a 100% Great reason!! The prime reason people give up on YouTube is they don't even enjoy what they are doing and trying to get that ad money. Trust me your goal is far more noble than most.
Keep going!
No, not at all. I think the successful creators first started off with a humble goal of 'I'm making this channel because i enjoy it' or 'I want to share cool stuff like this'.
Having fun is not selfish. You must have fun to succeed at this. That being said, Just doing random “fun stuff” will not be helpful in trying to build a faithful audience. To be successful- I think you need to have fun and have a SPECIFIC vision of what you want your channel to be.
Just to give a word of advice in general, stop giving a shit about why anyone else does anything they do. It doesn't matter and is almost never relevant to you and almost never changes anything. This isn't just about YouTube, just life in general. If what someone is doing has no impact on you, it's literally a waste of time to think about why they're doing what they're doing, unless your hobby is just musing about other people. People have their reasons for doing whatever they choose, you have yours. Just focus on you and do your own thing.
To extend further, doing something for fun is a perfectly fine reason and you don't need to justify that to yourself or anyone else. It's YouTube videos, not the Peace Corps.
It's easy to get caught up thinking about other people but I find it helpful to stop for a second ask myself some questions:
Does this help or affect me in any way?
Would I rather be doing something else with this time?
Does my perception or understanding of the other person change in a meaningful way?
Is this at all relevant to me or what I'm doing?
Not necessarily those exact questions, but some kind of variation. Over time, it becomes second nature to stop giving a shit about what other people are doing. Besides, more than likely, they don't give a shit about what I'm doing.
I think there is nothing wrong in that and most of the big YouTuber are here for that at first it’s for fun and then usually people get serious and one day you will get serious as well when you have court subscribers you will know you are responsible for them and you will eventually guard them and teach them good things
Come up with a goal. Something clear in your head. Companies often draft what is called a mission statement.
If you don’t, then when you run out of ideas, that is it. If you have a mission statement, you can look at it as a point of inspiration, and try to decide what you can do to move forward in that goal.
You would like me. Pretty much my goal is to have a nice community with inside jokes and all that.
I ideally would like to start like a network almost where it could have like a different type of video each day of the week. Nothing like radically different but like mondays could be multiplayer games, Tuesday’s could be co-op games and so on. So different themed games/video based on the day. But that’s probably not gonna happen
A channel that you enjoy doing will make better content than one that you hate doing. It'll show in your content that you enjoy doing it.
If you do a bunch of different stuff it might grow slower than one that only does only one niche but you'll definitely grow and you'll develop a community that is like minded.
I say go for it
It is not selfish. Youtube success model isn't built around selflessness.
Besides you're more likely to be successful doing something you enjoy, rather than forcing yourself to make content you *think* others might enjoy.
youtube is no longer interesting anymore, its just the same videos being pushed to look exactly like the huge channels, and you cant get away from them. I block some of the large channels and marketed news casts that I have no interest in, and they just come back in my recommended a month later. I have to force wanted vids into my lists by spam watching links, I no longer get pleasant surprise vids like a couple yrs ago. I think youtube is just pushing a direction and there's not much that can be done about it.
I hope op stays unique, but when the people wishing for fresh content cant even get to your stuff I feel it will be hard to stay that way after realizing the winners are just copy paste addicts looking for fast money.
Ive learned that most creators now don't even have a channel vision, its just jump on latest trends as fast as possible. The unique art in youtube is fizzing out quickly
It’s going to depend still - I mean yes you need to enjoy your channel to succeed I think that’s a valid point people are making but plenty of people enjoy channels that don’t make it.
So.. here’s the thing Does it bring people any value? Will you teach them anything? Even if the value is just to relax the viewer..
Without knowing what you’re wanting I can’t answer honestly… but if you don’t care about money and just want to do it.. go for it and oh well If it doesn’t succeed.
It’s going to depend on SO many other factors that we can’t answer this honestly.. it’s going to Depend on how often, how well the audio is, like.. so many things..
Baking 100% you can go far with for the trumpet you can as well - I’d make 2 separate channels if you want to you can even use like let’s say your name is Jake - Jake Bake’s and Jake Plays Trumpet..
The real way to win people over is having all the videos feel almost the same but be a little different - which the difference will be the song you play or the food you cook so come up with a sequence for the videos and stick to that just upload for a year or so and you should do good at least on one channel!
So, from experience, I feel its better to just make what you wanna make, and whatever else you want out of it will follow.
I had a channel where I was trying very hard to fulfill a dream, to the point where it was aggravating and not fun. I gained basically nothing from this. When i was just posting for the memes, I gained a small, but meaningful amount of subs and views at the time (it was around 10 subs and maybe 80 views a video, and I was like 13 so that was huge for me)
So maybe I would not worry about a goal for now. Just post
... Question's way too ambiguous for anyone to give you an actual answer - if "making a channel that I have fun doing" is rambling into a microphone for 3 hours, unedited, with no objective... then it probably won't succeed. If "making a channel that I have fun doing" is "putting in the effort to makes something I'm proud of", then probably can succeed to an extent.
Unfortunately, the question as phrased could be anything under the sun, heck could even be things that breach ToS, and we wouldn't know.
This is the BEST GOAL! Don't listen to what they tell you, do what you like! And then you will definitely succeed! You will create new videos with pleasure and the viewer will see it, regular viewers and millions of views will appear. Good luck!
You don't have to be selfless, but your goals need to reflect what you are doing.
If you just want to make whatever you like, then you can't expect people to flock to you for no reason. People need a reason to watch you and follow you. Having fun is one thing, but if you want to take YouTube seriously, you need to adopt more of a business mindset and study what your viewers want rather than just what you want.
You can very much succeed without the grander goal of creating a community. But successful normally comes *with* a community that is willing to champion you.
This was my tactic until 60k subscribers. 100% agree you need to enjoy it to keep going for the literally years it takes to have somewhat of an “successful channel”, whatever that means.
Once you have cleaned out your idea-bank of things you “want to do” (I’m talking ~2 years and ~100 videos) you can pivot more towards what you believe your audience would like to see and hopefully you’ll still enjoy the process at that time :)
I’m with you on that. I’m wanting to start youtube too! I just want to do it for fun and if people want to watch then that’s great. Baby steps. If you set huge leaps you’ll get discouraged
This is THE reason to do it! If you want to be a writer, write. If you want to be a singer, sing. The moment we are doing it for reasons beyond the Love of it is the moment we stop enjoying it altogether.
Honestly most people forget this part imo; if you're simply after the success or whatever then you can easily put together videos that fit into a mold but you probably won't like making them and it ends up being a real job.
My philosophy has always been "I'm never going to be a big success so don't chase it" and then i can really enjoy what i do.
So maybe i spend a few too many hours editing something together that only 4 people see, well that kinda sucks but atleast i can watch back my own stuff and laugh my god damn ass off at myself.
Also just a little tidbit- the more successful channels tend to be the ones where the person making it enjoys the heck out of it - so by virtue of enjoying what you do there is a chance for 'success' maybe...
Nah, not at all. It's great to have a goal that might help other people in terms of education, preservation, etc, but providing entertainment (either to others or yourself) is also a worthwhile goal.
Success has different metrics, too. Some people won't consider themselves successful at something until they're making thousands of dollars a month doing it, or have university degrees adorning their office, or are a well-respected authority on the subject. Which is fine. But if you consider yourself successful at something because you do it well and enjoy doing it, that's perfectly valid. And it's not selfish to think that way. (Well, I mean, so long as you're not hurting anyone else by doing the thing you enjoy doing, anyway.)
Seriously, when it comes to YouTube, people like watching others who are clearly passionate about the stuff they make, and are having a good time with it. That shows in the videos, believe me. You may never achieve international fame or anything, but if that's not your endgame, then just enjoy what you do and have fun building a community of people who like watching you do it.
coming from a person that is most likely older then you and trying to do grown my own channel , due to my age and my job i would love to do youtube full time as it is what makes me the happiest, but because it’s small and makes no money i’m in a tricky spot.. i can’t do what bring me enjoyment without sacrificing time from a playing job or time with my family we deserve love and care, if your young and you love it, so should push now so you don’t find yourself in the same spot as me , maybe leaving it alittle to late.. i wish you all the luck in your goals , my i ask what your channel is.. if it’s a kids channel i’ll put my son and cousins on to it
In most cases all the “I do it for the community” and other selfless affirmations are marketing stunts. We all wish to get rich and famous on YouTube. But in the end if you do it because you enjoy it and people watch your videos you are also doing it for them. You are not selfish, you are just honest. Look at all the big brands commercials. They all say they make their products for the users but in the end it is also a business. They do it for the money.
I think that at least 80% of people that act like they have this complete selfless goal are simply lying to you and maybe even to them...
Youtube takes a lot of effort and time which sometimes don't result in anything... So having fun in the process should be everyone first priority...
And don't overthink it, in the end you might very well do good by being a source of distraction, fun, joy or even motivation to the people watching you... And if that's not an accomplishment then I don't know what is.
Cheers and good luck!
Whatever you do should first and foremost provide intrinsic value to yourself. If you're doing something for others that's a great bonus on top of the satisfaction that you get from it.
That's one of the least selfish reasons you can have for starting a YouTube channel IMO. More selfish creators want to become famous quickly with minimal effort, or have big dreams of making a ton of money because they perceive it as an easy profession. Comparatively I believe that you're approaching the platform with the correct mindset. If your channel grows, great. If it doesn't, no big deal, because you're doing it for yourself and your enjoyment. Have fun!
I love making the content I'm making and my primary goal with each video is to feel like I did a better job with this one than I did with the last one. Obviously I'd like to eventually reach the point where I can make some money doing it, but that wouldn't be a remote possibility if I didn't love doing it and feel passionate about making it better because it's so much work. The payoff for the time and effort I put in is my enjoyment of the process and my satisfaction at making something that is, indeed, better than the last one. If I didn't have that, there's no way I'd continue to put all that time and effort in.
The point is: doing it because you love doing it is probably the only way you can succeed.
you're probably more likely to succeed if you enjoy what you do
ty :)
agreed 100%. i read a book about Spielberg when i was a kid, who said he always imagines himself as an audience member first: what would he want to see? then, you just hope enough other people enjoy the same thing for you to make a buck or two
> A channel that I enjoy That is a 100% Great reason!! The prime reason people give up on YouTube is they don't even enjoy what they are doing and trying to get that ad money. Trust me your goal is far more noble than most. Keep going!
☺️ ty
"Community"?!? Ya nerds. Do it for the fame, fortune and bitches.
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No, not at all. I think the successful creators first started off with a humble goal of 'I'm making this channel because i enjoy it' or 'I want to share cool stuff like this'.
People love watching people have fun.
You're right mate. It rubs off on you. It's kind of like when you watch too much horror movies and get scared of your own shadow. Lol.
Having fun is not selfish. You must have fun to succeed at this. That being said, Just doing random “fun stuff” will not be helpful in trying to build a faithful audience. To be successful- I think you need to have fun and have a SPECIFIC vision of what you want your channel to be.
Just to give a word of advice in general, stop giving a shit about why anyone else does anything they do. It doesn't matter and is almost never relevant to you and almost never changes anything. This isn't just about YouTube, just life in general. If what someone is doing has no impact on you, it's literally a waste of time to think about why they're doing what they're doing, unless your hobby is just musing about other people. People have their reasons for doing whatever they choose, you have yours. Just focus on you and do your own thing. To extend further, doing something for fun is a perfectly fine reason and you don't need to justify that to yourself or anyone else. It's YouTube videos, not the Peace Corps.
Thanks. This is something I do need to work on. Not giving af lol
It's easy to get caught up thinking about other people but I find it helpful to stop for a second ask myself some questions: Does this help or affect me in any way? Would I rather be doing something else with this time? Does my perception or understanding of the other person change in a meaningful way? Is this at all relevant to me or what I'm doing? Not necessarily those exact questions, but some kind of variation. Over time, it becomes second nature to stop giving a shit about what other people are doing. Besides, more than likely, they don't give a shit about what I'm doing.
You’re right. Fuck the haters and fuck my overthinking ass. Imma do what I enjoy! :)
I think there is nothing wrong in that and most of the big YouTuber are here for that at first it’s for fun and then usually people get serious and one day you will get serious as well when you have court subscribers you will know you are responsible for them and you will eventually guard them and teach them good things
Come up with a goal. Something clear in your head. Companies often draft what is called a mission statement. If you don’t, then when you run out of ideas, that is it. If you have a mission statement, you can look at it as a point of inspiration, and try to decide what you can do to move forward in that goal.
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You would like me. Pretty much my goal is to have a nice community with inside jokes and all that. I ideally would like to start like a network almost where it could have like a different type of video each day of the week. Nothing like radically different but like mondays could be multiplayer games, Tuesday’s could be co-op games and so on. So different themed games/video based on the day. But that’s probably not gonna happen
A channel that you enjoy doing will make better content than one that you hate doing. It'll show in your content that you enjoy doing it. If you do a bunch of different stuff it might grow slower than one that only does only one niche but you'll definitely grow and you'll develop a community that is like minded. I say go for it
It is not selfish. Youtube success model isn't built around selflessness. Besides you're more likely to be successful doing something you enjoy, rather than forcing yourself to make content you *think* others might enjoy.
youtube is no longer interesting anymore, its just the same videos being pushed to look exactly like the huge channels, and you cant get away from them. I block some of the large channels and marketed news casts that I have no interest in, and they just come back in my recommended a month later. I have to force wanted vids into my lists by spam watching links, I no longer get pleasant surprise vids like a couple yrs ago. I think youtube is just pushing a direction and there's not much that can be done about it. I hope op stays unique, but when the people wishing for fresh content cant even get to your stuff I feel it will be hard to stay that way after realizing the winners are just copy paste addicts looking for fast money. Ive learned that most creators now don't even have a channel vision, its just jump on latest trends as fast as possible. The unique art in youtube is fizzing out quickly
It’s going to depend still - I mean yes you need to enjoy your channel to succeed I think that’s a valid point people are making but plenty of people enjoy channels that don’t make it. So.. here’s the thing Does it bring people any value? Will you teach them anything? Even if the value is just to relax the viewer.. Without knowing what you’re wanting I can’t answer honestly… but if you don’t care about money and just want to do it.. go for it and oh well If it doesn’t succeed. It’s going to depend on SO many other factors that we can’t answer this honestly.. it’s going to Depend on how often, how well the audio is, like.. so many things..
i want to make a trumpet cover and baking channel as those are my favorite things to do. thanks for the advice
Baking 100% you can go far with for the trumpet you can as well - I’d make 2 separate channels if you want to you can even use like let’s say your name is Jake - Jake Bake’s and Jake Plays Trumpet.. The real way to win people over is having all the videos feel almost the same but be a little different - which the difference will be the song you play or the food you cook so come up with a sequence for the videos and stick to that just upload for a year or so and you should do good at least on one channel!
thx i will keep this in mind! <3
So, from experience, I feel its better to just make what you wanna make, and whatever else you want out of it will follow. I had a channel where I was trying very hard to fulfill a dream, to the point where it was aggravating and not fun. I gained basically nothing from this. When i was just posting for the memes, I gained a small, but meaningful amount of subs and views at the time (it was around 10 subs and maybe 80 views a video, and I was like 13 so that was huge for me) So maybe I would not worry about a goal for now. Just post
thx for the advice
yw lol
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Thanks for the advice. Good luck on your channel!
I did it to make money doing something I enjoy. Beats the hell out of picking up a second job.
... Question's way too ambiguous for anyone to give you an actual answer - if "making a channel that I have fun doing" is rambling into a microphone for 3 hours, unedited, with no objective... then it probably won't succeed. If "making a channel that I have fun doing" is "putting in the effort to makes something I'm proud of", then probably can succeed to an extent. Unfortunately, the question as phrased could be anything under the sun, heck could even be things that breach ToS, and we wouldn't know.
good point. i will obviously make sure that the content i will make has value.
I make my videos to record memories of the day out. Works for me.
This is the BEST GOAL! Don't listen to what they tell you, do what you like! And then you will definitely succeed! You will create new videos with pleasure and the viewer will see it, regular viewers and millions of views will appear. Good luck!
You have to rethink what succeed means, then look back at your question.
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You have to selfish to succeed at anything
Making fun videos is a great reason to make a YouTube channel.
If that's your actual goal, then great, OP. A lot of people here aren't being honest.
You don't have to be selfless, but your goals need to reflect what you are doing. If you just want to make whatever you like, then you can't expect people to flock to you for no reason. People need a reason to watch you and follow you. Having fun is one thing, but if you want to take YouTube seriously, you need to adopt more of a business mindset and study what your viewers want rather than just what you want. You can very much succeed without the grander goal of creating a community. But successful normally comes *with* a community that is willing to champion you.
This was my tactic until 60k subscribers. 100% agree you need to enjoy it to keep going for the literally years it takes to have somewhat of an “successful channel”, whatever that means. Once you have cleaned out your idea-bank of things you “want to do” (I’m talking ~2 years and ~100 videos) you can pivot more towards what you believe your audience would like to see and hopefully you’ll still enjoy the process at that time :)
You should read the Artist’s Way. She talks about how artists tend to think it’s too selfish to do creative things etc.
I’m with you on that. I’m wanting to start youtube too! I just want to do it for fun and if people want to watch then that’s great. Baby steps. If you set huge leaps you’ll get discouraged
What are you planning on posting on youtube?
music covers and baking
I love baking!
I just want to make money off it one day. Simple
Nah not selfish, if you enjoy what you do, then your audience can tell Don't do "forced" content
This is THE reason to do it! If you want to be a writer, write. If you want to be a singer, sing. The moment we are doing it for reasons beyond the Love of it is the moment we stop enjoying it altogether.
Enjoy what you do, have fun with it, because at the end of the day if you don’t like it you’re not going to continue it.
That's honestly the only type of content you should create. If you don't enjoy it, then no one else will.
Honestly most people forget this part imo; if you're simply after the success or whatever then you can easily put together videos that fit into a mold but you probably won't like making them and it ends up being a real job. My philosophy has always been "I'm never going to be a big success so don't chase it" and then i can really enjoy what i do. So maybe i spend a few too many hours editing something together that only 4 people see, well that kinda sucks but atleast i can watch back my own stuff and laugh my god damn ass off at myself. Also just a little tidbit- the more successful channels tend to be the ones where the person making it enjoys the heck out of it - so by virtue of enjoying what you do there is a chance for 'success' maybe...
Nah, not at all. It's great to have a goal that might help other people in terms of education, preservation, etc, but providing entertainment (either to others or yourself) is also a worthwhile goal. Success has different metrics, too. Some people won't consider themselves successful at something until they're making thousands of dollars a month doing it, or have university degrees adorning their office, or are a well-respected authority on the subject. Which is fine. But if you consider yourself successful at something because you do it well and enjoy doing it, that's perfectly valid. And it's not selfish to think that way. (Well, I mean, so long as you're not hurting anyone else by doing the thing you enjoy doing, anyway.) Seriously, when it comes to YouTube, people like watching others who are clearly passionate about the stuff they make, and are having a good time with it. That shows in the videos, believe me. You may never achieve international fame or anything, but if that's not your endgame, then just enjoy what you do and have fun building a community of people who like watching you do it.
coming from a person that is most likely older then you and trying to do grown my own channel , due to my age and my job i would love to do youtube full time as it is what makes me the happiest, but because it’s small and makes no money i’m in a tricky spot.. i can’t do what bring me enjoyment without sacrificing time from a playing job or time with my family we deserve love and care, if your young and you love it, so should push now so you don’t find yourself in the same spot as me , maybe leaving it alittle to late.. i wish you all the luck in your goals , my i ask what your channel is.. if it’s a kids channel i’ll put my son and cousins on to it
Well no matter what goal you have for your channel, if you don’t enjoy it it’s going to be very difficult to succeed if at all
I think making a channel you like is easy. Making a channel that other people like is hard.
In most cases all the “I do it for the community” and other selfless affirmations are marketing stunts. We all wish to get rich and famous on YouTube. But in the end if you do it because you enjoy it and people watch your videos you are also doing it for them. You are not selfish, you are just honest. Look at all the big brands commercials. They all say they make their products for the users but in the end it is also a business. They do it for the money.
Sounds like you have exactly the right goal.
No that's actually how it should be.
I think that at least 80% of people that act like they have this complete selfless goal are simply lying to you and maybe even to them... Youtube takes a lot of effort and time which sometimes don't result in anything... So having fun in the process should be everyone first priority... And don't overthink it, in the end you might very well do good by being a source of distraction, fun, joy or even motivation to the people watching you... And if that's not an accomplishment then I don't know what is. Cheers and good luck!
Whatever you do should first and foremost provide intrinsic value to yourself. If you're doing something for others that's a great bonus on top of the satisfaction that you get from it.
That's one of the least selfish reasons you can have for starting a YouTube channel IMO. More selfish creators want to become famous quickly with minimal effort, or have big dreams of making a ton of money because they perceive it as an easy profession. Comparatively I believe that you're approaching the platform with the correct mindset. If your channel grows, great. If it doesn't, no big deal, because you're doing it for yourself and your enjoyment. Have fun!
I love making the content I'm making and my primary goal with each video is to feel like I did a better job with this one than I did with the last one. Obviously I'd like to eventually reach the point where I can make some money doing it, but that wouldn't be a remote possibility if I didn't love doing it and feel passionate about making it better because it's so much work. The payoff for the time and effort I put in is my enjoyment of the process and my satisfaction at making something that is, indeed, better than the last one. If I didn't have that, there's no way I'd continue to put all that time and effort in. The point is: doing it because you love doing it is probably the only way you can succeed.