>tried to commentate a LoL game >can't keep up to the pace of the game >can't offer insightful comments on how it's progressing because I barely know about the inner mechanics of the game >lots of silence because I'm casting alone and I'm not too much of a fast talker to keep saying things when there's nothing going on >people told me I did a good job, but when I saw the video I wanted to die
I'll respect commentators and streamers a bit more after this horrible experience. Anyway, how's your YouTube channel going, user?
>2000 subs when I stopped uploading 5 years ago due to personal reasons >Since then 2 of my videos have reached over a million views with several others breaking over 100k >Currently at 12.4 thousand subs >Finally started editing again and about 80% done on a video that I'm proud of
It's been a long time coming lads but I think I'm ready to start uploading videos again. Never give up on your dreams anons.
Bro's I want to start a YouTube channel but I'm scared my videos will be 100% garbage and I hate the sound of my voice on video? How do I manage?
Justin Kelly
I have 11 subs and no videos. I also have a comment with over 2 thousand likes that just a joke about HP Lovecraft most likely sounding like the youtuber Ordinary Sausage.
Ethan Bennett
>can't offer insightful comments on how it's progressing because I barely know about the inner mechanics of the game Why did you want to do it then?
Austin Gonzalez
My channel just has ghosting videos of stealth games with no commentary, with non-clickbait thumbnails. Less than 200 subscribers, a thousand views a month. Nobody cares if you aren't on mic. So at least that part of "broadcast yourself" is still true.
Everyone has to start somewhere; just go for it and take note of your flaws. You'll get better the more you do it.
Brandon Ross
You can try to modulate your voice with Audacity to make it more clear, but I wouldn't recommend to alter it further than that, since it's not gonna feel natural and some people might give you flack for it. Because a guy asked me to cast his local tourney since he knows I do some videos every now and then and I played LoL with him before. Problem is, I never played enough to actually know enough to be more than a color commentator, and since I'm not witty enough to come with too many comments on the spot, I repeated some phrases every now and then to futilely avoid too many silent moments. I feel it was sloppy as shit and I don't want to do it again, but the guy told me they liked it and wanted me to keep casting the next games. I just told him I was gonna be busy with my own content this time, but it was just an excuse.
If you actually want to get better at casting I just recommend watching vods of pro games and commentate over them to practice.
Noah Richardson
I'm suscribed to a guy that only does DoomRL runs. Thousand of views and hundreds of suscribers, no voice commentary, too, but if you do it because you like it or to show people how to win a game, I would still consider it a win.
Nathaniel Myers
>this but on a much smaller scale
Gabriel Wilson
Ive only just started (made about 10 or less vids, hid a lot of them) it's just honestly hard to break through the awkwardness of talking to yourself. I can only keep it for awhile before not wanting to do it anymore. What I want is to basically just chill & go through a game, but I look at the end product & feel like I'm so boring that no one would watch it. I suppose it's helping me get over being shy if anything
Zachary Adams
I've watched some of the World Championship videos, and you need to keep tabs on LoL's meta every single day to actually know what are you gonna say. I just played the game for 6 months 5 years ago. Of course I ain't gonna know shit. I could've also tried to say funny shit, but like I said, I'm not acustomed to say things out of the blue like most of the actual proffesionals do. I even do a lot of takes in my audios when editing a video because I'm still not as smooth of a talker. Maybe with more practice, but nevertheless, I don't think I'll ever try to do anything LoL related. I just want to forget that happened.
Yeah I guess its gonna be tough if you don't actually play it regularly cause if you play it a lot every champions abilities just become muscle memory.
Connor Wilson
I just make garbo memes, sitting at about 1 mil subscribers
Cooper Morales
Btw what's the thumbnail trend these days. Go for something really eye catching or is something minimalist better?
Adam Martinez
Youtube is a total scam, like a MLM or Pyramid scheme. 99% of everyone on there is seemingly unknown and makes no money, the amount of traffic youtube generates doesn't mean anything to almost every content creator, only a handful at the top make any money, and a few in the middle make less, and everyone else gets nothing.
When I was posting there 99.9% of all my traffic came from me begging reddit, and youtube never really helped me at all, and I was, I don't know. shadowbanned? As my videos would stop at around 20 thousand and never move forward, and no amount of comments and likes ever seem to do anything at all, it was a 100% complete and total waste of time.
Like the lottery, yes there are some winners and middle winners and even dollar winners, but virtually everyone else is getting nothing.
I moved to Twitch and had a lot of fun, the audience was better, they actually followed, even getting subs on youtube was like pulling teeth, Twitch was great. But I believe all social media "as a job" is a complete scam as it is presented through their own system. I have no desire to do it as a hobby as it's actual work for nothing.
How is it that a site that has millions upon millions of views and uploaders only has a handful of "stars".
Chase Martin
I know that feel, bro. Talking with yourself is the weirdest shit, but you stop thinking about it after a while and keep doing it on auto. You can edit your videos to trim the parts you feel they're boring or pointless, and keep the flow of the action going on in the end product. Even basic edits can go a long way. I was thinking about doing something like that, but someone told me those videos get basically no revenue because they're about nothing, even if they reach 10M views, and that a video focused to something, even with only 10k views, gets better returns. Then again, that's thinking about them monetarily, and if you do them just for the hell of it, it doesn't matter in the end.
But I don't really know if that's how it works, so take it with a grain of salt.
I want to become a souls streamer/content creator since that's the only game I'm good at I've been doing challenge runs already just no confidence to put my self out there
Parker Morris
YouTube is weird. You can't really get money from it by just getting views. You actually get the money from sponsors or Patreons, but you still need to get the views first. Once you actually have people around you, going full Twitch and then posting your streams on YouTube seems the wiser way to go. You could try to upload them. Everyone likes Dark Souls, and everyone likes to see challenges of an already difficult game. You know what's trending right now? Pokemon challenges videos. You might be the lucky guy that starts the Dark Souls challenges ball rolling. Give it a try.
Yeah this is why trying to get big on social media should always be a hobby first and foremost. Make sure you have a backup plan whether its a college degree or a job you can work at. Never go all in on social media until you're consistently making money.
Noah Roberts
do twitch and if you can get friends to boost your viewer count because no one pays attention to streamers with 0/1 viewers
Justin Hughes
If you wanna get hit by luck with the algorithm your best bet if the first to get good videos about the Demon's Souls remake on YouTube. Though its a big investment if you weren't planning on getting a PS5.
Carter Brown
From most people I follow on social media it seems get big on YouTube/Twitter first then go to Twitch.
Logan Torres
Here, if anyone wants to know how shitty someone new to youtube is. You can definitely do better then me. youtu.be/J_fUSnixs4s
One of my big problems is the games I want to play/show are very slow to start. There's not much to trim out since a lot is important even if it's boring.
Tyler Perez
it helps but you can start on twitch and do something like post clips/vods to a youtube channel
i guess twitter could help too but only go for it if you hate yourself, that website's community is fucking retardation to the max
Luis Ross
If your video is over 30 seconds the revenue rates arent too bad, atm its about $1000 per 1 million views, of course commentary/gaming channels make about 5-10x more than that for the same amount of views
Henry Young
Yeah Twitter takes a toll on your mental desu but if you can manage the site its really easy to get big tweets if you know how to follow trending and the algorithm. Much more predictable than YouTube for example, but I would only use Twitter to compliment your main gig.
Jordan Wood
i can't fucking imagine people that use twitter as their primary social media
that website is truly degenerate and deserves to die
Logan Kelly
one thing a lot of those commentators and streamers do, user, is script and plan beforehand. streamers usually spend a few hours each day outside of streaming to write up, and make loose plans for stuff they wanna do during streams live commentators generally have an idea of what they're getting into prior and make mental notes beforehand and research the players and teams (each team kinda has a way they like to play) accordingly so they know what to expect midgame and can commentate effectively. video recording commentators will often just write full out scripts over the course of an hour or two of just watching that single game. mind im not bashing you, glad you're giving it your best shot. have fun and learn all you can
Julian Powell
How do you guys manage content creation with other stuff in your life. I have so many ideas and want to get started but stuff like college and work takes up so much time, like I do have some free time but I don't want to half ass it.
Ian Fisher
I've been thinking about starting a channel, but honestly what topics aren't overdone? I don't want to do game retrospectives or developer stories, lets plays are dead, I don't want to get my face on camera and do reactionshit or try and talk to the audience and be a pretend friend for the austist crowd. What else is there? Would people actually give a shit if I did my own personal history with certain games? (I'm late 30s and played pretty much everything growing up) would you sit and listen to some user talking for half an hour about how he got into streets of rage or the first time he played mortal kombat in the arcades?
I would suggest to not start with a let's play series, since those only get views on the first video and on the last one. Instead, try to upload a complete playthrough. Your voice isn't really bad, you could try to explain what the game's about before it starts, or when you're not narrating it. Being a little bit more hyped could also work, but don't fake it if you can't, or else it'll feel weird. Overall, serial let's plays won't rack up views anymore, but if you're only doing it to get your feet wet, you can keep going and get more experience from it. Keep it up, my man.
Carson Cook
i uploaded videos on how to beat bosses from dark souls 3, sekiro and hollow knight. Top vid has like 17k views but most are under 100.
Dylan Butler
>also hive knight is the one with 17k views Honestly how he isn't even hard.
