The REALITY of Being a NEW YOUTUBER (less than 100 subscribers)

what's up everyone in today's video I'm going to be talking about the reality of being a new YouTuber this is going to involve me talking about some common challenges experiences and emotions that us new YouTubers might often face let's get started and challenge number one is when you work really hard on a video and it doesn't perform how you expect it to or you hope it to this is probably one of the most significant challenges and experiences that a new YouTuber will face because that's what happens when you're starting out on YouTube you don't have an audience yet so you'll spend 15 20 25 hours you spend all day editing all day planning and making sure the video is really good and then you hit post and the next day you wake up you check your YouTube studio app and you see that it's got three views and one like and that one like is from your mom I know this from personal experience because I know on my channel a lot of my videos well actually most of my videos I would spend a really long time on it I'd work quite hard on it hope that it does really well and have high expectations for it but then the next morning I'd wake up and see that it's got less than 15 views Challenge number two is you have to do absolutely everything yourself well mostly everything yourself that includes uh planning scripting filming editing making your thought thumbnails and your titles and your description strategizing all these things because you're a new YouTuber you have to do it yourself you'd see all these bigger and established YouTubers they have teams and resources and all these things they have access to so they they'll have someone editing their videos for them they'll have someone scripting the video for them they'll have someone designing the thumbnails and coming up with the title ideas for them even sometimes the video ideas so they have all this whole team and all these people doing separate jobs for them that each person is really good at so they end up making really good videos but the thing is when you when you're a new YouTuber you don't have all these resources and these big teams of people working on all these different aspects of content creation and you have to do everything yourself well it's actually great because you learn a lot of things along the way but it takes up a lot of time and you can get really tired after a while of doing this consistently by yourself especially video editing video editing takes probably the longest out of everything else when you're creating videos it can be fun in the beginning but after a while unless you genuinely enjoy video editing it can get really repetitive especially when you're doing your rough Cuts in the beginning you're just listening to your voice over and over and over again so yeah as a new YouTuber you have to do everything yourself but I mean I see it as a good thing because you learn so many skills along the way way it can be really fun to create something completely on your own and having a video and that end product that video at the end of it and watching it back you see everything you've done and you can feel really proud of what you created Challenge number three is the lack of access to equipment that you have and let me first clarify that you shouldn't let the equipment or more so the lack of equipment that you have stopped you from from creating good content because you you can definitely still utilize the resources that you have and still create good high quality content but I do want to say that having that access and that ability to use certain types of equipment variety of resources to be able to use to create your videos can definitely save so much time can be much more efficient but as a new YouTuber 99.9% of people who sty out on YouTube they mostly only have access to their phone and maybe maybe a selfie stick with a little tripod I'm fortunate enough to be able to have access to this camera that I'm currently filming on which is the Sony zv 1f and this this mic that's what I've got I've got my phone as well but don't really use that however there's a lot of other equipment that could be very useful for me that would help number one increase the quality of my videos and number two save a lot of time and an example is something like a gimbal over the past couple of weeks I've been trying to take Boll for my YouTube channel so I can use in my future videos and maybe in this video I'll try use some of them and a tool that would have been would be really helpful to use is a Gimbal and I don't have access to that so what I did was I made my own DIY gimbal using a Lego vehicle that uh I had when I was younger so I took off the top of it and made it flat so I could stick this uh piece of cardboard that I cut out from a cardboard box and stuck it on stuck stuck it on it stuck it on it stuck onto it and see we've got these Lego wheels and then I put some pencils to avoid the outside of the C box from kind of folding in so it's more stable so I haven't used it yet but I'll try use this for some of the Boll shots that I'm planning to take later on but yeah my point is a lot of new YouTubers we mostly don't have that much equipment to be able to use so we're going to use what we can and because of that it can be quite difficult sometimes and we have we'll have to improvise with what we have Challenge number four is the idea of social proof and this is when you're scrolling on your YouTube homepage your YouTube browse page and you see two similar videos 99.5% of the time if someone want to see a video about let's say how to journal and it's got 250,000 views and then you see another video right next to it that's that's got a similar title maybe even the same title how to journal but it's got 16 views most of the time people will click and they'll want to watch on that video that has 250,000 views because of this idea of social proof so people already have a presumption that the video that has more views is more likely to deliver them more value and to be better in general when most of the time it very well could be but the thing is that video that's got 16 views might actually be the one that is better quality and is a better video but because it's got less views most people are not really willing to give it a chance so they end up clicking on the video with more views so then what happens is that video starts to get more and more views and it keeps climbing and that video that's got 16 views or 15 views or whatever it doesn't end up getting the chance to do well and for people to see the value that it can deliver and that's what happens with new YouTubers is because they don't have an audience yet they don't have an established following when they post a video they won't get that many views and when people see that XY Z videos your videos don't get that many views it's got like less than 50 views a lot of people they not really to click on it and most of the time people will click on videos that are already established and for bigger channels that everyone already knows and then what ends up happening is new YouTubers uh will have a harder time building an audience because of it now the fifth and final challenge is camera confidence I remember the first time I picked up a camera and pressed that record button and talk to the camera I was probably the most awkward I have ever been what would happen is I would get really hyped up and really motivated and and rehearse what I'm going to say not word for word but what I'm going to talk about in the video I would get really hyped up and motivate myself and then as soon as I sit down and put the camera in front of me and press record I would instantly go blank I get a mind blank and then it it'll basically look like this one 2 3 okay record crap I forgot what to say and this is probably what happens for 99.9% if not 100% of people who are just starting out on YouTube and creating videos where they're talking right in front of the camera at first it can feel really awkward and really unnatural because you're literally staring into a lens like I'm staring into this black circle right now and it feels really weird compared to talking to an actual human being after creating videos for a while the more you do it you get used to it more and more like now I think I'm definitely not the best at talking on camera and talking on video compared to some really great people out there but it's definitely gotten better from when I first started I'd always stumble and even even in this video that I'm making right now I the amount of times I've stumbled and murmured my words and got mind blank and forgot what to say so many times that's happened but the more you do it the better you get eventually you'll get more and more natural at talking to the camera and talking to a black circle in front of your face so yeah that's just five challenges and five experiences that us new new YouTubers often face oh yeah and quick hair update my hair's grown a bit so now it doesn't look as straight and spiky as it did in my last video but it's still got a while to go until it looks normal again anyway like the video subscribe if you enjoyed and I'll see you guys next time

Channel: Jeremy Johannes

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Length: 9min 50sec (590 seconds)

Published: Sun May 26 2024