Posts by Symph

I dunno, right now twitch and tiktok are the two places I'm actually steadily growing so I'm just focusing on them until I feel like I can take more on. Twitch is honestly pretty addicting, I gain more followers just chatting in other people's streams than doing my own sometimes.

Yeah I watched about 4 minutes or so, and I'm surprised how much dimming the background helped me not get the dizzy feeling, captions are also easy to follow now. I like that the note you put at the beginning lets me know what I'm about to get into. It's definitely an improvement, but I do gotta say, this kind of video probably won't take off if you don't replace the gaming footage with relevant clips.

It's not hard to look at now, text is flowing well with the monologue, but when I find these kinds of stories on yt and actually find myself watching the whole thing or most of it? The person usually tells the story in the visuals too, be that with stock footage pictures, or ai generated clips, it doesn't have to be a clip for every line but you probably know the types of videos I mean, "Jeff said to me in the office one day.." (picture of businessman talking to other businessman) etc etc, however I understand that may not be possible, it would be a LOT more work.

The main thing is that for me the older version was genuinely hard to watch, this version isn't, and that's good. If you can find a way to tell the story visually that's probably gonna up your views by a good deal, but I'm in a similar boat myself, where my videos should probably be highly edited, combed through for the best clips and kept to around 10 to 15 minutes long but I just don't have the time/patience for that right now. So I totally understand having to do what you gotta do. Progress is progress.

I mean yeah kinda, I suppose what I have are people who's videos give off the kind of energy I'd like to make content with. I haven't reached out yet though, been really tired lately. (and kind of crabby if you couldn't tell lmao) I have a lot of trouble sleeping when I don't drink and I've been sober for like 2 weeks now so I started taking this prescription sleeping pill to get to sleep (melatonin and cbd and l-theanine just won't do it) and I think it leaves me really groggy and kinda depressed the next day so I'm not sure what to do about that. For now I just get my tiktoks up and film more offline footage while I find the routine that works for me.

WHoa...... it looks like he actually DOES put a giant version of his face over his other face LMAO... I thought that sounded like a ridiculous idea, ok... maybe we'll give it a shot next time.

I'm on some discords where I could probably find people, but to do so means weeding through all the people I'm not gonna want to collab with, and I guess I have trouble streaming with someone and then telling them "yeah I just wasn't really feeling it sorry", and a lot of the people who are looking for collabs specifically say they don't want anyone my age. There's a lot of "looking for 18 to 25 year olds to stream with" ads and stuff.

I dunno man, it's a shooting game there's explosions and action through the whole thing. And my face is already on the screen in every frame, I know you're saying "put yourself bigger on the thumbnail" but where? Over the part of the screen where you can already see me? Or do we put it somewhere else so that there's two of me on screen lmao I usually just try to find a frame where I'm looking like I'm having a good time or shocked or something, and I've seen people have success with titles similar to mine. Maybe I should try something like "This is my new favorite shooter OAT!!" or something but shorts are probably a big part of it. It's just all getting to be so much, I thought "gaming can supplement my other content cause gaming will be easier than making music!" And now with cutting up the tiktoks, making the thumbnails, thinking of the titles, playing the games, dealing with all the freaking issues like how this game I've been trying to record keeps lagging too much to be captured and I've had multiple streams that I thought were streaming only to find they errored and kicked me out it just... I don't even know anymore.

And in the midst of this, I'm starting to finally gain followers who like the gaming content I AM putting up on tiktok so I feel like I need to stick with it. FML

I played fortnite with some people last night and they were nice but I didn't really think we had chemistry and only they were able to stream it. Not really sure where to find the right people to collab with.

I love making content, I love filming it, picking my favorite parts, I don't mind editing (except when I've been doing it like 4 straight hours lol) but whenever it comes time to come up with a title/thumbnail combination I just go "Oh god here we go again..." I don't know why exactly but I've just never been visually creative. I didn't like to draw as a kid, and I don't know how to make titles that people NEED TO CLICK. My brain thinks of random stupid things that make me laugh, not "oh this will really make people wanna click on this" kind of ideas. And whenever I am in canva finding images to add and removing backgrounds, I'm just bored off my ass waiting for it to be over so I tend to just try and get my thumbs done as quickly as possible so I can be done with the process. This is probably not good when the title and thumb are the only thing that causes clicks to happen and I don't have any idea what people wanna see.

Just sucks. Anybody relate?

Well but then it says the click through rate is 1 percent, that seems pretty bad... ugh.... Why don't people wanna learn why ultrakill isn't a cheese sandwich??? lol I'm trying to save people from trying to use this video game as a washing machine and they don't even care!! I will say this though, my thumbs haven't been uploading in HD, not sure if that's gonna have an impact but I figured out how to fix it for he next ones... and maybe I really should make those dang shorts it just tacks on another annoying step to this process lolol

Wait...so impressions are people who saw the thumbnail, and then views are how many people clicked after seeing it? How does this work, cause if that's the cause, my thumbnails may not be doing so bad, youtube just isn't sharing them. It says my channel as a whole has had 77 impressions and gotten 8 views. That's a reeeeally small test batch.

I already posted in your hater thread that I can totally be the enraged person sometimes, but not when people are just trying to entertain or share art or be themselves. Like right now sony is killing off physical media because they want to be able to control gamers, meaning we pay full price for a video game and then don't actually OWN that game, they're pissed off that people play their back catalogue and they don't want gamers able to resell their old games. This is disgusting and gamers should be united in fighting it, but a lot of people are actually DEFENDING it. I saw a video of a guy a week or so ago saying "Look, I know people are mad about this, but we all knew it was coming and companies have to do what's best for their business!" And I WANTED to leave a mean comment lol I didn't though.

I suppose that's kind of different though, that's having a problem with someone's hot take, not hating on someone just trying to live their life.

Sometimes I'm a hater, but you have to say something that really pisses me off. Like if I click a video, and your take is just dumb AF because you have narrow minded narcissistic goggles on, it makes me wanna be like "No dumbass, THIS is the truth". Like if someone is trying to defend a really bad policy, or white washing an issue. I USUALLY don't actually comment, unless I'm tipsy.... and then I do lol, fortunately this has only happened one time since being back on youtube. Somebody made a video where they played a clip from Primus (Les Claypool's Band) one of the most talented bass players of all time who loved to do wacky characters and write weird songs about sniffing glue and rednecks and stuff. Are the beyond weird? Yes. Is it amazing if you can comprehend it? OH YES. Always loved Primus.

And now that I think about it, it wasn't the person who posted the video who hated on them, it was someone in the comments, they said "So glad this band died out, they sucked in the 90's and they suck now" And I said something that ended with name calling, can't remember what. But yeah, videos can piss me the F off, and sometimes I wanna say something about it. HOWEVER, if the person hasn't offended me, if they aren't mocking something I think is good or defending something I think is evil, then I don't say anything.

For example I recently saw a music video pop up in my feed, and this song was so incredibly cringy to me that I was screaming at my screen, it seems contrived, nasal singing for no reason, fake ass sweetsy lyrics that drove me up a WALL. But I just left the video, no dislike, no comment, cause that's just someone trying to entertain people and it's harmless. So I totally get wanting to let someone have it when they are shitting on something you love or defending something you hate, I don't understand needing to do it because they made a joke you didn't find funny or put out a piece of entertainment that made you cringe. And I DEFINITELY don't understand hanging around to keep fighting with everyone after you've said your piece. But the initial knee jerk reaction? Yeah I can be that guy sometimes lol

bro my new channel can't even get FIVE VIEWS on a video. What are you complaining about? "Just start a new channel!" He says. "Just be consistent!" He says..... Pfffft..

It's crazy how you can gain like 20 or even 50 subscribers who tell you they love your content, might even act like fans, tell you the content means something to them, and you'll feel good about it, then ONE DUMB JERK comes in and says "you are so cringe you suck I hate you" and THAT'S the comment you're dwelling on all day. I think one thing you said to me though has really helped me which is that you said a lot of channels take off WHEN they start getting lots of haters.
It hit me hard cause it was when I was getting all the haters back in the day that I was actually getting the most views, and the hate comments were giving me tons of engagement. If I could have ridden that wave and kept going who knows where I'd be now so I will NOT stop if I start getting tons of haters this time.

Hmm..... not sure why it didn't embed. If you know help me out Michael, I clicked the link that tiktok provides you to share the content.

I've done a BUNCH of tiktoks lately, and they are getting pretty decent views, for a while there they weren't landing me any followers and I was bummed however this weekend I've gained about 5 so I'm feeling hopeful. This one is one of my lower view count ones but it's still one of my favorites I've made. If you like it share it pweaaaseeee

TikTok · Symph

TikTok | Make Your Day

www.tiktok.com

I really don't know, I'm concerned about it too, but the way I look at it is, let's say you can't get monetized, but CAN get a few hundred thousand views per video and like 10,000 dedicated followers. Find something to sell them you know? Make T-shirts, sell coffee, make a patreon and try to get support there, if youtube doesn't wanna pay us we should still be able to find a way to sell something of value to the audience we gain.

This is of course theoretical, I am not claiming to have had any success with this yet lol.

Well I personally would click off the video pretty quick if I'd stumbled upon it for a few reasons. First, I can tell the voice is AI and I just don't do AI voiced channels, I need to feel the human on the other end, (I know that upsets some people who have nervous issues about talking) Secondly, I wish the text wouldn't fade in like that, it distracts me, the font is fine but I want it to just appear on the screen as soon as the phrase begins, not fade in slowly afterward. And 3rd, while I can handle some first person gameplay in the background, one continuous video of a minecraft person going in circles and moving all over has me getting dizzy. I think it's the same reason you don't wanna read while being a passenger in a vehicle you know? If I was focused on just the gameplay I'd be fine, but trying to read the text with that going on in the background is a bit unnerving.

Lastly, I kind of think some sort of contextual introduction would be helpful, having the AI voice jump right into the story makes me feel like I didn't start from the beginning. You could perhaps put a title screen up with no sound first that says something like "A conversation I had with my buddy the other day, narrated by AI" etc.

For someone like me? You aren't gonna be able to actually gain a viewer without telling the story yourself, but I'm sure not everyone is like that, so lets say you keep the AI voice, I'd splice up the bg footage. If it's all from your own personal gameplay, take different sessions and splice them together, doesn't have to be too time consuming but it should take about an hour to just get like 10 seconds of this clip, then 10 seconds of that, try to get some footage where you're just farming stationary in there so it's not always moving around so much, and see if you can get the text to appear quicker on the screen, if it faded in much faster, taking like a 2 10ths of a second or something, that would probably be acceptable.

I honestly didn't get far enough into the video to critique the actual story, but it sounded like it would have been at least somewhat interesting.

We'll get there, one step at a time lol

I mean I left youtube because of bullies (and stomach issues dovetailing with them) but because of that, I took the time to learn how to take care of myself, and to grow thicker skin. I've already gotten a couple of haters on tiktok and back in the day I'd have been thinking about it all day, now I just go "ugh, what a jerk" and move on lol