Posts by Symph

Tiktok's bumming me out tonight, I got so excited when I realized old jazz songs I love were on it and I thought "I could do vibe content and just get lost in pharoah sanders music or lip sync bowie or something" so I made a little 15 second video of me listening to a jazz song I love with the words "Love is Here" on it, to me it was genuine, vulnerable, heartfelt and real. I was really hoping it would get some attention but it would appear to be my worst performing video yet. So far my worst performers are when I actually try to be vulnerable and heartfelt, so my acoustic love songs? Nope, sharing a jazz cut that touches my soul? Nope. Highest performing videos? Game stream snippets where I say stupid stuff, and a fail video where I pointed out that my TV swivels but I didn't realize it.

I think that's why people don't start, because putting yourself out there and finding out nobody cares is a harrowing experience, but if you don't try you can always believe "well if I DID try people would like it". Once you do and find out your wrong you're stuck with that reality. But whatever, video game content it is lmao

Yeah I'm abandoning this idea for now. Both copilot and chat gpt insist that consistent quality content, while being active and social on youtube can revive a dead channel, so I'm gonna give it at least a month, probably gaming content all week and then a music video once a week if I can manage it. We'll see how it goes all I can do right now is experiment, but I'm trying to start commenting on videos again. I'd kind of forgotten but when I was first growing my channel I did that A LOT.

Yep, and now I"m having to do the same with gaming content. Went live today for 2 and half hours, it's harder than I expected and it took me 3 hours to edit the video down and I STILL think it has too many boring bits. I officially closed down Imsymph and did everything I could to make that clear on the channel, and now gaming and music and comedy are all going on symphonious7. I'm quite nervous about this, but I'm hoping that if everything is punchy, weird, funny, or vibey, it will still feel enough like me that most people will want to see it, and those that only want one type of content won't mind just ignoring the video types they don't like. Either way, a New Vegas video goes up at 9am!

I dunno, I definitely wasn't going through that link though, just woke up and having my coffee but when I'm ready to start figuring things out I'll give it a try.

Yeah that's why I think I'll just take a "feel free to give me requests AND IF I LIKE THE IDEA I'll do them" approach.

It's not actually hard for me to, what's hard is resisting the urge to fix or go for perfection. There's a lot of mistakes in these performances and I don't want them there, but if I were to do enough takes to get them out or take the time to punch them in, I'd spend twice as long making them and I think I'm better off just churning and burning. So if it's basically right? I just go "F it, it's going up like that" lol I do like the challenge though, can I get the next one a little tighter? etc

That's why I think my plan to just shift to gaming content is a solid one, it's repeatable, it's low effort high output, you can gain a following, and who cares if one video does better or worse than the last one, you're literally just filming them all day you know? Obviously I'll still do music and the end goal is a group of people who WANT to hear it, but that way I can build a following first and then show them my true talent.

I tried doing it and it's a real headache. Seems like the only way to do it is to create a new gmail and I really wasn't trying to do that. Every time I try to do it with the old one it just redirects me back to an existing account.

I forgot how powerful it is to just comment on the social media platforms you're trying to make it on. I've been hardly getting any attention on tiktok, but the other night I spent like 30 minutes just commenting on some stuff, one of those comments blew up and got over 1000 likes, I got some comments to my comments, replied to one, and that person followed me. That's one follower gained from 30 minutes commenting and just responding to people. Imagine if I made a habit of doing it a few hours a day, I can only speak for myself but I sure haven't really been thinking about that, just focused on my content and tags and stuff. Geez it's almost like the key to this social media is being well... SOCIAL. Who'd a thunk? 🫠😀

I've been thinking about this today myself. I metalified an Elton John song and copilot said I should put in the description "What song should I metalify next?" And I just did it, but then I thought about it and I was like "I don't wanna become the guy who turns any request into a metal song. I did it with the Elton John one cause I could hear in my head how it would work, it was a natural idea, if people start saying "make this metal! Make that metal!" I'm not sure I'd have an idea for just any song that wasn't kinda contrived or boring, and I don't wanna get stuck in that lane. But at the same time, maybe that's the kind of challenge I need or something.

I think it makes more sense for me to just say "if you have a cover you'd like me to do tell me and if I get an idea I'll do it" That feels a lot better.

I punk/metalified an old Elton John Song, I think it turned out great. Pleeease give it some attention and I'll love you forever!!!

It really is, though I gotta say, something's changing in me, I'm getting much better at going "awww it didn't do well? Welp can't dwell on to the next one!" When I was running my channel before though I'd sometimes get so dejected I'd disappear from the channel for a few weeks. Won't be doing that this time.

Actually yeah, would be fun to compare, this is the beatles' version.

Well I asked ai and it said that it's fine to post the same vids to two channels, there's no rule against it, so there's nothing to stop me from just dual posting and seeing how each channel does. I will be really sad if I need to abandon symphonious7, I'm attached to the name and attached to the history, but I can't keep getting 10 views per video on these songs, they take way too much effort so whatever I gotta do I'll do it.

I only do that every single solitary time I ever post a video ever. But other than that? Nope.

I second what she said, and I also think it's just going to cause people to stop putting as much of themselves into what they do. Being forced to think of a script for example is not always fun, and people can go long periods of time with writers block, but all throughout history it's the pushing through that or waiting till the epiphany hits that causes the great books and movies to be made. I feel like that will rarely happen anymore, people get writer's block? "Hey ai help me come up with ----" And slowly everything gets more generic, less human, more boring.

My HOPE, is that this will create a void, where those of us who CAN still use our brains stand out more. Hey! Like that movie, Idiocracy lmao

Here's the finished version, PLEASE give it some love I worked so hard on it.

Ummm... does this mean I should start over? Im literally getting like 10 views per video right now with 600 subs, I just have used so many symph aliases I wouldn't even know what to use

Yeah I'm really feeling like I need to get into the hooky short form content game I'm just not sure what to do. When I sing I sometimes make crazy faces and do all kinds of weird stuff I wonder if a few seconds of some of those takes could be good or even guitar clips or something. I'm still not sure if I should let all the weird hang out or try to present a more approachable image.

I might come back to this at some point, I literally almost had a nervous breakdown yesterday trying to figure out obs with copilot. I had the audio from my mic working but it couldn't hear the video game, copilot KEPT HALLUCINATING, it kept thinking I had versions of things I didn't, thinking settings had options they didn't, at one point it even forgot we were talking about live streaming and thought we were talking about music production but it was like mixing the two terminologies so it's saying "open up your DAW and then find --- in obs" LOL Point is, with all that, I'm just going to stream to kick for a while lol. Mayve once that is second nature and I'm used to it, I'll come back to this and we can add a dual stream.