Thursday, June 12, 2014

How to Suck Less at Youtube Videos

I watch a lot of Youtube, but there are a lot of crummy videos out there. The most annoying mistakes people make in their videos have really obvious solutions. I don't know why people still make them. It's like they're not even looking at their own videos before they post them. This is why the Wadsworth Constant exists.

Most of this boils down to "stop wasting people's time!"

Anyway, here is the list:

  1. Don't apologize for not making videos recently, having a sore throat, or being incompetent. This includes pre-apologees ("I'm not sure how this works so sorry in advance if I screw it up"). No one wants to hear it. And if it sucks that much, remake your shitty video instead of posting sub-par content. 
  2. Don't talk about how many subscribers you have or don't have. Unless you're making a "Hurray 100,000 subs I'm giving away $1,000,000!" video, no one cares.
  3. If you want to ask for likes and subscriptions, do so at the end of a video. If I haven't seen the video yet, how do I know whether I actually like it/you enough to do these things.
  4. Don't talk about things people said in the comments or private messages. Youtube comments are notoriously awful. If you're going to respond do so in the text because most viewers haven't read all the comments from your last unpopular video like you just did.
  5. If you make a mistake that takes more than 2 seconds to fix, edit it out. There's no reason to make others watch you fixing things, and learning to use a basic movie editor doesn't take long.
  6. Know what you're going to do in advance. Running around aimlessly trying to figure stuff out isn't very interesting. Look at how they do things on cooking shows: everything is setup ahead of time and the steps that include waiting for something to finish are cleverly skipped.