The Official Youtubers Thread

[Lu-Cuss]

^Even ignoring my personal feelings on Leafy, I'd still argue that both H3's main and secondary channels are light years ahead in terms of quality.

[Goofle]

h3h3 definitely win the argument on moral grounds, and are the infinitely superior channel IMO. But the whole rivalry was entertaining as all hell.

[Cuthbert]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wxi9Phd5AmI

This American guy is cool, reviews a lot of Grime, his reaction to this is the best I've seen so far.

Sorry if late to the party.

[The Batlord]

I've seen some guides on how to increase your visibility on Youtube and get views and subscribers, but all that **** seems like a huge hassle, and I don't know how committed I'm going to be to really building my own channel. Nobody here would happen to have a channel of their own with any kind of following who could give me some pointers would they?

Some of the **** I've seen is creating custom thumbnails for your videos to grab a potential viewer's attention, but they never really seem to give any useful advice on how exactly to do it. Also, it's been recommended to go on Reddit and become part of the Let's Play community, but I already spend way too much time on this forum to really feel like committing to another one, and I couldn't just spam my channel without establishing myself (which I understand completely, given this site's own rules about that.) And creating a "trailer" on your homepage to draw in viewers is likewise kind of nebulous. I guess I should check out other Youtubers' pages to get some idea of what to do, but all this **** is kind of overwhelming.

I'm not trying to be the next Pewdiepie or anything, but it would be nice to make to at least a thousand subscribers, if only to get some regular kudos for my rampant ego. To say nothing of making a little side money from advertising, as that seems to be the number where Youtube actually takes an interest in you. But I'd be thrilled just to make it to a hundred subs.

[Goofle]

From what I can gather you basically need to whore your videos around, hoping and praying that somebody popular sees it and shares with their following.

For example I have a football compilation channel focusing on the team I support, and some of those vids have over 5,000 views, but I only have 229 subs.

[Ol’ Qwerty Bastard]

I think having thumbnails would definitely help, and back when I made my very brief run at being a YouTuber, I found a solid tutorial somewhere online for making easy thumbnails. If I can find it I'll link it to you.

[Black Francis]

From what i heard Game channels start to do well once you get a shoutout from a more popular game channel or if you do a collab with a more popular channel. I imagine at first it will feel overwhelming but i think you'll eventually could get the hang of it Batlord i also imagine that if you wanna get serious with it you'll have to make an initial investment in better equipment as well as shamelessly whore out like Goofie said.

It could be years before you take off but if you put out quality content eventually somebody will take notice. maybe when (and if) you get a little bigger you could start trying to contact other youtubers to do a collab.

[Cuthbert]

Stick as many tags in the video as possible and name your videos carefully. And get in before someone else does. My old channel has videos with over 100k views, but like Goof, I have nowhere near that amount of subs. I haven't uploaded any content in years though.

[Goofle]

Gad Saad is pretty great. And Milo of course.

[Goofle]