hello guys and welcome so in this video I wanted to reflect on the last four
years of being a youtuber what I've been through what's happened and so on
now I originally started my youtube channel as a way of vlogging my gaming
experience so the reason why I wanted to do that is because when I played before
I was youtuber i played final maxi 11 and world of warcraft and games like
that for ten years and as a result i've got a folder on my pc now which is got
maybe six thousand or more screenshots in it of different things that happen in
those games and i fought now that youtube at the time at least four years
ago was becoming more and more easily available for everyone i before why not
why not just make video log of my way through the games rather than just
taking screenshots all the time so then my youtube channel and this youtube
channel was born now going forward i didn't even know that i would get into
crafting and whatever in farm at sea 14 for example like the reason i ended up
getting into it was just simply because I really enjoy that side of things I
sort of you know making money in the game being more independent or having to
rely another player stuff like that I love that this of the self-sufficient
nurse and but then from my experience of playing farm at 11 World of Warcraft all
the years before I did already have experience and know a lot of people find
that scary or they would prefer to have the handheld or at least be shown you
know to be taken out to do the first step to get the ball rolling on content
like crafting and money-making and so on so I thought why not let's make these
videos there's help as many people as we can because it will help us a lot of
players in the game it will vitalize the communities and the economies because
the more people craft the more people will boost the market board and so on so
I feel mission accomplished in that sense you know I did help tens of
thousands of players generate potentially billions and billions of Gil
and I know it's billions because I've had individual players say to me
that my tactics are made for them hundreds of millions each so I am
satisfied with accomplishing that mission now since then I have become
let's say burnt out on Final Fantasy let's be perfectly honest I played it
7000 hours already that's a lot of hours that's nearly a year you know I mean so
I I need something else creatively I need to that's why all I've been doing
the last one or two years even is I'm I'm playing loads of other games and so
on and I'm enjoying playing lots of other games like games I'm looking
forward to this month I you Cuza six and God of War and I'm sort of keeping that
ball rolling now the unfortunate side effect of
things like that is there are some people who signed up to this channel and
subscribe originally just for the crafting side or final fantasy xiv so
and that's why I've been very sort of disappointed because I would have
thought that I've made a name for myself as a gamer as experienced gamer someone
who can you know help people to enjoy games more nor as just the guild maker
of fourteen or the crafting guy of fourteen because that is really
disappointing basically it's a case of you know I've got more than twenty five
plus years of gaming experience that I do try and show and share with people in
a collective way and I do remember most of it as well so I did make a
spreadsheet which I will link in the description which was my every game I've
ever played I do remember nearly all of them and
what I fought of those games and so on so if you want to check out that
spreadsheet you know and if you've ever made a similar list please let me know I
would love to see the list of games you've guys have played and moving on
since then I was then trying to do the whole live streaming on Twitch now
originally I tried to do the live streaming maybe within a year of sawing
being a youtuber but twitch was a lot tougher back then to be partnered with
like only it was very very very hard like even though
some of my live streams were getting 100 200 300 plus concurrence I will still
turn down for partnership eight or nine times in had at the time there wasn't
any clear route to partnership they didn't tell you why they just said no
rejected no rejected and I got annoyed so I gave up and when at around that
time that's when the YouTube gaming was surfacing so I didn't actually know it
was gonna become YouTube gaming all I heard I heard a headline saying that
YouTube is gonna be revamping its live streaming platform so I was like okay so
I made a video after I gave up on twitch where I said that effectively YouTube if
you're watching then I volunteer as tribute to test your news live streaming
software now by coincidence there was a Google employer YouTube employee who was
watching my videos because they just happened to like Final Fantasy as well
so they saw my video and then they sent me an email now originally I thought
that someone was just pulling my leg you know that someone was just trying to
make me feel better but then I said okay if you can just email me and prove that
your YouTube employee then I'm happy to work with you
and then they did they send me an email from there at google.com
so that's why I got into the YouTube gaming site it's because I had someone
to get my foot through the door quickly like I was one of the very first
channels on YouTube gaming to get a sponsor button and also even though my
channel is quite fairly small to be bubbly honest there's like a core of a
million channels bigger than mine I got also verified on YouTube so
getting the verified tick these days it's very very difficult I think these
days like it would be difficult to even ask for it if you have less than hundred
thousand subs and you know it's almost as difficult as trying to get the
verified take on Twitter if you're not a business entity so I was very happy with
that and one thing I really liked about YouTube gaming at the time
was that when you make your videos the views stay on your channel so you
can see that I do have a lot of stream backups from when I was streaming on
YouTube gaming now there was something at the time that some of the youtubers
were doing called the ps4 trick now the way that worked is is that you would
start a live stream from your Playstation 4 you would then be able to
see what the stream key is that's generated from the PlayStation Network
on your youtube channel you would then be able to copy that stream key put it
into your live streaming software and then all you would then do you you would
kill the connection from your playstation put and take over the stream
using your streaming software so what that meant is you could stream straight
to the PlayStation Network from your capture software so you could have all
the custom overlays you could do everything the way it should be now now
that obviously doesn't work anymore because now when you stream directly
from PlayStation onto YouTube it doesn't show you the stream key anymore they've
hidden that and the reason why is because they just worried that you're
gonna stream non PlayStation games on the PlayStation Network because if you
have a custom stream key what's to stop you streaming Xbox games PC games which
are not PlayStation games so that's why that was killed but while people are
doing that myself included we saw phenomenal growth by I I personally when
I was playing pharmacy 15 I achieved at one point twenty five hundred plus
concurrence because our streaming both to YouTube directly and to the
PlayStation Network and but that got sort of killed us on I did actually send
an email to Sony but a play say I never got a reply obviously saying that why
not offer that has this service like even if they put terms and conditions to
say that can we please stream to PlayStation Network straight from our
live streaming software so we can customize our interface more or just
give us more customization options because I think a lot of you have seen
that the standard PlayStation streaming options they're very very limited like
you can put your camera on the screen you see the view
hands-on and the text but you can't change the layout all whereas it just
looks a lot better when you can control it using OBS or xsplit or whatever you
can just customize it a hell of a lot more but that's that's another issue
like maybe one day PlayStation will do that maybe they're saving that for the
next generation maybe Playstation 5 or who knows we'll have loads of
customization options for my screaming who knows but generally I was waiting
for YouTube gaming to do something substantial because it started out
strong you know it's sort of like oh wow you know this is actually finally a real
competitor on the market let's let's enjoy this because as a website YouTube
is way way bigger than twitch there's no competition it's a lot lot bigger but
twitch is focused on gaming was supposed to be let's ignore the in real life
section now obviously twitch reacted positively to the competition so it got
to a point where twitch was releasing it felt like new features on a weekly basis
and they're always trying to innovate they brought in extensions raiding they
brought in new player announcements chat replay and so on and we're and there are
some features that they've always had which were better anyway like you know
they have better BOTS they have better chat options they have custom Smiley's
and so on now youtubers try to copy a couple of those so now YouTube has got
the chat replay you can put custom emojis depending how many sponsors you
have sponsors being the paid sub like YouTube has they've got super chat so
you can donate directly to the stream same as bits so they are trying to do
that but they're not innovating you know that's the reason I ended up going back
to twitch is Twitter's innovating new features like extensions whatever
whereas YouTube seems to be just copying the best features from other platforms
without any creating anything themselves at that's unique now it's not to knock
YouTube like I know YouTube has gotten a million other things to worry about
because simply YouTube is not a game streaming platform it's just one of the
things they offer out of many many many whereas twitch mostly can focus on the
game in us out which was even born that's how justin.tv was born as a
platform for gamers so I went back to twitch and obviously now achieving
partnership on twitch is crystal clear so now it says clear objectives things
to achieve your route to partnership is literally called your road to
partnership and it will even mark exactly where you are and it into
achieving partnership which is wonderful now the difference is there is good and
bad for both sides in my opinion one of the bad things is is that twitch makes
you sign exclusivity it's not a permanent exclusivity so it's not a case
of if you're at which partner you can't scream anywhere else ever it's a case of
you can't stream anywhere at the same time as twitch so if you're on twitch
you can't scream anywhere else while you're streaming on twitch and also up
to 24 hours after the end of that live stream but if you do your scheduling
properly there's literally nothing to stop you for example streaming on other
platforms say Monday to Thursday and then streaming on Twitch like on
Saturday or something as long as says or even though you do
Monday to Friday on other platforms and twitch on like Saturday and then take
sunday off something like that you know as long as it's a day off after twitch
and you're all screaming at the same time then you can get around the
exclusive e but I personally feel it's just my opinion I feel the exclusivity
can hurt content creators who have multiple channels like mine so I've got
twitch and YouTube I don't want to sacrifice either one I'm not gonna
satisfy sacrifice YouTube for twitch I'm not gonna sacrifice twitch for YouTube I
am both so and I'm proud that I am both a verified YouTube and twitch partner so
I am very proud of that especially because I do this for a hobby I don't do
it for it's not my income or anything like that so like moving on from that
where I am right now light so this is now obviously the fourth year being a
youtuber it's a case of I am trying to make content always that I enjoy making
you know so that's why I'm changing the content I'm changing the games I'm
playing I'm changing how I'm doing it the topics I'm focusing on and so on I'm
always trying to find new ways to deliver content
to you guys and you guys have been very supportive mostly towards what I'm doing
now there has been some a little bit of drama along the way there has been
haters there has been people trying to drag me down and kick me when I'm down
but I always say f you and I just move on and I will keep always saying f you
are moving on I'm not gonna change that because it works you know it's a case of
I'm achieving what I want to achieve with this platform and everything I'm
doing online and I'm very proud of what I've achieved online especially with the
number of wonderful comments I've received on so many people and also the
amount of personal emails I've received I've received so many emails from people
going through so many different types of issues and I'm glad that had been able
to provide a platform for people to express themself even though my site is
not that big you know compared to other streamers but at least with these sort
of the influence I have I am able to support people help people make people's
lives better because that's a lot of what like that's the reason I continue
to do this you know that's the reason I motivate to keep making videos keep
doing live streams and so on now the thing that has slowed me down a lot last
four years is technical issues so you know so technical issues come and go all
the time and that's just I think that's part of any person trying to be a
streamer I'm sure any other streamers or youtubers watching will be able to say
that yeah there's always technical issues happening which can interrupt
what you want to do like you have a plan to make this video and that this goes
wrong internet breaks your microphone breaks something happens all the time
that's just technology these days but I always try to focus on fixing it and
then moving on and making more content and other than that guys like I love
doing this you know I love expressing myself I love having a place to share my
content and you know I'm happy as well that I'm able to it is basically the
most satisfying hobby I've ever had in my life is to be able to do this I found
my voice on YouTube I found as well even just general speaking that is definitely
improved since I've been a youtuber my reading skills is haven't improved let's
be perfectly honest my reading is terrible
but my speaking skills have definitely improved and when I say speaking I mean
just how I express myself you know how I share my experience with my life and so
on because my videos will hopefully assuming Google's does my videos will
live a lot longer than me so if someone is watching this video say
200 years from now hello how you doing okay well oh the world is better than it
is right now but maybe look in the history books of what the world was like
in 2018 but yeah so I will keep doing this as long as I can I will keep
enjoying myself as long as I can and if you guys have any suggestions any
feedback or anything I always welcome constructive feedback you know I'm not
looking for praise I want you guys to understand that so like some people
might interpret my words as like oh he only wants like positive feedback he
only wants approval he doesn't want anything else and I said no I'm happy to
receive constructive feedback I just won't take negative feedback so
the difference is constructive feedback are things like oh did you know that
there wasn't a spider climbing up and down your door the whole time
I was like really whoops or something like oh the audio is not syncing up or
all to your video like can you fix it as I yes sure that is constructive feedback
and it's also constructive feedback to say Oh like you know maybe you could
have tried saying it this way rather than that way I could have had a greater
impact on your viewers negative feedback is simply like you suck man you're not
making crafting videos unsub you know your whining Channel now all you do is
cry and complain it's like stop begging for money you know I'm a keyboard
warrior all I do is type and judge people and I'm better than everyone else
yeah you know that is the negative side and that's why like because someone
literally posted a comment on one of my videos maybe yesterday or the day before
saying that please ban me so I was like okay man
that's it cuz I don't actually know where the unbanned button hisses ho if
you're if you get banned on my channel you stay banned forever as simple as I'm
not gonna look to unban people I'm not that sort of person you know if you give
me a reason because the way I'd go through life guys if you I give everyone
the benefit of the doubt when I first meet them I instantly give people my
trust I give people everything until you give me a reason not to give it to you
anymore until you like go against my trust and once you lose my trust you
will never ever get it back ever again so it's a it's not like a free strikes
and you're out deal it's like a one strike on your out deal because I don't
have time you know as as simple as that my life is so sure that I don't need
people in my life who weren't just gonna constantly like disappoint me I've got
enough of that like with relatives and family Felicity
as well no offence so yeah like so I don't need that around me so that's why
I'm always trying to look for positive and constructive people you know I would
I want to move towards that side of things and just avoid the negativity you
know and I will keep doing this guys as I said as long as I can so if you like
these videos you like my content like I said before please give it a thumbs up
and subscribe please let me know in the comments down below what made you come
to my channel like why did you originally subscribe I think for most
people the story I hear the most often is simply they came for my crafting
videos but they stayed for the Mithra let's say so and I I do appreciate that
but there are some people came for other games you know some people came from
because of Zelda some people came because of Assassin's Creed you know
it's like so let me know what what you did and how you discovered my channel
and also what made you stay you know that's why I'm really interested in that
you know I like hearing that sort of stuff and yeah and also as well guys if
any of you are interested in becoming a youtube or whatever I know it's a lot
more difficult now to achieve partnership like you need 1,000
subscribers one thing I've been thinking about doing is making another how to be
a youtuber because I made one like ages ago like
you can find the video on my channel called starting a YouTube gaming channel
and I even spoke about encoding and partnership and monetization and so on
but that's because it wasn't really any requirement for partnership back then so
one thing I think of doing is making a new guide where I start a new channel
and see if I can get to a thousand subs to achieve partnership and everything I
did to achieve it so would you guys be interested in a series like that would
you want me to try that out to see if I can start another channel get it to a
thousand subs let me know again in those comments down below so anyway guys
that's it for this video thank you for watching and as always good bye from me
and goodbye from my shiny head bye guys
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