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BobKo said:
I can only speak for myself. I went to a seminar presented by YouTube, and they recommended picking a topic and generating videos about that topic in order to be successful. But their definition of "successful" is essentially "rich." Yes, if you are young, good looking, talented and creative, you can gather views and subscribers quickly. But I like too many different things to focus on just one topic, so my videos are all over the place. One of my recent successful videos is about how to install a specific Andersen storm door. My video on the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington Cemetery is very popular. I have a popular video on how to install a sound bar, and another on using a car maintenance device called a Kwik-Lift. My maintenance videos on my Mazda car all do very well. One of my long-time popular videos shows a Great Lakes freighter passing through the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. In fact, Scholastic Books paid me a royalty fee to associate that video with its on-line entry on the Soo Locks. (I've gotten royalty fees for a few other of my videos as well.)

So it doesn't all have to be only about cameras, or carpentry, or makeup, or lighting, or cooking, or any other specific topics. Just do what you like to do, and do it well. People love to see a process, and they also love a good step-by-step tutorial. You won't get a significant audience with one, five or 10 videos... you need at least 50. Unless you are young, beautiful and gifted. Then you can build an audience much faster.
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Totally agree and my post wasn't meant to undermine your work and I'm sure you make great content.

In general, YouTube is nuts...if you're into numbers and info and statistics, check out Social Blade.
 
NorBro said:
That's what being born into information technology and data does to you if you're already wired that way, especially because the production/post is so commonplace now.

Humans themselves haven't changed much as we have always presented and educated and entertained and lied, but it's now just being recorded more.
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On the flip side its also the disinformation age. Its cool we can get information from so many sources but those sources do not live by a code of conduct. They are not required to fact check or confirm facts before they are shared. For every informative video there are a dozen that are completely wrong and yet promoted as informed fact.

We as a society needs to now be better at doing our own filtering of what is true and what is not. Some may see that as freedom but others see it as a massive amount of chaos.

The lines between opinion and fact are now almost nonexistent.
 
Yeah, no doubt about it...although that's nothing new either and it just goes back to having more evidence of it now because of the invention of devices that can record moving images and sound and the creation of a global computer network.

Before that, people did it in gatherings and on paper, but your thoughts traveled only a few miles, maybe a few hundred until radio and television.
 
NorBro said:
Yeah, no doubt about it...although that's nothing new either and it just goes back to having more evidence of it now because of the invention of devices that can record moving images and sound and the creation of a global computer network.

Before that, people did it in gatherings and on paper, but your thoughts traveled only a few miles, maybe a few hundred until radio and television.
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Yeah I remember back when I was a kid people would fax stuff or use a copy machine to duplicate information to share at work. Its like the people appalled at kids doing stupid stunts on YouTube and getting hurt. Kids always did that stuff and silly dares and pranks were always getting kids hurt. Those dares/tricks/stunts/pranks now just spread faster and stick with us forever. In the past we would see a 15 second news segment on a kid that blew up his hand with fireworks and never hear of it ever again. Today it lives on YouTube and social media forever. People will watch that story for the next ten years at least.

What has changed however is the relevance of the information today. Back in the day it was much easier to have a co-worker share a photo copied political rant and not taking it as seriously as the official news. Today its getting harder for people to determine what is legitimate and what is not. Fake news can have an impressive production value where its almost impossible to tell today.

On the video production side its also getting hard who to trust as a solid source of information or just well produced made up opinions and rants. I watch a lot of ten minute videos that are epic wastes of time. Nicely produced but substance wise pointless.
 
The discernment of facts from fiction isn't all that difficult because the organs of information - or disinformation, as it were - are generally structured like a pyramid. The top of the pyramid is the most winnowed because of the need to concentrate on a given plot repeated ad nauseam.

Side note, I have a college friend, whom I have not seen since the mid-80's but with whom I reconnected a few years ago on FB. He sends me all sorts of the "secret CIA tapes". Some people are like that. Before they used to listen to Ray Brim and Art Bell.
 
Thomas Smet said:
On the flip side its also the disinformation age. Its cool we can get information from so many sources but those sources do not live by a code of conduct. They are not required to fact check or confirm facts before they are shared. For every informative video there are a dozen that are completely wrong and yet promoted as informed fact.

We as a society needs to now be better at doing our own filtering of what is true and what is not. Some may see that as freedom but others see it as a massive amount of chaos.

The lines between opinion and fact are now almost nonexistent.
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I now tell my children not to believe anything they read or see on the internet unless it's written/made by someone who will lose their career if they turn out to be lying.
 
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