Making content for YouTube is so strange. So often, I do videos that I’m really excited about sharing with others, and when I upload them, they just sit there and nobody watches them.
Then a year passes…
All of a sudden, hundreds or even thousands of people begin watching some video I did a year ago - a video that I’ve long since moved on from. My emotions and hopes are all on the video I posted yesterday! But what everybody is watching is the video I did a full year or more ago!
And the strangest thing about this is that I have absolutely zero way of knowing what people will latch onto. So many of the videos I do that I think people will love get no love at all. They will sit out there forever with no more than 90 viewers. But videos I do that I think nobody will care about inexplicably become big hits!
It’s a very odd way to work.
I throw my heart into almost all of the videos I put out there, but these two realities - the year long delay before a video gains traction, along with ...
This guy commented on one of my videos on YouTube, so I went to check out his channel. He has a very modest, small channel where he talks about vintage things, like fedoras and ball caps.
I really like his taste in baseball caps, and I admire his modest nature, making videos for a pretty small audience. So I thought I’d share him here for anybody else who might find this sort of thing interesting.
