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The Ugly Truth About Being A YouTuber
Some raw, uncensored truth
It’s hurts to admit, but being a YouTuber is difficult.
And a lot of people paint this life to be easy, glamorous fun everyday.
However, as a YouTuber myself who has seen both angles-good and bad-of this lifestyle. I can tell you that being a YouTuber isn’t everything it’s cracked out to be.
So I want to share that not so glamorous side with you. Here are some raw, uncensored truth about being a YouTuber.
My passion has become my job, now I hate my passion
It’s cliche, but turning your passion into your job does sap the love out of it.
At first, you love it, but as time drifts by, you slowly begin to get bored.
You see, I love video games. So I decided to create a channel about one specific game.
This was 3 years ago when this game was at its peak and I was fixated on it.
I could spend hours playing and storming up content ideas.
Years passed and I successfully built a community of fans who love my content. My dream finally reached. I mean it’s not the biggest community, but enough for me to feel my videos are actually reaching someone and not getting lost in the dreadful abyss of the algorithm.
Unfortunately, the passion is gone.
The excitement to create has turned into dread.
Sad, yes.
But it’s reality. It happens to everyone, whether they share it or not. Most of us just mask it in videos because the truth hurts and we would rather continue with blissful naivety.
The Comment Section Bothers Me
I feel that it’s normal to obsess over that one ridiculous comment, rather than move on to the hundreds of nice ones.
And I would be lying if I said that one comment out of the bunch, didn’t annoy me.
I once had a comment from a viewer telling me how to create my content and how it wasn’t funny or that what I did here or there wasn’t good. Basically, nitpicking.
