--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Rupert Howe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I saw you got featured. Brilliant. Congrats. > > But I also saw that hundreds of Youtube types didn't get your schtick > at all and wrote the usual stream of hate that they write to pretty > much any creator with a brain who gets featured. Your average rating > was 2 stars. > > I found that very depressing. Didn't you?
Thanks Rupert. Naw, 2 stars doesn't depress me. I used to do poetry slams. You know, where the members of the audience have score boards and you get up there and read your precious poetry. And then you get the brutal truth. People hate it or love it. It's natural. That's what this niche stuff is about. Getting the YouTube feature is like performing at a stadium filled with idiots. It's a painful experience. But out of all those idiots there's a tiny percentage of weirdos who might be into your stuff. Continuing this analogy further, I have no desire to perform at staduims. But now that I've done it once, when I show up at the coffee shops, they'll be packed. My latest video has over 4,000 hits, a 4.5 star rating and extremely supportive comments. I'm proud of this one, take a look, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B1J7oq99uQ http://www.detrimentalinformation.com/2007/11/shit_the_shoe.html > > Actually, I find Youtube user behaviour regularly depresses me about > the future of online video. > > But then I'm a person who'd rather not see people antagonising each > other on this list, and lots of other people think there's something > revealing and interesting about that. So maybe I'm missing the whole > point. Perhaps hateful Youtube users are really very fascinating and fun? > It doesn't depress me. I try to imagine this anonymous crowd of hateful YouTube users. All I see is a bunch of teenagers. The future of online video? Those teenagers aren't going to be teenagers forever. It's going to mature. Might take a few more years though.
