Dealing With Being Judged By The YouTube World & Being In Front Of The Camera

Coming up to a year and a half now, I created a YouTube channel and became a partner with YouTube. If someone said to me before I joined that I would start filming/creating videos for YouTube I would have laughed. Although there are numerous positives, It never appealed to me and I did not want to get into it. I focused mainly on the negatives, which is that people receive hate comments and even death threats!

My main focus when uploading is the variety of viewers I receive, such as Mexico, United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain, India, China, Canada, just to name a few out of the 110 countries that have viewed! That is what motivates me to upload, of course the dislikes and the occasional hate comments does put me off; but I have learnt to get over it. You cannot impress everyone, and thats fine!

Another point I would like to discuss is being in front of the camera(s). If you compare my first Travel Guide to my most recent one, a lot has improved: Editing, my confidence and showing more of my personality. How I get over being nervous in front the camera(s) is to talk to them as if they are your friends, once you think that, you will forget they are there! It takes times to get used to them. I was super nervous filming my first ever video of me facing the camera – which was my 6th video I posted, 3 of the first videos didn’t include me and the other 2 were only brief second shots of me. Truthfully, for the first 20 minutes before I pressed record; I Really picked myself apart. My family and friends know that I like to improve anything and everything as much as I can. For most of it I was sat in my desk chair swivelling around thinking about what people may say if I upload this, will I receive dislikes? Will I receive negative comments? Will I get a lot of views? Will people be interested? How shall I position the camera? How should I speak? What should I wear? ALL of those questions!! over 150 videos later, and I’m still doing it.

My advice to anyone who wants to start YouTube, just do it! You will never know if you do not try. If you love it, great. If you don’t, then its a learning experience. I never really had second thoughts about it. I created my channel, and then uploaded shortly after. Never overthink, it gets you nowhere.