You had twenty years to make a career out of playing vidya, Why didnt you do it?

Youtube is a controlled website where you need to suck youtube exec cock personally to get a career on youtube tho lol.

Lol this pretty much

Who is this thread targeted at? 40 year olds? People in their mid 30s?

welcome to Anon Babble you're here forever

you're surrounded by millennals now you know

People ranging from former SA goons to people who were in their late teens in 2008 when the "guy playing a video game while talking about bullshit" genre kicked into gear.

Because I don't have talent for playing vidya or making entertaining content. Some people play chess or practice a sport for their entire lives without ever becoming world class at it. That's me.

I enjoy my time there, my viewers are very important to me.

Ima be real with you you sound feminine as fuck go hit the gym

If you didn’t make a channel 5-10 years ago, there’s no way to gain enough traction without mass shilling.

a lack of drive to ever actually do it, self hatred, difficulty finding things to say while playing or being entertaining.

i had a big channel that got shadow banned during gamer gate, then deleted following a stream of false dmca claims from a copyright troll
it was nice while it lasted but youtube can suck a penis and a cock

Why the fuck would I do that? I already live a comfortable life without having to turn my hobby into a job.

Because I was 5 when YouTube launched, and I hate the sound of my voice.

Way back when I just made videos for fun and some of them got a lot of views. Never intended to make a dime on it. Then some years ago Youtube sperged out and went full scorched earth with DMCA/copyright shit and I never bothered after that.

I had a fitness heavy period in my life, you can't change the nature of some people.

Too lazy to edit content for YouTube and I don't play anything that people would watch on Twitch.

So on a scale of 1-10, how much of a raging fag are you? Guessing a 9. 9.5.

Because my channels kept getting terminated.

implying I play vidya

Lol wtf did you even post for that to happen

get any sort of clout

some loser will have your life under a microscope just waiting for you to slip up

Not worth it. No amount of money is worth my privacy

Is your penis large and veiny or small and cute? This is very important and will determine whether I watch you.

This is another great reason

No one with a voice like that has anything but a monster cock.

Because I'm more mature and I will never sell out, unlike a certain Anon Babbleirgin

Playing games for a living seems pretty boring, not to mention you don't develop any real skill.

You would think this is a perfect career for a shut in incels, but even in the e-celeb world yku need to know how to do networking and depend on others to create content and keep those numbers up. Just look the dominant groups in Twitch like OTK, that entire group are normie shitters.

You're just a faggot who will bottom out for even the smallest dick, shut the fuck up.

Why didnt you do it?

I make more money being a mediocre programmer and an excellent statistician.

You need to go back to it every time you post your shit you're voice gets lower and lower my nigga you getting groomed by your chat or something

Gonna keep shilling this video here because it took me some sweet time to make and i wish more people would see it youtu.be/ADX9-Qe-Fgk

You've posted nigger here at least once, so how many times have you said it out loud?

Dropped a like keep it up

it's gonna be an ESL isn't it

click video

skip 30 seconds

accent

Fucking KNEW IT. Work on your goddamn english Pablo, otherwise you sound like a fucking street beggar right now.

dude just become a celebrity lmao it's not hard

That's what you sound like, OP

Lol nigga better plead the fifth on that one

You're actually surrounded by LLMs and pajeets. Millenials would be a marked improvement.

Working on it. For the very last video of 2024 I pretty much pivoted to Twitch comp style Let's Plays where I also include some additional post-commentary if I have something more to say, instead of the video essays I was doing before, and I've been much happier ever since. Working on the channel has kept me so busy that it's genuinely kept my depression from consuming me. I get no views, but I'm actually having fun with the channel now. I'm trying to get back into streaming. Planning to play Fire Emblem 1 and an Elden Ring playthrough soon. I've also been working hard on my clips channel and I've got at least 1 clip scheduled out for the rest of the year, and now I'm backfilling more per week. Unfortunately that channel gets literally no views, but it's better to have it than to not. My 2nd anniversary is coming up next week. Sometimes it's hard to see how much I've actually accomplished throughout the year, but I know I've made large strides since my first anniversary. Hoping in year 3 I'm able to make some chill content creator friends.

youtube.com/@MostlyPositiveChannel

Dope stuff

You realize most shit like this in the world is a zero-sum game, right?
If you had 100 streamers all making content of equal quality, only say 10 of them will actually become "successful".
Everything in modern society works this way, that's just the nature of reality.
It is not physcially possible for everyone capable to be a successful business owner or get that six figure job.
We could create better systems to alleviate this, but those who are on top in power obviously dont want this to happen.
That's just the way it is on this bitch of an earth.

Don't think this nigga realizes how easily he can fuck up his whole twitch gig just by posting it on here lol, especially when he's a fag
All it takes is one schizo

Idk if a career is possible but I enjoy making videos. You can’t make too much money making the kind of videos I make but you can build a small audience that appreciates them and it’s still worthwhile in that way. Just posted new vid yesterday and I’ve been enjoying hearing how people have enjoyed it

Just posted new vid yesterday and I’ve been enjoying hearing how people have enjoyed it

You can't just say that and then not post the vid. C'mon anon, let us see it

spend 3 days making a dark souls video with edits and skits and all

150 views

spend an hour making a 30 second shit post

780 views

i hate youtube

I’ve posted my channel here before plenty but when people start linking the thread gets removed without fail. I used to buy mobile ads on here too back when a different company ran them. They were diiiiirt cheap

Need to not have been a poorfag with a shit PC/ass internet to start

i dont want gaming to become work and i dont want to suck corporate dick for getting 10% of my revune

One longform view is worth 5,000 shorts views anon, don’t get discouraged

what do you mean my voice gets lower and lower? I don't particularly think my voice has changed has it...?

I have standards and don't want to be a marketer, so it was never in the cards

Aren't you jealous of some zero talent retard trying to sell you shit on the modern day equivalent of those shopping channel stations on cable

Nope

i dont make shorts. that shit is brain-dead and 90% ads

Not my path.

Nah, don't listen to that other nigga. I've shot a fat fucking nut to your voice before. Shit's good man.

i just mean it just keep getting more feminine weirdly enough

I believe streamers and most video essayists have become a net negative to the gaming ecosystem.
Their takes are shit, ousted perverts and gooners, industry shills, and overall bad influences to the youth.

All the popular ones, yeah. The sweet spot for good content is sub-50k

1Mbps upload

pretty much you gotta find the ones that arent tainted yet like the other anon said sub 50-100k to actually find content thats genuine

True, I prefer written essays

Thanks friend

Video essays are one for worst things ever happened to youtube

I do not doubt this

if I wasn't already banned on twitch I'd raid his channel

oh I thought you meant my voice was getting deeper, either way I don't personally feel like it's changed much but I also know that's kind of hard to gauge yourself on a day to day basis

Because my game commentary would be something like

Whoaaa! That had to hurt! Ohhhh boy, thats gonna leave a mark!

I can't think of anything gayer than making a career out of YouTube.

Having to upload every week to maintain algorithm visibility (YouTube can change this at any time and fuck my flow up)

Relying entirely on a combination of ad revenue, patreon, and sponsors that I have to dedicate a third of every video to

Can't swear too much or I lose my monetization and get shadowbanned in the algorithm

YouTube takes a 30% cut out of all of my ad money and superchats

Can't make too spicy takes or I get demonetized and/or cancelled

Making content in an already-oversaturated ecosystem

Making a job out of what should be a hobby

Might end up losing everything because I accidentally listened to 1.5 seconds of a pop song from the 1980's in GTA in a four-hour stream

according to youtube i subbed to your channel back in 2022 so keep it up ig i like the content you make.

this is why i keep at it.

People that actually stream their shit because they want to show people are alright.
Video essayists are someone I put far far below on a sliding scale of internet video dudes

My dream is an easy job where I can hop on and just play a game to an audience. Not because of fame or anything but purely for the money and the ability to find people that give a fuck about the shit I say, but I'd probably piss off the weong person with an accidental slur or wrong think opinion. But if I did try what would even be the route? Twitch streams? YouTube gameplay videos?

The good video essayists are honestly one of the few things still worth using the internet for but 99% of them are zoomers holding mics doing paper think analysis/wiki summaries for people to listen to in the background.

It's a weird dichotomy desu, I'm not sure there's actually such a thing as a mediocore video essayist, they're either well worth your time or completely wasting your time.

The Reuploader

I found a Chad of this type recently. Thank you based formosa
youtube.com/watch?v=qV5oz_TSstk&list=LL&index=2

I used to make mods for valve games and had a yt channel where I featured them. At one point, I started getting messages for really weird and specific mod requests, or people would join the same games/servers as me and recognize me, even if I had changed my name. It got really uncomfortable.
I probably could’ve monetized all of it, but those were different times

I lost the passion to record and play games for an audience. Also the video editing and uploading (on bad internet 20 years ago) was so tiring.
Now I appreciate being able to game in private for fun.

I'm too shy to appear on camera >o<

Being an influencer sounds like the worst "job" in the world

There's honestly way worse jobs than marketing and influence peddling.
On a principle level though, being a talent industry goon with the specific purpose of scamming as many people as possible and making humanity as miserable as possible is probably close to the bottom there.

23 second intro

It's insulting your lack of respect for my time

I was shy and "too cool" to act like a faggot in front of a camera. I could be making so much money just sitting at home playing videogames but instead i have to be a wageslaves making peanuts

I'd probably piss off the weong person with an accidental slur or wrong think opinion

Eh. Who cares. It's pretty easy to tell when someone genuinely says a slur by accident, and if fuck those who aren't willing to hear a differing opinion. The type of people who'd cancel you for that are not mentally okay and they're not the type of people you'd want to have around. I was streaming yesterday and was doing a gag where I pretended to say the n-word followed by a delayed censor beep. I accidentally beeped at the correct moment and it totally sounds like I said the slur. Then I followed it up with a joke saying that racism is okay as long as it makes you laugh. If someone were to get offended by it, then they're simply incapable of having fun and they're not the audience I want.

my youtube account isn't handled by me, I stream on twitch

I still get the money though

I gave it a try and honestly just wasn't very good at it.
Even my girlfriend who thought it was a good idea was like "you should add subtitles" which is like damn.

it actually makes me sad and bitter that e-celebs get paid this amount of money playing videogames and I do it for free. makes me not enjoy videogames as much

NO

Lmao

It's crazy how letsplays are a dying genre now. These days everyone is trying to be a variety streamer.

autism through life has left me monotone as fuck

hate being a problem for other people so I try to remain quiet all days

live with mother so I don't want to disturb her

also shy as fuck

I'll give it a try when I live on my own or alter my living space to be out of sight, ear and mind

I'm not under the delusion that I have anything interesting to say about video games.

lol all of those guys are just puppets if their talent agency tell them to jump all they can respond with is how high they tell them to wear a dress you gotta comply with it if you feel like that shit is worth i my nigga then alright

There honestly isn't such thing as a "good video essayist".

can confirm

Influencing is prostitution but the johns are tech companies. Almost everything on YouTube is pure trash and on the rare occasion I find something that had passion or critical thought put into it I just get sad because the creator is forced to pimp themselves out for Google instead of pursuing their passion.

I can't even bear to watch youtube anymore. 99% of it is some engagement alghorithm slop made by these fake happy nice people who would trample over their newborns for 30 pieces of silver.

I had a Youtube Channel but it got suspended because I was trying to upload Elliot Rodger videos.

If we refer to the kind of shit that is spammed all over youtube NOW, yeah I agree.
I'm not going to pretend there isn't anything good on there it's been around for 20 years.

I used to enjoy game analysis videos in the early 2010s. Now these people just read wikipedia and whine about politics in their childrwn's game review.

There's Ahoy, he's alright, but I just don't really give a damn.

I want low engagement longform videoslop of someone whose voice I don't hate talking while I do other things. They can be talking about anything, I don't know why anyone pretends to do actual research about the thing they're going to repeat the plot of.
It's just the modern day version of talk radio. Let's all collectively stop pretending that any of this shit is worth watching or salvaging in any way.

I think your issue is that you're looking for content with "critical thought" put into it. When humanity is composed of 99% of retards, and 98% of them are concentrated on the internet, then you're gonna have a bad time. Look for fun instead.

did vidya podcast shit before too many people started doing it

channel got nuked by YouTube for no reason

did hardware review and stuff with my uni friends

the video editor bailed on us

At least my gaming blog still reels in steady views for the last few years

Mumkey?

I'm only entertaining playing vidya while drunk but on the other hand I suck at vidya when drunk

I just don't get much out of things that don't have substance anymore. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe I'm too pretentious, I don't know.

Could be entertaining

As long as you're entertaining, literally nothing else matters

I really like makind video essays but at the same time every time i make one i am assaulted by the overwhelming reality that nobody cares, or should care for what i have to say. I'm nobody, i have no skills, no qualifications. It feels intensely narcisistic to make a video about my opinion, because nobody should care about it.

Most "essayist" are glorified reviewers. Plus, the barrier of entry is low. All you need is to have an ASMR voice, and tell people want they want to hear. People generally don't come for the knowledge. They just want you to rant or fanboy about the things you like or dislike under a veneer of intelligence

No. Got somewhat popular enough that by the end I had 500 something subscribers by uploading videos where I was playing Parappa 2 VS mode. Then I got bored with that, and uploaded videos about Saint Hamudi. Elliot Rodger was what got my channel suspended. Starting a gaming channel is impossible due to how oversaturated it is, and Youtube doing a piss poor job promoting small channels.

You basically have to be a narcissist or completely lacking in self awareness to be successful at that sort of thing

Well yeah. You have to be a bit narcissistic to spout opinions publicly and hope for a reaction. Not all people will care about what you have to say but there is a chance someone else might entertain your ideas

having pride and dignity over the belief that you have nothing of worth is the stupidest and most self-defeating position to take on anything ever
having people make popular video essays on my favorite franchise made me realize that the only thing that matters is believing that you are correct no matter how wrong you actually are

Because contrary to what you want to believe, bard/jester/actor has never been a legitimate career path.
It's inconsistent, finicky, and oversaturated.

If you want views on your essays simply do this

Look up underrated tv show/movies on reddit

Make video on underrated movie

Title:(insert movie) is a hidden gem

Don't sound like an ethnic

Incoming +100,000 views

It's that simple

Favorite FromSoft game is Bloodborne

Used to play the game religiously, just making new characters over and over again

Pulled a lot of all-nighters, just running Chalice Dungeons for fun, by myself

Found a neat little Bloodborne lore podcast that talked about different topics from the bigger channels

Lots of lore speculation and discussion about each area in the game, different covenants, the chalice dungeons, etc.

Podcast was a guy and some Slavic chick IIRC, had pretty decent back-and-forth

Used to listen to their stuff for background noise while I did my thing. Even caught a few streams and premiers live in the early mornings.

Bloodborne mood eventually passed. Fixed my schedule, stopped listening to them every night

Four months later, randomly start thinking about them again

"I wonder if they're still doing Bloodborne stuff."

Check channel

There was a month-and-a-half long gap in their uploads right around the time I stopped listening

TFW the very first video after was the guy speaking in a bad falsetto and talking about how he was a she now.

TFW I closed the stream like two minutes later

IIRC all of their videos after that had like a quarter of the views of their pre-troon stuff.

Don't know if they count as essays, but there's a channel called AesirAesthetics that did some pretty comfy longplays/analysis videos on the Silent Hill games. An anon linked them in some thread a few years ago. Guy adds his commentary over the actual longplay and brings up topics as they come up in-game.

youtube.com/watch?v=XMNwClWqexA&t

I haven't watched any of his other videos, though, just his OG Silent Hill stuff.

What are some career fields that aren't inconsistent, finicky, and oversaturated in 2025?

I get it, but it could be irritating to see someone being near DSP level bad in vidya while drinking. At least I don't call the games bullshit, though.

If Internet people could see and hear how I behave while I play vidya they would despise me lmao
I'm not making money like that

Dumbass, Twitch has people who monitor reports of off-site behavior. Clean up your ship.

I have a hard time playing games for fun. I'd be unable to do it as a job.

because i actually enjoy playing games for fun
turning your hobby into a job is a mistake

busy making a career drawing furries

pyw

It took me 37 years actually but i dont have any audience to cater to. I just sit at my desk at home play video games all day and get paid well for it. The best part is how fucking furious it makes my wife that i just sit there gamin while she has to attend meetings or drive around visiting patients but she can’t do shit about it because “im working honey”.

its all porn. the only not porn pics I have are from my game

I think I know who you are. And if you are, thanks you make good stuff.

I can understand most of these people on why zoomer faggot losers would waste their life and money on them but I will NEVER NEVER EVER understand why retards watch and give XQC so much fucking money. Dude sounds like a complete retard, isn't funny, doesn't have a gimmick, he's just literally some faggot that used to be good at Overwatch. So fucking baffling. If I ever became God, I would torture and murder every faggot Twitch streamer and viewer. Absolutely worthless to this world.

Editing is a pain

The oldest video I have on my channel says it's 9 years old. That's when I just needed some place to dump footage so I could discuss the game on GameFAQs.
Outside of maybe 2 or 3 minimal effort guides, the rest of the channel is just a dumping ground for snippets of whatever I'm playing at the time.

I am making it. Feels weird.

I'm making around 3k a month rn. I started very recently. Its a dream come true.

monetize EVERYTHING

lol

I love videogames since I was 5yo, been playing through the snes till now nonstop. I now tons of stuff from games. My life is literally work, gym and videogames.
I'm making video reviews of childhood games, they have lots of information, good pacing and editing. Yet no one watches them

Do you stream?

Link your socials.

I'm not interesting enough for people to watch me
I do upload some videos from time to time when I feel like it, but the process of editing a decent video together isn't worth 100% of my time

Gay as fuck but in a good way.

I don't believe in being a leech

Gay as fuck but in a bad way.

My attention span has gotten a lot worse, so unless I'm playing something long that I want to avoid spoilers on, I won't have the drive to stay constantly playing for house on end, in which case I'm not going to be making jokes or responding to chat because I'm focusing.

Not him but that one interview with Joel Davis where he talked to that greasy brownoid about why white people have a right to have their own countries free of non whites
Yidtube SEETHES at that sort of content

I'm too lazy and also I have a feeling that making a job out of playing vidya would make me enjoy vidya even less than I already do

Just make a video jacking off the most overrated game of all time: Chrono Trigger for easy manchildren views.

i don't really want to make a career out of it, i just want to make videos talking about anime i like and vidya, eventually
i get kind of self-conscious about how long my videos get, since i try to just go through whatever thing i'm talking about linearly, like i'm talking about it as i'm watching it (somebody pointed out that i talk about anime as if i'm talking about a game, which made me feel happy), i'm kind of scared people will think i'm another pretentious video essayist based on the length alone when i really just ramble into a microphone at length about a thing i like sometimes
dammit, i wanted to make a video on this game as well!

God is all the top ranked streamers. Hes taking all the money on streaming platforms, it’s a scam of his. Hes literally controlling his own human bodies. He’s so fucking scary, he licks his own asshole in a 2man group of NPCs then comes online and tricks us into watching him for ad revenue. It’s fucked up that we only get one body. Nobody licks my asshole because then a real person would have to do it. But god found a way to clone himself because he loved rimjobs so much.

I haven't played it and want to be genuine with any videos I make

just search Kekitopu

Good job, Anon. What's your average views per vid and subs, roughly?

If true, post something on Twitter right now like HJlolGHGHor screenshot this post

I'd rather do blue collar work and be able to yell nigger than be eternally under the thumb of a globohomo corp who can take my livelihood away at any minute.

I'd rather do blue collar work

than be eternally under the thumb of a globohomo corp who can take my livelihood away at any minute

Imagine not thinking these are the same things LMAO

give me until I get home and I'll post about passing 2k followers, I've been meaning to make a Tweet about that but keep forgetting

Imagine thinking a customer cares more about your social media profile than the fact that you are able to come fix their walk in freezer today instead of 2 weeks from now by which point they've lost 5 grand worth of product.

there you go

I was 8.

dafuck

i like how you draw Cream

Bitch. Mr Beast was 11.

Why would I want to make the one real form of entertainment I have into a job?

Nigger are you retarded?

I want to play games I never want to HAVE to play games

glownigger plant

mattering

Smartest poster in the smartest thread

Some people play chess or practice a sport for their entire lives without ever becoming world class at it

Some? Literally 99%

Started trying this year. Sitting at 1470 subs. Mostly doing Shorts.

I failed because I'm not a plant

Same reason I didn't try to become an actor, I don't want to entertain people.

Twenty Years

It should get hacked again

He's also a sociopath.

Not enough channels being posted. C'mon guys!

youtu.be/MCMwOL847rk?si=PuUoFMhP0cNoE1qL

Fuck off jewwy piece of shit. Nobody should be getting money off playing video games, be it streaming or tournament.

vtubeshit

kys

Tops about games i will never play.

Ragebait about Nintendo

My favorite game is Meme Fantasy 7, Kojimbo shit, Silent Hill 2

Nah, thanks, every youtube channel about games is the same copy/paste. Also, If you are not friend of Mr Beast, you won't be successful, no matter what.

But I didn't. I was still a pissbaby when you could make it big without being a sellout that has to censor themselves to have a modicum of success.

I used to upload arcade repairs until some jew went to every single video and copyright claimed every piece of music and got my channel deleted.

Kekitopu

Any words of wisdom for someone who wants to start on the path of 3d smuttery.

The highlight of my youtube '''career''' was two video of Adam Jensen beating women.

my buddy and I made and uploaded a few clips of us goofing around in a game or two and got zero views and didn't really care to grind it out.

Would anyone be interested in a video about completely pointless trivia about games that I'm 100% confident nobody has noticed before? Both popular games and obscure ones, but no flash games or iOS trash low hanging fruit. I could even throw in a technique in the last stage of Metal Slug that nobody else has done before.

Also, If you are not friend of Mr Beast, you won't be successful, no matter what.

Even then Beast would just use you to make more money

Would anyone be interested in a video about completely pointless trivia about games that I'm 100% confident nobody has noticed before?

Only if YOU'RE interested in it. The best way to make an audience care is to show them how much YOU care.

You 100% could build whole channels around this, but you'd want to frame them as shorts, make sure you've got a good voice, and brush up on your editing skills.

The best way to make an audience care is to show them how much YOU care.

So including brief anecdotes with each game is a good thing? I didn't just scour the internet for obscure crap everyone already knows, this is stuff that only I know with only a few exceptions.

How is earning money from your passion "Jewwy"?

After I quit my job and become a neet/unemployed again I might try it. I was neet from 2009 to 2024 and had plenty of time to try shit. Don't know why I didn't bother.