TDW 1390 - How To Succeed On YouTube in 2016
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.
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It's my second channel, daily vlog
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channel. Pay no attention to Adam's arm.
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It's a daily woo.
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Did I just bark like a dog? If you keep
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your eyes peeled off in the distance,
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look closely. You can see Space Mountain
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and the Matterhorn from the freeway.
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You don't see that view in Florida,
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that's for sure. Man, look at this cool
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car right here. That's pretty rad. Did I
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just say rad? I'm showing my age, by the
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way. I shaved. That's my shadow and
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that's a store. I'm going inside. I need
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my gum. The Montreal at Disneyland is
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currently not operating. Check it out.
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Starbucks is coming to Downtown Disney.
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prepare thyelves. Actually, let me
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rephrase that. There already is a
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Starbucks a hundred yards, less than a
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football field length away from the new
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Starbucks that's being built. They're
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taking over. I made it in just in time
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for a rope drop. A friend of mine from
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Florida's here. I'm stopping off for a
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quick hello.
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Good morning.
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It's coffee time. Going full iced coffee
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today. It's a little warm, so why not
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chill down with some ice? Good morning.
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It's one of the infamous Disneyland
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cats. They exist. Looks like they have a
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new security guard guarding the entrance
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to Star Wars Land. They don't want
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anybody peeking through that wall. I got
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you. I'll keep my distance. Whoa, he's
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coming this way.
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I got that uh
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What's he doing? here.
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What's he doing?
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Push them in. Push them in.
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Get ready.
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Get ready to make the plunge.
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Your lower is higher. Trying to get up
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there.
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We all like to help you, but you know
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mama
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so close.
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The tunnel
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that doesn't exist. Well, it exists.
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There's just no train tracks once you
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get into the darkness. Time to cash in
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this fastass. All right, Micah. All the
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way from Florida. All the way from
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Florida. You're in California. You've
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never ridden this the Space Mountain
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Star Wars overlay. Are you stoked? I'm
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stoked. I'm going to get your review
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after the ride. Sounds good. Oh, here
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goes nothing. Here we go.
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Let's check out the photo. Oh, you're
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giving a thumbs up there. I did. That
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must have mean you liked it. I loved it.
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That was incredible. Compared to regular
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Space Mountain, I This is better. I love
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it, man. Look how stoked you look. I was
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so stoked. I was trying to find the
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camera, but look at you. I know. So, I
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just learned a little fact from Micah.
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He has never been on Indiana Jones at
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Disneyland. The only Indiana Jones
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theming ride or slatt attraction, you
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know, as at Hollywood Studios that is
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nothing like what here on the West Coast
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presents to you. It's epic. So, I get to
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go not only Space Mountain, but I get to
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get your reaction from Indiana Jones.
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Yep. You're going to love this. You know
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where you are. I have no idea. You in
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the jungle, baby. Pull on that pole.
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Just tug on it hard. Hard.
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Pull it towards you hard.
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Oh, there it goes. The roof is caving
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in. Oh, wow. Caving the roof in. Are you
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ready for this? I'm ready. You don't
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even know what to expect right now. I
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have no idea. I'm not going to give any
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spoilers. All right. His eyes.
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All right. What's the consensus? Oh my
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gosh. You like it? That was too cool. I
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I'm really like upset that it's taken me
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this long to finally ride that ride.
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That's what I said the first time I did
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it. Time for some lunch at the Hungry
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Bear. Hungry. You can see how there's no
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train tracks. The train tracks have been
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pulled up and instead of the train going
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directly through there, those doors are
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closed. They have the Country Bears mugs
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here. They don't have the attraction at
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Disneyland, but they sell the mug. Look
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at these crazy guys right there. They
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got the crispy chicken sandwich here.
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This looks pretty good. Coke, what'd you
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get? Same thing. Rings. Yep. They got
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these little curtain disguises up and
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this fence up. That way you can't peek
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into Rivers of America or from up there
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on the top balcony of Hungry Bear
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restaurant. So you can't see down into
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the Star Wars construction.
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Oh man, just in time. Look what's
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heading this way.
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heading out. Please place young children
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toward the inside of the tram away from
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the side. There's no one on here but me.
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We will begin our trip shortly. Cut the
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whole tram to myself.
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Look at that sunset.
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That's amazing right there.
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It feels amazing outside right now. Got
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to love Southern California evenings.
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I've never seen a street sign in a
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public park before. This isn't a road.
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This is just a sidewalk. But there's a
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street sign. I want to talk to you a
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little bit about YouTube. Not just
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watching YouTube videos, but creating
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YouTube content. Let's say you have a
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YouTube channel. You're thinking about
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starting a YouTube channel, and you
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would like a little bit of advice from
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me. This is what this segment of the
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vlog will be dedicated to. Every single
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day I either get a comment either on the
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YouTube videos, either a tweet, a reply
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on social media, Facebook, Instagram, or
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I will meet someone out in public and
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they will say, "Adam, you have inspired
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me to do YouTube videos." And I feel
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like at this point after having people
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come up to me and say that I should give
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you a little bit of my advice, my
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personal experience and my personal
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thoughts on the subject. The first thing
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you need to do is decide on why you want
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to make YouTube videos. I think in my
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opinion there are two different types of
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YouTube content creators. There are
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those who just do it as a hobby. They do
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a video occasionally
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simply to put something as a hosting
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arena to post a home video or a funny
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little skit that they're doing. That way
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they can email it to their family, email
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it to their friends. And the reason I
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say this type of YouTube person exists
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cuz that's what I used to be until I
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realized what YouTube could be used for.
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Which brings me to the second type of
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YouTube persona. those who are doing it
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not only to be creative but also to
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progress and hopefully be successful
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either when it comes to subscribers,
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when it comes to monetization, when it
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comes to popularity, whatever your
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reason is. If you are monetizing a
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video, if you are selling t-shirts, if
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you are doing any of that, the whole
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point of that and the reason you are
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doing that is because you want to
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succeed. you want to create something.
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So, those are the two different types of
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YouTube personalities that are putting
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content onto YouTube. Now, if you have
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figured out which one of those two
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categories you fall into, we can
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continue on with my advice. If you do or
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are deciding to do daily vlogs, going
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out and doing fun things, or at least
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uploading every single day without
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missing a day, and you're putting the
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stress of editing into your life, there
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is a good percentage of a chance that
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you are doing this because you want to
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progress and move forward. I have this
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philosophy about YouTube and the
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different waves of YouTube just like
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music has different waves like SCA
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there's the first wave of SCA the second
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wave wave of SCA that can also be
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applied to YouTube I think there are
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different waves of YouTube and the
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growth of YouTube for example if you are
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starting or if you do a daily vlog you
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know of other popular daily vloggers
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that are way up there on the tier of
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popularity on YouTube. I'm referring to
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like the Shay Carl, the Charles
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Trippies, those type of people. They
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started on the first wave of YouTube
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2006, 2007, 2008. I'm using those only
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as example. There are a plethora of
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others. I consider myself to be the
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second wave of YouTube. I did not start
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doing YouTube quote unquote full-time
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until the end of 2011.
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This is 2016.
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I like to refer to this as the third
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wave of YouTube, but in reality, it
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could be approaching the fourth wave of
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YouTube. If you look at a lot of those
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first wave vloggers and YouTubers who
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were uploading content at least every
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day or at least once a week,
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relentlessly filming and relentlessly
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coming up with ideas, you'll notice that
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their subscribers grew dramatically
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because remember what I was saying the
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other day about building a wall like
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this. You don't build a wall in a day.
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You build it over time. Since they've
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been doing it for so long, they have
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developed and built a YouTube wall. And
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back in those days, there weren't really
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a whole heck of a lot of people doing
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YouTube videos. So, they kind of had a
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jump start. This quote unquote first
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wave. This is a terminology that I am
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just now making up. And because of that,
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more people were not content creators.
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They were just viewers and they would
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subscribe. So, they got a little bit of
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a jump start on the second waivers, the
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third waivers, and now in 2016, whatever
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you want to refer to it as. When I
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started doing videos full-time at the
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end of 2011, it has taken me all that
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time to get to the point at the level
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that I am at at just putting content
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out, constantly coming up with ideas,
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constantly waking up every day, getting
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motivated to go out, film stuff, do
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things, and I am only at this certain
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level where I am, which brings me to my
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main point about anyone that's starting
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a YouTube channel today. You have an
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incredible task ahead of you with making
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a name for yourself and putting yourself
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ahead of everyone else that came before
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you. Think about that. There are so many
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people doing YouTube. There are so many
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vloggers, daily vloggers, people
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vlogging in their house. Every subject
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has been covered, documented, put out
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there. if you are going to succeed at
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all, even if you're going to get a
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moderate amount of followers and try to
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go to the next level of where you want
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to go, which is why you're doing it
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doing this whole YouTube thing anyway.
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If you're trying to do it to make it a
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career, let's say you eventually want to
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quit your job, let's say you eventually
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want to do YouTube full-time. The whole
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goal is to get more subscribers, more
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views. It takes a lot of work. It took a
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lot of work for me to get where I am.
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and I had a fiveyear head start on what
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you're going to do. My major
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piece of advice is to do something
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original, be very creative, be more
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creative than those in the past and
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those who are doing it along with you.
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Now, if you're just doing it just to,
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you know, to put videos out there and to
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have a good time, you have nothing to
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worry about because you will not have
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that stress of being bummed out about
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losing subscribers, about not getting
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that many views on your videos. But if
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you're doing it for that second reason,
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which is trying to make this your
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livelihood and make this your passion
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and your desire and you want everybody
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wants their content seen by everyone
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else. No one is creative just for
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themselves. If you were creative just
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for yourself, you would not be putting
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this on the internet. The whole point of
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it, you would not have Twitter and
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Instagram and Facebook. You want to be
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seen. You want your creation,
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your desire, your passions to be seen by
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the world. And if you're going to do
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this, if you're going to succeed, what
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success is in your mind, you're really
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going to have to step up the game big
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time. And I'm speaking from experience
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because I always feel there is a part of
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what I have done on YouTube which man I
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have been overly more successful than I
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thought I would ever be. In the grand
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scheme of things, I am not a huge
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YouTuber. Compared to what I thought I
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would do, I am way past that. But I
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always feel that if I would have started
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YouTube earlier, a few years earlier, I
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would be way farther ahead. back to that
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whole building a wall brick by brick by
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brick and now it's your turn. If you are
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deciding on doing a YouTube channel,
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doing vlogging, documenting things, you
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have to step your game up. You have to
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be able to work at it. You have to be
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dedicated to work at it constantly every
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spare second thinking of ideas, filming,
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editing, going out, doing things, doing
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something original. The key is
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originality. I could write a huge list
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of friends, acquaintances, people that I
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met, friends of friends who have started
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YouTube channels and gave up because
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they thought it was going to be much
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easier than it really is. And that was a
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while back. As time goes on, like I said
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a minute ago, so many people are now
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doing YouTube.
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If you are going to progress, if you are
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going to attempt to make it in this
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crazy YouTube world, you have to at
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least heed my advice. Not follow it, but
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take what I said to heart. I am not an
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expert. I am not a YouTube mogul in any
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way, shape, or form. I'm just speaking
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from experience. And so many people, so
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so many people are coming up to me all
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the time and saying, "I'm going to start
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doing YouTube videos." which I think is
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completely amazing because it is good to
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go out and do things, document things,
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but you have to decide, are you the
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person number one or are you the person
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number two? Are you doing it as a hobby?
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Are you trying to make YouTube your
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livelihood and your career? If number
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two is your option, just remember,
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you got to put your all into it. There
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is no half, you know what, you have to
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go full force. I heard a saying one time
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that 100%
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dedication
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receives 100% reward. If you only put
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half of the dedication in, you're only
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going to get half the reward. All right,
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that's enough for now. I'll see you guys
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later. Bye.