Hey guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer, and it is
Thursday, which means it's time to do some YouTube
Q&A with you guys.
Tech Talk wrote in and asked this,
"Hey Tim, I have a question.
As a gamer, sometimes the odd curse words
can come up due to stress.
I've learned how to censor the cursing now, however,
should I really be doing this?
Some in my audience say they find the cursing entertaining,
but I fear for possible younger audiences.
And censoring also gives a professional portrayal.
What is your opinion?"
Great question Tech Talk.
I think the answer to this depends on two things.
One, who you ask, whose opinion you're asking.
And two, also what your goals are on YouTube.
So let's start with number one who do you ask?
Years ago I remember seeing an interview
with Jerry Seinfeld where they asked him the same question.
They said how come you don't curse
in any of your jokes or your programming or anything?
And Jerry Seinfeld said something I think
was interesting.
He's not like opposed to swearing,
but he does feel like swearing cheapens the joke.
He feels like it's taking a shortcut just
to get the laugh for the sake of getting the laugh.
Because it's easy to just add a swear word in there
and make a lot of people laugh.
And he feels like the comedy is more genuine, it's more pure,
it's a better type of humor.
When you can get to that laugh without having
used the shortcut of swearing.
And I personally agree with that.
After he said that, I was like, yeah,
there's something true about that.
Like swearing is like a shortcut.
It does get a laugh, but it's not nearly the same type
of laughter and enjoyment as when you take the hard road
and actually get to that entertaining place
without taking the swear words.
But whether or not you swear on your channel also
depends number two, what your goals are
and if you're trying to lay in a lot of brand deals
then they're looking often for family friendly type
of content.
There's actually one creator here on YouTube
that attributes a lot of his growth
and success to many millions of subscribers here on YouTube
due to the fact that he stopped swearing in his videos,
and I'll tell you more about that in a second.
But first of all let's about the brand deals.
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Just to further my point about how most brands prefer
to work with creators who don't have a lot of swearing
in their videos and have pretty generally family friendly type
content.
Maybe you've heard of YouTube creator called Matt Santoro.
He has over 2 million subscribers right now,
but for the longest time he was trying
to do just comedy-based stuff and he
had a lot of swearing and things in it
and he was just growing really, really very slowly.
But then he switched to doing more
like educational-type videos.
He took out the swearing.
He took a lot of videos down from his channel
and he started making very family friendly type of content
now he is at over 2 million subscribers
and he's landing brand deals left and right.
And he attributes a lot of that to the fact
that he stopped swearing on this channel
and made his content very family friendly.
Whether or not you choose to do that is obviously up to you.
One the beauties about YouTube is
that you have complete freedom and control over your content.
But I personally recommend that if you
are trying to open up as many opportunities as possible
for you and your content and your community here on YouTube,
it's probably in your best interest
to cut back on the swearing if not eliminate it completely.
But obviously that's a choice you will have to make.
And I'm very curious to hear you guys think about this.
The comments below, definitely leave
your opinion and your thoughts.
How would you answer this question about whether or not
you should be swearing on your YouTube channel or not?
And as always, guys, I definitely
recommend that you go down there and read the comments
that they're sharing.
I know that you'll find some other very helpful opinions
and perspectives there.
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