Welcome to psych IRL. My name is Donna
I've told this story before but when I was starting off youtube less than a thousand subs
I was in several groups on Facebook and on Google+
and you know
I was in a group with a bunch of small youtubers and we would boost each other up
watch each other's videos and things like that
That was three years ago almost four years ago and some people on that group have are long gone
They've quit YouTube and some are still here, some people I still talk to
and a small percentage of that group actually quit because of the hate comments
and I made this video because I was inspired by some of your comments
and some of you feel like
that you're too afraid to start a YouTube channel because you're afraid of the hate comments
and you're afraid to hear what other people think
so if you're in that group and you want to make YouTube videos
But you're too scared to do so because of those comments
this video is gonna be for you
now I'm trying to do this thing at the beginning of the week where I deliver some sort of value to you
and it's gonna be a less produced video
But essentially the videos will deliver again some sort of value
It can be anything about YouTube, camera gear,
if you're going into psychology for university, you can ask me any questions about that
Send me a DM on Instagram and maybe I'll make a video about it
Okay, so if you really want to start a youtube channel, and you're afraid of those comments
the reality of YouTube is, yes
hate comments and criticism is gonna be there
But you gotta ask yourself this question.
What is your goal with making youtube videos?
There are pretty common reasons as to why someone may want to start a YouTube channel
The first is you just want to create content
if you just want to create content, YouTube may not be the place for you
There are plenty of avenues you can take where you can just create content
you can just make something, keep it for yourself, and watch it over and over again,
share with your friends family and keep in mind if you do share your content with people
Criticism is going to be inevitable
with YouTube, it's just vast because it's going to be in front of more eyeballs and
those people may not be people you know
Wish you would quit. This sounds like sh. no affence
So if you just want to create content
YouTube isn't the only place to do that
other people make youtube videos because they want to make friends
We see a lot of these youtubers hang out with these big groups of people and we think
"oh wow. They're so cool. I wish I had friends like that"
So you may make videos in hopes of gaining friends like them
You guessed it. YouTube isn't the only place to make friends with people with certain interests
You can do that anywhere. You can take classes
There's this meetup site that you can go to if you don't want to take classes
There are different avenues to do that as well
Okay. Okay. What about this one? You want to make money producing video.
I'm sure you're catching on to the pattern here,
but YouTube isn't the only place to make money making videos
In fact, if you join YouTube just to make money. It really isn't gonna go well adsense pays...
I think YouTube has even implemented a certain rule
where you have to hit a certain threshold in order for you to monetize your channel
Sure, you can make a portfolio on YouTube displaying your awesome video skills,
but it shouldn't be the place where you start making money
So why should you make a YouTube channel?
if you want to try new things and you just like the whole aspect and structure of YouTube then
Then you should make a YouTube channel
What makes YouTube unique is
It isn't just a platform where you upload content and leave it out there and push it out there into the world
It's also a community.
So a lot of small youtubers make the mistake of not interacting with other people.
They just keep to themselves and just upload content
No YouTube is a community. You make video responses, you react to certain people
and that's a big reason why there's so many criticisms and hate comments on people's videos because
YouTube is a community after all it's not like Netflix
where, sure there can be critics
But you don't directly see that on the content
that scares a lot of people and it deters a lot of people from creating on YouTube
there's this thing with anonymity for some reason
Anonymity just makes people a lot meaner.
When they leave a comment, they know they're not gonna face any consequences
So they leave that comment anyway
in addition, dehumanization is a big part of why there are a lot of harsh comments on YouTube
You don't see the people you're commenting on as people
a lot of the times you see them as characters
as just a person behind the screen even though they do clearly have a human body
I mean, we've all kind of experienced this while we're driving and we road rage
We don't see the vehicle as a human
We just see it as a vehicle. The same thing can happen with YouTube and YouTube comments
Depending on my mood, sometimes I do answer hate comments or criticism
and you can tell that there is this level of dehumanization that happens because I
sometimes address them by their name and then I respond to their comments in a respectful way
and then all of a sudden their mean tone changes
but I'm always like, you could have started your tone like that. So that's one way of dealing with hate comments
You could remind the person that,
hey we're humans too and I know you wouldn't act like that if we were face to face
Personally, I turned off notifications for comments on my phone
And not because of criticism or hate comments
But because there was just so many notifications going on at once and when I turn that off
I realize that it just makes my day better when I don't have to think about comments.
There are definitely different levels to how comments affect people.
If you really don't like them delete them
and I know that's a controversial thing to do on YouTube
but there is a difference between criticism and hate
If it's a critical comment, I wouldn't delete those
I'd answer them respectfully, trying to get to the bottom of why they're criticizing your content
and sometimes they're just hate comments where they say
Okay stupid face
deleting that it's in censorship or anything like you're not hiding anything from anyone
I also realized that I can't make everyone happy
In certain videos there's one piece of advice
and then on that same video, there's an opposing argument
and so you're kind of
trapped between a rock and a hard place of who do I listen to
that is the reality of YouTube and you've just gotta embrace that. You gotta ebrace the suck
That's what she said
That's a military saying by the way and it's real
at the end of the day who cares what Joe356 thinks
the one hate comment that I do get is, "man, I hate your voice"
Well that's too bad
I'm so sorry
and you know what? why not? Why not just try
you know saying, you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take
and if you're still not convinced YouTube does have a lot of benefits
If you really think you have something important to share
if you just help 1 person and you're gonna get 5 people that hate you,
Are you willing to share that with that one person?
That's the end of the video. I will see you guys next time. Stay Psyched!