Hello.
I'm here with my friend Carla
-in Havana... -Cuba.
You guys already know that one of my best friend's is Karla with a K.
-This is Karla with a C. -With a C.
She is a YouTuber in Cuba.
She lives in Cuba, she is from Cuba, she was born in Cuba,
she makes videos in Cuba about Cuba.
And in English.
So, you guys can check out her channel.
What made you start your YouTube channel?
Why do you do this?
Well...
Why did you give yourself all this stress?
Right? Yeah.
I think that not a lot of people know about Cuba,
there is not enough information in English
but it's really hard work, guys.
Hey look we found Karla with the K.
That's not you.
Is there a place called Carla with the C here?
No in Cuba Karla with the K is more common than with the C.
My parents are not conventional.
You're talking to the girl whose name is Romina, so.
Right.
Talk about conventional.
You started your channel a year ago?
Yes.
The key of having a really good channel is being consistent,
and I'm not.
If you want to start a channel
first of all you need to make content,
content is king.
You need to be consistent, and I'm not.
Sometimes it's really frustrating.
Carla and I were just walking around and we ran into this girl
and her name is Romy, R-O-M-Y.
My nickname is Romy and I spell it R-O-M-Y.
She came up to us because I'm holding this camera.
Oh, are you guys vloggers?
I'm starting my channel, what do I do?
Carla's over here giving some really great advice.
Understand that it's really important what you want to do
like passion, do you like like fashion, do you like travel.
Music.
-Music? -Yeah, I sing.
You're a singer?
Share your experience about that
and then if your passion is to travel
also you can like travel and music.
Not so easy as people think.
I was like searching for months
how to edit, how to make the speed faster.
You need to start and then learn with the time.
My first video was so awful.
Romina, she has really good YouTube videos.
I did not pay her to say that.
Romy was talking about wanting to do a channel
that was just her, like she just wants to be herself.
Find something that you're passionate about
and share that with people.
Even if you're just being yourself,
cause people want to be able to see you.
By the way, Romy is from Panama.
So, we've got people from all over the world over here.
Yes. Cuba, Panama, States
How many subscribers do you have right now?
Fifty.
Don't. Why are you saying it like that?
You gotta be proud.
How many subscribers do you have?
Fifty.
You have to start somewhere.
See, I started with 0 subscribers
how many subscribers did you have when you started?
Zero as well.
I used to film with my phone.
You see, you just have to start with something.
I respect everyone that does YouTube.
But I see that some people
that don't make quality content,
they grow really fast.
And then my people don't watch my videos,
that is really frustrating.
Why I'm doing this? I'm not making money of it,
because in Cuba we can't monetize.
I have a lot of ideas but I don't have a lot of time.
You said like there's people who don't spend a lot of time,
then they have a lot of people watching them.
So, it's really, that is kind of frustrating.
Why do it? Why do you keep doing it?
I get really happy when people say that,
Oh, thank you so much for your information,
it really helps me.
Because I'm doing this because I want to help people
to understand how to plan their trip in Cuba,
that's why I'm doing this.
When people will see you on the street
think that you're crazy because you're talking with the camera.
I love it. I love meeting people like Carla.
We're doing interesting things.
Something that's really important to me
is having a community.
I have a few Facebook groups that I've set up.
I try to have meetups.
I just love getting people together and having a common interest.
The community of Cuban YouTubers are...
It's really hard to be all together
because I think that our community is really apart.
You think that it's hard to find a good community here in Cuba.
So, you don't really have that sense of community.
Yes, exactly. We don't have that.
And that is important, to have like a community
because like you can support each other.
You don't have to worry about that anymore because I'm your community now.
♪Sonando en nuestro coche♪
♪Si me das la oportunidad, corazón, de que nos besemos a solas♪
That is it for this video, I hope that you enjoyed it,
if you did then please give me a thumbs up
and be sure to subscribe, and subscribe to Carla.
This is Carla with a C, remember that.
The link for her channel is gonna be in the description.
We did an awesome video on her channel.
Yes.
You're gonna want to watch it, it's really entertaining.
But for now I'm gonna go.
So, I will see you when I see you, bye!
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