there you go ignore the destroyed state of the shelf in the background there is carl in all his
glory i'm only partially late for once we're gonna have some fun looking at every video i
made last year i'm ready to explain some thought process behind uh how terrible some of those did
it should be a fun learning experience for all well run away i've got you both in frame oh i
did it there they are there's both of them aren't they adorable cat content the best kind of content
oh gosh nope no you can't come on the streaming computer i gave you your treats going so today
the plan is to go over every video that i made last year there's about 47 of them what went
right what went wrong we're putting them in a tier list it's gonna be great fun hopefully you guys
will come away learning something and hopefully i will too these aren't in any particular order when
i uploaded all the thumbnails from all my videos onto here it kind of destroyed the order some of
them are using their original thumbnails because i file everything by month but this is all of them
first video we're gonna look at is actually right here in the middle four different ways to become a
v tuber for free or cheap it was my first attempt at a youtube short and it is not very great this
thumbnail shows absolutely nothing this is also when i was first starting out it showed a little
clip of the four programs that i was trying to show off since it was one of my first my editing
skills weren't very great and that could have led to some of the bad things the next one we're gonna
go over is another one of our earlier videos i think this might have actually been our second
or third real video on the channel and how much does it cost to become a youtuber which is this
guy but this was the first video that i took a ton of time wrote down all the expenses i tried to
look everything up i tried to compare prices the editing is not super fancy but i think it gets the
point across however if i were to redo this video again i would have been a lot more specific about
where the cost could have come from that was one major complaint so the lesson i learned from this
one is be as specific as you can if you go general you're gonna bring in a whole bunch of questions
that weren't even part of the original problem you were trying to ask so that's why i went with this
but next up the new v2 studio update trend which i'm sure you are all familiar with i actually
don't remember which update this was specifically about which is really bad so this is right when
a couple new features came out for youtube studio i don't really think any of my update videos are
that spectacular they are good for views though once you have a viewer base built around a certain
topic keep giving them what they want next up is our 2d versus 3d video fun fact about this one
it's actually gotten a little bit of traction on google for some reason why i don't know it
just has it's just kind of there i actually still stand by a lot of the things i say in here even
though it's not particularly presented as good information i would not be upset if i uploaded
more like this plus it's one of my opinion piece videos and i love making them so there's that you
don't need art skills there's actually a newer one this is a solid c tier it's not good it's not
bad and i'm glad i make it i think it's got good information for you but the editing is not super
tight and neither is the whole script so it's kind of solid seat here and that's also happens
to be how it's performing oh this one how to get the most out of your webcam this gave information
that i don't think many other people were talking about and is a great example of reading through
the comments is what gave me this idea people were complaining on some of my other videos which we'll
get to down the road talking about webcams like how to get the most out of it it's your lighting
it's the position it's all this other stuff that can make such a huge difference and more
importantly like i said it was a it was a good i listened to what people were talking about and
made a video about it and i feel like i did good oh next up is our good old how to buy a 2d model i
kind of overestimated how much people would care about this somehow in my head i had forgotten that
like buying a super high-end live 2d model is a luxury not only am i looking at the v2 being niche
as a whole but i'm looking at a niche of a niche who can actually afford the high-end models that's
not something that everyone can do you know now the complete guide to v-tubing is one of the few
f-tiers i've got going here i'm very happy with all the information i put into it but i sound like
i'm just dead inside throughout the entire thing i could have just made that into like eight videos
and they would have done so much better i would have been so much more energetic about them
basically everything about that video would have been better if i had just broken it up like i
normally do the other half tier is a video that's not even on the channel anymore it's not public
it's the how to stream with people video for the first six months of that video's life
i didn't notice that the title was misspelled the description wasn't great everything about
this video was awful but it seemed like a good idea at the time as most of these videos will
all the reality videos are a tier they are so good again this came from a viewer someone was like hey
you should do reality and i kind of brushed them off and then like a month later i looked into it
i was like oh this is actually kind of fun we did a stream with it we talked about it i had a lot
of fun learning about a whole different side of streaming that i didn't even know existed
looking for new stuff is really fun i believe this is the v magic mirror video this was just one that
i wanted to make i saw a need people wanted free stuff so i made a video about free stuff and it
did pretty well next up is another opinion piece video newsflash not many of these actually do
very well this is the set better goals where i talk about what you should really be focused on
depending on what you need looking back i wouldn't make another video like that unless i could tie
it into either the v tubing niche specifically or have it as like an addendum to something else i'm
already talking about i could have chosen a better topic all a live open auditions anything related
to auditions is like the bottom of b tier they all perform better than normal because everyone cares
about hall alive everyone cares about niji sanji everyone cares about vshojo seriously guys if you
just have those in the title and description your video is going to get noticed like five times more
than it would normally which is why i've done so many of them i'm not ashamed to admit it uh
hotkeys are amazing this was a slightly above the middle of the pack i was excited about it v tube
studio had just come out on steam just good okay this next video is super interesting this is an
s tier that i did not expect to be an s tier and is actually one of my fastest videos i have ever
made how to stream with v tube studio this video took me maybe three hours and all it was i kept
getting the question of hey how do you set this up with obs and streamlabs and that's all i showed
it's like a three minute video it is the number one video on the channel right now if you just
feel a need it works if you just answer people's questions it works it's crazy and that's that's
actually one of the videos that sparked keeping things smaller my strength seems to be if people
have a question i just answer it and i'm done i don't try and keep you there with a story for
10 minutes you know you got your time i got mine let's go on you know we're just going to take care
of this one v studio tutorial s tier second best video on the channel i released this video within
a week i believe of it coming out on steam and that's why it did so well even though there were
plenty of other people who have done videos on youtube studio you know it was just i saw a need i
filled it however the next one that i thought like oh let's do it again with uh vc face i thought it
was gonna be great i shot the whole thing in 3d because i wanted to be more like authentic
i went over everything i used and no one really cares once i researched it later and saw just how
much more fought over the 3d spaces than the 2d for at least their programs that made me decide
to get out of the 3d sphere and if you're gonna do 3d stuff and have that be your your gimmick
you got to be doing something crazy something special or you have to be absolutely spectacular
to get anywhere there eye opening almost as eye-opening as this next video which is easily top
of eight here this was the video that i credit to putting me on the map this was the first video i
did about youtube studio and i was just comparing the iphone to a bunch of webcams it gave me a good
direction it made it seem like oh tutorials are something that you can do and it performed very
well oh next one the good times gone this was a this was another just middle of the packer this
was me giving my thoughts about v tubing and where it was going uh let's see next up is the
items update video which is probably the top of sea tier it was just a good example of i like that
this happened so i'm gonna make a video about it people who also like this thing will care people
who don't like this thing won't care and you know overall it turned out to be okay oh some of my
favorite videos now the free hand tracking video this is another seat here this is just a straight
up tutorial about collido face it was a fun new technology i was happy to make it ah nothing
nothing too special about it oh okay next video this one was one of the most fun videos i've ever
made you might be surprised where this goes autumn would be tear i had the most fun making this video
it was a project my first cover video it's like joining the trend way after it's already run its
course you know everyone under the sun has done a king cover but it was still fun i got some cool
art out of it i made a mouse pad out of it you know it was just it was good and 10 out of 10 can
and will do it again so this one was interesting because this is an example of me getting way too
overzealous with the video and not quite finishing my research on it in fact this is probably bottom
of e-tier so this is the how to turn on lip sync which tells you how to turn on lip sync but it
kind of stops there and it doesn't tell you the rest about how to fine tune it which i did do in
a later video but that's why this gets like bottom of detail is it still tells you enough information
that i don't feel like i was intentionally misleading you and i didn't realize that i
hadn't gone all the way with all the information you needed but that's why that gets down in d
so now we're going to get to a few a few more of the fun ones so this live 2d just got upgraded
this is another update video this was the most excited update and this genuinely changes how you
interact with the program which is why it's the only update video that actually gets to be above
average we got another c tier video this one's probably the top of c everything in this video is
free i'm personally proud of that one i went out of my way to try and find all the free programs
uses like the cheapest possible setup that i could using like towels and stuff for sound dampening a
broken down cardboard box the worst mic i had i think i didn't even use a microphone i used
my phone mic for that video and it did it did pretty good i was pretty proud of it don't find
motivation make it this one kind of gets to go down here it's a little bit outside my demographic
of people i'm not a motivational channel it was just me testing something and the test did not go
particularly well oh now we're getting to the niji sanji block which is uh solid a tears i
made three videos about the niji sanji auditions in one month guys i think i have a problem and all
three of them have different bits of information but they're all about the audition process now
the first one was talking about should you join niji sanji is a company and reasons why you might
not want to the second one was talking about audition strategies the third one was literally
just answering i think the top seven or eight questions i had gotten over and over and over
about the niji sanji auditions these are shameless bandwagon videos trend jacking works guys oh now
we get to go into some of low d f tiers uh the project kawaii i made it about corporate v tubers
and implications that would come about that that was a lesson learned and since we're talking about
some f tiers let's go ahead and just throw the uh news show that i tried to do down in f tier still
to this day the only video that has actively lost me subscribers so i learned you know maybe
maybe stay away from the news shows and now i just do that on stream and it got a much
more positive reception when we're just talking about it like this but my next video is the one
i'm the second most proud of and funnily enough it's about p and youtubers the how to be a png
tuber in one minute that was an experiment by me instead of making this into like a seven or eight
long minute video because i could have i was like what if i could just do it in one minute and i did
and it did really well and it's still doing really well it's the number two video on the
channel and because we're gonna skip ahead again guess what's the number one video on the channel
by far right now the other png tuber video vado tube mini is the video i'm most proud of to tell
the story this video only happened because i made the complete guide to v tubing i saw
there was this huge spike see right there that's when i start talking about vado tube mini people
really care about that and so that's what led to the veda tube mini video which
is the video that i did immediately after and it's it's just killing it man it's so good sss tier
and i'm so happy i paid attention to my bad videos which is gonna lead us into the video that i made
about this whole process which is bad content can make great videos i believe is what i called
it this video by itself underperformed but this is me talking about how one of my worst videos led to
one of my best videos next up is the hand tracking video this is just another solid update video
it's actually probably in the low beat here the stream actually did better than the video did
which is funny probably because i did the stream first new exciting technology that we haven't seen
before over performed the average that's really the lesson i've learned throughout this last
year is that update videos are fine they're just never going to be the heavy hitters oh another
8-year video probably the top of a tier is the first comprehensive reality video i did that was
fun walking people through it how to get set up i still use that app to this day the only reason why
it's not nest here is because it's not performing as well as any of the videos in s tier but it's
definitely the top of age here everything about the reality videos that i made i love and i'm
so happy i took a chance on them uh should you v tube is another opinion piece that probably gets
to go down in detail you might notice that all of my opinion piece videos are down in detail people
don't seem to care about my opinions too much but i really like it when i just do tutorials uh again
down in d tier is the twitch versus youtube i think people would care a little bit more if i
remade that video today but back when i made most of these opinion piece of videos i had like three
or four hundred subscribers let's all be honest i think we can all be honest with ourselves if
someone has a really big number attached to their subscriber count you trust them more you don't
necessarily trust the guy who has 500 subscribers telling you how to be a successful streamer
and i get that they would probably do slightly better today than they did however many months
ago that just means i have to wait on some of my more opinionated pieces until i get bigger and
then you know maybe people will actually take them more seriously but we'll see that's always the
problem when you try and make a video that's about you when you're small no one cares and i know
that sounds harsh outside of you guys who are my community no one cares about who i am and that's
fine like it's okay to realize that but if you're trying to give someone advice for better or worse
they care about the number attached to your name and unfortunately that just means that some videos
that you might want to do that are more dependent upon your personality you might have to push off
in favor of doing things that are more digestible by people who aren't your core audience that's
something i've learned that's also why in a lot of my new videos you'll see me quoting other much
larger people who has more authority than i do to make sure that people will at least maybe listen
it's a bitter pill to swallow but you do need to understand that most people don't care and
it's your job to convince them team seas it was fun i was part of the team c's movement i guess
terrible terrible performing video but it was fun glad i did it not really upset about that one at
all it is what it is uh we vishojo auditions these didn't do quite as well as the niji sanji video so
i'm going to put it in b tier again it was just me talking about the new auditions surprise surprise
did okay and then we got our trifecta of vt chaos videos all seats here except for the first one
which was beat here did better than i thought actually probably because v tube studio like the
developer signal boosted them but this was kind of fun because you know it was me learning a new
skill developing it making videos and there will be more stuff that i do with it i'm just not sure
when we got the stream labs mobile because someone else did this i had already thought about doing it
i saw how well theirs did i thought i would do mine in a slightly different manner so i made it
and it's doing okay and then finally was my final opinion piece video which was you should
stop streaming it's an opinion i made it back when i didn't have very many subscribers oh i
remember what this video is this is how to sync your youtuber audio oh no this is like down here
no this is better than that this is like a beat here you may or may not also notice that i had
a problem in the old days a lot of my thumbnails look really similar which is why i have trouble
remembering what they're all about sometimes it's okay i was young then i've learned now at
least my thumbnails look different all right so let's let's start organizing that shall we
a lot of lessons learned but overall there are more things in the above average chair than there
were in the below average tier that is a very good sign and that's why we grew so much last
year we gained 1400 subscribers last year over 8 000 hours of watch time now 1500 views a day and
i'm glad that i've more often hit than missed and i'm really glad that i can kind of explain
some of the thought process that went behind these videos and hopefully help out y'all you know learn
from some of my mistakes focus on what work and we'll all get there there we go that's the
that's the sum of everything i learned from last year hope you guys enjoyed it