Are you embarrassed to be doing Youtube?

The first year I actually only told my boyfriend and best friend, no one else knew. Untill I got decent views and subs I started sharing it gradualy but I noticed allot of people don't care for it al. My parent don't seem to understand the gravity of it and think I'm just playing around, and one of my siblings who's allot older then me I'll probably never tell because let's just say we don't have that kind of bond. But anyone who is now new or close to me knows and supports me in YouTube and those are the people who I value in life.
 
Heck yeah. Having a name like wonderwonderwonderman is embarrassing in itself, and I can be pretty weird in my videos. Still, as the quality of my content improves, so does my willingness to share it with friends.
 
With my old channels I had, it was an animation channel with MLP style content, I was a bit embarrassed about it and wouldn't share it with my friends in real life, but honestly it was the whole thing where I was in that fandom that I didn't want to share with people because of how it had been given it's crappy light. Nowadays I don't acknowledge it because it was a past, but when somebody does happen to stumble across it and put two and two together, I'll be glad to say that was me, I guess it took just a bit of growing up to get used to it.
 
Nope not at all.. but when I first started it was weird but now I talk better with the camera on.. comes very natural for me and as for people who watch my videos that I know in person... I give no fucks on what people think =)
 
I don't feel embarrassed, though I think a larger percentage of people my age have preconceived notions about what creating for Youtube means, especially if it's a hobby. If I did it full time/professionally, I wouldn't care about that--it feels almost like people would be quicker to accept that you do something they don't understand if they can put a dollar value on it. As a hobby, though, there's a sense that it is a narcissistic and frivolous thing to do (at least in my circles).

I've told only a couple of very close friends whom I know would support me no matter what. Almost hate to admit it, but I feel I need to mature as creator and fully develop my channel before putting myself out there in front of people like colleagues and acquaintances. Maybe I'm just second guessing myself too much?

Nice to see in this thread though that I'm not totally alone :)
 
I tell people that I do YouTube, but don't actually tell them my channel name. I just feel like I'm a lot more open on YouTube than in real life so I feel kind of vulnerable about how much I share.
 
I tell about my channel to friends and family. And they are pretty supportive. But its hard to tell a random stranger yeah. But sometimes if you wanna promote your channel you kinda have to talk to strangers about your channel :p
 
Rashida J said:
I was very embarrassed initially. I think I was more worried about the people not getting it. People have you defined to a particular role and when you step out of that it can get uncomfortable or confusing for them.

Either way I made myself share it on my personal social media platform. Overall, it has been positive. Some of my family and friends share my videos and some have given great feedback to help me improve.
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I feel the same way! I'm not embarrassed about doing it because I love it but like you said, people have you defined to a particular role and if you even skew away from it a little bit, they almost reject the idea that you do other things too.

I would love to open up to my family and friends about my YouTube but they've all got me into such a defined role that they'll never understand. People (mostly family) are quick to judge and almost rejects anything creative or doing something just for the sake of doing it without necessarily receiving something in exchange.
 
ChargunHD said:
Iv never had an issue with telling my friends that I do YouTube but iv always had an issue with my mum and dad because they still feel and believe that YouTube is a waste of time and feel like I shouldn't be putting as much into it as I have and focus more on getting a stabke job etc. Which to certain degree is true but my love for YouTube is too strong.
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So true! My mom and family in general would think that I'm wasting my time. They always tell me to focus on college and all that which I kinda agree with. But, since I started doing YouTube, I have learned more about myself than I ever knew. I have slowly learned to love who I am and have more confidence in what I do. Of course, it helped a lot with public speaking or just socialization in general
 
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