Do you suffer from 'Post-Upload Depression'?

JV Trammell said:
Hello everyone! I recently saw a video on Tomska's vlog channel where he talked about 'PUD' and I quickly realized how often I feel disappointed or down right after uploading a video because it doesn't get the reaction I hoped for.
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I have uploaded videos that I thought would not get a great viewership and they ended up on the top of my views list ever since I uploaded it and then others I thought would do pretty well not do well at all. I however do not suffer from that depression. I have been doing it for so long I have grown accustomed to 200-300 views for regular videos, 1000 views for cars and coffee videos and 1000+ for car reviews. I always hit those numbers, and even if I wouldn't I'd just chalk it up on not having the appeal for the general public. I mean, my mustang review does pretty good, but I reviewed a SAAB out of all things and it is still pulling in more views per day. It could very well be the #1 video on my channel within a year or so. Why do I still upload videos that hit 200-300? Because I enjoy making them. And that is why I YouTube. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to do it for a living, everyone can dream. But after 3 years you have got to be realistic. (although, I still dream... that is a small part of the pie that keeps me doing what I am doing).
 
I didn't even know this was a thing! Pretty interesting. I'm sure most everyone who's not big on YouTube deals with this at times. I definitely do, it can be hard when you put a lot of work into a video and don't get the outcome you wanted.
 
As long as I'm making progress in viewer count every 28-30 days, I'm happy haha. For me the views don't necessarily have to come from a single video. If one video gets 2 views but I still meet my own personal quota and goals through other videos then I've got nothing to worry about.
 
For me it's weird. I feel the same as when I handed in my dissertation in college. Something I've worked on for so long it became hard to hand over, and once I did hand it over, I felt like a big part of me was missing now.

same with my vids, I work on them for so long I get attached to it, it's been a part of every day of my life for months, so to have it just thrown out there for the public to judge is quite scary. I often miss working on vids, but I always get excited for the next big project!

if the videos reception was bad I would get quite discouraged, but it's important to take in any negativity you get.
When I posted my lizard cops series and even the sequel too, they got really mixed results, a lot more negative criticism then I've ever had, and at the time it really was discouraging, especially when I made such huge improvements to the sequel.
but looking back NOW, I completely see where they were coming from, all the criticisms were right, and actually very valuable feedback that I've taken into account big time. I can appreciate when a video does poorly because there's usually a good reason behind it.
 
I don't think I've had post upload depression, but I think it's because I spend the majority of the time making the backing tracks instead of the video. After the backing track is made I continue practicing along with it, so it's sort of like I never finish working on a video.

But I get upload anxiety! =S I get super nervous each time I upload a video because I have no idea what people are going to think. I probably wouldn't take a lot of criticism very well, but I always try to brace for it...When people say nice things and keep everything positive, it's like a big relief. lol!
 
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