People at school...

[Robyn.Turner]

Okay so I'm starting year 12 (lower sixth) at a school where I know nobody in a week and a bits time, I got bullied by a certain group of people (about 3 of them) at my old school because of my YouTube, they were once my good friends.
And I am so worried about people at my new school finding it and being horrible about it, like them finding it and supporting it I don't worry about, just them not being cool with it and all that :/

 

[Michael]

How do you think they will find it? I think the most obvious way would be social media perhaps if you share it and theyre your friends on them or via searching your name in Google. I am pretty sure that as a smaller and newer channel they wont discover it for a while unless they're heavy YouTube users already.

I wouldnt care what others think and just do what you enjoy, life is too short to care. I learned that after caring for way too long

 

[Tae]

Im going through this stage now, Im a senior (Year 12) and Im starting out my channel as well. Something that held me back for so long is the backlash that I could have received. At this point I realized that I'm doing this for me and me only. Once you get out of school those people won't matter as you most likely won't ever see them again. Don't worry about the people and don't let them stop you from doing you!

 

[HashtagConn]

Michael has a very good point, but if you decide to share your videos on social media there will definitely be people at your school who support your videos. Just remember to be nice to people and be yourself! If they don't like you or your videos, you don't need them! If they start picking on you, don't show any anger or sadness, people pick on others for the reaction. If they get no reaction, they'll stop.
I'm just telling you this from personal experience

 

[MagicFN]

If they find out about your YouTube and decide to be jerks about it and make fun of your videos and you, try playing along and joke about your videos to. Of course, you know they're in the wrong, but you poking fun at yourself will just discourage them from trying, seeing as you don't care.

For example, if people at my school find out I make videos of a children's card game (I'm in Year 11, a Junior), I s̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶S̶h̶a̶d̶o̶w̶ ̶R̶e̶a̶l̶m̶ would joke about it to, but still feel confident about myself.

 

[SEMilfred]

I am sorry to hear about the bullying Best advice I can give you is, that IF someone happens to find your channel, then show them you take pride in your work If someone ask you about it, tell them about it with passion - do NOT try to down-talk it, or find excuses for YouTubing

If you speak your channel down in any way, people will follow by talking it down, making things worse.

I try to keep friends/family and YouTube pretty divided, and do not post my videos on Facebook where all my friends can see them - However, if someone asks me what I am going to do in the weekend, and my plan is to make videos, then I honestly tell them that this is the plan A lot of people do not understand why I want to spend my time making videos (and sometimes get next to no views), but when I take pride in my work, people tend to become more curious than mocking [DOUBLEPOST=1408915883,1408915761][/DOUBLEPOST]

If they find out about your YouTube and decide to be jerks about it and make fun of your videos and you, try playing along and joke about your videos to. Of course, you know they're in the wrong, but you poking fun at yourself will just discourage them from trying, seeing as you don't care.

For example, if people at my school find out I make videos of a children's card game (I'm in Year 11, a Junior), I s̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶S̶h̶a̶d̶o̶w̶ ̶R̶e̶a̶l̶m̶ would joke about it to, but still feel confident about myself.

And again here- there is a difference between talking negatively about what you do, and to be able to joke about it
If you can joke about it, but still stay confident, then this works just as well

 

[shinyvictreebel]

Okay so I'm starting year 12 (lower sixth) at a school where I know nobody in a week and a bits time, I got bullied by a certain group of people (about 3 of them) at my old school because of my YouTube, they were once my good friends.
And I am so worried about people at my new school finding it and being horrible about it, like them finding it and supporting it I don't worry about, just them not being cool with it and all that :/

I actually am in my last year of High School, and it is also my first year there. I might not have been bullied, but I do often times wonder if the people in my classes will find out about my channel. I have grown to accept my presence on YouTube, and I don't really worry about it anymore. I did get teased a lot about it at my old school, but so far, I haven't had any problems. I sincerely hope you don't have that horrible problem at your new school.

 

[TheBatteryChicken]

People used to bully me when I was in school, I remember some kid telling me my hair was retarded one day. Then I picked up a plank of wood in woodworking class and smashed him in the face with it and said ' you got hit in the face, that was retarded'

That was in year 7, I spent the rest of my school time not having anyone to talk to and people avoiding me and only knowing me as the psycho kid.

So what ever you do, don't hit them in the face with a plank of wood, other ppl will just be scared of you.

 

[RedFox]

I remember some kid telling me my hair was retarded one day. Then I picked up a plank of wood in woodworking class and smashed him in the face with it and said ' you got hit in the face, that was retarded'

GG.

Teenagers can be cruel, I know where you're coming from, I agree with @Michael, most people won't find your channel unless you share it on your Social Media, and if people find out do what @TheBatteryChicken done.

 

[Phillip Carnegie]

Actually, the name "Phillip Carnegie" is used by me as a pen name. I have many reasons to hide my identity. If I were reveal my name many will not take me seriously.