Small YouTuber public perception

[TheBossman]

That sort of reply has nothing to do with "small" YTers in my opinion. It just has to do with YT in general.

Outside of music videos and clips from shows/films, what do you see plastered on the front page of YT when you're not even signed into an account? People like PDP and company. What does the average adult "see" if they ever end up clicking on such a video? They see another adult who's purposefully being ridiculous and yelling and cursing at the camera while playing video games (and makes millions off of that, which probably doesn't help perceptions).

The people who are the "faces" of YT who end up on the front page don't exactly come off as people who produce "intelligent, meaningful content."
To the average onlooker who uses YT on the side to merely look up some clips or songs here and there, people who have a career on YT are loud, annoying, and repulsive.

Like your potential boss, this perspective may encompass all people who produce original content for YT in general.

I'm not saying this is correct - I'm merely saying that's how a lot of people see YT. Brash and annoying over-acting personalities yelling at a camera. And honestly, it's not at all hard to see why some people would think this.

I get where you are coming from. I did try and spin it saying I get free games to play so it is all good but he wasn't having any of it. He referenced his niece in her young teens watching "tripe" on youtube.[DOUBLEPOST=1465679056,1465678716][/DOUBLEPOST]

Well, sounds like typical sheer ignorance and reacting based on said ignorance. People that don't understand, or worse yet, don't WANT to understand something and its success will more than likely have disdain for it. Same thing happens within the fitness industry (which I'm in). When some see the success of other people with less "knowledge" about fitness, they get all up in arms and say how ridiculous it is that they are successful to begin with. They don't recognize the hard work and effort placed into becoming a success. Perception dictates a lot of emotions, and unfortunately sometimes you just have to roll with it if you're in a position that cannot tell them otherwise.

It wouldn't have bothered me if it was just a guy at the pub or just a colleague. The fact that it is someone who is deciding the future of my family discourages me a lot. It is a set me up for life kind of job and Youtube fits into it perfectly (it is a sales job, which in my opinion is what Youtube is). He was a good bloke though and like I said in my original post, people from round here do not have the ability to think before they speak (a Yorkshiremans greatest gift in my opinion).

 

[darkstarmedia]

so I went for an interview yesterday for a job that is a massive step forward for my career. It was a final interview and at the end of the interview I got to meet my potential future manager. We started having a casual natter and got onto hobbies and I told him about my YouTube channel thinking it would be a sign of good marketing etc and instead I got the response "oh! So you're part of everything that is wrong in this world". Luckily at that point i had already smashed the actual interview so it doesn't seem to have had much of an effect but that still stays in my head. Why is the public view of youtubers (especially small youtubers) so terrible?

Understand I'm from a very blunt place where we say what we think, no matter what, so just because you may have never heard it, doesn't mean it's not thought.

Honestly, I don't think I would feel comfortable working for someone so narrow-minded. I know a few people who don't understand how YouTube can be a job, but once it's explained, they "get it" a little bit more.
I don't see how creating video content and posting it online makes you part of "everything that is wrong with the world" - I'm sorry, but that's such a freakin' melodramatic reaction.

 

[Frozty Gaymer]

There is just from people to people, he is just a person that you don't need to care about, well you actually do because you're working with him ;P, but he doesn't have to be a hindrance in your YouTube Hobby

 

[TheBossman]

Honestly, I don't think I would feel comfortable working for someone so narrow-minded. I know a few people who don't understand how YouTube can be a job, but once it's explained, they "get it" a little bit more.
I don't see how creating video content and posting it online makes you part of "everything that is wrong with the world" - I'm sorry, but that's such a freakin' melodramatic reaction.

I would feel comfortable doing much worse than working for the guy for the money, role and working environment that is on offer to be honest. It is truelly life changing and the guy was top other than this small incident. Also I am from a place that is a different world to the rest of England, never mind the rest of the world, we are opinionated a*holes even when we dont mean to be and speak overly direct. It has made a fair few people on here not like me, but around here it is just how it is.

I agree with you though, it is far from a bad thing. If I was interviewing someone, I would be over the moon to see their ambition in trying to make something out of what they love/enjoy.

 

[Xavenger1988]

You can't assume this is the public view of youtubers. This is one person's (the manager) view of youtubers.

 

[TheBossman]

You can't assume this is the public view of youtubers. This is one person's (the manager) view of youtubers.

I can assume anything I want to be fair. An assumption is literally my take on a certain situation. He is also not the first person to say something like this to me, far from it. Most people I have spoken to have the same opinion, regardless of age. My friend who gave me a few hundred quid of equipment to help me out when my PC packed in told me I was daft for doing it and that everyone who does it is the kind of person who is just out for a quick and easy payday and I owe him a lot (he is also now my biggest fan).

I am not saying it is everyones view, but there is certainly a lot of people out there who see it like this.

 

[Rachel Berry]

I think the main reason why he said this was because YouTube kind of entails a negative opinion from some people due to technological evolution. A lot of individuals who are not involved in the YouTube community tend to pass judgement and think that YouTube has contributed a negative dominance over millennials- people think that the individuals on YouTube are furthering the growth of technology (which they are) and rotting the minds of our youth. Often, they'd much rather see a simplistic society that has minimal influence from technology. What they are failing to see is that YouTube is future!

 

[Uncivilized Elk]

Umm, I think you guys are actually being overly defensive over this and jumping to (what I see as) somewhat silly justifications because you're involved with it as a hobby.

I obviously have my own channel (why else do I procrastinate on this forum?), and even I still think most of YT is tripe and quite embarrassing. Of course I think the same thing for general TV, the majority of films, etc. But come on, the whole "YouTuber" moniker as an identity is... it doesn't elicit positive emotions, that's for sure.

I'm in the middle of my 20's, I'm the farthest thing from somebody who's gonna decry technology or whine about millennials. But YouTube in its entirety, it does elicit an "ick" sort of reaction even in my mind. I often joke about it in a self-depreciating manner myself with zero peer pressure (if anything, my friends have been too supportive about it).

It's not like I even give a rat's @ss about YouTube specifically, it's just the biggest video platform that has its sh*t together moreso than most other alternatives when it comes to monetization and even copyright (a free-for-all smorgasbord of copyright infringement like that on dailymotion doesn't make for a platform I want to use). But I don't wanna call myself a "YouTuber". That extra "r" makes for a label that feels like it's covered in effluvial grime to me. I make videos. That's what I want to refer to myself as - a person who makes video reviews. I don't really want to be directly associated to the platform on which I publish those videos.

And that's not even considering that YT is owned by Google, which is pretty much evil as f*ck.