LJay
YTTALK Panty Thief
I've started to develop a pathology for seeking out other people to Collaborate with in my videos. Sometimes it's not Collaboration but more like "I need another person for a voice role". Now, I always treat these people the same. You know, I treat people how I want to be treated so I'm always honest and friendly and will subtly hit on you (just for fun).
I consider the relationship with these people as personal as though we are friends that were brought together by our singular love that is YouTube. Furthermore, I'm very selective about who I Collaborate with which isn't based on YouTube numbers but on their personalities, dynamics, controversies and so on. I pretty much try to Collab with people I can like and trust. The way I keep up with these people at the very least on a weekly basis is thru Skype, YouTube Messaging and Comments, Steam and Twitter.
So does all that make me pal's of these people? Or is it more like "Ehhhhh, there ain't really such thing as having a true friendship over YouTube. Get over yourself LOL" ?
There have been several time's on YouTube where you will see best friends and partners have a big public fallout and not talk to each other anymore because of business/money. There are many examples of this I can prove in the gaming community. Most recently, Bashurverse (a big Minecraft guy) had all his close friends and girlfriend shut him out of their lives over his past criminal history and layered lies. I'd think his friends may want to stick by him since apart from his channel and fans they are all he really has. Turns out they were all Collaborating on a future Television endeavor and removed Bash without really letting him know and his GF had selected to leave him.
It's not just things like that though. Shortly before I ever heard of YTTALK last year me and a friend were invited to join a Skype group due to the mutual friend we had over Steam who was a YouTuber. In this Skype group I've personally experienced YouTuber's belittle and bemoan each other and other YouTuber's (mostly other channels) over things like views, content, thumbnails, subscribers, money and how they were going to flag this person's video or copy that person's content or how they were having someone paraphrase another YouTuber's Game Tips for their video. It was all very petty and sad for me to see that these "YouTuber's" were all about the business aspect of YouTube and how there seemed to be no real fellowship among them to the point they'd be arguing with one another and even threatening each other.
So I see things like this and I can't help but feel that there many a people (YouTuber's that is) that will use others for their own gain. So sometimes I get it into my head that there really aren't friends bonding over YouTube and are just moving into houses with each other for business.
HOWEVER, It's from those personal experience's that I've learned to be really careful about who I collaborate with. I more try to make friends and not have "business partners" where we only talk to each other when we need each other and it's gone VERY well for me. I don't have issues with the people I collab with. There is more than a fair amount of give and take with regards to advice and helping each other.
Have you ever had a bad YouTube partnership experience like the one I described with the Skype group? Have you made some real good and close pal's from YouTube? Talk!
I consider the relationship with these people as personal as though we are friends that were brought together by our singular love that is YouTube. Furthermore, I'm very selective about who I Collaborate with which isn't based on YouTube numbers but on their personalities, dynamics, controversies and so on. I pretty much try to Collab with people I can like and trust. The way I keep up with these people at the very least on a weekly basis is thru Skype, YouTube Messaging and Comments, Steam and Twitter.
So does all that make me pal's of these people? Or is it more like "Ehhhhh, there ain't really such thing as having a true friendship over YouTube. Get over yourself LOL" ?
There have been several time's on YouTube where you will see best friends and partners have a big public fallout and not talk to each other anymore because of business/money. There are many examples of this I can prove in the gaming community. Most recently, Bashurverse (a big Minecraft guy) had all his close friends and girlfriend shut him out of their lives over his past criminal history and layered lies. I'd think his friends may want to stick by him since apart from his channel and fans they are all he really has. Turns out they were all Collaborating on a future Television endeavor and removed Bash without really letting him know and his GF had selected to leave him.
It's not just things like that though. Shortly before I ever heard of YTTALK last year me and a friend were invited to join a Skype group due to the mutual friend we had over Steam who was a YouTuber. In this Skype group I've personally experienced YouTuber's belittle and bemoan each other and other YouTuber's (mostly other channels) over things like views, content, thumbnails, subscribers, money and how they were going to flag this person's video or copy that person's content or how they were having someone paraphrase another YouTuber's Game Tips for their video. It was all very petty and sad for me to see that these "YouTuber's" were all about the business aspect of YouTube and how there seemed to be no real fellowship among them to the point they'd be arguing with one another and even threatening each other.
So I see things like this and I can't help but feel that there many a people (YouTuber's that is) that will use others for their own gain. So sometimes I get it into my head that there really aren't friends bonding over YouTube and are just moving into houses with each other for business.
HOWEVER, It's from those personal experience's that I've learned to be really careful about who I collaborate with. I more try to make friends and not have "business partners" where we only talk to each other when we need each other and it's gone VERY well for me. I don't have issues with the people I collab with. There is more than a fair amount of give and take with regards to advice and helping each other.
Have you ever had a bad YouTube partnership experience like the one I described with the Skype group? Have you made some real good and close pal's from YouTube? Talk!
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