So back before vlogging and VidCon and all that shit, I used to vlog with friends. It was how we kept in touch living all over the country. We'd share little parts of our lives and set them free on the internet. One of my videos had about 60,000 views because I smoked a cigarette in it. The cigarette was not the point of the video; I was just a smoker at the time. I was unaware of YouTube's smoking fetish community.
That being said, I've vlogged on and off for the past six or seven years. Like an abusive relationship I just can't let go of, when I became unemployed this year, YouTube came calling. You see, friends, I am an aspiring comedian as most of you know. I want to do comedy for a living. I'd hate to see myself working some shit 9 to 5 job just to barely make ends meet. I'd rather take an enormous dock in pay and make people laugh and be creative for the rest of my life.
So the day I was fired, I immediately took to my camera. I shot probably somewhere around 10-15 videos over the past month. But I couldn't find my voice. I couldn't decide what I wanted to say or what I wanted my channel to be. I knew I wanted it to be funny and entertaining, but I found myself at a creative block. Making long, pointless vlogs that reiterated that I was bored and had nothing to say.
Today, I uploaded several videos to this channel and I feel proud and accomplished. I shot two that were the same old thing and then I went back to an old idea I had. I shot it and I liked it. Then I shot another. They're not my finest work and I won't have the means to edit until I get my laptop back from Acer, but I laughed at what I put out into the internet ether. And I think that as long as I find it funny and it gets a little bit of the weirdness out of my brain, I'll call it success.
So I decided that structure, as always, is not for me. My channel will be a delightful cornucopia of comedy videos. There won't be a rhyme or reason to what I post. If I have an idea, I'm gonna go with it. And yes, this has all been an elaborate story to get you to watch. I want to laugh, but more than anything, I want to make other people laugh.
And I assure with my new technologies arriving in the coming weeks, things will actually look better on my channel soon as well.
You can find me on the YouTubes right HEEEEEERE!
Please subscribe if you wish and if you have any suggestions of things you'd like to see me do, don't hesitate to let me know.
My next project is in the works.
Love and all that shit,
shface.
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