Being a Youtuber especially a Gamer is a lot of fun, I have no gripes about it whatsoever except a few things that are pretty normal for anyone even a viewer. Yes it's a don't quit your day job kind of thing unless you start to take off really well but it's also an experience of a lifetime big or small of a channel. We are SO proud of our channel despite the few haters and will never stop doing what we enjoy because not only does it make the bullies angry it makes your fans happy!
Right off the bad I'm going with the bad.
Cons:
1. Keeping a routine or schedule is as difficult as it is to wake up for school as a teenager.
(you have a lot to deal with as a whole in life and adding a recording and editing schedule makes it even harder and not to mention social media to meet new people and sell your brand as a channel)
2. Dealing with trolls and other idiots who subscribe to youtubers you're not fond of.
(There will always be your fanboys an fangirls who like to troll you or others for basing your opinion we call these Internet Snowflakes, however it's not that bad I've dealt with my share of immature people who say "Your channel will amount to nothing" "You're channel is fake" etc but in the reality of it they just aren't youtubers they're just viewers so they don't understand the stress of it and getting used to Youtube's constantly changing algorithm which I'll talk about later on.)
3. Trying to collaborate with other youtubers when most of them are big headed about themselves.
4. Living up to everyone's fantasized expectations.
5. People not understand we are humans not robots who make videos for their pleasure.
6. Demonetization and the struggle of actually making a living/continuing.
Pros:
1. Getting to make your own hours and being your own boss
2. Getting to play video games for a living
3. Meeting new people and getting to know your own community of your channel.
4. Live streaming and chatting with your community.
5. Being able to sleep in and stay up late!
6. Having more free time than if you worked for the man.
7. Getting to go to conventions and meeting other creators.
8. Getting amazing opportunities that wouldn't exist in your life if you didnt believe in yourself and try.
9. The chance to prove yourself to others who doubt you and your goals.
10. It's super fun!
Now back to the topic I said I'd bring up earlier about that comment of people aka viewers not understanding how being a youtuber really works.
In a nutshell Youtube's Algorithm changes at least every few months to match trends and popular topics. Which in turn makes it hard for us creators to keep up with it since 90% of that information is kept secret from us so we can better prepare our channels videos and the time to upload. With school, college and jobs viewers have a harder time watching our videos and sometimes they don't get the chance at all because of having to watch their other favorite creators. When one hears that some moron thinks that you're channel is fake because all videos except for a few have lots of views its hard to explain to them without them getting a stick up their rump and snapping at you for telling them they're wrong.
Some games or topics are more popular than others but as a gamer we upload videos we enjoy not just videos that make us money and that's very immature and selfish minded for people to say that about someones channel just because they have a few videos that are 70 or 150 views while the rest are in the thousands or millions it does happen I see it all the time. It's all because of how Youtube's SEO and feature page works now that's not the feature page you see when you don't have a channel I'm talking about the feature page that is in a search when say you type in Pikachu the first 20 listing is a feature page. When more than 100 other creators are playing the same game or HAVE in the past its not easy to get your video of the same game noticed so we get less views because others have already seen it from someone else. However that doesn't stop us from uploading and playing the game because it's not about you as the viewer all the time; you'd watch us less if we played a popular game we are clearly not enjoying verses a game we enjoy but not as popular anymore.
We love what we do and we love being a Youtube gamer, ignore the idiots in the comments section and appreciate the comments you get even if the English isn't clear or doesn't make sense be happy for what you get and enjoy what you do and keep reaching for the top.
To the basement fanboy who called our channel fake and purchased....do your research before bashing someone in the comment section it can come back to bite you in the arse. With dedication and hard work you can become a popular youtuber even if it takes 5 years!
