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hey you're watching Jays two cents and today we're going to go ahead and discuss a topic that's probably a little close to home for a lot of people I have a special guest today we have holiday doc here say hello duck it is me holiday doc joining my good friend here jst cents and he didn't even give me like a countdown or nothing before you started you just you just went balls deep right in there off the start without any warning hey you know that's the way i roll just jump right in stick it all the way in and what's my best that's how I got my daughter oh okay good to know good no that was a one-take good so what do we talk about today today I want to discuss a little bit about how we came to meet and how there was a barrier that many people could say would be between someone like me and someone like you and I want to discuss what it was that made you say hey I'm gonna talk to this guy who is in absolutely nobody when it comes to youtube or any community whatsoever and discuss why you gave me the time of day because i'm finding right now as i'm trying to break through some barriers on youtube and trying to expose myself a little bit i'm trying to collaborate with other people that are within you know my subscriber range and i'm getting a lot of no's from people and getting people who are not wanting to talk to me and was even told by one guy and we'll leave it nameless I don't want to start any drama that he thinks my channels better than his and has more potential so he doesn't want to collaborate with me and that right there just kind of one sent me into a little bit of a rage with within myself I didn't go public with it but it really made me think to myself what is YouTube doing to people to where it's creating a form of narcissism where it's all about them so I notice that probably actually a right there that probably would have often done like eight different directions in that one sentence but it did it's on my mind and let's talk about it so this is a blogad e / rant / dual commentary I get I guess hey it's a it's a print it's a brand I like it we could probably market the idea sell it off make some money and stop talking with everybody that has helped us get to this point so far but then that would just put us right in the status quo and then we blend in with everybody else but that's that's the endgame that's the end goal right everybody wants to be the next woodysgamertag FPSRussia whiteboy 7 Street everybody wants a hundred thousand dollar a month paycheck for doing YouTube videos right nobody wants to talk to the next guy who but could potentially I'll do him in the battle but but it is your bid you help somebody out in this world but isn't that the wrong intentional ready for a new guy like myself to even think i'm in this for a paycheck because i'm not let so many people are right hey I that's where they fail yeah I agree if you don't do YouTube for what it is as a starter which is YouTube just having fun and creating content that you enjoy and love or sharing content that you enjoy and love then you essentially have set yourself up for failure already because you will grow slowly you will get discouraged you will not make a lot of money in your first while unless you are super lucky or you have a big budget on your channel and you spend lots of advertising dollars with big-name youtubers yeah I mean right off the bat you were very approachable in fact you approach me a lot of people don't understand how holiday doc and I became you know friends is he found me on twitch I was live streaming to like three people and I and the reason why i started live streaming was i had a friend who went on vacation and he was going through battlefield withdrawals so i said how do i stream how do i can i get my game content up there so he can watch and i came across twitch and within a couple of weeks was just streaming one night and then you popped in and you said hey this guy is kind of cool you sent out a Twitter and next day i know i had like thirty five people in there and that was like you know when in terms of streaming that is tiny but to somebody who's never had more than five Watchers at one time to all of a sudden see 35 people in there and then you know follow after follow after follow was just blown away by it uh yeah I know I hang out in twitch streams all the time and I like to go to the streams that have the least amount of viewers because they're trying harder to impress the audience they interact with their audience they don't have anything but up to go I'm reminded of where father and son gaming with that you know father and son gaming who started off really small and you know got the attention of a couple of big people and they send out some tweets and then they had what 1,200 viewers yeah you know 90 1,500 viewers in one night and these guys basically had a rostrum audience of 12 so yeah so these big guys could have you know if they hadn't exposed them and been kind enough to say I'm going to use my you know many use my big subscriber base to promote these guys and hey give him some viewership you know if they weren't willing to do that these guys probably would still remain unknown today and they're growing from that one night that one night of streaming and the stars aligned when the right guy came in the channel you know boom there they were I would think I was the second or third known person I thought oh yeah I hate saying that word but I was the third person to get in there and start tweeting it out and when I got in there they had 12 years 13 beers yeah I was just like a phenomenon one person after another just tweeted about helped him out and I thought it was good I try to do that often often you'll see me tweeting out just no name streams and I mean lots of very cool people very humble people that way and you expose yourself to the people in the community that are all trying to better themselves or better their own content so they try harder and you might learn something or take something away from it I think that's where i find myself today is I'm trying really hard to give content to people that they want to see not to grow myself but to give them you know they came to my channel they watched a video they walked away with something you know it's so a raging hard-on that's that's the nest that's my next goal if you are leaving with a raging hard-on then I'm not doing my job right so okay so what what do you think makes it makes you different then the other big guys out there who are who are all egotistical assholes just bluntly put it out there they're assholes I wouldn't say everybody is an egotistical asshole because they definitely won't show you that side of them publicly like you have to realize everybody who goes on camera and presents a persona that's exactly what it is and that's all it is every once in a while they slip up though and they show who they really are exactly and if you ever meet them in real person it's it comes out so what makes me different I couldn't really tell you I just enjoy the community I don't do it as a full-time job I think that helps and I just never got a big head ever everybody just kept putting me down I guess or pop in the bubble I guess you could say but you kept coming back right yeah i mean i've yet to get a hater but i'm not really exposed and that's gonna happen someday someone's gonna come in and flame the shit out of me somewhere and i'm already prepared for that because i'm new to youtube but i'm not i'm not new to communities and I've been flamed in other communities and gotten through it and laughed it off because hey it's you know it's really funny shit but you know how what would what advice would you have to someone like me and somebody watching who's contemplating hey I want to make a youtube channel or something but I'm afraid to put myself out there right so I've done it I've taken that leap I put myself out there and in less than a month I've got 117 subs and I think that's good I think it's good I think it's really good you're also partnered that's true but you know again I have never have that connection to thank for that partnership yeah I think anybody's gonna start a YouTube channel has to fully realize that you're not gonna do it for the money the money is not gonna come until you do it for a passion of you know gaming or creating content something so I think that's the first step second step would be to try to get yourself out there you know you gotta you gotta network yourself at least a little bit you can't be the lone wolf and plan to grow leaps and bounds so you're gonna have to get out there use social media talk to people and kind of something that you said you have to remember that you need to be a viewer as much as a producer like you can't just expect to just make content but not watch anybody else's yeah and anybody watching this video right now we're listening i should say i sent out a tweet about a maybe a little less than a week ago and I basically said one of the large youtuber is going to remember that they have to be a viewer as well as a director because I I mean that's what some of the most common responses i'm getting from people and reaching out to also they say oh I don't watch youtube videos I just make them well that's like saying I make TV shows but I'm in TV shows but I don't want to hold up a level so I have to interject here because I was that guy I and the reason was because I was in such a niche market of videos I didn't ever want to risk watching somebody else's video thinking it's a good idea and then having that idea but not being able to release it because it wasn't my own so if I was creating competitive content I absolutely refuse to watch anybody else's competitive contact and I guess looking at it now kind of makes me a big fucking asshole but it helped me you know I never stole anybody else's ideas i never took anybody else's ideas i was always the innovator that's you knew a trendsetter right i mean it's impossible to be original on youtube today oh yes everything is reloaded yes and it and that seems to be trending right now everyone's putting the word reloaded in their title and they're getting a shit ton of news because of it so I guess that's the challenge is to break barriers get yourself known try and collaborate and make recycled content interesting because I I I tweeted out my channel to till a particular guy who's got a lot more subs than me but a lot less than you so he's right in the middle and the first thing he said is that a good topic but it's recycled and I told them well no shit everything on youtubes recycled so what are you expecting you know I guess that's a bit of a ran itself but so yeah that's that's my challenge today and I just wanted to kind of vent to somebody who I knew would listen and get a little bit of advice for myself and other people because I every time somebody subs to me first thing I do is I go and look at their channel and I've noticed maybe only three or four people actually have any subscriber base and that's ranged from a thousand subs to 30,000 subs yeah and you know it there's also pull out there and you know I want to give a shout out to redneck because his really cool guy and he's only following me because you told him to yeah I'm he said it he said all right doc I'm only gonna follow this guy because you said so but I had content and opinions that he was interested in whether they were you know only useful for a moment or you know in the future it doesn't matter he's somebody now who is watching me and I whether he's lurking or he's not watching hawks it doesn't that's another thing like a lot of youtubers will learn will subscribe to you on like a ghost account but if you want to keep this commentary any sort of decent length i think you should kind of tapper off agree to continue now I see that mind sitting at twelve and a half minutes right now there you go so this can be cut out so how we can know no one take mr. one take sir you lose none of this editing you'll see this this probably won't be in the channel because it doesn't we'll be okay well I appreciate it thanks for having me on thanks for getting up Rick maybe this will maybe we'll do this again at a thousand subs and we'll see how a thousand let's do that like 200 okay well you know and this is be kind of a neat series because we can see how things change as I grow and see if I eat my words or I maintain that humble you know opinion yeah all right well thanks for coming everybody I'm Jays two cents that's been holiday doc and we hope that you check out both of our channels I'll have links to both down in the description and have a good night see ya alright guys thanks for watching today's brandt with special guest holiday doc click the channel on the left to see his main channel and click the channel on the right to see his newly launched competitive call of duty gaming channel for his team new breed 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