why starting a youtube is a brilliant idea (even if no one watches)

hi guys welcome or welcome back um I am Desiree and I make all things related to like DIY home I don't know I just I really just be documenting my life to be honest with you but yeah I wanted to make I'm actually out right now trying to get me a coffee um but I was thinking about this young lady's video that I saw this morning and um I just wanted to kind of record really quick um so yeah she was making a video I can't remember her name or even like the title of the

video but it was something along the lines of why I continue to make videos when nobody watches or why nobody watches my videos or something along those lines right and I was thinking about it just now and I'm like I've been on YouTube for a really really long time and my subscriber count is is it's low for the amount of time that I've been on YouTube right and sometimes you know I ask myself like why do you keep making videos clearly like you're only getting like maybe a 100 views you're getting like 100 views on

average right I just kind of want to highlight like the benefits of YouTube even if you feel like nobody is watching your videos or if you feel like you're not gaining like monetary value from it why you should keep going or if you're thinking about starting YouTube Channel why you should just go ahead and take the plunge and do it so a little backstory on me I started on YouTube uh super super long time ago like I started a channel back in like I don't know it was like 2008 maybe I don't know it was

a long time ago and I had a channel and was posting like stupid stuff on it and then deleted that started this channel this channel here is super super old and a lot of times like I post for fun I post for me and just because it's a creative outlet for me and yeah sometimes I look at it and I'm like dang I've been on YouTube for a super long time like it's people that's starting channels you know 3 months ago that's already making bank you know and sometimes it can get a little like frustrating

but I started YouTube originally because I wanted to learn things from it I always go to YouTube to search on how to do this how to do that and I feel like it's a platform where you can also share what you know to teach so my channel initially start off as like a DIY channel um of course back then people were all into like the beauty craze and things like that and yeah you know I tried to hop on that bandwagon for a little bit but I am by no means a makeup girly okay like

I don't wear makeup on The Daily the most I do is like eyebrows mascara maybe that's it like I don't really do the whole makeup thing so you know what I'm saying and then on top of that just not seeing growth from being inconsistent um I never really took YouTube seriously like that was just something that I wanted to do here or there sporadically in between like work kids Family Life School things like that um so yeah I never saw like growth from YouTube the number one reason that I think that I believe that I

did not grow or I have not grown on YouTube or what held me back from my potential Was Fear just fear of putting myself out there fear of starting I was so scared that somebody from like my previous school or somebody from my job would find my YouTube and be like picking on me for it like oh my God look at that has happened you know what I'm saying like I have walked into work and my co-workers found out about my YouTube channel and we're literally like watching my YouTube videos at work and it's hella

embarrassing for somebody like me that is super super introverted having people find you online when you're like in a creative space and you're just putting yourself out there for the world having people that you know personally find you it can be a little offputting but anyways yeah fear is the number one um thing I think that holds us back from achieving any of our goals and our dreams and things like that you know you have a fear of failure and also just that fear of comparison um you know you try to see what everybody else

is doing on YouTube oh this worked for this person maybe it'll work for me or you feel like your ideas just aren't great you know what I'm saying and even if you feel like you have a good idea and you take the time to record and edit and do all these things and then you uploaded and it gets 20 views you know what I'm saying it can be a little heartbreaking you know like dang nobody wants to watch me and so I understood what the young lady was saying in her video of you know when

you putting yourself out there and you're only getting like a little bit of views cuz I think anybody on YouTube everybody on YouTube has been there at one point or another yeah I just kind of want to highlight like the benefits of YouTube in this video despite not seeing like massive growth like other YouTubers despite like not seeing views the way you want them to see them or whatever the case may be not I feel like it's a lot of comparison like we look at big time YouTubers and we tend to compare everybody to to

them well you know you try to be like them or emulate their type of material or whatever the case may be and comparison is the thief of Joy y'all like literally you can't you can't focus on that all you have to do is focus on yourself focusing on what everybody else would do what everybody else is doing how can you make time to focus on what you're trying to do and your goals you're trying to reach I by no means have like a dream of being like a big famous YouTuber or anything like that I

use YouTube as a creative Outlet as like a creative space I like to create but there are a lot of benefits to making YouTube videos so number one YouTube is basically a platform for any and everybody right no matter what type of content you're making no matter what you're trying to a story you're trying to tell YouTube is here for everybody and so even if you feel like what you're trying to do or what you want to do is very very Niche down and it may um trust me there will be somebody out there that

will be looking for exactly what you're trying to put out there's always going to be somebody looking for exactly what you're trying to put out so if you're thinking about it somebody else is thinking about it too so just put the content out there number two like I said it is a way to express creativity um you know whether you're a music artist a painter um you just like to record I don't know like I just like to record I just like the process of recording and editing and you know it's fun to me so

whether somebody watch it or not I'm going to keep doing it because I thoroughly enjoy doing it so yeah it's just a creative space if you don't have like um a physical place to go to to release your creative thoughts and things you can always come to YouTube If you have thoughts on any political stance or religious stance or you just want to share knowledge that you think people should know you can always come to YouTube like YouTube is a place for any and everybody another benefit of YouTube is that it really boosts your com

it can really boost your confidence um like I said for me I'm very introverted I'm very much like in my bubble I don't talk to a lot of people that I don't know I don't like I just when it comes to me I'm very much in a shell I'm very much like a turtle you know what I'm saying like I don't go around and just I'm not extroverted in that nature so YouTube to me was also is also a way that I learned to like speak in front of the camera getting comfortable just speaking in

general because you know when you're talking and you're telling a story or you're sharing a DIY or whatever the case may be you have to learn how to speak in a way that people can understand and I feel like YouTube has helped me out a lot with that because speaking in front of a camera can be weird but to me speaking in front of people is weirder so I don't know in YouTube I mean I've met a lot of great people from YouTube I've met a lot of great people in general in the social media

realm um other likeminded individuals and things of that nature um but the number one reason that I keep going that I create I keep creating content whether people watch or not it's just simply because I like to create memories to me personally YouTube is my visual diary you know um it's my P it's my personal visual diary you know memories with my kids memories in our old home like it's just I love going back and looking at Old Vlogs and things like that like when I upload Vlogs to my channel the Vlogs are really for

me and my family that that I don't look to gain like monetary value from Vlogs on my channel because I feel like people don't really care about Vlogs unless they care about you like that and if you're don't if you don't know me you you ain't caring about me like that you know what I'm saying so I feel like the Vlogs are mostly for me and my family I love recording memories I love going back and looking at old videos of me and my husband and me and my kids we constantly look at these old

old videos and this old footage and it's so funny and I apologize my voice is sounding like this y'all I don't know what is going on I'm having like I hope I'm not getting sick cuz I can hear the raspiness in my voice um but yeah all that to say if you're thinking about starting a YouTube just go ahead and do it okay if you're thinking about it it's on your brain it's on your heart that's your sign right there that you should just go ahead take plunge and just do it cuz like what can

you lack from it literally literally the only thing that you can do from creating your channel is to gain that's it you will lack nothing from starting a YouTube channel the most that can happen is that nobody watches and that's it you know what I'm saying and if it takes off that's great like you have great monetary value blah blah blah I'm sorry y'all it's people like out here cutting the grass please don't come over this way so if you're thinking about starting just go ahead and start don't listen to naysayers don't listen to the

doubters don't listen to negative thoughts in your head like you're never too old you know how many times I've seen Tik toks or YouTube videos and people are like oh my God I could never be on YouTube at the age of 50 I don't want to be 60 holding the camera who cares who gives a crap you're never too young you're never too old you're never too uneducated you're never too this you're never too that if you want to do it just do it just just start that is the main thing that people have a

hard time doing is just starting just start you never know where it could take you you never know where you might be in a year if I had been consistent and really in intentional with this Channel 10 years ago I don't even want to think about where I could have been what I could be doing I could have been God knows where I could have been at Rihanna's Fenty party I don't know I could have been wherever you know um but that fear you get what I'm saying like you just have to get over that

fear of people might find you people are going to be watching you people are going to be criticizing you that's just life that's just what it is um but yeah you'll never know where it can take you if you don't start so yeah I don't know that watching that video this morning just kind of prompted me to make this video because I've Been In Her Shoes you know I wish I could find a young lady oh her name was po that's what it was her name was po um but yeah I've been in her shoes

where it's like dang you create content nobody's watching my content like I want to get paid like the big time YouTubers I want to have this I want to have that and you see people starting their channels and within like 3 months they're already making you know $20,000 a month but yeah that's what it is you live and you learn so all we can do is start today because back I remember back in 2017 I remember saying to my husband it's too late to start YouTube I should have started 5 years ago can you imagine

and now we're in 2024 now imagine if I had taken it seriously in 2017 yeah I know I be wanting to slap myself sometimes but you know we always have today today and move forward so this is your sign if you're thinking about starting a channel go ahead and start it don't think about anybody else you do what's authentic and organic to you put the content out there it will reach the Right audience I promise you that it will it will reach the Right audience and if nobody watches like I said you always have personal

growth and personal gain from it so hopefully this reaches the Right audience and yeah I'm about to go home or actually go to Duncan and get my coffee which is why I'm out in the first place um but yeah y'all I'll see y'all in the next video this was just like a quick little what's on my mind thought type of video I don't know but yeah I'll see y'all in the next one goodbye