Something that people usually don't say, is that the enjoyment of making stuff banishes over time, it may feel repetitive and the reward just may not be there at all. It can be really discouraging; I have been struggling with that for months; its hard to focus on the good things you enjoy, while it just get filled with so much chore just to maintain the status of your channel and such (being know for having one style of videos or thumbnail, making them, organising everything, etc). Recently I have felt burn out myself in many regards, and I have left my many channels to rot, when I really want to do something about it, but I'm just so tired irl and I never get to do anything. And after putting effort, it just doesn't feel rewarding anymore. I think there is a real importance in simplifying some parts of the process just to not make the fun banish away and feel like a slave of your very own channel. I think sometimes people who are just hobbyist in content creation, they get lost in the grind and lose the fun of it, including myself. I'm now on that same process of self reflection and I'm looking for what I really enjoy and what I can really do about it (instead of making a list of 1000 tasks left to be done). sorry for the random rant. Thank you for sharing your experience; maybe it will help me out in this journey of mine that I'm still taking.
3 months ago
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Durygathn
Y'all may have noticed the much slower pace that my videos have been coming out lately. Thinking on things today, I'm realizing that I'm not enjoying the editing process at all. Today I started asking myself why, and the answer I landed on was that I was expanding the scope beyond what was fun for me, as in, the quality thumbnails and the still image animation of my OC Lich. I've just been finding that I haven't been enjoying creating those, and since running this channel isn't my career I've been asking myself if there's a valid reason for me to create the thumbnails and animation, and the answer I landed on was that there wasn't a valid reason since it wasn't fun for me.
So essentially, I decided that it would be better if I just dropped that stuff and focused on the fun parts of assembling the videos, which is finding my favourite clips and assembling them into a sequence that's fun to watch.
This might disappoint those who liked the quality, but I gotta do what's best for me.
Plus side though, this also means I can output videos faster since making them won't be as much of a turnaway for me now, in fact, I have some that have been ready for a while aside from the animation and thumbnails, so they'll be uploaded within the next several days.
Enjoy x)
3 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2