Have you ever had a YouTube channel ?

I have and it's a piece of cake once you get the hang of it. My channel featured mostly true stories and true crime. Also documented my travels. What you have to watch out for is copyright strikes and bullying behavior by your subscribers. Mine was taken down for copyright strikes, you can only get two of those and the third took my channel down. I will try again someday who knows? Let us know when yours happens, it would be nice to view what yours is about 👍

To begin with, if you have a YouTube account, you have a YouTube channel. (this is an answer to your title)

I used to upload videos to my YouTube channel. I mostly did tutorials. So for example I needed help with something in Windows Media Maker. All I could find was 7 minute long tutorials that wasted your time.

So, I would find the guts of these tutorials, then I would do the task myself, then I would do a 2 minute tutorial for the same thing, so that people didn't have to sit through 5 minutes of nothing.

Then along comes the FCC. Because of people abusing video uploads and who can see those videos (made for kids/not made for kids) the FCC has decided to enforce a law signed by then President Clinton. The name of this law is COPPA. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

Long story short, if you upload a video made for kids and the algorithm thinks the video is not made for kids, you can be fined $42,000.00 USD. So, I have since removed my videos, and only have the same 4 or 5 uploaded videos that deal with mostly gaming no commentary and a white noise video.

I can't afford $42,000.00 USD, and since the people who operate YouTube were doing absolutely nothing to help out its users, I don't need to upload videos.

It's fun and you can be creative how you want. But I won't go near draconian laws. (even though my work now has draconian rules in place).

Cora I have one but am sporatic in uploads. i am going to be up front with you. People can be really mean on youtube and even worse the culture around American Idol has made it worse for people like you.

I am going beg you not to start a singing YouTube channel. I am begging out of compassion and concern for you as opposed to a reflection of your singing. You get down when people dont comment on here. on YouTube you will get comments but many if not most will not be nice.

Look up other singing channels / look at the comments . Given your current emotional state and how much of it hangs on others comments on your singing i think this is a really bad idea.

That and I apologize for being a nay sayer on your inspiration thread.

Great question!!

We've played with the idea over the years; even tried our own websites, both private and public. YouTube and/or Facebook may ease the technology hurdles but you are performing in someone else's theater. Rolling your own in your own website can get very complicated if you go interactive.

I have a mostly closed website for our business, with access to just staff but all it would take is one hacker to penetrate the sign-in and wreck my day ... or week. But to pat myself on the back, it's been up and running for 6 years with pretty heavy database interaction without a tumble.

Take the plunge, but be ready to take an occasional step backwards to rethink. And Good Luck!!

Yes, I have a YT channel.

The majority of videos I've uploaded are ones where I edited clips found in the Creative Commons section of YT and added music to them. The editing part can be difficult and time-consuming, but the actual uploading of videos is pretty easy.

I uploaded the videos sporadically over time and there are over 30 of them now. How often you do it is entirely up to you. There are no rules on this.

Best of luck to you if you decide to follow through with your own channel. Keep in mind, you can always delete a video if you're dissatisfied with it. I've done it and it only takes a few minutes for YT to take it down.

I was looking into this the other day, except I wouldn't want to be on camera.
I've noticed that on a few of the channels I watch/listen to, the person isn't actually on camera. They are showing graphics or something as they narrate.
I also like looking at travel vids. I've seen a couple people do them, and they aren't on camera.
They may film themselves at XYZ restaurant, sit the cam down as they eat but they aren't in frame, and just show the food and talk about the experience.
I find some of those videos are more peaceful to look at scenery rather than someone's face

I made one 7 second video just so i could share it with someone else and it got 5.6k views and 4 subscribers lol. Makes me think i should make more videos.

No YuoTube. Just OnlyFans

Just my Only Fans page

I have a YouTube channel, but I only have three actual uploads and the rest are just favorite videos.

I used to until I got banned for posting this video. This video is now found in rumble which is an uncensored platform. This is 💉 related by the way.

This is the link

https://rumble.com/v1bhemv-astrazeneca-vaccination.-beforeafter-demonstration..html

I think before you do that, you should upgrade your system. It's passable, but once you go live on YouTube, it's a whole different game.

All I've ever done is upload performance videos.

I would subscribe immediately Diva

I post unlisted (not public) vids on a YouTube channel occasionally, have embedded a couple of them here on occasion ... I haven't done anything more remarkable than that, but the main gist is that creating a YouTube channel is a piece of cake and good place to host videos for free for the foreseeable future

That being said, my experience is with video, I don't recall ever trying to convert an audio file to an mp4 with some image as a thumbnail (I'm guessing I could do this in a terminal with ffmpeg), and I think just a pure audio file would get rejected by the upload mechanism, so you may need to experiment with ways to add a token "video" track (even just a static image) to a purely audio file if you don't want to record actual video of yourself (or you could record video and just point the camera at a wall or something if you're not brave enough to be directly on camera ... but that's the simplest way to produce something the upload mechanism won't reject, as YouTube is oriented around video files rather than audio files)

On YouTube some settings can be saved for all future uploads, but not all settings, which is annoying, but after you do one or two you get the general hang of it, and you can go back later and change settings on existing uploads (like, say, disallowing comments or embedding) if you forgot to when initially uploading

If you have a Google account in any way (e.g., Gmail), I imagine you probably already have a default YouTube channel now but may need to finish setting it up, it's been a long time since I created any new Google account

Soundcloud might be an option for purely audio files but I don't know what they allow you to do just on a free tier

Yes but I don't upload on any schedule at the moment. I suggest trying to learn MS Clipchamp to edit your videos. It's pretty simple if you can manage simple programs and free.