Have you ever had a YouTube channel ?

Either for music, singing, food videos, etc? How was it overall? Did you upload videos every week?

I've been seriously considering starting my own channel there, to feature my singing/covers. I probably would start out just audio. And work up to myself being in a video singing. I just don't know anything about how often people usually upload... or if it is difficult to do? I only have my phone right now for audio/visual equipment, so I guess it would be a start anyway.

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mindlessdrifter · M

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 👍

Coralmist · 41-45, F

@mindlessdrifter Yes I would be wary of bullying subscribers for sure. Also I'm wary of negative feedback, but two people said you can turn off those types comments. My channel would be of myself singing... first audio, then possibly of myself on camera singing too. Ty for your experience :)

mindlessdrifter · M

@Coralmist Definitely tread this one with caution but you will be fine. You are gifted profoundly and I would be honored to leave you some positive feedback. YouTube can definitely be fun and yes you certainly can shut commenting off. What I always liked the thumbs up feature, It definitely helps with the algorithm 🙂

pancakeslam · 41-45, M

@mindlessdrifter don't they give you a warning when you get a strike? I thought it had to be pretty blatant. I mean I wouldn't use music or copyrighted movies but I was thinking of using the visual parts of clips from other YouTubers on my channel.

mindlessdrifter · M

@pancakeslam Yes they do. Part of their terms and conditions make it mandatory

pancakeslam · 41-45, M

@mindlessdrifter someone put a copyright claim on music I used which was over a hundred years old. 😂 but I disputed it

mindlessdrifter · M

@pancakeslam Did you get things in your favor?

pancakeslam · 41-45, M

@mindlessdrifter yes nobody challenged my dispute so it was dropped

mindlessdrifter · M

@pancakeslam That is great to hear