15.1 Stages Of Becoming A Successful YouTube Star

Did you ever get that impulse where you thought that you could easily be better that those YouTube bloggers out there? It is when you get that feeling that you could have written better movie reviews, given better mobile phone reviews, or basically made that famous video blog so much better.

You finally decide to take a swing at it.

1. You get inspired by the insane success stories

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A YouTube star earns 5 million dollars?! Whaaaat?!

Another earns the same playing games?! Whaaaat!

You get inspired and get the starry eyes, and it doesn’t matter that you are skimming the cream of all the YouTubers out there.

 

2. You decide you want to become a star too

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“He earns all of that reviewing phones!”

Pfft! I could review that phone better! So you decide to become a YouTube star too.

 

3. You start fantasizing

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Yeah, you will get the first 100,000 views in the first month or so, then you get a million views, and then a million subscribers. Then lots of money, then you can finally buy that expensive car and a house where you will shoot more awesome videos and it will just keep going on and on until you are the king of the internet!

 

4. Days pass by

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Real life kicks in, where routine is the king. You gotta work, you gotta pay the bills. You have to keep your girl happy by taking her on dates.

Days pass by.

 

5. You remember again

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You remember, a month ago you were fantasizing about a success story with your name on it. What happened to that dream, you ask yourself.

 

6. You pump yourself up!

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You can do this! If those regular looking guys can do it, so can I!

I mean, they look so regular! Even I don’t look that regular! I can do it!

 

7. You finally start working on it

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You choose what you want to work on, and work on it hard. You write and edit your script and get all the right people to work with you and really apply yourself.

In the end, it is a part of you and you think it will do great. You worked so hard on it, right?

 

8. You upload one

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The D-Day. You fine tune everything and the video looks crisp and you look dapper in that angled light of the camera. How can one not like this?

 

9. It bombs

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It gets 8 views after being online for 2 days. It doesn’t make sense, every one of your friend liked it on Facebook! They liked it on Facebook! Facebook is the truth! How did it get only 8 views? You have a family of 9 people, and every one of them is on Facebook!

 

10. You analyze

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Maybe you didn’t write it well enough. Maybe the topic was too alien. Maybe no one identified with it. You look up articles on the web that give you advice like “Produce exciting content!” and “Have an original idea.” or the shittiest one of them all – “Create a kickass video!” and you believe in all that and actually keep going for your dream.

 

11. You work hard and upload better content

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You didn’t give up. No, you didn’t. You work harder and create the script that looks perfect.

You rent better equipment, and actually keep the audience in your head while creating the content.

You make it the most inoffensive content out there, with no probability of even remotely offending anyone.

You make the cleanest, most well-intentioned and well-worked-upon video on the Internet.

 

12. It bombs again

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23 views and it plateaued. And you wonder why. You put your soul in it. Is your soul worth just 23 measly views? How did this even happen? You should have gotten 100,000 views by now.

 

13. And again.

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You work nights after nights for another one and it bombs, again, gathering even fewer views than the last one.

And it goes on and on.

How?

 

You say fuck it

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You throw the notepad you wrote the ideas in and you burn your script book. You return all the equipment.

It is not worth it. No one gets your view. No one gets you.

 

14. You post bullshit

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One day, you see your roommate sleeping with his mouth open, drooling all over the bedsheet and you get an impulse to record it. Then you go a step further and slap him while recording, and you know what? It looks funny.

And you post it.

It gets 3000 views in 1 hour and everyone is pinging you, telling you how awesome the video is.

Then you prank your mom by scaring her when she is cooking with dry flour. The flour is all over the place and on her face, and it looks funny and it gets even more views.

 

15. You become successful

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You become a successful video blogger. All the videos with you in there, playing stupid pranks, go viral. You get all the fame and recognition and money you wanted.

And now you have everything, you never turn to look back at the ashes of the book you put your heart in and the diary that contained your soul. Maybe one day you will upload the videos you wanted to upload, when you have the million subscribers. But the question is “Will they like them?”

15.1 Then you realize the secret, “Make something people want.”

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