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What Blogger Taught me about YouTube

Patience.

I have a blog that I've been working on since about 2011ish...the backstory? I was living in an apartment with a cousin who drove me crazy while I battled the depression that came with being in a city I hated, at a college I did not want to be at, things weren't going will with my friends, I had lost my independence and on top of all that MY COUSIN WAS DRIVING ME INSANE!

Writing was always an outlet for me, I can sit around and write for hours and thus Bitchology 101 was born! The very first bitch I wrote about was a Frankenstein of my cousin and my "friends" through frustrated eyes. Of course I graduated college, moved back into my mother's house (last place in the world I ever want to be!), life happened and I got too busy for the blog. I did not check it again until 2014 when I went to college and my mind was blown by how popular it became (around the same time one of my Sims stories had blown up in Japan)...what did I do about this? Write an entry and forget about it again (because college man!).  And when I began this blog I checked it again and added two new entries.

YouTube success won't happen overnight is what I learned, especially when you're gaming rather than vlogging. Sometimes I have 0 views for days and I average at about 6 views (for months!) and to be honest, there's times when I'm like this is pointless, why am I doing this? And then one very awesome person will pop up and leave me a comment, or a video will just take off and get more than a hundred views for no reason (Niche Mountain Update - 1 | Twins & Albinism I'm taking about you!) and I'm like yes, this is why!

I also really like gaming and have made up my mind that if I play a game, I'll record and upload the content because at some point somebody who likes the same game or just likes something about my video will show up.

Bottom line is: stick with it, even if you're just doing it for yourself.

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