Holy shit. You've actually convinced me. Thanks. Smart reply.
And I love your stuff. I don't watch it enough. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "ractalfece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Rupert Howe" <rupert@> wrote: > > > > I saw you got featured. Brilliant. Congrats. > > > > But I also saw that hundreds of Youtube types didn't get your schtick > > at all and wrote the usual stream of hate that they write to pretty > > much any creator with a brain who gets featured. Your average rating > > was 2 stars. > > > > I found that very depressing. Didn't you? > > Thanks Rupert. Naw, 2 stars doesn't depress me. I used to do poetry > slams. You know, where the members of the audience have score boards > and you get up there and read your precious poetry. And then you get > the brutal truth. People hate it or love it. It's natural. That's > what this niche stuff is about. > > Getting the YouTube feature is like performing at a stadium filled > with idiots. It's a painful experience. But out of all those idiots > there's a tiny percentage of weirdos who might be into your stuff. > > Continuing this analogy further, I have no desire to perform at > staduims. But now that I've done it once, when I show up at the > coffee shops, they'll be packed. My latest video has over 4,000 hits, > a 4.5 star rating and extremely supportive comments. I'm proud of > this one, take a look, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B1J7oq99uQ > http://www.detrimentalinformation.com/2007/11/shit_the_shoe.html > > > > > > Actually, I find Youtube user behaviour regularly depresses me about > > the future of online video. > > > > But then I'm a person who'd rather not see people antagonising each > > other on this list, and lots of other people think there's something > > revealing and interesting about that. So maybe I'm missing the whole > > point. Perhaps hateful Youtube users are really very fascinating > and fun? > > > > It doesn't depress me. I try to imagine this anonymous crowd of > hateful YouTube users. All I see is a bunch of teenagers. The future > of online video? Those teenagers aren't going to be teenagers > forever. It's going to mature. Might take a few more years though. >
