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Pros and Cons of Being Miniscule in the “Internet Sphere”

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When I posted my first YouTube video or my first blog post I set realistic but in hindsight, high expectations. I thought that just by me clicking “post” the internet would work its magic and do all the work for me.  How are these YouTube videos discovered? How do people stumble upon your blog post? Well, I thought the internet would just magically recommend my post or video to a very small group of people and if they responded well to my content then the content would begin to circulate and voila, I’m now on the path to success.  Wrong!  I posted my first video and within 1 day nobody watched my video except for that mysterious 1 view you get within minutes of posting.  I’m guessing its someone on YouTube who reviews the video to make sure it follows the “standards” of YouTube. But, other than that, nobody watched my videos.  This is when I realized I have to promote my videos some way or another. In previous blog posts, I mentioned spamming other YouTuber’s in the
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YouTube Game Plan to get Views and Subscribers

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As you may know I recently started a YouTube channel in the beginning of March 2019. I have 4 videos posted so far. My channel is an “informational based channel” as I like to call it and the videos I posted are all interesting facts I found about space, the human body, dreams, and facts behind running every day.  If you haven’t read my first blog post about why I decided to do this type of content, then I will briefly explain myself again.  I truly do not want to be a YouTuber who puts all their personal business out there and people think they have a right to judge me and have an input on my life. No thank you. I couldn’t imagine coming up with content for a beauty related channel.  I mean I have naturally curly hair so I could always do a hair channel (doesn’t that equate to a beauty channel though), but having a channel about my hair is so original, right? *Rolls eyes*  So I asked myself this question; What can I do on YouTube that doesn’t require me to be li
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Reasons Why I Don't Want to Promote YouTube on Social Media

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Starting a channel was scary enough, now all the videos I watch say that you SHOULD promote your videos to your social media following. This scared the crap out of me and I refuse to do it. This won’t be a forever thing, but it is definitely a right now thing because of the following reasons…. I don’t know if my content is any good yet. I mean I enjoy my content, but I am sort of a perfectionist and it is much easier to know that nobody I really know is watching my videos. Yes, I am aware that may be weird, but it’s all part of my plan. My social media followers are people I encounter in real life and people I went to school with. Therefore, I feel kind of weird being this person on YouTube and being someone else in real life. I am not saying the 2 are different, but they are different enough to notice. Everybody is more relaxed in front of a camera, in their room by themselves. You have to admit that you are a different person when you are alone and when you are around people you
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A Journey To Making a Pretty Good Second Income

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Everybody wants to make a ton of money, right? Especially now and days with the presence of social media and everyone flashing their money around. Well, not literally flashing money for some, but literal enough where I know that you have to have some sort of money.  Nice, flashy clothes and jewelry = money. Expensive trips overseas = money. New car = money. Get it? Except we really don’t know how much or what these people did to get the money. That is the beauty of social media; we can lie and show off as much as we want and only we ourselves will know the entire truth. We can create this façade of wealth and status if we want.  But, enough of that, let me get back on track. We all want to make a ton of money. Right? It seems so easy now to be able to bring in some big checks. Start a business, create a youtube channel, create a blog, find some online hustles. Let me tell you, I have researched this for about 1 year and still feel like there is no easy, legit way to earn some mon
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The Purpose of Men #unpopularOpinion

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Is a mans only job to please his significant other once he begins a relationship?   Is this why many men are possibly commitment phobes or opting out of the “typical” relationship? In today’s modern day society and generation, the number of options one may have becomes more and more appealing to the everyday person. Being able to have your cake and eat it too is essentially the way many people govern their romantic lives.  Many women are taking on what can be defined as masculine characteristics. Now, the topic of gender roles can be seen as taboo, but when it comes to the modern-day female, she is working, paying her own bills, getting her own oil changed, and essentially doing everything for herself. Where does a man come into play you ask? Sex. This is the only thing a man can really offer a woman who is used to providing for herself. Many women are on the independent track in life and seem to have some trouble with submitting to their man in a sense. When I say submit I mean to
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Taken by A. Clark
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How to be Happy by Not Giving a F*CK

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I want to ask you a question. Are you happy?  How are we truly able to tell if we are genuinely happy? Is it with the things we have, the accomplishments we make, or simply the fact that we are here on this Earth with the ability to do anything we set our minds to. I hate to bring up social media, but social media truly messes up our perceptions of true happiness.  I've always considered myself pretty smart with a decent amount of common sense, so I never really paid attention to the images or memes on social media portraying these insanely happy people. It’s like celebrities; we see them and assume they are happy because they are famous and can buy anything their heart desires. However, a lot of celebrities claim to be depressed or unhappy because of their celebrity status. The same goes for social media; everybody puts out their best selves and others interpret that as their life every day. People bragging about how much money they are making, the trips they are taking,
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