GMM

[guiltyshirts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUg21AolOA

Over-caffinated and hyper MC. <3

Comments

[mindcrack_love]

Weirdly, these are my favorite types of episodes, just talking and being honest while doing something repetitive.

It does address something I constantly worry about though - burnout and honesty while trying to make a living with Youtube. We see Pause taking his by-now-regular breaks from Minecraft; we see Millbee disappear for a week and still not have Orange Wool as a regularity; we see sadness every time someone asks Doc how his relationship is going. Youtube demands constant creativity and innovation, and if your timing is even a little wrong you're "left behind" - and possibly penniless. But constant creativity is almost impossible to ask from a person - and doubly so under that kind of pressure. :/ :/

[guiltyshirts]

Yeah. :/ Nobody wants to see the content we enjoy come at the expense of anyone's wellbeing or relationships. I hope it all balances out in the end.

[isi]

For all the over caffeinated happy babble, this episode made me weirdly sad and apprehensive for reasons similar to what you're talking about: the worry that creators have to constantly put out even when they're not "feeling it," the knowledge that people like MC and Pause and probably others have already had periods of "not feeling it" and will probably experience it again, and how that must feel when, as fulltime YouTubers, their success is directly dependent on their audience's approval of their content. Sure, they all talk about how views and subscribers don't really matter because they would still make videos regardless, but when YouTube is your only job, it kind of does matter unless you're willing to take another job to cover the slack if you can't always battle through those creative slumps.

I heard or read somewhere that people like celebrities are especially prone to depression because their success is defined by outside approval of them, and the part that worries me the most is that YouTubers are put in a similar position and may become depressed from it.