DIMM017: The Escalator
A video has been posted, so I'm back at it.
When making this video, I could very clearly see the escalator trap that many youtubers fall into.
I see a lot of them talk about how they are constantly upping the last video, like each one has to be bigger and better than the last. Obviously, since I'm hearing this from famous people, it must have worked well to grow their channel. But it eventually leads to a place of stagnation, either outputting stuff that they don't like, or worse, not putting anything out at all.
I really like this video, I put a lot of effort in, but I can't help but feel weird that it's shorter than the last one...
It also doesn't help that I didn't put out a video in september, and I know logically that longer time spent on a video does not equal a bigger better video, and that is especially relevant in this video's case because a different video got scrapped very long in development, and creative processes take time and aren't predictable and blahblahblahblah.
But even with all of that being said, there's still some stubborn part of my brain that says that this one should be bigger than the last one, and it isn't. And in a way it's like I failed?
I know that literally nobody will complain that I made a shorter, less researched, less profound video than usual. But my brain will, and I have to live with my brain, and I don't know how to tell it to stop.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that on one hand, I wish that the other video didn't have to be scrapped, because that was a bigger, more profound video.
But on the other hand, this video kind of slows down the escalator, which is good for longevity.
I am currently starting the next video, and I'm liking this topic, but who knows maybe it'll get scrapped at some point in the future. I just need to convince my brain that shorter videos are good in their own right.