The future of this channel and Furry YouTube (Patreon)
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Just wanted to check in with y'all, I know I've been a little quiet on here.
Quickly, my May recap :) My last month was heckie fun, and I got to party and hang out with some of y'all at BLFC, and Furlandia which was a treat! It's always awesome to meet y'all in person :) I didn't get as much online interaction though, and there will be more of that with no cons until AC.
So what's happening with me? Honestly I'm in a very transitional period of my life! I recently graduated, I'm about to go home to Australia for a few weeks, and I'm trying to plan my future!
I wanted to write this post to tell y'all my thoughts about this channel and what I think my future and furry YouTube's future holds.
Firstly I wanna say I would love for furry YouTube to be my long-term career. I love making content for y'all, and y'alls support means so much. The support I get from each one of you is incredible, the fact that you're willing to donate your hard-earned money to help support my creative endeavors, the fact that y'all are in each video and stream and Tweet cheering me on - I'm truly grateful!
I'm in a lucky position where I can start to really focus on my YouTube channel now. And quite honestly, I would love to see big things for not only my channel, but the whole community of furry content creators.
We all have amazing gifts and talents to bring, and it would be really awesome for us to get recognition on a bigger stage :D
So I've been thinking about how a furry gets in the "discussion" of favorite YouTubers, not even amongst furries but amongst the general public! Having the same visibility and representation SonicFox has in gaming (just an example :P) for us in YouTube would be really awesome!
My motivation is because, I think at the end of the day, a lot of us furries want to feel not only the in-community love, but the out-of-community love. I remember going skiing in fursuit and getting amazing reactions - I would love for us furry YouTube creators to get that same reaction with furries and non-furries alike for the amazing work that we do!
There is such a positive and electric energy in this fandom and I want to keep showcasing it!
So how do we get there? I think it involves finding that furry/mainstream YouTube crossover. And I really want to see what's possible with the genre of furry YouTube. Cos I think we're still in our infancy, and I would love to see what we can all achieve.
I've outlined some steps for personally I would like to take so that I have not only the most satisfying career, but the most amazing journey, and help create awesome opportunities for this cool furry YT community full of genuinely awesome people inspire furries and non-furries alike!
PopuHuman?! YouTube Channel Steps
1. Creative risks - I've had a lot of those in my 25 years so far. I've made a film, I've made lots of music, I've written, I've danced, I've performed improv and stand up live... I want to make sure that I keep challenging myself and trying out new things! And bringing these experiences into the channel.
I think this is the only way I'm going to get better is to take some shots. So you may see some more experimentation especially in the coming months. You'll still have fursuit skits and all that, don't worry! But other stuff in the mix too!
2. More work - I've been doing my YouTube channel throughout college and I'm a new graduate! Working harder on my channel is a no-brainer, I love every aspect of the process, and I'm willing to put in way more hours to get out more, high quality content.
3. Get better at the technical aspects - This is not my strength, but I'm learning all the things about cinematography and all the tech stuff when it comes to film. I appreciate all of you consuming my stuff even if I don't have the shiniest equipment :)
4. Mainstream "appeal" - I have my theories of how to do it but I think there's certain ways furry YouTube can be tweaked to appeal to not only furries but the whole world in general. Note that I'm not trying to sway every single person in the world's opinions about furries, but I know the talent and the amazing people that make up this fandom, and I would love to showcase it.
One idea I've had is including more vlogs to show our "human" side. At the end of the day we're humans passionate about our hobby wanting to enjoy our lives to the fullest. And I think it's cool to showcase that.
5. Ambitious videos/projects - I want to also set aside time to really try and hit some home runs with what I do. Maybe a furry musical?! Definitely an album at some point. I want to do some in-depth musical projects for the channel to really step up what content I give y'all and show the world what one of many furries can do. :)
Anyways, those are all the thoughts circulating in my brain right now. What do you think? It's an important subject to me right now so I would love to get your feedback and thoughts. Any ambitious suggestions you have for the channel?