Solomon and the Lost Videos
Not all videos are good. Not all bad videos can be salvaged, like my introduction and Namco Museum videos. Today I release Episode 7 of my GoNNER series, and sometime in the future, I will unleash Episode 10. Just like the age-old joke, 10 is afraid of 7 because 7 ate 8 and 9. Only 6 out of 10 of the play sessions will be uploaded to my YouTube channel because I have banished the bad ones.
Throughout Episode 1 and 2, I learned how to spew commentary while playing a wholly new game. It wasn’t pretty. Over the combined 40 minutes, I essentially did only the following:
- Repeatedly asked, “What is this?”
- Exclaimed, “Oh God,” during intense sections, followed by, “Okay”
- Described exactly what was happening on-screen, as if my viewer base is entirely composed of blind people
- Made wildly inappropriate jokes, worse than the one above
- Made wildly bad jokes
- Played in absolute silence
No one wants to watch this, including my mother. She doesn’t watch my videos in general, but I imagine she’d especially hate these two episodes. Even Editor One could not scrap together a “Best Moments” clip show from them. As for videos 8 and 9, the content was fine, but the audio suffered awful balancing. While I mumbled along, my would-be audience was treated to another 40 minutes of my scythe whooshing back and forth.
It sucks to lose content, but I think I’d regret uploading any of those attempts. I don’t expect perfection from myself, and I want to use my channel to showcase my development over time. We just don’t need to see all of my stumbles.
God, that sounds somber. To lighten things up, share your stories of your bad YouTube videos with me. That way, we can harp on ourselves together!