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Some people love video the medium.

I tried doing a video of myself talking off the cuff on a topic. Watching myself, it was painful. I obviously needed to write myself a script, do editing, etc. I would rather just write the text, and skip the video bit. :)

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You basically can't expect to film yourself talking and put it on YouTube and expect to get lots of views. OP spent 100 hours making each video that's several minutes long.

exactly. and for every one of him there's a hundred that put in the same effort and failed

yes he did. the level of effort a good video makes is off the charts. and then you're rolling the dice of luck/marketing.

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