A creator sold his PS4 and capture card to fund lighting and camera upgrades, arguing that gaming consoles aren't necessary and Call of Duty commentary videos are oversaturated and boring. His channel isn't about gaming; he makes random content on whatever interests him, which is why people actually watch.
The last video I made was about how I'm selling my PS4 and my Elgato, which led many of you guys to leave comments like, "Beast, don't sell your PS4." "Beast, what are you doing?" "Beast, you're gonna regret selling your PS4, don't do it." And honestly, I have not played my PS4 since the end of the Black Ops 3 beta, and I think a lot of people forget it's just a PlayStation. It's just a console for video games. It's not a necessity to life. I do not need a PS4 to survive. Yes, I might slightly regret selling my PS4 later, but the thing is I don't really use my PlayStation. I'm gonna use the money to buy better lighting, pay off this camera, buy things I'm actually gonna use every day. I haven't touched my PS4 in a couple weeks. What's the point of it sitting around when I could sell it and buy things I'm actually gonna use? That's just my perspective on it. And as you can all see, I need way better lighting. You can see a little bit of a glare on my face. It's just because I don't have the proper lighting, and it's a little hard to light up my green screen with a bunch of lamps. It's, uh, it's really annoying. And like I said, that's the first thing I'm buying is better lighting. But since we're on the topic, I'm gonna go ahead and start talking about Call of Duty commentaries. And give my opinion. Personally, and this is just me personally, I find commentaries very boring now and unoriginal. I've seen them, you know, way too much. I've seen them for the past 5 years and they're just boring to me. That is me. And on top of that, many people come across multiple YouTube commentators every day and it's just— there's nothing unique about it, you know. Someone sees your video, it's just another Call of Duty commentary, and then after that they're gonna watch someone else. You don't really stand out and it's hard to really build an audience on that nowadays. Because it's unoriginal and it's not unique. Everyone else is doing it and there's not much you can do to really stand out. Therefore, you're just another person in the crowd and people won't get that excited about your videos. I also feel like commentating over Call of Duty gameplay is just really limiting. Like, with this green screen, I can put whatever I want in the background, I can do whatever I want. I'm not just talking over a video game you've seen for the past 5 years. That's super boring. I mean, it really ties down a bunch of YouTubers because it's just the same thing over and over again. No one wants to see that a bunch. Or let me correct myself, I don't want to see that a bunch. I'm personally bored of it, and if I'm bored of it, I'm not going to produce that type of content, obviously. You might still enjoy it, you know, it's personal preference. Obviously I don't watch a bunch of beauty channels, but there are millions upon millions of people who do. By the way, person who bought the PS4, I'm going to ship that probably tomorrow, not today. So I'll probably ship that out on Friday. Sorry, I'm just kind of busy and I gotta, you know, go buy the box and I actually gotta buy some ink for my printer so we can print off the postal— yeah. So I'll ship that to you shortly, don't you worry. But something else I wanted to mention was I don't feel like I was ever really a gaming channel. None of my videos were ever about the gameplay. I never referenced it, like, ever, you know? I just kind of talked about really interesting things, and it just so happened that I did it over Call of Duty. But the main emphasis— emphasis— emphasis— yeah, stutter, dyslexic, someone— yeah, okay, pie— was never on the gameplay or about gaming stuff. My topics are really random. You know, sometimes I talk about something gaming related, like this video is in fact gaming related, but sometimes I don't. So it's just really random, and I never really thought of myself as a gaming channel, but I got dozens of comments like, "Wait, so you're no longer a gaming channel?" I'm just like, "I'm a do whatever I want" kind of channel, and I think that's why a lot of people enjoy it. I just want to be different, and I do whatever I feel like doing, and I think that's one of the reasons I'm almost getting 200 likes per video, because people like that. They like that I just do random things, and It's entertaining, it's original, it's being different, which is one of the things you need to grow in a saturated YouTube, 'cause yeah, this is getting boring. So that's pretty much the video in a nutshell. That was really everything I wanted to say, but I'm just gonna go back and, um, just— By the way, Mom, quit watching my videos, okay? You know, that's a little weird, okay? Just let me have my own space. I'm a teenager now, okay? Just don't watch my videos. All right, can we— can you just stop doing that? I know you're watching this, just stop.
