A creator deliberately breaks every YouTube best practice: no thumbnail, intro, outro, editing, or tags. He uploads the raw file to show what not to do, intentionally making a video designed to fail.
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Alright, here it is guys. Today's video is gonna be a quick one. I have been grinding all day. It's 5:30. I don't have the time to do a full 5-minute video, but I've been waiting to make this video. I had it in my back pocket. This is the YouTube video, how to do everything wrong. Okay, so in this video, the things that we're gonna take a look at are this: I have no thumbnail, no proper intro, there's not gonna be a proper outro. I'm not going to do a ton of editing. I'm going to take this video file here. It's not going to go through Premiere. It's going to go directly up to YouTube and it's going to have a basic title that's not going to be optimized using TubeBuddy like it should be. It's going to have a very brief description because it's a very brief video and I'm not going to do any tagging or targeting with keywords. What I want to show is that this video is going to be a complete bomb. And that's important. What I want you to understand from this video, guys, is even though it's short— okay, so first of all, YouTube videos, typically you're looking for 5 to 10 minutes. That's the sweet spot. That's where you want to be. This one, who knows how long it could be. It's as long as I'm gonna rant, but I don't have a purpose. I don't have a clear intent. All of these best practices are going out the window, guys. This is how not to make a YouTube video. So if you know other people that are out there trying to look for a right way to make a YouTube video, This is the video you show them to do it wrong. My hair's a mess, I'm not ready to go, there's no plan, it's too short, there's no title, no thumbnail, no nothing. This is how you don't make a YouTube video. There it is. Enjoy!
