Post by 9 on Feb 24, 2014 21:08:35 GMT -8
1. It's tiring. Playing a game you like will be fun, yes, but once you loose your grip just a little bit, people stop giving shits. And so will you.
2. Sturgeon's Law. As Retsupurae points out, the bad vastly outweigh the good. You either become victim of mediocrity, or in worst-case-scenarios, utter dreck, or you waste your time being good for nothing, leading to...
3. The Let's Play community doesn't want you. There's two reasons for this: the first is that sites like Youtube and Something Awful don't recognize you having fun. If you make something that is based off a game you passionately love and devote a lot of work into it, chances are that nobody else will give a damn.
At this point... actually, ALWAYS, Youtube has been a place where 9-year-old kids sign up to, watching videos that make THEM feel good. Either it's because of a lack of maturity or intentionally blind ignorance, or hell, it could sometimes just maddening stupidity, but to most of them, the concept of doing a hobby that makes the PLAYER feel good is absolutely taboo. Unless it turns out that it's the greatest thing ever that makes everybody happy, something incredibly difficult to do now especially in the Let's Play community where ideas and trends are quickly drying up, the nine-year-old kids and sixteen-year-old teens with mentalities of nine-year-olds, i.e. an insanely vast amount of sixteen-year-olds simply don't give a shit about you. The reason why people like Tobuscus and PewDiePie are doing so well is not because of the fact that they put their heart and soul into their work, but rather because their work happens to cater to the impressionably idiotic youth and the impressionably idiotic in general.
Quality? Who gives a shit? It makes me laugh and "think" even though it makes no fucking sense, is making me blind to actual wit or information, and is collectively draining more productive brain cells away than a flesh-eating cancer, but still SUBSCRIBE TO ALL THE POPULAR GUYS HERPYDERRRR. I DON'T GIVE A CRAP THAT I'M JUST A SHEEP WHO IS CLAPPING LIKE A MENTALLY DEFICIENT CIRCUS SEAL AT SHIT THAT ONLY MORONS WOULD FIND GUT-BUSTING AND IS MORE LIKELY FILLING THE GUYS' EGOS AND BANK ACCOUNTS RATHER THAN HEARTS, LET'S WATCH MORE RAPING TIME AND VOICE ATTACK LADIFUCKINGDAH
You can try catering to both: being someone who enjoys doing what they like and sharing it with others, but the rate of that being pulled off successfully is virtually nonexistent due to the degeneration of Youtube society; think of it as trying to appeal both to people who love the passion that went behind Atlas Shrugged as well as people who find... well... rape by a indigo monster funny. Paired up with the amount of people who also exploit this system on the site outside of Let's Playing that are massively popular (RayWilliamJohnson, sxephil, Smosh, BFvsGF), plus the aforementioned Sturgeon's Law, plus the also aforementioned fatigue of working and impossibly dim attention span of Youtube, plus the site's complete and utter refusal to promote anything aside from people who exploit their system because FUCK YOU GIVE ME MONEY, you're pretty shit out of luck. Your friends and family will probably care about you playing your little game on Youtube to share, but if you want anyone else to catch on, nobody else gives two shits about you.
2. Sturgeon's Law. As Retsupurae points out, the bad vastly outweigh the good. You either become victim of mediocrity, or in worst-case-scenarios, utter dreck, or you waste your time being good for nothing, leading to...
3. The Let's Play community doesn't want you. There's two reasons for this: the first is that sites like Youtube and Something Awful don't recognize you having fun. If you make something that is based off a game you passionately love and devote a lot of work into it, chances are that nobody else will give a damn.
At this point... actually, ALWAYS, Youtube has been a place where 9-year-old kids sign up to, watching videos that make THEM feel good. Either it's because of a lack of maturity or intentionally blind ignorance, or hell, it could sometimes just maddening stupidity, but to most of them, the concept of doing a hobby that makes the PLAYER feel good is absolutely taboo. Unless it turns out that it's the greatest thing ever that makes everybody happy, something incredibly difficult to do now especially in the Let's Play community where ideas and trends are quickly drying up, the nine-year-old kids and sixteen-year-old teens with mentalities of nine-year-olds, i.e. an insanely vast amount of sixteen-year-olds simply don't give a shit about you. The reason why people like Tobuscus and PewDiePie are doing so well is not because of the fact that they put their heart and soul into their work, but rather because their work happens to cater to the impressionably idiotic youth and the impressionably idiotic in general.
Quality? Who gives a shit? It makes me laugh and "think" even though it makes no fucking sense, is making me blind to actual wit or information, and is collectively draining more productive brain cells away than a flesh-eating cancer, but still SUBSCRIBE TO ALL THE POPULAR GUYS HERPYDERRRR. I DON'T GIVE A CRAP THAT I'M JUST A SHEEP WHO IS CLAPPING LIKE A MENTALLY DEFICIENT CIRCUS SEAL AT SHIT THAT ONLY MORONS WOULD FIND GUT-BUSTING AND IS MORE LIKELY FILLING THE GUYS' EGOS AND BANK ACCOUNTS RATHER THAN HEARTS, LET'S WATCH MORE RAPING TIME AND VOICE ATTACK LADIFUCKINGDAH
You can try catering to both: being someone who enjoys doing what they like and sharing it with others, but the rate of that being pulled off successfully is virtually nonexistent due to the degeneration of Youtube society; think of it as trying to appeal both to people who love the passion that went behind Atlas Shrugged as well as people who find... well... rape by a indigo monster funny. Paired up with the amount of people who also exploit this system on the site outside of Let's Playing that are massively popular (RayWilliamJohnson, sxephil, Smosh, BFvsGF), plus the aforementioned Sturgeon's Law, plus the also aforementioned fatigue of working and impossibly dim attention span of Youtube, plus the site's complete and utter refusal to promote anything aside from people who exploit their system because FUCK YOU GIVE ME MONEY, you're pretty shit out of luck. Your friends and family will probably care about you playing your little game on Youtube to share, but if you want anyone else to catch on, nobody else gives two shits about you.