Self Promotion

So today I want to share a story about something that just happened within the last 20 minutes. 

This is a story of a boy (he was a boy because I could hear the voice cracks in his voice) who decided 'Hey! I want to start a youtube channel! Make some vlogs! A Few gameplay videos! But wait a second..how do people find my content? Oh I know! I can self advertise on someone else's videos!' And so this boy did. This boy decided to find my Happy Wheels videos and pretty much self promote himself in my comments on some of my popular videos. Now usually if someone self advertises i'll check their content out before I delete the comment but this time..I didn't give this guy the chance. 

I would have looked at his content but he was self advertising himself all over my videos. Not just one but three (maybe more if I didn't block him) which is really annoying. First off, it's just flat out rude to spam other peoples videos with your own content. I've been nice about it in the past with people and i'll remove their comments but i'm nice enough to check out their content and PM them or leave a comment leaving some tips and what I like/dislike. 

Now I know you have to get your content noticed somehow..but I don't think self advertisement is the best way to do so on other peoples content. If someone is throwing a party you don't show up and be like 'Yo guys come to my party instead we have a camel that speaks mandarin!' it's just rude.

Honestly when I first created my channel..I was guilty to self promotion but I only did it on Munching Oranges channel discussion and I was pretty much ignored, now a days I see people being bombarded with hate. Since I did that though I told myself If I ever saw anyone doing what I did..I would check it out? It won't hurt, I was in that place desperate to have just one person watching. I never did it more than once though, especially as spam. 

How I got popular? Well one I met a guy on youtube named TheRagingTyranitar who was nice enough to promote me as long as I promoted him (he eventually quit youtube :( ) and two I got really lucky by being one of the firsts to make Happy Wheels and Digimon World Championship videos which are both my most popular series.

Anyways moral of the story: Be polite.

Will I keep this guy blocked forever? Probably not, at least he was nice enough to be my 1220^th subscriber but now I’m back to 1219, but that’s okay. If he was just spamming his own content instead of leaving actual comments on my videos then he won’t be missed much.

I did end up watching a video of his and he is obsessed with Tobuscus which upsets me. I’ve been a fan of Tobuscus way before he was popular so I’m kind of rude about current day fans because they mostly know him for his gameplay videos but I know him for his short films and will always be a fan of those.