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▼ HAJIME’S VIDEO LAB / To be Creative, You Need Plus Alpha
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Hello everyone, I’m Hajime. I’ll be writing down my daily thoughts in this monthly column, starting this month. Please lend me your support.
This is my first time writing for a newspaper on a regular basis, and I’ve been wondering what to write about. For this first installment, I’ll talk about my job as a YouTuber.
These days, I often hear young people say, “I want to be a YouTuber.” That makes me really happy.
Being a YouTuber is fun, but it’s not an easy job (lol). If you’re like me and your style is to use a lot of props in your videos, preparing can be tough and editing a video sometimes takes four to five hours. That means the best I can do is produce one video a day.
So uploading one video per day to the internet requires working year-round without a break.
This is also a world where your ability means everything and your performance is rated purely by the numbers. You can also cause problems for other people if you’re inconsiderate in your videos.
To young people who say, “I want to be a YouTuber,” I often reply: “First, go study and expand your horizons.”
If your only wish is to become a YouTuber, you’ll have a hard time creating worthwhile content. When you have something extra — a real love for this or a detailed knowledge of that, for example — and approach it from the point of view of a YouTuber, only then can you create something no one else can.
It doesn’t have to be related to studying. It can be about work, a hobby, a
part-time job or anything else. I think the seeds of new ideas are buried just beyond where you have expanded your vision, waiting to be discovered.
That said, I myself am still in the process of learning.
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Hajime, 24, comes from Toyama Prefecture. He is a YouTuber with more than 5 million subscribers on his account (www.youtube.com/user/0214mex). His physical and experimental videos are very popular, particularly among young people.
This article is a translation of the Hajime column that appeared last Friday in The Yomiuri Chukosei Shimbun, a weekly paper for junior high and high school students. The original text, in Japanese, and the translation will be carried alongside each other in the paper on the final Friday of every month.
This is my first time writing for a newspaper on a regular basis, and I’ve been wondering what to write about. For this first installment, I’ll talk about my job as a YouTuber.
These days, I often hear young people say, “I want to be a YouTuber.” That makes me really happy.
Being a YouTuber is fun, but it’s not an easy job (lol). If you’re like me and your style is to use a lot of props in your videos, preparing can be tough and editing a video sometimes takes four to five hours. That means the best I can do is produce one video a day.
So uploading one video per day to the internet requires working year-round without a break.
This is also a world where your ability means everything and your performance is rated purely by the numbers. You can also cause problems for other people if you’re inconsiderate in your videos.
To young people who say, “I want to be a YouTuber,” I often reply: “First, go study and expand your horizons.”
If your only wish is to become a YouTuber, you’ll have a hard time creating worthwhile content. When you have something extra — a real love for this or a detailed knowledge of that, for example — and approach it from the point of view of a YouTuber, only then can you create something no one else can.
It doesn’t have to be related to studying. It can be about work, a hobby, a
part-time job or anything else. I think the seeds of new ideas are buried just beyond where you have expanded your vision, waiting to be discovered.
That said, I myself am still in the process of learning.
* * * * *
Hajime, 24, comes from Toyama Prefecture. He is a YouTuber with more than 5 million subscribers on his account (www.youtube.com/user/0214mex). His physical and experimental videos are very popular, particularly among young people.
This article is a translation of the Hajime column that appeared last Friday in The Yomiuri Chukosei Shimbun, a weekly paper for junior high and high school students. The original text, in Japanese, and the translation will be carried alongside each other in the paper on the final Friday of every month.
- June 9, 2017
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