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There are myriad of ways to start a YouTube channel. But do you ever wonder of it is it possible to be a YouTube star without leaving your bedroom? In this episode, Nate Woodbury is going to talk about how people can use their circumstances to create unique videos that can drive an audience to their channel.
I’ve got an interesting topic today comes from a real question. Hm-hmm. Somebody asked how can I become a YouTuber, if I never leave my bedroom and I don’t have energy to do anything something that effect. So we’ve got some ideas of how you could do this. Right, so let’s answer the question that came to us via…That was like a gradual transition from British… Like that wasn’t a real… You know sometimes I let my actual accent out. But normally, when I’m working in America I keep it all American. So let’s just be American today. Well it should be that’s the tongue of my… That’s my actual… We’re trying to.. So no, this is me playing American. Every time I’m here, I’m Scott Christopher. How you doing? With Nate Woodbury. We talk about various things that Nate wants to talk about and then I just chime in. He has a channel too. You can check it out of there. There check my channel. Again, but we we’re all over the place on that one. This one is generally fairly focused on… This is a real question – And this is a real question that comes to us from Quora. Quora. We don’t have the name. It’s anonymous. Maybe the person was a little bit shy about this question because it is fairly… How can I become a YouTube star if I never leave my bedroom and have no money or energy? So maybe the person is disabled or something. Oh okay. Yeah or suffering from a lot of issues. Yes challenges. So we’re not going to… So our answer is not going to be – “what are you doing? Get out of bed. Get working.” We’re going to take that at face value and say- “okay, how can you do this if you literally have no energy and can get out of bed or out of your room.” Can you? But the reality is – you have value. Right? No matter what your circumstance is, you have value. Whether its value in here. So I just wrote down a few things and you know what are your hobbies or interests? Maybe you have an interest in star wars and you could make commentary YouTube channel all about Star Wars and Star Wars characters or you have a hobby of knitting and you could teach people how to knit. I’m just…No, you’re…I hear you. You know or maybe if you have a lot of time to read you know or watch movies. Maybe some of your stuff is reviewing books or reviewing films or movies or television shows that… There’s a channel, yeah, there’s a channel, there a guy finds little bloopers or little things in movies and that’s all of his channels all about. Hey did you notice that in this episode they actually showed this or there’s a little Easter Egg hidden in this video here. Oh that’s cool see I would watch that. Yeah. That’s fun little minutiae and trivia about movies. I’m an actor. I do a lot of films and television things and I think it’s funny. The reason of course I’m a professional is because I have control over my motor skills and I speak really good. But I would watch stuff like that. I mean I think it’s a good way to go. So the next idea I had her here is – do you have a sense of humor?
Anytime you can get people to laugh, people watch videos… And just by virtue of the description of who you are, whoever you are anonymous that you never leave your bedroom and you have no… Okay they’ve added no money or energy. So now I’m seeing you know poverty and filth. But if you aren’t able to leave your… But just the description of who you are is almost already a hook to some degree. You could take this and make it your hook. So if you never leave your room, maybe that’s who you are. That’s your persona you know. I’m Chuck the guy who never leaves his room and has no money or energy. I mean it’s a long title but I mean… You know what I’m saying? It’s like so… It becomes reality TV. It’s… But in a sense, you know I mean… So the shot of you is always you like that guy in that one show. I think a picture of monk… The guy, the fat guy in monk. I’m not saying you’re fat or that there’s anything wrong with being fat. But I’m just saying it if you’re in bed and that’s everything you do was from that position as you talk… That guy was wealthy though. He… Well, he was. So he… I think he was just heavy because he was lazy and didn’t need to do anything. He didn’t want to be on YouTube I don’t think and he wasn’t really that big in real life that was all prosthetics. But we digress mostly Nate. Yeah, what’s your next point? Okay, this one’s really around some ideas I’ve had in the past. Are you an artist or a musician? Yeah so you can play the piano or you can play the violin or harmonica or whatever without having to leave your room. Yeah if you’re talented, you don’t necessarily have to have energy or ever leave your room. I mean some of the great talented artists of different things. Musical instruments, sculpture, painting, whatever. They’re tormented. They spend a lot of time in dark and close places. You know I’m saying it’s almost like that feeds the reputation and image. Especially if you all of a sudden, you’re laying there, “how you doing? I’m the guy from monk.” You know and then haahaaa… You know you sing an aria from bed. I mean who isn’t going to watch that or who is? One of those. Yeah, who isn’t? Who is it?
So here’s an idea for you. If you’re an artist like by hand, you can draw or paint. There are a lot and this is… I’ve actually researched this. Oh you had a point. There are a lot of people searching for like how to and this is the first idea come to my mind – how to draw winnie-the-pooh? How to draw a Pikachu? How to draw Superman? You know how to draw or how to paint a sunset? You could make tutorials and actually create a business out of this teaching people how to use your…You know conveying your artist… Never ever leaving the room, having any energy or any money because really it’s just a piece of paper with a pencil and you can then start to sell each individual art piece you create in each episode. You could then sell to people and eventually you’d make a fortune. He’s just an idea man. I think that’s what it boils down to is if you come to Nate, you say – “Nate, these are my circumstances.” Wait a minute, that would be you talking and that’s the Godfather. Oh, hand in hand, come to him humbly. Oh great Oz. These are my circumstances. I’m fat, I’m depressed, I never get out of bed, I have no energy. What can I do to be a YouTube star? He takes all of that, puts it into that big bald head of his and out comes… Ah you could be an artist. We’re not quite done with the the video but we do want to say go ahead and comment about this below because then we could feature you in a future episode. Yes. Your unique circumstance. How can I succeed on YouTube? So I’m going to end with this one question is I really want to know. What do you do all day in your room? If that’s something interesting, you can make a YouTube channel about that. Heaven knows the video gamers are vid… Youtube stars and even though we never see their faces usually. It’s just a smarmy voice. It’s a guy talking while he’s playing games. Was that what you were going to say? Well that’s an example we see a lot or we hear about a lot is playing video games. You could do that. But what I do that… Maybe you’re… Well, I was going to say maybe you’re a writer. It’s not exactly you know exciting to see someone sitting there writing. But, I’m just trying to think of a way for you to have a life. There’s got to be something that you do and maybe you watch television so that’s why I have the idea of becoming like a movie critic or… I thought that was my idea. Well, we share one brain. It’s back behind this wall. So anyway that’s that’s a question I have for you is what do you do? What are your talents? What are your skills, your hobbies, your interests. You can… Magic tricks, Rubik’s cube. I mean there’s all kinds of things that you can learn to do. If this person is in fact disabled. You know what I mean? There’s just so much stuff that you can do with your hands that would be fascinating. You have wisdom to do to people come to you for advice. Yeah, especially if you talk like this, like we mentioned earlier that seems to be a common thread. Hopefully this video was helpful and you had a good laugh as well. I’m sure it is.