Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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Hey there guys, so I've decided recently that when it comes to vlogging, I want to go a bit deeper. Actually, I lie, I've always wanted to be a bit deeper with vlogging. Let me explain, you see, how I discovered vlogging in the first place was through topical vloggers a really long time ago (2007ish?). And I've always liked that sort of thing. Talking about topics at hand, stuff that matters, having a community; I like proper discussion.

Don't get me wrong, I do love amazing, light-hearted and hilarious content from others, but it's not for me. I just can't make a great vlog that everyone could relate to and laugh at. It's not for me, I'm not funny. But one thing I am good at, is thinking. And I mean that in a totally not-up-myself kind of way. But right now, I'm just not vlogging to my full potential. Right now I mainly just do silly fluff sort of stuff. I talk about bobby pins rather than world issues, and honestly, that bothers me.

I want to make a (however small) change in the world and reduce the total amount of suck left in it. But I just can't do that with videos of dramatic owls. It just won't do.

So what is it that want to do? Well, whilst I don't plan on making amazingly dramatic changes that could promise to change the entirety of the world *cough* it's not like we've known any vloggers to do that *cough* but I do want to make a few minor changes that would make the channel a bit more... me. I want to be able to look back on my channel and see how I thought as I did when I was a teenager (and most likely cringe at how naive I may have been). That's it, a folio of my thoughts, that's what I want. Many vloggers document their lives or experiences, but I want to document how mine have made me feel about certain things. I want to document my thoughts. I want to learn from others, get video responses, make video responses, be part of the community. I want to learn.

I made this decision while watching a series of video responses at 3:17AM the other day, but I can promise you that this is what I want. And I hope you guys will stick with me as I fight through the fluff on my channel and make it into something more meaningful. Years from now, I don't want to be the vapid teen girl who talked about the various silly things that annoyed her, I want to be the girl who did the best she could with the voice that she had.

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