I am going to state right from the beginning that this post is going to be one with a bit of rant in it and also a constructive one for the "open eyes and ears". I might get flagged as well by some DTubers for daring to rant about it, but hey, let it be. My "decentralized mouth" has to speak and I've always been this way. I simply can't hold back my words...
So, by now I have only uploaded a few videos on DTube and no vlogs at all. I don't do vlogging and although I would upload some more cool videos of mine I can't, because I continuously get upload errors from DTube, but that's another story. I do watch from time to time DTube videos but only in two cases I managed to "stay tuned" till the end of the video on such vlogs. @meno and @nonsowrites are the ones guilty for that.
Now the things that I am ranting about and that I also hope will help DTubers reading this post in improving their DTubing experience and content are... video quality and presence. Yes, these two. Regarding video quality I am aware that good equipment is not cheap, but Steem is and not everyone affords buying a Red camera to record their videos with it but there are tricks anyone can use to make the most out of what they have. Choosing the most quiet place, holding the camera as close as possible, but not in your face, and speaking a bit louder doesn't require anything special to do better.
Searching for "that brightness" is also accessible to anyone thus I think improving one's quality videos a bit is pretty much at hand in my opinion. BUT, I've noticed something else that I don't like in quite many DTube videos and that is the presence that I mentioned above. To keep me, and others, in front of the screen for the whole video and to make me type a comment and even resteem that video you need presence. You have to have something to say as well but for the sake of the post lets say its a given.
I am a Youtube consumer and 90% of the youtubers that I am subscribed to and watch very often have this thing I call presence with every video they share. When I am in front of the screen watching them is like I'm in a video call on Skype with them or even being part of the video. It's like almost inviting me to engage, like a live video if I can call it like that. It's not like some random guy "talking to himself" and then sharing the video online. Not that type of bathroom talk...
You can somehow feel the audience and you feel yourself as being part of the audience as well. On DTube not too often do I get to find such videos. Almost all of the uploaded videos are being upvoted once in a while by the @dtube account and the upvotes are pretty so curation wise things work well. Sooner or later competition will knock at its doors though. Even youtubers might migrate and they know "how to do it" thus "mining Steem" will not be that easy anymore.
What if the good guys come and they know how to catch my eyes and the eyes of others and what if DTube revises its upvotes and wealth will be redistributed? What's next? Well, self improvement for some and disappointmnet for others. We're not yet there so there is still time to put more life in vlogs and improve. Because in my opinion Steem will either mature and challenge the big boys or will end up like Vanilla Ice. Investors need incentives to pump money into Steem and not Fakebook coin which is right around the corner. We have a head start but the race isn't over. I might even say that it's just started.
I apologize if I offended anyone, although I haven't denominated anyone for the rant, and I also hope to see better videos/vloggs on DTube but I had to say it. I wish the best for DTube and most of the Steem DApps. I would definitely spend more time on DTube than Youtube but... For the moment there's not much for me "to consume" and hang around there. Moreover I consider that every step further made by any of us is a step further for Steem as a decentralized blockchain, new type of monetized social media, better valued cyrptocurrency and a better alternative for what we have on the market.
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Thanks for attention!
Adrian
