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I have a video series idea but don't know if anyone would watch (pawb.social)
submitted 4 days ago by l_b_i@pawb.social to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
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I have some free time after having been laid off, and one of the things I've though about is a video series where I go around the towns that Amtrak stops in between the big cities. The two goals would be to have it make money, and the long term goal being to increase rail interest in the US especially on tracks that already exist. I worry no one would watch it and I'm wasting my time.

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I worry no one would watch it and I'm wasting my time.

Like suggested already, do it for the fun of you doing it, not for some hypothetical tap on the shoulder by an even more hypothetical viewership.

Imagine you're writing your first book. This can take years of work, literal years I mean (aka a bit longer than 'some free time' ;) and you get no certainty, none at all, that you will ever get more than a single reader (yourself). Do it because you want to do it, have as much fun as you can while doing it and, with any luck, you will get some reader/viewership. If not, you will still have a great time doing something you loved.

[–] l_b_i@pawb.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It can seem like the best idea in my head and to people I tell it to, but is it worth the hassle of making something of it. I have yet to have 1 person outside my friends say it sounds like something they would watch. The best anyone says is I'm sure there is someone who would watch it, but I have not met that someone, and traveling for fun and no filming would look very different from traveling for fun with filming. And if its not going to make money, at some point I will need to figure out income, I can only live for so long on my savings.

[–] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

And if its not going to make money, at some point I will need to figure out income, I can only live for so long on my savings.

That's two different questions. Think about it, we all have to figure out a way to earn money, right? No matter what we like or prefer to do on the side ;)

I'll stick with my book analogy: do you think a wannabe writer has any certainty they will get any money out of sometimes the years they 'waste' writing their first book? And how much would that be? In reality, most writers don't even earn the minimal wage—not every writer is a best seller.