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Is starting a YouTube channel hard? And getting subscriber? Do I have to know stuff? I don't know, I might start one for fun. But as usual I'm decisive and easily influenced.
It's not really hard, but it can be pretty time consuming. I'm no huge youtube extraordinaire, but I have a decent amount of experience regarding this. I've reached 6xxx subscribers as someone who used to regularly upload maplestory content.
Difficulty: Not very difficult. Here are the only things you really have to overcome. Note: This is in terms of simply creating/uploading. I'll get in to more detail about other things later in my post.
Things you need: basic editing skills. This includes recording, splitting video parts, basic "effects" such as speeding up. Maybe zooming in, etc. This is really not that difficult. It's just a couple key presses and mouse drags.
Once you've got that down, you need to make sure your videos are of good quality. One of the best things I learned how to do was make it so that the black bars in most game footage videos uploaded to youtube are not visible.
A note about special effects: don't go overboard. Hell, I don't even use them. I didn't have an intro or use special effects like, ever. This includes transitions, camera panning, etc. The only "special effects" I've ever done are a couple close up zooms and attempted syncing with music.
Next, you need to decide what you want to do: Commentary, music/natural gameplay sound overlay, or a mix of both. I don't like doing commentary myself, but plenty of people enjoy listening to commentary. It depends who you are trying to appeal to.
The most difficult thing (from my personal experience) about gaining a viewer base is content. The problem with content is, it's almost all covered elsewhere. You would need something to set you above the rest of everyone trying to get viewers/subscribers in the youtube world. For me, it was my unnaturally high damage. That's really all there was to it. I had also made videos that were entertaining and made people laugh, etc. One of the biggest pieces of advice I can give to starting up a youtube channel is to capture new content as fast as possible. My most viewed video is really stupid, and was just about some new joke boss that got released in the game. I would always try to be the first person to do X on maplestory, and would upload it, and get a (relatively) ton of views.
Next up is exposure. How would you plan on getting exposure? Recommended videos just don't cut it. You would need to find some way to give exposure to your video/channel without being intrusive (for example, you shouldn't make threads saying like HEY GUYS SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL, and you shouldn't post on other peoples videos about it as well). My exposure came from other people making discussion topics about me and posting my videos questioning "how did that guy do this?" and such.
Gaining exposure in a game like mabinogi is hard. I'm assuming you are talking about mabinogi. Making a new let's play channel is probably even more likely to be unsuccessful. For example, there are some very quality mabinogi video uploaders, such as tropacat, kaeporo, and minatou. However, they all have a relatively low subscriber count. Why? Their videos are all high quality and done well. My answer to this would be the limited audience of mabinogi youtube video viewers. Not many people are interested in watching mabinogi gameplay videos, which is unfortunate. Even ladaniel, who has been in the mabinogi youtube game forever, "only" has 2.5k subscribers. This is pretty huge, considering the audience, but still. In my eyes, that's equivalent to being daboki from maplestory.
Other key points include:
You need to be able to receive negative comments well. If you are sensitive to bad things other people have to say, don't bother making a youtube video. Everyone wants to be a comedian/jackass/whatever. Sometimes it's even deserved!
If your videos lag and look like a slideshow, don't bother.
If you are doing it strictly for the money, it's probably not a good idea to bother.
If you can't be patient in terms of gaining subscribers, don't bother. It can take years to go above 1k, and there's no guarantee that even a fraction of them will watch your videos.