You Can't Handle The Truth Tag (Original)
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2024
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@davidnovakreadspoetry
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• I HATE this about booktok
Questions I've asked myself and want to hear your takes on them....
What do I want from Booktube?
What concessions have I made to cater to an audience?
Do I want followers or friends? and what is that tipping point?
(sub question - how many people will I follow?)
Am I realistic in what I'm talking about with my reading?
Am I a competitor or a collaborator?
Appreciate if this gains no traction as it is a mood killer from the mostly happy go lucky vibe of Booktube.
#concessionsforthemasses #digitisedconsumerism
Interesting thoughts. Sometimes people subscribe to channels to support the Booktuber in helping their channel grow, not necessarily to watch every video. You’ll never get a comment from every subscriber. Some people are terrified to do anything aside from watching the video - they won’t like it or even leave an emoji and there isn’t anything you can do about it. I am subscribed to way more channels than I can watch for sure - I’m always on the lookout for something different, for a video like this one that is really different. Looking forward to our buddy read. 💛
Hi Kelly. I don't think it would ever get to 100% engagement but I want the engagement to mean something more, which I know I don't live by so need to practice my own preaching. I am indeed looking forward to our buddy read, too!
@@willchambers8065 I understand what you’re saying. Sometimes those surface level conversations lead to conversations on Voxer, which can be very high level engagement! 😃
An unexpected reaction to my video - someone who _wants_ more no-holds-barred viciousness in the community. 😂 But I see your point - and I think a lot of BookTubers wonder similarly. Brian @bookishtexan said something which helped me out, which was that as a rule he avoids certain kinds of videos. Book hauls and unhauls for one. And since I’ve started imitating him my viewing crush has eased up - but I also don’t feel like making “Look what I just got!” videos anymore. Or watching reviews of something I know I won’t care to read - _The Rapist from Outer Space with Three Heads and Twenty-Nine Eyeballs_ - though I make exceptions too.
I preferred their earlier work - _The Papist from Under the Sea who had had Two Noses_ - I'm not sure it's a desire for viciousness but I am bored beyond tears by people obviously lying about book X being the best thing since sliced bread when it's just book 1 of many in the another teenage angst fantasy series where everyone's there to fulfil a brief for what shifts.
Now this video got me turning over thoughts. I think I will do this "tag" Will, but it may be two weeks or so because I've got several videos already lined up. But you have asked some questions we all need to ask and answer, whether we put it out as content or just learn from the exercise privately
Hi Heather. I am getting some interesting perspectives from others and I look forward to hearing from anyone who wishes to talk it over so will keep a watch out for your take.
Still listening but I appreciate this tag. The number of booktubers I follow is extremely few but I want to engage meaningfully with them, even to the point of response videos or related videos.
I will say I do get a fair number of challenging/critical comments but they are usually from strangers. 😅 It would be better for friends to challenge each other (nicely). I think the format of UA-cam makes this difficult. I have seen more challenges from friends when blogging or in other types of book communities.
Hi Mariah, critical comments which are ad hominem nonsense should be ignored but if you tell me The Road is the best book of all time I don't mind telling you that I hope you stand on a piece of Lego and are wrong in your assertion, and here's why.....et cetera.
I have done a couple of videos along the lines of Rejoinder From a Nut which I might try and encourage others to adopt.
In my experience, there's a limit to meaningful conversation within comments. I think youtube is poor at supporting extended conversations in comments. A series of video responses comes closer to a conversation. As you note, we simply have limited time and capacity to spend here, however engaging it could potentially be. I upload a lot of poetry videos--on a bit of a mission--but I don't expect people to comment on every video or to have a conversation on every video. I probably couldn't keep up with that level of interaction. But I do like smattering youtube with more poetry and I do love the comments that make me look again at a poem from another person's perspective. Even the simply encouraging comments are appreciated. I may do a video response to this.
It's all a part of the existential crisis I'm having over spending the time I have in endeavours I wish to pursue.
I really am being plagued by Lord Byron "when one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse."
I also find it very limiting. As a watcher and not a contentmaker you often only respond to the videomaker. And never have a real conversation with the other commenters.
@@willchambers8065 The struggle is real, Will. There are so many enticements. It may help to get more specific about why you want to be here, a specific focus--yes, even if it means dropping poetry--and having a strict plan (limits) for how you will accomplish your goal: how many of X kinds of content will you do in a month, to do tags or not (can be crazy-making), to jump on monthly themes or not, etc etc etc. It can take time and experimentation to find what works best for you but thinking in terms of what are the most enriching and rewarding limitations can be better for your life in general than the expansion that social media always seems to encourage.
@@maewyn01 Very true. Lives are something of a solution to that but live chats are pretty chaotic (to me anyway) and I don't see many people on booktube doing lives.
I saw the KDBooks video and I largely disagree with most of it. I don't really care what type of video it is because I am watching for the person not the specific content type. I really like wrap ups and Friday reads and hauls (although unhauls I don't care for) because I don't want to hear in-depth thoughts on a book I've not read yet, I want to hear the impression it had on someone I like. I do like a deep dive into things I know well too, so I think there is space for all types of video. I follow 150 odd people and I probably have regular interaction with 30 maybe, but yeah there is very few people I watch every video of and there is a certain amount of guilt involved in that but I think everyone understands. It works both ways though as I sometimes feel like I shouldn't make videos too regularly incase people can't keep up, even though I don't expect people to watch them all. It is a weird thing.
Hi Aaron. I can see the angle of watching for the person, rather than specific content type but in the scenario of a wrap up the way KDBooks describes it what could that person say about the wrap up that is of substance and not merely propped up by their personality or character?
I am often baffled by a lot of very popular booktubers conveying they have time to have a job, a social life, time to edit and produce, time to follow trends and adopt those trends to remain relevant, and still read some 200+ pages a day of somewhat samey books. Not all these people are Steve Donoghue (thankfully! (Just a cheeky jibe)).
The number of people being followed and following I just struggle with conceptually; we're playing a social game of sorts which in a sense debases the value in it but maintains a veneer of it at the same time. I don't want ring fenced communities as cross pollination is obviously good and of worth but the melting pot eventually melts itself or overflows.
@@willchambers8065 Some people do use their wrap ups to point back to longer reviews they have done, which I think is probably the best way. When it comes to the amount of books being read I do think the type of book is a key factor. I spend two hours a day on a train, and listen to audio books when I'm walking about, plus read more when I get home so something quite easy to read like an Agatha Christie or YA take me 1 or 2 days and I'd say I'm an average speed. Like most things, I think variety is important, I don't think I'd get much out of reading 200 YA fantasy books a year personally, but I can probably manage 100 books even though some of them take me 2 weeks and some a day. That said I don't have a wife or kids or any other hobbies, so I dunno how everyone else does it.