MysteriousThings Posted March 10, 2022 Posted March 10, 2022 Anyone have a Youtube channel or are thinking about starting one? Post your tips on starting a channel. How to make a great channel. Questions and sharing of information? Increasing viewership. Presenting a professional image How to use "shorts" to your advantage. And any old other thing you can think of....
katrinka Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 (edited) The best youtube channels are the ones where the person really, really knows their subject, and there's humor to keep it from getting tedious. I'm not really seeing that with Tarot channels, so it's wide open for somebody to come along and do it. I have notifications set for Karolina Zebrowska (vintage fashion), Steve Hayes (movies), Trae Crowder (politics), and Pat Finnerty (music) so I know right away when they upload something new. I always learn something, and it's fun. Nobody really makes fun Tarot videos. There's a lot of amateur stuff not worth bothering with, lots of unboxings/reviews that I only watch if I'm interested in the deck, and a few people who know Tarot really well, like Paul Hughes-Barlow, but they're not fun, if that makes any sense. A lot of us loved Malkiel Rouven Dietrich's old Lenormand channel. He knows Lenormand and Kippers really well, and he's funny. If he didn't like a deck, he'd tell you exactly why and throw it out of the window. You'd see the cards falling down into the grass and bushes below. 🤣 Everybody would be talking about his videos the next day. Unfortunately, he also caught a lot of flak - not from the people whose decks he panned, but from bigoted people in the "community." So he ended up pulling his english language videos. Now he's put some back, but they're not like the old ones. Just basic stuff like card meanings and spreads. I'd love it if somebody did a really good, entertaining Tarot channel with quality content. I think it's way overdue. Edited March 11, 2022 by katrinka typo
MysteriousThings Posted March 11, 2022 Author Posted March 11, 2022 Hey anybody funny out there? Oh you are so right! I'd love to see someone who knows their stuff and is funny as ... well, funny.
RunningWild Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 I've really pared down the readers that I watch on YouTube. My favorites are those that build the story and you can hear the changes they make in the narrative as they go along. It also fascinates me that they use so many decks for a reading and many times I end up not hearing them at all while I try to figure out what decks they have on the table. One of the things one of the readers that I still watch says is that you need to keep changing up the scenery. Add some bauble, take some away. Change or add a background. Add lighting, or dim it...anything that makes that particular reading stand out from the others that have been done. People notice these things.
Tarotfreak Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 As a newbie to tarot I subscribed to a lot of channels, and gradually I’ve unsubscribed from lots of them! Reason being that there’s very little tarot content in them. Yes, they buy lots of decks and sit and go through them and prettify them, but in terms of really learning tarot and getting down to the nitty gritty of learning the cards they all fall short. I agree there is a lack of true, knowledgable tarot readers on YouTube.
MysteriousThings Posted March 11, 2022 Author Posted March 11, 2022 5 hours ago, Tarotfreak said: As a newbie to tarot I subscribed to a lot of channels, and gradually I’ve unsubscribed from lots of them! Reason being that there’s very little tarot content in them. Yes, they buy lots of decks and sit and go through them and prettify them, but in terms of really learning tarot and getting down to the nitty gritty of learning the cards they all fall short. I agree there is a lack of true, knowledgable tarot readers on YouTube. I can read a crystal, water, a wall... I use my tarot cards to focus only. There are different types and abilities of readers and there is room for all. Pick the readings you resonate with. Don't be afraid to try a variety of styles. Some are craftsmen who take each card and literally memorize the entire book on it and use very little intuition at all. Others read the cards on the energy they pull, which might be different than the standard definition. It doesn't mean they are not good readers, it means they get their information differently.
MysteriousThings Posted March 11, 2022 Author Posted March 11, 2022 You YouTube readers! What equipment do you use? I use my iphone, a Gimbal, my IMAC and imovie. I use canva to create thumbnails and photo elements.
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